tmux 2.8 has a broken version string (2.8-rc) which we patch in configure.ac
CHANGES FROM 2.7 to 2.8
* Make display-panes block the client until a pane is chosen or it
times out.
* Clear history on RIS like most other terminals do.
* Add an "Any" key to run a command if a key is pressed that is not
bound in the current key table.
* Expand formats in load-buffer and save-buffer.
* Add a rectangle_toggle format.
* Add set-hook -R to run a hook immediately.
* Add README.ja.
* Add pane focus hooks.
* Allow any punctuation as separator for s/x/y not only /.
* Improve resizing with the mouse (fix resizing the wrong pane in some
layouts, and allow resizing multiple panes at the same time).
* Allow , and } to be escaped in formats as #, and #}.
* Add KRB5CCNAME to update-environment.
* Change meaning of -c to display-message so the client is used if it
matches the session given to -t.
* Fixes to : form of SGR.
* Add x and X to choose-tree to kill sessions, windows or panes.
(My OCD kicked in today...)
Remove repeated package names, capitalize first word, remove trailing
periods and move overlong descriptions to longDescription.
I also simplified some descriptions as well, when they were particularly
long or technical, often based on Arch Linux' package descriptions.
I've tried to stay away from generated expressions (and I think I
succeeded).
Some specifics worth mentioning:
* cron, has "Vixie Cron" in its description. The "Vixie" part is not
mentioned anywhere else. I kept it in a parenthesis at the end of the
description.
* ctags description started with "Exuberant Ctags ...", and the
"exuberant" part is not mentioned elsewhere. Kept it in a parenthesis
at the end of description.
* nix has the description "The Nix Deployment System". Since that
doesn't really say much what it is/does (especially after removing
the package name!), I changed that to "Powerful package manager that
makes package management reliable and reproducible" (borrowed from
nixos.org).
* Tons of "GNU Foo, Foo is a [the important bits]" descriptions
is changed to just [the important bits]. If the package name doesn't
contain GNU I don't think it's needed to say it in the description
either.