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 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
14 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
15 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
16 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
17 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
18 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
19 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
20 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
21 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
22 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
23 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
24 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
25 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
26 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
27 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
28 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
29 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
30 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
31 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
32 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
33 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
34 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
35 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
36 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
37 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
38 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
39 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
40 - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2.
41 - Only close "unrelated" sockets in forked child processes: This fixes
42 the problem that ngIRCd can't do any IDENT lookups because of the
43 socket has already been closed in the child process.
44 The bug has been introduced starting with ngIRCd 17 ... :-(
45 (commit ID 6ebb31ab35e)
46 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
47 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nick name of this user
48 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
49 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
50 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
51 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
52 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
53 - Disconnect directly linked servers sending QUIT. Without this,
54 the server becomes removed from the network and the client list,
55 but the connection isn't shut down at all ...
56 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
57 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
58 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
59 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
60 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
61 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nick name"
62 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
63 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
65 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
67 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
69 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
70 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
71 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
72 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
73 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
75 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
76 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
77 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
78 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
79 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
80 servers from TOR or I2P.
81 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
82 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
83 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
84 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
85 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
86 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
87 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
88 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
89 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
90 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
91 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
92 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
93 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
94 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
95 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
96 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
97 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
98 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
99 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
100 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
101 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
102 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
103 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
104 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
105 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
106 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
107 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
108 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
109 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
110 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
111 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
112 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
113 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
114 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
115 variable description.
116 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
117 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this hostname is used for
118 every client instead of the real DNS hostname (or IP address).
119 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
120 every clients' user name to their nick name and hides the user name
121 supplied by the IRC client.
122 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
123 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
124 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
125 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
126 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
127 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
128 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
129 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
130 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
131 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
132 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
133 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
134 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
135 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
136 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
137 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
138 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
140 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
142 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
143 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
144 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
146 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
148 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
150 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
151 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
152 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
153 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
155 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
156 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
157 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
158 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
159 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
160 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
161 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
162 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
163 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
164 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
165 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
166 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
167 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
168 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
169 using the command line parameters.
170 - Implement user mode "x": hostname cloaking (closes: #102).
171 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
172 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
173 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
174 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
175 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
176 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
177 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
178 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
179 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
180 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
181 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
182 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
184 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
186 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
187 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
188 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
189 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
191 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
192 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
193 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
194 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
195 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
196 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
197 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
198 to join such a channel.
199 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
200 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
201 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
202 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
204 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
206 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
207 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
208 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
209 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
210 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
211 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
212 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
214 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
215 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
216 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
218 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
220 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
221 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
222 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
224 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
226 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
227 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
228 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
229 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
230 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
231 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
232 individual channel keys for different users.
233 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
235 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
237 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
238 - New version number scheme :-)
239 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
240 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
241 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
242 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
243 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
244 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
245 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
246 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
247 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
248 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
249 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
250 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
251 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
252 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
253 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
255 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
257 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
258 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
259 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
260 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
261 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
262 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
264 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
266 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
267 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
269 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
271 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
272 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
273 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
274 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
275 nickname/servername/hostname, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
276 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
277 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
278 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
279 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
280 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
282 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
284 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
285 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
286 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
287 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
288 length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
289 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
290 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
291 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
292 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
293 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
296 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
298 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
299 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
300 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
301 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
302 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
304 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
306 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
307 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
308 join predefined channels.
310 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
312 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
313 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
314 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
315 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
316 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
317 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
318 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
319 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
320 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
321 lookup to prevent spoofing.
322 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
323 addition to the select() interface.
325 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
327 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
328 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
329 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
330 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
331 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
332 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
333 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
334 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
335 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
336 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
337 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
338 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
339 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
340 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
341 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
342 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
344 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
346 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
347 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
348 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
349 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
350 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
351 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
352 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
353 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
354 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
355 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
356 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
357 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
359 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
361 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
362 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
363 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
364 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
365 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
366 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
368 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
370 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
372 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
374 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
375 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
376 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
377 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
378 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
379 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
380 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
381 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
382 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
383 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
384 configure to enable it.
385 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
386 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
387 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
388 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
389 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
392 Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
394 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
396 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
397 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
398 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
399 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
400 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
401 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
402 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
403 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
404 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
405 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
406 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
407 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
408 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
409 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
410 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
411 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
412 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
413 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
414 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
415 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
416 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
417 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
418 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
419 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
420 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
421 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
423 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
425 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
426 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
427 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
428 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
429 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
430 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
431 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
432 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
433 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
434 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
435 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
436 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
437 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
438 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
439 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
440 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
441 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
443 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
445 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
446 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
448 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
450 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
451 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
452 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
453 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
454 zusaetzliche Informationen.
455 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
456 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
457 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
458 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
459 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
460 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
461 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
462 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
463 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
464 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
465 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
466 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
468 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
470 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
471 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
472 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
473 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
474 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
475 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
476 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
477 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
478 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
479 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
481 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
483 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
484 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
485 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
486 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
487 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
488 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
490 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
492 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
493 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
494 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
495 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
496 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
497 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
499 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
501 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
502 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
503 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
504 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
505 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
506 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
507 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
508 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
510 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
512 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
513 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
514 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
515 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
517 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
519 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)
523 $Id: NEWS,v 1.88 2008/02/26 22:05:42 fw Exp $