Re: Screen 4.0.2 Announcement

I find it ironic how despite this announcement (re: "already
available before the winter holidays") that the official GNU FTP
site still does not have any of the versions past 3.9.15.  That
makes me wonder if a release date of 20031205 is accurate, and if
such will confuse maintainers of third-party builds (such as RedHat
with their rpms, Debian packages, *BSD ports, etc.).

Is all of this being addressed?

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On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:58:53PM +0100, Juergen Weigert wrote:
> To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
> 
> 					Fri Jan 16 20:26:33 CET 2004, jw.
> 
> Screen-4.0 is ready for production
> ==================================
> 
> 
>                         Current version: 4.0.2
>                         Release date: 20031205 14:02
>                         md5sum: ed68ea9b43d9fba0972cb017a24940a1
>                         size: 840519
> 
> Screen has been in the 3.x Version numbers for twelve years now. 
> We finally made the jump into the 4.x version numbers.
> 
> There have been 4.x versions around since September 2003, but there was 
> none on the GNU mirrors and no announcement so far. I have to apologize for 
> that. Also the current 4.0.2 version was already available before winter 
> holidays. Sorry again.
> 
> We did not come up with major feature additions, just because the major 
> version number changed. We came up with many small changes under the hood.
>                             
> Some changes are invisible to the end user, and most are invisible to the
> average user. Anyway, here is a summary what happend since screen got its 
> new major version number:
> 
>    - screenblanker support: new 'idle', 'blanker', 'blankerprg' commands.
>  
>    - zmodem support via the 'zmodem' command.
>  
>    - nonblock code rewritten, nonblock now understands a timeout.
>      new command 'defnonblock'.
>  
>    - screenrc parser rewrite
>      Beware of singlequotes ('). The syntax is almost identical, but quoting is
>      now streamlined. Where we had multiple levels of parsing, depending on which 
>      command was processed. We now have one level of parsing for all commands and
>      options.
>  
>    - bug fixes. Yes, again users have discovered some new clever ways to make screen
>      misbehave. Most of these could be fixed.
>       + fixed some bugs in the escape-sequence parser
>         (some say this could have been exploitable using excessive gigabytes if data)
>       + fixed Emacs on TTYs.
>       + fixed hardstatus line on blanked screen.
>       + fixed a couple of GBK bugs.
> 
>    - Wishlist processing 
>      Many feature-requests we find in well known wish-lists, have been realized.
>      Although most of the under different names and with different side effects.
>       + WindowList - show full title name 
>         (%t now expands to the full window name)
>       + windowlist -m
>         (shows list MRU sorted, not numerically)
>       + Copy Mode - additional jump commands
>         ('B' and 'E' now work)
>       + Copy Mode - Block Selection
>         (worked in all screen versions, use 'c' and 'C')
>       + lockscreen_auto N 
>         (via 'idle N lock')
> 
> Have fun!
> 
>         cheers,
>                 Jw.
> 
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