Version 4.8.26

- Core

  * Support file names of any length (#4145)
  * Implement persistent command line buffer for subshell (bash >= 4, zsh and fish are supported) (#4114, #4124, #4126)
  * Implement shadows of dialog windows and menus (#4102)
  * Allow running clipboard commands if DISPLAY is not set (#4133)
  * Add support of "alacritty", "tmux", and "tmux-256color" terminals (#4149)

- VFS

  * Support wim archive format (using wimtools (https://wimlib.net/)) (#4100)
  * Support pak archive format (using unar (https://theunarchiver.com/)) (#4130)

- Editor

  * Add Swift syntax highlighting (MidnightCommander/mc#159)

- Misc

  * Code cleanup (#4103, #4127, #4131)
  * ext.d/sound.sh: replace xmms with audacious (part of #4127)
  * mc.ext: improve handling of compressed content (#4128, #2117)
  * mc.ext: add support for OpenDocument flax xml formats: fodt, fods, fodp, fodg (#4157)
  * Filehighlight fodg, fodp, fods, fodt, odg files as documents
  * modarcon16 skin: make consistent with whitespaces (#4158)

- Fixes

  * 0000 permissions are not preserved on copy/move file (#4155)
  * Chattr dialog doesn't work with mouse (#4104)
  * Wrong copy ETA displaying if "Follow links" option is set (#4101)
  * C-i ("change panel" shortcut) has no effect (#4107)
  * C-l ("refresh screen") and A-` ("switch screens") shortcuts have no effect (#4142, #4153)
  * Cancel of history or completion window marks input lines as modified (#4152)
  * Unexpected subshell execution at panel switch (#2110)
  * Lock up after pressing Tab in subshell (#2269)
  * tcsh: error: "The Commander can't change to the directory" (#4120)
  * vfs: extfs: cannot handle files with name started with dash or space (#4077)
  * vfs: hang on accessing files within a nested VFS for first 60 seconds (#4147)
  * vfs: lose content of the current directory on a mounted CIFS share (on Linux >= 5.1) (#3987)


Version 4.8.25

- Core

    * Minimal version of GLib is 2.30.0
    * Avoid subshell warning for standalone mcedit/mcview/mcdiffview run from mc (#4056)
    * Implement chattr command (change ext{2,3,4}fs extended attributes). Default shortcut is "C-x e" (#3847)
    * Implement a WGroup widget -- a base class for widgets which contain other widgets (#2919, #4075)
    * Implement key bindings for radiobuttons (#212)

- VFS

    * RPM VFS improvements:
        - Support weak dependency tags: ENHANCES, SUGGESTS, RECOMMENDS, SUPPLEMENTS (#4091)

- Editor

    * Improvements of syntax highlighting:
        - php (#4060)
        - tcl: add shebangs with wish and tclsh (#4062)
        - Cobol (#1987)
        - Verilog/SystemVerilog (#4087)
    * New syntax highlighting:
        - Kotlin (#4088)
        - ino (Arduino IDE and a number of other IDEs) (#4098)

- Misc

    * Code cleanup (#4050, #4085)
    * Add support for opus audio (#4061)
    * mc-wrapper: don't cd to the same directory (#3355)
    * Improve archive support: more binaries to view archive content (#4086)
        - lha: jlha, lhasa
        - arj: 7za
        - cab: 7za
        - zip; 7z
        - zipx: 7za
        - iso: 7za
    * Clean up in video.sh handler (#4045)
        - RealPlayer is a proprietary application which can't be installed in most distros and has long been abandoned.
        - gtv hasn't been developed since 2003.
        - xanim barely plays anything.
    * Various fixups and updates of man page

- Fixes

    * FTBFS on OSes w/o O_CLOEXEC (#4052)
    * FTBFS with glib2 >= 2.63.3 (#4053)
    * Undefined "__linux__" macro on non-Linux systems (#4058)
    * Mouse is not handled with ncurses-6 (#3954)
    * Mouse is not handled with S-Lang on some old terminal emulators (#4063)
    * Terminal size is always 80x24 in subshell on Solaris 11.4 SPARC (#4099)
    * Double clicking on empty area of file panel executes last item (#3722)
    * Garbage in input line history (#4064)
    * Speed of file copy is not displayed for single file (#4081)
    * mcedit: blank screen with invisible error (#4057)
    * mcedit: broken syntax highlighting for shell scripts (#4054)
    * VFS: broken browsing of .deb packages (#4055)
    * mc.lib installed twice (#4070)


Version 4.8.24

- Core

    * Drop bundled gettext (#3629)
    * Implement the file edit and view history. Default shortcut is alt-shift-e (#2733)
    * Enable subshell in standalone mceditor, mcviewer, and mcdiffviewer (#3380)
    * Refactoring of SIGWINCH handling (#117, #4019)
    * Prevent run/open files with double right click (#4016)
    * Improve support of Windows 1251 encoding on Solaris (#3992)
    * Support binary reproducible builds (via --disable-configure-args configure option) (#4031)

- VFS

    * sftpfs: support keyborad interactive authentication (#3921)
    * uc1541 extfs: update up to 3.3 version (#3936)

- Editor

    * Syntax:
        - add yabasic (Yet Another BASIC) syntax highlighting (#4005)
        - improve YAML syntax highlighting (#4010)
        - add "https://" to Debian sources.list syntax (#4018)
        - add .desktop files (#4022)
        - improve RPM spec file syntax highlighting (#4037)
        - improve Debian sources.list syntax highlighting (#4041)

- Misc

    * Code cleanup (#3997, #4030, #4038, #4039)
    * menu.mc: handle symbolic links to compressed archives (#4009)
    * File highlighting updates (#4015)
        - part - partial files, e.g. used by many download managers ([temp])
        - apk - Android packages, deb - Debian packages ([archive])
        - ts - MPEG-TS streams ([media])
    * New skins:
        - julia256: a dark skin with calm colors and good contrast.

- Fixes

    * Compile failure on AIX 7.2 (#4033)
    * Compile failure on OS X 10.9 (#4035)
    * Enter key works as Down one in menu (#4006)
    * Menubar: incorrect mouse click coordinate (#4013)
    * Rotating dash generates way too much output (#3859)
    * Totals aren't computed before move of a single directory (#4027)
    * Editor: unusable dynamic paragraphing (#3996)
    * VFS: iso9660 does not report listing errors (#3993)
    * VFS: extfs: nested archives are not removed from temporary directory (#4000)


Version 4.8.23

- Core

    * Modify "File exists" query dialog (#3935):
        - change layout
        - rename "Update" button to "If older"
        - add new "If smaller" button": overwrite file with smaller one
        - add "Don't overwrite with zero length file" checkbox
    * Speed up of large directory structures delete (#3958)
    * Support key binding for menu (#212)

- Editor

    * Expanded syntax highlighting rules (#3975):
        - expanded file name regexp for sh.syntax
        - use ini.syntax for systemd cofiguration files
    * Syntax updates:
        - shell (#3981)
        - ebuild (#3988)
        - RPM spec (#3991)

- Viewer

    * Quick one-off backwards search with N. New action SearchOppositeContinue for key bind (default is shift-n) (#3452)

- Misc

    * Code cleanup (#3955)
    * Use Geeqie (a fork of GQview) as main image viewer, fallback to GQview (#3962)
    * File highlighting updates (#3966)
        - .go, .s: highlight as source
        - .m4v: highlighting as media
    * New skins:
        - featured-plus: featured skin with alternative directory and file select/mark colors (#3973)

- Fixes

    * Compilation fail on AIX (#3960)
    * Incorrect file version sort (#3965, #3905)
    * Garbage in the hardlink error creation message window (#3990)
    * Cannot shell, or FTP, or SFTP link when the file panel is tree, or info, or quick view (#3948)
    * Failed gpm connect attempt ... for vc /dev/tty0 (#3208, #3614)
    * Incorrect include/editor order in mc.ext (#3965)
    * mcedit: incorrect C/C++ syntax highlighting in some cases (#3487)
    * Unknown type name 'sighandler_t' on Illumos (#3971)


Version 4.8.22

- Core

    * Support BTRFS's file clone operation (#1983)
    * Find file: show pattern and content in the results window title (#3453)
    * Find file: remember state (empty or not) of Content field (#3924)
    * Improve support IBM i (#3927)
    * Improve handling of hard link creation errors (#3678)
    * Support user-defined prompt in the Fish subshell (#3944)

- VFS

    * sftp: preserve atime and mtime (#3917)

- Editor

    * man page cleanup (#3918)
    * syntax:
        - PHP - highlight keyword 'null' (#3920)
        - Meson - initial implementation (#3940)

- Misc

    * ext.d: use MPV as a fallback for mplayer -identify (#3919)
    * ext.d: improve recognition of MS Office formats (#3929)
    * Code cleanup (#3915)
    * Cleanup hint files

- Fixes

    * Won't compile for Apple (#3930)
    * "Cannot create target file" when target has backslash space in the name (#3923)
    * Quiet single file overwrite (#3908)
    * Show error message for each not-installed program when view documents in MS Word and Excel formats (#3926)
    * Crash when trying some sftp connections (#3937)
    * Crash when return to filemanager from subshell (#3943)


Version 4.8.21

- Core

    * Cancel Chmod/Chown/Advanced chown operation for large group of files when operation is not permitted (#3850)
    * Mouse support in the "Advanced chown" dialog window (#3148)
    * File highlighting by extension is case insensitive by default (#1620)
    * Safe file overwrite (#3913)

- VFS

    * Support zstd compression format (#3906)

- Editor

    * Syntax:
        - Rust support (#3884)
        - JavaScript modules support (#3890)
        - Improve Markdown support (#3893)

- Misc

    * Add JavaScript module support to `filehighlight.ini` (MidnightCommander/mc#132)
    * Add Excel xlsx file format support to `mc.ext.in` (MidnightCommander/mc#135)
    * i18n of argument type names in --help blocks (#3879)
    * Code cleanup: (#3857, #3914)

- Fixes

    * Fail to link to ncurses built as two libraries: ncurses+tinfo (#3880)
    * Garbage in displaying of summary of file sizes for selected files (#3883)
    * "Compute totals" unnecessarily done for moves (#3149, #3908)
    * mc.ext: allow Java class files to be viewed even if JAD isn't on PATH (MidnightCommander/mc#134)
    * mcedit: broken extended key mode (#3897)
    * mcedit doesn't save all opened files (#3898)
    * extfs: sftps: -31 SFTP Protocol Error when transferring file (#3406)
    * extfs: rpm: truncated script content in the viewer (#3865)
    * extfs: rpm helper misses CONFLICTS field (#3789)


Version 4.8.20

- Core

    * Rename key bindings:
        - [main].PanelListingSwitch -> [panel].CycleListingFormat
        - [main].PanelListingChange -> [main].SetupListingFormat
    * Speed up of UTF-8 normalization for frequent cases (#3616)

- VFS

    * extfs helpers tester:
        - diff of failed tests is now included in output to ease bug reporting (#3784)

- Editor

    * Syntax:
        - ES2015 support (#3793)
        - TypeScript support (#3794)
        - Ada 95 updates (#3804)
        - Apache Hive QL support (#3828)
        - SQL & PHP keyword updates (MidnightCommander/mc#129)
        - Simplification of case insensitive file name patterns in /usr/share/mc/syntax/Syntax file (#3829)
        - Markdown (initial support) (#3864)
        - Protocol Buffers and gRPC support (#3868)
    * Add %c (cursor offset from BOF) support for user menu macros (#3867)

- Misc

    * Unify curses initialization for various curses implementations (#3697)
    * Highlight txz extension as archive like tgz, etc. (#3782)
    * Add new media extensions to `filehighlight.ini` (#3834)

- Fixes

    * Wrong --help message for mcview, mcedit and mcdiff (#3805)
    * Compression from menu broken due to bad quoting (#3840)
    * `--with-homedir` gives "yes" as config directory (#3836)
    * External panelize: opening a file with an absolute path fails (#2942)
    * Filter isn't cleared when entering empty string (#3813)
    * Panelization is not kept while switching panel listing mode (#3810)
    * Cannot tab out of a QuickView panel (#3815)
    * Cannot use the F10 key in a QuickView panel (#3816)
    * Wrong INPUT_COMPLETE_CD flag handling in the QuickDialog engine (#3870)
    * mcview: file interpreted as latin1 instead of utf8 (#3783)
    * mcview: incomplete read of filtering data (#3817)
    * mcview: search doesn't grow file as much as needed (#3819, #3855)
    * mcview: goto doesn't grow file as much as needed (#3826)
    * mcview: quick view panel: crash on slow startup while switching panel mode (#3846)
    * mcedit: fix broken encoding into UTF-8 for 8-bit displays (#3843)
    * mcedit: incorrect %f macro substitution in the user menu (#3861)
    * man pages: wrong paths of mc.hint and mc.hlp (#3806)
    * subshell: fix broken tcsh 6.20+ cd escaping (#3852)
    * VFS: incremental tar doesn't contain empty directories (#2297)
    * VFS: incremental tar: wrong directories owner for tar --numeric-owner -g (#3709)
    * VFS: timestamps not being preserved due to uninitialized struct stat st_[acm]tim.tv_nsec (#3821)
    * VFS: ftp: can't retrieve password from .netrc when user is in URL (#3869)
    * VFS: tests: locale issue causing helpers using 'sort' to fail (#3787)
    * VFS: tests: unportable 'echo' use causing one rpm helper test to fail (#3786)
    * Spelling errors in the manual page (#3839)


Version 4.8.19

- Core

    * Replace $MC_HOME with $MC_PROFILE_ROOT (#3684)
    * Allow rebind TAB key to change panel (#3672)
    * Support for True Color (16 millions colors) (#3145)
    * Color aliases in skin files (#3711)

- VFS

    * Support timestamps with nanosecond precision for copy/move operations (#3575)
    * Introduce EXTFS helpers tester (#3730, #3744, #3752, #3753, #3751)
    * Teach u7z to parse archive listings w/o sizes and/or dates (#2707)
    * Teach rpm helper about transaction scripts (#3750)
    * Fix hp48, uace & uarc extfs which used an obsolete date format (#3729, #3747)

- Editor

    * Syntax:
        - updates of HTML and ebuild highlighting
        - highlight *.t (Perl test) files as Perl scripts
        - disassociate .cl file extension from LISP syntax (#3691)
    * Add syntax highlighting:
        - OpenCL (#3690)
        - OpenShadingLanguage (#3762)
        - R
        - YAML (#3293)

- Misc

    * Code cleanup (#3693, #3703, #3721, #3763)
    * Add true color skins: 'Four seasons' (#3724)
    * Activate `--enable-tests` by default if `check` is found (#3708)
    * Added new skin: YADT (MidnightCommander/mc#115)

- Fixes

    * Segfault on switching left panel to Info (#3700)
    * Broken compatibility with ncurses (#3697)
    * Setting MC_HOME makes mc ignore ~/.bashrc (#3684)
    * mc_tmpdir() use a buffer of only 64 characters (#3736)
    * Some bugs in the parsing of hexadecimal search patterns (#3694)
    * Hexadecimal search fails on binary data (#3589)
    * Broken file list resorting on double click on panel header line (#3715)
    * Wrong dialog resizing and positioning (#3714, #3723)
    * Widget's 'disabled' status is not toggled immediately (#3716)
    * Last item of 'Options/Layout/Horizontal' radiobuttons remains highlighted (#3717)
    * 'Options/Layout/Equal split' checkbox gets reverted (#3718)
    * Panels: cannot show more than one "column" in user defined listing mode (#3757)
    * Mix of MSG_NOTIFY and MSG_FOCUS messages (#3731)
    * skins: 'window-state-char' and 'window-close-char' are parsed as colors (#3710)
    * Pressing <right> and <left> in the hotlist dialog doesn't refresh it (#3775)
    * mcview: an error message about bad regexp isn't shown (#3720)
    * mcedit: fix etags filenames parsing (#3698)
    * mcedit: fix mouse active area for maximize / close buttons (#3774)
    * mcedit: frames (MDI interface) don't reflect the focus state (#3766)
    * mcedit: frames (MDI interface) sometimes obscure the buttonbar (#3760)
    * mcedit doesn't show search error messages when searching backwards (#3735)
    * help viewer: tab characters handled incorrectly (#3754)
    * VFS: incorrect zoo archive listing (#3696)
    * VFS: segfault in VFSs not setting block size in stat (#3749)


Version 4.8.18

- Core

    * Alt-Enter, Ctrl-Enter and Ctrl-Shift-Enter shortcuts are bindable in file manager (#3075)
    * Internals:
        - Refactoring of widget subsystem (#2919, #3632)

- Editor

    * Add syntax highlighting:
        - GLSL (#3683)
        - CUDA (#3686)

- Misc

    * Code cleanup (#3641, #3652)

- Fixes

    * Build failure on FreeBSD (#3643)
    * Incompatibility with NetBSD curses (#3665)
    * Memory leaks (#3637)
    * Subshell output lost on window resize under tmux, GNU screen (#3639)
    * --with-subshell=optional does not work (#3642)
    * Backward search is not interruptible (#3648)
    * "Output lines" has no effect (#3655)
    * Wrong handling of mouse clicks in long listing mode (#3661)
    * Panelize resets marks on marked files in many cases (#3663)
    * Cannot change directory in the active panel in some cases (#3669)
    * Filtered View doesn't work (#3646, #3660)
    * mcedit: don't kill bookmarks when open file from "Find File" dialog (#3668)
    * man pages use "the MC" instead of "MC" (#3644)


Version 4.8.17

- Core

    * Minimal version of Gettext is 0.18.1 (#1885)
    * Optimization of copy/move operations (use adaptive buffer as in coreutils) (#2193)
    * Recognize csh as tcsh (#2742)
    * Centered scrolling of file panel (#3130)
    * Internals:
        - Switch to new high-level mouse API (#3571)

- VFS

    * FISH helpers: remove executable bit (#3610)

- Editor

    * Improvements of syntax highlighting:
        - F90 (#3618)
        - Java (MidnightCommander/mc#95)

- Misc

    * Code cleanup (#3598, #3607)
    * Install mc.keymap as a symlink to mc.default.keymap (#3609)
    * File highlight: add more common file formats

- Fixes

    * Segfault due to incorrect value of SHELL environment variable (#3606)
    * Segfault when copying files under FreeBSD 9.3 (#3617)
    * Segfault when entering into some cpio archives (#3621)
    * Subshell output lost on window resize under tmux, GNU screen (#3639)
    * Subshell cursor position lost after window resizing (#3640)
    * Listbox no longer scrolls when dragging outside widget (#3559)
    * VFS: extfs: incorrect date parsing in unzip (#3622)
    * VFS: extfs: buffer overflow (#3605)
    * VFS: patchfs: syntax error (#3620)
    * VFS: fish: mistakes in ls Perl helper (#3611)


Version 4.8.16

- Core

    * Support for ash + bugfixes for bash, fish (#2742)
    * Find file: empty file name matches any file name (#3593)
    * Find file: empty value of "Content" is used instead of "Search for content" checkbox to disable search for content (#3594)
    * Listbox: don't wraparound on mouse scroll (#3554)
    * Internals:
        - Listbox: various fixups (#3569: #3562, #3563, #3565, #3161)
        - Split MSG_ACTION into MSG_ACTION and MSG_NOTIFY (#3566)

- VFS

    * Support lzip compression format (#2673, #1541)
    * Support lz4 compression format (#3523)
    * patchfs: support xz compression (#3443)
    * Update uc1541 version (#3527)
    * Add mc.ext patterns for initramfs / initrd (#3115)

- Editor

    * Add golang syntax (MidnightCommander/mc#84)
    * Update Puppet syntax (MidnightCommander/mc#86)

- Misc

    * Code cleanup (#3555, #3547, #3587)
    * Better subshell documentation (#3556)
    * Fixes to the English man pages by Denys Vlasenko

- Fixes

    * Insufficient quoting in `mc.menu` (#2947)
    * Broken ./configure --without-internal-edit (#3601)
    * Memory leaks (#3547, #3561, #3567, #3572)
    * No preallocation if appending during file copy (#3577)
    * Cannot set mini-format for "brief" listing type (#3588)
    * Info panel: incorrect inode information in some cases (#3214)
    * Info panel: wrong device name with symbolic link (#3412)
    * Info panel: buffer overflow (#3582)
    * Regression: match filename, not full path in mc.ext (#3578)
    * Broken case insensitive search in non-unicode locale (#3491)
    * Error message prefixed with no sense "0:" (#3269)
    * mcedit: buffer overflow (#3579)
    * mcedit: "Lower case selection" command in User Menu (#3586)
    * mcedit: close on ctrl-g (#3557)
    * mcview: "Not found" result isn't reported in some cases (#3543)
    * VFS: isofs doesn't show .dotfiles (#3537)
    * VFS: isofs: cannot copy file from iso when Joliet without RockRidge is used (#2851)
    * VFS: extfs/unzip: enter into zip file fails with "inconsistent extfs archive" (#3433)
    * VFS: SFTP: various bugs (#3581)
    * VFS: FISH: provide major/minor info for block/char devices (#3599)
    * Bashism in gitfs+ extfs helper (#3379)
    * Non-portable invocation of man (#3509)
    * mc-wrapper leaves MC_USER set (#3550)
    * Broken silent opening of files in background (#3574)
    * Run `identify` on JPEGs even if `exif` is not installed (#3568)


Version 4.8.15

- Core

    * Minimal version of GLib is 2.26.0
    * Use the PATH environment variable to search for the executable when opening pipe (#3444)
    * Support more than 2 (up to 9) columns in file panel in brief mode (#3212)
    * Clarify file sorting in "Unsorted" mode (#3496)
    * WGroupbox: respect dialog's colors (#3468)
    * Highlight find file's result in internal viewer (#3530)

- VFS

    * s3 extfs vfs: bugfixes and improvements (#3470, #3502)

- Editor

    * Add hidden option to choose full or base file name in the status line (#3445)
    * Improvements of syntax highlighting:
        - Lua (#3471)
        - PKGBUILD (#3484)

- Misc

    * Text alignment in Info panel (#3155)
    * Select of menu file edit: change default button to "User" (#3493)
    * Recognize .gmo files as well as .mo ones (#3422)
    * Fix mc.pot comment tripping up Transifex and unportable inplace sed (#3479)
    * A lot of code clean up (#3420, #3424, #3426, #3427, #3428, #3429, #3430, #3431, #3434, #3435, #3437, #3463, #3464, #3465, #3466, #3467, #3494, #3495, #3539)
    * Documentation updates:
        - Spanish man and help: Diff Viewer section and minor fixes (#3477)
        - VFS garbage collection (#3472)

- Fixes

    * Various memory leaks (#3438, #3439, #3440, #3457, #3458, #3459, #3460, #3461, #3462, #3475, #3520, #3521, #3522)
    * Linux kernel-specific segfault on startup (#3441)
    * Lost of Panelize contents in some cases (#3032, #3489, #3498, #3507)
    * Wrong highlight of search result in case of "Regular expression" and "Whole words" (#3524)
    * "Whole words" search works only in Normal mode (#3525)
    * View find results doesn't jump to match line if file is too short to scroll page (#3530)
    * SFTP VFS: segfault (#3456)
    * Segfault in "Find file" due to invalid UTF-8 sequences (#3449)
    * Bash variable 'PROMPT_COMMAND' in  pantheon-terminal (#3534)


Version 4.8.14

- Core

    * Minimal version of GLib is 2.14.0
    * Add new panel binding "SelectExt" to select/unselect files with the same extension as the current file (#3228)
    * Speed up of directory size calculation (#3247)
    * Support of italic text (#3065)

- Editor

    * New syntax highlighting support:
        - puppet (#3266)

- Viewer

    * Rewrite mcview's rendering and scrolling (#3250, #3256)
        - no more partial lines at the top and failure to scroll when Up or Down is pressed;
        - better handling of CJK characters;
        - handle combining accents;
        - improved nroff support;
        - more conventional scrolling behavior at the end of the file.
    * Use VIEW_SELECTED_COLOR in plain mode (#3405)
    * In QuickView panel, don't pass any chars to command line to avoid unexpected command execution (#3253)

- Misc

    * Code cleanup (#3265, #3262)
    * Bind poedit to Edit action for .po files (#3287)
    * Better grammar mcedit user menu (#3246)

- Fixes

    * Fail to build against musl libc (#3267)
    * Error compiling with glib 2.20.3 (#3333)
    * Overwrite of the PROMPT_COMMAND bash variable (#2027)
    * contrib/*.?sh are not recreated after rerun of configure (#3181)
    * File rename handles zero-length substitutions incorrectly (#2952)
    * Lose files on "Skip" when "Cannot preallocate space for target file" (#3297)
    * Info panel can't obtain file system statistics on Solaris (#3277)
    * "Shell patterns" broken beyond repair (#2309)
    * File selection by patterns uses bytes instead of unicode characters (#2743)
    * Copy files dosn't work as expected, when copying to a directory with the special symbol in its name (#3235)
    * Wrong order of old_colors table items (#3404)
    * Input line: Alt+Backspace on one-letter word erases too much (#3390)
    * "Directory scanning" window is too narrow (#3162)
    * No Help for User Menu (#3409)
    * mcedit: paste from clipboard does not work (#3339)
    * mcviewer: hang when viewing broken man page (#2966)
    * mcview hex: incorrect highlight when search string not found (#3263)
    * mcview hex edit: UTF-8 chars are not updated (#3259)
    * mcview hex edit: can't enter certain UTF-8 characters (#3260)
    * mcview hex edit: CJK overflow (#3261)
    * mcedit: status line doesn't show full path to file (#3285)
    * Freeze when copying from one FTP location to another (#358)


Version 4.8.13

- Core

    * New engine of user-friendly interruption of long-time operations (#2136)

- Editor

    * Improvements of syntax highlighting:
        - CMake (#3216)
        - PHP (#3230)
    * Translate language names in the spelling assistant dialogue (#3233)

- Viewer

    * Add separate normal(default) colour pair for viewer (#3204)
    * Dealing with utf-8 man pages in view/open (#1539)
    * "Goto line" is 1-based now (#3245)

- Misc

    * Code cleanup (#3189, #3223, #3242)
    * Add new skins: gray-green-purple256 and gray-orange-blue256 (#3190)

- Fixes

    * First Backspace/Delete is ignored after mouse click in an input widget (#3225)
    * Recursive find file doesn't work on Samba share (#3097)
    * Recursive find file doesn't work on Windows NFS share (#3202)
    * Incorrect file counter in move operation (#3196, #3209)
    * "Directory scanning" window is too narrow (#3162)
    * Colon is not recognized inside escape seq in prompt (#3241)
    * Quick view doesn't grab focus on mouse click (#3251)
    * fish subshell: overridden prompt (#3232, #3237)
    * mcviewer: broken switch between raw and parse modes (#3219)
    * mcviewer: incorrect percentage in mcview hex mode (#3258)
    * RAR VFS incorrectly recognizes UnRAR version (#3240)
    * viewbold and viewselected are missing from some skins (#3244)
    * Incorrect enconding name for manual page (#3239)
    * "User menu -> View manual page" doesn't do coloring (#3243)


Version 4.8.12

- Core

    * Speed up of file find (#2290)
    * If cwd is a symlink it is kept at startup (#3093)
    * Improve support of Zsh (#3121, #3124, #3125, #3177)
    * Launch external editor/viewer without passing line number (#3117)
    * Exit without confirmation by default (#3132)
    * Simple user-friendly skin selector (#2165, #3178)
    * Use Joliet and RockRidge in ISO9660 image view action (#3187)

- VFS

    * Use .zip extension as preferred way to recognize ZIP archives (#2857)

- Editor

    * Configurable selection reset on CK_Store (#3111)

- Misc

    * Code cleanup (#3113, #3151)
    * Adjust script permissions to installed ones (#2274)
    * Fix name of FSF in add source files (#3167)
    * Skin cleanups (#3180, #3184)
    * Do not consider "String not found" message as error (#3179)

- Fixes

    * Broken build with NCurses (#3114)
    * Incorrect tilde expansion in copy/rename/move dialog (#3131)
    * Advanced chown: Escape on user list accepts value (#3150)
    * Toggling hidden files using mouse doesn't update the other panel (#3156)
    * Question mark in delete confirmation is on its own line (#3123)
    * Popup dialogs wander upwards upon resize (#3173)
    * Keypad '*' doesn't work with numlock off (#3133)
    * Some inconsistencies in "Learn keys" UI (#3134)
    * Unconventional behavior of "Display bits" dialog (#3152)
    * Shift-Fn keys don't work in 256-color mode of tmux (#2978)
    * mcedit: format paragraph produces inconsistent wrapping (#3119)
    * mcedit: file out-of-date check on saving is botched (#3142)
    * mcedit: 1st line is shifted after paragraph format (#1666)
    * mcedit: trailing newline check applied too early when exiting (#3140)
    * Inconsistency of the arrow's direction in the panel header line across skins (#3157)
    * Possible segfault while passing messages to widgets (#3116)
    * Possible segfault when freeing a VFS (#3116)
    * Segfault in cpio VFS while reading corrupted RPM (#3116)
    * Segfault in sftpfs VFS when trying to view a file (#3176)
    * Incorrect handling of filenames with unrar v5 (#3073)
    * FISH VFS: remote panel confused by filenames with '%' (#2983)
    * iso9660: xorriso shows only one depth (#3122)
    * Nicedark skin looks bad on black-on-white terminals (#3154)
    * Incorrect definition of "topmiddle" and "bottommiddle" characters (#3183)


Version 4.8.11

- Core

    * Live update of panels size when editing layout (#3060)
    * Support "Compute totals" option in move file operation (#2075)

- VFS

    * rpm extfs
        - show dependency version (#2812)
        - support tar payload (#3064)
        - improve support for EPOCH tag (#1588)
        - add support for PREINPROG/POSTINPROG/PREUNPROG/POSTUNPROG, VERIFYSCRIPTPROG and TRIGGERSCRIPTS/TRIGGERSCRIPTPROG tags (#1588)

- Editor

    * Support "bracketed paste mode" of xterm (#2661)
    * Clarify Java syntax highlighting (#3057)

- Misc

    * Print warnings about unknown '--with-' / '--enable-' configure options (#3029)
    * Code cleanup and refactoring (#3051, #3066)

- Fixes

    * FTBFS on GNU Hurd (#3053, #3071)
    * Segfault while moving files (#3059, #3105)
    * Broken handling of mc command line arguments (#3047)
    * Copy/move doesn't work if num_history_items_recorded=0 (#3076)
    * No subdir path completion in current dir, if stub is not starting with './' (#3018)
    * Deprecated "find -perm +xxx" syntax is used (#3089)
    * Home, End, Shift-Fn keys don't work in tmux (#2978)
    * Improper [en|dis]abling of layout dialog split adjustment buttons (#3061)
    * Bogus strings in 'Confirmation' config dialog (#2271)
    * "Configure options" first entry not highlighted (#3084)
    * "Setup saved to ~/.config/mc/ini" message is misleading (#3096)
    * F3 doesn't work on .so files in FreeBSD 9.x (#3101)
    * Typo in mc.lib: "less=%filename +%linenog" instead of "+%lineno" (part of #3044)
    * Wrong order of filename and line number for external editor (part of #3044)
    * mcedit: tabs are lost when text is pasted (#1797 as part of #2661)
    * mcedit: question on large file treats Escape as Yes (#3107)
    * Broken case-sensitive search in editor/viewer/diffviewer (#3069)
    * Changes to files in nested .zip archives are lost (#3070)
    * Incorrect handling of filenames with spaces with unrar v5 (#3073)
    * iso9660 VFS: filenames truncating in ISO file listing (#3091)
    * vfs_path_from_str_flags() doesn't support VPF_STRIP_HOME (#3098)
    * Bright colors are used as background colors in 16-color skins (#3050)
    * Various defects in documentation (#3052, #3092)


Version 4.8.10

- Core

    * Do not link GModule if it is not required (save space on embedded systems) (#2995)
    * Behavior of the 'Right' key in the 'Directory hotlist' was changed: now 'Right' key is used only to enter into the group (#3045)

- Misc

    * Code cleanup (#3035)

- Fixes

    * Build failure on Cygwin (#3041)
    * Broken NCurses detection (#3043)
    * Broken handling of mc command line arguments (#3047)
    * Cannot enter into zip archive in tar one (#3034)
    * Cannot open some jar files
    * mcedit: file descriptor leak (#3040)
    * mcedit: paragraph format doesn't respect multibyte characters (#2713)
    * Crash after entering a wrong SFTP password (#3036)


Version 4.8.9

- VFS

    * extfs: support unrar-5 (#3015)
    * extfs: use xorriso (if exists) for writing into ISO images (#3027)

- Editor

    * Support unlimited file size (#1743)

- Misc

    * Lot of code cleanups (#2990, #2071, #2164, #2998, #3003, #3005, #3022)
    * Display additional info while viewing (by F3) *.iso files (#2006)
    * New skins:
        - modarin256: set of 256-color skins from Oliver Lange (#2737)

- Fixes

    * Fail to link if system lib does not contain strverscmp (#2992)
    * Segfault when mc's temporary directory doesn't belong to the correct user (#3021)
    * Race condition when creating temporary directory (#3025)
    * Mouse doesn't work in screen and tmux (#3011)
    * Incorrect file size in copy/move overwrite query dialog (#3000)
    * Garbage in subshell prompt (#3001)
    * Incorrect WLabel redraw after text change (#2991)
    * Find File: "All charsets" options don't work (#3026)
    * When an unknown key is pressed, it is interpreted as garbage (#2988)
    * Segfault on creating new file in external editor (#3020)
    * Rotating dash is not removed when mc finishes reading the directory (#2163)
    * mcedit: word completion failed if word to be completed is begun from begin of file (#2245)
    * mcview: broken switch between raw and parse modes (#2968)
    * Hex viewer: continue search doesn't work (#2706)
    * sftpfs: broken SSH aliases (#2923)


Version 4.8.8

- Core

    * Make copy/move progress dialog window wider up to 2/3 of screen width (#2076)
    * Ask file name before create new file in editor (#2585)
    * Support newer extended mouse protocol SGR-1006 instead of URXVT-1015 (#2956)
    * Allow skip directory scanning before file operation. Print directory count and size in addition to directory name (#2101)
    * Add jump support to target line in some external editors and viewers (#2206)

- Editor

    * Update syntax highlighting:
        - Jal programming language (#2855)
        - gplink configuration files (.lkr extension) (#2855)
        - Makefile with .mak extension (#2896)
        - ZSH configuration files (#2950)
        - Fortran (#2962)

- Misc

    * Code cleanup (#2944, #2954)
    * Report real compiler in MC_CHECK_ONE_CFLAG instead of 'gcc'
    * Hints files now translated via Transifex (#2980)

- Fixes

    * Segfault in file operation due to unhandled regexp error (#2493)
    * Tab completion vs. spaces and escaping (#55)\
    * Special chars are not escaped in autocompletion of filenames (#2626)
    * Buttons in the 'Directory hotlist' window are placed incorrectly (#2958)
    * Mouse doesn't select text in subshell in native console (#2964)
    * Mouse click below non-droppeddown menubar activates menu box (#2971)
    * Insufficient quoting and wrong message in user menu (#2947)
    * mcedit: floating point exception (division by zero) (#2953)
    * mcedit: broken autocompletion (#2957)
    * mcview: broken magic mode (#2976)
    * Broken opening of .war archives (#2974)


Version 4.8.7

- Core

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

- VFS

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

- Editor

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

- Misc

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

- Fixes

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


Version 4.8.6

- Fixes

    * mcedit: two-columns extra offset of cursor after tab character (#2881)
    * diffviewer: cannot open file if name contains '$' (#2873)


Version 4.8.5

- Core

    * Implemented case-insensitive patterns in mc.ext bindings (#2250)

- Editor

    * Code refactoring and cleanup (#1977)

- Diff viewer

    * Bidirectional merge (F5 merge left-to-right, F15 - merge right-to-left) (#2863)

- Misc

    * Syntax highlighting news and updates:
        - update assembler.syntax: x86 AMD64 registers highlighting (#2542)
        - new cmake.syntax: preliminary and incomplete syntax file for CMakeLists.txt files (#2084)
        - new dlink.syntax: syntax highlighting for D-Link switches command set (#2649)
        - update properties.syntax: more nice look-and-feel (#1869)
    * mc.ext enhancement (#2103):
        - use chm_http text-mode handler for CHM files
        - play sounds only from videos in text mode
        - use pdftotext -layout -nopgbrk switches
        - try to use elinks before links for HTML
        - soffice2html text-mode handler for SXW files
        - wvHtml text-mode handler for doc files
        - xlhtml text-mode handler for XLS files
        - ppthtml text-mode handler for PPT/PPS files
        - open=view+pager fallback (noX) for PostScript, PDF, OD[PST] and DVI
        - standarized $DISPLAY checks
