+ update release notes
+ minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
+ modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
when cross-compiling.
+ drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
+ define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
+ reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
+ modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
collision handling for Caps-hpux11
+ add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
terminfo and termcap names.
+ fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
+ update a few comments about tack 1.07
+ use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
programs for explain.txt
+ updated release notes
+ amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
> terminfo changes:
+ trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
not suitable -TD
+ modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
+ mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
+ expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
+ use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
+ add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
+ add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
+ update vte to vte-2017 -TD
+ add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
+ add iterm2-direct -TD
+ updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
+ add mlterm-direct -TD
+ add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
+ build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
+ build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
+ update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
more than 200 snapshots.
+ minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
page.
+ corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
+ add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
+ regenerated html manpages.
+ update doctype used for html documentation.
+ modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
(cf: 20110716).
+ revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
cf: 20100102).
+ add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
+ add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
Meunier).
+ add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
+ improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
is used.
+ install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
--with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
+ update release notes, for 5.8.
+ regenerated html manpages.
+ change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
with write_file().
+ modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
a new install of hashed database.
+ fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
+ add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
+ add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
version which works with termcap.
+ remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
(request by Sven Joachim).
+ update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
(report by Sven Joachim).
