GNU Screen v.5.0.0 is released
Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical
terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.
The 5.0.0 release includes the following changes to the previous
release 4.9.1:
- Rewritten authentication mechanism
- Add escape %T to show current tty for window
- Add escape %O to show number of currently open windows
- Use wcwdith() instead of UTF-8 hard-coded tables
- New commands:
- auth [on|off]
Provides password protection
- status [top|up|down|bottom] [left|right]
The status window by default is in bottom-left corner.
This command can move status messages to any corner of the screen.
- truecolor [on|off]
- multiinput
Input to multiple windows at the same time
- Removed commands:
- time
- debug
- password
- maxwin
- nethack
- Fixes:
- Screen buffers ESC keypresses indefinitely
- Crashes after passing through a zmodem transfer
- Fix double -U issue
Release is available for download:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/
Please report any bugs or regressions.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.
Cheers,
Alex
Update
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GNU Screen v.5.0.0 is released
Version 5.0.0 of GNU Screen has been released. Notable changes in this release include new commands for authentication, input into multiple windows at the same time, and to turn on/off truecolor support.