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GNU Screen v.4.9.1
     posted by anaumov, Thu 17 Aug 2023 02:24:10 PM UTC

I'm announcing availability of GNU Screen v.4.9.1

Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.

This release:

  • Support stop/parity bits on serial port
[...]
GNU Screen v.4.9.0
     posted by anaumov, Tue 01 Feb 2022 04:21:34 PM UTC

I'm announcing availability of GNU Screen v.4.9.0

Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a
physical terminal between several processes, typically
interactive shells.

New in this release:
  * Hardstatus option for used encoding (escape string '%e') [...]

GNU Screen v.4.8.0
     posted by amade, Wed 05 Feb 2020 08:48:18 PM UTC

I'm announcing availability of GNU Screen v.4.8.0

Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical
terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.

This release
  * Improves startup time by only polling for already open files to [...]

GNU Screen v.4.7.0
     posted by amade, Tue 01 Oct 2019 10:47:49 PM UTC

I'm announcing availability of GNU Screen v.4.7.0

This release
  * Adds support for SGR (1006) mouse mode
  * Adds support for OSC 11
  * Updates Unicode ambiguous and wide tables to 12.1.0
  * Fixes:
  - cross-compilation support (bug #43223)
  - a lot of manpage fixes and cleanups

Release is available for download at:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/
or your closest mirror (may have some delay)
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/screen/

Please report any bugs or regressions.

GNU Screen v.4.6.1
     posted by amade, Mon 10 Jul 2017 07:45:46 PM UTC

I'm announcing availability of GNU Screen v.4.6.1

This is a bugfix release:
  * Fixes:
- problems with starting session in some cases
        - parallel make install
        - segfault when querying info on nonUTF locale

Release is available for download at:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/
or your closest mirror (may have some delay)
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/screen/

Please report any bugs or regressions.

GNU Screen v.4.6.0
     posted by amade, Wed 28 Jun 2017 07:01:57 PM UTC

I'm announcing availability of GNU Screen v.4.6.0

Changes:
  * Update Unicode wide tables to 9.0
  * Support more serial speeds
  * Improved namespaces support
  * Migrate from fifos to sockets
  * Start viewing scrollback at first line of output

Release is available for download at:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/
or your closest mirror (may have some delay)
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/screen/

Please report any bugs or regressions.

GNU Screen v.4.5.1
     posted by anaumov, Sun 26 Feb 2017 09:17:48 PM UTC

I'm glad to announce that the new version of GNU Screen (4.5.1) has been released today!

4.5.1 is a bugfix/security release.
We fixed few crashes and, of course, problem with privilege escalation.
We also changed behavior of '-L' option: now you can set new logfile name using '-Logfile' option and '-L' just tells screen to  turn on logging. [...]

GNU Screen v.4.5.0
     posted by anaumov, Tue 17 Jan 2017 08:46:37 PM UTC

GNU Screen v4.5.0 is now available.

The 4.5.0 release is mostly a bugfix release:
  -> broken handling of "bind u digraph U+" (bug #48691)
  -> crash with long $TERM (bug #48983)
  -> crash when bumping blank window [...]

GNU Screen v.4.3.1
     posted by amade, Sun 28 Jun 2015 10:01:54 PM UTC

I'm announcing availability of GNU Screen v.4.3.1

This is a bug fix release.

Just one fixed bug:

  • Visible content get messed up after window resize


Release is available for download at:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/
or your closest mirror (may have some delay)
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/screen/

Please report any bugs or regressions.

GNU Screen v.4.3.0
     posted by amade, Sat 13 Jun 2015 05:36:28 PM UTC

I'm announcing availability of GNU Screen v.4.3.0

So more than a year after previous release there is new one, hopefully
even better. As for things that changed:

  • Introduce Xx string escape showing the executed command of a window
  • Implement dead/zombie window polling, allowing for auto reconnecting
[...]

Older News Approved
GNU Screen v.4.2.1 posted by amade, Sun 27 Apr 2014 11:07:09 PM UTC
https://github.com/amade/screen posted by jnweiger, Thu 21 Feb 2013 07:07:46 PM UTC
Screen users mailing list posted by jnweiger, Fri 28 May 2004 12:37:45 PM UTC - 8 replies
IRC Workshop Details posted by tvon, Sun 13 Apr 2003 11:41:18 PM UTC

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