Midnight Commander 4.6.1 has been released.

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel novell com>]

Hello,

    A new version of Midnight Commander, an easy to use console-based
file manager for Unix systems has been released, it is available from:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.6.1.tar.gz

        md5sum: 18b20db6e40480a53bac2870c56fc3c4  mc-4.6.1.tar.gz

    The changes since the last public release (4.6.0) are as follows:

- Core functionality.
        - Fix double free in mc_maybe_editor_or_viewer().
        - Do not blindly cleanup in exit_subshell().
        - Fix blocking of panel cd-ing with white space command.
        - Fix mini status after first Ctrl-O.
        - Fix dynamic loading of Photon library for shift keys.
        - Fix X11 connection handling.
        - Improve support for tcsh.
        - 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.


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

- Portability.
        - Added configuration files for Sun Solaris pkgmk(1).
        - PC port has been removed.
        - Support for SCO UNIX has been removed.
        - Improve support for QNX Neutrino.

- Editor.
        - Fix position save bug.
        - Improve c.syntax.
        - Improve makefile.syntax.
        - Improve python.syntax.
        - Improve eiffel.syntax.
        - Improve syntax.syntax.
        - 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.
        - 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.

- 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.


- 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.

- Screen libraries.
        Backport S-Lang fixes from HEAD.
        - 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.