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GNU Screen 5.0 Terminal Multiplexer Brings New Commands, Revamped Authentication

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9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor
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Alexander Naumov announced today the release and general availability of GNU Screen 5.0 as the latest stable version of this popular open-source full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes.

GNU Screen 5.0 is here more than a year after the last release in the 4.x series and more than two years after version 4.9, introducing a revamped authentication mechanism, escape %T to show the current TTY for a window, escape %O to show the number of currently opened windows, and support for wcwdith() instead of UTF-8 hard-coded tables.

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