NeoStats/ChangeLog

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NeoStats 3.x ChangeLog 
Anything we add/remove/fix/change is in here (even our rants)
Fish (F), Mark (M), DeadNotBuried (D)
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* NeoStats * Version 3.0.2 (F)
 - Bump Version (F)
 - Partially fix the DNS related errors in NEO-426 (we were not canceling DNS queries successfully) (F)

* NeoStats * Version 3.0.1 (F)
 - Fix Inspircd module Glining *@* (Neo-428) (F)
 - Fix wrong prefixs for Inspircd Module as reported by Brain (F)
 - Some FreeBSD's define sig_atomic and we were not checking for it in
   configure. Fixed (F)
 - A much more robust checking if Perl is available in configure (F)
 - Bump Version (F)
 - Fix spelling mistake (one of many I'm sure) found by Paul Balfe (F)

* NeoStats * Version 3.0.0
 - Finish the Update Module (F)
 - Move the copyright handler in the HTML output of StatServ to a proper
   function, simplifies the HTMLOutput loop, and hopefully fixes NEO-420 (F)
 - Timers now only fire when needed, rather than once every second (F)
 - Update Libevent Logging to LogLevel 10 and enable it (F)
 - Update CURL to hopefully fix a "Invalid Socket" error (F)
 - We should be using channel TS's when sending mode changes etc (F)
 - Inspircd requires additional params for PONG messages. Update (F)
 - Add initial inspircd support for Inspircd 1.1 only. Still WIP (F)
 - Fix Userdump using channel mode function, rather than usermode function
   (F)
 - Make the default action in the Mode Parser to "Add" to work around a
   Inspircd bug (F)
 - Fix CmodePrefixToMask to return -1 rather than 0, then we can set certian
   characters to ignore (such as Inspircd's use of , as a delimiter in FJOIN
   command (F)
 - Fix inbuild SJOIN function to handle NULL mode param (F)
 - add SVSKILL recieving support to Unreal3.2 module. Might be worthwhile as
   a global function though (F)
 - Tokens are case sensitive (at least in Unreal) so make sure we use the
   right comparision for token checks (F)
 - Incorporate a Perl Script (NamedVarsInspector.pl) that allows you to view available NamedVar
   entries - Usefull for Perl Module Developers (F)
 - Implementation of DBA* routines for Perl Modules. (F)
 - Fix Ping value for servers when we first load up, to avoid StatServ
   broadcasting about servers lagged out by thousands of seconds (F)
 - Fix Logging Levels (F)
 - Fix the wrong ordering of transfer_status in Curl Code (F)
 - upgrade nxml and mrss libraries to latest version (F)
 - Fix up Debug Log Levels a bit to remove cruft (F)
 - StatServ should default to Enabled for Global Exclusions Setting (F)
 - Rename TextServ databases with extension tsdb and move into the Data
   Directory, rather than data/TSDB (F)
 - Context Sensitive Help is now in place (eg, !help versus /msg bot help) (F)
 - report command syntax in case of syntax errors (configurable)
 - TextServ uses confuse file format for databases (a bit more flexibility
   can be achived now) (F)
 - Correctly check error returns from LibEvent (F)
 - If colour is enabled and logging is enabled in connectserv, strip the
   message before writting the logfile (F)
 - Rename BOT_FLAG_SERVICEBOT to BOT_FLAG_ROOT to better reflect purpose (M)
 - Remove BOT_FLAG_NOINTRINSICLEVELS, intrinisc levels are now only applied to
   module root bots. (M)
 - Remove BOT_FLAG_NOINTRINSICSET since it is redundant due to the way bots are
   created. (M)
 - Open up command processor to secondary bots. (M)
 - Limit modules to a single root bot. (M)
 - Fix botinfo loading. (M)
 - With M's fix below, SERVICECMODE can now support multiple modes.
   Re-adjust the SET function to allow this. (F)
 - Allow multiple sjoin modes (M)
 - Fix StatServ Topic Counts incorrect (F)
 - Fix OperCount in StatServ (NEO-391) and Fix Raw (NEO-400) (F)
 - Add a new BOT flag to not load up the intrinisic set commands (F)
 - Fixed up a bug with ConvertDB (F)
 - Better detection of Berkeley DB (F)
 - Update Libevent to latest version (F)
 - Fix Timers because we were not updating the current time often enough(F)
 - Fix HTTP transfers when saving to memory (such as SecureServ) (F)
 - Currently, SERVICECMODE only supports a single mode. Make sure we check
   for that in the set handler (F)
 - Lots of Changes to LimitServ (F)
 - Fix a crash on shutdown with Perl Modules Loaded (F)
 - Make sure Perl Modules are not built when perl is disabled. (F)
 - Fix NEO-363, DNS Problem when shutting down (F)
 - Maybe a Fix for NEO-364 (F)
 - Implement Timeouts for CURL (NEO-380) (F)
 - StatServ GeoIP was using gethostbyname_r which isn't needed (F)
 - Fix ServiceRoot Validate Function and RootNick validate Function (F)
 - If we can't write to a logfile, bail out by calling exit, rather than
   do_exit() otherwise we end up in recursive hell (F)
 - Start work on EOB support which should also address bug Neo-381 (F) 
 - Fix bug 261 - wrong Syntax Error message in oper only mode (M)
 - "make distcheck" now works so we can prepare snapshots easily. use
   --with-distversion={rev} to append revision to the tarball. This will
   also allow us to automatically generate snapshots via Pulse
   (http://svn.neostats.net/build/) (F)
 - Update "make dist" and almost fixed "make distcheck" (F)
 - Fix module version checking (We can't use VERSION define, as some modules
   might use it, so rename to NEO_VERSION) (F)
 - Fix Win32 compile again. (M)
 - Updated Muscle files to latest version (3.24) (F)
 - Fixed up configure problem with Perl so perl could never be found (F)
 - Started implementing NamedVars so perl can read from internal Hash's and
   List's (F)
 - We don't need g++ or c++ compilers, so tell libtool to shutup about those
   compilers (F) 
 - Version Macro is fixed (F)
 - Curl now uses updated event based socket Code (F)
 - Fix up muscle code to run on Intel Mac's (F)
 - Update libcurl to 7.16.0 to take advantage of new event based socket
   code. Also link in SSL and zlib libaries for initial support for CURL and
   eventually the rest of NeoStats - Untested!
 - TODO: VERSION macro is breaking some newer compilers. (F)
 - StatServ COPY command is now RENAME since that is what it does. (M)
 - Fix segfault in StatServ COPY. (M)
 - Fix StatServ oper counts. (M)
 - Fix 4 year old bug in module loading.  (M)
 - Fix up neostats startup script etc for cron related issues - Thanks to
   Digerati for the heads up(F)
 - add plexus 3 protocol file for reference (D)
 - Fix compile errors on GCC 2.95.4 (D)
 - QuoteServ shouldn't send signon messages to Neo Bots (F)
 - Fix LimitServ timer to not set limits every time (F)
 - NSDBAFetchRows2 function added, that also returns the key used to store
   the records to the handler as a string (F)
 - Utility tool called convertdb added to convert betweeen database modules (F)
 - GDBM Database files are now named <Module>-<table>.gdbm. GDBM database
   module will automatically rename files when first loaded (F)
 - Finish the Berkeley DB interface module (F)
 - Fix quoteserv prefix and suffix processing (F)
 - Really fix IRCu IP address conversions (F)
 - Include Modules loaded in segfault report (F)
 - Fix IRCu IP address detections (F)
 - have Pseudo Client change Channel modes on unreal3.2 instead of the Server (D)
 - Fix /msg neostats level when specifing a invalid nick (F)
 - Fix a issue with SVSJOIN on Unreal (F)
 - New Config option "Options, MaxSockets" to limit the number of available
   sockets that NeoStats can use (F)
 - Fix adns to correctly handle EINPROGRESS for TCP connections (F)
 - Make sure SET LIST shows the correct host entry if we using the default (F)
 - Fix the ordering of AddBot so that stored settings such as
   nick/ident/host etc are applied when the bots load (F)
 - Change LibCurl and LibPCRE to be statically compiled into NeoStats rather
   than as dynamic libraries (F)
 - Add libnxml library for Feature request 292 and new module "NewsServ" (F)
 - Module Runlevels were not being set for Curl Transfer callbacks, causing
   DB issues (F)
 - Add a prototype for the DBAFetchRows2, which returns the DBA key as well (F)
 - Update to libnxml 0.12 to fix a parser bug (F)
 - Fix compile error with libnrss (F)
 - Fix logic error when using default service bots host (F)
 - Fix addlevel command in hostserv reported by Prince (F)
 - Fix a problem with NeoNet and No Groups being sent during Login (F)
 - BDB - Make sure recovery is run when opening DB's (F)
 - BDB - Not all BDB have some enviroment flags (F)

* NeoStats * Version 3.0.a3
 - LimitServ: join/part bot on adding/deleteing channels if JOIN enabled (D)
 - HostServ: fix loading of previously added bans (D)
 - Finish up the core side NeoNet support. Modules such as SecureServ and
   OPSB are next (F)
 - Fix problem with DNS queries going to the wrong list when it needs to be queued up (F)
 - EVENT_KILL now also sends EVENT_QUIT so modules can just watch sign on/off 
   rather than being forced to watch and process KILL. (M)
 - Add WHOIS processing. (M)
 - Add FindClient function. (M)
 - Add logging support to CommandReport function. (M)
 - Fix a crash with faked localkill messages (F)
 - Increase the backtrace size, as we go a lot deeper than we used to (F)
 - Add MODE_INIT_END and IRC_CMD_END macros for protocol table NULL 
   terminators. (M)
 - Win32: system tray menu options for NeoStats web site and forums. (M)
 - Win32: add right click menu to system tray icon. (M)
 - Win32: minimise to system tray instead of task bar. (M)
 - First pass DBA redundancy reduction. (M)
 - HostServ: additional wildcard checks to fix security loophole. (M)
 - Replace SET VERSIONSCAN option with automatic support based on module
   flags. (M)
 - Fix OSX changes which prevent NeoStats running on any platform. (M)
 - Fix a potential security vulnerbility with user supplied strings (F)
 - NeoStats now compiles and runs on Mac OSX (Tiger) (F)
 - Introduce module override to allow a module bot to become the primary source
   of signon CTCP version requests. (M)
 - Add broadcast forms of CTCP events so that modules can watch just their own 
   CTCP transactions or all CTCP transactions on the network. (M)
 - Introduce framework for unknown ctcp messages. (M)
 - Fix a memleak in ExtAuth (F)
 - Netinfo on Ultimate3 is like Globops, not a burst function (F)
 - Create core support for map generation accessible to all modules via a 
   callback handler and tidy up StatServ map code to take advantage of 
   the new function. (M)
 - Exclude system tidy ups and bug fix for module excludes. (M)
 - More Validatexxx functions which will allow for wildcards in the string
   tested. (M)
 - StatServ: boot time sanity checks for list and hash creation. (M)
 - StatServ: port version stats to DBA API. (M)
 - QuoteServ: add sanity checks to db loads. (M)
 - QuoteServ: fix win32 crash - strdup cannot be used in modules. (M)
 - Add strcasestr support function since not all systems support it. (M)
 - New macros NS_CMD_END() and NS_SETTING_END() for terminating command and set
   lists. (M)
 - ConnectServ colour logging is now settable via IRC (F)
 - First round of memory cleanups with Valgrind (F)
 - Create a runvalgrind.sh file with NeoStats suppressions for memory
   checking (F)
 - Sync up libevent to distribution of 1.1a (F)
 - Make QuoteServ take a optional database for Quote Command (F)
 - Fix up triggering WANT_NICKIP code (F)
 - Fix up quoteserv and un-init memory errors causing crashes for me (F)
 - let limitserv have a buffer (F)
 - CTCP version scans are now more flexible in (F)
 - This will make the version.h file reflect the current SVN Revision, not
   the include SVN revision number (F)
 - Perl 5.8.0 doesn't have XSRETURN_UV, so it does now via our checks (F)
 - Perl Module Support now has most functionality of standard C Modules.
   Need to fix up NeoStats.pm to do lots of sanity checking first though (F)
 - Fix a crash on shutdown in nsdba relating to not statically storing the hash key (F)
 - add missing modules lines to makeconf (D)
 - increase module limit to 40 (D)
 - TextServ: allow multiple channels per bot (D)
 - TextServ: allow databases to be used in multiple bots (D)
 - TextServ: install data files to TSDB sub folder of data (D)
 - Basic Perl Support thanks to XChat. Now time to write all the Hooks (F)
 - Change Source Layout, so we don't go and rebuild protocol and DB files
   all the time (F)
 - Implement framework for Perl Support (F)
 - Fix warnings that GCC 4.0 generates (F)
 - LimitServ: set minimum limit settable by LimitServ to Users + 1 (D)
 - LimitServ: fix paramter order being passed to ManageLimits (D)
 - Move Config file over to confuse engine, and redo makeconf to work with
   new config file format (F)
 - Move Secure.irc-chat.net update code to core to allow OPSB to use it as
   well (F)
 - Store the IP address we connect to in tme so we can reference it from
   other modules (F) 
 - allow SERVICEROOT to check against IP Address as well as Host (D)
 - check if exclusions are already included in list before adding (D)
 - attempt to find bot unused nickname when both nick and altnick in use (D)
 - QuoteServ: add option to use global excludes (D)
 - QuoteServ: check signon quote setting before sending signon quote (D)
 - QuoteServ: fix crash when quotes requested but no databases defined (D)
 - Help system updated. The oneline help text is now part of the main help text
   for commands to simplify creation and maintainance of help text. (M)
 - QuoteServ: Add support for quotes at SIGNON. (M)
 - QuoteServ: Add support for prefix and suffix entries. (M)
 - QuoteServ: Add support for random quotes. (M)
 - Add new module: QuoteServ. (M)
 - TextServ: Add moraleserv database. (M)
 - TextServ: Add loveserv database. (M)
 - TextServ: Add database reading support. (M)
 - DCC fixes and move partyline support to an external module to aid 
   development of the DCC module API. (M)
 - Add support to set topic from NeoStats. (M)
 - Add _m_ignorecommand function for protocol modules to silently drop messages
   that they receive but require no further processing by NeoStats. (M).
 - Add seperate protocol files for IRCu and variants rathe than require users
   to modify the code in order to access variants. (M)
 - New protocol support minismising the code required to implement an ircd
   protocol module for NeoStats by providing comprehensive and where possible
   automatic support for common functions. (M)
 - Add default modes to ircd layer to further reduce overhead of protocol 
   modules. (M)
 - Add support for SVSJOIN and SVSPART. (M)
 - LEVEL command now resets user level so that users can cause NeoStats to
   recheck their access rights after any settings changes. (M).
 - Prevent ability to disable debug mode if DEBUG enabled to avoid all the 
   overrides necessary in code. (M)
 - StatServ: Add FLATMAP option to prevent display of network layout in MAP
   command and HTML output (Bug 220). (M)
 - Add support for IRCd protocol modules to make server version requests. (M)
 - Add support for IRCd protocol modules to call core numeric reply 
   handlers. (M)
 - Add support for IRCd protocol modules to make server uptime requests. (M)
 - Merge ADNS lib into core. (M)
 - add random channel member funtion (D)
 - Fix Win32 text output for log files. (M)
 - ADNS now uses neostats memory management. (M)
 - Merge gdbm lib and gdbm DBM module. (M)
 - StatServ: Merge GEOIP and GEOIPWIN32 libs. (M)
 - Merge ADNS and ADNSWIN32 libs. (M)
 - Module command setup is now more strict. Commands will not be added if the
   main help text or the one line help text is not set. (M)
 - Module loads are now more strict. About text and copyright text are required
   and if the code is based on the template text, this must be changed before
   the module will load. (M)
 - Fix FNMATCH error on configure (we don't use fnmatch) (F)
 - Fix SET RECVQ. (M)
 - More work on ossocket layer. (M)
 - Fix bug 221: crash when no command after ! in channel commands. (M)
 - Retire mystic, liquid, neoircd, quantum and viagra to graveyard. (M)
 - Update userhostmask/uservhostmask after nick change to keep current (D)
 - Recheck User Exclusions after updating userhostmask on Nick change (D)
 - Tidy up the new socket code (F)
 - Fix bug with ordering of process_ip in AddUser. nick variable isn't
   static, and usually is gone when we callback (F)
 - DCC Partyline support added (F)
 - replace socket/select code with a libevent based implementation (F)
 - Provide a "buffered" socket implementation for network communications (F)
 - Provide a "newline terminated protocol" socket implementation to handle
   IRCd and DCC Chat communications (F)
 - Add ability to exclude nick!user@host masks. (M)
 - Add nick!user@host and nick!user@vhost mask generation to core. (M)
 - DBA layer will now pass size of data fetched in FetchRows. (M)
 - Add support to ircd layer for processing ERROR messages from the uplink. (M)
 - Add optional SERVICE_HOST config entry to allow users to set a default host
   for service bots. If not specified, server name is used. (M)
 - DBA layer will now cause NeoStats to exit in the event of an error opening
   a table. (M)
 - Remove GDBM locking to try and fix problems on BSD. (M)
 - Remove RTA support. (M)
 - Add Umask function so our config files are not world/group readable, and
   update htmlstats in statserv to change the permissions after writting out
   the file (F)
 - StatServ: Fix last seen and start timestamps. (M)
 - Add support framework for SGLINE, SZLINE and SQLINE. (M)
 - Bahamut protocol module changed to bahamut14 and bahamut18 to allow support
   for both versions. (M)
 - Add operlog to supported modules. (M)
 - Add support for incoming GLOBOPS, CHATOPS and WALLOPS. (M)
 - HostServ: add nick/host/vhost limits to list command (D)
 - HostServ: add option to limit vhost adding to current nick only (D)
 - Introduce framework for new textserv module. (M)
 - Remove LoveServ and MoraleServ since these are to be replaced by the new
   textserv module. (M)
 - StatServ: Remove 2.5.x bdb remnants. (M)

* NeoStats * Version 3.0.a2
 - Fix bug with module excludes when there are multiple modules loaded using
   module excludes. (M)
 - Remove fieldname from settings structure since option already provides a 
   unique string for storage. (M)
 - Add validate and random channel key functions. (M)
 - Remove RELOAD command from Win32. (M)
 - Fix RELOAD command not working reported by DNB. (M)
 - Fix problems with persistent bots reported by DNB. (M)
 - va_copy handling courtesy of Reed. (M)

* NeoStats * Version 3.0.a1
 - Add more info to segfault.log reports. (M)
 - Add ModFini return value so modules can return errors if required. (M)
 - Remove ModInit parameter since it is now redundant. (M)
 - Command processor code split up. (M)
 - Add SET_VALIDATE stage to allow a module to override core SET validation and
   to potentially react to the previous setting prior to SET_CHANGE. (M)
 - Command processor code split up. (M)
 - Add API for IRCd specific host cloaking. (M)
 - ConnectServ: Add option to watch AWAY events. (M)
 - CODERHACK changed to a more secure format. Users will now be required to set
   CODERHACK to a nick agreed between the network and the developent team so 
   that even when we need to use this, the remains secure from a rogue user
   knowing the usual access nick (M)
 - API improvements fixing naming conventions and additional macro support. (M)
 - StatServ: Add option to configure old channel time. (M)
 - Add options to configure message flood sample time and threshold. (M)
 - StatServ: Since stats command only allows management of server stats, 
   combined with server command. (M)
 - Add DCC support to NeoStats, you can now have a DCC chat with neostats and
   issue commands via this interface. (M)
 - Add CommandReport function for use by modules to report command information
   and take account of reporting options. (M)
 - Change NeoStats root user to use a config file nickname. This is for future
   use in multiple NeoStats incarnations running in a shared environment. (M)
 - Add module exclusion API so modules can use a local exclusion system without
   having to code and maintain one locally. (M)
 - Add WEEKLY and MONTHLY options to timer API. (M)
 - HostServ: ban use of "*" as realhost mask since this is a potential security 
   risk. (M)
 - Updated handler systems so that a caller can "break" the list loop. (M)
 - Exclude system del now takes a host rather than an index. (M)
 - Channel members now use client pointer so they do not need to track nick 
   changes. (M)
 - Fix up make install, make dist and wrappers for starting/stopping
   NeoStats (F)
 - Fix statserv map command, and fix neostats server list command (F)
 - Fix Statserv server minparam count (F)

* NeoStats * Version 3.0.prealpha2
 - First recommended release to devlist only as prealpha2. (M)
 - Port all database interaction to new DBA interface. (M)
 - Add support for GDBM as an alternative to BDB. (M)
 - New DB interface to replace keeper calls. (M)
 - Lots of AutoMake updates so that distros work again and external modules
   have includes available. (M)
 - StatServ: complete rewrite of statistics systems. (M)
 - Very basic stats added to core for debug, reported in STATUS command. (M)
 - Fix up memory leaks and missing list/hash clean ups. (M)

* NeoStats * Version 3.0.prealpha1
 - First recommended release to devlist only as prealpha1. (M)
 - New moddata API. We now have two values for use by modules, one being an 
   allocated address and one a value. This allows the core to clean up after
   modules in the event that they fail to. (M)
 - RTA support has been moved back itno the core rather than being a module. 
   It did work fine as a module, but was limited to providing core info only
   since there is no module <-> module communication at this point and created
   module depedencies. Making this a module will be looked at again at some 
   future point. (M).
 - HostServ: Improved ban handling. (M)
 - HostServ: LEVELS command removed since core now handles this. (M)
 - All commands now have a configurable minimum user level using the command
   /msg botname LEVELS. (M)
 - HostServ: moddata use removed in favour of a simple flag in the core wrt
   user SETHOST from NeoStats. (M)
 - HostServ: BANS DEL now takes host as a parameter not an index. (M)
 - HostServ: DEL and VIEW now take nick as a parameter not an index. (M)
 - StatServ: add option to configure html update interval. (M)
 - Add support for persistent bots which do not auto leave channel when it is 
   empty. (M)
 - Remove NETINFO event. Not available on all ircds and useless since the 
   ModSynch call will let a module know the network is synched. (M)
 - Make joining services channel a SET option so people can prevent NeoStats
   bots joining the services channel. Generally, the bots can message channels
   without being in them. With them not being there means we can drop 
   chanalerts when the channel is empty and save a bit of otherwise wasted 
   bandwidth. (M)
 - USERDUMP etc commands changed to USERLIST etc to be consistent with similar
   commands. (M)
 - StatServ: updated to use core side kill types. (M)
 - ConnectServ: updated to use core side kill types. (M)
 - Process kill types within the core. (M)
 - ConnectServ: add logging facility to log events. (M)
 - Channel alerts for command use is now optional. (M)
 - Automatically remove NeoStats bots from channels when there are no longer
   any real users in the channel. The services channel is excluded. (M)
 - Add neousers counter to Channel structure for tracking our bot counts in a
   given channel. (M)
 - Core command processor can now handle channel message commands e.g. !help
   using the standard command tables. Command char is selectable via a SET
   option. (M)
 - Add new timer type TIMER_TYPE_COUNTDOWN. This is a one shot timer that 
   deletes itself after it has triggered. (M)
 - Initial import of Language Functions. Two Macro's to use now, _(x) is for
   default language, and __(x, Client*) is for user/channel language
   settings. (F)
 - More portability wrappers for file access since Win32 DLLs do not appear to
   be able to use fopen etc locally. This also means we can look at using more
   optimal Win32 native file processing calls. (M)
 - NeoStats alloc/free functions updated. (M)
 - Begin adding portability functions for file system calls, socket management 
   etc to make it easy for modules to be Win32 compatible. (M)
 - Remove all SqlSrv code from core in preparation for moving to a module. (M)
 - Alter CODERHACK dependency so it only requires a rebuild of auth.c rather 
   than potentially a reconfigure and full rebuild. (M)
 - Change UserDump and ChanDump to use prefmsg rather than chanalert and remove
   calls during error conditions to prevent flooding the services channel. (M)
 - Extended and optimised mode support. (M)
 - Ability to enable/disable events so that a module can "optimise" it's event
   table based on options e.g. disabling ConnectServ sign watch can disable
   the SIGNON event core side. (M)
 - More flags added to event system to allow the core to automatically handle
   exclusions of NeoStats clients and global exclusion entries. The module can
   manipulate the current settings based on local options. (M)
 - Add error field to Module structure so the core can flag a module as being
   in an erroneous state and unload it at an opportune time. E.g. if a module
   calls init_bot from ModInit, the call will fail gracefully and the module 
   will be automatically unloaded once the core rgains control. (M)
 - EVENT_ONLINE removed with previous functionality available via a ModSynch
   function. Advantages over the event are that it can return a failure status
   if for example an init_bot call fails and we can unload the module. It also
   means modules that do not need to use any other events can now ignore the 
   event sub system and the core can do less event checking. (M)
 - neostats.cfg renamed to neostats.conf. This is to be more consistent with 
   other packages and to avoid someone using a config file from an older series
   with NeoStats 3.0. (M)
 - Combine standard and auth module load/unload systems so we can load and 
   unload auth modules easily. (M)
 - Remove me.onchan since it is always set with me.synched so is redundant. (M)
 - Replace me.synched references with IsNeoStatsSynched() for consistency. (M)
 - Timers now have a new type field to select the standard interval timer or 
   a midnight timer. Other types to follow. (M)
 - Timers now check module synched before running. (M)
 - Event system now uses an array per module so that issuing an event is a 
   simple (and quick) table lookup rather than parsing the whole list each 
   time. This also makes it possible for modules to add and delete events while 
   running. (M)
 - Core now handles synch checking for module events. If a module wants to
   receive an event before synch complete, they just add a flag into the event 
   table and the core will always pass the flagged event along. (M)
 - Some new list and hash functions to standardise list/hash code. (M)
 - Fake deaf mode on IRCds that do not support it natively. (M)
 - CTCP handling to send and process CTCPs easily. (M)
 - Update events and group them by type so events.h is a more useful 
   development resource. (M)
 - StatServ: Modify GeoIP for Win32 and add as a second version. (M)
 - StatServ: GeoIP lib moved to own directory. (M)
 - New debug levels of DEBUGRX and DEBUGTX to identify incoming and outgoing
   messages. (M)
 - Mode descriptions now handled core side so modules can share the information
   rather than define local variants. (M)
 - ConnectServ: mode reports now run from a table. (M)
 - More core side UMODE support. (M)
 - Add support for online bot realname, host and ident changes. (M)
 - Add support for IRCd SETNAME, SETIDENT and SETHOST functions. (M)
 - Add support for online bot nick changes. (M)
 - Combined BOTCHANLIST command with BOTLIST command. (M)
 - Remove redundant botchanhash code and tables. We can get this information
   via the bot, users structure channel list. (M)
 - Optimise bot quit paths. (M)
 - Optimise bot and associated user links to reduce lookups. (M)
 - Change module processing so we can have debug versions of DLLs. (M)
 - New Client struct introduced which contains common elememts of Server and
   User structs. Server and User specifics remain as substructs of Client. This
   makes for simpler coding for the more common elements and allows us to 
   add additional clients without major changes to the core and API with new
   substructs in the Client struct. (M)
 - IRCD feature support is now self configuring based on whether a function 
   exists to handle a feature. This means less work for IRCd coders and allows
   a protocol module to "emulate" a feature locally that would normally require
   additional core support. (M)
 - Mode processing code moved to modes.c/h (M)
 - Module API inmprovements and core flow optimisations. Functions now pass 
   valid bot and user pointers rather than looking them up multiple times. (M)
 - makeconf updated to reflect changes and some tidy ups (M)
 - Depreciate some useless config items from neostats.cfg:
   STATSERV_NETNAME - we do not use this and overwrite it when we get netinfo
   NEOSTAT_HOST - Default to servername as host and allow online config
   NEOSTAT_USER - Default to Neo and allow online config
   This makes configuration easier (M)
 - Extend BotInfo structure and simplify init_bot function to use extended 
   structure. (M)
 - Add synched field to Module structure so modules can tell when they are 
   online without having to maintain local variables and can be taken offline
   easily by the core. (M)
 - Add automatic bot_info SET options. (M)
 - Core command processor now uses a hash for SET options to speed up option
   processing. (M)
 - Add feature check to load modules so that modules will not load if the 
   selected protocol does not support a required feature. e.g. HostServ
   required SVSHOST support. (M)
 - Update auth modules so that they just calculate a level and leave the core
   to decide whether it overrides a current level. (M)
 - Reg nick support might not use mode +r so calculate the correct char when 
   loading IRCd and use variable for checking it. (M)
 - Optimise UserLevel processing so after a user level is calculated it is then
   a lookup rather than needing to recalculate every time. (M)
 - Send STATS u request to incoming servers so we can store uptime info for 
   statistics. (M)
 - Store client CTCP version reply in user struct so we can access it after the
   event. (M)
 - Send VERSION request to incoming servers so we can store version info for
   statistics. (M)
 - update hostserv to use match rather than fnmatch. (F)
 - More autotools updates to shut it up some more, and improve build process (F)
 - Update makeconf to generate a PROTOCOL line. (M)
 - Update automake files for core and protocol to observe new protocol module
   generation. (M)
 - Win32: Add debug console to GUI version with redirects of STDOUT and STDERR
   which depreciates the console version. (M)
 - Win32: Add fnmatch to core since it does not exist on Win32. (M)
 - Win32: Create protocol DLL files. (M)
 - Protocol system is now modular and required loading of a protocol module via
   neostats.cfg. (M)
 - Win32: Macros for modules/core exports for DLL compatibility. (M)
 - Win32: Create Win32 compatible dl_xxxx system for modules. (M)
 - Win32: Generate core export library for use by modules. (M)
 - New macro MSGTOK to use in protocol modules for MSG_*/TOK_* selection. (M)
 - Core no longer depends on protocol specific headers. (M)
 - Change protocol files to be more modular. Support functions accessed via
   pointers. (M)
 - Win32: Run NeoStats main code on a thread. (M)
 - Win32: Add very basic GUI. (M)
 - Win32: Disable fork. Windows handles processes differently. (M)
 - Win32: Disable unsupported signal processing. (M)
 - Win32: ADNS Win32 compatible library import. (M)
 - Win32: Macros created for *nix function not available. (M)
 - Win32: dl code disabled for first pass Win32 support. (M)
 - Win32: Socket code updated to WinSock compatible calls. (M)
 - Win32: Keeper KP_P reserved in Win32 so renamed to KP_PATH (M)
 - Win32: #define around header files not available under Win32 (M)
 - Win32: configwin32.h is a fixed config.h since Windows does not need 
   different ones. Creates problem of how to choose IRCd. (M)
 - Win32: Early support for native compilation under MSVC .NET 2003 (M)
 - Change init_bot so that in client mode, module commands and settings are
   just added to the main bot. (M)
 - Begin adding a client protocol so that NeoStats can connect as a normal
   client rather than a server. (M)
 - Split unreal and ultimate protocol files into ultimate2, ultimate3, unreal31 
   and unreal32 for easier maintainance. (M)
 - Begin moving common mode defines to neostats.h from ircd specific files. (M)
 - Channel key and limit modes now have explicit support rather than being 
   included in general mode parameters list. (M)
 - Begin improved mode handling. Protocol module tables are parsed at boot into
   a faster core lookup table. The speedup is based on the fact that more often
   than not we lookup a mode char so we can index on this char rather than loop
   through every mode multiple times looking for a match. (M)
 - Import libtools wrappers for dynamic module support (F)
 - Full AutoConf Support on the way. Core Compiles. Modules Dont yet (F)
 - Remove hard coded protocol/feature references in StatServ and HostServ. 
   These are depreciated by the new soft protocol design and will use the new
   protocol/feature references in the ModuleInfo struct where required. (M)
 - Begin replacing old #define GOTFEATURE with new FEATURE and PROTOCOL systems
   as part of soft protocol support. Currently it is still "hard" coded but 
   will eventually move to the soft support system (M)
 - Replace spart_cmd with part_bot_from_chan function (M)
 - Add BANDUMP command to display ban table (M)
 - Remove debugtochannel and optimise code path of functions using it (M)
 - Remove ssjoin_cmd and sjoin_cmd functions. All channel joins must use
   join_bot_to_chan. (M)
 - Remove snewnick_cmd function. All new users must be introduced using 
   init_bot (M)
 - Change is_pub_chan so it returns TRUE for a public channel. (M)
 - Begin IRCD "soft" protocol/feature design. (M)
 - Remove old CMODE_CH_xxx and CMODE_FL_xxx defines that new sjoin system makes
   redundant. (M)
 - Host OS value now saved by configure for use in version reporting and for 
   bug reporting. (M)
 - Add support for NOQUIT so that NeoStats can delete users from disconnected
   servers without requiring individual QUITs (M)
 - Add support to recurse server list for SQUIT so that NeoStats can delete 
   leaves of hubs which SQUIT (M)
 - Tidy exported include files (via make install) to the currently required 
   minimum. (M)
 - Added DEBUGMOD option which allows selective debugging of a module so we can
   limit debug output to a single module when required. (M)
 - Command line option -v now reports a full IRCd string in the version so we
   no longer need the flag "help" text. (M)
   this is now handled by IRCdAuth. (M)
 - Removed -l (log level) command line option. This is now an online "SET" 
   option which saved and restored via config system. (M)
 - Removed umode levels from IRCd protocol files and associated core code since 
   this is now handled by IRCdAuth. (M)
 - ExtAuth: Added support for an access list system such that the master 
   service root can manage users who have access to NeoStats and their 
   individual levels. This removes the need for the older SERVICE_ROOTS options
   which have been superseded with the new SERVICEROOT option for master root
   and the access list maintained via IRC (M)
 - Authentication modules are now optional again. A single service root is 
   required in the config file using a new SERVICEROOT option which follows the 
   format of the old SERVICE_ROOTS option but is singlular and renamed to 
   prevent upgraders relying on this working. This is used by the core to 
   provide at least one user with NeoStats access regardless of authentication 
   systems. (M)
 - Add dlog function to handle debug messages. nlog is now purely for normal 
   logging purposes (M)
 - Add DEBUGCHAN setting for sending debug messages to channel and DEBUGTOCHAN
   setting to enable/disable it's use. (M)
 - Reorganised me and config structures. (M)
 - Debug mode is now a SET option rather than a command. (M)
 - Add set command to NeoStats to set user mode for service bots. 
   /msg neostats set SERVICEBOTUMODE <mode>. default is defined in the IRCd 
   specific services_umode string. (M)
 - Add set command to NeoStats to set channel mode for service bots. 
   /msg neostats set SERVICEBOTCMODE <mode>. default is defined in the IRCd 
   specific services_cmode string. (M)
 - Add services_cmode string to IRCd protocol files to set default channel
   modes for service bot that reflect IRCd capabilities to simplify sjoin 
   code and module code for joins. (M)
 - New module auth system to support auth systems other than the 2.5 extauth.
   The core is now unable to provide any authentication and an auth module must 
   be loaded. The old IRCd umode based auth is now a loadable module so is 
   optional. Where a module wants to have local control over authentication,
   the 2.5.15+ ModAuth function has been renamed to ModLocalAuth to distinguish
   it from auth only modules. New config load module options have been added
   to support auth modules which require a slightly different style to standard
   modules. templateauth provides the example code for auth modules. (M)
 - configure now checks IRCD first so that if this required option is missed 
   the user will be told immediately rather than after all other checks. (M)
 - Build process updates so that at configure time we only do what we need to 
   and reduce the number of config.h files we need to maintain. (M)
 - New memory allocation wrappers functions scalloc, srealloc and sfree. (M)
 - Add SET VERSIONSCAN option to core for CTCP version scanning. (M)
 - StatServ: Optimise database save to further reduce code required and get 
   back a little CPU. (M)
 - StatServ: Adjust exclusions so that counts are accurate. The exclusions 
   produced cases where the current channel count was greater than the network 
   record! (M)
 - IRCd version suffix now handled by configure rather than code. (M)
 - Introduce new debug.log system to store all current messages and debug info
   to avoid corrupting main system logs when in debug mode and allow users to 
   submit this file for support rather than multiple ones from modules plus 
   core. (M)
 - StatServ: reorganised code so stats code is encapsulated from module 
   specifics and introduced new burst request system during init. (M)
 - Begin implementing "burst" request interface for modules to get current
   user/channel/server etc lists. (M)
 - Homogenize init error messages. (M)
 - Update core support functions to use new run level system to determine 
   current module removing the need for modules to pass their module pointer 
   when adding bots/timers/socks etc. (M)
 - Replace old segv_module system with new run level system. (M)
 - Keeper subdirs are now subdirs of main data dir. (M)
 - ConnectServ: reverse colour define so default is disabled. (M)
 - Core modules now use core config loading system (M)
 - All socket code now in socks.c for easier upgrade (M)
 - Early support for module semi auto config designed to perform loading of 
   module config settings or set defaults without the module having to code it. 
   Due to the need for custom set values, we will likely have to call the core 
   function from the module rather than perform automatically at load time. (M)
 - Command processor set routine broken into helper functions for easier
   maintainance (M)
 - Rewritten command processor to use new command structure (M)
 - Moved signal code to signals.c/h (M)
 - New structure for passing to commands and events (M)
 - Removed NeoStats logs command since it is useless with multiple logs. 
   Possibly look onto a LogView module sometime in the future if there is 
   demand for this facility (M)
 - Begin adding return value processing for commands so core can handle common
   errors such as syntax error (M)
 - HostServ: removed old database format support (M)
 - Event system updates. Change type to int enum for faster processing. Some 
   events renamed to be closer to irc commands so meaning is more obvious for 
   module programmers and to assist the move from module_functions to events. 
   Enum type protects event system at compile time. (M)
 - seperate auth system from main core so we can add new auth hooks (M)
 - send_sjoin bug fix where user has no modes (M)
 - Segfault reports are now directed to segfault.log rather than the main log
   files for easier submission (M)
 - subsystem structures now maintain a module pointer to lookup names rather
   than copies of the string. We can now lookup modules via a quick pointer
   compare rather than string compare and can access module information without
   addition function overheads. (M)
 - Modules must pass their module handle to the core for accessing bots/timers
   etc, once all interfaces use this system, try to "automate" the handle using
   some form of current_module/runlevel within the core (M)
 - Core and modules now share bot init code (M)
 - Updated bot interface to use a new bot_info structure (M)
 - ExtAuth: remove old format support (M)
 - Added instrinsic bot commands for ABOUT, CREDITS, VERSION (M)
 - Logging scope is now automatic rather than requiring a specific option (M)
 - Module support calls to access timers/bots/sockets etc must now pass 
   correctly typed function pointers rather than using core symbol lookups (M)
 - dl.c/h split into files dedicated to a part of the module sytstem e.g. 
   bots.c. dl.c/h now becomes our wrapper library for handling libdl plus 
   future DLL and static support (M)
 - Added some extra fields to channel, user and server structures for future 
   use (M)
 - Point of no return. Legacy 2.5 systems are now broken. Some 2.5.15 compliant
   systems will still work but all module backward compatibility has been 
   stripped. 
 - All core module changelogs moved to docs/old. Future core module updates 
   will be included in the main NeoStats changelog (M)
 - Remove module API hacks (M)
 - Remove legacy stats.h, API is now exported via neostats.h only (M)
 - Depreciate support for __module_functions and associated ModuleFunction 
   overheads, version 3.0 will send information to modules via events only (M)
 - Remove 2.5.5 and lower module compatibility systems (M)
 - New source tree layout implemented (M)
 - Begin version 3.0 development (M)

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