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+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.5 (2018-10-14)
+o) The ':', and ',' nickname delimiters work again
+o) Fixed a bug where the hopm process couldn't be restarted under certain
+   conditions
+o) The hopm process can now be restarted from the command line via "kill -HUP"
+o) Added --enable-efence switch to allow easy linking with the
+   electric fence memory debugger library
+o) Implemented proper support to kill users with vulnerable SSH versions by
+   version announcement. Patch provided by falsovsky (Pedro de Oliveira). See
+   doc/reference.conf for more information.
+o) Minimum supported OpenSSL version is 1.0.1d now
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.4 (2017-04-05)
+o) IPv6 blacklist support has been implemented
+o) The CHECK command now accepts IPv6 addresses
+o) The negative cache has been rewritten to use latest Net::Patricia
+   C sources and does support IPv6 now
+o) Further code cleanups and optimizations
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.3 (2016-09-26)
+o) Allow inclusion of other configuration files in the main hopm.conf
+   file. See doc/reference.conf for further information on how to use
+   the new .include configuration directive.
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.2 (2016-05-15)
+o) Fixed archaic bug which can cause the scanner to either detect nothing or
+   to detect everything and therefore even kill legit clients
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.1 (2016-01-03)
+o) Added 'command_queue_size', 'command_interval', and 'command_timeout',
+   configuration directives to the options {} block. See doc/reference.conf
+   for more information.
+o) Various updates to the reference.conf; added updated 'connregex' directives
+   for ircd-hybrid in conjunction with user mode +F (far connect notices), and
+   UnrealIRCd 4.0.0, which now uses a different format for connect notices
+o) Minor code cleanups
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.0 (2015-08-07)
+o) options::pidfile and options::scanlog can now be relative pathnames
+o) Due to security reasons the PROTOCOLS command has been removed again
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.0beta1 (2015-07-02)
+o) Added HTTPS support for SSL/TLS-enabled HTTP proxies which seem to be
+   used quite a lot on IRC nowadays. LibreSSL or OpenSSL 0.9.8o and above
+   is required for this to work.
+o) Added new HTTPS and HTTPSPOST protocol configuration directives to the
+   scanner {} block.
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.8 (2015-06-25)
+o) Added options::reconnectinterval configuration option. See doc/reference.conf
+   for more information.
+o) Added options::dns_timeout configuration option. See doc/reference.conf
+   for more information.
+o) Further modernizations and cleanups to the build system
+o) HOPM now compiles with -fstack-protector-strong and -fstack-protector,
+   respectively, depending on what the compiler supports
+o) Added --enable-assert switch to ./configure. assert() statements are now
+   disabled by default and can be enabled with ./configure --enable-assert
+o) Added --enable-warnings switch to ./configure, which enables various
+   compiler warnings if supported by the compiler
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.7 (2015-06-06)
+o) HOPM can now detect Dreamboxes with default root passwords
+o) Fixed bug where the configuration parser would report syntax errors
+   with invalid line numbers when there are multi-line C-style
+   comments in the config file
+o) Minor code cleanups
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.6 (2015-05-27)
+o) HOPM now catches MikroTik HttpProxies
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.5 (2015-05-04)
+o) Fixed bug where HOPM couldn't connect to the server specified
+   in the irc {} block on some OS
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.4 (2015-03-17)
+o) Log timestamp format is ISO8601 now
+o) Added 'protocols' command which dumps a list of configured scanners
+   and their associated protocols/ports to a channel
+o) Code cleanups and performance improvements
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.3 (2015-01-28)
+o) Fixed bug where HOPM wouldn't try re-connecting to the server in
+   case the connection got lost
+o) Added irc::notice configuration option
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.2 (2015-01-12)
+o) Added options::negcache_rebuild configuration option
+o) Added basic IPv6 support allowing HOPM to bind and
+   connect to IPv6 addresses
+o) Many code cleanups and optimizations
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.1 (2015-01-06)
+o) Fixed build on OS X
+o) More code cleanups, no user-visible changes
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.0 (2015-01-03)
+o) Minor stabilization and performance improvements
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.0beta2 (2014-12-31)
+o) Added irc::readtimeout configuration option
+o) Many code cleanups and optimizations
+o) Worked towards IPv6 support
+o) Fixed reference.conf from causing syntax errors
+o) HOPM now uses poll() for I/O event notification instead of select()
+
+
+-- Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.0beta1 (2014-12-25)
+########################################################################
+o) NOTE:  this is the first release of the hybrid open proxy monitor (HOPM)
+   fully based off the discontinued blitzed open proxy monitor (BOPM) 3.1.3
+########################################################################
+o) Modernized and cleaned up build system
+o) Modernized the example configuration file. Removed/updated blacklist entries.
+o) The configuration parser now does support time and size units
+o) The configuration parser now does support c++ style comments
+o) Fixed a memory leak in conjunction with manual scans
+o) Fixed weird behaviour in the command parser
+o) Code hardening. Replaced occurences of strcpy/strcat with strlcpy/strlcat, etc.
+o) Various code cleanups and optimizations
+o) The irc::away configuration option is now optional
+
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+BUG REPORTS: If you run this code and encounter problems, you must report
+ the bug by EMAIL to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org
+ Please include a gdb backtrace and a copy of your setup.h and
+ hopm.conf with any report (with passwords and other sensitive
+ information masked).
+
+DISCUSSION: There is a mailing list for discussion of hopm issues,
+ including betas. To subscribe, use this link:
+    https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
+ This is the proper place to discuss new features, bugs, etc.
+
+Questions/comments directed to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org
+
+Other files recommended for reading: README, INSTALL
+
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+$Id$