wiki:NEWS-4.8.25
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Midnight Commander 4.8.25

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Major changes since 4.8.24

Core

  • Minimal version of GLib is 2.30.0
  • Avoid subshell warning for standalone mcedit/mcview/mcdiffview run from mc (#4056)
  • Implement chattr command (change ext{2,3,4}fs extended attributes). Default shortcut is "C-x e" (#3847)
  • Implement a WGroup widget -- a base class for widgets which contain other widgets (#2919, #4075)
  • Implement key bindings for radiobuttons (#212)

VFS

  • RPM VFS improvements:
    • Support weak dependency tags: ENHANCES, SUGGESTS, RECOMMENDS, SUPPLEMENTS (#4091)

Editor

Viewer

Diff viewer

Misc

  • Code cleanup (#4050, #4085)
  • Add support for opus audio (#4061)
  • mc-wrapper: don't cd to the same directory (#3355)
  • Improve archive support: more binaries to view archive content (#4086)
    • lha: jlha, lhasa
    • arj: 7za
    • cab: 7za
    • zip; 7z
    • zipx: 7za
    • iso: 7za
  • Clean up in video.sh handler (#4045)
    • RealPlayer? is a proprietary application which can't be installed in most distros and has long been abandoned.
    • gtv hasn't been developed since 2003.
    • xanim barely plays anything.
  • Various fixups and updates of man page

Fixes

  • FTBFS on OSes w/o O_CLOEXEC (#4052)
  • FTBFS with glib2 >= 2.63.3 (#4053)
  • Undefined "linux" macro on non-Linux systems (#4058)
  • Mouse is not handled with ncurses-6 (#3954)
  • Mouse is not handled with S-Lang on some old terminal emulators (#4063)
  • Terminal size is always 80x24 in subshell on Solaris 11.4 SPARC (#4099)
  • Double clicking on empty area of file panel executes last item (#3722)
  • Garbage in input line history (#4064)
  • Speed of file copy is not displayed for single file (#4081)
  • mcedit: blank screen with invisible error (#4057)
  • mcedit: broken syntax highlighting for shell scripts (#4054)
  • VFS: broken browsing of .deb packages (#4055)
  • mc.lib installed twice (#4070)