+ngIRCd Release 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)
+
+ - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
+
+ ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
+ - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
+ - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
+ ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
+
+ ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
+ - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
+ runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
+ Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
+ - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
+ (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
+ Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
+ "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
+ Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
+ - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
+ connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
+ the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
+ - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
+ signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
+ using the command line parameters.
+ - Implement user mode "x": hostname cloaking (closes: #102).
+ - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
+ file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
+ re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
+ - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
+ - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
+ - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
+ - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
+ file doc/PAM.txt for details.
+ - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
+ - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
+ 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~rc2 (2010-04-25)
+ - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
+ connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
+ the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
+
+ ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
+ - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
+ required to secure this command must be configured using the new
+ "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
+ - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
+ - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
+ Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
+ to join such a channel.
+ But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
+ when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
+ 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~rc1 (2009-10-15)
+ - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
+ ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
+ - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
+ implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
+ - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
+ enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
+ on the local server.
+ - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
+ 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)
+
+ - 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~rc1 (2009-03-29)
+ - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
+ - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
+ - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
+ new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
+ here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
+ 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~rc1 (2008-11-21):
+ - New version number scheme :-)
+ - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
+ tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
+ For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
+ to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
+ - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
+ OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
+ New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
+ SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
+ - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
+ visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
+ In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
+ all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
+ - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
+ - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
+ daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
+
+ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
+
+ - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
+ - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
+ obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
+ is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
+ Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
+ but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
+
+ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
+
+ ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
+ - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
+
+ ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
+ - Add IPv6 support.
+ - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
+ - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
+ enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
+ - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
+ nickname/servername/hostname, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
+ (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
+ - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
+ as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
+ member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
+ - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
+
+ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
+
+ - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
+ - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
+ the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
+ - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
+ length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
+ - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
+ - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
+ disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
+ but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
+ - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
+ operators.
+
+ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
+
+ - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
+ (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
+ - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
+ well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
+ - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
+
+ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
+
+ - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
+ - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
+ join predefined channels.
+
+ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
+
+ ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
+ - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
+ to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
+ - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
+ - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
+ - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
+ is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
+ limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
+ - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
+ lookup to prevent spoofing.
+ - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
+ addition to the select() interface.
+
+ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
+
+ - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
+ - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
+ - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
+ - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
+ when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
+ to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
+ Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
+ - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
+ - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
+ commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
+ - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
+ the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
+ Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
+ - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
+ Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
+ API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
+
+ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
+
+ - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
+ Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
+ its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
+ to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
+ "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
+ - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
+ establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
+ - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
+ - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
+ - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
+ have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
+ The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
+
+ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
+
+ - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
+ simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
+ This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
+ (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.
+
+ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
+
+ - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
+ RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
+ configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
+ to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
+ - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
+ - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
+ - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
+ - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
+ new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
+ - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
+ configure to enable it.
+ - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
+ instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
+ "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
+ - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
+ - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
+
+
+Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
+
+ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
+
+ - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
+ noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
+ - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
+ bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
+ - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
+ kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
+ Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
+ - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
+ Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
+ ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
+ Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
+ werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
+ - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asyncronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
+ Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
+ B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
+ wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
+ - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
+ macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
+ - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
+ (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
+ nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
+ kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
+ miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
+ - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
+ der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
+ - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
+
+ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
+
+ - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
+ (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
+ - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
+ dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.