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