For details see:
https://midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.31
"Major changes since 4.8.30
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)
...
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)"
Signed-off-by: Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>