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Very preliminary "what's new" file for v3.11. Still needs a *ton* of stuff 

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<title>What's New in Synchronet v3.11 (Change History)</title>
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<h1 align=center>What's New in Synchronet v3.11</h1>
<h2>Contents</h2>
<ul>
<li>Platform-Specific Changes
<ul>
<li><a href=#win32>Win32</a>
<ul>
<li><a href=#sbbsctrl>Synchronet Control Panel (GUI)</a>
</ul>
<li><a href=#unix>UNIX</a>
</ul>
<li><a href=#servers>Servers</a>
<li><a href=#telnet>Telnet/RLogin</a>
<li><a href=#ftpsrvr>FTP Server</a>
<li><a href=#mailsrvr>Mail Server</a>
<li><a href=#services>Synchronet Services</a>
<li><a href=#javascript>JavaScript-Related Changes</a>
<ul>
<li><a href=#jsexec>JSexec</a> (Brand New!)
</ul>
<li><a href=#sbbsecho>SBBSecho</a>
</ul>
<h2><a name=win32>Win32-specific Changes</a></h2>
<h2><a name=unix>UNIX-specific Changes</a></h2>
<h2><a name=sbbsctrl>Synchronet Control Panel (Win32 GUI) Specific Changes</a></h2>
<h2><a name=servers>All Servers</a></h2>
<ul>
<li>Silently-filtered IP address (using ip-silent.can) are truely silent now
(no sounds or log entries)
<li>New SemFileCheckFrequency value in .ini file (both global and per-server) (previously hard-coded to 2 seconds in most cases), defaults to 5 seconds
</ul>
<h2><a name=telnet>Telnet/RLogin Server</a></h2>
<h2><a name=ftpsrvr>FTP Server</a></h2>
<ul>
<li>Bugfix: in send_thread() that could send partial files if the last block was
retried because of a EWOULDBLOCK error (new bug due to non-blocking socket use)
<li>Bugfix: No longer stops send_thread when send() reports a short packet
(still logs a error/warning message)
<li>Only reports data send error if send returns < 1.
Apparently its normal on Linux for send to send short data (on non-blocking
sockets)
<li>No longer converts filenames to uppercase before adding to or retrieving from
file databases
<li>Implemented support for directory exemption ARS (finally)
<li>Support SITE EXEC command for sysop logins
<li>Added new directory toggle option to prevent transfers to/from that directory
to be included in the system's upload and download statistics
<li>Bugfix: wasn't closing ctrl/ftpalias.cfg under some circumstances (file handle/descriptor leak)
<li>Added current PID to FTP temporary filenames (for more uniqueness)
<li>Gets current user information after each FTP command, making external changes
to security, credits, etc. immediately effective
<li>Removed unnecessary time-slice yields
</ul>
<h2><a name=mailsrvr>Mail (SMTP/POP3) Server</a></h2>
<ul>
<li>QWKnet NetMail messages can now routed over SMTP using qwk-id!user@domain addressing (only single hops are currently supported)
<li>Bugfix: 100% CPU utilization in sendmail thread when no mail database exists
<li>Bugfix: RSET and MAIL commands were not correctly resetting (truncating) the recipient list file
<li>sockreadline() function terminates at sole LF (fix for broken TCP apps - e.g. some Perl mail script)
<li>Support for folded RFC822 header fields
<li>Support for SMTP authentication protocols: LOGIN (used by Outlook Express), CRAM-MD5, and PLAIN
<li>Support for POP3 APOP authentication
<li>POP3 server thread reads all msg indices and headers before reporting initial OK or ERR reponse after authentication
<li>Strip control chars from received SMTP commands - apparently some newer
spammer technique involves embedding a carriage return character in the
MAIL FROM address
<li>If an SMTP message is received for an address in the ctrl/spambait.cfg file,
the message is refused and the IP address of the sender is added to ctrl/spamblock.cfg for later auto-blocking of spammers
<li>An SMTP-authenticated client is automatically exempt from DNSBL-based mail
tagging, ignoring, or reporting "bad user".
<br>(DNSBL-based "session refusal" occurs before SMTP authentication can take place)
<li>Added new option: DNSBL_CHKRECVHDRS which checks all of the Received:
from header IPs against the DNS blacklists.
<li>Added new mail server option: NO_NOTIFY, to disable user notification telegrams for received SMTP mail (for all users)
<li>SMTP and POP3 servers now return termporarily failures if the mail database
is currently locked (for packing)
<li>Mail server now uses .ini-formatted recipient list file (much more flexible)
<li>Added support for mail processing command-line specifers: %h, %i, and %u
(see ctrl/mailproc.cfg for details). Fixed %v (version specifier)
</ul>
<h2><a name=services>Synchronet Services</a></h2>
<h2><a name=javascript>JavaScript-specific Changes</a></h2>
<ul>
<li>Now using thread-safe build of Mozilla JavaScript Engine for improved reliability when multiple simultaneous JavaScripts modules are being executed
<li>Upgraded JavaScript engine to JavaScript-C (SpiderMonkey) 1.5 RC 5a for improved relability
<li>Static global objects are now created as read-only: prevents inadvertent
reasignment by script author accidentally using object name as local variable
<li>Fixed (finally) JavaScript object initialization segfaults when the JS runtime
"max_bytes" value is insufficient for the number of configured items:
by defining dynamically created objects and arrays as properties of child
objects of the global object immediately after such objects are created,
they are "implicitly rooted", protecting them from (unexpected) garbage
collection. Now the initialization will simply fail with a nice "out of memory"
error. This was a long-standing bug that rarely occurred in the wild
<li>JavaScript context stack size is now configurable
</ul>
<h2><a name=jsexec>JSexec</a></h2>
<ul>
<li>This is a new program used to execute JavaScript modules in a separate process outside of Synchronet
<br>(run <tt>jsexec -?</tt> for usage syntax)
<li>Can be used to execute JavaScript timed events (e.g. newslink.js) in the background (asynchronous to other timed events)
<li>Can be used to execute JavaScript modules (e.g. nodelist_html.js) as web server CGI scripts (using a 3rd party web server)
<li>Can be used to execute some static Synchronet services (e.g. ircd.js) externally from Synchronet
</ul>
<h2><a name=sbbsecho>SBBSecho (FidoNet NetMail/EchoMail Program)</a></h2>
<p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1" , "Helvetica">Copyright © 2003 Rob
Swindell <br>
&nbsp;$Id$</font></p>
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