Midnight Commander 4.8.7

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Major changes since 4.8.6

Core

• Minimal GLib version is 2.12.0
• Implementation of suspend/resume in copy/move file operations (#2111)
• Start of widget subsystem reimplementation (#2919)

VFS

• uc1541 extfs plug-in updated up to version 2.5 (#2935)

Editor

• Reset selection after text paste (only in non-persistent selection mode) (#2660)
• Don't indent blank lines (#303).
• Add .psgi as Perl syntax highlighting (#2912)
• Place cursor after inserted chars (#319)
• Add option in ini file to save spelling language (spell_language=NONE for disable aspell support) (#2914)

Viewer

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Misc

• Code cleanup (#2888, #1950)
• Minimal "check" utility version is 0.9.8
• Remove the empty contrib/dist/debian/ since it maintained separately in Debian (#2871)
• mc.ext updates:
  • add support of SVG images (#2895)
  • add support of .asm file extension (#2892)
  • add support of .hh file extension (#2892)
  • all file extension for source files now are case insensitive (#2892)
  • add support of JNG and MNG images (#2893)
  • add support of Gnumeric's spreadsheets (#2894)
  • add support of .war archives (#2891)
  • make a choice between arj and unarj archivers (#2890)
  • make a choice between 7z and 7za archivers (#2890)
  • add support of ape, aac and wvm4a media formats (#2767)
  • add support of cbr and cbz comic books (#2739)
  • add support of epub e-book format (#2739)
  • add support of PAR archives (#2739)
  • use libreoffice instead of ooffice, if found, to open ODT files (#2723)
  • use dvicat if dvi2tty not found to view DVI files (#1686)
  • use 'see' utility as default pdf viewer, if found (#1686)
  • use 'see' utility to view images in console (#1686)
• Highlight OGV files as media (#2934)
• Added new translations:
  • Persian (fa)
  • Croatian (hr)

Fixes

• Build failure on Cygwin (#2917)
• Fail to check ncurses library if --with-ncurses-inc and --with-ncurses-libs options are used (#2926)
• Crash on Solaris while trying to copy a file (#2906)
• CVE-2012-4463: Does not sanitize MC_EXT_SELECTED variable properly (#2913)
• Attributes of existing directories are never preserved when copying (#2924)
• Broken path completion on paths starting with ~/ (#2898)
• Terminal settings are not changed when window is resized (#2198)
• Enter into symlink to compressed patch shows empty patch (#2910)
• Test failure on Cygwin due to incorrect linkage flag (#2918)
• Non-portable test (#2883)