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  • State of 3.17 code?

    From Poindexter Fortran@VERT to All on Fri Oct 30 09:42:45 2015
    How's 3.17 looking? A few weeks back there was some discussion that people were still shaking out bugs, I'm wondering if it's worth upgrading from 3.16 out of CVS from right before 3.17 came out?

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  • From Deuce@VERT to Poindexter Fortran on Fri Oct 30 13:50:41 2015
    Re: State of 3.17 code?
    By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Fri Oct 30 2015 09:42 am

    How's 3.17 looking? A few weeks back there was some discussion that people were still shaking out bugs, I'm wondering if it's worth upgrading from 3.16 out of CVS from right before 3.17 came out?

    There are still some major features pending, and some stuff that's only weakly tested. I think all the known bugs have had a fix committed, but the unknown ones are still out there.

    IPv6 and TLS are really the only "big" new features so far that I can think of, and TLS with anything except a self-signed certificate isn't easy to set up yet.

    If neither of those are useful to you, there's not a feature reason to upgrade.

    It really comes down to the question of "Would you rather find bugs and work to get them fixed, or run a BBS without encountering bugs?"

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Poindexter Fortran on Fri Oct 30 15:26:39 2015
    Re: State of 3.17 code?
    By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Fri Oct 30 2015 09:42 am

    How's 3.17 looking? A few weeks back there was some discussion that people were still shaking out bugs, I'm wondering if it's worth upgrading from 3.16 out of CVS from right before 3.17 came out?

    3.17 is not actually "out". It's just the next version number we chose to increment to when Deuce imported his IPv6 & TLS patch-set he'd been working on for a year or so. The version number of the next release actually hasn't been determined. One thing is for sure, the next SBBS release won't be 3.17a, as that would be confusing for those that upgraded-to or installed a current development build with that version number.

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  • From Accession@VERT to Deuce on Fri Oct 30 19:01:10 2015
    IPv6 and TLS are really the only "big" new features so far that I can think of, and TLS with anything except a self-signed certificate isn't easy to set up yet.

    For the record. I haven't had a single problem (that I know of) with IPv6 yet, and I've had it tested by others. Thank you, kind sir!

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Deuce@VERT to Accession on Sun Nov 1 12:25:34 2015
    Re: State of 3.17 code?
    By: Accession to Deuce on Fri Oct 30 2015 07:01 pm

    For the record. I haven't had a single problem (that I know of) with IPv6 yet, and I've had it tested by others. Thank you, kind sir!

    The Synchronet Control Panel absolutely has IPv6 issues, and it's likely that BAJA modules and maybe even JS modules that use IP addresses will also have issues.

    I haven't tested the .can support yet with IPv6, so there may be problems there as well (especially since IPv6 addresses are generally not fully specified).

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  • From Accession@VERT to Deuce on Sun Nov 1 15:40:43 2015
    The Synchronet Control Panel absolutely has IPv6 issues, and it's likely that BAJA modules and maybe even JS modules that use IP addresses will also have issues.

    I don't use the control panel, and I *think* the only JS module I have that uses IP addresses would be dyndns.js if anything. I don't think I've had any problems with that.

    I haven't tested the .can support yet with IPv6, so there may be problems there as well (especially since IPv6 addresses are generally not fully specified).

    Haven't done any of that yet either. I haven't seen any attacks via IPv6 just yet, but I'm sure it'll rear it's ugly head at some point.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Deuce@VERT to Accession on Mon Nov 2 11:39:54 2015
    Re: State of 3.17 code?
    By: Accession to Deuce on Sun Nov 01 2015 03:40 pm

    The Synchronet Control Panel absolutely has IPv6 issues, and it's likely that BAJA modules and maybe even JS modules that use IP addresses will also have issues.

    I don't use the control panel, and I *think* the only JS module I have that uses IP addresses would be dyndns.js if anything. I don't think I've had any problems with that.

    dyndns doesn't (yet) support IPv6 addresses, and since the server is IPv4 only, it can't auto-detect your IPv6 address anyway. Further, it would only be able to detect what's used for the current connection, not both IPv4 and IPv6 at the same time.

    It's one of those not-very-important things we have on our plate... for now, if you want your QWKID.synchro.net host to have an AAAA record, your best bet is to ask Digital Man directly.

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  • From Accession@VERT to Deuce on Mon Nov 2 18:09:11 2015
    It's one of those not-very-important things we have on our plate... for now, if you want your QWKID.synchro.net host to have an AAAA record, your best bet is to ask Digital Man directly.

    Nah. It's not a big deal. I only use QWKID.synchro.net for dyndns and irc, but don't advertise it. So as long as it continues to link up to the current setup in place, I don't see a need for change.

    Regards,
    Nick

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