Gosh, so yeah, it happened :)
Even though it has now been officially released, ircd-ratbox-3 is still considered to be in a testing phase. This is basically because, while it is believed to be stable, it wont get official 'stable' status from the ratbox team until it has been trialled in production a bit more. Fingers crossed though - everything will be fine =)
With the release there came a few port tweaks:
- The first being that the ircd now defaults to compiling with IPv6 support, meaning the Makefile needed to be adjusted to explicitly disable this if deselected in the port OPTIONS.
- Then the second, in that the port DISTVERSION parameter has gone back to being PORTVERSION as we no longer need to use any 'beta' or 'rc' tags in the name.
- The last being the addition of a new patch that makes a small modification to the 'bandb/rsdb_sqlite3.c' file so the ircd will not revert to its default ban.db location setting and use the one specified in config.h as before. At the same time I also updated the other patches to reflect recent diff index number changes.
I also thought it was about time we took out the warning about updating the ban.db database when using pre-beta5 versions. People have had plenty of time to sort that out in the intermediate updates I think, and so should be aware of that now.
Software changes included in this release:
- Fix a crash with the the global CIDR code.
- Fix a core dump in bantool if bantool cannot open the database.
- Report failure to open logfiles in a more useful way.
- Check to see if we have both read and write access to the ban database.
- Fix a build error on OS X Leopard.
In the next release, it is believed that the previously mentioned ban.db path problem is likely to be overcome by creating an ircd.conf option, that will allow the location for the ban database file to be specified as a start-up configure option instead of during compile time.
— posted by Moggie
ircd-ratbox-devel updated to 3.0.0rc3 | ircd-ratbox-3.0.1 released
