+ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
+
+ - 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 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
+ commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
+ There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
+ commands") requests are not scrubbed.
+ - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
+ and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
+ [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
+ most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
+ variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
+ ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
+ are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
+ 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 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.
+ - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
+ enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
+ "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
+ network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
+ - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
+ active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
+ like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
+ - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
+ wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
+ than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
+ - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
+ (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
+ variable description.
+ - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
+ - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this hostname is used for
+ every client instead of the real DNS hostname (or IP address).
+ - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
+ every clients' user name to their nick name and hides the user name
+ supplied by the IRC client.
+ - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
+ got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
+ can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
+ 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
+ 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.
+ - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
+ including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
+ - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
+ [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
+ 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
+ vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
+ in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
+
+ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
+
+ - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
+ - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
+ - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
+
+ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
+
+ - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
+
+ ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
+ - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
+ - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
+ ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
+
+ ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
+ - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
+ runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
+ Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
+ - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
+ (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
+ Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
+ "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
+ Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
+ - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
+ connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
+ the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
+ - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
+ signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
+ using the command line parameters.
+ - Implement user mode "x": hostname cloaking (closes: #102).
+ - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
+ file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
+ re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
+ - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
+ - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
+ - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
+ - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
+ file doc/PAM.txt for details.
+ - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
+ - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
+ this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
+ - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
+
+ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
+
+ ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
+ - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
+ connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
+ the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
+
+ ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
+ - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
+ required to secure this command must be configured using the new
+ "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
+ - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
+ - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
+ Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
+ to join such a channel.
+ But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
+ when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
+ every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
+ mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
+
+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,
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