v6.0.3

mc6 v6.0.3 (2026-08-02)

Changes to know about

• The built-in tar and cpio filesystems are gone. Archives are opened by the arcmc panel plugin, which comes in the mc6-plugins package. (#118, #119)

Fixes

Packages

• The Fedora package could not be installed: it asked for /usr/sbin/perl and /usr/sbin/python3, paths that no package owns. (#115)
• The rpm and the deb are installed in a clean image before a release is published. (#116)
• Spell checking finds aspell on a system that has only the library, without the development package. (#124)
• The archive plugin is built where libarchive ships no pkg-config file. (#114)
• Spell checking is built in unconditionally, and the --enable-aspell configure option is gone. (#115)

mcterm

• The embedded terminal answers terminal queries, so a shell like fish no longer waits ten seconds and leaves the query on the screen. (#123)

Core

• mc starts when the login shell is a plain sh: the subshell is turned off and the command line stays. (#117)
• Non-ASCII characters appear in the editor at once, not after the next keypress. (#113)

Features

Plugins

• The spell engine is a plugin setting now: aspell or hunspell, chosen at run time. (#112)
• Panel plugins can show a Quick View preview in the neighbouring panel. (#108)