2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2020 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
14 - Add AppStream metadata file (contrib/de.barton.ngircd.metainfo.xml).
15 - Various bug fixes, see the ChangeLog. No new or changed functionality.
17 ngIRCd 26~rc1 (2020-05-10)
18 - Allow up to 512 characters per line in MOTD and help text files (but keep
19 in mind that lines can't get that long, because they have to be prefixed
20 before being sent to the client). But this allows for more fancy MOTDs :-)
22 - Show the actually allowed channel types in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric which
23 are configured by the "AllowedChannelTypes" configuration variable.
25 - Handle commands in the read buffer before reading more data and don't wait
26 for the network in this case: If there are more bytes in the read buffer
27 already than a single valid IRC command can get long (513 bytes), wait for
28 this/those command(s) to be handled first and don't try to read even more
29 data from the network (which most probably would overflow the read buffer
30 of this connection soon).
31 - Log G-/K-Line changes only when not initiated by a server: this prevents
32 the log from becoming spammed during "net bursts".
33 - Update test suite to include SSL tests, including checking for reloading
34 certificates during runtime.
35 - Add support for GnuTLS certificate reload, which is quite handy when using
36 Let's Encrypt, for example. Until now this was only supported when linked
37 with OpenSSL. Thanks a lot, Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de>!
38 - Allow setting arbitrary channel modes in the configuration file by handling
39 them like in MODE commands, and allow multiple "Modes =" lines per [Channel]
40 section. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org>!
42 - Add "FNC" (forced nick changes) to ISUPPORT(005) numeric. Most probably
43 this doesn't make any difference to any client, but it seems correct.
44 See <http://www.irc.org/tech_docs/005.html> for details.
45 - Enhance handling of command line errors, and return with exit code 0 ("no
46 error") when "--help" or "--version" is used (which resulted in exit code 1,
47 "error" before). Exit with code 2 ("command line error") for all other
48 invalid command line options, and show the error message itself on stderr
49 (instead of stdout and exit code 1, "generic error", as before).
50 This new behaviour is more in line with the GNU "coding standards",
51 see <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html>.
52 - Add ./contrib/nglog.sh: This script parses the log output of ngircd(8),
53 and colorizes the messages according to their log level. Example usage:
54 ngircd -f $PWD/doc/sample-ngircd.conf -np | ./contrib/nglog.sh
55 - Enlarge buffers of info texts to 128 bytes. This includes:
56 - "Real name" of a client (4th filed of the USER command).
57 - Server info text ("Info" configuration option).
58 - Admin info texts and email address ("AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" and
59 "AdminEmail" configuration options).
60 - Network name ("Network" configuration option).
61 The limit was 64 bytes before ...
63 - Streamline handling of invalid and unset server name: Don't exit during
64 runtime (REHASH command, HUP signal), because the server name can't be
65 changed in this case anyway and the new invalid name will be ignored.
66 - Slightly reorder startup steps, and enhance logging:
67 - Show name of configuration file at the beginning of start up.
68 - Add a message when ngIRCd is ready, including its host name.
69 - Show name of configuration file on REHASH (SIGHUP), too.
70 - Change level of "done message" to NOTICE, like "starting" & "ready".
71 - Initialize IO functions before channels, connections, clients, ...
72 - configure.ng: OpenSSL can depends on lz or latomic so use pkg-config to
73 find those dependencies and fallback to existing mechanism.
76 ngIRCd 25 (2019-01-23)
78 - Implement new configuration option "MaxPenaltyTime", which configures the
79 maximum penalty time increase in seconds, per penalty event. Set to -1 for
80 no limit (the default), 0 to disable penalties altogether. ngIRCd doesn't
81 use penalty increases higher than 2 seconds during normal operation, so
82 values higher than 1 rarely make sense.
83 Disabling (or reducing) penalties can greatly speed up "make check" runs
84 for example, see below, but are mostly a debugging feature and normally
85 not meant to be used on production systems!
86 Some example timings running "make check" from my macOS workstation:
87 - MaxPenaltyTime not set: 4:41,79s
88 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 1": 3:14,71s
89 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 0": 25,46s
91 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (10.0)
92 - Allow a 5th parameter in WEBIRC. Thanks to "ItsOnlyBinary".
95 ngIRCd 25~rc1 (2018-08-11)
96 - Only send TOPIC updates to a channel when the topic actually changed:
97 This prevents the channel from becoming flooded by unnecessary TOPIC update
98 messages, that can happen when IRC services try to enforce a certain topic
99 but which is already set (at least on the local server), for example.
100 Therefore still forward it to all servers, but don't inform local clients
101 (still update setter and timestamp information, though!).
102 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (9.2). This includes adding
103 missing and deleting obsolete file references.
104 - Handle user mode "C" ("Only users that share a channel are allowed to send
105 messages") like user mode "b" ("block private messages and notices"): allow
106 messages from servers, services, and IRC Operators, too. Change proposed by
107 "wowaname" back in 2015 in #ngircd, thanks!
108 - Allow IRC Ops and remote servers to KILL service clients: such clients
109 behave like regular users, therefore IRC operators and servers should be
110 able to KILL them: for example to resolve nick collisions.
113 ngIRCd 24 (2017-01-20)
115 ngIRCd 24~rc1 (2017-01-07)
116 - Log privilege violations and failed OPER request with log level "error"
117 and send it to the "&SERVER" channel, too.
118 - Immediately shut down connection when receiving an "ERROR" command,
119 don't wait for the peer to close the connection. This allows the daemon
120 to forward the received "ERROR" message in the network, instead of the
121 very generic "client closed connection" message.
122 - Explicitly forbid remote servers to modify "x-lines" (G-LINES) when the
123 "AllowRemoteOper" configuration option isn't set, even when the command
124 seems to originate from the remote server itself: this prevents GLINE's
125 to become set during server handshake in this case (what wouldn't be
126 possible during regular runtime when a remote IRC Op sends the command)
127 and what can't be undone by IRC Ops later on (because of the missing
128 "AllowRemoteOper" option) ...
129 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (8.0), and fix "duplicate
130 symbols" error messages when building (linking) the binary.
131 - Add "Documentation" variables to systemd configuration files.
132 - Make sure that SYSCONFDIR is always set, which can be handy when
133 using source code linters when ./configure hasn't been run already.
134 - Add the new "PAMServiceName" configuration option to specify the name
135 used as PAM service name. This setting allows to run multiple ngIRCd
136 instances with different PAM configurations for each instance.
137 Thanks to Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at> for the
139 - Add an ".editorconfig" file to the project.
140 - Limit the number of message target, and suppress duplicates: This
141 prevents an user from flooding the server using commands like this:
142 "PRIVMSG nick1,nick1,nick1,...".
143 Duplicate targets are suppressed silently (channels and clients).
144 In addition, the maximum number of targets per PRIVMSG, NOTICE, ...
145 command are limited to MAX_HNDL_TARGETS (25). If there are more, the
146 daemon sends the new 407 (ERR_TOOMANYTARGETS_MSG) numeric, containing
147 the first target that hasn't been handled any more. Closes #187.
148 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh script more portable, and only show
149 "runs=Y" when the test suite really has been passed successfully.
151 ngIRCd 23 (2015-11-16)
153 ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06)
154 - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is
155 a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea.
156 Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not
157 available. This mimics the behavior in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd
158 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217.
159 The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed
160 to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still
161 supported for compatibility reasons.
162 - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick
163 name while on this channel). Closes #214.
164 - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts.
165 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203.
166 - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients
167 expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly.
168 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
169 - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
170 in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't
171 hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect.
173 - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set.
174 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202.
175 - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents
176 ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see
178 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197.
179 - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure
180 that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users
181 to local ("&") channels.
182 Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183.
183 - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when
184 receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation
185 time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports
186 the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined
187 to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this.
188 This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
190 ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
192 - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch,
193 and testing by Christoph Biedl <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
194 - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating
195 systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example
196 "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to
197 "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve
198 "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using
199 DNS at all makes the test site much more portable.
201 ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
203 - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
204 ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
205 Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
207 ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
208 - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
209 lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
210 nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
211 Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
212 - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
213 - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
214 that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
215 this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
216 if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
217 - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
218 - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
219 settable by IRC Operators.
220 - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
221 "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
222 settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
223 careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
224 User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
225 - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
226 - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
227 - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
228 Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
229 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
230 on "VPATH builds", for example.
231 - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
232 and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
233 - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
234 using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
235 names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
236 is quite unexpected for users.
237 - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
238 allow using separate source and build trees.
239 - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
240 - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
242 - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
243 and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
244 useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
245 been linked at all ...).
246 - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
247 (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
248 daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
249 which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
250 - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
251 - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
252 Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
253 return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
254 DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
255 - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
258 ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
260 - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
261 disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
262 - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
263 - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
264 - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
265 linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
266 been implemented already).
267 - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
269 ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
271 - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
272 is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
273 initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
275 ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
276 - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
277 support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
279 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
280 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
281 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
282 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
283 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
284 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
285 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
286 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
287 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
288 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
289 the IRC "TRACE" command.
290 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
291 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
292 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
293 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
294 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
295 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
296 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
297 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
299 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
300 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
301 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
302 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
303 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
304 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
305 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
306 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
307 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
308 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
309 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
310 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
311 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
312 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
313 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
314 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
315 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
316 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
317 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
318 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
319 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
320 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
321 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
322 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
323 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
324 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
325 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
326 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
327 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
328 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
329 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
330 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
331 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
332 The default is 0, "never".
333 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
334 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
335 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
336 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
337 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
338 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
339 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
340 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
341 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
342 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
343 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
344 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
345 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
346 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
347 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
348 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
349 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
350 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
351 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
353 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
355 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
356 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
357 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
358 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
359 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
361 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
363 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
364 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
365 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to crash the daemon
368 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
370 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
372 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
374 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
375 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
376 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
377 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
378 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
380 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
381 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
382 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
383 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
384 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
385 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
386 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
388 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
389 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
390 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
391 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
392 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
393 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
394 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
395 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
396 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
397 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
398 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
399 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
400 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
401 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
402 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
403 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
404 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
405 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
406 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
407 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
408 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
409 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
410 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
411 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
412 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
413 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
414 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
415 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
416 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
417 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
418 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
419 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
420 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
421 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
422 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
423 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
425 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
426 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
427 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
429 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
430 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
431 configuration file. (Closes #136)
432 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
433 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
434 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
435 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
436 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
437 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
438 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
439 behave, and so do we :-)
440 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
441 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
442 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
443 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
444 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
445 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
446 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
447 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
448 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
449 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
450 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
451 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
452 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
453 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
454 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
455 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
457 ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
459 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
460 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
461 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
462 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
463 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
464 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
465 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
466 and capability "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
467 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
469 ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
471 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
472 distribution archive ... ooops!
474 ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
476 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
477 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
478 is the only supported version.
479 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
480 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
481 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
482 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
483 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
484 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
485 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
486 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
487 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
488 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
489 by completely unknown clients.
490 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
491 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
492 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
493 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
494 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
495 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
496 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
497 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
498 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
499 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
500 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
501 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
502 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
503 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
504 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
505 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
506 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
507 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
508 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
509 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
510 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
511 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
512 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
513 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
514 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
515 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
516 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
517 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
518 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
519 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
520 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
521 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
522 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
523 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
524 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
525 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
526 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
527 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
528 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
529 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
530 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
531 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
532 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
533 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
534 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
535 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
536 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
537 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
538 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
539 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
540 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
542 ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
544 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
546 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
547 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
548 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
549 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
550 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
552 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
553 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
554 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
555 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
556 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
557 servers from TOR or I2P.
558 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
559 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
560 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
561 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
562 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
563 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
564 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
565 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
566 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
567 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
568 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
569 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
570 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
571 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
572 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
573 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
574 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
575 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
576 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
577 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
578 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
579 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
580 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
581 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
582 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
583 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
584 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
585 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
586 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
587 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
588 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
589 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
590 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
591 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
592 variable description.
593 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
594 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
595 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
596 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
597 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
598 supplied by the IRC client.
599 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
600 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
601 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
602 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
603 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
604 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
605 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
606 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
607 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
608 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
609 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
610 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
611 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
612 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
613 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
614 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
615 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
617 ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
619 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
620 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
621 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
623 ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
625 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
627 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
628 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
629 - Make source code compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
630 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
632 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
633 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
634 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
635 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
636 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
637 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
638 Possible values are system dependent, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
639 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
640 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
641 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
642 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
643 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
644 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
645 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
646 using the command line parameters.
647 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
648 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contents of the MOTD
649 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
650 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
651 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
652 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
653 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
654 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
655 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
656 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
657 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
658 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
659 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
661 ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
663 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
664 - Enhance connection statistics counters: display total number of served
665 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
666 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
668 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
669 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
670 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
671 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
672 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
673 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
674 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
675 to join such a channel.
676 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
677 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
678 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
679 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
681 ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
683 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
684 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
685 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
686 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (instead of the already
687 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
688 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
689 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
691 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
692 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
693 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
695 ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
697 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
698 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
699 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
701 ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
703 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
704 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
705 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
706 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
707 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
708 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
709 individual channel keys for different users.
710 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
712 ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
714 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
715 - New version number scheme :-)
716 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
717 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
718 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
719 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
720 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
721 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
722 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
723 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
724 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
725 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
726 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
727 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
728 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
729 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
730 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
732 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
734 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
735 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
736 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
737 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
738 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
739 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
741 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
743 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
744 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
746 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
748 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
749 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
750 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
751 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
752 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
753 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
754 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
755 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
756 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
757 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
759 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
761 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
762 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
763 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
764 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
765 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
766 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
767 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
768 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
769 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
770 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
773 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
775 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
776 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
777 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
778 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
779 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
781 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
783 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
784 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
785 join predefined channels.
787 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
789 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
790 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
791 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
792 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
793 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
794 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
795 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
796 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
797 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
798 lookup to prevent spoofing.
799 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
800 addition to the select() interface.
802 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
804 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
805 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
806 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
807 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
808 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
809 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
810 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
811 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
812 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
813 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
814 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
815 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
816 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
817 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
818 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
819 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
821 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
823 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
824 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
825 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
826 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
827 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
828 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
829 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
830 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
831 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
832 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
833 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
834 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
836 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
838 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
839 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
840 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
841 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
842 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
843 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
845 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
847 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
849 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
851 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
852 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
853 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
854 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
855 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
856 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
857 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
858 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
859 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
860 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
861 configure to enable it.
862 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
863 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
864 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
865 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
866 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
869 Older news (sorry, only available in German language):
871 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
873 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
874 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
875 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
876 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
877 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
878 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
879 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
880 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
881 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
882 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
883 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
884 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
885 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
886 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
887 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
888 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
889 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
890 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
891 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
892 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
893 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
894 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
895 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
896 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
897 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
898 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
900 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
902 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
903 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
904 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
905 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
906 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
907 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
908 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
909 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
910 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
911 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
912 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
913 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
914 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
915 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
916 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
917 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
918 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
920 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
922 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
923 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
925 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
927 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
928 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
929 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
930 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
931 zusaetzliche Informationen.
932 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
933 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
934 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
935 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
936 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
937 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
938 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
939 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
940 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
941 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
942 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
943 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
945 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
947 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
948 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
949 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
950 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
951 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
952 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
953 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
954 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
955 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
956 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
958 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
960 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
961 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
962 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
963 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
964 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
965 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
967 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
969 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
970 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
971 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
972 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
973 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
974 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
976 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
978 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
979 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
980 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
981 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
982 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
983 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
984 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
985 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
987 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
989 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
990 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
991 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
992 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
994 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
996 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)