Re: Midnight Commander 4.6.1 has been released.

2005-07-24 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Miguel,

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 19:22, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
 Hello,
 
 A new version of Midnight Commander, an easy to use console-based
 file manager for Unix systems has been released, it is available from:
 
 http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.6.1.tar.gz

Hooray! It finally happened :-) .

Thanks for this release. Could you please also update the Savannah page
to reflect this release?

Leonard.

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Midnight Commander 4.6.1 has been released.

2005-07-23 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello,

A new version of Midnight Commander, an easy to use console-based
file manager for Unix systems has been released, it is available from:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.6.1.tar.gz

md5sum: 18b20db6e40480a53bac2870c56fc3c4  mc-4.6.1.tar.gz

The changes since the last public release (4.6.0) are as follows:

- Core functionality.
- Fix double free in mc_maybe_editor_or_viewer().
- Do not blindly cleanup in exit_subshell().
- Fix blocking of panel cd-ing with white space command.
- Fix mini status after first Ctrl-O.
- Fix dynamic loading of Photon library for shift keys.
- Fix X11 connection handling.
- Improve support for tcsh.
- 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.


- Security.
- Fix CAN-2004-0226 (buffer overflows).
- Fix CAN-2004-0231 (unsafe temporary file and directory creation).
- Fix CAN-2004-0232 (format string vulnerablities).
- cons.saver does not need to be setuid-root on Linux.
- Hiding of FTP passwords.

- Portability.
- Added configuration files for Sun Solaris pkgmk(1).
- PC port has been removed.
- Support for SCO UNIX has been removed.
- Improve support for QNX Neutrino.

- Editor.
- Fix position save bug.
- Improve c.syntax.
- Improve makefile.syntax.
- Improve python.syntax.
- Improve eiffel.syntax.
- Improve syntax.syntax.
- Add syntax file for the x86 assembler.
- Add syntax file for the Vision(tm) Ray Tracer.
- Add syntax file for the CORBA IDL.
- Add syntax file for the LUA programming language.
- 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.
- Add define keyword for syntax files.

- Viewer.
- Add .7z archives extensions to mc.ext.in.
- Add OpenOffice.org 2 extensions to mc.ext.in.
- Recognize both .udeb and .deb as Debian packages.


- VFS.
- Extensive samba cleanup.
- Fix possible crash on broken cpio archives.
- Quote fixes in urar.in.
- 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.
- extfs/rpm: Don't show the package's contents directly in the root
  directory, but only as an archive called contents.cpio.

- Screen libraries.
Backport S-Lang fixes from HEAD.
- 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.


 

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