Midnight Commander 4.8.26

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Major changes since 4.8.25

Core

• Support file names of any length (#4145)
• Implement persistent command line buffer for subshell (bash >= 4, zsh and fish are supported) (#4114, #4124, #4126)
• Implement shadows of dialog windows and menus (#4102)
• Allow running clipboard commands if DISPLAY is not set (#4133)
• Add support of "alacritty", "tmux", and "tmux-256color" terminals (#4149)

VFS

• Support wim archive format (using wimtools (​https://wimlib.net/)) (#4100)
• Support pak archive format (using unar (​https://theunarchiver.com/)) (#4130)

Editor

• Add Swift syntax highlighting (MidnightCommander?/mc#159)

Viewer

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Misc

• Code cleanup (#4103, #4127, #4131)
• ext.d/sound.sh: replace xmms with audacious (part of #4127)
• mc.ext: improve handling of compressed content (#4128, #2117)
• mc.ext: add support for OpenDocument? flax xml formats: fodt, fods, fodp, fodg (#4157)
• Filehighlight fodg, fodp, fods, fodt, odg files as documents
• modarcon16 skin: make consistent with whitespaces (#4158)

Fixes

• 0000 permissions are not preserved on copy/move file (#4155)
• Chattr dialog doesn't work with mouse (#4104)
• Wrong copy ETA displaying if "Follow links" option is set (#4101)
• C-i ("change panel" shortcut) has no effect (#4107)
• C-l ("refresh screen") and A-` ("switch screens") shortcuts have no effect (#4142, #4153)
• Cancel of history or completion window marks input lines as modified (#4152)
• Unexpected subshell execution at panel switch (#2110)
• Lock up after pressing Tab in subshell (#2269)
• tcsh: error: "The Commander can't change to the directory" (#4120)
• vfs: extfs: cannot handle files with name started with dash or space (#4077)
• vfs: hang on accessing files within a nested VFS for first 60 seconds (#4147)
• vfs: lose content of the current directory on a mounted CIFS share (on Linux >= 5.1) (#3987)