After seven months of development, version 4.8.32 of the console file manager Midnight Commander has been released. Developed since 1994, it offers a dual-panel interface reminiscent of Norton Commander. Midnight Commander features include mouse support, a built-in file viewer, a text editor with syntax highlighting, the ability to navigate within archives, packages, and remote storages (SFTP, SSH) using virtual file systems, handlers for various file types, a quick switch to terminal mode for executing commands, the use of bookmarks for frequently used locations in the file system, and flexible search tools. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv3+ license.
List of major changes:
- Support has been added for the ESC sequence OSC 7 to transmit information about the current directory to the terminal emulator, enabling the current directory to be preserved when opening a new tab in GNOME Terminal.
- Copying and moving operations now preserve ext2 file system attributes.
- Temporary directory names have been changed to be unique for each execution.
- Password masking is implemented in the progress dialog for file operations (e.g., during SFTP copying).
- Support for the 'reget' command has been added to resume interrupted data transfers when moving files over FTP.
- Nanosecond precision time support has been implemented in systems other than Linux (macOS, BSD, AIX, Solaris).
- To simplify maintenance, the code using mmap has been removed.
- VFS support for navigating the contents of unrar-7 archives has been added.
- The built-in text editor has improved syntax highlighting for C and C++ code.
- New themes added include xoria256-thin, xoria256root-thin, modarcon16-defbg-thin, modarcon16-thin, modarcon16root-defbg-thin, modarcon16root-thin, modarin256-defbg-thin, modarin256-thin, modarin256root-defbg-thin, modarin256root-thin, and julia256root.
Source: opennet.ru
