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