2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
14 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
15 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
16 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
17 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
18 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
19 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
20 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
21 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
22 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
23 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
24 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
25 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
26 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
27 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
28 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
29 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
30 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
31 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
32 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
33 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
34 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
35 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
36 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
37 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
38 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
39 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
40 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
41 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
42 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
43 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
44 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
45 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
46 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
47 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
48 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
49 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
51 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
52 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
53 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
55 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
56 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
57 configuration file. (Closes #136)
58 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
59 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
60 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
61 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
62 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
63 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
64 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
65 behave, and so do we :-)
66 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
67 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
68 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
69 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
70 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
71 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
72 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
73 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
74 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
75 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
76 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
77 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
78 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
79 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
80 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
81 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
83 ngIRCd Release 19.2 (2012-06-19)
85 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
86 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
87 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
88 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
89 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
90 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
91 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
92 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
93 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
95 ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
97 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
98 distribution archive ... ooops!
100 ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
102 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
103 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
104 is the only supported version.
105 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
106 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
107 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
108 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
109 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
110 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
111 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
112 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
113 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
114 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
115 by completely unknown clients.
116 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
117 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
118 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
119 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
120 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
121 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
122 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
123 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
124 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
125 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
126 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
127 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
128 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
129 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
130 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
131 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
132 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
133 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
134 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
135 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
136 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
137 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
138 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
139 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
140 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
141 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
142 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
143 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
144 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
145 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
146 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
147 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
148 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
149 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
150 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
151 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
152 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
153 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
154 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
155 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
156 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
157 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
158 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
159 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
160 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
161 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
162 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
163 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
164 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
165 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
166 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
168 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
170 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
172 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
173 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
174 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
175 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
176 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
178 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
179 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
180 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
181 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
182 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
183 servers from TOR or I2P.
184 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
185 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
186 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
187 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
188 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
189 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
190 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
191 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
192 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
193 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
194 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
195 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
196 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
197 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
198 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
199 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
200 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
201 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
202 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
203 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
204 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
205 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
206 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
207 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
208 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
209 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
210 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
211 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
212 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
213 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
214 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
215 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
216 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
217 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
218 variable description.
219 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
220 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
221 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
222 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
223 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
224 supplied by the IRC client.
225 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
226 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
227 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
228 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
229 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
230 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
231 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
232 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
233 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
234 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
235 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
236 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
237 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
238 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
239 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
240 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
241 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
243 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
245 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
246 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
247 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
249 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
251 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
253 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
254 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
255 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
256 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
258 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
259 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
260 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
261 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
262 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
263 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
264 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
265 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
266 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
267 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
268 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
269 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
270 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
271 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
272 using the command line parameters.
273 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
274 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
275 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
276 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
277 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
278 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
279 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
280 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
281 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
282 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
283 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
284 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
285 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
287 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
289 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
290 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
291 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
292 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
294 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
295 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
296 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
297 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
298 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
299 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
300 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
301 to join such a channel.
302 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
303 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
304 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
305 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
307 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
309 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
310 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
311 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
312 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
313 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
314 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
315 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
317 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
318 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
319 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
321 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
323 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
324 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
325 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
327 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
329 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
330 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
331 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
332 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
333 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
334 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
335 individual channel keys for different users.
336 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
338 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
340 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
341 - New version number scheme :-)
342 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
343 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
344 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
345 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
346 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
347 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
348 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
349 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
350 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
351 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
352 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
353 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
354 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
355 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
356 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
358 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
360 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
361 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
362 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
363 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
364 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
365 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
367 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
369 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
370 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
372 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
374 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
375 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
376 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
377 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
378 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
379 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
380 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
381 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
382 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
383 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
385 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
387 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
388 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
389 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
390 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
391 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
392 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
393 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
394 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
395 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
396 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
399 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
401 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
402 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
403 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
404 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
405 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
407 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
409 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
410 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
411 join predefined channels.
413 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
415 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
416 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
417 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
418 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
419 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
420 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
421 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
422 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
423 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
424 lookup to prevent spoofing.
425 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
426 addition to the select() interface.
428 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
430 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
431 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
432 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
433 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
434 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
435 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
436 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
437 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
438 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
439 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
440 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
441 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
442 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
443 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
444 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
445 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
447 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
449 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
450 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
451 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
452 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
453 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
454 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
455 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
456 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
457 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
458 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
459 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
460 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
462 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
464 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
465 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
466 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
467 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
468 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
469 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
471 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
473 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
475 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
477 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
478 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
479 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
480 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
481 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
482 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
483 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
484 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
485 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
486 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
487 configure to enable it.
488 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
489 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
490 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
491 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
492 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
495 Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
497 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
499 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
500 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
501 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
502 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
503 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
504 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
505 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
506 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
507 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
508 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
509 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
510 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
511 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
512 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
513 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
514 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
515 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
516 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
517 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
518 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
519 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
520 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
521 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
522 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
523 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
524 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
526 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
528 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
529 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
530 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
531 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
532 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
533 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
534 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
535 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
536 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
537 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
538 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
539 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
540 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
541 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
542 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
543 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
544 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
546 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
548 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
549 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
551 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
553 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
554 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
555 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
556 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
557 zusaetzliche Informationen.
558 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
559 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
560 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
561 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
562 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
563 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
564 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
565 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
566 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
567 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
568 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
569 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
571 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
573 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
574 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
575 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
576 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
577 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
578 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
579 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
580 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
581 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
582 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
584 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
586 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
587 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
588 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
589 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
590 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
591 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
593 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
595 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
596 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
597 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
598 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
599 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
600 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
602 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
604 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
605 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
606 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
607 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
608 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
609 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
610 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
611 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
613 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
615 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
616 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
617 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
618 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
620 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
622 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)