Midnight Commander 4.8.16

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Major changes since 4.8.15

Core

• Support for ash + bugfixes for bash, fish (#2742)
• Find file: empty file name matches any file name (#3593)
• Find file: empty value of "Content" is used instead of "Search for content" checkbox to disable search for content (#3594)
• Listbox: don't wraparound on mouse scroll (#3554)
• Internals:
  • Listbox: various fixups (#3569: #3562, #3563, #3565, #3161)
  • Split MSG_ACTION into MSG_ACTION and MSG_NOTIFY (#3566)

VFS

• Support lzip compression format (#2673, #1541)
• Support lz4 compression format (#3523)
• patchfs: support xz compression (#3443)
• Update uc1541 version (#3527)
• Add mc.ext patterns for initramfs / initrd (#3115)

Editor

• Add golang syntax (MidnightCommander?/mc#84)
• Update Puppet syntax (MidnightCommander?/mc#86)

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Misc

• Code cleanup (#3555, #3547, #3587)
• Better subshell documentation (#3556)
• Fixes to the English man pages by Denys Vlasenko

Fixes

• Insufficient quoting in mc.menu (#2947)
• Broken ./configure --without-internal-edit (#3601)
• Memory leaks (#3547, #3561, #3567, #3572)
• No preallocation if appending during file copy (#3577)
• Cannot set mini-format for "brief" listing type (#3588)
• Info panel: incorrect inode information in some cases (#3214)
• Info panel: wrong device name with symbolic link (#3412)
• Info panel: buffer overflow (#3582)
• Regression: match filename, not full path in mc.ext (#3578)
• Broken case insensitive search in non-unicode locale (#3491)
• Error message prefixed with no sense "0:" (#3269)
• mcedit: buffer overflow (#3579)
• mcedit: "Lower case selection" command in User Menu (#3586)
• mcedit: close on ctrl-g (#3557)
• mcview: "Not found" result isn't reported in some cases (#3543)
• VFS: isofs doesn't show .dotfiles (#3537)
• VFS: isofs: cannot copy file from iso when Joliet without RockRidge? is used (#2851)
• VFS: extfs/unzip: enter into zip file fails with "inconsistent extfs archive" (#3433)
• VFS: SFTP: various bugs (#3581)
• VFS: FISH: provide major/minor info for block/char devices (#3599)
• Bashism in gitfs+ extfs helper (#3379)
• Non-portable invocation of man (#3509)
• mc-wrapper leaves MC_USER set (#3550)
• Broken silent opening of files in background (#3574)
• Run identify on JPEGs even if exif is not installed (#3568)