ngIRCd Release 20.2

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                      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.
 
                                   -- NEWS --
 
 
-ngIRCd
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+ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
+
+  - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
+  - 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.
+
+ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
+
+  - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
+
+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) authenticaion 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.
+
+  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.
+  - 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.
   - 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",