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.
12 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
14 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
15 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
16 external (PAM) authenticaion mechanisms that require longer user names.
17 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
18 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
20 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
21 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
22 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
23 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
24 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
25 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
26 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
28 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
29 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
30 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
31 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
32 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
33 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
34 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
35 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
36 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
37 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
38 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
39 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
40 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
41 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
42 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
43 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
44 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
45 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
46 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
47 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
48 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
49 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
50 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
51 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
52 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
53 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
54 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
55 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
56 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
57 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
58 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
59 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
60 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
61 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
62 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
63 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
65 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
66 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
67 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
69 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
70 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
71 configuration file. (Closes #136)
72 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
73 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
74 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
75 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
76 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
77 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
78 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
79 behave, and so do we :-)
80 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
81 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
82 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
83 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
84 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
85 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
86 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
87 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
88 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
89 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
90 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
91 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
92 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
93 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
94 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
95 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
97 ngIRCd Release 19.2 (2012-06-19)
99 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
100 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
101 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
102 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
103 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
104 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
105 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
106 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
107 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
109 ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
111 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
112 distribution archive ... ooops!
114 ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
116 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
117 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
118 is the only supported version.
119 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
120 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
121 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
122 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
123 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
124 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
125 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
126 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
127 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
128 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
129 by completely unknown clients.
130 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
131 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
132 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
133 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
134 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
135 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
136 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
137 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
138 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
139 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
140 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
141 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
142 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
143 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
144 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
145 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
146 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
147 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
148 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
149 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
150 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
151 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
152 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
153 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
154 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
155 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
156 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
157 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
158 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
159 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
160 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
161 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
162 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
163 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
164 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
165 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
166 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
167 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
168 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
169 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
170 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
171 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
172 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
173 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
174 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
175 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
176 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
177 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
178 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
179 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
180 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
182 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
184 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
186 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
187 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
188 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
189 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
190 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
192 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
193 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
194 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
195 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
196 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
197 servers from TOR or I2P.
198 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
199 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
200 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
201 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
202 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
203 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
204 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
205 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
206 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
207 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
208 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
209 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
210 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
211 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
212 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
213 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
214 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
215 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
216 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
217 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
218 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
219 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
220 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
221 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
222 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
223 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
224 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
225 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
226 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
227 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
228 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
229 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
230 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
231 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
232 variable description.
233 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
234 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
235 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
236 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
237 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
238 supplied by the IRC client.
239 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
240 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
241 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
242 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
243 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
244 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
245 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
246 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
247 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
248 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
249 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
250 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
251 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
252 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
253 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
254 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
255 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
257 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
259 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
260 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
261 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
263 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
265 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
267 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
268 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
269 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
270 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
272 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
273 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
274 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
275 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
276 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
277 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
278 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
279 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
280 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
281 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
282 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
283 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
284 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
285 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
286 using the command line parameters.
287 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
288 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
289 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
290 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
291 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
292 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
293 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
294 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
295 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
296 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
297 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
298 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
299 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
301 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
303 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
304 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
305 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
306 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
308 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
309 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
310 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
311 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
312 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
313 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
314 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
315 to join such a channel.
316 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
317 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
318 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
319 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
321 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
323 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
324 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
325 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
326 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
327 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
328 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
329 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
331 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
332 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
333 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
335 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
337 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
338 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
339 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
341 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
343 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
344 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
345 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
346 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
347 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
348 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
349 individual channel keys for different users.
350 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
352 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
354 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
355 - New version number scheme :-)
356 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
357 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
358 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
359 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
360 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
361 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
362 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
363 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
364 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
365 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
366 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
367 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
368 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
369 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
370 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
372 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
374 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
375 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
376 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
377 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
378 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
379 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
381 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
383 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
384 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
386 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
388 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
389 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
390 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
391 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
392 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
393 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
394 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
395 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
396 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
397 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
399 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
401 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
402 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
403 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
404 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
405 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
406 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
407 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
408 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
409 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
410 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
413 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
415 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
416 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
417 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
418 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
419 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
421 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
423 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
424 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
425 join predefined channels.
427 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
429 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
430 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
431 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
432 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
433 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
434 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
435 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
436 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
437 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
438 lookup to prevent spoofing.
439 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
440 addition to the select() interface.
442 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
444 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
445 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
446 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
447 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
448 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
449 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
450 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
451 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
452 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
453 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
454 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
455 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
456 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
457 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
458 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
459 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
461 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
463 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
464 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
465 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
466 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
467 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
468 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
469 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
470 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
471 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
472 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
473 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
474 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
476 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
478 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
479 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
480 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
481 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
482 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
483 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
485 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
487 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
489 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
491 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
492 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
493 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
494 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
495 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
496 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
497 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
498 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
499 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
500 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
501 configure to enable it.
502 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
503 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
504 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
505 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
506 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
509 Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
511 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
513 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
514 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
515 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
516 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
517 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
518 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
519 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
520 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
521 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
522 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
523 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
524 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
525 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
526 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
527 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
528 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
529 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
530 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
531 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
532 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
533 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
534 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
535 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
536 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
537 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
538 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
540 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
542 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
543 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
544 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
545 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
546 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
547 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
548 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
549 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
550 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
551 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
552 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
553 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
554 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
555 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
556 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
557 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
558 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
560 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
562 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
563 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
565 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
567 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
568 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
569 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
570 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
571 zusaetzliche Informationen.
572 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
573 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
574 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
575 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
576 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
577 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
578 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
579 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
580 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
581 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
582 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
583 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
585 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
587 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
588 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
589 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
590 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
591 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
592 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
593 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
594 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
595 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
596 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
598 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
600 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
601 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
602 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
603 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
604 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
605 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
607 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
609 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
610 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
611 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
612 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
613 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
614 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
616 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
618 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
619 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
620 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
621 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
622 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
623 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
624 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
625 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
627 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
629 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
630 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
631 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
632 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
634 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
636 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)
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