Novik/ruTorrent v5.3.20

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Security and privacy

• Directories are kept inside $topDirectory once symbolic links are
  followed, not only as written. A user who can create links in their own
  tree could previously point the Add Torrent base directory, a datadir move,
  the httprpc default directory, AutoTools' finished and watch directories,
  unpack's output directory or create's source at a link leading outside it,
  and rtorrent or the plugin then wrote, moved, extracted or hashed data
  there.
• The Add Torrent base directory is validated before anything reaches
  rtorrent: a value no filesystem can hold (a pasted URL or magnet link) is
  refused instead of loading a download that can never start, and a plain
  /name is read as a folder under the download area.
• External links decode special-scheme hosts before checking them, so RSS and
  lookat no longer store links whose encoded host the browser refuses.
• A task whose pid file reads as 1 is no longer killed as init's children.
• The log warns about PHP below 8.0 and rTorrent below 0.16.27, which
  carries a fix for a buffer overflow in parsing a DNS reply.

Fixes

• Torrent names and paths that are not UTF-8 keep their bytes: add-torrent
  notifications show them as \xNN instead of �, filesystem shell fallbacks
  quote them without depending on the locale (on 32-bit PHP a download over
  2 GiB next to such a name was sent with the wrong size), and three more
  basename() calls keep non-ASCII names on PHP 7.4, as does a non-ASCII move
  destination.
• Fast resume records the paths the daemon will load, including the
  name.utf-8/path.utf-8 aliases libtorrent 0.16.25 and later use, so a
  resumed torrent no longer stays inactive with no message.
• AutoTools uses the basename rtorrent wrote for a single-file torrent, and a
  download skipped by "Skip torrents that contain files matching the pattern"
  stays pointed at its data.
• A private torrent's info hash is no longer randomized when adding it.
• Malformed httprpc list responses are reported and refused before they reach
  the torrent list, which previously stopped updating until a reload.
• The ratio plugin sets group limits through group2.* on 0.9.4 up to 0.15,
  where some patched 0.9.8 builds define only that, instead of failing to
  start and leaving rtorrent's built-in limits in force.
• extsearch sizes its results to the layout.

Translations

• The first line of the Log tab is translated.
• The new log warnings are translated in every language file.

Tests

Shared helpers for byte-preserving display and shell quoting, and display
names taken from a torrent's own metadata, land ahead of their callers. rTorrent
probe fixtures are cleaned up after a failed setup.

What's Changed

• Fix/add directory validation by @xirvik in #3469
• Set ratio group limits through group2 below 0.15 by @xirvik in #3472
• Warn in the log about an outdated PHP or rTorrent by @xirvik in #3473
• Size the extsearch results by the layout by @xirvik in #3479
• autotools: use the actual single-file basename by @IvanShift in #3475
• Warn about rTorrent releases before 0.16.27 by @xirvik in #3481
• Keep a non-ASCII move destination on PHP 7.4 by @xirvik in #3480
• Add helpers for byte-preserving text display and shell quoting by @IvanShift in #3476
• rtorrent: keep fast resume to the paths the daemon will load by @IvanShift in #3477
• _task: refuse pid 1 when killing a task by @IvanShift in #3478
• autotools: keep a skipped Move pointed at its data by @IvanShift in #3482
• Tests: clean up rTorrent probe fixtures after setup failures by @IvanShift in #3463
• ExternalURL: validate decoded special-scheme hosts by @IvanShift in #3464
• Add display names for torrents from their own metadata by @IvanShift in #3483
• Keep non-ASCII names on PHP 7.4 in three more basename() calls by @IvanShift in #3484
• Keep datadir moves inside the top directory through links by @xirvik in #3488
• Httprpc: validate list deltas before changing the cache by @IvanShift in #3466
• webui: translate the first line of the Log tab by @Heliedan in #3468
• addtorrent: don't randomize the info hash of a private torrent by @Heliedan in #3467
• Keep plugin directories inside the top directory through links by @xirvik in #3489
• Show legacy filename bytes in add torrent notifications by @IvanShift in #3485
• Preserve filename bytes in filesystem shell fallbacks by @IvanShift in #3486
• Bump version to 5.3.20 by @xirvik in #3490

Full Changelog: v5.3.19...v.5.20