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