Midnight Commander 4.8.33

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Major changes since 4.8.32

Starting with this release, we will be using language features that require a C99 compiler to build.

Core

• Minimal version of Automake is 1.14 (#4604)
• Upgrade C standard to C99 (#4604)
• Improve fish 4.0 shell support (#4597)
• Add support for bash PROMPT_COMMAND being an array (#4599)
• Don't disable verbose mode if tty baudrate can't be reliably determined (#2452)

VFS

Editor

Viewer

Diff viewer

Misc

• Code cleanup (#4572, #4593, #4595, #4598)
• Prefer console players for sound, images and video in non-graphical sessions (#4479, #4596)
• New keymap for vim users (#4588)
• Adjust mc-wrappers to work with the new MC_TMPDIR creation logic (#4575)
• Support TERM=xterm-clear for FreeBSD users (#2633)
• Move CI from Travis to GitHub Actions (#4170, #3738, #4602)
• Support for Rust crates file format (#4609)
• ext.d: select browser at runtime (#4615)

Fixes

• Segfault if filter makes file panel empty (#4600)
• Incorrect handling of ext2 attributes of a directory (#4590)
• Failed copy/move operations make ETA inaccurate (#3205, #4613)
• mc.ext.ini: typo for apt view command line (#4583)
• mcedit: visual glitches if built with aspell, but libraries not installed (#4576)
• mcedit: segfault on new file creation (#4580)
• mcedit: PageDon skips lines in edit window (#4617)
• mcedit: cursor jumps during PageDown in edit window (#4618)
• mvciew: false-positive regex search of BOL (#4587)
• mcdiff: segmentation fault on empty files merge (#4608)
• tests: fix charset-related code on non-glibc platforms (Alpine, Illumos) (#3972, #4495)
• tests: use weak symbols instead of symbol duplication to support non-GNU linkers / macOS (#4584, #3542)