Mosh release with 24-bit color support

[bchallenor]

It looks like 24-bit color support was added last October, but as far as I can tell, there is no release that includes this commit.

Would it be possible to make such a release?

[nanzhong]

Curious, is there a process or plan that mosh follows for cutting releases?

[sbromberger]

It'd be great to have a formal release with this capability. Thanks.

[wookayin]

Bringing another attention! Looking forward to mosh release that contains this feature.

[hozza]

agreed, would be very nice to include!

[oblitum]

Any update on this? It has been some years since the last release.

[benley]

I hate to "me too" things, but this is becoming an increasingly important feature for me as well. I would really appreciate a new release with 24-bit color support, as would many others.

[sbromberger]

If you build master from source, it'll give you 24-bit color. I agree that a release would be nice, but there are ways to get it now if you're impatient (as I was).

[dmitryzykov]

+1 for a new release with 24-bit color included.

Meanwhile I have to build mosh-server from sources on my ubuntu 19.10 servers.
Even PPA from Keith Winstein doesn’t provide builds for latest ubuntu release.

my commands how i built ( maybe will be helpful for someone )

apt install debhelper  autotools-dev protobuf-compiler libprotobuf-dev dh-autoreconf pkg-config libutempter-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libssl-dev bash-completion locales
git clone https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh
cd mosh
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

[broander]

For anyone coming here now, dmitryzykov directions work. I rebuilt mosh on my local system and a remote server using his directions and now I have true-color support! Very helpful, now I can run solarized in vim everywhere and not have it be very ugly.

[hozza]

Thanks for the 24bit color confirmation @broander - compiling is certainly an option, but a published version would be preferable for most people, as they could install straight form a repo.

Looking into this a little more It looks like there's not been a new mosh version since July 2017!

I had a look at the main contributors to mosh, @keithw was most active in 2012/2013 and published the last version in 2017, @cgull has been active in 2016/2017/2018 and @andersk most recently.

Could any of you maintainers consider publishing a new version? It's been quite some time and all the extra work you guys have done since 2017 would be greatly appreciated in a new version which could be added to Linux repos too!

[broander]

@hozza completely agree that revving to a new version would be great, so new features like true color can end up win the Linux repos. Maintainers, there's probably several of us that would be happy to help you with the work it'll take to rev to a new version.

[HackAttack]

If you’re using Homebrew, brew install --HEAD mosh works.

[wookayin]

@eminence @keithw Can you please make a release anytime soon? Mosh hasn't had any release since 2017.

[eminence]

Closing in favor of #1115