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