mc 4.8.32 rpms released

mc 4.8.32 rpms released and added to all supported platforms

S3 and uc1541 are now included in new mc-python package (that requires Python 3).

Major changes since 4.8.31

Core

  • Tell the current directory to the terminal using OSC 7 sequence (so it can open new tabs there)
  • Preserve ext2fs attributes on copy/move operations
  • Change name of temporary directory: make it unique for each run
  • Hide password in file operation progress dialog
  • Support reget in file move operation
  • Implement nanosecond precision timestamps on non-Linux (macOS, BSD, AIX, Solaris)
  • Remove remaining mmap code to simplify maintenance

VFS

  • extfs: support unrar-7

Editor

  • Improve syntax highlighting:
    • C and C++

Viewer

Diff viewer

  • Add man page mcdiff.1

Misc

  • Code cleanup
  • New skins
    • xoria256-thin, xoria256root-thin
    • modarcon16-defbg-thin, modarcon16-thin, modarcon16root-defbg-thin, modarcon16root-thin
    • modarin256-defbg-thin, modarin256-thin, modarin256root-defbg-thin, modarin256root-thin
    • julia256root
  • mc.ext.ini: clarify escaping of spaces and parenthesis

Fixes

  • External editor does not work with arguments in $EDITOR
  • fish shell: strings ” cd (printf ‘%b’ … ” in history
  • Redundant back slashes for autocomplete
  • subshell: call execl with argv[0] that is not an actual path to Bash
  • mcedit: php.syntax: comment highlight from start of light only
  • mcedit: wrong replacement using regular expressions with begin or end of line
  • mcedit: losing column position when navigating up/down
  • mcedit: macro deletes text
  • mcedit: macros are applied to the pasted text
  • extfs: iso9660: xorriso is slow to open an ISO image
  • extfs: u7z: wrong add of nested directories to archive
  • extfs: segfault on enter to deleted archive
  • tar: segfault on copy files from archive
  • man: typo

mc 4.8.31 released

mc 4.8.31 rpms released and added to all supported platforms

Core

  • Minimal version of GLib is 2.32.0.

VFS

  • fish: drop support of native FISH server and protocol. Rename VFS to shell
  • extfs;
    • uc1541 extfs: update up to 3.6 version
    • s3+: port to Python3
  • Support for LZO/LZOP compression format

Misc

  • Skins: add color for non-printable characters in editor

Fixes

  • FTBFS on FreeBSD with ext2fs attribute support
  • Broken stickchars (-a) mode
  • Wrong timestamp after resuming of file copy operation
  • Editor: wrong deletion of marked column
  • Diff viewer: segfault when display of line numbers is enabled
  • Tar VFS: broken handling of hard links
  • Sftp VFS: failure establishing SSH session due hashed host names in ~/.ssh/known_hosts
  • Shell VFS: incorrect file names with cyrillic or diacritic symbols
  • mc.ext.ini: incorrect description of of how multiple sections and keys with same names are processed
  • mc.ext.ini: unescaped backslash \ is treated as invalid escape sequence in glib-2.77.3 and glib-2.79
  • mc.ext.ini: file “Makefile.zip” is handled as Makefile not as zip-arhive