Change Log

This page lists changes which have happened between releases.

InspIRCd 5.0.0dev1

This development snapshot version of InspIRCd was released on 2025-08-01.

• Added <cloak:username> for cloak_user cloaks to allow assigning a static username.

• Added <security:banrealmask> to allow disabling matching bans against user's real username, hostname, and IP address.

• Added support for services clearing all nickname reservations with SVSHOLD.

• Added support for services only removing bans against visible masks with SVSCMODE.

• Added support for usernames to the cloaking system.

• Added the "geolocation" module rehash type to the geo_maxmind module to allow reloading the Geolocation database without a full rehash.

• Added the cloak_custom module that integrates with the cloaking system replaces both the vhost module and allows services to apply vhosts to users in a way that integrates with cloaking.

• Added the DISABLEDMODES token to ISupport to allow clients to hide mode buttons for disabled modes.

• Changed the default for <options:extbanformat> from any to name.

• Changed the default for <servicesintegration:disablemodes> from no to yes.

• Config compatibility code for v3 has been removed.

• Moved <security:customversion> to <options:customversion>.

• Moved modules to their own top-level directory.

• Moved password checking from the core to the hashing modules.

• Moved the cloak_md5 module to inspircd-contrib.

• Moved the log_json module out of extras.

• Moved the md5 module to inspircd-contrib.

• Moved the spanningtree configuration from <options>, <performance>, and <security> to the <spanningtree> tag.

• Moved the starttls module to inspircd-contrib.

• Raised the minimum version of C++ to C++20.

• Raised the minimum version of GnuTLS from 3.3.5 to 3.6.0.

• Raised the minimum version of OpenSSL from 1.1.1 to 3.0.0.

• Removed <cloak:enforcepsl> for cloak_sha256 (now always enabled).

• Removed <filteropts:enableflags> (now always enabled).

• Removed <messageflood:extended> (now always enabled).

• Removed <permchanneldb:writeversion> (now always set to 2).

• Removed <repeat:extended> (now always enabled).

• Removed <rline:useflags> (now always enabled).

• Removed <sslprofile:dhfile> (this was already ignored on the library versions we now support).

• Removed support for bitmask-style DNSBL configurations (these are uncommon and are almost always misused).

• Removed support for in-query password comparison in sqlauth (this only ever worked with insecure algorithms).

• Removed support for the 1205 (v3) server protocol.

• Removed the deprecated $ip and $ident values for user SQL queries.

• Removed the requirement to have the password_hash module loaded to use HMAC passwords.

• Renamed the sslrehashsignal module to rehashsignal and added support for custom module rehashes.

• Replaced the Perl inspircd-testssl script with the Python inspircd-test-tls script.

• Rewrote all hashing modules and renamed them to have a "hash_" prefix.

• Rewrote all of the hashing modules from scratch with a new interface and runtime checks.

• Vendored yyjson instead of relying on an external copy.