<h1id="latest-version-of-supybot-was-released-in-2005">Latest version of Supybot was released in 2005</h1>
<p>All activity happens in git repository of Supybot nowadays and it happens seldomly. The version, which was released in 2005 is 0.83.4.1.</p>
<p>It's available from <ahref="http://supybot.sf.net/">SourceForge</a>, Debian repositories, Ubuntu repositories and repositories of many other Linux distributions.</p>
<h1id="has-critical-issues">0.83.4.1 has critical issues</h1>
<p>What issues?</p>
<h2id="anyone-can-crash-it-and-computer-where-its-running-on">1. Anyone can crash it and computer where it's running on</h2>
<p>And this is very easy. Just run the command</p>
<pre><code>!misc last --regexp m/(.*\w){512}/</code></pre>
<p>where ! is the prefix character.</p>
<p>Misc is loaded by default and cannot be unloaded without modifying the config.</p>
<h2id="the-previous-wasnt-the-only-way-to-do-this">2. The previous wasn't the only way to do this</h2>
<p>Everyone can also make the bot count an equation, which brings it and the host computer down.</p>
<h2id="anyone-can-access-network-services-via-the-bot.">3. Anyone can access network services via the bot.</h2>
<p>I don't have example command for this, but it happens by nesting "format cut" and "misc tell".</p>
<p>What does this mean? Anyone can tell the bot to ghost someone else on same account, take over a channel by telling the bot to give flags (if it has correct flags), change password of the account and everything else what you do with network services.</p>
<h2id="web-page-with-special-characters-in-title-can-be-used-to-send-dccctcp-commands.">4. Web page with special characters in title can be used to send DCC/CTCP commands.</h2>
<p>This doesn't mean only things like CTCP actions (also known as /me), but known problems with old routers ( FF ? DCC SEND “ff???f??????????????” 0 0 0 ) which make them reconnect to the internet.</p>
<li><ahref="http://debian.org/">Debian</a>, <ahref="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672214">issue 1</a> and <ahref="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672215">issue 2</a>.</li>
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<p>The first issue has been also used to take down some of <ahref="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Bots">Ubuntu IRC bots</a> several times. At least UbotX (I don't remember the number) and meetingology.</p>
<p>Some of them are fixed in git repository, but most people aren't using it.</p>
<h2id="how-to-avoid-them">How to avoid them?</h2>
<p>You can add anticapability for these commands using "owner defaultcapability", but that is only a temporary solution. There can also be other issues.</p>
<p>There are also two active Supybot forks, known as <ahref="https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria">Limnoria</a> and <ahref="http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gribble/index.php?title=Main_Page">Gribble</a>, which are actively developed and have fixed these issues. If you want permanent solution, you should install either of them.</p>
<p>I recommend <ahref="https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria">Limnoria</a>, because it seems to be more active (activity of <ahref="http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gribble/index.php?title=Main_Page">Gribble</a> isn't announced anywhere) and it has additional commands, translations and new plugin called <ahref="https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria/tree/master/plugins/PluginDownloader">PluginDownloader</a>, which makes installing of 3rd party plugins easy. Ohloh supports comparing different projescts, <ahref="https://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?project_0=Limnoria&project_1=Gribble%3A+Support+Bottie&project_2=Supybot">here is comparsion of Limnoria, Gribble and Supybot</a>.</p>
<p><strong>If you use Debian/Ubuntu or any Debian based distribution, you can get <ahref="http://builds.progval.net/limnoria/limnoria-master-HEAD.deb">stable version of Limnoria here</a> or <ahref="http://builds.progval.net/limnoria/limnoria-testing-HEAD.deb">testing version here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The links above should always be the latest version of Limnoria and they are updated daily.</p>
<p><ahref="http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gribble/index.php?title=Gribble_Project_Git_Repository">Gribble modifications when compared to Supybot.</a></p>
<p><ahref="https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria/wiki/LGC">Limnoria modifications when compared to Gribble.</a> Features of Gribble have been fully merged to Limnoria.</p>
<p>Your current botname.conf is <strong>100% compatible with forks</strong>.</p>
<p><ahref="irc://irc.freenode.net/#supybot,#gribble,#limnoria">Join Supybot channels on freenode!</a></p>
