ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
http://ngircd.barton.de/
- (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
+ (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
-- ChangeLog --
-ngIRCd Release 18
+ngIRCd-dev
+
+ - Correctly handle asynchronously re-established server links: a race
+ condition could let the daemon loose track of an already re-established
+ incoming server link while preparing its own outgoing connection.
+ Peers that both try to connect each other could have been affected.
+ - Log a debug message when SIGUSR2 is handled in debug mode.
+ - Only allow alphanumeric characters in user-supplied user names of
+ USER command and IDENT replies.
+ - Change wording of "TLS initialized" message to make it more consistent.
+ - Don't leak file descriptors on error path when creating "PID files".
+ - Add missing mode "r" to CHANMODES in 005 "ISUPPORT" numeric.
+ - Update doc/Modes.txt and doc/Platforms.txt documents.
+ - contrib/platformtest.sh: correctly detect Open64 C compiler and handle
+ "CC=xxx MAKE=yyy ./platformtest.sh" calling convention.
+ - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
+ - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
+ and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
+ handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
+ - Update Xcode project files: reference missing documentation files.
+ - Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot.
+ - FAQ: enhance description of chroot setup.
+
+ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
+
+ - Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL.
+ - Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note",
+ and fix lintian(1) warning ""hyphen-used-as-minus-sign", too.
+ - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
+ distribution archive ... ooops!
+ - getpid.sh: Fix test case error for Debian using sbuild(1).
+ - Don't log "ngIRCd hello message" two times when starting up.
+
+ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
+
+ - Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by
+ GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions.
+ - Fix configuration file parser: don't accept "[SSL]" blocks in the
+ configuration file when no SSL support is built in ngIRCd.
+ - Fix building ngIRCd with old gcc versions (e. g. 2.7.2).
+ - Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration
+ file: Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the
+ configuration, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored
+ the "SyslogFacility" configuration option ...
+ Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue!
+
+ ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
+ - Enhance command limits for server links: the limit now is dependent
+ on the number of users connected in the network and higher while
+ servers are joining the network to make the login of servers faster.
+ - Log more information about server synchronization.
+ - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
+ is the only supported version.
+ - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
+ (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
+ Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
+ - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
+ operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
+ channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
+ the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
+ - PRIVMSG and NOTICE: Handle nick!user@host masks case-insensitive.
+ - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
+ command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
+ and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
+ by completely unknown clients.
+ - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
+ indicates if a nick name is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
+ - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
+ duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
+ or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
+ - Fix both ERR_SUMMONDISABLED(445) and ERR_USERSDISABLED(446) replies.
+ - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for
+ unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501).
+ - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES",
+ add "EXCEPTS=e" and "INVEX=I", add "MAXLIST=beI:50".
+ - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
+ WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
+ - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive.
+ - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
+ that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
+ in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
+ - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments.
+ For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling
+ "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f".
+ - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of
+ the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an
+ assertion and end the daemon in some error paths.
+ - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child
+ processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases
+ with IDENT lookups enabled.
+ - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS,
+ don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is
+ case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the
+ unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client).
+ - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
+ - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
+ commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
+ commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
+ Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
+ - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variable in the
+ configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user).
+ - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-)
+ - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single
+ channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel
+ limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check
+ the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when
+ trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of.
+ - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nick names.
+ - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
+ sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
+ "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
+ user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
+ - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
+ returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
+ thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
+ of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
+ - Fixed some spelling errors in documentation and code comments
+ (Thanks to Christoph Biedl).
+ - contrib/Debian/control: Update and complete "Build-Depends" and
+ update our Debian package descriptions with "official" ones.
+ - Fixed typo in two error messages.
+ - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
+ client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
+ using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
+ - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
+ are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
+ handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
+ Reported by Cahata, thanks!
+ - README: Update list of implemented commands.
+ - Log better error messages when rejecting clients.
+ - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
+ synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
+ If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
+ are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
+ NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
+ processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
+ - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR
+ for Mac OS X Xcode builds.
+ - ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use
+ poll() when poll.h exists as well.
+ - Suppress 'Can't create pre-defined channel: invalid name: ""' message.
+ - whois-test: handle local host name = "localhost.localdomain" using the
+ pattern "localhost*" for valid local host names.
+ - sample-ngircd.conf: show correct default for "PAM" variable: The
+ default of "PAM" is "yes" when ngIRCd has been configured to use it,
+ so show the correct default value in the sample configuration file.
+ (Closes #119)
+ - Update GPL 2 license text to current version.
+ - Only close "unrelated" sockets in forked child processes: This fixes
+ the problem that ngIRCd can't do any IDENT lookups because of the
+ socket has already been closed in the child process.
+ The bug has been introduced starting with ngIRCd 17 ... :-(
+ (commit ID 6ebb31ab35e)
+ - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
+ - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nick name of this user
+ is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
+ be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
+ - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
+ mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
+ - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
+ - New 2nd message "Nickname too long" for error code 432.
+ - Xcode: Mac OS X config.h: support 10.5 as well as 10.6/10.7 SDK.
+ - Xcode: exclude more Xcode 4 specific directories in ".gitignore".
+ - Disconnect directly linked servers sending QUIT. Without this,
+ the server becomes removed from the network and the client list,
+ but the connection isn't shut down at all ...
+ - contrib/ngindent: detect "gindent" as GNU indent.
+ - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
+ forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
+ - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
+ These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
+ but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
+ and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nick name"
+ argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
+ and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
+ - Correctly inform clients when other servers change their user modes.
+ This is required for some services to work correctly.
+ - Test suite: make getpid.sh work even when run as root.
+ - Spoofed prefixes: close connection on non-server links only.
+ On server-links, spoofed prefixes can happen because of the
+ asynchronous nature of the IRC protocol. So don't break server-
+ links, only log a message and ignore the command. (Closes #113)
+
+ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
+
+ - Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page.
+ - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
+ - Don't register WHOWAS information when "MorePrivacy" option is in effect.
+
+ ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
+ - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-)
+ - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section.
+ - ngircd.8: document debugging options.
+ - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
+ ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
+ that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
+ longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
- PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
- - New configuration opion "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
- When enabled, signon time and idle time is censored. Part and quit
+ - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
+ When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
servers from TOR or I2P.
- New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
- activated, the server silently drops incomming CTCP requests from both
+ activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
current hardware ...
- contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
- - Avoid needlesly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
+ - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
- Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
- - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 secods ("burst"). This
- helps to speed up server login and network synchronisation.
+ - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This
+ helps to speed up server login and network synchronization.
- Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
variable description.
- Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
- Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
- - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this hostname is used for
- every client instead of the real DNS hostname (or IP address).
+ - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
+ every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
- New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
every clients' user name to their nick name and hides the user name
supplied by the IRC client.
- Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
- Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
- establis a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
+ establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
- Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
- Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
- Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
- Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
- - Don't throttle services and servers beeing registered.
+ - Don't throttle services and servers being registered.
- Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
- - Don't assert() when serching a client for an invalid server token (this is
+ - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is
only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
commands).
- Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly
- Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
- Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section
- - Manual pages: update and simplyfy AUTHORS section
+ - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section
- Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
- README: Updated list of implemented commands
- add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball
- configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output.
- Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the
client lag debug-output is working again.
- - Implement user mode "x": hostname cloaking (closes: #102).
+ - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
- Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
- Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
- INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
- Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
- Fix error handling on compressed links.
- Fix server list announcement.
- - Do not remove hostnames from info text.
+ - Do not remove host names from info text.
ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
- RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+).
(Dana Dahlstrom)
- IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
- nickname/servername/hostname, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
+ nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
(reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
- Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom)
- Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
- - Use dotted-decimal IP address if hostname is >= 64.
+ - Use dotted-decimal IP address if host name is >= 64.
- Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
- New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last
parameter has been added.
- Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info.
- - Results of the resolver (hostnames and IDENT names) are discarded after
+ - Results of the resolver (host names and IDENT names) are discarded after
the client is successfully registered with the server.
- Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections.
- The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
- Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst.
- unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
- - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asyncronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
+ - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
- Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt;
bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet.
Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben.
- - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO syncronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
+ - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics.
- neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das
IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert).
- PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m".
- AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst.
- der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
- - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asyncron connectiert und
+ - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asynchron connectiert und
blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht
erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!).
- Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet.
- NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern.
- ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar.
- neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT.
- - Asyncroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
+ - Asynchroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
- Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige
Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert
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