UnrealIRCd 5.0.0-alpha3 released

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

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Hi everyone,

The third alpha version of UnrealIRCd 5 is now available for download.
This is not a stable version, it is for testing only and the server may
misbehave. Some planned functionality for UnrealIRCd 5 is still missing,
but about 90% is there. UnrealIRCd 5 alpha versions are there to give
users an early opportunity to see what the current state of UnrealIRCd 5
is. For those users who do dare to run it, feel free to report any
issues you may find or comment on the many U5 features on
https://bugs.unrealircd.org/.

Changes between 5.0.0-alpha2 and 5.0.0-alpha3

  * Lots of code cleanups again and things that break modules
  * To protect against evading spamfilters, spamfilter now strips UTF8
    nonbreakable spaces from input.
  * ./Config asks fewer questions (this was already in alpha2) and the
    configure process is faster, since we assume you are using a modern
    OS now.
  * The floodprot module was kicking innocent users if 't' (text flood)
    was in use without 'r' (repeat)
  * New set::min-nick-length to set a minimum nick length
  * New set::require-module to require certain module(s) on linked
    UnrealIRCd 5 servers
  * Conditional configuration was not working properly
  * WATCH was not working because the numeric output was wrong, same
    with ADMIN.
  * Ban exceptions (ELINE) were not stored properly in tkl.db
  * We are also in the process of removing compatibility code for old
    protocols, such as UnrealIRCd 3.2.x. This will further clean up the
    source code and will get rid of old bugs

Most people will only want to read the release notes rather than run or
even test this version. That's perfectly fine. The release notes are
available at https://forums.unrealircd.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8919

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Bram Matthys
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