Midnight Commander 4.8.17

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Major changes since 4.8.16

Core

• Minimal version of Gettext is 0.18.1 (#1885)
• Optimization of copy/move operations (use adaptive buffer as in coreutils) (#2193)
• Recognize csh as tcsh (#2742)
• Internals:
  • Switch to new high-level mouse API (#3571)

VFS

• FISH helpers: remove executable bit (#3610)

Editor

• Updated F90 syntax (#3618)

Viewer

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Misc

• Code cleanup (#3598)
• Install mc.keymap as a symlink to mc.default.keymap (#3609)

Fixes

• Segfault due to incorrect value of SHELL environment variable (#3606)
• Segfault when copying files under FreeBSD 9.3 (#3617)
• Segfault when entering into some cpio archives (#3621)
• Subshell output lost on window resize under tmux, GNU screen (#3639)
• Subshell cursor position lost after window resizing (#3640)
• Listbox no longer scrolls when dragging outside widget (#3559)
• VFS: extfs: incorrect date parsing in unzip (#3622)
• VFS: extfs: buffer overflow (#3605)
• VFS: patchfs: syntax error (#3620)
• VFS: fish: mistakes in ls Perl helper (#3611)