X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=998274a6f556dee17d717224d99162ac5dfe5080;hp=b445958159e85bdd03cc4b6328c1c59bb0938df1;hb=6685ae063f4e7dd75346cf50cff84c8c109e2d6b;hpb=d21afce2b6fdc919a80c4eb1d6ba781c1cf63f3c diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index b4459581..998274a6 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server http://ngircd.barton.de/ - (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors. + (c)2001-2014 Alexander Barton and Contributors. ngIRCd is free software and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. @@ -12,11 +12,22 @@ I. Upgrade Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +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. + 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 opertators, other servers, and services are allowed to + 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 ;-)