ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
- (c)2001-2004 by Alexander Barton,
+ (c)2001-2009 Alexander Barton,
alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
-- NEWS --
-ngIRCd CVSHEAD
-
+ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
+
+ ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
+ - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
+ ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
+ - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
+ implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
+ - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
+ enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
+ on the local server.
+ - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
+ a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
+ per second before a one second pause is enforced.
+
+ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
+
+ - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
+ - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
+ - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
+
+ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
+
+ ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
+ - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
+ - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
+ - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
+ new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
+ here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
+ individual channel keys for different users.
+ - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
+
+ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
+
+ ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
+ - New version number scheme :-)
+ - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
+ tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
+ For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
+ to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
+ - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
+ OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
+ New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
+ SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
+ - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
+ visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
+ In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
+ all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
+ - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
+ - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
+ daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
+
+ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
+
+ - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
+ - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
+ obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
+ is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
+ Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
+ but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
+
+ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
+
+ ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
+ - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
+
+ ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
+ - Add IPv6 support.
+ - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
+ - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
+ enhanced test suite to check these commands. (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.
+ (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
+ - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
+ as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
+ member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
+ - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
+
+ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
+
+ - 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!
+ - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
+ - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
+ disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
+ but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
+ - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
+ operators.
+
+ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
+
+ - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
+ (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
+ - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
+ well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
+ - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
+
+ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
+
+ - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
+ - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
+ join predefined channels.
+
+ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
+
+ ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
+ - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
+ to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
+ - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
+ - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
+ - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
+ is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
+ limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
+ - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
+ lookup to prevent spoofing.
+ - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
+ addition to the select() interface.
+
+ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
+
+ - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
+ - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
+ - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
+ - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
+ when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
+ to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
+ Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
+ - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
+ - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
+ commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
+ - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
+ the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
+ Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
+ - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
+ Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
+ API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
+
+ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
+
+ - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
+ Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
+ its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
+ to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
+ "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
- INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
- The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
- Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
configure to enable it.
- Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
- insetead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
+ instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
"--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
- Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
- Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
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-$Id: NEWS,v 1.64 2004/04/25 15:51:15 alex Exp $
+$Id: NEWS,v 1.88 2008/02/26 22:05:42 fw Exp $
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