Release notes

[Leonard den Ottolander <leonard den ottolander nl>]

Hello Miguel, all,

I've started by rearranging the entries in news since mc-4.6.1-pre1.

Here they are. Please report any omissions.

- Core functionality.
	- Use 8bit input as default.
	- Better support for '@' in FTP usernames.
	- Better large file support (int -> off_t)
	- Add gnome, rxvt and xterm-new terminals (keyword copy for mc.lib).
	- Make the find dialog more responsive while scanning through large
	  files.
	- Add implementation to cons.handler for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x.
	- Screen saving is now supported on FreeBSD console.
	- 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.
	- Background support now uses pipes instead of UNIX sockets.
	- libX11 is loaded dynamically using gmodule if possible.
	- User is warned if one mc is run from another.
	- In red dialog boxes draw the hotkey characters with a color
	  different than the one used to paint the dialog.
	- Improve support for tcsh.
	- Fixed X11 connection handling.

- Security.
	- Fixed CAN-2004-0226 (buffer overflows).
	- Fixed CAN-2004-0231 (unsafe temporary file and directory creation).
	- Fixed CAN-2004-0232 (format string vulnerablities).
	- cons.saver does not need to be setuid-root on Linux.
	- Hiding of FTP passwords.
	- See also VFS.

- Editor.
	- Fix bugs for mcedit compiled with ncurses.
	- New status string format in mcedit.
	- Support for large syntax files.
	- Temporarily disable safe save and backups on remote VFS because it
	  doesn't work.
	- Enable user menu in mcedit.
	- Add syntax file for the ASP.NET technology.
	- Add syntax file for the Eiffel programming language.
	- Add syntax file for the Ruby programming language.
	- Add syntax file for the C# programming language.
	- Upgrade php.syntax file.
	- Improve sql.syntax file.
	- Improve perl.syntax.
	- Improve diff.syntax.
	- Improve makefile.syntax.
	- Add "define" keyword for syntax files.
	- Add syntax file for the x86 assembler.
	- Add syntax file for the Vision(tm) Ray Tracer.
	- Add syntax file for the CORBA IDL.
	- Add syntax file for the LUA programming language.

- Portability.
	- PC port has been removed.
	- Support for SCO UNIX has been removed.
	- Improve support for QNX Neutrino.

- Translations.
	- New translations: Mongolian, Serbian and Lithuanian.
	- Updated translations: Ukrainian, Italian, Hungarian.
	- Updated translations: Spain.

- Screen libraries.
	- Add many boundary check into internal slang library.
	- Internal slang upgrade to 1.4.9.
	- Increased maximum screen size to 512 x 512.
	- Add support for qansi-m terminals.

- VFS.
	- 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.

Leonard.

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