X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=c90332f717d8065e614ee4a0c4d0f9268292115a;hp=e7cbcdde0750f9bfb6ed74e58e01c02e6ed0c394;hb=bf5610a3b9ceef67da9777c5f4a72b9733124a33;hpb=70eb8219f526a7c3cbcab54e97733572ac16e50d diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index e7cbcdde..c90332f7 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -2,15 +2,121 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server http://ngircd.barton.de/ - (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors. + (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors. ngIRCd is free software and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -- ChangeLog -- -ngIRCd Release 19 - +ngIRCd-dev + + - Correctly handle asynchronously re-established server links: a race + condition could let the daemon loose track of an already re-established + incoming server link while preparing its own outgoing connection. + Peers that both try to connect each other could have been affected. + - Log a debug message when SIGUSR2 is handled in debug mode. + - Only allow alphanumeric characters in user-supplied user names of + USER command and IDENT replies. + - Change wording of "TLS initialized" message to make it more consistent. + - Don't leak file descriptors on error path when creating "PID files". + - Add missing mode "r" to CHANMODES in 005 "ISUPPORT" numeric. + - Update doc/Modes.txt and doc/Platforms.txt documents. + - contrib/platformtest.sh: correctly detect Open64 C compiler and handle + "CC=xxx MAKE=yyy ./platformtest.sh" calling convention. + - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services. + - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command, + and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command + handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client. + - Update Xcode project files: reference missing documentation files. + - Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot. + - FAQ: enhance description of chroot setup. + +ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19) + + - Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL. + - Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note", + and fix lintian(1) warning ""hyphen-used-as-minus-sign", too. + - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the + distribution archive ... ooops! + - getpid.sh: Fix test case error for Debian using sbuild(1). + - Don't log "ngIRCd hello message" two times when starting up. + +ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29) + + - Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by + GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions. + - Fix configuration file parser: don't accept "[SSL]" blocks in the + configuration file when no SSL support is built in ngIRCd. + - Fix building ngIRCd with old gcc versions (e. g. 2.7.2). + - Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration + file: Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the + configuration, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored + the "SyslogFacility" configuration option ... + Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue! + + ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12) + - Enhance command limits for server links: the limit now is dependent + on the number of users connected in the network and higher while + servers are joining the network to make the login of servers faster. + - Log more information about server synchronization. + - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now + is the only supported version. + - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name + (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply. + Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric. + - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel + operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the + channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining: + the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b). + - PRIVMSG and NOTICE: Handle nick!user@host masks case-insensitive. + - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE + command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender + and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding + by completely unknown clients. + - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it + indicates if a nick name is registered (if user mode 'R' set). + - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix + duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries + or deleting no (longer) existing ones. + - Fix both ERR_SUMMONDISABLED(445) and ERR_USERSDISABLED(446) replies. + - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for + unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501). + - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES", + add "EXCEPTS=e" and "INVEX=I", add "MAXLIST=beI:50". + - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25), + WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands. + - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive. + - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes + that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number + in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5". + - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments. + For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling + "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f". + - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of + the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an + assertion and end the daemon in some error paths. + - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child + processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases + with IDENT lookups enabled. + - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS, + don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is + case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the + unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client). + - LINKS command: support parameter to limit the reply. + - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE + commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with + commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit. + Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks! + - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variable in the + configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user). + - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-) + - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single + channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel + limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check + the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when + trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of. + - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nick names. - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied @@ -35,13 +141,17 @@ ngIRCd Release 19 - Log better error messages when rejecting clients. - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only. + If you use "*!@" or "*!*@" masks, these connections + are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS, + NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child + processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller. - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR for Mac OS X Xcode builds. - ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use poll() when poll.h exists as well. - Suppress 'Can't create pre-defined channel: invalid name: ""' message. - - whois-test: handle local hostname = "localhost.localdomain" using the - pattern "localhost*" for valid local hostnames. + - whois-test: handle local host name = "localhost.localdomain" using the + pattern "localhost*" for valid local host names. - sample-ngircd.conf: show correct default for "PAM" variable: The default of "PAM" is "yes" when ngIRCd has been configured to use it, so show the correct default value in the sample configuration file. @@ -155,8 +265,8 @@ ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10) variable description. - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net". - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST". - - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this hostname is used for - every client instead of the real DNS hostname (or IP address). + - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for + every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address). - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets every clients' user name to their nick name and hides the user name supplied by the IRC client. @@ -261,7 +371,7 @@ ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07) - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output. - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the client lag debug-output is working again. - - Implement user mode "x": hostname cloaking (closes: #102). + - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102). - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108). - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit. - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile. @@ -366,7 +476,7 @@ ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05) - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value. - Fix error handling on compressed links. - Fix server list announcement. - - Do not remove hostnames from info text. + - Do not remove host names from info text. ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20) @@ -462,7 +572,7 @@ ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13) - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+). (Dana Dahlstrom) - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user - nickname/servername/hostname, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1. + nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom) - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom) - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated @@ -485,7 +595,7 @@ ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15) ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285) ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02) - - Use dotted-decimal IP address if hostname is >= 64. + - Use dotted-decimal IP address if host name is >= 64. - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command. - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server. @@ -711,7 +821,7 @@ ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26) original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last parameter has been added. - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info. - - Results of the resolver (hostnames and IDENT names) are discarded after + - Results of the resolver (host names and IDENT names) are discarded after the client is successfully registered with the server. - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections. - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.