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[ngircd-alex.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
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--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
                      ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
                            http://ngircd.barton.de/
 
-               (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
+               (c)2001-2013 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
                ngIRCd is free software and published under the
                    terms of the GNU General Public License.
 
@@ -12,11 +12,18 @@
 I. Upgrade Information
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
+Differences to previous version 
+
+- Starting with ngIRCd 21, the ciphers used by SSL are configurable and
+  default to HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH (OpenSSL) or SECURE128 (GnuTLS).
+  Previous version were using the OpenSSL or GnuTLS defaults, DEFAULT
+  and NORMAL respectively.
+
 Differences to version 19.x
 
 - Starting with ngIRCd 20, users can "cloak" their hostname only when the
   configuration variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set.
-  Otherwise, only IRC opertators, other servers, and services are allowed to
+  Otherwise, only IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to
   set mode +x. This prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
   the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)