Midnight Commander 4.7.0-pre1

We have finally released the first preliminary release Midnight Commander 4.7.0-pre1!

This release incorporates many code refactoring changes, user interface improvements, numerous bugfixes and new features.

Changelog

Major changes since 4.6.2:

Changes in the core

• Native UTF-8 support;
• Support for filename charset selection in panels;
• Reworked 'Find File' dialog;
• New unified search/replace engine with multiple search types: plain, wildcard, regexp and hex;
• Extended 'Learn Keys' capability;
• Locale-based codepage autodetection;
• Initial support for Doxygen generated docs;
• Build system updates (autoconf);
• Translation updates;
• Multiple x86_64 fixes.

Editor

• Various editor enhancements (mark/move/copy/paste vertical blocks);
• Multiple syntax file updates;
• Source code navigation through ctags/etags TAGS files;
• New option: 'Persistent selection';
• Delete/Backspace? deletes selected block if 'Persistent selection' is off;
• Ability to shift blocks to the right with Tab key and to the left with Complete key if 'Persistent selection' is off;
• Show line numbers (optional);
• Highlighting of tabs and trailing spaces (optional);
• Added some hotkeys.

Miscellaneous

• show free space on current file system
• show size of selected files in mini-status bar

Bugfixes

• editor undo fixes
• included many fixes from other distributions
• fixed fish handling for symlinks and fancy names to be escaped
• fixed fish permission checks that can be cause of segfault
• various mc.ext fixes
• commandline completion fixes (mainly, escaping hadling)
• small fixes in history handling (locale independent .mc/history entries)
• slow search in viewer (and we still have place to optimize it)
• code cleanups, various memleak/etc fixes (many thanks to valgrind)