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diff --git a/doc/NEWS b/doc/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bef3cd1 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,1633 @@ +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 (http://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) + * mcview hex edit: CJK overflow (#3261) + * mcedit: status line doesn't show full path to file (#3285) + * Freeze when copying from one FTP location to another (#358) + + +Version 4.8.13 + +- Core + + * New engine of user-friendly interruption of long-time operations (#2136) + +- Editor + + * Improvements of syntax highlighting: + - CMake (#3216) + - PHP (#3230) + * Translate language names in the spelling assistant dialogue (#3233) + +- Viewer + + * Add separate normal(default) colour pair for viewer (#3204) + * Dealing with utf-8 man pages in view/open (#1539) + * "Goto line" is 1-based now (#3245) + +- Misc + + * Code cleanup (#3189, #3223, #3242) + * Add new skins: gray-green-purple256 and gray-orange-blue256 (#3190) + +- Fixes + + * First Backspace/Delete is ignored after mouse click in an input widget (#3225) + * Recursive find file doesn't work on Samba share (#3097) + * Recursive find file doesn't work on Windows NFS share (#3202) + * Incorrect file counter in move operation (#3196, #3209) + * "Directory scanning" window is too narrow (#3162) + * Colon is not recognized inside escape seq in prompt (#3241) + * Quick view doesn't grab focus on mouse click (#3251) + * fish subshell: overridden prompt (#3232, #3237) + * mcviewer: broken switch between raw and parse modes (#3219) + * mcviewer: incorrect percentage in mcview hex mode (#3258) + * RAR VFS incorrectly recognizes UnRAR version (#3240) + * viewbold and viewselected are missing from some skins (#3244) + * Incorrect encoding name for manual page (#3239) + * "User menu -> View manual page" doesn't do coloring (#3243) + + +Version 4.8.12 + +- Core + + * Speed up of file find (#2290) + * If cwd is a symlink it is kept at startup (#3093) + * Improve support of Zsh (#3121, #3124, #3125, #3177) + * Launch external editor/viewer without passing line number (#3117) + * Exit without confirmation by default (#3132) + * Simple user-friendly skin selector (#2165, #3178) + * Use Joliet and RockRidge in ISO9660 image view action (#3187) + +- VFS + + * Use .zip extension as preferred way to recognize ZIP archives (#2857) + +- Editor + + * Configurable selection reset on CK_Store (#3111) + +- Misc + + * Code cleanup (#3113, #3151) + * Adjust script permissions to installed ones (#2274) + * Fix name of FSF in add source files (#3167) + * Skin cleanups (#3180, #3184) + * Do not consider "String not found" message as error (#3179) + +- Fixes + + * Broken build with NCurses (#3114) + * Incorrect tilde expansion in copy/rename/move dialog (#3131) + * Advanced chown: Escape on user list accepts value (#3150) + * Toggling hidden files using mouse doesn't update the other panel (#3156) + * Question mark in delete confirmation is on its own line (#3123) + * Popup dialogs wander upwards upon resize (#3173) + * Keypad '*' doesn't work with numlock off (#3133) + * Some inconsistencies in "Learn keys" UI (#3134) + * Unconventional behavior of "Display bits" dialog (#3152) + * Shift-Fn keys don't work in 256-color mode of tmux (#2978) + * mcedit: format paragraph produces inconsistent wrapping (#3119) + * mcedit: file out-of-date check on saving is botched (#3142) + * mcedit: 1st line is shifted after paragraph format (#1666) + * mcedit: trailing newline check applied too early when exiting (#3140) + * Inconsistency of the arrow's direction in the panel header line across skins (#3157) + * Possible segfault while passing messages to widgets (#3116) + * Possible segfault when freeing a VFS (#3116) + * Segfault in cpio VFS while reading corrupted RPM (#3116) + * Segfault in sftpfs VFS when trying to view a file (#3176) + * Incorrect handling of filenames with unrar v5 (#3073) + * FISH VFS: remote panel confused by filenames with '%' (#2983) + * iso9660: xorriso shows only one depth (#3122) + * Nicedark skin looks bad on black-on-white terminals (#3154) + * Incorrect definition of "topmiddle" and "bottommiddle" characters (#3183) + + +Version 4.8.11 + +- Core + + * Live update of panels size when editing layout (#3060) + * Support "Compute totals" option in move file operation (#2075) + +- VFS + + * rpm extfs + - show dependency version (#2812) + - support tar payload (#3064) + - improve support for EPOCH tag (#1588) + - add support for PREINPROG/POSTINPROG/PREUNPROG/POSTUNPROG, VERIFYSCRIPTPROG and TRIGGERSCRIPTS/TRIGGERSCRIPTPROG tags (#1588) + +- Editor + + * Support "bracketed paste mode" of xterm (#2661) + * Clarify Java syntax highlighting (#3057) + +- Misc + + * Print warnings about unknown '--with-' / '--enable-' configure options (#3029) + * Code cleanup and refactoring (#3051, #3066) + +- Fixes + + * FTBFS on GNU Hurd (#3053, #3071) + * Segfault while moving files (#3059, #3105) + * Broken handling of mc command line arguments (#3047) + * Copy/move doesn't work if num_history_items_recorded=0 (#3076) + * No subdir path completion in current dir, if stub is not starting with './' (#3018) + * Deprecated "find -perm +xxx" syntax is used (#3089) + * Home, End, Shift-Fn keys don't work in tmux (#2978) + * Improper [en|dis]abling of layout dialog split adjustment buttons (#3061) + * Bogus strings in 'Confirmation' config dialog (#2271) + * "Configure options" first entry not highlighted (#3084) + * "Setup saved to ~/.config/mc/ini" message is misleading (#3096) + * F3 doesn't work on .so files in FreeBSD 9.x (#3101) + * Typo in mc.lib: "less=%filename +%linenog" instead of "+%lineno" (part of #3044) + * Wrong order of filename and line number for external editor (part of #3044) + * mcedit: tabs are lost when text is pasted (#1797 as part of #2661) + * mcedit: question on large file treats Escape as Yes (#3107) + * Broken case-sensitive search in editor/viewer/diffviewer (#3069) + * Changes to files in nested .zip archives are lost (#3070) + * Incorrect handling of filenames with spaces with unrar v5 (#3073) + * iso9660 VFS: filenames truncating in ISO file listing (#3091) + * vfs_path_from_str_flags() doesn't support VPF_STRIP_HOME (#3098) + * Bright colors are used as background colors in 16-color skins (#3050) + * Various defects in documentation (#3052, #3092) + + +Version 4.8.10 + +- Core + + * Do not link GModule if it is not required (save space on embedded systems) (#2995) + * Behavior of the 'Right' key in the 'Directory hotlist' was changed: now 'Right' key is used only to enter into the group (#3045) + +- Misc + + * Code cleanup (#3035) + +- Fixes + + * Build failure on Cygwin (#3041) + * Broken NCurses detection (#3043) + * Broken handling of mc command line arguments (#3047) + * Cannot enter into zip archive in tar one (#3034) + * Cannot open some jar files + * mcedit: file descriptor leak (#3040) + * mcedit: paragraph format doesn't respect multibyte characters (#2713) + * Crash after entering a wrong SFTP password (#3036) + + +Version 4.8.9 + +- VFS + + * extfs: support unrar-5 (#3015) + * extfs: use xorriso (if exists) for writing into ISO images (#3027) + +- Editor + + * Support unlimited file size (#1743) + +- Misc + + * Lot of code cleanups (#2990, #2071, #2164, #2998, #3003, #3005, #3022) + * Display additional info while viewing (by F3) *.iso files (#2006) + * New skins: + - modarin256: set of 256-color skins from Oliver Lange (#2737) + +- Fixes + + * Fail to link if system lib does not contain strverscmp (#2992) + * Segfault when mc's temporary directory doesn't belong to the correct user (#3021) + * Race condition when creating temporary directory (#3025) + * Mouse doesn't work in screen and tmux (#3011) + * Incorrect file size in copy/move overwrite query dialog (#3000) + * Garbage in subshell prompt (#3001) + * Incorrect WLabel redraw after text change (#2991) + * Find File: "All charsets" options don't work (#3026) + * When an unknown key is pressed, it is interpreted as garbage (#2988) + * Segfault on creating new file in external editor (#3020) + * Rotating dash is not removed when mc finishes reading the directory (#2163) + * mcedit: word completion failed if word to be completed is begun from begin of file (#2245) + * mcview: broken switch between raw and parse modes (#2968) + * Hex viewer: continue search doesn't work (#2706) + * sftpfs: broken SSH aliases (#2923) + + +Version 4.8.8 + +- Core + + * Make copy/move progress dialog window wider up to 2/3 of screen width (#2076) + * Ask file name before create new file in editor (#2585) + * Support newer extended mouse protocol SGR-1006 instead of URXVT-1015 (#2956) + * Allow skip directory scanning before file operation. Print directory count and size in addition to directory name (#2101) + * Add jump support to target line in some external editors and viewers (#2206) + +- Editor + + * Update syntax highlighting: + - Jal programming language (#2855) + - gplink configuration files (.lkr extension) (#2855) + - Makefile with .mak extension (#2896) + - ZSH configuration files (#2950) + - Fortran (#2962) + +- Misc + + * Code cleanup (#2944, #2954) + * Report real compiler in MC_CHECK_ONE_CFLAG instead of 'gcc' + * Hints files now translated via Transifex (#2980) + +- Fixes + + * Segfault in file operation due to unhandled regexp error (#2493) + * Tab completion vs. spaces and escaping (#55)\ + * Special chars are not escaped in autocompletion of filenames (#2626) + * Buttons in the 'Directory hotlist' window are placed incorrectly (#2958) + * Mouse doesn't select text in subshell in native console (#2964) + * Mouse click below non-droppeddown menubar activates menu box (#2971) + * Insufficient quoting and wrong message in user menu (#2947) + * mcedit: floating point exception (division by zero) (#2953) + * mcedit: broken autocompletion (#2957) + * mcview: broken magic mode (#2976) + * Broken opening of .war archives (#2974) + + +Version 4.8.7 + +- Core + + * Minimal GLib version is 2.12.0 + * Implementation of suspend/resume in copy/move file operations (#2111) + * Start of widget subsystem reimplementation (#2919) + +- VFS + + * uc1541 extfs plug-in updated up to version 2.5 (#2935) + +- Editor + + * Reset selection after text paste (only in non-persistent selection mode) (#2660) + * Don't indent blank lines (#303). + * Add .psgi as Perl syntax highlighting (#2912) + * Place cursor after inserted chars (#319) + * Add option in ini file to save spelling language (spell_language=NONE for disable aspell support) (#2914) + +- Misc + + * Code cleanup (#2888, #1950) + * Minimal "check" utility version is 0.9.8 + * Remove the empty contrib/dist/debian/ since it maintained separately in Debian (#2871) + * mc.ext updates: + - add support of SVG images (#2895) + - add support of .asm file extension (#2892) + - add support of .hh file extension (#2892) + - all file extension for source files now are case insensitive (#2892) + - add support of JNG and MNG images (#2893) + - add support of Gnumeric's spreadsheets (#2894) + - add support of .war archives (#2891) + - make a choice between arj and unarj archivers (#2890) + - make a choice between 7z and 7za archivers (#2890) + - add support of ape, aac and wvm4a media formats (#2767) + - add support of cbr and cbz comic books (#2739) + - add support of epub e-book format (#2739) + - add support of PAR archives (#2739) + - use libreoffice instead of ooffice, if found, to open ODT files (#2723) + - use dvicat if dvi2tty not found to view DVI files (#1686) + - use 'see' utility as default pdf viewer, if found (#1686) + - use 'see' utility to view images in console (#1686) + * Highlight OGV files as media (#2934) + * Added new translations: + - Persian (fa) + - Croatian (hr) + +- Fixes + + * Build failure on Cygwin (#2917) + * Fail to check ncurses library if --with-ncurses-inc and --with-ncurses-libs options are used (#2926) + * Crash on Solaris while trying to copy a file (#2906) + * CVE-2012-4463: Does not sanitize MC_EXT_SELECTED variable properly (#2913) + * Attributes of existing directories are never preserved when copying (#2924) + * Broken path completion on paths starting with ~/ (#2898) + * Terminal settings are not changed when window is resized (#2198) + * Enter into symlink to compressed patch shows empty patch (#2910) + * Test failure on Cygwin due to incorrect linkage flag (#2918) + * Non-portable test (#2883) + + +Version 4.8.6 + +- Fixes + + * mcedit: two-columns extra offset of cursor after tab character (#2881) + * diffviewer: cannot open file if name contains '$' (#2873) + + +Version 4.8.5 + +- Core + + * Implemented case-insensitive patterns in mc.ext bindings (#2250) + +- Editor + + * Code refactoring and cleanup (#1977) + +- Diff viewer + + * Bidirectional merge (F5 merge left-to-right, F15 - merge right-to-left) (#2863) + +- Misc + + * Syntax highlighting news and updates: + - update assembler.syntax: x86 AMD64 registers highlighting (#2542) + - new cmake.syntax: preliminary and incomplete syntax file for CMakeLists.txt files (#2084) + - new dlink.syntax: syntax highlighting for D-Link switches command set (#2649) + - update properties.syntax: more nice look-and-feel (#1869) + * mc.ext enhancement (#2103): + - use chm_http text-mode handler for CHM files + - play sounds only from videos in text mode + - use pdftotext -layout -nopgbrk switches + - try to use elinks before links for HTML + - soffice2html text-mode handler for SXW files + - wvHtml text-mode handler for doc files + - xlhtml text-mode handler for XLS files + - ppthtml text-mode handler for PPT/PPS files + - open=view+pager fallback (noX) for PostScript, PDF, OD[PST] and DVI + - standardized $DISPLAY checks + * File extension support: + - SQLite database files (#2103) + - compiled Java files (*.class) (#2103) + - m4a for MP4 containers with audio data in the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) or its own Apple Lossless (ALE, ALAC) formats (#2869) + - .ogm extension was deprecated in favor of .ogv (#2664) + +- Fixes + + * Bad EXTHELPERSDIR substitution if --prefix is not set (#2849) + * Partially broken loading of user-defined keymap file (#2848) + * Enter on directory named '~' goes to the home one (#2874) + * Cannot Copy/Move files with filename encoding change (#2791) + * Cannot view compressed files named like log.1.gz (with digit in name) (#2852) + * Panel is not refreshed if panel history is called using mouse (#2854) + * Duplicate entities in panel with 'tree view' mode (#2835) + * Broken synchronization with filelist and tree panels (#2862) + * Standalone mcedit doesn't load saved file position (#2853) + * mcedit segfaults when aspell (en) dictionary is not installed (#2856) + * mcedit segfaults after "Back from declaration" call (#2859) + * mcedit: unable to save changes in "Safe save" mode(#2832) + * Segfault when viewing HTML files with "mc -v" (#2858) + * Broken 'Enter' action on a rpm file containing space character in filename (#2838) + * extfs: uc1541 broken handling (#2864) + * mc.ext: OGV format handled as audio (#2869) + + +Version 4.8.4 + +- Core + + * Use xdg-open by default in mc.ext.in if present to open files, fallback on current scheme otherwise (#2118) + * Improve of mouse event handling in dialogs (#2817) + * Show extended info about compiled-in paths for internal/external macros in the "mc -F" output (2495) + +- VFS + + * Added SFTP support (#1535) + +- Editor + + * Multieditor: allow edit many files in one mcedit window (#2261, #2839) + * Aspell support for spell check (#2788) + +- Viewer + + * Handle CK_FileNext/CK_FilePrev actions inside mcviewer (#2814) + +- Misc + + * Tweak and cleanup of code in case of --disable-charset option usage (#2827) + * File extension support: + - .gem - rubygems (#2797) + - .cpio.xz - compressed cpio archives (#2798) + - .webm - WebM video (#2746) + - .lib - gputils artifacts (#2751) + +- Fixes + + * Build failure on FreeBSD 6 (#2808) + * src/filemanager/filegui.c does not compile on Solaris due to missing macros (#2825) + * Loss of data on copy to full partition (#2829) + * Crash at Chown command (#2784) + * Crash when creating relative symlink (#2787) + * Misinterpretation of dirs as command line arguments (#2783, #2805) + * Number of panelized files was limited to 127 (#2813) + * CK_History removes CK_HistoryNext entries (#2313) + * URL with port was stored wrong in history (#2833) + * Can't find 00 (zeroes) in patterns in hex search (#2795) + * Hotkey conflicts in 'Search' dialog (#2843) + * Error message when entering into compressed tar and cpio archives (#2785) + * Garbage directory listing in ftpfs (#2800) + * Incomplete sand256 skin (#2807) + * mcedit scripts are installed as data files (#1437) + * Fails to build from source with --enable-tests (#2786) + * Tests failure on PowerPC,S390,S390x (#2804) + * Fail to compile if --without-vfs configure option specified (#2834) + * do_panel_cd: FTBFS with --enable-tests on [kfreebsd-i386,kfreebsd-amd64,ia64,armhf] (#2803) + + +Version 4.8.3 + +- Misc + + * Code cleanup (#2780) + +- Fixes + + * Broken support of XDG_* shell variables (#1851) + * Segmentation fault while background copying (#2663) + * MC ignores second directory argument (#2762) + * Interpretation of LANG variable needs to be case insensitive (#2386) + * Cannot copy zero-length files with "Preallocate space" option (#2755) + * Problem in the Copy operation with unchecked the "Preserve attributes" option (#2278) + * * Cursor position reset after update when panel is panelized, but doesn't (#2766) + * File selection reset after exit from the archive in the root (#2776) + * Hotlist: broken newly added entries if old-style path is present (#2753) + * Can't rebind Fx keys in the file manager (#2384) + * "justified" menu alignment (#2756) + * The last (or single) word of hyperlinks in the interactive help don't act on mouse clicks (#2763) + * 'cd' command is not working in shell link (#2758) + * mc hangs on switching screens (#2608) + * Case sensitive search with SEARCH_TYPE_PCRE is broken (#2764) + * mcedit can't run w/o file as parameter (#2754) + * mcedit can't record input char (#2757) + * mcedit: save file on top of existing directory changes dir's permissions (#2761) + * Unable to edit gzipped files (#2759) + * mcedit hangs up on replace with regexp contains '^' or '$' (#1868) + * Segfault after open incorrect archive (#2775) + * mcdiff crashes if one panel is not in the listing mode (#2769) + * The password for vfs sessions remains in input history (#2760) + * Showing directory sizes is broken in VFS'es (#2765) + * Stale symlinks in vfs (#2777) + * Active VFS directories list contain incorrect current path (#2779) + * Date not set properly in manpage (#2692) + * Empty texinfo rule in mc.ext (#2774) + * Test failure if 'HOME' contains trailing slashes (#2768) + + +Version 4.8.2 + +- Core + + * Added new flag -X (--no-x11) to allow don't use X11 to get the state of modifiers Alt, Ctrl, Shift (#86) + * Support of '~' as home dir in 'Start at:' field in 'Find File' dialog (#2694) + * Support of '~' as home dir in hotlists (#2747) + * Learn of 'Back Tab' is possible now in 'Learn keys' dialog (#2628) + * Optional '0x' prefix for hexadecimal search (#2705) + * Dynamically resize panels (#2465) + * New bindings (ScrollLeft, ScrollRight) for scroll long filenames in panels (#2731) + +- VFS + + * Internal VFS reorganization (#2695) + +- Editor + + * Added as.syntax (#2708) + +- Viewer + + * Added action bindings for backward search (#2105) + +- Misc + + * Added hotkeys for all radio/check-buttons in search/replace dialogs (#2704) + * New file bindings: + - .m4v, .ts - video (#2702) + - djv - DjVu? (#2645) + * Simplify mc.menu - remove LZMA|LZ and change p7 to 7z (#2703) + * Updated list of known browsers: gnome-moz-remote mozilla firefox konqueror opera (#2725) + * Added MC_HOME environment variable to set up home directory of MC (as part of #2738) + * Lot of code cleanup (#2740) + +- Fixes + + * Compile failure of 4.8.1 on xBSD because "Undefined symbols: _posix_fallocate" (#2689) + * MC deletes the wrong file because of forced panel reload before file operation (#2736) + * Cannot chdir to directory if directory name contains the dollar sign (#2451) + * Incorrect panel size after change panel split type (#2521) + * Wrong total bytes counter for subdirs in copy/move dialog (#2503) + * Display corruption in panels after window shrink (#2684) + * Command line is unaccessible from tree panel (#2714) + * Extra confirmation before delete an empty hotlist group (#1576) + * Can't open an edit zero-length file from VFS in mcedit (#2710) + * mcedit crashes when ~/.config is a file (#2738) + * mcedit: reset selection after END/HOME/PgDn/PgUp (#2726) + * 'make check' fails on arm and alpha (-z muldefs) (#2732) + + +Version 4.8.1 + +- Core + + * Use posix_fallocate64() when copying files/moving to a new mount point (#2610) + * Faster startup (#2637) + * Support of extended mouse clicks beyond 223 (#2662) + +- VFS + + * Added exit point ("..") at the top of file list (after external panelization) (#275, #278) + +- Editor + + * Lex/Flex sources (extension .l) handled by yxx.syntax file. Yacc/Bison syntax completed with all symbols (#1647) + * Updated syntax files: + - lua + +- Misc + + * Updated skins: + - sand256 (#2640) + - xoria256 (#2641) + * Added ability to move MC config files to specified place instead of multiple places in $HOME (#2636) + * Added configure option --with-homedir (default value: XDG) (#2636) + * Respect traditional placement of user preferences on Mac OS X (#2658 as part of #2636) + * A few useful additions to filehighlight.ini (#2646) + +- Fixes + + * Doesn't compile when using --disable-nls (#2639) + * Can't compile on OpenIndiana (Solaris) (#2643) + * Moving content of bindings to mc.ext during 4.7 -> 4.8 upgrade breaks mc + * Free space on filesystems >2TB is not displayed properly (#2338) + * Not all errors are skipped after "Ignore all" choose (#71) + * Input field in password mode is fully masked with asterisks (#2653) + * In "Copy File" dialog the "preserve Attributes" checkbox is always unchecked for filesystems mounted with FUSE (#2254) + * Command line cursor misplaced after a resize in viewer/editor (#2678) + * Save of some learned keys is broken (#2676) + * Editor sometimes shows two dots instead of letter (#2372) + * Editor: word completion should ignore the current word (#2614) + * Viewer sometimes shows two dots instead of letter (#1730) + * Viewer shows two dialogs when searcj hot found (#2677) + * Cannot navigate over spftp servers (#2634) + * mc adds spaces at the beginning of all files/dirs on ftp servers (#2635) + * VFS: broken SMB (#2652) + * man page lies about mc.keymap (#2675) + * mc does not preserve file mtime when copying over ssh (#2625) + + +Version 4.8.0 + +- Misc + * Code cleanup (#2620) + * License version updated to GPL3+ (#1551) + * Added new translation: + - Interlingua + +- Fixes + * Viewer: cursor position is not restored in hex mode (#2543) + * fish: broken panels drawing after entering password (#2611) + * fish: content of modified file is appended instead of overwritten in the remote host (#2632) + * extfs: broken navigation in archives if current path is encoded (#2621) + * extfs: strange error message when opening a 7z file if p7zip is not installed (#2598) + + +Version 4.8.0-pre2 + +- Core + + * Added -g/--oldmouse option to support of NORMAL/BUTTON_EVENT mouse type (useful for screen/tmux) (#2601) + +- VFS + + * New extfs plugin: gitfs (#2467) + * patchfs enhancement: join several hunks of the same file into one VFS entry (#2573) + +- Misc + + * mc.ext: use "include" for $EDITOR entries (#1689) + * New file bindings: + - .3gp - video (#2583) + +- Fixes + + * Cannot compile 4.8.0-pre1 and 4.7.5.3 on Solaris (#2587) + * Recent autoconf displays warnings about missing AC_LANG_SOURCE (#2589) + * Duplication of variable declarations (#2576) + * Incorrect TTY layer initialization (#2601) + * Wrong Backspace key behavior in QuickSearch mode if BS key is mapped to CdParentSmart action (#2522) + * M-o works unexpectedly on symlink shortcuts (#2590) + * Panelize doesn't honour current sorting (#2175) + * Hintbar jumps to the top of the screen and overwrites main menu (#2593) + * File size column is bogus for widths above 9 (#2580) + * Hex search: incorrect length usage in hexadecimal search (#2579) + * Editor: Incorrect Pascal syntax highlighting (#2531) + * Editor: mouse clicks are ignored on the bottom line (#2591) + * Editor: extended keybingings are broken (#2586) + * Viewer: Fixed search finds bold/underlined strings twice and highlight search results (#265) + * Broken listing in ExtFS VFS module (#81) + * File name length is limited in tar archive (#2201) + * Crash when copying symlink over ssh (#2582) + * Broken panels recode (#2595) + * ftp failures - leading white space in file name (#2594) + * FISH hangs while copiyng a lot of small files (#2605) + + +Version 4.8.0-pre1 + +WARNING: Configuration files was moved from your $HOME/.mc directory into +XDG_CONFIG_* directories to respect FDO standard +(http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.7.html). +To get more information, see ticket #1851. + +WARNING: VFS paths now handled as vfsprefix1://vfsdata/vfsprefix2://vfsdata +(see #2361). Also, 'bindings' user file was renamed to 'mc.ext', so you need +search in this file all + + Open=file.ext#vfsprefix + +and replace them to + + Open=file.ext/vfsprefix:// + +After this you should rename your 'bindings' file to 'mc.ext'. +Old-style paths are handled just in 'Directory hotlist' dialog, but you couldn't +mix URL-like and old style path elements in one path string. Support of old-style +paths will be removed in next major release (probably in 4.9, who knows...) + +WARNING: keybinding names was renamed to provide some unification (see #2511). +The correspondence of old and new keybinging names are described in doc/keybind-migration.txt +file and in doc/keybindMigration web page. + +Be aware. + +- Core + + * Added 256 colours support (#2169, #2173, #2475) + * Changed default text in filtered view (alt-!) to input command line (if not empty) + or stay old behaviour (current file under cursor) (#2266) + * Added simple swap mode that means the swap of panel locations, in addition to current swap + of panel content (#2368) + * Configuration files now moved to directory specified in XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable (#1851) + * Panel options are read now from [Panels] section only. [Midnight-Commander] section is not read (#2305) + * "Show mini info" checkbox was moved from the "Layout" dialog window to the "Panel options" one (#2305) + * Select files by shift-left/right in file panel (#2534) + * Added support of skip all errors on multi-file/dir operation (#71) + * 'Find Files' improvements: + - support relative ignored directories (#2275); + - handle of ignored directories in dialog window (#2275); + - "Search for content" checkbox is enabled by default (#2462) + * Added hardlinks detection for filehighlight (#2478) + * Unification of keybind names (#2511): + - most of keybinding names are changes to unify that names. Table of old and new names + is available in doc/keybind-migration.txt; + - improve of key rebinding: previously, to rebind some keys, used must redefine the entire section + where that bindings are placed in user keymap file. New merge algorithm doesn't require that + and allows rebind only wanted keys; + - added --nokeymap command line option to disable external keymaps + * Sources in 'lib' directory now independent to sources in 'src' one (#2501) + * Added configure parameter --enable-mclib for build libmc.so shared library (#2501) + * Added new engine for universal event system (as part of #2501) + * Optimized loading and saving of configurations and histories (#2541, #2545) + * Reimplemented i18n support in 'Chmod' dialog window (#2557) + +- VFS + + * VFS structure changes (as part of #2501): + - moved from lib/vfs/mc-vfs to lib/vfs; + - split VFS-modules by directories and moved to src/vfs; + - lib/vfs/vfs-impl.h was merged into lib/vfs/vfs.h + * VFS now used URL-like paths (#2361) + +- Editor + + * New engine of the editor macro (#323) + * Multiply repeat of the recorded actions (#323) + * Call external scripts from the editor (#323, #2512) + * Added REDO action (#25) + * Group UNDO by action (#27) + * Selection is not reset after execute user menu (#2463) + * Vertical selection is not reset after copy/move (#2504) + * More intuitive word left/right action (now the cursor stop beside EOL/BOL) (#2483) + * Duble-click marks the current word. Added action MarkWord to mark word, MarkLine + to mark current line (#2499) + * Regexp search&replace: support escape sequences in replacement string (#1882) + +- Misc + + * Minor enhancement in mc.ext: + * added -C key to nm utility in View action for static libraries (#2485) + * New file bindings: + - .torrent: view using ctorrent (#2562); + - .mts: handle as videofile (#2566) + * Added new entries in cedit.menu: "Sort selection", "Upper case", "Lower case" + * New skins: + - Xoria256 (#2469) + - mc-4.6 (#2524) + * Updated skins: + * Nice dark (#1791) + * Added support for check unit test framework (http://check.sourceforge.net) (as part of #2501) + * Added -F/--datadir-info option to show extended information about used data dirs (#2495) + * Added --configure-options to easy update & reconfigure existing mc (#2495) + * Language-specific man pages and hint and help files are not installed + if mc is built with --disable-nls option (#2514) + * Added new translation: + - Esperanto + * Code cleanup (#2481, #2515, #2518, #2560, #2570) + +- Fixes + + * Build failure on DragonFly BSD (#2516) + * Broken Del & Backspace in dialogs (in locale CP866) (#1634) + * Screen and input corruption under xterm in non-UTF locales (#1668) + * Alt-Backspace shortcut doesn't work (#2455) + * Broken command autocompletion (#2458) + * Swap panels doesn't respect sort options (#2368) + * File list format of panel is initialized incorrectly after switch back from quick view + or info mode to file list one (#2390) + * Main menu is not drawn correctly after change of it visibility and activity (#2466) + * MC switches to left panel after call of command history using mouse (#2459) + * Find file: don't check content regexp if search for content is not used (#2464) + * Find file: broken lynx-like navigation in panelization of search result (#2491) + * Dialog trims leading spaces in input field (#2544) + * Panelize content is lost when doing F5/F6/F8 on a file on the other panel (#2312) + * Color of panel header cannot be set in the command line (#2170) + * ctrl-g key closes file panels (#2520) + * Incorrect files mark by mouse (#2556) + * Editor: incorrect restore selection after UNDO (#2456) + * Editor: segfault after getting the previous char in utf8 (#2484) + * Editor: incorrect detection of the word boundary (added '{', '}' as end of word) (#2500) + * Bold and selected colors of viewer cannot be set in the command line (#2489) + * Viewer: fixed incorrect starting offset for 'search again' (#2294) + * Viewer: fixed problems while displaying UTF-8 manual pages (#1629) + * Diff viewer: quick left/right movements don't work in non-default key maps (#2509) + * AI_ADDRCONFIG is not optional for RFC 3493 non-compliant systems (#2401) + * FTP directories containing @ result severe security risks (eg. deletion of homedir) (#2220) + * Builtin ftp client can't download files with apostrophe in a file name (#2251) + * Unable to show FTP listing if password contains # (#2360) + * FTP: fixed access to file names starting with space (#81) + * Bashisms in extfs (#2569) + * Browsing *.deb files is broken with latest Perl (#2552) + * isoinfo adds ";1" to the end of file name when Joliet without Rock Ridge is used (#2471) + * patchfs incorrectly works with filenames containing spaces (#2572) + * cd to ~ processed incorrectly in the command line if more than one space is separating + the "cd" and "~" (#2120) |