[IRCServices] Services 5.0.36 released

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Mon Jul 12 18:16:05 PDT 2004


     Services 5.0.36 has been released, and can be downloaded from:

ftp://ftp.esper.net/ircservices/               (Western USA)

80759b531fa5d0345a11f237228de98c  ircservices-5.0.36.tar.gz
904a29dc5849c557e84fb11df8946803  ircservices-5.0.36.diff.gz
2b1814a7b351a11e163041b7b7fdb568  ircservices-5.0.36-1.i386.rpm
16623e0a026b1742c33caad835c521ca  ircservices_5.0.36-1_i386.deb

ftp.ircservices.za.net and the other mirrors should have it shortly.

     This release corrects the crash on SQUIT reported a few days ago; if
aren't experiencing this problem, you don't need to upgrade immediately.
(Due to the memory layout of the relevant data, this problem only occurs
under certain environments--if you can SQUIT a server once without Services
crashing, you're probably safe.)

     I've also removed the "sockets BUG" message that has from time to
time filled up people's log files.  I still haven't been able to pinpoint
the problem itself, but I'll be switching to a revised version of the
socket handling code for Services 5.1 (which, coincidentally, I've finally
started working on), so this will hopefully suffice as a workaround for the
meantime.

Changes in version 5.0.36
-------------------------
2004/07/09	Removed log message on socket buffer size misbehavior.
2004/07/09	Fixed potential crash on SQUIT.  Reported by Tom McIntyre
		    <chawmp at cyberarmy.net>

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