ANN: ncurses-6.6-20260516

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> Sun, 17 May 2026 01:23:33 +0000
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 ncurses 6.6 - patch 20260516 - Thomas E. Dickey

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 Ncurses 6.6 is at
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   https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/
   https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/

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 https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/6.6/ncurses-6.6-20260516.patch.gz
 patch by Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
 created  Sun May 17 01:14:56 UTC 2026
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 MANIFEST                                          |    2 
 NEWS                                              |   10 -
 VERSION                                           |    2 
 dist.mk                                           |    4 
 ncurses-6.6-20260516/ncurses/tinfo/cookie_caps.c  |  156 ++++++++++++++++
 ncurses-6.6-20260516/ncurses/tty/cookie_updates.c |   93 +++++++++
 ncurses/base/lib_getch.c                          |    4 
 ncurses/base/lib_set_term.c                       |   90 ---------
 ncurses/curses.priv.h                             |   11 -
 ncurses/modules                                   |    4 
 ncurses/tinfo/tinfo_driver.c                      |  166 +++--------------
 ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c                         |   11 -
 ncurses/tty/lib_vidattr.c                         |   57 ++---
 ncurses/tty/tty_update.c                          |  195 ++++++++++----------
 ncurses/widechar/lib_ins_wch.c                    |    6 
 ncurses/widechar/lib_vid_attr.c                   |   79 ++++----
 package/debian-mingw/changelog                    |    4 
 package/debian-mingw64/changelog                  |    4 
 package/debian/changelog                          |    4 
 package/mingw-ncurses.nsi                         |    4 
 package/mingw-ncurses.spec                        |    6 
 package/ncurses.map                               |    6 
 package/ncurses.spec                              |    6 
 package/ncurses.sym                               |    4 
 package/ncursest.map                              |    6 
 package/ncursest.spec                             |    6 
 package/ncursest.sym                              |    4 
 package/ncursestw.map                             |    6 
 package/ncursestw.sym                             |    4 
 package/ncursesw.map                              |    6 
 package/ncursesw.sym                              |    4 
 progs/infocmp.c                                   |   22 +-
 32 files changed, 549 insertions(+), 437 deletions(-)
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20260516
	+ defer initialization of magic-cookies, which disables some
	  capabilities, until the first screen update using a video attribute
	  which might introduce a magic cookie (report by Frank Palazzolo).
	+ correct buffer limit in recur_wgetnstr() (report by Daniel Anderson).
	+ correct logic in safe_name() function of infocmp, used in -E/-e
	  options (report/patch by Daniel Anderson).


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