X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=0ff0245b1d798492707035ce723422523e7337ae;hp=e540c526813ad73bfffb8516554c62106fa5ae65;hb=fb5aa8f65213e97816fc16c2b794e030e0bd6da6;hpb=e17d4bdec7857e7af9deb02681585fad15eb1ebd diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index e540c526..0ff0245b 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -2,13 +2,78 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server http://ngircd.barton.de/ - (c)2001-2017 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. -- ChangeLog -- +ngIRCd 25 (2019-01-23) + + - Fix documentation of MotdPhrase length, which actually is 126 characters: + update sample configuration file as well as the man page. Thanks to + shankari . + Closes #254. + - 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. + - Fix compilation without deprecated OpenSSL APIs. Thanks to Rosen Penev + for the patch! + Closes #252. + - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (10.0) + - Fix some compiler warnings of Apple Xcode/Clang + - Allow a 5th parameter in WEBIRC. Thanks to "ItsOnlyBinary". + Closes #247. + - Update some more documentation files and source code comments. + - Platforms.txt: Add and update systems. + + ngIRCd 25~rc1 (2018-08-11) + - Update config.guess (2018-03-08) and config.sub (2018-03-08) files. + - Correctly retry to establish an outgoing connections when forking of the + resolver sub-process failed (for example because of lack of free memory). + Until now, such a connection was never retried once this error was hit. + Thanks to Robert Obermeier for reporting this bug! + Closes #243. + - Fix a "use after free" bug which can be triggered on a newly established + connection when the daemon handles an ERROR command received from the peer + during client login. Thanks a lot to Joseph Bisch + for discovering and reporting this issue! + - Only send TOPIC updates to a channel when the topic actually changed: + This prevents the channel from becoming flooded by unnecessary 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! + - Fix some compiler warnings. + - Add contrib/ngircd.logcheck: Some sample logcheck(8) rules. + - 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. + Closes #242. + - Don't forward KILLs to other servers if they've been blocked locally: + This prevents clients from killing IRC services, for example. + Closes #238 and #239. + - Fix a cross-compiler issue related to the Get_Error() function. + Closes #240 and #241. + - Update ./doc/Services.txt, enhance configuration examples. + ngIRCd 24 (2017-01-20) - Make sure that ./contrib/platformtest.sh aborts when ./autogen.sh fails. @@ -136,7 +201,7 @@ ngIRCd 23 (2015-11-16) Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207. - Update ngircd.conf.5: "CloakUserToNick" hides user _and_ real name. This closes #208. - - Fix case insensitive pattern matching: Up to now, only the the input + - Fix case insensitive pattern matching: Up to now, only the input string became lowercased and was then compared to the pattern -- which failed when the pattern itself wasn't all lowercase! - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation @@ -489,7 +554,7 @@ ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23) ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15) - 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). - WHO command: Use the currently "displayed hostname" (which can be cloaked!) for hostname matching, not the real one. In other words: don't display all