X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b6a5efd446af5ece5c7f6af483198fa9ef843731;hp=9365ec64256f16f43e077e5b1d9b548d318ac85b;hb=48326e061aacd954e24f76c53ded10448cbc28eb;hpb=e19ce437cadca5697a052ade944118a42709eabd diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9365ec64..b6a5efd4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,12 +2,151 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server http://ngircd.barton.de/ - (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors. + (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors. ngIRCd is free software and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -- NEWS -- + +ngIRCd + + - 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 Release 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 capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command + handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client. + +ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19) + + - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the + distribution archive ... ooops! + +ngIRCd Release 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 Release 18 (2011-07-10) - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/. @@ -60,10 +199,10 @@ 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 @@ -113,7 +252,7 @@ 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). + - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102). - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens 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. @@ -218,7 +357,7 @@ 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 +370,7 @@ 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, @@ -463,7 +602,3 @@ 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 $