Midnight Commander 4.8.15

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Major changes since 4.8.14

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)

Viewer

Diff viewer

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)