When you set this to 'yes' you get more options...
See next (modified) copy-paste from April 2020, which had to be reverted
because PCRE2 was broken. Now it's an opt-in and hopefully matured a bit.
This means:
* Case insensitive matches work better in UTF8 now, such as extended Latin.
For example, a spamfilter on "ę" now also matches "Ę", while previously
it did not catch this.
* Other PCRE2 features such as https://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2syntax.html#SEC5
are now available. For example you can now set a spamfilter with the regex
\p{Arabic} to block all Arabic script, or
\p{Cyrillic} to block all Cyrillic script (such as Russian)
Use these new tools with care, of course. Blocking an entire language,
or script, is quite a drastic measure.
All of this was possible because of the new PCRE2_MATCH_INVALID_UTF
compile time option which was introduced in PCRE2 10.34. Now, that
version turned out to be buggy. As recent as PCRE 10.36 some major bugs
were fixed. This also means we now require at least PCRE2 10.36 version
so everyone can benefit from this new spamfilter UTF8 feature, IF they
enable set::spamfilter::utf8-support, that is.
Many systems come with older PCRE2 versions so this means we will
fall back to the shipped PCRE2 version in UnrealIRCd. This means
./Config will take a little longer to compile things.
For packagers (rpm/deb/ports): if you choose to patch configure to
not require such a recent PCRE2, then please do not allow enabling
of set::spamfilter::utf8-support since it will likely cause crashes
and misbehavior. Check PCRE2 changelog, CTRL+F at PCRE2_MATCH_INVALID_UTF
is done behind-the-scenes (the command is still ./unrealircd mkpasswd).
For Windows users it finally means they can generate passwords via the CLI
using: unrealircdctl mkpasswd pwdhere
dbuf->length to be unitialized.
This wasn't an actual problem until yesterday in UnrealIRCd code,
since the whole client struct was initialized to zero, including
client->local->sendQ(->length) etc.
However, now we use the dbuf code elsewhere too (on the stack) and
3rd party modules can use it too, so fix this bug.
"./unrealircd reloadtls" and there is now also a "./unrealircd status"
The output is colorized if the terminal supports it (just like on the
boot screen) and also the exit status is 0 for success and non-0 for
failure. The purpose of all this is that you can easily detect rehash
errors on the command line.
These three commands communicate to UnrealIRCd via the new control
UNIX socket, which is in ~/data/unrealircd.ctl.
This also does a lot of other stuff because we now have an internal
tool called bin/unrealircdctl which is called by ./unrealircd for
some of the commands to communicate to the unrealircd.ctl socket.
Later on more of the existing functionality may be moved to that
tool and we may also provide it on Windows in CLI mode so people
have more of the same functionality as on *NIX.
It was missing for a lot of extbans (removing too little) and
for ~t it was removing too much (eg quiet bans).
Bug reported and changes suggested by k4be.
Coders:
Setting extban.options to EXTBOPT_CHSVSMODE has no effect anymore,
just didn't want to remove it so modules would still compile.
We now purely match based on .is_banned_events including BANCHK_JOIN.
Various things still need to be done: a lot more testing, ability to
set permissions on the file, #ifdef's because of lack of support
on Windows (currently won't compile), etc.
One thing that I don't intend to change is that I chose not to display
the socket in the host but have clients show up as 'localhost' (and
ip '127.0.0.1'). Doing it this way keeps things easy, otherwise we risk
a lot of breakage for nearly nothing gained, really.
Things can be tested via:
listen {
file "/tmp/listen";
}
and then with netcat:
nc -U /tmp/listen
USER x x x x
NICK hai
etc...
For example if the 1st DNS resolver is refusing or ignoring requests.
We forgot to call unrealdns_timeout() in the waiting loop, so DNS requests
never timed out and c-ares didn't try the 2nd/3rd server either.
Issue reported by Elodie.
Bram Matthys