ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
http://ngircd.barton.de/
- (c)2001-2017 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
+ (c)2001-2020 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
-- ChangeLog --
-
-ngIRCd 24
+ngIRCd 26
+
+ ngIRCd 26~rc1 (2020-05-10)
+ - Tweak & update doc/HowToRelease.txt, .mailmap and AUTHORS files.
+ - Allow up to 512 characters per line in MOTD and help text files (but keep
+ in mind that lines can't get that long, because they have to be prefixed
+ before being sent to the client). But this allows for more fancy MOTDs :-)
+ Closes #271.
+ - Show the actually allowed channel types in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric which
+ are configured by the "AllowedChannelTypes" configuration variable.
+ Closes #273.
+ - Handle commands in the read buffer before reading more data and don't wait
+ for the network in this case: If there are more bytes in the read buffer
+ already than a single valid IRC command can get long (513 bytes), wait for
+ this/those command(s) to be handled first and don't try to read even more
+ data from the network (which most probably would overflow the read buffer
+ of this connection soon).
+ - Update Travis-CI configuration, "sudo" is depreacted.
+ - Log G-/K-Line changes only when not initiated by a server: this prevents
+ the log from becomming spammed during "net bursts".
+ - Update test suite to include SSL tests, including checking for reloading
+ certificates during runtime.
+ - Makefile.am: Replace "make" with "${MAKE}". This fixes warnings like this:
+ "warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule."
+ Thanks to Sam James (sam_c) <sam@cmpct.info>!
+ Closes #270.
+ - Add support for GnuTLS certificate reload, which is quite handy when using
+ Let's Encrypt, for example. Until now this was only supported when linked
+ with OpenSSL. Thanks a lot, Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de>!
+ - Remove deprecated legacy configuration options and related functions that
+ have been marked for removal for quite some time:
+ - PredefChannelsOnly (v22)
+ - NoticeAuth (v24)
+ - NoXXX (v19)
+ - Old '[GLOBAL]' section handling (v19)
+ Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
+ - Fix recursion bug on write errors: Depending on the stack size, too many
+ clients on the same channel quitting at the same time would trigger a crash
+ due to too many recursive calls to Conn_Close(). Thanks to Michi
+ <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
+ - Fix builds using GCC option -fno-common, which is the default starting with
+ GCC 10. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
+ Closes #266.
+ - Convert INSTALL and README files to Markdown.
+ - Allow setting arbitrary channel modes in the configuration file by handling
+ them like in MODE commands, and allow multiple "Modes =" lines per [Channel]
+ section. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org>!
+ Closes #55.
+ - Add "FNC" (forced nick changes) to ISUPPORT(005) numeric. Most probably
+ this doesn't make any difference to any client, but it seems correct.
+ See <http://www.irc.org/tech_docs/005.html> for details.
+ - Reuse old SSL key if loading a new one failed.
+ - Remove outdated OpenBSD/NetBSD systrace.policy.
+ - Enhance handling of command line errors, and return with exit code 0 ("no
+ error") when "--help" or "--version" is used (which resulted in exit code 1,
+ "error" before). Exit with code 2 ("command line error") for all other
+ invalid command line options, and show the error message itself on stderr
+ (instead of stdout and exit code 1, "generic error", as before).
+ This new behaviour is more in line with the GNU "coding standards",
+ see <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html>.
+ - Fix and update Xcode project: Reference correct contrib/Makefile.am file,
+ correctly sort contrib/nglog.sh and add "ORGANIZATIONNAME" setting.
+ - contrib/ngindent.sh: Add more GNU indent options for better results, and
+ add the ".sh" suffix to bring this script in line with the others in the
+ contrib/ folder.
+ - Add ./contrib/nglog.sh: This script parses the log output of ngircd(8),
+ and colorizes the messages according to their log level. Example usage:
+ ngircd -f $PWD/doc/sample-ngircd.conf -np | ./contrib/nglog.sh
+ - Log received signals with their names using strsignal(3), when available.
+ - Make test suite compatible with Haiku OS.
+ - Fix host mask cloaking bug, don't cloak multiple times: Previously, each
+ server would cloak every user's host mask. The problem is that if a network
+ has more than one server, then a user's host mask would get cloaked twice.
+ This patch ensures that a server only cloaks the host mask if it has not yet
+ been cloaked (the period indicates it's still an IP address). Thanks to
+ JRMU <jrmu@lecturify.com> for the patch!
+ Closes #228.
+ - Enlarge buffers of info texts to 128 bytes. This includes:
+ - "Real name" of a client (4th filed of the USER command).
+ - Server info text ("Info" configuration option).
+ - Admin info texts and email address ("AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" and
+ "AdminEmail" configuration options).
+ - Network name ("Network" configuration option).
+ The limit was 64 bytes before ...
+ Closes #258.
+ - Streamline handling of invalid and unset server name: Don't exit during
+ runtime (REHASH command, HUP signal), because the server name can't be
+ changed in this case anyway and the new invalid name will be ignored.
+ - Fix and extend documentation: Fix some typos, fix syntax of LINKS and LIST
+ commands, whitespace and spelling fixes, update dependencies and add some
+ more information about IRCv3 support.
+ Thanks to Thanks Windree, Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> and
+ Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
+ Closes #264.
+ - Slightly reorder startup steps, and enhance logging:
+ - Show name of configuration file at the beginning of start up.
+ - Add a message when ngIRCd is ready, including its host name.
+ - Show name of configuration file on REHASH (SIGHUP), too.
+ - Change level of "done message" to NOTICE, like "starting" & "ready".
+ - Initialize IO functions before channels, connections, clients, ...
+ - configure.ng: OpenSSL can depends on lz or latomic so use pkg-config to
+ find those dependencies and fallback to existing mechanism.
+ Closes #256.
+ - ngircd.conf.5: Fix wording as suggested by lintian.
+
+ngIRCd 25 (2019-01-23)
+
+ - Fix documentation of MotdPhrase length, which actually is 126 characters:
+ update sample configuration file as well as the man page. Thanks to
+ shankari <shankari@eecs.berkeley.edu>.
+ Closes #254.
+ - Implement new configuration option "MaxPenaltyTime", which configures the
+ maximum penalty time increase in seconds, per penalty event. Set to -1 for
+ no limit (the default), 0 to disable penalties altogether. ngIRCd doesn't
+ use penalty increases higher than 2 seconds during normal operation, so
+ values higher than 1 rarely make sense.
+ Disabling (or reducing) penalties can greatly speed up "make check" runs
+ for example, see below, but are mostly a debugging feature and normally
+ not meant to be used on production systems!
+ Some example timings running "make check" from my macOS workstation:
+ - MaxPenaltyTime not set: 4:41,79s
+ - "MaxPenaltyTime = 1": 3:14,71s
+ - "MaxPenaltyTime = 0": 25,46s
+ Closes #249 and #251.
+ - Fix compilation without deprecated OpenSSL APIs. Thanks to Rosen Penev
+ <rosenp@gmail.com> for the patch!
+ Closes #252.
+ - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (10.0)
+ - Fix some compiler warnings of Apple Xcode/Clang
+ - Allow a 5th parameter in WEBIRC. Thanks to "ItsOnlyBinary".
+ Closes #247.
+ - Update some more documentation files and source code comments.
+ - Platforms.txt: Add and update systems.
+
+ ngIRCd 25~rc1 (2018-08-11)
+ - Update config.guess (2018-03-08) and config.sub (2018-03-08) files.
+ - Correctly retry to establish an outgoing connections when forking of the
+ resolver sub-process failed (for example because of lack of free memory).
+ Until now, such a connection was never retried once this error was hit.
+ Thanks to Robert Obermeier for reporting this bug!
+ Closes #243.
+ - Fix a "use after free" bug which can be triggered on a newly established
+ connection when the daemon handles an ERROR command received from the peer
+ during client login. Thanks a lot to Joseph Bisch <joseph.bisch@gmail.com>
+ for discovering and reporting this issue!
+ - Only send TOPIC updates to a channel when the topic actually changed:
+ This prevents the channel from becoming flooded by unnecessary TOPIC update
+ messages, that can happen when IRC services try to enforce a certain topic
+ but which is already set (at least on the local server), for example.
+ Therefore still forward it to all servers, but don't inform local clients
+ (still update setter and timestamp information, though).
+ - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (9.2). This includes adding
+ missing and deleting obsolete file references.
+ - Handle user mode "C" ("Only users that share a channel are allowed to send
+ messages") like user mode "b" ("block private messages and notices"): allow
+ messages from servers, services, and IRC Operators, too. Change proposed by
+ "wowaname" back in 2015 in #ngircd, thanks!
+ - Fix some compiler warnings.
+ - Add contrib/ngircd.logcheck: Some sample logcheck(8) rules.
+ - Allow IRC Ops and remote servers to KILL service clients: such clients
+ behave like regular users, therefore IRC operators and servers should be
+ able to KILL them: for example to resolve nick collisions.
+ Closes #242.
+ - Don't forward KILLs to other servers if they've been blocked locally:
+ This prevents clients from killing IRC services, for example.
+ Closes #238 and #239.
+ - Fix a cross-compiler issue related to the Get_Error() function.
+ Closes #240 and #241.
+ - Update ./doc/Services.txt, enhance configuration examples.
+
+ngIRCd 24 (2017-01-20)
+
+ - Make sure that ./contrib/platformtest.sh aborts when ./autogen.sh fails.
+ - Update config.guess (2016-10-02) and config.sub (2016-11-04) files.
+ - Build Debian packages with OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS: OpenSSL allows
+ to reload used certificates on runtime for example (which is very
+ useful when using Let's Encrypt), and therefore is preferred. And
+ explicitly specify the "source format".
+ - Fix handling of connection pool allocation and enlargement: up to now,
+ the daemon only enlarged its connection pool when accepting new incoming
+ client or server connections, not when establishing new outgoing server
+ links, which could lead to problems when hitting the configured limit,
+ see "MaxConnections". Thanks to Lukas Braun (k00mi) for reporting this!
+ Closes #231.
ngIRCd 24~rc1 (2017-01-07)
- Enhance systemd service file, and install it in Debian package.
Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
- Update ngircd.conf.5: "CloakUserToNick" hides user _and_ real name.
This closes #208.
- - Fix case insensitive pattern matching: Up to now, only the the input
+ - Fix case insensitive pattern matching: Up to now, only the input
string became lowercased and was then compared to the pattern -- which
failed when the pattern itself wasn't all lowercase!
- Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
- Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
- commands that could be used by arbitrary users to to crash the daemon
+ commands that could be used by arbitrary users to crash the daemon
(CVE-2013-1747).
- WHO command: Use the currently "displayed hostname" (which can be cloaked!)
for hostname matching, not the real one. In other words: don't display all
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