[IRCServices] Services 5.0.51 released

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Sat Apr 2 17:29:00 PST 2005


     Services 5.0.51 has been released, and can be downloaded from:

http://www.ircservices.za.net/download/   (Japan)
ftp://ftp.esper.net/ircservices/          (Western USA)

0c5d5fa6be1798fbe25ca9a728ac0839  ircservices-5.0.51.tar.gz
118701b5c92c3fe13447c40ffbec52e0  ircservices-5.0.51.diff.gz
4aff1944840953e4a6700000d4954f8c  ircservices-5.0.51-1.i386.rpm
9999afd340b6617e64cb3ec4f26608ed  ircservices_5.0.51-1_i386.deb

The mirrors should have it shortly.

     This release addresses the problems mentioned recently on the mailing
list, as well as a minor security issue allowing users to keep usermode +r
after their nick was suspended or forbidden.  convert-db has also been
improved to avoid letting bad data (such as autokills with missing username
or hostname parts) into the database.

Changes in version 5.0.51
-------------------------
2005/04/02	convert-db now checks for more potential problems with the
		    imported databases before writing out the XML data.
2005/04/02	Fixed bugs when converting databases from old versions of
		    PTlink Services.
2005/04/01	Fixed handling of links to forbidden nicks when converting
		    Auspice databases.
2005/03/31	ChanServ KICK no longer allows Services opers to be kicked.
2005/03/31	Ensured that usermode +r is cleared from nicks which lose
		    their identification status (e.g. from FORBID/SUSPEND).
2005/03/31	NickServ SUSPEND now forces the user of the suspended
		    nick to change nicknames, as FORBID does.  Reported by
		    Dionisios K. <vonitsa_net at yahoo.gr>
2005/03/31	ChanServ now stops non-identified users from joining
		    channels with mode +R locked on.  Suggested by
		    Dionisios K. <vonitsa_net at yahoo.gr>

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/