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Guys, this is important. We're a constant source of humor now...

-Josh

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: ircd-hybrid-7.1rc2 staged to
http://www.ircd-hybrid.org/.beta/oxpk99
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 22:48:45 -0400
From: Joan Sarah Touzet <joant@ieee.org>
Reply-To: IRCD-Hybrid Developers <coders@lists.ircd-hybrid.org>
To: IRCD-Hybrid Developers <coders@lists.ircd-hybrid.org>
References: <200505190204.j4J241x9010286@boost.blown.net>

Hey, we're releasing before Debian Sarge :D

-Joan

Thus spake Jonathan R. Lusky (lusky@boost.blown.net):

> http://www.ircd-hybrid.org/.beta/oxpk99/ircd-hybrid-7.1rc2.tgz
> 
> -- ircd-hybrid-7.1rc2
> o) Fixed build system to include ChangeLog
> o) Updated missing entries in 7.1rc1 RELNOTES (see below)
> o) Introduced new Fowler/Noll/Vo (FNV) hash algorithm
> o) Fixed half broken sigio support
> o) Allow users messaging themselves even if +g is set
> o) Fixed bug causing remote servers to cut off the last character of a 50char-gecos
> 
> 
> -- ircd-hybrid-7.1rc1 RELNOTES
> o) Added m_etrace.c and confgen.pl to contrib/
> o) Fixed serious nick TS bug which could have led to desyncs
> o) Various fixes and improvements to ircd's configuration scanner
> o) Fixed incorrect /INFO output
> o) Non-critical resolver bugs fixed
> o) Disallow '"' in kline and xline host/gecos
> o) Fixed statistics generation
> o) Fixed CIDR matchine
> o) Fixed idletime
> o) Fixed null kline reason for anti-idle kline
> o) Fixed TS6 compability with m_links, m_admin, etc
> o) Fixed bug which would allow clients in a certain state to flood the daemon
> 
> 
> -- ircd-hybrid-7.1beta1 RELNOTES
> o) TS6 support has been introduced, although it is still not to be
>    used on production networks.
> o) Halfops are no longer a configure option - if you prefer to use
>    them, you have to patch the source against contrib/halfops.diff;
>    anonops (+a) have been ripped out completely.
> o) A new, more effective hash algorithm (from ircu).
> o) Linebufs have been replaced with the new rewritten dbuf code;
>    noticeable performance improvements to the network I/O system.
> o) Major changes to the configure script.
> o) LIST extensions borrowed from undernet (SAFELIST, channel filtering -
>    see contrib/help/opers/list for more details).
> o) A native i18n support is provided instead of the former gettext,
>    which is no longer needed. Old message files have been updated
>    according to the new format, plus some new translations are available.
> o) removed virtual channels
> o) the user-channel membership handling has been entirely rewritten to
>    be more CPU friendly
> o) fixed a possible /CHALLENGE memory leak
> o) removed OpenVMS support
> o) CRYPT_OPER_PASSWORD is now runtime configurable via ircd.conf
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This is the current beta version of ircd-hybrid-7.1.
> 
> NOTE: This is still BETA code.  Run it at your own risk.  By running this
>  code you assume FULL responsibility for any problems it may cause.  We do
>  NOT recommend that you run BETA code on production IRC networks such
>  as EFnet.
> 
> BUGS: Major bugs in this release are listed in BUGS
> 
> BUG REPORTS: If you run this code and encounter problems, you must report
>  the bug in one of the following ways:
>   a) By EMAIL to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.  
>  Please include a gdb backtrace and a copy of your setup.h, defaults.h, and
>  ircd.conf with any report  (with passwords and other sensitive
>  information masked).
> 
> DISCUSSION: There is a mailing list for discussion of hybrid issues,
>  including betas.  To subscribe, use this link:
>     https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
>  This is the proper place to discuss new features, bugs, etc.  Posting here
>  is much more likely to get something done than ranting on #TZ.
> 
> TESTING: This code is under active development, and a lot changes from beta
>  to beta.  As the user of this code, we request that you help us test things
>  which have changed recently, and which would benefeit from being tested
>  much as possible.  The following are some things that have changed, and what
>  you can do to help us test them.
>      o) Mac OS X Modules
>         - Support for Darwin and Mac OS X style modules, through the
>           NSModule(3) interface has been added, and is designed to work as
>           loadable modules do on most UNIX systems.  Feeding it bad or
>           duplicate modules to find bugs would be appriciated.
> 
> 
> Questions/comments directed to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org
> 
> Please read doc/whats-new.txt for information about what is in this release
> 
> Other files recommended for reading: BUGS, README.FIRST, INSTALL
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> $Id: RELNOTES,v 1.83 2005/05/17 22:38:03 michael Exp $


-- 
Joshua Kwan

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