Midnight Commander 4.7.0-pre2

It's preliminary version for to be ready for release any day. ​view all closed tickets for this release

Changelog

Major changes since 4.7.0-pre1

Core

• cycle menu navigation
• change behaviour of C-space, now it calculate size on "..", and for selected dirs if there is one.
• new find file option: find only first hit in file (make search faster)
• new find file option: Whole words - find whole words only
• scalable TUI

VFS

• FTPFS: support of IPv6 protocol
• extfs/iso9660 updated to support Joliet "UCS level 1"

Editor

• new search/replace flag added "In selection".
• new hotkeys for bookmarks, now bookmark displayed in state line and editor
• new cursor behavior. Option "Cursor beyond end of line" - allow moving cursor beyond the end of line.
• new syntax hightlights added: erlang, ebuild, named, strace, j
• syntax hightlights updated: mail, vhdl, html

Viewer

• Reworked for improve perfomance
• Implemented interruptable long-distance movements
• splitted src/view/[ch] into many files in src/viewer/ subdir for more simple support of code
• fixed build of format string in runtime (for better i18n)
• add 'Whole words' option into the viewer 'Search' dialog

Misc

• new option mouse_close_dialog, if mouse_close_dialog=1 click on outside the dialog close them
• new: SI-based size show
• make shared history for find file, editor search/replace, viever

Fixes

• linking error with --enable-vfs-undelfs
• external editor won't open if there are spaces in EDITOR variable
• C-c kill mc if mc built with --without-subshell option is run with -d option
• directory hotlist rendering
• segfault on empty replace string
• fixes for vfs/tarfs
• removing bashizm from vfs/extfs/u7z
• crash mc on create new file (Shift-F4) in external editor
• File copy/move dialog: in replacement field now handled asterisks as search groups (#414)
• VFS: Fixed SIGSERV(or heap corruption) on large filenames
• Fixed broken backward search (#1496)
• Fixed uninitialised value for mouse event in in find.c#check_find_events() function
• Fixed ctrl+z signal handling.
• Fixed incorrect showing prompt
• Fixed incorrect vertical selection (if line state swiched on)
• Fixed screen resize handle if mouse support is disabled
• Restore correct current directory after switch from Info panel to List one
• Fixed mouse support in 'konsole-256color' terminal
• Fixed keycodes in 'xterm-256color' terminal
• Fixed incorrect regexp search by content in 'file find' dialog (#1543)
• Fixed incorrect backwards search (#1558)
• Fixed incorrect detection of compressed patchfs
• Fixed incorrect detecting codeset when <no translation> codeset selected. (#1529)

The new release can be downloaded at the following URL: ​http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads