We are happy to announce a prerelease of WWIV 5.5 is available as the stable release of WWIV BBS for Linux and Windows.
WWIV 5.5 is the 5th major release after the long-awaited 5.0 release and
in addition to native WWIVnet support (no more DOS dependencies) on all platforms, supports native Fido Technology Networking (FTN) Support.
System Requirements:
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Win32: Windows 7 or later using MS Visual C++ 2019 Community Edition.
Linux: GCC 8.3 (or later) on (Debian10, Centos7 with SCL, or Ubuntu)
CMake 3.13 or newer
Title Link
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Main Web Site
https://www.wwivbbs.org
Documentation
http://docs.wwivbbs.org
Code
http://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv
Upgrade notes.
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Please run wwivconfig to update any data files to 5.5 format.
New Features
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Merge pull request (#1204). You can now have a LOGOFF and CLEANUP command
in WWIV.INI to execute at logoff time, or post-logoff time to perform
any necessry post-user cleanup.
Initial cut of wwivutil net send command:
This command will send the last few posts to another system. The
command line arguments are modeled closely from those used by AUTOSEND.
Use _ and not - in flag names for consistency
Added --start-date and --end-date to wwivutil messages dump
debug.sh has been renamed to cmake-config.sh since with the cmake
Ninja generator is multi-config so the config is only used when
invoking cmake --build, not during generation time. Updated the build
scripts and documentation to reflect this.
Documented install-prereqs.sh for debian installations. This makes it
easy to install the requirements to compile wwiv.
File transfers now work on case sensitive file systems. Please make sure
that all of the files in the file transfer section have filename in lower
case on disk.
The WWIV SDK now includes support for file areas, file lists, and dsz
log file parsing (minimal).
Log files from the unit tests are now under ${TEMP}/wwiv_test_out by
default and not ${TEMP}
wwivutil files list will now also display extended file descriptions
in addition to short ones.
wwivutil files delete will also delete extended descriptions.
TIC support for receiving files from FTN networks is now available. To
use this feature and set a default TIC directory to receive tic files into
and then enable TIC processing in wwivconfig for your FTN network
and then edit the directories to specify the correct "FTN Area Tag" for
the allfix file echo tag name. After that networkc should automatically
move the files into the WWIV file areas specified.
Removed ArchiveMenu and TempExtract menu commands. Please remove these
from your menus if you have them.
"bbs -o" will not list the available menu commands for WWIV's menu editor. menu.txt is now generated from the BBS output.
bbs -oc will group by category (once tagged), and bbs -om (or -ocm) will
output the text in markdown format.
wwivutil fix dirs actually works now.
Transfer area can now list file sizes by MB or GB in addition to KB
Removed FAST_SEARCH from wwiv.ini. We always use it
Removed EXTRA_COLOR from wwiv.ini, it was not used.
Support multiple tic areas per file area.
Don't call out from the BBS WFC automatically anymore. WWIVD handles callouts Added script used to create links to built binaries. use-built-bin.sh
added "wwivutil files tic validate" comman
Numerous FTN network usability improvements
Stopped allowing network type changes in wwivconfig.
When creating a new network in wwivconfig, ask for type before creating
the network.
When creating new ftn area, set packet archiver to zip by default
Pre-create directories for fido types
run network3 once so that the directory is setup. Maybe also add it
to networkc to check
When adding a network to a sub, ask for the host and then automatically
add it to the subscriber's file.
Don't add msgid to emails
Don't add failed crc32 entries to the dupe database
Don't add emails to the dupe database
Added SDK code to list archives for arc, zip, lzh, and arj.
Added new command "wwivutil files arc cmd", that will display
the commandlines used for manipulating archives.
Also added new command "wwivutil files arc view" to display
the contents of any supported archive format.
Use internal arc viewer when arc view command is "@internal"
Added "ARC" archive type by default to WWIV. Delete data/archiver.dat
then re-run wwivconfig and visit the archiver page to recreate your
default archiver.dat.
The Internal FSED is now available for use.
To disable this, please set INTERNAL_FSED=N in WWIV.INI
The previous WWIV.INI setting of "EXPERIMENTAL_FSED_USERS"
is not longer used.
For a user to enable it, they should go to (D)efaults
and under "(9) Message Editor" select the option for:
"A. Internal full-screen editor"
Added a help file (FSED.MSG) for the internal full screen
message editor. Please add it to your wwiv install under
the gfiles/ directory.
Last IP Address for a user is now saved with the user record and displayed
at logon time in lilo.
Added "WWIVUTIL ACS" command to validate ACS expressions and also execute
them against users to test the result. (This will be a feature in a future
WWIV release)
Updated menu commands in extract post, please copy over MEXTRACT.MSG from gfiles.zip to your GFILES directory.
default wwivd port to 23 on windows (#1251)
Enable full screen reader for sysop and users with ansi by default. (#1252) Enable full screen editor for sysop and users with ansi by default. (#1252) Bundle netfoss with the install (#1253)
Major changes
fix crash renaming conference key in ConfEdit
WWIV now requires GCC 8.3 or later and MSVC 2019 v16.3 or later.
WWIV now builds on Debian10, Windows 10 and Centos7 (soon to add Centos8)
Fixed //QWK from crashing
Fixed inputting WWIV registration number in (D)efaults (#1205)
Fix crash saving email when you have no networks defined
Internal ZModem performance is 5-10x faster.
Fixed archive types other than ZIP in QWK. Now you can use any supported archive type.
Convert QBBS editor text from Fido format to WWIV. This fixes a few issued
with QBBS style editors and control lines.
Lots of fixes around handling botched conferences.
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