Midnight Commander 4.7.0-pre1

We have finally released the first preliminary release Midnight Commander 4.7.0-pre1!

This release incorporates many code refactoring changes, user interface improvements, numerous bugfixes and new features.

Changelog

Major changes since 4.6.2:

Changes in the core

• Native UTF-8 support;
• Support for filename charset selection in panels;
• Reworked 'Find File' dialog;
• New unified search/replace engine with multiple search types: plain, wildcard, regexp and hex;
• Improved 'Learn Keys' dialog;
• Locale-based codepage autodetection;
• Initial support for Doxygen generated docs;
• Build system updates (autoconf)
• Translation updates
• Multiple x86_64 fixes

Editor

• various editor enchancements (vertical block marking/moving/copy/paste)
• navigate across source code through ctags/etags TAGS file
• new option 'Persistent selection'
• Del/Backspace? - delete selected block if 'Persistent selection' switch off
• shift block right with TAB key by TAB size or TAB symbol, shift block left with COMPLETE key if 'Persistent selection' switch off
• optional show line number
• various syntax files updates
• optional highlighting of tabs and trailing spaces
• add some hot-keys

Miscellaneous

• show free space on current file system
• show size of selected files in mini-status bar

Bugfixes

• editor undo fixes
• included many fixes from other distributions
• fixed fish handling for symlinks and fancy names to be escaped
• fixed fish permission checks that can be cause of segfault
• various mc.ext fixes
• commandline completion fixes (mainly, escaping hadling)
• small fixes in history handling (locale independent .mc/history entries)
• slow search in viewer (and we still have place to optimize it)
• code cleanups, various memleak/etc fixes (many thanks to valgrind)