and 7 for unknown-users (with max-bytes 5250 and 1500 respectively). This
allows pasting a short snippet of code, config file, text from a site, etc.
With multiline you have the guarantee that:
1) You will see the entire text with no delay between lines
2) You won't see another persons chat half-way through such a paste
3) For multiline supporting clients it is now clear that all the text
belongs to each other, which can make selecting/copying it easier.
This basically means short snippets/pastes like that can be completely on
IRC again. No need for a pastebin for it. Though, you may still need such
a service if you are pasting more lines.
Regarding the implementation in UnrealIRCd:
* Clients without multiline get individual fallback lines (concat lines
merged, blank lines skipped, as per spec). And we know that clients like
weechat - which does support multiline - also shows all lines and not
only a few plus snippet style "[.."]. That is another reason for only
allowing 15 lines by default and not something much more. Otherwise all
those clients would get a big wall of text, which just sucks.
* Spamfilter (also) runs on the full text of all lines together, so
splitting a phrase across lines does not evade spamfilter.
* Fakelag: a client can send the BATCH start+PRIVMSG (or NOTICE)+BATCH end
at full speed. We impose no fake lag there. Also, the multiline default
max-lines and max-bytes are lower than the example class::recvq of 8000,
so should be perfectly safe. If the entire BATCH is accepted then we
will impose fake-lag afterwards, with a cap of 15 seconds maximum.
If the BATCH is rejected, we impose half the fakelag plus 2sec.
* If the time between BATCH start and BATCH end is more than 15 seconds
then the BATCH is rejected (set::multiline::batch-timeout).
* The BATCH is atomic (either you see it all, or you see none of it):
* When the client sends it to server, it is buffered first.
* Only after the batch close the server indicates if it is accepted
or rejected. This has various reasons, two of them are: 1) The client
is going to send everything in one go anyway and not wait for a
response between each PRIVMSG, and 2) we can't do many checks in the
buffering stage and skip those after, that would cause a TOCTOU
problem (eg. a banned user still being able to speak).
* If any line gets rejected due to spamfilter or other case
(eg +c, +b ~text with block, etc etc), the entire batch is rejected
* Locally we deliver all or nothing (as said)
* S2S we buffer the batch as well, so if a server splits after having
received 10 lines out of 15, then clients will not see anything.
* We send max-lines and max-bytes, this is the hard upper limit.
* A multiline can still be limited more tight if:
* +f with 't' or 'm' restricts to fewer lines,
eg +f [5t]:15, which means max 5 lines per 15 seconds,
means the max accepted multiline is 5 for that channel.
* +F works the same, except that default +F normal does not
have a 't' at the moment and 'm' is very high (50) so
practically not limited by default.
* There will be a future +f flood subtype for some more control
TODO: we will send CAP NEW on unknown-users <-> known-users to
indicate the new max-lines value if you transition security groups
TODO: chat history does not yet include multiline batches.
This is mainly due to licensing. The libmaxminddb library uses the
Apache license, which meant if we would compile it in by default it
would effectively transform our "GPLv2 or later" to "GPLv3 or later".
Our implementation is ISC licensed, so we can include and enable it
by default and keep things at "GPLv2 or later". This is also why we
used geoip_classic in the first place as default and compiled in,
and not the mmdb variant.
The mmdb.c is based on the specification, using the Go implementation
as a reference during development (ISC licensed), initially implemented
with the help of Claude Opus 4.6. After that substantial changes were
made to make it match UnrealIRCd's style and to make things less error
prone: C style changes, allocation and zero termination of strings in
the library, auto-NULL in variadic functions so the caller cannot
forget NULL there (similar to our unreal_log/do_unreal_log), using
enums as the return type instead of int (similar to curl), adding
doxygen docs, etc.
This also means the old mmdb library dependency has been dropped,
including from configure/autoconf.
At the moment we still use the geoip classic library by default,
including those DB files. The idea is we will switch over sometime
later after this current new MMDB stuff has received more testing.
This also makes us more flexible, since .mmdb files have become the
de-facto standard for pretty much all geoip vendors.
I started work on this back then but didn't finalize it. Now I
have to figure out what was left to be done :D. Other than the
obvious case of seeing some debugging code that prints out for
every converted character. Not yet visible / usable by end-users!
Also fix documentation for ~10 hooks to mention the hook name.
Obviously, the maxperip module is loaded by default (in modules.default.conf)
but it is nice to have the 400+ lines contained in a separate module
rather than being in the nick module that does NICK/UID handling.
Will look at moving more later..
https://github.com/unrealircd/unrealircd/pull/265 by Valware
"This is an IRCv3 extension which lets clients opt-out of receiving /names on join.
This is useful for bots on large channels who do not need to know who is in the channel.
Specification: https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/no-implicit-names"
+ module rename from 'no-implicit-names-cap' to 'no-implicit-names'
(simply because no other modules has that -cap suffix)
+ update to Makefile.windows
This is a mandatory module to load, and included in modules.default.conf.
This also meant that the crule_test() etc efunctions are available
before running config test routines, so we now have a flag for
early efuncs. I guess we could consider doing that for all efuncs
though, so not sure if this flag is really needed.
Suggested by Chris_dc in https://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=6252
This uses unrealircd.org/real-quit-reason internally, but is only
exposed to servers, never to users. It results in using that quit
reason for IRCOps, while using the regular quit reason for normal users.
This will communicate the original issuer of a command.
For example an "SAMODE #test +s" results in a SAMODE coming from
:maintest.test.net MODE ....etc....
And with this feature, we will communicate the IRCOp who did it:
@unrealircd.org/issued-by=OPER:Syzop..etc....
This tag is only sent to servers and to IRCOps, not to ordinary users.
The plan is to support the following variants:
Services: unrealircd.org/issued-by=SERVICES:NickServ@services.test.net
IRCOp: unrealircd.org/issued-by=OPER:Syzop@maintest.test.net:Operblock_name
JSON-RPC: unrealircd.org/issued-by=RPC:adminpanel@irc1.test.net:Adminpanel_Actual_User
This first commit only adds SERVICES and OPER in the handlers of the
SVSNICK and SAMODE commands. The JSON-RPC variant and all of the other
commands have not been done yet.
These deal with set::anti-flood::everyone::connect-flood and
set::max-unknown-connections-per-ip respectively.
This adds a new hook HOOKTYPE_ACCEPT, that is mostly meant for internal
usage by UnrealIRCd. Most module coders will want to use the existing
hook HOOKTYPE_HANDSHAKE instead.
This also gets of check_banned() which is now spread over the individual
modules (eg: checking banned is done in tkl on HOOKTYPE_ACCEPT and
HOOKTYPE_IP_CHANGE).
This existed in UnrealIRCd 3.2.x but was later removed when
switching to the new operclass system.
Requested by Valware in https://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=6041
Syntax: SVSO <uid|nick> <oper account> <operclass> <class> <modes> <snomask> <vhost>
All these parameters need to be set, you cannot leave any of them out,
HOWEVER some can be set to "-" to skip setting them, this is true for:
<class>, <modes>, <snomask>, <vhost>
In UnrealIRCd the <operclass> will be prefixed by "services:" if not already
present. It is up to you to include or omit it.
If you want to set any swhoises you need to use the SWHOIS s2s command,
other than that this command basically does everything for you,
in fact it uses the same code as the OPER command does.
Most of the "user is now ircop" code has been moved out of cmd_oper() to
a new function make_oper() that is called by both cmd_oper() and cmd_svso().
This function also changes the hook HOOKTYPE_LOCAL_OPER:
It no longer passes a ConfigItem_oper struct, since we can't do that for
remote opers. Instead it passes oper name and oper class.
The complete definition is now:
int hooktype_local_oper(Client *client, int add, const char *oper_block, const char *operclass);
This is based on the old MD5 module, it uses SHA256 instead.
Some re-indenting, replacing hardcoded values with a define,
and some other small changes due to the different hash size.
and used for auditting purposes across servers (assuming the servers
itself can be trusted).
This is done via the 'operlogin' module which is loaded by default.
Obviously for opers of U5 and below this information is not available.
This also changes the HOOKTYPE_LOCAL_OPER hook to include oper block info:
-int hooktype_local_oper(Client *client, int add);
+int hooktype_local_oper(Client *client, int add, ConfigItem_oper *oper_block);
can't have dependencies, so if you change a .h file, it fails to
recompile the other dependencies. Grmpf!
This does mean that we require GNU Make (gmake) from now on.
Bram Matthys