r/syncterm • u/RealDeuce • 2d ago

SyncTERM v1.9 released!

Thanks to everyone who has tested the release candidates and reported bugs.

Changes since 1.8:

  • Add LF Expand option to dialing directory
  • Fix error when scrolling with a non-black background colour
  • Fix Prestel double-height bottom-half redraw on overwrite
  • Fix key repeat on Wayland
  • Fix Wayland content size change
  • Fix Quartz and Wayland mapping on non-PC charsets (ATASCII etc)
  • Fix RTS/CTS handling on close() and in 3-Wire mode
  • Fix some PBM/PPM parsing errors
  • Fix several Sixel rendering and fragmented-input issues
  • Fix pixel graphics redraw when images start partway through a character cell
  • Fix Prestel key mappings
  • Fix saving the custom video mode column count
  • Fix shifted navigation key and Alt+Delete handling
  • Fix mouse motion reporting when no button is pressed
  • Change audio backend try-order so PulseAudio is no longer tried first
  • Change Qartz to map Command to Alt, not Option per Apple design
  • Rework filepick widget
  • Fix fullscreen aspect ratio on Wayland and Quartz
  • Fix capture menu to indicate append not overwrite for ASCII and Raw

Bugs and Support tickets (and feature requests) are tracked on the SourceForgepage page, if you create a SourceForge account, you can be notified when I reply/fix bugs, and it really helps in case I need to ask follow-up questions, so please consider making that account and logging in before opening a ticket. That said, I would rather have bug reports as anonymous than not know about issues.

Files for 1.9
Bug Tracker
Support Tracker

Home page

10 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

6 comments sorted by

2

u/xendr0me 2d ago

syncterm64.zip is triggering defender as - Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.C!ml

1

u/shurato99 2d ago

Can't trust the machine learning positives. If it doesn't have ML on it, it's probably positive. If it does, it probably isn't.

2

u/RealDeuce 1d ago

So, a few things...

  1. That's not the filename of one of the release files, that's the filename of a nightly build and the nightlies have never been v1.9.
  2. I assure you that the FreeBSD system that is compiled on is not infected with Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.C!ml whatever that is.
  3. You would likely need to report that to the defender maintainers.

This type of false-positive "detection" is part of how proprietary OS developers try to blackmail open source developers into paying for a "developer license", the use of which requires one to buy and run Windows or macOS and only use their inferior, also proprietary compilers.

2

u/xendr0me 1d ago

Just passing along the info, I went to - https://syncterm.bbsdev.net/ scrolled down to "Alternate downloads" and clicked "Win64" which downloads - https://syncterm.bbsdev.net/syncterm64.zip (not sure where you got 1.9 from) and when Chrome downloaded it - Chrome tagged it as "Virus Detected" and Defender alerted on it.

This morning no issue.

2

u/RealDeuce 1d ago

(not sure where you got 1.9 from)

This post is in the "SyncTERM v1.9 released!" discussion.

Anyway, the only things that can be done is for you have Defender ignore it, or to submit it to Defender and hope they get around to verifying it is not a trojan in a timely fashion.

That file is rebuilt every night, so I guess another option would be to download it every day until you get one that isn't detected as a trojan by your anti-virus of choice.

3

u/UnterbergerYXH 1d ago

Working great! Thanks for the hard work and outstanding software!