ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
http://ngircd.barton.de/
- (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
+ (c)2001-2014 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
I. Upgrade Information
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+Differences to version 20.x
+
+- Starting with ngIRCd 21, the ciphers used by SSL are configurable and
+ default to HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH (OpenSSL) or SECURE128 (GnuTLS).
+ Previous version were using the OpenSSL or GnuTLS defaults, DEFAULT
+ and NORMAL respectively.
+
+- When adding GLINE's or KLINE's to ngIRCd 21 (or newer), all clients matching
+ the new mask will be KILL'ed. This was not the case with earlier versions
+ that only added the mask but didn't kill already connected users.
+
Differences to version 19.x
- Starting with ngIRCd 20, users can "cloak" their hostname only when the
configuration variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set.
- Otherwise, only IRC opertators, other servers, and services are allowed to
+ Otherwise, only IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to
set mode +x. This prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)