X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=a604926bd4e0e41ac28943b87727ee6f214d79a3;hp=b6afc1f4265ba96f2f3ec880a811088c47d706fc;hb=47ca178a219d682c589b27e64ee1a4e936cc7bdc;hpb=bb98fd8c85fa3292b95134d727864c090c29d783 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b6afc1f4..a604926b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server - (c)2001-2003 by Alexander Barton, + (c)2001-2007 Alexander Barton, alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/ ngIRCd is free software and published under the @@ -10,8 +10,74 @@ -- NEWS -- -ngIRCd CVSHEAD - +ngIRCd HEAD + + - 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 @@ -45,7 +111,7 @@ ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01) - 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 - insetead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib", + 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 $(datadir)/doc/ngircd. @@ -182,4 +248,4 @@ ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001 -- -$Id: NEWS,v 1.62 2004/01/25 16:06:34 alex Exp $ +$Id: NEWS,v 1.82 2007/11/21 12:16:33 alex Exp $