Midnight Commander 4.8.21

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Major changes since 4.8.20

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)

Viewer

Diff viewer

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)