-- ChangeLog --
-ngIRCd CVSHEAD
+ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09)
+
+ - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters.
+ - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead
+ of shuttding down the (wrong) connection.
+ - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the
+ client is registered with the server (like the original ircd).
+ - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
+ - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
+ - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client
+ is member of multiple channels.
+ - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and
+ pray that this will be "the right thing" ...
+ - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
+ - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug.
- Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
- Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
- Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
- New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
- commands to ussers with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
+ commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
- Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug
code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process.
- Don't create version information string each time a client connects
- but insetead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
+ but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
- New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
most probably other older C compilers on other systems.
- When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in
the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it
- changes it's working directory to the home directory of this user. This
+ changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This
should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
root privileges ...
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-$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.267 2005/03/21 22:15:15 alex Exp $
+$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.276.2.4 2005/07/09 11:57:07 alex Exp $