WWIV 5.7.2 GA Release

[wwiv]

We are happy to announce a GA of WWIV 5.7 is available
as the stable release of WWIV BBS for Linux and Windows and OS/2.

WWIV 5.7 is the 7th 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 8.3 (or later) on (Debian10, Centos7 with SCL, or Ubuntu 20.04)
OS/2: Warp 4, ArcaOS 5.0.6 or newer.
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 5.6

New Features/Changes since 5.7.1 pre-release.

* Fix issue of pause missing in chains.json.
*  Serialize access to the autoblock list when we're updating it. (#1472)
* Don't try to shutdown the BBS when it hasn't yet been started (#1474)

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