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