ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
http://ngircd.barton.de/
- (c)2001-2014 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.
-- ChangeLog --
-ngIRCd 22
+ngIRCd 23 (2015-11-16)
+
+ - Explicitly cast time_t to long when printing it out: this prevents
+ wrong sized data types on platforms where time_t doesn't equal a
+ long any more, for example on OpenBSD (which would result in garbled
+ output on those platforms).
+ - contrib/Debian/changelog: Fix email address.
+ - Documentation: Spelling fixes; update doc/Platforms.txt.
+
+ ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06)
+ - Add ".clang_complete" file, which is used by the "linter-clang" package
+ of the Atom editor, for example.
+ - Make server-to-server protocol more robust: ngIRCd now catches more
+ errors on the server-to-server (S2S) protocol that could crash the
+ daemon before. This hasn't been a real problem because the IRC S2S
+ protocol is "trusted" by design, but the behavior is much better now.
+ Thanks to wowaname on #ngircd for pointing this out!
+ - Make platformtest.sh, autogen.sh, and ngircd.init more portable.
+ - Enables "reproducible builds" for ngIRCd: Use the optional BIRTHTIME
+ constant while building ngIRCd, which contains a time stamp for the
+ "Birth Date" information, in seconds since the epoch.
+ See <https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds>.
+ - Update "contrib/ngircd.service" file for systemd.
+ - INSTALL: Add deprecation notice for "PredefChannelsOnly" variable.
+ - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is
+ a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea.
+ Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not
+ available. This mimics the behavior in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd
+ 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217.
+ The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed
+ to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still
+ supported for compatibility reasons.
+ - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick
+ name while on this channel). Closes #214.
+ - README, AUTHORS: Update mailing list and issue tracker URLs.
+ - Remove doc/GIT.txt (it is outdated), update doc/Contributing.txt:
+ ngIRCd uses GitHub, and Git itself is quite common today. So don't
+ include an own Git "mini HowTo" any longer.
+ - Specify session context for OpenSSL clients. This enables some OpenSSL
+ clients, including Pidgin and stunnel 5.06, to reuse a session.
+ Patch by Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>, thanks! Closes #182.
+ - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts.
+ Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203.
+ - Make setgroups(3) function optional: For example, Interix is missing
+ this function, which prevented ngIRCd to build on this platform. When
+ setgroups(3) isn't available, a warning message is issued on startup.
+ - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients
+ expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly.
+ Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
+ - Update ngircd.conf.5: "CloakUserToNick" hides user _and_ real name.
+ This closes #208.
+ - Fix case insensitive pattern matching: Up to now, only the the input
+ string became lowercased and was then compared to the pattern -- which
+ failed when the pattern itself wasn't all lowercase!
+ - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
+ in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't
+ hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect.
+ This closes #198.
+ - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set.
+ Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202.
+ - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents
+ ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see
+ the channel list).
+ Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197.
+ - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure
+ that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users
+ to local ("&") channels.
+ Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183.
+ - INVITE command: Enforce 1 second penalty time, which prevents flooding
+ of the target client.
+ This closes #186. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
+ - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when
+ receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation
+ time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports
+ the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined
+ to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this.
+ This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
+ - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (6.3).
+
+ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
+
+ - Update doc/Platforms.txt and doc/FAQ.txt.
+ - Fix spelling of RPL_WHOISBOT message text.
+ - Don't send nick name as default PART reason: No other IRC daemon seems
+ to do this (today?). Closes #185.
+ Reported by Cahata in #ngircd, thanks!
+ - Fix "WHO #<chan>" showing invisible users and hiding all visible, the
+ logic was reversed! This bug has been introduced by commit c74115f2,
+ "Simplify mode checking on channels and users within a channel", ngIRCd
+ releases 21, 21.1, and 22 are affected :-( Problem reported by Cahata
+ in #ngircd, Thanks!
+ - Fix typo in src/testsuite/README
+ - Auth PING: Fix our information text for manual sending of "PONG". Up to
+ now, ngIRCd doesn't send a valid IRC command at all, oops!
+ - Auth PING: Fix internal time stamp conversion and don't send a prefix in
+ our PING command. The prefix confuses WeeChat, at least, which doesn't
+ send an appropriate PONG in the case ...
+ Debugging and patch by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
+ - Fix syntax of ERR_LISTFULL_MSG(478) numeric. Pointed out by "wowaname"
+ in #ngircd, thanks!
+ - Enhance debug messages while sending CHANINFO commands.
+ - Reset "last try" timer when enabling a passive server. This results in
+ a new connection attempt as soon as possible.
+ - Change log message for "Can't resolve address" and for IP address
+ forgeries.
+ - doc/HowToRelease.txt: Add note about the bug tracker.
+ - 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.
"CC=xxx MAKE=yyy ./platformtest.sh" calling convention.
- Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
- Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
- and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
+ and capability "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
- Update Xcode project files: reference missing documentation files.
- Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot.
- contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent
ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27)
- - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updateed project file
+ - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updated project file
to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it
is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default
PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd.
ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
- ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a.
- Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
- - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
+ - Make source code compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
- ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C.
- ./configure: check support for C prototypes again.
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",
+ Possible values are system dependent, 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
- Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
- Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
- INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
- - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
+ - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contents 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.
- Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon.
- Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h
- Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists
- Updated doc/Platforms.txt
- - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
+ - Enhance 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)
- Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups.
- contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit.
- - Updatet doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
+ - Updated doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA).
- Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list).
- Added missing modes to USERMODES #define
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
+ - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (instead 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
- Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down.
(closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net)
- Fix handling of channels containing dots.
- (closes ug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
+ (closes bug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
- Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
- Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
- - Removed typedefs for the native C datatypes.
+ - Removed typedefs for the native C data types.
Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available.
- New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
- Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
- Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The
- german documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
+ German documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
- Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision.
- Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding.
- Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool".
member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd.
-Older changes (sorry, only available in german language):
+Older changes (sorry, only available in German language):
ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002