mc-4.8.30

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Major changes since 4.8.29
Core

    Support PCRE2 as search engine (via --with-search-engine=pcre2)
    Implement panelization buffers for both file panels

VFS

    tar: support extended headers (including long file names and sparse files)
    extfs helpers: replace "perl -w" with "use warnings"
    extfs/patchfs: be more specific in error message

Editor

    Add syntax highlighting:
        Jenkinsfiles
        B language
    Improve syntax highlighting:
        ECMAScript
        ECMAScript in TypeScript?
        use diff syntax highlighting for git commit messages (COMMIT_EDITMSG) 

Viewer
Diff viewer
Misc

    Code cleanup
    Filehighlight:
        recognize vsix files as zip files
    Skin updates:
        julia256

Fixes

    Usage of 'sed' in build system/makefiles is not portable
    Unportable '$<' in Makefiles
    FTBFS if ncurses used without --with-ncurses-includes= configure parameter
    Ncurses library is duplicated in MCLIBS
    FTBFS without ext2fs attributes support
    Wrong sort order after swapping panels
    Incorrect time delimiter in the copy/move progress window
    Incorrect redraw of overlapped file panels
    Subshell/Command? line prompt is empty/missing
    Find file: relative ignore directory is applied to the start search directory 
    Diff viewer: options are not applied on second run
    mc.ext.ini: 'Edit' command from 'Default' section is ignored
    mc.ext.ini: .md files are not recognized as Markdown ones by extension
    mcedit: off-by-one error in paragraph formatting
    ftp: incomplete file listing: block and character devices, pipes, sockets are 
         missed
    Various typos in the source code

[Douglas R. Reno]

Fixed at 7170b0a7b34e1dda8d6fbcba5bf9f207b1fdaf21