Hi everyone,
I'm glad to announce the new release of GNU screen.
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 the 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 at:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/
Please report any bugs or regressions.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.
Cheers,
Alex
