Libera Chat @liberachat@fosstodon.org

Libera is a year old. Thanks for supporting us, because it's been a pleasure supporting you.

https://libera.chat/news/happy-birthday-libera-chat

Hello and good morning,a critical vulnerability in the Matrix IRC bridge has been patched, deployed, and disclosed (see https://matrix.org/blog/2022/05/04/0-34-0-security-release-for-matrix-appservice-irc-high-severity for details) and we will shortly be disconnecting all affected third party Matrix bridges we can find in the interest of protecting their users.

Original toot by Matrix folk:
https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/108242582363604964

thanks for the cooperation and stay safe out there, folk

Hello fedi. At last nights staff meeting we decided to update our privacy policy regarding data we keep to tackle abuse. Our updated policy is available at https://libera.chat/privacy/ , and you can see the specific change we made here: https://github.com/Libera-Chat/libera-chat.github.io/commit/9b54ea1ef4c10c176feffb5c5ab19f6c4417bd14

As this year slowly comes to an end, we wrote a blog post with a 2021 review: https://libera.chat/news/end-of-2021-review We wish all of you a happy holiday season and happy festivities if you celebrate, and all the best for 2022!

Hi everyone. In September we announced that we wanted to extend how long nicks lasted before become expirable on libera.

After the 10w waiting period, we've now brought this change into effect - nicks now only become eligible to expire (on request) after 20w.

If you missed it first time around, the blogpost was here: https://libera.chat/news/lengthening-nick-expiry

#python , one of our hosted projects and channels, just released 3.10.0:

"Python 3.10.0, the newest major release of the Python programming language, is out now! Get it here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3100/ Highlights include: pattern matching, writing union types as X | Y, much improved error messages, and support for OpenSSL 3.0!"

https://libera.chat/news/letsencrypt-ca-expiry

technical details: Lets Encrypt attempted to mitigate their new root cert not being trusted on old devices by cross-signing it with their old root cert (details here https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-root-ca-x3-expiration-september-2021/) but this broke old openssl, so we've ditched this mitigation ~jess (via kline)

Due to fallout from Lets Encrypt's root certificate expiry (https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/21/lets-encrypt-root-expiry/), some users may have had issues whilst trying to connect to us today. We think we've fixed the bulk of the problem now, but feel free to email us at support@libera.chat if you still have issues.

Libera intends to extend the expiry time on inactive nicks. Previously, nicks that were inactive would expire at 10 weeks, at which point they could be dropped (subject to staff discretion) for re-use.
In 10 weeks, (4 Dec 21) we will double this to 20 weeks to expire.

You can read more in our blog post here: https://libera.chat/news/lengthening-nick-expiry

We just crossed 100 man-days of accumulated staff on call time. Neat!

On libera, `/stats p` shows the list of staff who are available to support you. It can be a good port of call if you need staff specific help.

The fastest way is usually #libera, but we understand that there are some questions that need an authoritative or privileged response.

Hey everyone. Our latest blog covering what we've been up to the last month is out. It covers some of the guides and docs we've been working on, as well as some behind the scenes stuff we do to keep the servers healthy.

You can find it here: https://libera.chat/news/just-over-100-days-of-libera-chat

Hope you're all having a good weekend!