2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2013 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
12 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
14 - Allow ERROR command on server and service links only, ignore them and
15 add a penalty time on all other link types.
16 - Enforced mode setting by IRC Operators: Only check the channel user
17 modes of the initiator if he is joined to the channel and not an IRC
18 operator enforcing modes (which requires the configuration option
19 "OperCanUseMode" to be enabled), because trying to check channel user
20 modes of a non-member results in an assertion when running with debug
21 code or could crash the daemon otherwise. This closes bug #147, thanks
22 to James Kirwill <james.kirwill@bk.ru> for tracking this down!
23 - Fix build system to cope with spaces in path names.
24 - Code cleanups, mostly to fix build warnings on Cygwin.
26 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
28 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
29 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
30 external (PAM) authenticaion mechanisms that require longer user names.
31 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
32 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
34 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
35 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
36 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
37 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
38 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
39 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
40 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
41 - RPL_UMODEIS: send correct target name, even on server links.
42 - Update platformtest.sh to follow autoconf changes and only generate
43 the "configure" script when it is missing.
44 - Fix the test suite to correctly execute test scripts even when stdout
46 - Fix some compiler warnings on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
48 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
49 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
50 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
51 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
52 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
53 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
54 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
55 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
56 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
57 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
58 - Fix error message when trying to join non-predefined channels and the
59 "PredefChannelsOnly" configuration option is set.
60 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
61 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
62 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
63 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
64 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
65 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
66 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
67 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
68 - Make server reconnect time a little bit more random, so that two
69 servers trying to connect to each other asynchronously don't try this
70 in exactly the same time periods and kick each other off ...
71 - Don't accept connections for servers already being linked: there was a
72 time frame that could result in one connection overwriting the other,
73 e. g. the incoming connection overwriting the status of the outgoing
74 one. And this could lead to all kind of weirdness (even crashes!) later
75 on: now such incoming connections are dropped.
76 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
77 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
78 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
79 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
80 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
81 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
82 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
83 - WHOIS: Not only show RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG to local IRC operators, but show
84 it to all IRC operators in the network. And don't show it to anybody if
85 the "more privacy" configuration option is enabled. (Closes #134)
86 - Test suite: make expect scripts more verbose displaying dots for each
87 reply of the server that it is waiting for.
88 - WHOIS: Implement numeric RPL_WHOISMODES_MSG (379) and show user modes in
89 the reply of the WHOIS command for the user himself or, if MorePrivacy
90 isn't set, for request initiated by an IRC operator. (Closes #129)
91 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
92 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
93 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
94 - KICK-protect IRC services.
95 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
96 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
97 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
98 - Debian: require "telnet" or "telnet-ssl" for building and enable
99 CHARCONV in ngircd-full[-dbg] variants.
100 - Send RPL_REHASHING (382) numeric if a REHASH command was accepted.
101 - Fix spelling and variable names in some log messages.
102 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
103 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
104 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
105 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
106 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
108 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
109 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
110 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
112 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
113 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
114 configuration file. (Closes #136)
115 - Enhance build system: Support new (>=1.12) and old (<=1.11) GNU automake
116 versions, update checks for required and optional features, enable
117 colored test output of automake (if available), rename configure.in to
118 more modern configure.ac, include .mailmap and all build-system files in
119 distribution archives and no longer require a GIT tree to detect the
120 correct version string.
121 - Update documentation: add doc/Contributing.txt and include version
122 numbers in doc/Modes.txt.
123 - Free all listen ports on initialization: now listen ports can be
124 reconfigured on runtime using a configuration reload.
125 - Initialize SSL when needed only, and disable SSL on errors.
126 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
127 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
128 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
129 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
130 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
131 - Allow limited punctuation in usernames, for better PAM integration.
132 - Correctly re-initialize signal handlers on RESTART commands.
133 - Show a warning on startup if the configuration file is not a full path:
134 ngIRCd is a long-running process and changes its working directory to
135 "/" to not block mounted filesystems and the like when running as daemon
136 ("not in the foreground"); therefore the path to the configuration file
137 must be relative to "/" (or the chroot() directory), which basically is
138 "not relative", to ensure that "kill -HUP" and the "REHASH" command work
139 as expected later on. (Closes #127)
140 - Make the "&SERVER" channel definable in a [Channel] configuration block,
141 which enables server operators to overwrite the built-in topic and
142 channel modes. (Closes #131)
143 - Don't limit list size of "WHO #channel" commands, because it makes no
144 sense to not return all the users in that channel, so I removed the
145 check. But if there are more than MAX_RPL_WHO(25) replies, the client
146 requesting the list will be "penalized" one second more, then 2 in
148 - Make ngIRCd buildable using the kqueue() IO interface on FreeBSD 4.x.
149 - Fix the "NoticeAuth" configuration option when using SSL connections and
150 enhance the message to show the hostname and IDENT reply of the client.
151 - Introduce numeric RPL_HOSTHIDDEN_MSG (396): This numeric is sent to the
152 client each time it changes its displayed hostname using "MODE +/-x",
153 and if "CloakHost" is set right after the MOTD has been sent.
154 - Fix USERHOST not displaying the correctly cloaked hostname.
155 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
156 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
157 behave, and so do we :-)
158 - Dynamically allocate memory for connection passwords: This a) saves
159 memory for clients not using passwords at all and b) allows for
160 "arbitrarily" long passwords.
161 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
162 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
163 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
164 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
165 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
166 - Now "make uninstall" removes the installed "ngircd.conf" file, if it is
167 still equal to our "sample-ngircd.conf" file and therefore hasn't been
168 modified by the user. If it has been modified, it isn't removed and a
169 notice is displayed to the user. And "make install" now displays a
170 message when no ngircd.conf file exists and the "sample-ngircd.conf"
171 file will be installed as a starting point.
172 - Add contrib/ngircd.service, a systemd service file for ngircd.
173 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
174 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
175 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
176 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
177 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
178 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
179 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
180 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
181 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
182 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
183 random salt will be generated after each server restart. (Closes #133)
185 ngIRCd Release 19.2 (2012-06-19)
187 - doc/Capabilities.txt: document "multi-prefix" capability
189 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
190 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
191 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
192 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
193 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
194 - Correctly handle asynchronously re-established server links: a race
195 condition could let the daemon loose track of an already re-established
196 incoming server link while preparing its own outgoing connection.
197 Peers that both try to connect each other could have been affected.
198 - Log a debug message when SIGUSR2 is handled in debug mode.
199 - Only allow alphanumeric characters in user-supplied user names of
200 USER command and IDENT replies.
201 - Change wording of "TLS initialized" message to make it more consistent.
202 - Don't leak file descriptors on error path when creating "PID files".
203 - Add missing mode "r" to CHANMODES in 005 "ISUPPORT" numeric.
204 - Update doc/Modes.txt and doc/Platforms.txt documents.
205 - contrib/platformtest.sh: correctly detect Open64 C compiler and handle
206 "CC=xxx MAKE=yyy ./platformtest.sh" calling convention.
207 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
208 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
209 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
210 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
211 - Update Xcode project files: reference missing documentation files.
212 - Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot.
213 - FAQ: enhance description of chroot setup.
215 ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
217 - Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL.
218 - Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note",
219 and fix lintian(1) warning ""hyphen-used-as-minus-sign", too.
220 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
221 distribution archive ... ooops!
222 - getpid.sh: Fix test case error for Debian using sbuild(1).
223 - Don't log "ngIRCd hello message" two times when starting up.
225 ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
227 - Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by
228 GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions.
229 - Fix configuration file parser: don't accept "[SSL]" blocks in the
230 configuration file when no SSL support is built in ngIRCd.
231 - Fix building ngIRCd with old gcc versions (e. g. 2.7.2).
232 - Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration
233 file: Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the
234 configuration, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored
235 the "SyslogFacility" configuration option ...
236 Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue!
238 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
239 - Enhance command limits for server links: the limit now is dependent
240 on the number of users connected in the network and higher while
241 servers are joining the network to make the login of servers faster.
242 - Log more information about server synchronization.
243 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
244 is the only supported version.
245 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
246 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
247 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
248 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
249 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
250 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
251 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
252 - PRIVMSG and NOTICE: Handle nick!user@host masks case-insensitive.
253 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
254 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
255 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
256 by completely unknown clients.
257 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
258 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
259 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
260 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
261 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
262 - Fix both ERR_SUMMONDISABLED(445) and ERR_USERSDISABLED(446) replies.
263 - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for
264 unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501).
265 - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES",
266 add "EXCEPTS=e" and "INVEX=I", add "MAXLIST=beI:50".
267 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
268 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
269 - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive.
270 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
271 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
272 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
273 - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments.
274 For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling
275 "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f".
276 - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of
277 the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an
278 assertion and end the daemon in some error paths.
279 - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child
280 processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases
281 with IDENT lookups enabled.
282 - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS,
283 don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is
284 case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the
285 unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client).
286 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
287 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
288 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
289 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
290 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
291 - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variable in the
292 configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user).
293 - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-)
294 - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single
295 channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel
296 limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check
297 the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when
298 trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of.
299 - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nicknames.
300 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
301 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
302 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
303 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
304 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
305 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
306 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
307 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
308 - Fixed some spelling errors in documentation and code comments
309 (Thanks to Christoph Biedl).
310 - contrib/Debian/control: Update and complete "Build-Depends" and
311 update our Debian package descriptions with "official" ones.
312 - Fixed typo in two error messages.
313 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
314 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
315 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
316 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
317 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
318 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
319 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
320 - README: Update list of implemented commands.
321 - Log better error messages when rejecting clients.
322 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
323 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
324 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
325 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
326 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
327 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
328 - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR
329 for Mac OS X Xcode builds.
330 - ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use
331 poll() when poll.h exists as well.
332 - Suppress 'Can't create pre-defined channel: invalid name: ""' message.
333 - whois-test: handle local host name = "localhost.localdomain" using the
334 pattern "localhost*" for valid local host names.
335 - sample-ngircd.conf: show correct default for "PAM" variable: The
336 default of "PAM" is "yes" when ngIRCd has been configured to use it,
337 so show the correct default value in the sample configuration file.
339 - Update GPL 2 license text to current version.
340 - Only close "unrelated" sockets in forked child processes: This fixes
341 the problem that ngIRCd can't do any IDENT lookups because of the
342 socket has already been closed in the child process.
343 The bug has been introduced starting with ngIRCd 17 ... :-(
344 (commit ID 6ebb31ab35e)
345 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
346 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
347 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
348 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
349 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
350 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
351 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
352 - New 2nd message "Nickname too long" for error code 432.
353 - Xcode: Mac OS X config.h: support 10.5 as well as 10.6/10.7 SDK.
354 - Xcode: exclude more Xcode 4 specific directories in ".gitignore".
355 - Disconnect directly linked servers sending QUIT. Without this,
356 the server becomes removed from the network and the client list,
357 but the connection isn't shut down at all ...
358 - contrib/ngindent: detect "gindent" as GNU indent.
359 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
360 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
361 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
362 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
363 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
364 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
365 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
366 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
367 - Correctly inform clients when other servers change their user modes.
368 This is required for some services to work correctly.
369 - Test suite: make getpid.sh work even when run as root.
370 - Spoofed prefixes: close connection on non-server links only.
371 On server-links, spoofed prefixes can happen because of the
372 asynchronous nature of the IRC protocol. So don't break server-
373 links, only log a message and ignore the command. (Closes #113)
375 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
377 - Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page.
378 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
379 - Don't register WHOWAS information when "MorePrivacy" option is in effect.
381 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
382 - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-)
383 - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section.
384 - ngircd.8: document debugging options.
385 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
386 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
387 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
388 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
390 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
391 - PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
392 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
393 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
394 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
395 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
396 servers from TOR or I2P.
397 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
398 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
399 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
400 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
401 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
402 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
403 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
404 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
405 - Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest".
406 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
407 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
408 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
409 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
410 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
411 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
412 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
413 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
414 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
415 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
416 - Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers.
417 - GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients
418 refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it
419 would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
421 - contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
422 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
423 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
424 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
425 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
426 - Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links
427 (often used by services, for example) are not affected.
428 - Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-)
429 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
430 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
431 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
432 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
433 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
434 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
435 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
436 - Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
437 like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
438 - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This
439 helps to speed up server login and network synchronization.
440 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
441 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
442 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
443 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
444 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
445 variable description.
446 - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
447 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
448 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
449 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
450 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
451 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
452 supplied by the IRC client.
453 - doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
454 - Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
455 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
456 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
457 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
458 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
459 - Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
460 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
461 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
462 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
463 - Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
464 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
465 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
466 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
467 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
468 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
469 - TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other
470 servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when
471 the client is not joined to this channel.
472 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
473 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
474 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
475 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
476 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
477 - Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
478 ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
479 - Don't throttle services and servers being registered.
480 - Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
481 - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is
482 only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
485 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
487 - --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase
488 - Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit
489 - Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly
490 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
491 - Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section
492 - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section
493 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
494 - README: Updated list of implemented commands
495 - add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball
496 - Merge branch 'numeric-329'
497 - add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball
498 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
499 - Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()
501 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
503 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
504 - Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf
505 - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa
506 - contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent
508 ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27)
509 - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updateed project file
510 to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it
511 is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default
512 PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd.
513 - Debian: updated standards version to 3.9.1, added libpam0g-dev to the
514 dependencies, and install a default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins.
515 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable.
516 - Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links.
518 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
519 - ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a.
520 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
521 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
522 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
523 - ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C.
524 - ./configure: check support for C prototypes again.
525 - Don't use PARAMS() macro for function implementations.
526 - Added m68k/apple/aux3.0.1 (gcc 2.7.2) to doc/Platforms.txt.
527 - Only try to set FD_CLOEXEC if this flag is defined.
528 - Only use "__attribute__ ((unused))" if GCC >=2.8 is used.
529 - doc/Makefile.am: don't set docdir, automake handles it already.
531 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
532 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
533 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
534 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
535 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
536 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
537 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
538 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
539 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
540 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
541 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
542 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
543 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
544 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
545 using the command line parameters.
546 - Signal handler: added new 'delayed' signal handlers, including fallback
547 to deprecated sysv API. And removed global NGIRCd_SignalRehash variable.
548 - IO: add io_cloexec() to set close-on-exec flag.
549 - ng_ipaddr.h: include required assert.h header.
550 - Conn_SyncServerStruct(): test all connections; and work case insensitive
551 - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output.
552 - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the
553 client lag debug-output is working again.
554 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
555 - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
556 - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
557 - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
558 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
559 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
560 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
561 - Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon.
562 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
563 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
564 - Added mailmap file for git-[short]log and git-blame.
565 - Authenticated users should be registered without the "~" mark.
566 - Set NoPAM=yes in configuration files used for the testsuite.
567 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
568 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
569 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
570 - Resolver: Implement signal handler and catch TERM signals.
571 - Don't set a penalty time when doing DNS lookups.
572 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
573 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
574 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
575 - ngircd.init: require "$network" and "$remote_fs" when stopping ngircd.
576 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
577 - Include correct header files when testing for arpa/inet.h (Closes: #105).
578 - Don't access already freed memory in IRC_KILL().
579 - Fix "beeing" typo ...
580 - SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message.
582 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
584 - doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker
586 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
587 - Updated some more copyright notices, it's 2010 already :-)
588 - Only compile in Get_Error() if really needed
589 - Fix gcc warning "ignoring return value of ..."
590 - Include netinet/in_systm.h alongside netinet/ip.h
591 - Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h
592 - Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists
593 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt
594 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
595 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
596 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
598 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
599 - Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups.
600 - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit.
601 - Updatet doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
602 how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA).
603 - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list).
604 - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define
605 - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric
606 - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output.
607 - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable.
608 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
609 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
610 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
611 - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts".
612 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
613 - Only link "nsl" library when really needed.
614 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
615 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
616 to join such a channel.
617 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
618 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
619 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
620 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
622 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
624 - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset.
626 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
627 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
628 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
629 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
630 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
631 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
632 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
634 - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0
635 for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file.
636 - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names.
637 - Fix LSB header of Debian init script.
638 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh
639 to ease generating platform reports.
640 - Fix connection information for already registered connections.
641 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
642 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
643 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
644 - Fix connection counter.
645 - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections.
646 - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.
648 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
650 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
651 - BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh.
652 - New start/stop script for RedHat-based distributions:
653 contrib/ngircd-redhat.init, thanks to Naoya Nakazawa <naoya@sanow.net>.
654 - Doxygen: update source code repository link to GIT.
655 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
656 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
657 - Fix error handling on compressed links.
658 - Fix server list announcement.
659 - Do not remove host names from info text.
661 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
663 - Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections.
665 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
666 - Updated Debian/Linux init script (see contrib/Debian/ngircd.init).
667 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
668 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
669 - Spell check and enhance ngIRCd manual pages.
670 - Channel mode changes: break on syntax errors in MODE command.
671 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
672 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
673 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
674 individual channel keys for different users.
675 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
676 - Updated ngircd.spec file for building RPM packages.
677 - Add new and missing files to Mac OS X Xcode project, and update project.
678 - Reject masks with wildcard after last dot.
679 - TLS/SSL: remove useless error message when ssl connection is closed.
680 - Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down.
681 (closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net)
682 - Fix handling of channels containing dots.
683 (closes ug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
685 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
687 - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
688 - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
690 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
691 - New version number scheme :-)
692 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
693 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
694 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
695 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
696 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
697 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
698 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
699 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
700 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
701 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
702 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
703 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
704 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
705 - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
706 - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
707 - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
708 - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
709 - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
710 - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two
711 servers are started for testing server-server linking.
712 - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
713 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
714 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
716 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
718 - Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode
719 - Don't allow stray \r or \n in command parameters
720 - --configtest: return non-zero exit code if there are errors
721 - Update ngIRCd manual pages
722 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
723 - Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error.
724 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
725 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
726 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
727 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
728 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
730 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
732 - Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns
733 proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran)
734 - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
735 - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number.
737 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
738 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
739 - Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now!
740 - Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT.
741 - Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition.
742 - Report ERR_NOTONCHANNEL when trying to part a channel one is not member of.
743 - Testsuite: remove erroneous ConfUID setting in config file.
745 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
746 - Include Mac OS X Xcode project in distribution archives.
747 - Do not exit on SIGHUP or /REHASH if the config file cannot opened.
749 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
750 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
751 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
752 - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+).
754 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
755 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
756 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
757 - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom)
758 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
759 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
760 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
761 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
763 ngIRCd 0.11.1 (2008-02-26)
765 - Fix sending of JOIN commands between servers when remote server appended
766 mode flags. (Rolf Eike Beer) [from HEAD]
767 - Send "G" instead of "H" flag in WHO replies. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
768 - Under some circumstances ngIRCd issued channel MODE message with a
769 trailing space. (Dana Dahlstrom) [from HEAD]
771 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
773 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07)
774 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
775 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
777 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
778 - Use dotted-decimal IP address if host name is >= 64.
779 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
780 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
781 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
782 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
783 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
784 - Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
785 enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
786 See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
787 - Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!?
788 - Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced
789 to the network as well as the wrong output of the LINKS command.
790 - Update Mac OS X Xcode project file for Xcode 3.
791 - Adjust test suite to be usable on HP/UX 11.11 :-)
792 - Fix code to compile using K&R C compiler and ansi2kr again.
793 - New config option NoDNS: Disables DNS lookups when clients connect.
794 - Fixed propagation of channel mode 'P' on server links.
795 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
796 - Fixed code that prevented GCC 2.95 to compile ngIRCd.
797 - Adjust path names in manual pages according to "./configure" settings.
798 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
799 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
800 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
801 - Don't connect to a server if a connection to another server within the
802 same group is already in progress.
803 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
806 ngIRCd 0.10.4 (2008-01-07)
808 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
809 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
811 ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01)
813 - SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could
814 cause the server to crash. Thanks to Sebastian Vesper, <net@veoson.net>.
817 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
819 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre2 (2007-05-19)
820 - Server links are allowed to use larger write buffers now (up to 50 KB).
822 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre1 (2007-05-05)
823 - Fix compressed server links (broken since 0.10.0).
824 - Predefined Channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
825 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l).
826 - When using epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
827 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
828 - New configure option "--without-select" to disable select() IO API
829 (even when using epoll(), see above).
830 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
831 - Reorganized internal handling of invite and ban lists.
833 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
835 - Fixed validation of server names containing digits.
836 - Update the "info text" of the local server after re-reading configuration.
837 - Changed Numerics 265 and 266 to follow ircd 2.11.x "standards".
838 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
839 - Enhanced ISUPPORT message (005 numeric).
840 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
841 join predefined channels.
842 - Code cleanups: use "LogDebug(...)" instead of "Log(LOG_DEBUG, ...)", use
843 "strcspn()", unsigned vs. signed, use "const", fix whitespaces, ...
845 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
847 - Fixed file handle leak when daemon is not able to send MOTD to a client.
849 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre2 (2006-09-09)
850 - Fixed build problems with GCC option -fstack-protector.
851 - Minor documentation updates.
853 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
854 - Validate "ServerName" (see RFC 2812, section 2.3.1).
855 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
856 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
857 - The ngIRCd handles time shifts backwards more gracefully now (the
858 timeout handling doesn't disconnect clients by mistake any more).
859 - Internal: Restructured connection handling (the connection ID is equal
860 to the file descriptor of the connection).
861 - Internal: Simplified resolver code.
862 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
863 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
864 - Enhanced the handler for PING and PONG commands: fix forwarding and enable
865 back-passing of a client supplied additional argument of PING.
866 - Changed handling of timeouts for unregistered connections: don't reset
867 the counter if data is received and disconnect clients earlier.
868 - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead.
869 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
870 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
871 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
872 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
873 lookup to prevent spoofing.
874 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
875 addition to the select() interface.
877 ngIRCd 0.9.2 (2005-10-15)
879 - Fixed a bug that could cause the daemon to crash when outgoing server
880 connections can't be established.
881 - Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to leak file descriptors when no
882 resolver subprocesses could be created.
883 - Fixed server NOTICEs to users with "s" mode ("server messages").
884 - Fixed a format string bug in "connection statistics" messages to clients.
886 ngIRCd 0.9.1 (2005-08-03)
888 - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!)
889 when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in
890 ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by <qssl@fastmail.fm>, Thanks!
891 - Changed some constants to be "signed" (instead of unsigned) to solve
892 problems with old (pre-ANSI) compilers.
894 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
896 ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09)
897 - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters.
898 - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead
899 of shutting down the (wrong) connection.
900 - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the
901 client is registered with the server (like the original ircd).
902 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
903 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
904 - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client
905 is member of multiple channels.
906 - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and
907 pray that this will be "the right thing" ...
908 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
909 - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug.
910 - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
911 - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
912 to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
913 - Removed typedefs for the native C datatypes.
914 Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available.
915 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
916 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
917 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
918 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
919 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
920 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
921 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
922 - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug
923 code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process.
924 - Don't create version information string each time a client connects
925 but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
926 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
927 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
928 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
929 - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
930 - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters.
931 - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc()
932 failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway.
933 Patch from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
934 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
935 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
936 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
937 - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and
938 most probably other older C compilers on other systems.
939 - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in
940 the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it
941 changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This
942 should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
945 ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03)
947 - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled
948 to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
949 <coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
950 (CVE-2005-0226; http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
952 ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
954 - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution.
955 - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found
956 by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. (CVE-2005-0199)
957 - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks
958 to Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
959 - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by
960 Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
961 - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has
962 been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/
963 It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself,
964 not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
966 ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25)
968 - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub
969 - Added some more debug code ...
970 - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest".
971 - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for
972 ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after
974 - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README!
976 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
978 - Fixed wrong buffer size calculation for results of the resolver.
980 ngircd 0.8.0-pre2 (2004-05-16)
981 - Enhanced logging to console when running in "no-detached mode": added
982 PID and log messages of resolver sub-processes.
983 - Fixed host name lookups when using IDENT user lookups.
984 - "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean" remove more files now.
986 ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07)
987 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
988 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
989 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
990 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
991 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
992 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
993 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
994 - Reorganized autogen.sh and configure scripts.
995 - Fixed a wrong assert() which could cause the daemon to exit spuriously
996 when closing down connections.
997 - Better logging of decompression errors returned by zlib.
998 - Servers other than the destination server didn't clean up the invite
999 list of an "invite-only" channel properly when an INVITE'd user joined.
1000 - Changed the reply of the MODE command to match the syntax of the
1001 original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last
1002 parameter has been added.
1003 - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info.
1004 - Results of the resolver (host names and IDENT names) are discarded after
1005 the client is successfully registered with the server.
1006 - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections.
1007 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
1008 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
1009 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
1010 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
1011 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
1013 ngIRCd 0.7.7 (2004-02-05)
1015 - The info text ("real name") of users is set to "-" if none has been
1016 specified using the USER command (e. g. "USER user * * :"). Reason:
1017 the original ircd doesn't like empty ones and would KILL such users.
1018 - Fixed (optional) TCP Wrapper test which was broken and could result in
1019 false results. Thanks to Fuminori Tanizaki <tany@mcnet.ad.jp>!
1020 - Removed "USE_" prefixes of configuration #defines.
1022 ngIRCd 0.7.6 (2003-12-05)
1024 - Fixed abort() ("server crash") when INVITE'ing users to nonexistent
1025 channels. Bug found by <hiddenx@wp.pl>.
1026 - Extended version numbering of CVS versions (added date).
1027 - Enhanced/fixed doc/Protocol.txt;
1029 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-11-07)
1031 - Fixed ban behavior: users which are banned from a channel can't no
1032 longer send PRIVMSG's to this channel (fixes Bug #47).
1033 - Fixed and enhanced the "penalty handling" of the server: commands that
1034 require more resources block the client for a short time.
1035 - Changed the internal time resolution to one second.
1036 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
1037 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
1038 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
1039 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
1040 - Fixed build problems under Mac OS X 10.3.
1041 - Use "-pipe" when compiling with gcc, speeds things up a little :-)
1042 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
1043 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
1044 - Suppress misleading error message of diff during make run.
1045 - Enhanced test-suite and made it work on GNU/Hurd.
1046 - Fixed minor typo in debug output :-)
1048 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
1050 - Included files to build Debian packages (located in "debian/").
1051 - Updated config.guess and config.sub to newer upstream versions.
1052 - NJOIN propagates user channel modes correctly again ... Upsa.
1053 - Made Makefile more compatible with "make -j<n>".
1054 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
1055 - Fixed a compiler warning related to an unnecessary assert().
1056 - Enhanced VERSION command when using debug versions.
1058 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
1060 - "ServerName" is checked better now: a dot (".") is required.
1061 - The KILL command verifies and logs more parameters.
1063 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre2 (2003-04-27)
1064 - CVS build system fixes (made autogen.sh more portable).
1065 - Fixed compilation and test-suite on Solaris (tested with 2.6).
1066 - New documentation file "doc/Platforms.txt" describing the status of
1067 ngIRCd on the various tested platforms.
1068 - Test for broken GCC on Mac OS X and disable "-pedantic" in this case.
1069 - Disable "-ansi" on Cygwin: system headers are incompatible.
1070 - The server tried to connect to other servers only once when DNS or
1071 socket failures occurred.
1072 - Fixed --configtest: There is no variable "ServerPwd", it's "Password".
1074 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 (2003-04-22)
1075 - New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside).
1076 - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled.
1077 - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the
1078 more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems
1079 that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included
1080 in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h).
1081 - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that
1082 can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken.
1083 - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-)
1084 - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and
1085 removing servers during runtime works more reliable now.
1086 - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]"
1087 - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]".
1088 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
1089 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
1090 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
1091 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
1092 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
1093 - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The
1094 german documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
1095 - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision.
1096 - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding.
1097 - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool".
1098 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
1099 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
1100 - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS)
1101 if an outgoing server link can't be established.
1102 - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility.
1103 - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly.
1104 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
1105 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
1106 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
1107 configure to enable it.
1108 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
1109 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
1110 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
1111 - Better error reporting to clients on connect.
1112 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
1113 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
1114 - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
1116 ngIRCd 0.6.1, 2003-01-21
1118 - Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more,
1119 ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you
1120 can kill only valid users now.
1121 - The server no longer forwards commands to ordinary users, instead it
1122 answers with the correct error message ("no such server") now.
1123 - WHOIS commands weren't always forwarded as requested.
1124 - The server sets a correct default AWAY message now when propagating
1125 between servers (bug introduced in 0.6.0).
1126 - Fixed up and enhanced CHANINFO command: channel keys and user limits
1127 are synchronized between servers now, too.
1128 - MODE returns the key and user limit for channel members correctly now.
1129 - Non-members of a channel could crash the server when trying to change
1130 its modes or modes of its members.
1131 - The server didn't validate weather a target user is a valid channel
1132 member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd.
1135 Older changes (sorry, only available in german language):
1137 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
1139 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 2002-12-23
1140 - neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect.
1141 - LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen
1142 Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start
1143 dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt.
1145 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 2002-12-18
1146 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
1147 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
1148 - der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den
1149 Resolver (4 Sekunden), wenn das Ergebnis eintrifft setzt er aber den
1150 Login sofort fort (bisher wurde immer mind. 1 Sekunde gewartet).
1151 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
1152 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
1153 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sektion "Global")
1154 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
1155 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
1156 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
1157 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
1158 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
1159 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
1160 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
1161 - Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst.
1162 - unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
1163 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
1164 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
1165 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
1166 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
1167 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
1168 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
1169 - Channel-Mode "P" ("persistent") kann nur noch von IRC-Operatoren gesetzt
1170 werden. Grund: User koennen den Server sonst leicht "Channel-Flooden".
1171 - MOTD kann nun an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1172 - IRC-Befehl "TIME" implementiert.
1173 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
1174 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
1175 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
1176 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
1177 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
1178 - Handling der Schreibpuffer umgestellt: Server sollte schneller arbeiten.
1179 - Prefix-Fehler werden besser protokolliert (mit verursachendem Befehl).
1180 - SQUIT wird nicht mehr doppelt an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1181 - Der Server versucht nun vor dem Schliessen einer Verbindung Daten, die
1182 noch im Schreibpuffer stehen, zu senden.
1183 - Source in weiteres Modul "irc-info" aufgespalten.
1184 - Konfigurationsvariablen werden besser validiert: Laengen, Zahlen, ...
1185 - neuen Befehl STATS begonnen: bisher unterstuetzt wird "l" und "m".
1186 - bei ISON und USERHOST fehlte im Ergebnis-String der korrekte Absender.
1187 - IRC Operatoren koennen nun mit KILL User toeten. Achtung: ein Grund muss
1188 zwingend als zweiter Parameter angegeben werden!
1189 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
1190 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
1191 - neuer, deutlich flexiblerer Parser fuer den MODE Befehl.
1192 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
1194 ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002
1196 - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
1197 unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden.
1198 - in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht
1199 nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe
1200 verwendet werden. Beim Start des Daemons wird nun beides angezeigt.
1201 - Besseres Logging von Prefix-Fehlern.
1202 - angenommene Sockets werden nun korrekt auf "non-blocking" konfiguriert,
1203 beim Senden und Empfangen werden Blockierungen besser abgefangen.
1204 - RPL_UMODEIS hat Code 221, nicht 211 ... *argl*
1205 - select() in Try_Write() hat falschen (keinen!) Timeout verwendet;
1206 die "Zeit-Aufloesung" des Servers sind zudem nun 2 Sekunden (TIME_RES).
1207 Insgesamt sollte die Reaktionszeit des Server nun besser sein.
1209 ngIRCd 0.5.3, 08.11.2002
1211 - NOTICE liefert nun wirklich nie mehr einen Fehler, auch dann nicht,
1212 wenn der sendende Client noch gar nicht registriert ist.
1213 - ein "schneller Server-Reconnect" wird nur noch dann versucht, wenn die
1214 Verbindung zuvor ordentlich (="lange genug") in Ordnung war; somit also
1215 nicht meht, wenn der Peer-Server gleich beim Connect ein ERROR liefert.
1216 Das vermeidet "Connect-Orgien".
1217 - einige Datentypen aufgeraumt: z.B. sind viele INT32s nun LONGs. Das ist
1218 auf Platformen mit 8-Byte-Integern kompatibler.
1219 - RPL_YOURHOST_MSG ist nun ircII- und RFC-kompatibel ;-)
1220 - Segfault unter hoher Netzaktivitaet behoben: in Conn_Close() wird die
1221 Connection-Struktur nun frueher als "ungueltig" markiert.
1223 ngIRCd 0.5.2, 04.10.2002
1225 - Buffer Overflow in Read_Resolver_Result() behoben.
1226 - Format-String-Bugs, die zum Abbruch des Servers fuehrten, behoben.
1227 - Maximale Laenge eines IRC-Prefix wurde falsch berechnet.
1229 ngIRCd 0.5.1, 03.10.2002
1231 - in RPL_YOURHOST_MSG wurde ein fehlerhafter Versionsstring geliefert.
1232 - Test-Suite: start-server.sh, stop-server.sh und stress-server.sh koennen
1233 nun "manuell" von der Kommandozeile gestartet werden, stress-server.sh
1234 startet per Default nur noch 5 Sessions, eine andere Zahl kann auf der
1235 Kommandozeile uebergeben werden (Syntax: "stress-server.sh <count>").
1236 - In bestimmten Faellen hat der Server versucht auf einen bereits wieder
1237 geschlossenen Socket Daten zu schreiben; das fuehrte zu einem Abbruch des
1238 Servers durch ein assert(). Nun wird geprueft, ob der Socket noch ok ist.
1239 - im "contrib"-Verzeichnis befindet sich nun eine RPM-Spec-Datei, aus den
1240 .tar.gz's koennen nun mit "rpm -ta <archiv>" RPM's erzeugt werden. Danke
1241 an Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>!
1242 - Syntax von RPL_MYINFO_MSG korrigiert: liefert nun vier Parameter.
1244 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
1246 - Dokumentation aktualisiert.
1247 - Fehler bei Validierung von "AdminInfo2" behoben.
1248 - Test der Flags fuer "ps" in der Testsuite verbessert, ist nun zu mehr
1249 Plattformen kompatibler.
1251 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre2, 17.09.2002
1252 - Fix in IRC_WriteStrServersPrefix() war "badly broken" -- behoben.
1254 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre1, 16.09.2002
1255 - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen.
1256 - Wird der Netzwerk-Sniffer aktiviert (--sniffer), so schaltet der
1257 ngIRCd nun automatisch in den Debug-Modus.
1258 - auf Systemen, die inet_aton() nicht kennen (wie z.B. A/UX), kann der
1259 ngIRCd nun dennoch auch aktiv Server-Links aufbauen.
1260 - h_errno wird auf Systemen, die das nicht kennen (wie z.B. HP-UX 10.20)
1261 nicht mehr verwendet. Somit compiliert der ngIRCd nun auch dort :-)
1262 - um auf dem Ziel-System nicht vorhandene Funktionen nachzubilden wird nun
1263 die "libngportab" erzeugt; genutzt wird dies bisher fuer vsnprintf().
1264 Nun compiliert der ngIRCd auch unter Solaris 2.5.1.
1265 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
1266 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
1267 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
1268 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. Zu Channel-Operatoren werden bisher
1269 nur IRC-Operatoren, die den Channel betreten. Die persistenten Channels
1270 werden durch das Flag "P" gelennzeichnet, welches normal durch Channel-
1271 Op's gesetzt und geloescht werden kann.
1272 - bei "--configtest" werden keine leere Abschnitte mehr ausgegeben.
1273 - Source in weitere Module aufgespalten: lists, irc-op und resolve.
1274 - #include's aufgeraeumt: Header includieren keine anderen mehr.
1275 - KICK implementiert (bisher kann nur ein User aus einem Channel geckicked
1276 werden, Listen, wir im RFC vorgesehen, werden bisher nicht unterstuetzt).
1277 - INVITE, den Channel-Mode "i" sowie Invite-Lists ueber den MODE-Befehl
1278 (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
1279 - Source an ansi2knr fuer pre-ANSI-Compiler angepasst; ansi2knr in Source-
1280 Tree aufgenommen und in Build-System integriert; der ngIRCd compiliert
1281 nun z.B. unter A/UX mit dem nativen Compiler von Apple.
1282 - TOPIC lieferte bei unbekanntem Channel einen falschen Fehlercode.
1283 - LIST versteht nun Wildcards und kann an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1284 - wurde ein KILL fuer nicht-lokale Clients empfangen, so wurden die
1285 Verwaltungs-Strukturen nicht korrekt freigegeben.
1286 - empfangene NJOIN's wurden "zerhackt" an andere Server weitergegeben.
1287 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
1288 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
1289 - Dokumentation des neuen IRC+-Protokolls begonnen: doc/Protocol.txt
1290 - Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt;
1291 bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet.
1292 Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben.
1293 - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
1294 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics.
1295 - neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das
1296 IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert).
1297 - Ban-Lists (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
1298 - wird der Server mit "-n"/"--nodaemon" gestartet, so werden keine Mel-
1299 dungen mehr ueber Syslog ausgegeben, sondern nur noch auf der Konsole.
1300 - "Test-Suite" begonnen (in "make check" integriert): Dabei wird ein
1301 speziell konfigurierter Server auf Port 6789 gestartet, mit dem dann
1302 einige Tests durchgefuehrt werden (u.a. "Stress-Test" mit 50 Clients).
1303 - zu lange Operator-Namen in der Konfiguration wurden falsch gekuerzt.
1304 - kleine Anpassung an AIX 3.2.5: nun laeuft der ngIRCd auch dort :-)
1305 - ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei
1306 im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und
1307 "AdminEMail" konfiguriert.
1309 ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002
1311 - Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel
1312 ueberhaupt ein User ist. War es keiner, so fuehrte dies zu einem
1313 Abbruch des Servers [es wurde assert() aufgerufen].
1315 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
1317 - LUSERS verzaehlt sich bei eigenen Server-Links nicht mehr.
1318 - QUIT wird nun auch von noch nicht registrierten Clients akzeptiert.
1319 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
1320 Wildcards (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
1322 ngIRCd 0.4.1, 08.04.2002
1324 - Bei Server-Links wird nicht mehr an Hand der Anzahl der Parameter
1325 eines empfangenen SERVER-Befehls, sondern "intern" erkannt, ob es
1326 sich um eine ein- oder ausgehende Verbindung handelt und somit das
1327 eigene PASS-SERVER-Paar gesendet werden muss oder nicht. Da sich
1328 verschiedene Versionen des Original-ircd's anders verhalten, schlug
1329 die Anmeldung je nach Gehenseite evtl. fehl.
1330 - Bei einem NICK-Befehl eines lokalen Client konnte der Server ab-
1331 stuerzen, da ein Format-String einer Log-Meldung fehlerhaft war.
1333 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
1335 - IRC-Befehle nochmal auf weitere Source-Dateien aufgespalten.
1336 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
1337 - Der AWAY-Mode wurde nicht ueber mehrere Server-Links weitergegeben.
1338 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err).
1339 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
1340 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
1341 zusaetzliche Informationen.
1342 - In Nicknames wird das Zeichen "-" nun als zulaessig erkannt.
1343 - die Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei (doc/sample-ngircd.conf) wird als
1344 ngircd.conf installiert, wenn noch keine "echte" Konfigurationsdatei
1346 - bei WHO, WHOIS und NAMES wird nun nur noch der Status "Operator" oder
1347 "voiced" geliefert -- nicht mehr beides.
1348 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
1349 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
1350 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert (Variable "Group" in der Kon-
1351 figurationsdatei, Sektion [Server]).
1352 - IRC_PING() ist, wenn nicht im "strict RFC"-Mode, toleranter und ak-
1353 zeptiert beliebig viele Parameter (z.B. BitchX sendet soetwas).
1354 - die "Portab-Header" werden nicht mehr benoetigt, die System-Erkennung
1355 wird nun ausschliesslich vom configure-Script durchgefuehrt. System-
1356 abhaengige Definitionen finden sich nun unter src/portrab/.
1357 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
1358 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
1359 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
1360 gelesen und dann die verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
1361 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
1362 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
1363 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
1364 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
1365 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
1366 - URL der Homepage wird u.a. bei "--version" mit angezeigt.
1368 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
1370 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
1371 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
1372 - FAQ um Hinweise auf den Bugtracker erweitert.
1373 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
1374 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
1375 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
1376 - direkt nach dem Start schreibt der ngIRCd nun die aktiven Kommando-
1377 zeilenschalter in's Logfile (Passive, Debug, Sniffer ...).
1378 - das Signal-Flag SA_RESTART wird nur noch gesetzt, wenn es auf dem
1379 jeweiligen System auch definiert ist.
1380 - bei ausgehenden Verbindungen wird nun der Ziel-Port protokolliert.
1381 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert.
1382 - make-Target "check" (und "distcheck") mit Sinn erfuellt :-)
1383 (die Tests sind aber bisher nicht all zu tiefgehend ...)
1384 - Durch einen Ueberlauf konnte die Idle-Time bei WHOIS negativ werden ...
1385 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
1386 - WHOIS wird nicht mehr automatisch an den "Original-Server" weiterge-
1387 leitet: war eh nicht RFC-konform und machte mit Clients Probleme.
1388 - an User wird nun immer ein "komplettes" Prefix (mit Host-Mask) ver-
1389 schickt, Server bekommen nach wie vor kurze: das "Original" hat bei
1390 bestimmten Befehlen (PRIVMSG) ansonsten evtl. Probleme ...
1391 - NAMES korrigiert und vollstaendig implementiert.
1392 - SQUIT wird auf jeden Fall geforwarded, zudem besseres Logging.
1393 - Ist ein Nick bei der User-Registrierung bereits belegt, nimmt der
1394 Server nun korrekt weitere NICK-Befehle an und verwendet diese.
1395 - PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m".
1396 - AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst.
1397 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
1398 - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asynchron connectiert und
1399 blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht
1400 erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!).
1401 - Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet.
1402 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
1404 ngIRCd 0.2.1, 17.02.2002
1406 - NICK korrigiert: es werden nun auch alle "betroffenen" User informiert.
1407 - configure-Script erweitert, u.a. bessere Anpassung an BeOS: dort wird
1408 nun die "libbe" zum ngIRCd gelinkt, somit funktioniert auch syslog.
1409 - Fehlerhafte bzw. noch nicht verstandene Modes werden nun ausfuehrlicher
1410 an den Client geliefert.
1412 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
1414 - Nicknames und Channel-Namen werden etwas besser auf Gueltigkeit ueber-
1415 prueft; ist aber nach wie vor noch nicht ausreichend.
1416 - NJOINS von Servern wurden nicht an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1417 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
1418 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
1419 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
1420 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
1421 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
1422 - Benutzer von connectierenden Servern wurden nicht in den Channels ange-
1423 kuendigt, es wurden nur die internen Strukturen angepasst.
1424 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
1426 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
1428 - User-Modes bei User-Registrierungen von andere Servern (NICK-Befehl)
1429 wurden falsch uebernommen. Zudem wurden die Modes falsch gekuerzt.
1430 - Server-Verbindungen werden nun nach dem Start erst nach einer kurzen
1431 Pause aufgebaut (zur Zeit drei Sekunden).
1432 - Hilfetext korrigiert: --help und --version waren vertauscht, die
1433 Option --sniffer wurde gar nicht erwaehnt.
1434 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
1435 - der IRC-Sniffer wird nur noch aktiviert, wenn die Option auf der
1436 Kommandozeile angegeben wurde (bei entsprechend compiliertem Server).
1437 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
1438 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
1439 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
1440 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
1441 - durch die Channels einige Aenderungen an PRIVMSG, WHOIS, MODE etc.
1442 - neu connectierenden Servern werden nun Channels mit NJOIN angekuendigt.
1443 - Signal-Hander geaendert: die Fehlermeldung "interrupted system call"
1444 sollte so nicht mehr auftreten.
1445 - "spaeter" neu connectierende Server werden nun im Netz angekuendigt.
1446 - SERVER-Meldungen an andere Server sind nun korrekt sortiert.
1447 - Clients werden nun korrekt sowohl nur ueber den Nickname als auch die
1448 komplette "Host Mask" erkannt.
1450 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
1452 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
1453 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
1454 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
1455 - MODE und NICK melden nun die Aenderungen an andere Server, ebenso
1456 die Befehle QUIT und SQUIT.
1457 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
1458 - Parses handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
1459 - Status-Codes an den Server selber werden ignorier.
1460 - Log-Meldungen und Log-Level ueberarbeitet und korrigiert.
1461 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
1462 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
1463 - WHOIS korrigiert: Anfrage wurde u.U. an User geforwarded anstatt vom
1464 Server beantwortet zu werden.
1465 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS
1466 - Client-Modes von Remote-Servern wurden nicht korrekt uerbernommen.
1468 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
1470 - Struktur der Konfigurationsdatei geaendert: sie ist nun "Samba like",
1471 d.h. sie besteht aus Abschnitten (siehe "doc/sample-ngircd.conf").
1472 - Es koennen mehrere IRC-Server-Opertatoren konfiguriert werden.
1473 - Zombies der Resolver-Prozesse werden nun ordentlich "getoetet".
1474 - NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern.
1475 - ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar.
1476 - neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT.
1477 - Asynchroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
1478 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
1479 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige
1480 Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert
1481 aber bereits, ebenso wie WHOIS (letzterer wird immer an den Server,
1482 auf dem der User registriert ist, weitergegeben).
1483 - "arpa/inet.h" wird nur noch includiert, wenn vorhanden.
1484 - Fehler bei select() fuerhen nun zum Abbruch von ngIRCd, bisher landete
1485 der Server zumeist in einer Endlosschleife.
1486 - Logmeldungen und Level an vielen Stellen verbessert.
1487 - lokalen Usernamen wird nun ein "~" vorangestellt, da bisher noch keine
1488 Ident-Anfragen gemacht werden.
1490 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
1492 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)