Subj : Re: Test
To   : nugax
From : Warpslide
Date : Thu Mar 02 2023 20:56:31

On 02 Mar 2023, nugax said the following...
 
 nu> So whats new with A49?

About the only thing I've personally noticed is Mystic not setting all
messages in certain message bases as unread after running PackMessageBases.

But here's everything else so far:

[ Begin whatsnew.txt ]
+ MPL now has a 64-bit signed integer type (int64) which allows number ranges
   from negative 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807.

   Some functions have been updated to accept Int64 types such as TimerMS
   and Int2Str and Str2Int.  Others will be changed as they are identified.

 + MPL optimizations, some types of statements surrounding integers may
   calculate at up to twice as fast as it used to.  There may be some
   situations where the compiler inappropriately allows floating point and
   integer values to compile when they should result in a mismatch but those
   should get resolved as they're identified.

 + New menu command in Windows to execute door with STDIO redirection.  If
   you have a console application that uses ANSI STDIO input and output which
   is somewhat rare for Windows, you can now execute it as a door with this
   menu command: DS

 ! Fixed a bug when renaming files that had filenames past the maximum file
   name length during mass uploads.  Mystic should have been renaming these
   files to a shorter name but was not.

+ Slight performance increases when running Message Purge in MUTIL but it
  may not be all that noticable.  If its slow, make sure you have log caching
  enabled for MUTIL!

 + File base data changes to .SCN and .DIR files (RecFileScan and
   RecFileList in records.112) with the following:

      - Changed date format from DOS packed to 64-bit Unix-style dates
      - Changed file sizes to 64-bit integers to fix the 2GB/4GB issues
      - Doubled max filename length
      - Some additional information is now stored about the user/file that was
        not previously.

 + By request Mystic now tracks the last downloaded data/time for each file    and the true file date (in addition to date file was uploaded)

 + The (I)mport DIZ function in the File directory editor now also repopulates
   the file date and file size in addition to the .DIZ.

 ! Reverted some message base packing functions that were likely causing some
   lastread pointer resets when running the message base packer in A48.

 + Mystic now has a setting to enable "busylog.txt" which is a debug logging
   for BSY semaphore files.  Enabling this can cause a performance degrade
   especially in large hubs as it opens, writes, and closes the log often.  As
   a result, this should only be enabled for diagnoses.

   The format of the log file is a CSV so it can be read in a text editor but
   also loaded into a spreadsheet and filtered by Process ID, Date, etc.  The
   column format is <Date>,<Source>,<Process ID>,<Message> where source is the
   application creating the log entry (MUTIL, POLL, etc) and date is
   YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format to allow easy sorting.

  This option is found in System Configuration > Server > General which is
  now also using a paged configuration form similar to the user editor.
[ End whatsnew.txt ]


Jay

.... Documentation: The worst part of programming.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

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