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            header1="Lifecycle guide for NCURSES from Thomas Dickey"
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        <item type="paragraph">📅 Last update on 2025-08-08</item>
       
        
        <item type="header2" class="article-title">What is NCURSES?</item>
        <item type="paragraph" imgLink="content-end-of-life-product-release-version-database.xml" alt="Automate product release and end-of-life management" img="../img/product-release-version-end-of-life/thomas-dickey-ncurses.svg"><![CDATA[The 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.]]></item>

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        <item type="header2" class="article-title">The entire lifecycle of NCURSES</item>

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            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.
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        <item type="paragraph">Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product NCURSES (Thomas Dickey)</item>
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                    <second>6.5</second>
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