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.
14 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
15 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
16 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
17 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
18 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
19 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
20 still supported and translated to the apropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
21 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
22 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
23 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
24 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
25 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
26 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
27 - IRC Operator names, as defined in ngircd.conf, are logged now when
28 handling successful OPER commands.
29 - Some error conditions while handling IRC commands, like "permission
30 denied" or "need more parameters", result in more penalty times.
31 - The numeric replies of some commands became split too early which
32 resulted in more numeric reply lines than necessary.
33 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
34 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
35 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
36 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
37 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
38 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
39 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
40 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
41 - Fix use-after-free in the Lists_CheckReason() function, which is used
42 to check if a client is a member of a particular ban/invite/... list.
43 - Xcode: fix detection of host OS, vendor, and CPU type.
44 - OS X PackageMaker: use relative path names in project files and package
45 with correct file permissions (requires root privileges on "make").
46 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
47 - Look for possible cloaked Masks in Lists. Users with +x usermode can
48 be banned with their cloaked hostname now.
49 - Don't read SSL client data before DNS resolver is finished which could
50 have resulted in discarding the resolved client hostname and IDENT
51 reply afterwards, because in some situations (timing dependent) the
52 NICK and USER commands could have already been read in from the client,
53 stored in the buffer, and been processed.
54 Thanks to Julian Brost for reporting the issue and testing, and to
55 Federico G. Schwindt <fgsch@lodoss.net> for helping to debug it!
56 - Increase password length limit to 64 characters. (Closes bug #154)
57 - doc/Services.txt: Update Anope status and URL.
58 - Clean up Xcode project file, remove outdated files, add missing ones.
59 - Update Doxygen configuration file.
60 - configure: search for iconv_open as well as libiconv_open, because
61 on some installations iconv_open() is actually libiconv_open().
62 iconv_open() is the glibc version while libiconv_open() is the
63 libiconv version, now both variants are supported. (Closes bug #151)
64 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
65 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
66 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
67 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
68 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
69 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
70 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
71 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
72 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
73 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
74 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
75 The default is 0, "never".
76 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
77 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
78 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
79 - contrib/README: add description for more files.
80 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
81 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
82 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
83 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
84 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
85 of an IRC service id displayed in the output.
86 - Exit message: use singular & plural :-)
87 - autogen.sh: Check for autoconf/automake wrapper scripts
88 - Add missing punctuation marks in log messages and adjust some
90 - AUTHORS file: Update list of contributors.
91 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
92 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
93 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
94 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
95 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
96 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
97 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
98 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
99 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
100 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
102 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
104 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
105 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to to crash the daemon
107 - WHO command: Use the currently "displayed hostname" (which can be cloaked!)
108 for hostname matching, not the real one. In other words: don't display all
109 the cloaked users on a specific real hostname!
110 - configure: The header file "netinet/in_systm.h" already is optional in
111 ngIRCd, so don't require it in the configure script. Now ngIRCd can be
112 built on Minix 3 again :-)
113 - Return better "Connection not registered as server link" errors: Now ngIRCd
114 returns a more specific error message for numeric ERR_NOTREGISTERED(451)
115 when a regular user tries to use a command that isn't allowed for users but
117 - Don't report ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) when a MDOE command with more modes
118 than nicknames is handled, as well as for channel limit and key changes
119 without specifying the limit or key parameters.
120 This is how a lot (all?) other IRC servers behave, including ircd2.11,
121 InspIRCd, and ircd-seven. And because of clients (tested with Textual and
122 mIRC) sending bogus MODE commands like "MODE -ooo nick", end-users got the
123 expected result as well as correct but misleading error messages ...
124 - Correctly detect when SSL subsystem must be initialized and take
125 outgoing connections (server links!) into account, too.
126 - autogen.sh: Enforce serial test harness on GNU automake >=1.13. The
127 new parallel test harness which is enabled by default starting with
128 automake 1.13 isn't compatible with our test suite.
129 And don't use "egrep -o", instead use "sed", because it isn't portable
130 and not available on OpenBSD, for example.
132 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
134 - Allow ERROR command on server and service links only, ignore them and
135 add a penalty time on all other link types.
136 - Enforced mode setting by IRC Operators: Only check the channel user
137 modes of the initiator if he is joined to the channel and not an IRC
138 operator enforcing modes (which requires the configuration option
139 "OperCanUseMode" to be enabled), because trying to check channel user
140 modes of a non-member results in an assertion when running with debug
141 code or could crash the daemon otherwise. This closes bug #147, thanks
142 to James Kirwill <james.kirwill@bk.ru> for tracking this down!
143 - Fix build system to cope with spaces in path names.
144 - Code cleanups, mostly to fix build warnings on Cygwin.
146 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
148 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
149 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
150 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
151 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
152 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
154 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
155 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
156 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
157 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
158 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
159 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
160 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
161 - RPL_UMODEIS: send correct target name, even on server links.
162 - Update platformtest.sh to follow autoconf changes and only generate
163 the "configure" script when it is missing.
164 - Fix the test suite to correctly execute test scripts even when stdout
166 - Fix some compiler warnings on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
168 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
169 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
170 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
171 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
172 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
173 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
174 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
175 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
176 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
177 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
178 - Fix error message when trying to join non-predefined channels and the
179 "PredefChannelsOnly" configuration option is set.
180 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
181 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
182 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
183 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
184 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
185 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
186 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
187 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
188 - Make server reconnect time a little bit more random, so that two
189 servers trying to connect to each other asynchronously don't try this
190 in exactly the same time periods and kick each other off ...
191 - Don't accept connections for servers already being linked: there was a
192 time frame that could result in one connection overwriting the other,
193 e. g. the incoming connection overwriting the status of the outgoing
194 one. And this could lead to all kind of weirdness (even crashes!) later
195 on: now such incoming connections are dropped.
196 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
197 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
198 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
199 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
200 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
201 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
202 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
203 - WHOIS: Not only show RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG to local IRC operators, but show
204 it to all IRC operators in the network. And don't show it to anybody if
205 the "more privacy" configuration option is enabled. (Closes #134)
206 - Test suite: make expect scripts more verbose displaying dots for each
207 reply of the server that it is waiting for.
208 - WHOIS: Implement numeric RPL_WHOISMODES_MSG (379) and show user modes in
209 the reply of the WHOIS command for the user himself or, if MorePrivacy
210 isn't set, for request initiated by an IRC operator. (Closes #129)
211 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
212 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
213 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
214 - KICK-protect IRC services.
215 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
216 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
217 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
218 - Debian: require "telnet" or "telnet-ssl" for building and enable
219 CHARCONV in ngircd-full[-dbg] variants.
220 - Send RPL_REHASHING (382) numeric if a REHASH command was accepted.
221 - Fix spelling and variable names in some log messages.
222 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
223 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
224 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
225 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
226 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
228 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
229 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
230 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
232 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
233 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
234 configuration file. (Closes #136)
235 - Enhance build system: Support new (>=1.12) and old (<=1.11) GNU automake
236 versions, update checks for required and optional features, enable
237 colored test output of automake (if available), rename configure.in to
238 more modern configure.ac, include .mailmap and all build-system files in
239 distribution archives and no longer require a GIT tree to detect the
240 correct version string.
241 - Update documentation: add doc/Contributing.txt and include version
242 numbers in doc/Modes.txt.
243 - Free all listen ports on initialization: now listen ports can be
244 reconfigured on runtime using a configuration reload.
245 - Initialize SSL when needed only, and disable SSL on errors.
246 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
247 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
248 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
249 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
250 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
251 - Allow limited punctuation in usernames, for better PAM integration.
252 - Correctly re-initialize signal handlers on RESTART commands.
253 - Show a warning on startup if the configuration file is not a full path:
254 ngIRCd is a long-running process and changes its working directory to
255 "/" to not block mounted filesystems and the like when running as daemon
256 ("not in the foreground"); therefore the path to the configuration file
257 must be relative to "/" (or the chroot() directory), which basically is
258 "not relative", to ensure that "kill -HUP" and the "REHASH" command work
259 as expected later on. (Closes #127)
260 - Make the "&SERVER" channel definable in a [Channel] configuration block,
261 which enables server operators to overwrite the built-in topic and
262 channel modes. (Closes #131)
263 - Don't limit list size of "WHO #channel" commands, because it makes no
264 sense to not return all the users in that channel, so I removed the
265 check. But if there are more than MAX_RPL_WHO(25) replies, the client
266 requesting the list will be "penalized" one second more, then 2 in
268 - Make ngIRCd buildable using the kqueue() IO interface on FreeBSD 4.x.
269 - Fix the "NoticeAuth" configuration option when using SSL connections and
270 enhance the message to show the hostname and IDENT reply of the client.
271 - Introduce numeric RPL_HOSTHIDDEN_MSG (396): This numeric is sent to the
272 client each time it changes its displayed hostname using "MODE +/-x",
273 and if "CloakHost" is set right after the MOTD has been sent.
274 - Fix USERHOST not displaying the correctly cloaked hostname.
275 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
276 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
277 behave, and so do we :-)
278 - Dynamically allocate memory for connection passwords: This a) saves
279 memory for clients not using passwords at all and b) allows for
280 "arbitrarily" long passwords.
281 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
282 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
283 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
284 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
285 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
286 - Now "make uninstall" removes the installed "ngircd.conf" file, if it is
287 still equal to our "sample-ngircd.conf" file and therefore hasn't been
288 modified by the user. If it has been modified, it isn't removed and a
289 notice is displayed to the user. And "make install" now displays a
290 message when no ngircd.conf file exists and the "sample-ngircd.conf"
291 file will be installed as a starting point.
292 - Add contrib/ngircd.service, a systemd service file for ngircd.
293 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
294 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
295 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
296 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
297 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
298 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
299 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
300 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
301 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
302 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
303 random salt will be generated after each server restart. (Closes #133)
305 ngIRCd Release 19.2 (2012-06-19)
307 - doc/Capabilities.txt: document "multi-prefix" capability
309 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
310 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
311 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
312 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
313 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
314 - Correctly handle asynchronously re-established server links: a race
315 condition could let the daemon loose track of an already re-established
316 incoming server link while preparing its own outgoing connection.
317 Peers that both try to connect each other could have been affected.
318 - Log a debug message when SIGUSR2 is handled in debug mode.
319 - Only allow alphanumeric characters in user-supplied user names of
320 USER command and IDENT replies.
321 - Change wording of "TLS initialized" message to make it more consistent.
322 - Don't leak file descriptors on error path when creating "PID files".
323 - Add missing mode "r" to CHANMODES in 005 "ISUPPORT" numeric.
324 - Update doc/Modes.txt and doc/Platforms.txt documents.
325 - contrib/platformtest.sh: correctly detect Open64 C compiler and handle
326 "CC=xxx MAKE=yyy ./platformtest.sh" calling convention.
327 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
328 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
329 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
330 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
331 - Update Xcode project files: reference missing documentation files.
332 - Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot.
333 - FAQ: enhance description of chroot setup.
335 ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
337 - Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL.
338 - Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note",
339 and fix lintian(1) warning ""hyphen-used-as-minus-sign", too.
340 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
341 distribution archive ... ooops!
342 - getpid.sh: Fix test case error for Debian using sbuild(1).
343 - Don't log "ngIRCd hello message" two times when starting up.
345 ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
347 - Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by
348 GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions.
349 - Fix configuration file parser: don't accept "[SSL]" blocks in the
350 configuration file when no SSL support is built in ngIRCd.
351 - Fix building ngIRCd with old gcc versions (e. g. 2.7.2).
352 - Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration
353 file: Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the
354 configuration, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored
355 the "SyslogFacility" configuration option ...
356 Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue!
358 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
359 - Enhance command limits for server links: the limit now is dependent
360 on the number of users connected in the network and higher while
361 servers are joining the network to make the login of servers faster.
362 - Log more information about server synchronization.
363 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
364 is the only supported version.
365 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
366 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
367 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
368 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
369 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
370 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
371 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
372 - PRIVMSG and NOTICE: Handle nick!user@host masks case-insensitive.
373 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
374 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
375 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
376 by completely unknown clients.
377 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
378 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
379 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
380 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
381 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
382 - Fix both ERR_SUMMONDISABLED(445) and ERR_USERSDISABLED(446) replies.
383 - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for
384 unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501).
385 - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES",
386 add "EXCEPTS=e" and "INVEX=I", add "MAXLIST=beI:50".
387 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
388 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
389 - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive.
390 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
391 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
392 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
393 - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments.
394 For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling
395 "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f".
396 - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of
397 the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an
398 assertion and end the daemon in some error paths.
399 - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child
400 processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases
401 with IDENT lookups enabled.
402 - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS,
403 don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is
404 case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the
405 unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client).
406 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
407 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
408 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
409 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
410 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
411 - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variable in the
412 configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user).
413 - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-)
414 - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single
415 channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel
416 limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check
417 the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when
418 trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of.
419 - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nicknames.
420 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
421 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
422 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
423 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
424 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
425 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
426 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
427 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
428 - Fixed some spelling errors in documentation and code comments
429 (Thanks to Christoph Biedl).
430 - contrib/Debian/control: Update and complete "Build-Depends" and
431 update our Debian package descriptions with "official" ones.
432 - Fixed typo in two error messages.
433 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
434 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
435 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
436 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
437 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
438 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
439 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
440 - README: Update list of implemented commands.
441 - Log better error messages when rejecting clients.
442 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
443 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
444 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
445 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
446 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
447 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
448 - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR
449 for Mac OS X Xcode builds.
450 - ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use
451 poll() when poll.h exists as well.
452 - Suppress 'Can't create pre-defined channel: invalid name: ""' message.
453 - whois-test: handle local host name = "localhost.localdomain" using the
454 pattern "localhost*" for valid local host names.
455 - sample-ngircd.conf: show correct default for "PAM" variable: The
456 default of "PAM" is "yes" when ngIRCd has been configured to use it,
457 so show the correct default value in the sample configuration file.
459 - Update GPL 2 license text to current version.
460 - Only close "unrelated" sockets in forked child processes: This fixes
461 the problem that ngIRCd can't do any IDENT lookups because of the
462 socket has already been closed in the child process.
463 The bug has been introduced starting with ngIRCd 17 ... :-(
464 (commit ID 6ebb31ab35e)
465 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
466 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
467 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
468 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
469 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
470 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
471 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
472 - New 2nd message "Nickname too long" for error code 432.
473 - Xcode: Mac OS X config.h: support 10.5 as well as 10.6/10.7 SDK.
474 - Xcode: exclude more Xcode 4 specific directories in ".gitignore".
475 - Disconnect directly linked servers sending QUIT. Without this,
476 the server becomes removed from the network and the client list,
477 but the connection isn't shut down at all ...
478 - contrib/ngindent: detect "gindent" as GNU indent.
479 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
480 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
481 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
482 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
483 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
484 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
485 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
486 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
487 - Correctly inform clients when other servers change their user modes.
488 This is required for some services to work correctly.
489 - Test suite: make getpid.sh work even when run as root.
490 - Spoofed prefixes: close connection on non-server links only.
491 On server-links, spoofed prefixes can happen because of the
492 asynchronous nature of the IRC protocol. So don't break server-
493 links, only log a message and ignore the command. (Closes #113)
495 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
497 - Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page.
498 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
499 - Don't register WHOWAS information when "MorePrivacy" option is in effect.
501 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
502 - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-)
503 - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section.
504 - ngircd.8: document debugging options.
505 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
506 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
507 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
508 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
510 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
511 - PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
512 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
513 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
514 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
515 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
516 servers from TOR or I2P.
517 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
518 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
519 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
520 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
521 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
522 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
523 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
524 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
525 - Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest".
526 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
527 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
528 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
529 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
530 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
531 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
532 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
533 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
534 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
535 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
536 - Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers.
537 - GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients
538 refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it
539 would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
541 - contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
542 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
543 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
544 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
545 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
546 - Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links
547 (often used by services, for example) are not affected.
548 - Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-)
549 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
550 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
551 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
552 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
553 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
554 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
555 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
556 - Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
557 like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
558 - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This
559 helps to speed up server login and network synchronization.
560 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
561 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
562 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
563 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
564 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
565 variable description.
566 - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
567 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
568 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
569 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
570 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
571 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
572 supplied by the IRC client.
573 - doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
574 - Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
575 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
576 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
577 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
578 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
579 - Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
580 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
581 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
582 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
583 - Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
584 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
585 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
586 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
587 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
588 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
589 - TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other
590 servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when
591 the client is not joined to this channel.
592 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
593 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
594 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
595 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
596 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
597 - Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
598 ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
599 - Don't throttle services and servers being registered.
600 - Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
601 - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is
602 only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
605 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
607 - --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase
608 - Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit
609 - Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly
610 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
611 - Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section
612 - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section
613 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
614 - README: Updated list of implemented commands
615 - add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball
616 - Merge branch 'numeric-329'
617 - add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball
618 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
619 - Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()
621 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
623 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
624 - Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf
625 - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa
626 - contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent
628 ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27)
629 - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updateed project file
630 to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it
631 is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default
632 PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd.
633 - Debian: updated standards version to 3.9.1, added libpam0g-dev to the
634 dependencies, and install a default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins.
635 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable.
636 - Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links.
638 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
639 - ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a.
640 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
641 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
642 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
643 - ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C.
644 - ./configure: check support for C prototypes again.
645 - Don't use PARAMS() macro for function implementations.
646 - Added m68k/apple/aux3.0.1 (gcc 2.7.2) to doc/Platforms.txt.
647 - Only try to set FD_CLOEXEC if this flag is defined.
648 - Only use "__attribute__ ((unused))" if GCC >=2.8 is used.
649 - doc/Makefile.am: don't set docdir, automake handles it already.
651 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
652 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
653 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
654 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
655 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
656 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
657 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
658 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
659 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
660 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
661 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
662 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
663 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
664 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
665 using the command line parameters.
666 - Signal handler: added new 'delayed' signal handlers, including fallback
667 to deprecated sysv API. And removed global NGIRCd_SignalRehash variable.
668 - IO: add io_cloexec() to set close-on-exec flag.
669 - ng_ipaddr.h: include required assert.h header.
670 - Conn_SyncServerStruct(): test all connections; and work case insensitive
671 - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output.
672 - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the
673 client lag debug-output is working again.
674 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
675 - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
676 - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
677 - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
678 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
679 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
680 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
681 - Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon.
682 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
683 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
684 - Added mailmap file for git-[short]log and git-blame.
685 - Authenticated users should be registered without the "~" mark.
686 - Set NoPAM=yes in configuration files used for the testsuite.
687 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
688 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
689 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
690 - Resolver: Implement signal handler and catch TERM signals.
691 - Don't set a penalty time when doing DNS lookups.
692 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
693 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
694 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
695 - ngircd.init: require "$network" and "$remote_fs" when stopping ngircd.
696 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
697 - Include correct header files when testing for arpa/inet.h (Closes: #105).
698 - Don't access already freed memory in IRC_KILL().
699 - Fix "beeing" typo ...
700 - SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message.
702 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
704 - doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker
706 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
707 - Updated some more copyright notices, it's 2010 already :-)
708 - Only compile in Get_Error() if really needed
709 - Fix gcc warning "ignoring return value of ..."
710 - Include netinet/in_systm.h alongside netinet/ip.h
711 - Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h
712 - Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists
713 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt
714 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
715 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
716 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
718 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
719 - Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups.
720 - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit.
721 - Updatet doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
722 how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA).
723 - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list).
724 - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define
725 - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric
726 - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output.
727 - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable.
728 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
729 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
730 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
731 - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts".
732 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
733 - Only link "nsl" library when really needed.
734 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
735 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
736 to join such a channel.
737 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
738 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
739 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
740 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
742 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
744 - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset.
746 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
747 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
748 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
749 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
750 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
751 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
752 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
754 - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0
755 for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file.
756 - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names.
757 - Fix LSB header of Debian init script.
758 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh
759 to ease generating platform reports.
760 - Fix connection information for already registered connections.
761 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
762 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
763 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
764 - Fix connection counter.
765 - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections.
766 - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.
768 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
770 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
771 - BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh.
772 - New start/stop script for RedHat-based distributions:
773 contrib/ngircd-redhat.init, thanks to Naoya Nakazawa <naoya@sanow.net>.
774 - Doxygen: update source code repository link to GIT.
775 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
776 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
777 - Fix error handling on compressed links.
778 - Fix server list announcement.
779 - Do not remove host names from info text.
781 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
783 - Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections.
785 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
786 - Updated Debian/Linux init script (see contrib/Debian/ngircd.init).
787 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
788 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
789 - Spell check and enhance ngIRCd manual pages.
790 - Channel mode changes: break on syntax errors in MODE command.
791 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
792 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
793 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
794 individual channel keys for different users.
795 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
796 - Updated ngircd.spec file for building RPM packages.
797 - Add new and missing files to Mac OS X Xcode project, and update project.
798 - Reject masks with wildcard after last dot.
799 - TLS/SSL: remove useless error message when ssl connection is closed.
800 - Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down.
801 (closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net)
802 - Fix handling of channels containing dots.
803 (closes ug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
805 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
807 - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
808 - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
810 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
811 - New version number scheme :-)
812 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
813 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
814 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
815 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
816 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
817 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
818 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
819 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
820 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
821 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
822 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
823 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
824 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
825 - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
826 - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
827 - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
828 - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
829 - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
830 - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two
831 servers are started for testing server-server linking.
832 - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
833 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
834 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
836 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
838 - Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode
839 - Don't allow stray \r or \n in command parameters
840 - --configtest: return non-zero exit code if there are errors
841 - Update ngIRCd manual pages
842 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
843 - Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error.
844 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
845 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
846 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
847 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
848 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
850 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
852 - Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns
853 proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran)
854 - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
855 - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number.
857 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
858 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
859 - Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now!
860 - Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT.
861 - Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition.
862 - Report ERR_NOTONCHANNEL when trying to part a channel one is not member of.
863 - Testsuite: remove erroneous ConfUID setting in config file.
865 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
866 - Include Mac OS X Xcode project in distribution archives.
867 - Do not exit on SIGHUP or /REHASH if the config file cannot opened.
869 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
870 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
871 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
872 - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+).
874 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
875 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
876 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
877 - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom)
878 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
879 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
880 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
881 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
883 ngIRCd 0.11.1 (2008-02-26)
885 - Fix sending of JOIN commands between servers when remote server appended
886 mode flags. (Rolf Eike Beer) [from HEAD]
887 - Send "G" instead of "H" flag in WHO replies. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
888 - Under some circumstances ngIRCd issued channel MODE message with a
889 trailing space. (Dana Dahlstrom) [from HEAD]
891 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
893 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07)
894 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
895 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
897 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
898 - Use dotted-decimal IP address if host name is >= 64.
899 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
900 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
901 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
902 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
903 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
904 - Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
905 enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
906 See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
907 - Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!?
908 - Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced
909 to the network as well as the wrong output of the LINKS command.
910 - Update Mac OS X Xcode project file for Xcode 3.
911 - Adjust test suite to be usable on HP/UX 11.11 :-)
912 - Fix code to compile using K&R C compiler and ansi2kr again.
913 - New config option NoDNS: Disables DNS lookups when clients connect.
914 - Fixed propagation of channel mode 'P' on server links.
915 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
916 - Fixed code that prevented GCC 2.95 to compile ngIRCd.
917 - Adjust path names in manual pages according to "./configure" settings.
918 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
919 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
920 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
921 - Don't connect to a server if a connection to another server within the
922 same group is already in progress.
923 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
926 ngIRCd 0.10.4 (2008-01-07)
928 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
929 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
931 ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01)
933 - SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could
934 cause the server to crash. Thanks to Sebastian Vesper, <net@veoson.net>.
937 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
939 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre2 (2007-05-19)
940 - Server links are allowed to use larger write buffers now (up to 50 KB).
942 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre1 (2007-05-05)
943 - Fix compressed server links (broken since 0.10.0).
944 - Predefined Channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
945 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l).
946 - When using epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
947 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
948 - New configure option "--without-select" to disable select() IO API
949 (even when using epoll(), see above).
950 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
951 - Reorganized internal handling of invite and ban lists.
953 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
955 - Fixed validation of server names containing digits.
956 - Update the "info text" of the local server after re-reading configuration.
957 - Changed Numerics 265 and 266 to follow ircd 2.11.x "standards".
958 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
959 - Enhanced ISUPPORT message (005 numeric).
960 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
961 join predefined channels.
962 - Code cleanups: use "LogDebug(...)" instead of "Log(LOG_DEBUG, ...)", use
963 "strcspn()", unsigned vs. signed, use "const", fix whitespaces, ...
965 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
967 - Fixed file handle leak when daemon is not able to send MOTD to a client.
969 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre2 (2006-09-09)
970 - Fixed build problems with GCC option -fstack-protector.
971 - Minor documentation updates.
973 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
974 - Validate "ServerName" (see RFC 2812, section 2.3.1).
975 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
976 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
977 - The ngIRCd handles time shifts backwards more gracefully now (the
978 timeout handling doesn't disconnect clients by mistake any more).
979 - Internal: Restructured connection handling (the connection ID is equal
980 to the file descriptor of the connection).
981 - Internal: Simplified resolver code.
982 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
983 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
984 - Enhanced the handler for PING and PONG commands: fix forwarding and enable
985 back-passing of a client supplied additional argument of PING.
986 - Changed handling of timeouts for unregistered connections: don't reset
987 the counter if data is received and disconnect clients earlier.
988 - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead.
989 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
990 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
991 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
992 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
993 lookup to prevent spoofing.
994 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
995 addition to the select() interface.
997 ngIRCd 0.9.2 (2005-10-15)
999 - Fixed a bug that could cause the daemon to crash when outgoing server
1000 connections can't be established.
1001 - Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to leak file descriptors when no
1002 resolver subprocesses could be created.
1003 - Fixed server NOTICEs to users with "s" mode ("server messages").
1004 - Fixed a format string bug in "connection statistics" messages to clients.
1006 ngIRCd 0.9.1 (2005-08-03)
1008 - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!)
1009 when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in
1010 ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by <qssl@fastmail.fm>, Thanks!
1011 - Changed some constants to be "signed" (instead of unsigned) to solve
1012 problems with old (pre-ANSI) compilers.
1014 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
1016 ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09)
1017 - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters.
1018 - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead
1019 of shutting down the (wrong) connection.
1020 - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the
1021 client is registered with the server (like the original ircd).
1022 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
1023 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
1024 - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client
1025 is member of multiple channels.
1026 - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and
1027 pray that this will be "the right thing" ...
1028 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
1029 - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug.
1030 - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
1031 - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
1032 to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
1033 - Removed typedefs for the native C datatypes.
1034 Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available.
1035 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
1036 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
1037 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
1038 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1039 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
1040 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
1041 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
1042 - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug
1043 code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process.
1044 - Don't create version information string each time a client connects
1045 but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
1046 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
1047 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
1048 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1049 - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1050 - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters.
1051 - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc()
1052 failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway.
1053 Patch from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1054 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
1055 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
1056 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
1057 - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and
1058 most probably other older C compilers on other systems.
1059 - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in
1060 the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it
1061 changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This
1062 should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
1065 ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03)
1067 - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled
1068 to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
1069 <coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
1070 (CVE-2005-0226; http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
1072 ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
1074 - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution.
1075 - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found
1076 by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. (CVE-2005-0199)
1077 - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks
1078 to Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1079 - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by
1080 Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1081 - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has
1082 been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/
1083 It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself,
1084 not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1086 ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25)
1088 - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub
1089 - Added some more debug code ...
1090 - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest".
1091 - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for
1092 ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after
1094 - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README!
1096 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
1098 - Fixed wrong buffer size calculation for results of the resolver.
1100 ngircd 0.8.0-pre2 (2004-05-16)
1101 - Enhanced logging to console when running in "no-detached mode": added
1102 PID and log messages of resolver sub-processes.
1103 - Fixed host name lookups when using IDENT user lookups.
1104 - "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean" remove more files now.
1106 ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07)
1107 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
1108 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
1109 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
1110 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
1111 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
1112 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
1113 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
1114 - Reorganized autogen.sh and configure scripts.
1115 - Fixed a wrong assert() which could cause the daemon to exit spuriously
1116 when closing down connections.
1117 - Better logging of decompression errors returned by zlib.
1118 - Servers other than the destination server didn't clean up the invite
1119 list of an "invite-only" channel properly when an INVITE'd user joined.
1120 - Changed the reply of the MODE command to match the syntax of the
1121 original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last
1122 parameter has been added.
1123 - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info.
1124 - Results of the resolver (host names and IDENT names) are discarded after
1125 the client is successfully registered with the server.
1126 - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections.
1127 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
1128 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
1129 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
1130 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
1131 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
1133 ngIRCd 0.7.7 (2004-02-05)
1135 - The info text ("real name") of users is set to "-" if none has been
1136 specified using the USER command (e. g. "USER user * * :"). Reason:
1137 the original ircd doesn't like empty ones and would KILL such users.
1138 - Fixed (optional) TCP Wrapper test which was broken and could result in
1139 false results. Thanks to Fuminori Tanizaki <tany@mcnet.ad.jp>!
1140 - Removed "USE_" prefixes of configuration #defines.
1142 ngIRCd 0.7.6 (2003-12-05)
1144 - Fixed abort() ("server crash") when INVITE'ing users to nonexistent
1145 channels. Bug found by <hiddenx@wp.pl>.
1146 - Extended version numbering of CVS versions (added date).
1147 - Enhanced/fixed doc/Protocol.txt;
1149 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-11-07)
1151 - Fixed ban behavior: users which are banned from a channel can't no
1152 longer send PRIVMSG's to this channel (fixes Bug #47).
1153 - Fixed and enhanced the "penalty handling" of the server: commands that
1154 require more resources block the client for a short time.
1155 - Changed the internal time resolution to one second.
1156 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
1157 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
1158 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
1159 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
1160 - Fixed build problems under Mac OS X 10.3.
1161 - Use "-pipe" when compiling with gcc, speeds things up a little :-)
1162 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
1163 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
1164 - Suppress misleading error message of diff during make run.
1165 - Enhanced test-suite and made it work on GNU/Hurd.
1166 - Fixed minor typo in debug output :-)
1168 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
1170 - Included files to build Debian packages (located in "debian/").
1171 - Updated config.guess and config.sub to newer upstream versions.
1172 - NJOIN propagates user channel modes correctly again ... Upsa.
1173 - Made Makefile more compatible with "make -j<n>".
1174 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
1175 - Fixed a compiler warning related to an unnecessary assert().
1176 - Enhanced VERSION command when using debug versions.
1178 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
1180 - "ServerName" is checked better now: a dot (".") is required.
1181 - The KILL command verifies and logs more parameters.
1183 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre2 (2003-04-27)
1184 - CVS build system fixes (made autogen.sh more portable).
1185 - Fixed compilation and test-suite on Solaris (tested with 2.6).
1186 - New documentation file "doc/Platforms.txt" describing the status of
1187 ngIRCd on the various tested platforms.
1188 - Test for broken GCC on Mac OS X and disable "-pedantic" in this case.
1189 - Disable "-ansi" on Cygwin: system headers are incompatible.
1190 - The server tried to connect to other servers only once when DNS or
1191 socket failures occurred.
1192 - Fixed --configtest: There is no variable "ServerPwd", it's "Password".
1194 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 (2003-04-22)
1195 - New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside).
1196 - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled.
1197 - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the
1198 more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems
1199 that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included
1200 in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h).
1201 - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that
1202 can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken.
1203 - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-)
1204 - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and
1205 removing servers during runtime works more reliable now.
1206 - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]"
1207 - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]".
1208 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
1209 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
1210 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
1211 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
1212 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
1213 - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The
1214 german documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
1215 - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision.
1216 - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding.
1217 - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool".
1218 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
1219 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
1220 - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS)
1221 if an outgoing server link can't be established.
1222 - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility.
1223 - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly.
1224 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
1225 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
1226 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
1227 configure to enable it.
1228 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
1229 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
1230 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
1231 - Better error reporting to clients on connect.
1232 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
1233 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
1234 - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
1236 ngIRCd 0.6.1, 2003-01-21
1238 - Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more,
1239 ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you
1240 can kill only valid users now.
1241 - The server no longer forwards commands to ordinary users, instead it
1242 answers with the correct error message ("no such server") now.
1243 - WHOIS commands weren't always forwarded as requested.
1244 - The server sets a correct default AWAY message now when propagating
1245 between servers (bug introduced in 0.6.0).
1246 - Fixed up and enhanced CHANINFO command: channel keys and user limits
1247 are synchronized between servers now, too.
1248 - MODE returns the key and user limit for channel members correctly now.
1249 - Non-members of a channel could crash the server when trying to change
1250 its modes or modes of its members.
1251 - The server didn't validate weather a target user is a valid channel
1252 member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd.
1255 Older changes (sorry, only available in german language):
1257 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
1259 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 2002-12-23
1260 - neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect.
1261 - LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen
1262 Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start
1263 dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt.
1265 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 2002-12-18
1266 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
1267 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
1268 - der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den
1269 Resolver (4 Sekunden), wenn das Ergebnis eintrifft setzt er aber den
1270 Login sofort fort (bisher wurde immer mind. 1 Sekunde gewartet).
1271 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
1272 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
1273 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sektion "Global")
1274 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
1275 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
1276 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
1277 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
1278 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
1279 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
1280 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
1281 - Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst.
1282 - unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
1283 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
1284 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
1285 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
1286 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
1287 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
1288 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
1289 - Channel-Mode "P" ("persistent") kann nur noch von IRC-Operatoren gesetzt
1290 werden. Grund: User koennen den Server sonst leicht "Channel-Flooden".
1291 - MOTD kann nun an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1292 - IRC-Befehl "TIME" implementiert.
1293 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
1294 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
1295 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
1296 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
1297 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
1298 - Handling der Schreibpuffer umgestellt: Server sollte schneller arbeiten.
1299 - Prefix-Fehler werden besser protokolliert (mit verursachendem Befehl).
1300 - SQUIT wird nicht mehr doppelt an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1301 - Der Server versucht nun vor dem Schliessen einer Verbindung Daten, die
1302 noch im Schreibpuffer stehen, zu senden.
1303 - Source in weiteres Modul "irc-info" aufgespalten.
1304 - Konfigurationsvariablen werden besser validiert: Laengen, Zahlen, ...
1305 - neuen Befehl STATS begonnen: bisher unterstuetzt wird "l" und "m".
1306 - bei ISON und USERHOST fehlte im Ergebnis-String der korrekte Absender.
1307 - IRC Operatoren koennen nun mit KILL User toeten. Achtung: ein Grund muss
1308 zwingend als zweiter Parameter angegeben werden!
1309 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
1310 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
1311 - neuer, deutlich flexiblerer Parser fuer den MODE Befehl.
1312 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
1314 ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002
1316 - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
1317 unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden.
1318 - in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht
1319 nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe
1320 verwendet werden. Beim Start des Daemons wird nun beides angezeigt.
1321 - Besseres Logging von Prefix-Fehlern.
1322 - angenommene Sockets werden nun korrekt auf "non-blocking" konfiguriert,
1323 beim Senden und Empfangen werden Blockierungen besser abgefangen.
1324 - RPL_UMODEIS hat Code 221, nicht 211 ... *argl*
1325 - select() in Try_Write() hat falschen (keinen!) Timeout verwendet;
1326 die "Zeit-Aufloesung" des Servers sind zudem nun 2 Sekunden (TIME_RES).
1327 Insgesamt sollte die Reaktionszeit des Server nun besser sein.
1329 ngIRCd 0.5.3, 08.11.2002
1331 - NOTICE liefert nun wirklich nie mehr einen Fehler, auch dann nicht,
1332 wenn der sendende Client noch gar nicht registriert ist.
1333 - ein "schneller Server-Reconnect" wird nur noch dann versucht, wenn die
1334 Verbindung zuvor ordentlich (="lange genug") in Ordnung war; somit also
1335 nicht meht, wenn der Peer-Server gleich beim Connect ein ERROR liefert.
1336 Das vermeidet "Connect-Orgien".
1337 - einige Datentypen aufgeraumt: z.B. sind viele INT32s nun LONGs. Das ist
1338 auf Platformen mit 8-Byte-Integern kompatibler.
1339 - RPL_YOURHOST_MSG ist nun ircII- und RFC-kompatibel ;-)
1340 - Segfault unter hoher Netzaktivitaet behoben: in Conn_Close() wird die
1341 Connection-Struktur nun frueher als "ungueltig" markiert.
1343 ngIRCd 0.5.2, 04.10.2002
1345 - Buffer Overflow in Read_Resolver_Result() behoben.
1346 - Format-String-Bugs, die zum Abbruch des Servers fuehrten, behoben.
1347 - Maximale Laenge eines IRC-Prefix wurde falsch berechnet.
1349 ngIRCd 0.5.1, 03.10.2002
1351 - in RPL_YOURHOST_MSG wurde ein fehlerhafter Versionsstring geliefert.
1352 - Test-Suite: start-server.sh, stop-server.sh und stress-server.sh koennen
1353 nun "manuell" von der Kommandozeile gestartet werden, stress-server.sh
1354 startet per Default nur noch 5 Sessions, eine andere Zahl kann auf der
1355 Kommandozeile uebergeben werden (Syntax: "stress-server.sh <count>").
1356 - In bestimmten Faellen hat der Server versucht auf einen bereits wieder
1357 geschlossenen Socket Daten zu schreiben; das fuehrte zu einem Abbruch des
1358 Servers durch ein assert(). Nun wird geprueft, ob der Socket noch ok ist.
1359 - im "contrib"-Verzeichnis befindet sich nun eine RPM-Spec-Datei, aus den
1360 .tar.gz's koennen nun mit "rpm -ta <archiv>" RPM's erzeugt werden. Danke
1361 an Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>!
1362 - Syntax von RPL_MYINFO_MSG korrigiert: liefert nun vier Parameter.
1364 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
1366 - Dokumentation aktualisiert.
1367 - Fehler bei Validierung von "AdminInfo2" behoben.
1368 - Test der Flags fuer "ps" in der Testsuite verbessert, ist nun zu mehr
1369 Plattformen kompatibler.
1371 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre2, 17.09.2002
1372 - Fix in IRC_WriteStrServersPrefix() war "badly broken" -- behoben.
1374 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre1, 16.09.2002
1375 - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen.
1376 - Wird der Netzwerk-Sniffer aktiviert (--sniffer), so schaltet der
1377 ngIRCd nun automatisch in den Debug-Modus.
1378 - auf Systemen, die inet_aton() nicht kennen (wie z.B. A/UX), kann der
1379 ngIRCd nun dennoch auch aktiv Server-Links aufbauen.
1380 - h_errno wird auf Systemen, die das nicht kennen (wie z.B. HP-UX 10.20)
1381 nicht mehr verwendet. Somit compiliert der ngIRCd nun auch dort :-)
1382 - um auf dem Ziel-System nicht vorhandene Funktionen nachzubilden wird nun
1383 die "libngportab" erzeugt; genutzt wird dies bisher fuer vsnprintf().
1384 Nun compiliert der ngIRCd auch unter Solaris 2.5.1.
1385 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
1386 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
1387 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
1388 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. Zu Channel-Operatoren werden bisher
1389 nur IRC-Operatoren, die den Channel betreten. Die persistenten Channels
1390 werden durch das Flag "P" gelennzeichnet, welches normal durch Channel-
1391 Op's gesetzt und geloescht werden kann.
1392 - bei "--configtest" werden keine leere Abschnitte mehr ausgegeben.
1393 - Source in weitere Module aufgespalten: lists, irc-op und resolve.
1394 - #include's aufgeraeumt: Header includieren keine anderen mehr.
1395 - KICK implementiert (bisher kann nur ein User aus einem Channel geckicked
1396 werden, Listen, wir im RFC vorgesehen, werden bisher nicht unterstuetzt).
1397 - INVITE, den Channel-Mode "i" sowie Invite-Lists ueber den MODE-Befehl
1398 (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
1399 - Source an ansi2knr fuer pre-ANSI-Compiler angepasst; ansi2knr in Source-
1400 Tree aufgenommen und in Build-System integriert; der ngIRCd compiliert
1401 nun z.B. unter A/UX mit dem nativen Compiler von Apple.
1402 - TOPIC lieferte bei unbekanntem Channel einen falschen Fehlercode.
1403 - LIST versteht nun Wildcards und kann an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1404 - wurde ein KILL fuer nicht-lokale Clients empfangen, so wurden die
1405 Verwaltungs-Strukturen nicht korrekt freigegeben.
1406 - empfangene NJOIN's wurden "zerhackt" an andere Server weitergegeben.
1407 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
1408 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
1409 - Dokumentation des neuen IRC+-Protokolls begonnen: doc/Protocol.txt
1410 - Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt;
1411 bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet.
1412 Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben.
1413 - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
1414 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics.
1415 - neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das
1416 IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert).
1417 - Ban-Lists (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
1418 - wird der Server mit "-n"/"--nodaemon" gestartet, so werden keine Mel-
1419 dungen mehr ueber Syslog ausgegeben, sondern nur noch auf der Konsole.
1420 - "Test-Suite" begonnen (in "make check" integriert): Dabei wird ein
1421 speziell konfigurierter Server auf Port 6789 gestartet, mit dem dann
1422 einige Tests durchgefuehrt werden (u.a. "Stress-Test" mit 50 Clients).
1423 - zu lange Operator-Namen in der Konfiguration wurden falsch gekuerzt.
1424 - kleine Anpassung an AIX 3.2.5: nun laeuft der ngIRCd auch dort :-)
1425 - ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei
1426 im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und
1427 "AdminEMail" konfiguriert.
1429 ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002
1431 - Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel
1432 ueberhaupt ein User ist. War es keiner, so fuehrte dies zu einem
1433 Abbruch des Servers [es wurde assert() aufgerufen].
1435 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
1437 - LUSERS verzaehlt sich bei eigenen Server-Links nicht mehr.
1438 - QUIT wird nun auch von noch nicht registrierten Clients akzeptiert.
1439 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
1440 Wildcards (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
1442 ngIRCd 0.4.1, 08.04.2002
1444 - Bei Server-Links wird nicht mehr an Hand der Anzahl der Parameter
1445 eines empfangenen SERVER-Befehls, sondern "intern" erkannt, ob es
1446 sich um eine ein- oder ausgehende Verbindung handelt und somit das
1447 eigene PASS-SERVER-Paar gesendet werden muss oder nicht. Da sich
1448 verschiedene Versionen des Original-ircd's anders verhalten, schlug
1449 die Anmeldung je nach Gehenseite evtl. fehl.
1450 - Bei einem NICK-Befehl eines lokalen Client konnte der Server ab-
1451 stuerzen, da ein Format-String einer Log-Meldung fehlerhaft war.
1453 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
1455 - IRC-Befehle nochmal auf weitere Source-Dateien aufgespalten.
1456 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
1457 - Der AWAY-Mode wurde nicht ueber mehrere Server-Links weitergegeben.
1458 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err).
1459 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
1460 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
1461 zusaetzliche Informationen.
1462 - In Nicknames wird das Zeichen "-" nun als zulaessig erkannt.
1463 - die Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei (doc/sample-ngircd.conf) wird als
1464 ngircd.conf installiert, wenn noch keine "echte" Konfigurationsdatei
1466 - bei WHO, WHOIS und NAMES wird nun nur noch der Status "Operator" oder
1467 "voiced" geliefert -- nicht mehr beides.
1468 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
1469 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
1470 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert (Variable "Group" in der Kon-
1471 figurationsdatei, Sektion [Server]).
1472 - IRC_PING() ist, wenn nicht im "strict RFC"-Mode, toleranter und ak-
1473 zeptiert beliebig viele Parameter (z.B. BitchX sendet soetwas).
1474 - die "Portab-Header" werden nicht mehr benoetigt, die System-Erkennung
1475 wird nun ausschliesslich vom configure-Script durchgefuehrt. System-
1476 abhaengige Definitionen finden sich nun unter src/portrab/.
1477 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
1478 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
1479 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
1480 gelesen und dann die verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
1481 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
1482 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
1483 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
1484 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
1485 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
1486 - URL der Homepage wird u.a. bei "--version" mit angezeigt.
1488 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
1490 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
1491 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
1492 - FAQ um Hinweise auf den Bugtracker erweitert.
1493 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
1494 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
1495 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
1496 - direkt nach dem Start schreibt der ngIRCd nun die aktiven Kommando-
1497 zeilenschalter in's Logfile (Passive, Debug, Sniffer ...).
1498 - das Signal-Flag SA_RESTART wird nur noch gesetzt, wenn es auf dem
1499 jeweiligen System auch definiert ist.
1500 - bei ausgehenden Verbindungen wird nun der Ziel-Port protokolliert.
1501 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert.
1502 - make-Target "check" (und "distcheck") mit Sinn erfuellt :-)
1503 (die Tests sind aber bisher nicht all zu tiefgehend ...)
1504 - Durch einen Ueberlauf konnte die Idle-Time bei WHOIS negativ werden ...
1505 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
1506 - WHOIS wird nicht mehr automatisch an den "Original-Server" weiterge-
1507 leitet: war eh nicht RFC-konform und machte mit Clients Probleme.
1508 - an User wird nun immer ein "komplettes" Prefix (mit Host-Mask) ver-
1509 schickt, Server bekommen nach wie vor kurze: das "Original" hat bei
1510 bestimmten Befehlen (PRIVMSG) ansonsten evtl. Probleme ...
1511 - NAMES korrigiert und vollstaendig implementiert.
1512 - SQUIT wird auf jeden Fall geforwarded, zudem besseres Logging.
1513 - Ist ein Nick bei der User-Registrierung bereits belegt, nimmt der
1514 Server nun korrekt weitere NICK-Befehle an und verwendet diese.
1515 - PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m".
1516 - AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst.
1517 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
1518 - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asynchron connectiert und
1519 blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht
1520 erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!).
1521 - Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet.
1522 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
1524 ngIRCd 0.2.1, 17.02.2002
1526 - NICK korrigiert: es werden nun auch alle "betroffenen" User informiert.
1527 - configure-Script erweitert, u.a. bessere Anpassung an BeOS: dort wird
1528 nun die "libbe" zum ngIRCd gelinkt, somit funktioniert auch syslog.
1529 - Fehlerhafte bzw. noch nicht verstandene Modes werden nun ausfuehrlicher
1530 an den Client geliefert.
1532 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
1534 - Nicknames und Channel-Namen werden etwas besser auf Gueltigkeit ueber-
1535 prueft; ist aber nach wie vor noch nicht ausreichend.
1536 - NJOINS von Servern wurden nicht an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1537 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
1538 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
1539 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
1540 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
1541 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
1542 - Benutzer von connectierenden Servern wurden nicht in den Channels ange-
1543 kuendigt, es wurden nur die internen Strukturen angepasst.
1544 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
1546 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
1548 - User-Modes bei User-Registrierungen von andere Servern (NICK-Befehl)
1549 wurden falsch uebernommen. Zudem wurden die Modes falsch gekuerzt.
1550 - Server-Verbindungen werden nun nach dem Start erst nach einer kurzen
1551 Pause aufgebaut (zur Zeit drei Sekunden).
1552 - Hilfetext korrigiert: --help und --version waren vertauscht, die
1553 Option --sniffer wurde gar nicht erwaehnt.
1554 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
1555 - der IRC-Sniffer wird nur noch aktiviert, wenn die Option auf der
1556 Kommandozeile angegeben wurde (bei entsprechend compiliertem Server).
1557 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
1558 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
1559 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
1560 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
1561 - durch die Channels einige Aenderungen an PRIVMSG, WHOIS, MODE etc.
1562 - neu connectierenden Servern werden nun Channels mit NJOIN angekuendigt.
1563 - Signal-Hander geaendert: die Fehlermeldung "interrupted system call"
1564 sollte so nicht mehr auftreten.
1565 - "spaeter" neu connectierende Server werden nun im Netz angekuendigt.
1566 - SERVER-Meldungen an andere Server sind nun korrekt sortiert.
1567 - Clients werden nun korrekt sowohl nur ueber den Nickname als auch die
1568 komplette "Host Mask" erkannt.
1570 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
1572 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
1573 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
1574 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
1575 - MODE und NICK melden nun die Aenderungen an andere Server, ebenso
1576 die Befehle QUIT und SQUIT.
1577 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
1578 - Parses handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
1579 - Status-Codes an den Server selber werden ignorier.
1580 - Log-Meldungen und Log-Level ueberarbeitet und korrigiert.
1581 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
1582 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
1583 - WHOIS korrigiert: Anfrage wurde u.U. an User geforwarded anstatt vom
1584 Server beantwortet zu werden.
1585 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS
1586 - Client-Modes von Remote-Servern wurden nicht korrekt uerbernommen.
1588 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
1590 - Struktur der Konfigurationsdatei geaendert: sie ist nun "Samba like",
1591 d.h. sie besteht aus Abschnitten (siehe "doc/sample-ngircd.conf").
1592 - Es koennen mehrere IRC-Server-Opertatoren konfiguriert werden.
1593 - Zombies der Resolver-Prozesse werden nun ordentlich "getoetet".
1594 - NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern.
1595 - ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar.
1596 - neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT.
1597 - Asynchroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
1598 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
1599 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige
1600 Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert
1601 aber bereits, ebenso wie WHOIS (letzterer wird immer an den Server,
1602 auf dem der User registriert ist, weitergegeben).
1603 - "arpa/inet.h" wird nur noch includiert, wenn vorhanden.
1604 - Fehler bei select() fuerhen nun zum Abbruch von ngIRCd, bisher landete
1605 der Server zumeist in einer Endlosschleife.
1606 - Logmeldungen und Level an vielen Stellen verbessert.
1607 - lokalen Usernamen wird nun ein "~" vorangestellt, da bisher noch keine
1608 Ident-Anfragen gemacht werden.
1610 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
1612 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)