[IRCServices] Services 5.1.4 released

Robin Burchell surreal.w00t at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 01:57:10 PDT 2007


Do you have steps to replicate this? Because it sounds rather like a
bug, unless the uplink is sending SQUIT for some reason.. (been
talking to Stskeeps, who thinks the same)

On 10/25/07, Andrew Church <achurch at achurch.org> wrote:
>      Services 5.1.4 has been released, and can be downloaded from:
>
> http://www.ircservices.za.net/download/   (Japan)
> ftp://ftp.esper.net/ircservices/          (Western USA)
>
> efb07baab76e3126737d33e684265909  ircservices-5.1.4.tar.gz
> df34fb6925911e42753c3622cea27dfb  ircservices-5.1.4.diff.gz
> 647f795074ff2c4878218dd02ab23396  ircservices-5.1.4-1.i386.rpm
> 0e5ec78c56fdc04d8d5633572ed3063a  ircservices_5.1.4-1_i386.deb
>
> The mirrors should have it shortly.
>
>      This release adds support for a recent change to the behavior of the
> Unreal server with regard to netsplits.  If you are using Unreal, you
> should probably upgrade, as a netsplit may cause earlier versions of
> Services to become desynchronized from the network.  No other IRC servers
> are currently known to be affected.
>
> Changes in version 5.1.4
> ------------------------
> 2007/10/25      Added a workaround for recent Unreal servers that send
>                     unsourced SQUIT messages.  Reported by Bill Kramme
>                     <bk at slashnet.org>
>
>   --Andrew Church
>     achurch at achurch.org
>     http://achurch.org/
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