2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2013 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
12 ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
14 - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
15 support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
17 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
18 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
19 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
20 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
21 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
22 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
23 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
24 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
25 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
26 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
27 the IRC "TRACE" command.
28 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
29 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
30 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
31 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
32 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
33 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
34 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
35 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
37 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
38 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
39 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
40 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
41 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
42 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
43 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
44 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
45 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
46 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
47 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
48 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
49 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
50 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
51 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
52 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
53 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
54 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
55 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
56 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
57 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
58 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
59 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
60 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
61 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
62 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
63 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
64 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
65 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
66 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
67 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
68 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
69 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
70 The default is 0, "never".
71 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
72 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
73 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
74 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
75 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
76 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
77 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
78 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
79 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
80 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
81 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
82 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
83 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
84 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
85 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
86 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
87 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
88 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
89 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
91 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
93 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
94 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
95 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
96 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
97 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
99 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
101 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
102 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
103 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to to crash the daemon
106 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
108 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
110 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
112 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
113 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
114 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
115 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
116 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
118 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
119 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
120 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
121 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
122 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
123 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
124 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
126 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
127 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
128 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
129 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
130 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
131 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
132 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
133 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
134 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
135 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
136 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
137 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
138 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
139 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
140 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
141 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
142 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
143 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
144 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
145 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
146 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
147 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
148 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
149 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
150 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
151 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
152 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
153 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
154 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
155 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
156 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
157 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
158 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
159 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
160 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
161 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
163 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
164 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
165 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
167 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
168 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
169 configuration file. (Closes #136)
170 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
171 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
172 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
173 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
174 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
175 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
176 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
177 behave, and so do we :-)
178 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
179 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
180 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
181 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
182 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
183 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
184 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
185 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
186 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
187 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
188 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
189 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
190 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
191 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
192 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
193 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
195 ngIRCd Release 19.2 (2012-06-19)
197 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
198 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
199 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
200 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
201 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
202 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
203 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
204 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
205 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
207 ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
209 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
210 distribution archive ... ooops!
212 ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
214 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
215 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
216 is the only supported version.
217 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
218 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
219 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
220 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
221 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
222 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
223 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
224 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
225 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
226 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
227 by completely unknown clients.
228 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
229 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
230 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
231 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
232 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
233 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
234 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
235 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
236 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
237 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
238 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
239 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
240 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
241 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
242 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
243 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
244 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
245 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
246 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
247 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
248 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
249 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
250 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
251 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
252 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
253 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
254 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
255 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
256 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
257 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
258 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
259 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
260 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
261 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
262 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
263 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
264 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
265 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
266 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
267 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
268 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
269 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
270 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
271 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
272 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
273 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
274 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
275 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
276 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
277 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
278 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
280 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
282 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
284 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
285 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
286 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
287 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
288 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
290 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
291 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
292 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
293 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
294 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
295 servers from TOR or I2P.
296 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
297 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
298 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
299 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
300 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
301 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
302 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
303 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
304 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
305 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
306 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
307 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
308 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
309 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
310 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
311 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
312 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
313 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
314 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
315 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
316 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
317 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
318 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
319 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
320 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
321 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
322 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
323 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
324 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
325 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
326 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
327 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
328 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
329 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
330 variable description.
331 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
332 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
333 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
334 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
335 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
336 supplied by the IRC client.
337 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
338 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
339 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
340 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
341 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
342 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
343 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
344 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
345 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
346 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
347 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
348 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
349 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
350 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
351 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
352 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
353 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
355 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
357 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
358 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
359 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
361 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
363 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
365 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
366 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
367 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
368 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
370 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
371 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
372 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
373 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
374 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
375 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
376 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
377 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
378 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
379 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
380 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
381 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
382 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
383 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
384 using the command line parameters.
385 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
386 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
387 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
388 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
389 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
390 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
391 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
392 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
393 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
394 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
395 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
396 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
397 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
399 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
401 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
402 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
403 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
404 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
406 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
407 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
408 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
409 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
410 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
411 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
412 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
413 to join such a channel.
414 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
415 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
416 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
417 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
419 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
421 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
422 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
423 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
424 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
425 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
426 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
427 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
429 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
430 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
431 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
433 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
435 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
436 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
437 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
439 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
441 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
442 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
443 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
444 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
445 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
446 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
447 individual channel keys for different users.
448 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
450 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
452 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
453 - New version number scheme :-)
454 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
455 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
456 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
457 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
458 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
459 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
460 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
461 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
462 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
463 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
464 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
465 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
466 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
467 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
468 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
470 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
472 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
473 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
474 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
475 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
476 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
477 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
479 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
481 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
482 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
484 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
486 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
487 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
488 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
489 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
490 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
491 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
492 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
493 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
494 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
495 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
497 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
499 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
500 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
501 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
502 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
503 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
504 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
505 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
506 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
507 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
508 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
511 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
513 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
514 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
515 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
516 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
517 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
519 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
521 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
522 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
523 join predefined channels.
525 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
527 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
528 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
529 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
530 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
531 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
532 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
533 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
534 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
535 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
536 lookup to prevent spoofing.
537 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
538 addition to the select() interface.
540 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
542 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
543 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
544 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
545 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
546 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
547 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
548 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
549 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
550 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
551 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
552 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
553 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
554 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
555 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
556 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
557 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
559 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
561 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
562 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
563 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
564 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
565 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
566 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
567 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
568 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
569 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
570 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
571 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
572 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
574 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
576 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
577 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
578 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
579 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
580 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
581 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
583 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
585 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
587 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
589 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
590 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
591 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
592 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
593 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
594 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
595 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
596 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
597 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
598 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
599 configure to enable it.
600 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
601 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
602 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
603 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
604 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
607 Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
609 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
611 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
612 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
613 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
614 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
615 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
616 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
617 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
618 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
619 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
620 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
621 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
622 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
623 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
624 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
625 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
626 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
627 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
628 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
629 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
630 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
631 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
632 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
633 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
634 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
635 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
636 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
638 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
640 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
641 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
642 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
643 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
644 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
645 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
646 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
647 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
648 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
649 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
650 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
651 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
652 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
653 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
654 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
655 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
656 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
658 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
660 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
661 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
663 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
665 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
666 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
667 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
668 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
669 zusaetzliche Informationen.
670 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
671 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
672 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
673 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
674 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
675 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
676 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
677 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
678 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
679 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
680 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
681 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
683 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
685 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
686 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
687 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
688 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
689 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
690 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
691 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
692 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
693 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
694 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
696 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
698 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
699 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
700 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
701 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
702 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
703 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
705 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
707 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
708 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
709 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
710 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
711 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
712 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
714 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
716 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
717 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
718 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
719 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
720 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
721 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
722 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
723 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
725 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
727 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
728 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
729 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
730 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
732 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
734 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)