4 * Minimal required GLib version is 2.8 (#1980)
5 * Reorganizing of directory structure (#1866)
6 * States of all 'Find File' dialog checkboxes are saved in user configuration file (#1874, #1965)
7 * New file type bindings:
8 - viewing .lyx with lyxcat, opening with lyx (#1693)
11 * Small reorganizing (#1931)
14 * Some simple optimization of syntax highlighting engine (#1843)
15 * New editor action 'Mark all', new keybind EditMarkAll (#1945)
16 * Changed default for 'Cursor beyond EOL', now it switched off by default (#1946)
17 * Changed default color pair for 'editbold' (search result) to be more sensible (#1559).
20 * Lots of code cleanup (#1780, #1915, #1990)
21 * Removed obsolete checks in configuration scripts (#262, #1932)
22 * Documentation updates
26 * MC won't compile on Solaris due to undefined constant NAME_MAX (#1943)
27 * MC won't compile on AIX (#1957)
28 * Missing includes (#1930)
29 * Missing printf format (#1960)
30 * Memory and file descriptors leaks (#1953)
31 * Small error in versioning (#1905)
32 * Segfault in input line history (#1936)
33 * MC crashes on exit when using C locale (#1942)
34 * Assertion failed for g_array_free (#1954)
35 * Broken transparency if MC is built with NCurses (#1657)
36 * Selections not visible on monochrome terminals (#1972)
37 * Colors of visible inactive menu (#1702)
38 * Incorrect input line length in 'Edit symlink' dialog window (#1955)
39 * Unquoted shell variables in used menus (#1967)
40 * Incorrecy movement in last line in editor (moving cursor to the empty last line) (#1956)
41 * Incorrect editor lock files check (#1935)
42 * Segfault at try of edit (F4) archives with utf-8 names (x86_64 specified) (#1982)
43 * Viewer in QuickView mode corrupts screen (#1918, #1944)
44 * MC crashes if file name in archves contain '@' symbol (#1605)
45 * deba and debd VFS: items from DEBIAN directory are not accessible (#1920)
46 * Samba is not built with tcc (#1933)
47 * Incorrect conditional compilation of mcserver (#1925)
53 * Fixed double free of memory in editor;
54 * Fixed build with --disable-vfs option;
55 * Fixed compile warnings about unused variables;
56 * Fixed Fedora/RH RPM versioning scheme.
63 * Removed charset confirmation on startup and added the automatic recognize
64 of system charset (#1613)
65 * Some startup speed up (#1781)
66 * Save flags of select/unselet file group (#1776)
67 * Don't set TOSTOP attribute on slave terminal (#1637)
68 * Keybindings for button bars (F1-F10 keys) (#212)
69 * Keybindings for Tree widget
70 * Enlarged sizes of Directory Tree dialog window
71 * Added missed esc sequencies for qansi terminals (#1803)
72 * New file type bindings:
73 + adeed mkv, 3gp video types
74 + use exif(1) output when viewing jpeg files
75 + opening .chm with kchmviewer with fallback to xchm
76 + viewing .mo files with msgunfmt
80 * FISH: add the user name to the ssh command line only if it's not the same as
81 the local logged-in user (#1867)
82 * FTP: support active mode (#1796)
83 * FTP: improved symlink handling
84 * FTP: some FTP-servers don't have chmon support. Ignore FTP errors related
85 to chmod operations (#1708)
86 * EXTFS: added S3 backend by Jakob Kemi (#272)
87 * SFS: use single script for RPM and SRPM packets handling (#1590)
91 * New syntax files: Cabal
92 * Updated syntax files: Python, PHP
93 * Syntax highlighting: added '.hh' and '.hpp' file extensions as C++ sources
97 * Lots of code cleanup and optimization
98 * Workaround for SunStudio compiler bug #6888373 (#1749)
99 * Removed obsolete checks in configuration scripts
100 * Allow save empty value in history (#1814)
101 * Use ctrl-g instead of ctrl-c for SIGINT signal (#1876).
102 * RPM spec: rewritten and simplified static build procedure for legacy distros (#1848)
103 * Translation updated
104 * Documentation updates
105 * Added skin: darker color style (#1659)
109 * Memory and file descriptors leaks
110 * Crash on start if ~/.mc/panels.ini contains incorrect value of 'sort_order' key (#1790)
111 * MC aborts when ctrl-c is pressed (#1793)
112 * Build w/o internal editor (#1826)
113 * Compilation warings of --disable-nls and --disable-charset options (#1831)
114 * Incorrect handling of '--with-search-engine' configure option (#1396)
115 * Segmentation fault when search in different encodings (#1858)
116 * C-w does not delete whole command line (#407)
117 * Wrong shortcuts in menu items (#1836)
118 * Panels state saves and restores despite disabled 'Auto save setup' (#1663)
119 * Case insensitive file sorting in UTF-8 locales (#1536)
120 * Incorrect handling of 0xFF char that is valid char in CP1251 locale (#1883)
121 * Segfault in TreeView loading (#1794)
122 * Incorect stat info of ".." directory in file panel (#1757)
123 * Incorect stat info of ".." directory in info panel (#1757)
124 * Setting "Use passive mode over proxy" is not remembered (#1746)
125 * CK_Edit_Save_Mode command handling in editor (#1810)
126 * Incorrect calculation of some utf-8 characters width (#1768)
127 * Handling CJK chars in editor (#1628)
128 * Incorrect cursor positioning in editor (#1809, #1884)
129 * Vertical block handling in editor (#1839)
130 * Incorrect text scrolling in editor (#1877)
131 * Incorrect mouse movement in editor when text scrolled to the right (#1792)
132 * Newlines are lost when pasting multiline text in editor (#1710)
133 * Mismatched hotkeys EditBeginRecordMacro, EditEndRecordMacro in editor
134 * Mismatched hotkeys EditBeginningOfText, EditEndOfText, EditBeginPage, EditEndPage (#1724)
135 * Some syntax files are not installable (#1779)
136 * Date & time insertion in editor (#1759)
137 * "Matches not found" message is not shown in viewer
138 * Hangup after search in archive in viewer (#1873)
139 * SFS: CPIO VFS skips empty directories in the root of archive (#1732)
140 * Incorrect parsing FTP-string (#1605)
141 * LZMA files detect (#1798)
142 * FISH: broken filenames and timestamps on really poor busybox devices (#1450)
143 * Minor mistakes and mistypes in man files
144 * Various doxygen warnings
151 * Added feature of sort files by mouse click on column header
152 * Added keybindings to change files sort type via shortcuts
153 (PanelSelectSortOrder, PanelToggleSortOrderPrev, PanelToggleSortOrderNext,
154 PanelReverseSort, PanelSortOrderByName, PanelSortOrderByExt,
155 PanelSortOrderBySize, PanelSortOrderByMTime)
156 * Now the letter of sort type and sort direction is always drawn in panel
157 header (direction of sort is drown near the current sort column in long
159 * Skin-files: added new parameters 'sort-sign-up' and 'sort-sign-down' in
160 the section '[widget-common]' to draw sign of sort direction
161 * Added option 'extensions_case' in filehighlight.ini file.
162 * Menu engine was reimplemented: 1) now menu is build dynamically, 2)
163 shortcut displayed in menu item is not a part of menu item text and it is
164 synchronized with keybinding defined in mc.keymap file (#1563).
168 * Fixed view *.tar files with a colon in name
169 * Allow 'exit' command on non-local filesystems
170 * Added partial support of Microsoft CAB-archives
171 * Added support of ico files
172 * Added support of *.djvu files
173 * Fix segfaults in various cases while browsing various VFSs
174 * Fixed warnings when file copy inside archive.
178 * Added scrolled percentage in status bar (only in "simple statusbar" mode)
179 * Fixed Misbehaving rectangular select in editor (wrong when selected from
180 right to left and/or bottom to top)
181 * Split editor menu 'Command' to 'Command' and 'Format'
182 * Added option 'Check POSIX new line' into 'Save mode...' dialog, add notification
183 before save when no newline at EOF (#46)
184 * Added bindings ('EditShiftBlockLeft', 'EditShiftBlockRight') for shift block
185 * Fixed incorrect drawing CJK (double width) character
189 * Fixed tabs alignment (#1664)
190 * Fixed view of next/prev file (#1750)
194 * Shared clipboard for the mc editor, form fields, panel and command prompt
195 * Refactoring: now all filename constants are placed in src/fileloc.h file
196 * Testing & development: added ability for change user config dir. For example,
197 type make CFLAGS='-DMC_USERCONF_DIR=\".mc2\"'
198 * Changed Alt+Backspace behavior in command line
202 * Fixed broken building under uclibc <0.9.29
203 * Autoindent regression
204 * Viewer Hex editor regression
205 * Incorrect indentation block when selecting with F3 + keys
206 * Fixed ownership of config files
207 * Configure.ac: fix broken check of option '--disable-vfs-undelfs'
208 * Learn keys: fixed incorrect save of keys configuration
209 * Fixed bug with 'The shell is already running a command'
210 * Fixed 'B' artefact into OpenSuse console of root user
217 * removed own popt stuff (command line options parser). Now used glib parser
218 * added feature for filenames highlighting in panels
219 * Copy/Move overwrite query dialog is more friendly for long file names
220 * at first run find file dialog now contain latest item from history
221 * charset support enabled by default (--enable-charset option)
222 * added support of skins
223 * added support of key bindings
227 * fixed recognize of tar.xz archives
228 * added recognize of lzma archives by extention
232 * 'Save as' dialog enhancement: select line break type: Windows/UNIX/Mac
234 * syntax hightlighting updated: VerilogHDL, Shell script
235 * Added syntax highlighting for *.repo files of yum
236 * Added syntax highlighting of pacman's PKGBUILD and .install files
240 * Fixed showing Windows/Mac (CR LF/CR) line terminator
244 * hotlist: support for environment variables ($HOME, ~username, etc.)
245 * hotlist: support for completion in path input
246 * all list widgets: support for fast navigation by number keys (i.e. 1 -
247 first list item, 2 - second)
251 * restored action of 'ctrl-t' keybinding (mark files&dirs). For selecting
253 * segfault on incorrect color pair in [Color] section
254 * incorrect position of panel codeset dialog
255 * limit of 9 digits for of file size display
256 * lines drawing in -a stickchars mode
257 * segfault when you try to use non-anonymous FTP
258 * Ctrl-O handling under GNU Screen in altscreen mode
259 * support of CP866 (IBM866) locale
260 * configure.ac: checking for minimal version of glib and exit if version less
262 * segfault by mouse wheel action in history list and menu
263 * Fixed behvior with Meta+PgDn? in editor
264 * Fixed behvior with cursor movement by Ctrl+arrows when cursor besides EOL
265 * Fixed editor autocompleting
266 * Fixed Copy/Move dialogs steal Kill Word shortcut
267 * Fixed autoconf issue when configure with --with-gpm-mouse option
274 * cycle menu navigation
275 * change behaviour of C-space, now it calculate size on "..", and for selected
276 dirs if there is one.
277 * new find file option: find only first hit in file (make search faster)
278 * new find file option: Whole words - find whole words only
283 * FTPFS: support of IPv6 protocol
284 * extfs/iso9660 updated to support Joliet "UCS level 1"
288 * new search/replace flag added "In selection"
289 * new hotkeys for bookmarks, now bookmark displayed in state line and editor
290 * new cursor behavior. Option "Cursor beyond end of line" - allow moving cursor
291 beyond the end of line
292 * new syntax hightlights added: erlang, ebuild, named, strace, j
293 * syntax hightlights updated: mail, vhdl, html
297 * Reworked for improve perfomance
298 * Implemented interruptable long-distance movements
299 * splitted src/view.[ch] into many files in src/viewer/ subdir for more simple
301 * fixed build of format string in runtime (for better i18n)
302 * add 'Whole words' option into the viewer 'Search' dialog
306 * new option mouse_close_dialog, if mouse_close_dialog=1 click on outside the
308 * new: SI-based size show
309 * make shared history for find file, editor search/replace, viever
313 * linking error with --enable-vfs-undelfs
314 * external editor won't open if there are spaces in EDITOR variable
315 * C-c kill mc if mc built with --without-subshell option is run with -d option
316 * directory hotlist rendering
317 * segfault on empty replace string
318 * fixes for vfs/tarfs
319 * removing bashizm from vfs/extfs/u7z
320 * crash mc on create new file (Shift-F4) in external editor
321 * File copy/move dialog: in replacement field now handled asterisks as search groups
322 * VFS: Fixed SIGSERV(or heap corruption) on large filenames
323 * Fixed broken backward search
324 * Fixed uninitialised value for mouse event in in find.c#check_find_events() function
325 * Fixed ctrl+z signal handling
326 * Fixed incorrect showing prompt
327 * Fixed incorrect vertical selection (if line state swiched on)
328 * Fixed screen resize handle if mouse support is disabled
329 * Restore correct current directory after switch from Info panel to List one
330 * Fixed mouse support in 'konsole-256color' terminal
331 * Fixed keycodes in 'xterm-256color' terminal
332 * Fixed incorrect regexp search by content in 'file find' dialog
333 * Fixed incorrect backwards search
334 * Fixed incorrect detection of compressed patchfs
335 * Fixed incorrect detecting codeset when <no translation> codeset selected
342 * native UTF-8 support
343 * filenames charset selection support in panels
344 * new 'Find File' dialog
345 * new unified search/replace engine with search types: Plain, Wildcard, Regexp, Hex
346 * extended learn keys
347 * locale based codepage autodetection
348 * initial support for doxygen generated docs
349 * refresh of autoconf stuff
350 * translation updates
355 * various editor enchancements (vertical block marking/moving/copy/paste)
356 * navigate across source code through ctags/etags TAGS file
357 * new option 'Persistent selection'
358 * Del/Backspace - delete selected block if 'Persistent selection' switched off
359 * shift block right with TAB key by TAB size or TAB symbol, shift block left with COMPLETE key
360 if 'Persistent selection' switched off
361 * optional showing of line numbers
362 * various syntax files updates
363 * optional highlighting of the tabs and trailing spaces
368 * showing of the free space on current file system
369 * showing of the size selected files in mini-status bar
373 * editor's undo fixes
374 * many fixes from other distributions are included
375 * fish handling for symlinks is fixed
376 * escaping of fancy names is fixed
377 * segfault in fish permission checks is fixed
378 * various mc.ext fixes
379 * commandline completion fixes (mainly, escaping hadling)
380 * small fixes in history handling (locale independent .mc/history entries)
381 * code cleanups, various memleak/etc fixes (many thanks to valgrind)
387 - Changed HQ url to point to new website
388 www.midnight-commander.org (Closes: #137, #138)
389 - Added a micro helper library in order to go slowly
390 avay from glib (Closes: #157)
391 - Use static strings as section entries in ~/.mc/history
392 WARNING!: This will break old files (Closes: #50)
393 - Fixed a repaint issue when clicking on the "View" Button instead
394 of using F3 (Closes: #35)
395 - Removed obsolete autoconf macros (Closes: #133)
396 - Fix escaping for command line completion (Closes: #147)
397 - prevent mc from segfaulting when getting invalid timestamps on files (Closes: #96)
398 - Fixed a keybord issue when running mc via a putty console (Closes: #203)
399 - setted pty fd to closeonexec (on subshell) (Closes: #174)
400 - Fixed file renames, when copying/moving is performed
401 into deleted directories. (Closes: #181)
402 - Add an option to show executables first in the panels (Closes: #173)
403 - Fixed concat_dir_and_file if there is a parameter = NULL (Closes: #180)
404 - Allow out-of-tree builds (Closes: #224, #208)
407 - Syntax highlighting for:
408 + debian files (debian/changelog, debian/control, debian/copyright, ..) (Closes: #142)
409 + updated sh syntax highlighting (Closes: #143)
410 + updated pascal syntax highlighting (Closes: #65)
411 + differentiate between c and cpp files for highlighting (Closes: #16)
412 + updated python highlighting to support python 2.6 (Closes: #216)
413 - Removed some unneeded variables (Closes: #168, #151)
414 - Do use a ro test if a file exists (Closes: #206)
415 - Fixes some missbehaviour in regex matching (Closes: #207, #211 )
416 + start at front of line and not on cursor position
417 + . shouldn't match a newline
420 - Fix some bashisms in some extfs scripts (Closes: #146)
421 - Fixed various problems with symlinks and files with chars which needs
422 escaping over fish (Closes: #10, #87, #149, #53)
423 - Added 7zip extfs descriptor (Closes: #92)
424 - Switched from o3totxt to odf2txt as o3totxt is outdated (Closes: #218)
427 - Updated german translation (Closes: #167)
428 - New Belarussian translation (Closes: #170)
429 - Updated russian translation (Closes: #159)
434 - Prompt the user whether to detach a hardlinked file
435 in "Quick save" mode.
436 - Fix a bug which prevented the editor from creating a
437 lock file in certain scenarios (bug #13673).
438 - New shortcut - Ctrl+S. Allows the user to toggle
440 - Allow the user to override the automatic syntax
442 - Duplicate hotkey fixes.
445 - extfs: Do not hang waiting for user input on password
446 protected .rar archives.
447 - extfs: Do not leave stale temporary files.
448 - extfs: Add support for ALZip archives.
449 - extfs: Properly retrieve the filesize of very large
450 files stored inside a .zip archive.
451 - extfs: Various quoting fixes.
452 - extfs: Various improvements in deb, iso9660, mailfs, rpm, trpm.
454 - fish: Fix uploading of files with backtick characters in
456 - fish: Improve upload speed.
457 - fish: Allow for retrieving files larger than 2 GB.
458 - fish: Enable reget functionality.
459 - fish: Use numerical uid/gid when retrieving the directory
462 - ftpfs: Allow for entering non-readable directories.
463 - ftpfs: Allow the user to interrupt the connection establishment.
464 - ftpfs: Enable reget functionality.
465 - ftpfs: `first_cd_then_ls' is the default mode for retrieving
466 directory contents now.
468 - tarfs: Add support for long filenames as stored in
469 ustar format archives.
470 - tarfs: Allow for working with archives conforming to
471 POSIX.1-2001 standard
476 - Core functionality.
477 - Bash < 2.05b no longer supported. For usage with bash < 2.05b fix
478 subshell_name_quote() to use 3-digit octals.
482 - Core functionality.
483 - Device numbers are displayed correctly.
484 - Improved message formatting for i18n.
485 - Recursive option added for internal grep.
488 - Almost completely rewritten internal viewer.
489 - mmap(2) support removed from internal viewer.
492 - Fixed device number handling.
493 - zipfs can handle zip files that contain pathnames starting
495 - Passive FTP over proxies is possible.
498 - Code cleanup in various places
503 - Core functionality.
504 - Fix double free in mc_maybe_editor_or_viewer().
505 - Do not blindly cleanup in exit_subshell().
506 - Fix blocking of panel cd-ing with white space command.
507 - Fix mini status after first Ctrl-O.
508 - Fix dynamic loading of Photon library for shift keys.
514 - Added configuration files for Sun Solaris pkgmk(1).
517 - Fix position save bug.
519 - Improve makefile.syntax.
520 - Improve python.syntax.
521 - Improve eiffel.syntax.
522 - Improve syntax.syntax.
525 - Add .7z archives extensions to mc.ext.in.
526 - Add OpenOffice.org 2 extensions to mc.ext.in.
527 - Recognize both .udeb and .deb as Debian packages.
530 - Backport S-Lang fixes from HEAD.
533 - Extensive samba cleanup.
534 - Fix possible crash on broken cpio archives.
535 - Quote fixes in urar.in.
538 - Updated translations: German.
539 - Updated translations: Italian.
544 - Core functionality.
545 - Fix X11 connection handling.
548 - Add syntax file for the x86 assembler.
549 - Add syntax file for the Vision(tm) Ray Tracer.
550 - Add syntax file for the CORBA IDL.
551 - Add syntax file for the LUA programming language.
556 - Core functionality.
557 - Improve support for tcsh.
560 - Updated translations: Spain.
565 Release candidate for 4.6.1.
568 - Fixed CAN-2004-0226 (buffer overflows).
569 - Fixed CAN-2004-0231 (unsafe temporary file and directory creation).
570 - Fixed CAN-2004-0232 (format string vulnerablities).
571 - cons.saver does not need to be setuid-root on Linux.
572 - Hiding of FTP passwords.
575 - PC port has been removed.
576 - Support for SCO UNIX has been removed.
577 - Improve support for QNX Neutrino.
579 - Core functionality.
580 - Use 8bit input as default.
581 - Better support for '@' in FTP usernames.
582 - Better large file support (int -> off_t)
583 - Add gnome, rxvt and xterm-new terminals (keyword copy for mc.lib).
584 - Make the find dialog more responsive while scanning through large files.
585 - Add implementation to cons.handler for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x.
586 - Screen saving is now supported on FreeBSD console.
587 - Hide temporary commands from history.
588 - Add --with-glib12 option to configure to force using glib 1.2.x.
589 - Add --disable-background option to disable background support.
590 - Background support now uses pipes instead of UNIX sockets.
591 - libX11 is loaded dynamically using gmodule if possible.
592 - User is warned if one mc is run from another.
595 - Add many boundary check into internal slang library.
596 - Internal slang upgrade to 1.4.9.
597 - Increased maximum screen size to 512 x 512.
598 - Add support for qansi-m terminals.
601 - Fix bugs for mcedit compiled with ncurses.
602 - New status string format in mcedit.
603 - Support for large syntax files.
604 - Temporarily disable safe save and backups on remote VFS
605 because it doesn't work.
606 - Enable user menu in mcedit.
607 - Add syntax file for the ASP.NET technology.
608 - Add syntax file for the Eiffel programming language.
609 - Add syntax file for the Ruby programming language.
610 - Add syntax file for the C# programming language.
611 - Upgrade php.syntax file.
612 - Improve sql.syntax file.
613 - Improve perl.syntax.
614 - Improve diff.syntax.
615 - Improve makefile.syntax.
616 - Add "define" keyword for syntax files.
619 - Full audit of quoting of parameters in vfs scripts (CAN-2004-0494).
620 - Fixed CAN-2003-1023 (stack overflow in vfs_s_resolve_symlink).
621 - Various fixes in tar.c.
622 - VFS supports iso9660 images.
625 - New translations: Mongolian, Serbian and Lithuanian.
626 - Updated translations: Ukrainian, Italian, Hungarian.
631 - Core functionality.
632 - Fixed infinite loop under xterm if xterm is forcedly closed.
635 - ncurses can be found even if it's renamed to curses (OpenBSD).
636 - Warning fixes for 64-bit systems.
641 Another release candidate for 4.6.0.
643 - Core functionality.
644 - ".." is no longer shown in the root directory.
645 - Fixed segmentation fault when processing truncated
646 section header in the corrupted initialization file.
649 - Fixed incorrect processing of AltGr on Linux console
653 - Fixed a bug in man2hlp that could randomly prevent correct
654 generation of the help files.
655 - Added manual page for mcview.
660 Release candidate for 4.6.0.
663 - mc now creates its own temporary directory /tmp/mc-$USER.
664 If it fails or permissions are wrong, the user is warned.
667 - mc now complies with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard and
668 uses @prefix@/share/mc for the data files.
669 - Support for glib 2.0.x has been added.
670 - glib 1.2 is now properly detected on FreeBSD.
672 - Core functionality.
673 - Fixed segmentation fault when displaying messages from
674 background operations.
675 - When using support for setting the last working directory of
676 mc in the parent shell, "mc" is now an alias in all shells,
677 not a function. The "-P" option needs an argument now.
678 - Alt-O sets the same directory on the other panel.
679 - Current directory is shown in the xterm window title.
682 - Screen library is now selected by the option --with-screen.
683 - X11 support is enabled by default, use --without-x to disable.
684 - The keycode now contains information about all screen
685 modifiers. This allows to implement more shortcuts, but this
687 - Included S-Lang library has been updated to version 1.4.5.
688 - Mouse wheel is supported in the internal editor and viewer in
689 xterm compatible terminals that implement wheel events.
692 - Internal editor now saves the cursor position in the file.
693 - New syntax rules - RPM specfile, m4.
694 - Editor shows control characters in the caret notation.
697 - Most extfs scripts have been reviewed and improved.
698 - Fixed viewing and editing files on mcfs.
699 - Support for termnet and HSC firewall has been removed.
702 - Polish manual has been added.
706 - Security release. Massive code cleanup. Most improvements didn't
707 need any significant amount of the new code.
710 - Fixes for remotely exploitable buffer overflows in VFS.
712 - Ports and editions.
713 - GNOME edition has been removed.
714 - OS/2 port has been removed.
715 - MAD (Memory Allocation Debugger) has been removed.
717 - Core functionality.
718 - Large file support enabled by default.
719 - Shift-F5 and Shift-F6 copy and rename like F5 and F6, but
720 suggest the selected filename as the destination.
721 - File search with contents doesn't use external egrep.
722 - Directories with many files are now reloaded much faster.
723 - Subshell works under Cygwin.
726 - Improved support for ncurses.
727 - Dropped support for the old Curses library.
728 - Colors are enabled on all capable terminals when using S-Lang.
729 - Syntax highlighting now works with ncurses.
732 - Editor files are now stored in ~/.mc/cedit instead of ~/.cedit
733 to avoid collision with Cooledit.
734 - New syntax rules - PHP, Tcl, SQL, DOS batch file.
735 - Editor supports word completion.
738 - Local temporary file is used for uploading via ftpfs/fish only
739 if file is uploaded to the same ftp/fish server.
740 - mcfs support is disabled by default.
741 - Samba configuration and codepage files locations can be
743 - .netrc support in ftpfs is enabled by default.
744 - Viewing zip files could corrupt them.
747 - Added manuals in Spanish, Italian and Russian.
748 - Help files are not distributed, but generated during the
749 build from the manual pages.
752 - Belarussian translation has been added.
757 - Mostly bugfixes and portability fixes. Making things work as they
760 - Text edition improvements.
761 - Ctrl-O supported in the viewer and editor.
762 - Better terminal support. Should not need "Learn Keys" on rxvt
763 and xterm in most cases.
765 - GNOME edition improvements.
766 - Find dialog rewritten.
767 - Editor and viewer ask whether to save modified file when
768 closed from window manager.
771 - New syntax rules - S-Lang, PO files, Octave.
772 - Alt-B goes to matching bracket.
774 - Portability improvements.
775 - Should compile out-of-box on Cygwin and QNX Neutrino.
776 - Can be compiled by BSD make.
777 - Subshell and VFS code are safer and more portable.
779 - Experimental features (disabled by default).
780 - Charset conversion support.
781 - Large (64-bit) file support on 32-bit systems.
786 - Too many new features to list.
788 - This is the last version to be actively maintained. The GNOME
789 edition is in stabilization and maintenance phase only. A new file
790 manager is being written for the GNOME project.
796 - The bookmark code has been completely revamped and now it supports
797 folders. New format for the hot list file.
798 - It is possible to copy a selected path name into the input line
802 - New built in GUI designer to help developers modify the look
803 of the program at run time (no penalty for users).
804 - Many dialog boxes now work.
805 - Right button now pops up a context sensitive action menu.
806 - Added many visual enhancements.
807 - The Tk edition is not yet finished though.
810 - Now we do background copy and move operations.
811 (you can ftp your files in the background now, for example).
813 - Built in text editor
814 - This is an easy to use text editor with pull-down menus.
815 The features it presently supports are: Block copy, move,
816 delete, cut, paste; key for key undo; file insertion; macro
817 definition; regular expression search and replace (and our
818 own scanf-printf search and replace); shift-arrow MSW-MAC
819 text highlighting (for the Linux console only);
820 insert-overwrite toggle; and an option to pipe text blocks
821 through shell commands like indent.
823 Comes with Emacs keybindings as well.
825 mcedit is a link to mc which bring it up in editor mode.
828 - Many fixes and enhancements, better support for proxy
830 - Now we support both active and passive opens.
831 - Estimated time of arrival for ftp transfers.
833 - Much better support for proxies.
834 - ftp URLs now allow a password to be provided.
836 - ext2fs Undelete File system
837 - Minor enhancements.
840 - Now we flush the tarfs if the tar file has been modified
842 - External File systems:
843 - Speeded up RPM file system.
844 - New LHA file system.
845 - New ARC file system.
846 - New DEB file system (for those users of Debian).
847 - New RAR file system.
848 - Fixed problems with different zipfs.
851 - We get can use a mc file system by using either mc: or mc:// prefixes.
854 - Now we include a program that preprocesses mail if you view it
855 so, you get colored mails in the viewer.
856 - A simple ruler has been implemented (press Alt-r to enable it).
859 - Now you can do hex editions in your files with a single keystroke.
860 (invoke it by using the hex-viewer and then clicking on edit).
863 - Now we can search inside files using a piped grep (particularly
864 interesting to search inside virtual file system: tar files,
865 tar files on remote ftp sites, or searching information on an
869 - Input lines now support control-left, control-right movement on the
873 - We now support extra entries in a given rule with the Include=
877 - Windows NT, Windows 95 by Juan Grigera
878 - OS/2 by Alexander Dong.
881 - Many many many bug fixes and memory leaks have been fixed.
886 - External File system:
887 - Mtools file system works.
888 - New Cpio file system.
889 - New RPM file system.
892 - support for HSC firewall
894 - Lots of subshell fixes
897 - Editing of non-local files works now.
899 - Bunch of bug fixes.
901 - Panelize now works properly.
903 - Can work on Nextstep now.
905 - Windows NT port by Juan Grigera.
907 - Midnight Commander file system server:
908 - Fixed errno handling in the server.
909 - Fixed time handling in the server.
911 - Works with PAM if supported on the system.
915 This has been finished:
918 - Displays progress bars.
919 - Supports Netware and Windows NT servers
920 - Better support for symlinked files.
921 - Handles those warez sites file names.
922 - Increase the directory cache timeout.
923 - Cache flushing (C-r)
924 - If you append a /~ to the directory, you will log into your home
925 directory (this is done by default if you use the menus to connect).
927 - Subshell fixes (it should not hang any longer).
928 - Fixes prompt handling for zsh and tcsh users.
929 - Fixes variable expansion for tcsh (now you may edit files).
930 - Rewrote the sync code between the parent and child, should not hang
932 - Better command completion.
933 - Keypad handling enhanced:
934 - Special key treatment for +, -, \ and now may be configure to
935 only take place if you do not have a command typed in.
936 - Now the + and \ bindings when ran on the Linux console work
937 may use the keypad and M-+ and M-\ and leave the + and \ keys
939 - Better handling of the line drawing chars on OSF/1 and AIX.
940 - Enhanced tar/compressed tar file systems.
942 - Added undelete feature for Linux systems: now you may recover deleted files
943 on ext2 file systems with the Undelete file system.
944 - Symlink commands (for symlink lovers).
945 see the docs on C-x C-r, C-x C-l, C-x C-s keystrokes.
947 %b and %B return the basename of the selected filename
948 %var{ENV-VAR} expands to the contents of ENV-VAR variable.
949 - MC may be invoked as a viewer (mc -f flag).
950 - Added Unicode support on the Linux console (run with mc -N)
951 - Tons of bug fixes, the code is cleaner and hopefully
952 - Allow a vfs pathname to be passed as a startup directory.
954 This is a list of people that put their effort into making the 3.1
957 Adam Tla/lka, Antonio Palama, Carl Thompson, Ching Hui, Dugan Porter, Gerd
958 Knorr, Ilya Rybkin, Jakub Jelinek, Janne Kukonlehto, Juan Grigera, Juan Jose
959 Ciarlante, John Davis, Marcelo Fabian Roccasalva, Perry Francis Nguyen,
960 Sergey Ya Korshunoff Steven Hirsch, Thanh Ma and Torben Fjerdingstad.
964 This has been finished:
966 - Virtual File System: You now can browse tar, compressed tar and
967 file systems over the network as if they were local subdirectories;
968 - Slang support, you don't need ncurses anymore (but you can still compile
969 with ncurses, if you want).
970 - New mc.ext format, for details see the sample mc.ext file provided.
971 - Append option if you try to copy/move a file onto already existing one.
972 - Internal cd command uses CDPATH variable if set (like in BASH).
973 - Find file command is much faster.
974 - External panelize command - finding files using unlimited number of
975 criteria - actually spawns an external command and it can be find, awk,
976 grep -l or anything else.
977 - Learn keys makes setting up of mc on terminals with broken
978 terminfo/termcap databases easier. It just asks you to press keys which
980 - Advanced chown command.
981 - C-PgUp and C-PgDn takes you to the previous and currently selected
982 directory respectively on the Linux console.
983 - You can choose between 7 data bits, iso-latin-1 (0-127+160-255) or
985 - Confirmation for overwriting, deleting and exiting added.
986 - Viewer has growing buffers.
987 - Filename, username, hostname and variable completion (M-Tab) on all
988 input lines plus command completion on appropriate places of command
990 - Following of symlinks at changing directory.
991 - Viewer now supports bold faces and underlines, and it fits the
992 information on the screen better. Now you can also specify the starting
993 mode for the viewer depending on the contents of the viewed file.
994 - Mask rename and copy.
995 - Colors now let you specify the intensity of the colors you want.
997 This is being worked on:
998 - Virtual File System: FTP file system.
999 - Tcl/Tk and XView versions of the program (preliminary versions are
1005 Now users are able to define their own display
1007 - User defined display formats.
1009 Now you can configure the file display to suit your needs.
1010 For example, you can say which information you want to see displayed
1011 instead of our defaults.
1013 - User definable program layout.
1015 Panels could be shown vertically or horizontally;
1016 panels could be different sizes, you can hide or show most
1017 program windows (command line, keybar or menubar).
1021 Now, it's possible to see part of the last program output on the Linux
1022 console without having to switch screens via an option in the layout
1027 Quick view: as you browse your files, each one is displayed on
1028 the other panel on the idle time.
1030 Tree view: let's you browse your directories by traveling a tree.
1031 We have two traveling modes available. And the tree does
1032 not take your precious time: it's build on the fly, as you
1033 browse your disk (you can always loose your time if you
1036 Info view: Gives you information on the currently select file and
1037 the current file system as you move.
1039 User view: Let's you define a directory listing and the format you
1042 - New subshell support (concurrent shell execution)
1044 The Midnight Commander will now spawn one copy of the shell, so you
1045 get better performance and you can use shell functions, define variables
1046 and execute complete shell commands. Supported shells: bash, zsh and
1047 tcsh. If your shell is not supported, then the old mode is still
1050 - Dialog box manager
1052 Almost all the new configuration options are configured with this
1053 new dialog manager, easy to use if you are familiar with dialog boxes
1056 Available widgets: check buttons, buttons, radio buttons,
1057 input lines and list boxes (So you can take our code and use it on
1060 - New option configuration.
1062 Now the program options are configured with a dialog box.
1064 - Chmod and Chown commands:
1066 For changing permissions as well as ownership of files and
1067 directories, uses our new dialog manager.
1069 - Color customization support
1071 Now you can change the default color of the program with any of
1073 environment variable, Colors section in the init file (colors per
1074 terminal type) and command line.
1076 - User menu and extension enhancements:
1078 Execution understand the %t macro (tagged files).
1080 User menu also has a new macro to let the user specify options.
1082 You can hide and show entries in the user menus by using conditions.
1084 Auto detect best match depending on a regexp.
1088 horizontal scrolling,
1089 on the fly decompression (and we don't eat unneeded cycles of CPU),
1090 allow non gunzip operation.
1092 - Internal move command:
1094 Now, we don't rely anymore on system commands in /bin, so the
1095 program is more robust and is much faster. Bunches of code come
1096 from the GNU fileutils.
1098 - The Tree view and normal views allows wrapped incremental searches of
1103 Now it's possible to do things like rename *.pas in *.bak
1105 - Compare directories command
1107 - Allow panels to be in Long mode without forcing the user to a single panel.
1109 (You can even have two long panels).
1111 - F10, C-g cancels as well as ESC ESC.
1113 - Improved help system.
1115 We updated and spelled the help system and added a lots of links.
1116 The Web page is constructed with the same tools.
1118 - Allows tagging of directories:
1120 Now you can copy, rename, move and delete complete directories. You
1121 are not limited anymore to files.
1123 - View output (screen save/restore) on Linux console.
1125 On old Linux systems, only b&w is supported, on newer Linux systems
1126 (1.1.67 and newer), we also support color screen save/restore and
1129 - 8 bit clean support.
1131 - Visual feedback while i-searching files.
1133 - Much more intuitive, you have to use it.
1135 - It's better than aspirin.
1137 - New memory allocation debugger.
1139 During testing time, we used a powerful memory allocation debugger,
1140 so the program will not eat all your memory, and will make a good use of
1143 - Now it also runs on hppa-hp-hpux9, hppa-hp-hpux7, m68k-apple-aux and
1144 sparc-sun-netbsd1.0. The best platform to run it is Linux, of course,
1145 since that's where most of us develop it.
1147 - Inode sort option.
1149 - Nice progress status indicator.
1151 We have two of them: a moving dash indicator and a progress bar
1152 indicator for file operations.
1156 - Uses GNU autoconf.
1157 Currently, it has been ported to this configurations:
1164 sparc-sun-solaris2.3
1166 - Improvements to the internal file viewer:
1170 Now you can view compressed files (gzip, compress, zip, pack and lzh).
1171 Performance enhancements, now it's much faster.
1172 Works on systems without mmap.
1174 - Mouse Support now also works on xterms.
1175 If you run in the Linux console, you will still need the gpm mouse server
1176 to use the mouse support, but if you use xterms, then you're lucky
1177 and can use the mouse support when using xterms.
1179 - Help system and man page.
1180 Both were updated and has many more hypertext links inside, the
1181 help system can also be used with a mouse.
1183 - If running on xterms, now you can see the output of the last program
1184 you ran by using the C-o key combination.
1186 - Switch panels command (C-u)
1187 - With filter command per panel.
1188 - With auto mounting/umounting on chdir feature.
1189 - cd now expands tildes (~, ~user).
1190 - Much more portable.
1191 - Many bugs were fixed.
1195 - Now can handle directories with an unlimited number of files.
1196 - New link and symlink commands (C-x l, C-x s).
1197 - New insert tagged files or selection command (C-x t).
1201 - Behave more like the Norton Commander.
1202 - Added menu file edit.
1203 - If there is no permission to load a directory, now it loads a dummy
1205 - When a panel is re-sorted, keep the selected file selected.
1206 - forward_word and backward_word command on the input line now skip
1207 over letters and numbers.
1208 - Fixed backward scrolling in the internal viewer.
1209 - The internal viewer now computes the percentage in a more natural
1211 - Added handling of the Home and End keys to the internal viewer
1216 - Preliminary support for System V compilation.
1217 - Bug fix: didn't call closedir in all cases.
1223 - Corrected Makefile.
1227 - Added new Alt-G, Alt-H, Alt-J to select the top file, middle file
1228 and bottom file in the current panel.
1229 - Now it's allowed to select option in query boxes by the first initial
1230 - Fixed mouse repeat rate.
1231 - Fixed a bug that prevent copying individual files to another file.
1232 - Some minor bug fixes.
1237 - Internal Copy command (it no longer uses cp).
1238 - Verbose Copying of files.
1239 - Confirmation on Overwrite and on Delete.
1240 - Support reverse sorting.
1241 - Many visual enhancements.
1242 - Per panel options are saved and restored.
1243 - New truncation of names in the panels.
1244 - History in Input Lines (M-p and M-n).
1245 - Input line enhancements.
1246 - Dialog boxes are nicer than before.
1247 - Cache in gid and uid translators.
1248 - More keybindings for the Input lines.
1249 - Better kill management in Input Lines.
1254 - The online help now comes with the complete man page.
1255 - Input lines now support M-b and M-f for movement by word.
1256 - Unlimited input lines (command line).
1257 - Filename searches now must be started with C-s or M-s.
1262 - The stat() reloading optimization is now a configuration option.
1263 - Many bug fixes went to the find file command.
1264 - New history in the hypertext viewer.
1265 - ESC-Tab will copy the name of the other-panel selected file to the
1267 - Now it's possible to display files and directories mixed together or
1268 separated (like the Norton Commander).
1269 - Many bug fixes, see the ChangeLog for details.
1273 - Extension dependent execution implemented (now you can execute
1274 things like tar tzvf over compressed tar files, just a tap in the
1276 - Added simple expansion of useful variables in the user menu.
1277 - Avoid unnecessary reloading of subdirectories using stat (suggested
1278 by Torben Fjerdingstad <tfj@olivia.ping.dk>).
1279 - Added options to disable colors and display version number.
1280 - Allow start up directory specification (ex: mc /usr/local/bin /tmp).
1281 - Fixed bug that operated on the selection instead of the tagged file
1282 (when only one file was tagged).
1283 - Some cosmetic changes.
1288 - Fixed bug in the help browser that crashed the program.
1289 - New internal viewer.
1290 - New long directory listing format.
1295 - User Menus (F2 key).
1296 - Quick search of files in a panel (Alt-filename takes you to that file).
1297 - Char quoting (C-q).
1298 - exec() enhancements.
1299 - now you can suspend the program (C-z).
1300 - The find file command now seems to be very stable.
1305 - Setup loading/saving.
1306 - Support for any size screen.
1307 - Many, many bug fixes.