- channel_mode.c: chm_invex, chm_exempt: ban and invite exemptions are
  now always sent regardless of CAP_IE/CAP_EX

- backported -r1681 [added temporary workaround for servers sending
  numeric 451 in response to the "NOTICE AUTH ..." messages upon
  registration

- bison 2.7 & automake 1.12.6
- Update configure.ac

- bison 2.7 & automake 1.12.6
- Update configure.ac

- m_etrace.c: fixed compile warning; removed set_time() call in
  report_this_status()

- Minor cleanups to m_help.c, also helpfiles may no longer contain #comments

- Backported -r1671 [fixed bug spotted by Jakub S. where timed events stopped from
  working if the system's clock is running backwards]

- Update some configure tests. We actually don't use inet_aton
  and friends anymore.

- conf_db.c: import backup/restore cleanups from 5.1.24

- Cleanup unused header file includes
- Fixed minor compile warning in conf.c

- memory.c: removed mem_frob()
- automake 1.12.5

- Fixed inconsistent svn file properties

- Dropped contrib/

- conf_class.c: remove unused header includes

- add mempool.(c|h)

- Implemented memory pool allocator which basically is taken from Tor's
  mempool allocator for Tor cells
- Fixed compile warnings in conf_class.c
- ./configure --enable-assert works again

- changed match() polarity. match() now returns 0 on match and 1 on non-match
  This cleans up several places where function pointers of different matching
  functions like irccmp/strcmp/match are passed to other functions.
- added improved collapse() to match.c

- Fixed few bugs that have been introduced with config rewrite
- Set some reasonable default values right after a class has been created

- conf_parser.y: fixed some logic errors

- First pass of conf parser stabilization/cleanup

- More config subsystem cleanups

- Update configure for 8.0.1

- Optimize find_address_conf. No need to lookup matching G-Lines if the client
  is exempted from G-Lines

- Fixed CIDR support for /challenge
- Fixed oper{} block class limits
- Fixed bug where check_server() possibly would copy server's ip address
  to an invalid connect{} block

- Cleanup configuration subsystem
- Fixed broken CIDR support for /challenge

- fixed compile warnings in contrib/

- Initial rewrite of the configuration subsystem

- restart.c: ensure databases get dumped to disk before terminating

- flesh out new *line database handling
- simplify temporary bans

- minor cleanups to conf_db.c; Get rid of 16 bit limitation string lengths

- Fixed compile warnings due to missing arguments to sendto_realops_flags()

- klines, dlines, xlines, glines and resv now make use of the new database;
  also, temporary *lines are now stored, so they're not lost after
  restarting the ircd. This also applies to G-lines.

- Added conf_db.c based on ircservice's binary database for later use

- Made m_globops() and ms_globops() use sendto_realops_flags()
- Added message-type parameter to sendto_realops_flags() which can be one of
  SEND_NOTICE, SEND_GLOBAL, SEND_LOCOPS
- Forward-port -r1617

- Backported -r1615

- Removed due to testing purposes

- Removed due to testing purposes

- Bump patchlevel for testing purposes

- Moving releases to ircd-hybrid/releases/. Not nice, but oh well

- Moving releases to ircd-hybrid/releases/. Not nice, but oh well

- Moving releases to ircd-hybrid/releases/. Not nice, but oh well

- Moving releases to ircd-hybrid/releases/. Not nice, but oh well

- Moving releases to ircd-hybrid/releases/. Not nice, but oh well

- Moving releases to ircd-hybrid/releases/. Not nice, but oh well

- Create 8.0.x branch

- Renaming urls is annoying