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 (only with CMake), add partial Russian translation. If you want to translate ZNC to your language, great! Please say. (#1237) (#1354) (#1462)
• Configs written before ZNC 0.206 can't be read anymore (#929)
• Implement IRCv3.2 capabilities away-notify, account-notify, extended-join (#315) (#316)
• Implement IRCv3.2 capabilities echo-message, cap-notify on the "client side" (#950)
• 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)
• Make the user aware that debug mode is enabled. (#1446)
• 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)
• Remove --with-openssl=/path option from ./configure. SSL is still supported and is still configurable

Fixes

• Revert tables to how they were in ZNC 1.4 (#914)
• Remove flawed Add/Del/ListBindHost(s). They didn't correctly do what they were intended for, 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)
• 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)
• Add $user and $network aliases for $me and $net respectively (#847)
• Allow reseting channel-specific AutoClearChanBuffer and BufferSize settings by setting them to - (#990)
• Change type of values from "double" to "number", which is more obvious for non-programmers (#1468)

crypt

• Fix build with LibreSSL (#1439)
• Cover notices, actions and topics (#813)
• Don't use the same or overlapping NickPrefix as StatusPrefix (#1377)
• Add DH1080 key exchange (#1378)
• Add Get/SetNickPrefix commands, hide the internal keyword from ListKeys (#1382)

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)
• Add options to hide joins, quits and nick changes. (#601)
• Stop forcing username and network name to be lower case in filenames (#1171)
• Log user quit messages (#1395)

missingmotd

• Include nick in IRC numeric 422 command, reduce client confusion (#1399)

modperl

• Provide operator "" for ZNC::String
• Honor PERL5LIB env var
• Fix functions like HasPerm() which accept char (#1486)
• When a broken module couldn't be loaded, it couldn't be loaded anymore even if it was fixed later.
• Explain modperl that ZNC uses UTF-8 internally

modpython

• Require encodings support in ZNC
• Disable legacy encoding mode when modpython is loaded. (#1229)
• Support CQuery and CServer (#1436)

nickserv

• Use /nickserv identify by default instead of /msg nickserv. (#786)
• Support messages from X3 services (#1322)

notify_connect

• Show client identification (#1195)

sasl

• Add web interface (#910)
• Enable all known mechanisms by default (#938)
• 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)
• Add MinClients option (#1133)

stickychan

• Save registry on every stick/unstick action, auto-save if channel key changes (#881)
• Stop checking so often, increase delay to once every 3 minutes (#1333)

webadmin

• Make server editor and CTCP replies editor more fancy, when JS is enabled (#145)
• Make tables sortable. (#40)
• Allow reseting chan buffer size by entering an empty value
• Show per-network traffic info (#963)
• 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)
• Add an integration test (#772)
• Various HTML changes (#1308)
• Introduce a CMessage class and its subclasses (#506)
• Add module callbacks which accept CMessage, deprecate old callbacks
• Add OnNumericMessage module callback, which previously was possible only with OnRaw, which could give unexpected results if the message has IRCv3.2 tags.
• 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
• Add 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)
• 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)

Cosmetic

• Alphabetically sort the modules we compile using autoconf/Makefile (#1358)
• Alphabetically sort output of znc --help (#1367)
• Change output during startup to be more compact (#1124)
• Show new server name when reconnecting to a different server with /znc jump (#1147)
• Hide passwords in listservers output (#1320)
• Filter out ZNC passwords in output of znc -D (#1445)
• Switch znc.in URLs to https