Midnight Commander 4.8.30 File Manager Released

After eight months of development, the console file manager midnight commander 4.8.30 has been released. It is published under the GPLV3+ license. This release can be found on GitHub.

The main list of changes in this release includes:

  • Added support for panelization buffers for both file panels, which allows users to panelize the results of two different search operations in panels.
  • Added assembly option “–with-Earch -engine = PCRE2” to use the regular expressions of PCRE2.
  • VFS added extended headlines of TAR archives, enabling working with long files and files containing empty areas.
  • In the built-in editor, syntax illumination has been added for the programming language b and the files of the continuous integration of Jenkins.
  • Improved syntax illumination for Ecmascript, Typescript, and GIT-community messages.
  • VSIX files are now provided as ZIP archives in the panels.
  • Improved color theme Julia256. Check out the screenshot.
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