Midnight Commander 4.8.3

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Major changes since 4.8.2

Core

VFS

Editor

Viewer

Diff viewer

Misc

• Code cleanup (#2780)

Fixes

• Broken support of XDG_* shell variables (#1851)
• Segmentation fault while background copying (#2663)
• MC ignores second directory argument (#2762)
• Interpretation of LANG variable needs to be case insensitive (#2386)
• Cannot copy zero-length files with "Preallocate space" option (#2755)
• Problem in the Copy operation with unchecked the "Preserve attributes" option (#2278)
• Cursor position reset after update when panel is panelized, but doesn't (#2766)
• File selection reset after exit from the archive in the root (#2776)
• Hotlist: broken newly added entries if old-style path is present (#2753)
• Can't rebind Fx keys in the file manager (#2384)
• "justified" menu alignment (#2756)
• The last (or single) word of hyperlinks in the interactive help don't act on mouse clicks (#2763)
• 'cd' command is not working in shell link (#2758)
• mc hangs on switching screens (#2608)
• Case sensitive search with SEARCH_TYPE_PCRE is broken (#2764)
• mcedit can't run w/o file as parameter (#2754)
• mcedit can't record input char (#2757)
• mcedit: save file on top of existing directory changes dir's permissions (#2761)
• Unable to edit gzipped files (#2759)
• mcedit hangs up on replace with regexp contains '^' or '$' (#1868)
• Segfault after open incorrect archive (#2775)
• mcdiff crashes if one panel is not in the listing mode (#2769)
• The password for vfs sessions remains in input history (#2760)
• Showing directory sizes is broken in VFS'es (#2765)
• Stale symlinks in vfs (#2777)
• Active VFS directories list contain incorrect current path (#2779)
• Date not set properly in manpage (#2692)
• Empty texinfo rule in mc.ext (#2774)
• Test failure if 'HOME' contains trailing slashes (#2768)