Unfortunately, a late change on the day of the Synchronet v3.20b release introduced a bug with user birthdate parsing.
https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/863
This bug can result in new users (registering via the Synchronet Terminal Server, e.g. via Telnet or SSH) getting their birthdate stored incorrectly or (as has been reported for systems configured for "year first" date formats) even disallowing the user from registering a new account at all.
There have been other found and fixed issues since the v3.20b release (e.g. large TLS sends from JavaScript modules/services), but the birthdate bug is pretty critical and will definitely be mandating another revision of v3.20 to be released soon.
If you're using a recent development build (v3.20c), and you're up to date as of today, then you already have the fix for the birthdate issue in place. A new release is mainly needed so that new (Windows) sysops don't get hit by this pretty egregious issue.
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