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Overview

Now that we’re considering wrapping up 5.2, it’s time to start working on planning for 5.3. Please note that these are aspiration goals, and mainly pointing the rough direction that the release will take, but could change based on the needs of the community.

Everything in 5.3 is the same ideas from 5.2, carried over to 5.3. 5.1 saw the birth of net51 which was unexpected, however that actually did fit in nicely with the goal of improving WWIVnet and gets it closer to being viable across platforms and for the internet era. 5.2 Added FTN networking support in an Alpha quality and also completed the basics of the MSGAPI for WWIV type-2 message bases. In 5.2 NetworkB also learned how to talk to pure BinkP servers and is considered BinkP 1.0 compatible, and no longer just “binkp-ish”.

Main Themes

• Scripting Support (aka WWIVbasic)
• Internet Protocol Support (Get email to and from the BBS working again, also get NNTP support a first class citizen in WWIV)
• Create plan for public/private key support in net52 (it’s ignored in net51)
• Continue to improve code quality, clean up old code, etc.
• Improve test coverage, especially for networking code.
• Improve Linux Support so it’s a first class platform in all respects.

Here is the Query for 5.3 targeted bugs