For details see:
http://midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.30
Summary:
"Major changes since 4.8.29
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)"
Signed-off-by: Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>