Changes:
- many small bug fixes
- improved syntax highlighting files for the internal editor
- security fix for the urar virtual file system
- updated German and Italian translations
Joined work in pkgsrc-wip by Pavel Arnost, myself, and Roland Illig.
Version 4.6.1-pre2.
Release candidate for 4.6.1.
- Security.
- Fixed CAN-2004-0226 (buffer overflows).
- Fixed CAN-2004-0231 (unsafe temporary file and directory creation).
- Fixed CAN-2004-0232 (format string vulnerablities).
- cons.saver does not need to be setuid-root on Linux.
- Hiding of FTP passwords.
- Portability.
- PC port has been removed.
- Support for SCO UNIX has been removed.
- Improve support for QNX Neutrino.
- Core functionality.
- Use 8bit input as default.
- Better support for '@' in FTP usernames.
- Better large file support (int -> off_t)
- Add gnome, rxvt and xterm-new terminals (keyword copy for mc.lib).
- Make the find dialog more responsive while scanning through large
files.
- Add implementation to cons.handler for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x.
- Screen saving is now supported on FreeBSD console.
- Hide temporary commands from history.
- Add --with-glib12 option to configure to force using glib 1.2.x.
- Add --disable-background option to disable background support.
- Background support now uses pipes instead of UNIX sockets.
- libX11 is loaded dynamically using gmodule if possible.
- User is warned if one mc is run from another.
- In red dialog boxes draw the hotkey characters with a color
different than the one used to paint the dialog.
- Screen libraries.
- Add many boundary check into internal slang library.
- Internal slang upgrade to 1.4.9.
- Increased maximum screen size to 512 x 512.
- Add support for qansi-m terminals.
- Editor.
- Fix bugs for mcedit compiled with ncurses.
- New status string format in mcedit.
- Support for large syntax files.
- Temporarily disable safe save and backups on remote VFS because it
doesn't work.
- Enable user menu in mcedit.
- Add syntax file for the ASP.NET technology.
- Add syntax file for the Eiffel programming language.
- Add syntax file for the Ruby programming language.
- Add syntax file for the C# programming language.
- Upgrade php.syntax file.
- Improve sql.syntax file.
- Improve perl.syntax.
- Improve diff.syntax.
- Improve makefile.syntax.
- VFS.
- Full audit of quoting of parameters in vfs scripts (CAN-2004-0494).
- Fixed CAN-2003-1023 (stack overflow in vfs_s_resolve_symlink).
- Various fixes in tar.c.
- VFS supports iso9660 images.
- Translations.
- New translations: Mongolian, Serbian and Lithuanian.
- Updated translations: Ukrainian, Italian, Hungarian.
Version 4.6.0.
- Core functionality.
- Fixed infinite loop under xterm if xterm is forcedly closed.
- Portability.
- ncurses can be found even if it's renamed to curses (OpenBSD).
- Warning fixes for 64-bit systems.
Version 4.6.0-pre3.
Another release candidate for 4.6.0.
- Core functionality.
- ".." is no longer shown in the root directory.
- Fixed segmentation fault when processing truncated
section header in the corrupted initialization file.
- Screen libraries.
- Fixed incorrect processing of AltGr on Linux console
introduced in -pre2.
- Documentation.
- Fixed a bug in man2hlp that could randomly prevent correct
generation of the help files.
- Added manual page for mcview.
Version 4.6.0-pre2.
Release candidate for 4.6.0.
- Security.
- mc now creates its own temporary directory /tmp/mc-$USER.
If it fails or permissions are wrong, the user is warned.
- Portability.
- mc now complies with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard and
uses @prefix@/share/mc for the data files.
- Support for glib 2.0.x has been added.
- glib 1.2 is now properly detected on FreeBSD.
- Core functionality.
- Fixed segmentation fault when displaying messages from
background operations.
- When using support for setting the last working directory of
mc in the parent shell, "mc" is now an alias in all shells,
not a function. The "-P" option needs an argument now.
- Alt-O sets the same directory on the other panel.
- Current directory is shown in the xterm window title.
- Screen libraries.
- Screen library is now selected by the option --with-screen.
- X11 support is enabled by default, use --without-x to disable.
- The keycode now contains information about all screen
modifiers. This allows to implement more shortcuts, but this
work has just begun.
- Included S-Lang library has been updated to version 1.4.5.
- Mouse wheel is supported in the internal editor and viewer in
xterm compatible terminals that implement wheel events.
- Editor.
- Internal editor now saves the cursor position in the file.
- New syntax rules - RPM specfile, m4.
- Editor shows control characters in the caret notation.
- VFS.
- Most extfs scripts have been reviewed and improved.
- Fixed viewing and editing files on mcfs.
- Support for termnet and HSC firewall has been removed.
- Documentation.
- Polish manual has been added.
Version 4.6.0-pre1.
- Security release. Massive code cleanup. Most improvements didn't
need any significant amount of the new code.
- Security.
- Fixes for remotely exploitable buffer overflows in VFS.
- Ports and editions.
- GNOME edition has been removed.
- OS/2 port has been removed.
- MAD (Memory Allocation Debugger) has been removed.
- Core functionality.
- Large file support enabled by default.
- Shift-F5 and Shift-F6 copy and rename like F5 and F6, but
suggest the selected filename as the destination.
- File search with contents doesn't use external egrep.
- Directories with many files are now reloaded much faster.
- Subshell works under Cygwin.
- Screen libraries.
- Improved support for ncurses.
- Dropped support for the old Curses library.
- Colors are enabled on all capable terminals when using S-Lang.
- Syntax highlighting now works with ncurses.
- Editor.
- Editor files are now stored in ~/.mc/cedit instead of ~/.cedit
to avoid collision with Cooledit.
- New syntax rules - PHP, Tcl, SQL, DOS batch file.
- Editor supports word completion.
- VFS.
- Local temporary file is used for uploading via ftpfs/fish only
if file is uploaded to the same ftp/fish server.
- mcfs support is disabled by default.
- Samba configuration and codepage files locations can be
configured.
- .netrc support in ftpfs is enabled by default.
- Viewing zip files could corrupt them.
- Documentation.
- Added manuals in Spanish, Italian and Russian.
- Help files are not distributed, but generated during the
build from the manual pages.
- Translations.
- Belarussian translation has been added.
Version 4.5.55
- Mostly bugfixes and portability fixes. Making things work as they
were meant to work.
- Text edition improvements.
- Ctrl-O supported in the viewer and editor.
- Better terminal support. Should not need "Learn Keys" on rxvt
and xterm in most cases.
- GNOME edition improvements.
- Find dialog rewritten.
- Editor and viewer ask whether to save modified file when
closed from window manager.
- Editor.
- New syntax rules - S-Lang, PO files, Octave.
- Alt-B goes to matching bracket.
- Portability improvements.
- Should compile out-of-box on Cygwin and QNX Neutrino.
- Can be compiled by BSD make.
- Subshell and VFS code are safer and more portable.
- Experimental features (disabled by default).
- Charset conversion support.
- Large (64-bit) file support on 32-bit systems.
- use included slang library, fixes various issues with colours and character
printing (e.g., TERM=wsvt25 in color mode on wscons console or TERM=xterm in
xterm). From Pavel Arnost via PR pkg/21539.
- add patch from devel/libslang
and has no list of changes. Restructure packages to use a common Makefile
and patch directory. Set the maintainer to me, as this is a non-trivial
change. Compile in the samba vfs code.
