------------------------ What's new in Hybrid 7.2 ------------------------ =================== supported platforms =================== - We now support a completely new platform, Tru64 UNIX. It now configures and builds right out of the box. Thanks to HP's TestDrive program for their public access Tru64 boxen. - We have mostly revamped the Windows Cygwin port, mostly thanks to some awesome sleuth and compile work from James LaPlant. - The IRIX port has been brought up to date. Thanks to Mark Laws for access to a fine Indigo2. - The HPUX port has been retested and minor warnings have been fixed. Thanks Yusuf for testing. - Other than those, the platforms we 'support' in README.FIRST are all still actively supported. - Basic support for building ircd-hybrid through Microsoft Visual C has been added as well. Please review the files in contrib/ and the README. =================== configure and build =================== - The configure script has been massively revamped, and all of the Makefiles have undergone serious spring cleaning. - Most noticeable is that we generate make dependencies on the fly now. This requires you to have some sort of program that does this, which we detect; currently supported are X11 makedepend, mkdep, cc -xM if using Sun Workshop and falling back to cc -MM if none work. If your C compiler has options to generate make-style dependency info and you have none of the other programs, send a note to joshk@triplehelix.org. - We now support an --enable-clobber option so that binaries are not moved to $NAME.old when making install if they already exist. This does not apply to modules as a running ircd could core if the loaded modules are moved and then unloaded. If you forget this when configuring, use make CLOBBER=yes install; depending on your variety of make, this may or may not work. - It is now possible to build the contrib modules into your statically linked ircd. ==================== internationalization ==================== - We now use our own .lang files to provide translated numeric messages. See doc/messages.txt for information on how to use it and how to write your own. ================== networking support ================== - IPv6 support is now automatically enabled/disabled depending on whether your kernel supports it or not and can co-exist peacefully with IPv4. - Cryptlinks now use Nagle's TCP_NODELAY algorithm to save overhead and is hence, more stable. (Previously only used with ziplinks). - Client SSL has now been added for users who wish to connect to ircd-hybrid with their SSL enabled client. Please review etc/example.conf for instructions on how to configure ircd-hybrid to listen for client SSL connections. ============= ircd features ============= - X-Line (gecos ban) support has been added. X-Lines are stored xline.conf just like K-Lines and D-Lines are stored in kline.conf and dline.conf, respectively. - RX-Lines have been added for people who wish to use Regular Expressions to issue gecos bans (RXLINE command). - RK-Lines have been added for people who wish to use Regular Expressions to issue K-Lines (RKLINE command). - Nick and channel RESVs are now stored in nresv.conf and cresv.conf, respectively. - Bill Bierman has written clustering support for IRC networks that wish to share a common list of resvs, klines, xlines, and locops. - New ACL G-lines can now be 'rejected' from being placed on the local server as well as 'blocked' from being propagated through the local server onto another server. Failures can also be logged for rejected and/or blocked glines. - Testmask feature allows you to count number of local and remote clients for a given hostmask. $Id: whats-new.txt 33 2005-10-02 20:50:00Z knight $