ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
http://ngircd.barton.de/
- (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
+ (c)2001-2014 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
-- ChangeLog --
-ngIRCd Release 19.2
+ngIRCd 22
+
+ ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
+ - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
+ lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
+ nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
+ Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
+ - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
+ - Correctly check that a server has a valid hostname and port, thanks to
+ David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com> who reported this bug.
+ - Fix the function which generates complete "IRC masks" from user input,
+ don't destroy the source buffer and use all provided parts (nick, user,
+ host name). This fixes GLINEs/KLINEs from not working in some situations.
+ - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
+ that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
+ this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
+ if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
+ - Debian: Don't adjust path names that are correct by default and correctly
+ set and use "docdir".
+ - Update config.guess and config.sub to recent versions.
+ - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
+ - doc/Bopm.txt: Update "connregex" and "kline" for current ngIRCd.
+ - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
+ settable by IRC Operators.
+ - Spoofed prefixes: Really kill connection on non-server links.
+ - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode "F"
+ set are allowed to send data to the daemon. This mode is only settable by
+ IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be careful and
+ only set it on "trusted" clients!
+ User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
+ - Handle "throttling" in a single function: ngIRCd implements "command
+ throttling" and "bps throttling" (bytes per second). The states are
+ detected in different functions, Conn_Handler() and Read_Request(), but
+ handle the actual "throttling" in a common function: this enables us to
+ guarantee consistent behavior and to disable throttling for special
+ connections in only one place
+ - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
+ - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
+ - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
+ Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
+ - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
+ on "VPATH builds", for example.
+ - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
+ and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
+ - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
+ using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
+ names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
+ is quite unexpected for users.
+ - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
+ allow using separate source and build trees.
+ - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
+ - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
+ in all replies.
+ - Update configure.ng: ngIRCd requires GNU autoconf 2.61 for generating its
+ build system, so update the build system accordingly and implement all
+ changes that autoupdate(1) suggests: Update AC_PREREQ and AC_INIT, use
+ AC_LINK_IFELSE, AC_RUN_IFELSE, and AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, and remove
+ AC_TYPE_SIGNAL (we don't use RETSIGTYPE).
+ - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
+ and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
+ useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
+ been linked at all ...).
+ - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
+ (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
+ daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
+ which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
+ - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
+ - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
+ Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
+ return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
+ DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
+ - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
+ invalid password.
+
+ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
+
+ - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
+ disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
+ - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
+ - Really kill connections that send "spoofed prefixes" on non-server links.
+ This fixes commit 6cbe1308 which only killed the connection when the
+ spoofed prefix itself belonged to a non-server client.
+ - CHARCONV command: Fix handling conversion errors, don't overwrite already
+ converted text!
+ - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
+ - Correctly use cloaked IRC masks on "INVITE nickname": The cloaked IRC mask
+ of a user is his visible mask, so the daemon has to use it for generating
+ the "one time" entries for the invite list of the given channel, and not
+ the "real" mask which will never match while the target client is "+x", and
+ even worse, will disclose the real mask on "MODE #channel +I" commands :-/
+ Bug reported by Cahata on #ngircd, thanks!
+ - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists. This isn't the case on
+ "VPATH builds", for example.
+ - Use $(MKDIR_P) instead of $(mkinstalldirs) in Makefile's and test for
+ "mkdir -p" using AC_PROG_MKDIR_P in "configure".
+ - Fix configure script and "make check" for TCP Wrappers (problems spotted on
+ OpenBSD): add missing #include's and static variables, and add libwrap at
+ the end of the configure run because if libwrap becomes added earlier,
+ other tests may fail.
+ - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
+ linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
+ been implemented already).
+ - platformtest.sh and Makefile.am: Don't use "test -e", it isn't portable.
+ - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
+ - Fix permanent {G|K}LINES (with a timeout of 0 seconds).
+ - WEBIRC: Don't set the hostname received by the WEBIRC command when DNS
+ lookups are disabled, but use the IP address instead.
+ Reported by Toni Spets <toni.spets@iki.fi>, thanks!
+ - Check for working getaddrinfo() function: At least AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1 have a
+ broken implementation of getaddrinfo() which doesn't handle "0" as numeric
+ service correctly. This patch adds a configure check for this case and
+ changes all calling functions to only use getaddrinfo() if it "works".
+ See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/lists/heimdal-discuss/2004-05/msg00059.html>
+ - Only use the unsetenv() function when it is available (AIX 4.3 doesn't
+ support it, for example).
+ - Make sure that the source code is still compatible with the "ansi2knr" tool
+ and builds using non-ANSI K&R C compilers. Tested with Apple C on A/UX.
+ - Fix building ngIRCd without support for ZLIB compression. Reported by
+ "der_baer" on #ngircd, thanks!
+
+ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
+
+ - ./contrib/Debian/ngircd.init: Make sure no stale PID file is left over
+ when (re-)starting ngIRCd.
+ - Change ./contrib/platformtest.sh and update ./doc/Platforms.txt to
+ allow user names up to 8 characters.
+ - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
+ is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
+ initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
+ - Update our own Debian package configuration and fix the default path
+ of the "HelpFile" of the "full" package variants.
+
+ ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
+ - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
+ support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
+ - Use arc4random() function to generate "random" numbers, when available.
+ - platformtest.sh: Detect clang compiler, and clean up GIT source tree
+ before building (when possible).
+ - Update (date of) manual pages.
+ - Update "Upgrade Information" in INSTALL file, add more systems to
+ doc/Platforms.txt, and fix spelling in NEWS and ChangeLog files =:)
+ - Fix remaining compiler warnings on OpenBSD.
+
+ ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
+ - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
+ - Adjust log messages for invalid and spoofed prefixes, which cleans up
+ logging of commands related to already KILL'ed clients. And don't
+ forward KILL commands for (already) unknown clients any more to prevent
+ unnecessary duplicates.
+ - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
+ command (restricted to IRC Operators).
+ - Fixed blocking of server reconnects in some error configurations.
+ - Don't ignore SSL-related errors during startup any more: abort startup
+ when SSL is requested by the configuration but can't be initialized and
+ don't continue only listening on plain text communication ports.
+ (Closes bug #163)
+ - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
+ using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
+ changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
+ OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
+ - Fix "TRACE": Correctly return ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) (which basically
+ is "syntax error") when there are too many parameters.
+ - Clean up lots of permission and parameter checks in functions handling
+ IRC commands; and more consistently add penalty times on errors.
+ - Fix error numeric of WHOIS when no nick name has been provided:
+ as per RFC it should be ERR_NONICKNAMEGIVEN(431).
+ - Only log "IDENT ... no result" messages when an IDENT looked took place
+ and didn't return any data, not when IDENT has been disabled.
+ - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
+ you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
+ the IRC "TRACE" command.
+ - Correctly discard supplementary groups on server startup.
+ - Save client IP address text for "WebIRC" users and correctly display
+ it on WHOIS, for example. (Closes bug #159)
+ - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
+ user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
+ after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
+ could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
+ for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
+ "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
+ - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
+ services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
+ service restarts.
+ - Enforce "penalty times" on error conditions more consistently and in
+ more places. Now most error codes sent back from the IRC server to the
+ client should result in a 2 second "penalty".
+ - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
+ all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
+ on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
+ If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
+ all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
+ This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
+ still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
+ setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
+ warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
+ - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
+ passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
+ forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
+ user using this certificate and not using passwords.
+ - IRC Operator names, as defined in ngircd.conf, are logged now when
+ handling successful OPER commands.
+ - Some error conditions while handling IRC commands, like "permission
+ denied" or "need more parameters", result in more penalty times.
+ - The numeric replies of some commands became split too early which
+ resulted in more numeric reply lines than necessary.
+ - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
+ section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
+ further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
+ the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
+ configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
+ parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
+ possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
+ into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
+ - Fix use-after-free in the Lists_CheckReason() function, which is used
+ to check if a client is a member of a particular ban/invite/... list.
+ - Xcode: fix detection of host OS, vendor, and CPU type, and update
+ project settings for Xcode 5.
+ - OS X PackageMaker: use relative path names in project files and package
+ with correct file permissions (requires root privileges on "make").
+ - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
+ - Look for possible cloaked Masks in Lists. Users with +x user mode can
+ be banned with their cloaked hostname now.
+ - Don't read SSL client data before DNS resolver is finished which could
+ have resulted in discarding the resolved client hostname and IDENT
+ reply afterwards, because in some situations (timing dependent) the
+ NICK and USER commands could have already been read in from the client,
+ stored in the buffer, and been processed.
+ Thanks to Julian Brost for reporting the issue and testing, and to
+ Federico G. Schwindt <fgsch@lodoss.net> for helping to debug it!
+ - Increase password length limit to 64 characters. (Closes bug #154)
+ - doc/Services.txt: Update Anope status and URL.
+ - Clean up Xcode project file, remove outdated files, add missing ones.
+ - Update Doxygen configuration file.
+ - configure: search for iconv_open as well as libiconv_open, because
+ on some installations iconv_open() is actually libiconv_open().
+ iconv_open() is the glibc version while libiconv_open() is the
+ libiconv version, now both variants are supported. (Closes bug #151)
+ - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
+ unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
+ of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
+ ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
+ - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
+ server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
+ for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
+ - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
+ section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
+ in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
+ connections are left active after handling at least one client.
+ The default is 0, "never".
+ This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
+ activation" with systemd(8), for example.
+ - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
+ - contrib/README: add description for more files.
+ - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
+ numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
+ InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
+ like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
+ Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
+ of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
+ - Exit message: use singular & plural :-)
+ - autogen.sh: Check for autoconf/automake wrapper scripts
+ - Add missing punctuation marks in log messages, adjust some severity
+ levels, and make SSL-related messages more readable.
+ - AUTHORS file: Update list of contributors.
+ - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
+ the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
+ enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
+ and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
+ configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
+ - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
+ set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
+ which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
+ and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
+ Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
+
+ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
+
+ - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
+ when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
+ default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
+ clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
+
+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
+ (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
+ the cloaked users on a specific real hostname!
+ - configure: The header file "netinet/in_systm.h" already is optional in
+ ngIRCd, so don't require it in the configure script. Now ngIRCd can be
+ built on Minix 3 again :-)
+ - Return better "Connection not registered as server link" errors: Now ngIRCd
+ returns a more specific error message for numeric ERR_NOTREGISTERED(451)
+ when a regular user tries to use a command that isn't allowed for users but
+ for servers.
+ - Don't report ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) when a MDOE command with more modes
+ than nicknames is handled, as well as for channel limit and key changes
+ without specifying the limit or key parameters.
+ This is how a lot (all?) other IRC servers behave, including ircd2.11,
+ InspIRCd, and ircd-seven. And because of clients (tested with Textual and
+ mIRC) sending bogus MODE commands like "MODE -ooo nick", end-users got the
+ expected result as well as correct but misleading error messages ...
+ - Correctly detect when SSL subsystem must be initialized and take
+ outgoing connections (server links!) into account, too.
+ - autogen.sh: Enforce serial test harness on GNU automake >=1.13. The
+ new parallel test harness which is enabled by default starting with
+ automake 1.13 isn't compatible with our test suite.
+ And don't use "egrep -o", instead use "sed", because it isn't portable
+ and not available on OpenBSD, for example.
+
+ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
+
+ - Allow ERROR command on server and service links only, ignore them and
+ add a penalty time on all other link types.
+ - Enforced mode setting by IRC Operators: Only check the channel user
+ modes of the initiator if he is joined to the channel and not an IRC
+ operator enforcing modes (which requires the configuration option
+ "OperCanUseMode" to be enabled), because trying to check channel user
+ modes of a non-member results in an assertion when running with debug
+ code or could crash the daemon otherwise. This closes bug #147, thanks
+ to James Kirwill <james.kirwill@bk.ru> for tracking this down!
+ - Fix build system to cope with spaces in path names.
+ - Code cleanups, mostly to fix build warnings on Cygwin.
+
+ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
+
+ - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
+ been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
+ external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
+ Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
+ <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
+
+ ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
+ - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
+ subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
+ "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
+ "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
+ hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
+ additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
+ - RPL_UMODEIS: send correct target name, even on server links.
+ - Update platformtest.sh to follow autoconf changes and only generate
+ the "configure" script when it is missing.
+ - Fix the test suite to correctly execute test scripts even when stdout
+ is redirected.
+ - Fix some compiler warnings on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
+
+ ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
+ - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
+ then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
+ in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
+ - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
+ and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
+ ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
+ configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
+ This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
+ hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
+ - Fix error message when trying to join non-predefined channels and the
+ "PredefChannelsOnly" configuration option is set.
+ - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
+ services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
+ command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
+ to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
+ initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
+ This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
+ SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
+ are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
+ - Make server reconnect time a little bit more random, so that two
+ servers trying to connect to each other asynchronously don't try this
+ in exactly the same time periods and kick each other off ...
+ - Don't accept connections for servers already being linked: there was a
+ time frame that could result in one connection overwriting the other,
+ e. g. the incoming connection overwriting the status of the outgoing
+ one. And this could lead to all kind of weirdness (even crashes!) later
+ on: now such incoming connections are dropped.
+ - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
+ of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
+ - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
+ all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
+ originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
+ originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
+ ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
+ - WHOIS: Not only show RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG to local IRC operators, but show
+ it to all IRC operators in the network. And don't show it to anybody if
+ the "more privacy" configuration option is enabled. (Closes #134)
+ - Test suite: make expect scripts more verbose displaying dots for each
+ reply of the server that it is waiting for.
+ - WHOIS: Implement numeric RPL_WHOISMODES_MSG (379) and show user modes in
+ the reply of the WHOIS command for the user himself or, if MorePrivacy
+ isn't set, for request initiated by an IRC operator. (Closes #129)
+ - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
+ "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
+ new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
+ - KICK-protect IRC services.
+ - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
+ from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
+ mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
+ - Debian: require "telnet" or "telnet-ssl" for building and enable
+ CHARCONV in ngircd-full[-dbg] variants.
+ - Send RPL_REHASHING (382) numeric if a REHASH command was accepted.
+ - Fix spelling and variable names in some log messages.
+ - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
+ variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
+ IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
+ mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
+ the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
+ (Closes #133)
+ - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
+ don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
+ Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
+ patch. (Closes #135)
+ - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
+ as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
+ configuration file. (Closes #136)
+ - Enhance build system: Support new (>=1.12) and old (<=1.11) GNU automake
+ versions, update checks for required and optional features, enable
+ colored test output of automake (if available), rename configure.in to
+ more modern configure.ac, include .mailmap and all build-system files in
+ distribution archives and no longer require a GIT tree to detect the
+ correct version string.
+ - Update documentation: add doc/Contributing.txt and include version
+ numbers in doc/Modes.txt.
+ - Free all listen ports on initialization: now listen ports can be
+ reconfigured on runtime using a configuration reload.
+ - Initialize SSL when needed only, and disable SSL on errors.
+ - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
+ character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
+ This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
+ the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
+ doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
+ - Allow limited punctuation in usernames, for better PAM integration.
+ - Correctly re-initialize signal handlers on RESTART commands.
+ - Show a warning on startup if the configuration file is not a full path:
+ ngIRCd is a long-running process and changes its working directory to
+ "/" to not block mounted filesystems and the like when running as daemon
+ ("not in the foreground"); therefore the path to the configuration file
+ must be relative to "/" (or the chroot() directory), which basically is
+ "not relative", to ensure that "kill -HUP" and the "REHASH" command work
+ as expected later on. (Closes #127)
+ - Make the "&SERVER" channel definable in a [Channel] configuration block,
+ which enables server operators to overwrite the built-in topic and
+ channel modes. (Closes #131)
+ - Don't limit list size of "WHO #channel" commands, because it makes no
+ sense to not return all the users in that channel, so I removed the
+ check. But if there are more than MAX_RPL_WHO(25) replies, the client
+ requesting the list will be "penalized" one second more, then 2 in
+ total. (Closes #125)
+ - Make ngIRCd buildable using the kqueue() IO interface on FreeBSD 4.x.
+ - Fix the "NoticeAuth" configuration option when using SSL connections and
+ enhance the message to show the hostname and IDENT reply of the client.
+ - Introduce numeric RPL_HOSTHIDDEN_MSG (396): This numeric is sent to the
+ client each time it changes its displayed hostname using "MODE +/-x",
+ and if "CloakHost" is set right after the MOTD has been sent.
+ - Fix USERHOST not displaying the correctly cloaked hostname.
+ - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
+ every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
+ behave, and so do we :-)
+ - Dynamically allocate memory for connection passwords: This a) saves
+ memory for clients not using passwords at all and b) allows for
+ "arbitrarily" long passwords.
+ - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
+ operators are able to talk in such a channel.
+ - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
+ configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
+ variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
+ - Now "make uninstall" removes the installed "ngircd.conf" file, if it is
+ still equal to our "sample-ngircd.conf" file and therefore hasn't been
+ modified by the user. If it has been modified, it isn't removed and a
+ notice is displayed to the user. And "make install" now displays a
+ message when no ngircd.conf file exists and the "sample-ngircd.conf"
+ file will be installed as a starting point.
+ - Add contrib/ngircd.service, a systemd service file for ngircd.
+ - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
+ the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
+ ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
+ +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
+ modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
+ - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
+ "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
+ '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
+ and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
+ the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
+ random salt will be generated after each server restart. (Closes #133)
+
+ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
+
+ - doc/Capabilities.txt: document "multi-prefix" capability
ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
- New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
- Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot.
- FAQ: enhance description of chroot setup.
-ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
+ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
- Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL.
- Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note",
- 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)
+ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
- Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by
GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions.
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).
+ indicates if a nickname 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.
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.
+ - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nicknames.
- 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
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
+ - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname 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
- 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"
+ and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
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.
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)
+ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
- Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page.
- Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
- 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
+ every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
supplied by the IRC client.
- doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
- Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
commands).
-ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
+ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
- --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase
- Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit
- New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
- Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()
-ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
+ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
- doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
- Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf
- Fix "beeing" typo ...
- SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message.
-ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
+ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
- doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker
every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
-ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
+ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
- "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset.
- Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections.
- Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.
-ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
+ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
- Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
- BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh.
- Fix server list announcement.
- Do not remove host names from info text.
-ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
+ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
- Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections.
- Fix handling of channels containing dots.
(closes ug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
-ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
+ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
- Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
- Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07)
- SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
-
+
ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
- 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.
- New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
- length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
+ length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
- Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
- SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
-
+
ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01)
- SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could
- Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
- Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
-ngIRCd 0.6.1, 2003-01-21
+ngIRCd 0.6.1 (2003-01-21)
- Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more,
ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you
Older changes (sorry, only available in german language):
-ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
+ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
- ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 2002-12-23
+ ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 23.12.2002
- neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect.
- LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen
Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start
dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt.
- ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 2002-12-18
+ ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 18.12.2002
- beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
- der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den
ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002
- - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
+ - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden.
- in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht
nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe
- ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei
im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und
"AdminEMail" konfiguriert.
-
+
ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002
- Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel
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