After a year and a half of development, the ncurses 6.3 library has been released, designed for creating multi-platform interactive console user interfaces and supporting emulation of the curses programming interface from System V Release 4.0 (SVr4). The ncurses 6.3 release is source compatible with the ncurses 5.x and 6.0 branches, but extends the ABI. Popular applications built using ncurses include aptitude, lynx, mutt, ncftp, vim, vifm, minicom, mosh, screen, tmux, emacs, less.
Among the added innovations:
- Added experimental driver for Windows Terminal.
- A separate script has been provided to update ncurses to the new version on the OpenBSD platform.
- Added sp functions for erasewchar and killwchar operations.
- The wgetch event KEY_EVENT has been deprecated.
- New options have been added to the tabs, tic, toe, 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