2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2024 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
13 - The server "Name" in the "[Global]" section of the configuration file no
14 longer needs to be set: When not set (or empty), ngIRCd now tries to
15 deduce a valid IRC server name from the local host name ("node name"),
16 possibly adding a ".host" extension when the host name does not contain a
17 dot (".") which is required in an IRC server name ("ID").
18 This new behaviour, with all configuration parameters now being optional,
19 allows running ngIRCd without any configuration file at all.
20 - autogen.sh: Prefer automake 1.11 over other releases because this is the
21 last release supporting "de-ANSI-fication" using the included ansi2knr tool.
22 And because we _want_ to support old K&R platforms, we try hard to use this
23 release of automake when available to generate our build system.
24 Note: This is only relevant for you if you are building from Git sources.
25 - Autodetect support for IPv6 by default: Until now, IPv6 support was disabled
26 by default, which seems a bit outdated in 2024. Note: You still can pass
27 "--enable-ipv6"/"--disable-ipv6" to the ./configure script to forcefully
28 activate or deactivate IPv6 support.
29 - Update config.guess and config.sub to recent versions
30 - Remove the unmaintained contrib/MacOSX/ folder: this includes the Xcode
31 project as well as the outdated macOS "Package Maker" configuration. The
32 sample launchd(8) configuration properties list file was moved to
33 "contrib/de.barton.ngircd.plist" and kept.
34 - Fix Channel Admins being able to to set Channel Owner status! "Sarah"
35 reported this back in April 2021 and proposed a patch, thanks a lot!
36 - Test suite: Update for OpenSSL 3.x, some command outputs changed.
37 - Fix showing the "Ident" option in "--configtest" output which was never
38 shown because of a coding error. Whoops!
39 - Change GnuTLS "slot handling" messages to debug level: Those messages are
40 about an internal implementation detail, not relevant for an administrator
42 - Enlarge buffer for log messages: For example, SSL/TLS certificate
43 information can easily get longer than 256 characters. So enlarge the log
45 - Respect "SSLConnect" option for incoming connections and do not accept
46 incoming plain-text ("non SSL") server connections for servers configured
47 with "SSLConnect" enabled. This change prevents an authenticated
48 client-server being able to force the server-server to send its password
49 on a plain-text connection when SSL/TLS was intended.
50 - Add "hopm.service" to "Wants" and "Before" dependencies in the sample
51 systemd unit file (Hopm is the successor of Bopm).
52 - Return ERR_NOTEXTTOSEND on empty PRIVMSG content, which matches the
53 behaviour of other servers.
54 - Add a new option "Autojoin" to [Channel] blocks: When it is set, ngIRCd
55 automatically joins all local users to this channel on connect. Note: The
56 users must have permissions to access the channel, otherwise joining them
58 Thanks Ivan Agarkov <i_agarkov@wargaming.net> for the initial patch!
59 - Hide +i users on "WHOIS <pattern>": Let's behave like most(?) other IRC
60 daemons (at least ircd2.11) and hide all +i users when WHOIS is used with a
61 pattern. Otherwise privacy of this users is not guaranteed and the +i mode
63 Reported by Cahata on #ngircd, thanks!
64 - Update the final "closing connection" message: Add some more information
65 like nick name, user name, host name and bring it in line with some other
66 implementations (at least ircd2.11 and Hybrid).
67 - Fix RPL_INVITING message: All numeric replies must originate from an IRC
68 server, never from a client. Thanks "tommyrot" for reporting this!
70 - Enhance some log messages, for example for errors when accepting new
72 - Add "+DEBUG" to the version "feature string" only when the daemon is
73 ./configure'd and build with "--enable-debug".
74 - Always report an error when a parameter is missing in a channel "MODE +k"
75 or "MODE +l" command, and better validate their parameters: return the new
76 numeric ERR_INVALIDMODEPARAM_MSG(696) on errors.
77 Thanks Val Lorentz for reporting it!
79 - Allow IRC Operators to use the WHO command on any channel.
80 - No longer use Travis-CI, add configuration for "ngIRCd CI" GitHub Action.
81 - Send the NAMES list and channel topic to users "forcefully" joined to a
82 channel using NJOIN, like they joined on their own using JOIN, and
83 streamline the order of NAMES list and channel topic messages.
85 - Fix (invalid) error messages when setting modes on local channels which
86 are defined in the configuration file.
87 - Fix handling of G-Lines/K-Lines with cloaked host names.
88 - Add new "-y"/"--syslog" command line option to allow logging to syslog to
89 be enabled/disabled separately from running on the console ("--nodaemon")
91 Thanks Katherine Peeters for the patch and pull request!
93 - Fix a possible race condition while introducing new clients in the network.
94 - Update and enhance our documentation a bit (README.md, INSTALL.md), add
95 doc/QuickStart.md, convert some more files to Markdown (SSL.md, FAQ.md).
97 ngIRCd 26.1 (2021-01-02)
99 - Fix a "format string" compiler warning (detected on OpenBSD).
100 - No longer set "AI_ADDRCONFIG" when resolving host names, even when it
101 exists: with this option set, on an IPv6-only host, we prevent 127.0.0.1
102 to get translated properly, even when the loopback interface has this
103 address configured! And as the test suite uses 127.0.0.1, it was broken
105 The drawback is that the resolver possibly returns more addresses now,
106 even of an unsupported/not connected address family; but this shouldn't
107 do much harm in practice, as ngIRCd iterates over all returned addresses
108 while trying to establish an outgoing connection.
110 - Revert "Show allowed channel types in ISUPPORT(005) numeric only", which
111 was introduced in 26~rc1: This lead to some IRC clients assuming "oh, no
112 channel prefix characters at all, so no channels at all, so no PRIVMSG can
113 go to any channel" when "AllowedChannelTypes" was set to the empty string
114 ("") -- which is not the case when there are pre-defined channel set up or
115 other servers still having channels!
116 So "allowed channel types" != "supported channel types", and we always have
117 to list all supported ones in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric!
119 - Test suite: Wait 2 seconds after reloading the daemon, which is required
120 because on reload, all listening ports are closed, configuration updated,
121 and then opened again. This lead to subsequent tests running while the
122 daemon isn't listening on any ports, and that's why some tests could fail.
124 - platformtest.sh: Try to mangle CLang name more intelligently.
125 - Documentation: Fixed URLs of Atheme IRC services, updated all mentions
126 from CVS to Git, and updated Platforms.txt -- Oh, and it is 2021 now! ;-)
128 ngIRCd 26 (2020-06-20)
130 ngIRCd 26~rc2 (2020-06-11)
131 - Add AppStream metadata file (contrib/de.barton.ngircd.metainfo.xml).
132 - Don't send invalid CHANINFO commands when a channel has mode +k set but no
133 key is known to the server. This can happen with a misconfigured predefined
134 channel, for example, and looked like this: "CHANINFO #test +Pk 0 :" --
135 note the unset key represented by the two spaces. Fix this by sending a
136 "*" in this case and update the CHANINFO documentation, too.
137 - ngircd.spec: Fix names of README.md and INSTALL.md, add ".md" extension.
138 - Update description texts in the README.md file, the RPM and Debian package
139 files and the manual page: bring them in line with the updated homepage.
140 - Server-Server protocol: Fix use-after-free when unregistering a directly
141 connected server sending a SQUIT for itself.
142 - Server-Server protocol: Detect bogus SERVER commands lacking a prefix.
143 Thanks Hilko Bengen (hillu) for finding & reporting this as well for the
144 patch & pull request (even if fixed differently).
146 - Fix the PING-PONG logic: In ngIRCd 26~rc1 this was completely broken (while
147 trying to fix timeouts during server handshakes in bigger networks): the
148 daemon never disconnected any stale peers but kept sending out PINGs over
150 - Test suite: Add missing files needed to test SSL support to "EXTRA_DIST",
151 so that they are included in distribution archives: in rc1, "make check"
152 fails when using sources from an archive and enabling SSL support.
153 Thanks to Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de> for the patch!
155 ngIRCd 26~rc1 (2020-05-10)
156 - Tweak & update doc/HowToRelease.txt, .mailmap and AUTHORS files.
157 - Allow up to 512 characters per line in MOTD and help text files (but keep
158 in mind that lines can't get that long, because they have to be prefixed
159 before being sent to the client). But this allows for more fancy MOTDs :-)
161 - Show the actually allowed channel types in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric which
162 are configured by the "AllowedChannelTypes" configuration variable.
164 - Handle commands in the read buffer before reading more data and don't wait
165 for the network in this case: If there are more bytes in the read buffer
166 already than a single valid IRC command can get long (513 bytes), wait for
167 this/those command(s) to be handled first and don't try to read even more
168 data from the network (which most probably would overflow the read buffer
169 of this connection soon).
170 - Update Travis-CI configuration, "sudo" is deprecated.
171 - Log G-/K-Line changes only when not initiated by a server: this prevents
172 the log from becoming spammed during "net bursts".
173 - Update test suite to include SSL tests, including checking for reloading
174 certificates during runtime.
175 - Makefile.am: Replace "make" with "${MAKE}". This fixes warnings like this:
176 "warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule."
177 Thanks to Sam James (sam_c) <sam@cmpct.info>!
179 - Add support for GnuTLS certificate reload, which is quite handy when using
180 Let's Encrypt, for example. Until now this was only supported when linked
181 with OpenSSL. Thanks a lot, Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de>!
182 - Remove deprecated legacy configuration options and related functions that
183 have been marked for removal for quite some time:
184 - PredefChannelsOnly (v22)
187 - Old '[GLOBAL]' section handling (v19)
188 Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
189 - Fix recursion bug on write errors: Depending on the stack size, too many
190 clients on the same channel quitting at the same time would trigger a crash
191 due to too many recursive calls to Conn_Close(). Thanks to Michi
192 <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
193 - Fix builds using GCC option -fno-common, which is the default starting with
194 GCC 10. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
196 - Convert INSTALL and README files to Markdown.
197 - Allow setting arbitrary channel modes in the configuration file by handling
198 them like in MODE commands, and allow multiple "Modes =" lines per [Channel]
199 section. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org>!
201 - Add "FNC" (forced nick changes) to ISUPPORT(005) numeric. Most probably
202 this doesn't make any difference to any client, but it seems correct.
203 See <http://www.irc.org/tech_docs/005.html> for details.
204 - Reuse old SSL key if loading a new one failed.
205 - Remove outdated OpenBSD/NetBSD systrace.policy.
206 - Enhance handling of command line errors, and return with exit code 0 ("no
207 error") when "--help" or "--version" is used (which resulted in exit code 1,
208 "error" before). Exit with code 2 ("command line error") for all other
209 invalid command line options, and show the error message itself on stderr
210 (instead of stdout and exit code 1, "generic error", as before).
211 This new behaviour is more in line with the GNU "coding standards",
212 see <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html>.
213 - Fix and update Xcode project: Reference correct contrib/Makefile.am file,
214 correctly sort contrib/nglog.sh and add "ORGANIZATIONNAME" setting.
215 - contrib/ngindent.sh: Add more GNU indent options for better results, and
216 add the ".sh" suffix to bring this script in line with the others in the
218 - Add ./contrib/nglog.sh: This script parses the log output of ngircd(8),
219 and colorizes the messages according to their log level. Example usage:
220 ngircd -f $PWD/doc/sample-ngircd.conf -np | ./contrib/nglog.sh
221 - Log received signals with their names using strsignal(3), when available.
222 - Make test suite compatible with Haiku OS.
223 - Fix host mask cloaking bug, don't cloak multiple times: Previously, each
224 server would cloak every user's host mask. The problem is that if a network
225 has more than one server, then a user's host mask would get cloaked twice.
226 This patch ensures that a server only cloaks the host mask if it has not yet
227 been cloaked (the period indicates it's still an IP address). Thanks to
228 JRMU <jrmu@lecturify.com> for the patch!
230 - Enlarge buffers of info texts to 128 bytes. This includes:
231 - "Real name" of a client (4th filed of the USER command).
232 - Server info text ("Info" configuration option).
233 - Admin info texts and email address ("AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" and
234 "AdminEmail" configuration options).
235 - Network name ("Network" configuration option).
236 The limit was 64 bytes before ...
238 - Streamline handling of invalid and unset server name: Don't exit during
239 runtime (REHASH command, HUP signal), because the server name can't be
240 changed in this case anyway and the new invalid name will be ignored.
241 - Fix and extend documentation: Fix some typos, fix syntax of LINKS and LIST
242 commands, whitespace and spelling fixes, update dependencies and add some
243 more information about IRCv3 support.
244 Thanks to Thanks Windree, Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> and
245 Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
247 - Slightly reorder startup steps, and enhance logging:
248 - Show name of configuration file at the beginning of start up.
249 - Add a message when ngIRCd is ready, including its host name.
250 - Show name of configuration file on REHASH (SIGHUP), too.
251 - Change level of "done message" to NOTICE, like "starting" & "ready".
252 - Initialize IO functions before channels, connections, clients, ...
253 - configure.ng: OpenSSL can depends on lz or latomic so use pkg-config to
254 find those dependencies and fallback to existing mechanism.
256 - ngircd.conf.5: Fix wording as suggested by lintian.
258 ngIRCd 25 (2019-01-23)
260 - Fix documentation of MotdPhrase length, which actually is 126 characters:
261 update sample configuration file as well as the man page. Thanks to
262 shankari <shankari@eecs.berkeley.edu>.
264 - Implement new configuration option "MaxPenaltyTime", which configures the
265 maximum penalty time increase in seconds, per penalty event. Set to -1 for
266 no limit (the default), 0 to disable penalties altogether. ngIRCd doesn't
267 use penalty increases higher than 2 seconds during normal operation, so
268 values higher than 1 rarely make sense.
269 Disabling (or reducing) penalties can greatly speed up "make check" runs
270 for example, see below, but are mostly a debugging feature and normally
271 not meant to be used on production systems!
272 Some example timings running "make check" from my macOS workstation:
273 - MaxPenaltyTime not set: 4:41,79s
274 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 1": 3:14,71s
275 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 0": 25,46s
276 Closes #249 and #251.
277 - Fix compilation without deprecated OpenSSL APIs. Thanks to Rosen Penev
278 <rosenp@gmail.com> for the patch!
280 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (10.0)
281 - Fix some compiler warnings of Apple Xcode/Clang
282 - Allow a 5th parameter in WEBIRC. Thanks to "ItsOnlyBinary".
284 - Update some more documentation files and source code comments.
285 - Platforms.txt: Add and update systems.
287 ngIRCd 25~rc1 (2018-08-11)
288 - Update config.guess (2018-03-08) and config.sub (2018-03-08) files.
289 - Correctly retry to establish an outgoing connections when forking of the
290 resolver sub-process failed (for example because of lack of free memory).
291 Until now, such a connection was never retried once this error was hit.
292 Thanks to Robert Obermeier for reporting this bug!
294 - Fix a "use after free" bug which can be triggered on a newly established
295 connection when the daemon handles an ERROR command received from the peer
296 during client login. Thanks a lot to Joseph Bisch <joseph.bisch@gmail.com>
297 for discovering and reporting this issue!
298 - Only send TOPIC updates to a channel when the topic actually changed:
299 This prevents the channel from becoming flooded by unnecessary TOPIC update
300 messages, that can happen when IRC services try to enforce a certain topic
301 but which is already set (at least on the local server), for example.
302 Therefore still forward it to all servers, but don't inform local clients
303 (still update setter and timestamp information, though).
304 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (9.2). This includes adding
305 missing and deleting obsolete file references.
306 - Handle user mode "C" ("Only users that share a channel are allowed to send
307 messages") like user mode "b" ("block private messages and notices"): allow
308 messages from servers, services, and IRC Operators, too. Change proposed by
309 "wowaname" back in 2015 in #ngircd, thanks!
310 - Fix some compiler warnings.
311 - Add contrib/ngircd.logcheck: Some sample logcheck(8) rules.
312 - Allow IRC Ops and remote servers to KILL service clients: such clients
313 behave like regular users, therefore IRC operators and servers should be
314 able to KILL them: for example to resolve nick collisions.
316 - Don't forward KILLs to other servers if they've been blocked locally:
317 This prevents clients from killing IRC services, for example.
318 Closes #238 and #239.
319 - Fix a cross-compiler issue related to the Get_Error() function.
320 Closes #240 and #241.
321 - Update ./doc/Services.txt, enhance configuration examples.
323 ngIRCd 24 (2017-01-20)
325 - Make sure that ./contrib/platformtest.sh aborts when ./autogen.sh fails.
326 - Update config.guess (2016-10-02) and config.sub (2016-11-04) files.
327 - Build Debian packages with OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS: OpenSSL allows
328 to reload used certificates on runtime for example (which is very
329 useful when using Let's Encrypt), and therefore is preferred. And
330 explicitly specify the "source format".
331 - Fix handling of connection pool allocation and enlargement: up to now,
332 the daemon only enlarged its connection pool when accepting new incoming
333 client or server connections, not when establishing new outgoing server
334 links, which could lead to problems when hitting the configured limit,
335 see "MaxConnections". Thanks to Lukas Braun (k00mi) for reporting this!
338 ngIRCd 24~rc1 (2017-01-07)
339 - Enhance systemd service file, and install it in Debian package.
340 - Update configuration of Debian package.
341 - Log privilege violations and failed OPER request with log level "error"
342 and send it to the "&SERVER" channel, too.
343 - Immediately shut down connection when receiving an "ERROR" command,
344 don't wait for the peer to close the connection. This allows the daemon
345 to forward the received "ERROR" message in the network, instead of the
346 very generic "client closed connection" message.
347 - Fix sending of entry duration (no negative values!) when synchronizing
349 - List expiration (G-LINES): use same log level as when setting, and log
350 this event to the &SERVER channel, too.
351 - Explicitly forbid remote servers to modify "x-lines" (G-LINES) when the
352 "AllowRemoteOper" configuration option isn't set, even when the command
353 seems to originate from the remote server itself: this prevents GLINE's
354 to become set during server handshake in this case (what wouldn't be
355 possible during regular runtime when a remote IRC Op sends the command)
356 and what can't be undone by IRC Ops later on (because of the missing
357 "AllowRemoteOper" option) ...
358 - Make scripts and init-files in ./contrib executable.
359 - Fix building ngIRCd with OpenSSL 1.1. Thanks to Christoph Biedl
360 <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de> for the patch!
361 - Fix code indentation warnings of gcc 6.2.
362 - Update config.guess (2016-04-02) and config.sub (2016-03-30) files.
363 - Fix warnings of the "shellcheck" linter in autogen.sh, contrib/ngindent
364 and contrib/platformtest.sh.
365 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (8.0), and fix "duplicate
366 symbols" error messages when building (linking) the binary.
367 - Add "Documentation" variables to systemd configuration files.
368 - Make sure that SYSCONFDIR is always set, which can be handy when
369 using source code linters when ./configure hasn't been run already.
370 - Add the new "PAMServiceName" configuration option to specify the name
371 used as PAM service name. This setting allows to run multiple ngIRCd
372 instances with different PAM configurations for each instance.
373 Thanks to Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at> for the
375 - Add an ".editorconfig" file to the project.
376 - Travis-CI: use "container-based infrastructure".
377 - Limit the number of message targets, and suppress duplicates: This
378 prevents an user from flooding the server using commands like this:
379 "PRIVMSG nick1,nick1,nick1,...".
380 Duplicate targets are suppressed silently (channels and clients).
381 In addition, the maximum number of targets per PRIVMSG, NOTICE, ...
382 command are limited to MAX_HNDL_TARGETS (25). If there are more, the
383 daemon sends the new 407 (ERR_TOOMANYTARGETS_MSG) numeric, containing
384 the first target that hasn't been handled any more. Closes #187.
385 - Test suite: Add new test for server-server logins.
386 - contrib/ngindent: Fix shebang line.
387 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh script more portable, and only show
388 "runs=Y" when the test suite really has been passed successfully.
389 - Code cleanup in the NJOIN handler and the function killing clients as
390 well as the function sending messages to a "mask" (cleaner code, more
391 fault tolerant, better code comments).
392 - Update and enhance documentation: README file, doc/Platforms.txt,
393 doc/Modes.txt, doc/Commands.txt, doc/PAM.txt.
394 - Fix NJOIN not propagating "half ops" status: ngIRCd tested for the wrong
395 prefix of "half ops" when processing NJOIN commands and therefore never
396 classified a remote user as "half op".
397 Thanks to wowaname for pointing this out on #ngircd!
399 ngIRCd 23 (2015-11-16)
401 - Explicitly cast time_t to long when printing it out: this prevents
402 wrong sized data types on platforms where time_t doesn't equal a
403 long any more, for example on OpenBSD (which would result in garbled
404 output on those platforms).
405 - contrib/Debian/changelog: Fix email address.
406 - Documentation: Spelling fixes; update doc/Platforms.txt.
408 ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06)
409 - Add ".clang_complete" file, which is used by the "linter-clang" package
410 of the Atom editor, for example.
411 - Make server-to-server protocol more robust: ngIRCd now catches more
412 errors on the server-to-server (S2S) protocol that could crash the
413 daemon before. This hasn't been a real problem because the IRC S2S
414 protocol is "trusted" by design, but the behavior is much better now.
415 Thanks to wowaname on #ngircd for pointing this out!
416 - Make platformtest.sh, autogen.sh, and ngircd.init more portable.
417 - Enables "reproducible builds" for ngIRCd: Use the optional BIRTHTIME
418 constant while building ngIRCd, which contains a time stamp for the
419 "Birth Date" information, in seconds since the epoch.
420 See <https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds>.
421 - Update "contrib/ngircd.service" file for systemd.
422 - INSTALL: Add deprecation notice for "PredefChannelsOnly" variable.
423 - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is
424 a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea.
425 Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not
426 available. This mimics the behavior in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd
427 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217.
428 The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed
429 to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still
430 supported for compatibility reasons.
431 - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick
432 name while on this channel). Closes #214.
433 - README, AUTHORS: Update mailing list and issue tracker URLs.
434 - Remove doc/GIT.txt (it is outdated), update doc/Contributing.txt:
435 ngIRCd uses GitHub, and Git itself is quite common today. So don't
436 include an own Git "mini HowTo" any longer.
437 - Specify session context for OpenSSL clients. This enables some OpenSSL
438 clients, including Pidgin and stunnel 5.06, to reuse a session.
439 Patch by Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>, thanks! Closes #182.
440 - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts.
441 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203.
442 - Make setgroups(3) function optional: For example, Interix is missing
443 this function, which prevented ngIRCd to build on this platform. When
444 setgroups(3) isn't available, a warning message is issued on startup.
445 - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients
446 expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly.
447 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
448 - Update ngircd.conf.5: "CloakUserToNick" hides user _and_ real name.
450 - Fix case insensitive pattern matching: Up to now, only the input
451 string became lowercased and was then compared to the pattern -- which
452 failed when the pattern itself wasn't all lowercase!
453 - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
454 in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't
455 hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect.
457 - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set.
458 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202.
459 - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents
460 ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see
462 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197.
463 - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure
464 that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users
465 to local ("&") channels.
466 Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183.
467 - INVITE command: Enforce 1 second penalty time, which prevents flooding
468 of the target client.
469 This closes #186. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
470 - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when
471 receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation
472 time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports
473 the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined
474 to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this.
475 This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
476 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (6.3).
478 ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
480 - Update doc/Platforms.txt and doc/FAQ.txt.
481 - Fix spelling of RPL_WHOISBOT message text.
482 - Don't send nick name as default PART reason: No other IRC daemon seems
483 to do this (today?). Closes #185.
484 Reported by Cahata in #ngircd, thanks!
485 - Fix "WHO #<chan>" showing invisible users and hiding all visible, the
486 logic was reversed! This bug has been introduced by commit c74115f2,
487 "Simplify mode checking on channels and users within a channel", ngIRCd
488 releases 21, 21.1, and 22 are affected :-( Problem reported by Cahata
490 - Fix typo in src/testsuite/README
491 - Auth PING: Fix our information text for manual sending of "PONG". Up to
492 now, ngIRCd doesn't send a valid IRC command at all, oops!
493 - Auth PING: Fix internal time stamp conversion and don't send a prefix in
494 our PING command. The prefix confuses WeeChat, at least, which doesn't
495 send an appropriate PONG in the case ...
496 Debugging and patch by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
497 - Fix syntax of ERR_LISTFULL_MSG(478) numeric. Pointed out by "wowaname"
499 - Enhance debug messages while sending CHANINFO commands.
500 - Reset "last try" timer when enabling a passive server. This results in
501 a new connection attempt as soon as possible.
502 - Change log message for "Can't resolve address" and for IP address
504 - doc/HowToRelease.txt: Add note about the bug tracker.
505 - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch,
506 and testing by Christoph Biedl <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
507 - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating
508 systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example
509 "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to
510 "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve
511 "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using
512 DNS at all makes the test site much more portable.
514 ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
516 - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
517 ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
518 Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
520 ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
521 - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
522 lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
523 nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
524 Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
525 - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
526 - Correctly check that a server has a valid hostname and port, thanks to
527 David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com> who reported this bug.
528 - Fix the function which generates complete "IRC masks" from user input,
529 don't destroy the source buffer and use all provided parts (nick, user,
530 host name). This fixes GLINEs/KLINEs from not working in some situations.
531 - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
532 that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
533 this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
534 if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
535 - Debian: Don't adjust path names that are correct by default and correctly
536 set and use "docdir".
537 - Update config.guess and config.sub to recent versions.
538 - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
539 - doc/Bopm.txt: Update "connregex" and "kline" for current ngIRCd.
540 - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
541 settable by IRC Operators.
542 - Spoofed prefixes: Really kill connection on non-server links.
543 - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
544 "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
545 settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
546 careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
547 User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
548 - Handle "throttling" in a single function: ngIRCd implements "command
549 throttling" and "bps throttling" (bytes per second). The states are
550 detected in different functions, Conn_Handler() and Read_Request(), but
551 handle the actual "throttling" in a common function: this enables us to
552 guarantee consistent behavior and to disable throttling for special
553 connections in only one place
554 - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
555 - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
556 - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
557 Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
558 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
559 on "VPATH builds", for example.
560 - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
561 and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
562 - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
563 using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
564 names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
565 is quite unexpected for users.
566 - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
567 allow using separate source and build trees.
568 - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
569 - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
571 - Update configure.ng: ngIRCd requires GNU autoconf 2.61 for generating its
572 build system, so update the build system accordingly and implement all
573 changes that autoupdate(1) suggests: Update AC_PREREQ and AC_INIT, use
574 AC_LINK_IFELSE, AC_RUN_IFELSE, and AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, and remove
575 AC_TYPE_SIGNAL (we don't use RETSIGTYPE).
576 - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
577 and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
578 useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
579 been linked at all ...).
580 - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
581 (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
582 daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
583 which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
584 - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
585 - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
586 Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
587 return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
588 DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
589 - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
592 ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
594 - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
595 disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
596 - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
597 - Really kill connections that send "spoofed prefixes" on non-server links.
598 This fixes commit 6cbe1308 which only killed the connection when the
599 spoofed prefix itself belonged to a non-server client.
600 - CHARCONV command: Fix handling conversion errors, don't overwrite already
602 - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
603 - Correctly use cloaked IRC masks on "INVITE nickname": The cloaked IRC mask
604 of a user is his visible mask, so the daemon has to use it for generating
605 the "one time" entries for the invite list of the given channel, and not
606 the "real" mask which will never match while the target client is "+x", and
607 even worse, will disclose the real mask on "MODE #channel +I" commands :-/
608 Bug reported by Cahata on #ngircd, thanks!
609 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists. This isn't the case on
610 "VPATH builds", for example.
611 - Use $(MKDIR_P) instead of $(mkinstalldirs) in Makefile's and test for
612 "mkdir -p" using AC_PROG_MKDIR_P in "configure".
613 - Fix configure script and "make check" for TCP Wrappers (problems spotted on
614 OpenBSD): add missing #include's and static variables, and add libwrap at
615 the end of the configure run because if libwrap becomes added earlier,
616 other tests may fail.
617 - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
618 linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
619 been implemented already).
620 - platformtest.sh and Makefile.am: Don't use "test -e", it isn't portable.
621 - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
622 - Fix permanent {G|K}LINES (with a timeout of 0 seconds).
623 - WEBIRC: Don't set the hostname received by the WEBIRC command when DNS
624 lookups are disabled, but use the IP address instead.
625 Reported by Toni Spets <toni.spets@iki.fi>, thanks!
626 - Check for working getaddrinfo() function: At least AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1 have a
627 broken implementation of getaddrinfo() which doesn't handle "0" as numeric
628 service correctly. This patch adds a configure check for this case and
629 changes all calling functions to only use getaddrinfo() if it "works".
630 See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/lists/heimdal-discuss/2004-05/msg00059.html>
631 - Only use the unsetenv() function when it is available (AIX 4.3 doesn't
632 support it, for example).
633 - Make sure that the source code is still compatible with the "ansi2knr" tool
634 and builds using non-ANSI K&R C compilers. Tested with Apple C on A/UX.
635 - Fix building ngIRCd without support for ZLIB compression. Reported by
636 "der_baer" on #ngircd, thanks!
638 ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
640 - ./contrib/Debian/ngircd.init: Make sure no stale PID file is left over
641 when (re-)starting ngIRCd.
642 - Change ./contrib/platformtest.sh and update ./doc/Platforms.txt to
643 allow user names up to 8 characters.
644 - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
645 is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
646 initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
647 - Update our own Debian package configuration and fix the default path
648 of the "HelpFile" of the "full" package variants.
650 ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
651 - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
652 support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
653 - Use arc4random() function to generate "random" numbers, when available.
654 - platformtest.sh: Detect clang compiler, and clean up GIT source tree
655 before building (when possible).
656 - Update (date of) manual pages.
657 - Update "Upgrade Information" in INSTALL file, add more systems to
658 doc/Platforms.txt, and fix spelling in NEWS and ChangeLog files =:)
659 - Fix remaining compiler warnings on OpenBSD.
661 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
662 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
663 - Adjust log messages for invalid and spoofed prefixes, which cleans up
664 logging of commands related to already KILL'ed clients. And don't
665 forward KILL commands for (already) unknown clients any more to prevent
666 unnecessary duplicates.
667 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
668 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
669 - Fixed blocking of server reconnects in some error configurations.
670 - Don't ignore SSL-related errors during startup any more: abort startup
671 when SSL is requested by the configuration but can't be initialized and
672 don't continue only listening on plain text communication ports.
674 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
675 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
676 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
677 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
678 - Fix "TRACE": Correctly return ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) (which basically
679 is "syntax error") when there are too many parameters.
680 - Clean up lots of permission and parameter checks in functions handling
681 IRC commands; and more consistently add penalty times on errors.
682 - Fix error numeric of WHOIS when no nick name has been provided:
683 as per RFC it should be ERR_NONICKNAMEGIVEN(431).
684 - Only log "IDENT ... no result" messages when an IDENT looked took place
685 and didn't return any data, not when IDENT has been disabled.
686 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
687 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
688 the IRC "TRACE" command.
689 - Correctly discard supplementary groups on server startup.
690 - Save client IP address text for "WebIRC" users and correctly display
691 it on WHOIS, for example. (Closes bug #159)
692 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
693 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
694 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
695 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
696 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
697 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
698 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
699 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
701 - Enforce "penalty times" on error conditions more consistently and in
702 more places. Now most error codes sent back from the IRC server to the
703 client should result in a 2 second "penalty".
704 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
705 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
706 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
707 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
708 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
709 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
710 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
711 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
712 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
713 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
714 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
715 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
716 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
717 - IRC Operator names, as defined in ngircd.conf, are logged now when
718 handling successful OPER commands.
719 - Some error conditions while handling IRC commands, like "permission
720 denied" or "need more parameters", result in more penalty times.
721 - The numeric replies of some commands became split too early which
722 resulted in more numeric reply lines than necessary.
723 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
724 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
725 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
726 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
727 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
728 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
729 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
730 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
731 - Fix use-after-free in the Lists_CheckReason() function, which is used
732 to check if a client is a member of a particular ban/invite/... list.
733 - Xcode: fix detection of host OS, vendor, and CPU type, and update
734 project settings for Xcode 5.
735 - OS X PackageMaker: use relative path names in project files and package
736 with correct file permissions (requires root privileges on "make").
737 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
738 - Look for possible cloaked Masks in Lists. Users with +x user mode can
739 be banned with their cloaked hostname now.
740 - Don't read SSL client data before DNS resolver is finished which could
741 have resulted in discarding the resolved client hostname and IDENT
742 reply afterwards, because in some situations (timing dependent) the
743 NICK and USER commands could have already been read in from the client,
744 stored in the buffer, and been processed.
745 Thanks to Julian Brost for reporting the issue and testing, and to
746 Federico G. Schwindt <fgsch@lodoss.net> for helping to debug it!
747 - Increase password length limit to 64 characters. (Closes bug #154)
748 - doc/Services.txt: Update Anope status and URL.
749 - Clean up Xcode project file, remove outdated files, add missing ones.
750 - Update Doxygen configuration file.
751 - configure: search for iconv_open as well as libiconv_open, because
752 on some installations iconv_open() is actually libiconv_open().
753 iconv_open() is the glibc version while libiconv_open() is the
754 libiconv version, now both variants are supported. (Closes bug #151)
755 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
756 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
757 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
758 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
759 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
760 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
761 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
762 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
763 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
764 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
765 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
766 The default is 0, "never".
767 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
768 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
769 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
770 - contrib/README: add description for more files.
771 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
772 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
773 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
774 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
775 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
776 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
777 - Exit message: use singular & plural :-)
778 - autogen.sh: Check for autoconf/automake wrapper scripts
779 - Add missing punctuation marks in log messages, adjust some severity
780 levels, and make SSL-related messages more readable.
781 - AUTHORS file: Update list of contributors.
782 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
783 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
784 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
785 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
786 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
787 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
788 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
789 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
790 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
791 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
793 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
795 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
796 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
797 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
798 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
800 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
802 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
803 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to crash the daemon
805 - WHO command: Use the currently "displayed hostname" (which can be cloaked!)
806 for hostname matching, not the real one. In other words: don't display all
807 the cloaked users on a specific real hostname!
808 - configure: The header file "netinet/in_systm.h" already is optional in
809 ngIRCd, so don't require it in the configure script. Now ngIRCd can be
810 built on Minix 3 again :-)
811 - Return better "Connection not registered as server link" errors: Now ngIRCd
812 returns a more specific error message for numeric ERR_NOTREGISTERED(451)
813 when a regular user tries to use a command that isn't allowed for users but
815 - Don't report ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) when a MDOE command with more modes
816 than nicknames is handled, as well as for channel limit and key changes
817 without specifying the limit or key parameters.
818 This is how a lot (all?) other IRC servers behave, including ircd2.11,
819 InspIRCd, and ircd-seven. And because of clients (tested with Textual and
820 mIRC) sending bogus MODE commands like "MODE -ooo nick", end-users got the
821 expected result as well as correct but misleading error messages ...
822 - Correctly detect when SSL subsystem must be initialized and take
823 outgoing connections (server links!) into account, too.
824 - autogen.sh: Enforce serial test harness on GNU automake >=1.13. The
825 new parallel test harness which is enabled by default starting with
826 automake 1.13 isn't compatible with our test suite.
827 And don't use "egrep -o", instead use "sed", because it isn't portable
828 and not available on OpenBSD, for example.
830 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
832 - Allow ERROR command on server and service links only, ignore them and
833 add a penalty time on all other link types.
834 - Enforced mode setting by IRC Operators: Only check the channel user
835 modes of the initiator if he is joined to the channel and not an IRC
836 operator enforcing modes (which requires the configuration option
837 "OperCanUseMode" to be enabled), because trying to check channel user
838 modes of a non-member results in an assertion when running with debug
839 code or could crash the daemon otherwise. This closes bug #147, thanks
840 to James Kirwill <james.kirwill@bk.ru> for tracking this down!
841 - Fix build system to cope with spaces in path names.
842 - Code cleanups, mostly to fix build warnings on Cygwin.
844 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
846 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
847 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
848 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
849 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
850 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
852 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
853 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
854 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
855 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
856 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
857 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
858 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
859 - RPL_UMODEIS: send correct target name, even on server links.
860 - Update platformtest.sh to follow autoconf changes and only generate
861 the "configure" script when it is missing.
862 - Fix the test suite to correctly execute test scripts even when stdout
864 - Fix some compiler warnings on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
866 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
867 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
868 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
869 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
870 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
871 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
872 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
873 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
874 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
875 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
876 - Fix error message when trying to join non-predefined channels and the
877 "PredefChannelsOnly" configuration option is set.
878 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
879 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
880 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
881 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
882 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
883 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
884 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
885 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
886 - Make server reconnect time a little bit more random, so that two
887 servers trying to connect to each other asynchronously don't try this
888 in exactly the same time periods and kick each other off ...
889 - Don't accept connections for servers already being linked: there was a
890 time frame that could result in one connection overwriting the other,
891 e. g. the incoming connection overwriting the status of the outgoing
892 one. And this could lead to all kind of weirdness (even crashes!) later
893 on: now such incoming connections are dropped.
894 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
895 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
896 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
897 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
898 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
899 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
900 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
901 - WHOIS: Not only show RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG to local IRC operators, but show
902 it to all IRC operators in the network. And don't show it to anybody if
903 the "more privacy" configuration option is enabled. (Closes #134)
904 - Test suite: make expect scripts more verbose displaying dots for each
905 reply of the server that it is waiting for.
906 - WHOIS: Implement numeric RPL_WHOISMODES_MSG (379) and show user modes in
907 the reply of the WHOIS command for the user himself or, if MorePrivacy
908 isn't set, for request initiated by an IRC operator. (Closes #129)
909 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
910 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
911 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
912 - KICK-protect IRC services.
913 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
914 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
915 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
916 - Debian: require "telnet" or "telnet-ssl" for building and enable
917 CHARCONV in ngircd-full[-dbg] variants.
918 - Send RPL_REHASHING (382) numeric if a REHASH command was accepted.
919 - Fix spelling and variable names in some log messages.
920 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
921 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
922 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
923 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
924 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
926 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
927 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
928 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
930 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
931 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
932 configuration file. (Closes #136)
933 - Enhance build system: Support new (>=1.12) and old (<=1.11) GNU automake
934 versions, update checks for required and optional features, enable
935 colored test output of automake (if available), rename configure.in to
936 more modern configure.ac, include .mailmap and all build-system files in
937 distribution archives and no longer require a GIT tree to detect the
938 correct version string.
939 - Update documentation: add doc/Contributing.txt and include version
940 numbers in doc/Modes.txt.
941 - Free all listen ports on initialization: now listen ports can be
942 reconfigured on runtime using a configuration reload.
943 - Initialize SSL when needed only, and disable SSL on errors.
944 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
945 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
946 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
947 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
948 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
949 - Allow limited punctuation in usernames, for better PAM integration.
950 - Correctly re-initialize signal handlers on RESTART commands.
951 - Show a warning on startup if the configuration file is not a full path:
952 ngIRCd is a long-running process and changes its working directory to
953 "/" to not block mounted filesystems and the like when running as daemon
954 ("not in the foreground"); therefore the path to the configuration file
955 must be relative to "/" (or the chroot() directory), which basically is
956 "not relative", to ensure that "kill -HUP" and the "REHASH" command work
957 as expected later on. (Closes #127)
958 - Make the "&SERVER" channel definable in a [Channel] configuration block,
959 which enables server operators to overwrite the built-in topic and
960 channel modes. (Closes #131)
961 - Don't limit list size of "WHO #channel" commands, because it makes no
962 sense to not return all the users in that channel, so I removed the
963 check. But if there are more than MAX_RPL_WHO(25) replies, the client
964 requesting the list will be "penalized" one second more, then 2 in
966 - Make ngIRCd buildable using the kqueue() IO interface on FreeBSD 4.x.
967 - Fix the "NoticeAuth" configuration option when using SSL connections and
968 enhance the message to show the hostname and IDENT reply of the client.
969 - Introduce numeric RPL_HOSTHIDDEN_MSG (396): This numeric is sent to the
970 client each time it changes its displayed hostname using "MODE +/-x",
971 and if "CloakHost" is set right after the MOTD has been sent.
972 - Fix USERHOST not displaying the correctly cloaked hostname.
973 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
974 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
975 behave, and so do we :-)
976 - Dynamically allocate memory for connection passwords: This a) saves
977 memory for clients not using passwords at all and b) allows for
978 "arbitrarily" long passwords.
979 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
980 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
981 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
982 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
983 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
984 - Now "make uninstall" removes the installed "ngircd.conf" file, if it is
985 still equal to our "sample-ngircd.conf" file and therefore hasn't been
986 modified by the user. If it has been modified, it isn't removed and a
987 notice is displayed to the user. And "make install" now displays a
988 message when no ngircd.conf file exists and the "sample-ngircd.conf"
989 file will be installed as a starting point.
990 - Add contrib/ngircd.service, a systemd service file for ngircd.
991 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
992 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
993 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
994 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
995 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
996 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
997 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
998 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
999 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
1000 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
1001 random salt will be generated after each server restart. (Closes #133)
1003 ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
1005 - doc/Capabilities.txt: document "multi-prefix" capability
1007 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
1008 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
1009 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
1010 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
1011 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
1012 - Correctly handle asynchronously re-established server links: a race
1013 condition could let the daemon loose track of an already re-established
1014 incoming server link while preparing its own outgoing connection.
1015 Peers that both try to connect each other could have been affected.
1016 - Log a debug message when SIGUSR2 is handled in debug mode.
1017 - Only allow alphanumeric characters in user-supplied user names of
1018 USER command and IDENT replies.
1019 - Change wording of "TLS initialized" message to make it more consistent.
1020 - Don't leak file descriptors on error path when creating "PID files".
1021 - Add missing mode "r" to CHANMODES in 005 "ISUPPORT" numeric.
1022 - Update doc/Modes.txt and doc/Platforms.txt documents.
1023 - contrib/platformtest.sh: correctly detect Open64 C compiler and handle
1024 "CC=xxx MAKE=yyy ./platformtest.sh" calling convention.
1025 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
1026 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
1027 and capability "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
1028 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
1029 - Update Xcode project files: reference missing documentation files.
1030 - Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot.
1031 - FAQ: enhance description of chroot setup.
1033 ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
1035 - Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL.
1036 - Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note",
1037 and fix lintian(1) warning ""hyphen-used-as-minus-sign", too.
1038 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
1039 distribution archive ... ooops!
1040 - getpid.sh: Fix test case error for Debian using sbuild(1).
1041 - Don't log "ngIRCd hello message" two times when starting up.
1043 ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
1045 - Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by
1046 GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions.
1047 - Fix configuration file parser: don't accept "[SSL]" blocks in the
1048 configuration file when no SSL support is built in ngIRCd.
1049 - Fix building ngIRCd with old gcc versions (e. g. 2.7.2).
1050 - Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration
1051 file: Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the
1052 configuration, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored
1053 the "SyslogFacility" configuration option ...
1054 Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue!
1056 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
1057 - Enhance command limits for server links: the limit now is dependent
1058 on the number of users connected in the network and higher while
1059 servers are joining the network to make the login of servers faster.
1060 - Log more information about server synchronization.
1061 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
1062 is the only supported version.
1063 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
1064 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
1065 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
1066 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
1067 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
1068 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
1069 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
1070 - PRIVMSG and NOTICE: Handle nick!user@host masks case-insensitive.
1071 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
1072 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
1073 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
1074 by completely unknown clients.
1075 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
1076 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
1077 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
1078 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
1079 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
1080 - Fix both ERR_SUMMONDISABLED(445) and ERR_USERSDISABLED(446) replies.
1081 - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for
1082 unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501).
1083 - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES",
1084 add "EXCEPTS=e" and "INVEX=I", add "MAXLIST=beI:50".
1085 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
1086 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
1087 - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive.
1088 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
1089 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
1090 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
1091 - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments.
1092 For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling
1093 "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f".
1094 - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of
1095 the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an
1096 assertion and end the daemon in some error paths.
1097 - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child
1098 processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases
1099 with IDENT lookups enabled.
1100 - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS,
1101 don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is
1102 case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the
1103 unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client).
1104 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
1105 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
1106 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
1107 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
1108 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
1109 - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variable in the
1110 configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user).
1111 - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-)
1112 - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single
1113 channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel
1114 limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check
1115 the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when
1116 trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of.
1117 - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nicknames.
1118 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
1119 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
1120 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
1121 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
1122 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
1123 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
1124 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
1125 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
1126 - Fixed some spelling errors in documentation and code comments
1127 (Thanks to Christoph Biedl).
1128 - contrib/Debian/control: Update and complete "Build-Depends" and
1129 update our Debian package descriptions with "official" ones.
1130 - Fixed typo in two error messages.
1131 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
1132 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
1133 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
1134 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
1135 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
1136 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
1137 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
1138 - README: Update list of implemented commands.
1139 - Log better error messages when rejecting clients.
1140 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
1141 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
1142 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
1143 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
1144 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
1145 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
1146 - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR
1147 for Mac OS X Xcode builds.
1148 - ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use
1149 poll() when poll.h exists as well.
1150 - Suppress 'Can't create pre-defined channel: invalid name: ""' message.
1151 - whois-test: handle local host name = "localhost.localdomain" using the
1152 pattern "localhost*" for valid local host names.
1153 - sample-ngircd.conf: show correct default for "PAM" variable: The
1154 default of "PAM" is "yes" when ngIRCd has been configured to use it,
1155 so show the correct default value in the sample configuration file.
1157 - Update GPL 2 license text to current version.
1158 - Only close "unrelated" sockets in forked child processes: This fixes
1159 the problem that ngIRCd can't do any IDENT lookups because of the
1160 socket has already been closed in the child process.
1161 The bug has been introduced starting with ngIRCd 17 ... :-(
1162 (commit ID 6ebb31ab35e)
1163 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
1164 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
1165 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
1166 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
1167 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
1168 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
1169 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
1170 - New 2nd message "Nickname too long" for error code 432.
1171 - Xcode: Mac OS X config.h: support 10.5 as well as 10.6/10.7 SDK.
1172 - Xcode: exclude more Xcode 4 specific directories in ".gitignore".
1173 - Disconnect directly linked servers sending QUIT. Without this,
1174 the server becomes removed from the network and the client list,
1175 but the connection isn't shut down at all ...
1176 - contrib/ngindent: detect "gindent" as GNU indent.
1177 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
1178 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
1179 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
1180 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
1181 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
1182 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
1183 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
1184 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
1185 - Correctly inform clients when other servers change their user modes.
1186 This is required for some services to work correctly.
1187 - Test suite: make getpid.sh work even when run as root.
1188 - Spoofed prefixes: close connection on non-server links only.
1189 On server-links, spoofed prefixes can happen because of the
1190 asynchronous nature of the IRC protocol. So don't break server-
1191 links, only log a message and ignore the command. (Closes #113)
1193 ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
1195 - Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page.
1196 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
1197 - Don't register WHOWAS information when "MorePrivacy" option is in effect.
1199 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
1200 - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-)
1201 - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section.
1202 - ngircd.8: document debugging options.
1203 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
1204 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
1205 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
1206 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
1208 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
1209 - PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
1210 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
1211 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
1212 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
1213 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
1214 servers from TOR or I2P.
1215 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
1216 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
1217 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
1218 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
1219 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
1220 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
1221 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
1222 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
1223 - Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest".
1224 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
1225 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
1226 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
1227 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
1228 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
1229 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
1230 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
1231 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
1232 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
1233 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
1234 - Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers.
1235 - GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients
1236 refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it
1237 would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
1238 current hardware ...
1239 - contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
1240 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
1241 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
1242 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
1243 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
1244 - Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links
1245 (often used by services, for example) are not affected.
1246 - Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-)
1247 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
1248 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
1249 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
1250 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
1251 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
1252 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
1253 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
1254 - Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
1255 like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
1256 - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This
1257 helps to speed up server login and network synchronization.
1258 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
1259 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
1260 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
1261 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
1262 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
1263 variable description.
1264 - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
1265 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
1266 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
1267 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
1268 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
1269 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
1270 supplied by the IRC client.
1271 - doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
1272 - Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
1273 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
1274 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
1275 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
1276 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
1277 - Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
1278 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
1279 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
1280 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
1281 - Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
1282 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
1283 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
1284 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
1285 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
1286 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
1287 - TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other
1288 servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when
1289 the client is not joined to this channel.
1290 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
1291 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
1292 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
1293 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
1294 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
1295 - Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
1296 ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
1297 - Don't throttle services and servers being registered.
1298 - Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
1299 - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is
1300 only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
1303 ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
1305 - --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase
1306 - Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit
1307 - Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly
1308 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
1309 - Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section
1310 - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section
1311 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
1312 - README: Updated list of implemented commands
1313 - add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball
1314 - Merge branch 'numeric-329'
1315 - add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball
1316 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
1317 - Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()
1319 ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
1321 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
1322 - Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf
1323 - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa
1324 - contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent
1326 ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27)
1327 - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updated project file
1328 to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it
1329 is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default
1330 PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd.
1331 - Debian: updated standards version to 3.9.1, added libpam0g-dev to the
1332 dependencies, and install a default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins.
1333 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable.
1334 - Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links.
1336 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
1337 - ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a.
1338 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
1339 - Make source code compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
1340 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
1341 - ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C.
1342 - ./configure: check support for C prototypes again.
1343 - Don't use PARAMS() macro for function implementations.
1344 - Added m68k/apple/aux3.0.1 (gcc 2.7.2) to doc/Platforms.txt.
1345 - Only try to set FD_CLOEXEC if this flag is defined.
1346 - Only use "__attribute__ ((unused))" if GCC >=2.8 is used.
1347 - doc/Makefile.am: don't set docdir, automake handles it already.
1349 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
1350 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
1351 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
1352 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
1353 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
1354 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
1355 Possible values are system dependent, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
1356 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
1357 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
1358 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
1359 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
1360 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
1361 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
1362 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
1363 using the command line parameters.
1364 - Signal handler: added new 'delayed' signal handlers, including fallback
1365 to deprecated sysv API. And removed global NGIRCd_SignalRehash variable.
1366 - IO: add io_cloexec() to set close-on-exec flag.
1367 - ng_ipaddr.h: include required assert.h header.
1368 - Conn_SyncServerStruct(): test all connections; and work case insensitive
1369 - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output.
1370 - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the
1371 client lag debug-output is working again.
1372 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
1373 - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
1374 - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
1375 - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
1376 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contents of the MOTD
1377 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
1378 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
1379 - Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon.
1380 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
1381 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
1382 - Added mailmap file for git-[short]log and git-blame.
1383 - Authenticated users should be registered without the "~" mark.
1384 - Set NoPAM=yes in configuration files used for the testsuite.
1385 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
1386 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
1387 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
1388 - Resolver: Implement signal handler and catch TERM signals.
1389 - Don't set a penalty time when doing DNS lookups.
1390 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
1391 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
1392 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
1393 - ngircd.init: require "$network" and "$remote_fs" when stopping ngircd.
1394 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
1395 - Include correct header files when testing for arpa/inet.h (Closes: #105).
1396 - Don't access already freed memory in IRC_KILL().
1397 - Fix "beeing" typo ...
1398 - SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message.
1400 ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
1402 - doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker
1404 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
1405 - Updated some more copyright notices, it's 2010 already :-)
1406 - Only compile in Get_Error() if really needed
1407 - Fix gcc warning "ignoring return value of ..."
1408 - Include netinet/in_systm.h alongside netinet/ip.h
1409 - Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h
1410 - Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists
1411 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt
1412 - Enhance connection statistics counters: display total number of served
1413 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
1414 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
1416 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
1417 - Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups.
1418 - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit.
1419 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
1420 how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA).
1421 - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list).
1422 - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define
1423 - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric
1424 - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output.
1425 - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable.
1426 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
1427 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
1428 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
1429 - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts".
1430 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
1431 - Only link "nsl" library when really needed.
1432 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
1433 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
1434 to join such a channel.
1435 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
1436 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
1437 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
1438 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
1440 ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
1442 - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset.
1444 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
1445 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
1446 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
1447 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (instead of the already
1448 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
1449 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
1450 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
1451 on the local server.
1452 - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0
1453 for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file.
1454 - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names.
1455 - Fix LSB header of Debian init script.
1456 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh
1457 to ease generating platform reports.
1458 - Fix connection information for already registered connections.
1459 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
1460 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
1461 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
1462 - Fix connection counter.
1463 - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections.
1464 - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.
1466 ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
1468 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
1469 - BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh.
1470 - New start/stop script for RedHat-based distributions:
1471 contrib/ngircd-redhat.init, thanks to Naoya Nakazawa <naoya@sanow.net>.
1472 - Doxygen: update source code repository link to GIT.
1473 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
1474 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
1475 - Fix error handling on compressed links.
1476 - Fix server list announcement.
1477 - Do not remove host names from info text.
1479 ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
1481 - Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections.
1483 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
1484 - Updated Debian/Linux init script (see contrib/Debian/ngircd.init).
1485 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
1486 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
1487 - Spell check and enhance ngIRCd manual pages.
1488 - Channel mode changes: break on syntax errors in MODE command.
1489 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
1490 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
1491 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
1492 individual channel keys for different users.
1493 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
1494 - Updated ngircd.spec file for building RPM packages.
1495 - Add new and missing files to Mac OS X Xcode project, and update project.
1496 - Reject masks with wildcard after last dot.
1497 - TLS/SSL: remove useless error message when ssl connection is closed.
1498 - Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down.
1499 (closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net)
1500 - Fix handling of channels containing dots.
1501 (closes bug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
1503 ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
1505 - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
1506 - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
1508 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
1509 - New version number scheme :-)
1510 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
1511 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
1512 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
1513 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
1514 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
1515 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
1516 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
1517 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
1518 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
1519 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
1520 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
1521 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
1522 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
1523 - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
1524 - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
1525 - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
1526 - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
1527 - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
1528 - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two
1529 servers are started for testing server-server linking.
1530 - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
1531 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
1532 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
1534 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
1536 - Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode
1537 - Don't allow stray \r or \n in command parameters
1538 - --configtest: return non-zero exit code if there are errors
1539 - Update ngIRCd manual pages
1540 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
1541 - Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error.
1542 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
1543 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
1544 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
1545 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
1546 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
1548 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
1550 - Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns
1551 proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran)
1552 - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
1553 - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number.
1555 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
1556 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
1557 - Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now!
1558 - Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT.
1559 - Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition.
1560 - Report ERR_NOTONCHANNEL when trying to part a channel one is not member of.
1561 - Testsuite: remove erroneous ConfUID setting in config file.
1563 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
1564 - Include Mac OS X Xcode project in distribution archives.
1565 - Do not exit on SIGHUP or /REHASH if the config file cannot opened.
1567 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
1568 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
1569 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1570 - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+).
1572 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
1573 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
1574 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
1575 - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1576 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
1577 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
1578 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1579 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
1581 ngIRCd 0.11.1 (2008-02-26)
1583 - Fix sending of JOIN commands between servers when remote server appended
1584 mode flags. (Rolf Eike Beer) [from HEAD]
1585 - Send "G" instead of "H" flag in WHO replies. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
1586 - Under some circumstances ngIRCd issued channel MODE message with a
1587 trailing space. (Dana Dahlstrom) [from HEAD]
1589 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
1591 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07)
1592 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
1593 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
1595 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
1596 - Use dotted-decimal IP address if host name is >= 64.
1597 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
1598 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
1599 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
1600 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
1601 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
1602 - Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
1603 enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
1604 See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
1605 - Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!?
1606 - Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced
1607 to the network as well as the wrong output of the LINKS command.
1608 - Update Mac OS X Xcode project file for Xcode 3.
1609 - Adjust test suite to be usable on HP/UX 11.11 :-)
1610 - Fix code to compile using K&R C compiler and ansi2kr again.
1611 - New config option NoDNS: Disables DNS lookups when clients connect.
1612 - Fixed propagation of channel mode 'P' on server links.
1613 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
1614 - Fixed code that prevented GCC 2.95 to compile ngIRCd.
1615 - Adjust path names in manual pages according to "./configure" settings.
1616 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
1617 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
1618 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
1619 - Don't connect to a server if a connection to another server within the
1620 same group is already in progress.
1621 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
1624 ngIRCd 0.10.4 (2008-01-07)
1626 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
1627 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
1629 ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01)
1631 - SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could
1632 cause the server to crash. Thanks to Sebastian Vesper, <net@veoson.net>.
1635 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
1637 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre2 (2007-05-19)
1638 - Server links are allowed to use larger write buffers now (up to 50 KB).
1640 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre1 (2007-05-05)
1641 - Fix compressed server links (broken since 0.10.0).
1642 - Predefined Channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
1643 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l).
1644 - When using epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
1645 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
1646 - New configure option "--without-select" to disable select() IO API
1647 (even when using epoll(), see above).
1648 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
1649 - Reorganized internal handling of invite and ban lists.
1651 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
1653 - Fixed validation of server names containing digits.
1654 - Update the "info text" of the local server after re-reading configuration.
1655 - Changed Numerics 265 and 266 to follow ircd 2.11.x "standards".
1656 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
1657 - Enhanced ISUPPORT message (005 numeric).
1658 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
1659 join predefined channels.
1660 - Code cleanups: use "LogDebug(...)" instead of "Log(LOG_DEBUG, ...)", use
1661 "strcspn()", unsigned vs. signed, use "const", fix whitespaces, ...
1663 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
1665 - Fixed file handle leak when daemon is not able to send MOTD to a client.
1667 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre2 (2006-09-09)
1668 - Fixed build problems with GCC option -fstack-protector.
1669 - Minor documentation updates.
1671 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
1672 - Validate "ServerName" (see RFC 2812, section 2.3.1).
1673 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
1674 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
1675 - The ngIRCd handles time shifts backwards more gracefully now (the
1676 timeout handling doesn't disconnect clients by mistake any more).
1677 - Internal: Restructured connection handling (the connection ID is equal
1678 to the file descriptor of the connection).
1679 - Internal: Simplified resolver code.
1680 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
1681 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
1682 - Enhanced the handler for PING and PONG commands: fix forwarding and enable
1683 back-passing of a client supplied additional argument of PING.
1684 - Changed handling of timeouts for unregistered connections: don't reset
1685 the counter if data is received and disconnect clients earlier.
1686 - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead.
1687 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
1688 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
1689 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
1690 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
1691 lookup to prevent spoofing.
1692 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
1693 addition to the select() interface.
1695 ngIRCd 0.9.2 (2005-10-15)
1697 - Fixed a bug that could cause the daemon to crash when outgoing server
1698 connections can't be established.
1699 - Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to leak file descriptors when no
1700 resolver subprocesses could be created.
1701 - Fixed server NOTICEs to users with "s" mode ("server messages").
1702 - Fixed a format string bug in "connection statistics" messages to clients.
1704 ngIRCd 0.9.1 (2005-08-03)
1706 - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!)
1707 when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in
1708 ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by <qssl@fastmail.fm>, Thanks!
1709 - Changed some constants to be "signed" (instead of unsigned) to solve
1710 problems with old (pre-ANSI) compilers.
1712 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
1714 ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09)
1715 - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters.
1716 - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead
1717 of shutting down the (wrong) connection.
1718 - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the
1719 client is registered with the server (like the original ircd).
1720 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
1721 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
1722 - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client
1723 is member of multiple channels.
1724 - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and
1725 pray that this will be "the right thing" ...
1726 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
1727 - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug.
1728 - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
1729 - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
1730 to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
1731 - Removed typedefs for the native C data types.
1732 Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available.
1733 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
1734 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
1735 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
1736 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1737 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
1738 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
1739 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
1740 - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug
1741 code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process.
1742 - Don't create version information string each time a client connects
1743 but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
1744 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
1745 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
1746 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1747 - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1748 - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters.
1749 - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc()
1750 failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway.
1751 Patch from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1752 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
1753 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
1754 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
1755 - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and
1756 most probably other older C compilers on other systems.
1757 - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in
1758 the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it
1759 changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This
1760 should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
1763 ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03)
1765 - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled
1766 to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
1767 <coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
1768 (CVE-2005-0226; http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
1770 ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
1772 - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution.
1773 - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found
1774 by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. (CVE-2005-0199)
1775 - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks
1776 to Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1777 - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by
1778 Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1779 - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has
1780 been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/
1781 It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself,
1782 not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1784 ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25)
1786 - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub
1787 - Added some more debug code ...
1788 - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest".
1789 - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for
1790 ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after
1792 - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README!
1794 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
1796 - Fixed wrong buffer size calculation for results of the resolver.
1798 ngircd 0.8.0-pre2 (2004-05-16)
1799 - Enhanced logging to console when running in "no-detached mode": added
1800 PID and log messages of resolver sub-processes.
1801 - Fixed host name lookups when using IDENT user lookups.
1802 - "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean" remove more files now.
1804 ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07)
1805 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
1806 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
1807 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
1808 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
1809 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
1810 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
1811 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
1812 - Reorganized autogen.sh and configure scripts.
1813 - Fixed a wrong assert() which could cause the daemon to exit spuriously
1814 when closing down connections.
1815 - Better logging of decompression errors returned by zlib.
1816 - Servers other than the destination server didn't clean up the invite
1817 list of an "invite-only" channel properly when an INVITE'd user joined.
1818 - Changed the reply of the MODE command to match the syntax of the
1819 original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last
1820 parameter has been added.
1821 - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info.
1822 - Results of the resolver (host names and IDENT names) are discarded after
1823 the client is successfully registered with the server.
1824 - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections.
1825 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
1826 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
1827 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
1828 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
1829 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
1831 ngIRCd 0.7.7 (2004-02-05)
1833 - The info text ("real name") of users is set to "-" if none has been
1834 specified using the USER command (e. g. "USER user * * :"). Reason:
1835 the original ircd doesn't like empty ones and would KILL such users.
1836 - Fixed (optional) TCP Wrapper test which was broken and could result in
1837 false results. Thanks to Fuminori Tanizaki <tany@mcnet.ad.jp>!
1838 - Removed "USE_" prefixes of configuration #defines.
1840 ngIRCd 0.7.6 (2003-12-05)
1842 - Fixed abort() ("server crash") when INVITE'ing users to nonexistent
1843 channels. Bug found by <hiddenx@wp.pl>.
1844 - Extended version numbering of CVS versions (added date).
1845 - Enhanced/fixed doc/Protocol.txt;
1847 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-11-07)
1849 - Fixed ban behavior: users which are banned from a channel can't no
1850 longer send PRIVMSG's to this channel (fixes Bug #47).
1851 - Fixed and enhanced the "penalty handling" of the server: commands that
1852 require more resources block the client for a short time.
1853 - Changed the internal time resolution to one second.
1854 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
1855 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
1856 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
1857 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
1858 - Fixed build problems under Mac OS X 10.3.
1859 - Use "-pipe" when compiling with gcc, speeds things up a little :-)
1860 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
1861 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
1862 - Suppress misleading error message of diff during make run.
1863 - Enhanced test-suite and made it work on GNU/Hurd.
1864 - Fixed minor typo in debug output :-)
1866 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
1868 - Included files to build Debian packages (located in "debian/").
1869 - Updated config.guess and config.sub to newer upstream versions.
1870 - NJOIN propagates user channel modes correctly again ... Upsa.
1871 - Made Makefile more compatible with "make -j<n>".
1872 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
1873 - Fixed a compiler warning related to an unnecessary assert().
1874 - Enhanced VERSION command when using debug versions.
1876 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
1878 - "ServerName" is checked better now: a dot (".") is required.
1879 - The KILL command verifies and logs more parameters.
1881 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre2 (2003-04-27)
1882 - CVS build system fixes (made autogen.sh more portable).
1883 - Fixed compilation and test-suite on Solaris (tested with 2.6).
1884 - New documentation file "doc/Platforms.txt" describing the status of
1885 ngIRCd on the various tested platforms.
1886 - Test for broken GCC on Mac OS X and disable "-pedantic" in this case.
1887 - Disable "-ansi" on Cygwin: system headers are incompatible.
1888 - The server tried to connect to other servers only once when DNS or
1889 socket failures occurred.
1890 - Fixed --configtest: There is no variable "ServerPwd", it's "Password".
1892 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 (2003-04-22)
1893 - New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside).
1894 - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled.
1895 - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the
1896 more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems
1897 that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included
1898 in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h).
1899 - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that
1900 can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken.
1901 - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-)
1902 - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and
1903 removing servers during runtime works more reliable now.
1904 - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]"
1905 - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]".
1906 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
1907 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
1908 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
1909 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
1910 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
1911 - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The
1912 German documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
1913 - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision.
1914 - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding.
1915 - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool".
1916 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
1917 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
1918 - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS)
1919 if an outgoing server link can't be established.
1920 - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility.
1921 - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly.
1922 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
1923 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
1924 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
1925 configure to enable it.
1926 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
1927 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
1928 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
1929 - Better error reporting to clients on connect.
1930 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
1931 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
1932 - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
1934 ngIRCd 0.6.1 (2003-01-21)
1936 - Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more,
1937 ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you
1938 can kill only valid users now.
1939 - The server no longer forwards commands to ordinary users, instead it
1940 answers with the correct error message ("no such server") now.
1941 - WHOIS commands weren't always forwarded as requested.
1942 - The server sets a correct default AWAY message now when propagating
1943 between servers (bug introduced in 0.6.0).
1944 - Fixed up and enhanced CHANINFO command: channel keys and user limits
1945 are synchronized between servers now, too.
1946 - MODE returns the key and user limit for channel members correctly now.
1947 - Non-members of a channel could crash the server when trying to change
1948 its modes or modes of its members.
1949 - The server didn't validate weather a target user is a valid channel
1950 member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd.
1953 Older changes (sorry, only available in German language):
1955 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
1957 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 23.12.2002
1958 - neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect.
1959 - LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen
1960 Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start
1961 dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt.
1963 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 18.12.2002
1964 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
1965 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
1966 - der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den
1967 Resolver (4 Sekunden), wenn das Ergebnis eintrifft setzt er aber den
1968 Login sofort fort (bisher wurde immer mind. 1 Sekunde gewartet).
1969 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
1970 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
1971 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sektion "Global")
1972 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
1973 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
1974 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
1975 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
1976 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
1977 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
1978 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
1979 - Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst.
1980 - unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
1981 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
1982 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
1983 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
1984 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
1985 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
1986 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
1987 - Channel-Mode "P" ("persistent") kann nur noch von IRC-Operatoren gesetzt
1988 werden. Grund: User koennen den Server sonst leicht "Channel-Flooden".
1989 - MOTD kann nun an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1990 - IRC-Befehl "TIME" implementiert.
1991 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
1992 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
1993 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
1994 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
1995 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
1996 - Handling der Schreibpuffer umgestellt: Server sollte schneller arbeiten.
1997 - Prefix-Fehler werden besser protokolliert (mit verursachendem Befehl).
1998 - SQUIT wird nicht mehr doppelt an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1999 - Der Server versucht nun vor dem Schliessen einer Verbindung Daten, die
2000 noch im Schreibpuffer stehen, zu senden.
2001 - Source in weiteres Modul "irc-info" aufgespalten.
2002 - Konfigurationsvariablen werden besser validiert: Laengen, Zahlen, ...
2003 - neuen Befehl STATS begonnen: bisher unterstuetzt wird "l" und "m".
2004 - bei ISON und USERHOST fehlte im Ergebnis-String der korrekte Absender.
2005 - IRC Operatoren koennen nun mit KILL User toeten. Achtung: ein Grund muss
2006 zwingend als zweiter Parameter angegeben werden!
2007 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
2008 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
2009 - neuer, deutlich flexiblerer Parser fuer den MODE Befehl.
2010 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
2012 ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002
2014 - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
2015 unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden.
2016 - in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht
2017 nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe
2018 verwendet werden. Beim Start des Daemons wird nun beides angezeigt.
2019 - Besseres Logging von Prefix-Fehlern.
2020 - angenommene Sockets werden nun korrekt auf "non-blocking" konfiguriert,
2021 beim Senden und Empfangen werden Blockierungen besser abgefangen.
2022 - RPL_UMODEIS hat Code 221, nicht 211 ... *argl*
2023 - select() in Try_Write() hat falschen (keinen!) Timeout verwendet;
2024 die "Zeit-Aufloesung" des Servers sind zudem nun 2 Sekunden (TIME_RES).
2025 Insgesamt sollte die Reaktionszeit des Server nun besser sein.
2027 ngIRCd 0.5.3, 08.11.2002
2029 - NOTICE liefert nun wirklich nie mehr einen Fehler, auch dann nicht,
2030 wenn der sendende Client noch gar nicht registriert ist.
2031 - ein "schneller Server-Reconnect" wird nur noch dann versucht, wenn die
2032 Verbindung zuvor ordentlich (="lange genug") in Ordnung war; somit also
2033 nicht meht, wenn der Peer-Server gleich beim Connect ein ERROR liefert.
2034 Das vermeidet "Connect-Orgien".
2035 - einige Datentypen aufgeraumt: z.B. sind viele INT32s nun LONGs. Das ist
2036 auf Platformen mit 8-Byte-Integern kompatibler.
2037 - RPL_YOURHOST_MSG ist nun ircII- und RFC-kompatibel ;-)
2038 - Segfault unter hoher Netzaktivitaet behoben: in Conn_Close() wird die
2039 Connection-Struktur nun frueher als "ungueltig" markiert.
2041 ngIRCd 0.5.2, 04.10.2002
2043 - Buffer Overflow in Read_Resolver_Result() behoben.
2044 - Format-String-Bugs, die zum Abbruch des Servers fuehrten, behoben.
2045 - Maximale Laenge eines IRC-Prefix wurde falsch berechnet.
2047 ngIRCd 0.5.1, 03.10.2002
2049 - in RPL_YOURHOST_MSG wurde ein fehlerhafter Versionsstring geliefert.
2050 - Test-Suite: start-server.sh, stop-server.sh und stress-server.sh koennen
2051 nun "manuell" von der Kommandozeile gestartet werden, stress-server.sh
2052 startet per Default nur noch 5 Sessions, eine andere Zahl kann auf der
2053 Kommandozeile uebergeben werden (Syntax: "stress-server.sh <count>").
2054 - In bestimmten Faellen hat der Server versucht auf einen bereits wieder
2055 geschlossenen Socket Daten zu schreiben; das fuehrte zu einem Abbruch des
2056 Servers durch ein assert(). Nun wird geprueft, ob der Socket noch ok ist.
2057 - im "contrib"-Verzeichnis befindet sich nun eine RPM-Spec-Datei, aus den
2058 .tar.gz's koennen nun mit "rpm -ta <archiv>" RPM's erzeugt werden. Danke
2059 an Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>!
2060 - Syntax von RPL_MYINFO_MSG korrigiert: liefert nun vier Parameter.
2062 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
2064 - Dokumentation aktualisiert.
2065 - Fehler bei Validierung von "AdminInfo2" behoben.
2066 - Test der Flags fuer "ps" in der Testsuite verbessert, ist nun zu mehr
2067 Plattformen kompatibler.
2069 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre2, 17.09.2002
2070 - Fix in IRC_WriteStrServersPrefix() war "badly broken" -- behoben.
2072 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre1, 16.09.2002
2073 - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen.
2074 - Wird der Netzwerk-Sniffer aktiviert (--sniffer), so schaltet der
2075 ngIRCd nun automatisch in den Debug-Modus.
2076 - auf Systemen, die inet_aton() nicht kennen (wie z.B. A/UX), kann der
2077 ngIRCd nun dennoch auch aktiv Server-Links aufbauen.
2078 - h_errno wird auf Systemen, die das nicht kennen (wie z.B. HP-UX 10.20)
2079 nicht mehr verwendet. Somit compiliert der ngIRCd nun auch dort :-)
2080 - um auf dem Ziel-System nicht vorhandene Funktionen nachzubilden wird nun
2081 die "libngportab" erzeugt; genutzt wird dies bisher fuer vsnprintf().
2082 Nun compiliert der ngIRCd auch unter Solaris 2.5.1.
2083 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
2084 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
2085 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
2086 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. Zu Channel-Operatoren werden bisher
2087 nur IRC-Operatoren, die den Channel betreten. Die persistenten Channels
2088 werden durch das Flag "P" gelennzeichnet, welches normal durch Channel-
2089 Op's gesetzt und geloescht werden kann.
2090 - bei "--configtest" werden keine leere Abschnitte mehr ausgegeben.
2091 - Source in weitere Module aufgespalten: lists, irc-op und resolve.
2092 - #include's aufgeraeumt: Header includieren keine anderen mehr.
2093 - KICK implementiert (bisher kann nur ein User aus einem Channel geckicked
2094 werden, Listen, wir im RFC vorgesehen, werden bisher nicht unterstuetzt).
2095 - INVITE, den Channel-Mode "i" sowie Invite-Lists ueber den MODE-Befehl
2096 (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
2097 - Source an ansi2knr fuer pre-ANSI-Compiler angepasst; ansi2knr in Source-
2098 Tree aufgenommen und in Build-System integriert; der ngIRCd compiliert
2099 nun z.B. unter A/UX mit dem nativen Compiler von Apple.
2100 - TOPIC lieferte bei unbekanntem Channel einen falschen Fehlercode.
2101 - LIST versteht nun Wildcards und kann an andere Server geforwarded werden.
2102 - wurde ein KILL fuer nicht-lokale Clients empfangen, so wurden die
2103 Verwaltungs-Strukturen nicht korrekt freigegeben.
2104 - empfangene NJOIN's wurden "zerhackt" an andere Server weitergegeben.
2105 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
2106 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
2107 - Dokumentation des neuen IRC+-Protokolls begonnen: doc/Protocol.txt
2108 - Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt;
2109 bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet.
2110 Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben.
2111 - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
2112 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics.
2113 - neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das
2114 IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert).
2115 - Ban-Lists (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
2116 - wird der Server mit "-n"/"--nodaemon" gestartet, so werden keine Mel-
2117 dungen mehr ueber Syslog ausgegeben, sondern nur noch auf der Konsole.
2118 - "Test-Suite" begonnen (in "make check" integriert): Dabei wird ein
2119 speziell konfigurierter Server auf Port 6789 gestartet, mit dem dann
2120 einige Tests durchgefuehrt werden (u.a. "Stress-Test" mit 50 Clients).
2121 - zu lange Operator-Namen in der Konfiguration wurden falsch gekuerzt.
2122 - kleine Anpassung an AIX 3.2.5: nun laeuft der ngIRCd auch dort :-)
2123 - ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei
2124 im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und
2125 "AdminEMail" konfiguriert.
2127 ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002
2129 - Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel
2130 ueberhaupt ein User ist. War es keiner, so fuehrte dies zu einem
2131 Abbruch des Servers [es wurde assert() aufgerufen].
2133 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
2135 - LUSERS verzaehlt sich bei eigenen Server-Links nicht mehr.
2136 - QUIT wird nun auch von noch nicht registrierten Clients akzeptiert.
2137 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
2138 Wildcards (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
2140 ngIRCd 0.4.1, 08.04.2002
2142 - Bei Server-Links wird nicht mehr an Hand der Anzahl der Parameter
2143 eines empfangenen SERVER-Befehls, sondern "intern" erkannt, ob es
2144 sich um eine ein- oder ausgehende Verbindung handelt und somit das
2145 eigene PASS-SERVER-Paar gesendet werden muss oder nicht. Da sich
2146 verschiedene Versionen des Original-ircd's anders verhalten, schlug
2147 die Anmeldung je nach Gehenseite evtl. fehl.
2148 - Bei einem NICK-Befehl eines lokalen Client konnte der Server ab-
2149 stuerzen, da ein Format-String einer Log-Meldung fehlerhaft war.
2151 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
2153 - IRC-Befehle nochmal auf weitere Source-Dateien aufgespalten.
2154 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
2155 - Der AWAY-Mode wurde nicht ueber mehrere Server-Links weitergegeben.
2156 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err).
2157 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
2158 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
2159 zusaetzliche Informationen.
2160 - In Nicknames wird das Zeichen "-" nun als zulaessig erkannt.
2161 - die Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei (doc/sample-ngircd.conf) wird als
2162 ngircd.conf installiert, wenn noch keine "echte" Konfigurationsdatei
2164 - bei WHO, WHOIS und NAMES wird nun nur noch der Status "Operator" oder
2165 "voiced" geliefert -- nicht mehr beides.
2166 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
2167 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
2168 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert (Variable "Group" in der Kon-
2169 figurationsdatei, Sektion [Server]).
2170 - IRC_PING() ist, wenn nicht im "strict RFC"-Mode, toleranter und ak-
2171 zeptiert beliebig viele Parameter (z.B. BitchX sendet soetwas).
2172 - die "Portab-Header" werden nicht mehr benoetigt, die System-Erkennung
2173 wird nun ausschliesslich vom configure-Script durchgefuehrt. System-
2174 abhaengige Definitionen finden sich nun unter src/portrab/.
2175 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
2176 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
2177 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
2178 gelesen und dann die verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
2179 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
2180 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
2181 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
2182 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
2183 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
2184 - URL der Homepage wird u.a. bei "--version" mit angezeigt.
2186 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
2188 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
2189 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
2190 - FAQ um Hinweise auf den Bugtracker erweitert.
2191 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
2192 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
2193 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
2194 - direkt nach dem Start schreibt der ngIRCd nun die aktiven Kommando-
2195 zeilenschalter in's Logfile (Passive, Debug, Sniffer ...).
2196 - das Signal-Flag SA_RESTART wird nur noch gesetzt, wenn es auf dem
2197 jeweiligen System auch definiert ist.
2198 - bei ausgehenden Verbindungen wird nun der Ziel-Port protokolliert.
2199 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert.
2200 - make-Target "check" (und "distcheck") mit Sinn erfuellt :-)
2201 (die Tests sind aber bisher nicht all zu tiefgehend ...)
2202 - Durch einen Ueberlauf konnte die Idle-Time bei WHOIS negativ werden ...
2203 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
2204 - WHOIS wird nicht mehr automatisch an den "Original-Server" weiterge-
2205 leitet: war eh nicht RFC-konform und machte mit Clients Probleme.
2206 - an User wird nun immer ein "komplettes" Prefix (mit Host-Mask) ver-
2207 schickt, Server bekommen nach wie vor kurze: das "Original" hat bei
2208 bestimmten Befehlen (PRIVMSG) ansonsten evtl. Probleme ...
2209 - NAMES korrigiert und vollstaendig implementiert.
2210 - SQUIT wird auf jeden Fall geforwarded, zudem besseres Logging.
2211 - Ist ein Nick bei der User-Registrierung bereits belegt, nimmt der
2212 Server nun korrekt weitere NICK-Befehle an und verwendet diese.
2213 - PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m".
2214 - AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst.
2215 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
2216 - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asynchron connectiert und
2217 blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht
2218 erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!).
2219 - Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet.
2220 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
2222 ngIRCd 0.2.1, 17.02.2002
2224 - NICK korrigiert: es werden nun auch alle "betroffenen" User informiert.
2225 - configure-Script erweitert, u.a. bessere Anpassung an BeOS: dort wird
2226 nun die "libbe" zum ngIRCd gelinkt, somit funktioniert auch syslog.
2227 - Fehlerhafte bzw. noch nicht verstandene Modes werden nun ausfuehrlicher
2228 an den Client geliefert.
2230 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
2232 - Nicknames und Channel-Namen werden etwas besser auf Gueltigkeit ueber-
2233 prueft; ist aber nach wie vor noch nicht ausreichend.
2234 - NJOINS von Servern wurden nicht an andere Server weitergeleitet.
2235 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
2236 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
2237 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
2238 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
2239 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
2240 - Benutzer von connectierenden Servern wurden nicht in den Channels ange-
2241 kuendigt, es wurden nur die internen Strukturen angepasst.
2242 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
2244 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
2246 - User-Modes bei User-Registrierungen von andere Servern (NICK-Befehl)
2247 wurden falsch uebernommen. Zudem wurden die Modes falsch gekuerzt.
2248 - Server-Verbindungen werden nun nach dem Start erst nach einer kurzen
2249 Pause aufgebaut (zur Zeit drei Sekunden).
2250 - Hilfetext korrigiert: --help und --version waren vertauscht, die
2251 Option --sniffer wurde gar nicht erwaehnt.
2252 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
2253 - der IRC-Sniffer wird nur noch aktiviert, wenn die Option auf der
2254 Kommandozeile angegeben wurde (bei entsprechend compiliertem Server).
2255 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
2256 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
2257 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
2258 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
2259 - durch die Channels einige Aenderungen an PRIVMSG, WHOIS, MODE etc.
2260 - neu connectierenden Servern werden nun Channels mit NJOIN angekuendigt.
2261 - Signal-Hander geaendert: die Fehlermeldung "interrupted system call"
2262 sollte so nicht mehr auftreten.
2263 - "spaeter" neu connectierende Server werden nun im Netz angekuendigt.
2264 - SERVER-Meldungen an andere Server sind nun korrekt sortiert.
2265 - Clients werden nun korrekt sowohl nur ueber den Nickname als auch die
2266 komplette "Host Mask" erkannt.
2268 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
2270 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
2271 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
2272 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
2273 - MODE und NICK melden nun die Aenderungen an andere Server, ebenso
2274 die Befehle QUIT und SQUIT.
2275 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
2276 - Parses handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
2277 - Status-Codes an den Server selber werden ignorier.
2278 - Log-Meldungen und Log-Level ueberarbeitet und korrigiert.
2279 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
2280 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
2281 - WHOIS korrigiert: Anfrage wurde u.U. an User geforwarded anstatt vom
2282 Server beantwortet zu werden.
2283 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS
2284 - Client-Modes von Remote-Servern wurden nicht korrekt uerbernommen.
2286 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
2288 - Struktur der Konfigurationsdatei geaendert: sie ist nun "Samba like",
2289 d.h. sie besteht aus Abschnitten (siehe "doc/sample-ngircd.conf").
2290 - Es koennen mehrere IRC-Server-Opertatoren konfiguriert werden.
2291 - Zombies der Resolver-Prozesse werden nun ordentlich "getoetet".
2292 - NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern.
2293 - ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar.
2294 - neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT.
2295 - Asynchroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
2296 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
2297 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige
2298 Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert
2299 aber bereits, ebenso wie WHOIS (letzterer wird immer an den Server,
2300 auf dem der User registriert ist, weitergegeben).
2301 - "arpa/inet.h" wird nur noch includiert, wenn vorhanden.
2302 - Fehler bei select() fuerhen nun zum Abbruch von ngIRCd, bisher landete
2303 der Server zumeist in einer Endlosschleife.
2304 - Logmeldungen und Level an vielen Stellen verbessert.
2305 - lokalen Usernamen wird nun ein "~" vorangestellt, da bisher noch keine
2306 Ident-Anfragen gemacht werden.
2308 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
2310 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)