Zeus 1.9 is a work in progress, so everything below may change before release. Here is a look at what's been done so far:

The Event Bus

• A new 1.9 subsystem that lets any part of Zeus, or any script or compiled tool, publish a message about an event onto a named channel, and have other parts react to it without either side knowing about the other. Think of a modern message queue like RabbitMQ, but very Amiga and very Zeus.
• As well as discrete events, the Event Bus supports data streams that other processes can consume, and channels can be deleted or set to expire automatically.
• The Event Bus is the realisation of an idea that started life in 1999, when we were thinking about what a BBS could become. It's a foundation for other projects, and the first of those are already built on it:
• ChatDoor - a new cross-node chat door, built entirely on an Event Bus channel.
• IRCBridge - connects out to a real IRC server and relays ChatDoor traffic to and from a configured channel.
• SessionLogger - transcribes a caller's whole session to a timestamped log file under <Logs>Sessions/.
• WebhookPost - posts an event to a Discord/Slack-style webhook over HTTPS.

• Zeus Web Telnet - a companion app for Linux that gives callers a full ANSI Telnet (and Telnet over TLS) terminal in their web browser, with ZModem support and a control code menu. Callers can reach your BBS from a modern machine without installing a terminal.
• TelnetListener gains per-IP rate limiting, and a HAProxy-style trusted-proxy mechanism so Zeus Web Telnet can pass on the caller's real IP address. Scripts can read it with the new GETCALLERSOURCE ARexx command.
• ztelser.device - a Zeus-native replacement for the third-party telser.device, giving a "serial.device over the internet" with optional TLS encryption and rate limiting. It isn't a replacement for TelnetConnector - it's for uses like running a traditional FidoNet mailer such as ZMailer over the internet. It comes with a preferences editor and a ZTelserStatus command, and will also be released separately. The big news with this is its stability and reliability compared with telser.device.

• ZTelser is so much faster than telser that it exposed several crashing bugs, now fixed. ZMailer has had divide-by-zero fixes in Hydra and XPR, and now supports xprzedzap 3.51 rather than depending on the 1992 v1.0.
• A crash bug in xprzedzap 3.51 has been fixed, and Zeus 1.9 will include an adopted xprzedzap 3.60, with a separate Aminet release to follow.
• The result should be a much faster and very stable FidoNet mailer, tested extensively between an A1200 running Zeus and ZMailer and an A4000 running Trapdoor, both over ZTelser.
• XprXfer now times out a ZModem transfer that never starts after 30 seconds, instead of holding the line for 30 minutes, and reports duplicate uploads to scripts as RC=25 from the UPLOAD ARexx command.
• zmf.library has a much stronger MSGID algorithm, after the 2002 one was found to have a 1 in 8 chance of a collision when posting messages in the same second.

• AIControl and the new zai.library introduce an LLM AI support framework into Zeus, with Prefs/AI for the SysOp to configure AI provider keys, supporting multiple providers.
• ZTextEditor - a brand new ANSI text editor dedicated to Zeus. As well as being a new editor built as a dedicated Zeus door, it adds optional AI features such as auto-complete, rephrasing and web lookups.

• CronControl - Zeus's own crontab-syntax job scheduler, at feature parity with Ron Schnell's excellent cRon, and now going further, such as publishing messages to Event Bus channels.
• ZLogWatcher - a "tail -f" for your BBS. Open it on the Control screen, pick the logs to watch, snapshot the windows where you want them, and keep a real-time eye on what's happening, with colourised dates and log fields for readability.
• CronControl, EventControl and AIControl all register with Commodities Exchange for easier monitoring and control.
• ModifyZeusStartup - a new Installer tool that adds entries to Zeus's startup list, so new Zeus features and tools can be integrated automatically.

• The default ScriptSet shipped with Zeus will be based on our own BBS's scripts - where all our changes are made - including a new listview message reader, BrowseMsg.
• A new demonstration AmiExpress ScriptSet presents Zeus as a conference-based AmiExpress ("/X") board.
• Enhancements include little fixes that help on modern internet facing systmes: for example, the login process now times out the user name prompt after 30 seconds, with better user name input handling generally.

• A new printed manual is in production - the first since 1996!
• zeus.guide has new chapters on Writing a ScriptSet and Control Codes, and a new section on the user's event log. It is now wrapped at 80 columns with @SmartWrap, so a single zeus.guide suits both OS2 and OS3+ AmigaGuide viewers.

In the meantime, Zeus 1.8 is available for download -- see the Downloads page. If you'd like to support ongoing development, you can also register as a Zeus supporter.