mc-4.8.27

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Version 4.8.27

• Core

• Minimal version of Autoconf is 2.64
• Minimal version of Automake is 1.12
• Minimal version of Gettext is 0.18.2
• Minimal version of libssh2 is 1.2.8
• Reimplement version detection
• Significantly reduce rebuilt time after version change
• Drop automatic migration of configuration from ~/.mc to XDG-based directories
• zsh: support custom configuration file: ~/.local/share/mc/.zshrc
• Widgets: implement WST_VISIBLE state to show/hide widgets
• "Find File": add "Follow symlinks" option

• VFS

• extfs: support unrar-6
• extfs: support official 7z binary (7zz)
• ftpfs: apply file list parser from lftp project

• Editor

• Word completion: get candidates from all open files
• etags: get rid of hardcoded list length and window width
• Update syntax files:
  • Python
• Add syntax highlighting:
  • Verilog and SystemVerilog header files
  • JSON
  • openrc-run scripts

• Misc

• Code clean up
• Filehighlight of c++ and h++ files as sources
• Filehighlight of JSON files as documents
• Support of alacritty terminal emulator (​https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty)
• Support of foot terminal emulator (​https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot)
• Support of (alt+)shift+arrow keys in st terminal emulator (st.suckless.org)
• Mouse support in screen: don't check $DISPLAY variable
• mc.ext: support fb2 e-books
• ext.d: use mediainfo to view info about various media files
• Remove OS/distro-specific package-related stuff from source tree

• Fixes

• FTBFS against NCurses on OS X 10.9.5
• Segfault on dialog before panels get visible
• Crash if shadow is out of screen (build against NCurses)
• Crash in search
• Crash on startup with enabled subshell in FreeBSD (workaround)
• Hang on start randomly with zsh as subshell
• If command line is invisible it's partially displayed
• Broken handling of zip archives
• Broken handling of jar files as zip archives
• Timestamps of symlinks, sockets, fifos, etc are not preserved after copy/move
• %view action in the user menu doesn't work on no-exec filesystem
• Hardlinks are not colored by file type or extension
• mcedit: silent macro makes terminal disrupted
• mcedit: disrupting of TAGS file path
• vfs: unable to browse compressed tar archives
• sftpfs vfs: CVE-2021-36370: server fingerprint isn't verified (discovered by AUT-milCERT during an audit of open source software)
• ftpfs vfs: month of file is always January
• Tests: log files are written by libcheck and automake simultaneously

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit e94280ea57d6656ddedf9c1af1c7283dfd728f99

Package updates.
    Update to upower-UPOWER_0_99_13.
    Update to stunnel-5.60.
    Update to mc-4.8.27.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Retroactively promote to Elevated due to CVE-2021-36370