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<h1 class="no-header">Announcing ncurses @VERSION@</h1>
<h2><a name="h2-overview" id="h2-overview">Overview</a></h2>
<p>The <span class="main-name">ncurses</span> (new curses)
library is a free software emulation of curses in System V
Release 4.0 (SVr4), and more. It uses terminfo format, supports
pads and color and multiple highlights and forms characters and
function-key mapping, and has all the other SVr4-curses
enhancements over BSD curses. SVr4 curses became the basis of
X/Open Curses.</p>
<p>In mid-June 1995, the maintainer of 4.4BSD curses declared
that he considered 4.4BSD curses obsolete, and encouraged the
keepers of <span class="main-name">unix</span> releases such as
BSD/OS, FreeBSD and NetBSD to switch over to <span class=
"main-name">ncurses</span>.</p>
<p>Since 1995, <span class="main-name">ncurses</span> has been
ported to many systems:</p>
<ul>
<li>It is used in almost every system based on the Linux kernel
(aside from some embedded applications).</li>
<li>It is used as the system curses library on OpenBSD, FreeBSD
and MacOS.</li>
<li>It is used in environments such as Cygwin and MinGW. The
first of these was EMX on OS/2 Warp.</li>
<li>It is used (though usually not as the <em>system</em>
curses) on all of the vendor <span class=
"main-name">unix</span> systems, e.g., AIX, HP-UX, IRIX64, SCO,
Solaris, Tru64.</li>
<li>It should work readily on any ANSI/POSIX-conforming
<span class="main-name">unix</span>.</li>
</ul>
<p>The distribution includes the library and support utilities,
including</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/man/captoinfo.1m.html"><span class=
"part-name">captoinfo</span></a>, a termcap conversion
tool</li>
<li><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/man/clear.1.html"><span class=
"part-name">clear</span></a>, utility for clearing the
screen</li>
<li><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/man/infocmp.1m.html"><span class=
"part-name">infocmp</span></a>, the terminfo decompiler</li>
<li><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/man/tabs.1.html"><span class=
"part-name">tabs</span></a>, set tabs on a terminal</li>
<li><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/man/tic.1m.html"><span class=
"part-name">tic</span></a>, the terminfo compiler</li>
<li><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/man/toe.1m.html"><span class=
"part-name">toe</span></a>, list (table of) terminfo
entries</li>
<li><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/man/tput.1.html"><span class=
"part-name">tput</span></a>, utility for retrieving terminal
capabilities in shell scripts</li>
<li><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/man/tset.1.html"><span class=
"part-name">tset</span></a>, to initialize the terminal</li>
</ul>
<p>Full manual pages are provided for the library and tools.</p>
<p>The <span class="main-name">ncurses</span> distribution is
available at <span class="main-name">ncurses</span>' <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/">homepage</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href=
"ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/">ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/</a>
or<br>
<a href=
"https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/">https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/</a> .</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It is also available via anonymous FTP at the GNU distribution
site</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href=
"ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/">ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/</a> .</p>
</blockquote>
<h2><a name="h2-release-notes" id="h2-release-notes">Release
Notes</a></h2>
<p>These notes are for <span class="main-name">ncurses</span>
@VERSION@, released <strong>February 12, 2020</strong>.</p>
<p>This release is designed to be source-compatible with
<span class="main-name">ncurses</span> 5.0 through 6.1; providing
extensions to the application binary interface (ABI). Although
the source can still be configured to support the <span class=
"main-name">ncurses</span> 5 ABI, the reason for the release is
to reflect improvements to the <span class=
"main-name">ncurses</span> 6 ABI and the supporting utility
programs.</p>
<p>There are, of course, numerous other improvements, listed in
this announcement.</p>
<p>The most <a href="#h3-bug-fixes">important
bug-fixes/improvements</a> dealt with user-defined capabilities
in terminal descriptions. The release notes also mention some
other bug-fixes, but are focused on new features and improvements
to existing features since <span class="main-name">ncurses</span>
6.1 release.</p>
<h3><a name="h3-library" id="h3-library">Library improvements</a></h3>
<h4><a name="h4-new-library" id="h4-new-library">New features</a></h4>
<p>There are several new features:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/form_field_opts.3x.html">O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY</a>
tells the form library to optionally delay cursor movement on
a field edge/boundary</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/form_field_opts.3x.html">O_INPUT_FIELD</a>
extension to form library allows a dynamic field to shrink if
the new limit is smaller than the current field size.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>added <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_memleaks.3x.html">exit_curses</a> and
<a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_memleaks.3x.html">exit_terminfo</a> to
replace internal symbols for leak-checking.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>added <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_trace.3x.html#h3-Functions">curses_trace</a>,
to replace trace().</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Additionally, to improve performance other changes (and
extensions) are provided in this release:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>mouse decoding now handles shift/control/alt logic when
decoding xterm's 1006 mode</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ncurses now defines a limit for <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_getstr.3x.html">wgetnstr</a>, <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_get_wstr.3x.html">wgetn_wstr</a> when
length is negative or “too large”.</p>
</li>
<li>reordered loop-limit checks in <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_insstr.3x.html">winsnstr</a> in case the
string has no terminating null and only the number of
characters is used.</li>
<li>
<p>there is now no buffer-size limit when reading the
<a href="@HOMEPAGE@/man/ncurses.3x.html#h3-TERMCAP"><tt>$TERMCAP</tt></a>
variable.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/ncurses.3x.html#h3-TERMCAP"><tt>$TERMCAP</tt></a>
variable may be interpreted as a fallback to a terminfo
entry</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_terminfo.3x.html#h3-Output-Functions"><tt>
mvcur</tt></a> now decides whether to use hard-tabs, using
<strong><tt>xt</tt></strong>, <strong><tt>tbc</tt></strong>
and <strong><tt>hts</tt></strong> as clues.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>extended colors are improved by modifying an internal call
to <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_terminfo.3x.html#h3-Output-Functions"><tt>
vid_puts</tt></a> to pass extended color pairs e.g., from
<tt>tty_update.c</tt> and <tt>lib_mvcur.c</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<p id="getenv-fixes">the initialization functions now avoid
relying upon persistent data for the result from <a href=
"#getenv-check"><tt>getenv</tt></a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>scrolling is improved:</p>
<ul>
<li>a limit check in <tt>newline_forces_scroll</tt> handles
the case where the row is inside scroll-margins, but not at
the end.</li>
<li>
<p>improved loop limits in <tt>_nc_scroll_window</tt>
handle a case where the scrolled data is a pad which is
taller than the window.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4><a name="h4-fixes-library" id="h4-fixes-library">Other
improvements</a></h4>
<p>These are revised features:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>used “<tt>const</tt>” in some prototypes
rather than <tt>NCURSES_CONST</tt> where X/Open Curses was
updated to do this, e.g., <tt>wscanw</tt>, <tt>newterm</tt>,
the terminfo interface. Also use “<tt>const</tt>”
for consistency in the termcap interface, which was withdrawn
by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007). As of Issue 7, X/Open
Curses still lacks “<tt>const</tt>” for certain
return values, e.g., <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_util.3x.html#h3-keyname_key_name">keyname</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>modified <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_bkgd.3x.html#h3-bkgd"><tt>wbkgd</tt></a>
and <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_bkgrnd.3x.html#h3-bkgrnd"><tt>wbkgrnd</tt></a>
to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses, changing the way
the window rendition is updated when the background character
is modified</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>improved terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item
of the extended header to denote the number of valid strings
in the extended string table (see <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/term.5.html#h3-EXTENDED-STORAGE-FORMAT">term(5)</a>).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>modified the initialization checks for mouse so that the
<a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_sm_1006"><tt>xterm+sm+1006</tt></a>
block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning
<em>xterm</em>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>These were done to limit or ultimately deprecate features:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>deprecated <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/NEWS.html#t970831">safe-sprintf</a>, since the
<tt>vsnprintf</tt> function, which does what was needed, was
standardized long ago.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>marked <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_printw.3x.html#h3-PORTABILITY"><tt>vwprintw</tt></a>
and <tt>vwscanw</tt> as deprecated; recommend using <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_printw.3x.html"><tt>vw_printw</tt></a>
and <tt>vw_scanw</tt>, respectively.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>added deprecation warnings for internal functions called
by older versions of <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/tack.html">tack</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>removed unused <tt>_nc_import_termtype2</tt> function.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>These are improvements to existing features:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>check parameter of <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_threads.3x.html">set_escdelay</a>,
return ERR if negative.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>check parameter of <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_threads.3x.html">set_tabsize</a>, return
ERR if not greater than zero</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if
reading a hex/b64 <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/ncurses.3x.html#h3-TERMINFO"><tt>$TERMINFO</tt></a>,
and the <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/ncurses.3x.html#h3-TERM"><tt>$TERM</tt></a>
does not match, fall-through to the compiled-in search
list.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>amend check for <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/terminfo.5.html#h3-Predefined-Capabilities"><tt>
repeat_char</tt></a> to handle a case where setlocale() was
called after <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_initscr.3x.html"><tt>initscr</tt></a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>move macro for <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_touch.3x.html"><tt>is_linetouched</tt></a>
inside <strong><tt>NCURSES_NOMACROS</tt></strong>
<em><tt>ifndef</tt></em>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>use <tt>_nc_copy_termtype2</tt> rather than direct
assignment in <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_terminfo.3x.html#h3-Initialization">setupterm</a>,
in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo
descriptions</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing
characters</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>add checks in <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/resizeterm.3x.html"><tt>repair_subwindows</tt></a>
to keep the current position and scroll-margins inside the
resized subwindow.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>correct a buffer-limit in <tt>write_entry.c</tt> for
systems that use caseless filenames.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>improved build-time utility <em>report_offsets</em>:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>add categories, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t" for
threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
structures reported to make the categories more
apparent.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>add <tt>NCURSES_GLOBALS</tt> and
<tt>NCURSES_PRESCREEN</tt> to report to show how similar
the different <em>libtinfo</em> configurations are.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>modified some header files to ensure that those include
necessary files except for the previously-documented
cases</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>added some traces in initialization to show whether a
fallback entry is used.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>made minor optimization to reduce calls to
_nc_reserve_pairs</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>These are corrections to existing features:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>fix a special case in <tt>PutAttrChar</tt> where a cell is
marked as alternate-character set, but the terminal does not
actually support the given graphic character. This would
happen in an older terminal such as <em>vt52</em>, which
lacks most line-drawing capability.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface,
needed by toe on some of the BSDs.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case
in collision handling for Caps-hpux11</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
package/*.{map,sym} files</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without
first verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak
symbols</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of
versioned symbols to help with link-time optimization versus
weak symbols.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="h3-programs" id="h3-programs">Program
improvements</a></h3>
<p>Several improvements were made to the utility programs:</p>
<dl>
<dt><span class="part-name">clear</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>improved logic for clearing with the <em>E3</em>
extension, in case the terminal scrolls content onto its
saved-lines before actually clearing the display, by
clearing the saved-lines after clearing the display</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><span class="part-name">infocmp</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>omit filtering of “<tt>OTxx</tt>” names
which are used for obsolete capabilities, when the output
is sorted by long-names. This change helps when making a
table of the short/long capability names.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><span class="part-name">tic</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>added check for consistent alternate character set
capabilities.</li>
<li>added check for paired <tt>indn</tt>/<tt>rin</tt>.</li>
<li>added check for terminals with <tt>parm_dch</tt> vs
<tt>parm_ich</tt>.</li>
<li>added check for the case where
<tt>setf</tt>/<tt>setb</tt> are given using different
strings, but provide identical results to
<tt>setaf</tt>/<tt>setab</tt>.</li>
<li>corrected check for <tt>ich1</tt>.</li>
<li>changed a too-large terminal entry from a fatal error
to a warning.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><span class="part-name">toe</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>ignores any hex/b64 <tt>$TERMINFO</tt> value in the
list of terminfo databases.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><span class="part-name">tset</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>replace check in <span class="part-name">reset</span>
command for obsolete “<tt>pt</tt>” capability
using <tt>tbc</tt> and <tt>hts</tt> capabilities as
clues</li>
<li>modify <span class="part-name">reset</span> to allow
for tabstops at intervals other than 8.</li>
<li>change <span class="part-name">reset</span>'s behavior
for margins to simply clear soft-margins if possible,
rather than clearing and then setting them according to the
terminal's width.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><span class="part-name">tput</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>add “<tt>x</tt>” to <tt>getopt</tt> string
so that “<tt>tput -x clear</tt>”
works.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>Several changes were made to the generated ncurses*config
scripts and the analogous “<tt>.pc</tt>” files to
reduce differences between the configurations they report:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>modified the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely
match for the <tt>-I</tt> and <tt>-l</tt> options.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>filtered out linker-specs from the <tt>--libs</tt>
report.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>amended the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into
account the rpath hack which differed between those
files.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>modified generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc,
ncursesw.pc, etc., to list helper libraries such as gpm for
static linking.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h4><a name="h4-examples" id="h4-examples">Examples</a></h4>
<p>Along with the library and utilities, improvements were made
to the <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/ncurses-examples.html">ncurses-examples</a>. Most of
this activity aimed at improving the test-packages. A few changes
are more generally useful, e.g., for the main ncurses
test-program, and for analyzing traces using the
<em>tracemunch</em> script:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>improve recovery from error when reading command-character
in <tt>test/ncurses.c</tt>, showing the relevant error
message and not exiting on EINTR.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>improve <em>tracemunch</em>, by keeping track of
<tt>TERMINAL*</tt> values, and if tracing was first turned on
after initialization, attempt to show distinct screen, window
and terminal names anyway.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>modify <em>tracemunch</em> to accept filename parameters
in addition to use as a pipe/filter.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>update <em>tracemunch</em> to work with <em>perl
5.26.2</em>, which changed the rules for escaping regular
expressions.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>add some checks in <em>tracemunch</em> for undefined
variables.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>modify <tt>TurnOn</tt>/<tt>TurnOff</tt> macros (in
lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c) to avoid expansion of
“<tt>CUR</tt>” in trace.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>There are other new demo/test programs and reusable
examples:</p>
<dl>
<dt><span class="part-name">color_content</span>
</dt>
<dd>Demonstrate the <tt>color_content</tt> and
<tt>extended_color_content</tt> functions.</dd>
<dt><span class="part-name">demo_tabs</span>
</dt>
<dd>A simple demo of tabs in curses.</dd>
<dt><span class="part-name">dump_window</span>
</dt>
<dd>A portable curses screen-dump, used to compare ncurses
screen contents with Solaris.</dd>
<dt><span class="part-name">pair_content</span>
</dt>
<dd>Demonstrate the <tt>pair_content</tt> and
<tt>extended_pair_content</tt> functions.</dd>
<dt><span class="part-name">report_hashing</span>
</dt>
<dd>Check hash-tables used for terminfo and termcap names.</dd>
<dt><span class="part-name">parse_rgb</span>
</dt>
<dd>Sample implementation of the ncurses RGB extension from
<a href="@HOMEPAGE@/man/user_caps.5.html">user_caps.5</a>, used
in <em>picsmap</em> and <em>savescreen</em> programs.</dd>
</dl>
<p>A variety of improvements were made to existing programs, both
new features as well as options added to make the set of programs
more consistent.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>add “<tt>-l</tt>” option to test/background,
to dump screen contents in a form that lets different curses
implementations be compared.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>add “<tt>@</tt>” command to test/ncurses
F-test, to allow rapid jump to different character pages.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>added enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the
full range 0..1000</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>corrected pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for
<tt>explain.txt</tt>, to work with test-packages, and used an
awk script to split the resulting pathname when it would be
too long for a single line.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's
command-line, e.g., if the terminal were resized.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>improved ifdef's for <tt>TABSIZE</tt> variable, to help
with AIX/HPUX ports.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="h3-database" id="h3-database">Terminal database</a></h3>
<p>There are several new terminal descriptions:</p>
<blockquote style="word-break:keep-all">
<p><tt>alacritty</tt>, <tt>domterm</tt>, <tt>kitty</tt>,
<tt>mintty</tt>, <tt>mintty-direct</tt>, <tt>ms-terminal</tt>,
<tt>n7900</tt>, <tt>nsterm-build309</tt>,
<tt>nsterm-direct</tt>, <tt>screen5</tt>, <tt>ti703</tt>,
<tt>ti707</tt>, <tt>ti703-w</tt>, <tt>ti707-w</tt>
<tt>vscode</tt>, <tt>vscode-direct</tt>, <tt>xterm-mono</tt>,
<tt>xterm.js</tt></p>
</blockquote>
<p>There are many changes to existing terminal descriptions. Some
were updates to several descriptions:</p>
<ul>
<li>use <a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-ansi_rep"><tt>ansi+rep</tt></a>
in a dozen places</li>
<li>add rs1 to konsole, mlterm</li>
<li>improve several flash capabilities with trailing mandatory
delays</li>
<li>drop <tt>ich1</tt> from <tt>rxvt-basic</tt>, <tt>Eterm</tt>
and <tt>mlterm</tt> to improve compatibility with old
non-curses programs</li>
<li>add/use <a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_keypad"><tt>xterm+keypad</tt></a>
in <tt>xterm-new</tt></li>
<li>use <a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_sl-twm"><tt>xterm+sl-twm</tt></a>
for consistency, nine places</li>
<li>improve <em>xm</em> example in <a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_x11mouse">xterm+x11mouse</a>
and <a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_sm_1006">xterm+sm_1006</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>while others affected specific descriptions. These were
retested, to take into account changes by their developers:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><tt>terminator</tt>, <tt>st</tt></p>
</blockquote>
<p>while these are specific fixes based on reviewing
documentation, user reports, or warnings from <span class=
"part-name">tic</span>:</p>
<dl>
<dt><a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-adds200">adds200</a>:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>fix typo</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-gnome-256color">gnome-256color</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>base entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-interix">interix</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>trim unnecessary setf/setb</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-linux-16color">linux-16color</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>accommodate <a href=
"https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00061.html">
Linux console driver</a> incompatibility introduced in
early 2018</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-nsterm-256color">nsterm-256color</a>:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color,
assigning the latter as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse
work with nsterm-256color</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-regent40">regent40</a>:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>renumber function-keys to match manual</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-regent60">regent60</a>:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>add cd (clr_eos)</li>
<li>corrected acsc</li>
<li>add shifted function-keys</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-tvi950">tvi950</a>:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo
950 manual</li>
<li>corrected acsc</li>
<li>remove bogus kf0</li>
<li>add bel</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-tvi955">tvi955</a>:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>fix typo</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-vi200">vi200</a>:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>add acsc string, including right/down-arrow</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-wy50">wy50</a>:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>corrected acsc</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><a href="/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-wy50">wy50</a> and
<a href="/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-wy60">wy60</a>:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>add shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_x11hilite">xterm+x11hilite</a>:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>eliminate unused <em>p5</em> parameter.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>A few entries use extensions (user-defined terminal
capabilities):</p>
<ul>
<li>use <a href=
"/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_sm_1006"><tt>xterm+sm+1006</tt></a>
(aka “SGR 1006 mouse”) for konsole-base and
putty</li>
<li>add <em><tt>Smol/Rmol</tt></em> user-defined capability to
<tt>tmux</tt> and <tt>vte-2018</tt></li>
<li>add <em><tt>Smulx</tt></em> user-defined capability to
<tt>tmux</tt>, <tt>vte-2018</tt></li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="h3-documentation" id=
"h3-documentation">Documentation</a></h3>
<p>As usual, this release</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>improves documentation by describing new features,</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>attempts to improve the description of features which
users have found confusing</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>fills in overlooked descriptions of features which were
described in the <a href="@HOMEPAGE@/NEWS.html">NEWS</a> file
but treated sketchily in manual pages.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>In addition to providing background information to explain
these features and show how they evolved, there are corrections,
clarifications, etc.:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Corrections:</p>
<ul>
<li>correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few