- Add ncurses patch 20240922
+ add a few null-pointer checks in ncurses
+ improve test-driver in ncurses/link_test.c
+ restore background character in manpages as described in X/Open
Curses section 3.3.6, and add option "-c" to test programs to
illustrate a non-blank character in the window background property.
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ modify ncurses*-config to add -I option in --cflag where needed for
--disable-overwrite to match ".pc" files.
+ disallow directories and block/character devices in safe-open.
+ amend scr_restore() and scr_init() to remove the target window only
after validating the source window which will replace the target
(report by Zixi Liu).

- Add ncurses patch 20240914
+ modify _nc_flush() to also flush stderr to help the flash capability
to work in bash (patch by Harm te Hennepe, cf: 20201128)
+ omit -g and -fXXX flags from CFLAGS in misc/ncurses-config.in
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ improve examples in NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
+ update comments in terminfo.src -TD

- Add ncurses patch 20240831
+ build-fix for a case in msys2 where gettimeofday() was available but
the fallback was partly configured.
> patch by Rafael Kitover:
+ separate the _NC_WINDOWS platform macro into _NC_WINDOWS_NATIVE,
for MinGW and other native Win32 support, and _NC_WINDOWS, to make
some Win32 features available under the Cygwin runtime, in this case
the term-driver.