GNU Screen v.5.0.0 is released

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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