After everybody though that Midnight Commander is dead and the next release of it will be released together with hurd, it is very cool to announce that a new team of developers are active again.

We've taken over officially the development in December and now, after two months of work a new version of mc is available: 4.6.2. This is mostly a bugfix release addressing several very nasty bugs which are also present in the debian package. Here the notes what has changed in this release:

• MC Core
  • Changed HQ url to point to new website www.midnight-commander.org (Closes: #137, #138)
  • Added a micro helper library in order to go slowly avay from glib (Closes: #157)
  • Use static strings as section entries in ~/.mc/history WARNING!: This will break old files (Closes: #50)
  • Fixed a repaint issue when clicking on the "View" Button instead of using F3 (Closes: #35)
  • Removed obsolete autoconf macros (Closes: #133)
  • Fix escaping for command line completion (Closes: #147)
  • prevent mc from segfaulting when getting invalid timestamps on files (Closes: #96)
  • Fixed a keybord issue when running mc via a putty console (Closes: #203)
  • setted pty fd to closeonexec (on subshell) (Closes: #174)
  • Fixed file renames, when copying/moving is performed into deleted directories. (Closes: #181)
  • Add an option to show executables first in the panels (Closes: #173)
  • Fixed concatdirand_file if there is a parameter = NULL (Closes: #180)
  • Allow out-of-tree builds (Closes: #224, #208)

• Editor

  • Syntax highlighting for:
    • debian files (debian/changelog, debian/control, debian/copyright, ..) (Closes: #142)
    • updated sh syntax highlighting (Closes: #143)
    • updated pascal syntax highlighting (Closes: #65)
    • differentiate between c and cpp files for highlighting (Closes: #16)
    • updated python highlighting to support python 2.6 (Closes: #216)
  • Removed some unneeded variables (Closes: #168, #151)
  • Do use a ro test if a file exists (Closes: #206)
  • Fixes some missbehaviour in regex matching (Closes: #207, #211 )
    • start at front of line and not on cursor position
    • . shouldn't match a newline

• VFS

  • Fix some bashisms in some extfs scripts (Closes: #146)
  • Fixed various problems with symlinks and files with chars which needs escaping over fish (Closes: #10, #87, #149, #53)
  • Added 7zip extfs descriptor (Closes: #92)
  • Switched from o3totxt to odf2txt as o3totxt is outdated (Closes: #218)
• Locale
  • Updated german translation (Closes: #167)
  • New Belarussian translation (Closes: #170)
  • Updated russian translation (Closes: #159)

As you see.. quite a long list of fixes Have fun and check the new release out right here!