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Core:

Replace $MC_HOME with $MC_PROFILE_ROOT (#3684)
Allow rebind TAB key to change panel (#3672)
Support for True Color (16 millions colors) (#3145)
Color aliases in skin files (#3711)

VFS:

Support timestamps with nanosecond precision for copy/move operations (#3575)
Introduce EXTFS helpers tester (#3730, #3744, #3752, #3753, #3751)
Teach u7z to parse archive listings w/o sizes and/or dates (#2707)
Teach rpm helper about transaction scripts (#3750)
Fix hp48, uace & uarc extfs which used an obsolete date format (#3729, #3747)

Editor:

Syntax:

updates of HTML and ebuild highlighting
highlight *.t (Perl test) files as Perl scripts
disassociate .cl file extension from LISP syntax (#3691)

Add syntax highlighting:

OpenCL (#3690)
OpenShadingLanguage? (#3762)
YAML (#3293)

Viewer:

Diff viewer:

Misc:

Code cleanup (#3693, #3703, #3721, #3763)
Add true color skins: 'Four seasons' (#3724)
Activate --enable-tests by default if check is found (#3708)
Added new skin: YADT (MidnightCommander/mc#115)

Fixes:

Segfault on switching left panel to Info (#3700)
Broken compatibility with ncurses (#3697)
Setting MC_HOME makes mc ignore ~/.bashrc (#3684)
mc_tmpdir() use a buffer of only 64 characters (#3736)
Some bugs in the parsing of hexadecimal search patterns (#3694)
Hexadecimal search fails on binary data (#3589)
Broken file list resorting on double click on panel header line (#3715)
Wrong dialog resizing and positioning (#3714, #3723)
Widget's 'disabled' status is not toggled immediately (#3716)
Last item of 'Options/Layout/Horizontal' radiobuttons remains highlighted (#3717)
'Options/Layout/Equal split' checkbox gets reverted (#3718)
Panels: cannot show more than one "column" in user defined listing mode (#3757)
Mix of MSG_NOTIFY and MSG_FOCUS messages (#3731)
skins: 'window-state-char' and 'window-close-char' are parsed as colors (#3710)
Pressing <right> and <left> in the hotlist dialog doesn't refresh it (#3775)
mcview: an error message about bad regexp isn't shown (#3720)
mcedit: fix etags filenames parsing (#3698)
mcedit: fix mouse active area for maximize / close buttons (#3774)
mcedit: frames (MDI interface) don't reflect the focus state (#3766)
mcedit: frames (MDI interface) sometimes obscure the buttonbar (#3760)
mcedit doesn't show search error messages when searching backwards (#3735)
help viewer: tab characters handled incorrectly (#3754)
VFS: incorrect zoo archive listing (#3696)
VFS: segfault in VFSs not setting block size in stat (#3749)

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Major changes since 4.8.19
Core

    Rename key bindings:
        [main].PanelListingSwitch -> [panel].CycleListingFormat
        [main].PanelListingChange -> [main].SetupListingFormat
    Speed up of UTF-8 normalization for frequent cases (#3616)

VFS

    extfs helpers tester:
        diff of failed tests is now included in output to ease bug reporting (#3784)

Editor

    Syntax:
        ES2015 support (#3793)
        TypeScript support (#3794)
        Ada 95 updates (#3804)
        Apache Hive QL support (#3828)
        SQL & PHP keyword updates (MidnightCommander/mc#129)
        Simplification of case insensitive file name patterns in /usr/share/mc/syntax/Syntax file (#3829)
        Markdown (initial support) (#3864)
        Protocol Buffers and gRPC support (#3868)
    Add %c (cursor offset from BOF) support for user menu macros (#3867)

Viewer
Diff viewer
Misc

    Unify curses initialization for various curses implementations (#3697)
    Highlight txz extension as archive like tgz, etc. (#3782)
    Add new media extensions to filehighlight.ini (#3834)

Fixes

    Wrong --help message for mcview, mcedit and mcdiff (#3805)
    Compression from menu broken due to bad quoting (#3840)
    --with-homedir gives "yes" as config directory (#3836)
    External panelize: opening a file with an absolute path fails (#2942)
    Filter isn't cleared when entering empty string (#3813)
    Panelization is not kept while switching panel listing mode (#3810)
    Cannot tab out of a QuickView panel (#3815)
    Cannot use the F10 key in a QuickView panel (#3816)
    Wromg INPUT_COMPLETE_CD flag handling in the QuickDialog? engine (#3870)
    mcview: file interpreted as latin1 instead of utf8 (#3783)
    mcview: incomplete read of filtering data (#3817)
    mcview: search doesn't grow file as much as needed (#3819, #3855)
    mcview: goto doesn't grow file as much as needed (#3826)
    mcview: quick view panel: crash on slow startup while switching panel mode (#3846)
    mcedit: fix broken encoding into UTF-8 for 8-bit displays (#3843)
    mcedit: incorrect %f macro substitution in the user menu (#3861)
    man pages: wrong paths of mc.hint and mc.hlp (#3806)
    subshell: fix broken tcsh 6.20+ cd escaping (#3852)
    VFS: incremental tar doesn't contain empty directories (#2297)
    VFS: incremental tar: wrong directories owner for tar --numeric-owner -g (#3709)
    VFS: timestamps not being preserved due to uninitialized struct stat st_[acm]tim.tv_nsec (#3821)
    VFS: ftp: can't retrieve password from .netrc when user is in URL (#3869)
    VFS: tests: locale issue causing helpers using 'sort' to fail (#3787)
    VFS: tests: unportable 'echo' use causing one rpm helper test to fail (#3786)
    Spelling errors in the manual page (#3839)

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Core:

Cancel Chmod/Chown/Advanced chown operation for large group of files when operation is not permitted (#3850)
Mouse support in the "Advanced chown" dialog window (#3148)
File highlighting by extension is case insensitive by default (#1620)
Safe file overwrite (#3913)

VFS:

Support zstd compression format (#3906)

Editor:

Syntax:

Rust support (#3884)
JavaScript modules support (#3890)
Improve Markdown support (#3893)

Misc:

Add JavaScript module support to filehighlight.ini (MidnightCommander/mc#132)
Add Excel xlsx file format support to mc.ext.in (MidnightCommander/mc#135)
i18n of argument type names in --help blocks (#3879)
Code cleanup: (#3857, #3914)

Fixes:

Fail to link to ncurses built as two libraries: ncurses+tinfo (#3880)
Garbage in displaying of summary of file sizes for selected files (#3883)
"Compute totals" unnecessarily done for moves (#3149, #3908)
mc.ext: allow Java class files to be viewed even if JAD isn't on PATH (MidnightCommander/mc#134)
mcedit: broken extended key mode (#3897)
mcedit doesn't save all opened files (#3898)
extfs: sftps: -31 SFTP Protocol Error when transferring file (#3406)
extfs: rpm: truncated script content in the viewer (#3865)
extfs: rpm helper misses CONFLICTS field (#3789)

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Core:

Support BTRFS's file clone operation (#1983)
Find file: show pattern and content in the results window title (#3453)
Find file: remember state (empty or not) of Content field (#3924)
Improve support IBM i (#3927)
Improve handling of hard link creation errors (#3678)
Support user-defined prompt in the Fish subshell (#3944)

VFS:

sftp: preserve atime and mtime (#3917)

Editor:

man page cleanup (#3918)

syntax:

PHP - highlight keyword 'null' (#3920)
Meson - initial implementation (#3940)

Misc:

ext.d: use MPV as a fallback for mplayer -identify (#3919)
ext.d: improve recognition of MS Office formats (#3929)
Code cleanup (#3915)
Cleanup hint files

Fixes:

Won't compile for Apple (#3930)
"Cannot create target file" when target has backslash space in the name (#3923)
Quiet single file overwrite (#3908)
Show error message for each not-installed program when view documents in MS Word and Excel formats (#3926)
Crash when trying some sftp connections (#3937)
Crash when return to filemanager from subshell (#3943)

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Core

    Modify "File exists" query dialog (#3935):
        change layout
        rename "Update" button to "If older"
        add new "If smaller" button": overwrite file with smaller one
        add "Don't overwrite with zero length file" checkbox
    Speed up of large directory structures delete (#3958)
    Support key binding for menu (#212)

VFS

Editor

    Expanded syntax highlighting rules (#3975):
        expanded file name regexp for sh.syntax
        use ini.syntax for systemd cofiguration files
    Syntax updates:
        shell (#3981)
        ebuild (#3988)
        RPM spec (#3991)

Viewer

    Quick one-off backwards search with N. New action SearchOppositeContinue for key bind (default is shift-n) (#3452)

Diff viewer

Misc

    Code cleanup (#3955)
    Use Geeqie (a fork of GQview) as main image viewer, fallback to GQview (#3962)
    File highlighting updates (#3966)
        .go, .s: highlight as source
        .m4v: highlighting as media
    New skins:
        featured-plus: featured skin with alternative directory and file select/mark colors (#3973)

Fixes

    Compilation fail on AIX (#3960)
    Incorrect file version sort (#3965, #3905)
    Garbage in the hardlink error creation message window (#3990)
    Cannot shell, or FTP, or SFTP link when the file panel is tree, or info, or quick view (#3948)
    Failed gpm connect attempt ... for vc /dev/tty0 (#3208, #3614)
    Incorrect include/editor order in mc.ext (#3965)
    mcedit: incorrect C/C++ syntax highlighting in some cases (#3487)
    Unknown type name 'sighandler_t' on Illumos (#3971)

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    Core:

    Drop bundled gettext (#3629)
    Implement the file edit and view history. Default shortcut is alt-shift-e (#2733)
    Enable subshell in standalone mceditor, mcviewer, and mcdiffviewer (#3380)
    Refactoring of SIGWINCH handling (#117, #4019)
    Prevent run/open files with double right click (#4016)
    Improve support of Windows 1251 encoding on Solaris (#3992)
    Support binary reproducible builds (via --disable-configure-args configure option) (#4031)

    VFS:

    sftpfs: support keyborad interactive authentication (#3921)
    uc1541 extfs: update up to 3.3 version (#3936)

    Editor:

    Syntax:

    add yabasic (Yet Another BASIC) syntax highlighting (#4005)
    improve YAML syntax highlighting (#4010)
    add "​https://" to Debian sources.list syntax (#4018)
    add .desktop files (#4022)
    improve RPM spec file syntax highlighting (#4037)
    improve Debian sources.list syntax highlighting (#4041)

    Misc:

    Code cleanup (#3997, #4030, #4038, #4039)
    menu.mc: handle symbolic links to compressed archives (#4009)
    File highlighting updates (#4015)
    part - partial files, e.g. used by many download managers ([temp])
    apk - Android packages, deb - Debian packages ([archive])
    ts - MPEG-TS streams ([media])

    New skins:

    julia256: a dark skin with calm colors and good contrast.

    Fixes:

    Compile failure on AIX 7.2 (#4033)
    Compile failure on OS X 10.9 (#4035)
    Enter key works as Down one in menu (#4006)
    Menubar: incorrect mouse click coordinate (#4013)
    Rotating dash generates way too much output (#3859)
    Totals aren't computed before move of a single directory (#4027)
    Editor: unusable dynamic paragraphing (#3996)
    VFS: iso9660 does not report listing errors (#3993)
    VFS: extfs: nested archives are not removed from temporary directory (#4000)

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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

Diff viewer

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)

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Core

    Minimal version of Autoconf is 2.64 (#3603)
    Minimal version of Automake is 1.12 (#3986)
    Minimal version of Gettext is 0.18.2 (#3603)
    Minimal version of libssh2 is 1.2.8 (#4259)
    Reimplement version detection (#3603, #4249)
    Significantly reduce rebuilt time after version change (#2252, #4266)
    Drop automatic migration of configuration from ~/.mc to XDG-based directories (#3682)
    zsh: support custom configuration file: ~/.local/share/mc/.zshrc (#4203)
    Widgets: implement WST_VISIBLE state to show/hide widgets (#2919)
    "Find File": add "Follow symlinks" option (#2020)

VFS

    extfs: support unrar-6 (#4154)
    extfs: support official 7z binary (7zz) (#4239)
    ftpfs: apply file list parser from lftp project (#2841, #3174)

Editor

    Word completion: get candidates from all open files (#4160)
    etags: get rid of hardcoded list length and window width (#4132)

    Update syntax files:

        python (#4140)

    Add syntax highlighting:

        Verilog and SystemVerilog? header files (#4215)
        JSON (#4250)
        openrc-run scripts (#4246)

Viewer

Diff viewer

Misc

    Code clean up (#4179, #4173, #4269)
    Filehighlight of c++ and h++ files as sources (#4194)
    Filehighlight of JSON files as documents (#4250)
    Support of alacritty terminal emulator (​https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty) (#4248)
    Support of foot terminal emulator (​https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot) (#4251)
    Support of (alt+)shift+arrow keys in st terminal emulator (st.suckless.org) (#4267)
    Mouse support in screen: don't check $DISPLAY variable (#4233)
    mc.ext: support fb2 e-books (#4167)
    ext.d: use mediainfo to view info about various media files (#4167)
    Remove OS/distro-specific package-related stuff from source tree (#4217)

Fixes

    FTBFS against NCurses on OS X 10.9.5 (#4181)
    Segfault on dialog before panels get visible (#4244)
    Crash if shadow is out of screen (build against NCurses) (#4192)
    Crash in search (#4222)
    Crash on startup with enabled subshell in FreeBSD (workaround) (#4213)
    Hang on start randomly with zsh as subshell (#4198)
    If command line is invisible it's partially displayed (#4182)
    Broken handling of zip archives (#4180, #4183)
    Broken handling of jar files as zip archives (#4223)
    Timestamps of symlinks, sockets, fifos, etc are not preserved after copy/move (#3985)
    %view action in the user menu doesn't work on no-exec filesystem (#4242)
    Hardlinks are not colored by file type or extension (#3375)
    mcedit: silent macro makes terminal disrupted (#4171)
    mcedit: disrupting of TAGS file path (#4207)
    vfs: unable to browse compressed tar archives (#4191)
    sftpfs vfs: CVE-2021-36370: server fingerprint isn't verified (discovered by AUT-milCERT during an audit of open source software) (#4259)
    ftpfs vfs: month of file is always January (#4260)
    Tests: log files are written by libcheck and automake simultaneously (#3986)

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Major changes since 4.8.27
Core
VFS

    Remove SMB support (#1)

Editor

    Add syntax highlighting:
        Ngspice/SPICE (?http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/) (#4316, #4319)
        DOT/Graphviz (?https://graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html) (#4322)

Viewer

    Support file/dir macros from mc.ect for standalone viewer (#4150)

Diff viewer
Misc

    Code cleanup (#4270)

Fixes

    FTBFS with ncurses build with --disable-widec (#4200)
    There is no exit on Ubuntu PPC64 big endian (#3887)
    Accelerator conflict in Left/Right? menu (#4284)
    move a lot of files across filesystems is slow (#4287)
    mc.ext: wrong order of rules: general matches are made before more specific ones (#4273)
    mc.ext: compressed man pages are shown unformatted (#4272)
    ext.d/misc.sh: invoking /bin/cat on systems that have no /bin/cat (like NixOS) (#4298)
    mcedit: errors in syntax definitions (#4286)
    VFS: FISH: when uploading a symbolic link, it creates both the link and its target (#4281)
    VFS: SFTP: timestamps are not preserved for uploaded symlink (#4285)
    Typo in skin files (#3146)

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mc merge 4.8.31 (#70)
mbedtls 3.5.2 (#67)
AltGr detection (#71, #52)
mcdiff integration (#74)
cd/cdpath (#72)

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