wiki:NEWS-4.8.24

Version 27 (modified by andrew_b, 4 years ago) (diff)

#4027

Midnight Commander 4.8.24

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Major changes since 4.8.23

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)

Viewer

Diff viewer

Misc

  • 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])

Fixes

  • Compile failure on AIX 7.2 (#4033)
  • 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)
  • Improper use of IEC and SI prefixes for size (#3666)
  • Editor: unusable dynamic paragraphing (#3996)
  • VFS: iso9660 does not report listing errors (#3993)
  • VFS: extfs: nested archives are not removed from temporary directory (#4000)