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                      ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
 
-                      (c)2001-2003 by Alexander Barton,
+                        (c)2001-2007 Alexander Barton,
                     alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
 
                ngIRCd is free software and published under the
@@ -10,7 +10,72 @@
                                   -- NEWS --
 
 
-ngIRCd CVS-HEAD
+ngIRCd HEAD
+
+ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
+
+  - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
+    (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
+  - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
+    well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
+  - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
+
+ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
+
+  - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
+  - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
+    join predefined channels.
+
+ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
+
+  ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
+  - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
+    to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
+  - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
+  - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
+  - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
+    is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
+    limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
+  - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
+    lookup to prevent spoofing.
+  - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
+    addition to the select() interface.
+
+ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
+
+  - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
+  - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
+  - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
+  - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
+    when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
+    to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
+    Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
+  - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
+  - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
+    commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
+  - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
+    the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
+    Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
+  - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
+    Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
+    API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
+
+ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
+
+  - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
+    Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
+    its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
+    to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
+    "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
+  - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
+    establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
+  - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
+  - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
+  - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
+    have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
+    The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
+
+ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
 
   - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
     simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
@@ -37,7 +102,7 @@ ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
   - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
     configure to enable it.
   - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
-    insetead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
+    instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
     "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
   - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
   - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
@@ -174,4 +239,4 @@ ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
 
 
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-$Id: NEWS,v 1.59 2003/11/05 21:41:01 alex Exp $
+$Id: NEWS,v 1.80 2007/06/13 14:32:13 alex Exp $