2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
13 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
14 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
15 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
16 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
17 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
18 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
19 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
20 by completely unknown clients.
21 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
22 indicates if a nick name is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
23 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
24 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
25 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
26 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
27 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
28 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
29 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
30 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
31 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
32 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
33 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
34 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
35 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
36 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
37 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
38 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
39 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
40 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
41 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
42 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
43 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
44 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
45 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
46 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
47 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
48 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
49 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
50 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
51 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
52 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
53 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
54 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nick name of this user
55 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
56 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
57 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
58 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
59 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
60 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
61 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
62 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
63 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
64 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
65 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nick name"
66 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
67 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
69 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
71 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
73 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
74 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
75 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
76 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
77 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
79 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
80 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
81 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
82 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
83 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
84 servers from TOR or I2P.
85 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
86 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
87 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
88 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
89 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
90 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
91 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
92 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
93 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
94 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
95 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
96 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
97 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
98 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
99 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
100 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
101 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
102 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
103 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
104 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
105 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
106 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
107 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
108 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
109 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
110 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
111 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
112 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
113 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
114 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
115 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
116 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
117 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
118 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
119 variable description.
120 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
121 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this hostname is used for
122 every client instead of the real DNS hostname (or IP address).
123 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
124 every clients' user name to their nick name and hides the user name
125 supplied by the IRC client.
126 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
127 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
128 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
129 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
130 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
131 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
132 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
133 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
134 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
135 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
136 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
137 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
138 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
139 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
140 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
141 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
142 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
144 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
146 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
147 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
148 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
150 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
152 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
154 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
155 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
156 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
157 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
159 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
160 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
161 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
162 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
163 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
164 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
165 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
166 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
167 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
168 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
169 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
170 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
171 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
172 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
173 using the command line parameters.
174 - Implement user mode "x": hostname cloaking (closes: #102).
175 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
176 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
177 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
178 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
179 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
180 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
181 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
182 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
183 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
184 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
185 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
186 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
188 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
190 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
191 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
192 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
193 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
195 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
196 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
197 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
198 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
199 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
200 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
201 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
202 to join such a channel.
203 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
204 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
205 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
206 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
208 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
210 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
211 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
212 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
213 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
214 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
215 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
216 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
218 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
219 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
220 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
222 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
224 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
225 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
226 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
228 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
230 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
231 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
232 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
233 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
234 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
235 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
236 individual channel keys for different users.
237 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
239 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
241 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
242 - New version number scheme :-)
243 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
244 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
245 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
246 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
247 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
248 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
249 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
250 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
251 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
252 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
253 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
254 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
255 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
256 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
257 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
259 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
261 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
262 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
263 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
264 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
265 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
266 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
268 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
270 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
271 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
273 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
275 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
276 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
277 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
278 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
279 nickname/servername/hostname, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
280 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
281 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
282 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
283 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
284 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
286 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
288 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
289 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
290 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
291 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
292 length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
293 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
294 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
295 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
296 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
297 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
300 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
302 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
303 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
304 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
305 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
306 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
308 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
310 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
311 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
312 join predefined channels.
314 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
316 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
317 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
318 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
319 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
320 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
321 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
322 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
323 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
324 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
325 lookup to prevent spoofing.
326 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
327 addition to the select() interface.
329 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
331 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
332 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
333 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
334 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
335 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
336 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
337 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
338 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
339 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
340 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
341 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
342 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
343 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
344 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
345 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
346 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
348 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
350 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
351 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
352 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
353 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
354 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
355 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
356 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
357 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
358 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
359 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
360 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
361 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
363 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
365 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
366 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
367 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
368 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
369 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
370 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
372 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
374 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
376 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
378 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
379 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
380 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
381 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
382 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
383 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
384 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
385 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
386 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
387 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
388 configure to enable it.
389 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
390 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
391 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
392 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
393 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
396 Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
398 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
400 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
401 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
402 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
403 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
404 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
405 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
406 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
407 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
408 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
409 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
410 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
411 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
412 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
413 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
414 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
415 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
416 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
417 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
418 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
419 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
420 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
421 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
422 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
423 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
424 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
425 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
427 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
429 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
430 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
431 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
432 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
433 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
434 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
435 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
436 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
437 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
438 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
439 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
440 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
441 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
442 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
443 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
444 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
445 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
447 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
449 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
450 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
452 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
454 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
455 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
456 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
457 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
458 zusaetzliche Informationen.
459 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
460 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
461 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
462 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
463 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
464 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
465 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
466 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
467 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
468 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
469 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
470 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
472 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
474 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
475 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
476 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
477 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
478 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
479 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
480 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
481 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
482 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
483 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
485 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
487 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
488 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
489 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
490 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
491 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
492 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
494 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
496 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
497 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
498 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
499 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
500 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
501 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
503 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
505 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
506 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
507 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
508 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
509 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
510 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
511 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
512 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
514 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
516 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
517 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
518 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
519 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
521 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
523 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)