All releases of ncurses

5.9

05 Apr 2011 03:33

Release Notes: A small number of bugs were fixed. Portability and configurability of subpackages for the Ada95 and test directories was expanded.

5.8

27 Feb 2011 08:10

Release Notes: Support for threaded applications was further extended by adding an API to reduce the use of a global screen-pointer. A port to Windows using MinGW was introduced. The "tabs" program was added. Many bugs were fixed.

5.7

03 Nov 2008 02:46

Release Notes: Two new library configurations (a library supporting tic and related programs, and a completely new configuration providing some support for threaded applications). Many bugfixes and portability improvements.

5.6

23 Dec 2006 12:32

Release Notes: Hashed-databases are supported for storing terminal descriptions. Support for magic-cookies such as hpterm was improved. Support for rpath in shared libraries was revised. Many bugfixes were made for memory leaks, wide-character support, portability, and more.

5.5

12 Oct 2005 15:58

Release Notes: The forms and menus libraries work with multi-byte characters. Experimental support for 256 color display and 5-button mice have been added. Many improvements have been made to locale support and portability, as well as bugfixes in different areas.

5.4

15 Feb 2004 07:36

Release Notes: This release improves wide-character support and adds screen optimization, mouse drivers, portability to various platforms (including cross-compiling), and many bugfixes.

5.3

17 Oct 2002 17:34

Release Notes: This release implements most of the X/Open Curses wide- and multibyte-character support. Improvements include the ability to compile terminfo database for HPUX/AIX/Tru64 formats, new color features, and better checks by tic to support termcap conversion.

5.2-20020907

07 Sep 2002 19:54

Release Notes: This is a pre-release for 5.3 which includes support for configuring a UTF-8 capable curses implementation (ncursesw). There are lots of other improvements and fixes.