Re: [Unreal-users] Unreal3.4-alpha1 & Unreal3.2.10.4 released, help us, move to GitHub, ..

[Bram M. <sy...@vu...>]

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To anyone using GitHub: the address has changed.
It's http://www.github.com/unrealircd/unrealircd now.
(rather than unreal-ircd)


Bram Matthys wrote, on 29-7-2014 13:44:
> Hi all,
> 
> There has been a lot of activity on the UnrealIRCd project past few months!
> 
> Index
> ======
> * UnrealIRCd 15 years!
> * New website
> * Survey results
> * Help us with development
> * UnrealIRCd 3.4
> * UnrealIRCd 3.2
> * Move to GitHub
> * GitHub/Twitter account
> * Finally
> 
> UnrealIRCd 15 years!
> =====================
> In May of this year UnrealIRCd celebrated its 15th birthday.
> See http://forums.unrealircd.com/viewtopic.php?t=8271 where I thanked all
> past coders, contributors and the community (you!) for all the support.
> In the same article I also wrote about the past and future development of
> UnrealIRCd, openly speaking about the difficulties we have encountered and
> the challenges in moving forward.
> 
> New website
> ============
> On UnrealIRCd's 15th birthday www.unrealircd.com got a new design as well.
> The new website is easier to navigate and just looks a lot more 'clean'.
> Thank n0kS for all the work on this.
> 
> Survey results
> ===============
> I've made a document summarizing the results of the UnrealIRCd survey. In
> total 342 people completed the survey, (almost) all of them were admins
> running UnrealIRCd. Thanks *a lot*! This was really useful. The survey
> results are (already) used to guide future 3.4.x development.
> In general people are really satisfied with UnrealIRCd (49% even gave us a 9
> or 10 out of 10), but we can always do better and we got many suggestions.
> The UnrealIRCd survey results are available from:
> http://www.unrealircd.com/files/UnrealIRCd%20Survey%20results.pdf
> (apologies in advance for the lack of fancy graphics)
> 
> Help us with development
> =========================
> I welcome Travis McArthur (Heero) who recently joined as an UnrealIRCd 3.4.x
> developer. Travis has already worked on channel mode +d, improving the
> module API and modularizing modes and is - besides many other things -
> working on documenting the 3.4 Module API to make the source code more
> understandable for new (module) coders.
> 
> If you are a C programmer and interested in helping out with 3.4.x
> development then send an e-mail to sy...@un... and we can discuss.
> Even if it's just for the summer vacation you're more than welcome to help.
> 
> UnrealIRCd 3.4
> ===============
> This weekend I released the first alpha version of UnrealIRCd 3.4:
> 3.4-alpha1. Although 3.4 development started well over a year ago, this
> version marks the beginning of the alpha series: we plan to release an alpha
> version every month or so, the exact release schedule depends highly on the
> changes and bugs we encounter.
> Since this is an alpha version, and in fact the very first one, we strongly
> discourage you to run 3.4-alpha1 on a production network.
> However, if you are curious and want to help us by testing and reporting
> bugs at http://bugs.unrealircd.org/ then please go ahead and download it.
> Just don't be (too) surprised by the bugs you will encounter and if it
> crashes from time to time.
> 
> Major enhancements in 3.4-alpha1 compared to 3.2.x are:
> * We moved a lot of channel and user modes to modules, while at the same
> time improving the module system as a whole. This means A) You can now
> easily choose not to load a particular feature if you don't like it (we will
> be moving more in next few versions!), B) It makes it easier for coders to
> see all source code related to a specific feature, C) Enables you to fix /
> "patch" something and reload (the module) rather than needing to restart the
> entire IRCd.
> * The I/O engine has been rewritten. This makes the IRCd feel a lot more
> 'responsive' and can potentially accept a lot more users. Still, the entire
> system is not as stable as 3.2.x yet.
> * The SSL version of the IRCd will now boot even if you have no SSL
> certificates. Naturally SSL won't work then, but this means you can safely
> compile with SSL support even if you don't intend to use it straight away.
> This also means for 3.4.x we only provide the SSL version of Windows
> downloads, if you insist on not using SSL then simply don't make a
> server.*.pem certificate.
> * A new channel mode +d which hides joins/parts for users who don't say
> anything in a channel. Whenever a user speaks for the first time they will
> appear to join. Channel ops will still see everyone joining normally as if
> there was no +d set.
> * Behind-the-scenes: A lot of source code cleanups, enhancements, memory
> pooling, simplifying the code, all to make the source better and also more
> readable for (new) developers. This should make it easier for the community
> to contribute patches.
> * There have been some configuration changes, Unreal 3.4 will not boot with
> your existing 3.2.x unrealircd.conf! Be sure to read the section
> CONFIGURATION CHANGES in the Release Notes. In later alpha versions more
> configuration changes may be necessary.
> 
> This first alpha version contains by no means all of the changes and
> features we would like to see in the final version of UnrealIRCd 3.4. There
> will be many major changes to come.
> 
> UnrealIRCd 3.2
> ===============
> I forgot to send out an announcement to this mailing list for 3.2.10.3 which
> was released on the 31st of May.
> 3.2.10.3 has the following bugs fixed:
> * Crash when SASL is enabled and ping-cookie is disabled (a rare combination)
> * Compile issue with remote include
> * OS X compile problems
> * ./unreal backtrace not always working well
> Two days ago I released another update: 3.2.10.4. This fixes the following
> two major issues:
> * Compile problems with clang, which is the default compiler on a number of
> systems nowadays.
> * Newer services like anope 2.0 allow you to log in by account name, this
> means you don't necessarily get user mode +r (registered nick). Previously
> even if you logged in to anope you could still not join +R channels
> ("registered only") or speak in +M channels ("only registered users may
> speak"). Now this has been fixed.
> 
> In addition to these two issues, the OpenSSL/curl/.. libraries for the
> Windows build have also been updated to the latest versions. Plus an update
> to the shipped curl-ca-bundle.crt, which now contains the latest certificates.
> 
> If you are not encountering any of the issues from above then there's little
> reason to upgrade from 3.2.10.2 or 3.2.10.3.
> 
> Move to GitHub
> ===============
> To give UnrealIRCd development more exposure and make it easier for people
> to contribute we decided to move our source code over to GitHub. This was
> actually one of the suggestions that came out of the UnrealIRCd survey.
> This means from now on the Mercurial repository is no longer functional.
> See this FAQ item http://www.unrealircd.com/faq.php#82 for more information
> on how to access the 'bleeding edge' source code.
> Or go directly to our GitHub page on
> https://github.com/unreal-ircd/unrealircd
> 
> Note that the bug tracker, downloads, and all the rest of the project will
> stay at www.unrealircd.com. It is only our repository (source code) which
> moved to GitHub.
> 
> GitHub/Twitter account
> =======================
> We are searching for the owner of the 'unrealircd' account on GitHub, and
> similarly the owner of @unrealircd on Twitter. We already sent a message to
> both accounts but received no response.
> Presumably these accounts were registered in advance with good intentions,
> ensuring nobody else could take them, as a placeholder until the project
> needs it.
> That moment is now, if you are the owner of one of these accounts (or know
> who is) then please contact sy...@un...
> 
> Finally
> ========
> I'm really glad to see all the activity on the UnrealIRCd project as a whole
> and on 3.4.x in particular. I hope more people will jump in to help out,
> either as a developer or simply by testing the 3.4.x releases and reporting
> bugs or giving suggestions.
> Since there's a lot more activity now, especially on 3.4.x, this newsletter
> and release announcements is likely to be sent out more often than before. I
> hope everyone sees this as a positive sign, but if not then you can always
> unsubscribe.
> 
> Finally, as always..
> * You can download UnrealIRCd from www.unrealircd.com - Downloads
> * All our releases are signed with our release key 0x9FF03937
> * Thanks everyone for their continued support!
> 
> 

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Bram Matthys
Software developer/IT consultant        sy...@vu...
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