2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
14 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
15 - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-)
16 - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section.
17 - ngircd.8: document debugging options.
18 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
19 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
20 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
21 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
23 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
24 - PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
25 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
26 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
27 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
28 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
29 servers from TOR or I2P.
30 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
31 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
32 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
33 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
34 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
35 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
36 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
37 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
38 - Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest".
39 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
40 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
41 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
42 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
43 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
44 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
45 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
46 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
47 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
48 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
49 - Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers.
50 - GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients
51 refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it
52 would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
54 - contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
55 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
56 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
57 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
58 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
59 - Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links
60 (often used by services, for example) are not affected.
61 - Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-)
62 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
63 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
64 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
65 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
66 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
67 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
68 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
69 - Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
70 like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
71 - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This
72 helps to speed up server login and network synchronization.
73 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
74 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
75 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
76 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
77 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
79 - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
80 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
81 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this hostname is used for
82 every client instead of the real DNS hostname (or IP address).
83 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
84 every clients' user name to their nick name and hides the user name
85 supplied by the IRC client.
86 - doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
87 - Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
88 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
89 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
90 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
91 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
92 - Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
93 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
94 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
95 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
96 - Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
97 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
98 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
99 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
100 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
101 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
102 - TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other
103 servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when
104 the client is not joined to this channel.
105 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
106 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
107 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
108 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
109 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
110 - Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
111 ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
112 - Don't throttle services and servers being registered.
113 - Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
114 - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is
115 only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
118 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
120 - --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase
121 - Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit
122 - Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly
123 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
124 - Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section
125 - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section
126 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
127 - README: Updated list of implemented commands
128 - add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball
129 - Merge branch 'numeric-329'
130 - add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball
131 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
132 - Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()
134 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
136 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
137 - Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf
138 - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa
139 - contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent
141 ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27)
142 - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updateed project file
143 to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it
144 is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default
145 PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd.
146 - Debian: updated standards version to 3.9.1, added libpam0g-dev to the
147 dependencies, and install a default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins.
148 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable.
149 - Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links.
151 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
152 - ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a.
153 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
154 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
155 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
156 - ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C.
157 - ./configure: check support for C prototypes again.
158 - Don't use PARAMS() macro for function implementations.
159 - Added m68k/apple/aux3.0.1 (gcc 2.7.2) to doc/Platforms.txt.
160 - Only try to set FD_CLOEXEC if this flag is defined.
161 - Only use "__attribute__ ((unused))" if GCC >=2.8 is used.
162 - doc/Makefile.am: don't set docdir, automake handles it already.
164 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
165 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
166 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
167 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
168 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
169 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
170 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
171 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
172 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
173 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
174 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
175 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
176 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
177 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
178 using the command line parameters.
179 - Signal handler: added new 'delayed' signal handlers, including fallback
180 to deprecated sysv API. And removed global NGIRCd_SignalRehash variable.
181 - IO: add io_cloexec() to set close-on-exec flag.
182 - ng_ipaddr.h: include required assert.h header.
183 - Conn_SyncServerStruct(): test all connections; and work case insensitive
184 - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output.
185 - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the
186 client lag debug-output is working again.
187 - Implement user mode "x": hostname cloaking (closes: #102).
188 - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
189 - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
190 - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
191 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
192 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
193 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
194 - Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon.
195 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
196 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
197 - Added mailmap file for git-[short]log and git-blame.
198 - Authenticated users should be registered without the "~" mark.
199 - Set NoPAM=yes in configuration files used for the testsuite.
200 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
201 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
202 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
203 - Resolver: Implement signal handler and catch TERM signals.
204 - Don't set a penalty time when doing DNS lookups.
205 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
206 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
207 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
208 - ngircd.init: require "$network" and "$remote_fs" when stopping ngircd.
209 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
210 - Include correct header files when testing for arpa/inet.h (Closes: #105).
211 - Don't access already freed memory in IRC_KILL().
212 - Fix "beeing" typo ...
213 - SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message.
215 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
217 - doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker
219 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
220 - Updated some more copyright notices, it's 2010 already :-)
221 - Only compile in Get_Error() if really needed
222 - Fix gcc warning "ignoring return value of ..."
223 - Include netinet/in_systm.h alongside netinet/ip.h
224 - Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h
225 - Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists
226 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt
227 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
228 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
229 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
231 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
232 - Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups.
233 - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit.
234 - Updatet doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
235 how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA).
236 - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list).
237 - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define
238 - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric
239 - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output.
240 - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable.
241 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
242 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
243 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
244 - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts".
245 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
246 - Only link "nsl" library when really needed.
247 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
248 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
249 to join such a channel.
250 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
251 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
252 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
253 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
255 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
257 - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset.
259 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
260 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
261 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
262 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
263 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
264 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
265 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
267 - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0
268 for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file.
269 - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names.
270 - Fix LSB header of Debian init script.
271 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh
272 to ease generating platform reports.
273 - Fix connection information for already registered connections.
274 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
275 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
276 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
277 - Fix connection counter.
278 - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections.
279 - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.
281 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
283 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
284 - BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh.
285 - New start/stop script for RedHat-based distributions:
286 contrib/ngircd-redhat.init, thanks to Naoya Nakazawa <naoya@sanow.net>.
287 - Doxygen: update source code repository link to GIT.
288 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
289 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
290 - Fix error handling on compressed links.
291 - Fix server list announcement.
292 - Do not remove hostnames from info text.
294 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
296 - Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections.
298 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
299 - Updated Debian/Linux init script (see contrib/Debian/ngircd.init).
300 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
301 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
302 - Spell check and enhance ngIRCd manual pages.
303 - Channel mode changes: break on syntax errors in MODE command.
304 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
305 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
306 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
307 individual channel keys for different users.
308 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
309 - Updated ngircd.spec file for building RPM packages.
310 - Add new and missing files to Mac OS X Xcode project, and update project.
311 - Reject masks with wildcard after last dot.
312 - TLS/SSL: remove useless error message when ssl connection is closed.
313 - Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down.
314 (closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net)
315 - Fix handling of channels containing dots.
316 (closes ug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
318 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
320 - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
321 - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
323 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
324 - New version number scheme :-)
325 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
326 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
327 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
328 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
329 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
330 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
331 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
332 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
333 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
334 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
335 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
336 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
337 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
338 - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
339 - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
340 - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
341 - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
342 - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
343 - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two
344 servers are started for testing server-server linking.
345 - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
346 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
347 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
349 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
351 - Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode
352 - Don't allow stray \r or \n in command parameters
353 - --configtest: return non-zero exit code if there are errors
354 - Update ngIRCd manual pages
355 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
356 - Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error.
357 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
358 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
359 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
360 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
361 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
363 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
365 - Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns
366 proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran)
367 - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
368 - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number.
370 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
371 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
372 - Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now!
373 - Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT.
374 - Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition.
375 - Report ERR_NOTONCHANNEL when trying to part a channel one is not member of.
376 - Testsuite: remove erroneous ConfUID setting in config file.
378 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
379 - Include Mac OS X Xcode project in distribution archives.
380 - Do not exit on SIGHUP or /REHASH if the config file cannot opened.
382 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
383 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
384 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
385 - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+).
387 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
388 nickname/servername/hostname, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
389 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
390 - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom)
391 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
392 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
393 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
394 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
396 ngIRCd 0.11.1 (2008-02-26)
398 - Fix sending of JOIN commands between servers when remote server appended
399 mode flags. (Rolf Eike Beer) [from HEAD]
400 - Send "G" instead of "H" flag in WHO replies. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
401 - Under some circumstances ngIRCd issued channel MODE message with a
402 trailing space. (Dana Dahlstrom) [from HEAD]
404 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
406 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07)
407 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
408 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
410 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
411 - Use dotted-decimal IP address if hostname is >= 64.
412 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
413 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
414 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
415 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
416 length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
417 - Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
418 enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
419 See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
420 - Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!?
421 - Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced
422 to the network as well as the wrong output of the LINKS command.
423 - Update Mac OS X Xcode project file for Xcode 3.
424 - Adjust test suite to be usable on HP/UX 11.11 :-)
425 - Fix code to compile using K&R C compiler and ansi2kr again.
426 - New config option NoDNS: Disables DNS lookups when clients connect.
427 - Fixed propagation of channel mode 'P' on server links.
428 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
429 - Fixed code that prevented GCC 2.95 to compile ngIRCd.
430 - Adjust path names in manual pages according to "./configure" settings.
431 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
432 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
433 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
434 - Don't connect to a server if a connection to another server within the
435 same group is already in progress.
436 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
439 ngIRCd 0.10.4 (2008-01-07)
441 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
442 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
444 ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01)
446 - SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could
447 cause the server to crash. Thanks to Sebastian Vesper, <net@veoson.net>.
450 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
452 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre2 (2007-05-19)
453 - Server links are allowed to use larger write buffers now (up to 50 KB).
455 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre1 (2007-05-05)
456 - Fix compressed server links (broken since 0.10.0).
457 - Predefined Channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
458 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l).
459 - When using epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
460 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
461 - New configure option "--without-select" to disable select() IO API
462 (even when using epoll(), see above).
463 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
464 - Reorganized internal handling of invite and ban lists.
466 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
468 - Fixed validation of server names containing digits.
469 - Update the "info text" of the local server after re-reading configuration.
470 - Changed Numerics 265 and 266 to follow ircd 2.11.x "standards".
471 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
472 - Enhanced ISUPPORT message (005 numeric).
473 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
474 join predefined channels.
475 - Code cleanups: use "LogDebug(...)" instead of "Log(LOG_DEBUG, ...)", use
476 "strcspn()", unsigned vs. signed, use "const", fix whitespaces, ...
478 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
480 - Fixed file handle leak when daemon is not able to send MOTD to a client.
482 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre2 (2006-09-09)
483 - Fixed build problems with GCC option -fstack-protector.
484 - Minor documentation updates.
486 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
487 - Validate "ServerName" (see RFC 2812, section 2.3.1).
488 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
489 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
490 - The ngIRCd handles time shifts backwards more gracefully now (the
491 timeout handling doesn't disconnect clients by mistake any more).
492 - Internal: Restructured connection handling (the connection ID is equal
493 to the file descriptor of the connection).
494 - Internal: Simplified resolver code.
495 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
496 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
497 - Enhanced the handler for PING and PONG commands: fix forwarding and enable
498 back-passing of a client supplied additional argument of PING.
499 - Changed handling of timeouts for unregistered connections: don't reset
500 the counter if data is received and disconnect clients earlier.
501 - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead.
502 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
503 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
504 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
505 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
506 lookup to prevent spoofing.
507 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
508 addition to the select() interface.
510 ngIRCd 0.9.2 (2005-10-15)
512 - Fixed a bug that could cause the daemon to crash when outgoing server
513 connections can't be established.
514 - Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to leak file descriptors when no
515 resolver subprocesses could be created.
516 - Fixed server NOTICEs to users with "s" mode ("server messages").
517 - Fixed a format string bug in "connection statistics" messages to clients.
519 ngIRCd 0.9.1 (2005-08-03)
521 - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!)
522 when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in
523 ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by <qssl@fastmail.fm>, Thanks!
524 - Changed some constants to be "signed" (instead of unsigned) to solve
525 problems with old (pre-ANSI) compilers.
527 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
529 ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09)
530 - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters.
531 - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead
532 of shutting down the (wrong) connection.
533 - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the
534 client is registered with the server (like the original ircd).
535 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
536 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
537 - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client
538 is member of multiple channels.
539 - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and
540 pray that this will be "the right thing" ...
541 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
542 - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug.
543 - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
544 - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
545 to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
546 - Removed typedefs for the native C datatypes.
547 Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available.
548 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
549 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
550 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
551 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
552 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
553 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
554 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
555 - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug
556 code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process.
557 - Don't create version information string each time a client connects
558 but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
559 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
560 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
561 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
562 - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
563 - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters.
564 - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc()
565 failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway.
566 Patch from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
567 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
568 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
569 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
570 - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and
571 most probably other older C compilers on other systems.
572 - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in
573 the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it
574 changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This
575 should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
578 ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03)
580 - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled
581 to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
582 <coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
583 (CVE-2005-0226; http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
585 ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
587 - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution.
588 - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found
589 by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. (CVE-2005-0199)
590 - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks
591 to Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
592 - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by
593 Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
594 - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has
595 been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/
596 It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself,
597 not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
599 ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25)
601 - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub
602 - Added some more debug code ...
603 - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest".
604 - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for
605 ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after
607 - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README!
609 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
611 - Fixed wrong buffer size calculation for results of the resolver.
613 ngircd 0.8.0-pre2 (2004-05-16)
614 - Enhanced logging to console when running in "no-detached mode": added
615 PID and log messages of resolver sub-processes.
616 - Fixed host name lookups when using IDENT user lookups.
617 - "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean" remove more files now.
619 ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07)
620 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
621 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
622 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
623 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
624 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
625 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
626 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
627 - Reorganized autogen.sh and configure scripts.
628 - Fixed a wrong assert() which could cause the daemon to exit spuriously
629 when closing down connections.
630 - Better logging of decompression errors returned by zlib.
631 - Servers other than the destination server didn't clean up the invite
632 list of an "invite-only" channel properly when an INVITE'd user joined.
633 - Changed the reply of the MODE command to match the syntax of the
634 original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last
635 parameter has been added.
636 - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info.
637 - Results of the resolver (hostnames and IDENT names) are discarded after
638 the client is successfully registered with the server.
639 - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections.
640 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
641 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
642 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
643 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
644 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
646 ngIRCd 0.7.7 (2004-02-05)
648 - The info text ("real name") of users is set to "-" if none has been
649 specified using the USER command (e. g. "USER user * * :"). Reason:
650 the original ircd doesn't like empty ones and would KILL such users.
651 - Fixed (optional) TCP Wrapper test which was broken and could result in
652 false results. Thanks to Fuminori Tanizaki <tany@mcnet.ad.jp>!
653 - Removed "USE_" prefixes of configuration #defines.
655 ngIRCd 0.7.6 (2003-12-05)
657 - Fixed abort() ("server crash") when INVITE'ing users to nonexistent
658 channels. Bug found by <hiddenx@wp.pl>.
659 - Extended version numbering of CVS versions (added date).
660 - Enhanced/fixed doc/Protocol.txt;
662 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-11-07)
664 - Fixed ban behavior: users which are banned from a channel can't no
665 longer send PRIVMSG's to this channel (fixes Bug #47).
666 - Fixed and enhanced the "penalty handling" of the server: commands that
667 require more resources block the client for a short time.
668 - Changed the internal time resolution to one second.
669 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
670 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
671 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
672 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
673 - Fixed build problems under Mac OS X 10.3.
674 - Use "-pipe" when compiling with gcc, speeds things up a little :-)
675 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
676 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
677 - Suppress misleading error message of diff during make run.
678 - Enhanced test-suite and made it work on GNU/Hurd.
679 - Fixed minor typo in debug output :-)
681 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
683 - Included files to build Debian packages (located in "debian/").
684 - Updated config.guess and config.sub to newer upstream versions.
685 - NJOIN propagates user channel modes correctly again ... Upsa.
686 - Made Makefile more compatible with "make -j<n>".
687 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
688 - Fixed a compiler warning related to an unnecessary assert().
689 - Enhanced VERSION command when using debug versions.
691 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
693 - "ServerName" is checked better now: a dot (".") is required.
694 - The KILL command verifies and logs more parameters.
696 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre2 (2003-04-27)
697 - CVS build system fixes (made autogen.sh more portable).
698 - Fixed compilation and test-suite on Solaris (tested with 2.6).
699 - New documentation file "doc/Platforms.txt" describing the status of
700 ngIRCd on the various tested platforms.
701 - Test for broken GCC on Mac OS X and disable "-pedantic" in this case.
702 - Disable "-ansi" on Cygwin: system headers are incompatible.
703 - The server tried to connect to other servers only once when DNS or
704 socket failures occurred.
705 - Fixed --configtest: There is no variable "ServerPwd", it's "Password".
707 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 (2003-04-22)
708 - New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside).
709 - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled.
710 - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the
711 more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems
712 that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included
713 in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h).
714 - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that
715 can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken.
716 - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-)
717 - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and
718 removing servers during runtime works more reliable now.
719 - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]"
720 - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]".
721 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
722 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
723 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
724 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
725 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
726 - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The
727 german documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
728 - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision.
729 - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding.
730 - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool".
731 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
732 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
733 - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS)
734 if an outgoing server link can't be established.
735 - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility.
736 - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly.
737 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
738 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
739 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
740 configure to enable it.
741 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
742 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
743 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
744 - Better error reporting to clients on connect.
745 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
746 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
747 - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
749 ngIRCd 0.6.1, 2003-01-21
751 - Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more,
752 ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you
753 can kill only valid users now.
754 - The server no longer forwards commands to ordinary users, instead it
755 answers with the correct error message ("no such server") now.
756 - WHOIS commands weren't always forwarded as requested.
757 - The server sets a correct default AWAY message now when propagating
758 between servers (bug introduced in 0.6.0).
759 - Fixed up and enhanced CHANINFO command: channel keys and user limits
760 are synchronized between servers now, too.
761 - MODE returns the key and user limit for channel members correctly now.
762 - Non-members of a channel could crash the server when trying to change
763 its modes or modes of its members.
764 - The server didn't validate weather a target user is a valid channel
765 member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd.
768 Older changes (sorry, only available in german language):
770 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
772 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 2002-12-23
773 - neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect.
774 - LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen
775 Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start
776 dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt.
778 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 2002-12-18
779 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
780 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
781 - der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den
782 Resolver (4 Sekunden), wenn das Ergebnis eintrifft setzt er aber den
783 Login sofort fort (bisher wurde immer mind. 1 Sekunde gewartet).
784 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
785 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
786 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sektion "Global")
787 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
788 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
789 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
790 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
791 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
792 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
793 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
794 - Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst.
795 - unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
796 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asyncronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
797 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
798 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
799 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
800 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
801 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
802 - Channel-Mode "P" ("persistent") kann nur noch von IRC-Operatoren gesetzt
803 werden. Grund: User koennen den Server sonst leicht "Channel-Flooden".
804 - MOTD kann nun an andere Server geforwarded werden.
805 - IRC-Befehl "TIME" implementiert.
806 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
807 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
808 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
809 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
810 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
811 - Handling der Schreibpuffer umgestellt: Server sollte schneller arbeiten.
812 - Prefix-Fehler werden besser protokolliert (mit verursachendem Befehl).
813 - SQUIT wird nicht mehr doppelt an andere Server weitergeleitet.
814 - Der Server versucht nun vor dem Schliessen einer Verbindung Daten, die
815 noch im Schreibpuffer stehen, zu senden.
816 - Source in weiteres Modul "irc-info" aufgespalten.
817 - Konfigurationsvariablen werden besser validiert: Laengen, Zahlen, ...
818 - neuen Befehl STATS begonnen: bisher unterstuetzt wird "l" und "m".
819 - bei ISON und USERHOST fehlte im Ergebnis-String der korrekte Absender.
820 - IRC Operatoren koennen nun mit KILL User toeten. Achtung: ein Grund muss
821 zwingend als zweiter Parameter angegeben werden!
822 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
823 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
824 - neuer, deutlich flexiblerer Parser fuer den MODE Befehl.
825 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
827 ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002
829 - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
830 unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden.
831 - in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht
832 nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe
833 verwendet werden. Beim Start des Daemons wird nun beides angezeigt.
834 - Besseres Logging von Prefix-Fehlern.
835 - angenommene Sockets werden nun korrekt auf "non-blocking" konfiguriert,
836 beim Senden und Empfangen werden Blockierungen besser abgefangen.
837 - RPL_UMODEIS hat Code 221, nicht 211 ... *argl*
838 - select() in Try_Write() hat falschen (keinen!) Timeout verwendet;
839 die "Zeit-Aufloesung" des Servers sind zudem nun 2 Sekunden (TIME_RES).
840 Insgesamt sollte die Reaktionszeit des Server nun besser sein.
842 ngIRCd 0.5.3, 08.11.2002
844 - NOTICE liefert nun wirklich nie mehr einen Fehler, auch dann nicht,
845 wenn der sendende Client noch gar nicht registriert ist.
846 - ein "schneller Server-Reconnect" wird nur noch dann versucht, wenn die
847 Verbindung zuvor ordentlich (="lange genug") in Ordnung war; somit also
848 nicht meht, wenn der Peer-Server gleich beim Connect ein ERROR liefert.
849 Das vermeidet "Connect-Orgien".
850 - einige Datentypen aufgeraumt: z.B. sind viele INT32s nun LONGs. Das ist
851 auf Platformen mit 8-Byte-Integern kompatibler.
852 - RPL_YOURHOST_MSG ist nun ircII- und RFC-kompatibel ;-)
853 - Segfault unter hoher Netzaktivitaet behoben: in Conn_Close() wird die
854 Connection-Struktur nun frueher als "ungueltig" markiert.
856 ngIRCd 0.5.2, 04.10.2002
858 - Buffer Overflow in Read_Resolver_Result() behoben.
859 - Format-String-Bugs, die zum Abbruch des Servers fuehrten, behoben.
860 - Maximale Laenge eines IRC-Prefix wurde falsch berechnet.
862 ngIRCd 0.5.1, 03.10.2002
864 - in RPL_YOURHOST_MSG wurde ein fehlerhafter Versionsstring geliefert.
865 - Test-Suite: start-server.sh, stop-server.sh und stress-server.sh koennen
866 nun "manuell" von der Kommandozeile gestartet werden, stress-server.sh
867 startet per Default nur noch 5 Sessions, eine andere Zahl kann auf der
868 Kommandozeile uebergeben werden (Syntax: "stress-server.sh <count>").
869 - In bestimmten Faellen hat der Server versucht auf einen bereits wieder
870 geschlossenen Socket Daten zu schreiben; das fuehrte zu einem Abbruch des
871 Servers durch ein assert(). Nun wird geprueft, ob der Socket noch ok ist.
872 - im "contrib"-Verzeichnis befindet sich nun eine RPM-Spec-Datei, aus den
873 .tar.gz's koennen nun mit "rpm -ta <archiv>" RPM's erzeugt werden. Danke
874 an Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>!
875 - Syntax von RPL_MYINFO_MSG korrigiert: liefert nun vier Parameter.
877 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
879 - Dokumentation aktualisiert.
880 - Fehler bei Validierung von "AdminInfo2" behoben.
881 - Test der Flags fuer "ps" in der Testsuite verbessert, ist nun zu mehr
882 Plattformen kompatibler.
884 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre2, 17.09.2002
885 - Fix in IRC_WriteStrServersPrefix() war "badly broken" -- behoben.
887 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre1, 16.09.2002
888 - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen.
889 - Wird der Netzwerk-Sniffer aktiviert (--sniffer), so schaltet der
890 ngIRCd nun automatisch in den Debug-Modus.
891 - auf Systemen, die inet_aton() nicht kennen (wie z.B. A/UX), kann der
892 ngIRCd nun dennoch auch aktiv Server-Links aufbauen.
893 - h_errno wird auf Systemen, die das nicht kennen (wie z.B. HP-UX 10.20)
894 nicht mehr verwendet. Somit compiliert der ngIRCd nun auch dort :-)
895 - um auf dem Ziel-System nicht vorhandene Funktionen nachzubilden wird nun
896 die "libngportab" erzeugt; genutzt wird dies bisher fuer vsnprintf().
897 Nun compiliert der ngIRCd auch unter Solaris 2.5.1.
898 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
899 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
900 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
901 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. Zu Channel-Operatoren werden bisher
902 nur IRC-Operatoren, die den Channel betreten. Die persistenten Channels
903 werden durch das Flag "P" gelennzeichnet, welches normal durch Channel-
904 Op's gesetzt und geloescht werden kann.
905 - bei "--configtest" werden keine leere Abschnitte mehr ausgegeben.
906 - Source in weitere Module aufgespalten: lists, irc-op und resolve.
907 - #include's aufgeraeumt: Header includieren keine anderen mehr.
908 - KICK implementiert (bisher kann nur ein User aus einem Channel geckicked
909 werden, Listen, wir im RFC vorgesehen, werden bisher nicht unterstuetzt).
910 - INVITE, den Channel-Mode "i" sowie Invite-Lists ueber den MODE-Befehl
911 (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
912 - Source an ansi2knr fuer pre-ANSI-Compiler angepasst; ansi2knr in Source-
913 Tree aufgenommen und in Build-System integriert; der ngIRCd compiliert
914 nun z.B. unter A/UX mit dem nativen Compiler von Apple.
915 - TOPIC lieferte bei unbekanntem Channel einen falschen Fehlercode.
916 - LIST versteht nun Wildcards und kann an andere Server geforwarded werden.
917 - wurde ein KILL fuer nicht-lokale Clients empfangen, so wurden die
918 Verwaltungs-Strukturen nicht korrekt freigegeben.
919 - empfangene NJOIN's wurden "zerhackt" an andere Server weitergegeben.
920 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
921 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
922 - Dokumentation des neuen IRC+-Protokolls begonnen: doc/Protocol.txt
923 - Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt;
924 bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet.
925 Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben.
926 - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO syncronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
927 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics.
928 - neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das
929 IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert).
930 - Ban-Lists (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
931 - wird der Server mit "-n"/"--nodaemon" gestartet, so werden keine Mel-
932 dungen mehr ueber Syslog ausgegeben, sondern nur noch auf der Konsole.
933 - "Test-Suite" begonnen (in "make check" integriert): Dabei wird ein
934 speziell konfigurierter Server auf Port 6789 gestartet, mit dem dann
935 einige Tests durchgefuehrt werden (u.a. "Stress-Test" mit 50 Clients).
936 - zu lange Operator-Namen in der Konfiguration wurden falsch gekuerzt.
937 - kleine Anpassung an AIX 3.2.5: nun laeuft der ngIRCd auch dort :-)
938 - ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei
939 im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und
940 "AdminEMail" konfiguriert.
942 ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002
944 - Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel
945 ueberhaupt ein User ist. War es keiner, so fuehrte dies zu einem
946 Abbruch des Servers [es wurde assert() aufgerufen].
948 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
950 - LUSERS verzaehlt sich bei eigenen Server-Links nicht mehr.
951 - QUIT wird nun auch von noch nicht registrierten Clients akzeptiert.
952 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
953 Wildcards (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
955 ngIRCd 0.4.1, 08.04.2002
957 - Bei Server-Links wird nicht mehr an Hand der Anzahl der Parameter
958 eines empfangenen SERVER-Befehls, sondern "intern" erkannt, ob es
959 sich um eine ein- oder ausgehende Verbindung handelt und somit das
960 eigene PASS-SERVER-Paar gesendet werden muss oder nicht. Da sich
961 verschiedene Versionen des Original-ircd's anders verhalten, schlug
962 die Anmeldung je nach Gehenseite evtl. fehl.
963 - Bei einem NICK-Befehl eines lokalen Client konnte der Server ab-
964 stuerzen, da ein Format-String einer Log-Meldung fehlerhaft war.
966 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
968 - IRC-Befehle nochmal auf weitere Source-Dateien aufgespalten.
969 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
970 - Der AWAY-Mode wurde nicht ueber mehrere Server-Links weitergegeben.
971 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err).
972 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
973 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
974 zusaetzliche Informationen.
975 - In Nicknames wird das Zeichen "-" nun als zulaessig erkannt.
976 - die Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei (doc/sample-ngircd.conf) wird als
977 ngircd.conf installiert, wenn noch keine "echte" Konfigurationsdatei
979 - bei WHO, WHOIS und NAMES wird nun nur noch der Status "Operator" oder
980 "voiced" geliefert -- nicht mehr beides.
981 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
982 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
983 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert (Variable "Group" in der Kon-
984 figurationsdatei, Sektion [Server]).
985 - IRC_PING() ist, wenn nicht im "strict RFC"-Mode, toleranter und ak-
986 zeptiert beliebig viele Parameter (z.B. BitchX sendet soetwas).
987 - die "Portab-Header" werden nicht mehr benoetigt, die System-Erkennung
988 wird nun ausschliesslich vom configure-Script durchgefuehrt. System-
989 abhaengige Definitionen finden sich nun unter src/portrab/.
990 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
991 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
992 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
993 gelesen und dann die verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
994 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
995 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
996 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
997 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
998 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
999 - URL der Homepage wird u.a. bei "--version" mit angezeigt.
1001 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
1003 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
1004 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
1005 - FAQ um Hinweise auf den Bugtracker erweitert.
1006 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
1007 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
1008 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
1009 - direkt nach dem Start schreibt der ngIRCd nun die aktiven Kommando-
1010 zeilenschalter in's Logfile (Passive, Debug, Sniffer ...).
1011 - das Signal-Flag SA_RESTART wird nur noch gesetzt, wenn es auf dem
1012 jeweiligen System auch definiert ist.
1013 - bei ausgehenden Verbindungen wird nun der Ziel-Port protokolliert.
1014 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert.
1015 - make-Target "check" (und "distcheck") mit Sinn erfuellt :-)
1016 (die Tests sind aber bisher nicht all zu tiefgehend ...)
1017 - Durch einen Ueberlauf konnte die Idle-Time bei WHOIS negativ werden ...
1018 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
1019 - WHOIS wird nicht mehr automatisch an den "Original-Server" weiterge-
1020 leitet: war eh nicht RFC-konform und machte mit Clients Probleme.
1021 - an User wird nun immer ein "komplettes" Prefix (mit Host-Mask) ver-
1022 schickt, Server bekommen nach wie vor kurze: das "Original" hat bei
1023 bestimmten Befehlen (PRIVMSG) ansonsten evtl. Probleme ...
1024 - NAMES korrigiert und vollstaendig implementiert.
1025 - SQUIT wird auf jeden Fall geforwarded, zudem besseres Logging.
1026 - Ist ein Nick bei der User-Registrierung bereits belegt, nimmt der
1027 Server nun korrekt weitere NICK-Befehle an und verwendet diese.
1028 - PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m".
1029 - AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst.
1030 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
1031 - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asyncron connectiert und
1032 blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht
1033 erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!).
1034 - Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet.
1035 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
1037 ngIRCd 0.2.1, 17.02.2002
1039 - NICK korrigiert: es werden nun auch alle "betroffenen" User informiert.
1040 - configure-Script erweitert, u.a. bessere Anpassung an BeOS: dort wird
1041 nun die "libbe" zum ngIRCd gelinkt, somit funktioniert auch syslog.
1042 - Fehlerhafte bzw. noch nicht verstandene Modes werden nun ausfuehrlicher
1043 an den Client geliefert.
1045 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
1047 - Nicknames und Channel-Namen werden etwas besser auf Gueltigkeit ueber-
1048 prueft; ist aber nach wie vor noch nicht ausreichend.
1049 - NJOINS von Servern wurden nicht an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1050 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
1051 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
1052 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
1053 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
1054 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
1055 - Benutzer von connectierenden Servern wurden nicht in den Channels ange-
1056 kuendigt, es wurden nur die internen Strukturen angepasst.
1057 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
1059 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
1061 - User-Modes bei User-Registrierungen von andere Servern (NICK-Befehl)
1062 wurden falsch uebernommen. Zudem wurden die Modes falsch gekuerzt.
1063 - Server-Verbindungen werden nun nach dem Start erst nach einer kurzen
1064 Pause aufgebaut (zur Zeit drei Sekunden).
1065 - Hilfetext korrigiert: --help und --version waren vertauscht, die
1066 Option --sniffer wurde gar nicht erwaehnt.
1067 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
1068 - der IRC-Sniffer wird nur noch aktiviert, wenn die Option auf der
1069 Kommandozeile angegeben wurde (bei entsprechend compiliertem Server).
1070 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
1071 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
1072 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
1073 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
1074 - durch die Channels einige Aenderungen an PRIVMSG, WHOIS, MODE etc.
1075 - neu connectierenden Servern werden nun Channels mit NJOIN angekuendigt.
1076 - Signal-Hander geaendert: die Fehlermeldung "interrupted system call"
1077 sollte so nicht mehr auftreten.
1078 - "spaeter" neu connectierende Server werden nun im Netz angekuendigt.
1079 - SERVER-Meldungen an andere Server sind nun korrekt sortiert.
1080 - Clients werden nun korrekt sowohl nur ueber den Nickname als auch die
1081 komplette "Host Mask" erkannt.
1083 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
1085 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
1086 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
1087 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
1088 - MODE und NICK melden nun die Aenderungen an andere Server, ebenso
1089 die Befehle QUIT und SQUIT.
1090 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
1091 - Parses handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
1092 - Status-Codes an den Server selber werden ignorier.
1093 - Log-Meldungen und Log-Level ueberarbeitet und korrigiert.
1094 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
1095 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
1096 - WHOIS korrigiert: Anfrage wurde u.U. an User geforwarded anstatt vom
1097 Server beantwortet zu werden.
1098 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS
1099 - Client-Modes von Remote-Servern wurden nicht korrekt uerbernommen.
1101 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
1103 - Struktur der Konfigurationsdatei geaendert: sie ist nun "Samba like",
1104 d.h. sie besteht aus Abschnitten (siehe "doc/sample-ngircd.conf").
1105 - Es koennen mehrere IRC-Server-Opertatoren konfiguriert werden.
1106 - Zombies der Resolver-Prozesse werden nun ordentlich "getoetet".
1107 - NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern.
1108 - ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar.
1109 - neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT.
1110 - Asyncroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
1111 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
1112 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige
1113 Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert
1114 aber bereits, ebenso wie WHOIS (letzterer wird immer an den Server,
1115 auf dem der User registriert ist, weitergegeben).
1116 - "arpa/inet.h" wird nur noch includiert, wenn vorhanden.
1117 - Fehler bei select() fuerhen nun zum Abbruch von ngIRCd, bisher landete
1118 der Server zumeist in einer Endlosschleife.
1119 - Logmeldungen und Level an vielen Stellen verbessert.
1120 - lokalen Usernamen wird nun ein "~" vorangestellt, da bisher noch keine
1121 Ident-Anfragen gemacht werden.
1123 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
1125 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)