Greetings All, The coding team is proud to announce the release of Bahamut 1.8.7. Most notably, this release provides client-side support for SSL connections, and numerous small fixes and updates. This release is considered a "slow deployment" release, due to some of the changes involved. DALnet Admins are free to roll out this update, but at this time there is no mandatory upgrade schedule. One will likely be announced in several weeks. The intention is to have slow growth of deployment base in order to come to an understanding of impact of SSL and other options to the behavior of the network. The new tarball can be downloaded at http://code.dal.net/release/bahamut-1.8.7.tar.gz Thank you to Kobi and Ned for their contributions. The following changes have been made in summary: Kobi Shmueli (19): Added SSL initialization and rehashing stuff Added the needed changes for SSL to acutally work Added flags support for the port block and mark SSL users with SSL on the umode +c notice Added make-cert.sh & make-cert.cnf to create the server certificate Added SSL umode/cmode/flag Let users/opers message +o users even if the sender is +R Fixed NO_USER_STATS to allow /stats from u:lined servers Rakarra's opernick patch typo (UNKINE --> UNKLINE) Let server admins set a maxrecvq per class block (take #2) Added SVSPANIC (Stops users from sending commands to services). Make kill -HUP remove all throttles. Added umode +C Re-added CHANKILL from the old 1.8.4-trunk (I think Quension wrote it). Changed SVSHOLD to support channels. Let SVSCLONE override local clone limits too. Let services change hosts (take #5) dccallow fix Re-added the SERVICESHUB sutff with conf flags Ned T. Crigler (2): Force the cached banserial of a user to be updated on a SVSNICK. Remove the use of ircsprintf. epiphani (6): Update docs to reflect SSL configuration support Move make-cert tools into the tools directory Fix up some templating and configure script stuff to make SSL tools install cleanly Allow port definitions that do not perform DNS or ident checks. Update notifcations for failed OPER attempts Update TODO and Patchlevel. This is 1.8.7.