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SPITFIRE NG 0.1.0 Development Preview

This is the first installable SPITFIRE NG Development Preview. It is a
preservation-driven, independently implemented modern BBS with accepted Stock
SPITFIRE 3.7 Core Parity and the defined ANSI/text Operator/Caller Experience
tier. It is not SPITFIRE 3.7, an original Buffalo Creek executable, or a stable
1.0 release.

Download target

  • Apple Silicon macOS
  • Rust target aarch64-apple-darwin
  • .tar.gz archive with adjacent SHA-256 and an internal SHA-256 manifest
  • unsigned with Apple Developer ID and unnotarized

No other prebuilt platform is claimed in 0.1.0.

Included

  • clean interactive board setup and strict configuration/status diagnostics;
  • Telnet, RAW TCP, and RLogin compatibility listeners, with their plaintext
    security boundary documented;
  • caller registration, Argon2id authentication, privacy-aware caller profiles,
    caller/session limits, and multinode isolation;
  • message conferences, private/public messages, queues, receipts, replies,
    threads, scans, and caller mail summaries;
  • file areas, catalogs, new-file checks, uploads/downloads, and implemented
    ASCII/XMODEM/YMODEM/ZMODEM-family transfers;
  • engine-generated, security-filtered stock menus and exact-security BBS/CLR
    display overrides;
  • Modern 1.0.1, independently authored Classic SPITFIRE 1.1.1, and Minimal
    Terminal 1.0.1 presentation profiles;
  • board-owned display/ customization without editing managed profile files;
  • a versioned localization foundation with complete en-US 1.0.1 catalogs;
  • cold backup, restore, rollback procedures, and operator-facing renderer/
    terminal/session diagnostics; and
  • a verified Moebius 1.0.29 macOS .CLR authoring workflow using IBM
    VGA/CP437, 16-color ANSI, iCE off, static art, Save Without Sauce Info, and
    no UTF-8 export.

Important limitations

  • Development Preview quality; production hardening and stable compatibility
    guarantees are not claimed.
  • Only Apple Silicon macOS has a validated/accepted prebuilt binary.
  • The binary is not Developer ID signed or notarized; verify both checksum
    layers and follow the bounded macOS first-run instructions.
  • Telnet, RAW, and RLogin do not encrypt caller credentials or session data.
  • RIP is not implemented and RIP bytes are never sent.
  • Caller-selectable presentation profiles and production non-English language
    packs are not implemented.
  • Stock Category-B expansion, QWK/LAKOTA, SMB/DOVE-Net, FidoNet/CircuitNet,
    expanded doors, SSH, web administration, and automatic service/update
    management remain future work where documented.
  • SFDATE and SFREG are separate preservation/research streams and are not part
    of this package.
  • SFDraw is a future companion-tool plan and is not implemented.

Install and verify

Download the archive and its .sha256 file from the same official release.
Verify the archive, extract it, then verify MANIFEST.SHA256 before running:

shasum -a 256 -c \
  spitfire-ng-0.1.0-development-preview-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz.sha256
tar -xzf spitfire-ng-0.1.0-development-preview-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
cd spitfire-ng-0.1.0-development-preview-aarch64-apple-darwin
shasum -a 256 -c MANIFEST.SHA256
./bin/spitfire --version

Start with docs/operator/getting-started.md. macOS first-run help is in
docs/operator/macos-first-run.md, and support/reporting guidance is in
docs/operator/support.md.

License and provenance

Original SPITFIRE NG code and project-authored distributable resources are
available under MIT OR Apache-2.0, at your option. Third-party dependencies
retain the terms recorded in the archive. Original Buffalo Creek binaries,
documentation, DISPLAY resources, private/registered artifacts, research
archives, and Synchronet materials are not included or relicensed.

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