- Update to 4.8.30
- Core
* Support PCRE2 as search engine (via ----with-search-engine=pcre2) (#4450)
* Implement panelization buffers for both file panels (#4370)
- VFS
* tar: support extended headers (including long file names and sparse files) (#1952, #2201)
* extfs helpers: replace "perl -w" with "use warnings" (MidnightCommander/mc#174)
* extfs/patchfs: be more specific in error message (#4485)
- Editor
* Add syntax highlighting:
- Jenkinsfiles (#4469)
- B language (#4470)
* Improve syntax highlighting:
- ECMAScript (MidnightCommander/mc#172)
- ECMAScript in TypeScript (MidnightCommander/mc#172)
- use diff syntax highlighting for git commit messages (COMMIT_EDITMSG) (MidnightCommander/mc#85)
- Misc
* Code cleanup (#4426, #4438)
* Filehighlight:
- recognize vsix files as zip files (MidnightCommander/mc#171)
* Skin updates:
- julia256 (#4441, #4445)
- Fixes
* Usage of 'sed' in build system/makefiles is not portable (#4459, #4466)
* Unportable '$<' in Makefiles (#4460)
* FTBFS if ncurses used without --with-ncurses-includes= configure parameter (#4462)
* Ncurses library is duplicated in MCLIBS (#4463, #4465)
* FTBFS without ext2fs attributes support (#4464)
* Wrong sort order after swapping panels (#4432)
* Incorrect time delimiter in the copy/move progress window (#4437)
* Incorrect redraw of overlapped file panels (#4408)
* Subshell/Command line prompt is empty/missing (#3121)
* Find file: relative ignore directory is applied to the start search directory (#4235)
* Diff viewer: options are not applied on second run (#4486)
* mc.ext.ini: 'Edit' command from 'Default' section is ignored (#4434)
* mc.ext.ini: .md files are not recognized as Markdown ones by extension (#4444)
* mcedit: off-by-one error in paragraph formatting (#4446)
* ftp: incomplete file listing: block and character devices, pipes, sockets are missed (#4472)
* Various typos in the source code (MidnightCommander/mc#177, MidnightCommander/mc#178)