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| 2 | author: edk | |
| 3 | date: 2019-06-17 10:15:00+00:00 | |
| 4 | slug: seven-118 | |
| 5 | title: ircd-seven 1.1.8 | |
| 6 | category: freenode | |
| 7 | category: announcements | |
| 8 | --- | |
| 9 | ||
| 10 | Hi all, | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | We're preparing to release version 1.1.8 of ircd-seven and deploy it to the | |
| 13 | production network over the coming weeks. | |
| 14 | ||
| 15 | This release incorporates a number of user-facing changes: | |
| 16 | ||
| 17 | - [Monitor][monitor] is restored to a usable state, and will be re-enabled. | |
| 18 | - Spam filtering can be opted-out of. Setting mode `+u` on yourself ( | |
| 19 | `/umode +u` or `/mode yournick +u`) will disable filtering for messages | |
| 20 | sent to you. Setting it on a channel will disable filtering for all | |
| 21 | messages sent to that channel. | |
| 22 | - `/motd` and `/stats` are no longer ratelimited unless directed at a | |
| 23 | specific server. | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | We're also introducing support for several IRCv3 features that may improve the | |
| 26 | experience on capable clients: | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | - [Away Notifications][away-notify] are supported. | |
| 29 | - [CHGHOST][chghost] is supported. | |
| 30 | - [Strict Transport Security][sts] and [STARTTLS][tls] are enabled. (We know | |
| 31 | STARTTLS is deprecated and a bit out of date, but we'd still like to get | |
| 32 | as many people as possible using TLS one way or another.) | |
| 33 | - [Userhosts in NAMES][userhost-in-names] is supported. | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | There's one more change that is not related to this release, but deserves | |
| 36 | mention: nearly two years ago, we developed an improvement to the `+z` channel | |
| 37 | mode, which sends messages that would have been blocked by `+q` or `+m` to | |
| 38 | channel operators instead. Our new version sends these messages to ops from the | |
| 39 | `@`-prefixed version of the channel: | |
| 40 | ||
| 41 | ``` | |
| 42 | :e!e@freenode/staff/spy.edk PRIVMSG @#test :I'm quieted | |
| 43 | ``` | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | to make it easier for operators to distinguish between messages everyone can see | |
| 46 | and messages they can see due to `+z`. | |
| 47 | ||
| 48 | This borrows the syntax from an existing feature, [STATUSMSG][statusmsg], but | |
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49 | is easy to tell apart from it, because only ops and voiced users can send to |
| 50 | `@channel` normally. | |
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51 | |
| 52 | We gated this behind a feature switch, and we've been waiting, largely | |
| 53 | passively, for client support to increase. It appears that everyone who wants to | |
| 54 | act on warnings has done so, and we'd like to commit to a date to enable it. | |
| 55 | ||
| 56 | **We'll be enabling this feature on the 31st of July 2019, UTC.** If you op a | |
| 57 | channel that uses `+z`, please make sure your client handles it correctly. | |
| 58 | You can send test messages by using `/msg @#channel test` using a second opped | |
| 59 | connection for any channel where you have ops—your client should associate | |
| 60 | this message with `#channel`, and preferably distinguish it from normal | |
| 61 | messages in some way. | |
| 62 | ||
| 63 | Thanks for using freenode, and I look forward to collaborating with many of | |
| 64 | you via a slightly less-antiquated medium. | |
| 65 | ||
| 66 | [monitor]: https://ircv3.net/specs/core/monitor-3.2 | |
| 67 | [away-notify]: https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/away-notify-3.1 | |
| 68 | [chghost]: https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/chghost-3.2 | |
| 69 | [sts]: https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/sts | |
| 70 | [tls]: https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/tls-3.1 | |
| 71 | [userhost-in-names]: https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/userhost-in-names-3.2 | |
| 72 | [statusmsg]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hardy-irc-isupport-00#section-4.18 |