-- ChangeLog --
+ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
+
+ - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
+ - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
+
+ ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
+ - New version number scheme :-)
+ - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
+ tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
+ For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
+ to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
+ - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
+ OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
+ New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
+ SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
+ - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
+ visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
+ In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
+ all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
+ - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
+ - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
+ - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
+ - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
+ - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
+ - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
+ - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two
+ servers are started for testing server-server linking.
+ - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
+ - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
+ daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
+
ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
- Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode
- Update ngIRCd manual pages
- Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
- Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error.
- - Make Listen parameter a comma-seperated list of addresses. This also
+ - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
- Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns
proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran)
- - Fix complie on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
- - If bind() fails, also print ip address and not just the port number.
+ - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
+ - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number.
ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
- - IPv6: Add config options to disabe ipv4/ipv6 support.
+ - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
- Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now!
- Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT.
- Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition.
- Use dotted-decimal IP address if hostname is >= 64.
- Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
- New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
- the source ip adress to use when connecting to remote server.
+ the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
- New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
- Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
- enable server to recognice numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
+ enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
- Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!?
- Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced
- Better error reporting to clients on connect.
- Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
- Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
- - Enhanced hanling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
+ - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
ngIRCd 0.6.1, 2003-01-21