Midnight Commander 4.8.28

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Major changes since 4.8.27

Core

VFS

• Remove SMB support (#1)

Editor

• Add syntax highlighting:
  • Ngspice/SPICE (​http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/) (#4316, #4319)
  • DOT/Graphviz (​https://graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html) (#4322)

Viewer

• Support file/dir macros from mc.ect for standalone viewer (#4150)

Diff viewer

Misc

• Minimal version of "check" utility is 0.9.10.
• Code cleanup (#4270, #4330)
• Support Shift+Fn keys for KiTTY (#4325)
• Filehighlight:
  • graphical formats: avif, jp2, jxl, heic, heif, psb, psd (#4328)
  • Markdown (#4351)

Fixes

• FTBFS with ncurses build with --disable-widec (#4200)
• There is no exit on Ubuntu PPC64 big endian (#3887)
• Segfault on change panel mode (#4323)
• Accelerator conflict in Left/Right? menu (#4284)
• move a lot of files across filesystems is slow (#4287)
• mc.ext: wrong order of rules: general matches are made before more specific ones (#4273)
• mc.ext: compressed man pages are shown unformatted (#4272)
• ext.d/misc.sh: invoking /bin/cat on systems that have no /bin/cat (like NixOS) (#4298)
• mcedit: errors in syntax definitions (#4286)
• VFS: FISH: when uploading a symbolic link, it creates both the link and its target (#4281)
• VFS: SFTP: timestamps are not preserved for uploaded symlink (#4285)
• VFS: EXTFS: incorrect test of isoinfo (#4326)
• Typo in skin files (#3146)