ChangeLog

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Version 3.BETA-1
22-MAY-1994

** Initial public release

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Version 3.BETA-2
5-JUN-1994

** NEW PORTS:
** SunOS 4.x (SUNOS) and SunOS 5.x (SOLARIS)

** NEW FEATURES:
** Added lastlogin and fromhost field to LOGININFO struct, fixed bbs_login
   to fill them in, client displays lastlogin at bottom of welcome.
** Fixed builtin pager (more) to handle tabs and to support backward
   scrolling with the 'b' key.
** Added file implementation of the user table.
** Added and fixed up the Configurable Menus. Left old code in for now 
   as a safety measure for now. Added menu description file, menu.desc,
   into the config file directory. Also, changed for format of the access
   file somewhat.
** Added CTRL-C as an exit key from Chat.
** Added key to symbols to Monitor display.
** Added CTRL-U hotkey to Talk to get online user list.
** Fixed main read menu so 'E' key works for Edit Post

** BUG FIXES:
** Some fixes to Makefile.
** Fixed bug to cure garbage in USEREC fromhost field.
** Fixed NULL-pointer bug in MailRead.
** Fixed typecast bug in DoTalk.
** Added missing lines to config/access.
** Fixed bug causing bbs_check_mail to return true after unread mail
   has been deleted.
** Fixed chatd to disallow the empty string as a room name.
** Minor fixes to /query in Chat.
** Now highlighting the pointer in chat.
** Fix so chat can be used after a system crash.
** Fixed log function to seek to EOF before writing.
** Fix to chat_process_incoming to end crashing with /w.

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Version 3.BETA-3
20-JUN-1994

** NEW PORTS:
** IBM AIX 3.2.x (AIX), DEC OSF/1 (OSF), NeXTStep 3.2 (NEXTSTEP)

** NEW FEATURES:
** Added fromhost to possible environment in add-on programs, denoted by %H.
** New bbslog utility for add-on scripts to use for writing to the bbs log.
** New mkftplist.pl script for auto-generation of etc/ftplist.
** Added mail/post signatures.
** Increased length of Chat input line quite a bit (experimental)
** Added escape keys (CTRL-C/CTRL-D) to getdata function to allow selected
   prompts to be cancelled (login, chat entry, change username, etc).
** Moved chat help text out of program into config files.
** Added a "follow thread" option to Sequential Read.
** Added M_PAGE mode to show users who are Paging
** Added chat daemon configuration file, etc/chatconfig. 
   Chat ops and restricted accounts may be listed here; they are granted
   denied certain privileges in chat.
   The name of the main chat room (default 'main') by also be set here.
** Changed /op command in chat to relinquish Op status of the sender.
** Added a welcome message to chat telling how many users/rooms are present.

** BUG FIXES:
** Fix to set mode to "Mail" when reading/sending mail.
** Fix for pager to not insert a blank line after 80-character lines.
** Fixed Talk/Chat to be aware of cloak and adjust it accordingly.
** Fixed setpgrp call in chatserv to take parameters if needed.
** Fixed bug in menu access determination.

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Version 3.BETA-4
5-JUL-1994

** NEW PORTS:
** Apple A/UX (AUX)

** NEW FEATURES:
** Added ability to see real names in Query, limited by showreal entry 
   in bbconfig and C_SEEREALNAME in access.
** Added somewhat more configurable default menu actions.
** Moved some of the hardcoded privileged functions (see cloak, etc.)
   into the access file for flexibility.
** Added C_PUBLICACCT access code to identify public (shared) accounts.
   For public accounts, the read bits are never set, and the menus in the
   local client always default to Help.
** Added parameter to bbs_login to allow non-public accounts to kick 
   stranded logins if their logon limit is exceeded.
** Added a idle timeout to the local client. The length of idle time
   before disconnection is configurable in the bbconfig file.
** Added File Forward function so files may be forwarded from the 
   File Menu. Binary files are first uuencoded.

** BUG FIXES:
** Fixed bug making post #(BBS_MAX_FILES) inaccessible.
** Added a new field to the read menu items so those functions could be
   granted/denied en masse instead of just through Read/Post/Manage flags.
** Added missing newline in bbs log entry for Kick.
** Fixed bug in Monitor causing Cloak field (#) to not update.

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Version 3.BETA-5
19-AUG-1994

** NEW FEATURES:
** "Post now?" prompt added to Read New at the end of each board.
** Status messages displayed during Read New to inform reader of progress
   through each nonzapped board.
** bbfinger utility added for remote user listing through an unused port.
** Ability to prevent boards from being zapped has been added.
** Install script and make install target added to distribution.

** BUG FIXES:
** Fixed some bugs with 80-character lines in chat.
** Fixed bug causing marks on posts to not show up.
** Upped idle timeout during login to 5 minutes if user is creating a 
   new account.
** Replaced calls to access(2) since they work on real uid and we are
   probably running setuid.
** Added display of current pager setting to the Set Pager function.
** Now passing fatal signals on to client-side child processes to
   clean them up.
** Now clearing out the global user list used by Monitor so the "holes"
   caused by users logging out are filled upon Monitor re-entry.

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Version 3.0
20-SEP-1994

** NEW FEATURES:
** EBBS-Guide added to distribution.
** New chat commands: /whois, /whoin, /long.
** Chat command /u changed back to short format.
** Notification of new mail added to chat.
** New FLG_SHARED account flag replaces the C_SHAREDACCT access code.
** Environment field added to records in etc/editors.

** BUG FIXES:
** Fix to back off to file-based user table if shmat(2) fails.
** Fixes to prevent premature chatd death: ignore SIGPIPE and set sockets
   to nonblocking.
** New checks to ensure only one chat daemon runs at a time.
** Small fixes to /i, /m and /n chat commands.
** Rearrangement of available options after reading posts.
** Fixed delete range to reset the message pointers correctly.
** Changed -e tests in Install.sh to the more portable -f.
** Display of plan no longer interprets %-escapes a la printf.
** Temporary file now gets deleted when you abort a post.
** Fix to addacct utility to correctly add 12-letter userids.
** Fix to delacct utility to make -c (user clean) flag work.
** Now preventing mail from being delivered to accounts which cannot
   read mail and preventing paging users who can't answer.
** Fixed menu.l and gram.y to work with lex and yacc.
** Fixed formatting of "To:" header in group mail.

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Version 3.0.1
29-JAN-1995

** NEW PORTS:
** Makefile and osdeps.h entries for UNIXWARE and ULTRIX.
** Additional Makefile notes for Solaris.

** NEW FEATURES:
** Added etc/modes configuration file, bbs_get_modestrings and
   bbs_get_modechars functions, and removed hardcoding from modes.c.
** Added capability to set the mode in an "exec" or "exec.pause" menu action.
** Added usertablesize parameter in bbconfig to allow changing of the
   user limit on the fly, without having to remove the shared memory segment.

** NEW FIXES:
** bzero changed to memset in gram.y.
** /wall command added to chat daemon (chat manager only).
** Fixed get_remote_host to ignore stale DEAD_PROCESS entries.
** Changed reference to 'newbbs' in Install.sh to 'bbs'.
** Fixed non-initialization bug in delacct utility.
** Fixed Talk function to beep every 20 seconds for the paging user also.
** When editing using an external editor, paging is now disabled.
** Moved include of <sys/types.h> to common.h.
** Fixed chat bug causing long lines to not be fully broadcast.
** Fixed off-by-one error in chatd causing text to get lost in heavy lag.
** Added some extra checking in the chatd to better detect users who have
   logged out of the bbs, but somehow not out of chat.
** Fixed bug allowing duplicate chatids.
** Relaxed validity checking of email addresses to allow +, [, ].
** Fixed certain toupper calls to be macro-safe.

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Version 3.1-BETA
12-MAY-1995

** NEW PORTS:
** Makefile and osdeps.h entries for MACHTEN and HPUX

** NEW FEATURES:
** Added ability to mail send & reply operations to send mail outside the
   bbs by prefixing the recipient userid. The external mailer to be invoked
   is looked up in the etc/mailers file based on the prefix. 
** Added bbsmaild utility to distribution. This may be used from the command
   line (as bbsmail) or called by sendmail(8) to route mail into the bbs
   mail system.
** Added "reservedslots" entry to bbconfig. This allows any number of user
   table slots to be reserved for sysops.
** Readmenus are now somewhat configurable and are defined in menu.desc.
** Added VT key support to readmenus (up/down arrows only).
** Added a new menu navigation method that keeps the menu choices on the
   screen at all times. This is the "Novice" menu style. The old style 
   where one selects (H)elp to get a list is the "Expert" menu style.
   Novice is the default; there is a new API and client function that
   allow the user to switch back and forth on the fly.
** Added VT key support to menus (up/down arrows). More useful in the
   Novice menu style but also works in Expert style.
** Added a Sequential Read function to the Mail Read menu. It reads all
   mail, not new mail. Enhanced board Sequential Read to have a "read all
   messages" option.
** Added "nopunct" option to chatconfig file. If set to yes, all punctuation
   is disallowed in chatids. '*', ':', '+' are always disallowed.
** Added message-of-the-day feature to the chat daemon.
** Updated EBBS-Guide to include new features listed above.

** NEW FIXES:
** Modified name completion to be able to complete dynamically by calling
   a function, in addition to completing statically from a supplied list.
   (required for the 2-way Internet mail)
** Fixed chat daemon to strip out "+++" in everything passing through it.
   Chatid and roomnames may no longer contain the '+' character.
** Fixed a bug in PostDisplay that allowed posting on post-restricted boards.
** Added in ifdef around some utmp stuff so SunOS et al. can stomach it.
** Couple of fixes to Install.sh.

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Version 3.1-BETA-2
23-OCT-1995

** NEW PORTS:
** Makefile and osdeps.h entries for FREEBSD   

** NEW FEATURES:
** 8-bit character support and ability to save and change character set
   mappings on the fly. Contributed by Alexis Yushin (alexis@ww.net).
** New chat commands /ignore and /unignore. These need testing before
   the final 3.1 release. 

** NEW FIXES:
** One-line fixes to bbsmaild.c, board.c, c_users.c, delacct.c.
** Fixed Makefile and Install.sh to install bbsmaild with proper 
   permissions (setuid and setgid bit on).
** Fixed bug causing access file entries with more than one permission
   string to not be parsed properly.
** Bracketing characters in usernames no longer cause forwarded mail
   and posts to bounce.
** Uploads using ymodem and zmodem protocols work now.
** New mail notification in chat works more than once per user session.

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Version 3.1-BETA-3
11-AUG-1996

** NEW FEATURES:
** Subdirectory support for file boards.
** Added optional color support for ansi terminal type only.
** Made the chat /ignore list persistent through chat (and login) sessions.
** Added /date command in chat.
** Optional feature to disallow users from ignoring chat operators.
** Optional extra commands /roll and /think.

** NEW FIXES:
** Fix for chat /ignore to properly reset ignore list on exit.
** Small fix for partial chat id matching.
** Removed mkftplist.pl from distribution; no longer needed with
   subdirectory support.

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Version 3.1
16-MAR-1997

** NEW PORTS:
** Makefile and osdeps.h entries for IRIX added

** NEW FIXES:
** Security fix to disallow potentially dangerous e-mail addresses
   from being passed to sendmail. Thanks to Martin Straka
   (straka@a1fel.feld.cvut.cz) for reporting this.
** Some preprocessor directives rewritten to make them digestible
   by more compilers. Thanks to Cameron Bowes for the tip.
** Makefile and osdeps.h entries for FREEBSD fixed. Thanks to
   Pedro Giffuni and Anthony Kehoe for assistance.
** Fixed uninitialized variable bug causing segfaults when 
   running external programs without a mode number in menu.desc.
** Fixed bug causing chat ignores read in from file to not be
   properly set up. Thanks to Randy Austin for the fix.
** Fixed an OLD bug in construction of the To: mail header 
   in long group mail lists.

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Version 3.1.1
17-AUG-1997

** NEW FEATURES:
** New PostMove command. See ReleaseNotes for what you have to fix in
   your access and menu.desc files to make this work.
** Menus now key on the first capital letter in the command name, if
   present, instead of the first letter. This allows two commands to
   begin with the same letter but bind to different keys, for example
   "Snork" and "snorQue". Thanks Rodolfo Gonzales for the reminder.
** Chat /kick command now accepts a message for display to the chat room,
   coded by SirSyko.
** Support added for cases where the remote host can be read from an
   environment variable instead of utmp/utmpx. (I may post my patches
   for linux login and sshd to make this work, sometime.)
** Couple of benign mods for the still-under-development client/server
   version of EBBS.
** Additional notes for MachTen in Makefile, from Bill Schwartz.

** NEW FIXES: 
** Fixed a couple of hostname-related buffer overflows in chatserv.c.
** Chat ignore lists no longer saved between sessions for users listed
   as 'restricted' in chatconfig.
** Hopefully corrected the problem in the 3.1 binary distribution which
   caused addition of new accounts to fail. I could not find an error in
   the packaging, so have to assume it was something I did in the build.
** config/info file updated to show Version 3.1.1, something I forgot
   to do in the 3.1 release.