ergochat/ergo v0.10.0

Updates, Fixes, and More!

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There has been a bunch of new changes in this release! From sts being ratified to supporting WEBIRC to rewriting a whole lot of our internals, 0.10.0 represents a real step forward in terms of where Oragono's going.

In addition to the new features, this issue fixes a bunch of fairly large bugs (such as an errant INVITE being able to crash the server, the +mRchannel modes not working at all, and making rehashing safer).

I'd like to thank @slingamn for really contributing a lot in this release! He's done a whole bunch of the internal work, cleaned up the code, and in general just been a great help while developing. Running Oragono on an actual network has really helped find and track down some serious bugs, and lead us to some much-needed improvements.

Config Changes

• motd-formatting key added under server, which supports MOTD formatting characters.
• rest-api section removed from server (since we no longer support the Rest API).
• webirc section added under server, which specifies the gateways can use the WEBIRC command.
• ws-listen key removed from server (since we no longer support websocket ports).
• Connection limits and connection throttling has become more relaxed by default.

Security

• INVITE: Fixed a server crash when sending an invite for a channel that doesn't exist (thanks @josephbisch for telling me about the bug!).

Added

• Added support for the WEBIRC command, allowing gateways to connect.
• We now list XLINEs with DLINE LIST and KLINE LIST.
• We now support using escaped formatting codes in the MOTD (tl;dr easy colors, bold and italics).

Changed

• D-LINE and K-LINE code is now cleaner under the hood and less likely to crash.
• Ident (looking up usernames) now times out a whole lot quicker, meaning you connect to the server more quickly.
• IRCv3 capability draft/sts has been renamed to sts, since it's now been ratified.
• Rehashing is now safer.
• Server opers could always speak on channels, even when they shouldn't be able to. Now they aren't above the law.

Removed

• Removed the draft/message-ids cap since... it doesn't actually exist. The feature is now enabled by default when clients request the draft/message-tags-0.2 capability, as written in the Message IDs spec.
• Removed websocket support (conflicted with existing larger IRCd's implementations and not used by any real clients).
• REST API has been removed, until we can build up the web interface in parallel with it.

Fixed

• AWAY was sending an incorrect mode string, and now sends the correct mode string (thanks @jwheare for pointing this out).
• Fixed some bugs with our MONITOR implementation which meant we weren't returning the right info to clients.
• The Moderated (+m) and RegisteredOnly (+R) channel modes could not be set. Now they can be set.