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
-
+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
+ 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)
+ - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
+ - 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".
+ - 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.
+ - 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)
+
+ - 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.
+ - 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).
+
+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) 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.
+
+ 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",
projects / ngircd-alex.git / blobdiff