unreal version that the user is using. I presume this can be helpful (although nobody ever
suggested it ;p). The macros (#define's) are:
UNREAL_VERSION_GENERATION The generation version number eg: 3 for 3.2.4
UNREAL_VERSION_MAJOR The major version number eg: 2 for 3.2.4
UNREAL_VERSION_MINOR The minor version number eg: 4 for 3.2.4
This can be negative for unstable,
alpha and beta versions.
UNREAL_VERSION_TIME Year + week of the day (starting eg: 200541
on Monday), this is updated on
the CVS server every week.
The first 3 are for nicely identifiying the version, the 4th can be useful in case
you want to support CVS and/or want some more control.
Reported by Trocotronic (#0002659).
- Fixed a problem with entries in the hosts file (such as, usually, localhost), this would
cause an unresolved host and a 30s delay for the user, even though resolving succeeded.
This should get rid of some annoying untracable (and usually rare) crashbugs in the
old resolver. Besides that, it makes things look more clean and understandable.
This should be the fix for the following bugids (all the same issue): #2499, #2551, #2558,
#2559, #2603, #2642, #2502, #2501, #2618, #2616.
Feedback and testing is very much welcomed (syzop@unrealircd.com).
generated (for linkage by commands.so), are now used to generate the .so files of the
individual modules as well (eg: m_setname.o -link-> m_setname.so). This reduces compile
time ('make') on my machine by 33%, so it's quite noticable ;).
It also sends a numeric to the user saying the command has been processed, but a copy
has been sent to ircops. I feel this is a good idea for privacy reasons (anti-spy),
though I don't know how users will react to this. If you are using this on your network
and get users bothering you about it (or before that ;p), it's probably a good idea
to explain it somewhere on your site or FAQ :).
Example usage:
/spamfilter add p warn - Testing_mirc_decode_filter \$decode\(.*\)
[WARNING] The numeric text is likely to change in the next few weeks (early-cvs-commit).
- If a class block was removed and any other blocks would be referencing the class block
(such as: allow::class, oper::class, link::class), then this would cause a crash.
Reported by Mike_ (#0002646).
- CMDLINE_CONFIG behavior change: command line configuration is now still permitted
if #undef'ed (which is the default) if uid==euid && gid==egid, since it doesn't make
any sense to disable it then and is in fact just plain annoying.
- Added FAKELAG_CONFIGURABLE option in include/config.h, this enables an option called
class::options::nofakelag, which disables "fake lag" for a certain class (that is:
the artificial delay introduced by the ircd to prevent flooding is turned off,
allowing the user to flood at full speed).
IT'S USE IS DISCOURAGED UNLESS YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
Sorry, option is not in ./Config -advanced since I don't get autoconf working, but it's
such a scary option that this might as well be a good idea to keep in config.h anyway.
This feature has been suggested for several years (and refused), but the final
suggestion (with implementation specific hints) came from Gilou in bug #0002207.
- changed a comment slightly in m_tkl.c to get rid of harmless warning ;)
a spamfilter, but cannot remove it" problems. In practice this means - depending on the
length of your spamfilter reason - regexes will be max ~300 characters.
Spamfilters set in the .conf can be slightly longer (which still causes them to be
truncated in '/stats f', but they don't have to be removed anyway so it's kinda
acceptable if it's really needed). This should fix bug #2083, reported by White_Magic.
'u' (user) target can cause severe problems (crashes, etc). For now, we have disabled
'viruschan' in combination with 'u'. A real fix will require quite some work, sorry.
escape them like in all bans (eg: to ban #* you need to +b ~c:#\*). As an additional
bonus, real wildcards are now accepted and processed (eg: +b ~c:#*sex*, just don't
forget to specify the #). Reported by PhantasyX (#2605).
- Sidenote on above: ~c:*chan* is not supported (use ~c:#*chan* instead) because it would
cause "hidden bans", therefore it now prints a message (which is useful anyway), but
does accept such remote bans. In 3.2.5 or so we could enable support for it, it's
not that important though... ;)
- Added ifdefs for mass closing of file descriptors on start, can now be disabled by
adding -DNOCLOSEFD as a compile option. Useful for valgrind w/--db-attach=yes, mpatrol,
and some other debugging tools (not useful for anyone normally running a server).
- Fixed a read-after-free: sptr->serv->aconf was freed but not NULL'ed in exit_client,
causing close_connection to read from it (when deciding on doing a quick reconnect).
Could have caused a crash, although nobody ever reported one...
- Removed useless strncpyzt with dest==src.
- Added -fno-strict-aliasing.. this might well be temporary, but we get tons of strict-
aliasing warnings, so it sounds good to disable this type of optimization for now.
and 2000 lines total that can be hotfixed if needed ;). The effort involved in moving all
this sucks a lot though :/. This might need some more testing to make sure it doesn't break
anything.
- Updated support OS list in documentation.
whenever a server is added to a network it has a lot of power that cannot simply be controlled
by things like unsetting operflags remotely or anything else. I don't want to encourage
anyone to use it.
- Redid include dependencies in Makefile, this makes things safer because on any .h change it
would force a recompile of all files, but it could mean things will be a bit slower for us
coders unless we tweak it later on.
- Changed whois a bit to print less useless results.
- Added several indicators to the "detect binary incompatible modules"-system such as detecting
of a ziplinks module on non-ziplinks (on windows this is ok however), nospoof module on a
a server without nospoof server, etc. Hopefully this will help some people preventing odd
crashes because they did not recompile or (re)install modules properly.
- Added './unreal backtrace', so far this has only been tested on Linux and FreeBSD.
- Fixed a bug making ./Config not load the previously stored settings on Solaris 10 and
probably other Unixes, reported by lion-o (#0002474).
Bram Matthys