X-Git-Url: https://jfr.im/git/irc/rqf/shadowircd.git/blobdiff_plain/2d465e2456f505afa073b9e43e9e67ef961e7f25..446c7d4f57100bfe963b36f56117545f7804c3d6:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a1ad6ec..bfd88de 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,13 +1,70 @@ -This is ShadowIRCd 6.0, Copyright (c) 2005-2010 ShadowIRCd team. +This is ShadowIRCd 6.1, Copyright (c) 2005-2010 ShadowIRCd team. See LICENSE for licensing details (GPL v2). +-- shadowircd-6.1.0 + +new configuration options +- general::static_quit - Quit message to display for all users (not opers). +- general::no_part_messages - If this option is set to no, the ircd will not + display PART messages/reasons from users. +- general::true_no_oper_flood - Turns off *ALL* flood protection for opers. + Instead of command flooding being 4x what it is for a user with no_oper_flood, + there is no limit at all. This option also allows opers to flood channels/users + so if you do set it, be extremely careful. +- serverinfo::helpchan and helpurl - These are 2 config options that tell users, + when they do /quote help (with no extra parameters) the official network help + channel and a special URL for help. If these options are disabled, the users + will just get the help index and that's it on /quote help. +- general::default_ident_timeout - Allows you to set the default ident timeout + in the ircd.conf instead of it being hardcoded and only settable with /SET. + +new commands +- CYCLE #channel - server-side CYCLE, also called HOP in some clients/servers. + Parts the user from the given channel, then joins them to it immediately after. + Enabled by loading extensions/m_cycle. + +opers +- Override no longer alows overriding opers to talk through +q, +m, etc. + If you need to talk through one of these modes, its recommended to remove + the offending mode or give yourself voice/ops. +- OLIST now shows channel modes so opers can easily see which channels are + +s and see which channels have oper-only channel modes set. +- RESTART and DIE now can be executed remotely. See the appropriate helpfiles + for details. +- All module management commands (MODLOAD, MODLIST, MODUNLOAD, MODRELOAD and + MODRESTART) can be executed remotely. See the appropriate helpfile for + details. +- OMODE can now set and unset +ah. +- OJOIN now works with !#channel and %#channel. +- Staff channelmodes (+AO) now require chanops to set. +- OPERHOST option added to SET. You can now use SET to change the default + operhost that operators get upon opering up, though like the + general::default_operhost config option it will not override the + operator::vhost config option. + +other +- Added a strip_unprintable function to make evasion of cmodes +G and +K + less trivial. +- Massive helpfile updates. +- Added SVSJOIN s2s command. This allows things like atheme's ns_ajoin + to work on shadowircd. +- Added BAN stuff (propogated bans on burst) from charybdis trunk. This + can be disabled and the old behavior can be used by setting the + general::use_propogated_bans option to no. +- The --enable-small-net configure option is now enabled by default. + If you wish to disable small net mode, pass --disable-small-net to + configure. +- New channel mode adding API has been added from charybdis trunk. +- NOTICE/PRIVMSG @#channel and +#channel now go to admin/halfop as well + as chanop. + -- shadowircd-6.0.0 new modes - Add umode +C (no CTCP). - Add umode +V, users with this mode set will never recieve channel invites from other users. -- Add umode +B which identifies users as being bots. +- Add umode +B which identifies users as being bots in /whois. - Add umode +G which disallows users from messaging you unless you're both on at least one channel together. This can be "overridden" with /accept. - Add cmode +T which blocks all notices to the channel. @@ -15,17 +72,17 @@ new modes - Add cmode +E which disallows channel ops from kicking users. - Add cmode +N which disallows users from changing their nick while they're on a channel with this mode set. -- Add cmode +K (norepeat) which will block repeated messages if a user sends - the same message multiple times before any other users send to the channel. +- Add cmode +K (norepeat) which will block repeated messages, regardless of + who they're from. - Add cmode +G which blocks messages containing 50% or more capital letters from being sent to the channel. - Add cmode +J which disallows a kicked user from rejoining within 'X' seconds of them being kicked, where 'X' is the variable of the channel::kick_no_rejoin_time configuration option. -- Add cmodes +a and +h (owner and halfop, respectively). There are 2 extra +- Add cmodes +a and +h (admin and halfop, respectively). There are 2 extra prefixes to more finely-grain the status of staff members in your channels. They can be enabled or disabled in the configuration file with the options - channel::use_halfop and channel::use_owner. + channel::use_halfop and channel::use_admin. new configuration options - auth::autojoin - This option will specify what channels users in a matching @@ -56,26 +113,32 @@ opers - swhois support - Adds a mostly free-form line of text to opers' whois if one is set in their operator {} block. - custom operstring - Instead of showing the IRC operator or IRC administrator - oper strings, you can customize what it shows by privset or - for a specific operator. -- host-on-oper - This will be a option settable in both privset block and - operator block that defines what host a operator gets upon oper-up. + oper strings, you can customize what it shows in each oper's operator {} + block. +- host-on-oper - Give a vhost to operators upon oper up. Can be defined + generally, then the general option may be overridden by each operator {} + block. - operoverride - Oper override works very differently in ShadowIRCd compared to all other IRCd's which support oper override. In ShadowIRCd, to be able to override, you must have the oper:override privledge and you must then set umode +p on yourself. The p umode will automatically expire and un-set itself after a time set in the configuration option general::expire_override_time. -- immune - Immune depends on the chm_no_oper_kick extension being enabled. - An oper can set +M on a channel (which that channel's ops and users can not - see, but other opers can), then when the oper joins that channel with override - (umode +p) set on themselves, the channel's ops will be unable to kick the oper - from the channel. +- immune - Adds cmode +M. Opers can set this on a channel (even if they don't + have ops) without the channel's ops or other users seeing (only opers see + this mode at all.) It disallows anyone in the channel from kicking opers. +- OACCEPT/callerid override - In ShadowIRCd 6, opers no longer can simply PM + users that have umodes +g or +G set and the oper is not on their accept list. + To allow opers to still be able to PM users in this situation, OACCEPT has been + added. OACCEPT is a new extension that enables the command /oaccept + which adds a piece of metadata to that use which will allow you to PM them. other - Changed default NICKLEN to 31 (from 15) to fit more closely with other IRCd's. - Rebrand many things from Charybdis to ShadowIRCd. - Move the m_force module to extensions. +- Add a metadata framework. Currently used for swhois, custom operstring, + OACCEPT, cmode +J, cmode +K. -- charybdis-3.2.0