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ratbox updates

IRCd ratbox ratbox-services Services

The guys behind ratbox-ircd and ratbox-services have been very hard at work with fixing up there products for the next round of releases which actuallysecurity release includes 4 release this time. We'll start out with the services package which is highlighted as a security release as it looks to address an SQL injection issue:

ratbox-services 1.2.1
  • fix an unquoted sql string related to email, that could be used for sql injection
  • fix the configure test for --with-pcre

Thankfully the guys didnt stop there and went on to address this issue in the older release:

ratbox-services 1.1.3
  • fix an unquoted sql string related to email, that could be used for a sql injection
  • various improvements to the configure script

and he finished up by making the following announcement:

 


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ircd-ratbox 3.0.0 beta 8

EFnet IRCd ircd-ratbox ratbox

The latest ircd-ratbox beta has been released this time around in the form of 3.0.0 beta 8 which includes some key fixes as ircd-ratbox heads towards cleaning up and optimizing theircd-ratbox 3.0.0 beta 8 IRCd. The changelog provided reads a little like this:

  • some cleanups in the checksplit code
  • some cleanups in the /trace code
  • show reasons for failed outbound SSL handshakes to opers
  • log ssl errors for servers and handshakes in serverlog
  • make sqlite3 checking more robust
  • change the resolver to use the code from charybdis instead of adns
  • fix identd checking so it works again
  • fix a bug where the ircd could stop reading from the client on the CAP command
  • add some functions for random number generation for the nossl case in libratbox

 

ircd ratbox 3.0.0 beta 9 & 10

Beta IRCd ratbox

ircd-ratbox has not one but two new betas to discuss, however one coming directly after the other - ratbox includes some fixes in whats the current development branch of ircd-ratbox, thisbeta 9 time around there we're some key fixes to several problem areas such as /stats A not functioning as well as some crash fixes and a memory issue here n there.

There are two 'new' items in the release both of the new items being DNS based additions. This time around however ive decided not to say that i expect that ratbox will be in RC stages at some point soon, as 7 release after the first time i said it they are still cooking up things to fix or improve so! .. lets wait and see!

As ever the changelogs are provided with the downloads already in place


ircd-ratbox-3.0.0beta10

  • fix a case a passing a NULL to match()
  • properly fix a crash in the block heap garbage collection code


ircd-ratbox-3.0.0beta9

  • fix a hang with the resolver using epoll
  • add dns source port randomization
  • add a vhost_dns/vhost6_dns option to control which IP addresses the resolver binds to
  • make /stats A work again
  • cleanup some remains of the old ident helper