WWIV 5.8 GA Release (5.8.1)

[wwiv]

We are happy to announce a prerelease (aka release candidate, tech preview) of WWIV 5.8 for Linux, and Windows.

WWIV 5.8 is the 8th major release after the long-awaited 5.0 release and in addition to native
WWIVnet support (no more DOS dependencies) on all platforms, supports native Fido Technology
Networking (FTN) Support and fully customizable menus.

System Requirements:

Win32: Windows 7 or later using MS Visual C++ 2022 Community Edition.
Linux: GCC 10 (or later) on (Debian11, Centos7 with SCL, or Ubuntu 22.04)
CMake 3.18 or newer

Title	Link
Main Web Site	https://www.wwivbbs.org
Documentation	http://docs.wwivbbs.org
Code	http://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv

Upgrade notes.

Please read upgrade.txt in the distribution for more specific upgrade notes from 5.7

New Features/Changes since 5.7.1 pre-release.

* Lowercase the modulename for fileio
Now that we uppercase the module for wwivbasic so it looks right, we need
to lowercase it for all file I/O. (Fixes #1611)

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This discussion was created from the release WWIV 5.8 GA Release (5.8.1).