Mosh: Any chance we could get a new release?
I use Mosh daily and really enjoy using it, but one downside of the current stable release is that it doesn't contain support for true colors, which has already been implemented and is available on the master branch.
Since I prefer using true colors in Vim, I usually end up patching Mosh with true color support on all my machines... it's trivial on Gentoo (with built-in support for user supplied patches in the package manager), but a bit more work on Fedora and others.
Since the last release of Mosh is over 3 years old, is there any chance we could get a stable release that has true color support?
Thanks in advance!
cshei
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Friendly ping… judging from the 79 reactions on this, it seems that I'm not the only one interested in this 🙂
cshei
on 17 Jan 2021
It seems more and more that Mosh is no longer maintained: issues are not answered, PR are not merged or reviewed, no commits on master for a long time,…
It does not make me super confident about the project future if no one takes over the code.
GauthierPLM
on 2 Feb 2021
The truth is that our maintainer is on hiatus and we haven't made a release since 2017. However, our security track record remains infinitely better than any comparable project (OpenSSH, OpenSSL, etc.). We have never had a major security hole since Mosh 1.0 was released nine years ago. We're pretty proud of that! It's worth a considerable amount of confidence.
keithw
on 2 Feb 2021
You can be proud of Mosh which is, indeed, a very good software, practical and much more flexible than SSH. It is all the more a pity that it does not evolve to be even better, even more reliable, and a software that continues to innovate to improve remote shells.
As the number of PRs and issues shows, people are willing to contribute and take the project further. I know how demanding it is to develop and maintain a software by yourself, so I understand the Mosh team might move away from producing code, but it's a pity that the team does not take advantage of these contributions if they participate in improving the software.
GauthierPLM
on 2 Feb 2021
@GauthierPLM to play devil's advocate, maintaining secure and high-performant software is hard and you cannot just accept anything without carefully studying it.
so I kind of understand. Even if it breaks some stuff sometimes (see the issue above :( )
karelbilek
on 12 Apr 2021
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You can be proud of Mosh which is, indeed, a very good software, practical and much more flexible than SSH. It is all the more a pity that it does not evolve to be even better, even more reliable, and a software that continues to innovate to improve remote shells.
As the number of PRs and issues shows, people are willing to contribute and take the project further. I know how demanding it is to develop and maintain a software by yourself, so I understand the Mosh team might move away from producing code, but it's a pity that the team does not take advantage of these contributions if they participate in improving the software.