v318_new.txt

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* What's New in Synchronet Version 3.18 for Win32 *
* (ChangeLog since v3.17b for Win32 Jan 01, 2019) *
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Terminal Server
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o UTF-8 support
  - Auto-detect UTF-8 terminals
  - Automatic translation of DOS/native door game output
  - Auto-translation between ASCII/CP437, PETSCII, and UTF-8
  - Create and read/translate UTF-8 encoded networked messages, email
  - UNICODE display tricks (e.g. double-wide chars, special chars)
o New ARS keywords: UTF8, CP437, ASCII
o Improved CBM/PETSCII terminal support
o Improved support for 40-column terminals
o Improved support for terminals > 80 columns in width
o Bright-background (PETSCII and ANSI iCE-color) terminals supported
o Mouse-reporting terminal support (click-able menu options, scroll-wheel)
o Fast-logon support (logging-in as "!user-id"), enabled via modopts.ini
o Automatic detection of Raw TCP client connections on Telnet ports
o Automatic text-portion of multi-part MIME-messages in QWK message packets
o New operator option to delete numeric ranges of messages in sub-boards
o Configurable treatment of "Soft-CRs" created by external message editors
o @-codes:
  - New formatting options: http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:atcodes#formatting
  - UNICODE http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:atcodes#unicode
  - Mouse "hot spot" control (HOT, CLEAR_HOT, ~, `)
  - Many added (including some additional PCBoard codes):
    CHECKMARK, ELLIPSIS, COPY, SOUNDCOPY, REGISTERED, TRADEMARK, DEGREE_C,
    WIDE, CHARSET, NN, TN, AN, ON, PWDAYS, AUTODEL, DATETIMEZONE, DATEFMT,
    FILE, FILESIZE, FILEBYTES, FILEKB, FILEMB, FILEGB, FILL, POS, DELAY,
    YESCHAR, NOCHAR, QUITCHAR, BPS:<rate>, PWAGE, PWDATE, MPERC, MPERD,
    MAXCALLS, MAXPOSTS, MAXMAILS, MAXLINES, FIRSTON, FIRSTDATEON, FIRSTTIMEON,
    EMAILS, FBACKS, ETODAY, PTODAY, LTODAY, MTODAY, MTOTAL, TTODAY, TTOTAL,
    TLAST, MEXTRA, TEXTRA, MBANKED, TBANKED, PCR, CREDITS, FREECDT,
    REALNAME, STR, STRVAR, JS:<prop>, CLREOL, MAILW#, MAILP#, SPAMW#,
    MSG_IMP_DATE, MSG_IMP_TIMEZONE, SYSAVAIL
o New helpful sysop debugging command: ECHO and EVAL
o New sysop command to toggle chat availability: AVAIL
o Auto-ZMODEM upload of message text from user
 (internal editor and fseditor.js)
o sexyz:
  - Improved YMODEM-G file transfer reliability / compatibility
  - Improved ZMODEM downloads where the receiver already has the file
o Built-in support for terminal output rate limiting
  (e.g. 9600bps simulation) - requires compatible terminal
o Support the fast display of giant (e.g. multi-gigabyte) text files
o Arrow-up/down history scroll:
  - sysop command arguments
  - netmail recipient addresses
o Sunrise (DoorFrame) multinode door setup convenience environment variables:
  PCBDIR and PCBDRIVE
o ftn-setup.js: menu-driven setup of several FidoNet-style networks
o xtrn-setup.js: menu-driven setup of many external programs (e.g. door games)
o Customizable spinning cursors (10 of them!) in the text.dat
o Easy *random* display file/menu selection (just use wildcards!)
o more loadable modules: automsg, list msgs, text_sec, logonlist
o Message base load/read/scan optimizations
o User notifications of messages posted to them via QWKnet

General
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o install-xtrn.js: automated/wizard-like install of external programs
  - run 'jsexec -auto /sbbs/xtrn/*' to auto-discover/install new xtrn progs
o Support for C-style escaping in trashcan/filter files
  (e.g. "\ " or "\x20" for a leading space character)
o Sysop email notifications upon chat-paging and logged-errors
o user presence and private messages shared between webv4 and terminal users
o Windows build is now linked with dynamic C/C++ runtime libraries
o Ctrl-F (find) and Ctrl-G (repeat find) in SCFG and EchoCfg
o exportcfg.js: export SBBS configuration data to various file formats
o qnet-ftp.js: new QWKnet/FTP module
o FTP server file listing optimizations
o Numerous mail server improvements
  (e.g. msg priority, MIME-encoded header fields)

Security
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o User security notifications: failed login attempts, password requests
o User password maximum length increased from 8 to 40 characters
o Sysop can set the minimum user password length from 4 to 40 characters
o Sysop-reset of the failed-login/temp-ban list via "ctrl/clear" sem file
o Updated TLS/SSL/SSH library (Cryptlib 3.4.5) and patched for compatibility
  and security
o Extended user credits and upload/download byte-stats from 2GB to 4GB
  
JavaScript
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o JSexec default behavior can be configured via ctrl/jsexec.ini
o IPv6 socket support
o New methods: file_mode(), file_chmod(), utf8_encode(), utf8_decode(),
  utf8_get_width(), str_is_utf8(), str_is_utf16(), str_is_ascii(),
  str_has_ctrl(), js.exec(), system.get_node(), bbs.show_msg(),
  bbs.show_msg_header(), bbs.download_msg_attachments(),
  bbs.change_msg_attr(), console.wide(), console.output_rate,
  MsgBase.get_index(), MsgBase.dump_msg_header(), system.notify(),
  console.add_hotspot(), console.clear_hotspots(), console.scroll_hotspots(),
  user.downloaded_file()
o New properties: system.min_password_length, system.max_password_length,
  system.autodel, client.user_name, bbs.msghdr_top_of_screen, console.type,
  console.charset, console.mouse_mode, console.current_row, 
  console.keyboard_buffer_level, console.keyboard_buffer_space, Queue.orphan,
  msg_area.grp[]/grp_list[].can_access, msg_area.sub[].can_access,
  file_area.lib[]/lib_list[].can_access, file_area.dir[].can_access

SBBSecho
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o Import performance improvements (new smblib, twitlist caching)
o Configurable Soft-CR (0x8D) import behavior: default is to leave-alone
o AreaFix support for links with 5D addresses (zone:net/node[.point]@domain)
o Tic passwords up to 40 chars in length
o Explicit CHRS and NOTE header (control paragraph) import/export support
o Ctrl-A to '@' import-conversion for invalid control paragraphs
o Better "Kill Sent" (KFS) support on exported mail
o Export the original message author's editor columns (COLS kludge) when known
o Simplified and more deterministic TZUTC (timezone) import logic
  (just store the UTC offset, don't infer the location)
o Ability to operate without an Area File (for systems with no downlinks)
  (set AutoAddsSubs=true, AutoAddToAreaFile=false)
o Auto-detection of UTF-8 encoded message body text
  (and never strip Soft-CRs from them)
o sbbsecho.ini format is more compatible crudini/python-iniparse
o NetMail Robots (e.g. tickit-FileFix, a.k.a. TickFix) are now supported
o New remote FileFix module (tickfix.js) for use with tickit.js 
o Removed old 80-column word-wrap on import behavior
o Include Message and Reply-IDs in export NetMail messages

Control Panel
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o FidoNet related menu items
o File->Run menu options to auto-install FidoNet networks, external programs
o Now defaults to "dark mode"
  (File->Import Settings->sbbsctrl.darkmode.ini to choose it)

Web Server
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o More RFC/standards-conformant HTTP[S] support
o HSTS support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security
o Manyfold send-file through-put performance improvement