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010513: 0.16pre3

- Completely rewritten API and communication with application

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010408: 0.16pre2

- Mailer now supports Incomming/Outgoing mail folders

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010301: 0.16pre1

- New command :sendfile for creating messages from binary files (7plus)
- Mailer can handle 7plus files in messages
- Changes and improvements in application interface
- Some bugfixes

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010118: 0.15

- KILLPERS@0 can now contain the command to be used to kill the personal
  messages (replace the message number with '#')
- New AX.25 implementation support
- Mail editor improvements
- :rcmd can now specify if the command can be executed on other channels
  (e.g. ":rcmd CONNECT GET@ QUIT" - user can specify :get@0)
- Application interface library revision
- some fixes in application execution (autobin should work again)
- :getmsg and :forward support gradual connects
- Huffman compression support (new command :comp, compatibile with TNT)
- :connect command is now an editable macro (this allows gradual connects)
- new macro commands (:waitfor, :sleep)
- new command :mbin allows to enable/disable monitoring binary data

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000328: 0.14

- Mailer fixes
- Finaly runs on libc6 distributions

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000223: 0.13

- Automatic monitor format detection
- ax25spyd support as an alternative to listen
- Some optimizations for speed
- Communication with applications fixed
- Monitor supports character conversion

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000214: 0.12

- Login password processing was rewritten and new systems were added
- Authorization command :pw is more flexible
- Modules for communication with applications were rewrtitten
- New utility :catch for scanning data streams for patterns
- New command :listen for enabling or disabling incomming connections

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000119: 0.11

- New command :monitor for disabling the monitor
- Monitor can be disabled from command line too (-m switch)
- Little changes in user interface

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000108: 0.10

- Color definition changes (more colors)
- Source fixes for new compilers

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991221: 0.09

- Shared memory allocation fix (no more needed to run as root)
- Text editors fixed

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991212: 0.08

- Memory allocation fixed
- YAPP revision
- additions to application interface

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991117: 0.07

- MD5 passwords supported
- Mail editor fixed
- Mail forwarding fix (problem with non-alphanumeric chars in dest.)

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991031: 0.06

- Different sound signals on the linux console
- Many bugfixes

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991024: 0.05

- Automatic login password handling added
- Experimental code for reading AX.25 status via ioctl (see doc/ioctl.txt)

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990908: 0.04

- Mailer supports user bulletin groups
- New commands ':delmsg' and ':pack' for deleting messages

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990619: 0.03

- The LINPACDIR variable is no more used
- LinPac can be used with multiple users
- Automatic sysop authorization supported
- First version of user manual finished
- All application converted to C++ (some of them were in C)
- Shared application library

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990516: 0.02

- Version numbering started
- Mailer allows including the original message in reply

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990427:

- Automatic mail address completing in collaboration with the
  ax25mail-utils package
- The mailer shows new messages immediately after downloading each message
- The screen buffer files have limited size

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990321:

- First public release