X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=0d58e84c537e5f404a62935bb8519f7cec3e1aea;hp=578af8e78d40f76eb019473b74ef1ff0c6ca2a51;hb=f2ba8abec5256cf241bcf7e02d19b33d5a7e79c0;hpb=e07cc4bb63f55a533ba9bd84298edf83d8126b6a diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 578af8e7..0d58e84c 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server - (c)2001-2004 by Alexander Barton, + (c)2001-2005 Alexander Barton, alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/ ngIRCd is free software and published under the @@ -12,6 +12,101 @@ ngIRCd CVSHEAD + - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead. + - 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 pratice, 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.x + + - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!) + when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in + ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by , Thanks! + +ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24) + + ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09) + - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters. + - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead + of shuttding down the (wrong) connection. + - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the + client is registered with the server (like the original ircd). + - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID. + - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant. + - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client + is member of multiple channels. + - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and + pray that this will be "the right thing" ... + - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS". + - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug. + - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well. + - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path + to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident". + - Removed typedefs for the native C datatypes. + Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available. + - 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, . + - 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. + - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug + code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process. + - Don't create version information string each time a client connects + but instead on server startup. By 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, . + - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, . + - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters. + - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc() + failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway. + Patch from Florian Westphal, . + - 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". + - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and + most probably other older C compilers on other systems. + - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in + the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it + changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This + should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with + root privileges ... + +ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03) + + - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled + to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi, + , thanks a lot! + (http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt) + +ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26) + + - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution. + - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found + by Florian Westphal, . + - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks + to Florian Westphal, . + - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by + Florian Westphal, . + - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has + been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/ + It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself, + not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, . + +ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25) + + - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub + - Added some more debug code ... + - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest". + - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for + ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after + reading this file. - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README! ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26) @@ -534,4 +629,4 @@ ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001 -- -$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.239 2004/09/04 19:39:24 alex Exp $ +$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.285 2005/08/02 23:19:21 alex Exp $