InspIRCd 3.15.0

v3.5.0

• Added support for the IRCv3 Labeled Response specification.

• Added support for help topics to the helpop module.

• Added support for pagination to the index output of the HELPOP command.

• Added support for passing module names to --{disable,enable} using their short names (e.g. --enable-extras ssl_gnutls).

• Added support for passing space-delimited module names to --{disable,enable}-extras (e.g. --enable-extras "ssl_gnutls ssl_mbedtls").

• Added support for the X-Real-IP and X-Forwarded-For headers to the websocket module.

• Added the codepage module — a better solution for custom 8-bit character set support than the incredibly broken and undocumented nationalchars module.

• Changed the default for <waitpong:sendsnotice> to no.

• Changed the user count in LUSERS so that it no longer includes services pseudoclients.

• Developer: add Channel::WriteRemoteNotice which sends a notice to remote users as well as local users.

• Developer: add a status char option to Channel::WriteNotice for sending status messages.

• Developer: add the ClientProtocol::MessageTagEvent class to allow handling message tags easier.

• Developer: added MessageTarget::GetName to allow easily getting the name of a message target.

• Developer: added a status char option to the TagMessage constructor for sending status messages.

• Developer: added an "oper only" parameter to Simple{Channel,User}ModeHandler.

• Developer: added empty string checks to the Numerics::NoSuch{Channel,Nick} constructors.

• Developer: added several variadic overloads of the IRCv3::Replies::Reply::Send method.

• Developer: added the OnCommandBlocked event for when the execution of a command is blocked.

• Developer: added the UserManager::ULineCount method for counting pseudoclients on ulined servers.

• Developer: added the inspircd.org/poison capability which rejects any attempt to request it to avoid clients requesting all available capabilities rather than the ones they support.

• Developer: added the stdalgo:delete_zero method for deleting and zeroing a pointer.

• Developer: deprecated the ProtocolInterface::Send{Channel,User}Notice methods in favour of SendMessage.

• Developer: disabled CULLLIST log messages unless the server has been built in debug mode.

• Developer: switched from Travis CI to GitHub Actions.

• Developer: the FailedPort type now contains the config tag that the listener was created from.

• Fix connections to ports which have an invalid I/O hook configured not being rejected.

• Fix various Perl tools not looking in the right directory for the make::* modules.

• Fixed a bug in helpop.conf.example where the SWHOIS key was not using the correct value name.

• Fixed allowing TAGMSG messages to be sent without any tags attached.

• Fixed boolean configuration options not being matched in a case insensitive way.

• Fixed not using case insensitive comparisons for the DCCALLOW subcommands.

• Fixed not using case insensitive matching when checking if a SSL rehash has been requested.

• Fixed not using the ERR_INVALIDMODEPARAM numeric when not enough parameters are given to the snomask mode.

• Fixed not using the RPL_REHASHING numeric for remote rehashes.

• Fixed parsing CTCPs in the dccallow module.

• Fixed prioritisation of custom events provided by modules.

• Fixed spamming the log with DNS cache clearing notices when nothing was actually cleared.

• Fixed status messages not working with the TAGMSG command.

• Fixed the chanhistory module not storing message tags.

• Fixed the chanhistory module not storing notices.

• Fixed the chanhistory module storing CTCPs.

• Fixed the legacy PROTOCTL NAMESX command not using case insensitive matching.

• Fixed the legacy PROTOCTL UHNAMES command not using case insensitive matching.

• Fixed the nationalchars module allowing nicknames which begin with a number.

• Fixed the nationalchars module not rebuilding the 005 numerics on unload.

• Fixed the nationalchars module not restoring the previous casemapping name on unload.

• Fixed the systemd unit file starting InspIRCd before the network is online.

• Fixed unnecessarily making N*2-1 too many copies of the command arguments when processing a command with multiple targets.

• Improve the warning process when starting InspIRCd as root.

• Improved the ban message shown to users if they are banned by an extban.

• Improved the output when a port can not be bound.

• Removed the preceding - from the MOTD, server operator MOTD, and any custom MOTDs added with the showfile module.

• Renamed <chanhistory:notice> to <chanhistory:prefixmsg> so the behaviour is less ambiguous.

• Replace the Windows getopt_long shim with the ya_getopt library.

• Updated the example MOTD and server operator MOTD to be a bit prettier and show off some of the escape codes.

v3.4.0

• Added <alias:stripcolor> to allow stripping formatting codes before matching an alias.

• Added <cloak:ignorecase> to ignore the case of a FQDN when cloaking.

• Added a check for the channels/auspex privilege to the hidemode module.

• Added a workaround for gateway IP addresses being banned by the connectban module.

• Added more information to timedbans addition/expiry notices.

• Added support for filtering part messages to the chanfilter module.

• Developer: added ConfigStatus::initial to find out if the config is being loaded for the first time.

• Developer: added Events::ModuleEventProvider::{OnSubscribe,OnUnsubscribe} to allow knowing when a module has subscribed to or unsubscribed from an event.

• Developer: added a parameter to the OnServerSplit event which specifies whether the split was intended or not.

• Developer: added an internal serialisation of the dccallow list.

• Developer: added an internal serialisation of the silence list.

• Developer: added the GetId method to the Server class.

• Developer: added the GetNumericToken method to the irc::sepstream class.

• Developer: added the GetTypeStr method to the DNS::Manager class.

• Developer: added the OnServerBurst event for executing actions after a server has finished bursting.

• Developer: added the OnShutdown event for executing actions shortly before shutdown.

• Developer: added the experimental Serializable class & API and implemented it in the Extensible, User and LocalUser classes.

• Developer: changed IS_{LOCAL,REMOTE,SERVER} to be capable of handling null pointers.

• Developer: exposed variable list modes via the VLIST 005 token to make things easier for client developers.

• Disabled DNS, DNSBL, and ident lookups for unregistered KiwiIRC.com users in the example provider configs.

• Documented the repeat exemption type.

• Exempted the KiwiIRC.com servers from X-lines in the example provider configs.

• Fixed a bug in the HAProxy module where it would ignore any data received in the same packet as the header when using TCP connections.

• Fixed a crash on shutdown in the spanningtree module.

• Fixed linker errors caused by build objects from one compiler being used by another.

• Fixed not respecting the deprecated <channels:users> config tag.

• Fixed the DNSBL module banning a user after their IP address has changed.

• Fixed the IP addresses of the KiwiIRC.com servers in the example provider configs.

• Fixed the OnSetUserIP event being fired before the connect class has changed.

• Fixed the u_noctcp mode not being respected for CTCPs targeted at a channel.

• Fixed the config example path not being updated when the config path is changed in interactive mode.

• Fixed the example configs allowing voiced users to voice/devoice other users.

• Fixed the example provider config files not being installed.

• Fixed the silence module not being able to add or remove entries in some cases.

• Fixed various issues relating to hostname resolution.

• Raised the default value for <connflood:bootwait> from ten seconds to two minutes.

• Replaced the gdbargs file with the --eval-command option inside the init script.

• Updated the NetBSD EV_SET workaround now that upstream have fixed the issue.

v3.3.0

• Added PackageInfo directives for ArchLinux.

• Changed the maximum value for <chanfilter:maxlen> from 100 to 250.

• Developer: added an experimental header which implements the IRCv3 Standard Replies draft.

• Developer: added the OnConnectionFail event for suspending a user connection which is about to fail.

• Developer: added the ExtensionItem::{To,From}{Human,Internal,Network} methods to convert an extension item to and from various string forms.

• Developer: added the MessageEventListener class for adding tags to server messages.

• Developer: added the {EventHandler,StreamSocket,UserIOHandler}::SwapInternals methods to swap the internals of two sockets.

• Developer: deprecated the ServerEventListener clas and split the events contained within it into the `ServerProtocol::{BroadcastEventListener,LinkEventListener,SyncEventListener} classes.

• Developer: deprecated the SerializeFormat enum, and the serialize, unserialize methods of the ExtensionItem class, and the LocalExtItem class.

• Fixed a crash in the MySQL module when built against mariadb-connector-c v3.0.5 or newer.

• Fixed allowing the sasl capability to be requested when the SASL server is offline.

• Fixed empty GLOBOPS and WALLOPS messages not failing with an ERR_NOTEXTTOSEND message.

• Fixed listener sockets with <bind:replace> enabled not being replaced in some circumstances.

• Fixed not applying IRCv3 server-time timestamps on the server the source is connecting from.

• Fixed not being able to use the O (oper) extban to server operators with a space in their server operator type.

• Fixed referring to registration timeouts as ping timeouts in the conn_waitpong module.

• Fixed sending IRCv3 account-notify and chghost messages to a user who has not sent the NICK and USER commands yet.

• Fixed sending IRCv3 cap-notify messages for capabilities which are not presently visible in CAP LS.

• Fixed the geo_maxmind module trying to interpret an AF_UNIX endpoint as an IP address.

• Improved the message sent to server operators when the maximum connections for a connect class is reached.

• Updated the vendored utfcpp library to v3.1.

v3.2.0

• Added a configure option, --example-dir, which specifies the directory that example config files get installed into.

• Added a flag to the filter module which allows registered users to be exempt from a filter.

• Added a warning when the user tries to build on OpenBSD as it ships very broken compilers.

• Added a warning when the user tries to build without SSL support.

• Added example config files for enabling support for IRCCloud and KiwiIRC.com on your server.

• Added syntax hints for all modes with parameters to the ERR_INVALIDMODEPARAM numeric response.

• Added the ability to include all .conf files in a directory.

• Added <bind:permissions> to UNIX socket listeners to set who can access the socket.

• Added <bind:replace> to UNIX socket listeners to allow replacing existing sockets on boot.

• Added <messageflood:notice>, <messageflood:privmsg>, and <messageflood:tagmsg> to the messageflood module to specify how many lines individual messages are equivalent to.

• Added <permchanneldb:saveperiod> to allow customising how often the permchannels module should check whether its database needs to be saved.

• Added <sslprofile:tlsv11> and <sslprofile:tlsv12> to the ssl_openssl module to easily allow disabling old SSL versions.

• Added <xlinedb:saveperiod> to allow customising how often the xline_db module should check whether its database needs to be saved.

• All SQL queries are now logged at the debug log level to enable easier debugging of SQL issues.

• Developer: added support for marking a socket to be closed once it has finished receiving all the data sent to it.

• Developer: added support for retrieving the end message of a batch.

• Developer: added the OnUserPreQuit event for changing quit messages before a user disconnects.

• Developer: added the FileSystem::GetFileList() function to get a list of files in a directory matching a glob pattern.

• Developer: added the irc::sockets::isunix() function for checking if a string is a valid UNIX socket path.

• Developer: ignore any SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2 with no handlers instead of killing the process.

• Fixed a misleading debug message in the sslinfo module.

• Fixed calculating the human-readable version of durations.

• Fixed closing HTTP connections before the entire http_stats module output had been sent.

• Fixed linking the spanningtree module on OpenBSD.

• Fixed modules that are in the process of being unloaded sometimes having events called on them.

• Fixed not checking if the cap module is enabled before enabling the NAMESX and UHNAMES 005 tokens.

• Fixed outgoing UNIX socket server connections.

• Fixed routing tags on TAGMSG messages between servers.

• Fixed server operators with the channels/auspex privilege not being able to request the topic of secret/private channels with the /TOPIC command.

• Fixed the autoop module checking the prefix mode add rank when removing list entries.

• Fixed the conn_umodes module setting user modes before the MOTD has been sent.

• Fixed the default log directory in system-wide mode to be /var/log/inspircd.

• Fixed the denychans module not checking whether the redirect channel is allowed properly.

• Fixed the exemptchanops module not validating list entries.

• Fixed the grammar of the error messages sent by the repeat module.

• Fixed the Perl helper script finding the location of the PID file.

• Fixed the sslinfo module not being able to place WebIRC users into the appropriate connect classes.

• Fixed the TAGMSG message forwarding all tags regardless of whether they had been whitelisted.

• Fixed the <connect:usests> option being inverted.

• Fixed various harmless compiler warnings in the httpd module.

• Fixed <pid:file> not being relative to the data directory as was intended.

• Fixed server-time timestamps only being accurate to the second.

• Made the error message sent by the alias module when an alias requires a U-lined target but the target is not U-lined more accurate.

• Show how many users in a channel are not using SSL in the ERR_ALLMUSTSSL response.

• Updated the Module Manager source list for the new inspircd-contrib repository.

v3.1.0

• Added a configure option, --disable-auto-extras, which disables automatically enabling extras for which the dependencies are available.

• Added support for disabling a STS policy for users in specific connect classes.

• Added support for the IRCv3 Message IDs specification.

• Developer: added support for modules overriding the default access checks for NOTICE, PRIVMSG, and TAGMSG.

• Developer: added the INSPIRCD_VERSION_BEFORE(MAJOR, MINOR) and INSPIRCD_VERSION_SINCE(MAJOR, MINOR) macros for checking the InspIRCd version at compile time.

• Developer: allowed child classes of SSLIOHook to override GetCertificate() and GetFingerprint().

• Fixed a crash in the silence module on some older versions of GCC.

• Fixed linking against v2 servers running the ASCII case mapping module from inspircd-contrib.

• Fixed an inverted condition in the commonchans module which made the module not work.

• Fixed configure not failing when invalid options were passed to it.

• Fixed pending X-lines only being applied to a single user.

• Fixed servers not specifying whether they are hidden. If no visibility is specified then servers default to the visibility of their parent server.

v3.0.1

• Documented the anticaps exemption in both the main config and in the example helpop config.

• Documented user mode O (override) in the helpop config.

• Fixed building against older versions of glibc.

• Fixed compiling with the kqueue socket engine on NetBSD.

• Fixed relying on PWD being set in the makefile.

• Fixed the --distribution-label configure option erroneously making the configure script require the --development flag to be passed.

• Fixed the example <wsorigin> tag erroneously suggesting that a path was included.

• Fixed the filesystem permissions that files are installed with.

• Fixed the MAXLIST 005 token not reflecting the true lower limit.

• Fixed the parameters for the /NAMES command in the syntax hint and example helpop config.

• Raised the connection timeout in the example configs to 20s. This should give more time for clients on slow connections that want to do a lot of things (request caps, do SASL auth, etc) on connect.

• Silenced a harmless compiler warning in the pgsql module on newer GCCs.