[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen 4.2.1-2 (test release)

Tom Schutter t.schutter@comcast.net
Fri May 16 15:03:00 GMT 2014


On Thu 2014-05-15 20:24, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> A new version of screen, 4.2.1-2, is available in the Cygwin
> distribution.  This is a new Cygwin-only test release.  
> 
> This release includes a patch that may fix the scrolling corruption bug
> when screen is used in mintty in 64-bit Cygwin
> (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-01/msg00223.html).  If you are
> affected by that bug, please install the new release and report here
> whether it fixes it for you.  Thanks to Shaddy Baddah for the patch
> (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00331.html).

I can verify that this version fixes the scrolling corruption bug for me on 64-bit Cygwin.

Extra thanks to Shaddy for his debugging work.  It set a shining example for the rest of us!

-- 
Tom Schutter

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