0.2.3 Beta

Which file do I want?

Take one row. Every download already contains what that row needs.

I want to	File
Run a bulletin board — the board and all its tools	icyboard-0.2.3-<platform>.zip
Write PPL in VS Code	ppl-vscode-0.2.3-<platform>.vsix
Write PPL in Helix, Neovim, Zed or another LSP editor	ppl-lsp-0.2.3-<platform>.tar.gz (.zip on Windows)
Read the manual	icyboard-manual-0.2.3.pdf

<platform> is one of:

Platform	Your machine
linux-x64	Linux on a 64-bit PC
windows-x64	Windows on a 64-bit PC
macos-arm64	Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 and later)
macos-x64	Mac with an Intel processor

You do not need more than one. icyboard-*.zip already holds the ppl-lsp
language server next to the board in bin/, and each ppl-vscode-* package
holds the server for its platform. ppl-lsp-* on its own is for editors other
than VS Code when you are not installing the board.

ppl-vscode-0.2.3-no-server.vsix is the exception: it carries no server and
expects ppl-lsp on your PATH already. Take it only if your platform is not
in the list above.

Fourth public beta. This release includes the Windows board-creation fix and
file-area maintenance and deletion fixes. It also extends PPL 4.00 and improves
file transfers, conference selection and door handling.

Compatibility

• PPL 4.00 remains unstable. Review the area and directory numbering changes
  below and recompile affected PPEs.
• Relative file-area paths in lists inside a board now use the nearest ancestor
  containing icboard.toml, matching the normal BBS layout. Standalone lists
  retain list-relative paths. Use absolute paths for externally located lists
  or differently named board configurations.
• Before the version bump, full CI checks passed on Linux and macOS, and the
  Windows embedded-help checks passed. Release-package builds and manual runtime
  checks still need review before publishing. This remains a beta release.

Added

• icbfile delete deletes an exact, case-insensitive filename from disk and
  removes its database entry. Already-missing files can have their entries
  removed; disk deletion failures retain the entry.
• PPL 4.00 ZIP writer APIs, bulletin and survey access, and Board.AddUser and
  Board.FindUser.
• Native PPL 4.00 date/time values and arithmetic, and PPL/PPE target 3.01 support.
• Native DOS setup console, DOS image setup and X00 installation helpers,
  door arguments and private drop files, and socket-connected doors.
• PPL 4.00 can read archives: Archive.Open() returns an ArchiveReader that
  lists members, reads them as bytes or text and extracts single files, in every
  format unarc-rs supports (ZIP, RAR, 7z, ARJ, LHA, ACE, ARC, ZOO, TAR and more).
  ArchiveEntry.Kind distinguishes files, directories, links and special entries.

Changed

• PPL message areas are numbered from 1: Area.Number, the area in AreaId()
  and the AREA command now use the same number. AreaId(conf, 0) and a plain
  conference number still address the first area. PPEs that added one to
  Area.Number or passed zero-based areas above 0 to AreaId() must be updated.
• File directories are numbered from 1 as well: Directory.Number and
  @DIRNUM@ now show the number the F command takes, and Directory.Number
  is 0 for a directory that does not exist. PPEs that added one to
  Directory.Number must be updated.

Fixed

• Single-file ZMODEM uploads complete the session handshake instead of reporting
  a remote cancellation at 100% (#27). Additional queued files beyond the upload
  limit are skipped without receiving their payloads.
• ZMODEM binary CRC-16 headers and subpackets use the protocol's network byte order,
  allowing transfers with independent clients that select CRC-16.
• Missing advertisement rule files no longer reject uploads: archive
  transformations are skipped, preserving the original file and FILE_ID.DIZ
  extraction. Enabled virus scanning and approval policies still apply.
• The bundled area, cnfn, dir, door and script2 PPEs for new boards
  are recompiled with the current compiler.
• Windows board creation no longer aborts with
  Embedded English fingerprint mismatch: hlp!.md (#28, #32). Checkouts
  preserve embedded source bytes, and catalog fingerprint verification runs
  in tests rather than blocking startup.
• icbfile resolves nested board area lists against the board root instead of
  opening a different database (#31). check --prune without --area checks
  every area in the supplied list. Unavailable storage and inspection errors
  fail explicitly; cached BBS listings refresh externally changed entries.
• Conference plaintext passwords accept stored and entered mixed case.
• X/YMODEM packet timeouts and final ACK recovery, ZMODEM flow control,
  8 KiB receive subpackets and 1 KiB uploads.
• SSH reads apply backpressure when the consumer falls behind (#30).
• PPL file-channel handling, UTF-8 text reads, dot-relative PPE resources,
  malformed list/loop diagnostics and empty index-list crashes.
• Conference join ordering and registration checks, new-file scan date input,
  logoff display hooks, PCBoard user-record compatibility and local status rows.
• POSIX locale selection on all platforms, native stdio door buffering and
  door terminal restoration.
• The AREA command's search list and its confirmation showed zero-based
  numbers, so choosing a listed number joined the wrong area.
• Entering -2147483648 as an area or bulletin number ended the session
  instead of reporting an invalid number.
• @DIRNUM@, @DIRNAME@ and Session.Directory always reported the first
  directory. They now follow the directory last listed with F, and joining a
  conference resets them to its first directory.

What's Changed

• icy_net: hold back the SSH server when the reader falls behind by @NuSkooler in #30

New Contributors

• @NuSkooler made their first contribution in #30

Full Changelog: 0.2.2...0.2.3