Midnight Commander 4.8.29

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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)