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2: ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3: http://ngircd.barton.de/
4:
5: (c)2001-2021 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6: ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7: terms of the GNU General Public License.
8:
9: -- ChangeLog --
10:
11: ngIRCd 26.1 (2021-01-02)
12:
13: - Fix a "format string" compiler warning (detected on OpenBSD).
14: - No longer set "AI_ADDRCONFIG" when resolving host names, even when it
15: exists: with this option set, on an IPv6-only host, we prevent 127.0.0.1
16: to get translated properly, even when the loopback interface has this
17: address configured! And as the test suite uses 127.0.0.1, it was broken
18: on IPv6-only hosts.
19: The drawback is that the resolver possibly returns more addresses now,
20: even of an unsupported/not connected address family; but this shouldn't
21: do much harm in practice, as ngIRCd iterates over all returned addresses
22: while trying to establish an outgoing connection.
23: Closes #281.
24: - Revert "Show allowed channel types in ISUPPORT(005) numeric only", which
25: was introduced in 26~rc1: This lead to some IRC clients assuming "oh, no
26: channel prefix characters at all, so no channels at all, so no PRIVMSG can
27: go to any channel" when "AllowedChannelTypes" was set to the empty string
28: ("") -- which is not the case when there are pre-defined channel set up or
29: other servers still having channels!
30: So "allowed channel types" != "supported channel types", and we always have
31: to list all supported ones in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric!
32: Closes #285.
33: - Test suite: Wait 2 seconds after reloading the daemon, which is required
34: because on reload, all listening ports are closed, configuration updated,
35: and then opened again. This lead to subsequent tests running while the
36: daemon isn't listening on any ports, and that's why some tests could fail.
37: Closes #280.
38: - platformtest.sh: Try to mangle CLang name more intelligently.
39: - Documentation: Fixed URLs of Atheme IRC services, updated all mentions
40: from CVS to Git, and updated Platforms.txt -- Oh, and it is 2021 now! ;-)
41:
42: ngIRCd 26 (2020-06-20)
43:
44: ngIRCd 26~rc2 (2020-06-11)
45: - Add AppStream metadata file (contrib/de.barton.ngircd.metainfo.xml).
46: - Don't send invalid CHANINFO commands when a channel has mode +k set but no
47: key is known to the server. This can happen with a misconfigured predefined
48: channel, for example, and looked like this: "CHANINFO #test +Pk 0 :" --
49: note the unset key represented by the two spaces. Fix this by sending a
50: "*" in this case and update the CHANINFO documentation, too.
51: - ngircd.spec: Fix names of README.md and INSTALL.md, add ".md" extension.
52: - Update description texts in the README.md file, the RPM and Debian package
53: files and the manual page: bring them in line with the updated homepage.
54: - Server-Server protocol: Fix use-after-free when unregistering a directly
55: connected server sending a SQUIT for itself.
56: - Server-Server protocol: Detect bogus SERVER commands lacking a prefix.
57: Thanks Hilko Bengen (hillu) for finding & reporting this as well for the
58: patch & pull request (even if fixed differently).
59: Closes #275.
60: - Fix the PING-PONG logic: In ngIRCd 26~rc1 this was completely broken (while
61: trying to fix timeouts during server handshakes in bigger networks): the
62: daemon never disconnected any stale peers but kept sending out PINGs over
63: and over again ...
64: - Test suite: Add missing files needed to test SSL support to "EXTRA_DIST",
65: so that they are included in distribution archives: in rc1, "make check"
66: fails when using sources from an archive and enabling SSL support.
67: Thanks to Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de> for the patch!
68:
69: ngIRCd 26~rc1 (2020-05-10)
70: - Tweak & update doc/HowToRelease.txt, .mailmap and AUTHORS files.
71: - Allow up to 512 characters per line in MOTD and help text files (but keep
72: in mind that lines can't get that long, because they have to be prefixed
73: before being sent to the client). But this allows for more fancy MOTDs :-)
74: Closes #271.
75: - Show the actually allowed channel types in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric which
76: are configured by the "AllowedChannelTypes" configuration variable.
77: Closes #273.
78: - Handle commands in the read buffer before reading more data and don't wait
79: for the network in this case: If there are more bytes in the read buffer
80: already than a single valid IRC command can get long (513 bytes), wait for
81: this/those command(s) to be handled first and don't try to read even more
82: data from the network (which most probably would overflow the read buffer
83: of this connection soon).
84: - Update Travis-CI configuration, "sudo" is deprecated.
85: - Log G-/K-Line changes only when not initiated by a server: this prevents
86: the log from becoming spammed during "net bursts".
87: - Update test suite to include SSL tests, including checking for reloading
88: certificates during runtime.
89: - Makefile.am: Replace "make" with "${MAKE}". This fixes warnings like this:
90: "warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule."
91: Thanks to Sam James (sam_c) <sam@cmpct.info>!
92: Closes #270.
93: - Add support for GnuTLS certificate reload, which is quite handy when using
94: Let's Encrypt, for example. Until now this was only supported when linked
95: with OpenSSL. Thanks a lot, Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de>!
96: - Remove deprecated legacy configuration options and related functions that
97: have been marked for removal for quite some time:
98: - PredefChannelsOnly (v22)
99: - NoticeAuth (v24)
100: - NoXXX (v19)
101: - Old '[GLOBAL]' section handling (v19)
102: Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
103: - Fix recursion bug on write errors: Depending on the stack size, too many
104: clients on the same channel quitting at the same time would trigger a crash
105: due to too many recursive calls to Conn_Close(). Thanks to Michi
106: <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
107: - Fix builds using GCC option -fno-common, which is the default starting with
108: GCC 10. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
109: Closes #266.
110: - Convert INSTALL and README files to Markdown.
111: - Allow setting arbitrary channel modes in the configuration file by handling
112: them like in MODE commands, and allow multiple "Modes =" lines per [Channel]
113: section. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org>!
114: Closes #55.
115: - Add "FNC" (forced nick changes) to ISUPPORT(005) numeric. Most probably
116: this doesn't make any difference to any client, but it seems correct.
117: See <http://www.irc.org/tech_docs/005.html> for details.
118: - Reuse old SSL key if loading a new one failed.
119: - Remove outdated OpenBSD/NetBSD systrace.policy.
120: - Enhance handling of command line errors, and return with exit code 0 ("no
121: error") when "--help" or "--version" is used (which resulted in exit code 1,
122: "error" before). Exit with code 2 ("command line error") for all other
123: invalid command line options, and show the error message itself on stderr
124: (instead of stdout and exit code 1, "generic error", as before).
125: This new behaviour is more in line with the GNU "coding standards",
126: see <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html>.
127: - Fix and update Xcode project: Reference correct contrib/Makefile.am file,
128: correctly sort contrib/nglog.sh and add "ORGANIZATIONNAME" setting.
129: - contrib/ngindent.sh: Add more GNU indent options for better results, and
130: add the ".sh" suffix to bring this script in line with the others in the
131: contrib/ folder.
132: - Add ./contrib/nglog.sh: This script parses the log output of ngircd(8),
133: and colorizes the messages according to their log level. Example usage:
134: ngircd -f $PWD/doc/sample-ngircd.conf -np | ./contrib/nglog.sh
135: - Log received signals with their names using strsignal(3), when available.
136: - Make test suite compatible with Haiku OS.
137: - Fix host mask cloaking bug, don't cloak multiple times: Previously, each
138: server would cloak every user's host mask. The problem is that if a network
139: has more than one server, then a user's host mask would get cloaked twice.
140: This patch ensures that a server only cloaks the host mask if it has not yet
141: been cloaked (the period indicates it's still an IP address). Thanks to
142: JRMU <jrmu@lecturify.com> for the patch!
143: Closes #228.
144: - Enlarge buffers of info texts to 128 bytes. This includes:
145: - "Real name" of a client (4th filed of the USER command).
146: - Server info text ("Info" configuration option).
147: - Admin info texts and email address ("AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" and
148: "AdminEmail" configuration options).
149: - Network name ("Network" configuration option).
150: The limit was 64 bytes before ...
151: Closes #258.
152: - Streamline handling of invalid and unset server name: Don't exit during
153: runtime (REHASH command, HUP signal), because the server name can't be
154: changed in this case anyway and the new invalid name will be ignored.
155: - Fix and extend documentation: Fix some typos, fix syntax of LINKS and LIST
156: commands, whitespace and spelling fixes, update dependencies and add some
157: more information about IRCv3 support.
158: Thanks to Thanks Windree, Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> and
159: Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
160: Closes #264.
161: - Slightly reorder startup steps, and enhance logging:
162: - Show name of configuration file at the beginning of start up.
163: - Add a message when ngIRCd is ready, including its host name.
164: - Show name of configuration file on REHASH (SIGHUP), too.
165: - Change level of "done message" to NOTICE, like "starting" & "ready".
166: - Initialize IO functions before channels, connections, clients, ...
167: - configure.ng: OpenSSL can depends on lz or latomic so use pkg-config to
168: find those dependencies and fallback to existing mechanism.
169: Closes #256.
170: - ngircd.conf.5: Fix wording as suggested by lintian.
171:
172: ngIRCd 25 (2019-01-23)
173:
174: - Fix documentation of MotdPhrase length, which actually is 126 characters:
175: update sample configuration file as well as the man page. Thanks to
176: shankari <shankari@eecs.berkeley.edu>.
177: Closes #254.
178: - Implement new configuration option "MaxPenaltyTime", which configures the
179: maximum penalty time increase in seconds, per penalty event. Set to -1 for
180: no limit (the default), 0 to disable penalties altogether. ngIRCd doesn't
181: use penalty increases higher than 2 seconds during normal operation, so
182: values higher than 1 rarely make sense.
183: Disabling (or reducing) penalties can greatly speed up "make check" runs
184: for example, see below, but are mostly a debugging feature and normally
185: not meant to be used on production systems!
186: Some example timings running "make check" from my macOS workstation:
187: - MaxPenaltyTime not set: 4:41,79s
188: - "MaxPenaltyTime = 1": 3:14,71s
189: - "MaxPenaltyTime = 0": 25,46s
190: Closes #249 and #251.
191: - Fix compilation without deprecated OpenSSL APIs. Thanks to Rosen Penev
192: <rosenp@gmail.com> for the patch!
193: Closes #252.
194: - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (10.0)
195: - Fix some compiler warnings of Apple Xcode/Clang
196: - Allow a 5th parameter in WEBIRC. Thanks to "ItsOnlyBinary".
197: Closes #247.
198: - Update some more documentation files and source code comments.
199: - Platforms.txt: Add and update systems.
200:
201: ngIRCd 25~rc1 (2018-08-11)
202: - Update config.guess (2018-03-08) and config.sub (2018-03-08) files.
203: - Correctly retry to establish an outgoing connections when forking of the
204: resolver sub-process failed (for example because of lack of free memory).
205: Until now, such a connection was never retried once this error was hit.
206: Thanks to Robert Obermeier for reporting this bug!
207: Closes #243.
208: - Fix a "use after free" bug which can be triggered on a newly established
209: connection when the daemon handles an ERROR command received from the peer
210: during client login. Thanks a lot to Joseph Bisch <joseph.bisch@gmail.com>
211: for discovering and reporting this issue!
212: - Only send TOPIC updates to a channel when the topic actually changed:
213: This prevents the channel from becoming flooded by unnecessary TOPIC update
214: messages, that can happen when IRC services try to enforce a certain topic
215: but which is already set (at least on the local server), for example.
216: Therefore still forward it to all servers, but don't inform local clients
217: (still update setter and timestamp information, though).
218: - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (9.2). This includes adding
219: missing and deleting obsolete file references.
220: - Handle user mode "C" ("Only users that share a channel are allowed to send
221: messages") like user mode "b" ("block private messages and notices"): allow
222: messages from servers, services, and IRC Operators, too. Change proposed by
223: "wowaname" back in 2015 in #ngircd, thanks!
224: - Fix some compiler warnings.
225: - Add contrib/ngircd.logcheck: Some sample logcheck(8) rules.
226: - Allow IRC Ops and remote servers to KILL service clients: such clients
227: behave like regular users, therefore IRC operators and servers should be
228: able to KILL them: for example to resolve nick collisions.
229: Closes #242.
230: - Don't forward KILLs to other servers if they've been blocked locally:
231: This prevents clients from killing IRC services, for example.
232: Closes #238 and #239.
233: - Fix a cross-compiler issue related to the Get_Error() function.
234: Closes #240 and #241.
235: - Update ./doc/Services.txt, enhance configuration examples.
236:
237: ngIRCd 24 (2017-01-20)
238:
239: - Make sure that ./contrib/platformtest.sh aborts when ./autogen.sh fails.
240: - Update config.guess (2016-10-02) and config.sub (2016-11-04) files.
241: - Build Debian packages with OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS: OpenSSL allows
242: to reload used certificates on runtime for example (which is very
243: useful when using Let's Encrypt), and therefore is preferred. And
244: explicitly specify the "source format".
245: - Fix handling of connection pool allocation and enlargement: up to now,
246: the daemon only enlarged its connection pool when accepting new incoming
247: client or server connections, not when establishing new outgoing server
248: links, which could lead to problems when hitting the configured limit,
249: see "MaxConnections". Thanks to Lukas Braun (k00mi) for reporting this!
250: Closes #231.
251:
252: ngIRCd 24~rc1 (2017-01-07)
253: - Enhance systemd service file, and install it in Debian package.
254: - Update configuration of Debian package.
255: - Log privilege violations and failed OPER request with log level "error"
256: and send it to the "&SERVER" channel, too.
257: - Immediately shut down connection when receiving an "ERROR" command,
258: don't wait for the peer to close the connection. This allows the daemon
259: to forward the received "ERROR" message in the network, instead of the
260: very generic "client closed connection" message.
261: - Fix sending of entry duration (no negative values!) when synchronizing
262: "x-lines" (G-LINES).
263: - List expiration (G-LINES): use same log level as when setting, and log
264: this event to the &SERVER channel, too.
265: - Explicitly forbid remote servers to modify "x-lines" (G-LINES) when the
266: "AllowRemoteOper" configuration option isn't set, even when the command
267: seems to originate from the remote server itself: this prevents GLINE's
268: to become set during server handshake in this case (what wouldn't be
269: possible during regular runtime when a remote IRC Op sends the command)
270: and what can't be undone by IRC Ops later on (because of the missing
271: "AllowRemoteOper" option) ...
272: - Make scripts and init-files in ./contrib executable.
273: - Fix building ngIRCd with OpenSSL 1.1. Thanks to Christoph Biedl
274: <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de> for the patch!
275: - Fix code indentation warnings of gcc 6.2.
276: - Update config.guess (2016-04-02) and config.sub (2016-03-30) files.
277: - Fix warnings of the "shellcheck" linter in autogen.sh, contrib/ngindent
278: and contrib/platformtest.sh.
279: - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (8.0), and fix "duplicate
280: symbols" error messages when building (linking) the binary.
281: - Add "Documentation" variables to systemd configuration files.
282: - Make sure that SYSCONFDIR is always set, which can be handy when
283: using source code linters when ./configure hasn't been run already.
284: - Add the new "PAMServiceName" configuration option to specify the name
285: used as PAM service name. This setting allows to run multiple ngIRCd
286: instances with different PAM configurations for each instance.
287: Thanks to Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at> for the
288: patch, closes #226.
289: - Add an ".editorconfig" file to the project.
290: - Travis-CI: use "container-based infrastructure".
291: - Limit the number of message targets, and suppress duplicates: This
292: prevents an user from flooding the server using commands like this:
293: "PRIVMSG nick1,nick1,nick1,...".
294: Duplicate targets are suppressed silently (channels and clients).
295: In addition, the maximum number of targets per PRIVMSG, NOTICE, ...
296: command are limited to MAX_HNDL_TARGETS (25). If there are more, the
297: daemon sends the new 407 (ERR_TOOMANYTARGETS_MSG) numeric, containing
298: the first target that hasn't been handled any more. Closes #187.
299: - Test suite: Add new test for server-server logins.
300: - contrib/ngindent: Fix shebang line.
301: - Make contrib/platformtest.sh script more portable, and only show
302: "runs=Y" when the test suite really has been passed successfully.
303: - Code cleanup in the NJON handler and the function killing clients as
304: well as the function sending messages to a "mask" (cleaner code, more
305: fault tolerant, better code comments).
306: - Update and enhance documentation: README file, doc/Platforms.txt,
307: doc/Modes.txt, doc/Commands.txt, doc/PAM.txt.
308: - Fix NJOIN not propagating "half ops" status: ngIRCd tested for the wrong
309: prefix of "half ops" when processing NJOIN commands and therefore never
310: classified a remote user as "half op".
311: Thanks to wowaname for pointing this out on #ngircd!
312:
313: ngIRCd 23 (2015-11-16)
314:
315: - Explicitly cast time_t to long when printing it out: this prevents
316: wrong sized data types on platforms where time_t doesn't equal a
317: long any more, for example on OpenBSD (which would result in garbled
318: output on those platforms).
319: - contrib/Debian/changelog: Fix email address.
320: - Documentation: Spelling fixes; update doc/Platforms.txt.
321:
322: ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06)
323: - Add ".clang_complete" file, which is used by the "linter-clang" package
324: of the Atom editor, for example.
325: - Make server-to-server protocol more robust: ngIRCd now catches more
326: errors on the server-to-server (S2S) protocol that could crash the
327: daemon before. This hasn't been a real problem because the IRC S2S
328: protocol is "trusted" by design, but the behavior is much better now.
329: Thanks to wowaname on #ngircd for pointing this out!
330: - Make platformtest.sh, autogen.sh, and ngircd.init more portable.
331: - Enables "reproducible builds" for ngIRCd: Use the optional BIRTHTIME
332: constant while building ngIRCd, which contains a time stamp for the
333: "Birth Date" information, in seconds since the epoch.
334: See <https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds>.
335: - Update "contrib/ngircd.service" file for systemd.
336: - INSTALL: Add deprecation notice for "PredefChannelsOnly" variable.
337: - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is
338: a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea.
339: Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not
340: available. This mimics the behavior in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd
341: 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217.
342: The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed
343: to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still
344: supported for compatibility reasons.
345: - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick
346: name while on this channel). Closes #214.
347: - README, AUTHORS: Update mailing list and issue tracker URLs.
348: - Remove doc/GIT.txt (it is outdated), update doc/Contributing.txt:
349: ngIRCd uses GitHub, and Git itself is quite common today. So don't
350: include an own Git "mini HowTo" any longer.
351: - Specify session context for OpenSSL clients. This enables some OpenSSL
352: clients, including Pidgin and stunnel 5.06, to reuse a session.
353: Patch by Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>, thanks! Closes #182.
354: - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts.
355: Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203.
356: - Make setgroups(3) function optional: For example, Interix is missing
357: this function, which prevented ngIRCd to build on this platform. When
358: setgroups(3) isn't available, a warning message is issued on startup.
359: - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients
360: expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly.
361: Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
362: - Update ngircd.conf.5: "CloakUserToNick" hides user _and_ real name.
363: This closes #208.
364: - Fix case insensitive pattern matching: Up to now, only the input
365: string became lowercased and was then compared to the pattern -- which
366: failed when the pattern itself wasn't all lowercase!
367: - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
368: in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't
369: hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect.
370: This closes #198.
371: - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set.
372: Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202.
373: - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents
374: ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see
375: the channel list).
376: Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197.
377: - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure
378: that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users
379: to local ("&") channels.
380: Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183.
381: - INVITE command: Enforce 1 second penalty time, which prevents flooding
382: of the target client.
383: This closes #186. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
384: - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when
385: receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation
386: time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports
387: the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined
388: to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this.
389: This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
390: - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (6.3).
391:
392: ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
393:
394: - Update doc/Platforms.txt and doc/FAQ.txt.
395: - Fix spelling of RPL_WHOISBOT message text.
396: - Don't send nick name as default PART reason: No other IRC daemon seems
397: to do this (today?). Closes #185.
398: Reported by Cahata in #ngircd, thanks!
399: - Fix "WHO #<chan>" showing invisible users and hiding all visible, the
400: logic was reversed! This bug has been introduced by commit c74115f2,
401: "Simplify mode checking on channels and users within a channel", ngIRCd
402: releases 21, 21.1, and 22 are affected :-( Problem reported by Cahata
403: in #ngircd, Thanks!
404: - Fix typo in src/testsuite/README
405: - Auth PING: Fix our information text for manual sending of "PONG". Up to
406: now, ngIRCd doesn't send a valid IRC command at all, oops!
407: - Auth PING: Fix internal time stamp conversion and don't send a prefix in
408: our PING command. The prefix confuses WeeChat, at least, which doesn't
409: send an appropriate PONG in the case ...
410: Debugging and patch by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
411: - Fix syntax of ERR_LISTFULL_MSG(478) numeric. Pointed out by "wowaname"
412: in #ngircd, thanks!
413: - Enhance debug messages while sending CHANINFO commands.
414: - Reset "last try" timer when enabling a passive server. This results in
415: a new connection attempt as soon as possible.
416: - Change log message for "Can't resolve address" and for IP address
417: forgeries.
418: - doc/HowToRelease.txt: Add note about the bug tracker.
419: - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch,
420: and testing by Christoph Biedl <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
421: - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating
422: systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example
423: "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to
424: "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve
425: "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using
426: DNS at all makes the test site much more portable.
427:
428: ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
429:
430: - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
431: ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
432: Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
433:
434: ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
435: - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
436: lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
437: nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
438: Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
439: - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
440: - Correctly check that a server has a valid hostname and port, thanks to
441: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com> who reported this bug.
442: - Fix the function which generates complete "IRC masks" from user input,
443: don't destroy the source buffer and use all provided parts (nick, user,
444: host name). This fixes GLINEs/KLINEs from not working in some situations.
445: - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
446: that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
447: this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
448: if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
449: - Debian: Don't adjust path names that are correct by default and correctly
450: set and use "docdir".
451: - Update config.guess and config.sub to recent versions.
452: - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
453: - doc/Bopm.txt: Update "connregex" and "kline" for current ngIRCd.
454: - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
455: settable by IRC Operators.
456: - Spoofed prefixes: Really kill connection on non-server links.
457: - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
458: "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
459: settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
460: careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
461: User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
462: - Handle "throttling" in a single function: ngIRCd implements "command
463: throttling" and "bps throttling" (bytes per second). The states are
464: detected in different functions, Conn_Handler() and Read_Request(), but
465: handle the actual "throttling" in a common function: this enables us to
466: guarantee consistent behavior and to disable throttling for special
467: connections in only one place
468: - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
469: - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
470: - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
471: Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
472: - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
473: on "VPATH builds", for example.
474: - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
475: and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
476: - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
477: using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
478: names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
479: is quite unexpected for users.
480: - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
481: allow using separate source and build trees.
482: - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
483: - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
484: in all replies.
485: - Update configure.ng: ngIRCd requires GNU autoconf 2.61 for generating its
486: build system, so update the build system accordingly and implement all
487: changes that autoupdate(1) suggests: Update AC_PREREQ and AC_INIT, use
488: AC_LINK_IFELSE, AC_RUN_IFELSE, and AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, and remove
489: AC_TYPE_SIGNAL (we don't use RETSIGTYPE).
490: - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
491: and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
492: useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
493: been linked at all ...).
494: - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
495: (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
496: daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
497: which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
498: - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
499: - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
500: Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
501: return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
502: DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
503: - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
504: invalid password.
505:
506: ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
507:
508: - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
509: disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
510: - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
511: - Really kill connections that send "spoofed prefixes" on non-server links.
512: This fixes commit 6cbe1308 which only killed the connection when the
513: spoofed prefix itself belonged to a non-server client.
514: - CHARCONV command: Fix handling conversion errors, don't overwrite already
515: converted text!
516: - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
517: - Correctly use cloaked IRC masks on "INVITE nickname": The cloaked IRC mask
518: of a user is his visible mask, so the daemon has to use it for generating
519: the "one time" entries for the invite list of the given channel, and not
520: the "real" mask which will never match while the target client is "+x", and
521: even worse, will disclose the real mask on "MODE #channel +I" commands :-/
522: Bug reported by Cahata on #ngircd, thanks!
523: - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists. This isn't the case on
524: "VPATH builds", for example.
525: - Use $(MKDIR_P) instead of $(mkinstalldirs) in Makefile's and test for
526: "mkdir -p" using AC_PROG_MKDIR_P in "configure".
527: - Fix configure script and "make check" for TCP Wrappers (problems spotted on
528: OpenBSD): add missing #include's and static variables, and add libwrap at
529: the end of the configure run because if libwrap becomes added earlier,
530: other tests may fail.
531: - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
532: linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
533: been implemented already).
534: - platformtest.sh and Makefile.am: Don't use "test -e", it isn't portable.
535: - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
536: - Fix permanent {G|K}LINES (with a timeout of 0 seconds).
537: - WEBIRC: Don't set the hostname received by the WEBIRC command when DNS
538: lookups are disabled, but use the IP address instead.
539: Reported by Toni Spets <toni.spets@iki.fi>, thanks!
540: - Check for working getaddrinfo() function: At least AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1 have a
541: broken implementation of getaddrinfo() which doesn't handle "0" as numeric
542: service correctly. This patch adds a configure check for this case and
543: changes all calling functions to only use getaddrinfo() if it "works".
544: See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/lists/heimdal-discuss/2004-05/msg00059.html>
545: - Only use the unsetenv() function when it is available (AIX 4.3 doesn't
546: support it, for example).
547: - Make sure that the source code is still compatible with the "ansi2knr" tool
548: and builds using non-ANSI K&R C compilers. Tested with Apple C on A/UX.
549: - Fix building ngIRCd without support for ZLIB compression. Reported by
550: "der_baer" on #ngircd, thanks!
551:
552: ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
553:
554: - ./contrib/Debian/ngircd.init: Make sure no stale PID file is left over
555: when (re-)starting ngIRCd.
556: - Change ./contrib/platformtest.sh and update ./doc/Platforms.txt to
557: allow user names up to 8 characters.
558: - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
559: is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
560: initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
561: - Update our own Debian package configuration and fix the default path
562: of the "HelpFile" of the "full" package variants.
563:
564: ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
565: - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
566: support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
567: - Use arc4random() function to generate "random" numbers, when available.
568: - platformtest.sh: Detect clang compiler, and clean up GIT source tree
569: before building (when possible).
570: - Update (date of) manual pages.
571: - Update "Upgrade Information" in INSTALL file, add more systems to
572: doc/Platforms.txt, and fix spelling in NEWS and ChangeLog files =:)
573: - Fix remaining compiler warnings on OpenBSD.
574:
575: ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
576: - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
577: - Adjust log messages for invalid and spoofed prefixes, which cleans up
578: logging of commands related to already KILL'ed clients. And don't
579: forward KILL commands for (already) unknown clients any more to prevent
580: unnecessary duplicates.
581: - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
582: command (restricted to IRC Operators).
583: - Fixed blocking of server reconnects in some error configurations.
584: - Don't ignore SSL-related errors during startup any more: abort startup
585: when SSL is requested by the configuration but can't be initialized and
586: don't continue only listening on plain text communication ports.
587: (Closes bug #163)
588: - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
589: using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
590: changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
591: OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
592: - Fix "TRACE": Correctly return ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) (which basically
593: is "syntax error") when there are too many parameters.
594: - Clean up lots of permission and parameter checks in functions handling
595: IRC commands; and more consistently add penalty times on errors.
596: - Fix error numeric of WHOIS when no nick name has been provided:
597: as per RFC it should be ERR_NONICKNAMEGIVEN(431).
598: - Only log "IDENT ... no result" messages when an IDENT looked took place
599: and didn't return any data, not when IDENT has been disabled.
600: - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
601: you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
602: the IRC "TRACE" command.
603: - Correctly discard supplementary groups on server startup.
604: - Save client IP address text for "WebIRC" users and correctly display
605: it on WHOIS, for example. (Closes bug #159)
606: - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
607: user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
608: after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
609: could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
610: for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
611: "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
612: - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
613: services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
614: service restarts.
615: - Enforce "penalty times" on error conditions more consistently and in
616: more places. Now most error codes sent back from the IRC server to the
617: client should result in a 2 second "penalty".
618: - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
619: all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
620: on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
621: If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
622: all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
623: This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
624: still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
625: setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
626: warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
627: - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
628: passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
629: forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
630: user using this certificate and not using passwords.
631: - IRC Operator names, as defined in ngircd.conf, are logged now when
632: handling successful OPER commands.
633: - Some error conditions while handling IRC commands, like "permission
634: denied" or "need more parameters", result in more penalty times.
635: - The numeric replies of some commands became split too early which
636: resulted in more numeric reply lines than necessary.
637: - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
638: section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
639: further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
640: the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
641: configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
642: parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
643: possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
644: into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
645: - Fix use-after-free in the Lists_CheckReason() function, which is used
646: to check if a client is a member of a particular ban/invite/... list.
647: - Xcode: fix detection of host OS, vendor, and CPU type, and update
648: project settings for Xcode 5.
649: - OS X PackageMaker: use relative path names in project files and package
650: with correct file permissions (requires root privileges on "make").
651: - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
652: - Look for possible cloaked Masks in Lists. Users with +x user mode can
653: be banned with their cloaked hostname now.
654: - Don't read SSL client data before DNS resolver is finished which could
655: have resulted in discarding the resolved client hostname and IDENT
656: reply afterwards, because in some situations (timing dependent) the
657: NICK and USER commands could have already been read in from the client,
658: stored in the buffer, and been processed.
659: Thanks to Julian Brost for reporting the issue and testing, and to
660: Federico G. Schwindt <fgsch@lodoss.net> for helping to debug it!
661: - Increase password length limit to 64 characters. (Closes bug #154)
662: - doc/Services.txt: Update Anope status and URL.
663: - Clean up Xcode project file, remove outdated files, add missing ones.
664: - Update Doxygen configuration file.
665: - configure: search for iconv_open as well as libiconv_open, because
666: on some installations iconv_open() is actually libiconv_open().
667: iconv_open() is the glibc version while libiconv_open() is the
668: libiconv version, now both variants are supported. (Closes bug #151)
669: - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
670: unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
671: of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
672: ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
673: - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
674: server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
675: for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
676: - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
677: section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
678: in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
679: connections are left active after handling at least one client.
680: The default is 0, "never".
681: This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
682: activation" with systemd(8), for example.
683: - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
684: - contrib/README: add description for more files.
685: - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
686: numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
687: InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
688: like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
689: Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
690: of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
691: - Exit message: use singular & plural :-)
692: - autogen.sh: Check for autoconf/automake wrapper scripts
693: - Add missing punctuation marks in log messages, adjust some severity
694: levels, and make SSL-related messages more readable.
695: - AUTHORS file: Update list of contributors.
696: - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
697: the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
698: enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
699: and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
700: configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
701: - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
702: set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
703: which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
704: and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
705: Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
706:
707: ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
708:
709: - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
710: when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
711: default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
712: clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
713:
714: ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
715:
716: - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
717: commands that could be used by arbitrary users to crash the daemon
718: (CVE-2013-1747).
719: - WHO command: Use the currently "displayed hostname" (which can be cloaked!)
720: for hostname matching, not the real one. In other words: don't display all
721: the cloaked users on a specific real hostname!
722: - configure: The header file "netinet/in_systm.h" already is optional in
723: ngIRCd, so don't require it in the configure script. Now ngIRCd can be
724: built on Minix 3 again :-)
725: - Return better "Connection not registered as server link" errors: Now ngIRCd
726: returns a more specific error message for numeric ERR_NOTREGISTERED(451)
727: when a regular user tries to use a command that isn't allowed for users but
728: for servers.
729: - Don't report ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) when a MDOE command with more modes
730: than nicknames is handled, as well as for channel limit and key changes
731: without specifying the limit or key parameters.
732: This is how a lot (all?) other IRC servers behave, including ircd2.11,
733: InspIRCd, and ircd-seven. And because of clients (tested with Textual and
734: mIRC) sending bogus MODE commands like "MODE -ooo nick", end-users got the
735: expected result as well as correct but misleading error messages ...
736: - Correctly detect when SSL subsystem must be initialized and take
737: outgoing connections (server links!) into account, too.
738: - autogen.sh: Enforce serial test harness on GNU automake >=1.13. The
739: new parallel test harness which is enabled by default starting with
740: automake 1.13 isn't compatible with our test suite.
741: And don't use "egrep -o", instead use "sed", because it isn't portable
742: and not available on OpenBSD, for example.
743:
744: ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
745:
746: - Allow ERROR command on server and service links only, ignore them and
747: add a penalty time on all other link types.
748: - Enforced mode setting by IRC Operators: Only check the channel user
749: modes of the initiator if he is joined to the channel and not an IRC
750: operator enforcing modes (which requires the configuration option
751: "OperCanUseMode" to be enabled), because trying to check channel user
752: modes of a non-member results in an assertion when running with debug
753: code or could crash the daemon otherwise. This closes bug #147, thanks
754: to James Kirwill <james.kirwill@bk.ru> for tracking this down!
755: - Fix build system to cope with spaces in path names.
756: - Code cleanups, mostly to fix build warnings on Cygwin.
757:
758: ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
759:
760: - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
761: been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
762: external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
763: Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
764: <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
765:
766: ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
767: - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
768: subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
769: "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
770: "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
771: hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
772: additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
773: - RPL_UMODEIS: send correct target name, even on server links.
774: - Update platformtest.sh to follow autoconf changes and only generate
775: the "configure" script when it is missing.
776: - Fix the test suite to correctly execute test scripts even when stdout
777: is redirected.
778: - Fix some compiler warnings on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
779:
780: ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
781: - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
782: then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
783: in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
784: - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
785: and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
786: ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
787: configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
788: This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
789: hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
790: - Fix error message when trying to join non-predefined channels and the
791: "PredefChannelsOnly" configuration option is set.
792: - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
793: services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
794: command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
795: to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
796: initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
797: This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
798: SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
799: are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
800: - Make server reconnect time a little bit more random, so that two
801: servers trying to connect to each other asynchronously don't try this
802: in exactly the same time periods and kick each other off ...
803: - Don't accept connections for servers already being linked: there was a
804: time frame that could result in one connection overwriting the other,
805: e. g. the incoming connection overwriting the status of the outgoing
806: one. And this could lead to all kind of weirdness (even crashes!) later
807: on: now such incoming connections are dropped.
808: - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
809: of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
810: - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
811: all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
812: originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
813: originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
814: ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
815: - WHOIS: Not only show RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG to local IRC operators, but show
816: it to all IRC operators in the network. And don't show it to anybody if
817: the "more privacy" configuration option is enabled. (Closes #134)
818: - Test suite: make expect scripts more verbose displaying dots for each
819: reply of the server that it is waiting for.
820: - WHOIS: Implement numeric RPL_WHOISMODES_MSG (379) and show user modes in
821: the reply of the WHOIS command for the user himself or, if MorePrivacy
822: isn't set, for request initiated by an IRC operator. (Closes #129)
823: - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
824: "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
825: new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
826: - KICK-protect IRC services.
827: - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
828: from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
829: mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
830: - Debian: require "telnet" or "telnet-ssl" for building and enable
831: CHARCONV in ngircd-full[-dbg] variants.
832: - Send RPL_REHASHING (382) numeric if a REHASH command was accepted.
833: - Fix spelling and variable names in some log messages.
834: - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
835: variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
836: IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
837: mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
838: the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
839: (Closes #133)
840: - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
841: don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
842: Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
843: patch. (Closes #135)
844: - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
845: as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
846: configuration file. (Closes #136)
847: - Enhance build system: Support new (>=1.12) and old (<=1.11) GNU automake
848: versions, update checks for required and optional features, enable
849: colored test output of automake (if available), rename configure.in to
850: more modern configure.ac, include .mailmap and all build-system files in
851: distribution archives and no longer require a GIT tree to detect the
852: correct version string.
853: - Update documentation: add doc/Contributing.txt and include version
854: numbers in doc/Modes.txt.
855: - Free all listen ports on initialization: now listen ports can be
856: reconfigured on runtime using a configuration reload.
857: - Initialize SSL when needed only, and disable SSL on errors.
858: - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
859: character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
860: This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
861: the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
862: doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
863: - Allow limited punctuation in usernames, for better PAM integration.
864: - Correctly re-initialize signal handlers on RESTART commands.
865: - Show a warning on startup if the configuration file is not a full path:
866: ngIRCd is a long-running process and changes its working directory to
867: "/" to not block mounted filesystems and the like when running as daemon
868: ("not in the foreground"); therefore the path to the configuration file
869: must be relative to "/" (or the chroot() directory), which basically is
870: "not relative", to ensure that "kill -HUP" and the "REHASH" command work
871: as expected later on. (Closes #127)
872: - Make the "&SERVER" channel definable in a [Channel] configuration block,
873: which enables server operators to overwrite the built-in topic and
874: channel modes. (Closes #131)
875: - Don't limit list size of "WHO #channel" commands, because it makes no
876: sense to not return all the users in that channel, so I removed the
877: check. But if there are more than MAX_RPL_WHO(25) replies, the client
878: requesting the list will be "penalized" one second more, then 2 in
879: total. (Closes #125)
880: - Make ngIRCd buildable using the kqueue() IO interface on FreeBSD 4.x.
881: - Fix the "NoticeAuth" configuration option when using SSL connections and
882: enhance the message to show the hostname and IDENT reply of the client.
883: - Introduce numeric RPL_HOSTHIDDEN_MSG (396): This numeric is sent to the
884: client each time it changes its displayed hostname using "MODE +/-x",
885: and if "CloakHost" is set right after the MOTD has been sent.
886: - Fix USERHOST not displaying the correctly cloaked hostname.
887: - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
888: every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
889: behave, and so do we :-)
890: - Dynamically allocate memory for connection passwords: This a) saves
891: memory for clients not using passwords at all and b) allows for
892: "arbitrarily" long passwords.
893: - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
894: operators are able to talk in such a channel.
895: - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
896: configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
897: variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
898: - Now "make uninstall" removes the installed "ngircd.conf" file, if it is
899: still equal to our "sample-ngircd.conf" file and therefore hasn't been
900: modified by the user. If it has been modified, it isn't removed and a
901: notice is displayed to the user. And "make install" now displays a
902: message when no ngircd.conf file exists and the "sample-ngircd.conf"
903: file will be installed as a starting point.
904: - Add contrib/ngircd.service, a systemd service file for ngircd.
905: - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
906: the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
907: ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
908: +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
909: modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
910: - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
911: "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
912: '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
913: and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
914: the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
915: random salt will be generated after each server restart. (Closes #133)
916:
917: ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
918:
919: - doc/Capabilities.txt: document "multi-prefix" capability
920:
921: ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
922: - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
923: that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
924: Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
925: which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
926: - Correctly handle asynchronously re-established server links: a race
927: condition could let the daemon loose track of an already re-established
928: incoming server link while preparing its own outgoing connection.
929: Peers that both try to connect each other could have been affected.
930: - Log a debug message when SIGUSR2 is handled in debug mode.
931: - Only allow alphanumeric characters in user-supplied user names of
932: USER command and IDENT replies.
933: - Change wording of "TLS initialized" message to make it more consistent.
934: - Don't leak file descriptors on error path when creating "PID files".
935: - Add missing mode "r" to CHANMODES in 005 "ISUPPORT" numeric.
936: - Update doc/Modes.txt and doc/Platforms.txt documents.
937: - contrib/platformtest.sh: correctly detect Open64 C compiler and handle
938: "CC=xxx MAKE=yyy ./platformtest.sh" calling convention.
939: - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
940: - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
941: and capability "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
942: handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
943: - Update Xcode project files: reference missing documentation files.
944: - Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot.
945: - FAQ: enhance description of chroot setup.
946:
947: ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
948:
949: - Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL.
950: - Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note",
951: and fix lintian(1) warning ""hyphen-used-as-minus-sign", too.
952: - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
953: distribution archive ... ooops!
954: - getpid.sh: Fix test case error for Debian using sbuild(1).
955: - Don't log "ngIRCd hello message" two times when starting up.
956:
957: ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
958:
959: - Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by
960: GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions.
961: - Fix configuration file parser: don't accept "[SSL]" blocks in the
962: configuration file when no SSL support is built in ngIRCd.
963: - Fix building ngIRCd with old gcc versions (e. g. 2.7.2).
964: - Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration
965: file: Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the
966: configuration, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored
967: the "SyslogFacility" configuration option ...
968: Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue!
969:
970: ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
971: - Enhance command limits for server links: the limit now is dependent
972: on the number of users connected in the network and higher while
973: servers are joining the network to make the login of servers faster.
974: - Log more information about server synchronization.
975: - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
976: is the only supported version.
977: - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
978: (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
979: Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
980: - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
981: operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
982: channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
983: the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
984: - PRIVMSG and NOTICE: Handle nick!user@host masks case-insensitive.
985: - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
986: command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
987: and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
988: by completely unknown clients.
989: - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
990: indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
991: - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
992: duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
993: or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
994: - Fix both ERR_SUMMONDISABLED(445) and ERR_USERSDISABLED(446) replies.
995: - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for
996: unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501).
997: - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES",
998: add "EXCEPTS=e" and "INVEX=I", add "MAXLIST=beI:50".
999: - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
1000: WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
1001: - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive.
1002: - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
1003: that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
1004: in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
1005: - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments.
1006: For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling
1007: "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f".
1008: - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of
1009: the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an
1010: assertion and end the daemon in some error paths.
1011: - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child
1012: processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases
1013: with IDENT lookups enabled.
1014: - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS,
1015: don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is
1016: case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the
1017: unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client).
1018: - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
1019: - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
1020: commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
1021: commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
1022: Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
1023: - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variable in the
1024: configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user).
1025: - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-)
1026: - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single
1027: channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel
1028: limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check
1029: the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when
1030: trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of.
1031: - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nicknames.
1032: - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
1033: sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
1034: "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
1035: user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
1036: - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
1037: returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
1038: thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
1039: of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
1040: - Fixed some spelling errors in documentation and code comments
1041: (Thanks to Christoph Biedl).
1042: - contrib/Debian/control: Update and complete "Build-Depends" and
1043: update our Debian package descriptions with "official" ones.
1044: - Fixed typo in two error messages.
1045: - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
1046: client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
1047: using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
1048: - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
1049: are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
1050: handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
1051: Reported by Cahata, thanks!
1052: - README: Update list of implemented commands.
1053: - Log better error messages when rejecting clients.
1054: - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
1055: synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
1056: If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
1057: are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
1058: NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
1059: processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
1060: - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR
1061: for Mac OS X Xcode builds.
1062: - ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use
1063: poll() when poll.h exists as well.
1064: - Suppress 'Can't create pre-defined channel: invalid name: ""' message.
1065: - whois-test: handle local host name = "localhost.localdomain" using the
1066: pattern "localhost*" for valid local host names.
1067: - sample-ngircd.conf: show correct default for "PAM" variable: The
1068: default of "PAM" is "yes" when ngIRCd has been configured to use it,
1069: so show the correct default value in the sample configuration file.
1070: (Closes #119)
1071: - Update GPL 2 license text to current version.
1072: - Only close "unrelated" sockets in forked child processes: This fixes
1073: the problem that ngIRCd can't do any IDENT lookups because of the
1074: socket has already been closed in the child process.
1075: The bug has been introduced starting with ngIRCd 17 ... :-(
1076: (commit ID 6ebb31ab35e)
1077: - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
1078: - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
1079: is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
1080: be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
1081: - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
1082: mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
1083: - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
1084: - New 2nd message "Nickname too long" for error code 432.
1085: - Xcode: Mac OS X config.h: support 10.5 as well as 10.6/10.7 SDK.
1086: - Xcode: exclude more Xcode 4 specific directories in ".gitignore".
1087: - Disconnect directly linked servers sending QUIT. Without this,
1088: the server becomes removed from the network and the client list,
1089: but the connection isn't shut down at all ...
1090: - contrib/ngindent: detect "gindent" as GNU indent.
1091: - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
1092: forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
1093: - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
1094: These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
1095: but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
1096: and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
1097: argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
1098: and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
1099: - Correctly inform clients when other servers change their user modes.
1100: This is required for some services to work correctly.
1101: - Test suite: make getpid.sh work even when run as root.
1102: - Spoofed prefixes: close connection on non-server links only.
1103: On server-links, spoofed prefixes can happen because of the
1104: asynchronous nature of the IRC protocol. So don't break server-
1105: links, only log a message and ignore the command. (Closes #113)
1106:
1107: ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
1108:
1109: - Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page.
1110: - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
1111: - Don't register WHOWAS information when "MorePrivacy" option is in effect.
1112:
1113: ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
1114: - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-)
1115: - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section.
1116: - ngircd.8: document debugging options.
1117: - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
1118: ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
1119: that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
1120: longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
1121:
1122: ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
1123: - PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
1124: - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
1125: When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
1126: messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
1127: All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
1128: servers from TOR or I2P.
1129: - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
1130: activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
1131: other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
1132: the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
1133: trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
1134: commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
1135: There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
1136: commands") requests are not scrubbed.
1137: - Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest".
1138: - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
1139: and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
1140: [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
1141: most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
1142: variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
1143: ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
1144: are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
1145: the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
1146: => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
1147: - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
1148: - Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers.
1149: - GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients
1150: refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it
1151: would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
1152: current hardware ...
1153: - contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
1154: - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
1155: space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
1156: wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
1157: overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
1158: - Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links
1159: (often used by services, for example) are not affected.
1160: - Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-)
1161: - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
1162: enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
1163: "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
1164: network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
1165: - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
1166: active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
1167: like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
1168: - Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
1169: like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
1170: - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This
1171: helps to speed up server login and network synchronization.
1172: - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
1173: wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
1174: than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
1175: - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
1176: (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
1177: variable description.
1178: - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
1179: - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
1180: - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
1181: every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
1182: - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
1183: every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
1184: supplied by the IRC client.
1185: - doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
1186: - Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
1187: - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
1188: got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
1189: can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
1190: the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
1191: - Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
1192: - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
1193: that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
1194: establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
1195: - Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
1196: - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
1197: - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
1198: used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
1199: - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
1200: including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
1201: - TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other
1202: servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when
1203: the client is not joined to this channel.
1204: - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
1205: [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
1206: 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
1207: vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
1208: in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
1209: - Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
1210: ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
1211: - Don't throttle services and servers being registered.
1212: - Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
1213: - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is
1214: only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
1215: commands).
1216:
1217: ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
1218:
1219: - --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase
1220: - Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit
1221: - Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly
1222: - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
1223: - Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section
1224: - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section
1225: - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
1226: - README: Updated list of implemented commands
1227: - add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball
1228: - Merge branch 'numeric-329'
1229: - add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball
1230: - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
1231: - Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()
1232:
1233: ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
1234:
1235: - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
1236: - Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf
1237: - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa
1238: - contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent
1239:
1240: ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27)
1241: - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updated project file
1242: to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it
1243: is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default
1244: PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd.
1245: - Debian: updated standards version to 3.9.1, added libpam0g-dev to the
1246: dependencies, and install a default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins.
1247: - Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable.
1248: - Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links.
1249:
1250: ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
1251: - ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a.
1252: - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
1253: - Make source code compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
1254: ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
1255: - ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C.
1256: - ./configure: check support for C prototypes again.
1257: - Don't use PARAMS() macro for function implementations.
1258: - Added m68k/apple/aux3.0.1 (gcc 2.7.2) to doc/Platforms.txt.
1259: - Only try to set FD_CLOEXEC if this flag is defined.
1260: - Only use "__attribute__ ((unused))" if GCC >=2.8 is used.
1261: - doc/Makefile.am: don't set docdir, automake handles it already.
1262:
1263: ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
1264: - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
1265: runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
1266: Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
1267: - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
1268: (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
1269: Possible values are system dependent, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
1270: "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
1271: Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
1272: - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
1273: connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
1274: the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
1275: - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
1276: signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
1277: using the command line parameters.
1278: - Signal handler: added new 'delayed' signal handlers, including fallback
1279: to deprecated sysv API. And removed global NGIRCd_SignalRehash variable.
1280: - IO: add io_cloexec() to set close-on-exec flag.
1281: - ng_ipaddr.h: include required assert.h header.
1282: - Conn_SyncServerStruct(): test all connections; and work case insensitive
1283: - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output.
1284: - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the
1285: client lag debug-output is working again.
1286: - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
1287: - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
1288: - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
1289: - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
1290: - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contents of the MOTD
1291: file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
1292: re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
1293: - Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon.
1294: - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
1295: - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
1296: - Added mailmap file for git-[short]log and git-blame.
1297: - Authenticated users should be registered without the "~" mark.
1298: - Set NoPAM=yes in configuration files used for the testsuite.
1299: - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
1300: - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
1301: file doc/PAM.txt for details.
1302: - Resolver: Implement signal handler and catch TERM signals.
1303: - Don't set a penalty time when doing DNS lookups.
1304: - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
1305: - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
1306: this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
1307: - ngircd.init: require "$network" and "$remote_fs" when stopping ngircd.
1308: - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
1309: - Include correct header files when testing for arpa/inet.h (Closes: #105).
1310: - Don't access already freed memory in IRC_KILL().
1311: - Fix "beeing" typo ...
1312: - SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message.
1313:
1314: ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
1315:
1316: - doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker
1317:
1318: ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
1319: - Updated some more copyright notices, it's 2010 already :-)
1320: - Only compile in Get_Error() if really needed
1321: - Fix gcc warning "ignoring return value of ..."
1322: - Include netinet/in_systm.h alongside netinet/ip.h
1323: - Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h
1324: - Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists
1325: - Updated doc/Platforms.txt
1326: - Enhance connection statistics counters: display total number of served
1327: connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
1328: the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
1329:
1330: ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
1331: - Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups.
1332: - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit.
1333: - Updated doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
1334: how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA).
1335: - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list).
1336: - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define
1337: - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric
1338: - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output.
1339: - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable.
1340: - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
1341: required to secure this command must be configured using the new
1342: "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
1343: - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts".
1344: - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
1345: - Only link "nsl" library when really needed.
1346: - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
1347: Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
1348: to join such a channel.
1349: But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
1350: when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
1351: every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
1352: mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
1353:
1354: ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
1355:
1356: - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset.
1357:
1358: ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
1359: - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
1360: ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
1361: - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (instead of the already
1362: implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
1363: - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
1364: enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
1365: on the local server.
1366: - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0
1367: for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file.
1368: - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names.
1369: - Fix LSB header of Debian init script.
1370: - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh
1371: to ease generating platform reports.
1372: - Fix connection information for already registered connections.
1373: - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
1374: a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
1375: per second before a one second pause is enforced.
1376: - Fix connection counter.
1377: - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections.
1378: - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.
1379:
1380: ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
1381:
1382: - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
1383: - BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh.
1384: - New start/stop script for RedHat-based distributions:
1385: contrib/ngircd-redhat.init, thanks to Naoya Nakazawa <naoya@sanow.net>.
1386: - Doxygen: update source code repository link to GIT.
1387: - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
1388: - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
1389: - Fix error handling on compressed links.
1390: - Fix server list announcement.
1391: - Do not remove host names from info text.
1392:
1393: ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
1394:
1395: - Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections.
1396:
1397: ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
1398: - Updated Debian/Linux init script (see contrib/Debian/ngircd.init).
1399: - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
1400: - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
1401: - Spell check and enhance ngIRCd manual pages.
1402: - Channel mode changes: break on syntax errors in MODE command.
1403: - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
1404: new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
1405: here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
1406: individual channel keys for different users.
1407: - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
1408: - Updated ngircd.spec file for building RPM packages.
1409: - Add new and missing files to Mac OS X Xcode project, and update project.
1410: - Reject masks with wildcard after last dot.
1411: - TLS/SSL: remove useless error message when ssl connection is closed.
1412: - Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down.
1413: (closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net)
1414: - Fix handling of channels containing dots.
1415: (closes bug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
1416:
1417: ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
1418:
1419: - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
1420: - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
1421:
1422: ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
1423: - New version number scheme :-)
1424: - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
1425: tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
1426: For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
1427: to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
1428: - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
1429: OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
1430: New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
1431: SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
1432: - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
1433: visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
1434: In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
1435: all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
1436: - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
1437: - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
1438: - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
1439: - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
1440: - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
1441: - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
1442: - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two
1443: servers are started for testing server-server linking.
1444: - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
1445: - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
1446: daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
1447:
1448: ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
1449:
1450: - Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode
1451: - Don't allow stray \r or \n in command parameters
1452: - --configtest: return non-zero exit code if there are errors
1453: - Update ngIRCd manual pages
1454: - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
1455: - Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error.
1456: - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
1457: obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
1458: is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
1459: Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
1460: but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
1461:
1462: ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
1463:
1464: - Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns
1465: proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran)
1466: - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
1467: - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number.
1468:
1469: ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
1470: - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
1471: - Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now!
1472: - Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT.
1473: - Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition.
1474: - Report ERR_NOTONCHANNEL when trying to part a channel one is not member of.
1475: - Testsuite: remove erroneous ConfUID setting in config file.
1476:
1477: ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
1478: - Include Mac OS X Xcode project in distribution archives.
1479: - Do not exit on SIGHUP or /REHASH if the config file cannot opened.
1480: - Add IPv6 support.
1481: - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
1482: - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
1483: enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1484: - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+).
1485: (Dana Dahlstrom)
1486: - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
1487: nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
1488: (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
1489: - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1490: - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
1491: as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
1492: member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1493: - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
1494:
1495: ngIRCd 0.11.1 (2008-02-26)
1496:
1497: - Fix sending of JOIN commands between servers when remote server appended
1498: mode flags. (Rolf Eike Beer) [from HEAD]
1499: - Send "G" instead of "H" flag in WHO replies. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
1500: - Under some circumstances ngIRCd issued channel MODE message with a
1501: trailing space. (Dana Dahlstrom) [from HEAD]
1502:
1503: ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
1504:
1505: ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07)
1506: - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
1507: ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
1508:
1509: ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
1510: - Use dotted-decimal IP address if host name is >= 64.
1511: - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
1512: - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
1513: the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
1514: - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
1515: length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
1516: - Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
1517: enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
1518: See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
1519: - Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!?
1520: - Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced
1521: to the network as well as the wrong output of the LINKS command.
1522: - Update Mac OS X Xcode project file for Xcode 3.
1523: - Adjust test suite to be usable on HP/UX 11.11 :-)
1524: - Fix code to compile using K&R C compiler and ansi2kr again.
1525: - New config option NoDNS: Disables DNS lookups when clients connect.
1526: - Fixed propagation of channel mode 'P' on server links.
1527: - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
1528: - Fixed code that prevented GCC 2.95 to compile ngIRCd.
1529: - Adjust path names in manual pages according to "./configure" settings.
1530: - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
1531: disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
1532: but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
1533: - Don't connect to a server if a connection to another server within the
1534: same group is already in progress.
1535: - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
1536: operators.
1537:
1538: ngIRCd 0.10.4 (2008-01-07)
1539:
1540: - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
1541: ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
1542:
1543: ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01)
1544:
1545: - SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could
1546: cause the server to crash. Thanks to Sebastian Vesper, <net@veoson.net>.
1547: (CVE-2007-6062)
1548:
1549: ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
1550:
1551: ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre2 (2007-05-19)
1552: - Server links are allowed to use larger write buffers now (up to 50 KB).
1553:
1554: ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre1 (2007-05-05)
1555: - Fix compressed server links (broken since 0.10.0).
1556: - Predefined Channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
1557: (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l).
1558: - When using epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
1559: well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
1560: - New configure option "--without-select" to disable select() IO API
1561: (even when using epoll(), see above).
1562: - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
1563: - Reorganized internal handling of invite and ban lists.
1564:
1565: ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
1566:
1567: - Fixed validation of server names containing digits.
1568: - Update the "info text" of the local server after re-reading configuration.
1569: - Changed Numerics 265 and 266 to follow ircd 2.11.x "standards".
1570: - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
1571: - Enhanced ISUPPORT message (005 numeric).
1572: - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
1573: join predefined channels.
1574: - Code cleanups: use "LogDebug(...)" instead of "Log(LOG_DEBUG, ...)", use
1575: "strcspn()", unsigned vs. signed, use "const", fix whitespaces, ...
1576:
1577: ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
1578:
1579: - Fixed file handle leak when daemon is not able to send MOTD to a client.
1580:
1581: ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre2 (2006-09-09)
1582: - Fixed build problems with GCC option -fstack-protector.
1583: - Minor documentation updates.
1584:
1585: ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
1586: - Validate "ServerName" (see RFC 2812, section 2.3.1).
1587: - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
1588: to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
1589: - The ngIRCd handles time shifts backwards more gracefully now (the
1590: timeout handling doesn't disconnect clients by mistake any more).
1591: - Internal: Restructured connection handling (the connection ID is equal
1592: to the file descriptor of the connection).
1593: - Internal: Simplified resolver code.
1594: - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
1595: - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
1596: - Enhanced the handler for PING and PONG commands: fix forwarding and enable
1597: back-passing of a client supplied additional argument of PING.
1598: - Changed handling of timeouts for unregistered connections: don't reset
1599: the counter if data is received and disconnect clients earlier.
1600: - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead.
1601: - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
1602: is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
1603: limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
1604: - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
1605: lookup to prevent spoofing.
1606: - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
1607: addition to the select() interface.
1608:
1609: ngIRCd 0.9.2 (2005-10-15)
1610:
1611: - Fixed a bug that could cause the daemon to crash when outgoing server
1612: connections can't be established.
1613: - Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to leak file descriptors when no
1614: resolver subprocesses could be created.
1615: - Fixed server NOTICEs to users with "s" mode ("server messages").
1616: - Fixed a format string bug in "connection statistics" messages to clients.
1617:
1618: ngIRCd 0.9.1 (2005-08-03)
1619:
1620: - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!)
1621: when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in
1622: ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by <qssl@fastmail.fm>, Thanks!
1623: - Changed some constants to be "signed" (instead of unsigned) to solve
1624: problems with old (pre-ANSI) compilers.
1625:
1626: ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
1627:
1628: ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09)
1629: - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters.
1630: - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead
1631: of shutting down the (wrong) connection.
1632: - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the
1633: client is registered with the server (like the original ircd).
1634: - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
1635: - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
1636: - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client
1637: is member of multiple channels.
1638: - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and
1639: pray that this will be "the right thing" ...
1640: - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
1641: - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug.
1642: - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
1643: - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
1644: to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
1645: - Removed typedefs for the native C data types.
1646: Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available.
1647: - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
1648: when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
1649: to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
1650: Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1651: - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
1652: - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
1653: commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
1654: - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug
1655: code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process.
1656: - Don't create version information string each time a client connects
1657: but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
1658: - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
1659: the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
1660: Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1661: - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1662: - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters.
1663: - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc()
1664: failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway.
1665: Patch from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1666: - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
1667: Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
1668: API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
1669: - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and
1670: most probably other older C compilers on other systems.
1671: - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in
1672: the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it
1673: changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This
1674: should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
1675: root privileges ...
1676:
1677: ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03)
1678:
1679: - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled
1680: to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
1681: <coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
1682: (CVE-2005-0226; http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
1683:
1684: ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
1685:
1686: - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution.
1687: - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found
1688: by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. (CVE-2005-0199)
1689: - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks
1690: to Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1691: - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by
1692: Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1693: - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has
1694: been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/
1695: It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself,
1696: not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1697:
1698: ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25)
1699:
1700: - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub
1701: - Added some more debug code ...
1702: - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest".
1703: - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for
1704: ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after
1705: reading this file.
1706: - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README!
1707:
1708: ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
1709:
1710: - Fixed wrong buffer size calculation for results of the resolver.
1711:
1712: ngircd 0.8.0-pre2 (2004-05-16)
1713: - Enhanced logging to console when running in "no-detached mode": added
1714: PID and log messages of resolver sub-processes.
1715: - Fixed host name lookups when using IDENT user lookups.
1716: - "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean" remove more files now.
1717:
1718: ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07)
1719: - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
1720: Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
1721: its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
1722: to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
1723: "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
1724: - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
1725: establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
1726: - Reorganized autogen.sh and configure scripts.
1727: - Fixed a wrong assert() which could cause the daemon to exit spuriously
1728: when closing down connections.
1729: - Better logging of decompression errors returned by zlib.
1730: - Servers other than the destination server didn't clean up the invite
1731: list of an "invite-only" channel properly when an INVITE'd user joined.
1732: - Changed the reply of the MODE command to match the syntax of the
1733: original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last
1734: parameter has been added.
1735: - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info.
1736: - Results of the resolver (host names and IDENT names) are discarded after
1737: the client is successfully registered with the server.
1738: - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections.
1739: - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
1740: - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
1741: - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
1742: have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
1743: The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
1744:
1745: ngIRCd 0.7.7 (2004-02-05)
1746:
1747: - The info text ("real name") of users is set to "-" if none has been
1748: specified using the USER command (e. g. "USER user * * :"). Reason:
1749: the original ircd doesn't like empty ones and would KILL such users.
1750: - Fixed (optional) TCP Wrapper test which was broken and could result in
1751: false results. Thanks to Fuminori Tanizaki <tany@mcnet.ad.jp>!
1752: - Removed "USE_" prefixes of configuration #defines.
1753:
1754: ngIRCd 0.7.6 (2003-12-05)
1755:
1756: - Fixed abort() ("server crash") when INVITE'ing users to nonexistent
1757: channels. Bug found by <hiddenx@wp.pl>.
1758: - Extended version numbering of CVS versions (added date).
1759: - Enhanced/fixed doc/Protocol.txt;
1760:
1761: ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-11-07)
1762:
1763: - Fixed ban behavior: users which are banned from a channel can't no
1764: longer send PRIVMSG's to this channel (fixes Bug #47).
1765: - Fixed and enhanced the "penalty handling" of the server: commands that
1766: require more resources block the client for a short time.
1767: - Changed the internal time resolution to one second.
1768: - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
1769: simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
1770: This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
1771: (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
1772: - Fixed build problems under Mac OS X 10.3.
1773: - Use "-pipe" when compiling with gcc, speeds things up a little :-)
1774: - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
1775: sockets of the server to a single IP address.
1776: - Suppress misleading error message of diff during make run.
1777: - Enhanced test-suite and made it work on GNU/Hurd.
1778: - Fixed minor typo in debug output :-)
1779:
1780: ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
1781:
1782: - Included files to build Debian packages (located in "debian/").
1783: - Updated config.guess and config.sub to newer upstream versions.
1784: - NJOIN propagates user channel modes correctly again ... Upsa.
1785: - Made Makefile more compatible with "make -j<n>".
1786: - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
1787: - Fixed a compiler warning related to an unnecessary assert().
1788: - Enhanced VERSION command when using debug versions.
1789:
1790: ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
1791:
1792: - "ServerName" is checked better now: a dot (".") is required.
1793: - The KILL command verifies and logs more parameters.
1794:
1795: ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre2 (2003-04-27)
1796: - CVS build system fixes (made autogen.sh more portable).
1797: - Fixed compilation and test-suite on Solaris (tested with 2.6).
1798: - New documentation file "doc/Platforms.txt" describing the status of
1799: ngIRCd on the various tested platforms.
1800: - Test for broken GCC on Mac OS X and disable "-pedantic" in this case.
1801: - Disable "-ansi" on Cygwin: system headers are incompatible.
1802: - The server tried to connect to other servers only once when DNS or
1803: socket failures occurred.
1804: - Fixed --configtest: There is no variable "ServerPwd", it's "Password".
1805:
1806: ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 (2003-04-22)
1807: - New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside).
1808: - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled.
1809: - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the
1810: more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems
1811: that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included
1812: in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h).
1813: - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that
1814: can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken.
1815: - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-)
1816: - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and
1817: removing servers during runtime works more reliable now.
1818: - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]"
1819: - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]".
1820: - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
1821: RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
1822: configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
1823: to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
1824: - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
1825: - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The
1826: German documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
1827: - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision.
1828: - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding.
1829: - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool".
1830: - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
1831: - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
1832: - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS)
1833: if an outgoing server link can't be established.
1834: - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility.
1835: - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly.
1836: - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
1837: new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
1838: - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
1839: configure to enable it.
1840: - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
1841: instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
1842: "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
1843: - Better error reporting to clients on connect.
1844: - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
1845: - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
1846: - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
1847:
1848: ngIRCd 0.6.1 (2003-01-21)
1849:
1850: - Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more,
1851: ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you
1852: can kill only valid users now.
1853: - The server no longer forwards commands to ordinary users, instead it
1854: answers with the correct error message ("no such server") now.
1855: - WHOIS commands weren't always forwarded as requested.
1856: - The server sets a correct default AWAY message now when propagating
1857: between servers (bug introduced in 0.6.0).
1858: - Fixed up and enhanced CHANINFO command: channel keys and user limits
1859: are synchronized between servers now, too.
1860: - MODE returns the key and user limit for channel members correctly now.
1861: - Non-members of a channel could crash the server when trying to change
1862: its modes or modes of its members.
1863: - The server didn't validate weather a target user is a valid channel
1864: member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd.
1865:
1866:
1867: Older changes (sorry, only available in German language):
1868:
1869: ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
1870:
1871: ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 23.12.2002
1872: - neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect.
1873: - LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen
1874: Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start
1875: dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt.
1876:
1877: ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 18.12.2002
1878: - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
1879: noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
1880: - der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den
1881: Resolver (4 Sekunden), wenn das Ergebnis eintrifft setzt er aber den
1882: Login sofort fort (bisher wurde immer mind. 1 Sekunde gewartet).
1883: - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
1884: bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
1885: - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sektion "Global")
1886: kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
1887: Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
1888: - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
1889: Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
1890: ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
1891: Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
1892: werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
1893: - Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst.
1894: - unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
1895: - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
1896: Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
1897: B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
1898: wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
1899: - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
1900: macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
1901: - Channel-Mode "P" ("persistent") kann nur noch von IRC-Operatoren gesetzt
1902: werden. Grund: User koennen den Server sonst leicht "Channel-Flooden".
1903: - MOTD kann nun an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1904: - IRC-Befehl "TIME" implementiert.
1905: - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
1906: (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
1907: nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
1908: kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
1909: miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
1910: - Handling der Schreibpuffer umgestellt: Server sollte schneller arbeiten.
1911: - Prefix-Fehler werden besser protokolliert (mit verursachendem Befehl).
1912: - SQUIT wird nicht mehr doppelt an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1913: - Der Server versucht nun vor dem Schliessen einer Verbindung Daten, die
1914: noch im Schreibpuffer stehen, zu senden.
1915: - Source in weiteres Modul "irc-info" aufgespalten.
1916: - Konfigurationsvariablen werden besser validiert: Laengen, Zahlen, ...
1917: - neuen Befehl STATS begonnen: bisher unterstuetzt wird "l" und "m".
1918: - bei ISON und USERHOST fehlte im Ergebnis-String der korrekte Absender.
1919: - IRC Operatoren koennen nun mit KILL User toeten. Achtung: ein Grund muss
1920: zwingend als zweiter Parameter angegeben werden!
1921: - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
1922: der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
1923: - neuer, deutlich flexiblerer Parser fuer den MODE Befehl.
1924: - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
1925:
1926: ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002
1927:
1928: - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
1929: unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden.
1930: - in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht
1931: nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe
1932: verwendet werden. Beim Start des Daemons wird nun beides angezeigt.
1933: - Besseres Logging von Prefix-Fehlern.
1934: - angenommene Sockets werden nun korrekt auf "non-blocking" konfiguriert,
1935: beim Senden und Empfangen werden Blockierungen besser abgefangen.
1936: - RPL_UMODEIS hat Code 221, nicht 211 ... *argl*
1937: - select() in Try_Write() hat falschen (keinen!) Timeout verwendet;
1938: die "Zeit-Aufloesung" des Servers sind zudem nun 2 Sekunden (TIME_RES).
1939: Insgesamt sollte die Reaktionszeit des Server nun besser sein.
1940:
1941: ngIRCd 0.5.3, 08.11.2002
1942:
1943: - NOTICE liefert nun wirklich nie mehr einen Fehler, auch dann nicht,
1944: wenn der sendende Client noch gar nicht registriert ist.
1945: - ein "schneller Server-Reconnect" wird nur noch dann versucht, wenn die
1946: Verbindung zuvor ordentlich (="lange genug") in Ordnung war; somit also
1947: nicht meht, wenn der Peer-Server gleich beim Connect ein ERROR liefert.
1948: Das vermeidet "Connect-Orgien".
1949: - einige Datentypen aufgeraumt: z.B. sind viele INT32s nun LONGs. Das ist
1950: auf Platformen mit 8-Byte-Integern kompatibler.
1951: - RPL_YOURHOST_MSG ist nun ircII- und RFC-kompatibel ;-)
1952: - Segfault unter hoher Netzaktivitaet behoben: in Conn_Close() wird die
1953: Connection-Struktur nun frueher als "ungueltig" markiert.
1954:
1955: ngIRCd 0.5.2, 04.10.2002
1956:
1957: - Buffer Overflow in Read_Resolver_Result() behoben.
1958: - Format-String-Bugs, die zum Abbruch des Servers fuehrten, behoben.
1959: - Maximale Laenge eines IRC-Prefix wurde falsch berechnet.
1960:
1961: ngIRCd 0.5.1, 03.10.2002
1962:
1963: - in RPL_YOURHOST_MSG wurde ein fehlerhafter Versionsstring geliefert.
1964: - Test-Suite: start-server.sh, stop-server.sh und stress-server.sh koennen
1965: nun "manuell" von der Kommandozeile gestartet werden, stress-server.sh
1966: startet per Default nur noch 5 Sessions, eine andere Zahl kann auf der
1967: Kommandozeile uebergeben werden (Syntax: "stress-server.sh <count>").
1968: - In bestimmten Faellen hat der Server versucht auf einen bereits wieder
1969: geschlossenen Socket Daten zu schreiben; das fuehrte zu einem Abbruch des
1970: Servers durch ein assert(). Nun wird geprueft, ob der Socket noch ok ist.
1971: - im "contrib"-Verzeichnis befindet sich nun eine RPM-Spec-Datei, aus den
1972: .tar.gz's koennen nun mit "rpm -ta <archiv>" RPM's erzeugt werden. Danke
1973: an Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>!
1974: - Syntax von RPL_MYINFO_MSG korrigiert: liefert nun vier Parameter.
1975:
1976: ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
1977:
1978: - Dokumentation aktualisiert.
1979: - Fehler bei Validierung von "AdminInfo2" behoben.
1980: - Test der Flags fuer "ps" in der Testsuite verbessert, ist nun zu mehr
1981: Plattformen kompatibler.
1982:
1983: ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre2, 17.09.2002
1984: - Fix in IRC_WriteStrServersPrefix() war "badly broken" -- behoben.
1985:
1986: ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre1, 16.09.2002
1987: - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen.
1988: - Wird der Netzwerk-Sniffer aktiviert (--sniffer), so schaltet der
1989: ngIRCd nun automatisch in den Debug-Modus.
1990: - auf Systemen, die inet_aton() nicht kennen (wie z.B. A/UX), kann der
1991: ngIRCd nun dennoch auch aktiv Server-Links aufbauen.
1992: - h_errno wird auf Systemen, die das nicht kennen (wie z.B. HP-UX 10.20)
1993: nicht mehr verwendet. Somit compiliert der ngIRCd nun auch dort :-)
1994: - um auf dem Ziel-System nicht vorhandene Funktionen nachzubilden wird nun
1995: die "libngportab" erzeugt; genutzt wird dies bisher fuer vsnprintf().
1996: Nun compiliert der ngIRCd auch unter Solaris 2.5.1.
1997: - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
1998: Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
1999: Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
2000: wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. Zu Channel-Operatoren werden bisher
2001: nur IRC-Operatoren, die den Channel betreten. Die persistenten Channels
2002: werden durch das Flag "P" gelennzeichnet, welches normal durch Channel-
2003: Op's gesetzt und geloescht werden kann.
2004: - bei "--configtest" werden keine leere Abschnitte mehr ausgegeben.
2005: - Source in weitere Module aufgespalten: lists, irc-op und resolve.
2006: - #include's aufgeraeumt: Header includieren keine anderen mehr.
2007: - KICK implementiert (bisher kann nur ein User aus einem Channel geckicked
2008: werden, Listen, wir im RFC vorgesehen, werden bisher nicht unterstuetzt).
2009: - INVITE, den Channel-Mode "i" sowie Invite-Lists ueber den MODE-Befehl
2010: (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
2011: - Source an ansi2knr fuer pre-ANSI-Compiler angepasst; ansi2knr in Source-
2012: Tree aufgenommen und in Build-System integriert; der ngIRCd compiliert
2013: nun z.B. unter A/UX mit dem nativen Compiler von Apple.
2014: - TOPIC lieferte bei unbekanntem Channel einen falschen Fehlercode.
2015: - LIST versteht nun Wildcards und kann an andere Server geforwarded werden.
2016: - wurde ein KILL fuer nicht-lokale Clients empfangen, so wurden die
2017: Verwaltungs-Strukturen nicht korrekt freigegeben.
2018: - empfangene NJOIN's wurden "zerhackt" an andere Server weitergegeben.
2019: - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
2020: ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
2021: - Dokumentation des neuen IRC+-Protokolls begonnen: doc/Protocol.txt
2022: - Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt;
2023: bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet.
2024: Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben.
2025: - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
2026: Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics.
2027: - neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das
2028: IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert).
2029: - Ban-Lists (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
2030: - wird der Server mit "-n"/"--nodaemon" gestartet, so werden keine Mel-
2031: dungen mehr ueber Syslog ausgegeben, sondern nur noch auf der Konsole.
2032: - "Test-Suite" begonnen (in "make check" integriert): Dabei wird ein
2033: speziell konfigurierter Server auf Port 6789 gestartet, mit dem dann
2034: einige Tests durchgefuehrt werden (u.a. "Stress-Test" mit 50 Clients).
2035: - zu lange Operator-Namen in der Konfiguration wurden falsch gekuerzt.
2036: - kleine Anpassung an AIX 3.2.5: nun laeuft der ngIRCd auch dort :-)
2037: - ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei
2038: im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und
2039: "AdminEMail" konfiguriert.
2040:
2041: ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002
2042:
2043: - Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel
2044: ueberhaupt ein User ist. War es keiner, so fuehrte dies zu einem
2045: Abbruch des Servers [es wurde assert() aufgerufen].
2046:
2047: ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
2048:
2049: - LUSERS verzaehlt sich bei eigenen Server-Links nicht mehr.
2050: - QUIT wird nun auch von noch nicht registrierten Clients akzeptiert.
2051: - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
2052: Wildcards (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
2053:
2054: ngIRCd 0.4.1, 08.04.2002
2055:
2056: - Bei Server-Links wird nicht mehr an Hand der Anzahl der Parameter
2057: eines empfangenen SERVER-Befehls, sondern "intern" erkannt, ob es
2058: sich um eine ein- oder ausgehende Verbindung handelt und somit das
2059: eigene PASS-SERVER-Paar gesendet werden muss oder nicht. Da sich
2060: verschiedene Versionen des Original-ircd's anders verhalten, schlug
2061: die Anmeldung je nach Gehenseite evtl. fehl.
2062: - Bei einem NICK-Befehl eines lokalen Client konnte der Server ab-
2063: stuerzen, da ein Format-String einer Log-Meldung fehlerhaft war.
2064:
2065: ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
2066:
2067: - IRC-Befehle nochmal auf weitere Source-Dateien aufgespalten.
2068: - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
2069: - Der AWAY-Mode wurde nicht ueber mehrere Server-Links weitergegeben.
2070: - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err).
2071: Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
2072: ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
2073: zusaetzliche Informationen.
2074: - In Nicknames wird das Zeichen "-" nun als zulaessig erkannt.
2075: - die Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei (doc/sample-ngircd.conf) wird als
2076: ngircd.conf installiert, wenn noch keine "echte" Konfigurationsdatei
2077: vorhanden ist.
2078: - bei WHO, WHOIS und NAMES wird nun nur noch der Status "Operator" oder
2079: "voiced" geliefert -- nicht mehr beides.
2080: - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
2081: einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
2082: nicht, so wird der naechste probiert (Variable "Group" in der Kon-
2083: figurationsdatei, Sektion [Server]).
2084: - IRC_PING() ist, wenn nicht im "strict RFC"-Mode, toleranter und ak-
2085: zeptiert beliebig viele Parameter (z.B. BitchX sendet soetwas).
2086: - die "Portab-Header" werden nicht mehr benoetigt, die System-Erkennung
2087: wird nun ausschliesslich vom configure-Script durchgefuehrt. System-
2088: abhaengige Definitionen finden sich nun unter src/portrab/.
2089: - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
2090: einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
2091: - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
2092: gelesen und dann die verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
2093: - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
2094: - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
2095: alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
2096: - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
2097: zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
2098: - URL der Homepage wird u.a. bei "--version" mit angezeigt.
2099:
2100: ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
2101:
2102: - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
2103: er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
2104: - FAQ um Hinweise auf den Bugtracker erweitert.
2105: - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
2106: verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
2107: Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
2108: - direkt nach dem Start schreibt der ngIRCd nun die aktiven Kommando-
2109: zeilenschalter in's Logfile (Passive, Debug, Sniffer ...).
2110: - das Signal-Flag SA_RESTART wird nur noch gesetzt, wenn es auf dem
2111: jeweiligen System auch definiert ist.
2112: - bei ausgehenden Verbindungen wird nun der Ziel-Port protokolliert.
2113: - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert.
2114: - make-Target "check" (und "distcheck") mit Sinn erfuellt :-)
2115: (die Tests sind aber bisher nicht all zu tiefgehend ...)
2116: - Durch einen Ueberlauf konnte die Idle-Time bei WHOIS negativ werden ...
2117: - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
2118: - WHOIS wird nicht mehr automatisch an den "Original-Server" weiterge-
2119: leitet: war eh nicht RFC-konform und machte mit Clients Probleme.
2120: - an User wird nun immer ein "komplettes" Prefix (mit Host-Mask) ver-
2121: schickt, Server bekommen nach wie vor kurze: das "Original" hat bei
2122: bestimmten Befehlen (PRIVMSG) ansonsten evtl. Probleme ...
2123: - NAMES korrigiert und vollstaendig implementiert.
2124: - SQUIT wird auf jeden Fall geforwarded, zudem besseres Logging.
2125: - Ist ein Nick bei der User-Registrierung bereits belegt, nimmt der
2126: Server nun korrekt weitere NICK-Befehle an und verwendet diese.
2127: - PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m".
2128: - AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst.
2129: - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
2130: - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asynchron connectiert und
2131: blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht
2132: erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!).
2133: - Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet.
2134: - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
2135:
2136: ngIRCd 0.2.1, 17.02.2002
2137:
2138: - NICK korrigiert: es werden nun auch alle "betroffenen" User informiert.
2139: - configure-Script erweitert, u.a. bessere Anpassung an BeOS: dort wird
2140: nun die "libbe" zum ngIRCd gelinkt, somit funktioniert auch syslog.
2141: - Fehlerhafte bzw. noch nicht verstandene Modes werden nun ausfuehrlicher
2142: an den Client geliefert.
2143:
2144: ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
2145:
2146: - Nicknames und Channel-Namen werden etwas besser auf Gueltigkeit ueber-
2147: prueft; ist aber nach wie vor noch nicht ausreichend.
2148: - NJOINS von Servern wurden nicht an andere Server weitergeleitet.
2149: - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
2150: Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
2151: noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
2152: bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
2153: nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
2154: - Benutzer von connectierenden Servern wurden nicht in den Channels ange-
2155: kuendigt, es wurden nur die internen Strukturen angepasst.
2156: - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
2157:
2158: ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
2159:
2160: - User-Modes bei User-Registrierungen von andere Servern (NICK-Befehl)
2161: wurden falsch uebernommen. Zudem wurden die Modes falsch gekuerzt.
2162: - Server-Verbindungen werden nun nach dem Start erst nach einer kurzen
2163: Pause aufgebaut (zur Zeit drei Sekunden).
2164: - Hilfetext korrigiert: --help und --version waren vertauscht, die
2165: Option --sniffer wurde gar nicht erwaehnt.
2166: - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
2167: - der IRC-Sniffer wird nur noch aktiviert, wenn die Option auf der
2168: Kommandozeile angegeben wurde (bei entsprechend compiliertem Server).
2169: - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
2170: es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
2171: Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
2172: - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
2173: - durch die Channels einige Aenderungen an PRIVMSG, WHOIS, MODE etc.
2174: - neu connectierenden Servern werden nun Channels mit NJOIN angekuendigt.
2175: - Signal-Hander geaendert: die Fehlermeldung "interrupted system call"
2176: sollte so nicht mehr auftreten.
2177: - "spaeter" neu connectierende Server werden nun im Netz angekuendigt.
2178: - SERVER-Meldungen an andere Server sind nun korrekt sortiert.
2179: - Clients werden nun korrekt sowohl nur ueber den Nickname als auch die
2180: komplette "Host Mask" erkannt.
2181:
2182: ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
2183:
2184: - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
2185: "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
2186: IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
2187: - MODE und NICK melden nun die Aenderungen an andere Server, ebenso
2188: die Befehle QUIT und SQUIT.
2189: - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
2190: - Parses handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
2191: - Status-Codes an den Server selber werden ignorier.
2192: - Log-Meldungen und Log-Level ueberarbeitet und korrigiert.
2193: - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
2194: - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
2195: - WHOIS korrigiert: Anfrage wurde u.U. an User geforwarded anstatt vom
2196: Server beantwortet zu werden.
2197: - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS
2198: - Client-Modes von Remote-Servern wurden nicht korrekt uerbernommen.
2199:
2200: ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
2201:
2202: - Struktur der Konfigurationsdatei geaendert: sie ist nun "Samba like",
2203: d.h. sie besteht aus Abschnitten (siehe "doc/sample-ngircd.conf").
2204: - Es koennen mehrere IRC-Server-Opertatoren konfiguriert werden.
2205: - Zombies der Resolver-Prozesse werden nun ordentlich "getoetet".
2206: - NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern.
2207: - ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar.
2208: - neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT.
2209: - Asynchroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
2210: - Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
2211: nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige
2212: Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert
2213: aber bereits, ebenso wie WHOIS (letzterer wird immer an den Server,
2214: auf dem der User registriert ist, weitergegeben).
2215: - "arpa/inet.h" wird nur noch includiert, wenn vorhanden.
2216: - Fehler bei select() fuerhen nun zum Abbruch von ngIRCd, bisher landete
2217: der Server zumeist in einer Endlosschleife.
2218: - Logmeldungen und Level an vielen Stellen verbessert.
2219: - lokalen Usernamen wird nun ein "~" vorangestellt, da bisher noch keine
2220: Ident-Anfragen gemacht werden.
2221:
2222: ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
2223:
2224: - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)
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