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