We are happy to announce a prerelease (aka release candidate, tech preview) of WWIV 5.8 for Linux, and Windows.
WWIV 5.8 is the 8th major release after the long-awaited 5.0 release and in addition to native
WWIVnet support (no more DOS dependencies) on all platforms, supports native Fido Technology
Networking (FTN) Support and fully customizable menus.
System Requirements:
Win32: Windows 7 or later using MS Visual C++ 2022 Community Edition.
Linux: GCC 10 (or later) on (Debian11, Centos7 with SCL, or Ubuntu 22.04)
CMake 3.18 or newer
| Title | Link |
|---|---|
| Main Web Site | https://www.wwivbbs.org |
| Documentation | http://docs.wwivbbs.org |
| Code | http://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv |
Upgrade notes.
Please read upgrade.txt in the distribution for more specific upgrade notes from 5.7
New Features/Changes since 5.7.1 pre-release.
* Lowercase the modulename for fileio
Now that we uppercase the module for wwivbasic so it looks right, we need
to lowercase it for all file I/O. (Fixes #1611)