If you were around for Christmas 2009, you'll remember that we did a massive upgrade on all our servers and services in the space of about 4 days. Thats right, its happening again this summer. The date has not yet been set but there will be lots of changes! The changes are outlined below:
Main UpdatesComplete Main Frame Update
IRC Server Reconnection is now optional (meaning if u get disconnected u can choose in the webpanel whether u want to auto-reconnect or not)
SSL Certificates (these are being renewed/re-generated)
Optional WebIRC for Networks will be added
Memory Leak Fix (Server-Side Issue)
New setting ServerThrottle which sets a timeout between connections to the same server.
WebAdmin now only uses the UTF-8 Character Set (more browsers support this)
Fix for SSL connections which incorrectly errored out during handshake.
connect throttle has now been replaced by fail2ban. (controls the amount of logins in a certain time limit per ip)
Module UpdatesNew Module: BNC-Side Ignore Feature
New Module: KVIrc Module - Shows your gender and avatar to people in IRC who uses KVIrc
New Module: Ability to Save Notes via module
New Module: New Prowl Module - Sends highlights from channels and private message to your iPhone via Prowl. (You'll need a Prowl API key from
http://prowl.weks.net/)
New Module: AuthServ - works the same as NickServ but for AuthServ which can be found on networks such as GameSurge
Update Module: translate (currently has some bugs)
Update Module: whois (currently has some bugs)
Update Module: partyline (deals with the internal channel ~#bnc - a few bugs at present, topic saving added, and support for /me and ctcp's)
Update Module: webadmin (Added Cookie Based Methods)
Update Module: nickserv (Fixed a bug with password saving)
Update Module: adminlog (Complete Update of the Logging System)
Services Bot Update (IRC)New: Reset Password Command to be added
New: Ban Appeal Command to be added
New: Session Limit monitoring to be added (STAFF)
Fix: Staff Commands which seem to bug occassionally
Fix: Invalid Password Bug
Fix: Auto-Reconnect to IRC or BNC if disconnected to prevent error spam
New Network Addition: irc.oftc.net
Website UpdatesNew: UserGuide to be added
New: Staff/Server Information Page
Update: Terms of Service & Rules
Update: Network List
Translation: bnc4free.nl - Dutch Site to be Completed and maintained by a new web staff member.
As outlined above, there is no set date for this update yet so please check back often! Each BNC will be down for around 30 mins at somepoint while this upgrade is installed. It will be carried out the same as last year where we do 2 servers per day so this upgrade will be taking 4 days because we have 7 servers. Any bugs or problems that occur during that period will be monitored but if you find any that we havent done already, please report them.
We'll update you on these plans soon!
