X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=3d81baf06c71c6aa1c9f8933c1a109f56ed262ea;hp=7c98a72ee5c42f734c4e0291cfdc56d138154b28;hb=583c50476bee24a8da9459163b609ac80353e63e;hpb=92a90922080ac2bd3c72502ed60c1ef3367df708 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7c98a72e..3d81baf0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server - (c)2001-2008 Alexander Barton, + (c)2001-2010 Alexander Barton, alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/ ngIRCd is free software and published under the @@ -10,8 +10,92 @@ -- NEWS -- -ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20) - +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 @@ -28,7 +112,7 @@ 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 adress to use when connecting to remote server. + 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).