02 February 2009, 11:50

Midnight Commander wakes from deep sleep

The Midnight Commander file manager developers have restarted work on the, once quite popular, file manager for the Linux/Unix console. Midnight Commander was inspired by the famous Norton Commander for DOS. In recent years, there had been no development at all, but now a "Bugfix Release" 4.6.2 has been made available. The new release, as the tag suggests, contains no new features.

The classic two column view of files in Midnight Commander One highly desired feature for Linux and Unix distributions, UTF8 support, is available and can be retrofitted to Midnight Commander, using a seperate patch, mc-4.6.2-utf8.patch.gz, available from the project's download site or through diffing with the UTF8 branch of the project's Git repository. A roadmap has been created, setting goals for a 4.6.3 version and 4.7 version of Midnight Commander.