+Differences to version 0.8.x
+
+- The maximum length of passwords has been raised to 20 characters (instead
+ of 8 characters). If your passwords are longer than 8 characters then they
+ are cut at an other position now.
+
+Differences to version 0.6.x
+
+- Some options of the configure script have been renamed:
+ --disable-syslog -> --without-syslog
+ --disable-zlib -> --without-zlib
+ Please call "./configure --help" to review the full list of options!
+
+Differences to version 0.5.x
+
+- Starting with version 0.6.0, other servers are identified using asynchronous
+ passwords: therefore the variable "Password" in [Server]-sections has been
+ replaced by "MyPassword" and "PeerPassword".
+
+- New configuration variables, section [Global]: MaxConnections, MaxJoins
+ (see example configuration file "doc/sample-ngircd.conf"!).
+
+
+II. Standard Installation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+ngIRCd is developed for UNIX-based systems, which means that the installation
+on modern UNIX-like systems that are supported by GNU autoconf and GNU
+automake ("configure") should be no problem.
+
+The normal installation procedure after getting (and expanding) the source
+files (using a distribution archive or CVS) is as following:
+
+ 1) ./autogen.sh [only necessary when using CVS]
+ 2) ./configure
+ 3) make
+ 4) make install
+
+(Please see details below!)
+
+Now the newly compiled executable "ngircd" is installed in its standard
+location, /usr/local/sbin/.
+
+The next step is to configure and afterwards starting the daemon. Please
+have a look at the ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5) manual pages for details
+and all possible options.