[Gccirc-announce]GCC.irc V0.29 is released

[Ground <gr...@in...>]

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Hello:
GCC 0.29 has been released you can grab it at:
http://gccirc.sourceforge.net/gcc-0.29.tar.gz
I have also attached the patch from 02.8 to this message.
IMPORTANT Don't try to upgrade to this version of gcc until you have
upgraded to a 2001 version of ircII
If you need to upgrade your version of ircII the homepage is:
http://www.eterna.com.au/ircii/news.html
I would suggest that you get ircII-current from the FTP server for best
results with this version.
The changelog for this version follows.  you can See complete version
history
 at:
http://gccirc.sourceforge.net/history.txt

Ground


Changelog from 0.28:
(V0.29) Thu Apr 12 11:30:30 EST 2001 ground/X
Changed all of the functions that write to files to use the new cat
command in later versions of ircII.  This breaks many older versions of
the client but these broken versions also contain security exploits that
can result in an outside user gaining access to your shell.  I'd just as
soon have these versions broken so ppl don't use them.  Another upside to
this fix is it removes a bunch of nasty calls to wait which are done
exactly how ircII help says not to.
Dropped the workaround fix for the channel leave bug in older versions of
ircII since those versions are now broken with this script.
Hopefully fixed some problems with the oplist getting truncated.
Fixed the pubcat command.  It has been broken for a long time with no
reports so I doubt any one uses it.
removed the 'cat' command that would display a file to your terminal to
make room for ircII's builtin cat command.  Use '/exec cat' to see a file.
XDCC autoget now defaults to off.  This is really a nasty security problem
and shouldn't be on unless the user knows what it does.
 Added some commands to quickly clear the op/shit lists.  This
might be handy if things start going very wrong in a channel.
Dropped a bunch of stupid war shit from the script.  None of the exploits
are of any use any more and they used on raw which must die. The commands
killed were: flash massflash nuke snuke nukeops dccbomb massnuke autonuke
Found out that the channel leave bug that I have been trying to fix for a
long time is a client bug.  When I upgraded to the latest ircII/current as
of 01/20/2001 the bug went away.  I am leaving the most recent attempted
fix in the script as it helps with older versions of the client and
doesn't seem to cause any problems with the newer version.
Set the exec bit on the gccinstall script so it will run by default out of
the tar.gz
Included a proper fix for the IRC OP versioning problem.  The first one
didn't work.  This one has had quite a bit more testing.


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