Midnight Commander 4.8.4

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Major changes since 4.8.3

Core

• Use xdg-open by default in mc.ext.in if present to open files, fallback on current scheme otherwise (#2118)
• Improve of mouse event handling in dialogs (#2817)
• Show extended info about compiled-in paths for internal/external macros in the "mc -F" output (2495)

VFS

• Added SFTP support (#1535)

Editor

• Multieditor: allow edit many files in one mcedit window (#2261, #2839)
• Aspell support for spell check (#2788)

Viewer

• Handle CK_FileNext/CK_FilePrev actions inside mcviewer (#2814)

Diff viewer

Misc

• Tweak and cleanup of code in case of --disable-charset option usage (#2827)
• File extension support:
  • .gem - rubygems (#2797)
  • .cpio.xz - compressed cpio archives (#2798)
  • .webm - WebM video (#2746)
  • .lib - gputils artifacts (#2751)

Fixes

• Build failure on FreeBSD 6 (#2808)
• src/filemanager/filegui.c does not compile on Solaris due to missing macros (#2825)
• Loss of data on copy to full partition (#2829)
• Crash at Chown command (#2784)
• Crash when creating relative symlink (#2787)
• Misinterpretation of dirs as command line arguments (#2783, #2805)
• Number of panelized files was limited to 127 (#2813)
• CK_History removes CK_HistoryNext entries (#2313)
• URL with port was stored wrong in history (#2833)
• Can't find 00 (zeroes) in patterns in hex search (#2795)
• Hotkey conflicts in 'Search' dialog (#2843)
• Error message when entering into compressed tar and cpio archives (#2785)
• Garbage directory listing in ftpfs (#2800)
• Incomplete sand256 skin (#2807)
• mcedit scripts are installed as data files (#1437)
• Fails to build from source with --enable-tests (#2786)
• Tests failure on PowerPC,S390,S390x (#2804)
• Fail to compile if --without-vfs configure option specified (#2834)
• do_panel_cd: FTBFS with --enable-tests on [kfreebsd-i386,kfreebsd-amd64,ia64,armhf] (#2803)