WWIV BBS Software

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December 24, 2023

WWIV 5.8.1 GA Release is now available.
 
Please see https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/releases/tag/wwiv_5.8.1 for more information.
 

Incudes bugfix to 5.8.0 for WWIVbasic not finding lowercase module name

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April 29, 2023

WWIV 5.8.0 Preview Release is now available.
 
Please see https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/releases/tag/wwiv_5.8.0 for more information.
 

• Implement support for epreproc.net (#1531)
• Includes a ability to use WWIVdbg to debug WWIVbasic scripts
• ANSI display speed (#1479). You can now add a pipe expression like: |{set bps 2400}
• Includes new implementation of the LNet tool
• Supports auto adding of missing fido echos
• Default colors for non-wwiv messages
• Many bug fixes

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December 9, 2022

WWIV 5.7.2 GA Release is now available.
 
Please see https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/releases/tag/wwiv_5.7.2 for more information.
 
Incudes bugfixes since 5.7.1

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June 4, 2021

WWIV 5.7.1 Preview Release 2 is now available.
 
Please see https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/releases/tag/wwiv_5.7.1 for more information.
 
New features include:

• Outbound telnet support from wwivd.
• Added scripts for using QEMU/FreeDOS for DOS Doors.
• Alpha level support for OS/2, including a FOSSIL driver for WWIV and OS/2
• STDIO support now works on Win32.
• Support for doors to loopback to unix or tcp socket for chains/doors.
• Bugfixes and improvements throughout

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April 23, 2021

WWIV 5.7.0 Preview Release is now available.
 
Please see https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/releases/tag/wwiv_5.7.0 for more information.
 
New features include:

• Revamped newuser question system and customization
• Support for multiple menusets in clean way
• Support for screens wider than 80 cols
• Greatly improved menu editor
• New pipe expressions and many more ACS attributes available
• ANSI Screen size detection
• Many FTN, System, and File area improvements throughout

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April 23, 2021

WWIV 5.6 GA Release (5.6.1) is now available.
 
Please see https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/releases/tag/wwiv_5.6.1 for more information.
 
Changes include many bug fixes over 5.6.0.

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January 20, 2021

WWIV 5.6 Preview Release (5.6.0) is now available.
 
Please see https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/releases/tag/wwiv_5.6.0 for more information.
 
New features include:

• Many ZModem fixes and file transfer fixes on Linux and Windows
• ACS Expressions for Auth (replacing just SL, AR)
• New "wwivutil instanc" command for displaying instance metadata
• wwivfsed is now available as an external binary for use outside of WWIV
• Support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has been added.
• New WWIVbasic packages: wwiv.os, wwiv.time
• Support for importing subs from backbone.na, etc using "wwivutil subs import"
• New menu support, enabling more menu items and allowing multiple actions.
• Added ability to display text files, emulating a BPS setting
• Added Pipe Expressions support, starting with resettings lines, and pause
• Integrated netfoss support for easier doors under 32-bit windows
• Use UTF-8 locally for display. Make sure your term is set to UTF-8 on *nix and use true-type font on Windows
• Added "wwivutil email" command similar to wwivutil messages.
• Many FTN, QWK, and File area improvements throughout

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November 2, 2020

WWIV 5.5 GA release (5.5.1) is now available.
 
Please see https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/releases/tag/wwiv_5.5.1 for more information.
 
This release fixes several issues with 5.5.0.

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August 29, 2020

WWIV 5.5 Prerelease is now available.
 
Please see https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/releases/tag/wwiv_5.5.0 for more information.
 
New features include:

• Transfer areas now function on both Linux and Windows
• Internal Full-Screen message editor
• Initial TIC support for FTN Networks
• Internal Archive List support for file transfer areas.
• Many fixes including fixes for crashes.

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December 1, 2019

WWIV 5.4 is now Generally Available.
 
Please see https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/releases/tag/wwiv_5.4.0 for more information on this release.
 
New features include:

• wwivconfig now has an option under paths for Logs directory. If set, it'll be the default location for all binary *.log files. If the WWIV_LOG_DIR environment variable or --logdir command line argument are specified, they will override this setting from wwivconfig. Like all other paths, if specified as a relative path, it is relative to the bbsdir (aka WWIV_DIR or --bbsdir).
• Added options --save and --backup to wwivutil net contact
• Added wwivutil net subscribers command.
• Added wwivutil fido subscribers command
• Improved FTN duplicate checking to check for either the MSGID (if available) or a hash of the message header.
• Fixed STDIO based editors not working in Linux, and added an option to wwivconfig to enable it (the option is visible for all platforms, but currently only works on Linux/Unix)
• wwivconfig can now edit callout.net from the networks menu just like it can edit fido_callouts.json with a GUI editor.
• You can now send a FTN email using the form: "username (net/node)" or "username (zone:net/node)". Using the fake ftn node number is no longer needed.
• net.ini is now read for default values for most command line flags for all network? commands. I.e. you can add
  skip_net = true under [networkb] and it'll be the same as added --skip_net=true on the command line
• wwivd now handles all of the callouts instead of bbs's WFC screen. Make sure you turn it on in wwivconfig to allow it to happen
• wwivd can now execute wwiv's beginday event if specified to do so in wwivconfig
• wwivd autoblocking now works (it was listed in wwivconfig back in 5.3, but never enabled in wwivd, fixed that)
• added "wwivutil print" command to print ansi files using the same ansi interpretation code in the bbs
• added wwivutil net list and wwivutil messages areas

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July 9, 2018

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WWIV 5.3.1 (Build 2740) is now Generally Available.

Please see https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/releases/tag/wwiv_5.3.1 for more information on this release.
 
Changes include:

• Fixes the dialog to create sysop account (bug #1127)

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July 3, 2018

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WWIV 5.3 is now Generally Available.
Please see https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/releases/tag/wwiv_5.3.0 for more information on this release.
 
New features include:

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

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June 10, 2018

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A couple of updates since it's been a while since I've updated the website.

• WWIV 5.3 is starting to come together. Please see the GitHub Burndown List for 5.3 release.
• Finally just updated the website to use bootstrap4, holler if something looks out of place, or sending a pull request to fix it would be even better.

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December 31, 2016

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WWIV 5.2 is Generally Available. Please see https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/releases/tag/wwiv_5.2.0 for more information on this release.

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November 21, 2016

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WWIV 5.1 is Generally Available. Please see https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/releases/tag/wwiv_5.1.0 for more information on this release.

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September 9, 2016

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New website up. Holler of there's any issues by logging an issue in the GitHub tracker for the website [here].

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