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 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
16 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
17 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
18 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
20 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
21 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
22 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
23 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
24 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
25 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
26 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
27 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
28 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
29 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
30 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
31 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
32 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
33 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
34 using the command line parameters.
35 - Implement user mode "x": hostname cloaking (closes: #102).
36 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
37 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
38 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
39 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
40 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
41 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
42 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
43 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
44 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
45 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
46 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
47 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
49 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
51 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
52 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
53 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
54 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
56 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
57 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
58 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
59 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
60 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
61 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
62 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
63 to join such a channel.
64 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
65 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
66 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
67 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
69 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
71 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
72 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
73 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
74 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
75 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
76 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
77 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
79 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
80 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
81 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
83 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
85 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
86 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
87 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
89 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
91 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
92 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
93 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
94 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
95 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
96 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
97 individual channel keys for different users.
98 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
100 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
102 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
103 - New version number scheme :-)
104 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
105 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
106 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
107 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
108 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
109 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
110 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
111 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
112 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
113 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
114 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
115 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
116 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
117 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
118 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
120 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
122 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
123 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
124 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
125 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
126 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
127 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
129 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
131 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
132 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
134 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
136 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
137 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
138 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
139 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
140 nickname/servername/hostname, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
141 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
142 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
143 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
144 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
145 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
147 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
149 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
150 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
151 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
152 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
153 length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
154 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
155 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
156 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
157 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
158 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
161 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
163 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
164 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
165 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
166 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
167 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
169 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
171 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
172 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
173 join predefined channels.
175 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
177 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
178 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
179 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
180 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
181 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
182 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
183 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
184 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
185 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
186 lookup to prevent spoofing.
187 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
188 addition to the select() interface.
190 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
192 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
193 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
194 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
195 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
196 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
197 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
198 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
199 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
200 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
201 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
202 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
203 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
204 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
205 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
206 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
207 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
209 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
211 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
212 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
213 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
214 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
215 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
216 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
217 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
218 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
219 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
220 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
221 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
222 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
224 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
226 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
227 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
228 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
229 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
230 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
231 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
233 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
235 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
237 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
239 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
240 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
241 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
242 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
243 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
244 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
245 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
246 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
247 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
248 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
249 configure to enable it.
250 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
251 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
252 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
253 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
254 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
257 Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
259 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
261 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
262 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
263 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
264 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
265 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
266 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
267 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
268 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
269 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
270 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
271 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
272 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
273 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asyncronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
274 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
275 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
276 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
277 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
278 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
279 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
280 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
281 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
282 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
283 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
284 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
285 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
286 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
288 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
290 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
291 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
292 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
293 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
294 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
295 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
296 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
297 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
298 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
299 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO syncronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
300 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
301 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
302 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
303 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
304 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
305 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
306 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
308 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
310 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
311 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
313 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
315 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
316 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
317 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
318 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
319 zusaetzliche Informationen.
320 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
321 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
322 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
323 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
324 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
325 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
326 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
327 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
328 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
329 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
330 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
331 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
333 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
335 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
336 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
337 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
338 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
339 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
340 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
341 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
342 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
343 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
344 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
346 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
348 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
349 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
350 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
351 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
352 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
353 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
355 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
357 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
358 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
359 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
360 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
361 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
362 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
364 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
366 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
367 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
368 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
369 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
370 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
371 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
372 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
373 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
375 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
377 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
378 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
379 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
380 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
382 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
384 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)
388 $Id: NEWS,v 1.88 2008/02/26 22:05:42 fw Exp $