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Message 27152 in DPBOX.WW

From: KO6NMZ
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 26 03:46:00 Z
Newsgroups: DPBOX.WW
Subject: DPBOX 6.1.5 Released
Message-ID: <TJ6D49KO6NMZ>
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From: KO6NMZ @ KO6NMZ.#SCA.CA.USA.NOAM (Maria)
To:   DPBOX @ WW 

DPBOX 6.1.5 is released, and it compiles on current systems with
no patching required.

  https://github.com/kq6up/dpbox      (tag v6.1.5)

  git clone https://github.com/kq6up/dpbox
  cd dpbox/source
  make clean && make dep && make all

On NetBSD and other BSDs, copy Makefile.netbsd over Makefile and
use gmake.  Verified on 64-bit Linux (Debian 13 / GCC 14 and
Slackware 15), 64-bit NetBSD/aarch64, and 32-bit NetBSD/i386.

Changes since 6.1.2:

 - Several memory-safety fixes found with AddressSanitizer and
   glibc FORTIFY: an over-read in the index scan, a one-byte
   overflow in the R: header check, underflows in the filename
   extension helpers, and a pointer-precedence bug in the
   low-memory buffer path.
 - Fixed an abort in the periodic FBB link check that was
   killing the daemon every few hours on some builds.
 - Fixed the FBB message CRC on disk-based sends.  The checksum
   never covered the message body, so larger bulletins could be
   rejected by the receiving station.
 - 32-bit correctness work.  Where long and time_t differ in
   width - as on NetBSD - time values were being printed and
   passed wrongly.  This fixes a crash during incoming
   forwarding and a bad "time connected" display.
 - New SF directive:  WPROT AUTO | ON | OFF, per neighbour, so a
   sysop can override the SID W flag.  AUTO is the default and
   keeps the historical behaviour.

Also in pkgsrc-wip as wip/dpbox, now carrying no patches at all.

TFKISS 1.3.2 is likewise ready to build from source:

  https://github.com/kq6up/tfkiss

TNT still needs pkgsrc as a wrapper on Linux.  Work continues -
the goal is the whole suite, DPBOX, TFKISS and TNT, installable
from plain source on any modern system.  Stay tuned.

73 de Chris KQ6UP



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