On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Clemens Buchacher <dri...@aon.at> wrote:
> Hi Sadrul, > > I am writing to you because you seem to be the most active screen > developer in recent years. I have sent the email quoted below to the > screen-devel mailing list recently. > > Unfortunately, I have not received a reply indicating whether or not a > new release is planned. Please let me know what might be keeping you > from making a new release. > Hi! I had plans to do a beta-release last week. It hasn't quite happened yet. I was trying to get in some changes that would allow a screen-4.0.1beta client to attach to a screen-4.0.3 server, so that users would be able to connect to old screen sessions after upgrade. It's still not quite there yet, so the release hasn't happened. If I can't get it done within this week, I expect to go ahead with the beta lease next weekend. Sadrul > > Thanks, > Clemens > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 01:17:23PM +0100, Clemens Buchacher wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The lastest tarball release [1] for screen seems to be from October 23, > > 2006. Since then, 322 commits have been made in > > git://git.savannah.gnu.org/screen.git, although I could not find a > > version in the git repository that corresponds to the latest tarball > > release. > > > > Are there any plans to release a new stable version? In particular, > > there is a bugfix from 2008 [2] that I would like to have downstream. > > > > Clemens > > > > [1] http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/screen-4.0.3.tar.gz > > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=361274 > >
