UnrealIRCd 5.0.0-beta1 released

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

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Hi everyone,

After four 5.0.0 alpha versions we can now release the first beta. The
fact that UnrealIRCd 5 is in "beta" means it's mostly feature-complete
but not yet suitable for production servers.
Now it's time to test things thoroughly and get rid of bugs. For those
users who do dare to run it, feel free to report any issues on
https://bugs.unrealircd.org/.

The full release notes are available here
<https://github.com/unrealircd/unrealircd/blob/078c6696af4fbc22ebdd7415f038da2cfef7b46c/doc/RELEASE-NOTES.md#unrealircd-500-beta1-release-notes>.

Changes between 5.0.0-alpha4 and 5.0.0-beta1

  * New module manager <https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Module_manager>
    (./unrealircd module) to list, install, upgrade, uninstall third
    party modules. Third party module coders can submit
    <https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Rules_for_3rd_party_modules_in_unrealircd-contrib>
    their UnrealIRCd 5 module. Currently it only contains 1 dummy module.
  * Lots of old code for linking with UnrealIRCd 3.2.x has been removed.
  * Again, lot of restructuring in the code. Now that we are beta this
    should be much less, though.
  * New command "./unrealircd configtest" which only tests the
    configuration but does not start the server. Ideal when upgrading to
    check the configuration before you kill the old server.
  * We no longer use a blacklist for stats (set::oper-only-stats) but
    have a whitelist now instead (set::allow-user-stats).
  * Various bug- and crashfixes, such as when unloading modules, idle
    time being incorrect, SETNAME not working, REHASH issues, etc.
  * WARNING: if you are using anope, then note that starting with
    5.0.0-alpha4 you need to apply the following patch:
    https://github.com/anope/anope/commit/da6e2730c259d6d6356a0a948e85730ae34663ab.patch

As always, you can download UnrealIRCd from https://www.unrealircd.org/

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