Hi,
Updated NEWS for mc-4.6.1-pre5. Rearranged and slightly trimmed the NEWS
entries since mc-4.6.1-pre1. Below list should make reasonable release
notes.
- Security.
- Fixed CAN-2003-1023 (stack overflow in vfs_s_resolve_symlink).
- Fix CAN-2004-0226 (buffer overflows).
- Fix CAN-2004-0231 (unsafe temporary file and directory creation).
- Fix CAN-2004-0232 (format string vulnerablities).
- Full audit of quoting of parameters in vfs scripts (CAN-2004-0494).
- Hiding of FTP passwords.
- cons.saver does not need to be setuid-root on Linux.
- Core functionality.
- Better large file support (int -> off_t)
- Fix X11 connection handling.
- Fix blocking of panel cd-ing with white space command.
- Use 8bit input as default.
- Add implementation to cons.handler for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x.
- Screen saving is now supported on FreeBSD console.
- Improve support for tcsh.
- User is warned if one mc is run from another.
- Fix mini status after first Ctrl-O.
- In red dialog boxes draw the hotkey characters with a color
different than the one used to paint the dialog.
- Better support for '@' in FTP usernames.
- Fix double free in mc_maybe_editor_or_viewer().
- Do not blindly cleanup in exit_subshell().
- Fix dynamic loading of Photon library for shift keys.
- libX11 is loaded dynamically using gmodule if possible.
- Background support now uses pipes instead of UNIX sockets.
- Add gnome, rxvt and xterm-new terminals (keyword copy for mc.lib).
- Make the find dialog more responsive while scanning through large
files.
- Hide temporary commands from history.
- Add --with-glib12 option to configure to force using glib 1.2.x.
- Add --disable-background option to disable background support.
- Portability.
- Added configuration files for Sun Solaris pkgmk(1).
- Improve support for QNX Neutrino.
- PC port has been removed.
- Support for SCO UNIX has been removed.
- Editor.
- Support for large syntax files.
- Add syntax file for the x86 assembler, the Vision(tm) Ray Tracer,
CORBA IDL, LUA, ASP.NET, Eiffel, Ruby and C#.
- Improve c.syntax, makefile.syntax, python.syntax, eiffel.syntax
syntax.syntax, php.syntax file, sql.syntax file, perl.syntax,
diff.syntax and makefile.syntax.
- Fix position save bug.
- Fix bugs for mcedit compiled with ncurses.
- New status string format in mcedit.
- Temporarily disable safe save and backups on remote VFS because it
doesn't work.
- Enable user menu in mcedit.
- Viewer.
- Add .7z archives extensions to mc.ext.in.
- Add OpenOffice.org 2 extensions to mc.ext.in.
- Recognize both .udeb and .deb as Debian packages.
- Screen libraries.
- Internal slang upgrade to 1.4.9.
- Add many boundary check into internal slang library.
- Backport S-Lang fixes from HEAD.
- Increased maximum screen size to 512 x 512.
- Add support for qansi-m terminals.
- VFS.
- Extensive samba cleanup.
- Fix possible crash on broken cpio archives.
- Quote fixes in urar.in.
- Full audit of quoting of parameters in vfs scripts (CAN-2004-0494).
- Fixed CAN-2003-1023 (stack overflow in vfs_s_resolve_symlink).
- Various fixes in tar.c.
- VFS supports iso9660 images.
- extfs/rpm: Don't show the package's contents directly in the root
directory, but only as an archive called contents.cpio.
- Translations.
- New translations: Mongolian, Serbian and Lithuanian.
- Updated translations: German, Spanish, Ukrainian, Italian and
Hungarian.
Leonard.
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