After nearly seven months of development, version 4.8.32 of the Midnight Commander file manager, written in C and distributed under the GNU GPL 3 license, has been released.
Change log:
- The current directory can now be passed to the terminal emulator using the escape sequence OSC 7, allowing new tabs to open in the terminal with this directory.
- File attributes are preserved when copying or moving within the ext2 file system.
- The temporary directory name is now unique on each launch.
- Passwords are now hidden in the progress dialog for file operations in virtual file systems (e.g., SFTP).
- Support for the FTP reget command has been added when moving files.
- Time support has been improved to nanosecond accuracy for systems other than Linux (macOS, BSD, AIX, Solaris).
- The use of mmap has been removed to simplify code maintenance.
- Correct detection of RAR 7 archives has been added.
- Improved syntax highlighting for C and C++ code in mcedit.
- The mcdiff.1 man page has been added.
- Whitespace and bracket escaping in mc.ext.ini has been clarified.
- New themes added: modarcon16-defbg-thin, modarcon16-thin, modarcon16root-defbg-thin, modarcon16root-thin, modarin256-defbg-thin, modarin256-thin, modarin256root-defbg-thin, modarin256root-thin, julia256root, xoria256-thin (shown in the screenshot), and xoria256root-thin.
- Crash fixed when copying files from tar archives.
- Crash fixed when entering a remote archive.
- Increased speed for opening ISO images.
- A number of other bugs have been fixed.
Source: linux.org.ru
