UnrealIRCd 4.2.4 (stable) is now available for download.
This release fixes a crash issue if UnrealIRCd is configured to use utf8 or chinese character sets in set::allowed-nickchars. This is not the default.
We don't expect many users to run their IRCd with this enabled, as the utf8 support was tagged as experimental and the chinese/gbk implementation is incomplete.
In addition to the bug fix from above, this release also contains a number of other fixes and enhancements. In particular the reputation and connthrottle modules are now working better and there were some major Windows fixes.
Changes between version 4.2.3 and 4.2.4:
Improvements:
- Improve server linking error messages.
- Enhance WHOX to WHO auto-conversion for "WHO +s serv.er.name"
- A crash issue if using utf8 or chinese in set::allowed-nickchars (not the default).
- The Windows version only accepted very few clients.
- The Windows version should warn and not error if using old-style regex.
- The Windows version did not save the reputation database.
- The 'connthrottle' module incorrectly allowed 0 unknown users in when it was throttling, rather than the set rate.
- The 'reputation' module did not show scores for remote users in /WHOIS, only after 5 minutes had passed.
- Some users may have experienced a "Registration Timeout" error when connecting.
This happened because their ident server accepted the TCP/IP connection but after that failed to respond to the ident request. We have now lowered set::ident::read-timeout to 15 seconds to fix this. - If successfully logged in using SASL then avoid an "You are already logged in" error message that could happen due to PASS forwarding.
- If you are debugging or developing modules then we encourage you to use AddressSanitizer.
This does come at a 5-10x performance slowdown and can consume a lot more memory, but it is very useful in tracing common C mistakes such as out of bounds read/writes, double frees, and so on. You will see exactly where a mistake was made. To use this, in the last ./Config question you answer: --enable-asan
This section is intended for client coders and people interested in IRC protocol technicalities
- No changes in this release.
- We intend to change the default plaintext oper policy from warn to deny in the summer of 2019. This will deny /OPER when issued from a non-SSL connection. For security, IRC Operators should really use SSL/TLS when connecting to an IRC server!
- The changes in previous version, 4.2.3, were quite a lot. You can see the changes in the previous version here.