-- NEWS --
-ngIRCd Release 18
+ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
- ngIRCd 18~rc1
- - New configuration opion "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
- When enabled, signon time and idle time is censored. Part and quit
+ - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
+
+ ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
+ - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
+ ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
+ that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
+ longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
+
+ ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
+ - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
+ When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
servers from TOR or I2P.
- New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
- activated, the server silently drops incomming CTCP requests from both
+ activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
=> Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
- New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
- - Avoid needlesly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
+ - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
- Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
- establis a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
+ establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
- Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
- Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
- - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asyncronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
+ - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
- neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
- Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO syncronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
+ Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
"AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
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