ergochat/ergo v1.0.0-rc1

v1.0.0-rc1 - Almost ready!

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Our v1.0.0 is finally here! Well, almost. The final v1.0.0 should be released in a week or two, after our last bits of testing is complete and the documentation has been double and triple-checked. This version rounds out most of our need-to-haves, and leaves us with a bunch of nice-to-haves that we'll be looking at going forward. Thanks to all of our amazing translators and contributors for the work they've done this release (we'll have a proper thanks section when v1.0.0 drops).

Highlights include:

• Support for storing and replaying message history with: the draft/resume-0.3 capability, the CHATHISTORY command, and a custom HISTORY command.
• Better detection of confusing nick/account/channel names.
• User-customizable nickname protection methods.
• An account-only mode in which all clients must have an account and login to it (using SASL) before they can join the server.

Config Changes

• allow-custom-enforcement key added under accounts.
• allow-plaintext-resume key added under server.
• history section added.
• identlen key added under limits.
• login-throttling section added under accounts.
• method key now under accounts now allows the value "optional".
• Logging type server has been added, replacing the startup, rehash, and shutdown types.
• We no longer listen on port 6668 by default (this fixes Docker installs).
• The default logging configuration now logs to stderr only, rather than to both stderr and a file.
• max-channels-per-client key added under channels (limiting the number of channels that can be joined).
• max-channels-per-account key added under channels.registration (limiting the number of channels that can be registered).
• Exemption lists now accept localhost as a value, meaning any loopback IPV4, loopback IPV6, or unix domain address.

Security

• Added a SASL-only mode in which all clients must authenticate with SASL.
• Added login throttling as a hardening measure against password guessing.
• Configurable limits are imposed on how many channels clients can join or register.

Added

• Added automagic datastore creation on oragono run.
• Added limited message history for connection resuming (to be extended in future).
• Added new Español (es) translation (thanks to Mauropek!)).
• Added new Polski (pl) translation (thanks to Sebastian Korotkiewicz (modinfi)!)).
• Added new Română (ro) translation (thanks to Bogdan Mințoi!)).
• Added new Ελληνικά (el) translation (thanks to Nicholas Kyriakides (Shillos)!)).
• Added new 简体中文 (zh-CN) translation (thanks to Tony Chen and Remini!)).
• Added new subcommands to NICKSERV, including:
  • PASSWD to change account passwords.
  • ENFORCE to set a specific enforcement mechanism on your nick.
  • SAREGISTER to allow operators to manually create new user accounts.
• Added Unicode confusable detection and prevention when changing nicknames and registering accounts.
• Added proposed IRCv3 capability draft/setname.

Changed

• SASL PLAIN logins now log more correctly.
• Database upgrade failures now provide information about the error that occurred.
• Idents (sometimes called "usernames") are now restricted to ASCII, similar to other servers.
• In addition to the founder, now auto-ops (halfop and higher) automatically bypass channel join restrictions.
• Log lines now display time down to milliseconds, instead of just seconds.
• Updated all translation files (thanks to our amazing translators!).
• Updated proposed IRCv3 capability to version draft/resume-0.3.
• When nick ownership is enabled, users can now select which enforcement mechanism to use with their nickname.
• Improved compatibility with ZNC's nickserv module.
• Halfops can now kick unprivileged users.

Removed

Fixed

• oragono.io/maxline capability was accidentally disabled, now re-enabled.
• INVITE: Fixed bug where invited users could not join the channel they were invited to.
• PRIVMSG: Messages sent to multiple clients (such as channel messages) now share the same timestamp (previously each client got a very slightly different time).
• WHOIS: Now responds properly for NickServ, ChanServ, etc.
• Channel names with right-to-left characters are now casefolded correctly.
• Fixed incorrect rejection of nickmasks with Unicode RTL nicknames.
• Fixed nickname sync issue which could cause clients to fail to see each other.
• Invalid ISUPPORT tokens are now explicitly rejected.
• Made server-time timestamp format more consistent and safer.
• Oragono now exits with status (1) if it fails to start.
• Prevent logging in multiple times when using /NS IDENTIFY.
• Prevented the db handler from automagically creating the database without initializing it (thanks @enckse!). We also now automatically create the datastore on run.
• Updated internal command line parsing (thanks @iNecas!).
• oragono genpasswd now works when piping input in (fixes Docker installs).
• Fixed handling of CIDR width in connection limiting/throttling.
• Fixed many responses that violated the specifications (thanks to Ascrod, bogdomania, csmith, jesopo, jwheare).
• Fixed incorrect behavior of CHANSERV OP command.

Internal Notes

• DLINE and KLINE refactored, and expired bans are now removed from the database.
• Logging system optimised.
• Services handlers refactored.
• Translations are now sent to/PR'd from CrowdIn automagically as we develop the software.
• Direct responses to client commands are now sent "synchronously", bypassing the sendq.