After one and a half years of development, the release of the ncurses 6.3 library has been presented, designed for creating cross-platform interactive console user interfaces and supporting the emulation of the curses programming interface from System V Release 4.0 (SVr4). The ncurses 6.3 release is source-compatible with ncurses 5.x and 6.0 branches but expands the ABI. Popular applications built using ncurses include aptitude, lynx, mutt, ncftp, vim, vifm, minicom, mosh, screen, tmux, emacs, and less.
Among the new features added:
- An experimental driver for Windows Terminal has been added.
- A separate script for updating ncurses to the new version on the OpenBSD platform has been provided.
- sp-functions for erasewchar and killwchar operations have been added.
- The wgetch event KEY_EVENT has been deprecated.
- New options have been added to the tabs, tic, toe, and tput utilities.
- 27 new terminal descriptions have been added to the terminal database, including foot, hpterm-color2, hterm, linux-s, putty-screen, scrt/securecrt, tmux-direct, vt220-base, xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, xterm-direct16, xterm-direct256, xterm+nofkeys, and xterm+nopcfkeys.
Source: opennet.ru
