X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=578b9f0744ba2e26a920640d6ee9ee73b2c2b835;hp=4f44b8f053d0ed2c1cef5851e7ae4b1595d48be1;hb=d9a97f2857bffb30c8161e4752e7d75bb5fe0359;hpb=7893dc524192715ef004028f8959819f53d34660 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4f44b8f0..578b9f07 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,14 +2,36 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server http://ngircd.barton.de/ - (c)2001-2014 Alexander Barton and Contributors. + (c)2001-2015 Alexander Barton and Contributors. ngIRCd is free software and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -- NEWS -- - ngIRCd 22~rc1 +ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06) + + - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch, + and testing by Christoph Biedl . + - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating + systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example + "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to + "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve + "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using + DNS at all makes the test site much more portable. + +ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11) + + - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-, + ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines. + Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks! + + ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29) + - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line + lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously + nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now. + Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd. + - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication. - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make @@ -17,10 +39,10 @@ - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped. - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only settable by IRC Operators. - - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode "F" - set are allowed to send data to the daemon. This mode is only settable by - IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be careful and - only set it on "trusted" clients! + - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode + "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only + settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be + careful and only set it on "trusted" clients! User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example. - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled. - Streamline punctuation of log messages.