Annotation of ircnowd/NEWS, Revision 1.1
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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: -- NEWS --
! 10:
! 11: ngIRCd 26.1 (2021-01-02)
! 12:
! 13: - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
! 14:
! 15: ngIRCd 26 (2020-06-20)
! 16:
! 17: ngIRCd 26~rc2 (2020-06-11)
! 18: - Add AppStream metadata file (contrib/de.barton.ngircd.metainfo.xml).
! 19: - Various bug fixes, see the ChangeLog. No new or changed functionality.
! 20:
! 21: ngIRCd 26~rc1 (2020-05-10)
! 22: - Allow up to 512 characters per line in MOTD and help text files (but keep
! 23: in mind that lines can't get that long, because they have to be prefixed
! 24: before being sent to the client). But this allows for more fancy MOTDs :-)
! 25: Closes #271.
! 26: - Show the actually allowed channel types in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric which
! 27: are configured by the "AllowedChannelTypes" configuration variable.
! 28: Closes #273.
! 29: - Handle commands in the read buffer before reading more data and don't wait
! 30: for the network in this case: If there are more bytes in the read buffer
! 31: already than a single valid IRC command can get long (513 bytes), wait for
! 32: this/those command(s) to be handled first and don't try to read even more
! 33: data from the network (which most probably would overflow the read buffer
! 34: of this connection soon).
! 35: - Log G-/K-Line changes only when not initiated by a server: this prevents
! 36: the log from becoming spammed during "net bursts".
! 37: - Update test suite to include SSL tests, including checking for reloading
! 38: certificates during runtime.
! 39: - Add support for GnuTLS certificate reload, which is quite handy when using
! 40: Let's Encrypt, for example. Until now this was only supported when linked
! 41: with OpenSSL. Thanks a lot, Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de>!
! 42: - Allow setting arbitrary channel modes in the configuration file by handling
! 43: them like in MODE commands, and allow multiple "Modes =" lines per [Channel]
! 44: section. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org>!
! 45: Closes #55.
! 46: - Add "FNC" (forced nick changes) to ISUPPORT(005) numeric. Most probably
! 47: this doesn't make any difference to any client, but it seems correct.
! 48: See <http://www.irc.org/tech_docs/005.html> for details.
! 49: - Enhance handling of command line errors, and return with exit code 0 ("no
! 50: error") when "--help" or "--version" is used (which resulted in exit code 1,
! 51: "error" before). Exit with code 2 ("command line error") for all other
! 52: invalid command line options, and show the error message itself on stderr
! 53: (instead of stdout and exit code 1, "generic error", as before).
! 54: This new behaviour is more in line with the GNU "coding standards",
! 55: see <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html>.
! 56: - Add ./contrib/nglog.sh: This script parses the log output of ngircd(8),
! 57: and colorizes the messages according to their log level. Example usage:
! 58: ngircd -f $PWD/doc/sample-ngircd.conf -np | ./contrib/nglog.sh
! 59: - Enlarge buffers of info texts to 128 bytes. This includes:
! 60: - "Real name" of a client (4th filed of the USER command).
! 61: - Server info text ("Info" configuration option).
! 62: - Admin info texts and email address ("AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" and
! 63: "AdminEmail" configuration options).
! 64: - Network name ("Network" configuration option).
! 65: The limit was 64 bytes before ...
! 66: Closes #258.
! 67: - Streamline handling of invalid and unset server name: Don't exit during
! 68: runtime (REHASH command, HUP signal), because the server name can't be
! 69: changed in this case anyway and the new invalid name will be ignored.
! 70: - Slightly reorder startup steps, and enhance logging:
! 71: - Show name of configuration file at the beginning of start up.
! 72: - Add a message when ngIRCd is ready, including its host name.
! 73: - Show name of configuration file on REHASH (SIGHUP), too.
! 74: - Change level of "done message" to NOTICE, like "starting" & "ready".
! 75: - Initialize IO functions before channels, connections, clients, ...
! 76: - configure.ng: OpenSSL can depends on lz or latomic so use pkg-config to
! 77: find those dependencies and fallback to existing mechanism.
! 78: Closes #256.
! 79:
! 80: ngIRCd 25 (2019-01-23)
! 81:
! 82: - Implement new configuration option "MaxPenaltyTime", which configures the
! 83: maximum penalty time increase in seconds, per penalty event. Set to -1 for
! 84: no limit (the default), 0 to disable penalties altogether. ngIRCd doesn't
! 85: use penalty increases higher than 2 seconds during normal operation, so
! 86: values higher than 1 rarely make sense.
! 87: Disabling (or reducing) penalties can greatly speed up "make check" runs
! 88: for example, see below, but are mostly a debugging feature and normally
! 89: not meant to be used on production systems!
! 90: Some example timings running "make check" from my macOS workstation:
! 91: - MaxPenaltyTime not set: 4:41,79s
! 92: - "MaxPenaltyTime = 1": 3:14,71s
! 93: - "MaxPenaltyTime = 0": 25,46s
! 94: Closes #249 and #251.
! 95: - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (10.0)
! 96: - Allow a 5th parameter in WEBIRC. Thanks to "ItsOnlyBinary".
! 97: Closes #247.
! 98:
! 99: ngIRCd 25~rc1 (2018-08-11)
! 100: - Only send TOPIC updates to a channel when the topic actually changed:
! 101: This prevents the channel from becoming flooded by unnecessary TOPIC update
! 102: messages, that can happen when IRC services try to enforce a certain topic
! 103: but which is already set (at least on the local server), for example.
! 104: Therefore still forward it to all servers, but don't inform local clients
! 105: (still update setter and timestamp information, though!).
! 106: - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (9.2). This includes adding
! 107: missing and deleting obsolete file references.
! 108: - Handle user mode "C" ("Only users that share a channel are allowed to send
! 109: messages") like user mode "b" ("block private messages and notices"): allow
! 110: messages from servers, services, and IRC Operators, too. Change proposed by
! 111: "wowaname" back in 2015 in #ngircd, thanks!
! 112: - Allow IRC Ops and remote servers to KILL service clients: such clients
! 113: behave like regular users, therefore IRC operators and servers should be
! 114: able to KILL them: for example to resolve nick collisions.
! 115: Closes #242.
! 116:
! 117: ngIRCd 24 (2017-01-20)
! 118:
! 119: ngIRCd 24~rc1 (2017-01-07)
! 120: - Log privilege violations and failed OPER request with log level "error"
! 121: and send it to the "&SERVER" channel, too.
! 122: - Immediately shut down connection when receiving an "ERROR" command,
! 123: don't wait for the peer to close the connection. This allows the daemon
! 124: to forward the received "ERROR" message in the network, instead of the
! 125: very generic "client closed connection" message.
! 126: - Explicitly forbid remote servers to modify "x-lines" (G-LINES) when the
! 127: "AllowRemoteOper" configuration option isn't set, even when the command
! 128: seems to originate from the remote server itself: this prevents GLINE's
! 129: to become set during server handshake in this case (what wouldn't be
! 130: possible during regular runtime when a remote IRC Op sends the command)
! 131: and what can't be undone by IRC Ops later on (because of the missing
! 132: "AllowRemoteOper" option) ...
! 133: - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (8.0), and fix "duplicate
! 134: symbols" error messages when building (linking) the binary.
! 135: - Add "Documentation" variables to systemd configuration files.
! 136: - Make sure that SYSCONFDIR is always set, which can be handy when
! 137: using source code linters when ./configure hasn't been run already.
! 138: - Add the new "PAMServiceName" configuration option to specify the name
! 139: used as PAM service name. This setting allows to run multiple ngIRCd
! 140: instances with different PAM configurations for each instance.
! 141: Thanks to Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at> for the
! 142: patch, closes #226.
! 143: - Add an ".editorconfig" file to the project.
! 144: - Limit the number of message target, and suppress duplicates: This
! 145: prevents an user from flooding the server using commands like this:
! 146: "PRIVMSG nick1,nick1,nick1,...".
! 147: Duplicate targets are suppressed silently (channels and clients).
! 148: In addition, the maximum number of targets per PRIVMSG, NOTICE, ...
! 149: command are limited to MAX_HNDL_TARGETS (25). If there are more, the
! 150: daemon sends the new 407 (ERR_TOOMANYTARGETS_MSG) numeric, containing
! 151: the first target that hasn't been handled any more. Closes #187.
! 152: - Make contrib/platformtest.sh script more portable, and only show
! 153: "runs=Y" when the test suite really has been passed successfully.
! 154:
! 155: ngIRCd 23 (2015-11-16)
! 156:
! 157: ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06)
! 158: - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is
! 159: a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea.
! 160: Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not
! 161: available. This mimics the behavior in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd
! 162: 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217.
! 163: The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed
! 164: to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still
! 165: supported for compatibility reasons.
! 166: - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick
! 167: name while on this channel). Closes #214.
! 168: - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts.
! 169: Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203.
! 170: - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients
! 171: expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly.
! 172: Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
! 173: - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
! 174: in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't
! 175: hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect.
! 176: This closes #198.
! 177: - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set.
! 178: Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202.
! 179: - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents
! 180: ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see
! 181: the channel list).
! 182: Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197.
! 183: - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure
! 184: that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users
! 185: to local ("&") channels.
! 186: Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183.
! 187: - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when
! 188: receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation
! 189: time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports
! 190: the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined
! 191: to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this.
! 192: This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
! 193:
! 194: ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
! 195:
! 196: - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch,
! 197: and testing by Christoph Biedl <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
! 198: - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating
! 199: systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example
! 200: "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to
! 201: "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve
! 202: "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using
! 203: DNS at all makes the test site much more portable.
! 204:
! 205: ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
! 206:
! 207: - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
! 208: ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
! 209: Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
! 210:
! 211: ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
! 212: - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
! 213: lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
! 214: nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
! 215: Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
! 216: - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
! 217: - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
! 218: that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
! 219: this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
! 220: if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
! 221: - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
! 222: - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
! 223: settable by IRC Operators.
! 224: - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
! 225: "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
! 226: settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
! 227: careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
! 228: User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
! 229: - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
! 230: - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
! 231: - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
! 232: Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
! 233: - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
! 234: on "VPATH builds", for example.
! 235: - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
! 236: and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
! 237: - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
! 238: using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
! 239: names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
! 240: is quite unexpected for users.
! 241: - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
! 242: allow using separate source and build trees.
! 243: - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
! 244: - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
! 245: in all replies.
! 246: - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
! 247: and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
! 248: useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
! 249: been linked at all ...).
! 250: - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
! 251: (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
! 252: daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
! 253: which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
! 254: - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
! 255: - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
! 256: Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
! 257: return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
! 258: DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
! 259: - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
! 260: invalid password.
! 261:
! 262: ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
! 263:
! 264: - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
! 265: disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
! 266: - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
! 267: - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
! 268: - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
! 269: linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
! 270: been implemented already).
! 271: - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
! 272:
! 273: ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
! 274:
! 275: - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
! 276: is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
! 277: initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
! 278:
! 279: ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
! 280: - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
! 281: support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
! 282:
! 283: ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
! 284: - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
! 285: - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
! 286: command (restricted to IRC Operators).
! 287: - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
! 288: using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
! 289: changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
! 290: OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
! 291: - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
! 292: you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
! 293: the IRC "TRACE" command.
! 294: - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
! 295: user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
! 296: after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
! 297: could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
! 298: for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
! 299: "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
! 300: - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
! 301: services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
! 302: service restarts.
! 303: - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
! 304: all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
! 305: on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
! 306: If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
! 307: all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
! 308: This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
! 309: still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
! 310: setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
! 311: warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
! 312: - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
! 313: passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
! 314: forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
! 315: user using this certificate and not using passwords.
! 316: - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
! 317: section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
! 318: further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
! 319: the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
! 320: configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
! 321: parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
! 322: possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
! 323: into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
! 324: - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
! 325: - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
! 326: unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
! 327: of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
! 328: ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
! 329: - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
! 330: server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
! 331: for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
! 332: - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
! 333: section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
! 334: in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
! 335: connections are left active after handling at least one client.
! 336: The default is 0, "never".
! 337: This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
! 338: activation" with systemd(8), for example.
! 339: - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
! 340: - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
! 341: numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
! 342: InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
! 343: like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
! 344: Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
! 345: of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
! 346: - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
! 347: the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
! 348: enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
! 349: and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
! 350: configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
! 351: - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
! 352: set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
! 353: which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
! 354: and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
! 355: Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
! 356:
! 357: ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
! 358:
! 359: - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
! 360: - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
! 361: when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
! 362: default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
! 363: clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
! 364:
! 365: ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
! 366:
! 367: - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
! 368: - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
! 369: commands that could be used by arbitrary users to crash the daemon
! 370: (CVE-2013-1747).
! 371:
! 372: ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
! 373:
! 374: - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
! 375:
! 376: ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
! 377:
! 378: - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
! 379: been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
! 380: external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
! 381: Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
! 382: <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
! 383:
! 384: ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
! 385: - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
! 386: subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
! 387: "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
! 388: "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
! 389: hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
! 390: additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
! 391:
! 392: ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
! 393: - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
! 394: then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
! 395: in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
! 396: - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
! 397: and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
! 398: ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
! 399: configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
! 400: This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
! 401: hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
! 402: - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
! 403: services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
! 404: command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
! 405: to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
! 406: initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
! 407: This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
! 408: SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
! 409: are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
! 410: - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
! 411: of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
! 412: - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
! 413: all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
! 414: originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
! 415: originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
! 416: ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
! 417: - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
! 418: "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
! 419: new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
! 420: - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
! 421: from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
! 422: mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
! 423: - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
! 424: variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
! 425: IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
! 426: mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
! 427: the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
! 428: (Closes #133)
! 429: - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
! 430: don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
! 431: Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
! 432: patch. (Closes #135)
! 433: - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
! 434: as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
! 435: configuration file. (Closes #136)
! 436: - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
! 437: character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
! 438: This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
! 439: the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
! 440: doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
! 441: - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
! 442: every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
! 443: behave, and so do we :-)
! 444: - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
! 445: operators are able to talk in such a channel.
! 446: - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
! 447: configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
! 448: variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
! 449: - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
! 450: the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
! 451: ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
! 452: +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
! 453: modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
! 454: - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
! 455: "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
! 456: '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
! 457: and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
! 458: the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
! 459: random salt will be generated after each server restart.
! 460:
! 461: ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
! 462:
! 463: ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
! 464: - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
! 465: that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
! 466: Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
! 467: which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
! 468: - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
! 469: - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
! 470: and capability "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
! 471: handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
! 472:
! 473: ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
! 474:
! 475: - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
! 476: distribution archive ... ooops!
! 477:
! 478: ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
! 479:
! 480: ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
! 481: - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
! 482: is the only supported version.
! 483: - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
! 484: (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
! 485: Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
! 486: - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
! 487: operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
! 488: channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
! 489: the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
! 490: - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
! 491: command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
! 492: and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
! 493: by completely unknown clients.
! 494: - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
! 495: indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
! 496: - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
! 497: duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
! 498: or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
! 499: - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
! 500: WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
! 501: - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
! 502: that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
! 503: in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
! 504: - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
! 505: - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
! 506: commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
! 507: commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
! 508: Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
! 509: - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
! 510: sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
! 511: "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
! 512: user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
! 513: - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
! 514: returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
! 515: thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
! 516: of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
! 517: - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
! 518: client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
! 519: using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
! 520: - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
! 521: are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
! 522: handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
! 523: Reported by Cahata, thanks!
! 524: - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
! 525: synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
! 526: If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
! 527: are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
! 528: NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
! 529: processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
! 530: - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
! 531: - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
! 532: is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
! 533: be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
! 534: - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
! 535: mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
! 536: - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
! 537: - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
! 538: forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
! 539: - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
! 540: These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
! 541: but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
! 542: and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
! 543: argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
! 544: and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
! 545:
! 546: ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
! 547:
! 548: - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
! 549:
! 550: ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
! 551: - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
! 552: ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
! 553: that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
! 554: longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
! 555:
! 556: ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
! 557: - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
! 558: When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
! 559: messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
! 560: All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
! 561: servers from TOR or I2P.
! 562: - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
! 563: activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
! 564: other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
! 565: the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
! 566: trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
! 567: commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
! 568: There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
! 569: commands") requests are not scrubbed.
! 570: - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
! 571: and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
! 572: [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
! 573: most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
! 574: variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
! 575: ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
! 576: are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
! 577: the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
! 578: => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
! 579: - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
! 580: - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
! 581: space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
! 582: wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
! 583: overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
! 584: - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
! 585: enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
! 586: "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
! 587: network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
! 588: - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
! 589: active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
! 590: like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
! 591: - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
! 592: wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
! 593: than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
! 594: - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
! 595: (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
! 596: variable description.
! 597: - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
! 598: - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
! 599: every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
! 600: - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
! 601: every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
! 602: supplied by the IRC client.
! 603: - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
! 604: got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
! 605: can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
! 606: the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
! 607: - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
! 608: that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
! 609: establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
! 610: - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
! 611: - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
! 612: used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
! 613: - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
! 614: including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
! 615: - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
! 616: [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
! 617: 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
! 618: vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
! 619: in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
! 620:
! 621: ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
! 622:
! 623: - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
! 624: - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
! 625: - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
! 626:
! 627: ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
! 628:
! 629: - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
! 630:
! 631: ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
! 632: - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
! 633: - Make source code compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
! 634: ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
! 635:
! 636: ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
! 637: - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
! 638: runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
! 639: Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
! 640: - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
! 641: (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
! 642: Possible values are system dependent, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
! 643: "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
! 644: Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
! 645: - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
! 646: connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
! 647: the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
! 648: - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
! 649: signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
! 650: using the command line parameters.
! 651: - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
! 652: - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contents of the MOTD
! 653: file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
! 654: re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
! 655: - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
! 656: - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
! 657: - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
! 658: - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
! 659: file doc/PAM.txt for details.
! 660: - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
! 661: - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
! 662: this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
! 663: - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
! 664:
! 665: ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
! 666:
! 667: ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
! 668: - Enhance connection statistics counters: display total number of served
! 669: connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
! 670: the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
! 671:
! 672: ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
! 673: - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
! 674: required to secure this command must be configured using the new
! 675: "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
! 676: - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
! 677: - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
! 678: Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
! 679: to join such a channel.
! 680: But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
! 681: when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
! 682: every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
! 683: mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
! 684:
! 685: ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
! 686:
! 687: ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
! 688: - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
! 689: ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
! 690: - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (instead of the already
! 691: implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
! 692: - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
! 693: enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
! 694: on the local server.
! 695: - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
! 696: a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
! 697: per second before a one second pause is enforced.
! 698:
! 699: ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
! 700:
! 701: - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
! 702: - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
! 703: - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
! 704:
! 705: ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
! 706:
! 707: ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
! 708: - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
! 709: - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
! 710: - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
! 711: new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
! 712: here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
! 713: individual channel keys for different users.
! 714: - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
! 715:
! 716: ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
! 717:
! 718: ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
! 719: - New version number scheme :-)
! 720: - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
! 721: tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
! 722: For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
! 723: to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
! 724: - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
! 725: OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
! 726: New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
! 727: SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
! 728: - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
! 729: visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
! 730: In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
! 731: all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
! 732: - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
! 733: - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
! 734: daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
! 735:
! 736: ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
! 737:
! 738: - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
! 739: - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
! 740: obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
! 741: is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
! 742: Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
! 743: but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
! 744:
! 745: ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
! 746:
! 747: ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
! 748: - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
! 749:
! 750: ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
! 751: - Add IPv6 support.
! 752: - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
! 753: - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
! 754: enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
! 755: - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
! 756: nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
! 757: (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
! 758: - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
! 759: as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
! 760: member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
! 761: - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
! 762:
! 763: ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
! 764:
! 765: - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
! 766: - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
! 767: the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
! 768: - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
! 769: length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
! 770: - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
! 771: - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
! 772: disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
! 773: but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
! 774: - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
! 775: operators.
! 776:
! 777: ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
! 778:
! 779: - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
! 780: (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
! 781: - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
! 782: well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
! 783: - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
! 784:
! 785: ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
! 786:
! 787: - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
! 788: - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
! 789: join predefined channels.
! 790:
! 791: ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
! 792:
! 793: ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
! 794: - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
! 795: to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
! 796: - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
! 797: - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
! 798: - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
! 799: is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
! 800: limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
! 801: - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
! 802: lookup to prevent spoofing.
! 803: - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
! 804: addition to the select() interface.
! 805:
! 806: ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
! 807:
! 808: - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
! 809: - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
! 810: - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
! 811: - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
! 812: when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
! 813: to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
! 814: Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
! 815: - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
! 816: - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
! 817: commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
! 818: - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
! 819: the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
! 820: Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
! 821: - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
! 822: Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
! 823: API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
! 824:
! 825: ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
! 826:
! 827: - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
! 828: Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
! 829: its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
! 830: to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
! 831: "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
! 832: - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
! 833: establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
! 834: - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
! 835: - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
! 836: - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
! 837: have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
! 838: The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
! 839:
! 840: ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
! 841:
! 842: - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
! 843: simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
! 844: This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
! 845: (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
! 846: - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
! 847: sockets of the server to a single IP address.
! 848:
! 849: ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
! 850:
! 851: - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
! 852:
! 853: ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
! 854:
! 855: - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
! 856: RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
! 857: configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
! 858: to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
! 859: - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
! 860: - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
! 861: - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
! 862: - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
! 863: new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
! 864: - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
! 865: configure to enable it.
! 866: - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
! 867: instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
! 868: "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
! 869: - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
! 870: - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
! 871:
! 872:
! 873: Older news (sorry, only available in German language):
! 874:
! 875: ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
! 876:
! 877: - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
! 878: noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
! 879: - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
! 880: bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
! 881: - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
! 882: kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
! 883: Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
! 884: - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
! 885: Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
! 886: ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
! 887: Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
! 888: werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
! 889: - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
! 890: Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
! 891: B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
! 892: wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
! 893: - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
! 894: macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
! 895: - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
! 896: (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
! 897: nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
! 898: kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
! 899: miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
! 900: - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
! 901: der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
! 902: - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
! 903:
! 904: ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
! 905:
! 906: - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
! 907: (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
! 908: - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
! 909: dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
! 910: - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
! 911: Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
! 912: Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
! 913: wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
! 914: - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
! 915: Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
! 916: Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
! 917: gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
! 918: "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
! 919: - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
! 920: - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
! 921: ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
! 922: - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
! 923:
! 924: ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
! 925:
! 926: - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
! 927: Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
! 928:
! 929: ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
! 930:
! 931: - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
! 932: - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
! 933: Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
! 934: ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
! 935: zusaetzliche Informationen.
! 936: - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
! 937: einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
! 938: nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
! 939: - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
! 940: einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
! 941: - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
! 942: gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
! 943: - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
! 944: - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
! 945: alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
! 946: - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
! 947: zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
! 948:
! 949: ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
! 950:
! 951: - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
! 952: er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
! 953: - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
! 954: verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
! 955: Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
! 956: - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
! 957: - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
! 958: - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
! 959: - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
! 960: - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
! 961:
! 962: ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
! 963:
! 964: - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
! 965: Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
! 966: noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
! 967: bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
! 968: nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
! 969: - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
! 970:
! 971: ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
! 972:
! 973: - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
! 974: es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
! 975: Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
! 976: Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
! 977: - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
! 978: - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
! 979:
! 980: ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
! 981:
! 982: - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
! 983: "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
! 984: IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
! 985: - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
! 986: - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
! 987: - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
! 988: - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
! 989: - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
! 990:
! 991: ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
! 992:
! 993: - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
! 994: - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
! 995: - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
! 996: nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
! 997:
! 998: ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
! 999:
! 1000: - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)
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