Emacs 24.4 and multi-term

Question

I read the following on the Emacs list about Emacs multi-term:

Because of changes in advice.el, multi-term.el does not work anymore. These changes surely mark the emerge into a bright future. But I hate them because I can no longer use my beloved multi-term. Unfortunately the development of multi-term is abandoned.

However, today I saw a new update when updating my Emacs packages:

multi-term 20140316.... installed Managing multiple terminal buffers in Emacs.

The date sems to be March 16 of 2014. With this, my question is:

• Where did this update come from? Is there a multi-term repository that is actively maintained?
• If multi-term is not compatible with Emacs 24.4, will the functionality of multi-term be available in Emacs? (e.g. automatically closing the buffer when exiting the terminal)

Answer 1

It does not seem that multi-term's development has been abandoned. Check the source on its emacswiki page. The change log in the file says

;;; Change log:
;;
;; 2014/03/17   Andy Stewart
;;      * Swap key binding of `term-send-raw' and `term-send-input', i think it's better send yank data when user hit ctrl+m.
;;
;; 2014/01/16
;;      * Fix breakage introduced in Emacs 24.4.
;;

The latest change was made yesterday. This is where the update came from. Also the breakage due to 24.4 seems to fixed.