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