1 Changes made after 4.6.0-pre1.
3 - Polish manual has been added.
4 - glib is now properly detected on FreeBSD.
5 - New syntax rules - RPM specfile.
6 - Termnet support has heen removed.
7 - mc now creates its own temporary directory, separate for each user.
12 - Security release. Massive code cleanup. Most improvements didn't
13 need any significant amount of the new code.
16 - Fixes for remotely exploitable buffer overflows in VFS.
19 - GNOME edition has been removed.
20 - OS/2 port has been removed.
21 - MAD (Memory Allocation Debugger) has been removed.
24 - Large file support enabled by default.
25 - Shift-F5 and Shift-F6 copy and rename like F5 and F6, but
26 suggest the selected filename as the destination.
27 - File search with contents doesn't use external egrep.
28 - Directories with many files are now reloaded much faster.
29 - Subshell works under Cygwin.
32 - Improved support for ncurses.
33 - Dropped support for the old Curses library.
34 - Colors are enabled on all capable terminals when using S-Lang.
35 - Syntax highlighting now works with ncurses.
38 - Editor files are now stored in ~/.mc/cedit instead of ~/.cedit
39 to avoid collision with Cooledit.
40 - New syntax rules - PHP, Tcl, SQL, DOS batch file.
41 - Editor supports word completion.
44 - Local temporary file is used for uploading via ftpfs/fish only
45 if file is uploaded to the same ftp/fish server.
46 - mcfs support is disabled by default.
47 - Samba configuration and codepage files locations can be
49 - .netrc support in ftpfs is enabled by default.
50 - Viewing zip files could corrupt them.
53 - Added manuals in Spanish, Italian and Russian.
54 - Help files are not distributed, but generated during the
55 build from the manual pages.
60 - Mostly bugfixes and portability fixes. Making things work as they
63 - Text edition improvements.
64 - Ctrl-O supported in the viewer and editor.
65 - Better terminal support. Should not need "Learn Keys" on rxvt
66 and xterm in most cases.
68 - GNOME edition improvements.
69 - Find dialog rewritten.
70 - Editor and viewer ask whether to save modified file when
71 closed from window manager.
74 - New syntax rules - S-Lang, PO files, Octave.
75 - Alt-B goes to matching bracket.
77 - Portability improvements.
78 - Should compile out-of-box on Cygwin and QNX Neutrino.
79 - Can be compiled by BSD make.
80 - Subshell and VFS code are safer and more portable.
82 - Experimental features (disabled by default).
83 - Charset conversion support.
84 - Large (64-bit) file support on 32-bit systems.
89 - Too many new features to list.
91 - This is the last version to be actively maintained. The GNOME
92 edition is in stabilization and maintenance phase only. A new file
93 manager is being written for the GNOME project.
99 - The bookmark code has been completely revamped and now it supports
100 folders. New format for the hot list file.
101 - It is possible to copy a selected path name into the input line
105 - New built in GUI designer to help developers modify the look
106 of the program at run time (no penalty for users).
107 - Many dialog boxes now work.
108 - Right button now pops up a context sensitive action menu.
109 - Added many visual enhancements.
110 - The Tk edition is not yet finished though.
113 - Now we do background copy and move operations.
114 (you can ftp your files in the background now, for example).
116 - Built in text editor
117 - This is an easy to use text editor with pull-down menus.
118 The features it presently supports are: Block copy, move,
119 delete, cut, paste; key for key undo; file insertion; macro
120 definition; regular expression search and replace (and our
121 own scanf-printf search and replace); shift-arrow MSW-MAC
122 text highlighting (for the Linux console only);
123 insert-overwrite toggle; and an option to pipe text blocks
124 through shell commands like indent.
126 Comes with Emacs keybindings as well.
128 mcedit is a link to mc which bring it up in editor mode.
131 - Many fixes and enhancements, better support for proxy
133 - Now we support both active and passive opens.
134 - Estimated time of arrival for ftp transfers.
136 - Much better support for proxies.
137 - ftp URLs now allow a password to be provided.
139 - ext2fs Undelete File system
140 - Minor enhancements.
143 - Now we flush the tarfs if the tar file has been modified
145 - External File systems:
146 - Speeded up RPM file system.
147 - New LHA file system.
148 - New ARC file system.
149 - New DEB file system (for those users of Debian).
150 - New RAR file system.
151 - Fixed problems with different zipfs.
154 - We get can use a mc file system by using either mc: or mc:// prefixes.
157 - Now we include a program that preprocesses mail if you view it
158 so, you get colored mails in the viewer.
159 - A simple ruler has been implemented (press Alt-r to enable it).
162 - Now you can do hex editions in your files with a single keystroke.
163 (invoke it by using the hex-viewer and then clicking on edit).
166 - Now we can search inside files using a piped grep (particularly
167 interesting to search inside virtual file system: tar files,
168 tar files on remote ftp sites, or searching information on an
172 - Input lines now support control-left, control-right movement on the
176 - We now support extra entries in a given rule with the Include=
180 - Windows NT, Windows 95 by Juan Grigera
181 - OS/2 by Alexander Dong.
184 - Many many many bug fixes and memory leaks have been fixed.
189 - External File system:
190 - Mtools file system works.
191 - New Cpio file system.
192 - New RPM file system.
195 - support for HSC firewall
197 - Lots of subshell fixes
200 - Editing of non-local files works now.
202 - Bunch of bug fixes.
204 - Panelize now works properly.
206 - Can work on Nextstep now.
208 - Windows NT port by Juan Grigera.
210 - Midnight Commander file system server:
211 - Fixed errno handling in the server.
212 - Fixed time handling in the server.
214 - Works with PAM if supported on the system.
218 This has been finished:
221 - Displays progress bars.
222 - Supports Netware and Windows NT servers
223 - Better support for symlinked files.
224 - Handles those warez sites file names.
225 - Increase the directory cache timeout.
226 - Cache flushing (C-r)
227 - If you append a /~ to the directory, you will log into your home
228 directory (this is done by default if you use the menus to connect).
230 - Subshell fixes (it should not hang any longer).
231 - Fixes prompt handling for zsh and tcsh users.
232 - Fixes variable expansion for tcsh (now you may edit files).
233 - Rewrote the sync code between the parent and child, should not hang
235 - Better command completion.
236 - Keypad handling enhanced:
237 - Special key treatment for +, -, \ and now may be configure to
238 only take place if you do not have a command typed in.
239 - Now the + and \ bindings when ran on the Linux console work
240 may use the keypad and M-+ and M-\ and leave the + and \ keys
242 - Better handling of the line drawing chars on OSF/1 and AIX.
243 - Enhanced tar/compressed tar file systems.
245 - Added undelete feature for Linux systems: now you may recover deleted files
246 on ext2 file systems with the Undelete file system.
247 - Symlink commands (for symlink lovers).
248 see the docs on C-x C-r, C-x C-l, C-x C-s keystrokes.
250 %b and %B return the basename of the selected filename
251 %var{ENV-VAR} expands to the contents of ENV-VAR variable.
252 - MC may be invoked as a viewer (mc -f flag).
253 - Added Unicode support on the Linux console (run with mc -N)
254 - Tons of bug fixes, the code is cleaner and hopefully
255 - Allow a vfs pathname to be passed as a startup directory.
257 This is a list of people that put their effort into making the 3.1
260 Adam Tla/lka, Antonio Palama, Carl Thompson, Ching Hui, Dugan Porter, Gerd
261 Knorr, Ilya Rybkin, Jakub Jelinek, Janne Kukonlehto, Juan Grigera, Juan Jose
262 Ciarlante, John Davis, Marcelo Fabian Roccasalva, Perry Francis Nguyen,
263 Sergey Ya Korshunoff Steven Hirsch, Thanh Ma and Torben Fjerdingstad.
267 This has been finished:
269 - Virtual File System: You now can browse tar, compressed tar and
270 file systems over the network as if they were local subdirectories;
271 - Slang support, you don't need ncurses anymore (but you can still compile
272 with ncurses, if you want).
273 - New mc.ext format, for details see the sample mc.ext file provided.
274 - Append option if you try to copy/move a file onto already existing one.
275 - Internal cd command uses CDPATH variable if set (like in BASH).
276 - Find file command is much faster.
277 - External panelize command - finding files using unlimited number of
278 criteria - actually spawns an external command and it can be find, awk,
279 grep -l or anything else.
280 - Learn keys makes setting up of mc on terminals with broken
281 terminfo/termcap databases easier. It just asks you to press keys which
283 - Advanced chown command.
284 - C-PgUp and C-PgDn takes you to the previous and currently selected
285 directory respectively on the Linux console.
286 - You can choose between 7 data bits, iso-latin-1 (0-127+160-255) or
288 - Confirmation for overwriting, deleting and exiting added.
289 - Viewer has growing buffers.
290 - Filename, username, hostname and variable completion (M-Tab) on all
291 input lines plus command completion on appropriate places of command
293 - Following of symlinks at changing directory.
294 - Viewer now supports bold faces and underlines, and it fits the
295 information on the screen better. Now you can also specify the starting
296 mode for the viewer depending on the contents of the viewed file.
297 - Mask rename and copy.
298 - Colors now let you specify the intensity of the colors you want.
300 This is being worked on:
301 - Virtual File System: FTP file system.
302 - Tcl/Tk and XView versions of the program (preliminary versions are
308 Now users are able to define their own display
310 - User defined display formats.
312 Now you can configure the file display to suit your needs.
313 For example, you can say which information you want to see displayed
314 instead of our defaults.
316 - User definable program layout.
318 Panels could be shown vertically or horizontally;
319 panels could be different sizes, you can hide or show most
320 program windows (command line, keybar or menubar).
324 Now, it's possible to see part of the last program output on the Linux
325 console without having to switch screens via an option in the layout
330 Quick view: as you browse your files, each one is displayed on
331 the other panel on the idle time.
333 Tree view: let's you browse your directories by traveling a tree.
334 We have two traveling modes available. And the tree does
335 not take your precious time: it's build on the fly, as you
336 browse your disk (you can always loose your time if you
339 Info view: Gives you information on the currently select file and
340 the current file system as you move.
342 User view: Let's you define a directory listing and the format you
345 - New subshell support (concurrent shell execution)
347 The Midnight Commander will now spawn one copy of the shell, so you
348 get better performance and you can use shell functions, define variables
349 and execute complete shell commands. Supported shells: bash, zsh and
350 tcsh. If your shell is not supported, then the old mode is still
355 Almost all the new configuration options are configured with this
356 new dialog manager, easy to use if you are familiar with dialog boxes
359 Available widgets: check buttons, buttons, radio buttons,
360 input lines and list boxes (So you can take our code and use it on
363 - New option configuration.
365 Now the program options are configured with a dialog box.
367 - Chmod and Chown commands:
369 For changing permissions as well as ownership of files and
370 directories, uses our new dialog manager.
372 - Color customization support
374 Now you can change the default color of the program with any of
376 environment variable, Colors section in the init file (colors per
377 terminal type) and command line.
379 - User menu and extension enhancements:
381 Execution understand the %t macro (tagged files).
383 User menu also has a new macro to let the user specify options.
385 You can hide and show entries in the user menus by using conditions.
387 Auto detect best match depending on a regexp.
391 horizontal scrolling,
392 on the fly decompression (and we don't eat unneeded cycles of CPU),
393 allow non gunzip operation.
395 - Internal move command:
397 Now, we don't rely anymore on system commands in /bin, so the
398 program is more robust and is much faster. Bunches of code come
399 from the GNU fileutils.
401 - The Tree view and normal views allows wrapped incremental searches of
406 Now it's possible to do things like rename *.pas in *.bak
408 - Compare directories command
410 - Allow panels to be in Long mode without forcing the user to a single panel.
412 (You can even have two long panels).
414 - F10, C-g cancels as well as ESC ESC.
416 - Improved help system.
418 We updated and spelled the help system and added a lots of links.
419 The Web page is constructed with the same tools.
421 - Allows tagging of directories:
423 Now you can copy, rename, move and delete complete directories. You
424 are not limited anymore to files.
426 - View output (screen save/restore) on Linux console.
428 On old Linux systems, only b&w is supported, on newer Linux systems
429 (1.1.67 and newer), we also support color screen save/restore and
432 - 8 bit clean support.
434 - Visual feedback while i-searching files.
436 - Much more intuitive, you have to use it.
438 - It's better than aspirin.
440 - New memory allocation debugger.
442 During testing time, we used a powerful memory allocation debugger,
443 so the program will not eat all your memory, and will make a good use of
446 - Now it also runs on hppa-hp-hpux9, hppa-hp-hpux7, m68k-apple-aux and
447 sparc-sun-netbsd1.0. The best platform to run it is Linux, of course,
448 since that's where most of us develop it.
452 - Nice progress status indicator.
454 We have two of them: a moving dash indicator and a progress bar
455 indicator for file operations.
460 Currently, it has been ported to this configurations:
469 - Improvements to the internal file viewer:
473 Now you can view compressed files (gzip, compress, zip, pack and lzh).
474 Performance enhancements, now it's much faster.
475 Works on systems without mmap.
477 - Mouse Support now also works on xterms.
478 If you run in the Linux console, you will still need the gpm mouse server
479 to use the mouse support, but if you use xterms, then you're lucky
480 and can use the mouse support when using xterms.
482 - Help system and man page.
483 Both were updated and has many more hypertext links inside, the
484 help system can also be used with a mouse.
486 - If running on xterms, now you can see the output of the last program
487 you ran by using the C-o key combination.
489 - Switch panels command (C-u)
490 - With filter command per panel.
491 - With auto mounting/umounting on chdir feature.
492 - cd now expands tildes (~, ~user).
493 - Much more portable.
494 - Many bugs were fixed.
498 - Now can handle directories with an unlimited number of files.
499 - New link and symlink commands (C-x l, C-x s).
500 - New insert tagged files or selection command (C-x t).
504 - Behave more like the Norton Commander.
505 - Added menu file edit.
506 - If there is no permission to load a directory, now it loads a dummy
508 - When a panel is re-sorted, keep the selected file selected.
509 - forward_word and backward_word command on the input line now skip
510 over letters and numbers.
511 - Fixed backward scrolling in the internal viewer.
512 - The internal viewer now computes the percentage in a more natural
514 - Added handling of the Home and End keys to the internal viewer
519 - Preliminary support for System V compilation.
520 - Bug fix: didn't call closedir in all cases.
526 - Corrected Makefile.
530 - Added new Alt-G, Alt-H, Alt-J to select the top file, middle file
531 and bottom file in the current panel.
532 - Now it's allowed to select option in query boxes by the first initial
533 - Fixed mouse repeat rate.
534 - Fixed a bug that prevent copying individual files to another file.
535 - Some minor bug fixes.
540 - Internal Copy command (it no longer uses cp).
541 - Verbose Copying of files.
542 - Confirmation on Overwrite and on Delete.
543 - Support reverse sorting.
544 - Many visual enhancements.
545 - Per panel options are saved and restored.
546 - New truncation of names in the panels.
547 - History in Input Lines (M-p and M-n).
548 - Input line enhancements.
549 - Dialog boxes are nicer than before.
550 - Cache in gid and uid translators.
551 - More keybindings for the Input lines.
552 - Better kill management in Input Lines.
557 - The online help now comes with the complete man page.
558 - Input lines now support M-b and M-f for movement by word.
559 - Unlimited input lines (command line).
560 - Filename searches now must be started with C-s or M-s.
565 - The stat() reloading optimization is now a configuration option.
566 - Many bug fixes went to the find file command.
567 - New history in the hypertext viewer.
568 - ESC-Tab will copy the name of the other-panel selected file to the
570 - Now it's possible to display files and directories mixed together or
571 separated (like the Norton Commander).
572 - Many bug fixes, see the ChangeLog for details.
576 - Extension dependent execution implemented (now you can execute
577 things like tar tzvf over compressed tar files, just a tap in the
579 - Added simple expansion of useful variables in the user menu.
580 - Avoid unnecessary reloading of subdirectories using stat (suggested
581 by Torben Fjerdingstad <tfj@olivia.ping.dk>).
582 - Added options to disable colors and display version number.
583 - Allow start up directory specification (ex: mc /usr/local/bin /tmp).
584 - Fixed bug that operated on the selection instead of the tagged file
585 (when only one file was tagged).
586 - Some cosmetic changes.
591 - Fixed bug in the help browser that crashed the program.
592 - New internal viewer.
593 - New long directory listing format.
598 - User Menus (F2 key).
599 - Quick search of files in a panel (Alt-filename takes you to that file).
600 - Char quoting (C-q).
601 - exec() enhancements.
602 - now you can suspend the program (C-z).
603 - The find file command now seems to be very stable.
608 - Setup loading/saving.
609 - Support for any size screen.
610 - Many, many bug fixes.