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 # News
 
-This is charybdis 4.0-dev, Copyright (c) 2005-2016 Charybdis team.
+This is charybdis 4.1-dev, Copyright (c) 2005-2018 Charybdis team.
 See LICENSE for licensing details (GPL v2).
 
-## charybdis-3.6-dev
+## charybdis-4.1
+
+### misc
+- SCTP is now supported for server connections (and optionally, user connections)
+
+## charybdis-4.0.1
+
+### server protocol
+- SJOIN messages were being constructed in a 1024 byte buffer and truncated to 512 bytes
+  when sending. This caused channels with more than 50 users to fail to propagate all of
+  them during a net join.
+
+## charybdis-4.0
 
 ### build
 - Build system has been converted to libtool + automake for sanity reasons.
@@ -40,9 +52,12 @@ See LICENSE for licensing details (GPL v2).
   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.
-- Alias and module commands are now in m_alias and m_modules, respectively.
 - 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.
@@ -52,6 +67,17 @@ See LICENSE for licensing details (GPL v2).
   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
@@ -59,6 +85,8 @@ See LICENSE for licensing details (GPL v2).
 - 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
@@ -70,6 +98,8 @@ See LICENSE for licensing details (GPL v2).
   servicing clients will remain in use, but not service new connections, and
   are garbage collected when they are no longer servicing connections.
 - Support for ratbox-style 'iodebug' hooks has been removed.
+- New channel types may be added by modules, see `extensions/chantype_dummy.c`
+  for a very simple example.
 
 ## charybdis-3.5.0