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