ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
http://ngircd.barton.de/
- (c)2001-2013 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
+ (c)2001-2015 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
-- NEWS --
-ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
-
+ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
+
+ - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch,
+ and testing by Christoph Biedl <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
+ - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating
+ systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example
+ "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to
+ "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve
+ "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using
+ DNS at all makes the test site much more portable.
+
+ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
+
+ - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
+ ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
+ Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
+
+ ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
+ - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
+ lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
+ nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
+ Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
+ - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
+ - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
+ that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
+ this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
+ if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
+ - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
+ - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
+ settable by IRC Operators.
+ - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
+ "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
+ settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
+ careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
+ User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
+ - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
+ - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
+ - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
+ Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
+ - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
+ on "VPATH builds", for example.
+ - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
+ and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
+ - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
+ using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
+ names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
+ is quite unexpected for users.
+ - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
+ allow using separate source and build trees.
+ - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
+ - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
+ in all replies.
+ - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
+ and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
+ useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
+ been linked at all ...).
+ - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
+ (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
+ daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
+ which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
+ - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
+ - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
+ Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
+ return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
+ DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
+ - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
+ invalid password.
+
+ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
+
+ - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
+ disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
+ - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
+ - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
+ - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
+ linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
+ been implemented already).
+ - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
+
+ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
+
+ - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
+ is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
+ initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
+
+ ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
+ - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
+ support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
+
+ ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
- Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
- Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
command (restricted to IRC Operators).
the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
random salt will be generated after each server restart.
-ngIRCd Release 19.2 (2012-06-19)
+ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
- New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
-ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
+ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
- Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
distribution archive ... ooops!
-ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
+ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
- Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
-ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
+ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
- Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
-ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
+ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
- Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
- Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
- New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
-ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
+ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
- doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
- Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
-ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
+ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
- Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
-ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
+ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
- Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
per second before a one second pause is enforced.
-ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
+ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
- Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
- Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
- Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
-ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
+ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
- Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
individual channel keys for different users.
- Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
-ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
+ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
- New version number scheme :-)
(DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
- Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
sockets of the server to a single IP address.
-
+
ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
- Added support for GNU/Hurd.
Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
-ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
+ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
- beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.