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+Version 4.8.20
+
+- Core
+
+  * Rename key bindings:
+    * [main].PanelListingSwitch -> [panel].CycleListingFormat
+    * [main].PanelListingChange -> [main].SetupListingFormat
+  * Speed up of UTF-8 normalization for frequent cases (#3616)
+
+- VFS
+
+  * extfs helpers tester:
+    * diff of failed tests is now included in output to ease bug reporting (#3784)
+
+- Editor
+
+  * Syntax:
+    * ES2015 support (#3793)
+    * TypeScript support (#3794)
+    * Ada 95 updates (#3804)
+    * Apache Hive QL support (#3828)
+    * SQL & PHP keyword updates (MidnightCommander/mc#129)
+    * Simplification of case insensitive file name patterns in /usr/share/mc/syntax/Syntax file (#3829)
+    * Markdown (initial support) (#3864)
+    * Protocol Buffers and gRPC support (#3868)
+  * Add %c (cursor offset from BOF) support for user menu macros (#3867)
+
+- Misc
+
+  * Unify curses initialization for various curses implementations (#3697)
+  * Highlight txz extension as archive like tgz, etc. (#3782)
+  * Add new media extensions to `filehighlight.ini` (#3834)
+
+- Fixes
+
+  * Wrong --help message for mcview, mcedit and mcdiff (#3805)
+  * Compression from menu broken due to bad quoting (#3840)
+  * `--with-homedir` gives "yes" as config directory (#3836)
+  * External panelize: opening a file with an absolute path fails (#2942)
+  * Filter isn't cleared when entering empty string (#3813)
+  * Panelization is not kept while switching panel listing mode (#3810)
+  * Cannot tab out of a QuickView panel (#3815)
+  * Cannot use the F10 key in a QuickView panel (#3816)
+  * Wromg INPUT_COMPLETE_CD flag handling in the QuickDialog engine (#3870)
+  * mcview: file interpreted as latin1 instead of utf8 (#3783)
+  * mcview: incomplete read of filtering data (#3817)
+  * mcview: search doesn't grow file as much as needed (#3819, #3855)
+  * mcview: goto doesn't grow file as much as needed (#3826)
+  * mcview: quick view panel: crash on slow startup while switching panel mode (#3846)
+  * mcedit: fix broken encoding into UTF-8 for 8-bit displays (#3843)
+  * mcedit: incorrect %f macro substitution in the user menu (#3861)
+  * man pages: wrong paths of mc.hint and mc.hlp (#3806)
+  * subshell: fix broken tcsh 6.20+ cd escaping (#3852)
+  * VFS: incremental tar doesn't contain empty directories (#2297)
+  * VFS: incremental tar: wrong directories owner for tar --numeric-owner -g (#3709)
+  * VFS: timestamps not being preserved due to uninitialized struct stat st_[acm]tim.tv_nsec (#3821)
+  * VFS: ftp: can't retrieve password from .netrc when user is in URL (#3869)
+  * VFS: tests: locale issue causing helpers using 'sort' to fail (#3787)
+  * VFS: tests: unportable 'echo' use causing one rpm helper test to fail (#3786)
+  * Spelling errors in the manual page (#3839)
+
+
 Version 4.8.19
 
 - Core