Change Log

This page lists changes which have happened between releases.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a24

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2023-09-01.

• Added extended ban o: (oper) to match against an oper account.

• Added support for saving the setter and set times of list modes.

• Changed <sslprofile> to allow any TLS module to handle TLS profiles without an explicit provider.

• Fixed /COMMANDS not showing the command list to server operators with the servers/auspex privilege.

• Fixed adding and removing channel modes b (ban), e (banexception), and I (invex) not respecting the server casemapping.

• Fixed mode characters being hardcoded in several error messages.

• Fixed the cloak_md5 and cloak_sha256 link data not checking

• Fixed the httpd_stats module not terminating the <metadata> tag.

• Fixed the link data of the filter module to not prefix the name of the regex engine with regex/.

• Fixed the link data of the rline module to not prefix the name of the regex engine with regex/.

• Fixed the watch module not sending RPL_REAWAY for compatibility with UnrealIRCd.

• Fixed very large list limits not actually being applied.

• Improved config file cache invalidation by allowing modules to specify a max cache age.

• Moved the inspircd.org/service tag to the services module.

• Renamed extended ban o: to opertype to match what it actually does.

• Renamed the error log level to critical.

• Renamed the namesx module to multiprefix.

• Replaced <ldapauth:useusername> with <ldapauth:field> to allow disabling reading the username from the password field.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a23

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2023-08-01.

• Added <options:xlinequit> to allow customising the quit message shown to users and opers when they are banned from the server.

• Added <securelist:hidesmallchans> to hide small channels in /LIST from non-exempt users after the securelist waiting period has ended.

• Added a fallback to killing the user when an X-line fails to add in the DNSBL module.

• Added extra validation for the cloak value to the cloak_static module.

• Added incremental write backoff to the filter, permchannels, and xline_db modules.

• Added the /DNSBL command to allow a server operator to recheck whether a user is in a DNSBL.

• Added the H silence flag to hide the contents of messages instead of blocking them.

• Added the ability to shun users who are in a DNSBL.

• Changed DNSBL lookups to still check E-lined users even if they can not be punished.

• Changed the globops module to be VF_COMMON when using the 1206 (v4) protocol.

• Cleaned up the Windows CMake build scripts.

• Developer: Replaced FileReader with ServerConfig::ReadFile.

• Fixed an iterator invalidation issue in ActionList.

• Fixed deleting cullable objects in the same order they were culled.

• Fixed generating cloaks on connecting users too early.

• Fixed not being able to reload TLS certificates specified in <{exec,}files> outside of a normal rehash.

• Fixed not hiding a banned user's part message when <options:restrictbannedusers> is enabled.

• Fixed removing user mode r (u_registered) from users when they change their nickname.

• Fixed showing an incorrect denial notice when a user makes a /STATS request.

• Fixed the v3 <sqlauth:allowpattern> compatibility code.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Removed special casing of notices in the delaymsg module.

• Removed the non-standard error codes that InspIRCd exited with in favour of EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE.

• Renamed <security:hidelines> to <security:publicxlinequit> and added more variable options.

• Renamed the services module's <services> tag to <servicesintegration>.

• Renamed the spanningtree module's <service> tag to <services>.

• Replaced the fallback random number generation with <random>.

• Replaced the vendored rang library with fmtlib's colourised message header.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a22

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2023-07-01.

• Added <svshold:exemptregistered> to allow users to override a SVSHOLD on a nickname in their group (requires services support).

• Added support for Subject Public Key Info (SPKI) fingerprints to the ssl_gnutls (GnuTLS) and sslinfo (WebIRC gateway clients) modules.

• Added support for real usernames which are only visible to server operators and retain the username sent in USER or the lookup result from the identd module.

• Added the username cloak method for cloaking users using their real username (useful for shared providers like IRCCloud).

• Added the ability for cloak methods to declare themselves as link sensitive so they will be used for link data instead of the non-sensitive cloak methods in front of them.

• Fixed an occasional crash caused by an iterator invalidation when deleting cullables.

• Fixed being able to evade channel bans via HostServ-granted vidents.

• Fixed building cloak_sha256 against libpsl on Windows.

• Fixed command privileges in /STATS Oo overflowing the maximum line length.

• Fixed erroneous warnings in the log when <options:defaultbind> was not explicitly specified.

• Fixed extracting information from the 1205 (v3) version and fullversion SINFO fields.

• Fixed telling users that they are in deaf mode when user modes d (deaf) and D (privdeaf) are removed.

• Fixed unnecessarily regenerating user cloak lists when a cloak method is not active.

• Fixed warnings about redefining FD_SETSIZE on Windows when building some modules.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Merged the cloak_account and cloak_nick modules to make a new module called cloak_user.

• Merged the svshold module into the services module.

• Reduced the memory usage of various internal user fields.

• Replaced <cloak:sanitize> with <cloak:invalidchar> which can be set to "truncate" to truncate at the first invalid character (e.g. nick|afk => nick).

• Updated all documentation and config fields to use "user(name)" to refer to usernames instead of ident (which only refers to RFC 1413 resolved usernames).

• Updated the S2S UID message to also send the real username when using the 1206 (v4) protocol.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a21

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2023-05-15.

• Added extended information on when a client certificate expired or is activated to the ssl_cert error reason.

• Added the <cloak:class> field to allow cloaking a user based on their connect class.

• Added the <joinflood:notifyrank> field to allow customising the lowest rank that can receive the notification about a channel being closed for new joins.

• Added the cloak_account module to cloak users based on their services account name and/or identifier.

• Added the cloak_nick module to cloak users based on their nickname.

• Added the cloak_static module to cloak users with a fixed value.

• Added the ability to use a prefix character instead of a mode letter in an exemptchanops entry.

• Added the ability to use a prefix character instead of a mode letter with /RMODE.

• Allowed modules to specify a numeric to send to a user when a connect class does not match them in OnPreChangeConnectClass.

• Developer: moved time functions from InspIRCd to the new Time namespace.

• Fixed a crash when quitting users who do not have a connect class.

• Fixed mistakenly partially expanding user IPv6 addresses that begin with a colon with 0x0 instead of '0'.

• Fixed not being able to have an unlimited number of messages or unlimited time period in <chanhistory:max{duration,lines}>.

• Fixed not sending ERR_NOPERMFORHOST when a user explictly matches a deny connect class.

• Fixed not sending ERR_PASSWDMISMATCH when the user does not specify or specifies the wrong server password.

• Fixed showing the wrong error message when a listener fails to bind on Windows.

• Fixed trying to implicitly multistack SCTP sockets on systems that had support at build time but not at run time.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Removed the hostchange module as it has been superceded by the cloak_{account,nick,static} modules.

• Replaced <ldapauth:allowpattern> and <ldapwhitelist:cidr> with <ldapexemption:mask> which takes a nick!user@host or nick!user@ip/cidr mask.

• Replaced <sqlauth:allowpattern> with <sqlexemption:mask> which takes a nick!user@host or nick!user@ip/cidr mask.

• Replaced the <security:hidebans> field with <security:hidelines> which takes a formattable template string to use as the quit message instead of the X-line reason.

• Updated the list of nickname characters always banned by the codepage module to match the Modern IRC specification.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a20

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2023-03-01.

• Added <chanhistory:maxduration> to limit the maximum period to keep chat history for.

• Added <sslinfo:localsecure> to allow treating users connecting from localhost as if they were connected with TLS (SSL).

• Added users with user mode h (helpop) to the /STATS P output.

• Allowed clients to set themselves as away before they are fully connected to the server.

• Developer: exposed the cloak lists to the module API.

• Fixed being able to create a half or full cloak method without the md5 module loaded.

• Fixed being able to create a hmac-sha256 or hmac-sha256-ip cloak without the sha256 module loaded.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Merged the servprotect module into the services module.

• Split the helpop module into two modules (help, helpmode).

InspIRCd 4.0.0a19

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2023-02-01.

• Added <websocket:nativeping> for sending idle pings to WebSocket clients using WebSocket ping packets.

• Added support for SCTP user and server connections.

• Added support for synchronising server operator privileges between servers.

• Added templated variants of UserManager::Find{Nick,UUID,} which allow finding a remote or local user.

• Added the cloak_sha256 module which cloaks hostnames using a variant of the HMAC-SHA256 cloaking system from Plexus.

• Developer: moved duration functions from InspIRCd to the new Duration namespace.

• Developer: replaced ConfigTag::get{Float,Int,UInt} with the type safer getNum method.

• Developer: replaced InspIRCd::Format and VAFORMAT with a vendored copy of the {fmt} library.

• Developer: reworked the accessor methods in the User class to have names that make more sense.

• Made all modules which build against third-party dependencies print the library version on load where available.

• Reworked how users are assigned to connect classes and fixed counting class users.

• Split the cloaking module into the cloak module (core cloaking logic) and cloak_md5 (the old md5-based cloaking system).

InspIRCd 4.0.0a18

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2023-01-01.

IMPORTANT — Various breaking changes have also been made. See the breaking changes page for details.

• Added oper idle information to /STATS P.

• Added support for oper type specific MOTDs.

• Added support for overriding extban characters via the config file.

• Added support for overriding mode characters via the config file.

• Added support for requiring an oper to be logged into a user account.

• Changed the clock difference allowance between servers to be stricter (15s/5s for fail/warn vs 60s/15s in v3).

• Changed the default value for <bind:replace> to yes.

• Developer: added ListExtItem for wrapping a vector/set extension.

• Developer: added SimpleExtItem::GetRef to get a constant reference to an extension value using the default it does not exist.

• Developer: added a flag to the oper events that declares if an oper attempt was done automatically.

• Developer: added an option to Percent::Encode to encode as lower case.

• Developer: added the irc::sockets::sockaddrs::is_local method to determine if a socket address points to a local address.

• Developer: changed the socket address arguments to Module::OnAcceptConnection and various IOHook functions to be a constant referewnce instead of a pointer.

• Developer: changed various SocketEngine methods to take an EventHandler instead of a file descriptor.

• Developer: removed the automatic fallback from ExtensionItem::FromInternal to ExtensionItem::FromNetwork.

• Developer: removed the unused Extensible argument to InspIRCd::PassCompare.

• Fixed canonicalising an extban when added via the /TBAN command.

• Fixed parsing the v3 fallback config in the deaf module.

• Fixed the banredirect module breaking when encountering a long-style extban.

• Improved the log messages when an oper attempt succeeds or fails.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Moved <oper:autologin> to the core and reworked the config for it.

• Reworked the levels at which various messages are logged to make more sense.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a17

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2022-12-01.

• Added the inspircd.org/stats-tags capability to get statistics data in message tags.

• Allow specifying commands, modes, privileges and snomasks in the oper type and account.

• Developer: refactored the oper types and events.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Moved the o, O, and P stats characters to core_oper and rewrote to be actually useful.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a16

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2022-11-01.

IMPORTANT — Various breaking changes have also been made. See the breaking changes page for details.

• Added a compatibility layer to allow loading modules that were renamed in v4 with their names from v3.

• Developer: added a parameter to UserManager::Find{Nick,UUID,} to exclude partially connected users.

• Developer: made a bunch of APIs const correct.

• Developer: renamed (connection) registration to avoid a semantic conflict with account registration.

• Enabled services to inform the server of a list of nicknames that belong to an account.

• Fixed linking against v3 servers when the realnameban module is loaded.

• Fixed the sql_log module causing a cascade of snotices when it can't write to a database.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Reduced the memory usage of resolving server hostnames to IP addresses.

• Split the services_account module into two modules (account, services).

InspIRCd 4.0.0a15

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2022-10-01.

• Changed <hostname:charmap> to disallow characters that have special meaning in the IRC wire format.

• Developer: changed command handler penalty to be measured in milliseconds instead of seconds

• Developer: changed command handlers to opt-in to empty trailing parameters instead of opting out.

• Developer: refactored the server notices sent to operators when loading and unloading a module.

• Developer: removed support for serialising and deserialising user data.

• Ensured that the <hostname:charmap> is synchronised across the network when linking to a v4 server.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Modernized the Windows compatibility layer.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a14

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2022-09-01.

• Added support for logging JSON to stdout (json-stdout) and stderr (json-stderr) to the log_json message.

• Developer: changed irc::sockets::sockaddrs to be zero-initialized by default.

• Developer: converted irc::sockets::{ap,un}tosa to be irc::sockets::sockaddrs member functions.

• Developer: refactored the FOREACH_MOD and FIRST_MOD_RESULT macros.

• Developer: removed the string overload of User::SetClientIP.

• Developer: renamed Module::OnSetUserIP to OnChangeRemoteAddress to make it clear that client socket addresses can refer to a non-IP protocol.

• Developer: renamed the sockaddrs overload of User::SetClientIP to ChangeRemoteAddress to make it clear that client socket addresses can refer to a non-IP protocol.

• Fixed module loggers not being able to write the actual log time for messages that are cached on startup.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a13

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2022-08-01.

IMPORTANT — Various breaking changes have also been made. See the breaking changes page for details.

• Added the ~context server tag to allow services to show a private message, notice, or tag message in a context of a channel.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a12

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2022-07-01.

IMPORTANT — Various breaking changes have also been made. See the breaking changes page for details.

• Added <messageflood:kickmessage> for customising the message flood kick reason.

• Added a new templating system for config-provided fields that contain variables.

• Added the %diff%, %duration%, %lines%, and %seconds template variables to the repeat module ban reason.

• Added the %dnsbl% and %result% template variables to the dnsbl module ban reason.

• Changed <shun:cleanedcommands> and <shun:enabledcommands> to use a token list instead of a set.

• Changed the passforward module to use the new templating system.

• Developer: made ConfigTag::getEnum return the default instead of throwing.

• Developer: sped up the build by reducing the number of unnecessary global headers.

• Fixed a crash caused by writing to a logger whilst unloading a logger.

• Fixed not blocking the loading, reloading, and unloading of modules by their short names.

• Fixed not shrinking module file names properly on macOS and Windows.

• Made all of the malformed config value error messages have a consistent format.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a11

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2022-06-01.

• Added support for named and indexed captures in the regex system.

• Added the log_json module for logging machine readable JSON messages to a file.

• Added the log_sql module for logging to an SQL database.

• Added the log_syslog module for logging to the system log on UNIX systems.

• Changed protection from being targeted by kicks/kills/etc to require user mode k (servprotect) instead of being on a services server.

• Changed the httpd_stats module to generate the output automatically instead of just emitting raw XML.

• Changed the log levels to better match how log messages are used.

• Deprecated the S2S version and fullversion SINFO keys and added the rawbranch and customversion keys to replace them.

• Fixed building the ISUPPORT token list before all modules have been initialized.

• Fixed log messages not being flushed for hours if a server wasn't particularly busy.

• Fixed repeated lookups of prefix modes by storing a sorted set of mode handlers instead of a string of mode characters.

• Fixed the server operator events duplicating data which is accessible from the user object.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Rewrote the entire account system from scratch.

• Rewrote the entire logging system from scratch.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a10

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2022-05-01.

IMPORTANT — Various breaking changes have also been made. See the breaking changes page for details.

• Added <options:extbanformat> to allow specifying the format to normalise extbans to.

• Added support for cleaning up malformed extban values.

• Added support for detecting the local hostname on Windows.

• Added support for UNIX socket listeners on Windows.

• Added support for writing a pid file on Windows.

• Cleaned up unnecessary inclusion of system header files.

• Improved cleaning up broken masks specified by users.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Removed support for automatically tidying list mode entries.

• Removed support for changing <pid:file> after the server has started.

• Removed validation of list mode entries that were set by a remote server.

• Replaced the command line argument parser with a more user friendly one.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a9

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2022-04-01.

• Added support for numeric mode characters.

• Changed end of list numerics to be automatically generated based on the mode name.

• Fixed disabled commands being shown in /COMMANDS.

• Increased the minimum customprefix rank from 0 to 1.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Refactored the opermodes module.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a8

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2022-02-01.

• Add support for connect class-specific 005 numerics.

• Developer: Kill vendor_directory in favour of adding the vendor directory to the include path.

• Developer: Refactored exception handling classes.

• Developer: Replaced consolecolors with the vendored rang library.

• Fix an infinite synchronisation loop with automatically synchronised extensibles.

• Fix extensibles being synchronisable when they are marked as non-synchronisable.

• Fix extensions being able to be set on the wrong type of extensible.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Moved DNS stats from the core to core_dns.

• Removed the nationalchars module.

• Replace the inlined md5 implementation with the vendored md5 library.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a7

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2021-12-15.

• Added snomask r (REHASH) and moved all rehash messages to it.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Reject config files from ancient outdated tutorials.

• Removed support for remote /INFO.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a6

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2021-11-15.

• Developer: Added support for specifying multiple ModAuthor directives in contrib modules.

• Developer: Removed support for ModAuthorMail in contrib modules.

• Developer: Removed the time_t TIME field from the Tick() method of timer classes.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Removed the old regex_pcre module that uses the PCRE1 library.

• Renamed regex_pcre2 to regex_pcre to replace the now removed PCRE1 module.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a5

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2021-10-01.

• Added the FRHOST S2S command to change the real hostname of a remote user.

• Added the regex_pcre2 module which implements a regex engine that uses the PCRE2 library.

• Changed the operlog module to use the oper snomask instead of its own snomask.

• Fixed sending standard replies with variable parameters.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a4

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2021-09-01.

• /SQUERY is now unicast to the target service instead of being routed as a /PRIVMSG.

• <oper:autologin> now always respects the host field when set to yes like if-host-match from v3.

• Added <admin:description> for the second line of the /ADMIN output.

• Added <limits:maxkey> for configuring the maximum key length.

• Added support to /CHECK for finding users by an username or real name mask.

• Changed the real ip/host field from RPL_WHOISHOST to RPL_WHOISACTUALLY.

• Changed the second line of /ADMIN to be optional instead of the first.

• Merged <admin:nick> with <admin:name>.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Removed usage of some deprecated OpenSSL APIs.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a3

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2021-08-01.

IMPORTANT — Various breaking changes have also been made. See the breaking changes page for details.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• The default value for <limits:maxchan> has been changed to 60.

• The default value for <limits:maxkick> has been changed to 130.

• The default value for <limits:maxquit> has been changed to 300.

• The default value for <limits:maxreal> has been changed to 130.

• The default value for <limits:maxtopic> has been changed to 330.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a2

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2021-07-01.

• Fixed <security:hideserver> being able to be set to an invalid hostname.

• Fixed building on Haiku.

• Fixed building on Windows.

• Fixed local idle times being incorrect.

• Fixed module events not being fired correctly.

• Fixed WHOIS numerics not including the source of the message.

• Imported the opmoderated module from inspircd-contrib.

• Merged all of the changes from the v3 development branch into the v4 development branch.

• Refactored the compiler and linker flag logic in the makefile.

InspIRCd 4.0.0a1

This pre-release version of InspIRCd was released on 2021-06-01.

IMPORTANT — Various breaking changes have also been made. See the breaking changes page for details.

• Added support for case insensitive regular expressions.

• Added support for fake honeypot channels to the securelist module.

• Added support for multi-line command syntax messages.

• Added support for named (i.e. foo:n!u@h) and inverted (i.e. !f:n!u@h) extbans.

• Added support for network-synchronised metadata on channel memberships.

• Added support for reloading TLS certificates as part of a normal rehash.

• Added support for sending 005 diffs when the server module state changes

• Added support for the sha224, sha384, and sha512 hash algorithms.

• Added the servers/ignore-securelist privilege to allow server operators to ignore the securelist module.

• Changed modules to use native platform file extensions (i.e. .dylib on macOS and .dll on Windows).

• Enabled the regex_stdlib module by default on all systems.

• Fixed losing the set time and setter of list modes when linking servers.