Neuer Betreff: ngIRCd 22

29 Sep 2014


      Hello again!
I tagged the first release candidate for our upcoming next „feature release“
of ngIRCd today: ngIRCd Release 22~rc1.
There have been more than 100 individual commits since ngIRCd 21, the NEWS
file lists 20 new „features“, please pick your favorite yourself:
• Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
   lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
   nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
   Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
 • Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
 • Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
   that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
   this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
   if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
 • Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
 • Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
   settable by IRC Operators.
 • Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
   "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
   settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
   careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
   User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
 • Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
 • Streamline punctuation of log messages.
 • Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
   Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
 • configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
   on "VPATH builds", for example.
 • Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
   and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
 • Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
   using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
   names and one has to quote them currently using the "" character, which
   is quite unexpected for users.
 • platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
   allow using separate source and build trees.
 • Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
 • Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
   in all replies.
 • portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
   and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
   useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
   been linked at all ...).
 • Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
   (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
   daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
   which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
 • Update doc/Platforms.txt.
 • Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
   Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
   return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
   DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
 • Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with
   an invalid password.
Please test this release candidate thoroughly and report all glitches,
problems, errors, and regressions you encounter! Best is to file bugs and
feature requests here:
ngIRCd Bug Tracker: http://ngircd.barton.de/bugzilla/
You can find more information on our homepage at http://ngircd.barton.de/
and its mirror http://http://ngircd.mirror.3rz.org/.
The primary download locations is:
• http://ngircd.barton.de/pub/ngircd/
And as usual: a big THANKS to all users, bug reporters, contributors,
packagers, and supporters!
Have fun!
Alex

ngIRCd 22~rc1