Midnight Commander 4.8.27

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Major changes since 4.8.26

Core

• Minimal version of Autoconf is 2.64 (#3603)
• Minimal version of Automake is 1.12 (#3986)
• Minimal version of Gettext is 0.18.2 (#3603)
• Minimal version of libssh2 is 1.2.8 (#4259)
• Reimplement version detection (#3603, #4249)
• Significantly reduce rebuilt time after version change (#2252, #4266)
• Drop automatic migration of configuration from ~/.mc to XDG-based directories (#3682)
• zsh: support custom configuration file: ~/.local/share/mc/.zshrc (#4203)
• Widgets: implement WST_VISIBLE state to show/hide widgets (#2919)
• "Find File": add "Follow symlinks" option (#2020)

VFS

• extfs: support unrar-6 (#4154)
• extfs: support official 7z binary (7zz) (#4239)
• ftpfs: apply file list parser from lftp project (#2841, #3174)

Editor

• Word completion: get candidates from all open files (#4160)
• etags: get rid of hardcoded list length and window width (#4132)
• Update syntax files:
  • python (#4140)
• Add syntax highlighting:
  • Verilog and SystemVerilog? header files (#4215)
  • JSON (#4250)
  • openrc-run scripts (#4246)

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Misc

• Code clean up (#4179, #4173, #4269)
• Filehighlight of c++ and h++ files as sources (#4194)
• Filehighlight of JSON files as documents (#4250)
• Support of alacritty terminal emulator (​https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty) (#4248)
• Support of foot terminal emulator (​https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot) (#4251)
• Support of (alt+)shift+arrow keys in st terminal emulator (st.suckless.org) (#4267)
• Mouse support in screen: don't check $DISPLAY variable (#4233)
• mc.ext: support fb2 e-books (#4167)
• ext.d: use mediainfo to view info about various media files (#4167)
• Remove OS/distro-specific package-related stuff from source tree (#4217)

Fixes

• FTBFS against NCurses on OS X 10.9.5 (#4181)
• Segfault on dialog before panels get visible (#4244)
• Crash if shadow is out of screen (build against NCurses) (#4192)
• Crash in search (#4222)
• Crash on startup with enabled subshell in FreeBSD (workaround) (#4213)
• Hang on start randomly with zsh as subshell (#4198)
• If command line is invisible it's partially displayed (#4182)
• Broken handling of zip archives (#4180, #4183)
• Broken handling of jar files as zip archives (#4223)
• Timestamps of symlinks, sockets, fifos, etc are not preserved after copy/move (#3985)
• %view action in the user menu doesn't work on no-exec filesystem (#4242)
• Hardlinks are not colored by file type or extension (#3375)
• mcedit: silent macro makes terminal disrupted (#4171)
• mcedit: disrupting of TAGS file path (#4207)
• vfs: unable to browse compressed tar archives (#4191)
• sftpfs vfs: CVE-2021-36370: server fingerprint isn't verified (discovered by AUT-milCERT during an audit of open source software) (#4259)
• ftpfs vfs: month of file is always January (#4260)
• Tests: log files are written by libcheck and automake simultaneously (#3986)