X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b9b01e052dbfafb69111401bccace9a266a3375b;hp=d5192be38fa9dd9ee65c52ce06b7d053fe33de70;hb=4c6c6ecf0edcda29329f440eaa8dbb669b16c58a;hpb=da78dc4785c21126664275103a5ba2112c675360 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d5192be3..b9b01e05 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server - (c)2001-2003 by Alexander Barton, + (c)2001-2006 Alexander Barton, alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/ ngIRCd is free software and published under the @@ -10,11 +10,68 @@ -- NEWS -- -ngIRCd CVS-HEAD - - - (none) - -ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 +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 + have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident". + The default is not to do IDENT lookups. + +ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11) + + - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of + simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept. + This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks + (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. + +ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01) - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT " to enable and connect an @@ -28,7 +85,7 @@ ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 - 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 $(datadir)/doc/ngircd. @@ -165,4 +222,4 @@ ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001 -- -$Id: NEWS,v 1.54 2003/04/21 22:52:18 alex Exp $ +$Id: NEWS,v 1.76 2006/08/03 14:37:29 alex Exp $