Midnight Commander 4.8.16 released

[Paul Marwick]

Laurent Wandrebeck wrote:
> Le samedi 12 mars 2016 à 22:18 +0100, Yury V. Zaytsev a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm delighted to announce the availability of the new mc-4.8.16! This
>> is
>> a maintenance release that includes a large number of bugfixes and a
>> few
>> minor new features.
>>
>> Amongst the most user-visible changes, we have improved on the
>> usability
>> (hopefully!) of the "Find File" dialog: the unsymmetrical "Search for
>> content" checkbox is now gone; instead, leave the field empty and
>> notice
>> how related checkboxes will be automatically deactivated. To remind
>> you,
>> Ctrl+w clears the editboxes and Meta+h triggers the history drop-
>> down,
>> these are very handy shortcuts to make the most out of the new
>> dialog.
>>
>> For a detailed list of changes since the last version, please refer
>> to
>> the release notes.
>>
>> Download page: http://ftp.midnight-commander.org/?C=N;O=D
>> Release notes: http://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.16
>>
>> This release was made possible thanks to the heroic work of Andrew
>> Borodin, a steady stream of fixes by Andreas Mohr, and contributions
>> from Mooffie of our friendly Lua-enabled fork fame (check it out!).
>>
>> Finally, I would like to thank everybody who has contributed to this
>> release, including our dedicated translators, and to remind you that
>> we
>> are still very much underpowered to carefully review and integrate
>> patches in a timely manner, process bug reports and generally improve
>> on
>> our code base.
>>
>> Enjoy!
> Hi Yuri, all.
>
> First, thanks to all of you for that release.
>
> I’ve updated « my » packages on OpenSuSe Build Service to 4.8.16
> for the following distros:
>
> CentOS and Scientific Linux 6 i586 and x86_64.
> CentOS and Scientific Linux 7 x86_64.
> Fedora 20, 21, 22, i586 and x86_64.
>
> I’ve used official tar.xz package, and mc was built with the
> following options:
> 	--with-screen=slang \
> 	--enable-charset \
> 	--without-x \
> 	--with-gpm-mouse \
> 	--disable-rpath \
> 	--enable-vfs-smb \
> 	--enable-vfs-sftp \
> 	--enable-aspell \
> 	--enable-vfs-mcfs
>
> You can get packages here:
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/repositories/home:laurentwandrebeck:
> mc/mc
>
>

:) Thanks. I needed a CentOS 6 x_64 package but don't have a suitable 
build environment for it. I'll have to bookmark your collection.

One thing - the link in your message is wrong. I found what I was 
looking for here:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries/home:laurentwandrebeck:mc/mc?repository=CentOS_6

Paul.