BBS
for
Unix

News.

16-Oct-2007 Version 0.92.0 stable is released. Some highlights:

• UTF-8 encoding support.
• Added support for Ubuntu.
• Added support for the ARM processor.

23-Jul-2006 Version 0.90.0 stable is released. Some highlights:

• Added binkp NR support.
• IBC chat is much improved.
• Fixed some serious 32/64 bit issues.

6-Nov-2005 Version 0.82.0 stable is released. This is a bugfixrelease for 0.80.0. Some highlights are:

• Completed port to 64 bit systems.
• Client/server communication improved.
• Automatic user screensize detection.
• Binkp compression code finalized.

6-Oct-2005 Version 0.80.0 stable is released. Highlights of this release are:

• The bbs now has internal filetransfer protocols.
• Added Internet BBS Chat, a sort of IRC but special for BBS users.
• Better support for Russian and Chinese users.
• Added binkp compression protocols GZ and BZ2.
• Rewrote parts of the binkp code to improve stability.
• Reinstalled charset translation on the FTN/RFC gateway.
• Of course lots of bugfixes.

26-Oct-2004 Version 0.70.0 stable is released. Highlights of this release are:

• Running full newsgate is now a compile option.
• Doors are now running with user permissions.
• Implemented the ICM flag (FSP-1033).
• Better outbound cleaning of dead attaches.
• Unknown or wrong echomail goes now into the bad area.
• Fixed some problems with http download areas.
• Lots of bugfixes.
• Started reorganize directory locations.

05-Jun-2004 Version 0.60.0 stable is released. Highlights of this release are:

• Added some support for charset translation again.
• Support for 2.6.x kernels.
• Files database format changed, and a new api to access the files.
• Lots of small fixes and extensions.

29-Apr-2004 After all recent troubles with sourceforge's cvs servers I switches to a local server (not available online). Last thing that happened was that the whole repository was gone and the nightly backup they made was 14 days old. There is still a nightly cvs tarball available, but on another location. So update your scripts if you use these to stay tuned.

23-Apr-2004 The telephone lines of my support bbs will be removed in the next weeks, instead the bbs is contactable via internet at fido.mbse.eu.

09-Feb-2004 Version 0.50.0 stable is released. Highlights of this release are:

• Hydra and Binkp zlib packet compression.
• Installation support for Gentoo.
• Partly done French Language.
• Binkp protocol upgraded to binkp/1.1.
• Mailer telnet connection (ITN) finally works.
• Added support for T-Mail fileboxes.
• Lot's of small fixes.

03-Oct-2003 Version 0.38.0 stable is finally released. Highlights of this release are:

• Nodelist lookup configuration using a configuration file, ready for future developments.
• New chatsystem for sysop <-> user and user <-> users chat like IRC.
• All internal doors are now external.
• We now have an official FTSC product code.
• New mailer temporary inbound per node for better multiline handling and failed session recovery.
• Binkp CRAM MD5 crypted passwords implemented.
• Full support for long and 8.3 short filenames, also for tic files.
• Lots of bugs fixed.

01-Sep-2003 New web location, the webpages for doorlib, safe door and nextuser door are moved to their own locations. The project itself is still hosted at SoureForge. This site here will now contain more recent material because updating is now more or less automatic.

01-Mar-2003 The internal safe and nextuser doors are removed from the bbs code and are distributed as universal Unix doors. The following packages are released:

1. Doorlib, this is a shared library needed for all my doors.
2. NU-Door, this is the message to Next User door.
3. Safe-Door, this is the Safecracker doorgame.

26-Dec-2002 Version 0.36.00 is released, this is in fact the release of the last unstable version 0.35.07. For a detailed list of changes see the ChangeLog inside the distribution archive.

02-Nov-2002 New release and support policy.
Support for the MBSE BBS package is now available on Fidonet's worldwide backbones. The international echomail area has the tag MBSE and the files distribution tagname is MBSE_BBS using the IFDC FileGate Project. MBSE BBS users are encouraged to connect to both areas. Since the MBSE BBS is a Fidonet product and users usually have access to Fidonet the support via SourceForge will be limited from now on. The odd version numbers are not released anymore here at SourceForge, they are only available via CVS and distributed in the MBSE_BBS file echo. Most mailinglists at SourceForge will be closed.

04-Jun-2002 Version 0.33.21 is released, this is in fact the same version as 0.33.20 which isn't released because there are too many different cvs version running.
This version adds support for vpopmail. Also new is the turbodiesel macro language which is used to write custom templates that can be used for newfile reports, areamgr reports etc. Another important new feature is auto message and file areas create based on taglists. For filenetworks raid formatted lists are supported (filegate.zxx) and plain taglists.
The mbtask daemon has now good support for dialup systems who use internet connections including traffic control. The check if the internet connection is available has been improved. The binkp protocol now supports the GET command frame.

10-Feb-2002 Version 0.33.19 is released. Long filenames are now really supported, but there is no support for filenames with spaces in them.
The mbsebbs program doesn't run setuid anymore but as the real users uid. Therefore a separate mbnewusr program is added that does the new user registration. Also a login wrapper is now available, mblogin that is a replacement for the standard login program. This works for modem calls and telnet calls. Unknown users are passed to the mbnewusr program, known users start mbsebbs.
The mbtask daemon now handles all the calling to other nodes. Depending on what you allow, it will call several systems at the same time.
Harald Wuensch wrote the German language file.

02-Nov-2001 Version 0.33.18 is released. This is the first version where a team of five developers has been working on. From now on there is a FAQ included with the distribution. This version is also ported to FreeBSD, but this still needs a lot of testing. It isn't tested with modems or ISDN lines, only over internet. The Fido/Internet gate has been rewritten to make it more structured. For newbees mbsetup now initialises all the databases during first system install. I hope this will solve a lot of problems for first time mbse users.
The bbs now has the option to generate menu display lines from the menu setup, you can now build menus without fancy ansi screens (just like in RA). There is now also an option to run doors in no suid mode, this gives better support for doors under dosemu. The needed documentation is not yet available, but as soon as it you can find it here. The Fullscreen editor also has had a lot of improvements, but it's still not bugfree, yes this is also work in progress.

16-Oct-2001 MBSE BBS is now also available via CVS. See the download page for instructions how to use this feature.

25-Jul-2001 Version 0.33.17 is released. With this version a lot of bugs are solved and Italian and Spanish translations are added. The daemon mbsed is obsolete now and removed from the distribution. The mbtask daemon has taken over all the functions of mbsed. The client/server communication protocol is changed from TCP stream sockets to Unix Datagram sockets. This means that all programs must run on the same computer. Some code to let mbtask act as a command scheduler is already added, more will be added later. Another major change is that the JAM message base locking is now according to the JAM specs.

21-May-2001 It has been a long time since version 0.33.15, but version 0.33.16 is available now. Internet email and support was built in since version 0.33.15 and this version adds a news gateway. It now also has a second daemon called mbtask which has taken over a lot of crontab commands and scripts. This new daemon will grow to be the only daemon and command scheduler for MBSE BBS.
It is also possible to make the bbs available for www of ftp users, but this is not really supported yet. A few html files to access the file areas are already automatic created. There are plans to make this all available in the bbs package itself.