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Oragono v2.5.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2021-01-31 // over 3 years ago

  • 🚀 We're pleased to announce Oragono 2.5.0, a new stable release.

    🚀 This release includes enhancements based on the needs of real-world operators, as well as bug fixes. Highlights include:

    • UBAN, a new "unified ban" system for server operators, with a corresponding CHANSERV HOWTOBAN command for channel operators (#1447)
    • A new forwarding/overflow channel mode +f (#1260)
    • 👌 Support for PROXY protocol v2 (#1389)

    🚀 This release includes changes to the config file format, including two breaking changes. One is fairly significant: enabling a websocket listener now requires the use of server.enforce-utf8, as has been the recommended default since 2.2.0 (so continuing to accept legacy non-UTF-8 content will require disabling websockets). The other is that the "unban" operator capability has been removed (it is now included in the "ban" capability). Other config changes are backwards compatible and do not require updating the file before upgrading.

    🚀 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 (see the manual for complete instructions).

    🌐 Many thanks to @jlu5, @kylef and @Mikaela for contributing patches, to @bogdomania, @eskimo, @happyhater, @jlu5, @kylef, @LukeHoersten, @Mikaela, @mogad0n, @robinlemon, and @vertisan for reporting issues and helping test, and to our translators for contributing translations.

    Config changes

    • Enabling websockets now requires server.enforce-utf8 = true (#1483)
    • proxy is now a top-level field of the listener config block; in particular, the PROXY protocol (v1 or v2) can now be required ahead of a plaintext connection. The field is still accepted in its legacy position (inside the tls block). (#1389, thanks @robinlemon!)
    • ➕ Added accounts.multiclient.always-on-expiration, allowing always-on clients to be timed out for inactivity (#810, thanks @bogdomania!)
    • 🛠 local_ prefixes have been stripped from operator capability names, so that, e.g., local_ban is now just ban. The old names are still accepted. (#1442)
    • 🚚 The local_unban operator capability has been removed (unbanning is now contained in the ban permission). (#1442)
    • The recommended value of accounts.bcrypt-cost is now 4, the minimum acceptable value (#1497)
    • server.ip-limits.custom-limits now accepts networks that contain multiple CIDRs; the old syntax is still accepted (#1421, thanks @Mikaela!
    • A new field, history.restrictions.query-cutoff, generalizes the old history.restrictions.enforce-registration-date (the old field is still accepted) (#1490, thanks @Mikaela!)
    • ➕ Added server.override-services-hostname, allowing the hostname of NickServ, ChanServ, etc. to be overridden (#1407, thanks @Mikaela!)
    • ➕ Added a boolean hide-sts key to the listener block; this can be used to hide the STS CAP when the listener is secured at layer 3 or 4 (e.g., by a VPN or an E2E mixnet). It will still be necessary to add the relevant IPs to secure-nets. (#1428, thanks @Mikaela!)

    🔒 Security

    • 👌 Improved validation of names and encodings for client-only tags (#1385)
    • 👌 Improved auditability of sensitive operator actions (#1443, thanks @mogad0n!)
    • DEFCON 4 and lower now require Tor users to authenticate with SASL (#1450)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 🛠 Fixed NS UNSUSPEND requiring the casefolded / lowercase version of the account name (#1382, thanks @mogad0n!)
    • 🛠 Fixed client-only tags in direct (user-to-user) PRIVMSG not being replayed (#1411)
    • 🛠 Fixed many bugs in import of Anope and Atheme databases (#1403, #1423, #1424, #1431, #1435, #1439, #1444, thanks @jlu5, @kylef, and @Mikaela!)
    • 🛠 Fixed case-handling bugs in RENAME (i.e., channel rename) (#1456, thanks @mogad0n!)
    • 🛠 Fixed incorrect processing of color code escapes in MOTD files (#1467, thanks @mogad0n!)
    • STS is no longer advertised to Tor clients (#1428, thanks @Mikaela!)
    • 🛠 Fixed HELP/HELPOP numerics not including the nick as an argument (#1472, thanks @kylef!)
    • Made connection registration snomasks less confusing (#1396, thanks @eskimo!)
    • 🛠 Fixed duplicated nicks in KLINE response (#1379, thanks @mogad0n!)
    • The RELAYMSG tag name is now draft/relaymsg, conforming to the amended draft specification (#1468, thanks @jlu5!)
    • 🛠 Fixed SAJOIN not sending a MODE line to the originating client (#1383, thanks @mogad0n!)
    • 👌 Improved consistency of message sources sent by CS AMODE (#1383, thanks @mogad0n!)
    • 🛠 Fixed duplicated JOIN line sent to some clients using the draft/resume-0.5 extension (#1397, thanks @kylef!)
    • ➕ Added a warning that MySQL cannot be enabled by rehash (#1452, thanks @Mikaela!)

    🔄 Changed

    • Channel-user modes (e.g., +o, +v) of always-on clients are now persisted in the database (#1345)
    • 🚚 /CHANSERV PURGE now takes ADD, DEL, and LIST subcommands; the separate UNPURGE command has been removed; PURGE ADD now requires a confirmation code (#1294, thanks @mogad0n!)
    • The characters <, >, ', ", and ; are no longer allowed in nicknames (previously registered account names containing these characters are still accepted) (#1436, thanks @happyhater!)
    • Authenticated clients from Tor now receive their (account-unique) always-on cloaked hostname; this allows channel operators to ban unauthenticated Tor users by banning *!*@tor-network.onion (#1479, thanks @mogad0n!)
    • Included the network name in the human-readable final parameter of 001 RPL_WELCOME (#1410)
    • RELAYMSG can now take client-only tags (#1470)
    • WebSocket listeners will attempt to negotiate the text.ircv3.net subprotocol; negotiating this is optional for clients (#1483)

    ➕ Added

    • ➕ Added UBAN, a new command giving server operators a unified interface to D-LINEs (IP bans), K-LINEs (NUH mask bans, which are now deprecated), and account suspensions (NS SUSPEND) (#1447)
    • ➕ Added CHANSERV HOWTOBAN, a ChanServ subcommand that helps channel operators choose an appropriate ban (#1447)
    • ➕ Added a new channel mode +f; users who cannot join the channel due to +i or +l will be forwarded to the channel specified by +f. (#1260)
    • ➕ Added support for the PROXY protocol v2 (#1389, thanks @robinlemon!)
    • ➕ Added support for /JOIN 0 (part all channels), requiring a confirmation code (#1417, thanks @Mikaela!)
    • ➕ Added support for grouped nicknames as SASL usernames (#1476, thanks @eskimo!)
    • ➕ Added history support for INVITE (#1409, thanks @Mikaela!)
    • ➕ Added a new channel setting accessible via /CS SET: history-cutoff, allowing the channel owner more fine-grained control over who can see history (#1490, thanks @Mikaela!)
    • ➕ Added the UTF8ONLY ISUPPORT token, allowing the server to advertise to clients that only UTF-8 content is accepted (#1483)
    • ➕ Added /NICKSERV RENAME, an operator-only command that can change the case of an account name (#1380, thanks @LukeHoersten!)

    Internal

    • ➕ Added caching for serialized messages (#1387)
    • 👌 Improved memory efficiency of line reading (#1231)