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1 This is ShadowIRCd 6.0, Copyright (c) 2005-2010 ShadowIRCd team.
2 See LICENSE for licensing details (GPL v2).
3
4 -- shadowircd-6.0.0
5
6 new modes
7 - Add umode +C (no CTCP).
8 - Add umode +V, users with this mode set will never recieve channel invites
9 from other users.
10 - Add umode +B which identifies users as being bots.
11 - Add umode +G which disallows users from messaging you unless you're both
12 on at least one channel together. This can be "overridden" with /accept.
13 - Add cmode +T which blocks all notices to the channel.
14 - Add cmode +D which blocks all actions (/me's) from being sent to the channel.
15 - Add cmode +E which disallows channel ops from kicking users.
16 - Add cmode +N which disallows users from changing their nick while they're on
17 a channel with this mode set.
18 - Add cmode +K (norepeat) which will block repeated messages if a user sends
19 the same message multiple times before any other users send to the channel.
20 - Add cmode +G which blocks messages containing 50% or more capital letters
21 from being sent to the channel.
22 - Add cmode +J which disallows a kicked user from rejoining within 'X' seconds
23 of them being kicked, where 'X' is the variable of the channel::kick_no_rejoin_time
24 configuration option.
25 - Add cmodes +a and +h (owner and halfop, respectively). There are 2 extra
26 prefixes to more finely-grain the status of staff members in your channels.
27 They can be enabled or disabled in the configuration file with the options
28 channel::use_halfop and channel::use_owner.
29
30 new configuration options
31 - auth::autojoin - This option will specify what channels users in a matching
32 auth {} block will automatically join on connect to your server/network.
33 - auth::autojoin_opers - This option will specify what channels opers in a
34 matching auth {} block will automatically join on oper up (/oper).
35 - channel::cycle_host_change - This option defines whether or not users
36 will cycle (part and rejoin) the channels they're in when their host changes.
37 This can be annoying to some people, but disabling it can cause client desyncs.
38 - channel::host_in_topic - This option defines whether or not a host setter's
39 full host or just their nick will be shown on /TOPIC.
40 - channel::use_local_channels - With this option, you can enable/disable
41 support for local channels on your server/network.
42 - channel::exemptchanops - This option defines what channel modes channel
43 operators are exempt from, channel modes usable in this option are: cCDTNGK.
44 - general::secret_channels_in_whois - This option defines whether or not opers
45 can see secret channels that a user is in when whoising them. Secret channels
46 will show up in the whois prefixed with *. If this option is disabled, opers
47 will still be able to see secret channels a user is in with the /SPYWHOIS
48 command.
49 - Enabled a few popular extensions by default, added a few extensions to the
50 example config files that were missing, add a few more services aliases
51 by default, enable ip_cloaking by default and get rid of all the old
52 ip_cloaking modules.
53
54 opers
55 - Users' umodes are shown when you whois them.
56 - swhois support - Adds a mostly free-form line of text to opers' whois
57 if one is set in their operator {} block.
58 - custom operstring - Instead of showing the IRC operator or IRC administrator
59 oper strings, you can customize what it shows by privset or
60 for a specific operator.
61 - host-on-oper - This will be a option settable in both privset block and
62 operator block that defines what host a operator gets upon oper-up.
63 - operoverride - Oper override works very differently in ShadowIRCd compared
64 to all other IRCd's which support oper override. In ShadowIRCd, to be able
65 to override, you must have the oper:override privledge and you must then
66 set umode +p on yourself. The p umode will automatically expire and un-set
67 itself after a time set in the configuration option general::expire_override_time.
68 - immune - Immune depends on the chm_no_oper_kick extension being enabled.
69 An oper can set +M on a channel (which that channel's ops and users can not
70 see, but other opers can), then when the oper joins that channel with override
71 (umode +p) set on themselves, the channel's ops will be unable to kick the oper
72 from the channel.
73
74 other
75 - Changed default NICKLEN to 31 (from 15) to fit more closely with other
76 IRCd's.
77 - Rebrand many things from Charybdis to ShadowIRCd.
78 - Move the m_force module to extensions.
79
80 -- charybdis-3.2.0
81
82 server protocol
83 - Apply +z to messages blocked by +b and +q as well. (new EOPMOD capab)
84 - Add new topic command ETB, allowing services to set topic+setter+ts always.
85 (new EOPMOD capab)
86 - The slash ('/') character is now allowed in spoofs.
87 user
88 - Add can_kick hook, based on the ircd-seven one.
89 - Add cmode +C (no CTCP) from ircd-seven.
90 - Flood checking has been reworked.
91 - Fix op-moderate (cmode +z) for channel names with '@'.
92 - Add CERTFP support, allowing users to connect with an SSL client
93 certificate and propagating the certificate fingerprint to other servers.
94 Services packages can use this to identify users based on client
95 certificates.
96 - Maintain the list of recently used targets (for the target change
97 anti-spam system) in most-recently-used order, overwriting the least
98 recently used target with a new one. This should be friendlier to users
99 without giving spambots anything.
100 - Do not require target change slots for replying to the last five users to
101 send a private message, notice or invite.
102 - Apply target change restrictions to /invite.
103 - Apply umode +g/+R restrictions to /invite, with the difference that
104 instead of sending "<user> is messaging you" the invite is let through
105 since that is just as noisy.
106 oper
107 - Add /rehash throttles to clear throttling.
108 - Send all server notices resulting from a remote /rehash to the oper.
109 - '\s' for space is now part of the matching, not a substitution at xline
110 time, fixing various issues with it.
111 - Display o:line "nickname" in oper-up server notices.
112 - Fix sendq exceeded snotes for servers.
113 - SCAN UMODES: default list-max to 500, like a global WHO.
114 - Ignore directory names in MODRELOAD to avoid crashing if it is a core
115 module and the path is incorrect.
116 - Tweaks to spambot checks.
117 config
118 - Add channel::only_ascii_channels config option to restrict channel names
119 to printable ascii only.
120 - Add channel::resv_forcepart, forcibly parts local users on channel RESV,
121 default enabled.
122 misc
123 - New mkpasswd from ircd-ratbox.
124 - Check more system calls for errors and handle the errors.
125 - Various ssld/libratbox bugfixes from ircd-ratbox. [some MERGED]
126 - Fix fd passing on FreeBSD/amd64 and possibly Solaris/sparc. [MERGED]
127 - Various documentation improvements. [some MERGED]
128 - Fix some crash issues. [MERGED]
129 - Add bandb from ircd-ratbox, which stores permanent dlines/klines/xlines/resvs
130 in an sqlite database instead of a flatfile and does the storage in a
131 helper process.
132
133 -- charybdis-3.1.0
134
135 - Remove TS5 support. No TS5 servers are permitted in a network with
136 charybdis 3.1.0 or newer, except jupes.
137 - Replace oper flags by privilege sets (privsets). This adds an extra
138 level of indirection between oper flags and operator blocks. /stats O
139 (capital O) shows the configured privsets.
140 - Update libratbox and ssld from upstream and use it better.
141 - Add auth_user to auth{}. This allows specifying a username:password instead
142 of just a password in PASS, so that a fixed user@host is not necessary
143 for a specific auth{} block.
144 - Add need_ssl to auth{} and operator{}. This makes these blocks reject
145 the user if not connected via SSL.
146 - Allow modules to provide simple channel modes without parameter.
147 - Remove restrictions on CNAME in the resolver.
148 - Make the resolver remember nonresponsive nameservers.
149 - Move nick collision notices from +s to +k.
150 - Add additional information to various server notices about server
151 connections.
152 - Show throttle information in /stats t.
153 - Show rejectcache and throttle information in /testline.
154 - Show oper reason in /testline.
155 - Allow opers to see other users' umodes with /mode <nick>.
156 - SCAN UMODES GLOBAL NO-LIST MASK <mask> is no longer an operspy command.
157 - Also apply floodcount to messages to remote clients (except services).
158 - Remove user@server messages to local users. Sending such messages to
159 remote servers is still possible, for securely messaging pseudoservers
160 whether service{}'ed or not. The special oper-only syntax opers@server
161 remains as well.
162 - Allow /list on a named +p channel. A full /list already included +p channels.
163 - Add operspy /topic.
164 - For remote rehashes, send error messages to the requesting oper as well.
165 - Disable autoconnect for a server with excessive TS delta.
166 - Disallow invites to juped channels.
167 - Warn about certain duplicate and redundant auth blocks.
168 - Make PRIVMSG/NOTICE behave as CPRIVMSG/CNOTICE automatically if possible.
169 - Allow +z messages from outside if a channel is -n.
170 - Allow coloured part reasons in -c channels.
171 - Add ircu-like WHOX support. This allows requesting specific information
172 in /who and allows obtaining services login name for all users in a
173 channel. XChat/Conspire use WHOX to update away status more efficiently.
174 - Allow opers and shide_exempt users to see hopcounts even if flatten_links
175 is on.
176 - Rework ip_cloaking.
177 - Add the IP address to userlog, as in ircd-ratbox 3.0.
178 - Split cidr_bitlen into cidr_ipv4_bitlen and cidr_ipv6_bitlen.
179 - Allow using ziplinks with SSL connections. This is not as efficient as
180 using OpenSSL's built in compression, but also works with older versions
181 of OpenSSL.
182 - Fix an off by one error with zipstats processing, which could overwrite
183 a variable with NULL causing a crash on some systems.
184 - Document some extensions in charybdis-oper-guide.
185 - Add more server protocol documentation.
186 - Add m_sendbans extension, SENDBANS command to propagate xlines and resvs
187 manually.
188 - Add chm_sslonly extension, cmode +S for SSL/TLS only channels.
189 - Add chm_operonly extension, cmode +O for IRCop only channels.
190 - Add chm_adminonly extension, cmode +A for server admin only channels.
191 - Various code cleanups.
192
193 -- charybdis-3.0.4
194
195 - Fix a crash on certain recent versions of Ubuntu.
196 - Allow 127.x.y.z for DNSBL replies instead of just 127.0.0.x.
197 - Various documentation improvements.
198
199 -- charybdis-3.0.3
200
201 - Fix IPv6 D:lines
202 - Fix rejectcache and unknown_count.
203 - Fix genssl.sh.
204 - Fix ident for SSL/TLS connections.
205 - Fix SSL/TLS bugs for servers with more than about 100 connections.
206 - Small bugfixes.
207
208 -- charybdis-3.0.2
209
210 - Improve OLIST extension error messages.
211 - Improve some kline error checking.
212 - Avoid timing out clients if we are still waiting for a DNSBL lookup.
213 - Fix resolver hangs with epoll.
214 - Fix compilation without zlib.
215
216 -- charybdis-3.0.1
217
218 - Fix occasional hung clients with kqueue.
219 - Fix a rare ssld crash.
220 - Fix a bug that could cause incorrect connect failure reasons to be
221 reported.
222 - Make the IRCd work on MacOS X again.
223
224 -- charybdis-3.0.0
225
226 - Port the IRCd to libratbox, which has improved our portability and allows
227 us to reuse low-level code instead of maintaining our own.
228 - Change configuration of maximum number of clients to ircd-ratbox 3 way.
229 - Add adminwall from ircd-ratbox, as an extension.
230 - Add client and server-to-server SSL, read example.conf for setup.
231 - Replace servlink with ssld (also for ziplinks).
232 - A new extban, $z, has been added for ssl users (extensions/extb_ssl.so).
233 - A new compatibility channel mode, +R, has been added, it sets
234 +q/-q $~a (extensions/chm_operonly_compat.so). This is similar to
235 the +R seen in ircd-seven.
236 - A new compatibility channel mode, +S, has been added, it sets
237 +b/-b $~z (extensions/chm_sslonly_compat.so).
238 - A new compatibility channel mode, +O, has been added, it sets
239 +iI/-iI $o (extensions/chm_operonly_compat.so).
240 - Add remote D:lines. Note that these are not enabled by default.
241 - Remove EFnet-style G:lines. Noone appears to use these.
242 - Remove idle time checking (auto disconnecting users idle too long).
243 - Display a notice to clients when the IRCd is shut down using SIGTERM.
244 - Some error messages have been clarified to enhance usability.
245 - Close the link to servers that send invalid nicks (e.g. nicklen mismatches).
246 Formerly the users were killed from the network.
247 - Enable topicburst by default in connect{}.
248 - Fix a potential desync which can happen with oper override.
249 - Remove "deopped" flag (TS5 legacy).
250 - Use 127.0.0.1 as nameserver if none can be found in /etc/resolv.conf.
251 - Only accept 127.0.0.x as a dnsbl listing.
252 - Change cloaking module (same as 2.2.1, different from 2.2.0).
253 - Make some more server notices about failed remote connect attempts
254 network wide.
255 - Make some server notices about flooders and TS delta network wide.
256 - Remove redundant "<server> had been connected for <time>" server notice.
257 - Add resv oper privilege to control /resv, /unresv and cmode +L and +P,
258 enabled by default.
259 - Add mass_notice oper privilege to control global notices and /wallops,
260 enabled by default.
261 - Rework unkline/undline/unxline/unresv so they show the exact item removed
262 and do not rehash bans.
263 - Show opers a list of recently (<24hrs) split servers in /map.
264 - Add /privs command, shows effective privileges of a client.
265
266 -- charybdis-2.2.0
267
268 - The I/O code has been reworked, file descriptor metadata is stored in a
269 hashtable and the maximum number of clients can now be set in ircd.conf.
270 - Improve error checking and error messages for kline/dline/xline/resv files.
271 - Allow kline ipv6:address, unkline some.host and unkline ipv6:address
272 without *@.
273 - Add accountability (wallops, log) to OKICK extension.
274 - Add opernick to OPME/OMODE/OJOIN log messages.
275 - Add use_forward option, allows disabling cmode +fFQ and umode +Q.
276 - Add keyword substitution to DNSBL reasons, making it possible to show
277 things like the user's IP address in the reason.
278 - Use sendto_one_notice() more.
279 - Server notices about kills now include the victim's nick!user@host instead
280 of just nick.
281 - Include real hostname in Closing Link message for unknown connections
282 that have sent USER, in particular banned users.
283 - Add some documentation about the SASL client protocol.
284 - Change spambot, flooder and jupe joiner notices from host to orighost.
285 - Remove the last remains of server hostmasking (this made it possible to
286 have multiple servers with similar names appear as a single server).
287 - Keep bitmasks of modularized umodes reserved forever to the letter,
288 avoiding problems when reloading umode modules in a different order.
289 - Fix -logfile.
290 - Update to the new revision (v8) of the TS6 spec, this fixes problems with
291 joins reversing certain mode changes crossing them. This interoperates
292 with older versions.
293 - Put "End of Channel Quiet List" at the end of +q lists.
294 - Fix invisible count getting desynched from reality if the act of opering
295 up sets -i or +i.
296 - Don't leak auth{} spoofed IP addresses in +f notices.
297 - Shorten quit/part/kick reasons to avoid quit reasons overflowing the
298 client exiting server notice (from TOPICLEN to 260).
299 - Fix some cases where 10 char usernames lose their final character.
300 - Move username check after xline and dnsbl checks, so it will not complain
301 to opers about clients who are xlined or blacklisted anyway (both of
302 which silently reject).
303 - Remove invite_ops_only config option, forcing it to YES.
304 - Allow /invite (but not invex) to override +r, +l, +j in addition to +i.
305 - Add several new extensions, such as createoperonly.
306 - Merge whois notice extensions into one and move it from snomask +y to +W.
307
308 -- charybdis-2.1.2
309
310 - Fix bug that could cause all hostmangled users to be exempted when a
311 single ban exception existed on a channel.
312 - Tweak \s code a little.
313 - Add a minor clarification to the SGML docs.
314 - Avoid truncation in ip_cloaking (by removing components on the other side).
315 Note that this may cause channel +bqeI modes set on such very long hosts
316 to no longer match.
317
318 -- charybdis-2.1.1
319
320 - Search the shortest list (user's/channel's) when looking up channel
321 memberships.
322 - Make the SID-collision notice look right under all conditions.
323 - Move kills from services from +s to +k snomask.
324 - When no_tilde is present on an auth{} block, check the non-tilde version
325 of the user@host against k:lines as well.
326 - Put full reason in the SQUIT reason when a server is rejected for
327 insufficient parameters being passed to a command.
328 - Don't redirect users to an existing domain, irc.fi.
329 - Improve communication of servlink-related error messages.
330
331 -- charybdis-2.1.0
332
333 - Our official website is now http://www.ircd-charybdis.org/.
334 - Make RPL_ISUPPORT (005 numeric) modularizable.
335 - Also do forwarding if the channel limit (+l) is exceeded.
336 - Don't count opers on service{} servers in /lusers.
337 - Allow servers to send to @#chan and +#chan.
338 - Allow +S clients (services) to send to channels and @/+ channels always.
339 - Allow normal match() on IP address also in /masktrace.
340 - Add new testmask from ratbox 2.2. Allows matches on nick, ip and gecos
341 in addition to user and host, and is fully analogous to masktrace.
342 The numeric has changed from 724 to 727 and fields in it have changed.
343 - Show IP addresses to opers in /whowas.
344 - Add extb_extgecos extban option ($x:nick!user@host#gecos), from sorcery
345 modules.
346 - Add extb_canjoin extban option ($j:#channel), matches if the user is banned
347 from the other channel.
348 - Allow opers to /who based on realhost.
349 - Allow opers to /masktrace, /testmask based on realhost.
350 - Add general::operspy_dont_care_user_info, limits operspy accountability to
351 channel-related information.
352 - Make host mangling more reliable.
353 - Prevent ban evasion by enabling/disabling host mangling.
354 - Add EUID, sends real host and services account in the same command as other
355 user information.
356 - Make it possible to send CHGHOST without ENCAP (fixes problems with old
357 services).
358 - Allow service{} servers to manipulate the nick delay table (for "nickserv
359 enforcement", aka SVSHOLD).
360 - Send server notices about connections initiated by remote opers network wide.
361 - Fix too early truncation of JOIN channel list.
362 - Make the newconf system available to modules.
363 - Add /stats s to the hurt module to list active hurts.
364 - Add general::servicestring, shown in /whois for opered services (+oS).
365 - Show real host/IP behind dynamic spoof in /whois to the user themselves
366 and opers.
367 - Document option to disable nick delay.
368 - Improve logging of server connections.
369 - Clean up handling of hostnames in connect blocks.
370 - Remove support for resolving ip6.int, people should be using ip6.arpa.
371 - Unbreak --disable-balloc (useful for debugging with tools like valgrind).
372 - Make Solaris 10 I/O ports code compile.
373 - Add WEBIRC module to allow showing the real host/IP of CGI:IRC users.
374 - Comment out blacklist{} block in example confs, as AHBL requires
375 notification before use.
376 - Fix some bugs relating to the resolver.
377
378 -- charybdis-2.0.0
379
380 - Replace ADNS with a new smaller resolver from ircu and hybrid.
381 - Make services shortcuts (/chanserv etc) configurable in ircd.conf.
382 - Add extban: extensible +bqeI matching via modules. Syntax is
383 $<type>[:<data>]. By default no modules are loaded.
384 - Add DNS blacklist checking.
385 - Change operator{} block user@host from host to orighost. This means that
386 services/+h spoofs do not work in operator{} blocks; auth{} spoofs still
387 work. Check your operator{} blocks!
388 - Split contrib/ into extensions/ and unsupported/.
389 - Change CHGHOST do show the change to all other clients on common channels
390 with quit/join/mode.
391 - Add /rehash nickdelay to clear out the nickdelay tables.
392 - Glines are now disabled in the example confs.
393 - Show more error messages on stderr.
394 - Add OMODE command to extensions/ for easier oper mode hacking.
395 - Add HURT system to extensions/; this shuns clients matching certain host/ip
396 unless and until they identify to services. Mainly intended for SorceryNet.
397 - Show SASL success and failure counts in /stats t.
398 - Allow more frequent autoconnects to servers.
399 - Messaging services by nickname no longer uses target change slots.
400 - Only accept SASL from servers in a service{} block.
401 - New auth{} flag need_sasl to reject users who haven't done SASL
402 authentication.
403 - Expand blah.blah and blah:blah to *!*@... instead of ...!*@* for bans
404 - Don't allow opers to fake locops/operwall to +w.
405 - Documentation updates.
406 - Many bugfixes.
407
408 -- charybdis-1.1.0
409
410 - Implement SAFELIST.
411 - Incorporate ircu's match() algorithm.
412 - Improve usermode modularization.
413 - Seperate server notices into a seperate snomask, freeing up many
414 usermodes to be used.
415 - Add support for SIGNON originating from Hyperion2.
416 - Modularize many server notices into seperate modules.
417 - Add hooks for can_join and can_create_channel.
418 - Add support for SASL authentication.
419 - Add introduce_user hook for adding new messages when a user is bursted.
420 - Move a large part of the ircd into libcharybdis.
421 - Don't complain "unknown user mode" if a user tries to unset
422 a mode they do not have access to.
423 - Update our challenge specification to the challenge implementation in
424 ratbox 2.2 for interoperability.
425 - Make +f notices network-wide (local host, global host,
426 global user@host, local class), other notices tied to +f remain local.
427 - Allow ENCAP REALHOST outside of netburst.
428 - Add general::global_snotices option to make server notices be
429 network-wide or not.
430 - Add sno_farconnect.c to contrib, provides farconnect support.
431 Could be useful for BOPM.
432 - Add sno_routing.c which displays information about netsplits, netjoins
433 and the clients affected by them.
434 - Add CHANTRACE and TRACEMASK commands from ratbox 3.0
435 - Use IsOperAdmin() instead of IsAdmin() when sending admin-only messages,
436 that way hidden admins get them too.
437 - Add m_error to core_module_table, somehow it was missing.
438 - Correct a format string bug that occurs when a read error is
439 received.
440 - Add some logging in places where we drop servers and only notify
441 server operators.
442 - Track hostmask limits based on a client's original host, if
443 available.
444 - Move HIDE_SPOOF_IPS into the general {} block in ircd.conf
445
446 -- charybdis-1.0.3
447
448 - Fix /invite UID leak. (Found by logiclrd@EFnet.)
449 - Incorporate ratbox bugfixes for the MONITOR system.
450 - Made show_ip() less braindead.
451 - Show real errno if we fail to connect to a server.
452 - Don't disclose server IP's when a connection fails.
453 - Do not show the channels a service is sitting in.
454 - Reverted the aline code from hybrid-7.2
455 - Make sure TS6 services are recognized properly if connected remotely.
456 - Tweak something in services support for cyrix boxes.
457
458 -- charybdis-1.0.2
459
460 - Fix propagation of an empty SJOIN (permanant channels).
461 - Fix an exploit involving a malformed /trace request.
462 - Don't display a blank RPL_WHOISCHANNELS in a remote whois request.
463 - Allow modules to provide new usermodes.
464 - On a nickname collision, change the collided nick to their unique ID,
465 if general::collision_fnc is enabled in the config.
466 - Don't allow UID lookups in /monitor + and /monitor s
467 - Fix a garbage issue with channel mode +j.
468 - Apply proper capability flags to the proper server in me_gcap().
469 - Use find_named_person() instead of find_person() in a nick collision.
470 - Prevent UID disclosure in cmode setting.
471 - Prevent UID disclosure to remote clients in /kick.
472 - Do not allow users to query via /whois <server> <UID>.
473 - Don't allow local users to use UID's in local usermode changes.
474 - Propagate +q lists on netjunction.
475 - Clear +q lists on a lowerTS SJOIN.
476 - Ported a generic k/d/x-line parser from hybrid-7.2 which resulted in
477 duplicate code reduction.
478 - Fix linebuf raw code to not truncate lines longer than 512 bytes;
479 improves ziplink reliability on net junction.
480 - Use find_named_person() vs find_person() in services alias code.
481 - Fix issue where channel forwarding token can be lost on net junction.
482 - Fix empty channel desync issues involving +P.
483 - Remove unused non-ENCAP CHGHOST support.
484 - Use TS6 form for SQUIT wallops.
485 - Propagate nickname changes for remote clients in TS6 form if possible,
486 even if sent in TS5 format.
487 - Only clear oper_only_umodes for local clients on deoper.
488
489 -- charybdis-1.0.1
490
491 - Display logged in status on non-local clients too.
492 - Documentation updates
493 - Fix a bug with forward target authorization.
494 - Fix a bug with mode propagation (+Q/+F).
495 - Change ERR_NOSUCHNICK to ERR_SERVICESOFFLINE in services aliases.
496 - Add remote rehashing.
497 - Document service { } blocks (u:lines on ircu).
498 - Document identify_service and identify_command in reference.conf.
499
500 -- charybdis-1.0
501 - Implement channel mode +L for channel list limit exemptions.
502 - Implement channel mode +P primarily as a status mode, permanant
503 channel -- this is usually enforced via services registrations.
504 - Change behaviour of /stats p: now displays all staff members instead
505 of local ones only.
506 - Make oper_list global, add local_oper_list for local traffic.
507 - Strip control codes from parts and quits.
508 - Add channel mode +c which strips control codes from messages sent to
509 the channel.
510 - Add channel mode +g which enables free use of the /invite command.
511 - Add channel mode +z which sends rejected messages to channel ops.
512 Could be useful for Q&A sessions or other similar events.
513 - Add channel quietmasks. These are recommended over the use of channel
514 bans used to remove a user's ability to participate in the channel.
515 - Add channel join throttling mode, +j. Used to throttle channel join
516 traffic, i.e. join/part flood attacks. Syntax: +j <joins>:<timeslice>
517 - Improvements to channel_modes(), from shadowircd -- allows for
518 better construction of the mode string.
519 - Use the undernet throttle notice instead of bancache message when
520 dealing with rejected clients. (stolen from ircu2.10.12)
521 - Add channel forwarding, via channel mode +f, behaves similarly to
522 dancer-ircd version.
523 - Update example.conf to reflect AthemeNET changes. Original ratbox
524 config is now reference.conf.
525 - Services account names are now tracked globally.
526 - Add channel mode +Q which disables the effects of channel forwarding
527 on a temporary basis.
528 - Add channel mode +F which allows anybody to disable forwarding target
529 authorisation, voluntarily on their channels.
530 - Make wallops behave like normal wallops.
531 - Add services aliases: /ns, /cs, /os, /nickserv, /chanserv, /operserv.
532 - Add simple hack that enables use of server password for automatic
533 identify.
534
535 -- ircd-ratbox-2.1.5+datadrain
536 - fix a buffer overflow and an unterminated buffer when TS6 forces us
537 to remove bans
538 - fix potential junk SJOIN generation when splitting it into multiple
539 lines
540 - make servlink check for an uncompressed ERROR
541 - change NICKLEN to 15.
542 - change TOPICLEN to 390.
543 - force services extensions to be enabled always
544 - change patchlevel.h to get it's information from 'configure'
545 - add m_chghost.c, ghetto rigged hostcloaking module, using elite ENCAP
546 technique
547
548 -- ircd-ratbox-2.1.4
549 - fix minor time bug which occurs on december 31st
550 - dont drop a servers link when we get a malformed WHOIS
551 - disallow commas in channel keys
552 - fix compile problem with abort_list
553 - fix build on darwin
554 - fix compilation with gcc4
555 - userhost was only allowing 4 targets instead of 5
556 - invalidate channel ban cache on nickchange
557 - add TARGMAX to 005, detailing maximum targets for messages
558 - fix counting of clients on accept list when adding users
559 - use ID instead of name when bursting SJOIN to TS6 servers
560 - lower id in struct User, which was one byte bigger than it needs to be
561
562 -- ircd-ratbox-2.1.3
563 - removed sendq_eob as it just doesnt work on efnet
564 - dont allow MONITOR from an unregistered client
565 - add some uniqueness into the auth process for bopm
566 - fix resvs to check whether target server is us properly
567 - fix a core in cidr channel ban matching
568 - raise max temptime to a year
569 - fix cores when we receive extra params to NICK/UID
570 - remove no_oper_resvs, add resv_exempt auth flag
571 - fix flattened links
572 - clean up the accept code, and dont clear a users own list of accepted
573 clients on nickchange
574 - non-efnet:
575 - make services {}; blocks be displayed on stats U
576 - make services {}; blocks apply on rehash, you must now have only ONE
577 service {}; block, but you may have multiple name=""; entries within.
578 - only show services logged in info for local clients
579
580 -- ircd-ratbox-2.1.2
581 - fix missing end comment tag in example confs
582 - fix display problem with unauthorised conn notice
583 - remove some unused defines from INFO
584 - fix tabs for spaces in some helpfiles
585 - add in missing links_delay conf option
586 - fix cores under amd64
587 - disallow bans beginning with ':' over BMASK
588 - disallow bans with a space in chm_ban()
589 - stop counting hidden opers in stats p count output
590 - match() params of remote unresv were inverted, causing it to never match
591 - fix possibility of clients setting blank keys
592 - fix UID problems with trace
593 - raise default topiclen to 160
594 - add in forced nick change for ratbox-services, when compiled with
595 --enable-services
596
597 -- ircd-ratbox-2.1.1
598 - remove an 005 token to hack around the parser bug
599 - exempt users messaging themselves from target change
600 - disallow messaging towards UIDs
601 - add in doc/tgchange.txt
602 - move stats L back to RPL_STATSLINKINFO
603 - fix some minor auth problems
604 - properly store ipv6 ips when we're compiled for v4 only
605 - fix propagation of xline/resv
606 - sync remote kline reasons with form used for local klines
607
608 -- ircd-ratbox-2.1.0
609 - no changes
610
611 -- ircd-ratbox-2.1.0beta2
612 - fix a few compile warnings
613 - added multi-prefix clicap, for showing "@+" in NAMES/WHO replies
614 - remove split_delay, make split servers now work on how many servers have
615 issued EOB, rather than how many exist.
616 - server-side notify lists. See doc/monitor.txt
617 - fix undline core
618 - remove an unwanted space from beginning of second 005
619 - fix a potential core with the patricia when removing classes
620 - when we're handling global NAMES, dont output channels whose users are all
621 invisible
622
623 -- ircd-ratbox-2.1.0beta1
624 - No release notes, see doc/whats-new-2.1.txt
625
626 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
627
628 BUGS: Major bugs in this release are listed in BUGS
629
630 BUG REPORTS: If you run this code and encounter problems, you must report
631 via IRC to irc.atheme.org, #charybdis. For specific bugs you can use
632 http://bugs-meta.atheme.org/ (Charybdis project).
633
634 Please include a gdb backtrace and keep the core file, binaries and
635 modules in case the developers need them.
636
637 Other files recommended for reading: BUGS, README.FIRST, INSTALL
638
639 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
640 $Id: NEWS 3496 2007-05-30 10:22:01Z jilles $
641