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Revision: 1244
Committed: Fri Sep 30 11:39:22 2011 UTC (12 years, 6 months ago) by michael
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- Update NEWS file

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# User Rev Content
1 michael 1244 -- ircd-hybrid-8.0 Release Notes
2     o) Implemented full services support. Among other things, the following changes
3     have been done for this:
4     - Added SVSNICK, and SVSMODE command handlers
5     - Added service stamps to NICK/UID messages
6     - Usermode +r (registered nick) has been added, as well as
7     channelmode +r (registered channel).
8     - Various services shortcuts have been added (/NS, /CS, /NICKSERV, /CHANSERV, etc.)
9     - Added channelmode +R (only registered clients may join that channel)
10     - Added usermode +R (only registered clients may send a private message)
11     - Added services{} block to ircd.conf
12     - Added services_name directive to general{} block
13     o) RKLINE and RXLINE commands have been removed. Regular expression based
14     bans should only be added via ircd.conf
15     o) Added 'globops', 'restart' and 'module' operator privilege flags.
16     Read etc/example.conf for further explanation of what these flags
17     are supposed to be doing.
18     o) Idle-time klines have been removed
19     o) Cleaned up modules API. Old modules won't work anymore
20    
21    
22 michael 1131 -- ircd-hybrid-7.3.0 Release Notes
23 michael 1130 o) Added Bulgarian language file provided by Borislav Borisov
24     o) Server hostmasking has been removed due to TS6 requirements
25     o) Fixed broken IPv6 detection
26     o) Minor code optimizations. Reduced memory consumption
27 michael 1138 o) User IDs are now shown in client connection notices
28 michael 1143 o) Increased maximum temporary kline time to 360 days
29 michael 1144 o) Added back STATS/TRACE/MOTD/ADMIN request notices. Removed
30     spy_*_notice modules accordingly.
31 michael 1150 o) Channelmode +O; channel can be joined by ircops only.
32     o) Channelmode +S; only clients with a secure connection (ssl/tls)
33     can join this channel.
34 michael 1130
35 michael 1139
36 lusky 1060 -- ircd-hybrid-7.3-rc1 Release Notes
37 michael 1020 o) Major 64-bit cleanups and portability fixes.
38 michael 1018 o) Fixed bug where unregistered clients were not able to complete registration
39     process with /quote PONG <ping_cookie> in case the client was assigned a
40     zero value ping-cookie. This may only happen with general::ping_cookie
41     being enabled.
42     o) "STATS z" now shows the actual amount of memory consumption being
43     used by channel bans/excepts/invites.
44     o) Fixed archaic bug where bursting servers with missconfigured NICKLEN were
45     able to desync the network's nickname database.
46     o) The PCRE library has been removed from the ircd sources. ./configure will
47     now automatically detect an already installed version of the PCRE library.
48 michael 991 o) Various resolver improvements and fixes
49     o) Implemented GUNGLINE (global ungline)
50 michael 1018 o) Completely rewrote build system. We're now using automake and libtool
51 michael 1025 o) Added support for SHA-256/512 encrypted passwords to mkpasswd. Whether
52     passwords hashed using these algorithms will work depends on the system's
53 michael 1020 crypt() implementation. For example, SHA-256/512 is available in glibc since
54     version 2.7.
55 michael 991 o) Added ssl_server_protocol configuration option to servinfo{}.
56     Valid flags are 'sslv3' and 'tlsv1'
57     o) Added new 'server' option to listener::flags. Listener with that flag
58     set may only accept server connections.
59 michael 867 o) Fixed occasional core when placing RESVs on channel names
60 michael 878 o) Fixed topic desynchronization which sometimes may
61     happen during netbursts
62 michael 974 o) WATCH support implemented. Known from other irc-daemons, such
63 michael 1020 as Dreamforge and Bahamut. The general::max_watch configuration directive
64     has been added in order to allow run-time configuration of how many
65     watch entries a single client may have on its watchlist.
66 michael 883 o) Fixed bug which would cause invalid invisible counts on oper-up in case
67     operator::umodes and/or general::oper_umodes contains 'invisible'
68 michael 885 o) Removed broken LazyLinks
69 michael 991 o) Removed --disable-gline-voting configure option
70 michael 885 o) Minor code optimizations and cleanups
71 michael 887 o) ACCEPT now supports nick!user@host masks
72 michael 1065 o) Unregistered clients are no longer allowed to request the server's motd
73 michael 1072 o) general::dot_in_ip6_addr configuration option is obsolete and no longer exists
74 michael 1076 o) Dropped support for old style 'operflag = yes|no;' format
75 michael 867
76    
77 lusky 1060 -- ircd-hybrid-7.2.3 Release Notes
78 michael 831 o) Added ircd-italian.lang language file
79 db 855 o) Added -full to etrace
80     o) Added +C for opers
81     o) Fixed core in temp channel resv
82 lusky 858 o) Fixed CHALLENGE to work with user=IP
83     o) Misc fixes to TESTMASK and TESTLINE
84     o) Added support for nick masks to TESTMASK
85     o) Fixed /modlist to show up whether or not a module is resident
86     o) Fixed command line arguments handling to allow more than one switch
87     o) Fixed numeric delivery for mixed TS5 target on the other side of a TS6 server.
88 michael 831
89 lusky 858
90 lusky 1060 -- ircd-hybrid-7.2.2 Release Notes
91 michael 632 o) Added channel::disable_fake_channels config directive
92 michael 570 o) Fixed broken FORCEJOIN (contrib)
93 michael 548 o) Added missing documentation for connect::vhost
94 michael 552 o) Fixed problem with G-Line voting
95 michael 560 o) Fixed "STATS ?" so it doesn't report negative traffic statistics
96 michael 570 o) Fixed core in m_mkpasswd.c (contrib)
97 michael 579 o) Reduced memory usage for channel members
98 michael 584 o) Added general::stats_e_disabled which simply disables "STATS e"
99     for other operators and administrators
100 michael 597 o) Ignore signal SIGXFSZ to prevent the daemon from dying on missconfigured
101     file size limits
102 michael 670 o) Slight optimizations to the block allocator
103 michael 683 o) Fixed harmless bug that could result in incorrect bytes sent statistics
104     in "STATS t"
105 michael 687 o) "STATS y|Y" now shows whether a class is active or disabled
106 michael 707 o) Added ircd-brazilian_pt.lang language file
107     o) Misc. ACCEPT fixes. E.g. don't remove an accept record if a client is
108     changing between equivalent nicknames like 'nick' and 'NiCk'.
109 michael 710 o) Minor resolv.conf parser fixes. Added missing support for ';' comments
110 michael 714 o) Fixed core on MODRESTART
111 michael 545
112 michael 683
113 lusky 1060 -- ircd-hybrid-7.2.1 Release Notes
114 michael 523 o) Fixed build on SRV4
115     o) Fixed problem where ircd would disconnect all SSL connections
116     o) Added initial CAP support. Additional documentation can be found
117     in doc/technical
118     o) Speeded up command parsing
119     o) Fixed occasional core dump on UN*LINE
120 michael 318 o) Fixed bug where particular clients would always receive
121     "Load is temporarily too heavy" message
122     o) Improved memory consumption, i.e. memory consumption has
123     been reduced for remote clients
124 michael 321 o) Fixed possible core in case default_cipher_preference directive isn't set
125 michael 324 o) Fixed "CHANSERV INVITE" bug with anope services
126 michael 330 o) Updated example configuration files to reflect new topicburst flags
127     directive in connect{} blocks
128 michael 555 o) Fixed core if using the operator::umodes directive
129 michael 352 o) Don't allow shared k-lines to be set without a valid reason
130 michael 371 o) Improved channel ban match processing. This also fixes CIDR bans
131 lusky 308
132 michael 352
133 lusky 1060 -- ircd-hybrid-7.2.0 Release Notes
134 adx 30 o) Fixed broken operwall = yes;
135 michael 56 o) Added 'umode' directive to oper{}. List of modes to get on /OPER.
136 michael 555 This behaves exactly like H6's sixth O line field
137 michael 94 o) Fixed a WHOIS bug
138 michael 159 o) Fixed bug where we would increase Count.invisi even
139 michael 555 if general::invisible_on_connect is turned off
140 adx 201 o) Removed invite_ops_only, controlled by paranoid (+p) now
141 adx 269 o) Better DDoS protection
142 lusky 304 o) Fixed va_list bug on amd64
143     o) Fixed /dev/poll
144 adx 30
145    
146 lusky 1060 -- ircd-hybrid-7.2rc1 Release Notes
147 adx 30 o) ircd can dynamically change all its client/fd limits at runtime
148     o) Added epoll as the primary I/O engine under Linux
149     o) Local channels will not show up in remote /WHOIS
150     o) Added hidden_name which allows customized hidden server names
151     o) Added restrict_channels to define a static channel set
152     o) Added --disable-gline-voting to disable G-Line votes
153     for small networks or people who don't want it.
154     o) Allow accumulating more ip= entries in an exempt{} block
155     o) Various improvements and bugfixes
156     o) Make win32 build usable
157     o) Fixed ban caching bug
158     o) Cosmetical fixes to TIME
159     o) Get "KLINE nick" to work with clients that have a spoof
160     o) Fixed RESV/XLINE bug in conjunction with names that include escaped
161     characters such as \*, \?, \#.
162    
163    
164 lusky 1060 -- ircd-hybrid-7.2beta1 Release Notes
165 adx 30 o) Usermode +G, like +g, but allow messaging from people on common channels
166     o) Usermode +D - "deaf", don't receive channel messages
167 michael 555 o) RXLINE and RKLINE - commands for setting perl compatible regular expression
168     based K and X lines
169 adx 30 o) Join flood is now detected and reported to +b opers
170     o) Re-added REJECT_HOLD - lock clients for a while before throwing away
171     o) ping_warning, a class{} option to notify opers before "Ping timeout"
172 michael 555 o) New hooking system, modularized: usermodes, iauth, message filtering etc.
173 adx 30 o) Network I/O speedups
174     o) Various cleanups and bugfixes
175     o) Support for client SSL
176     o) Support for services (contrib/m_services.c)
177     o) IP cloaking module (contrib/ip_cloaking.c)
178     o) Native win32 build
179 michael 555 o) The password set in auth::password can now be encrypted
180     o) Introduced new listen::flags directive. Currently available flags are
181     'ssl' and 'hidden'. Please read example.conf for further details
182 adx 30
183     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
184    
185     BUGS: Major bugs in this release are listed in BUGS
186    
187     BUG REPORTS: If you run this code and encounter problems, you must report
188 michael 974 the bug by EMAIL to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org
189 michael 920 Please include a gdb backtrace and a copy of your config.h and
190 michael 883 ircd.conf with any report (with passwords and other sensitive
191 adx 30 information masked).
192    
193     DISCUSSION: There is a mailing list for discussion of hybrid issues,
194     including betas. To subscribe, use this link:
195     https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
196     This is the proper place to discuss new features, bugs, etc. Posting here
197     is much more likely to get something done than ranting on #TZ.
198    
199     Questions/comments directed to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org
200    
201 michael 991 Other files recommended for reading: BUGS, README, INSTALL
202 adx 30
203     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
204 knight 31 $Id$

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