ergochat/ergo v1.1.0-rc1

v1.1.0-rc1 - almost ready!

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We're pleased to be publishing the release candidate for 1.1.0 (the official release should follow in a week or two, with more complete credits). This version has a number of exciting improvements, including:

• Simplified commands for registering new accounts with NickServ.
• Support for IP cloaking.
• Support for attaching multiple clients to the same nickname.
• Support for the newly ratified message tags and message ID IRCv3 specifications; client developers are invited to use Oragono as a reference when implementing these specifications.
• Support for running Oragono as a Tor hidden service.

This release includes a database change. If you have datastore.autoupgrade set to true in your configuration, it will be automatically applied when you restart Oragono; otherwise, you can update the database manually by running oragono upgradedb.

Config changes

• tor-listeners section added for configuring listeners for use with Tor.
• compatibility section added for toggling compatibility behaviors for legacy clients.
• ip-cloaking section added for configuring cloaking.
• bouncer section added for configuring bouncer-like features (in particular, whether multiple clients can use the same nickname).
• check-ident now defaults to false.
• nick-reservation.method now defaults to "strict".
• fakelag.enabled now defaults to true
• limits.linelen.tags removed due to ratification of the message-tags spec, which fixes the maximum tags length at 8191 bytes.
• limits.registration-messages added to restrict how many messages a user can send to the server during connection registration (while connecting to the server).
• channels.operator-only-creation added to optionally restrict creation of new channels to ircops (#537).

Security

• Users can no longer impersonate network services like ChanServ by using confusing nicks like "ChɑnServ" (#519, thanks @csmith!).
• Secret channels (mode +s) now act more secret (#380, thanks @csmith!).
• The +R (registered-only) mode now prevents unregistered users from joining the channel, not just from speaking (#463, thanks @bogdomania!).
• Limited how many messages clients can send during connection registration to mitigate potential DoS attacks (#505).
• Attempting to reauthenticate with SASL now fails with 907 ERR_SASLALREADY (#476).

Fixed

• Fixed /ISON command reporting users as always being online (#479).
• Fixed clients who negotiated CAP version 302 or higher not receiving cap-notify messages (#464).
• We now treat channel privileges such as halfop more consistently (#400).
• Fixed a bug where clients could receive message tags they hadn't enabled (#434).
• When replaying history, messages now have more consistent IDs and timestamps
• IDs and timestamps are now applied more consistently to messages (#388, #477, #483).
• Client-to-client tags are now stored and replayed in message history (#437).
• Fixed various error numerics that were being sent with incorrect parameters (#425, thanks @Ascrod!).
• Fixed STATUSMSG not adding the correct prefix to the channel when relaying the message (#467).
• Fixed /RENAME command not correctly renaming the channel for some users (#300, thanks @jesopo!).
• History playback is now batched when applicable (#456, thanks @transitracer!).
• Notices from NickServ/ChanServ/etc should display better in some clients (#496, thanks @jwheare!).
• Fixed nickname timer warnings not displaying correctly sometimes (#449, thanks @bogdomania!).
• When history playback is disabled, the /HISTORY command now says so instead of silently failing (#429, thanks @bogdomania!).
• The /HOSTSERV ON/OFF commands now tell you when you don't have a vhost (#404, thanks @bogdomania!).
• When operators use the /SANICK command, the snomask now says which operator did it instead of saying the target changed their nickname themselves (#360, thanks @bogdomania!).
• History playback now includes messages that the user sent themselves (especially useful with the new bouncer-like capabilities) (#487).

Added

• IP cloaking is now supported (see the manual for details) (#108).
• Users can now attach multiple clients to the same nickname (see the manual for details) (#403).
• Oragono can now be used as a Tor hidden service (see the manual for details) (#369).
• The znc.in/playback capability is now supported, which can automate history playback for clients that support it (#486).
• User preference system controlling various behaviors (/msg NickServ help set for details) (#466).
• Support for the draft/event-playback spec (#457).
• The TAGMSG and NICK messages are now replayable in history (#457).
• Added the draft IRCv3 SETNAME command for changing your realname (#372).

Changed

• Registering an account with NickServ is now /msg NickServ register <password>, which registers the current nickname as an account, matching other services (#410).
• Added a compatibility hack to make SASL work with ZNC 1.6.x (#261).
• We now support the ratified message-tags spec, replacing draft/message-tags-0.2.
• We now support the ratified message IDs spec, replacing draft/msgid.
• The oragono.io/maxline-2 capability has replaced oragono.io/maxline, the new version now working alongside the ratified message-tags spec (#433).
• We now support draft/resume-0.5 and the associated BRB command, replacing draft/resume-0.3.
• Upgraded support for the /RENAME command to the latest draft of the specification.
• Upgraded support for the /ACC command to the latest draft of the specification (#453, #455).
• Removed the +a away mode as no other servers use it (#468, thanks @jesopo and @jwheare!).
• Forcing trailing parameters for legacy compatibility can now be disabled in config (#479).
• autoreplay-on-join no longer replays JOIN and PART lines by default (#474, thanks @amyspark!).
• snomasks are no longer sent for unregistered clients (#362, thanks @bogdomania!).
• WHOIS responses no longer include the 690 RPL_WHOISLANGUAGE numeric, as it doesn't show anything useful to other users (#516).
• ISON now reports services (ChanServ/NickServ/etc) as online (#488).
• All times are now reported in UTC (#480).
• NICKSERV ENFORCE is deprecated in favor of the new NICKSERV SET ENFORCE (the old syntax is still available as an alias).
• The WHO command is now treated like PONG in that it doesn't count as user activity, since client software often uses it automatically (#485).
• The NAMES command now only returns results for the first given channel (#534).

Internal Notes

• Building Oragono is now easier (#409).
• Official builds now use Go 1.12 (#406).
• Our message building and parsing code is slightly faster now (#387).
• Added the oragono.io/nope capability to encourage clients to request capabilities safely (#511).
• Made some previously untranslatable strings translatable (#407).
• Fixed portability issues with 32-bit architectures (#527).