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                      ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
                            http://ngircd.barton.de/
 
-               (c)2001-2015 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 23
+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 <christian@quelltextlich.at> 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