2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2015 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
14 - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts.
15 Idee and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203.
16 - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients
17 expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly.
18 Idee and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
19 - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
20 in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't
21 hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect.
23 - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set.
24 Idee and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202.
25 - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents
26 ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see
28 Idee and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197.
29 - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure
30 that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users
31 to local ("&") channels.
32 Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183.
33 - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when
34 receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation
35 time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports
36 the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined
37 to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this.
38 This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
40 ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
42 - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch,
43 and testing by Christoph Biedl <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
44 - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating
45 systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example
46 "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to
47 "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve
48 "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using
49 DNS at all makes the test site much more portable.
51 ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
53 - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
54 ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
55 Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
57 ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
58 - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
59 lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
60 nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
61 Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
62 - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
63 - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
64 that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
65 this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
66 if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
67 - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
68 - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
69 settable by IRC Operators.
70 - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
71 "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
72 settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
73 careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
74 User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
75 - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
76 - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
77 - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
78 Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
79 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
80 on "VPATH builds", for example.
81 - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
82 and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
83 - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
84 using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
85 names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
86 is quite unexpected for users.
87 - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
88 allow using separate source and build trees.
89 - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
90 - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
92 - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
93 and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
94 useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
95 been linked at all ...).
96 - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
97 (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
98 daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
99 which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
100 - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
101 - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
102 Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
103 return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
104 DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
105 - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
108 ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
110 - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
111 disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
112 - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
113 - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
114 - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
115 linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
116 been implemented already).
117 - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
119 ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
121 - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
122 is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
123 initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
125 ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
126 - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
127 support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
129 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
130 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
131 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
132 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
133 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
134 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
135 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
136 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
137 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
138 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
139 the IRC "TRACE" command.
140 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
141 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
142 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
143 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
144 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
145 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
146 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
147 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
149 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
150 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
151 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
152 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
153 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
154 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
155 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
156 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
157 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
158 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
159 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
160 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
161 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
162 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
163 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
164 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
165 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
166 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
167 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
168 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
169 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
170 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
171 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
172 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
173 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
174 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
175 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
176 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
177 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
178 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
179 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
180 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
181 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
182 The default is 0, "never".
183 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
184 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
185 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
186 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
187 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
188 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
189 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
190 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
191 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
192 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
193 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
194 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
195 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
196 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
197 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
198 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
199 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
200 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
201 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
203 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
205 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
206 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
207 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
208 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
209 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
211 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
213 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
214 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
215 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to to crash the daemon
218 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
220 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
222 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
224 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
225 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
226 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
227 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
228 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
230 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
231 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
232 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
233 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
234 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
235 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
236 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
238 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
239 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
240 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
241 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
242 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
243 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
244 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
245 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
246 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
247 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
248 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
249 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
250 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
251 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
252 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
253 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
254 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
255 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
256 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
257 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
258 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
259 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
260 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
261 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
262 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
263 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
264 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
265 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
266 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
267 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
268 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
269 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
270 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
271 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
272 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
273 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
275 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
276 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
277 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
279 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
280 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
281 configuration file. (Closes #136)
282 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
283 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
284 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
285 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
286 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
287 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
288 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
289 behave, and so do we :-)
290 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
291 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
292 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
293 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
294 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
295 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
296 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
297 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
298 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
299 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
300 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
301 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
302 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
303 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
304 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
305 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
307 ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
309 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
310 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
311 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
312 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
313 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
314 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
315 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
316 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
317 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
319 ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
321 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
322 distribution archive ... ooops!
324 ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
326 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
327 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
328 is the only supported version.
329 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
330 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
331 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
332 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
333 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
334 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
335 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
336 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
337 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
338 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
339 by completely unknown clients.
340 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
341 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
342 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
343 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
344 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
345 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
346 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
347 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
348 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
349 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
350 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
351 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
352 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
353 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
354 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
355 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
356 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
357 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
358 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
359 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
360 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
361 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
362 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
363 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
364 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
365 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
366 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
367 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
368 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
369 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
370 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
371 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
372 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
373 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
374 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
375 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
376 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
377 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
378 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
379 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
380 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
381 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
382 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
383 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
384 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
385 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
386 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
387 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
388 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
389 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
390 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
392 ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
394 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
396 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
397 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
398 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
399 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
400 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
402 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
403 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
404 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
405 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
406 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
407 servers from TOR or I2P.
408 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
409 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
410 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
411 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
412 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
413 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
414 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
415 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
416 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
417 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
418 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
419 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
420 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
421 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
422 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
423 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
424 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
425 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
426 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
427 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
428 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
429 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
430 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
431 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
432 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
433 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
434 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
435 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
436 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
437 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
438 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
439 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
440 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
441 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
442 variable description.
443 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
444 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
445 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
446 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
447 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
448 supplied by the IRC client.
449 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
450 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
451 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
452 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
453 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
454 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
455 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
456 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
457 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
458 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
459 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
460 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
461 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
462 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
463 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
464 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
465 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
467 ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
469 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
470 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
471 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
473 ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
475 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
477 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
478 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
479 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
480 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
482 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
483 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
484 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
485 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
486 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
487 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
488 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
489 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
490 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
491 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
492 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
493 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
494 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
495 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
496 using the command line parameters.
497 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
498 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
499 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
500 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
501 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
502 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
503 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
504 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
505 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
506 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
507 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
508 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
509 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
511 ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
513 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
514 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
515 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
516 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
518 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
519 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
520 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
521 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
522 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
523 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
524 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
525 to join such a channel.
526 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
527 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
528 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
529 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
531 ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
533 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
534 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
535 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
536 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
537 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
538 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
539 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
541 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
542 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
543 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
545 ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
547 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
548 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
549 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
551 ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
553 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
554 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
555 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
556 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
557 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
558 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
559 individual channel keys for different users.
560 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
562 ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
564 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
565 - New version number scheme :-)
566 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
567 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
568 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
569 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
570 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
571 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
572 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
573 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
574 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
575 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
576 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
577 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
578 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
579 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
580 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
582 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
584 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
585 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
586 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
587 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
588 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
589 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
591 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
593 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
594 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
596 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
598 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
599 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
600 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
601 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
602 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
603 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
604 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
605 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
606 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
607 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
609 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
611 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
612 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
613 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
614 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
615 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
616 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
617 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
618 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
619 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
620 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
623 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
625 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
626 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
627 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
628 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
629 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
631 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
633 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
634 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
635 join predefined channels.
637 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
639 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
640 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
641 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
642 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
643 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
644 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
645 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
646 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
647 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
648 lookup to prevent spoofing.
649 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
650 addition to the select() interface.
652 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
654 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
655 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
656 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
657 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
658 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
659 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
660 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
661 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
662 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
663 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
664 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
665 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
666 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
667 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
668 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
669 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
671 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
673 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
674 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
675 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
676 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
677 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
678 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
679 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
680 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
681 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
682 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
683 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
684 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
686 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
688 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
689 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
690 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
691 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
692 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
693 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
695 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
697 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
699 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
701 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
702 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
703 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
704 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
705 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
706 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
707 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
708 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
709 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
710 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
711 configure to enable it.
712 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
713 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
714 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
715 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
716 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
719 Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
721 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
723 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
724 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
725 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
726 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
727 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
728 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
729 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
730 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
731 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
732 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
733 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
734 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
735 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
736 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
737 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
738 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
739 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
740 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
741 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
742 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
743 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
744 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
745 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
746 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
747 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
748 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
750 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
752 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
753 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
754 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
755 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
756 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
757 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
758 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
759 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
760 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
761 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
762 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
763 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
764 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
765 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
766 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
767 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
768 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
770 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
772 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
773 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
775 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
777 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
778 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
779 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
780 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
781 zusaetzliche Informationen.
782 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
783 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
784 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
785 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
786 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
787 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
788 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
789 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
790 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
791 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
792 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
793 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
795 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
797 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
798 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
799 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
800 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
801 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
802 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
803 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
804 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
805 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
806 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
808 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
810 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
811 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
812 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
813 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
814 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
815 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
817 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
819 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
820 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
821 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
822 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
823 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
824 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
826 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
828 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
829 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
830 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
831 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
832 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
833 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
834 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
835 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
837 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
839 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
840 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
841 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
842 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
844 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
846 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)