[IRCServices] Services 5.0.64 released

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Fri Jul 31 23:59:40 PDT 2009


     Services 5.0.64 has been released, and can be downloaded from:

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

1e5777cefb0bec1c3814f8437d9451b3  ircservices-5.0.64.tar.gz
697449df011292f35fb0f898bd0f93cc  ircservices-5.0.64.diff.gz
dc97092d5209a26d60c7e80b092ff842  ircservices-5.0.64-1.i386.rpm
f3abba6f4ff6224788ef4c86ee8bba58  ircservices_5.0.64-1_i386.deb

The mirrors should have it shortly.

     This release of version 5.0 changes the behavior of the ChanServ
DEPROTECT command.  Previously, this command would remove channel owner
mode (e.g., +q on Unreal) in addition to channel protection mode (+a);
however, it was pointed out that this has the potential to be abused by
malicious users with sufficient privileges, so the DEPROTECT command now
leaves channel owner mode alone.

     As usual, I recommend upgrading to version 5.1, but if you are
continuing to use version 5.0, you may want to consider upgrading to
5.0.64.

Changes in version 5.0.64
-------------------------
2009/07/31	ChanServ DEPROTECT no longer removes channel owner mode, to
		    prevent abuse by rogue users.  Reported by Kieron
		    Thwaites <ron2k.za at gmail.com>

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