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Version 4.8.33
Starting with this release, we will be using language features that require a C99 compiler to build.
- Core
* Minimal version of Automake is 1.14 (#4604)
* Upgrade C standard to C99 (#4604)
* Support ksh variants as subshell (#3748)
* Improve fish 4.0 shell support (#4597)
* Add support for bash PROMPT_COMMAND being an array (#4599)
* Don't override ENV variable for ash/dash subshell (#4605)
* Don't disable verbose mode if tty baudrate can't be reliably determined (#2452)
* New keymap for vim users (#4588)
- VFS
* extfs vfs: chmod/chown inside extfs (e.g. zip archive) silently fails (#4629)
* Add embedded torrent viewer/vfs (#3100)
- Misc
* Code cleanup (#4572, #4593, #4595, #4598)
* Adjust mc-wrappers to work with the new MC_TMPDIR creation logic (#4575)
* Prefer console players for sound, images and video in non-graphical sessions (#4479, #4596)
* Support `TERM=xterm-clear` for FreeBSD users (#2633)
* mc.ext.ini:
- Support for Rust crates file format (#4609)
- Support for OpenEmbedded ipk archives (#4626)
* ext.d: select browser at runtime (#4615)
* Move CI from Travis to GitHub Actions (#4170, #3738, #4602)
- Fixes
* Segfault if filter makes file panel empty (#4600)
* Segfault in built-in help when going to the previous topic (#4627)
* Incorrect handling of ext2 attributes of a directory (#4590)
* Failed copy/move operations make ETA inaccurate (#3205, #4613, #4623)
* Hotlist: use after free (#4621)
* mc.ext.ini: typo for apt view command line (#4583)
* mcedit: visual glitches if built with aspell, but libraries not installed (#4576)
* mcedit: segfault on new file creation (#4580)
* mcedit: PageDown skips lines in edit window (#4617)
* mcedit: cursor jumps during PageDown in edit window (#4618)
* mvciew: false-positive regex search of BOL (#4587)
* mcdiff: segmentation fault on empty files merge (#4608)
* tar vfs: double free (#4616)
* sftpfs vfs: use after free (#4620)
* tests: fix charset-related code on non-glibc platforms (Alpine, Illumos) (#3972, #4495)
* tests: use weak symbols instead of symbol duplication to support non-GNU linkers / macOS (#4584, #3542)
Version 4.8.32
- Core
* Tell the current directory to the terminal using OSC 7 sequence (so it can open new tabs there) (#3088)
* Preserve ext2fs attributes on copy/move operations (#4532)
* Change name of temporary directory: make it unique for each run (#4535)
* Hide password in file operation progress dialog (#4541)
* Support reget in file move operation (#4563)
* Implement nanosecond precision timestamps on non-Linux (macOS, BSD, AIX, Solaris) (#4563)
* Remove remaining mmap code to simplify maintenance (#3960)
- VFS
* extfs: support unrar-7 (#4518)
- Editor
* Improve syntax highlighting:
- C and C++ (MidnightCommander/mc#195, #4556)
- Diff viewer
* Add man page mcdiff.1 (#4224)
- Misc
* Code cleanup (#4524)
* New skins
- xoria256-thin, xoria256root-thin (#4530)
- modarcon16-defbg-thin, modarcon16-thin, modarcon16root-defbg-thin, modarcon16root-thin (#4530)
- modarin256-defbg-thin, modarin256-thin, modarin256root-defbg-thin, modarin256root-thin (#4530)
- julia256root (#4536)
* mc.ext.ini: clarify escaping of spaces and parenthesis (#4502)
- Fixes
* External editor does not work with arguments in $EDITOR (#4533)
* fish shell: strings " cd (printf '%b' ... " in history (#4521)
* Redundant back slashes for autocomplete (#4292)
* subshell: call execl with argv[0] that is not an actual path to Bash (#4549)
* mcedit: php.syntax: comment highlight from start of light only (#4519)
* mcedit: wrong replacement using regular expressions with begin or end of line (#4525, #4526)
* mcedit: losing column position when navigating up/down (MidnightCommander/mc#194)
* mcedit: macro deletes text (#4540)
* mcedit: macros are applied to the pasted text (#4562)
* extfs: iso9660: xorriso is slow to open an ISO image (#3570, #4567)
* extfs: u7z: wrong add of nested directories to archive (#4559)
* extfs: segfault on enter to deleted archive (#4560)
* tar: segfault on copy files from archive (#4561)
* man: typo (#4550)
Version 4.8.31
- Core
* Minimal version of GLib is 2.32.0.
- VFS
* fish: drop support of native FISH server and protocol. Rename VFS to shell (#4232)
* extfs;
- uc1541 extfs: update up to 3.6 version (#4511)
- s3+: port to Python3 (#4324)
* Support for LZO/LZOP compression format (#4509)
- Misc
* Code clean up (#4490)
* Skins: add color for non-printable characters in editor (#4433)
- Fixes
* FTBFS on FreeBSD with ext2fs attribute support (#4493)
* Broken stickchars (-a) mode (#4498)
* Wrong timestamp after resuming of file copy operation (#4499)
* Editor: wrong deletion of marked column (#3761)
* Diff viewer: segfault when display of line numbers is enabled (#4500)
* Tar VFS: broken handling of hard links (#4494)
* Sftp VFS: failure establishing SSH session due hashed host names in ~/.ssh/known_hosts (#4506)
* Shell VFS: incorrect file names with cyrillic or diacritic symbols (#4507)
* mc.ext.ini: incorrect description of of how multiple sections and keys with same names are processed (#4497)
* mc.ext.ini: unescaped backslash \ is treated as invalid escape sequence in glib-2.77.3 and glib-2.79 (#4502)
* mc.ext.ini: file "Makefile.zip" is handled as Makefile not as zip-arhive (#4419)
Version 4.8.30
- Core
* Support PCRE2 as search engine (via ----with-search-engine=pcre2) (#4450)
* Implement panelization buffers for both file panels (#4370)
- VFS
* tar: support extended headers (including long file names and sparse files) (#1952, #2201)
* extfs helpers: replace "perl -w" with "use warnings" (MidnightCommander/mc#174)
* extfs/patchfs: be more specific in error message (#4485)
- Editor
* Add syntax highlighting:
- Jenkinsfiles (#4469)
- B language (#4470)
* Improve syntax highlighting:
- ECMAScript (MidnightCommander/mc#172)
- ECMAScript in TypeScript (MidnightCommander/mc#172)
- use diff syntax highlighting for git commit messages (COMMIT_EDITMSG) (MidnightCommander/mc#85)
- Misc
* Code cleanup (#4426, #4438)
* Filehighlight:
- recognize vsix files as zip files (MidnightCommander/mc#171)
* Skin updates:
- julia256 (#4441, #4445)
- Fixes
* Usage of 'sed' in build system/makefiles is not portable (#4459, #4466)
* Unportable '$<' in Makefiles (#4460)
* FTBFS if ncurses used without --with-ncurses-includes= configure parameter (#4462)
* Ncurses library is duplicated in MCLIBS (#4463, #4465)
* FTBFS without ext2fs attributes support (#4464)
* Wrong sort order after swapping panels (#4432)
* Incorrect time delimiter in the copy/move progress window (#4437)
* Incorrect redraw of overlapped file panels (#4408)
* Subshell/Command line prompt is empty/missing (#3121)
* Find file: relative ignore directory is applied to the start search directory (#4235)
* Diff viewer: options are not applied on second run (#4486)
* mc.ext.ini: 'Edit' command from 'Default' section is ignored (#4434)
* mc.ext.ini: .md files are not recognized as Markdown ones by extension (#4444)
* mcedit: off-by-one error in paragraph formatting (#4446)
* ftp: incomplete file listing: block and character devices, pipes, sockets are missed (#4472)
* Various typos in the source code (MidnightCommander/mc#177, MidnightCommander/mc#178)
Version 4.8.29
- Core
* Add more options for panel filter (#1373):
- "Files only" (#4209)
- "Case sensitive" (#4334)
- "Using shell patterns"
* Continue copy after interrupt (#4409)
* Restore menu accelerator for "Sort order": back to "S"; change menu accelerator for "SFTP link" to "N" (#4373)
* Add support for cross-compilation with PERL path different between --build and --host (#4399)
* Bootstrap with autotools providing direct support for Apple M1
* Port mc.ext to INI format and rename to mc.ext.ini (#4141, #3742, #3191)
- Implement compound (AND) conditions (Type/Shell and Type/Regex pairs) to disambiguate overloaded extensions
- There is no fallback to previous mc.ext format
- Editor
* Change location of all user's syntax related stuff to ~/.local/share/mc/syntax/ directory (#4413)
* syntax/Syntax: document location of syntax files (#4320)
* Improvements of syntax highlighting:
- YAML: improve multiline blocks highliting (#4059)
* New syntax highlighting:
- Privoxy (https://www.privoxy.org) actions files (#4384)
- TOML (Tom's Obvious Minimal Language) (#4412)
- Misc
* Code cleanup (#4357, #4397, #4425)
* sqlite3 view: use 'immutable=1' URI parameter to prevent leaving wal/shm files after viewing sqlite database (#4369)
* Support of contour terminal emulator (https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour) (#4396)
* mc.ext.ini: clarify regex for makefiles (#4419)
* Remove empty hints translations by setting 5% threshold (#3608)
- Fixes
* Fail to build with only SFTP network VFS is enabled (#4420)
* Crash on quick view of archives (#4398)
* Wrong description of --enable-configure-args option (#4400)
* Wrong version sort (#4374)
* No subshell if subshell is initializing more than 1 second (#3121)
* Filter keyboard shortcut only affects left panel (#4383)
* File type check does not work with special character in filename (#4377)
* Select files keeping the right mouse button pressed doesn't select all files (#4381)
* Cannot scroll panel listing upwards using mouse (#4119)
* "Directory Compare" doesn't correct work with panelization (#3220)
* Wrong decompressing of zip files in quick view panel (#4404)
* mc.ext: 'include' keyword (for command class def) have no effect if it was defined before 'Include' keyword (for command def) (#2773)
* mcedit: infinite loop when deleting a macro (#4391)
* mcviewer: segfault when switching from raw to parsed mode and back (#4401)
* Broken handling of zip archives (#4368)
* FISH subshell: commands don't work after window resize (#4372)
* FTP VFS: doesn't reconnect to server after timeout (#3670)
* FISH VFS: cannot remove non-empty directory (#4364)
* EXTFS VFS: segfault if archive contains file(s) in the parent directory (#4422, #4427)
* Tests: variable redeclaration in filevercmp_test5 (#4358)
Version 4.8.28
- VFS
* Remove SMB support (#1)
- Editor
* Add syntax highlighting:
- Ngspice/SPICE (https://ngspice.sourceforge.net/) (#4316, #4319)
- DOT/Graphviz (https://graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html) (#4322)
- Viewer
* Support file/dir macros from mc.ect for standalone viewer (#4150)
- Misc
* Minimal version of "check" utility is 0.9.10.
* Code cleanup (#4270, #4330)
* Support Shift+Fn keys for KiTTY (#4325)
* Filehighlight:
- graphical formats: avif, jp2, jxl, heic, heif, psb, psd (#4328)
- Markdown (#4351)
- Fixes
* FTBFS with ncurses build with --disable-widec (#4200)
* There is no exit on Ubuntu PPC64 big endian (#3887)
* Segfault on change panel mode (#4323)
* Accelerator conflict in Left/Right menu (#4284)
* move a lot of files across filesystems is slow (#4287)
* mc.ext: wrong order of rules: general matches are made before more specific ones (#4273)
* mc.ext: compressed man pages are shown unformatted (#4272)
* ext.d/misc.sh: invoking /bin/cat on systems that have no /bin/cat (like NixOS) (#4298)
* mcedit: errors in syntax definitions (#4286)
* VFS: FISH: when uploading a symbolic link, it creates both the link and its target (#4281)
* VFS: SFTP: timestamps are not preserved for uploaded symlink (#4285)
* VFS: EXTFS: incorrect test of isoinfo (#4326)
* Typo in skin files (#3146)
Version 4.8.27
- Core
* Minimal version of Autoconf is 2.64 (#3603)
* Minimal version of Automake is 1.12 (#3986)
* Minimal version of Gettext is 0.18.2 (#3603)
* Minimal version of libssh2 is 1.2.8 (#4259)
* Reimplement version detection (#3603, #4249)
* Significantly reduce rebuilt time after version change (#2252, #4266)
* Drop automatic migration of configuration from ~/.mc to XDG-based directories (#3682)
* zsh: support custom configuration file: ~/.local/share/mc/.zshrc (#4203)
* Widgets: implement WST_VISIBLE state to show/hide widgets (#2919)
* "Find File": add "Follow symlinks" option (#2020)
- VFS
* extfs: support unrar-6 (#4154)
* extfs: support official 7z binary (7zz) (#4239)
* ftpfs: apply file list parser from lftp project (#2841, #3174)
- Editor
* Word completion: get candidates from all open files (#4160)
* etags: get rid of hardcoded list length and window width (#4132)
* Update syntax files:
- Python (#4140)
* Add syntax highlighting:
- Verilog and SystemVerilog header files (#4215)
- JSON (#4250)
- openrc-run scripts (#4246)
- Misc
* Code clean up (#4179, #4173, #4269)
* Filehighlight of c++ and h++ files as sources (#4194)
* Filehighlight of JSON files as documents (#4250)
* Support of alacritty terminal emulator (https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty) (#4248)
* Support of foot terminal emulator (https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot) (#4251)
* Support of (alt+)shift+arrow keys in st terminal emulator (st.suckless.org) (#4267)
* Mouse support in screen: don't check $DISPLAY variable (#4233)
* mc.ext: support fb2 e-books (#4167)
* ext.d: use mediainfo to view info about various media files (#4167)
* Remove OS/distro-specific package-related stuff from source tree (#4217)
- Fixes
* FTBFS against NCurses on OS X 10.9.5 (#4181)
* Segfault on dialog before panels get visible (#4244)
* Crash if shadow is out of screen (build against NCurses) (#4192)
* Crash in search (#4222)
* Crash on startup with enabled subshell in FreeBSD (workaround) (#4213)
* Hang on start randomly with zsh as subshell (#4198)
* If command line is invisible it's partially displayed (#4182)
* Broken handling of zip archives (#4180, #4183)
* Broken handling of jar files as zip archives (#4223)
* Timestamps of symlinks, sockets, fifos, etc are not preserved after copy/move (#3985)
* %view action in the user menu doesn't work on no-exec filesystem (#4242)
* Hardlinks are not colored by file type or extension (#3375)
* mcedit: silent macro makes terminal disrupted (#4171)
* mcedit: disrupting of TAGS file path (#4207)
* vfs: unable to browse compressed tar archives (#4191)
* sftpfs vfs: CVE-2021-36370: server fingerprint isn't verified (discovered by AUT-milCERT during an audit of open source software) (#4259)
* ftpfs vfs: month of file is always January (#4260)
* Tests: log files are written by libcheck and automake simultaneously (#3986)
Version 4.8.26
- Core
* Support file names of any length (#4145)
* Implement persistent command line buffer for subshell (bash >= 4, zsh and fish are supported) (#4114, #4124, #4126)
* Implement shadows of dialog windows and menus (#4102)
* Allow running clipboard commands if DISPLAY is not set (#4133)
* Add support of "alacritty", "tmux", and "tmux-256color" terminals (#4149)
- VFS
* Support wim archive format (using wimtools (https://wimlib.net/)) (#4100)
* Support pak archive format (using unar (https://theunarchiver.com/)) (#4130)
- Editor
* Add Swift syntax highlighting (MidnightCommander/mc#159)
- Misc
* Code cleanup (#4103, #4127, #4131)
* ext.d/sound.sh: replace xmms with audacious (part of #4127)
* mc.ext: improve handling of compressed content (#4128, #2117)
* mc.ext: add support for OpenDocument flax xml formats: fodt, fods, fodp, fodg (#4157)
* Filehighlight fodg, fodp, fods, fodt, odg files as documents
* modarcon16 skin: make consistent with whitespaces (#4158)
- Fixes
* 0000 permissions are not preserved on copy/move file (#4155)
* Chattr dialog doesn't work with mouse (#4104)
* Wrong copy ETA displaying if "Follow links" option is set (#4101)
* C-i ("change panel" shortcut) has no effect (#4107)
* C-l ("refresh screen") and A-` ("switch screens") shortcuts have no effect (#4142, #4153)
* Cancel of history or completion window marks input lines as modified (#4152)
* Unexpected subshell execution at panel switch (#2110)
* Lock up after pressing Tab in subshell (#2269)
* tcsh: error: "The Commander can't change to the directory" (#4120)
* vfs: extfs: cannot handle files with name started with dash or space (#4077)
* vfs: hang on accessing files within a nested VFS for first 60 seconds (#4147)
* vfs: lose content of the current directory on a mounted CIFS share (on Linux >= 5.1) (#3987)
Version 4.8.25
- Core
* Minimal version of GLib is 2.30.0
* Avoid subshell warning for standalone mcedit/mcview/mcdiffview run from mc (#4056)
* Implement chattr command (change ext{2,3,4}fs extended attributes). Default shortcut is "C-x e" (#3847)
* Implement a WGroup widget -- a base class for widgets which contain other widgets (#2919, #4075)
* Implement key bindings for radiobuttons (#212)
- VFS
* RPM VFS improvements:
- Support weak dependency tags: ENHANCES, SUGGESTS, RECOMMENDS, SUPPLEMENTS (#4091)
- Editor
* Improvements of syntax highlighting:
- php (#4060)
- tcl: add shebangs with wish and tclsh (#4062)
- Cobol (#1987)
- Verilog/SystemVerilog (#4087)
* New syntax highlighting:
- Kotlin (#4088)
- ino (Arduino IDE and a number of other IDEs) (#4098)
- Misc
* Code cleanup (#4050, #4085)
* Add support for opus audio (#4061)
* mc-wrapper: don't cd to the same directory (#3355)
* Improve archive support: more binaries to view archive content (#4086)
- lha: jlha, lhasa
- arj: 7za
- cab: 7za
- zip; 7z
- zipx: 7za
- iso: 7za
* Clean up in video.sh handler (#4045)
- RealPlayer is a proprietary application which can't be installed in most distros and has long been abandoned.
- gtv hasn't been developed since 2003.
- xanim barely plays anything.
* Various fixups and updates of man page
- Fixes
* FTBFS on OSes w/o O_CLOEXEC (#4052)
* FTBFS with glib2 >= 2.63.3 (#4053)
* Undefined "__linux__" macro on non-Linux systems (#4058)
* Mouse is not handled with ncurses-6 (#3954)
* Mouse is not handled with S-Lang on some old terminal emulators (#4063)
* Terminal size is always 80x24 in subshell on Solaris 11.4 SPARC (#4099)
* Double clicking on empty area of file panel executes last item (#3722)
* Garbage in input line history (#4064)
* Speed of file copy is not displayed for single file (#4081)
* mcedit: blank screen with invisible error (#4057)
* mcedit: broken syntax highlighting for shell scripts (#4054)
* VFS: broken browsing of .deb packages (#4055)
* mc.lib installed twice (#4070)
Version 4.8.24
- Core
* Drop bundled gettext (#3629)
* Implement the file edit and view history. Default shortcut is alt-shift-e (#2733)
* Enable subshell in standalone mceditor, mcviewer, and mcdiffviewer (#3380)
* Refactoring of SIGWINCH handling (#117, #4019)
* Prevent run/open files with double right click (#4016)
* Improve support of Windows 1251 encoding on Solaris (#3992)
* Support binary reproducible builds (via --disable-configure-args configure option) (#4031)
- VFS
* sftpfs: support keyboard interactive authentication (#3921)
* uc1541 extfs: update up to 3.3 version (#3936)
- Editor
* Syntax:
- add yabasic (Yet Another BASIC) syntax highlighting (#4005)
- improve YAML syntax highlighting (#4010)
- add "https://" to Debian sources.list syntax (#4018)
- add .desktop files (#4022)
- improve RPM spec file syntax highlighting (#4037)
- improve Debian sources.list syntax highlighting (#4041)
- Misc
* Code cleanup (#3997, #4030, #4038, #4039)
* menu.mc: handle symbolic links to compressed archives (#4009)
* File highlighting updates (#4015)
- part - partial files, e.g. used by many download managers ([temp])
- apk - Android packages, deb - Debian packages ([archive])
- ts - MPEG-TS streams ([media])
* New skins:
- julia256: a dark skin with calm colors and good contrast.
- Fixes
* Compile failure on AIX 7.2 (#4033)
* Compile failure on OS X 10.9 (#4035)
* Enter key works as Down one in menu (#4006)
* Menubar: incorrect mouse click coordinate (#4013)
* Rotating dash generates way too much output (#3859)
* Totals aren't computed before move of a single directory (#4027)
* Editor: unusable dynamic paragraphing (#3996)
* VFS: iso9660 does not report listing errors (#3993)
* VFS: extfs: nested archives are not removed from temporary directory (#4000)
Version 4.8.23
- Core
* Modify "File exists" query dialog (#3935):
- change layout
- rename "Update" button to "If older"
- add new "If smaller" button": overwrite file with smaller one
- add "Don't overwrite with zero length file" checkbox
* Speed up of large directory structures delete (#3958)
* Support key binding for menu (#212)
- Editor
* Expanded syntax highlighting rules (#3975):
- expanded file name regexp for sh.syntax
- use ini.syntax for systemd configuration files
* Syntax updates:
- shell (#3981)
- ebuild (#3988)
- RPM spec (#3991)
- Viewer
* Quick one-off backwards search with N. New action SearchOppositeContinue for key bind (default is shift-n) (#3452)
- Misc
* Code cleanup (#3955)
* Use Geeqie (a fork of GQview) as main image viewer, fallback to GQview (#3962)
* File highlighting updates (#3966)
- .go, .s: highlight as source
- .m4v: highlighting as media
* New skins:
- featured-plus: featured skin with alternative directory and file select/mark colors (#3973)
- Fixes
* Compilation fail on AIX (#3960)
* Incorrect file version sort (#3965, #3905)
* Garbage in the hardlink error creation message window (#3990)
* Cannot shell, or FTP, or SFTP link when the file panel is tree, or info, or quick view (#3948)
* Failed gpm connect attempt ... for vc /dev/tty0 (#3208, #3614)
* Incorrect include/editor order in mc.ext (#3965)
* mcedit: incorrect C/C++ syntax highlighting in some cases (#3487)
* Unknown type name 'sighandler_t' on Illumos (#3971)
Version 4.8.22
- Core
* Support BTRFS's file clone operation (#1983)
* Find file: show pattern and content in the results window title (#3453)
* Find file: remember state (empty or not) of Content field (#3924)
* Improve support IBM i (#3927)
* Improve handling of hard link creation errors (#3678)
* Support user-defined prompt in the Fish subshell (#3944)
- VFS
* sftp: preserve atime and mtime (#3917)
- Editor
* man page cleanup (#3918)
* syntax:
- PHP - highlight keyword 'null' (#3920)
- Meson - initial implementation (#3940)
- Misc
* ext.d: use MPV as a fallback for mplayer -identify (#3919)
* ext.d: improve recognition of MS Office formats (#3929)
* Code cleanup (#3915)
* Cleanup hint files
- Fixes
* Won't compile for Apple (#3930)
* "Cannot create target file" when target has backslash space in the name (#3923)
* Quiet single file overwrite (#3908)
* Show error message for each not-installed program when view documents in MS Word and Excel formats (#3926)
* Crash when trying some sftp connections (#3937)
* Crash when return to filemanager from subshell (#3943)
Version 4.8.21
- Core
* Cancel Chmod/Chown/Advanced chown operation for large group of files when operation is not permitted (#3850)
* Mouse support in the "Advanced chown" dialog window (#3148)
* File highlighting by extension is case insensitive by default (#1620)
* Safe file overwrite (#3913)
- VFS
* Support zstd compression format (#3906)
- Editor
* Syntax:
- Rust support (#3884)
- JavaScript modules support (#3890)
- Improve Markdown support (#3893)
- Misc
* Add JavaScript module support to `filehighlight.ini` (MidnightCommander/mc#132)
* Add Excel xlsx file format support to `mc.ext.in` (MidnightCommander/mc#135)
* i18n of argument type names in --help blocks (#3879)
* Code cleanup: (#3857, #3914)
- Fixes
* Fail to link to ncurses built as two libraries: ncurses+tinfo (#3880)
* Garbage in displaying of summary of file sizes for selected files (#3883)
* "Compute totals" unnecessarily done for moves (#3149, #3908)
* mc.ext: allow Java class files to be viewed even if JAD isn't on PATH (MidnightCommander/mc#134)
* mcedit: broken extended key mode (#3897)
* mcedit doesn't save all opened files (#3898)
* extfs: sftps: -31 SFTP Protocol Error when transferring file (#3406)
* extfs: rpm: truncated script content in the viewer (#3865)
* extfs: rpm helper misses CONFLICTS field (#3789)
Version 4.8.20
- Core
* Rename key bindings:
- [main].PanelListingSwitch -> [panel].CycleListingFormat
- [main].PanelListingChange -> [main].SetupListingFormat
* Speed up of UTF-8 normalization for frequent cases (#3616)
- VFS
* extfs helpers tester:
- diff of failed tests is now included in output to ease bug reporting (#3784)
- Editor
* Syntax:
- ES2015 support (#3793)
- TypeScript support (#3794)
- Ada 95 updates (#3804)
- Apache Hive QL support (#3828)
- SQL & PHP keyword updates (MidnightCommander/mc#129)
- Simplification of case insensitive file name patterns in /usr/share/mc/syntax/Syntax file (#3829)
- Markdown (initial support) (#3864)
- Protocol Buffers and gRPC support (#3868)
* Add %c (cursor offset from BOF) support for user menu macros (#3867)
- Misc
* Unify curses initialization for various curses implementations (#3697)
* Highlight txz extension as archive like tgz, etc. (#3782)
* Add new media extensions to `filehighlight.ini` (#3834)
- Fixes
* Wrong --help message for mcview, mcedit and mcdiff (#3805)
* Compression from menu broken due to bad quoting (#3840)
* `--with-homedir` gives "yes" as config directory (#3836)
* External panelize: opening a file with an absolute path fails (#2942)
* Filter isn't cleared when entering empty string (#3813)
* Panelization is not kept while switching panel listing mode (#3810)
* Cannot tab out of a QuickView panel (#3815)
* Cannot use the F10 key in a QuickView panel (#3816)
* Wrong INPUT_COMPLETE_CD flag handling in the QuickDialog engine (#3870)
* mcview: file interpreted as latin1 instead of utf8 (#3783)
* mcview: incomplete read of filtering data (#3817)
* mcview: search doesn't grow file as much as needed (#3819, #3855)
* mcview: goto doesn't grow file as much as needed (#3826)
* mcview: quick view panel: crash on slow startup while switching panel mode (#3846)
* mcedit: fix broken encoding into UTF-8 for 8-bit displays (#3843)
* mcedit: incorrect %f macro substitution in the user menu (#3861)
* man pages: wrong paths of mc.hint and mc.hlp (#3806)
* subshell: fix broken tcsh 6.20+ cd escaping (#3852)
* VFS: incremental tar doesn't contain empty directories (#2297)
* VFS: incremental tar: wrong directories owner for tar --numeric-owner -g (#3709)
* VFS: timestamps not being preserved due to uninitialized struct stat st_[acm]tim.tv_nsec (#3821)
* VFS: ftp: can't retrieve password from .netrc when user is in URL (#3869)
* VFS: tests: locale issue causing helpers using 'sort' to fail (#3787)
* VFS: tests: unportable 'echo' use causing one rpm helper test to fail (#3786)
* Spelling errors in the manual page (#3839)
Version 4.8.19
- Core
* Replace $MC_HOME with $MC_PROFILE_ROOT (#3684)
* Allow rebind TAB key to change panel (#3672)
* Support for True Color (16 millions colors) (#3145)
* Color aliases in skin files (#3711)
- VFS
* Support timestamps with nanosecond precision for copy/move operations (#3575)
* Introduce EXTFS helpers tester (#3730, #3744, #3752, #3753, #3751)
* Teach u7z to parse archive listings w/o sizes and/or dates (#2707)
* Teach rpm helper about transaction scripts (#3750)
* Fix hp48, uace & uarc extfs which used an obsolete date format (#3729, #3747)
- Editor
* Syntax:
- updates of HTML and ebuild highlighting
- highlight *.t (Perl test) files as Perl scripts
- disassociate .cl file extension from LISP syntax (#3691)
* Add syntax highlighting:
- OpenCL (#3690)
- OpenShadingLanguage (#3762)
- R
- YAML (#3293)
- Misc
* Code cleanup (#3693, #3703, #3721, #3763)
* Add true color skins: 'Four seasons' (#3724)
* Activate `--enable-tests` by default if `check` is found (#3708)
* Added new skin: YADT (MidnightCommander/mc#115)
- Fixes
* Segfault on switching left panel to Info (#3700)
* Broken compatibility with ncurses (#3697)
* Setting MC_HOME makes mc ignore ~/.bashrc (#3684)
* mc_tmpdir() use a buffer of only 64 characters (#3736)
* Some bugs in the parsing of hexadecimal search patterns (#3694)
* Hexadecimal search fails on binary data (#3589)
* Broken file list resorting on double click on panel header line (#3715)
* Wrong dialog resizing and positioning (#3714, #3723)
* Widget's 'disabled' status is not toggled immediately (#3716)
* Last item of 'Options/Layout/Horizontal' radiobuttons remains highlighted (#3717)
* 'Options/Layout/Equal split' checkbox gets reverted (#3718)
* Panels: cannot show more than one "column" in user defined listing mode (#3757)
* Mix of MSG_NOTIFY and MSG_FOCUS messages (#3731)
* skins: 'window-state-char' and 'window-close-char' are parsed as colors (#3710)
* Pressing <right> and <left> in the hotlist dialog doesn't refresh it (#3775)
* mcview: an error message about bad regexp isn't shown (#3720)
* mcedit: fix etags filenames parsing (#3698)
* mcedit: fix mouse active area for maximize / close buttons (#3774)
* mcedit: frames (MDI interface) don't reflect the focus state (#3766)
* mcedit: frames (MDI interface) sometimes obscure the buttonbar (#3760)
* mcedit doesn't show search error messages when searching backwards (#3735)
* help viewer: tab characters handled incorrectly (#3754)
* VFS: incorrect zoo archive listing (#3696)
* VFS: segfault in VFSs not setting block size in stat (#3749)
Version 4.8.18
- Core
* Alt-Enter, Ctrl-Enter and Ctrl-Shift-Enter shortcuts are bindable in file manager (#3075)
* Internals:
- Refactoring of widget subsystem (#2919, #3632)
- Editor
* Add syntax highlighting:
- GLSL (#3683)
- CUDA (#3686)
- Misc
* Code cleanup (#3641, #3652)
- Fixes
* Build failure on FreeBSD (#3643)
* Incompatibility with NetBSD curses (#3665)
* Memory leaks (#3637)
* Subshell output lost on window resize under tmux, GNU screen (#3639)
* --with-subshell=optional does not work (#3642)
* Backward search is not interruptible (#3648)
* "Output lines" has no effect (#3655)
* Wrong handling of mouse clicks in long listing mode (#3661)
* Panelize resets marks on marked files in many cases (#3663)
* Cannot change directory in the active panel in some cases (#3669)
* Filtered View doesn't work (#3646, #3660)
* mcedit: don't kill bookmarks when open file from "Find File" dialog (#3668)
* man pages use "the MC" instead of "MC" (#3644)
Version 4.8.17
- Core
* Minimal version of Gettext is 0.18.1 (#1885)
* Optimization of copy/move operations (use adaptive buffer as in coreutils) (#2193)
* Recognize csh as tcsh (#2742)
* Centered scrolling of file panel (#3130)
* Internals:
- Switch to new high-level mouse API (#3571)
- VFS
* FISH helpers: remove executable bit (#3610)
- Editor
* Improvements of syntax highlighting:
- F90 (#3618)
- Java (MidnightCommander/mc#95)
- Misc
* Code cleanup (#3598, #3607)
* Install mc.keymap as a symlink to mc.default.keymap (#3609)
* File highlight: add more common file formats
- Fixes
* Segfault due to incorrect value of SHELL environment variable (#3606)
* Segfault when copying files under FreeBSD 9.3 (#3617)
* Segfault when entering into some cpio archives (#3621)
* Subshell output lost on window resize under tmux, GNU screen (#3639)
* Subshell cursor position lost after window resizing (#3640)
* Listbox no longer scrolls when dragging outside widget (#3559)
* VFS: extfs: incorrect date parsing in unzip (#3622)
* VFS: extfs: buffer overflow (#3605)
* VFS: patchfs: syntax error (#3620)
* VFS: fish: mistakes in ls Perl helper (#3611)
Version 4.8.16
- Core
* Support for ash + bugfixes for bash, fish (#2742)
* Find file: empty file name matches any file name (#3593)
* Find file: empty value of "Content" is used instead of "Search for content" checkbox to disable search for content (#3594)
* Listbox: don't wraparound on mouse scroll (#3554)
* Internals:
- Listbox: various fixups (#3569: #3562, #3563, #3565, #3161)
- Split MSG_ACTION into MSG_ACTION and MSG_NOTIFY (#3566)
- VFS
* Support lzip compression format (#2673, #1541)
* Support lz4 compression format (#3523)
* patchfs: support xz compression (#3443)
* Update uc1541 version (#3527)
* Add mc.ext patterns for initramfs / initrd (#3115)
- Editor
* Add golang syntax (MidnightCommander/mc#84)
* Update Puppet syntax (MidnightCommander/mc#86)
- Misc
* Code cleanup (#3555, #3547, #3587)
* Better subshell documentation (#3556)
* Fixes to the English man pages by Denys Vlasenko
- Fixes
* Insufficient quoting in `mc.menu` (#2947)
* Broken ./configure --without-internal-edit (#3601)
* Memory leaks (#3547, #3561, #3567, #3572)
* No preallocation if appending during file copy (#3577)
* Cannot set mini-format for "brief" listing type (#3588)
* Info panel: incorrect inode information in some cases (#3214)
* Info panel: wrong device name with symbolic link (#3412)
* Info panel: buffer overflow (#3582)
* Regression: match filename, not full path in mc.ext (#3578)
* Broken case insensitive search in non-unicode locale (#3491)
* Error message prefixed with no sense "0:" (#3269)
* mcedit: buffer overflow (#3579)
* mcedit: "Lower case selection" command in User Menu (#3586)
* mcedit: close on ctrl-g (#3557)
* mcview: "Not found" result isn't reported in some cases (#3543)
* VFS: isofs doesn't show .dotfiles (#3537)
* VFS: isofs: cannot copy file from iso when Joliet without RockRidge is used (#2851)
* VFS: extfs/unzip: enter into zip file fails with "inconsistent extfs archive" (#3433)
* VFS: SFTP: various bugs (#3581)
* VFS: FISH: provide major/minor info for block/char devices (#3599)
* Bashism in gitfs+ extfs helper (#3379)
* Non-portable invocation of man (#3509)
* mc-wrapper leaves MC_USER set (#3550)
* Broken silent opening of files in background (#3574)
* Run `identify` on JPEGs even if `exif` is not installed (#3568)
Version 4.8.15
- Core
* Minimal version of GLib is 2.26.0
* Use the PATH environment variable to search for the executable when opening pipe (#3444)
* Support more than 2 (up to 9) columns in file panel in brief mode (#3212)
* Clarify file sorting in "Unsorted" mode (#3496)
* WGroupbox: respect dialog's colors (#3468)
* Highlight find file's result in internal viewer (#3530)
- VFS
* s3 extfs vfs: bugfixes and improvements (#3470, #3502)
- Editor
* Add hidden option to choose full or base file name in the status line (#3445)
* Improvements of syntax highlighting:
- Lua (#3471)
- PKGBUILD (#3484)
- Misc
* Text alignment in Info panel (#3155)
* Select of menu file edit: change default button to "User" (#3493)
* Recognize .gmo files as well as .mo ones (#3422)
* Fix mc.pot comment tripping up Transifex and unportable inplace sed (#3479)
* A lot of code clean up (#3420, #3424, #3426, #3427, #3428, #3429, #3430, #3431, #3434, #3435, #3437, #3463, #3464, #3465, #3466, #3467, #3494, #3495, #3539)
* Documentation updates:
- Spanish man and help: Diff Viewer section and minor fixes (#3477)
- VFS garbage collection (#3472)
- Fixes
* Various memory leaks (#3438, #3439, #3440, #3457, #3458, #3459, #3460, #3461, #3462, #3475, #3520, #3521, #3522)
* Linux kernel-specific segfault on startup (#3441)
* Lost of Panelize contents in some cases (#3032, #3489, #3498, #3507)
* Wrong highlight of search result in case of "Regular expression" and "Whole words" (#3524)
* "Whole words" search works only in Normal mode (#3525)
* View find results doesn't jump to match line if file is too short to scroll page (#3530)
* SFTP VFS: segfault (#3456)
* Segfault in "Find file" due to invalid UTF-8 sequences (#3449)
* Bash variable 'PROMPT_COMMAND' in pantheon-terminal (#3534)
Version 4.8.14
- Core
* Minimal version of GLib is 2.14.0
* Add new panel binding "SelectExt" to select/unselect files with the same extension as the current file (#3228)
* Speed up of directory size calculation (#3247)
* Support of italic text (#3065)
- Editor
* New syntax highlighting support:
- puppet (#3266)
- Viewer
* Rewrite mcview's rendering and scrolling (#3250, #3256)
- no more partial lines at the top and failure to scroll when Up or Down is pressed;
- better handling of CJK characters;
- handle combining accents;
- improved nroff support;
- more conventional scrolling behavior at the end of the file.
* Use VIEW_SELECTED_COLOR in plain mode (#3405)
* In QuickView panel, don't pass any chars to command line to avoid unexpected command execution (#3253)
- Misc
* Code cleanup (#3265, #3262)
* Bind poedit to Edit action for .po files (#3287)
* Better grammar mcedit user menu (#3246)
- Fixes
* Fail to build against musl libc (#3267)
* Error compiling with glib 2.20.3 (#3333)
* Overwrite of the PROMPT_COMMAND bash variable (#2027)
* contrib/*.?sh are not recreated after rerun of configure (#3181)
* File rename handles zero-length substitutions incorrectly (#2952)
* Lose files on "Skip" when "Cannot preallocate space for target file" (#3297)
* Info panel can't obtain file system statistics on Solaris (#3277)
* "Shell patterns" broken beyond repair (#2309)
* File selection by patterns uses bytes instead of unicode characters (#2743)
* Copy files doesn't work as expected, when copying to a directory with the special symbol in its name (#3235)
* Wrong order of old_colors table items (#3404)
* Input line: Alt+Backspace on one-letter word erases too much (#3390)
* "Directory scanning" window is too narrow (#3162)
* No Help for User Menu (#3409)
* mcedit: paste from clipboard does not work (#3339)
* mcviewer: hang when viewing broken man page (#2966)
* mcview hex: incorrect highlight when search string not found (#3263)
* mcview hex edit: UTF-8 chars are not updated (#3259)
* mcview hex edit: can't enter certain UTF-8 characters (#3260)