For details see:
https://midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.31
"Major changes since 4.8.30
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)
...
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)"
Signed-off-by: Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
For details see:
http://midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.30
Summary:
"Major changes since 4.8.29
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)"
Signed-off-by: Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
For details see:
https://midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.29
For details see:
http://midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.29
Summary:
"Major changes since 4.8.28
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
VFS
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)
Viewer
Diff viewer
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)"
Signed-off-by: Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>
For details see:
http://midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.28
Summary:
"Major changes since 4.8.27
Core
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)"
Signed-off-by: Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org>
Reviewed-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
