ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
- (c)2001-2008 Alexander Barton,
+ (c)2001-2009 Alexander Barton,
alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
-- NEWS --
-ngIRCd-dev
+ngIRCd Release 14.2
- - New version numer scheme :-)
- - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 styel interface,
+ - 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,
tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
+ - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
+ visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
+ In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
+ all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
- New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
- - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
- - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
- - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
- - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
- - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
- - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check").
- - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
+ - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
+ daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
- Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
- - Make Listen parameter a comma-seperated list of addresses. This also
+ - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
- - IPv6: Add config options to disabe ipv4/ipv6 support.
+ - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
- Add IPv6 support.
- Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
- New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
- the source ip adress to use when connecting to remote server.
+ the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
- New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
- Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
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