Subj : FidoGazette Vol 12 no 27 Page: 3
To   : All
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Thu Jul 05 2018 01:00:56

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    WWIV 5.3 Release Info
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    We are happy to announce WWIV 5.3 is available as the stable
    release of WWIV BBS for Linux and Windows.  WWIV 5.3 is the 3rd
    major release after the long-awaited 5.0 release and in addition
    to native WWIVnet support (no more DOS dependencies) on all
    platforms, supports beta-quality native Fido Technology Networking
    (FTN) Support.

    System Requirements:

    Win32: Windows 7 or later. Use 32-bit windows if you want to run
     DOS doors.
    Linux: Debian8, Debian9 and Centos7 (with devtoolset-4) are the
     base images
    we prefer, but anything newer than that should work. We build with
     GCC 4.9.2 through 7.x.

    Title     Link
    Main Web Site  https://www.wwivbbs.org
    Documentation  http://docs.wwivbbs.org
    Code      http://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv
    Upgrade notes.

    Please note that init has been renamed to wwivconfig in 5.3.

    Please run wwivconfig to update any datafiles to 5.2 format.
    (Don't worry, they'll still work in 5.1)

    New Features

        wwivd- Replaces wwivserver and is consistent on all platforms.

        wwivd now offers fakemailer mode and is now has (mostly) feature
        parity with wwivserver.exe on windows. wwivserver.exe is deprecated
        with the 5.3 release and will be removed for 5.4

        INIT has been renamed to WWIVCONFIG. Please delete init.exe or
        ./init when you upgrade to 5.3

        wwivutil dump will now display control characters (like [^A]
        for control-A)

        wwivconfig has some new parameters for how it works with 4.x
        WWIV installs. --4xx will launch a menu with only the items
        that work with 4.x (like wwivd editor and network.json editor)
        run "wwivconfig --help" for the latest list of command-line
        parameters.

        **!!!!*! You need to update the outbound sub by recreating the
        network node it's under in subedit (J, then M, then the letter,
        usually A, then retype the echo tag, or just edit data/subs.json
        and replace 32675 with 32765 everywhere prettymuch (it's under
        host section))

        WWIVbasic interpreter is available. The menu command is
        "RUNBASIC". Also you can run a script from the logon event
        by using @basic:[scriptname.bas] for the LOGON_CMD in wwiv.ini
        (eventually many other commands will allow you to specify a
        script to run instead of an external command).

        subs.json is now the source of truth for subs data (before,
        subs.dat and subs.xtr were both used as source of truth,
        although subs.json has been written on save since 5.2)

        Removed internal menueditor, use the one in init if needed.

        handling type main_type_sub_list is implemented now, so
        receiving SUBS.LST from netup for WWIVnet type networks should
        work in net53.

        Removed internal usereditor, use the one in init if needed.

        WWIVd now exports connection information to HTTP as a JSON object.
        on the http port defined on init, URL: "/status"
        Example output:
     { "status": [ { "num_instances" : 3 }, { "used_instances": 0 } ] }

        Added %I when running commands to point to the path to the
        temporary directory.

        BinkP Fix (thanks apam) where all FTN addresses were not being
        presented when answering.
        CMake is now the source-of-truth build system on all platforms.
        to build use "cmake --build . -- -j8" and not make or msbuild
        anymore.

    For the full list of changes, please see whatsnew.txt included with the bbs
    or read it online here.

    Thank you,

    The WWIV 5.3 Community.

    -@- WWIVToss v.1.52
     ! Origin:  Weather Station (1:261/1304.0)



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