News
-Last revised: Dec 11, 2018
+Last revised: Jun 25, 2019
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What's new?
This file lists major and incompatible changes in Eggdrop versions.
- You can find the full list of changes in doc/Changes1.8.
+ You can find the full list of changes in doc/Changes1.9.
For support, feel free to visit us on Freenode #eggdrop.
For upgrading from a pre-1.6 version of Eggdrop: Read the UPGRADING file.
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-Eggdrop v1.8.4:
+Eggdrop v1.9.0:
General changes:
- - Lots of work on the compile process for less commonly-seen systems
- (SunOS, DragonFly, etc) and making Eggdrop more compiler-friendly in
- general.
- - Prevented eggdrop from crashing when .handle was used in terminal mode.
- - Added and enhanced SSL/TLS warnings, making them more useful to the
- user.
- - Display a '+' to denote TLS connections in the Tcl dcclist.
- - Enhanced random number generation capability.
- - Added logging of some forgotten sharing commands.
- - Raised ban/ignore/exempt expiration limit from 365 days to 5 years.
- Introduced the optional %y field to these commands to accept year
- arguments.
- - Updated stealth-prompt to look more like a traditional telnet login
- prompt, with the cursor on the same line as the prompt.
- - Updated the channels module to use the same defaults as shown in
- eggdrop.conf.
- - Added additional debug logging that shows when a bind or proc executed,
- and how much cpu time it took to execute.
- Botnet changes:
- - Fixed botnet link scenario where leaf bots could not connect via
- starttls to TLS-only listening sockets.
- - Documented known bug where bots added with +port in botaddr cannot
- connect to a bot listening in a config with +port.
- - Made TLS fingerprint storage persistent across shared botnets, instead
- of (incorrectly) being removed after a relink.
- - Fixed a corner case where the linking IP was not being correctly sent
- during a share, preventing Eggdrop from exchanging user files.
-
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-
-Eggdrop v1.8.3:
-
- Tcl-API changes:
- - Added "handle ipaddress botport userport" syntax to the addbot Tcl
- command.
- General changes:
- - Fixed a bug where ssl-enabled ports were not able to be reverted to
- non-SSL ports via the setuser Tcl command.
- - SSL certs: Fail earlier if SSL certs have issues. Also fatally
- error
- if only one of ssl-privatekey/certificate config settings is set.
- - Correctly check against invalid flags with the .match partyline
- command and matchattr Tcl command.
- - Prevent loop when writing to stdout in foreground mode that results
- in a segfault.
- - Lots of additional error checking against values for .+bot, .chaddr
- and the Tcl addbot command.
- - No longer trigger CHON binds when returning from a control script.
- - Added the '.resetconsole' command, allowing a user to reset console
- flags to those specified in the config file.
- Botnet changes:
- - Added the 'l' console flag to handle messages sent from linked bots,
- reserving the 'b' console flag to handle messages related to botnet-
- linkings.
- - Split the "raw share traffic" flag into incoming (h) and outgoing (g).
- - Fixed a race condition in SSL userfile sharing, causing the transfer
- to stall with 511 bytes missing.
- - Fixed a bug introduced in v1.8.2 with copy-to-tmp, where the userfile
- being received is now properly being sent to a tmpfile first if
- copy-to-tmp is set.
- - Botnet sharing: A slave will now use the address of the hub (to
- which it's successfully connected) instead of an IP given by the hub
- which was wrong in certain cases (especially in NAT situations).
- - Bots request existing channel flags for users upon adding a new
- channel.
- Deprecations:
- - Deprecated the "ipv4address:botport/userport" and
- "[ipv6address]:botport/userport" address formats for addbot.
-
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-
-Eggdrop v1.8.2:
-
- eggdrop.conf changes:
- - temp-path renamed to tmpfile and its purpose changed.
- It is now only used by filesys.mod/transfer.mod and optional.
- - blowfish-use-mode is a new setting for Tcl encrypt/decrypt.
- Allows using CBC instead of ECB mode for encryption.
- Tcl scripts not using the same mode are incompatible with each other.
- Does NOT affect password hashing for the userfile.
- CBC will be the NEW DEFAULT in a later version of eggdrop.
- Will be removed in a future Eggdrop version and forced to CBC.
- - global-* is renamed to default-*.
- This clarifies their purpose as default channel settings,
- not ones that override for existing channels.
- global-* still works for backwards compatibility.
- Tcl-API changes:
- - encrypt/decrypt: These commands can now encrypt/decrypt in CBC
- mode instead of the current ECB mode. This does NOT affect password
- hashing for the userfile.
- - getuser: Can now be called without a second argument. Returns a flat
- key/value list (dict) of settings for that user.
- - configureargs: New global variable holding the ./configure arguments.
- This is a _string_, not a list. User needs to split it themselves.
- - maskhost: New types 30-39 set hostmask to * (to allow e.g. nick!*@*).
- General changes:
- - Improved command line argument parsing.
- - Portuguese language file added.
- - Eggdrop no longer changes nick on every rehash if altnick uses '?'.
- - Terminal-mode (commandline -nt) always has full owner access now.
- - Allow spaces in server passwords in serverlist.
-
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-
-Eggdrop v1.8.1:
-
- Autobotchk - Added functionality improvements to the tried-and-true
- autobotchk script, allowing characters such as {} and [] to be used in
- filenames. Additionally, it can also now handle long botnetnicks for
- pidfiles and check for additional sourced config files.
-
- .who linkedbot output - Truncates listings appropriately.
-
- eggdrop.conf - Update source code to match defaults given in Eggdrop
- configuration file.
-
- Minutely hook - The minutely hook was only called for missed minutes mod
- 60, now it is still listed in minutes but it can be greater than 60.
-
- Options summary - At the end of configure, Eggdrop now displays a handy
- summary of basic options used during compile. It will display the OS
- and Tcl version found, along with if TLS, IPv6 and SSL are enabled.
-
- New OpenSSL version detection - A recent update to the OpenSSL libs
- rendered some of our checks invalid, particularly the hexstr2buf call.
- This is now fixed.
-
- Implemented version.h - Moved previously hard-coded version strings to
- version.h and update them via misc/setpatch instead of misc/addpatch.
- This also fixes inconsistencies in setting the internal version
- integer.
-
- Compile cleanup - Fixed some compiler warnings.
-
- General bugfixes - Small code tweaks to eliminate some rare error
- conditions.
-
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-
-
-Eggdrop v1.8.0:
-
- MODULES
-
- While most 3rd party modules that worked on Eggdrop1.6.x should still work
- with Eggdrop1.8.x, many of them contain a version check that only allows
- them to run on 1.6.x bots. We have removed the version check from some of
- the more popular modules provide them at
- ftp://eggheads.org/pub/eggdrop/modules/1.8/
-
- SCRIPTS
-
- All 3rd party Tcl scripts that work with Eggdrop1.6.x fully work with
- Eggdrop1.8.x.
-
- ENCODINGS
-
- Eggdrop1.8 has been modified to support the utf-8 encoding with a fallback
- of iso8859-1. Other single-byte encodings are not yet supported, but
- full support for them is planned for a later version of Eggdrop1.8.
-
- IPV6
-
- Full IPv6 support for servers, telnet and script connections, dcc and
- botnet. See doc/IPV6 for more information.
-
-
- SSL
-
- Full SSL support has been added for all kinds of connections, including
- certificate verification and authorization, and partyline SSL. See doc/TLS.
-
- BOTNET
-
- Because 1.8 bots attempt to link with SSL if available every time, make
- sure you generate a certificate on your hub bot with "make sslcert" after
- "make install".
-
- CONFIG
-
- eggdrop.conf changes:
-
- To ease the transition from Eggdrop1.6.x to Eggdrop1.8.0, we have created
- a list of config file changes needed at http://eggheads.org/eggconf180.txt.
- Perhaps the most important changes are the removal of the my-ip and
- my-hostname settings, replaced by vhost4, vhost6 and the listen-addr
- setting. Check our new eggdrop.conf for examples.
-
- eggdrop-basic.conf:
-
- Eggdrop1.8.0 includes a simpler configuration file called
- eggdrop-basic.conf, which is recommended for users that do not need
- advanced Eggdrop features such as botnets. We still recommend reading the
- full eggdrop.conf and copying settings over that you might want to modify.
-
-
- WIRE REMOVED
-
- The wire module has been removed from eggdrop 1.8. You can still get it
- from ftp://eggheads.org/pub/eggdrop/modules/1.8/wire-2.1.tar.gz
- Note that with ssl support you can have encrypted botnet and partyline
- without wire.mod.
-
-
- DOCUMENTATION
-
- Documentation has been updated to reflect new and removed commands and
- variables. Almost all files have changed, so take a look at them.
-
-
- TCL COMMANDS
-
- A lot of changes have been made to Tcl commands. Please look at
- doc/tcl-commands.doc to see them.
-
+ - Added CAP support, allowing Eggdrop to extend IRC server capabilities
+ - Added support for SASL authentication
+ - Added a BETA threaded DNS capability, enabled with the --enable-tdns
+ configure flag. This allows asynchronus DNS requests similar to the what
+ the current DNS module offers, but using host system capability instead
+ of rewriting it from scratch. Using this means you no longer have to use
+ the DNS module.
+ - Eggdrop can listen on multiple IPs (and ports) now by using multiple
+ instances of the 'listen' command
+ - Added Twitch support
+ - Added support for users that change hosts mid-session, usually associated
+ with authenticating with services (396 raw code and CHGHOST capability).
+ - Added support for the users that change their realname value mis-session
+ (SETNAME capability)
+ - Added the ability for Eggdrop to internally track the away status of an
+ individual, with some limitations.
+ - Added the 'make sslsilent' option that creates an SSL certificate keypair
+ non-interactively, to assist in scripted/automated installs
+ - Differentiate between scripted and server WHOX calls, preventing mangling
+ of channel userlists
+ - The -n flag is no longer required to run Eggdrop in terminal mode; just
+ -t or -c are fine by themselves
+ - Added some checks to flags added via .chattr and .botattr to clearly
+ identify what happens when you add flags that can't co-exist together
+
+ Botnet changes:
+ - Removed automatic upgrade to TLS-protected botnet links with STARTTLS.
+ Based on user feedback, protecting a botnet link is now at the discretion
+ of the user. Prefixing a port with a '+' will require a TLS connection,
+ otherwise the connection will be in plaintext. A port not prefixed with a
+ + can still be upgraded with STARTTLS, allowing 1.8 bots and scripts to
+ initiate a secure connection, but 1.9.0 bots will not attempt the upgrade.
+ - Added granular userfile sharing flags (bcejnu). Adding these flags can limit
+ userfile sharing to a combination of bans, invites, exempts, channels,
+ users, and ignores (or still the s flag for all these).
+ - No longer try port+1,2,3 when connecting to a botnet port doesn't work
+ the first time
+
+ Tcl API changes:
+ - Added the RAWT bind, which will (eventually) phase out the RAW bind.
+ Implementing the IRCv3 message-tags capability requires a new way to
+ handle basic IRC messages, and RAWT was added in a way so that a) RAW
+ binds in old scripts still work and b) the RAWT bind can handle messages
+ that either do or do not have message-tags attached
+ - Added the INVT bind, allowing Eggdrop to react to a standard invitation,
+ or the new IRCv3 invite-notify capability
+ - Added the AWY3 bind, allowing Eggdrop to react to the new IRCv3
+ away-notify capability.
+ - Added the refreshchan command, which refreshes without removing existing
+ channel status information tracked by Eggdrop for users on a channel.
+ - Added the isaway command, which returns if a user is listed by the server
+ as away or not, if using the IRCv3 away-notify capability. If away-notify
+ is not enabled, this command can still be used effectively in conjunction
+ with 'refreshchan w', described above.
+ - Added the hand2nicks command, an alternative to the hand2nick command.
+ hand2nicks returns ALL nicks matching a handle, not just the first one.
+ - Aded the socklist command, an update to the dcclist command. Returns
+ similar info as a Tcl dict, and adds the IP to the information.
+ - Use the system's strftime formatting instead of Eggdrop-provided
+ GNU version/extensions. This could cause formatting differences
+ or errors between systems. To ensure fully portable code, developers
+ should only rely on POSIX-compliant formatting specifiers.
+ - The dcclist command now returns port information and whether or not TLS
+ is in use for that port. This change could affect field-based parsers
+ depending on this command
+ - Added the addserver and delserver command, to *gasp* add and delete a
+ server from Eggdrop's server list
+ - Modified the listen command to accept an optional IP argument. This
+ allows Eggdrop to listen on multiple addresses by using multiple listen
+ commands in the config file or Tcl script. If no IP is specified, 0.0.0.0
+ is used as default. As a result of this change, the listen-addr command
+ is no longer needed and removed from the config file
+ - Added an optional -channel flag to the end of the is* commands (isban,
+ isexempt, etc). This flag prevents the is* command from checking the
+ global list and returning a '1' when there is no channel-specific case
+ - Added several Tcl commands and binds to enable better interaction with
+ the Twitch gaming service. Because these commands only work with a Twitch
+ server, they are not included in tcl-commands.doc but rather
+ twitch-tcl-commands.doc, located in the doc/ directory.
+ - Limited the expiration for new bans, ignores and exempts to 2000 days.
+
+ Module changes:
+ - Added the PBKDF2 module, which allows Eggdrop to hash passwords using the
+ PBKDF2 algorithm. This module is a stepping stone to future, more
+ adaptable hashing and encryption implementation. IMPORTANT: PLEASE read
+ doc/PBKDF2 for more information on how to properly use it, you could
+ accidentally render old passwords useless!
+ - Added the twitch module, which allows Eggdrop to connect to the Twitch
+ gaming service. As Twitch offers only a limited subset of standard IRC
+ functionality, be prepared for some commands or scripts to work
+ differently than on a normal IRC server. Please read doc/TWITCH for more
+ information.
+ - Added the ident module, which can automatically interact with a running
+ oidentd service or allow Eggdrop to serve as its own ident server to
+ respond to ident requests during the server connection process.
+
+ Eggdrop config file changes:
+ - Added additional net-types for freenode, Quakenet, and Rizon (net-type)
+ - Added ability to choose specific SSL/TLS protocols to use (ssl-protocols)
+ - Added ability to allow bots to remain linked if userfile sharing fails
+ (sharefail-unlink)
+ - Changed the method Eggdrop uses to add servers from a {} list to the new
+ addserver command
+ - Removed the listen-addr command. See above; the listen command now
+ accepts an optional IP argument in lieu of using listen-addr
+ - Added the show-uname setting, which allows you to disable the display of
+ uname info for the host system in things like .status
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Copyright (C) 1997 Robey Pointer
-Copyright (C) 1999 - 2021 Eggheads Development Team
+Copyright (C) 1999 - 2020 Eggheads Development Team
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