# News
-This is charybdis 3.6-dev, Copyright (c) 2005-2016 Charybdis team.
+This is charybdis 4-dev, Copyright (c) 2005-2016 Charybdis team.
See LICENSE for licensing details (GPL v2).
-## charybdis-3.6-dev
+## charybdis-4
### build
- Build system has been converted to libtool + automake for sanity reasons.
- 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.
+- An experimental OPM scanner has been added to authd. Plaintext SOCKS4,
+ SOCKS5, and HTTP CONNECT proxies can be checked for.
+- The LOCOPS command has been moved from core to an extension.
+- All core modules in charybdis have descriptions, which are shown in MODLIST.
+- Suffixes should not be used when doing /MODLOAD, /MODUNLOAD, /MODRELOAD, etc.
+
+### misc
+- Support for WebSocket has been added, use the listen::wsock option to switch
+ a listener into websocket mode.
### 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
+ files have been renamed and shuffled around to be more consistent.
### code
+- `common.h` is gone. Everything useful in it was moved to `ircd_defs.h`.
+- `config.h` is gone; the few remaining knobs in it were not for configuration
+ by mere mortals, and mostly existed as a 2.8 relic. Most of the knobs live in
+ `defaults.h`, but one is well-advised to stay away unless they know exactly
+ what they are doing.
+- A new module API has been introduced, known as AV2. It includes things such as
+ module datecodes (to ensure modules don't fall out of sync with the code),
+ module descriptions, and other fun things.
+- Alias and module commands are now in m_alias and m_modules, respectively, and
+ can be reloaded if need be. For sanity reasons, m_modules is a core module,
+ and cannot be unloaded.
+- irc_dictionary and irc_radixtree related functions are now in librb, and
+ prefixed accordingly. Typedefs have been added for consistency with existing
+ data structures. For example, now you would write `rb_dictionary *foo` and
+ `RB_DICTIONARY_FOREACH`.
+- C99 bools are now included and used in the code. Don't use ints as simple true
+ or false flags anymore. In accordance with this change, the `YES`/`NO` and
+ `TRUE`/`FALSE` macros have been removed.
+- Return types from command handlers have been axed, as they have been useless
+ for years.
+- 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
radix trees, resulting in significant memory savings.
- The block allocator has been disabled and is no longer used.
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