2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2013 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
12 ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
14 - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
15 support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
16 - Use arc4random() function to generate "random" numbers, when available.
17 - platformtest.sh: Detect clang compiler, and clean up GIT source tree
18 before building (when possible).
19 - Update (date of) manual pages.
20 - Update "Upgrade Information" in INSTALL file, add more systems to
21 doc/Platforms.txt, and fix spelling in NEWS and ChangeLog files =:)
22 - Fix remaining compiler warnings on OpenBSD.
24 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
25 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
26 - Adjust log messages for invalid and spoofed prefixes, which cleans up
27 logging of commands related to already KILL'ed clients. And don't
28 forward KILL commands for (already) unknown clients any more to prevent
29 unnecessary duplicates.
30 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
31 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
32 - Fixed blocking of server reconnects in some error configurations.
33 - Don't ignore SSL-related errors during startup any more: abort startup
34 when SSL is requested by the configuration but can't be initialized and
35 don't continue only listening on plain text communication ports.
37 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
38 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
39 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
40 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
41 - Fix "TRACE": Correctly return ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) (which basically
42 is "syntax error") when there are too many parameters.
43 - Clean up lots of permission and parameter checks in functions handling
44 IRC commands; and more consistently add penalty times on errors.
45 - Fix error numeric of WHOIS when no nick name has been provided:
46 as per RFC it should be ERR_NONICKNAMEGIVEN(431).
47 - Only log "IDENT ... no result" messages when an IDENT looked took place
48 and didn't return any data, not when IDENT has been disabled.
49 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
50 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
51 the IRC "TRACE" command.
52 - Correctly discard supplementary groups on server startup.
53 - Save client IP address text for "WebIRC" users and correctly display
54 it on WHOIS, for example. (Closes bug #159)
55 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
56 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
57 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
58 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
59 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
60 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
61 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
62 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
64 - Enforce "penalty times" on error conditions more consistently and in
65 more places. Now most error codes sent back from the IRC server to the
66 client should result in a 2 second "penalty".
67 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
68 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
69 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
70 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
71 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
72 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
73 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
74 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
75 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
76 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
77 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
78 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
79 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
80 - IRC Operator names, as defined in ngircd.conf, are logged now when
81 handling successful OPER commands.
82 - Some error conditions while handling IRC commands, like "permission
83 denied" or "need more parameters", result in more penalty times.
84 - The numeric replies of some commands became split too early which
85 resulted in more numeric reply lines than necessary.
86 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
87 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
88 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
89 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
90 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
91 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
92 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
93 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
94 - Fix use-after-free in the Lists_CheckReason() function, which is used
95 to check if a client is a member of a particular ban/invite/... list.
96 - Xcode: fix detection of host OS, vendor, and CPU type, and update
97 project settings for Xcode 5.
98 - OS X PackageMaker: use relative path names in project files and package
99 with correct file permissions (requires root privileges on "make").
100 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
101 - Look for possible cloaked Masks in Lists. Users with +x user mode can
102 be banned with their cloaked hostname now.
103 - Don't read SSL client data before DNS resolver is finished which could
104 have resulted in discarding the resolved client hostname and IDENT
105 reply afterwards, because in some situations (timing dependent) the
106 NICK and USER commands could have already been read in from the client,
107 stored in the buffer, and been processed.
108 Thanks to Julian Brost for reporting the issue and testing, and to
109 Federico G. Schwindt <fgsch@lodoss.net> for helping to debug it!
110 - Increase password length limit to 64 characters. (Closes bug #154)
111 - doc/Services.txt: Update Anope status and URL.
112 - Clean up Xcode project file, remove outdated files, add missing ones.
113 - Update Doxygen configuration file.
114 - configure: search for iconv_open as well as libiconv_open, because
115 on some installations iconv_open() is actually libiconv_open().
116 iconv_open() is the glibc version while libiconv_open() is the
117 libiconv version, now both variants are supported. (Closes bug #151)
118 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
119 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
120 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
121 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
122 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
123 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
124 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
125 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
126 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
127 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
128 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
129 The default is 0, "never".
130 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
131 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
132 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
133 - contrib/README: add description for more files.
134 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
135 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
136 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
137 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
138 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
139 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
140 - Exit message: use singular & plural :-)
141 - autogen.sh: Check for autoconf/automake wrapper scripts
142 - Add missing punctuation marks in log messages, adjust some severity
143 levels, and make SSL-related messages more readable.
144 - AUTHORS file: Update list of contributors.
145 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
146 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
147 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
148 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
149 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
150 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
151 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
152 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
153 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
154 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
156 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
158 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
159 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
160 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
161 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
163 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
165 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
166 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to to crash the daemon
168 - WHO command: Use the currently "displayed hostname" (which can be cloaked!)
169 for hostname matching, not the real one. In other words: don't display all
170 the cloaked users on a specific real hostname!
171 - configure: The header file "netinet/in_systm.h" already is optional in
172 ngIRCd, so don't require it in the configure script. Now ngIRCd can be
173 built on Minix 3 again :-)
174 - Return better "Connection not registered as server link" errors: Now ngIRCd
175 returns a more specific error message for numeric ERR_NOTREGISTERED(451)
176 when a regular user tries to use a command that isn't allowed for users but
178 - Don't report ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) when a MDOE command with more modes
179 than nicknames is handled, as well as for channel limit and key changes
180 without specifying the limit or key parameters.
181 This is how a lot (all?) other IRC servers behave, including ircd2.11,
182 InspIRCd, and ircd-seven. And because of clients (tested with Textual and
183 mIRC) sending bogus MODE commands like "MODE -ooo nick", end-users got the
184 expected result as well as correct but misleading error messages ...
185 - Correctly detect when SSL subsystem must be initialized and take
186 outgoing connections (server links!) into account, too.
187 - autogen.sh: Enforce serial test harness on GNU automake >=1.13. The
188 new parallel test harness which is enabled by default starting with
189 automake 1.13 isn't compatible with our test suite.
190 And don't use "egrep -o", instead use "sed", because it isn't portable
191 and not available on OpenBSD, for example.
193 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
195 - Allow ERROR command on server and service links only, ignore them and
196 add a penalty time on all other link types.
197 - Enforced mode setting by IRC Operators: Only check the channel user
198 modes of the initiator if he is joined to the channel and not an IRC
199 operator enforcing modes (which requires the configuration option
200 "OperCanUseMode" to be enabled), because trying to check channel user
201 modes of a non-member results in an assertion when running with debug
202 code or could crash the daemon otherwise. This closes bug #147, thanks
203 to James Kirwill <james.kirwill@bk.ru> for tracking this down!
204 - Fix build system to cope with spaces in path names.
205 - Code cleanups, mostly to fix build warnings on Cygwin.
207 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
209 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
210 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
211 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
212 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
213 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
215 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
216 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
217 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
218 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
219 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
220 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
221 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
222 - RPL_UMODEIS: send correct target name, even on server links.
223 - Update platformtest.sh to follow autoconf changes and only generate
224 the "configure" script when it is missing.
225 - Fix the test suite to correctly execute test scripts even when stdout
227 - Fix some compiler warnings on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
229 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
230 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
231 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
232 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
233 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
234 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
235 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
236 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
237 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
238 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
239 - Fix error message when trying to join non-predefined channels and the
240 "PredefChannelsOnly" configuration option is set.
241 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
242 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
243 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
244 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
245 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
246 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
247 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
248 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
249 - Make server reconnect time a little bit more random, so that two
250 servers trying to connect to each other asynchronously don't try this
251 in exactly the same time periods and kick each other off ...
252 - Don't accept connections for servers already being linked: there was a
253 time frame that could result in one connection overwriting the other,
254 e. g. the incoming connection overwriting the status of the outgoing
255 one. And this could lead to all kind of weirdness (even crashes!) later
256 on: now such incoming connections are dropped.
257 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
258 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
259 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
260 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
261 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
262 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
263 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
264 - WHOIS: Not only show RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG to local IRC operators, but show
265 it to all IRC operators in the network. And don't show it to anybody if
266 the "more privacy" configuration option is enabled. (Closes #134)
267 - Test suite: make expect scripts more verbose displaying dots for each
268 reply of the server that it is waiting for.
269 - WHOIS: Implement numeric RPL_WHOISMODES_MSG (379) and show user modes in
270 the reply of the WHOIS command for the user himself or, if MorePrivacy
271 isn't set, for request initiated by an IRC operator. (Closes #129)
272 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
273 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
274 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
275 - KICK-protect IRC services.
276 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
277 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
278 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
279 - Debian: require "telnet" or "telnet-ssl" for building and enable
280 CHARCONV in ngircd-full[-dbg] variants.
281 - Send RPL_REHASHING (382) numeric if a REHASH command was accepted.
282 - Fix spelling and variable names in some log messages.
283 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
284 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
285 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
286 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
287 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
289 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
290 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
291 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
293 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
294 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
295 configuration file. (Closes #136)
296 - Enhance build system: Support new (>=1.12) and old (<=1.11) GNU automake
297 versions, update checks for required and optional features, enable
298 colored test output of automake (if available), rename configure.in to
299 more modern configure.ac, include .mailmap and all build-system files in
300 distribution archives and no longer require a GIT tree to detect the
301 correct version string.
302 - Update documentation: add doc/Contributing.txt and include version
303 numbers in doc/Modes.txt.
304 - Free all listen ports on initialization: now listen ports can be
305 reconfigured on runtime using a configuration reload.
306 - Initialize SSL when needed only, and disable SSL on errors.
307 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
308 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
309 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
310 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
311 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
312 - Allow limited punctuation in usernames, for better PAM integration.
313 - Correctly re-initialize signal handlers on RESTART commands.
314 - Show a warning on startup if the configuration file is not a full path:
315 ngIRCd is a long-running process and changes its working directory to
316 "/" to not block mounted filesystems and the like when running as daemon
317 ("not in the foreground"); therefore the path to the configuration file
318 must be relative to "/" (or the chroot() directory), which basically is
319 "not relative", to ensure that "kill -HUP" and the "REHASH" command work
320 as expected later on. (Closes #127)
321 - Make the "&SERVER" channel definable in a [Channel] configuration block,
322 which enables server operators to overwrite the built-in topic and
323 channel modes. (Closes #131)
324 - Don't limit list size of "WHO #channel" commands, because it makes no
325 sense to not return all the users in that channel, so I removed the
326 check. But if there are more than MAX_RPL_WHO(25) replies, the client
327 requesting the list will be "penalized" one second more, then 2 in
329 - Make ngIRCd buildable using the kqueue() IO interface on FreeBSD 4.x.
330 - Fix the "NoticeAuth" configuration option when using SSL connections and
331 enhance the message to show the hostname and IDENT reply of the client.
332 - Introduce numeric RPL_HOSTHIDDEN_MSG (396): This numeric is sent to the
333 client each time it changes its displayed hostname using "MODE +/-x",
334 and if "CloakHost" is set right after the MOTD has been sent.
335 - Fix USERHOST not displaying the correctly cloaked hostname.
336 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
337 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
338 behave, and so do we :-)
339 - Dynamically allocate memory for connection passwords: This a) saves
340 memory for clients not using passwords at all and b) allows for
341 "arbitrarily" long passwords.
342 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
343 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
344 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
345 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
346 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
347 - Now "make uninstall" removes the installed "ngircd.conf" file, if it is
348 still equal to our "sample-ngircd.conf" file and therefore hasn't been
349 modified by the user. If it has been modified, it isn't removed and a
350 notice is displayed to the user. And "make install" now displays a
351 message when no ngircd.conf file exists and the "sample-ngircd.conf"
352 file will be installed as a starting point.
353 - Add contrib/ngircd.service, a systemd service file for ngircd.
354 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
355 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
356 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
357 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
358 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
359 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
360 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
361 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
362 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
363 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
364 random salt will be generated after each server restart. (Closes #133)
366 ngIRCd Release 19.2 (2012-06-19)
368 - doc/Capabilities.txt: document "multi-prefix" capability
370 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
371 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
372 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
373 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
374 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
375 - Correctly handle asynchronously re-established server links: a race
376 condition could let the daemon loose track of an already re-established
377 incoming server link while preparing its own outgoing connection.
378 Peers that both try to connect each other could have been affected.
379 - Log a debug message when SIGUSR2 is handled in debug mode.
380 - Only allow alphanumeric characters in user-supplied user names of
381 USER command and IDENT replies.
382 - Change wording of "TLS initialized" message to make it more consistent.
383 - Don't leak file descriptors on error path when creating "PID files".
384 - Add missing mode "r" to CHANMODES in 005 "ISUPPORT" numeric.
385 - Update doc/Modes.txt and doc/Platforms.txt documents.
386 - contrib/platformtest.sh: correctly detect Open64 C compiler and handle
387 "CC=xxx MAKE=yyy ./platformtest.sh" calling convention.
388 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
389 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
390 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
391 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
392 - Update Xcode project files: reference missing documentation files.
393 - Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot.
394 - FAQ: enhance description of chroot setup.
396 ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
398 - Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL.
399 - Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note",
400 and fix lintian(1) warning ""hyphen-used-as-minus-sign", too.
401 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
402 distribution archive ... ooops!
403 - getpid.sh: Fix test case error for Debian using sbuild(1).
404 - Don't log "ngIRCd hello message" two times when starting up.
406 ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
408 - Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by
409 GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions.
410 - Fix configuration file parser: don't accept "[SSL]" blocks in the
411 configuration file when no SSL support is built in ngIRCd.
412 - Fix building ngIRCd with old gcc versions (e. g. 2.7.2).
413 - Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration
414 file: Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the
415 configuration, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored
416 the "SyslogFacility" configuration option ...
417 Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue!
419 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
420 - Enhance command limits for server links: the limit now is dependent
421 on the number of users connected in the network and higher while
422 servers are joining the network to make the login of servers faster.
423 - Log more information about server synchronization.
424 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
425 is the only supported version.
426 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
427 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
428 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
429 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
430 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
431 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
432 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
433 - PRIVMSG and NOTICE: Handle nick!user@host masks case-insensitive.
434 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
435 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
436 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
437 by completely unknown clients.
438 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
439 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
440 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
441 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
442 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
443 - Fix both ERR_SUMMONDISABLED(445) and ERR_USERSDISABLED(446) replies.
444 - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for
445 unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501).
446 - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES",
447 add "EXCEPTS=e" and "INVEX=I", add "MAXLIST=beI:50".
448 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
449 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
450 - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive.
451 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
452 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
453 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
454 - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments.
455 For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling
456 "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f".
457 - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of
458 the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an
459 assertion and end the daemon in some error paths.
460 - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child
461 processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases
462 with IDENT lookups enabled.
463 - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS,
464 don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is
465 case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the
466 unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client).
467 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
468 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
469 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
470 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
471 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
472 - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variable in the
473 configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user).
474 - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-)
475 - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single
476 channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel
477 limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check
478 the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when
479 trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of.
480 - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nicknames.
481 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
482 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
483 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
484 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
485 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
486 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
487 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
488 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
489 - Fixed some spelling errors in documentation and code comments
490 (Thanks to Christoph Biedl).
491 - contrib/Debian/control: Update and complete "Build-Depends" and
492 update our Debian package descriptions with "official" ones.
493 - Fixed typo in two error messages.
494 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
495 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
496 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
497 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
498 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
499 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
500 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
501 - README: Update list of implemented commands.
502 - Log better error messages when rejecting clients.
503 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
504 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
505 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
506 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
507 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
508 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
509 - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR
510 for Mac OS X Xcode builds.
511 - ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use
512 poll() when poll.h exists as well.
513 - Suppress 'Can't create pre-defined channel: invalid name: ""' message.
514 - whois-test: handle local host name = "localhost.localdomain" using the
515 pattern "localhost*" for valid local host names.
516 - sample-ngircd.conf: show correct default for "PAM" variable: The
517 default of "PAM" is "yes" when ngIRCd has been configured to use it,
518 so show the correct default value in the sample configuration file.
520 - Update GPL 2 license text to current version.
521 - Only close "unrelated" sockets in forked child processes: This fixes
522 the problem that ngIRCd can't do any IDENT lookups because of the
523 socket has already been closed in the child process.
524 The bug has been introduced starting with ngIRCd 17 ... :-(
525 (commit ID 6ebb31ab35e)
526 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
527 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
528 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
529 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
530 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
531 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
532 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
533 - New 2nd message "Nickname too long" for error code 432.
534 - Xcode: Mac OS X config.h: support 10.5 as well as 10.6/10.7 SDK.
535 - Xcode: exclude more Xcode 4 specific directories in ".gitignore".
536 - Disconnect directly linked servers sending QUIT. Without this,
537 the server becomes removed from the network and the client list,
538 but the connection isn't shut down at all ...
539 - contrib/ngindent: detect "gindent" as GNU indent.
540 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
541 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
542 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
543 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
544 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
545 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
546 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
547 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
548 - Correctly inform clients when other servers change their user modes.
549 This is required for some services to work correctly.
550 - Test suite: make getpid.sh work even when run as root.
551 - Spoofed prefixes: close connection on non-server links only.
552 On server-links, spoofed prefixes can happen because of the
553 asynchronous nature of the IRC protocol. So don't break server-
554 links, only log a message and ignore the command. (Closes #113)
556 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
558 - Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page.
559 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
560 - Don't register WHOWAS information when "MorePrivacy" option is in effect.
562 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
563 - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-)
564 - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section.
565 - ngircd.8: document debugging options.
566 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
567 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
568 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
569 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
571 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
572 - PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
573 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
574 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
575 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
576 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
577 servers from TOR or I2P.
578 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
579 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
580 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
581 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
582 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
583 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
584 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
585 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
586 - Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest".
587 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
588 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
589 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
590 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
591 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
592 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
593 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
594 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
595 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
596 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
597 - Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers.
598 - GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients
599 refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it
600 would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
602 - contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
603 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
604 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
605 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
606 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
607 - Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links
608 (often used by services, for example) are not affected.
609 - Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-)
610 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
611 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
612 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
613 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
614 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
615 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
616 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
617 - Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
618 like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
619 - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This
620 helps to speed up server login and network synchronization.
621 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
622 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
623 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
624 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
625 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
626 variable description.
627 - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
628 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
629 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
630 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
631 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
632 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
633 supplied by the IRC client.
634 - doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
635 - Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
636 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
637 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
638 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
639 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
640 - Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
641 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
642 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
643 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
644 - Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
645 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
646 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
647 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
648 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
649 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
650 - TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other
651 servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when
652 the client is not joined to this channel.
653 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
654 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
655 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
656 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
657 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
658 - Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
659 ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
660 - Don't throttle services and servers being registered.
661 - Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
662 - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is
663 only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
666 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
668 - --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase
669 - Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit
670 - Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly
671 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
672 - Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section
673 - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section
674 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
675 - README: Updated list of implemented commands
676 - add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball
677 - Merge branch 'numeric-329'
678 - add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball
679 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
680 - Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()
682 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
684 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
685 - Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf
686 - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa
687 - contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent
689 ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27)
690 - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updateed project file
691 to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it
692 is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default
693 PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd.
694 - Debian: updated standards version to 3.9.1, added libpam0g-dev to the
695 dependencies, and install a default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins.
696 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable.
697 - Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links.
699 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
700 - ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a.
701 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
702 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
703 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
704 - ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C.
705 - ./configure: check support for C prototypes again.
706 - Don't use PARAMS() macro for function implementations.
707 - Added m68k/apple/aux3.0.1 (gcc 2.7.2) to doc/Platforms.txt.
708 - Only try to set FD_CLOEXEC if this flag is defined.
709 - Only use "__attribute__ ((unused))" if GCC >=2.8 is used.
710 - doc/Makefile.am: don't set docdir, automake handles it already.
712 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
713 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
714 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
715 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
716 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
717 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
718 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
719 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
720 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
721 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
722 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
723 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
724 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
725 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
726 using the command line parameters.
727 - Signal handler: added new 'delayed' signal handlers, including fallback
728 to deprecated sysv API. And removed global NGIRCd_SignalRehash variable.
729 - IO: add io_cloexec() to set close-on-exec flag.
730 - ng_ipaddr.h: include required assert.h header.
731 - Conn_SyncServerStruct(): test all connections; and work case insensitive
732 - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output.
733 - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the
734 client lag debug-output is working again.
735 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
736 - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
737 - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
738 - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
739 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
740 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
741 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
742 - Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon.
743 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
744 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
745 - Added mailmap file for git-[short]log and git-blame.
746 - Authenticated users should be registered without the "~" mark.
747 - Set NoPAM=yes in configuration files used for the testsuite.
748 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
749 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
750 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
751 - Resolver: Implement signal handler and catch TERM signals.
752 - Don't set a penalty time when doing DNS lookups.
753 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
754 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
755 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
756 - ngircd.init: require "$network" and "$remote_fs" when stopping ngircd.
757 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
758 - Include correct header files when testing for arpa/inet.h (Closes: #105).
759 - Don't access already freed memory in IRC_KILL().
760 - Fix "beeing" typo ...
761 - SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message.
763 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
765 - doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker
767 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
768 - Updated some more copyright notices, it's 2010 already :-)
769 - Only compile in Get_Error() if really needed
770 - Fix gcc warning "ignoring return value of ..."
771 - Include netinet/in_systm.h alongside netinet/ip.h
772 - Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h
773 - Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists
774 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt
775 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
776 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
777 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
779 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
780 - Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups.
781 - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit.
782 - Updatet doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
783 how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA).
784 - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list).
785 - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define
786 - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric
787 - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output.
788 - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable.
789 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
790 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
791 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
792 - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts".
793 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
794 - Only link "nsl" library when really needed.
795 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
796 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
797 to join such a channel.
798 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
799 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
800 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
801 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
803 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
805 - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset.
807 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
808 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
809 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
810 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
811 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
812 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
813 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
815 - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0
816 for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file.
817 - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names.
818 - Fix LSB header of Debian init script.
819 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh
820 to ease generating platform reports.
821 - Fix connection information for already registered connections.
822 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
823 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
824 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
825 - Fix connection counter.
826 - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections.
827 - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.
829 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
831 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
832 - BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh.
833 - New start/stop script for RedHat-based distributions:
834 contrib/ngircd-redhat.init, thanks to Naoya Nakazawa <naoya@sanow.net>.
835 - Doxygen: update source code repository link to GIT.
836 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
837 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
838 - Fix error handling on compressed links.
839 - Fix server list announcement.
840 - Do not remove host names from info text.
842 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
844 - Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections.
846 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
847 - Updated Debian/Linux init script (see contrib/Debian/ngircd.init).
848 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
849 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
850 - Spell check and enhance ngIRCd manual pages.
851 - Channel mode changes: break on syntax errors in MODE command.
852 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
853 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
854 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
855 individual channel keys for different users.
856 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
857 - Updated ngircd.spec file for building RPM packages.
858 - Add new and missing files to Mac OS X Xcode project, and update project.
859 - Reject masks with wildcard after last dot.
860 - TLS/SSL: remove useless error message when ssl connection is closed.
861 - Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down.
862 (closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net)
863 - Fix handling of channels containing dots.
864 (closes ug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
866 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
868 - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
869 - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
871 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
872 - New version number scheme :-)
873 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
874 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
875 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
876 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
877 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
878 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
879 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
880 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
881 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
882 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
883 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
884 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
885 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
886 - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
887 - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
888 - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
889 - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
890 - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
891 - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two
892 servers are started for testing server-server linking.
893 - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
894 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
895 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
897 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
899 - Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode
900 - Don't allow stray \r or \n in command parameters
901 - --configtest: return non-zero exit code if there are errors
902 - Update ngIRCd manual pages
903 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
904 - Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error.
905 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
906 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
907 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
908 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
909 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
911 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
913 - Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns
914 proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran)
915 - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
916 - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number.
918 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
919 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
920 - Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now!
921 - Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT.
922 - Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition.
923 - Report ERR_NOTONCHANNEL when trying to part a channel one is not member of.
924 - Testsuite: remove erroneous ConfUID setting in config file.
926 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
927 - Include Mac OS X Xcode project in distribution archives.
928 - Do not exit on SIGHUP or /REHASH if the config file cannot opened.
930 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
931 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
932 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
933 - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+).
935 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
936 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
937 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
938 - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom)
939 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
940 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
941 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
942 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
944 ngIRCd 0.11.1 (2008-02-26)
946 - Fix sending of JOIN commands between servers when remote server appended
947 mode flags. (Rolf Eike Beer) [from HEAD]
948 - Send "G" instead of "H" flag in WHO replies. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
949 - Under some circumstances ngIRCd issued channel MODE message with a
950 trailing space. (Dana Dahlstrom) [from HEAD]
952 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
954 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07)
955 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
956 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
958 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
959 - Use dotted-decimal IP address if host name is >= 64.
960 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
961 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
962 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
963 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
964 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
965 - Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
966 enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
967 See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
968 - Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!?
969 - Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced
970 to the network as well as the wrong output of the LINKS command.
971 - Update Mac OS X Xcode project file for Xcode 3.
972 - Adjust test suite to be usable on HP/UX 11.11 :-)
973 - Fix code to compile using K&R C compiler and ansi2kr again.
974 - New config option NoDNS: Disables DNS lookups when clients connect.
975 - Fixed propagation of channel mode 'P' on server links.
976 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
977 - Fixed code that prevented GCC 2.95 to compile ngIRCd.
978 - Adjust path names in manual pages according to "./configure" settings.
979 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
980 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
981 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
982 - Don't connect to a server if a connection to another server within the
983 same group is already in progress.
984 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
987 ngIRCd 0.10.4 (2008-01-07)
989 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
990 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
992 ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01)
994 - SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could
995 cause the server to crash. Thanks to Sebastian Vesper, <net@veoson.net>.
998 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
1000 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre2 (2007-05-19)
1001 - Server links are allowed to use larger write buffers now (up to 50 KB).
1003 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre1 (2007-05-05)
1004 - Fix compressed server links (broken since 0.10.0).
1005 - Predefined Channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
1006 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l).
1007 - When using epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
1008 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
1009 - New configure option "--without-select" to disable select() IO API
1010 (even when using epoll(), see above).
1011 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
1012 - Reorganized internal handling of invite and ban lists.
1014 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
1016 - Fixed validation of server names containing digits.
1017 - Update the "info text" of the local server after re-reading configuration.
1018 - Changed Numerics 265 and 266 to follow ircd 2.11.x "standards".
1019 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
1020 - Enhanced ISUPPORT message (005 numeric).
1021 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
1022 join predefined channels.
1023 - Code cleanups: use "LogDebug(...)" instead of "Log(LOG_DEBUG, ...)", use
1024 "strcspn()", unsigned vs. signed, use "const", fix whitespaces, ...
1026 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
1028 - Fixed file handle leak when daemon is not able to send MOTD to a client.
1030 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre2 (2006-09-09)
1031 - Fixed build problems with GCC option -fstack-protector.
1032 - Minor documentation updates.
1034 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
1035 - Validate "ServerName" (see RFC 2812, section 2.3.1).
1036 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
1037 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
1038 - The ngIRCd handles time shifts backwards more gracefully now (the
1039 timeout handling doesn't disconnect clients by mistake any more).
1040 - Internal: Restructured connection handling (the connection ID is equal
1041 to the file descriptor of the connection).
1042 - Internal: Simplified resolver code.
1043 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
1044 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
1045 - Enhanced the handler for PING and PONG commands: fix forwarding and enable
1046 back-passing of a client supplied additional argument of PING.
1047 - Changed handling of timeouts for unregistered connections: don't reset
1048 the counter if data is received and disconnect clients earlier.
1049 - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead.
1050 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
1051 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
1052 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
1053 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
1054 lookup to prevent spoofing.
1055 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
1056 addition to the select() interface.
1058 ngIRCd 0.9.2 (2005-10-15)
1060 - Fixed a bug that could cause the daemon to crash when outgoing server
1061 connections can't be established.
1062 - Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to leak file descriptors when no
1063 resolver subprocesses could be created.
1064 - Fixed server NOTICEs to users with "s" mode ("server messages").
1065 - Fixed a format string bug in "connection statistics" messages to clients.
1067 ngIRCd 0.9.1 (2005-08-03)
1069 - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!)
1070 when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in
1071 ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by <qssl@fastmail.fm>, Thanks!
1072 - Changed some constants to be "signed" (instead of unsigned) to solve
1073 problems with old (pre-ANSI) compilers.
1075 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
1077 ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09)
1078 - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters.
1079 - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead
1080 of shutting down the (wrong) connection.
1081 - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the
1082 client is registered with the server (like the original ircd).
1083 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
1084 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
1085 - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client
1086 is member of multiple channels.
1087 - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and
1088 pray that this will be "the right thing" ...
1089 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
1090 - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug.
1091 - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
1092 - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
1093 to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
1094 - Removed typedefs for the native C datatypes.
1095 Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available.
1096 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
1097 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
1098 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
1099 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1100 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
1101 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
1102 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
1103 - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug
1104 code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process.
1105 - Don't create version information string each time a client connects
1106 but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
1107 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
1108 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
1109 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1110 - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1111 - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters.
1112 - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc()
1113 failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway.
1114 Patch from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1115 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
1116 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
1117 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
1118 - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and
1119 most probably other older C compilers on other systems.
1120 - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in
1121 the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it
1122 changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This
1123 should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
1126 ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03)
1128 - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled
1129 to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
1130 <coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
1131 (CVE-2005-0226; http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
1133 ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
1135 - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution.
1136 - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found
1137 by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. (CVE-2005-0199)
1138 - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks
1139 to Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1140 - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by
1141 Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1142 - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has
1143 been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/
1144 It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself,
1145 not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1147 ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25)
1149 - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub
1150 - Added some more debug code ...
1151 - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest".
1152 - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for
1153 ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after
1155 - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README!
1157 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
1159 - Fixed wrong buffer size calculation for results of the resolver.
1161 ngircd 0.8.0-pre2 (2004-05-16)
1162 - Enhanced logging to console when running in "no-detached mode": added
1163 PID and log messages of resolver sub-processes.
1164 - Fixed host name lookups when using IDENT user lookups.
1165 - "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean" remove more files now.
1167 ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07)
1168 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
1169 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
1170 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
1171 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
1172 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
1173 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
1174 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
1175 - Reorganized autogen.sh and configure scripts.
1176 - Fixed a wrong assert() which could cause the daemon to exit spuriously
1177 when closing down connections.
1178 - Better logging of decompression errors returned by zlib.
1179 - Servers other than the destination server didn't clean up the invite
1180 list of an "invite-only" channel properly when an INVITE'd user joined.
1181 - Changed the reply of the MODE command to match the syntax of the
1182 original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last
1183 parameter has been added.
1184 - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info.
1185 - Results of the resolver (host names and IDENT names) are discarded after
1186 the client is successfully registered with the server.
1187 - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections.
1188 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
1189 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
1190 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
1191 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
1192 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
1194 ngIRCd 0.7.7 (2004-02-05)
1196 - The info text ("real name") of users is set to "-" if none has been
1197 specified using the USER command (e. g. "USER user * * :"). Reason:
1198 the original ircd doesn't like empty ones and would KILL such users.
1199 - Fixed (optional) TCP Wrapper test which was broken and could result in
1200 false results. Thanks to Fuminori Tanizaki <tany@mcnet.ad.jp>!
1201 - Removed "USE_" prefixes of configuration #defines.
1203 ngIRCd 0.7.6 (2003-12-05)
1205 - Fixed abort() ("server crash") when INVITE'ing users to nonexistent
1206 channels. Bug found by <hiddenx@wp.pl>.
1207 - Extended version numbering of CVS versions (added date).
1208 - Enhanced/fixed doc/Protocol.txt;
1210 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-11-07)
1212 - Fixed ban behavior: users which are banned from a channel can't no
1213 longer send PRIVMSG's to this channel (fixes Bug #47).
1214 - Fixed and enhanced the "penalty handling" of the server: commands that
1215 require more resources block the client for a short time.
1216 - Changed the internal time resolution to one second.
1217 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
1218 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
1219 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
1220 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
1221 - Fixed build problems under Mac OS X 10.3.
1222 - Use "-pipe" when compiling with gcc, speeds things up a little :-)
1223 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
1224 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
1225 - Suppress misleading error message of diff during make run.
1226 - Enhanced test-suite and made it work on GNU/Hurd.
1227 - Fixed minor typo in debug output :-)
1229 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
1231 - Included files to build Debian packages (located in "debian/").
1232 - Updated config.guess and config.sub to newer upstream versions.
1233 - NJOIN propagates user channel modes correctly again ... Upsa.
1234 - Made Makefile more compatible with "make -j<n>".
1235 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
1236 - Fixed a compiler warning related to an unnecessary assert().
1237 - Enhanced VERSION command when using debug versions.
1239 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
1241 - "ServerName" is checked better now: a dot (".") is required.
1242 - The KILL command verifies and logs more parameters.
1244 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre2 (2003-04-27)
1245 - CVS build system fixes (made autogen.sh more portable).
1246 - Fixed compilation and test-suite on Solaris (tested with 2.6).
1247 - New documentation file "doc/Platforms.txt" describing the status of
1248 ngIRCd on the various tested platforms.
1249 - Test for broken GCC on Mac OS X and disable "-pedantic" in this case.
1250 - Disable "-ansi" on Cygwin: system headers are incompatible.
1251 - The server tried to connect to other servers only once when DNS or
1252 socket failures occurred.
1253 - Fixed --configtest: There is no variable "ServerPwd", it's "Password".
1255 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 (2003-04-22)
1256 - New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside).
1257 - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled.
1258 - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the
1259 more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems
1260 that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included
1261 in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h).
1262 - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that
1263 can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken.
1264 - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-)
1265 - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and
1266 removing servers during runtime works more reliable now.
1267 - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]"
1268 - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]".
1269 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
1270 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
1271 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
1272 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
1273 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
1274 - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The
1275 german documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
1276 - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision.
1277 - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding.
1278 - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool".
1279 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
1280 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
1281 - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS)
1282 if an outgoing server link can't be established.
1283 - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility.
1284 - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly.
1285 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
1286 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
1287 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
1288 configure to enable it.
1289 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
1290 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
1291 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
1292 - Better error reporting to clients on connect.
1293 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
1294 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
1295 - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
1297 ngIRCd 0.6.1, 2003-01-21
1299 - Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more,
1300 ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you
1301 can kill only valid users now.
1302 - The server no longer forwards commands to ordinary users, instead it
1303 answers with the correct error message ("no such server") now.
1304 - WHOIS commands weren't always forwarded as requested.
1305 - The server sets a correct default AWAY message now when propagating
1306 between servers (bug introduced in 0.6.0).
1307 - Fixed up and enhanced CHANINFO command: channel keys and user limits
1308 are synchronized between servers now, too.
1309 - MODE returns the key and user limit for channel members correctly now.
1310 - Non-members of a channel could crash the server when trying to change
1311 its modes or modes of its members.
1312 - The server didn't validate weather a target user is a valid channel
1313 member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd.
1316 Older changes (sorry, only available in german language):
1318 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
1320 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 2002-12-23
1321 - neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect.
1322 - LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen
1323 Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start
1324 dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt.
1326 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 2002-12-18
1327 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
1328 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
1329 - der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den
1330 Resolver (4 Sekunden), wenn das Ergebnis eintrifft setzt er aber den
1331 Login sofort fort (bisher wurde immer mind. 1 Sekunde gewartet).
1332 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
1333 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
1334 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sektion "Global")
1335 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
1336 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
1337 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
1338 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
1339 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
1340 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
1341 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
1342 - Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst.
1343 - unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
1344 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
1345 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
1346 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
1347 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
1348 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
1349 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
1350 - Channel-Mode "P" ("persistent") kann nur noch von IRC-Operatoren gesetzt
1351 werden. Grund: User koennen den Server sonst leicht "Channel-Flooden".
1352 - MOTD kann nun an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1353 - IRC-Befehl "TIME" implementiert.
1354 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
1355 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
1356 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
1357 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
1358 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
1359 - Handling der Schreibpuffer umgestellt: Server sollte schneller arbeiten.
1360 - Prefix-Fehler werden besser protokolliert (mit verursachendem Befehl).
1361 - SQUIT wird nicht mehr doppelt an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1362 - Der Server versucht nun vor dem Schliessen einer Verbindung Daten, die
1363 noch im Schreibpuffer stehen, zu senden.
1364 - Source in weiteres Modul "irc-info" aufgespalten.
1365 - Konfigurationsvariablen werden besser validiert: Laengen, Zahlen, ...
1366 - neuen Befehl STATS begonnen: bisher unterstuetzt wird "l" und "m".
1367 - bei ISON und USERHOST fehlte im Ergebnis-String der korrekte Absender.
1368 - IRC Operatoren koennen nun mit KILL User toeten. Achtung: ein Grund muss
1369 zwingend als zweiter Parameter angegeben werden!
1370 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
1371 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
1372 - neuer, deutlich flexiblerer Parser fuer den MODE Befehl.
1373 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
1375 ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002
1377 - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
1378 unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden.
1379 - in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht
1380 nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe
1381 verwendet werden. Beim Start des Daemons wird nun beides angezeigt.
1382 - Besseres Logging von Prefix-Fehlern.
1383 - angenommene Sockets werden nun korrekt auf "non-blocking" konfiguriert,
1384 beim Senden und Empfangen werden Blockierungen besser abgefangen.
1385 - RPL_UMODEIS hat Code 221, nicht 211 ... *argl*
1386 - select() in Try_Write() hat falschen (keinen!) Timeout verwendet;
1387 die "Zeit-Aufloesung" des Servers sind zudem nun 2 Sekunden (TIME_RES).
1388 Insgesamt sollte die Reaktionszeit des Server nun besser sein.
1390 ngIRCd 0.5.3, 08.11.2002
1392 - NOTICE liefert nun wirklich nie mehr einen Fehler, auch dann nicht,
1393 wenn der sendende Client noch gar nicht registriert ist.
1394 - ein "schneller Server-Reconnect" wird nur noch dann versucht, wenn die
1395 Verbindung zuvor ordentlich (="lange genug") in Ordnung war; somit also
1396 nicht meht, wenn der Peer-Server gleich beim Connect ein ERROR liefert.
1397 Das vermeidet "Connect-Orgien".
1398 - einige Datentypen aufgeraumt: z.B. sind viele INT32s nun LONGs. Das ist
1399 auf Platformen mit 8-Byte-Integern kompatibler.
1400 - RPL_YOURHOST_MSG ist nun ircII- und RFC-kompatibel ;-)
1401 - Segfault unter hoher Netzaktivitaet behoben: in Conn_Close() wird die
1402 Connection-Struktur nun frueher als "ungueltig" markiert.
1404 ngIRCd 0.5.2, 04.10.2002
1406 - Buffer Overflow in Read_Resolver_Result() behoben.
1407 - Format-String-Bugs, die zum Abbruch des Servers fuehrten, behoben.
1408 - Maximale Laenge eines IRC-Prefix wurde falsch berechnet.
1410 ngIRCd 0.5.1, 03.10.2002
1412 - in RPL_YOURHOST_MSG wurde ein fehlerhafter Versionsstring geliefert.
1413 - Test-Suite: start-server.sh, stop-server.sh und stress-server.sh koennen
1414 nun "manuell" von der Kommandozeile gestartet werden, stress-server.sh
1415 startet per Default nur noch 5 Sessions, eine andere Zahl kann auf der
1416 Kommandozeile uebergeben werden (Syntax: "stress-server.sh <count>").
1417 - In bestimmten Faellen hat der Server versucht auf einen bereits wieder
1418 geschlossenen Socket Daten zu schreiben; das fuehrte zu einem Abbruch des
1419 Servers durch ein assert(). Nun wird geprueft, ob der Socket noch ok ist.
1420 - im "contrib"-Verzeichnis befindet sich nun eine RPM-Spec-Datei, aus den
1421 .tar.gz's koennen nun mit "rpm -ta <archiv>" RPM's erzeugt werden. Danke
1422 an Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>!
1423 - Syntax von RPL_MYINFO_MSG korrigiert: liefert nun vier Parameter.
1425 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
1427 - Dokumentation aktualisiert.
1428 - Fehler bei Validierung von "AdminInfo2" behoben.
1429 - Test der Flags fuer "ps" in der Testsuite verbessert, ist nun zu mehr
1430 Plattformen kompatibler.
1432 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre2, 17.09.2002
1433 - Fix in IRC_WriteStrServersPrefix() war "badly broken" -- behoben.
1435 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre1, 16.09.2002
1436 - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen.
1437 - Wird der Netzwerk-Sniffer aktiviert (--sniffer), so schaltet der
1438 ngIRCd nun automatisch in den Debug-Modus.
1439 - auf Systemen, die inet_aton() nicht kennen (wie z.B. A/UX), kann der
1440 ngIRCd nun dennoch auch aktiv Server-Links aufbauen.
1441 - h_errno wird auf Systemen, die das nicht kennen (wie z.B. HP-UX 10.20)
1442 nicht mehr verwendet. Somit compiliert der ngIRCd nun auch dort :-)
1443 - um auf dem Ziel-System nicht vorhandene Funktionen nachzubilden wird nun
1444 die "libngportab" erzeugt; genutzt wird dies bisher fuer vsnprintf().
1445 Nun compiliert der ngIRCd auch unter Solaris 2.5.1.
1446 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
1447 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
1448 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
1449 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. Zu Channel-Operatoren werden bisher
1450 nur IRC-Operatoren, die den Channel betreten. Die persistenten Channels
1451 werden durch das Flag "P" gelennzeichnet, welches normal durch Channel-
1452 Op's gesetzt und geloescht werden kann.
1453 - bei "--configtest" werden keine leere Abschnitte mehr ausgegeben.
1454 - Source in weitere Module aufgespalten: lists, irc-op und resolve.
1455 - #include's aufgeraeumt: Header includieren keine anderen mehr.
1456 - KICK implementiert (bisher kann nur ein User aus einem Channel geckicked
1457 werden, Listen, wir im RFC vorgesehen, werden bisher nicht unterstuetzt).
1458 - INVITE, den Channel-Mode "i" sowie Invite-Lists ueber den MODE-Befehl
1459 (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
1460 - Source an ansi2knr fuer pre-ANSI-Compiler angepasst; ansi2knr in Source-
1461 Tree aufgenommen und in Build-System integriert; der ngIRCd compiliert
1462 nun z.B. unter A/UX mit dem nativen Compiler von Apple.
1463 - TOPIC lieferte bei unbekanntem Channel einen falschen Fehlercode.
1464 - LIST versteht nun Wildcards und kann an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1465 - wurde ein KILL fuer nicht-lokale Clients empfangen, so wurden die
1466 Verwaltungs-Strukturen nicht korrekt freigegeben.
1467 - empfangene NJOIN's wurden "zerhackt" an andere Server weitergegeben.
1468 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
1469 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
1470 - Dokumentation des neuen IRC+-Protokolls begonnen: doc/Protocol.txt
1471 - Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt;
1472 bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet.
1473 Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben.
1474 - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
1475 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics.
1476 - neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das
1477 IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert).
1478 - Ban-Lists (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
1479 - wird der Server mit "-n"/"--nodaemon" gestartet, so werden keine Mel-
1480 dungen mehr ueber Syslog ausgegeben, sondern nur noch auf der Konsole.
1481 - "Test-Suite" begonnen (in "make check" integriert): Dabei wird ein
1482 speziell konfigurierter Server auf Port 6789 gestartet, mit dem dann
1483 einige Tests durchgefuehrt werden (u.a. "Stress-Test" mit 50 Clients).
1484 - zu lange Operator-Namen in der Konfiguration wurden falsch gekuerzt.
1485 - kleine Anpassung an AIX 3.2.5: nun laeuft der ngIRCd auch dort :-)
1486 - ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei
1487 im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und
1488 "AdminEMail" konfiguriert.
1490 ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002
1492 - Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel
1493 ueberhaupt ein User ist. War es keiner, so fuehrte dies zu einem
1494 Abbruch des Servers [es wurde assert() aufgerufen].
1496 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
1498 - LUSERS verzaehlt sich bei eigenen Server-Links nicht mehr.
1499 - QUIT wird nun auch von noch nicht registrierten Clients akzeptiert.
1500 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
1501 Wildcards (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
1503 ngIRCd 0.4.1, 08.04.2002
1505 - Bei Server-Links wird nicht mehr an Hand der Anzahl der Parameter
1506 eines empfangenen SERVER-Befehls, sondern "intern" erkannt, ob es
1507 sich um eine ein- oder ausgehende Verbindung handelt und somit das
1508 eigene PASS-SERVER-Paar gesendet werden muss oder nicht. Da sich
1509 verschiedene Versionen des Original-ircd's anders verhalten, schlug
1510 die Anmeldung je nach Gehenseite evtl. fehl.
1511 - Bei einem NICK-Befehl eines lokalen Client konnte der Server ab-
1512 stuerzen, da ein Format-String einer Log-Meldung fehlerhaft war.
1514 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
1516 - IRC-Befehle nochmal auf weitere Source-Dateien aufgespalten.
1517 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
1518 - Der AWAY-Mode wurde nicht ueber mehrere Server-Links weitergegeben.
1519 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err).
1520 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
1521 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
1522 zusaetzliche Informationen.
1523 - In Nicknames wird das Zeichen "-" nun als zulaessig erkannt.
1524 - die Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei (doc/sample-ngircd.conf) wird als
1525 ngircd.conf installiert, wenn noch keine "echte" Konfigurationsdatei
1527 - bei WHO, WHOIS und NAMES wird nun nur noch der Status "Operator" oder
1528 "voiced" geliefert -- nicht mehr beides.
1529 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
1530 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
1531 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert (Variable "Group" in der Kon-
1532 figurationsdatei, Sektion [Server]).
1533 - IRC_PING() ist, wenn nicht im "strict RFC"-Mode, toleranter und ak-
1534 zeptiert beliebig viele Parameter (z.B. BitchX sendet soetwas).
1535 - die "Portab-Header" werden nicht mehr benoetigt, die System-Erkennung
1536 wird nun ausschliesslich vom configure-Script durchgefuehrt. System-
1537 abhaengige Definitionen finden sich nun unter src/portrab/.
1538 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
1539 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
1540 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
1541 gelesen und dann die verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
1542 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
1543 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
1544 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
1545 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
1546 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
1547 - URL der Homepage wird u.a. bei "--version" mit angezeigt.
1549 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
1551 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
1552 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
1553 - FAQ um Hinweise auf den Bugtracker erweitert.
1554 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
1555 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
1556 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
1557 - direkt nach dem Start schreibt der ngIRCd nun die aktiven Kommando-
1558 zeilenschalter in's Logfile (Passive, Debug, Sniffer ...).
1559 - das Signal-Flag SA_RESTART wird nur noch gesetzt, wenn es auf dem
1560 jeweiligen System auch definiert ist.
1561 - bei ausgehenden Verbindungen wird nun der Ziel-Port protokolliert.
1562 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert.
1563 - make-Target "check" (und "distcheck") mit Sinn erfuellt :-)
1564 (die Tests sind aber bisher nicht all zu tiefgehend ...)
1565 - Durch einen Ueberlauf konnte die Idle-Time bei WHOIS negativ werden ...
1566 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
1567 - WHOIS wird nicht mehr automatisch an den "Original-Server" weiterge-
1568 leitet: war eh nicht RFC-konform und machte mit Clients Probleme.
1569 - an User wird nun immer ein "komplettes" Prefix (mit Host-Mask) ver-
1570 schickt, Server bekommen nach wie vor kurze: das "Original" hat bei
1571 bestimmten Befehlen (PRIVMSG) ansonsten evtl. Probleme ...
1572 - NAMES korrigiert und vollstaendig implementiert.
1573 - SQUIT wird auf jeden Fall geforwarded, zudem besseres Logging.
1574 - Ist ein Nick bei der User-Registrierung bereits belegt, nimmt der
1575 Server nun korrekt weitere NICK-Befehle an und verwendet diese.
1576 - PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m".
1577 - AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst.
1578 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
1579 - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asynchron connectiert und
1580 blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht
1581 erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!).
1582 - Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet.
1583 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
1585 ngIRCd 0.2.1, 17.02.2002
1587 - NICK korrigiert: es werden nun auch alle "betroffenen" User informiert.
1588 - configure-Script erweitert, u.a. bessere Anpassung an BeOS: dort wird
1589 nun die "libbe" zum ngIRCd gelinkt, somit funktioniert auch syslog.
1590 - Fehlerhafte bzw. noch nicht verstandene Modes werden nun ausfuehrlicher
1591 an den Client geliefert.
1593 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
1595 - Nicknames und Channel-Namen werden etwas besser auf Gueltigkeit ueber-
1596 prueft; ist aber nach wie vor noch nicht ausreichend.
1597 - NJOINS von Servern wurden nicht an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1598 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
1599 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
1600 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
1601 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
1602 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
1603 - Benutzer von connectierenden Servern wurden nicht in den Channels ange-
1604 kuendigt, es wurden nur die internen Strukturen angepasst.
1605 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
1607 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
1609 - User-Modes bei User-Registrierungen von andere Servern (NICK-Befehl)
1610 wurden falsch uebernommen. Zudem wurden die Modes falsch gekuerzt.
1611 - Server-Verbindungen werden nun nach dem Start erst nach einer kurzen
1612 Pause aufgebaut (zur Zeit drei Sekunden).
1613 - Hilfetext korrigiert: --help und --version waren vertauscht, die
1614 Option --sniffer wurde gar nicht erwaehnt.
1615 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
1616 - der IRC-Sniffer wird nur noch aktiviert, wenn die Option auf der
1617 Kommandozeile angegeben wurde (bei entsprechend compiliertem Server).
1618 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
1619 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
1620 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
1621 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
1622 - durch die Channels einige Aenderungen an PRIVMSG, WHOIS, MODE etc.
1623 - neu connectierenden Servern werden nun Channels mit NJOIN angekuendigt.
1624 - Signal-Hander geaendert: die Fehlermeldung "interrupted system call"
1625 sollte so nicht mehr auftreten.
1626 - "spaeter" neu connectierende Server werden nun im Netz angekuendigt.
1627 - SERVER-Meldungen an andere Server sind nun korrekt sortiert.
1628 - Clients werden nun korrekt sowohl nur ueber den Nickname als auch die
1629 komplette "Host Mask" erkannt.
1631 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
1633 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
1634 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
1635 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
1636 - MODE und NICK melden nun die Aenderungen an andere Server, ebenso
1637 die Befehle QUIT und SQUIT.
1638 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
1639 - Parses handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
1640 - Status-Codes an den Server selber werden ignorier.
1641 - Log-Meldungen und Log-Level ueberarbeitet und korrigiert.
1642 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
1643 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
1644 - WHOIS korrigiert: Anfrage wurde u.U. an User geforwarded anstatt vom
1645 Server beantwortet zu werden.
1646 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS
1647 - Client-Modes von Remote-Servern wurden nicht korrekt uerbernommen.
1649 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
1651 - Struktur der Konfigurationsdatei geaendert: sie ist nun "Samba like",
1652 d.h. sie besteht aus Abschnitten (siehe "doc/sample-ngircd.conf").
1653 - Es koennen mehrere IRC-Server-Opertatoren konfiguriert werden.
1654 - Zombies der Resolver-Prozesse werden nun ordentlich "getoetet".
1655 - NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern.
1656 - ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar.
1657 - neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT.
1658 - Asynchroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
1659 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
1660 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige
1661 Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert
1662 aber bereits, ebenso wie WHOIS (letzterer wird immer an den Server,
1663 auf dem der User registriert ist, weitergegeben).
1664 - "arpa/inet.h" wird nur noch includiert, wenn vorhanden.
1665 - Fehler bei select() fuerhen nun zum Abbruch von ngIRCd, bisher landete
1666 der Server zumeist in einer Endlosschleife.
1667 - Logmeldungen und Level an vielen Stellen verbessert.
1668 - lokalen Usernamen wird nun ein "~" vorangestellt, da bisher noch keine
1669 Ident-Anfragen gemacht werden.
1671 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
1673 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)