ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
- (c)2001,2002 by Alexander Barton,
+ (c)2001-2004 by Alexander Barton,
alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
- ngIRCd ist freie Software und steht unter
- der GNU General Public License.
+ ngIRCd is free software and published under the
+ terms of the GNU General Public License.
- -- NEWS / Neuigkeiten --
+ -- NEWS --
-ngIRCd CVS-HEAD
+ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07)
+
+ - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
+ Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
+ its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
+ to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
+ "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
+ - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
+ establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
+ - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
+ - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
+ - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
+ have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
+ The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
+
+ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
+
+ - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
+ simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
+ This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
+ (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
+ - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
+ sockets of the server to a single IP address.
+
+ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
+
+ - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
+
+ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
+
+ - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
+ RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
+ configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
+ to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
+ - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
+ - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
+ - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
+ - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
+ new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
+ - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
+ configure to enable it.
+ - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
+ insetead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
+ "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
+ - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
+ - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
+
+
+Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
+
+ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
- beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
- - Clients werden beim Connect mit NOTICEs ueber den Status der Resolver-
- Subprozesse informiert.
- Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
- Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
+ - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
+ der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
+ - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
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-$Id: NEWS,v 1.44 2002/11/26 23:28:49 alex Exp $
+$Id: NEWS,v 1.64.2.2 2004/05/07 11:56:19 alex Exp $