More changes in v3.20d documented

docs/v320_new.txt

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-* What's New in Synchronet Version 3.20 *
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+* What's New in Synchronet Version 3.20d *
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 * (ChangeLog since v3.20b Jan 4, 2025)  *
@@ -8,12 +8,9 @@
 
 General
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-o Target Windows Vista+ (not Windows XP) and enable enhanced instruction sets
+o Require Windows Vista+ (not Windows XP) or Windows Server 2008 and later
   Synchronet v3.20 doesn't actually work on Windows XP due to depenendies in
-  3rd party libraries we link with and more recent ciolib improvements.
-o User aliases can be used as parameters to the "USER" ARS keyword
-  Caveat: the name parameter cannot contain a space, so excludes spaces or
-  replace them with '.' or '_': the user's alias will match.
+  3rd party libraries we link with and more recent ciolib improvements
 o Extend maximum file library parent directory from 47 to 100 chars.
 o Add optional configurable 'vpath' (per-directory) for directories that have
   web/ftp aliases, so they preferred/short path (alias) will be used in the
@@ -21,45 +18,57 @@ o Add optional configurable 'vpath' (per-directory) for directories that have
 o Support "virtual shortcuts" to directory configured in SCFG->File Areas
   As an alternative to directory aliases configured in ftpalias.cfg and/or
   web_alias.ini, a sysop can specify a shortcut (virtual directory name) per
-  directory in SCFG->File Areas. These shortcuts will appears as top/root level
-  directories in the FTP and Web servers for quick user access to important
-  directories.
+  directory in SCFG->File Areas. These shortcuts will appears as top/root
+  level directories in the FTP and Web servers for quick user access to
+  important directories.
   The advantages (over ftpalias.cfg / web_alias.ini) are:
   - one place to configure
   - FILE_FTP_PATH and FILE_WEB_PATH @-codes will use the shortcut
     (usually a shorter, preferred virtual path to the directory)
 o Add "native" toggle option to Viewable/Extractable/Testable/Compressible
   files and download events
-o Fix the auto-keyword detection based on parameter type for USER, DIR, and SUB
-  If you switched between numeric and alpha/string parameters, without
+o User aliases can now be used as parameters to the "USER" ARS keyword
+  Caveat: the name parameter cannot contain a space, so excludes spaces or
+  replace them with '.' or '_': the user's alias will match.
+o Add "LANG" ARS keyword e.g. "LANG=ES" or "LANG ES"
+o Fix ARS auto-keyword detection based on parameter type for USER, DIR, and
+  SUB: If you switched between numeric and alpha/string parameters, without
   restating the ARS keyword, the keyword would could end up wrong in the
   parsed byte array
-o Make the fully-supported (lib)archive file types/formats configurable
+o Make the "fully-supported" (lib)archive file types/formats configurable
+  by default, this is just: zip, z7, and tgz
 o Track deletion date of users
   - del_days setting now uses this date if non-zero
 o Add an optional weekly fixed system event
-o Add LANG ARS keyword e.g. "LANG=ES" or "LANG ES"
+o Removed Synchronet Control Panel (sbbsctrl.exe) "Log Events to Disk" option
+  Enabled writing of event thread log messages to data/events*.log for *all*
+  target platforms and monitoring methods (not just Windows sbbsctrl.exe)
 
 Terminal Server
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-o Support ctrl/<charset>/text.ini file
 o Fix parsing of field-separated birthdate strings with 4-digit year
-... which is the format expected/required when entering or editing birthdates
-in the terminal server. So this is a pretty embarassingly bad bug introduced
-just before the v3.20b release to fix a less-severe bug with ecWeb new user
-registration (still) writing 2-digit years to the user.birthdate field. :-(
+  which is the format expected/required when entering or editing birthdates
+  in the terminal server. So this is a pretty embarassingly bad bug introduced
+  just before the v3.20b release to fix a less-severe bug with ecWeb new user
+  registration (still) writing 2-digit years to the user.birthdate field
+  (issue #863)
+o Support ctrl/<charset>/text.ini file
 o Add user NetMail address edit option ('N' command) to UEDIT
-o During logon, actually use the (first) shell we found that the user meets the
-  requirements
+o During logon, actually use the (first) shell we found that the user meets
+  the requirements
 o Correctly center lines of text that contain @-codes, after @CENTER@
 o Fix ERROR 2 (...) in putnode.cpp ... opening "node.exb"
 o Fix random menu/display file selection when some files can't be displayed
-
-Fix for issue #863
+o Save/reuse message save path/filename for each sub-board operator
+o Sub-board custom signatures (*.sig files) now supported
+  Use ;SUBSIG command to create/view/edit/delete
+o New ;SIG command for create/view/edit/delete default signature
+o If sbbs is configured with "NO_DOS" option, ";exec" sysop command will
+  assume a native program is being executed
 o Fix:
   Forced permanent removal of deleted messages (e.g. when creating a new user
   that's reusing an existing user number), didn't work unless SCFG->Message
-  Options->Purge Delete E-mail was set to "Immediately" (not the default).
+  Options->Purge Delete E-mail was set to "Immediately" (not the default)
 o Allow @-codes in Read*Mail text.dat strings/prompts
 o Notification email messages contained wrong-formatted Message-ID
   e.g. Message-ID: <677B3F17.0.notices@vert.synchro.net>
@@ -71,54 +80,53 @@ o New @-codes: FILE_FTP_PATH and FILE_WEB_PATH (don't include scheme and host)
   users. For use in new/optional display file text/menu/download.*
 o Include CPS rate used to calcaulte file transfer time in FiTransferTime
   string from text.dat.
-o FILE_ @-code changes/additions
 o Renamed text.dat strings (to better support translation/localization):
-- Deleted -> DeletedUser
-- Inactive -> InactiveUser
-
+  - Deleted -> DeletedUser
+  - Inactive -> InactiveUser
 New text.dat strings:
-- Deleting
-- DoneDeleting
-- Deleted
-- DeletedNumberItems
-- E_Mail
-- E_Mails
-- TelnetGatewayPrompt
-- QWKEndOfMessage
-- QWKTagLineFmt
-- QWKControlCommand
-- QWKBadControlCommand
+  - Deleting
+  - DoneDeleting
+  - Deleted
+  - DeletedNumberItems
+  - E_Mail
+  - E_Mails
+  - TelnetGatewayPrompt
+  - QWKEndOfMessage
+  - QWKTagLineFmt
+  - QWKControlCommand
+  - QWKBadControlCommand
 o new text.dat string: Never
 o "NoDOS" text.dat string
   Displayed instead of hard-coded string in xtrn.cpp when attempting to run
   16-bit DOS program on system with no DOS/DOSemu support.
 o Add parameter to DeletedUser string (deletion or last activity date)
 o new/optional display file: text/menu/fileinfo.*
-
-New:
-- FILE_COST, file's credit value or "FREE" when applicable
-  (see also FILE_CREDITS - the file's credit value or 0 when free download)
-- FILE_AUTHOR - file's author (e.g. from SAUCE record) or blank if N/A
-- FILE_GROUP - file's author group (e.g. from SAUCE record) or blank if N/A
-- FILE_BYTES - file's size in bytes (previously, would use FILE_SIZE for this)
-- FILE_CRC32 - 8 hex digits or blank if N/A
-- FILE_MD5 - 32 hex digits or blank if N/A
-- FILE_SHA1 - 40 hex digits or blank if N/A
-- FILE_TIME_TO_DL - estimated time ("HH:MM:SS") to download file at current CPS
-
-Changed:
-FILE_SIZE is now the file size estimated in KB, MB, GB, etc., not the exact
-file size in bytes.
-
 o Add K_LINEWRAP getstr() mode flag, rename K_WRAP to K_WORDWRAP
 o Don't attempt to remove inbound QWK packet if doesn't exist (renamed?)
+  Address error report by Greg Meckel (THEICECA)
+  evnt QNET !ERROR 2 (No such file or directory) (EinError 2) in main.cpp line
+  3195 (event_thread) removing "C:\sbbs\data\VERT.qwk" access=0
+  ... this could happen after a bad QWK packet was detected and renamed.
 
-Address error report by Greg Meckel (THEICECA)
-evnt QNET !ERROR 2 (No such file or directory) (EinError 2) in main.cpp line
-3195 (event_thread) removing "C:\sbbs\data\VERT.qwk" access=0
-
-... this could happen after a bad QWK packet was detected and renamed.
-
+Customization
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+New @-codes:
+  - AT - display a literal '@' character
+  - FILE_COST - file's credit value or "FREE" when applicable
+    (see also FILE_CREDITS - the file's credit value or 0 when free download)
+  - FILE_AUTHOR - file's author (e.g. from SAUCE record) or blank if N/A
+  - FILE_GROUP - file's author group (e.g. from SAUCE record) or blank if N/A
+  - FILE_BYTES - file's size in bytes (previously, would use FILE_SIZE)
+  - FILE_CRC32 - 8 hex digits or blank if N/A
+  - FILE_MD5 - 32 hex digits or blank if N/A
+  - FILE_SHA1 - 40 hex digits or blank if N/A
+  - FILE_TIME_TO_DL - estimated time ("HH:MM:SS") to download file at last CPS
+Changed @-codes:
+  - FILE_SIZE is now the file size estimated in KB, MB, GB, etc., not the
+    exact file size in bytes
+o Support ctrl/modopts/*.ini
+  Alternative to ctrl/modopts.ini and ctrl/modopts.d/*.ini
+  Settings from multiple sections may be merged, based on ARS
 
 SCFG
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@@ -138,14 +146,15 @@ o Fix TLS short Socket.send issue.
 o New JS file_area.dir[].vshortcut property
 o Add Archive.supported_formats (array of strings)
 o New system properties:
-- date_format
-- date_separator
-- date_verbal
-- birthdate_format
-- birthdate_template
+  - date_format
+  - date_separator
+  - date_verbal
+  - birthdate_format
+  - birthdate_template
 o User.security.deletion_date property
 o Return null from resolve_ip('') and resolve_host('') even on Windows
 o console.getkey_inactivity_warning property
+o New method: console.cleartoeos()
 o Fix bbs.revert_text()
   when called with no args is supposed to revert all text strings
 o bbs.load_text() can now be used to load text*.ini file
@@ -159,6 +168,10 @@ o Add new "PostTo" setting to (optionally) change the recipient of SMTP-posts
   name/address as the "To" (RECIPIENT) value of the posted message. If the
   sysop wishes to replace this string (for all SMTP-posted messages) with a
   different string (e.g. "All") this is the setting to allow that.
+o Add option to no mark POP3-retrieved mail as READ
+o Remove "Receive by User Number" option (just a SPAM invitation)
+  If the sysop still needs to support receive to specific user numbers, they
+  can use the ctrl/alias.cfg file to support that
 o Fix bug that broken mail received header RBL check
 o Add new I-restriction, to disallow receipt of Internet mail to specific users
   (mail received from authenticated SMTP clients is still allowed)
@@ -169,10 +182,12 @@ o Add new I-restriction, to disallow receipt of Internet mail to specific users
 
 FTP Server
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-o Fix issue #748
+o Lower severity of repeated log messages about low disk spac
+o Ignore MKD/XMKD commands from users (pretend successful)
 
 Web Server
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+o Fix vpath parsing (issue #748)
 o webfileindex.ssjs
   - now supports viewing archive and image files
   - display file SHA1 and date/time in hover text
@@ -183,7 +198,8 @@ Services
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 o Add per-service option: NO_USER_PROT
   If enabled, this option prevents logins to this service from changing the
-  protocol (aka modem) field for a user logging-in.
+  protocol (AKA "modem") field for a user logging-in
+
 
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 * (ChangeLog since v3.19b Jan 2, 2022)  *
@@ -416,9 +432,6 @@ o New text.dat strings for received Fido and Internet mail
 
 Windows
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-o Synchronet runs on Windows XP again:
-  Fixed 'The procedure entry point inet_ntop could not be located in the
-  dynamic link library WS2_32.dll'
 o Ignore VDD WriteFile() failures if the child process has terminated
   If the child process (e.g. door game) has terminated, don't log errors
   if/when WriteFile() to the mailslot fails. This would be expected as the