New "chroot" feature (from Benjamin Pineau), introducing new configuration

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                      ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
 
-                      (c)2001,2002 by Alexander Barton,
+                      (c)2001-2004 by Alexander Barton,
                     alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
 
-                  ngIRCd ist freie Software und steht unter
-                       der GNU General Public License.
+               ngIRCd is free software and published under the
+                   terms of the GNU General Public License.
 
-                           -- NEWS / Neuigkeiten --
+                                  -- NEWS --
 
 
-ngIRCd CVS-HEAD
+ngIRCd CVSHEAD
 
-ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1
+  - 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.
+    This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
+    (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
+  - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
+    sockets of the server to a single IP address.
+       
+ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
+
+  - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
+
+ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
+
+  - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
+    RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
+    configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
+    to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
+  - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
+  - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
+  - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
+  - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
+    new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
+  - 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",
+    "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
+  - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
+  - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
+
+
+Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
+
+ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
 
   - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
     noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
@@ -141,4 +189,4 @@ ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
 
 
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-$Id: NEWS,v 1.46 2002/12/18 16:28:36 alex Exp $
+$Id: NEWS,v 1.65 2004/05/07 11:19:20 alex Exp $