Cmdstan/brms/cmdstanr ignores silent and refresh arguments, won't show sampling process

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I’ve just gained access to a new remote system to run my analyses with more memory and cpu power. It seems to be running Linux, with

R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16) -- "Beagle Scouts"
Copyright (C) 2023 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

Brms is version 2.20.4, Cmdstan is version 2.33.1, CmdstanR is version 0.6.1.

Brms is now ignoring the silent and refresh arguments. No matter what I specify, it is always maximally verbose about sampler messages, and it always suppresses all sampling progress updates. While not fatal to my modeling endeavor, it is annoying when you have no clue how many iterations have been sampled and how many might remain.

I use threading with two chains and Cores/2 threads per chain, always with a fixed seed and static = TRUE in order to make my results reproducible.

Any easy fixes?

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It’s a known issue and is currently being worked on

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