2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2015 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
12 ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
14 - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch,
15 and testing by Christoph Biedl <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
16 - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating
17 systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example
18 "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to
19 "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve
20 "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using
21 DNS at all makes the test site much more portable.
23 ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
25 - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
26 ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
27 Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
29 ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
30 - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
31 lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
32 nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
33 Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
34 - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
35 - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
36 that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
37 this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
38 if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
39 - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
40 - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
41 settable by IRC Operators.
42 - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
43 "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
44 settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
45 careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
46 User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
47 - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
48 - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
49 - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
50 Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
51 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
52 on "VPATH builds", for example.
53 - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
54 and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
55 - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
56 using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
57 names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
58 is quite unexpected for users.
59 - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
60 allow using separate source and build trees.
61 - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
62 - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
64 - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
65 and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
66 useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
67 been linked at all ...).
68 - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
69 (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
70 daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
71 which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
72 - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
73 - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
74 Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
75 return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
76 DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
77 - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
80 ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
82 - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
83 disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
84 - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
85 - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
86 - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
87 linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
88 been implemented already).
89 - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
91 ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
93 - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
94 is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
95 initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
97 ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
98 - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
99 support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
101 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
102 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
103 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
104 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
105 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
106 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
107 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
108 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
109 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
110 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
111 the IRC "TRACE" command.
112 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
113 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
114 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
115 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
116 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
117 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
118 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
119 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
121 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
122 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
123 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
124 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
125 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
126 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
127 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
128 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
129 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
130 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
131 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
132 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
133 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
134 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
135 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
136 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
137 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
138 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
139 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
140 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
141 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
142 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
143 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
144 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
145 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
146 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
147 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
148 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
149 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
150 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
151 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
152 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
153 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
154 The default is 0, "never".
155 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
156 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
157 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
158 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
159 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
160 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
161 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
162 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
163 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
164 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
165 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
166 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
167 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
168 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
169 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
170 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
171 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
172 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
173 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
175 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
177 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
178 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
179 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
180 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
181 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
183 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
185 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
186 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
187 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to to crash the daemon
190 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
192 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
194 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
196 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
197 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
198 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
199 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
200 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
202 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
203 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
204 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
205 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
206 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
207 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
208 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
210 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
211 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
212 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
213 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
214 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
215 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
216 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
217 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
218 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
219 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
220 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
221 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
222 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
223 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
224 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
225 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
226 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
227 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
228 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
229 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
230 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
231 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
232 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
233 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
234 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
235 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
236 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
237 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
238 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
239 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
240 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
241 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
242 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
243 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
244 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
245 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
247 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
248 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
249 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
251 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
252 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
253 configuration file. (Closes #136)
254 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
255 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
256 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
257 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
258 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
259 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
260 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
261 behave, and so do we :-)
262 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
263 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
264 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
265 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
266 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
267 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
268 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
269 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
270 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
271 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
272 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
273 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
274 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
275 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
276 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
277 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
279 ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
281 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
282 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
283 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
284 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
285 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
286 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
287 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
288 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
289 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
291 ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
293 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
294 distribution archive ... ooops!
296 ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
298 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
299 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
300 is the only supported version.
301 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
302 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
303 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
304 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
305 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
306 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
307 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
308 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
309 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
310 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
311 by completely unknown clients.
312 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
313 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
314 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
315 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
316 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
317 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
318 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
319 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
320 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
321 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
322 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
323 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
324 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
325 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
326 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
327 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
328 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
329 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
330 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
331 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
332 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
333 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
334 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
335 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
336 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
337 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
338 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
339 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
340 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
341 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
342 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
343 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
344 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
345 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
346 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
347 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
348 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
349 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
350 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
351 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
352 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
353 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
354 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
355 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
356 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
357 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
358 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
359 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
360 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
361 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
362 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
364 ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
366 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
368 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
369 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
370 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
371 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
372 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
374 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
375 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
376 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
377 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
378 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
379 servers from TOR or I2P.
380 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
381 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
382 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
383 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
384 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
385 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
386 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
387 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
388 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
389 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
390 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
391 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
392 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
393 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
394 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
395 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
396 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
397 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
398 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
399 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
400 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
401 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
402 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
403 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
404 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
405 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
406 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
407 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
408 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
409 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
410 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
411 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
412 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
413 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
414 variable description.
415 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
416 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
417 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
418 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
419 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
420 supplied by the IRC client.
421 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
422 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
423 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
424 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
425 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
426 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
427 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
428 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
429 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
430 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
431 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
432 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
433 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
434 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
435 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
436 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
437 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
439 ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
441 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
442 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
443 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
445 ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
447 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
449 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
450 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
451 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
452 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
454 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
455 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
456 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
457 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
458 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
459 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
460 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
461 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
462 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
463 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
464 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
465 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
466 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
467 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
468 using the command line parameters.
469 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
470 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
471 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
472 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
473 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
474 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
475 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
476 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
477 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
478 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
479 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
480 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
481 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
483 ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
485 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
486 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
487 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
488 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
490 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
491 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
492 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
493 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
494 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
495 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
496 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
497 to join such a channel.
498 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
499 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
500 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
501 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
503 ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
505 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
506 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
507 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
508 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
509 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
510 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
511 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
513 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
514 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
515 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
517 ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
519 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
520 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
521 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
523 ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
525 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
526 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
527 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
528 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
529 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
530 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
531 individual channel keys for different users.
532 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
534 ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
536 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
537 - New version number scheme :-)
538 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
539 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
540 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
541 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
542 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
543 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
544 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
545 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
546 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
547 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
548 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
549 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
550 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
551 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
552 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
554 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
556 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
557 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
558 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
559 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
560 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
561 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
563 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
565 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
566 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
568 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
570 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
571 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
572 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
573 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
574 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
575 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
576 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
577 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
578 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
579 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
581 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
583 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
584 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
585 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
586 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
587 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
588 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
589 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
590 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
591 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
592 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
595 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
597 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
598 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
599 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
600 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
601 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
603 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
605 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
606 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
607 join predefined channels.
609 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
611 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
612 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
613 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
614 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
615 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
616 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
617 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
618 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
619 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
620 lookup to prevent spoofing.
621 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
622 addition to the select() interface.
624 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
626 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
627 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
628 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
629 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
630 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
631 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
632 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
633 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
634 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
635 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
636 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
637 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
638 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
639 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
640 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
641 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
643 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
645 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
646 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
647 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
648 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
649 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
650 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
651 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
652 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
653 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
654 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
655 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
656 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
658 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
660 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
661 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
662 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
663 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
664 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
665 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
667 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
669 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
671 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
673 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
674 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
675 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
676 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
677 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
678 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
679 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
680 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
681 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
682 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
683 configure to enable it.
684 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
685 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
686 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
687 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
688 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
691 Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
693 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
695 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
696 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
697 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
698 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
699 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
700 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
701 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
702 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
703 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
704 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
705 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
706 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
707 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
708 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
709 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
710 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
711 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
712 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
713 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
714 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
715 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
716 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
717 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
718 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
719 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
720 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
722 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
724 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
725 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
726 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
727 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
728 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
729 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
730 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
731 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
732 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
733 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
734 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
735 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
736 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
737 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
738 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
739 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
740 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
742 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
744 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
745 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
747 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
749 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
750 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
751 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
752 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
753 zusaetzliche Informationen.
754 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
755 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
756 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
757 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
758 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
759 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
760 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
761 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
762 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
763 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
764 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
765 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
767 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
769 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
770 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
771 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
772 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
773 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
774 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
775 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
776 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
777 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
778 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
780 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
782 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
783 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
784 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
785 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
786 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
787 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
789 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
791 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
792 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
793 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
794 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
795 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
796 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
798 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
800 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
801 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
802 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
803 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
804 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
805 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
806 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
807 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
809 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
811 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
812 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
813 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
814 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
816 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
818 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)