https://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.7.5...4.8.0 Major changes since 4.7.5 Core Added 256 colours support (#2169, #2173, #2475) Changed default text in filtered view (alt-!) to input command line (if not empty) or stay old behaviour (current file under cursor) (#2266) Added simple swap mode that means the swap of panel locations, in addition to current swap of panel content (#2368) Сonfiguration files now moved to directory specified in XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable (#1851) Panel options are read now from [Panels] section only. [Midnight-Commander] section is not read (#2305) "Show mini info" checkbox was moved from the "Layout" dialog window to the "Panel options" one (#2305) Select files by shift-left/right in file panel (#2534) Added support of skip all errors on multi-file/dir operation (#71) 'Find Files' improvements: support relative ignored directories (#2275); handle of ignored directories in dialog window (#2275); "Search for content" checkbox is enabled by default (#2462) Added hardlinks detection for filehighlight (#2478) Unification of keybind names (#2511): most of keybinding names are changes to unify that names. Table of old and new names is available in doc/keybind-migration.txt; improve of key rebinding: previously, to rebind some keys, used must redefine the entire section where that bindings are placed in user keymap file. New merge algorithm doesn't require that and allows rebind only wanted keys; added --nokeymap command line option to disable external keymaps Sources in 'lib' directory now independent to sources in 'src' one (#2501) Added configure parameter --enable-mclib for build libmc.so shared library (#2501) Added new engine for universal event system (as part of #2501) Optimized loading and saving of configurations and histories (#2541, #2545) Reimplemented i18n support in 'Chmod' dialog window (#2557) Added -g/--oldmouse option to support of NORMAL/BUTTON_EVENT mouse type (useful for screen/tmux) (#2601) VFS VFS structure changes (as part of #2501): moved from lib/vfs/mc-vfs to lib/vfs; split VFS-modules by directories and moved to src/vfs; lib/vfs/vfs-impl.h was merged into lib/vfs/vfs.h VFS now used URL-like paths (#2361) New extfs plugin: gitfs (#2467) patchfs enchancement: join several hunks of the same file into one VFS entry (#2573) Editor New engine of the editor macro (#323) Multiply repeat of the recorded actions (#323) Call extermal scripts from the editor (#323, #2512) Added REDO action (#25) Group UNDO by action (#27) Selection is not reset after execute user menu (#2463) Vertical selection is not reset after copy/move (#2504) More intuitive word left/right action (now the cursor stop beside EOL/BOL) (#2483) Duble-click marks the current word. Added action MarkWord to mark word, MarkLine to mark current line (#2499) Regexp search&replace: support escape sequences in replacement string (#1882) Misc Minor enhancement in mc.ext: added -C key to nm utility in View action for static libraries (#2485) New file bindings: .torrent: view using ctorrent (#2562); .mts: handle as videofile (#2566) .3gp - video (#2583) Added new entries in cedit.menu: "Sort selection", "Upper case", "Lower case" New skins: Xoria256 (#2469) mc-4.6 (#2524) Updated skins: Nice dark (#1791) Added support for check unit test framework (as part of #2501) Added -F/--datadir-info option to show extended information about used data dirs (#2495) Added --configure-options to easy update & reconfigure existing mc (#2495) Language-specific man pages and hint and help files are not installed if mc is built with --disable-nls option (#2514) Added new translation: Esperanto Interlingua Code cleanup (#2481, #2515, #2518, #2560, #2570, #2620) mc.ext: use "include" for $EDITOR entries (#1689) License version updated to GPL3+ (#1551) Fixes Build failure on DragonFly BSD (#2516) Broken Del & Backspace in dialogs (in locale CP866) (#1634) Screen and input corruption under xterm in non-UTF locales (#1668) Alt-Backspace shortcut doesn't work (#2455) Broken command autocompletion (#2458) Swap panels doesn't respect sort options (#2368) File list format of panel is initialized incorrectly after switch back from quick view or info mode to file list one (#2390) Main menu is not drawn correctly after change of it visibility and activity (#2466) MC switches to left panel after call of command history using mouse (#2459) Find file: don't check content regexp if search for content is not used (#2464) Find file: broken lynx-like navigation in panelization of search result (#2491) Dialog trims leading spaces in input field (#2544) Panelize content is lost when doing F5/F6/F8 on a file on the other panel (#2312) Color of panel header cannot be set in the command line (#2170) ctrl-g key closes file panels (#2520) Incorrect files mark by mouse (#2556) Bold and selected colors of viewer cannot be set in the command line (#2489) Cannot compile on Solaris (#2587) Recent autoconf displays warnings about missing AC_LANG_SOURCE (#2589) Duplication of variable declarations (#2576) Incorrect TTY layer initialization (#2601) Wrong Backspace key behavior in QuickSearch mode if BS key is mapped to CdParentSmart action (#2522) M-o works unexpectedly on symlink shortcuts (#2590) Panelize doesn't honour current sorting (#2175) Hintbar jumps to the top of the screen and overwrites main menu (#2593) File size column is bogus for widths above 9 (#2580) Hex search: incorrect length usage in hexadecimal search (#2579) Editor: Incorrect Pascal syntax highlighting (#2531) Editor: mouse clicks are ignored on the bottom line (#2591) Editor: incorrect restore selection after UNDO (#2456) Editor: segfault after getting the previous char in utf8 (#2484) Editor: incorrect detection of the word boundary (added '{', '}' as end of word) (#2500) Viewer: Fixed search finds bold/underlined strings twice and highlight search results (#265) Viewer: cursor position is not restored in hex mode (#2543) Viewer: fixed incorrect starting offset for 'search again' (#2294) Viewer: fixed problems while displaying UTF-8 manual pages (#1629) Diff viewer: quick left/right movements don't work in non-default key maps (#2509) AI_ADDRCONFIG is not optional for RFC 3493 non-compliant systems (#2401) FTP directories containing @ result severe security risks (eg. deletion of homedir) (#2220) Builtin ftp client can't download files with apostrophe in a file name (#2251) Unable to show FTP listing if password contains # (#2360) FTP: fixed access to file names starting with space (#81) Bashisms in extfs (#2569) Browsing *.deb files is broken with latest Perl (#2552) isoinfo adds ";1" to the end of file name when Joliet without Rock Ridge is used (#2471) patchfs incorrectly works with filenames containing spaces (#2572) cd to ~ processed incorrectly in the command line if more than one space is separating the "cd" and "~" (#2120) Broken listing in ExtFS VFS module (#81) File name length is limited in tar archive (#2201) FISH hangs while copiyng a lot of small files (#2605) FISH: broken panels drawing after entering password (#2611) FISH: content of modified file is appended instead of overwritten in the remote host (#2632) extfs: strange error message when opening a 7z file if p7zip is not installed (#2598)
Pushed both 4.7.5.5 and 4.8.0 to the tree as: > *mc-4.8.0 (20 Oct 2011) > *mc-4.7.5.5 (20 Oct 2011) > > 20 Oct 2011; Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> +mc-4.7.5.5.ebuild, > +mc-4.8.0.ebuild: > Version bump (requested by Anton Kochkov in bug #387883) Thanks, Anton!