X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=5a1bf3c8000818e9fa10354812c185396b90ca3b;hp=1e96e16e24517cb654db7f52b59b137e4a59efeb;hb=bc728f92de5aca1ae14c51696e35103b77a71657;hpb=d99edb7728e058a889e4734f8592f495effa5bc3 diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 1e96e16e..5a1bf3c8 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server http://ngircd.barton.de/ - (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors. + (c)2001-2017 Alexander Barton and Contributors. ngIRCd is free software and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. @@ -12,7 +12,43 @@ I. Upgrade Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Differences to version 17 +Differences to version 22.x + +- The "NoticeAuth" ngircd.conf configuration variable has been renamed to + "NoticeBeforeRegistration". The old "NoticeAuth" variable still works but + is deprecated now. + +- The default value of the SSL "CipherList" variable has been changed to + "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH:!SSLv3" (OpenSSL) and "SECURE128:-VERS-SSL3.0" + (GnuTLS) to disable the old SSLv3 protocol by default. + To enable connections of clients still requiring the weak SSLv3 protocol, + the "CipherList" must be set to its old value (not recommended!), which + was "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" (OpenSSL) and "SECURE128" (GnuTLS), see below. + +Differences to version 20.x + +- Starting with ngIRCd 21, the ciphers used by SSL are configurable and + default to "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" (OpenSSL) or "SECURE128" (GnuTLS). + Previous version were using the OpenSSL or GnuTLS defaults, "DEFAULT" + and "NORMAL" respectively. + +- When adding GLINE's or KLINE's to ngIRCd 21 (or newer), all clients matching + the new mask will be KILL'ed. This was not the case with earlier versions + that only added the mask but didn't kill already connected users. + +- The "PredefChannelsOnly" configuration variable has been superseded by the + new "AllowedChannelTypes" variable. It is still supported and translated to + the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes" setting but is deprecated now. + +Differences to version 19.x + +- Starting with ngIRCd 20, users can "cloak" their hostname only when the + configuration variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. + Otherwise, only IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to + set mode +x. This prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to + the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-) + +Differences to version 17.x - Support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration has been removed. The configuration option "NoZeroconf" is no longer available. @@ -49,7 +85,7 @@ Differences to version 17 You should adjust your ngircd.conf and run "ngircd --configtest" to make sure that your settings are correct and up to date! -Differences to version 16 +Differences to version 16.x - Changes to the "MotdFile" specified in ngircd.conf now require a ngircd configuration reload to take effect (HUP signal, REHASH command). @@ -93,7 +129,8 @@ automake ("configure") should be no problem. The normal installation procedure after getting (and expanding) the source files (using a distribution archive or GIT) is as following: - 1) ./autogen.sh [only necessary when using GIT] + 0) Satisfy prerequisites + 1) ./autogen.sh [only necessary when using GIT] 2) ./configure 3) make 4) make install @@ -114,6 +151,30 @@ possible options will be installed there. You'll find its template in the doc/ directory: sample-ngircd.conf. +0): Satisfy prerequisites + +When building from source, you'll need some other software to build ngIRCd: +for example a working C compiler, make tool, GNU automake and autoconf (only +when not using a distribution archive), and a few libraries depending on the +features you want to compile in (like IDENT support, SSL, and PAM). + +If you are using one of the "big" operating systems or Linux distributions, +you can use the following commands to install all the required packages to +build the sources including all optional features and to run the test suite: + +* Red Hat / Fedora based distributions: + + yum install \ + autoconf automake expect gcc glibc-devel gnutls-devel \ + libident-devel make pam-devel tcp_wrappers-devel telnet zlib-devel + +* Debian / Ubuntu based distributions: + + apt-get install \ + autoconf automake build-essential expect libgnutls-dev \ + libident-dev libpam-dev libwrap0-dev libz-dev telnet + + 1): "autogen.sh" The first step, autogen.sh, is only necessary if the configure-script isn't @@ -124,17 +185,21 @@ This step is therefore only interesting for developers. autogen.sh produces the Makefile.in's, which are necessary for the configure script itself, and some more files for make. To run autogen.sh you'll need -GNU autoconf and GNU automake (use recent versions! autoconf 2.53 and -automake 1.6.1 are known to work). +GNU autoconf and GNU automake: at least autoconf 2.61 and automake 1.10 are +required, newer is better. But don't use automake 1.12 or newer for creating +distribution archives: it will work but lack "de-ANSI-fication" support in the +generated Makefile's! Stick with automake 1.11.x for this purpose ... +So automake 1.11.x and autoconf 2.67+ is recommended. -Again: "end users" do not need this step! +Again: "end users" do not need this step and neither need GNU autoconf nor GNU +automake at all! 2): "./configure" The configure-script is used to detect local system dependencies. -In the perfect case, configure should recognise all needed libraries, header +In the perfect case, configure should recognize all needed libraries, header files and so on. If this shouldn't work, "./configure --help" shows all possible options. @@ -178,7 +243,7 @@ which will be used to search for the required libraries and header files in the given paths ("/lib/...", "/include/...") in addition to the standard locations. -* Syslog Logging (autodetected by default): +* Syslog Logging (autodetected by default): --with-syslog[=] / --without-syslog Enable (disable) support for logging to "syslog", which should be @@ -189,13 +254,13 @@ standard locations. Enable (disable) support for compressed server-server links. The Z compression library ("libz") is required for this option. - + * IO Backend (autodetected by default): --with-select[=] / --without-select --with-poll[=] / --without-poll --with-devpoll[=] / --without-devpoll --with-epoll[=] / --without-epoll - --with-kqueue[=] / --without-kqueue + --with-kqueue[=] / --without-kqueue ngIRCd can use different IO "backends": the "old school" select() and poll() API which should be supported by most UNIX-like operating systems, or the @@ -213,7 +278,7 @@ standard locations. required for this option. * TCP-Wrappers: - --with-tcp-wrappers[=] + --with-tcp-wrappers[=] Include support for Wietse Venemas "TCP Wrappers" to limit client access to the daemon, for example by using "/etc/hosts.{allow|deny}". @@ -270,7 +335,7 @@ IRC operators of this server are defined in [Operator] blocks, remote servers are configured in [Server] sections, and [Channel] blocks are used to configure pre-defined ("persistent") IRC channels. -The meaning of the variables in the configuration file is explained in the +The meaning of the variables in the configuration file is explained in the "doc/sample-ngircd.conf", which is used as sample configuration file in /usr/local/etc after running "make install" (if you don't already have one) and in the ngircd.conf(5) manual page.