- Implement a channel mode that disallows kicking IRC operators (+M).
- Enhance the oper override system, allowing more flexibility and detail
in network-wide notices.
+- DNS, ident, and blacklist lookups have been moved to a dedicated daemon known
+ as authd. Some cosmetic changes to blacklist statistics and rejection notices
+ have resulted.
### conf
- Add the ability to strip color codes from topics unconditionally.
+- The obsolete hub option from server info has been removed.
### docs
- The documentation has been cleaned up; obsolete files have been purged, and
Typedefs have been added for consistency reasons. For example, now you would
write `rb_dictionary *foo` and `RB_DICTIONARY_FOREACH`.
- C99 bools have been added. Don't use ints as simple true/false flags anymore.
- Don't use `YES`/`NO` or `TRUE`/`FALSE` macros (`TRUE`/`FALSE` has been removed
- and `YES`/`NO` is awaiting the same fate). Use just `true` and `false`.
+ Accordingly, the `YES`/`NO` and `TRUE`/`FALSE` macros have been removed.
- libratbox has been renamed to librb, as we have diverged from upstream long
ago.
- Almost all 2.8-style hashtable structures have been moved to dictionaries or