These are just remnants of the past, when +a was called channel protection.
It is called channel admin since as long as I can remember, and in 90%
of the code and documentation it is called that way.
This also includes buffer modifications to have a larger read buffer
and IRCv3 implementations (partial or not) for:
labeled-response, msgid, server-time, batch and account-tag.
As said, it is the initial and partial implementation.
There are still various FIXME's and TODO's, the API of various
functions may still change (actually that is true for the next
months, even) and some stuff is currently in the core that will
be moved to modules.
of targets accepted for a command, eg /MSG nick1,nick2,nick3,nick4 hi.
Also changed the following defaults (previously hardcoded):
* PRIVMSG from 20 to 4 targets, to counter /amsg spam
* NOTICE from 20 to 1 target, to counter /anotice spam
* KICK from 1 to 4 targets, to make it easier for channel operators
to quickly kick a large amount of spambots
See https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Set_block#set::max-targets-per-command
(actually still need to write the documentation)
* The operclass privileges have been redone. Since there were 50+ changes
to the 100+ privileges it makes little sense to list the changes here.
If, like 99% of the users, you use default operclasses such as "globop"
and "admin-with-override" then you don't need to do anything.
However, if you have custom operclass { } blocks then the privileges
will have to be redone. For more information on the conversion process,
see https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/FAQ#New_operclass_permissions
For the new list of permissions, with much better naming and grouping:
https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Operclass_permissions
The inconsistency in the privileges was initially reported by webczat in
https://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=4771
The subsequent reorganization took two full days, so.. hopefully the
people who are using - or plan to use - custom operclasses will like the
new layout... except that they need to redo their work of course ;)
Add the ASCII character codes for strikethrough (0x1E, 30) and
monospace (0x11, 17) to the _StripControlCodes function. This
addresses those formatting characters not being filtered when the
"nocodes" module is loaded.
See https://modern.ircdocs.horse/formatting.html#characters
any other bans that will cause the user to be disconnected.
For technical details see the banned_client() function.
It's likely I made some mistakes somewhere => testing required!!
For services who allow you to log in by account name but still allow you to
use a different nick: when you're logged in you are now considered
registered as far as channel mode +M (only registered users may speak and
+R (only registered users may join) are concerned. Same for user mode +R
(only allow private messages from registered users).
Tech: whenever services set SVID and it's not * and does not start with a
number, then we consider this user to be 'logged in'.
Whenever a user is set +r (s)he is also considered 'logged in'.
This way it's compatible with both older and new services and doesn't
introduce security issues with older services using servicetimestamp
for nick tracking or other means.
This issue was reported by ShawnSmith (#4318).
Bram Matthys