Version 1.7.19 (revision 1247)
This new release of Anope contains various bugfixes and adds support for
InspIRCd 1.1. Various minor issues in the new MySQL code have been fixed
and overall stability of the MySQL code has improved.
The behaviour of the UsePrivmsg and NSDefMsg configuration options has
changed and anyone using those options is advised to take a look at the
comments near that options in the updated example.conf.
Take a look at the change log for more information about the various bugs
fixed in this release.
the owner of all installed files is a non-root user. This change
affects most packages that require special users or groups by making
them use the specified unprivileged user and group instead.
(1) Add two new variables PKG_GROUPS_VARS and PKG_USERS_VARS to
unprivileged.mk. These two variables are lists of other bmake
variables that define package-specific users and groups. Packages
that have user-settable variables for users and groups, e.g. apache
and APACHE_{USER,GROUP}, courier-mta and COURIER_{USER,GROUP},
etc., should list these variables in PKG_USERS_VARS and PKG_GROUPS_VARS
so that unprivileged.mk can know to set them to ${UNPRIVILEGED_USER}
and ${UNPRIVILEGED_GROUP}.
(2) Modify packages to use PKG_GROUPS_VARS and PKG_USERS_VARS.
Since the previous release, we have been working on the
MySQL subsytem to improve stability and security of this code. Next to
that, we have added support for encryption modules, finally including
support for encrypting passwords with proper MD5 or SHA1.
Next to these two major improvements there are quite a few bugs fixed,
including bugs related to module code, internal events, various typo's
in the language files, and some IRCd-related issues.
Please note that, due to the big changes, this release might not be
as stable as previous development releases. The new MySQL and encryption
code have been found stable enough to release to the public, but they
might still have undiscovered quirks.
Be sure to check Changes.conf for encryption-related changes to the
configuration file. Users of MySQL should also note that the MySQL
scheme has been changed in this release and needs to be updated. This
can be done using the updates in Changes.mysql.
