wiki:NEWS-4.8.7
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Midnight Commander 4.8.7

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Major changes since 4.8.6

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)

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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)