RobustIRC v0.3 release

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hey,

I’ve tagged the RobustIRC v0.3 release. Here are the release notes:

RobustIRC v0.3 (2016-02-20)

RobustIRC v0.3 contains the following changes:

• Two messages of death have been fixed: commit 531dbc1 and commit 979b014

• Nodes are prevented from joining the network when their clock drift is too high

• robustirc-removepeer (new) safely removes nodes from a network

• Compaction now is much more efficient: completes within 10 seconds, uses >1GB less RAM

• Faster start by recreating the irclog database instead of deleting all entries (5 minutes → 40 seconds)

• Less RAM usage by moving outputstream from RAM to a temporary LevelDB (> 100MB less RAM)

• jepsen now includes a RobustIRC test, successfully verifies network partition handling

• To prevent mistakes, -singlenode and -join are now disabled when the node already has data

• Log files are now kept below 250MB correctly even when running in Docker

• Channel mode +n (no external messages) is now implemented

• Malformed NICK messages (trailer instead of first parameter) are now accepted (for Quassel)

• Capitalization-only nick changes are now supported

• robustirc-dump (new) dumps the contents of irclog, raftlog and snapshots

• robustirc-canary (new) compares how two versions of RobustIRC process the same input

• robustirc-localnet now generates certificates that also work with Chrome ≥ 49.0.2618.8

The known weakness of v0.1 and v0.2 with regards to compaction not covering all message types yet is still not entirely addressed.