Unreal 3.2-RC2 Released
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 7:37 pm
Today, Unreal3.2-RC2 was released. This release is primarily to fix the problems that were discovered in RC1. Fixes include numerous changes to the remote include system, spamfilter fixes, etc. Also, a couple new changes were made to the spamfilter system to make it more useful along with a spamfilter.conf that contains signatures for some common exploits/trojans/worms that appear on IRC. If you are running RC1 or older, it is definately suggested that you upgrade!
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Unreal3.2-RC2 Release Notes
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==[ GENERAL INFORMATION ]==
* This is the second (and hopefully last) Release Candidate.
After this we intend to release 3.2 final.
* If you are upgrading, make sure you run ./Config and make clean before doing make
* The official UnrealIRCd documentation is doc/unreal32docs.html
online version at: http://www.vulnscan.org/UnrealIrcd/unreal32docs.html
FAQ: http://www.vulnscan.org/UnrealIrcd/faq/
Read them before asking for help.
* Report bugs at http://bugs.unrealircd.org/
* This is a recommended release because various crashbugs have been fixed.
== [NEW FEATURES (see unreal32docs.html for more information) ]==
* Lots of spamfilter improvements.
* The new syntax is:
/spamfilter [what] [type] [action] [tkltime] [reason] [regex]
[tkltime] specifies the duration of any *lines placed by this rule.
[reason] specifies the *line, kill and/or block reason.. no spaces
allowed, but '_' will be translated to a space.
In both cases you can simply use '-' to skip and use the default.
Ex: /spamfilter add p block - - Come watch me on my webcam
/spamfilter add p gline 3h Please_go_to_www.viruscan.xx/[linewrap]
nicepage/virus=blah Come watch me on my webcam
* The spamfilter { } blocks also have a new 'reason' and 'ban-time' field.
* The user will now receive a notice if the msg/notice/dcc is blocked.
* There are 2 new spamfilter action types:
'dccblock' will mark the user so (s)he's unable to send any files by DCC.
'viruschan' will part the user from all channels and join
set::spamfilter::virus-help-channel (default: #help).
After this all commands for the user are disabled except: PONG, ADMIN
and NOTICE/PRIVMSG's to the virus-help-channel.
Also any ops (+oaq) in the virus help channel will receive a notice
explaining which filter the user matched (so they can help the user out).
* Added set::spamfilter::except which allows you to specify targets where
spamfilter should not take action. Useful for spam-report/help chans.
Ex: set { spamfilter { except "#spamreport,#help"; }; };
* there's now a 'spamfilter.conf' file with some effective spamfilter rules.
* Added '/tempshun' command (/tempshun nick reason, /tempshun -nick).
==[ MAJOR BUGS FIXED ]==
* The ircd was unable to boot on some OSs because unreal removed tmp/
* crash: if an invalid regex was entered (eg: in spamfilter) the ircd could crash
* crash: The TRE regex library could be crashed in case of some (advanced) regexes.
* crash: several remote includes problems (also non-crash)
* crash/security: an user-triggerable crash bug
* Fixed problem with 'tkl update' which could lead to server fights in some cases.
==[ MINOR BUGS FIXED ]==
* allow::options::noident now actually works
* Fixed compile problem on Solaris
* Some OperOverride + ExtModes fixes (eg: globop w/can_override couldn't set +T)
* +qaohv'ing a network service was disallowed
* chanmode +f was often reset on synch when it was already the same at both sides
* Spamfilter single-target are now supported, eg:
spamfilter { regex "blah"; action kill; target private; };
previously the ircd didn't warn about this (but it didn't work).
==[ CHANGED ]==
* Updated /credits. Now includes everyone who has sent in donations,
thanks to everyone!
* Various help.conf/docs updates as usual
* New hooks for module coders and other module system improvements.
* Modulized A LOT of commands (34): this allows better "hot patching"
and leaving out commands (eg: loading all m_*.so mods except m_addline.so).
* Moved SQLINE system (and ban nick) to TKL and introduced "holds",
this might later be used by services for nick enforcement.
* Restricted class::pingfreq to 30-600.. anything higher and you might get
mysterious (mass) disconnect issues... Anything lower is dumb too.
* Added checking for insane listen port ranges (eg 6667-7000).
* Improved DCC blocking (like dcc to channels)
* Made some numerics more clear by including the channelname (+V/+O/+A)
