ANetBBS Changelog

Versions are internal build numbers. Public releases are tagged
separately. Current release: v1.0b2.58 (July 2026). Full release: August 1 2026.

v1.0b2.12 — Widescreen: 132-col art border removal + status bar overflow fixes (July 2026)

• FIX: ║ side border characters removed from all 132-col ANSI art files (main menu, game center, chat, goodbye) for a cleaner borderless look.
• FIX: Status bar overflowed to a second line on game_center132, chat132, and goodbye132 when BBS name + version expanded past 132 cols. Middle spacing trimmed to absorb the template expansion.
• FIX: goodbye132 title banner (Thanks for calling @BBS@!) overflowed when BBS name is long — trailing decoration bytes trimmed.
• FIX: Door Games box: ║ side borders replaced with plain ═ horizontal bars.
• FIX: File library area list column overflow with [inactive]/[sysop] flags at 132 cols.
• FIX: ANView (message reader) header bar, status bar, and content now use terminal width.
• FIX: Door Games list name/type column widths now scale with terminal width.

v1.0b2.11 — Graffiti Wall: widescreen + ASCII mode support (July 2026)

• FEATURE: Wall box scales with terminal width (131 cols max on widescreen sessions).
• FEATURE: ASCII mode substitutes +/-/| for CP437 box chars; pipe colors stripped in post content.

v1.0b2.10 — MRC: send TERMSIZE to server at connect time (July 2026)

• FEATURE: MRC client sends TERMSIZE <cols>,<rows> to the remote MRC server immediately after joining. On a 132-col session this sends TERMSIZE 132,37.
• NOTE: WHOON /who list format is set by the remote server (mrc.bottomlessabyss.net) for 80-col. Chat word-wrap already uses the full local terminal width.

v1.0b2.9 — MRC: status bar blue fill now spans full terminal width (July 2026)

• FIX: Root cause of narrow MRC status bar: room_s/topic_s both embed \x1b[0m] which reset the blue background before the gap spaces were written. Added \x1b[44m] re-assertion before gap and before \x1b[K]. Status bar now fills the full 131-col width on widescreen sessions.

v1.0b2.8 — MRC: active terminal size detection + status bar fill fix (July 2026)

• FIX: MRC detects actual terminal size via ANSI CPR query when session window_size is small (<100 cols). Fixes 40-col MRC status bar on telnet sessions where NAWS was not negotiated at connect time.
• FIX: MRC status bar uses \x1b[K] after writing content to fill the rest of the row with blue — no longer depends on \x1b[2K] behavior.
• FIX: _term_columns floor raised from 40 → 64.

v1.0b2.7 — Widescreen: MRC chat fixes (July 2026)

• FIX: MRC status bar blue fill stopped at content end — \x1b[44m now set before \x1b[2K so erase fills blue.
• FIX: Chat Systems menu banner/footer/menu_item not width-aware — now pass _w.
• FIX: MRC _enter_split_screen checks session.cols/.rows as fallback for _term_columns.

v1.0b2.6 — Widescreen fixes: RSS pager/lightbar, file browser, ANetIRC (July 2026)

• FIX: RSS lightbar and pager separator lines hardcoded to 76 — now ui_width(session).
• FIX: RSS item list title column capped at 62 — now expands with terminal width.
• FIX: RSS article pager divider hardcoded to 72 — now expands.
• FIX: File area list/detail dividers hardcoded to 44 — now terminal width; name + desc columns expand.
• FIX: InterBBS IM inbox banner not width-aware — now full width with wider message preview.
• FIX: ANetIRC capped terminal width at 79 — now 131 so two-panel TUI fills 132-col sessions.

v1.0b2.5 — Full widescreen support for all terminal screens (July 2026)

• FEATURE: ui_width(session) added to ansi_ui.py. Every banner(), footer(), table header, and content column across all 20+ screens now passes the terminal width. All screens expand to fill wide (132-col) terminals automatically.
• FEATURE: Content column widths (board name, thread subject, bulletin title, RSS feed/item title, echomail area name, file area name, message body) scale proportionally with ui_width.

v1.0b2.4 — Game Center: Q and 3 both exit (July 2026)

• FIX: Q did not exit Game Center — only 3 did. Both now accepted (case-insensitive), matching Chat and Door Games behavior.

v1.0b2.3 — Display @-codes applied in all sub-menu art files (July 2026)

• FIX: @SYSOP@, @BBS@, @VERSION@, @NODE@, @TIME@ not substituted in sub-menu art. Added write_menu_art(session, slot) to ansi_ui.py — shared helper that applies display codes before writing. All feature sub-menus converted to use it.
• FIX: game_center art had [Q] for back but code checked '3'. Art files corrected.

v1.0b2.2 — Mode-aware sub-menu art + stock chat/game_center files (July 2026)

• FEATURE: load_menu_ansi(slot, mode) is now mode-aware. Wide terminals check {slot}132.ans; ASCII terminals check {slot}.asc. Both fall back to anetbbs/screens/menus/ bundled stock art before returning None.
• FEATURE: chat and game_center menus now ship with stock CP437/ANSI art for all three modes (.ans, .asc, 132.ans).
• FIX: All load_menu_ansi() callers pass self.session.term_mode.

v1.0b2.1 — Seed stock screens to data/text/ on install/update (July 2026)

• FIX: update.sh now seeds anetbbs/screens/ → data/text/ and anetbbs/screens/menus/ → data/text/menus/ using cp -n (no-overwrite). Sysop files are never touched; missing files are filled in on every update.
• FEATURE: anetbbs/screens/menus/ ships main.ans, main.asc, main132.ans as stock main menu art.

v1.0b2.0 — Stock slot screens as real files (July 2026)

• FEATURE: welcome, newuser, goodbye now ship as .ans / .asc / 132.ans in anetbbs/screens/. All three terminal modes get a proper stock screen. _show_ansi_screen falls back to these before returning nothing.
• REMOVE: Inline _stock_ascii_screen() replaced by the file-based system.

v1.0b1.9 — ASCII mode: strip ANSI from all writes (July 2026)

• FIX: write() now strips ANSI escape sequences when term_mode == 'ascii', covering all hardcoded color strings (bot-gate, security questions, new-user questionnaire, post-login notifications, sysop broadcasts, etc.) without needing per-call changes.

v1.0b1.8 — ASCII mode login screen fix (July 2026)

• FIX: login_screen() rendered the 1/2/3 login menu with hardcoded ANSI escape codes regardless of terminal mode. ASCII-mode connections now get a plain +---+ box-draw login menu with no escape codes.