- Update to Version 4.8.20
** Core
* Rename key bindings:
- [main].PanelListingSwitch -> [panel].CycleListingFormat
- [main].PanelListingChange -> [main].SetupListingFormat
*Speed up of UTF-8 normalization for frequent cases (#3616)
** VFS
* extfs helpers tester:
- diff of failed tests is now included in output to ease bug reporting (#3784)
** Editor
* Syntax:
- ES2015 support (#3793)
- TypeScript support (#3794)
- Ada 95 updates (#3804)
- Apache Hive QL support (#3828)
- SQL & PHP keyword updates (MidnightCommander/mc#129)
- Simplification of case insensitive file name patterns in /usr/share/mc/syntax/Syntax file (#3829)
- Markdown (initial support) (#3864)
- Protocol Buffers and gRPC support (#3868)
* Add %c (cursor offset from BOF) support for user menu macros (#3867)
** Viewer
** Diff viewer
** Misc
* Unify curses initialization for various curses implementations (#3697)
* Highlight txz extension as archive like tgz, etc. (#3782)
* Add new media extensions to filehighlight.ini (#3834)
** Fixes
* Wrong --help message for mcview, mcedit and mcdiff (#3805)
* Compression from menu broken due to bad quoting (#3840)
* --with-homedir gives "yes" as config directory (#3836)
* External panelize: opening a file with an absolute path fails (#2942)
* Filter isn't cleared when entering empty string (#3813)
* Panelization is not kept while switching panel listing mode (#3810)
* Cannot tab out of a QuickView panel (#3815)
* Cannot use the F10 key in a QuickView panel (#3816)
* Wromg INPUT_COMPLETE_CD flag handling in the QuickDialog? engine (#3870)
* mcview: file interpreted as latin1 instead of utf8 (#3783)
* mcview: incomplete read of filtering data (#3817)
* mcview: search doesn't grow file as much as needed (#3819, #3855)
* mcview: goto doesn't grow file as much as needed (#3826)
* mcview: quick view panel: crash on slow startup while switching panel mode (#3846)
* mcedit: fix broken encoding into UTF-8 for 8-bit displays (#3843)
* mcedit: incorrect %f macro substitution in the user menu (#3861)
* man pages: wrong paths of mc.hint and mc.hlp (#3806)
* subshell: fix broken tcsh 6.20+ cd escaping (#3852)
* VFS: incremental tar doesn't contain empty directories (#2297)
* VFS: incremental tar: wrong directories owner for tar --numeric-owner -g (#3709)
* VFS: timestamps not being preserved due to uninitialized struct stat st_[acm]tim.tv_nsec (#3821)
* VFS: ftp: can't retrieve password from .netrc when user is in URL (#3869)
* VFS: tests: locale issue causing helpers using 'sort' to fail (#3787)
* VFS: tests: unportable 'echo' use causing one rpm helper test to fail (#3786)
* Spelling errors in the manual page (#3839)