ChangeLog/1.9.0

← 1.8.2

ZNC 1.9.0

git →

See https://github.com/znc/znc/compare/znc-1.9.0...master for a list of changes since 1.9.0 stable.

New

• Update password hashing algorithm from SHA-256 to Argon2id (if libargon2 is installed). Existing passwords are transparently upgraded upon login. (#1879)
• Support for capability negotiation 3.2 and cap-notify. ZNC now has API, using which modules can easily implement new capabilities: if server supports a cap, it will automatically be offered to clients which support cap-notify and ZNC will notify the module when the capability is enabled or disabled for server and for each client. (#1859)
• Add support for cap account-tag (#1746)
• New User Options: DenySetIdent, DenySetNetwork, DenySetRealName, DenySetQuitMsg, DenySetCTCPReplies (#1814)
• Switch --makeconf wizard default network from freenode to Libera
• znc-buildmod: output where the module was written to
• Allow ordering of channels: via ListChans, MoveChan and SwapChans commands, and via webadmin (#1744)

Fixes

• Don't send invalid 333 (RPL_TOPICWHOTIME) to client if topic owner is unknown (#1889)
• Fix build with SWIG 4.2.0, drop support for SWIG < 4.0.1
• Fix handling of timezones when parsing server-time tags received from server (#1857) (#1773)
• Don't crash when receiving SASL lines from server without having negotiated SASL via CAP
• Use module names as the module ident, otherwise some clients were merging conversations with different modules together. (#1874)
• Fix an ODR violation (#1835)

Modules

• modpython: Rewrite how modpython loads modules from imp to importlib: this adds support for Python 3.12, but bumps the minimum supported python version to 3.4. Also now it's possible to structure the module as a python package (a subdirectory with __init__.py and other .py files), however it no longer supports loading a C python extension through modpython - just write the module on C++ in such case instead of python, or use the __init__.py format and implement some of the files in C. (#1724)
• log: Add account to joins for the log module. (#1870)
• clientnotify: Add options to reduce amount of notifications depending on the IP and the client ID of the connecting client (#1843)
• modpython: Implement Module.AddCommand() (#1832)
• webadmin: Fix order of breadcrumbs in network page
• watch: Allow new entries to use spaces (#1822)

Notes for package maintainers (TODO)

• Require C++17 compiler. That is, GCC 8+ or Clang 5+. (#1887)
• Remove autoconf, leave only CMake as the build system. The configure script is now merely a wrapper for CMake, and accepts mostly the same parameters as the old configure. Minimum supported CMake version is 3.13.
• cctz
• libargon2
• python
• swig

Internal

• Document more functions.
• Use steady clock for cache map and for sockets to fix certain issues with leap seconds and DST
• Modernized the way how CMake is used
• Make some integration tests run faster by changing ServerThrottle value
• Setup Github Actions to replace old Travis CI setup
• Added CIFuzz (#1845)
• Added CodeQL (#1846)
• Various fixes to CI
• Generate list of translators automatically from Crowdin
• Update default SSL settings from Mozilla recommmendations
• Rewrite message parsing using std::string_view, improving the performance of the parser (#1785)
• Make CUser::Put* send to all clients instead of only networkless clients. Deprecate CUser::PutAllUser()

TODO: to triage

• Update route_replies.cpp Template:Git
• route_replies: add 337 to whois Template:Git
• Add Portuguese translations/ files Template:Git
• Test module translation of commands Template:Git
• Rename cmd/desc to command/description Template:Git
• DH_set0_pqg and DH_get0_key have existed since LibreSSL 2.7 Template:Git
• Fix build with libressl Template:Git
• Fixed missing paragraph closing tag Template:Git
• Hide password in PASS debug lines without : in trailing param Template:Git
• route_replies: route TOPIC requests to client Template:Git
• Fix controlpanel output Template:Git
• change message when staying in foreground Template:Git
• Fix path in systemd service (which shouldn't be here at all) Template:Git
• WIP fix autotop Template:Git
• sasl: don't forward 908 numeric to clienT Template:Git
• modperl: allow overriding timer label Template:Git
• Web: remove legacy xhtml syntax (#1723) Template:Git
• Fix PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN python warning Template:Git