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                                   -- NEWS --
 
 
-ngIRCd 21
-
+ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
+
+  - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
+  - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
+    command (restricted to IRC Operators).
+  - 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.
+  - 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.
+  - 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.
+  - 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.
   - 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
@@ -40,7 +72,7 @@ ngIRCd 21
     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 id displayed in the output.
+    of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
   - 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",
@@ -52,6 +84,14 @@ ngIRCd 21
     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)
+
+  - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
+  - 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)
 
   - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.