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 20.2 (2013-02-15)
14 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
15 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
16 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to to crash the daemon.
18 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
20 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
22 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
24 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
25 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
26 external (PAM) authenticaion mechanisms that require longer user names.
27 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
28 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
30 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
31 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
32 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
33 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
34 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
35 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
36 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
38 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
39 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
40 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
41 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
42 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
43 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
44 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
45 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
46 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
47 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
48 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
49 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
50 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
51 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
52 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
53 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
54 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
55 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
56 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
57 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
58 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
59 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
60 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
61 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
62 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
63 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
64 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
65 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
66 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
67 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
68 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
69 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
70 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
71 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
72 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
73 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
75 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
76 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
77 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
79 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
80 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
81 configuration file. (Closes #136)
82 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
83 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
84 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
85 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
86 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
87 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
88 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
89 behave, and so do we :-)
90 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
91 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
92 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
93 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
94 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
95 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
96 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
97 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
98 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
99 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
100 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
101 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
102 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
103 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
104 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
105 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
107 ngIRCd Release 19.2 (2012-06-19)
109 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
110 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
111 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
112 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
113 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
114 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
115 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
116 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
117 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
119 ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
121 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
122 distribution archive ... ooops!
124 ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
126 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
127 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
128 is the only supported version.
129 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
130 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
131 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
132 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
133 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
134 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
135 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
136 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
137 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
138 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
139 by completely unknown clients.
140 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
141 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
142 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
143 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
144 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
145 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
146 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
147 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
148 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
149 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
150 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
151 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
152 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
153 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
154 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
155 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
156 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
157 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
158 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
159 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
160 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
161 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
162 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
163 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
164 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
165 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
166 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
167 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
168 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
169 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
170 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
171 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
172 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
173 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
174 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
175 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
176 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
177 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
178 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
179 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
180 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
181 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
182 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
183 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
184 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
185 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
186 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
187 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
188 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
189 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
190 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
192 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
194 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
196 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
197 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
198 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
199 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
200 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
202 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
203 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
204 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
205 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
206 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
207 servers from TOR or I2P.
208 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
209 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
210 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
211 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
212 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
213 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
214 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
215 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
216 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
217 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
218 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
219 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
220 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
221 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
222 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
223 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
224 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
225 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
226 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
227 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
228 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
229 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
230 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
231 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
232 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
233 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
234 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
235 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
236 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
237 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
238 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
239 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
240 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
241 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
242 variable description.
243 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
244 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
245 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
246 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
247 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
248 supplied by the IRC client.
249 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
250 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
251 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
252 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
253 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
254 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
255 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
256 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
257 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
258 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
259 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
260 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
261 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
262 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
263 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
264 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
265 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
267 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
269 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
270 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
271 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
273 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
275 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
277 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
278 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
279 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
280 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
282 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
283 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
284 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
285 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
286 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
287 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
288 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
289 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
290 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
291 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
292 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
293 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
294 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
295 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
296 using the command line parameters.
297 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
298 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
299 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
300 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
301 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
302 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
303 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
304 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
305 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
306 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
307 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
308 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
309 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
311 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
313 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
314 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
315 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
316 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
318 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
319 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
320 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
321 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
322 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
323 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
324 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
325 to join such a channel.
326 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
327 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
328 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
329 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
331 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
333 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
334 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
335 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
336 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
337 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
338 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
339 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
341 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
342 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
343 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
345 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
347 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
348 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
349 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
351 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
353 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
354 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
355 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
356 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
357 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
358 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
359 individual channel keys for different users.
360 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
362 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
364 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
365 - New version number scheme :-)
366 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
367 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
368 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
369 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
370 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
371 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
372 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
373 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
374 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
375 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
376 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
377 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
378 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
379 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
380 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
382 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
384 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
385 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
386 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
387 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
388 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
389 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
391 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
393 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
394 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
396 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
398 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
399 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
400 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
401 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
402 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
403 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
404 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
405 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
406 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
407 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
409 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
411 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
412 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
413 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
414 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
415 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
416 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
417 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
418 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
419 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
420 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
423 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
425 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
426 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
427 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
428 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
429 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
431 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
433 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
434 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
435 join predefined channels.
437 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
439 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
440 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
441 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
442 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
443 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
444 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
445 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
446 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
447 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
448 lookup to prevent spoofing.
449 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
450 addition to the select() interface.
452 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
454 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
455 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
456 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
457 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
458 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
459 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
460 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
461 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
462 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
463 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
464 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
465 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
466 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
467 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
468 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
469 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
471 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
473 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
474 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
475 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
476 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
477 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
478 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
479 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
480 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
481 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
482 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
483 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
484 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
486 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
488 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
489 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
490 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
491 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
492 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
493 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
495 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
497 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
499 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
501 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
502 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
503 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
504 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
505 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
506 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
507 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
508 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
509 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
510 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
511 configure to enable it.
512 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
513 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
514 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
515 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
516 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
519 Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
521 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
523 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
524 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
525 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
526 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
527 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
528 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
529 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
530 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
531 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
532 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
533 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
534 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
535 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
536 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
537 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
538 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
539 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
540 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
541 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
542 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
543 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
544 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
545 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
546 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
547 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
548 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
550 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
552 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
553 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
554 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
555 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
556 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
557 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
558 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
559 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
560 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
561 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
562 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
563 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
564 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
565 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
566 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
567 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
568 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
570 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
572 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
573 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
575 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
577 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
578 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
579 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
580 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
581 zusaetzliche Informationen.
582 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
583 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
584 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
585 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
586 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
587 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
588 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
589 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
590 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
591 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
592 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
593 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
595 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
597 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
598 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
599 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
600 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
601 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
602 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
603 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
604 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
605 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
606 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
608 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
610 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
611 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
612 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
613 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
614 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
615 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
617 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
619 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
620 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
621 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
622 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
623 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
624 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
626 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
628 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
629 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
630 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
631 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
632 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
633 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
634 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
635 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
637 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
639 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
640 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
641 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
642 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
644 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
646 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)