Fix some typos (documentation files, ngircd.conf manual page, ...)

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                      ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
                            http://ngircd.barton.de/
 
-               (c)2001-2018 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
+               (c)2001-2019 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
                ngIRCd is free software and published under the
                    terms of the GNU General Public License.
 
                                   -- NEWS --
 
-ngIRCd 25
-
+ngIRCd 25 (2019-01-23)
+
+  - Implement new configuration option "MaxPenaltyTime", which configures the
+    maximum penalty time increase in seconds, per penalty event. Set to -1 for
+    no limit (the default), 0 to disable penalties altogether. ngIRCd doesn't
+    use penalty increases higher than 2 seconds during normal operation, so
+    values higher than 1 rarely make sense.
+    Disabling (or reducing) penalties can greatly speed up "make check" runs
+    for example, see below, but are mostly a debugging feature and normally
+    not meant to be used on production systems!
+    Some example timings running "make check" from my macOS workstation:
+     - MaxPenaltyTime not set: 4:41,79s
+     - "MaxPenaltyTime = 1":   3:14,71s
+     - "MaxPenaltyTime = 0":     25,46s
+    Closes #249 and #251.
+  - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (10.0)
+  - Allow a 5th parameter in WEBIRC. Thanks to "ItsOnlyBinary".
+    Closes #247.
+
+  ngIRCd 25~rc1 (2018-08-11)
+  - Only send TOPIC updates to a channel when the topic actually changed:
+    This prevents the channel from becoming flooded by unecessary TOPIC update
+    messages, that can happen when IRC services try to enforce a certain topic
+    but which is already set (at least on the local server), for example.
+    Therefore still forward it to all servers, but don't inform local clients
+    (still update setter and timestamp information, though!).
+  - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (9.2). This includes adding
+    missing and deleting obsolete file references.
+  - Handle user mode "C" ("Only users that share a channel are allowed to send
+    messages") like user mode "b" ("block private messages and notices"): allow
+    messages from servers, services, and IRC Operators, too. Change proposed by
+    "wowaname" back in 2015 in #ngircd, thanks!
   - Allow IRC Ops and remote servers to KILL service clients: such clients
     behave like regular users, therefore IRC operators and servers should be
     able to KILL them: for example to resolve nick collisions.
@@ -267,7 +297,7 @@ 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
+    commands that could be used by arbitrary users to crash the daemon
     (CVE-2013-1747).
 
 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)