Midnight Commander 4.8.7 (latest) released

Slava Zanko slavazanko at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 12:55:38 UTC 2012


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Hi all,

mc-4.8.7 now released.

Download page: http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads?order=id&desc=1


Major changes and fixes since 4.8.6
(https://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.7)

- - Core
  * Minimal GLib version is 2.12.0
  * Implementation of suspend/resume in copy/move file operations (#2111)
  * Start of widget subsystem reimplementation (#2919)

- - VFS
  * uc1541 extfs plug-in updated up to version 2.5 (#2935)

- - Editor
  * Reset selection after text paste (only in non-persistent selection
mode) (#2660)
  * Don't indent blank lines (#303).
  * Add .psgi as Perl syntax highlighting (#2912)
  * Place cursor after inserted chars (#319)
  * Add option in ini file to save spelling language
(spell_language=NONE for disable aspell support) (#2914)

- - Misc
 * Code cleanup (#2888, #1950)
  * Minimal "check" utility version is 0.9.8
  * Remove the empty contrib/dist/debian/ since it maintained
separately in Debian (#2871)
  * mc.ext updates:
    - add support of SVG images (#2895)
    - add support of .asm file extension (#2892)
    - add support of .hh file extension (#2892)
    - all file extension for source files now are case insensitive (#2892)
    - add support of JNG and MNG images (#2893)
    - add support of Gnumeric's spreadsheets (#2894)
    - add support of .war archives (#2891)
    - make a choice between arj and unarj archivers (#2890)
    - make a choice between 7z and 7za archivers (#2890)
    - add support of ape, aac and wvm4a media formats (#2767)
    - add support of cbr and cbz comic books (#2739)
    - add support of epub e-book format (#2739)
    - add support of PAR archives (#2739)
    - use libreoffice instead of ooffice, if found, to open ODT files
(#2723)
    - use dvicat if dvi2tty not found to view DVI files (#1686)
    - use 'see' utility as default pdf viewer, if found (#1686)
    - use 'see' utility to view images in console (#1686)
  * Highlight OGV files as media (#2934)
  * Added new translations:
    - Persian (fa)
    - Croatian (hr)

- - Fixes
  * Build failure on Cygwin (#2917)
  * Fail to check ncurses library if --with-ncurses-inc and
- --with-ncurses-libs options are used (#2926)
  * Crash on Solaris while trying to copy a file (#2906)
  * CVE-2012-4463: Does not sanitize MC_EXT_SELECTED variable properly
(#2913)
  * Attributes of existing directories are never preserved when
copying (#2924)
  * Broken path completion on paths starting with ~/ (#2898)
  * Terminal settings are not changed when window is resized (#2198)
  * Enter into symlink to compressed patch shows empty patch (#2910)
  * Test failure on Cygwin due to incorrect linkage flag (#2918)
  * Non-portable test (#2883)

Happy Christmas and happy New Year!

- -- 
WBR, Slavaz.
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