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Midnight Commander Changelog

What's new in Midnight Commander 4.8.24

Jan 20, 2020
  • 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 keyborad 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)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.23 (Jun 24, 2019)

  • 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 cofiguration 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)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.22 (Jan 4, 2019)

  • 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)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.21 (Jun 4, 2018)

  • 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)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.20 (May 29, 2018)

  • 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)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.19 (Mar 7, 2017)

  • 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)
  • 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 and 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)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.18 (Oct 2, 2016)

  • 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)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.17 (May 13, 2016)

  • 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)
  • Сentered 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)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.16 (Mar 13, 2016)

  • Core:
  • Support for ash + bugfixes for bash, fish
  • Find file: empty file name matches any file name
  • Find file: empty value of "Content" is used instead of "Search for content" checkbox to disable search for content
  • Listbox: don't wraparound on mouse scroll
  • Internals:
  • Listbox: various fixups
  • Split MSG_ACTION into MSG_ACTION and MSG_NOTIFY
  • VFS:
  • Support lzip compression format
  • Support lz4 compression format
  • patchfs: support xz compression
  • Update uc1541 version
  • Add mc.ext patterns for initramfs / initrd
  • Editor:
  • Add golang syntax (MidnightCommander?/mc#84)
  • Update Puppet syntax (MidnightCommander?/mc#86)
  • Misc:
  • Code cleanup
  • Better subshell documentation
  • Fixes to the English man pages by Denys Vlasenko
  • Fixes:
  • Insufficient quoting in mc.menu
  • Broken ./configure --without-internal-edit
  • Memory leaks
  • No preallocation if appending during file copy
  • Cannot set mini-format for "brief" listing type
  • Info panel: incorrect inode information in some cases
  • Info panel: wrong device name with symbolic link
  • Info panel: buffer overflow
  • Regression: match filename, not full path in mc.ext
  • Broken case insensitive search in non-unicode locale
  • Error message prefixed with no sense "0:"
  • mcedit: buffer overflow
  • mcedit: "Lower case selection" command in User Menu
  • mcedit: close on ctrl-g
  • mcview: "Not found" result isn't reported in some cases
  • VFS: isofs doesn't show .dotfiles
  • VFS: isofs: cannot copy file from iso when Joliet without RockRidge? is used
  • VFS: extfs/unzip: enter into zip file fails with "inconsistent extfs archive"
  • VFS: SFTP: various bugs
  • VFS: FISH: provide major/minor info for block/char devices
  • Bashism in gitfs+ extfs helper
  • Non-portable invocation of man
  • mc-wrapper leaves MC_USER set
  • Broken silent opening of files in background
  • Run identify on JPEGs even if exif is not installed

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.15 (Nov 9, 2015)

  • 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)
  • SFTP VFS: segfault (#3456)
  • Segfault in "Find file" due to invalid UTF-8 sequences (#3449)
  • Bash variable 'PROMPT_COMMAND' in pantheon-terminal (#3534)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.14 (Mar 23, 2015)

  • 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 dosn'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)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.13 (Sep 5, 2014)

  • 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 enconding name for manual page (#3239)
  • "User menu -> View manual page" doesn't do coloring (#3243)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.12 (Apr 1, 2014)

  • 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)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.11 (Dec 2, 2013)

  • Core:
  • Print warnings about unknown '--with-' / '--enable-' configure options (#3029)
  • 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:
  • 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)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.10 (Aug 3, 2013)

  • 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)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.9 (Jul 11, 2013)

  • This version removes the file size limit from the editor, adds Unrar-5 support, adds several new skins, and makes many minor bugfixes.

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.8 (Apr 4, 2013)

  • 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)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.7 (Jan 4, 2013)

  • 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)

New in Midnight Commander 4.8.1.7 (Jan 4, 2013)

  • Core:
  • Minimal GLib version is 2.12.0
  • 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)
  • Misc:
  • Code cleanup (#2889, #1950)
  • Remove the empty contrib/dist/debian/ since it maintained separately in Debian (#2871)
  • 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)
  • Attributes of existing directories are never preserved when copying (#2924)
  • Terminal settings are not changed when window is resized (#2198)
  • Broken path completion on paths starting with ~/ (#2898)
  • Enter into symlink to commpressed patch shows empty patch (#2910)
  • Test failure on Cygwin due to incorrect linkage flag (#2918)
  • Non-portable test (#2883)

New in Midnight Commander 4.7.3 (Jul 7, 2010)

  • Core:
  • Mult-screen feature: support of many opened editors and viewers (#1490)
  • Reorganization of menu and configuration dialogs. More options are available in UI (#320)
  • Mark of text in input fields is available now, DEL removes selected/unchanged text (#2161, #2228)
  • Now copy/move dialog shows the full path with file name in the field "to:" (#1907)
  • Removed hardcoded shortcuts in dialog.c (#212)
  • Added new actions for panels: PanelMarkFileUp and PanelMarkFileDown (#2021)
  • Added new capability to create relative symlinks: menu item and "C-x v" default shortcut (#2042)
  • Now we can use external utility to copy/paste text to X clipboard (#30)
  • Cursor is hidden in menu and listboxes (#1771)
  • All hotkeys in MC (in menu, checkboxes, etc) in the middle of a word are in the lowercase now (#2168)
  • Use system realpath(3) function if available (#1911)
  • GLib deprecated functions are not used (#2085, #2249)
  • VFS:
  • Unified charset list is used in core and in VFS (#2203)
  • All hardcoded FISH scripts are moved out from fish.c to external scripts (see README.fish for more info) (#2242)
  • Editor:
  • Added highlighting for HTTPS URLs in SPEC files (#1446)
  • Misc:
  • Changed main URL for bug reports (#2025)
  • man2hlp: completely rewritten in Perl (#45)
  • Skin updates:
  • o gotar.ini (#2179)
  • Removed leading and trailing spaces in i18n'd resources (#1646)
  • Code cleanups (#2243)
  • Translation updates
  • Fixes:
  • AC_TRY_RUN macro breaks crosscompile (#1959)
  • "mc -e" and "mc -v" modes don't work (#2187)
  • Buttonbar mouse clicks are off (#2199)
  • Incorrect calculation of autocompletion window width (#2192)
  • Incorrect button locations in common input dialogs (#2115)
  • Oversized dialog backgrounds are not painted in NCurses-based MC (#2157)
  • Incorrect colors of directory tree (#2212)
  • Info panel is initially filled too late (#2226)
  • Quick search is not correctly interrupted in some cases (#2174)
  • Segfault in standalone editor and viewer (#2178)
  • Broken codeset autodetection in editor and viewer (#1838)
  • Viewer segfaults trying open a compressed man page file (#2236)
  • Edit crashes while opening some incorrect files (#2183)
  • Editor hangup if editor_tab_spacing equals to 0 (#2196)
  • Editor shows dots instead of letters if source_codepage is set to "No translation" (#2248)
  • Editor goes to endless loop when trying to replace the \n regexp with any substring (#2231)
  • Editor: in some cases the copy/move operation in multi-byte text is wrong (#2153)
  • Crash on search in viewer after Parsed/Raw switching (#2195)
  • Diff viewer crashes if tab size equals to 0 (#2182)

New in Midnight Commander 4.7.0.6 (Jun 5, 2010)

  • Core:
  • Use system realapth(3) function if available (#1911)
  • VFS:
  • Unified charset list with used one in core (#2203)
  • Misc:
  • Changed main URL for bug reports (#2025)
  • Code cleanups (#2225)
  • Translation updates
  • Fixes:
  • Oversized dialog backgrounds not painted in NCurses-based MC (#2157)
  • Incorrect colors of directory tree (#2212)
  • mouse_move_pages option is not applied to the mouse scrolling in file panel (#2219)
  • Segfault in standalone editor and viewer (#2178)
  • Edit crashes while opening some incorrect files (#2183)
  • Crash on search in viewer after Parsed/Raw switching (#2195)

New in Midnight Commander 4.7.0.2 (Feb 10, 2010)

  • Core:
  • Minimal required GLib version is 2.8 (#1980)
  • Reorganizing of directory structure (#1866)
  • States of all 'Find File' dialog checkboxes are saved in user configuration file (#1874, #1965)
  • New file type bindings:
  • viewing .lyx with lyxcat, opening with lyx (#1693)
  • VFS:
  • Small reorganizing (#1931)
  • Editor:
  • Some simple optimization of syntax highlighting engine (#1843)
  • New editor action 'Mark all', new keybind EditMarkAll (#1945)
  • Changed default for 'Cursor beyond EOL', now it switched off by default (#1946)
  • Changed default color pair for 'editbold' (search result) to be more sensible (#1559).
  • Misc:
  • Lots of code cleanup (#1780, #1915, #1990)
  • Removed obsolete checks in configuration scripts (#262, #1932)
  • Documentation updates
  • Translation updates
  • Fixes:
  • MC won't compile on Solaris due to undefined constant NAME_MAX (#1943)
  • MC won't compile on AIX (#1957)
  • Missing includes (#1930)
  • Missing printf format (#1960)
  • Memory and file descriptors leaks (#1953)
  • Small error in versioning (#1905)
  • Segfault in input line history (#1936)
  • MC crashes on exit when using C locale (#1942)
  • Assertion failed for g_array_free (#1954)
  • Broken transparency if MC is built with NCurses (#1657)
  • Selections not visible on monochrome terminals (#1972)
  • Colors of visible inactive menu (#1702)
  • Incorrect input line length in 'Edit symlink' dialog window (#1955)
  • Unquoted shell variables in used menus (#1967)
  • Incorrecy movement in last line in editor (moving cursor to the empty last line) (#1956)
  • Incorrect editor lock files check (#1935)
  • Segfault at try of edit (F4) archives with utf-8 names (x86_64 specified) (#1982)
  • Viewer in QuickView mode corrupts screen (#1918, #1944)
  • MC crashes if file name in archves contain '@' symbol (#1605)
  • deba and debd VFS: items from DEBIAN directory are not accessible (#1920)
  • Samba is not built with tcc (#1933)
  • Incorrect conditional compilation of mcserver (#1925)