ChangeLog/1.7.0

← 1.6.6

ZNC 1.7.0

1.7.1 →

// TODO: cleanup this list, reorder, recategorize, fix grammar

New

• Add CMake build. Minimum supported CMake version is 3.1. For now ZNC can be built with either CMake or autoconf. In future autoconf is going to be removed.
  • Currently znc-buildmod requires python if CMake was used; if that's a concern for you, please open a bug.
• Increase minimum GCC version from 4.7 to 4.8. Minimum Clang version stays at 3.2.
• Make ZNC UI translateable to different languages, add partial Russian translation. If you want to translate ZNC to your language, great! Please say.
• Configs written before ZNC 0.206 can't be read anymore (#929)
• Implement IRCv3.2 capability echo-message on the "client side" (#950)
• Implement IRCv3.2 capabilities cap-notify, away-notify, account-notify, extended-join (#315) (#316)
• Update capability names as they are named in IRCv3.2: znc.in/server-time-iso→server-time, znc.in/batch→batch. Old names will continue working for a while, then will be removed in some future version.
• Make ZNC request server-time from server when available (#839)
• Increase accepted line length from 1024 to 2048 to give some space to message tags
• Separate buffer size settings for channels and queries (#967)
• Support separate SSLKeyFile and SSLDHParamFile configuration in addition to existing SSLCertFile (#1192)
• Add "AuthOnlyViaModule" global/user setting (#331)
• Added pyeval module
• Added stripcontrols module (#387)
• Add new substitutions to ExpandString: %empty% and %network%. (#1049) (#1139)
• Stop defaulting real name to "Got ZNC?" (#818)
• Added ClearAllBuffers command (#852)
• Don't require CSRF token for POSTs if the request uses HTTP Basic auth. (#946)
• Set HttpOnly and SameSite=strict for session cookies (#1077) (#1450)
• Add SNI SSL client support (#1200)
• Add support for CIDR notation in allowed hosts list and in trusted proxy list (#207) (#1219)
• Add network-specific config for cert validation in addition to user-supplied fingerprints: TrustAllCerts, defaults to false, and TrustPKI, defaults to true. (#866)
• Add /attach command for symmetry with /detach. Unlike /join it allows wildcards.
• Timestamp format now supports sub-second precision with %f. Used in awaystore, listsockets, log modules and buffer playback when client doesn't support server-time (#1455)
• Build on macOS using ICU, Python, and OpenSSL from Homebrew, if available (#894)

Fixes

• Revert tables to how they were in ZNC 1.4 (#914)
• Remove flawed Add/Del/List/BindHost(s). They didn't correctly do what they were supposed to do, but users often confused them with the SetBindHost option. SetBindHost still works. (#983)
• Fix disconnection issues when being behind NAT by decreasing the interval how often PING is sent and making it configurable via a setting to change ping timeout time (#979)
• Change default flood rates to match RFC1459, prevent excess flood problems (#1416) (#1418)
• Match channel names and hostmasks case-insensitively in autoattach, autocycle, autoop, autovoice, log, watch modules (#822)
• Fix crash in shell module which happens if client disconnects at a wrong time (#1248)
• Decrease CPU usage when joining channels during startup or reconnect, add config write delay setting (#1250)
• modperl: Fix reloading of module which couldn't be loaded before
• modperl: Explain modperl that ZNC uses UTF-8 internally
• Always send the users name in NOTICE when logging in. (#1282)
• Don't try to quit multiple times (#1392)
• Don't send PART to client which sent QUIT
• Send failed logins to NOTICE instead of PRIVMSG (#1472)
• Stop creating files with odd permissions on Solaris (#1492)
• Save channel key on JOIN even if user was not on the channel yet (#1223)
• Stop buffering and echoing CTCP requests and responses to other clients with self-message, except for /me (#1488)
• Support discovery of tcl 8.6 during ./configure

Modules

• adminlog: make path configurable (#1001)
• alias: add DUMP command to copy your config between users (#1114)
• awaystore: add -chans option which records channel highlights (#851)
• blockmotd: add GetMotd command (#783) (#1361)
• clearbufferonmsg: add options which events trigger clearation of buffers. (#825)
• controlpanel: add the DelServer command. (#810)
• controlpanel: add $user and $network aliases (#847)
• controlpanel: Allow reseting channel specific AutoClearChanBuffer and BufferSize settings by setting them to "-" (#990)
• controlpanel: Change "double" to "number" (#1468)
• crypt: cover notices, actions and topics (#813)
• crypt: Don't use the same or overlapping NickPrefix as StatusPrefix (#1377)
• crypt: Add DH1080 key exchange (#1378)
• crypt: Add Get/SetNickPrefix commands, Hide the internal keyword from ListKeys (#1382)
• crypt: fix build with LibreSSL (#1439)
• cyrusauth: improve UI
• fail2ban: make timeout and attempts configurable, add BAN, UNBAN and LIST commands (#534)
• flooddetach: detach on nick floods (#941)
• keepnick: improve behaviour by listening to ircd-side numeric errors (#945)
• log: Add -timestamp option (#978)
• log: Add options to hide joins, quits and nick changes. (#601)
• log: stop forcing username and network name to be lower case in filenames (#1171)
• log: Log user quit messages (#1395)
• missingmotd: Include nick in IRC numeric command, reduce client confusion (#1399)
• modperl: provide operator "" for ZNC::String
• modperl: Honor PERL5LIB env var
• modperl: fix functions like HasPerm() which accept char (#1486)
• modpython: Disable legacy encoding mode when modpython is loaded. (#1229)
• modpython: Add CQuery(s) and CServer(s) (#1436)
• modperl, modpython: support ValidateWebRequestCSRFCheck (#1424)
• nickserv: use /nickserv identify by default instead of /msg nickserv. (#786)
• nickserv: support messages from X3 services (#1322)
• notify_connect: Show client identification (#1195)
• sasl: add web interface (#910)
• sasl: enable all known mechanisms by default (#938)
• sasl: Make the first requirement for SET actually mandatory, return information about settings if no input for SET (#1338)
• schat: Require explicit path to certificate.
• simple_away: use ExpandString for away reason, rename old %s to %awaytime% (#1149)
• simple_away: Add MinClients option (#1133)
• stickychan: save registry on every stick/unstick action, auto-save if channel key changes (#881)
• stickychan: stop checking so often, increase delay to once every 3 minutes (#1333)
• webadmin: allow reseting chan buffer size by entering an empty value
• webadmin: make tables sortable. (#40)
• webadmin: Make server editor and CTCP replies editor more fancy, when JS is enabled (#145)
• webadmin: show per-network traffic info (#963)
• webadmin: make the traffic info page visible for non-admins, non-admins can see only their traffic (#1020)

Internal

• Stop pretending that ZNC ABI is stable, when it's not. Make module version checks more strict and prevent crashes when loading a module which are built for the wrong ZNC version. (#1353)
• Various HTML changes (#1308)
• Introduce a CMessage class and its subclasses (#506)
• Add module callbacks which accept CMessage, deprecate old callbacks
• Modernize code to use more C++11 features
• Various code cleanups
• Fix CSS of _default_ skin for Fingerprints section
• Add OnUserQuitMessage() module hook.
• Add OnPrivBufferStarting() and OnPrivBufferEnding() hooks (#1294)
• CString::WildCmp(): add an optional case-sensitivity argument
• Do not call OnAddUser() hook during ZNC startup (#929)
• Allow modules to override CSRF protection. (#1180)
• Rehash now reloads only global settings (#929)
• Remove CAP CLEAR
• CChan::GetNetwork()
• CUser: add API for removing and clearing allowed hosts
• CZNC: add missing SSL-related getters and setters
• Add a possibility (not an "option") to disable launch after --makeconf (#257)
• Add an integration test (#772)
• Move Unix signal processing to a dedicated thread.
• Add clang-format configuration, switch tabs to spaces.
• CString::StripControls(): Strip background colors when we reset foreground (#1261)
• Make chan modes and permissions to be char instead of unsigned char. (#1486)

• Remove --with-openssl=/path option from ./configure. SSL is still supported and is still configurable

Cosmetic

• autoconf/makefile: alphabetically sort the modules we compile (#1358)
• Alphabetically sort output of znc --help (#1367)
• Change output during startup (#1124)
• Show new server name when jumping server (#1147)
• Hide passwords in listservers output (#1320)
• Filter out ZNC passwords in output of `znc -D` (#1445)
• Make the user aware that debug mode is enabled. (#1446)
• Switch znc.in URLs to https