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