Windows XP yet again

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for various reasons I cannot ditch XP and need to keep files backed up without user intervention. syncthing works great on newer laptops, but XP ones running 1.0.1 won’t connect to modern cluster due to lack of TLS1.3.

long story short, files were lost because someone didn’t run manual copy, a bridge setup with server running 2 versions is messy as hell, so decided to put AI to, hopefully, good work and backported TLS1.3 support to GO1.11.5 and then compiled Syncthing1.0.1 and even backported 1.3.2 to build with go1.11.5. Both seem to work fine on windows xp, connect and sync to 2.0.16 devices.

what I need is sanity check: how badly the port was done?

I used opencode with free BigPickle model as copilot and gemini ran out of free tier before tls was backported…

any vulnerability hunting AI worth unleashing on them? I don’t mind spending couple of$$ on opencode zen tokens to get something more capable than free model , just which to choose and how to test it? if needed?

repos are here:

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@zajc3w Hi,

Did you tried syncspirit (I’m the author)? It is syncthing-compatible at protocol (network) layer. And yes, it is compiled with Windows XP support.

While it does not provides all syncthing features, it uses latest openssl library and I check it’s compatibility with recent syncthing versions and, in general, it works.

Any feedback is welcome.

PS. The new version with underlying storage monitoring (inotify/ReadDirectoryChangesW) will be released soon!

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I’ll give it a try, thanks.