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From:
Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>
Subject:
Re: tmate?
To:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:32:02 +0000

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  • Kirill A. Korinsky:

    tmate?

    • Kirill A. Korinsky:

      tmate?

      • Klemens Nanni:

        tmate?

27.08.2026 12:16, Kirill A. Korinsky пишет:
> On Thu, 28 May 2026 01:34:17 +0200,
> Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky> wrote:
>>
>> ports@,
>>
>> I just discovered that tmate is more or less dead.
>>
>> It's servers and site it shutdown for about a year:
>> https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate/issues/322#issuecomment-3083138790
>>
>> Last release had happened in November 2019:
>> https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate/releases/tag/2.4.0
>>
>> And the last commit to it's repo is fix for some CVE:
>> https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate/commit/3e12f558c7b71b7135403cdd2df77d38538a695c
>>
>> Here a fork which claims that seems to be based on Tmux 3.6a
>> https://github.com/sa3lej/tmtv/commit/626692bef75997d46a7f5c510fb9f6c27c93b775
>>
>> What shall we do with tmate? Keep it as is and backport fix for CVE? Replace
>> by tmtv?
>>
> 
> Nobody seems to care about tmate.
> 
> I can make a port of tmtv to replace tmate which seems exists only at
> archlinux's AUR: https://repology.org/project/tmtv/versions

Replacement or not,

> 
> Another and simpler option is retire tmate completley.
> 
> Anyone OK to remove it?
> 
> 

if tmate is dead and unusable, there is no point in keeping it.

It has always been suffering from newer tmux options and/or syntax
due to the lack of updates.

OK kn