X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=628a6f010dfa06c07d72adbd5de18f6d46575fe3;hp=9365ec64256f16f43e077e5b1d9b548d318ac85b;hb=c97fb2e93e9c7d66b1ce70fa681a762d1f430521;hpb=e19ce437cadca5697a052ade944118a42709eabd diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9365ec64..628a6f01 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,13 +2,462 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server http://ngircd.barton.de/ - (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors. + (c)2001-2018 Alexander Barton and Contributors. ngIRCd is free software and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -- NEWS -- -ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10) +ngIRCd 25 + + ngIRCd 25~rc1 (2018-08-11) + - Only send TOPIC updates to a channel when the topic actually changed: + This prevents the channel from becoming flooded by unecessary TOPIC update + messages, that can happen when IRC services try to enforce a certain topic + but which is already set (at least on the local server), for example. + Therefore still forward it to all servers, but don't inform local clients + (still update setter and timestamp information, though!). + - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (9.2). This includes adding + missing and deleting obsolete file references. + - Handle user mode "C" ("Only users that share a channel are allowed to send + messages") like user mode "b" ("block private messages and notices"): allow + messages from servers, services, and IRC Operators, too. Change proposed by + "wowaname" back in 2015 in #ngircd, thanks! + - Allow IRC Ops and remote servers to KILL service clients: such clients + behave like regular users, therefore IRC operators and servers should be + able to KILL them: for example to resolve nick collisions. + Closes #242. + +ngIRCd 24 (2017-01-20) + + ngIRCd 24~rc1 (2017-01-07) + - Log privilege violations and failed OPER request with log level "error" + and send it to the "&SERVER" channel, too. + - Immediately shut down connection when receiving an "ERROR" command, + don't wait for the peer to close the connection. This allows the daemon + to forward the received "ERROR" message in the network, instead of the + very generic "client closed connection" message. + - Explicitly forbid remote servers to modify "x-lines" (G-LINES) when the + "AllowRemoteOper" configuration option isn't set, even when the command + seems to originate from the remote server itself: this prevents GLINE's + to become set during server handshake in this case (what wouldn't be + possible during regular runtime when a remote IRC Op sends the command) + and what can't be undone by IRC Ops later on (because of the missing + "AllowRemoteOper" option) ... + - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (8.0), and fix "duplicate + symbols" error messages when building (linking) the binary. + - Add "Documentation" variables to systemd configuration files. + - Make sure that SYSCONFDIR is always set, which can be handy when + using source code linters when ./configure hasn't been run already. + - Add the new "PAMServiceName" configuration option to specify the name + used as PAM service name. This setting allows to run multiple ngIRCd + instances with different PAM configurations for each instance. + Thanks to Christian Aistleitner for the + patch, closes #226. + - Add an ".editorconfig" file to the project. + - Limit the number of message target, and suppress duplicates: This + prevents an user from flooding the server using commands like this: + "PRIVMSG nick1,nick1,nick1,...". + Duplicate targets are suppressed silently (channels and clients). + In addition, the maximum number of targets per PRIVMSG, NOTICE, ... + command are limited to MAX_HNDL_TARGETS (25). If there are more, the + daemon sends the new 407 (ERR_TOOMANYTARGETS_MSG) numeric, containing + the first target that hasn't been handled any more. Closes #187. + - Make contrib/platformtest.sh script more portable, and only show + "runs=Y" when the test suite really has been passed successfully. + +ngIRCd 23 (2015-11-16) + + ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06) + - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is + a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea. + Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not + available. This mimics the behavior in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd + 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217. + The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed + to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still + supported for compatibility reasons. + - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick + name while on this channel). Closes #214. + - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts. + Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203. + - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients + expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly. + Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207. + - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation + in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't + hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect. + This closes #198. + - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set. + Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202. + - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents + ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see + the channel list). + Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197. + - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure + that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users + to local ("&") channels. + Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183. + - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when + receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation + time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports + the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined + to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this. + This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks! + +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 + if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ... + - 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 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. + - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven, + Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example. + - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case + on "VPATH builds", for example. + - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis + and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330). + - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code + using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick + names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which + is quite unexpected for users. + - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and + allow using separate source and build trees. + - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking. + - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key" + in all replies. + - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(), + and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite + useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have + been linked at all ...). + - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the + (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the + daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric + which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in. + - Update doc/Platforms.txt. + - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling. + Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf() + return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline + DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions. + - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an + invalid password. + +ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25) + + - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but + disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol ! + - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch. + - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x. + - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add + linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has + been implemented already). + - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-) + +ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30) + + - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This + is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly + initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms. + + ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20) + - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors, + support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated. + + ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05) + - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156) + - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase) + command (restricted to IRC Operators). + - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL + using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this + changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for + OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS. + - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now + you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using + the IRC "TRACE" command. + - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists + user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right + after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client + could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op), + for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are + "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160) + - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows + services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across + service restarts. + - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists + all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels + on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed. + If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at + all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting. + This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is + still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes" + setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a + warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152) + - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client + passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be + forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the + user using this certificate and not using passwords. + - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]" + section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain + further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching + the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server + configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and + parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is + possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files + into this directory. (Closes bug #157) + - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project. + - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the + unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front + of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how + ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155) + - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept + server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names) + for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153) + - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]" + section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout + in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more + connections are left active after handling at least one client. + The default is 0, "never". + This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket + activation" with systemd(8), for example. + - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation". + - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new + numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by + InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too, + like 613 in UltimateIRCd ... + Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B) + of an IRC service is displayed in the output. + - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory: + the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which + enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service", + and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that + configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand. + - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be + set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section), + which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload, + and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics. + Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details. + +ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23) + + - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features. + - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen + when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the + default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new + clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580). + +ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15) + + - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features. + - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK + commands that could be used by arbitrary users to to crash the daemon + (CVE-2013-1747). + +ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02) + + - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features. + +ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17) + + - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not + been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using + external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names. + Patch suggested by Brett Smith , see + . + + ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02) + - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost" + subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the + "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows + "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked + hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues + additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands. + + ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11) + - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8, + then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches + in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ... + - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers + and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text + ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to + configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers: + This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked + hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now. + - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC + services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK + command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded + to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server + initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands. + This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the + SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers + are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network. + - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number + of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before. + - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b", + all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't + originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The + originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case, + ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144) + - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode + "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the + new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143) + - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users + from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having + mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141) + - Allow users to "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 the user + mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to + the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-) + (Closes #133) + - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators + don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining. + Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this + patch. (Closes #135) + - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long + as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the + configuration file. (Closes #136) + - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client + character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8. + This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using + the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See + doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109) + - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by + every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do + behave, and so do we :-) + - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC + operators are able to talk in such a channel. + - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the + configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this + variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas. + - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set + the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin" + ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o, + +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel + modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users. + - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and + "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new + '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname, + and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for + the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a + random salt will be generated after each server restart. + +ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19) + + ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13) + - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname + that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled. + Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this, + which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set. + - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services. + - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command, + and capability "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command + handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client. + +ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19) + + - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the + distribution archive ... ooops! + +ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29) + + ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12) + - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now + is the only supported version. + - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name + (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply. + Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric. + - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel + operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the + channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining: + the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b). + - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE + command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender + and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding + by completely unknown clients. + - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it + indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set). + - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix + duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries + or deleting no (longer) existing ones. + - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25), + WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands. + - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes + that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number + in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5". + - LINKS command: support parameter to limit the reply. + - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE + commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with + commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit. + Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks! + - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not + sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become + "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied + user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details. + - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO " + returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata, + thanks) and "WHO " returned channel names instead + of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel. + - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting + client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by + using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks! + - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but + are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now + handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least. + Reported by Cahata, thanks! + - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are + synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only. + If you use "*!@" or "*!*@" masks, these connections + are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS, + NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child + processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller. + - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd. + - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user + is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must + be set and unset by IRC services like Anope. + - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user + mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel. + - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only. + - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and + forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise. + - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers. + These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment, + but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes" + and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname" + argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved + and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise. + +ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10) - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/. @@ -60,10 +509,10 @@ ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10) (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 "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for + every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address). - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets - every clients' user name to their nick name and hides the user name + every clients' user name to their nickname 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 @@ -83,19 +532,19 @@ ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10) 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) +ngIRCd 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) +ngIRCd 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 + - Make source code compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again. ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11) @@ -104,7 +553,7 @@ ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07) 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", + Possible values are system dependent, 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 @@ -113,8 +562,8 @@ ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07) - 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 + - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102). + - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contents 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. @@ -127,10 +576,10 @@ ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07) 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 (2010-05-02) ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25) - - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served + - Enhance 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). @@ -147,12 +596,12 @@ ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02) 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 (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 + - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (instead 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 @@ -161,13 +610,13 @@ ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07) 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) +ngIRCd 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 (2009-04-20) ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29) - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels. @@ -178,7 +627,7 @@ ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20) 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 (2008-12-25) ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21): - New version number scheme :-) @@ -218,7 +667,7 @@ ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13) - 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. + nickname/server name/host name, 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 @@ -231,7 +680,7 @@ ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15) - 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! + length of user nicknames. 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, @@ -310,7 +759,7 @@ ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11) (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. @@ -335,9 +784,9 @@ ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01) - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd. -Older news (sorry, only available in german language): +Older news (sorry, only available in German language): -ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24 +ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an. @@ -463,7 +912,3 @@ ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-) - - --- -$Id: NEWS,v 1.88 2008/02/26 22:05:42 fw Exp $