2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2024 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
13 ngIRCd 27~rc1 (2024-04-13)
14 - Validate certificates on server links. Up to now, ngIRCd optionally used
15 SSL/TLS encrypted server-server links but never checked and validated any
16 certificates. Now ngIRCd validates SSL/TLS certificates on outgoing
17 server-server links by default and drops(!) connections when the remote
18 certificate is invalid (for example self-signed, expired, not matching the
19 host name, ...). Therefore you have to make sure that all relevant
20 *certificates are valid* (or to disable certificate validation on this
21 connection using the new `SSLVerify = false` setting in the affected
22 `[Server]` block, where the remote certificate is not valid and you can not
24 The original patch for OpenSSL dates back to 2009 and was written by Florian
25 Westphal and was extended for GnuTLS in 2014 by Christoph Biedl. But it took
26 us another 10 years to bring it to life ... oh my! Many thanks to both
27 Florian and Christoph!
29 - Add support for the "sd_notify" protocol of systemd(8): Periodically
30 "ping" the service manager (every 3 seconds) and set a status message
31 showing current connection statistics which then is included in "systemctl
32 status ngircd.service" output. In addition, this enables using the
33 systemd(8) watchdog functionality ("WatchdogSec") for the "ngircd.service"
34 unit and allows it to use the "notify" service type, which results in
35 better status tracking by the service manager.
36 - Try to set file descriptor limit to its maximum and show info on startup:
37 The number of possible parallel connections is limited by the file
38 descriptor limit of the process (among other things). Therefore try to
39 upgrade the current "soft" limit to its "hard" maximum (but limited to
40 100000 instead of "infinite"), and show an information or even warning when
41 the limit is still less than the configured "MaxConnections" setting. Please
42 note that ngIRCd and its linked libraries (like PAM) need file descriptors
43 not only for incoming and outgoing IRC connections, but for reading files
44 and inter-process communication, too! Therefore the actual connection limit
45 is less(!) than the file descriptor limit!
46 - Add a "Docker file" (contrib/Dockerfile) and corresponding documentation
47 (doc/Container.md) to the project. The resulting container is based on the
48 latest Debian "stable-slim" container and built using a "build container".
49 - No longer use a default built-in value for the "IncludeDir" directive when
50 a configuration file was explicitly specified on the command line using
51 "--config"/"-f": This way no default include directory is scanned when a
52 possibly non-default configuration file is used which (intentionally) did
53 not specify an "IncludeDir" directive. So now you can use "-f /dev/null"
54 for checking all built-in defaults, regardless of any local configuration
55 files in the default drop-in directory (which would have been read in
57 - The server "Name" in the "[Global]" section of the configuration file no
58 longer needs to be set: When not set (or empty), ngIRCd now tries to
59 deduce a valid IRC server name from the local host name ("node name"),
60 possibly adding a ".host" extension when the host name does not contain a
61 dot (".") which is required in an IRC server name ("ID").
62 This new behavior, with all configuration parameters now being optional,
63 allows running ngIRCd without any configuration file at all.
64 - Autodetect support for IPv6 by default: Until now, IPv6 support was disabled
65 by default, which seems a bit outdated in 2024. Note: You still can pass
66 "--enable-ipv6"/"--disable-ipv6" to the ./configure script to forcefully
67 activate or deactivate IPv6 support.
68 - Do IDENT requests even when DNS lookups are disabled: Up to now disabling
69 DNS in the configuration disabled IDENT lookups as well (for no good
70 reason). Now you can activate/deactivate DNS lookups and IDENT requests
71 completely separately. Thanks for reporting this, Miniontoby!
73 - Allow SSL client-only configurations without keys/certificates: You don't
74 need to configure certificates/keys as long as you don't configure
75 SSL-enabled listening ports. This can make sense when you want to only link
76 your local daemon to an uplink server using SSL and only have clients on
77 your local host or in your fully trusted network, where SSL is not required.
78 - Respect "SSLConnect" option for incoming connections and do not accept
79 incoming plain-text ("non SSL") server connections for servers configured
80 with "SSLConnect" enabled. This change prevents an authenticated
81 client-server being able to force the server-server to send its password
82 on a plain-text connection when SSL/TLS was intended.
83 - Add a new option "Autojoin" to [Channel] blocks: When it is set, ngIRCd
84 automatically joins all local users to this channel on connect. Note: The
85 users must have permissions to access the channel, otherwise joining them
87 Thanks Ivan Agarkov <i_agarkov@wargaming.net> for the initial patch!
88 - Hide invisible (+i) users on "WHOIS <pattern>": Let's behave like most(?)
89 other IRC daemons (at least ircd2.11) and hide all +i users when WHOIS is
90 used with a pattern. Otherwise privacy of this users is not guaranteed and
91 the +i mode a bit useless ...
92 Reported by Cahata on #ngircd, thanks!
93 - Make the debug log level ("--debug"/-"d" command line option) always
94 available, not only when ./configure'd with "--enable-debug": the latter
95 now only enables additional checks (like the tests done using assert(2))
96 and is signalled by adding "+DEBUG" to the version "feature string". This
97 change enables everyone to get even more detailed logging when required.
98 - Allow IRC Operators to use the WHO command on any channel.
99 - Send the NAMES list and channel topic to users "forcefully" joined to a
100 channel using NJOIN, like they joined on their own using JOIN, and
101 streamline the order of NAMES list and channel topic messages.
103 - Added a new command line option "-y"/"--syslog", with which logging to
104 syslog can be activated/deactivated separately from running on the console
105 (using "--nodaemon") or in the background.
106 Thanks Katherine Peeters for the patch and pull request!
108 - Update, enhance and extend our documentation in README.md, INSTALL.md,
109 doc/HowToRelease.txt and the manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5), add
110 a new doc/QuickStart.md document, and convert some more documentation files
111 to Markdown (AUTHORS.md, contrib/README.md, doc/FAQ.md, doc/SSL.md).
113 ngIRCd 26.1 (2021-01-02)
115 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
117 ngIRCd 26 (2020-06-20)
119 ngIRCd 26~rc2 (2020-06-11)
120 - Add AppStream metadata file (contrib/de.barton.ngircd.metainfo.xml).
121 - Various bug fixes, see the ChangeLog. No new or changed functionality.
123 ngIRCd 26~rc1 (2020-05-10)
124 - Allow up to 512 characters per line in MOTD and help text files (but keep
125 in mind that lines can't get that long, because they have to be prefixed
126 before being sent to the client). But this allows for more fancy MOTDs :-)
128 - Show the actually allowed channel types in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric which
129 are configured by the "AllowedChannelTypes" configuration variable.
131 - Handle commands in the read buffer before reading more data and don't wait
132 for the network in this case: If there are more bytes in the read buffer
133 already than a single valid IRC command can get long (513 bytes), wait for
134 this/those command(s) to be handled first and don't try to read even more
135 data from the network (which most probably would overflow the read buffer
136 of this connection soon).
137 - Log G-/K-Line changes only when not initiated by a server: this prevents
138 the log from becoming spammed during "net bursts".
139 - Update test suite to include SSL tests, including checking for reloading
140 certificates during runtime.
141 - Add support for GnuTLS certificate reload, which is quite handy when using
142 Let's Encrypt, for example. Until now this was only supported when linked
143 with OpenSSL. Thanks a lot, Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de>!
144 - Allow setting arbitrary channel modes in the configuration file by handling
145 them like in MODE commands, and allow multiple "Modes =" lines per [Channel]
146 section. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org>!
148 - Add "FNC" (forced nick changes) to ISUPPORT(005) numeric. Most probably
149 this doesn't make any difference to any client, but it seems correct.
150 See <http://www.irc.org/tech_docs/005.html> for details.
151 - Enhance handling of command line errors, and return with exit code 0 ("no
152 error") when "--help" or "--version" is used (which resulted in exit code 1,
153 "error" before). Exit with code 2 ("command line error") for all other
154 invalid command line options, and show the error message itself on stderr
155 (instead of stdout and exit code 1, "generic error", as before).
156 This new behavior is more in line with the GNU "coding standards",
157 see <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html>.
158 - Add ./contrib/nglog.sh: This script parses the log output of ngircd(8),
159 and colorizes the messages according to their log level. Example usage:
160 ngircd -f $PWD/doc/sample-ngircd.conf -np | ./contrib/nglog.sh
161 - Enlarge buffers of info texts to 128 bytes. This includes:
162 - "Real name" of a client (4th filed of the USER command).
163 - Server info text ("Info" configuration option).
164 - Admin info texts and email address ("AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" and
165 "AdminEmail" configuration options).
166 - Network name ("Network" configuration option).
167 The limit was 64 bytes before ...
169 - Streamline handling of invalid and unset server name: Don't exit during
170 runtime (REHASH command, HUP signal), because the server name can't be
171 changed in this case anyway and the new invalid name will be ignored.
172 - Slightly reorder startup steps, and enhance logging:
173 - Show name of configuration file at the beginning of start up.
174 - Add a message when ngIRCd is ready, including its host name.
175 - Show name of configuration file on REHASH (SIGHUP), too.
176 - Change level of "done message" to NOTICE, like "starting" & "ready".
177 - Initialize IO functions before channels, connections, clients, ...
178 - configure.ng: OpenSSL can depends on lz or latomic so use pkg-config to
179 find those dependencies and fallback to existing mechanism.
182 ngIRCd 25 (2019-01-23)
184 - Implement new configuration option "MaxPenaltyTime", which configures the
185 maximum penalty time increase in seconds, per penalty event. Set to -1 for
186 no limit (the default), 0 to disable penalties altogether. ngIRCd doesn't
187 use penalty increases higher than 2 seconds during normal operation, so
188 values higher than 1 rarely make sense.
189 Disabling (or reducing) penalties can greatly speed up "make check" runs
190 for example, see below, but are mostly a debugging feature and normally
191 not meant to be used on production systems!
192 Some example timings running "make check" from my macOS workstation:
193 - MaxPenaltyTime not set: 4:41,79s
194 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 1": 3:14,71s
195 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 0": 25,46s
196 Closes #249 and #251.
197 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (10.0)
198 - Allow a 5th parameter in WEBIRC. Thanks to "ItsOnlyBinary".
201 ngIRCd 25~rc1 (2018-08-11)
202 - Only send TOPIC updates to a channel when the topic actually changed:
203 This prevents the channel from becoming flooded by unnecessary TOPIC update
204 messages, that can happen when IRC services try to enforce a certain topic
205 but which is already set (at least on the local server), for example.
206 Therefore still forward it to all servers, but don't inform local clients
207 (still update setter and timestamp information, though!).
208 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (9.2). This includes adding
209 missing and deleting obsolete file references.
210 - Handle user mode "C" ("Only users that share a channel are allowed to send
211 messages") like user mode "b" ("block private messages and notices"): allow
212 messages from servers, services, and IRC Operators, too. Change proposed by
213 "wowaname" back in 2015 in #ngircd, thanks!
214 - Allow IRC Ops and remote servers to KILL service clients: such clients
215 behave like regular users, therefore IRC operators and servers should be
216 able to KILL them: for example to resolve nick collisions.
219 ngIRCd 24 (2017-01-20)
221 ngIRCd 24~rc1 (2017-01-07)
222 - Log privilege violations and failed OPER request with log level "error"
223 and send it to the "&SERVER" channel, too.
224 - Immediately shut down connection when receiving an "ERROR" command,
225 don't wait for the peer to close the connection. This allows the daemon
226 to forward the received "ERROR" message in the network, instead of the
227 very generic "client closed connection" message.
228 - Explicitly forbid remote servers to modify "x-lines" (G-LINES) when the
229 "AllowRemoteOper" configuration option isn't set, even when the command
230 seems to originate from the remote server itself: this prevents GLINE's
231 to become set during server handshake in this case (what wouldn't be
232 possible during regular runtime when a remote IRC Op sends the command)
233 and what can't be undone by IRC Ops later on (because of the missing
234 "AllowRemoteOper" option) ...
235 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (8.0), and fix "duplicate
236 symbols" error messages when building (linking) the binary.
237 - Add "Documentation" variables to systemd configuration files.
238 - Make sure that SYSCONFDIR is always set, which can be handy when
239 using source code linters when ./configure hasn't been run already.
240 - Add the new "PAMServiceName" configuration option to specify the name
241 used as PAM service name. This setting allows to run multiple ngIRCd
242 instances with different PAM configurations for each instance.
243 Thanks to Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at> for the
245 - Add an ".editorconfig" file to the project.
246 - Limit the number of message target, and suppress duplicates: This
247 prevents an user from flooding the server using commands like this:
248 "PRIVMSG nick1,nick1,nick1,...".
249 Duplicate targets are suppressed silently (channels and clients).
250 In addition, the maximum number of targets per PRIVMSG, NOTICE, ...
251 command are limited to MAX_HNDL_TARGETS (25). If there are more, the
252 daemon sends the new 407 (ERR_TOOMANYTARGETS_MSG) numeric, containing
253 the first target that hasn't been handled any more. Closes #187.
254 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh script more portable, and only show
255 "runs=Y" when the test suite really has been passed successfully.
257 ngIRCd 23 (2015-11-16)
259 ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06)
260 - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is
261 a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea.
262 Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not
263 available. This mimics the behavior in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd
264 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217.
265 The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed
266 to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still
267 supported for compatibility reasons.
268 - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick
269 name while on this channel). Closes #214.
270 - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts.
271 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203.
272 - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients
273 expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly.
274 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
275 - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
276 in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't
277 hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect.
279 - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set.
280 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202.
281 - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents
282 ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see
284 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197.
285 - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure
286 that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users
287 to local ("&") channels.
288 Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183.
289 - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when
290 receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation
291 time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports
292 the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined
293 to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this.
294 This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
296 ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
298 - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch,
299 and testing by Christoph Biedl <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
300 - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating
301 systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example
302 "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to
303 "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve
304 "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using
305 DNS at all makes the test site much more portable.
307 ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
309 - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
310 ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
311 Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
313 ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
314 - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
315 lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
316 nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
317 Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
318 - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
319 - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
320 that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
321 this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
322 if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
323 - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
324 - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
325 settable by IRC Operators.
326 - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
327 "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
328 settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
329 careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
330 User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
331 - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
332 - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
333 - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
334 Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
335 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
336 on "VPATH builds", for example.
337 - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
338 and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
339 - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
340 using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
341 names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
342 is quite unexpected for users.
343 - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
344 allow using separate source and build trees.
345 - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
346 - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
348 - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
349 and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
350 useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
351 been linked at all ...).
352 - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
353 (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
354 daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
355 which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
356 - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
357 - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
358 Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
359 return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
360 DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
361 - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
364 ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
366 - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
367 disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
368 - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
369 - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
370 - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
371 linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
372 been implemented already).
373 - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
375 ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
377 - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
378 is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
379 initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
381 ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
382 - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
383 support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
385 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
386 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
387 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
388 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
389 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
390 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
391 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
392 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
393 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
394 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
395 the IRC "TRACE" command.
396 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
397 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
398 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
399 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
400 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
401 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
402 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
403 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
405 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
406 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
407 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
408 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
409 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
410 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
411 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
412 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
413 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
414 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
415 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
416 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
417 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
418 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
419 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
420 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
421 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
422 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
423 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
424 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
425 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
426 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
427 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
428 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
429 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
430 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
431 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
432 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
433 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
434 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
435 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
436 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
437 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
438 The default is 0, "never".
439 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
440 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
441 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
442 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
443 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
444 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
445 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
446 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
447 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
448 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
449 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
450 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
451 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
452 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
453 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
454 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
455 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
456 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
457 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
459 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
461 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
462 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
463 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
464 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
465 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
467 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
469 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
470 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
471 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to crash the daemon
474 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
476 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
478 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
480 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
481 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
482 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
483 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
484 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
486 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
487 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
488 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
489 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
490 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
491 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
492 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
494 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
495 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
496 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
497 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
498 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
499 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
500 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
501 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
502 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
503 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
504 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
505 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
506 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
507 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
508 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
509 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
510 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
511 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
512 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
513 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
514 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
515 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
516 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
517 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
518 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
519 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
520 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
521 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
522 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
523 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
524 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
525 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
526 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
527 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
528 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
529 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
531 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
532 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
533 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
535 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
536 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
537 configuration file. (Closes #136)
538 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
539 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
540 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
541 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
542 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
543 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
544 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
545 behave, and so do we :-)
546 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
547 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
548 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
549 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
550 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
551 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
552 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
553 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
554 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
555 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
556 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
557 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
558 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
559 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
560 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
561 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
563 ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
565 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
566 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
567 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
568 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
569 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
570 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
571 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
572 and capability "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
573 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
575 ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
577 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
578 distribution archive ... ooops!
580 ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
582 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
583 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
584 is the only supported version.
585 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
586 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
587 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
588 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
589 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
590 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
591 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
592 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
593 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
594 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
595 by completely unknown clients.
596 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
597 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
598 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
599 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
600 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
601 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
602 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
603 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
604 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
605 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
606 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
607 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
608 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
609 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
610 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
611 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
612 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
613 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
614 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
615 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
616 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
617 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
618 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
619 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
620 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
621 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
622 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
623 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
624 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
625 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
626 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
627 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
628 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
629 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
630 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
631 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
632 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
633 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
634 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
635 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
636 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
637 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
638 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
639 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
640 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
641 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
642 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
643 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
644 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
645 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
646 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
648 ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
650 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
652 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
653 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
654 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
655 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
656 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
658 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
659 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
660 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
661 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
662 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
663 servers from TOR or I2P.
664 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
665 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
666 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
667 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
668 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
669 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
670 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
671 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
672 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
673 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
674 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
675 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
676 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
677 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
678 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
679 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
680 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
681 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
682 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
683 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
684 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
685 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
686 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
687 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
688 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
689 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
690 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
691 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
692 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
693 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
694 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
695 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
696 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
697 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
698 variable description.
699 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
700 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
701 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
702 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
703 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
704 supplied by the IRC client.
705 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
706 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
707 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
708 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
709 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
710 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
711 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
712 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
713 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
714 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
715 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
716 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
717 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
718 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
719 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
720 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
721 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
723 ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
725 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
726 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
727 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
729 ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
731 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
733 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
734 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
735 - Make source code compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
736 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
738 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
739 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
740 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
741 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
742 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
743 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
744 Possible values are system dependent, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
745 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
746 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
747 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
748 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
749 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
750 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
751 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
752 using the command line parameters.
753 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
754 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contents of the MOTD
755 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
756 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
757 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
758 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
759 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
760 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
761 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
762 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
763 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
764 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
765 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
767 ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
769 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
770 - Enhance connection statistics counters: display total number of served
771 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
772 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
774 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
775 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
776 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
777 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
778 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
779 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
780 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
781 to join such a channel.
782 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
783 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
784 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
785 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
787 ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
789 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
790 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
791 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
792 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (instead of the already
793 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
794 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
795 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
797 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
798 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
799 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
801 ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
803 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
804 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
805 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
807 ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
809 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
810 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
811 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
812 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
813 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
814 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
815 individual channel keys for different users.
816 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
818 ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
820 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
821 - New version number scheme :-)
822 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
823 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
824 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
825 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
826 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
827 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
828 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
829 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
830 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
831 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
832 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
833 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
834 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
835 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
836 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
838 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
840 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
841 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
842 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
843 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
844 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
845 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
847 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
849 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
850 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
852 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
854 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
855 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
856 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
857 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
858 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
859 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
860 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
861 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
862 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
863 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
865 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
867 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
868 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
869 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
870 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
871 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
872 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
873 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
874 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
875 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
876 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
879 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
881 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
882 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
883 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
884 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
885 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
887 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
889 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
890 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
891 join predefined channels.
893 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
895 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
896 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
897 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
898 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
899 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
900 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
901 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
902 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
903 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
904 lookup to prevent spoofing.
905 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
906 addition to the select() interface.
908 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
910 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
911 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
912 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
913 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
914 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
915 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
916 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
917 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
918 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
919 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
920 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
921 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
922 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
923 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
924 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
925 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
927 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
929 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
930 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
931 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
932 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
933 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
934 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
935 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
936 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
937 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
938 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
939 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
940 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
942 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
944 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
945 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
946 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
947 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
948 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
949 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
951 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
953 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
955 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
957 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
958 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
959 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
960 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
961 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
962 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
963 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
964 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
965 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
966 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
967 configure to enable it.
968 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
969 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
970 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
971 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
972 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
975 Older news (sorry, only available in German language):
977 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
979 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
980 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
981 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
982 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
983 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
984 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
985 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
986 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
987 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
988 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
989 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
990 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
991 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
992 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
993 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
994 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
995 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
996 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
997 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
998 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
999 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
1000 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
1001 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
1002 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
1003 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
1004 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
1006 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
1008 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
1009 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
1010 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
1011 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
1012 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
1013 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
1014 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
1015 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
1016 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
1017 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
1018 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
1019 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
1020 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
1021 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
1022 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
1023 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
1024 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
1026 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
1028 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
1029 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
1031 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
1033 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
1034 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
1035 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
1036 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
1037 zusaetzliche Informationen.
1038 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
1039 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
1040 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
1041 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
1042 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
1043 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
1044 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
1045 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
1046 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
1047 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
1048 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
1049 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
1051 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
1053 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
1054 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
1055 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
1056 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
1057 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
1058 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
1059 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
1060 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
1061 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
1062 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
1064 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
1066 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
1067 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
1068 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
1069 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
1070 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
1071 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
1073 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
1075 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
1076 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
1077 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
1078 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
1079 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
1080 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
1082 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
1084 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
1085 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
1086 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
1087 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
1088 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
1089 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
1090 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
1091 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
1093 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
1095 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
1096 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
1097 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
1098 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
1100 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
1102 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)