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This is the current version of the 'stable' tree of ircd-ratbox.

If you are upgrading from 2.1, you must read doc/whats-new-2.2.txt
If you are upgrading from 2.0, you must also read doc/whats-new-2.1.txt
If you are upgrading from 1.x, you must also read doc/whats-new-2.0.txt

-- ircd-ratbox-2.2.6
- upstream adns fix for when tcp connections fail immediately
- minor memleak fix when rehashing helpfiles etc
- fix a potential DoS that could result in resource starvation

-- ircd-ratbox-2.2.5
- fix bug with connect {}; blocks and empty classnames
- disable allowing permanent klines to be set over temporary klines, as it
  did not sufficiently check there was also a permanent kline
- alter TS6 logic slightly on channel joins to help avoid desyncs when
  a mode is crossing the network in the opposite direction to a JOIN
- support for receiving and propagating SAVE for future FNC support
- fix wildcard-to-cidr code slightly
- fix for kqueue potentially losing updates when it is under high load
- fix leaking of spoofed ips on +f notices
- fix invisible count being off when people oper up with a default +i umode
- fix /who on channels with ** in their name
- when using --enable-services, hide channels a service is in
- alter KICK logic to avoid leaking UIDs when we receive a kick with no
  reason
- make anti-nickflood code nicer so it avoids trapping users in a situation
  where everytime they attempt to change nick, it just makes the
  anti-nickflood apply worse
- minor bugfix to WEBIRC

-- ircd-ratbox-2.2.4
- Add m_webirc module to contrib, allows showing real host of CGI:IRC users.
- send RPL_WHOISLOGGEDIN (330) in TS6 form if appropriate
- minor conf/documentation updates
- when finding a member of a channel, choose the shorter of the
  users/channels list to search
- count escaped wildcards characters as non-wildcards
- remove the cached storage of how many +beI there are, thereby fixing a
  case where it can get desynced from reality
- improve xline \s code slightly

-- ircd-ratbox-2.2.3
- fix select() IO code
- allow servers to send to @#channel and +#channel
- dont issue ERR_USERNOTINCHANNEL to remote users for modes
- fix ban cache applying after an sjoin has cleared the ban list
- fix minor issue rebuilding JOIN list

-- ircd-ratbox-2.2.2
- fix compile problem in servlink/ on some platforms
- remove double */ in example confs
- fix to allow channel +b 127.0.0.1 to be masked properly
- configure had the wrong default topiclen
- dont allow topic bursts to clear topics
- fix epoll issues when specifying it with --enable-epoll
- various cleanups to the example confs
- dont pace /list on a single channel
- fix "Lost connection" showing the error number instead of the string, and
  for servers output it to +s and server.log instead of +d and iodebug.log
- fix poll() to not be slow
- handle conf files that arent terminated in unix format better
- fix CPRIVMSG/CNOTICE to end the grace period

-- ircd-ratbox-2.2.1
- remove support for resolving ip6.int, people should be using .arpa
- minor compile fixes for solaris
- fix core in client capabilities
- fix user triggerable memleak

-- ircd-ratbox-2.2.0
- fix core with stats e
- sort user /quote help index properly

-- ircd-ratbox-2.2.0rc3
- respect chanmode +e in /knock
- fix some solaris /dev/poll stuff
- more logic fixes for match_esc()
- fix some minor issues with a global who occasionally skipping clients
- make /who return ERR_TOOMANYMATCHES when its limits reached
- fix RSFNC to also collide unknown users

-- ircd-ratbox-2.2.0rc2
- Fix compilation of contrib/
- Fix cores with unknown servers
- TESTMASK has been extended to take a gecos field, and match against CIDR
  ip masks.
- New operspy capable MASKTRACE command, works like testmask except actually
  lists those clients that match.
- Fix listener name for wildcard binds.
- Update some help files
- Fix a core in challenge.
- Rewrite the logic for match_esc() used by xlines, so that '@' doesnt match
  a literal '@' etc.
- Properly exit when we receive SIGTERM.
- Add some more log entries for when we drop new server connections.

-- ircd-ratbox-2.2.0rc1
- A large number of memory usage related cleanups which should cut memory
  usage by a noticable amount.
- CPU optimisations for the iline/kline/dline hash.
- Removed rate limiting of /away.
- Extend TESTMASK to take [nick!]user@host matches.
- New TESTMASKGECOS command, a TESTMASK for a gecos match.
- Hardcode hiding servers IPs.
- HIDE_SPOOF_IPS is now hide_spoof_ips = yes|no; in general {};
- New CHANTRACE command, an ETRACE for a channel.
- Mangle klines for user@1.2.3.* to user@1.2.3.0/24 etc.
- Improved installation documentation.
- Fix a potential core in kills from a server
- Various fixes when setting bans (klines etc) which help prevent overriding
  minimum wildcard limits
- Output from ircd -conftest is now more streamlined, and will use proper
  exit codes
- Fix bug where temporary nick resvs had a 60x longer duration than
  requested.
- Add rtsigio back in, an IO subsystem for linux, particularly 2.4 users who
  do not have epoll.
- Rewrote the CHALLENGE system.  The respond utils are now in their own tree
  and there is a native windows port.  See http://respond.ircd-ratbox.org
- Speed improvements to poll()
- configure option --with-maxclients is gone, maximum number of clients is
  now done via the /quote set option, with an upper bound of what the shell
  tells us our fd limit is.

  You can set the default set option maxclients via serverinfo {};
  default_max_clients = number;
- ERROR had somehow been lost from loading.
- Improved logging in situations where we disallow a servers link.

$Id: RELNOTES 23957 2007-05-14 17:25:22Z leeh $