X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=3602a4d00558a1db6b38799c0e7fb3a2306f873a;hp=2914703e5ac25a4534a4d889d32c3295e0f26ac2;hb=54f04f81e9ee7bdcdc1f01a447bcdb37bd7eb1d6;hpb=f2b35c3aab047e212e597e3780cc8d46397ef8b7 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2914703e..3602a4d0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,18 +1,393 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server + http://ngircd.barton.de/ - (c)2001,2002 by Alexander Barton, - alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/ + (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors. + ngIRCd is free software and published under the + terms of the GNU General Public License. - ngIRCd ist freie Software und steht unter - der GNU General Public License. + -- NEWS -- - -- NEWS / Neuigkeiten -- +ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10) + - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/. -ngIRCd CVS-HEAD + ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29) + - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables + ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients + that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no + longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections). + + ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27) + - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information. + When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit + messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped. + All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd + servers from TOR or I2P. + - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If + activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both + other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward + the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell + trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP + commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users. + There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me + commands") requests are not scrubbed. + - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options], + and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the + [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that + most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional + variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of + ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables + are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in + the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized. + => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"! + - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt. + - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer + space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid + wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer + overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording. + - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When + enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric + "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the + network until the client responds with the correct PONG. + - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When + active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time + like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does. + - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one + wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather + than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion. + - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables + (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each + variable description. + - 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 "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets + every clients' user name to their nick name and hides the user name + supplied by the IRC client. + - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client + got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients + can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at + the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links. + - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers + that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to + establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed. + - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services. + - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is + used on DALnet (bahamut), for example. + - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration + including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option. + - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new + [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes', + 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and + vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables + in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change. + +ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19) + + - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr + - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled + - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands + +ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07) + + - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir + + ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25) + - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag. + - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile + ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again. + + ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11) + - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at + runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using + Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X). + - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility" + (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages. + Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon", + "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3). + Default is "local5" for historical reasons. + - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established + connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving + the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled. + - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using + signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup + using the command line parameters. + - Implement user mode "x": hostname cloaking (closes: #102). + - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD + file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to + re-read the MOTD file when its content changed. + - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set. + - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100). + - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM. + - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the + file doc/PAM.txt for details. + - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt. + - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that + this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator. + - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275. + +ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02) + + ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25) + - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served + connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using + the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250). + + ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25) + - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password + required to secure this command must be configured using the new + "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file. + - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators. + - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented: + Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed + to join such a channel. + But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked + when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join + every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this + mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join. + +ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07) + + ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15) + - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so + ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now. + - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already + implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command). + - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that + enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT + on the local server. + - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements + a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes + per second before a one second pause is enforced. + +ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05) + + - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code. + - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package. + - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value. + +ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20) + + ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29) + - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels. + - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available). + - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce + new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf, + here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains + individual channel keys for different users. + - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf. + +ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25) + + ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21): + - New version number scheme :-) + - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface, + tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13. + For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming + to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask. + - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using + OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls). + New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword, + SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect. + - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only + visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network. + In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs + all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives. + - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package. + - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the + daemon is compiled with IDENT support. + +ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09) + + - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help). + - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also + obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it + is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0". + Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized, + but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file. + +ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13) + + ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29) + - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support. + + ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20) + - Add IPv6 support. + - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X. + - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and + enhanced test suite to check these commands. (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. + (reported by Dana Dahlstrom) + - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated + as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a + member of. (Dana Dahlstrom) + - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager) + +ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15) + + - 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. + - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum + length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network! + - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result). + - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to + disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd, + but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer) + - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC + operators. + +ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08) + + - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key + (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers". + - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as + well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime. + - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll". + +ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17) + + - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too. + - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only + join predefined channels. + +ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01) + + ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02) + - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent + to all locally connected clients before the server goes down. + - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time. + - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic. + - 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 practice, 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 0.9.0 (2005-07-24) + + - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID. + - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant. + - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS". + - 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. + - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined, + the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off. + Idea of 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". + +ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26) + + - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to + Benjamin Pineau . Now you can force the daemon to change + its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used + to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the + "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail". + - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when + establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well. + - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now. + - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest". + - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You + have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident". + The default is not to do IDENT lookups. + +ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11) + + - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of + simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept. + This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks + (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP. + - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening + sockets of the server to a single IP address. + +ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18) + + - Added support for GNU/Hurd. + +ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01) + + - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not + RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT " to enable and connect an + configured server and "CONNECT " + to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!). + - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT ") to disable servers. + - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment). + - New command HELP that lists all understood commands. + - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the + new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure. + - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to + configure to enable it. + - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix + instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib", + "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous". + - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5). + - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd. + + +Older news (sorry, only available in german language): + +ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24 + + - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR + noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an. + - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird + bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert. + - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global") + kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden. + Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert". + - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem + Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene + ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden + Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert + werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren). + - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asyncronen Passwoertern, d.h. das + Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches + B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server", + wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt. + - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies + macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird. + - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib + (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung + nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist + kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen + miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren. + - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl + der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden. + - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert. + +ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002 + + - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris + (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen. + - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit + dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler. + - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der + Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel- + Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen, + wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. + - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert. + Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO syncronisieren Server, die das IRC+- + Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl + gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1", + "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail". + - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert. + - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"): + ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen. + - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen. + +ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002 - - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen. - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt. @@ -91,4 +466,4 @@ ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001 -- -$Id: NEWS,v 1.30 2002/04/23 19:53:01 alex Exp $ +$Id: NEWS,v 1.88 2008/02/26 22:05:42 fw Exp $