Log Message:
Update to 4.8.31

- Core

  * Minimal version of GLib is 2.32.0.

- VFS

  * fish: drop support of native FISH server and protocol. Rename VFS to shell \ 
(#4232)
  * extfs;
    * uc1541 extfs: update up to 3.6 version (#4511)
    * s3+: port to Python3 (#4324)
  * Support for LZO/LZOP compression format (#4509)

- Misc

  * Skins: add color for non-printable characters in editor (#4433)

- Fixes

  * FTBFS on FreeBSD with ext2fs attribute support (#4493)
  * Broken stickchars (-a) mode (#4498)
  * Wrong timestamp after resuming of file copy operation (#4499)
  * Editor: wrong deletion of marked column (#3761)
  * Diff viewer: segfault when display of line numbers is enabled (#4500)
  * Tar VFS: broken handling of hard links (#4494)
  * Sftp VFS: failure establishing SSH session due hashed host names in \ 
~/.ssh/known_hosts (#4506)
  * Shell VFS: incorrect file names with cyrillic or diacritic symbols (#4507)
  * mc.ext.ini: incorrect description of of how multiple sections and keys with \ 
same names are processed (#4497)
  * mc.ext.ini: unescaped backslash \ is treated as invalid escape sequence in \ 
glib-2.77.3 and glib-2.79 (#4502)
  * mc.ext.ini: file "Makefile.zip" is handled as Makefile not as \ 
zip-arhive (#4419)

Version 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)

Version 4.8.29

- Core

    * Add more options for panel filter (#1373):
        - "Files only" (#4209)
        - "Case sensitive" (#4334)
        - "Using shell patterns"
    * Continue copy after interrupt (#4409)
    * Restore menu accelerator for "Sort order": back to \ 
"S"; change menu accelerator for "SFTP link" to \ 
"N" (#4373)
    * Add support for cross-compilation with PERL path different between --build \ 
and --host (#4399)
    * Bootstrap with autotools providing direct support for Apple M1
    * Port mc.ext to INI format and rename to mc.ext.ini (#4141, #3742, #3191)
        - Implement compound (AND) conditions (Type/Shell and Type/Regex pairs) \ 
to disambiguate overloaded extensions
        - There is no fallback to previous mc.ext format

- Editor

    * Change location of all user's syntax related stuff to \ 
~/.local/share/mc/syntax/ directory (#4413)
    * syntax/Syntax: document location of syntax files (#4320)
    * Improvements of syntax highlighting:
        - YAML: improve multiline blocks highliting (#4059)
    * New syntax highlighting:
        - Privoxy (https://www.privoxy.org) actions files (#4384)
        - TOML (Tom's Obvious Minimal Language) (#4412)

- Misc

    * Code cleanup (#4357, #4397, #4425)
    * sqlite3 view: use 'immutable=1' URI parameter to prevent leaving wal/shm \ 
files after viewing sqlite database (#4369)
    * Support of contour terminal emulator \ 
(https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour) (#4396)
    * mc.ext.ini: clarify regex for makefiles (#4419)
    * Remove empty hints translations by setting 5% threshold (#3608)

- Fixes

    * Fail to build with only SFTP network VFS is enabled (#4420)
    * Crash on quick view of archives (#4398)
    * Wrong description of --enable-configure-args option (#4400)
    * Wrong version sort (#4374)
    * No subshell if subshell is initializing more than 1 second (#3121)
    * Filter keyboard shortcut only affects left panel (#4383)
    * File type check does not work with special character in filename (#4377)
    * Select files keeping the right mouse button pressed doesn't select all \ 
files (#4381)
    * Cannot scroll panel listing upwards using mouse (#4119)
    * "Directory Compare" doesn't correct work with panelization (#3220)
    * Wrong decompressing of zip files in quick view panel (#4404)
    * mc.ext: 'include' keyword (for command class def) have no effect if it was \ 
defined before 'Include' keyword (for command def) (#2773)
    * mcedit: infinite loop when deleting a macro (#4391)
    * mcviewer: segfault when switching from raw to parsed mode and back (#4401)
    * Broken handling of zip archives (#4368)
    * FISH subshell: commands don't work after window resize (#4372)
    * FTP VFS: doesn't reconnect to server after timeout (#3670)
    * FISH VFS: cannot remove non-empty directory (#4364)
    * EXTFS VFS: segfault if archive contains file(s) in the parent directory \ 
(#4422, #4427)
    * Tests: variable redeclaration in filevercmp_test5 (#4358)