X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b3d22706a0c5cdda16fac0c80291370a09f68dec;hp=9f7eb7f21a5d6454bcbf42a913f870c50c937957;hb=b003d469f18c843725de4f6f46b7ca0714e0a984;hpb=cb3a4321a23143f310d06dab4b65dc86998ed770 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9f7eb7f2..b3d22706 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,14 +2,152 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server http://ngircd.barton.de/ - (c)2001-2015 Alexander Barton and Contributors. + (c)2001-2020 Alexander Barton and Contributors. ngIRCd is free software and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -- NEWS -- - -ngIRCd 23 +ngIRCd 26 + + ngIRCd 26~rc2 + - Various bug fixes, see the ChangeLog. No new or changed functionality. + + ngIRCd 26~rc1 (2020-05-10) + - Allow up to 512 characters per line in MOTD and help text files (but keep + in mind that lines can't get that long, because they have to be prefixed + before being sent to the client). But this allows for more fancy MOTDs :-) + Closes #271. + - Show the actually allowed channel types in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric which + are configured by the "AllowedChannelTypes" configuration variable. + Closes #273. + - Handle commands in the read buffer before reading more data and don't wait + for the network in this case: If there are more bytes in the read buffer + already than a single valid IRC command can get long (513 bytes), wait for + this/those command(s) to be handled first and don't try to read even more + data from the network (which most probably would overflow the read buffer + of this connection soon). + - Log G-/K-Line changes only when not initiated by a server: this prevents + the log from becoming spammed during "net bursts". + - Update test suite to include SSL tests, including checking for reloading + certificates during runtime. + - Add support for GnuTLS certificate reload, which is quite handy when using + Let's Encrypt, for example. Until now this was only supported when linked + with OpenSSL. Thanks a lot, Hilko Bengen ! + - Allow setting arbitrary channel modes in the configuration file by handling + them like in MODE commands, and allow multiple "Modes =" lines per [Channel] + section. Thanks to Michi ! + Closes #55. + - Add "FNC" (forced nick changes) to ISUPPORT(005) numeric. Most probably + this doesn't make any difference to any client, but it seems correct. + See for details. + - Enhance handling of command line errors, and return with exit code 0 ("no + error") when "--help" or "--version" is used (which resulted in exit code 1, + "error" before). Exit with code 2 ("command line error") for all other + invalid command line options, and show the error message itself on stderr + (instead of stdout and exit code 1, "generic error", as before). + This new behaviour is more in line with the GNU "coding standards", + see . + - Add ./contrib/nglog.sh: This script parses the log output of ngircd(8), + and colorizes the messages according to their log level. Example usage: + ngircd -f $PWD/doc/sample-ngircd.conf -np | ./contrib/nglog.sh + - Enlarge buffers of info texts to 128 bytes. This includes: + - "Real name" of a client (4th filed of the USER command). + - Server info text ("Info" configuration option). + - Admin info texts and email address ("AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" and + "AdminEmail" configuration options). + - Network name ("Network" configuration option). + The limit was 64 bytes before ... + Closes #258. + - Streamline handling of invalid and unset server name: Don't exit during + runtime (REHASH command, HUP signal), because the server name can't be + changed in this case anyway and the new invalid name will be ignored. + - Slightly reorder startup steps, and enhance logging: + - Show name of configuration file at the beginning of start up. + - Add a message when ngIRCd is ready, including its host name. + - Show name of configuration file on REHASH (SIGHUP), too. + - Change level of "done message" to NOTICE, like "starting" & "ready". + - Initialize IO functions before channels, connections, clients, ... + - configure.ng: OpenSSL can depends on lz or latomic so use pkg-config to + find those dependencies and fallback to existing mechanism. + Closes #256. + +ngIRCd 25 (2019-01-23) + + - Implement new configuration option "MaxPenaltyTime", which configures the + maximum penalty time increase in seconds, per penalty event. Set to -1 for + no limit (the default), 0 to disable penalties altogether. ngIRCd doesn't + use penalty increases higher than 2 seconds during normal operation, so + values higher than 1 rarely make sense. + Disabling (or reducing) penalties can greatly speed up "make check" runs + for example, see below, but are mostly a debugging feature and normally + not meant to be used on production systems! + Some example timings running "make check" from my macOS workstation: + - MaxPenaltyTime not set: 4:41,79s + - "MaxPenaltyTime = 1": 3:14,71s + - "MaxPenaltyTime = 0": 25,46s + Closes #249 and #251. + - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (10.0) + - Allow a 5th parameter in WEBIRC. Thanks to "ItsOnlyBinary". + Closes #247. + + 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 unnecessary 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 @@ -223,7 +361,7 @@ 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 + commands that could be used by arbitrary users to crash the daemon (CVE-2013-1747). ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)