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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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