2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
4 (c)2001-2010 Alexander Barton,
5 alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
7 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
8 terms of the GNU General Public License.
15 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
16 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
17 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
18 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
19 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
20 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
21 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
22 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
23 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
24 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
25 using the command line parameters.
26 - Implement user mode "x": hostname cloaking (closes: #102).
27 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
28 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
29 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
30 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
31 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
32 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
33 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
34 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
35 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
36 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
37 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
39 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
41 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
42 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
43 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
44 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
46 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
47 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
48 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
49 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
50 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
51 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
52 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
53 to join such a channel.
54 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
55 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
56 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
57 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
59 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
61 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
62 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
63 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
64 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
65 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
66 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
67 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
69 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
70 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
71 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
73 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
75 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
76 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
77 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
79 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
81 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
82 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
83 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
84 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
85 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
86 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
87 individual channel keys for different users.
88 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
90 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
92 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
93 - New version number scheme :-)
94 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
95 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
96 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
97 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
98 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
99 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
100 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
101 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
102 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
103 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
104 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
105 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
106 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
107 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
108 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
110 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
112 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
113 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
114 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
115 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
116 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
117 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
119 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
121 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
122 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
124 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
126 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
127 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
128 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
129 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
130 nickname/servername/hostname, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
131 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
132 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
133 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
134 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
135 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
137 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
139 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
140 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
141 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
142 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
143 length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
144 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
145 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
146 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
147 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
148 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
151 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
153 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
154 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
155 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
156 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
157 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
159 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
161 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
162 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
163 join predefined channels.
165 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
167 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
168 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
169 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
170 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
171 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
172 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
173 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
174 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
175 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
176 lookup to prevent spoofing.
177 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
178 addition to the select() interface.
180 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
182 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
183 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
184 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
185 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
186 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
187 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
188 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
189 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
190 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
191 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
192 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
193 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
194 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
195 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
196 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
197 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
199 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
201 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
202 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
203 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
204 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
205 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
206 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
207 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
208 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
209 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
210 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
211 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
212 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
214 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
216 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
217 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
218 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
219 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
220 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
221 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
223 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
225 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
227 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
229 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
230 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
231 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
232 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
233 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
234 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
235 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
236 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
237 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
238 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
239 configure to enable it.
240 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
241 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
242 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
243 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
244 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
247 Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
249 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
251 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
252 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
253 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
254 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
255 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
256 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
257 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
258 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
259 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
260 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
261 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
262 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
263 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asyncronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
264 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
265 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
266 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
267 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
268 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
269 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
270 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
271 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
272 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
273 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
274 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
275 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
276 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
278 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
280 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
281 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
282 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
283 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
284 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
285 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
286 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
287 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
288 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
289 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO syncronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
290 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
291 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
292 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
293 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
294 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
295 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
296 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
298 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
300 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
301 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
303 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
305 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
306 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
307 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
308 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
309 zusaetzliche Informationen.
310 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
311 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
312 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
313 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
314 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
315 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
316 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
317 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
318 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
319 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
320 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
321 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
323 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
325 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
326 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
327 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
328 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
329 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
330 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
331 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
332 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
333 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
334 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
336 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
338 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
339 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
340 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
341 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
342 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
343 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
345 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
347 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
348 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
349 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
350 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
351 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
352 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
354 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
356 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
357 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
358 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
359 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
360 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
361 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
362 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
363 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
365 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
367 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
368 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
369 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
370 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
372 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
374 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)
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