*************************************************** * What's New in Synchronet Version 3.18 for Win32 * * (ChangeLog since v3.17b for Win32 Jan 01, 2019) * *************************************************** Terminal Server ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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:, 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:, 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 ~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~ 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