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Version 4.7.0.1

- Fixes

    * Fixed double free of memory in editor;
    * Fixed build with --disable-vfs option;
    * Fixed compile warnings about unused variables;
    * Fixed Fedora/RH RPM versioning scheme.


Version 4.7.0

- Core

    * Removed charset confirmation on startup and added the automatic recognize
      of system charset (#1613)
    * Some startup speed up (#1781)
    * Save flags of select/unselet file group (#1776)
    * Don't set TOSTOP attribute on slave terminal (#1637)
    * Keybindings for button bars (F1-F10 keys) (#212)
    * Keybindings for Tree widget
    * Enlarged sizes of Directory Tree dialog window
    * Added missed esc sequencies for qansi terminals (#1803)
    * New file type bindings:
      + adeed mkv, 3gp video types
      + use exif(1) output when viewing jpeg files
      + opening .chm with kchmviewer with fallback to xchm
      + viewing .mo files with msgunfmt

- VFS

    * FISH: add the user name to the ssh command line only if it's not the same as
      the local logged-in user (#1867)
    * FTP: support active mode (#1796)
    * FTP: improved symlink handling
    * FTP: some FTP-servers don't have chmon support. Ignore FTP errors related
      to chmod operations (#1708)
    * EXTFS: added S3 backend by Jakob Kemi (#272)
    * SFS: use single script for RPM and SRPM packets handling (#1590)

- Editor

    * New syntax files: Cabal
    * Updated syntax files: Python, PHP
    * Syntax highlighting: added '.hh' and '.hpp' file extensions as C++ sources

- Misc

    * Lots of code cleanup and optimization
    * Workaround for SunStudio compiler bug #6888373 (#1749)
    * Removed obsolete checks in configuration scripts
    * Allow save empty value in history (#1814)
    * Use ctrl-g instead of ctrl-c for SIGINT signal (#1876).
    * RPM spec: rewritten and simplified static build procedure for legacy distros (#1848)
    * Translation updated
    * Documentation updates
    * Added skin: darker color style (#1659)

- Fixes

    * Memory and file descriptors leaks
    * Crash on start if ~/.mc/panels.ini contains incorrect value of 'sort_order' key (#1790)
    * MC aborts when ctrl-c is pressed (#1793)
    * Build w/o internal editor (#1826)
    * Compilation warings of --disable-nls and --disable-charset options (#1831)
    * Incorrect handling of '--with-search-engine' configure option (#1396)
    * Segmentation fault when search in different encodings (#1858)
    * C-w does not delete whole command line (#407)
    * Wrong shortcuts in menu items (#1836)
    * Panels state saves and restores despite disabled 'Auto save setup' (#1663)
    * Case insensitive file sorting in UTF-8 locales (#1536)
    * Incorrect handling of 0xFF char that is valid char in CP1251 locale (#1883)
    * Segfault in TreeView loading (#1794)
    * Incorect stat info of ".." directory in file panel (#1757)
    * Incorect stat info of ".." directory in info panel (#1757)
    * Setting "Use passive mode over proxy" is not remembered (#1746)
    * CK_Edit_Save_Mode command handling in editor (#1810)
    * Incorrect calculation of some utf-8 characters width (#1768)
    * Handling CJK chars in editor (#1628)
    * Incorrect cursor positioning in editor (#1809, #1884)
    * Vertical block handling in editor (#1839)
    * Incorrect text scrolling in editor (#1877)
    * Incorrect mouse movement in editor when text scrolled to the right (#1792)
    * Newlines are lost when pasting multiline text in editor (#1710)
    * Mismatched hotkeys EditBeginRecordMacro, EditEndRecordMacro in editor
    * íismatched hotkeys EditBeginningOfText, EditEndOfText, EditBeginPage, EditEndPage (#1724)
    * Some syntax files are not installable (#1779)
    * Date & time insertion in editor (#1759)
    * "Matches not found" message is not shown in viewer
    * Hangup after search in archive in viewer (#1873)
    * SFS: CPIO VFS skips empty directories in the root of archive (#1732)
    * Incorrect parsing FTP-string (#1605)
    * LZMA files detect (#1798)
    * FISH: broken filenames and timestamps on really poor busybox devices (#1450)
    * Minor mistakes and mistypes in man files
    * Various doxygen warnings


Version 4.7.0-pre4

- Core

    * Added feature of sort files by mouse click on column header
    * Added keybindings to change files sort type via shortcuts
      (PanelSelectSortOrder, PanelToggleSortOrderPrev, PanelToggleSortOrderNext,
      PanelReverseSort, PanelSortOrderByName, PanelSortOrderByExt,
      PanelSortOrderBySize, PanelSortOrderByMTime)
    * Now the letter of sort type and sort direction is always drawn in panel
      header (direction of sort is drown near the current sort column in long
      file list mode only)
    * Skin-files: added new parameters 'sort-sign-up' and 'sort-sign-down' in
      the section '[widget-common]' to draw sign of sort direction
    * Added option 'extensions_case' in filehighlight.ini file.
    * Menu engine was reimplemented: 1) now menu is build dynamically, 2)
      shortcut displayed in menu item is not a part of menu item text and it is
      synchronized with keybinding defined in mc.keymap file (#1563).

- VFS

    * Fixed view *.tar files with a colon in name
    * Allow 'exit' command on non-local filesystems
    * Added partial support of Microsoft CAB-archives
    * Added support of ico files
    * Added support of *.djvu files
    * Fix segfaults in various cases while browsing various VFSs
    * Fixed warnings when file copy inside archive.

- Editor

    * Added scrolled percentage in status bar (only in "simple statusbar" mode)
    * Fixed Misbehaving rectangular select in editor (wrong when selected from
      right to left and/or bottom to top)
    * Split editor menu 'Command' to 'Command' and 'Format'
    * Added option 'Check POSIX new line' into 'Save mode...' dialog, add notification
      before save when no newline at EOF (#46)
    * Added bindings ('EditShiftBlockLeft', 'EditShiftBlockRight') for shift block
    * Fixed incorrect drawing CJK (double width) character

- Viewer

    * Fixed tabs alignment (#1664)
    * Fixed view of next/prev file (#1750)

- Misc

    * Shared clipboard for the mc editor, form fields, panel and command prompt
    * Refactoring: now all filename constants are placed in src/fileloc.h file
    * Testing & development: added ability for change user config dir. For example,
      type make CFLAGS='-DMC_USERCONF_DIR=\".mc2\"'
    * Changed Alt+Backspace behavior in command line

- Fixes

    * Fixed broken building under uclibc <0.9.29
    * Autoindent regression
    * Viewer Hex editor regression
    * Incorrect indentation block when selecting with F3 + keys
    * Fixed ownership of config files
    * Configure.ac: fix broken check of option '--disable-vfs-undelfs'
    * Learn keys: fixed incorrect save of keys configuration
    * Fixed bug with 'The shell is already running a command'
    * Fixed 'B' artefact into OpenSuse console of root user


Version 4.7.0-pre3

- Core

    * removed own popt stuff (command line options parser). Now used glib parser
    * added feature for filenames highlighting in panels
    * Copy/Move overwrite query dialog is more friendly for long file names
    * at first run find file dialog now contain latest item from history
    * charset support enabled by default (--enable-charset option)
    * added support of skins
    * added support of key bindings

- VFS

    * fixed recognize of tar.xz archives
    * added recognize of lzma archives by extention

- Editor

    * 'Save as' dialog enhancement: select line break type: Windows/UNIX/Mac
      (CR LF/LF/CR)
    * syntax hightlighting updated: VerilogHDL, Shell script
    * Added syntax highlighting for *.repo files of yum
    * Added syntax highlighting of pacman's PKGBUILD and .install files

- Viewer

    * Fixed showing Windows/Mac (CR LF/CR) line terminator

- Misc

    * hotlist: support for environment variables ($HOME, ~username, etc.)
    * hotlist: support for completion in path input
    * all list widgets: support for fast navigation by number keys (i.e. 1 -
      first list item, 2 - second)

- Fixes

    * restored action of 'ctrl-t' keybinding (mark files&dirs). For selecting
      charset use 'alt-e'
    * segfault on incorrect color pair in [Color] section
    * incorrect position of panel codeset dialog
    * limit of 9 digits for of file size display
    * lines drawing in -a stickchars mode
    * segfault when you try to use non-anonymous FTP
    * Ctrl-O handling under GNU Screen in altscreen mode
    * support of CP866 (IBM866) locale
    * configure.ac: checking for minimal version of glib and exit if version less
      than 2.6
    * segfault by mouse wheel action in history list and menu
    * Fixed behvior with Meta+PgDn? in editor
    * Fixed behvior with cursor movement by Ctrl+arrows when cursor besides EOL
    * Fixed editor autocompleting
    * Fixed Copy/Move dialogs steal Kill Word shortcut
    * Fixed autoconf issue when configure with --with-gpm-mouse option


Version 4.7.0-pre2

- Core

    * cycle menu navigation
    * change behaviour of C-space, now it calculate size on "..", and for selected
      dirs if there is one.
    * new find file option: find only first hit in file (make search faster)
    * new find file option: Whole words - find whole words only
    * scalable TUI

- VFS

    * FTPFS: support of IPv6 protocol
    * extfs/iso9660 updated to support Joliet "UCS level 1"

- Editor

    * new search/replace flag added "In selection"
    * new hotkeys for bookmarks, now bookmark displayed in state line and editor
    * new cursor behavior. Option "Cursor beyond end of line" - allow moving cursor
      beyond the end of line
    * new syntax hightlights added: erlang, ebuild, named, strace, j
    * syntax hightlights updated: mail, vhdl, html

- Viewer

    * Reworked for improve perfomance
    * Implemented interruptable long-distance movements
    * splitted src/view.[ch] into many files in src/viewer/ subdir for more simple
      support of code
    * fixed build of format string in runtime (for better i18n)
    * add 'Whole words' option into the viewer 'Search' dialog

- Misc

    * new option mouse_close_dialog, if mouse_close_dialog=1 click on outside the
      dialog close them
    * new: SI-based size show
    * make shared history for find file, editor search/replace, viever

- Fixes

    * linking error with --enable-vfs-undelfs
    * external editor won't open if there are spaces in EDITOR variable
    * C-c kill mc if mc built with --without-subshell option is run with -d option
    * directory hotlist rendering
    * segfault on empty replace string
    * fixes for vfs/tarfs
    * removing bashizm from vfs/extfs/u7z
    * crash mc on create new file (Shift-F4) in external editor
    * File copy/move dialog: in replacement field now handled asterisks as search groups
    * VFS: Fixed SIGSERV(or heap corruption) on large filenames
    * Fixed broken backward search
    * Fixed uninitialised value for mouse event in in find.c#check_find_events() function
    * Fixed ctrl+z signal handling
    * Fixed incorrect showing prompt
    * Fixed incorrect vertical selection (if line state swiched on)
    * Fixed screen resize handle if mouse support is disabled
    * Restore correct current directory after switch from Info panel to List one
    * Fixed mouse support in 'konsole-256color' terminal
    * Fixed keycodes in 'xterm-256color' terminal
    * Fixed incorrect regexp search by content in 'file find' dialog
    * Fixed incorrect backwards search
    * Fixed incorrect detection of compressed patchfs
    * Fixed incorrect detecting codeset when <no translation> codeset selected


Version 4.7.0-pre1

- Core

    * native UTF-8 support
    * filenames charset selection support in panels
    * new 'Find File' dialog
    * new unified search/replace engine with search types: Plain, Wildcard, Regexp, Hex
    * extended learn keys
    * locale based codepage autodetection
    * initial support for doxygen generated docs
    * refresh of autoconf stuff
    * translation updates
    * x86_64 fixes

- Editor

    * various editor enchancements (vertical block marking/moving/copy/paste)
    * navigate across source code through ctags/etags TAGS file
    * new option 'Persistent selection'
    * Del/Backspace - delete selected block if 'Persistent selection' switched off
    * shift block right with TAB key by TAB size or TAB symbol, shift block left with COMPLETE key
      if 'Persistent selection' switched off
    * optional showing of line numbers
    * various syntax files updates
    * optional highlighting of the tabs and trailing spaces
    * add some hot-keys

- Misc

    * showing of the free space on current file system
    * showing of the size selected files in mini-status bar

- Fixes

    * editor's undo fixes
    * many fixes from other distributions are included
    * fish handling for symlinks is fixed
    * escaping of fancy names is fixed
    * segfault in fish permission checks is fixed
    * various mc.ext fixes
    * commandline completion fixes (mainly, escaping hadling)
    * small fixes in history handling (locale independent .mc/history entries)
    * code cleanups, various memleak/etc fixes (many thanks to valgrind)


Version 4.6.2

- MC Core
        - Changed HQ url to point to new website
          www.midnight-commander.org (Closes: #137, #138)
        - Added a micro helper library in order to go slowly
          avay from glib (Closes: #157)
        - Use static strings as section entries in ~/.mc/history
          WARNING!: This will break old files (Closes: #50)
        - Fixed a repaint issue when clicking on the "View" Button instead
          of using F3 (Closes: #35)
        - Removed obsolete autoconf macros (Closes: #133)
        - Fix escaping for command line completion (Closes: #147)
        - prevent mc from segfaulting when getting invalid timestamps on files (Closes: #96)
        - Fixed a keybord issue when running mc via a putty console (Closes: #203)
        - setted pty fd to closeonexec (on subshell) (Closes: #174)
        - Fixed file renames, when copying/moving is performed
          into deleted directories. (Closes: #181)
        - Add an option to show executables first in the panels (Closes: #173)
        - Fixed concat_dir_and_file if there is a parameter = NULL (Closes: #180)
        - Allow out-of-tree builds (Closes: #224, #208)

- Editor
        - Syntax highlighting for:
          + debian files (debian/changelog, debian/control, debian/copyright, ..) (Closes: #142)
          + updated sh syntax highlighting (Closes: #143)
          + updated pascal syntax highlighting (Closes: #65)
          + differentiate between c and cpp files for highlighting (Closes: #16)
          + updated python highlighting to support python 2.6 (Closes: #216)
        - Removed some unneeded variables (Closes: #168, #151)
        - Do use a ro test if a file exists (Closes: #206)
        - Fixes some missbehaviour in regex matching (Closes: #207, #211 )
          + start at front of line and not on cursor position
          + . shouldn't match a newline

- VFS
        - Fix some bashisms in some extfs scripts (Closes: #146)
        - Fixed various problems with symlinks and files with chars which needs
          escaping over fish (Closes: #10, #87, #149, #53)
        - Added 7zip extfs descriptor (Closes: #92)
        - Switched from o3totxt to odf2txt as o3totxt is outdated (Closes: #218)

- Locale
        - Updated german translation (Closes: #167)
        - New Belarussian translation (Closes: #170)
        - Updated russian translation (Closes: #159)

Version 4.6.2-pre1.

- Editor.
        - Prompt the user whether to detach a hardlinked file
          in "Quick save" mode.
        - Fix a bug which prevented the editor from creating a
          lock file in certain scenarios (bug #13673).
        - New shortcut - Ctrl+S. Allows the user to toggle
          syntax highlighting.
        - Allow the user to override the automatic syntax 
          highlighting.
        - Duplicate hotkey fixes.

- VFS.
        - extfs: Do not hang waiting for user input on password
          protected .rar archives.
        - extfs: Do not leave stale temporary files.
        - extfs: Add support for ALZip archives.
        - extfs: Properly retrieve the filesize of very large
          files stored inside a .zip archive.
        - extfs: Various quoting fixes.
        - extfs: Various improvements in deb, iso9660, mailfs, rpm, trpm.

        - fish: Fix uploading of files with backtick characters in
          their names.
        - fish: Improve upload speed.
        - fish: Allow for retrieving files larger than 2 GB.
        - fish: Enable reget functionality.
        - fish: Use numerical uid/gid when retrieving the directory
          listing.

        - ftpfs: Allow for entering non-readable directories.
        - ftpfs: Allow the user to interrupt the connection establishment.
        - ftpfs: Enable reget functionality.
        - ftpfs: `first_cd_then_ls' is the default mode for retrieving
          directory contents now.

        - tarfs: Add support for long filenames as stored in
          ustar format archives.
        - tarfs: Allow for working with archives conforming to
          POSIX.1-2001 standard


Version 4.6.1.

- Core functionality.
        - Bash < 2.05b no longer supported. For usage with bash < 2.05b fix
        subshell_name_quote() to use 3-digit octals.

Version 4.6.1.

- Core functionality.
        - Device numbers are displayed correctly.
        - Improved message formatting for i18n.
        - Recursive option added for internal grep.

- Viewer.
        - Almost completely rewritten internal viewer.
        - mmap(2) support removed from internal viewer.

- VFS.
        - Fixed device number handling.
        - zipfs can handle zip files that contain pathnames starting
          with "./".
        - Passive FTP over proxies is possible.

- Miscellaneous.
        - Code cleanup in various places


Version 4.6.1-pre5.

- Core functionality.
        - Fix double free in mc_maybe_editor_or_viewer().
        - Do not blindly cleanup in exit_subshell().
        - Fix blocking of panel cd-ing with white space command.
        - Fix mini status after first Ctrl-O.
        - Fix dynamic loading of Photon library for shift keys.

- Security.
        - See also VFS.

- Portability.
        - Added configuration files for Sun Solaris pkgmk(1).

- Editor.
        - Fix position save bug.
        - Improve c.syntax.
        - Improve makefile.syntax.
        - Improve python.syntax.
        - Improve eiffel.syntax.
        - Improve syntax.syntax.

- Viewer.
        - Add .7z archives extensions to mc.ext.in.
        - Add OpenOffice.org 2 extensions to mc.ext.in.
        - Recognize both .udeb and .deb as Debian packages.

- Screen libraries.
        - Backport S-Lang fixes from HEAD.

- VFS.
        - Extensive samba cleanup.
        - Fix possible crash on broken cpio archives.
        - Quote fixes in urar.in.

- Translations.
        - Updated translations: German.
        - Updated translations: Italian.


Version 4.6.1-pre4.

- Core functionality.
        - Fix X11 connection handling.

- Editor.
        - Add syntax file for the x86 assembler.
        - Add syntax file for the Vision(tm) Ray Tracer.
        - Add syntax file for the CORBA IDL.
        - Add syntax file for the LUA programming language.


Version 4.6.1-pre3.

- Core functionality.
        - Improve support for tcsh.

- Translations.
        - Updated translations: Spain.


Version 4.6.1-pre2.

Release candidate for 4.6.1.

- Security.
        - Fixed CAN-2004-0226 (buffer overflows).
        - Fixed CAN-2004-0231 (unsafe temporary file and directory creation).
        - Fixed CAN-2004-0232 (format string vulnerablities).
        - cons.saver does not need to be setuid-root on Linux.
        - Hiding of FTP passwords.

- Portability.
        - PC port has been removed.
        - Support for SCO UNIX has been removed.
        - Improve support for QNX Neutrino.

- Core functionality.
        - Use 8bit input as default.
        - Better support for '@' in FTP usernames.
        - Better large file support (int -> off_t)
        - Add gnome, rxvt and xterm-new terminals (keyword copy for mc.lib).
        - Make the find dialog more responsive while scanning through large files.
        - Add implementation to cons.handler for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x.
        - Screen saving is now supported on FreeBSD console.
        - Hide temporary commands from history.
        - Add --with-glib12 option to configure to force using glib 1.2.x.
        - Add --disable-background option to disable background support.
        - Background support now uses pipes instead of UNIX sockets.
        - libX11 is loaded dynamically using gmodule if possible.
        - User is warned if one mc is run from another.

- Screen libraries.
        - Add many boundary check into internal slang library.
        - Internal slang upgrade to 1.4.9.
        - Increased maximum screen size to 512 x 512.
        - Add support for qansi-m terminals.

- Editor.
        - Fix bugs for mcedit compiled with ncurses.
        - New status string format in mcedit.
        - Support for large syntax files.
        - Temporarily disable safe save and backups on remote VFS
          because it doesn't work.
        - Enable user menu in mcedit.
        - Add syntax file for the ASP.NET technology.
        - Add syntax file for the Eiffel programming language.
        - Add syntax file for the Ruby programming language.
        - Add syntax file for the C# programming language.
        - Upgrade php.syntax file.
        - Improve sql.syntax file.
        - Improve perl.syntax.
        - Improve diff.syntax.
        - Improve makefile.syntax.
        - Add "define" keyword for syntax files.

- VFS.
        - Full audit of quoting of parameters in vfs scripts (CAN-2004-0494).
        - Fixed CAN-2003-1023 (stack overflow in vfs_s_resolve_symlink).
        - Various fixes in tar.c.
        - VFS supports iso9660 images.

- Translations.
        - New translations: Mongolian, Serbian and Lithuanian.
        - Updated translations: Ukrainian, Italian, Hungarian.


Version 4.6.0.

- Core functionality.
        - Fixed infinite loop under xterm if xterm is forcedly closed.

- Portability.
        - ncurses can be found even if it's renamed to curses (OpenBSD).
        - Warning fixes for 64-bit systems.


Version 4.6.0-pre3.

Another release candidate for 4.6.0.

- Core functionality.
        - ".." is no longer shown in the root directory.
        - Fixed segmentation fault when processing truncated
          section header in the corrupted initialization file.

- Screen libraries.
        - Fixed incorrect processing of AltGr on Linux console
          introduced in -pre2.

- Documentation.
        - Fixed a bug in man2hlp that could randomly prevent correct
          generation of the help files.
        - Added manual page for mcview.


Version 4.6.0-pre2.

Release candidate for 4.6.0.

- Security.
        - mc now creates its own temporary directory /tmp/mc-$USER.
          If it fails or permissions are wrong, the user is warned.

- Portability.
        - mc now complies with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard and
          uses @prefix@/share/mc for the data files.
        - Support for glib 2.0.x has been added.
        - glib 1.2 is now properly detected on FreeBSD.

- Core functionality.
        - Fixed segmentation fault when displaying messages from
          background operations.
        - When using support for setting the last working directory of
          mc in the parent shell, "mc" is now an alias in all shells,
          not a function.  The "-P" option needs an argument now.
        - Alt-O sets the same directory on the other panel.
        - Current directory is shown in the xterm window title.

- Screen libraries.
        - Screen library is now selected by the option --with-screen.
        - X11 support is enabled by default, use --without-x to disable.
        - The keycode now contains information about all screen
          modifiers.  This allows to implement more shortcuts, but this
          work has just begun.
        - Included S-Lang library has been updated to version 1.4.5.
        - Mouse wheel is supported in the internal editor and viewer in
          xterm compatible terminals that implement wheel events.

- Editor.
        - Internal editor now saves the cursor position in the file.
        - New syntax rules - RPM specfile, m4.
        - Editor shows control characters in the caret notation.

- VFS.
        - Most extfs scripts have been reviewed and improved.
        - Fixed viewing and editing files on mcfs.
        - Support for termnet and HSC firewall has been removed.

- Documentation.
        - Polish manual has been added.

Version 4.6.0-pre1.

- Security release.  Massive code cleanup.  Most improvements didn't
  need any significant amount of the new code.

- Security.
        - Fixes for remotely exploitable buffer overflows in VFS.

- Ports and editions.
        - GNOME edition has been removed.
        - OS/2 port has been removed.
        - MAD (Memory Allocation Debugger) has been removed.

- Core functionality.
        - Large file support enabled by default.
        - Shift-F5 and Shift-F6 copy and rename like F5 and F6, but
          suggest the selected filename as the destination.
        - File search with contents doesn't use external egrep.
        - Directories with many files are now reloaded much faster.
        - Subshell works under Cygwin.

- Screen libraries.
        - Improved support for ncurses.
        - Dropped support for the old Curses library.
        - Colors are enabled on all capable terminals when using S-Lang.
        - Syntax highlighting now works with ncurses.

- Editor.
        - Editor files are now stored in ~/.mc/cedit instead of ~/.cedit
          to avoid collision with Cooledit.
        - New syntax rules - PHP, Tcl, SQL, DOS batch file.
        - Editor supports word completion.

- VFS.
        - Local temporary file is used for uploading via ftpfs/fish only
          if file is uploaded to the same ftp/fish server.
        - mcfs support is disabled by default.
        - Samba configuration and codepage files locations can be
          configured.
        - .netrc support in ftpfs is enabled by default.
        - Viewing zip files could corrupt them.

- Documentation.
        - Added manuals in Spanish, Italian and Russian.
        - Help files are not distributed, but generated during the
          build from the manual pages.

- Translations.
        - Belarussian translation has been added.


Version 4.5.55

- Mostly bugfixes and portability fixes.  Making things work as they
  were meant to work.

- Text edition improvements.
        - Ctrl-O supported in the viewer and editor.
        - Better terminal support.  Should not need "Learn Keys" on rxvt
          and xterm in most cases.

- GNOME edition improvements.
        - Find dialog rewritten.
        - Editor and viewer ask whether to save modified file when
          closed from window manager.

- Editor.
        - New syntax rules - S-Lang, PO files, Octave.
        - Alt-B goes to matching bracket.

- Portability improvements.
        - Should compile out-of-box on Cygwin and QNX Neutrino.
        - Can be compiled by BSD make.
        - Subshell and VFS code are safer and more portable.

- Experimental features (disabled by default).
        - Charset conversion support.
        - Large (64-bit) file support on 32-bit systems.


Version 4.5

- Too many new features to list.

- This is the last version to be actively maintained.  The GNOME
  edition is in stabilization and maintenance phase only.  A new file
  manager is being written for the GNOME project.


Version 3.5

- New hotlist code.
        - The bookmark code has been completely revamped and now it supports
          folders.  New format for the hot list file.
        - It is possible to copy a selected path name into the input line 
          (C-Enter).

- Tk enhancements.
        - New built in GUI designer to help developers modify the look
          of the program at run time (no penalty for users).
        - Many dialog boxes now work.
        - Right button now pops up a context sensitive action menu.
        - Added many visual enhancements.
        - The Tk edition is not yet finished though.

- File management.
        - Now we do background copy and move operations.
          (you can ftp your files in the background now, for example).

- Built in text editor
        - This is an easy to use text editor with pull-down menus.
          The features it presently supports are: Block copy, move,
          delete, cut, paste; key for key undo; file insertion; macro
          definition; regular expression search and replace (and our
          own scanf-printf search and replace); shift-arrow MSW-MAC
          text highlighting (for the Linux console only);
          insert-overwrite toggle; and an option to pipe text blocks
          through shell commands like indent.  

          Comes with Emacs keybindings as well.

          mcedit is a link to mc which bring it up in editor mode. 

- FTP File system
        - Many fixes and enhancements, better support for proxy
          machines.
        - Now we support both active and passive opens.
        - Estimated time of arrival for ftp transfers.
        - stalled detection.
        - Much better support for proxies.
        - ftp URLs now allow a password to be provided.

- ext2fs Undelete File system
        - Minor enhancements.

- TAR File system
        - Now we flush the tarfs if the tar file has been modified

- External File systems:
        - Speeded up RPM file system.
        - New LHA file system.
        - New ARC file system.
        - New DEB file system (for those users of Debian).
        - New RAR file system.
        - Fixed problems with different zipfs.

- MC file system:
        - We get can use a mc file system by using either mc: or mc:// prefixes. 

- Viewer changes:
        - Now we include a program that preprocesses mail if you view it
          so, you get colored mails in the viewer.
        - A simple ruler has been implemented (press Alt-r to enable it).

- New hex editor
        - Now you can do hex editions in your files with a single keystroke.
          (invoke it by using the hex-viewer and then clicking on edit).

- Find file command:
        - Now we can search inside files using a piped grep (particularly
          interesting to search inside virtual file system: tar files, 
          tar files on remote ftp sites, or searching information on an 
          ftp site)

- Widgets:
        - Input lines now support control-left, control-right movement on the
          Linux console.

- Extension file:
        - We now support extra entries in a given rule with the Include=
          tag.
        
- Ports:
        - Windows NT, Windows 95 by Juan Grigera
        - OS/2 by Alexander Dong.


- Many many many bug fixes and memory leaks have been fixed.


Version 3.2

- External File system:
        - Mtools file system works.
        - New Cpio file system.
        - New RPM file system.

- FTP file system:
        - support for HSC firewall

- Lots of subshell fixes

- Regexp-extension:
        - Editing of non-local files works now.

- Bunch of bug fixes.

- Panelize now works properly.

- Can work on Nextstep now.

- Windows NT port by Juan Grigera.

- Midnight Commander file system server:
        - Fixed errno handling in the server.
        - Fixed time handling in the server.
        - Better caching.
        - Works with PAM if supported on the system.

Version 3.1

This has been finished:

- Enhanced ftpfs:
  - Displays progress bars.
  - Supports Netware and Windows NT servers
  - Better support for symlinked files.
  - Handles those warez sites file names.
  - Increase the directory cache timeout.
  - Cache flushing (C-r)
  - If you append a /~ to the directory, you will log into your home
    directory (this is done by default if you use the menus to connect).
  - More robust.
- Subshell fixes (it should not hang any longer).
  - Fixes prompt handling for zsh and tcsh users.
  - Fixes variable expansion for tcsh (now you may edit files).
  - Rewrote the sync code between the parent and child, should not hang
    any longer.
- Better command completion.
- Keypad handling enhanced:
  - Special key treatment for +, -, \ and now may be configure to
    only take place if you do not have a command typed in.
  - Now the + and \ bindings when ran on the Linux console work
    may use the keypad and M-+ and M-\ and leave the + and \ keys
    free.
- Better handling of the line drawing chars on OSF/1 and AIX.
- Enhanced tar/compressed tar file systems.
- Global kill ring.
- Added undelete feature for Linux systems: now you may recover deleted files
  on ext2 file systems with the Undelete file system.
- Symlink commands (for symlink lovers).
  see the docs on C-x C-r,  C-x C-l, C-x C-s keystrokes.
- New macros:
  %b and %B return the basename of the selected filename
  %var{ENV-VAR} expands to the contents of ENV-VAR variable.
- MC may be invoked as a viewer (mc -f flag).
- Added Unicode support on the Linux console (run with mc -N)
- Tons of bug fixes, the code is cleaner and hopefully 
- Allow a vfs pathname to be passed as a startup directory.

This is a list of people that put their effort into making the 3.1
release:

Adam Tla/lka, Antonio Palama, Carl Thompson, Ching Hui, Dugan Porter, Gerd
Knorr, Ilya Rybkin, Jakub Jelinek, Janne Kukonlehto, Juan Grigera, Juan Jose
Ciarlante, John Davis, Marcelo Fabian Roccasalva, Perry Francis Nguyen,
Sergey Ya Korshunoff Steven Hirsch, Thanh Ma and Torben Fjerdingstad.

Version 3.0

This has been finished:

- Virtual File System: You now can browse tar, compressed tar and 
  file systems over the network as if they were local subdirectories;
- Slang support, you don't need ncurses anymore (but you can still compile
  with ncurses, if you want).
- New mc.ext format, for details see the sample mc.ext file provided.
- Append option if you try to copy/move a file onto already existing one.
- Internal cd command uses CDPATH variable if set (like in BASH).
- Find file command is much faster.
- External panelize command - finding files using unlimited number of
  criteria - actually spawns an external command and it can be find, awk,
  grep -l or anything else.
- Learn keys makes setting up of mc on terminals with broken
  terminfo/termcap databases easier. It just asks you to press keys which
  are not working.
- Advanced chown command.
- C-PgUp and C-PgDn takes you to the previous and currently selected
  directory respectively on the Linux console.
- You can choose between 7 data bits, iso-latin-1 (0-127+160-255) or
  other (0-255).
- Confirmation for overwriting, deleting and exiting added.
- Viewer has growing buffers.
- Filename, username, hostname and variable completion (M-Tab) on all
  input lines plus command completion on appropriate places of command
  line.
- Following of symlinks at changing directory.
- Viewer now supports bold faces and underlines, and it fits the 
  information on the screen better.  Now you can also specify the starting
  mode for the viewer depending on the contents of the viewed file.
- Mask rename and copy.
- Colors now let you specify the intensity of the colors you want.

This is being worked on:
- Virtual File System: FTP file system.
- Tcl/Tk and XView versions of the program (preliminary versions are
  up and running).


Version 2.0

Now users are able to define their own display 

- User defined display formats.

  Now you can configure the file display to suit your needs.
  For example, you can say which information you want to see displayed
  instead of our defaults.

- User definable program layout.

  Panels could be shown vertically or horizontally;
  panels could be different sizes, you can hide or show most
  program windows (command line, keybar or menubar).

- Output window.

  Now, it's possible to see part of the last program output on the Linux
  console without having to switch screens via an option in the layout
  menu.

- New View modes:

     Quick view: as you browse your files, each one is displayed on
                 the other panel on the idle time.

     Tree view:  let's you browse your directories by traveling a tree.  
                 We have two traveling modes available.  And the tree does
                 not take your precious time: it's build on the fly, as you
                 browse your disk (you can always loose your time if you
                 want to :-).

     Info view:  Gives you information on the currently select file and
                 the current file system as you move.

     User view:  Let's you define a directory listing and the format you
                 want to use.

- New subshell support (concurrent shell execution)

  The Midnight Commander will now spawn one copy of the shell, so you
  get better performance and you can use shell functions, define variables
  and execute complete shell commands.  Supported shells: bash, zsh and
  tcsh.  If your shell is not supported, then the old mode is still
  available.

- Dialog box manager

  Almost all the new configuration options are configured with this
  new dialog manager, easy to use if you are familiar with dialog boxes
  in DOS and Windows. 

  Available widgets: check buttons, buttons, radio buttons, 
  input lines and list boxes (So you can take our code and use it on
  your applications).

- New option configuration.

  Now the program options are configured with a dialog box.

- Chmod and Chown commands:

  For changing permissions as well as ownership of files and
  directories, uses our new dialog manager.  

- Color customization support

  Now you can change the default color of the program with any of
  these:
  environment variable, Colors section in the init file (colors per 
  terminal type) and command line.

- User menu and extension enhancements:

  Execution understand the %t macro (tagged files). 

  User menu also has a new macro to let the user specify options.

  You can hide and show entries in the user menus by using conditions.

  Auto detect best match depending on a regexp.

- Viewer: 
     Goto line command,
     horizontal scrolling,
     on the fly decompression (and we don't eat unneeded cycles of CPU),
     allow non gunzip operation.

- Internal move command:

  Now, we don't rely anymore on system commands in /bin, so the
  program is more robust and is much faster.  Bunches of code come
  from the GNU fileutils.

- The Tree view and normal views allows wrapped incremental searches of
  file names.

- Mask rename:

  Now it's possible to do things like rename *.pas in *.bak

- Compare directories command

- Allow panels to be in Long mode without forcing the user to a single panel.

  (You can even have two long panels).

- F10, C-g cancels as well as ESC ESC.

- Improved help system.
  
  We updated and spelled the help system and added a lots of links.
  The Web page is constructed with the same tools.

- Allows tagging of directories:

  Now you can copy, rename, move and delete complete directories.  You
  are not limited anymore to files.  

- View output (screen save/restore) on Linux console.

  On old Linux systems, only b&w is supported, on newer Linux systems
  (1.1.67 and newer), we also support color screen save/restore and
  cursor positions.

- 8 bit clean support.

- Visual feedback while i-searching files.

- Much more intuitive, you have to use it.

- It's better than aspirin.

- New memory allocation debugger.

  During testing time, we used a powerful memory allocation debugger,
  so the program will not eat all your memory, and will make a good use of
  your memory.  

- Now it also runs on hppa-hp-hpux9, hppa-hp-hpux7, m68k-apple-aux and
  sparc-sun-netbsd1.0.  The best platform to run it is Linux, of course,
  since that's where most of us develop it.

- Inode sort option.

- Nice progress status indicator.

  We have two of them: a moving dash indicator and a progress bar
  indicator for file operations.

Version 0.15

- Uses GNU autoconf.
   Currently, it has been ported to this configurations:
   i386-*-linux1.0
   i386-*-linux1.1
   mips-sgi-irix5.2
   mips-dec-ultrix4.3
   rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5
   sparc-sun-sunos4.1
   sparc-sun-solaris2.3

- Improvements to the internal file viewer:
   Wrap/Unwrap mode.
   Hex mode.
   Hex searches.
   Now you can view compressed files (gzip, compress, zip, pack and lzh).
   Performance enhancements, now it's much faster.
   Works on systems without mmap.

- Mouse Support now also works on xterms.
   If you run in the Linux console, you will still need the gpm mouse server
   to use the mouse support, but if you use xterms, then you're lucky 
   and can use the mouse support when using xterms.

- Help system and man page.
   Both were updated and has many more hypertext links inside, the
   help system can also be used with a mouse.

- If running on xterms, now you can see the output of the last program
  you ran by using the C-o key combination.

- Switch panels command (C-u)
- With filter command per panel.
- With auto mounting/umounting on chdir feature.
- cd now expands tildes (~, ~user).
- Much more portable.
- Many bugs were fixed.

Version 0.14

- Now can handle directories with an unlimited number of files.
- New link and symlink commands (C-x l, C-x s).
- New insert tagged files or selection command (C-x t).

Version 0.13

- Behave more like the Norton Commander.
- Added menu file edit.
- If there is no permission to load a directory, now it loads a dummy
  directory.
- When a panel is re-sorted, keep the selected file selected.
- forward_word and backward_word command on the input line now skip
  over letters and numbers.
- Fixed backward scrolling in the internal viewer.
- The internal viewer now computes the percentage in a more natural
  way.
- Added handling of the Home and End keys to the internal viewer
- Bug fixes.

Version 0.12

- Preliminary support for System V compilation.
- Bug fix: didn't call closedir in all cases.
- bug fixes.

Version 0.11

- Support cd -.
- Corrected Makefile.

Version 0.10 

- Added new Alt-G, Alt-H, Alt-J to select the top file, middle file
  and bottom file in the current panel.
- Now it's allowed to select option in query boxes by the first initial
- Fixed mouse repeat rate.
- Fixed a bug that prevent copying individual files to another file.
- Some minor bug fixes.

Version 0.9

- Mouse Support.
- Internal Copy command (it no longer uses cp).
- Verbose Copying of files.
- Confirmation on Overwrite and on Delete.
- Support reverse sorting.
- Many visual enhancements.
- Per panel options are saved and restored.
- New truncation of names in the panels.
- History in Input Lines (M-p and M-n).
- Input line enhancements.
- Dialog boxes are nicer than before.
- Cache in gid and uid translators.
- More keybindings for the Input lines.
- Better kill management in Input Lines.
- Bug fixes.

Version 0.8

- The online help now comes with the complete man page.
- Input lines now support M-b and M-f for movement by word.
- Unlimited input lines (command line).
- Filename searches now must be started with C-s or M-s.
- Many bug fixes.

Version 0.7

- The stat() reloading optimization is now a configuration option.
- Many bug fixes went to the find file command.
- New history in the hypertext viewer. 
- ESC-Tab will copy the name of the other-panel selected file to the
  input line.
- Now it's possible to display files and directories mixed together or
  separated (like the Norton Commander).
- Many bug fixes, see the ChangeLog for details.

Version 0.6 

- Extension dependent execution implemented (now you can execute
  things like tar tzvf over compressed tar files, just a tap in the
  Enter key).
- Added simple expansion of useful variables in the user menu.
- Avoid unnecessary reloading of subdirectories using stat (suggested
  by Torben Fjerdingstad <tfj@olivia.ping.dk>).
- Added options to disable colors and display version number.
- Allow start up directory specification (ex: mc /usr/local/bin /tmp).
- Fixed bug that operated on the selection instead of the tagged file
(when only one file was tagged). 
- Some cosmetic changes.
- Bug fixes.

Version 0.5

- Fixed bug in the help browser that crashed the program.
- New internal viewer.
- New long directory listing format.
- some bug fixes.

Version 0.4 

- User Menus (F2 key).
- Quick search of files in a panel (Alt-filename takes you to that file).
- Char quoting (C-q).
- exec() enhancements.
- now you can suspend the program (C-z).
- The find file command now seems to be very stable.
- misc bug fixes.

Version 0.3

- Setup loading/saving.
- Support for any size screen.
- Many, many bug fixes.