wiki:NEWS-4.8.16
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Midnight Commander 4.8.16

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Major changes since 4.8.15

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:

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)

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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)