NCURSES: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for NCURSES from Thomas Dickey

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-02-09

What is NCURSES?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementThe ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of curses in System V Release 4.0 (SVr4), and more. It uses terminfo format, supports pads and color and multiple highlights and forms characters and function-key mapping, and has all the other SVr4-curses enhancements over BSD curses. SVr4 curses became the basis of X/Open Curses.
 

The entire lifecycle of NCURSES

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of NCURSES. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
NCURSES (Thomas Dickey) release, version and end-of-life information
XNCURSES (Thomas Dickey) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product NCURSES (Thomas Dickey)
 

Facts and figures about NCURSES

Product
NCURSES
Vendor
Thomas Dickey
Latest version
6.5
Number of releases
3
Number of versions
18
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
15
Licence
Individual
Licence details
https://github.com/mirror/ncurses?tab=License-1-ov-file
 
 

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