* In 2016 we switched from OpenSSL to LibreSSL because the OpenSSL
codebase was in a bit of bad shape and LibreSSL promised to be a
more modern codebase. Now, almost a decade later, OpenSSL has had
many code cleanups and is more security aware (code audits etc),
especially since OpenSSL v3 things are looking OK and it seems
LibreSSL doesn't have much progress nowadays. Which is understandable
as they have a lot fewer coders available but has an effect on things
like how long it took for TLSv1.3 to appear and for other new things
like PQC. It also seems like security fixes are now slower than
OpenSSL instead of the other way around. Anyway, I think they did their
job well (together with other people) in "triggering" the OpenSSL
project to get things back on track. Let's switch back now.
* For context: it seems several Linux distro's that used to do go for
LibreSSL have also switched back to OpenSSL.
* LibreSSL is still and will continue to be a supported library to
use with UnrealIRCd (especially with OpenBSD and FreeBSD in mind).
So, if there are any issues (compile problems, configuration problems,
some feature not detected), then please report it on our bug tracker
at https://bugs.unrealircd.org/ ! We will have to rely more on such
user-reports now that the main devs will likely only work with OpenSSL.
Also... i have cleaned up the Makefile.windows a bit to be more consistent
Hopefully i didn't make a mistake there...
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1) All IRC clients support prefixes nowadays
2) People generally misunderstand the question and think this
disabled +q (channel owner) and +a (channel admin), when
in fact it does not. It only enables/disables the showing
of prefixes, and it changes some of the rules eg requiring
+qo / +ao for actions that normally only require +q / +a.
3) We now have the modularized +q and +a, so you can actually
disable channel owner and channel admin, which is what most
users want(ed) that previously disabled PREFIX_AQ.
For all users (95%+) that enable PREFIX_AQ there is no effective
change. For the other 5% it is likely only for the better.
I don't think there were more than a handful of people who disabled
this, and it clutters the source badly (not to mention that this
should not be a compile time option at all).
Bram Matthys