Subj : Synchronet v3.20 early access
To   : All
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Oct 24 2022 07:50 pm

  Re: Synchronet v3.20 early access
  By: Digital Man to All on Mon Sep 19 2022 08:44 pm

 > The Git branch 'new_config_format' contains the work-in-progress Synchronet
 > v3.20a. I just started running this full time on Vertrauen and would
 > appreciate more testers/feedback.
 >
 > Information on the big major change is here:
 > https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sb
 > bs/-/blob/new_config_format/docs/newcfgfiles.txt
 >
 > There are CI builds of executable binaries for Windows, but I expect early
 > testers will be *nix sysops or Windows sysops that know how to build from
 > source.

There's another major change with Synchronet v3.20 that you can now use in the 'new_user_dat' branch (which includes all the changes in the master and new_config_format branches): a new userbase file format

For details, see https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/raw/new_user_dat/docs/newuserbase.txt

After checking-out ('git checkout') this branch and building, you'll need to run the built upgrade_to_v320 utility to complete the upgrade (from user.dat to user.tab).

After upgrading, any utilities that read or modify the Synchronet user.dat file will need to be replaced (e.g. the Synchronet allusers utility has been deprecated and replaced by allusers.js).
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