2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2024 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
13 ngIRCd 27~rc1 (2024-04-13)
14 - Validate certificates on server links. Up to now, ngIRCd optionally used
15 SSL/TLS encrypted server-server links but never checked and validated any
16 certificates. Now ngIRCd validates SSL/TLS certificates on outgoing
17 server-server links by default and drops(!) connections when the remote
18 certificate is invalid (for example self-signed, expired, not matching the
19 host name, ...). Therefore you have to make sure that all relevant
20 *certificates are valid* (or to disable certificate validation on this
21 connection using the new `SSLVerify = false` setting in the affected
22 `[Server]` block, where the remote certificate is not valid and you can not
24 The original patch for OpenSSL dates back to 2009 and was written by Florian
25 Westphal and was extended for GnuTLS in 2014 by Christoph Biedl. But it took
26 us another 10 years to bring it to life ... oh my! Many thanks to both
27 Florian and Christoph!
29 - Add support for the "sd_notify" protocol of systemd(8): Periodically
30 "ping" the service manager (every 3 seconds) and set a status message
31 showing current connection statistics which then is included in "systemctl
32 status ngircd.service" output. In addition, this enables using the
33 systemd(8) watchdog functionality ("WatchdogSec") for the "ngircd.service"
34 unit and allows it to use the "notify" service type, which results in
35 better status tracking by the service manager.
36 - Try to set file descriptor limit to its maximum and show info on startup:
37 The number of possible parallel connections is limited by the file
38 descriptor limit of the process (among other things). Therefore try to
39 upgrade the current "soft" limit to its "hard" maximum (but limited to
40 100000 instead of "infinite"), and show an information or even warning when
41 the limit is still less than the configured "MaxConnections" setting. Please
42 note that ngIRCd and its linked libraries (like PAM) need file descriptors
43 not only for incoming and outgoing IRC connections, but for reading files
44 and inter-process communication, too! Therefore the actual connection limit
45 is less(!) than the file descriptor limit!
46 - Update and fix the logcheck(8) rules file.
47 - METADATA: Fix unsetting the "cloakhost" hostname, which did not result in
48 the original hostname being restored, but actually resulted in an empty
49 string being used as the client hostname -- which is a protocol violation.
50 - Update the "rpm" make target to use the rpmbuild(8) command.
51 - Add a "Docker file" (contrib/Dockerfile) and corresponding documentation
52 (doc/Container.md) to the project. The resulting container is based on the
53 latest Debian "stable-slim" container and built using a "build container".
54 - Remove outdated, unsupported and broken support for splint(1).
55 - Don't show the default config file name on config errors: The configuration
56 can be set in drop-in files in the include directory, too, so it is not
57 clear in which file it is actually missing.
58 - No longer use a default built-in value for the "IncludeDir" directive when
59 a configuration file was explicitly specified on the command line using
60 "--config"/"-f": This way no default include directory is scanned when a
61 possibly non-default configuration file is used which (intentionally) did
62 not specify an "IncludeDir" directive. So now you can use "-f /dev/null"
63 for checking all built-in defaults, regardless of any local configuration
64 files in the default drop-in directory (which would have been read in
66 - No longer log channel keys ("passwords") for predefined channels.
67 - The server "Name" in the "[Global]" section of the configuration file no
68 longer needs to be set: When not set (or empty), ngIRCd now tries to
69 deduce a valid IRC server name from the local host name ("node name"),
70 possibly adding a ".host" extension when the host name does not contain a
71 dot (".") which is required in an IRC server name ("ID").
72 This new behavior, with all configuration parameters now being optional,
73 allows running ngIRCd without any configuration file at all.
74 - Silence some compiler warnings.
75 - autogen.sh: Prefer automake 1.11 over other releases because this is the
76 last release supporting "de-ANSI-fication" using the included ansi2knr tool.
77 And because we _want_ to support old K&R platforms, we try hard to use this
78 release of automake when available to generate our build system.
79 Note: This is only relevant for you if you are building from Git sources.
80 - Autodetect support for IPv6 by default: Until now, IPv6 support was disabled
81 by default, which seems a bit outdated in 2024. Note: You still can pass
82 "--enable-ipv6"/"--disable-ipv6" to the ./configure script to forcefully
83 activate or deactivate IPv6 support.
84 - Do IDENT requests even when DNS lookups are disabled: Up to now disabling
85 DNS in the configuration disabled IDENT lookups as well (for no good
86 reason). Now you can activate/deactivate DNS lookups and IDENT requests
87 completely separately. Thanks for reporting this, Miniontoby!
89 - Update config.guess (2023-08-22) and config.sub (2023-09-19) files.
90 - Fix Channel Admins being able to to set Channel Owner status! "Sarah"
91 reported this back in April 2021 and proposed a patch, thanks a lot!
92 - Test suite: Update for OpenSSL 3.x, some command outputs changed, clean up
93 shell scripts and make the getpid.sh script more robust.
94 - Allow SSL client-only configurations without keys/certificates: You don't
95 need to configure certificates/keys as long as you don't configure
96 SSL-enabled listening ports. This can make sense when you want to only link
97 your local daemon to an uplink server using SSL and only have clients on
98 your local host or in your fully trusted network, where SSL is not required.
99 - Remove the unmaintained contrib/MacOSX/ folder: this includes the Xcode
100 project as well as the outdated macOS "Package Maker" configuration. The
101 sample launchd(8) configuration properties list file was moved to
102 "contrib/de.barton.ngircd.plist" and kept.
103 - Fix showing the "Ident" option in "--configtest" output which was never
104 shown because of a coding error. Whoops!
105 - Change GnuTLS "slot handling" messages to debug level: Those messages are
106 about an internal implementation detail, not relevant for an administrator
108 - Enlarge buffer for log messages: For example, SSL/TLS certificate
109 information can easily get longer than 256 characters. So enlarge the log
110 buffer to 1 KB to avoid cutting off relevant information.
111 - Respect "SSLConnect" option for incoming connections and do not accept
112 incoming plain-text ("non SSL") server connections for servers configured
113 with "SSLConnect" enabled. This change prevents an authenticated
114 client-server being able to force the server-server to send its password
115 on a plain-text connection when SSL/TLS was intended.
116 - Always try to close a connection with errors immediately, but try hard
117 to avoid too much recursion. Without this patch, an outgoing server
118 connection could get stuck in an "endless" state trying to write out data
120 - Add "hopm.service" to "Wants" and "Before" dependencies in the sample
121 systemd unit file (Hopm is the successor of Bopm).
122 - Update Debian package configuration using current "dh_make", package
123 dependencies and build rules. And no longer build 3 different versions,
124 only build "ngircd" which now includes support for IDENT, PAM (disabled in
125 the ngircd.conf installed by the package), SSL (OpenSSL), ZLib and IPv6.
126 - Return ERR_NOTEXTTOSEND on empty PRIVMSG content, which matches the
127 behavior of other servers.
128 - Add a new option "Autojoin" to [Channel] blocks: When it is set, ngIRCd
129 automatically joins all local users to this channel on connect. Note: The
130 users must have permissions to access the channel, otherwise joining them
132 Thanks Ivan Agarkov <i_agarkov@wargaming.net> for the initial patch!
133 - Hide invisible (+i) users on "WHOIS <pattern>": Let's behave like most(?)
134 other IRC daemons (at least ircd2.11) and hide all +i users when WHOIS is
135 used with a pattern. Otherwise privacy of this users is not guaranteed and
136 the +i mode a bit useless ...
137 Reported by Cahata on #ngircd, thanks!
138 - Update the final "closing connection" message: Add some more information
139 like nick name, user name, host name and bring it in line with some other
140 implementations (at least ircd2.11 and Hybrid).
141 - Fix RPL_INVITING message: All numeric replies must originate from an IRC
142 server, never from a client. Thanks "tommyrot" for reporting this!
144 - Enhance some log messages, for example for errors when accepting new
146 - Make the debug log level ("--debug"/-"d" command line option) always
147 available, not only when ./configure'd with "--enable-debug": the latter
148 now only enables additional checks (like the tests done using assert(2))
149 and is signalled by adding "+DEBUG" to the version "feature string". This
150 change enables everyone to get even more detailed logging when required.
151 - Always report an error when a parameter is missing in a channel "MODE +k"
152 or "MODE +l" command, and better validate their parameters: return the new
153 numeric ERR_INVALIDMODEPARAM_MSG(696) on errors.
154 Thanks Val Lorentz for reporting this!
156 - Allow IRC Operators to use the WHO command on any channel.
157 - Add configuration for "ngIRCd CI" GitHub Action, no longer use Travis-CI.
158 - Send the NAMES list and channel topic to users "forcefully" joined to a
159 channel using NJOIN, like they joined on their own using JOIN, and
160 streamline the order of NAMES list and channel topic messages.
162 - Fix (invalid) error messages when setting modes on local channels which
163 are defined in the configuration file.
164 - Fix handling of G-Lines/K-Lines with cloaked host names.
165 - Streamline logging of debug messages.
166 - Added a new command line option "-y"/"--syslog", with which logging to
167 syslog can be activated/deactivated separately from running on the console
168 (using "--nodaemon") or in the background.
169 Thanks Katherine Peeters for the patch and pull request!
171 - Fix a possible race condition while introducing new clients in the network.
172 - Update, enhance and extend our documentation in README.md, INSTALL.md,
173 doc/HowToRelease.txt and the manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5), add
174 a new doc/QuickStart.md document, and convert some more documentation files
175 to Markdown (AUTHORS.md, contrib/README.md, doc/FAQ.md, doc/SSL.md).
177 ngIRCd 26.1 (2021-01-02)
179 - Fix a "format string" compiler warning (detected on OpenBSD).
180 - No longer set "AI_ADDRCONFIG" when resolving host names, even when it
181 exists: with this option set, on an IPv6-only host, we prevent 127.0.0.1
182 to get translated properly, even when the loopback interface has this
183 address configured! And as the test suite uses 127.0.0.1, it was broken
185 The drawback is that the resolver possibly returns more addresses now,
186 even of an unsupported/not connected address family; but this shouldn't
187 do much harm in practice, as ngIRCd iterates over all returned addresses
188 while trying to establish an outgoing connection.
190 - Revert "Show allowed channel types in ISUPPORT(005) numeric only", which
191 was introduced in 26~rc1: This lead to some IRC clients assuming "oh, no
192 channel prefix characters at all, so no channels at all, so no PRIVMSG can
193 go to any channel" when "AllowedChannelTypes" was set to the empty string
194 ("") -- which is not the case when there are pre-defined channel set up or
195 other servers still having channels!
196 So "allowed channel types" != "supported channel types", and we always have
197 to list all supported ones in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric!
199 - Test suite: Wait 2 seconds after reloading the daemon, which is required
200 because on reload, all listening ports are closed, configuration updated,
201 and then opened again. This lead to subsequent tests running while the
202 daemon isn't listening on any ports, and that's why some tests could fail.
204 - platformtest.sh: Try to mangle CLang name more intelligently.
205 - Documentation: Fixed URLs of Atheme IRC services, updated all mentions
206 from CVS to Git, and updated Platforms.txt -- Oh, and it is 2021 now! ;-)
208 ngIRCd 26 (2020-06-20)
210 ngIRCd 26~rc2 (2020-06-11)
211 - Add AppStream metadata file (contrib/de.barton.ngircd.metainfo.xml).
212 - Don't send invalid CHANINFO commands when a channel has mode +k set but no
213 key is known to the server. This can happen with a misconfigured predefined
214 channel, for example, and looked like this: "CHANINFO #test +Pk 0 :" --
215 note the unset key represented by the two spaces. Fix this by sending a
216 "*" in this case and update the CHANINFO documentation, too.
217 - ngircd.spec: Fix names of README.md and INSTALL.md, add ".md" extension.
218 - Update description texts in the README.md file, the RPM and Debian package
219 files and the manual page: bring them in line with the updated homepage.
220 - Server-Server protocol: Fix use-after-free when unregistering a directly
221 connected server sending a SQUIT for itself.
222 - Server-Server protocol: Detect bogus SERVER commands lacking a prefix.
223 Thanks Hilko Bengen (hillu) for finding & reporting this as well for the
224 patch & pull request (even if fixed differently).
226 - Fix the PING-PONG logic: In ngIRCd 26~rc1 this was completely broken (while
227 trying to fix timeouts during server handshakes in bigger networks): the
228 daemon never disconnected any stale peers but kept sending out PINGs over
230 - Test suite: Add missing files needed to test SSL support to "EXTRA_DIST",
231 so that they are included in distribution archives: in rc1, "make check"
232 fails when using sources from an archive and enabling SSL support.
233 Thanks to Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de> for the patch!
235 ngIRCd 26~rc1 (2020-05-10)
236 - Tweak & update doc/HowToRelease.txt, .mailmap and AUTHORS files.
237 - Allow up to 512 characters per line in MOTD and help text files (but keep
238 in mind that lines can't get that long, because they have to be prefixed
239 before being sent to the client). But this allows for more fancy MOTDs :-)
241 - Show the actually allowed channel types in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric which
242 are configured by the "AllowedChannelTypes" configuration variable.
244 - Handle commands in the read buffer before reading more data and don't wait
245 for the network in this case: If there are more bytes in the read buffer
246 already than a single valid IRC command can get long (513 bytes), wait for
247 this/those command(s) to be handled first and don't try to read even more
248 data from the network (which most probably would overflow the read buffer
249 of this connection soon).
250 - Update Travis-CI configuration, "sudo" is deprecated.
251 - Log G-/K-Line changes only when not initiated by a server: this prevents
252 the log from becoming spammed during "net bursts".
253 - Update test suite to include SSL tests, including checking for reloading
254 certificates during runtime.
255 - Makefile.am: Replace "make" with "${MAKE}". This fixes warnings like this:
256 "warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule."
257 Thanks to Sam James (sam_c) <sam@cmpct.info>!
259 - Add support for GnuTLS certificate reload, which is quite handy when using
260 Let's Encrypt, for example. Until now this was only supported when linked
261 with OpenSSL. Thanks a lot, Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de>!
262 - Remove deprecated legacy configuration options and related functions that
263 have been marked for removal for quite some time:
264 - PredefChannelsOnly (v22)
267 - Old '[GLOBAL]' section handling (v19)
268 Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
269 - Fix recursion bug on write errors: Depending on the stack size, too many
270 clients on the same channel quitting at the same time would trigger a crash
271 due to too many recursive calls to Conn_Close(). Thanks to Michi
272 <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
273 - Fix builds using GCC option -fno-common, which is the default starting with
274 GCC 10. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
276 - Convert INSTALL and README files to Markdown.
277 - Allow setting arbitrary channel modes in the configuration file by handling
278 them like in MODE commands, and allow multiple "Modes =" lines per [Channel]
279 section. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org>!
281 - Add "FNC" (forced nick changes) to ISUPPORT(005) numeric. Most probably
282 this doesn't make any difference to any client, but it seems correct.
283 See <http://www.irc.org/tech_docs/005.html> for details.
284 - Reuse old SSL key if loading a new one failed.
285 - Remove outdated OpenBSD/NetBSD systrace.policy.
286 - Enhance handling of command line errors, and return with exit code 0 ("no
287 error") when "--help" or "--version" is used (which resulted in exit code 1,
288 "error" before). Exit with code 2 ("command line error") for all other
289 invalid command line options, and show the error message itself on stderr
290 (instead of stdout and exit code 1, "generic error", as before).
291 This new behavior is more in line with the GNU "coding standards",
292 see <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html>.
293 - Fix and update Xcode project: Reference correct contrib/Makefile.am file,
294 correctly sort contrib/nglog.sh and add "ORGANIZATIONNAME" setting.
295 - contrib/ngindent.sh: Add more GNU indent options for better results, and
296 add the ".sh" suffix to bring this script in line with the others in the
298 - Add ./contrib/nglog.sh: This script parses the log output of ngircd(8),
299 and colorizes the messages according to their log level. Example usage:
300 ngircd -f $PWD/doc/sample-ngircd.conf -np | ./contrib/nglog.sh
301 - Log received signals with their names using strsignal(3), when available.
302 - Make test suite compatible with Haiku OS.
303 - Fix host mask cloaking bug, don't cloak multiple times: Previously, each
304 server would cloak every user's host mask. The problem is that if a network
305 has more than one server, then a user's host mask would get cloaked twice.
306 This patch ensures that a server only cloaks the host mask if it has not yet
307 been cloaked (the period indicates it's still an IP address). Thanks to
308 JRMU <jrmu@lecturify.com> for the patch!
310 - Enlarge buffers of info texts to 128 bytes. This includes:
311 - "Real name" of a client (4th filed of the USER command).
312 - Server info text ("Info" configuration option).
313 - Admin info texts and email address ("AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" and
314 "AdminEmail" configuration options).
315 - Network name ("Network" configuration option).
316 The limit was 64 bytes before ...
318 - Streamline handling of invalid and unset server name: Don't exit during
319 runtime (REHASH command, HUP signal), because the server name can't be
320 changed in this case anyway and the new invalid name will be ignored.
321 - Fix and extend documentation: Fix some typos, fix syntax of LINKS and LIST
322 commands, whitespace and spelling fixes, update dependencies and add some
323 more information about IRCv3 support.
324 Thanks to Thanks Windree, Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> and
325 Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
327 - Slightly reorder startup steps, and enhance logging:
328 - Show name of configuration file at the beginning of start up.
329 - Add a message when ngIRCd is ready, including its host name.
330 - Show name of configuration file on REHASH (SIGHUP), too.
331 - Change level of "done message" to NOTICE, like "starting" & "ready".
332 - Initialize IO functions before channels, connections, clients, ...
333 - configure.ng: OpenSSL can depends on lz or latomic so use pkg-config to
334 find those dependencies and fallback to existing mechanism.
336 - ngircd.conf.5: Fix wording as suggested by lintian.
338 ngIRCd 25 (2019-01-23)
340 - Fix documentation of MotdPhrase length, which actually is 126 characters:
341 update sample configuration file as well as the man page. Thanks to
342 shankari <shankari@eecs.berkeley.edu>.
344 - Implement new configuration option "MaxPenaltyTime", which configures the
345 maximum penalty time increase in seconds, per penalty event. Set to -1 for
346 no limit (the default), 0 to disable penalties altogether. ngIRCd doesn't
347 use penalty increases higher than 2 seconds during normal operation, so
348 values higher than 1 rarely make sense.
349 Disabling (or reducing) penalties can greatly speed up "make check" runs
350 for example, see below, but are mostly a debugging feature and normally
351 not meant to be used on production systems!
352 Some example timings running "make check" from my macOS workstation:
353 - MaxPenaltyTime not set: 4:41,79s
354 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 1": 3:14,71s
355 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 0": 25,46s
356 Closes #249 and #251.
357 - Fix compilation without deprecated OpenSSL APIs. Thanks to Rosen Penev
358 <rosenp@gmail.com> for the patch!
360 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (10.0)
361 - Fix some compiler warnings of Apple Xcode/Clang
362 - Allow a 5th parameter in WEBIRC. Thanks to "ItsOnlyBinary".
364 - Update some more documentation files and source code comments.
365 - Platforms.txt: Add and update systems.
367 ngIRCd 25~rc1 (2018-08-11)
368 - Update config.guess (2018-03-08) and config.sub (2018-03-08) files.
369 - Correctly retry to establish an outgoing connections when forking of the
370 resolver sub-process failed (for example because of lack of free memory).
371 Until now, such a connection was never retried once this error was hit.
372 Thanks to Robert Obermeier for reporting this bug!
374 - Fix a "use after free" bug which can be triggered on a newly established
375 connection when the daemon handles an ERROR command received from the peer
376 during client login. Thanks a lot to Joseph Bisch <joseph.bisch@gmail.com>
377 for discovering and reporting this issue!
378 - Only send TOPIC updates to a channel when the topic actually changed:
379 This prevents the channel from becoming flooded by unnecessary TOPIC update
380 messages, that can happen when IRC services try to enforce a certain topic
381 but which is already set (at least on the local server), for example.
382 Therefore still forward it to all servers, but don't inform local clients
383 (still update setter and timestamp information, though).
384 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (9.2). This includes adding
385 missing and deleting obsolete file references.
386 - Handle user mode "C" ("Only users that share a channel are allowed to send
387 messages") like user mode "b" ("block private messages and notices"): allow
388 messages from servers, services, and IRC Operators, too. Change proposed by
389 "wowaname" back in 2015 in #ngircd, thanks!
390 - Fix some compiler warnings.
391 - Add contrib/ngircd.logcheck: Some sample logcheck(8) rules.
392 - Allow IRC Ops and remote servers to KILL service clients: such clients
393 behave like regular users, therefore IRC operators and servers should be
394 able to KILL them: for example to resolve nick collisions.
396 - Don't forward KILLs to other servers if they've been blocked locally:
397 This prevents clients from killing IRC services, for example.
398 Closes #238 and #239.
399 - Fix a cross-compiler issue related to the Get_Error() function.
400 Closes #240 and #241.
401 - Update ./doc/Services.txt, enhance configuration examples.
403 ngIRCd 24 (2017-01-20)
405 - Make sure that ./contrib/platformtest.sh aborts when ./autogen.sh fails.
406 - Update config.guess (2016-10-02) and config.sub (2016-11-04) files.
407 - Build Debian packages with OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS: OpenSSL allows
408 to reload used certificates on runtime for example (which is very
409 useful when using Let's Encrypt), and therefore is preferred. And
410 explicitly specify the "source format".
411 - Fix handling of connection pool allocation and enlargement: up to now,
412 the daemon only enlarged its connection pool when accepting new incoming
413 client or server connections, not when establishing new outgoing server
414 links, which could lead to problems when hitting the configured limit,
415 see "MaxConnections". Thanks to Lukas Braun (k00mi) for reporting this!
418 ngIRCd 24~rc1 (2017-01-07)
419 - Enhance systemd service file, and install it in Debian package.
420 - Update configuration of Debian package.
421 - Log privilege violations and failed OPER request with log level "error"
422 and send it to the "&SERVER" channel, too.
423 - Immediately shut down connection when receiving an "ERROR" command,
424 don't wait for the peer to close the connection. This allows the daemon
425 to forward the received "ERROR" message in the network, instead of the
426 very generic "client closed connection" message.
427 - Fix sending of entry duration (no negative values!) when synchronizing
429 - List expiration (G-LINES): use same log level as when setting, and log
430 this event to the &SERVER channel, too.
431 - Explicitly forbid remote servers to modify "x-lines" (G-LINES) when the
432 "AllowRemoteOper" configuration option isn't set, even when the command
433 seems to originate from the remote server itself: this prevents GLINE's
434 to become set during server handshake in this case (what wouldn't be
435 possible during regular runtime when a remote IRC Op sends the command)
436 and what can't be undone by IRC Ops later on (because of the missing
437 "AllowRemoteOper" option) ...
438 - Make scripts and init-files in ./contrib executable.
439 - Fix building ngIRCd with OpenSSL 1.1. Thanks to Christoph Biedl
440 <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de> for the patch!
441 - Fix code indentation warnings of gcc 6.2.
442 - Update config.guess (2016-04-02) and config.sub (2016-03-30) files.
443 - Fix warnings of the "shellcheck" linter in autogen.sh, contrib/ngindent
444 and contrib/platformtest.sh.
445 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (8.0), and fix "duplicate
446 symbols" error messages when building (linking) the binary.
447 - Add "Documentation" variables to systemd configuration files.
448 - Make sure that SYSCONFDIR is always set, which can be handy when
449 using source code linters when ./configure hasn't been run already.
450 - Add the new "PAMServiceName" configuration option to specify the name
451 used as PAM service name. This setting allows to run multiple ngIRCd
452 instances with different PAM configurations for each instance.
453 Thanks to Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at> for the
455 - Add an ".editorconfig" file to the project.
456 - Travis-CI: use "container-based infrastructure".
457 - Limit the number of message targets, and suppress duplicates: This
458 prevents an user from flooding the server using commands like this:
459 "PRIVMSG nick1,nick1,nick1,...".
460 Duplicate targets are suppressed silently (channels and clients).
461 In addition, the maximum number of targets per PRIVMSG, NOTICE, ...
462 command are limited to MAX_HNDL_TARGETS (25). If there are more, the
463 daemon sends the new 407 (ERR_TOOMANYTARGETS_MSG) numeric, containing
464 the first target that hasn't been handled any more. Closes #187.
465 - Test suite: Add new test for server-server logins.
466 - contrib/ngindent: Fix shebang line.
467 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh script more portable, and only show
468 "runs=Y" when the test suite really has been passed successfully.
469 - Code cleanup in the NJOIN handler and the function killing clients as
470 well as the function sending messages to a "mask" (cleaner code, more
471 fault tolerant, better code comments).
472 - Update and enhance documentation: README file, doc/Platforms.txt,
473 doc/Modes.txt, doc/Commands.txt, doc/PAM.txt.
474 - Fix NJOIN not propagating "half ops" status: ngIRCd tested for the wrong
475 prefix of "half ops" when processing NJOIN commands and therefore never
476 classified a remote user as "half op".
477 Thanks to wowaname for pointing this out on #ngircd!
479 ngIRCd 23 (2015-11-16)
481 - Explicitly cast time_t to long when printing it out: this prevents
482 wrong sized data types on platforms where time_t doesn't equal a
483 long any more, for example on OpenBSD (which would result in garbled
484 output on those platforms).
485 - contrib/Debian/changelog: Fix email address.
486 - Documentation: Spelling fixes; update doc/Platforms.txt.
488 ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06)
489 - Add ".clang_complete" file, which is used by the "linter-clang" package
490 of the Atom editor, for example.
491 - Make server-to-server protocol more robust: ngIRCd now catches more
492 errors on the server-to-server (S2S) protocol that could crash the
493 daemon before. This hasn't been a real problem because the IRC S2S
494 protocol is "trusted" by design, but the behavior is much better now.
495 Thanks to wowaname on #ngircd for pointing this out!
496 - Make platformtest.sh, autogen.sh, and ngircd.init more portable.
497 - Enables "reproducible builds" for ngIRCd: Use the optional BIRTHTIME
498 constant while building ngIRCd, which contains a time stamp for the
499 "Birth Date" information, in seconds since the epoch.
500 See <https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds>.
501 - Update "contrib/ngircd.service" file for systemd.
502 - INSTALL: Add deprecation notice for "PredefChannelsOnly" variable.
503 - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is
504 a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea.
505 Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not
506 available. This mimics the behavior in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd
507 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217.
508 The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed
509 to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still
510 supported for compatibility reasons.
511 - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick
512 name while on this channel). Closes #214.
513 - README, AUTHORS: Update mailing list and issue tracker URLs.
514 - Remove doc/GIT.txt (it is outdated), update doc/Contributing.txt:
515 ngIRCd uses GitHub, and Git itself is quite common today. So don't
516 include an own Git "mini HowTo" any longer.
517 - Specify session context for OpenSSL clients. This enables some OpenSSL
518 clients, including Pidgin and stunnel 5.06, to reuse a session.
519 Patch by Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>, thanks! Closes #182.
520 - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts.
521 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203.
522 - Make setgroups(3) function optional: For example, Interix is missing
523 this function, which prevented ngIRCd to build on this platform. When
524 setgroups(3) isn't available, a warning message is issued on startup.
525 - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients
526 expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly.
527 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
528 - Update ngircd.conf.5: "CloakUserToNick" hides user _and_ real name.
530 - Fix case insensitive pattern matching: Up to now, only the input
531 string became lowercased and was then compared to the pattern -- which
532 failed when the pattern itself wasn't all lowercase!
533 - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
534 in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't
535 hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect.
537 - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set.
538 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202.
539 - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents
540 ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see
542 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197.
543 - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure
544 that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users
545 to local ("&") channels.
546 Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183.
547 - INVITE command: Enforce 1 second penalty time, which prevents flooding
548 of the target client.
549 This closes #186. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
550 - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when
551 receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation
552 time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports
553 the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined
554 to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this.
555 This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
556 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (6.3).
558 ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
560 - Update doc/Platforms.txt and doc/FAQ.txt.
561 - Fix spelling of RPL_WHOISBOT message text.
562 - Don't send nick name as default PART reason: No other IRC daemon seems
563 to do this (today?). Closes #185.
564 Reported by Cahata in #ngircd, thanks!
565 - Fix "WHO #<chan>" showing invisible users and hiding all visible, the
566 logic was reversed! This bug has been introduced by commit c74115f2,
567 "Simplify mode checking on channels and users within a channel", ngIRCd
568 releases 21, 21.1, and 22 are affected :-( Problem reported by Cahata
570 - Fix typo in src/testsuite/README
571 - Auth PING: Fix our information text for manual sending of "PONG". Up to
572 now, ngIRCd doesn't send a valid IRC command at all, oops!
573 - Auth PING: Fix internal time stamp conversion and don't send a prefix in
574 our PING command. The prefix confuses WeeChat, at least, which doesn't
575 send an appropriate PONG in the case ...
576 Debugging and patch by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
577 - Fix syntax of ERR_LISTFULL_MSG(478) numeric. Pointed out by "wowaname"
579 - Enhance debug messages while sending CHANINFO commands.
580 - Reset "last try" timer when enabling a passive server. This results in
581 a new connection attempt as soon as possible.
582 - Change log message for "Can't resolve address" and for IP address
584 - doc/HowToRelease.txt: Add note about the bug tracker.
585 - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch,
586 and testing by Christoph Biedl <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
587 - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating
588 systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example
589 "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to
590 "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve
591 "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using
592 DNS at all makes the test site much more portable.
594 ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
596 - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
597 ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
598 Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
600 ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
601 - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
602 lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
603 nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
604 Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
605 - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
606 - Correctly check that a server has a valid hostname and port, thanks to
607 David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com> who reported this bug.
608 - Fix the function which generates complete "IRC masks" from user input,
609 don't destroy the source buffer and use all provided parts (nick, user,
610 host name). This fixes GLINEs/KLINEs from not working in some situations.
611 - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
612 that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
613 this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
614 if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
615 - Debian: Don't adjust path names that are correct by default and correctly
616 set and use "docdir".
617 - Update config.guess and config.sub to recent versions.
618 - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
619 - doc/Bopm.txt: Update "connregex" and "kline" for current ngIRCd.
620 - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
621 settable by IRC Operators.
622 - Spoofed prefixes: Really kill connection on non-server links.
623 - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
624 "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
625 settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
626 careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
627 User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
628 - Handle "throttling" in a single function: ngIRCd implements "command
629 throttling" and "bps throttling" (bytes per second). The states are
630 detected in different functions, Conn_Handler() and Read_Request(), but
631 handle the actual "throttling" in a common function: this enables us to
632 guarantee consistent behavior and to disable throttling for special
633 connections in only one place
634 - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
635 - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
636 - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
637 Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
638 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
639 on "VPATH builds", for example.
640 - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
641 and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
642 - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
643 using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
644 names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
645 is quite unexpected for users.
646 - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
647 allow using separate source and build trees.
648 - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
649 - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
651 - Update configure.ng: ngIRCd requires GNU autoconf 2.61 for generating its
652 build system, so update the build system accordingly and implement all
653 changes that autoupdate(1) suggests: Update AC_PREREQ and AC_INIT, use
654 AC_LINK_IFELSE, AC_RUN_IFELSE, and AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, and remove
655 AC_TYPE_SIGNAL (we don't use RETSIGTYPE).
656 - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
657 and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
658 useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
659 been linked at all ...).
660 - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
661 (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
662 daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
663 which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
664 - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
665 - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
666 Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
667 return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
668 DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
669 - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
672 ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
674 - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
675 disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
676 - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
677 - Really kill connections that send "spoofed prefixes" on non-server links.
678 This fixes commit 6cbe1308 which only killed the connection when the
679 spoofed prefix itself belonged to a non-server client.
680 - CHARCONV command: Fix handling conversion errors, don't overwrite already
682 - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
683 - Correctly use cloaked IRC masks on "INVITE nickname": The cloaked IRC mask
684 of a user is his visible mask, so the daemon has to use it for generating
685 the "one time" entries for the invite list of the given channel, and not
686 the "real" mask which will never match while the target client is "+x", and
687 even worse, will disclose the real mask on "MODE #channel +I" commands :-/
688 Bug reported by Cahata on #ngircd, thanks!
689 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists. This isn't the case on
690 "VPATH builds", for example.
691 - Use $(MKDIR_P) instead of $(mkinstalldirs) in Makefile's and test for
692 "mkdir -p" using AC_PROG_MKDIR_P in "configure".
693 - Fix configure script and "make check" for TCP Wrappers (problems spotted on
694 OpenBSD): add missing #include's and static variables, and add libwrap at
695 the end of the configure run because if libwrap becomes added earlier,
696 other tests may fail.
697 - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
698 linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
699 been implemented already).
700 - platformtest.sh and Makefile.am: Don't use "test -e", it isn't portable.
701 - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
702 - Fix permanent {G|K}LINES (with a timeout of 0 seconds).
703 - WEBIRC: Don't set the hostname received by the WEBIRC command when DNS
704 lookups are disabled, but use the IP address instead.
705 Reported by Toni Spets <toni.spets@iki.fi>, thanks!
706 - Check for working getaddrinfo() function: At least AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1 have a
707 broken implementation of getaddrinfo() which doesn't handle "0" as numeric
708 service correctly. This patch adds a configure check for this case and
709 changes all calling functions to only use getaddrinfo() if it "works".
710 See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/lists/heimdal-discuss/2004-05/msg00059.html>
711 - Only use the unsetenv() function when it is available (AIX 4.3 doesn't
712 support it, for example).
713 - Make sure that the source code is still compatible with the "ansi2knr" tool
714 and builds using non-ANSI K&R C compilers. Tested with Apple C on A/UX.
715 - Fix building ngIRCd without support for ZLIB compression. Reported by
716 "der_baer" on #ngircd, thanks!
718 ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
720 - ./contrib/Debian/ngircd.init: Make sure no stale PID file is left over
721 when (re-)starting ngIRCd.
722 - Change ./contrib/platformtest.sh and update ./doc/Platforms.txt to
723 allow user names up to 8 characters.
724 - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
725 is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
726 initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
727 - Update our own Debian package configuration and fix the default path
728 of the "HelpFile" of the "full" package variants.
730 ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
731 - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
732 support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
733 - Use arc4random() function to generate "random" numbers, when available.
734 - platformtest.sh: Detect clang compiler, and clean up GIT source tree
735 before building (when possible).
736 - Update (date of) manual pages.
737 - Update "Upgrade Information" in INSTALL file, add more systems to
738 doc/Platforms.txt, and fix spelling in NEWS and ChangeLog files =:)
739 - Fix remaining compiler warnings on OpenBSD.
741 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
742 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
743 - Adjust log messages for invalid and spoofed prefixes, which cleans up
744 logging of commands related to already KILL'ed clients. And don't
745 forward KILL commands for (already) unknown clients any more to prevent
746 unnecessary duplicates.
747 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
748 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
749 - Fixed blocking of server reconnects in some error configurations.
750 - Don't ignore SSL-related errors during startup any more: abort startup
751 when SSL is requested by the configuration but can't be initialized and
752 don't continue only listening on plain text communication ports.
754 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
755 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
756 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
757 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
758 - Fix "TRACE": Correctly return ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) (which basically
759 is "syntax error") when there are too many parameters.
760 - Clean up lots of permission and parameter checks in functions handling
761 IRC commands; and more consistently add penalty times on errors.
762 - Fix error numeric of WHOIS when no nick name has been provided:
763 as per RFC it should be ERR_NONICKNAMEGIVEN(431).
764 - Only log "IDENT ... no result" messages when an IDENT looked took place
765 and didn't return any data, not when IDENT has been disabled.
766 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
767 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
768 the IRC "TRACE" command.
769 - Correctly discard supplementary groups on server startup.
770 - Save client IP address text for "WebIRC" users and correctly display
771 it on WHOIS, for example. (Closes bug #159)
772 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
773 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
774 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
775 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
776 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
777 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
778 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
779 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
781 - Enforce "penalty times" on error conditions more consistently and in
782 more places. Now most error codes sent back from the IRC server to the
783 client should result in a 2 second "penalty".
784 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
785 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
786 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
787 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
788 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
789 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
790 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
791 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
792 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
793 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
794 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
795 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
796 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
797 - IRC Operator names, as defined in ngircd.conf, are logged now when
798 handling successful OPER commands.
799 - Some error conditions while handling IRC commands, like "permission
800 denied" or "need more parameters", result in more penalty times.
801 - The numeric replies of some commands became split too early which
802 resulted in more numeric reply lines than necessary.
803 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
804 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
805 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
806 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
807 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
808 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
809 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
810 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
811 - Fix use-after-free in the Lists_CheckReason() function, which is used
812 to check if a client is a member of a particular ban/invite/... list.
813 - Xcode: fix detection of host OS, vendor, and CPU type, and update
814 project settings for Xcode 5.
815 - OS X PackageMaker: use relative path names in project files and package
816 with correct file permissions (requires root privileges on "make").
817 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
818 - Look for possible cloaked Masks in Lists. Users with +x user mode can
819 be banned with their cloaked hostname now.
820 - Don't read SSL client data before DNS resolver is finished which could
821 have resulted in discarding the resolved client hostname and IDENT
822 reply afterwards, because in some situations (timing dependent) the
823 NICK and USER commands could have already been read in from the client,
824 stored in the buffer, and been processed.
825 Thanks to Julian Brost for reporting the issue and testing, and to
826 Federico G. Schwindt <fgsch@lodoss.net> for helping to debug it!
827 - Increase password length limit to 64 characters. (Closes bug #154)
828 - doc/Services.txt: Update Anope status and URL.
829 - Clean up Xcode project file, remove outdated files, add missing ones.
830 - Update Doxygen configuration file.
831 - configure: search for iconv_open as well as libiconv_open, because
832 on some installations iconv_open() is actually libiconv_open().
833 iconv_open() is the glibc version while libiconv_open() is the
834 libiconv version, now both variants are supported. (Closes bug #151)
835 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
836 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
837 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
838 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
839 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
840 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
841 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
842 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
843 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
844 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
845 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
846 The default is 0, "never".
847 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
848 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
849 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
850 - contrib/README: add description for more files.
851 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
852 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
853 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
854 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
855 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
856 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
857 - Exit message: use singular & plural :-)
858 - autogen.sh: Check for autoconf/automake wrapper scripts
859 - Add missing punctuation marks in log messages, adjust some severity
860 levels, and make SSL-related messages more readable.
861 - AUTHORS file: Update list of contributors.
862 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
863 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
864 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
865 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
866 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
867 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
868 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
869 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
870 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
871 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
873 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
875 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
876 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
877 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
878 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
880 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
882 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
883 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to crash the daemon
885 - WHO command: Use the currently "displayed hostname" (which can be cloaked!)
886 for hostname matching, not the real one. In other words: don't display all
887 the cloaked users on a specific real hostname!
888 - configure: The header file "netinet/in_systm.h" already is optional in
889 ngIRCd, so don't require it in the configure script. Now ngIRCd can be
890 built on Minix 3 again :-)
891 - Return better "Connection not registered as server link" errors: Now ngIRCd
892 returns a more specific error message for numeric ERR_NOTREGISTERED(451)
893 when a regular user tries to use a command that isn't allowed for users but
895 - Don't report ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) when a MDOE command with more modes
896 than nicknames is handled, as well as for channel limit and key changes
897 without specifying the limit or key parameters.
898 This is how a lot (all?) other IRC servers behave, including ircd2.11,
899 InspIRCd, and ircd-seven. And because of clients (tested with Textual and
900 mIRC) sending bogus MODE commands like "MODE -ooo nick", end-users got the
901 expected result as well as correct but misleading error messages ...
902 - Correctly detect when SSL subsystem must be initialized and take
903 outgoing connections (server links!) into account, too.
904 - autogen.sh: Enforce serial test harness on GNU automake >=1.13. The
905 new parallel test harness which is enabled by default starting with
906 automake 1.13 isn't compatible with our test suite.
907 And don't use "egrep -o", instead use "sed", because it isn't portable
908 and not available on OpenBSD, for example.
910 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
912 - Allow ERROR command on server and service links only, ignore them and
913 add a penalty time on all other link types.
914 - Enforced mode setting by IRC Operators: Only check the channel user
915 modes of the initiator if he is joined to the channel and not an IRC
916 operator enforcing modes (which requires the configuration option
917 "OperCanUseMode" to be enabled), because trying to check channel user
918 modes of a non-member results in an assertion when running with debug
919 code or could crash the daemon otherwise. This closes bug #147, thanks
920 to James Kirwill <james.kirwill@bk.ru> for tracking this down!
921 - Fix build system to cope with spaces in path names.
922 - Code cleanups, mostly to fix build warnings on Cygwin.
924 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
926 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
927 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
928 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
929 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
930 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
932 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
933 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
934 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
935 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
936 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
937 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
938 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
939 - RPL_UMODEIS: send correct target name, even on server links.
940 - Update platformtest.sh to follow autoconf changes and only generate
941 the "configure" script when it is missing.
942 - Fix the test suite to correctly execute test scripts even when stdout
944 - Fix some compiler warnings on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
946 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
947 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
948 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
949 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
950 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
951 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
952 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
953 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
954 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
955 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
956 - Fix error message when trying to join non-predefined channels and the
957 "PredefChannelsOnly" configuration option is set.
958 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
959 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
960 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
961 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
962 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
963 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
964 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
965 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
966 - Make server reconnect time a little bit more random, so that two
967 servers trying to connect to each other asynchronously don't try this
968 in exactly the same time periods and kick each other off ...
969 - Don't accept connections for servers already being linked: there was a
970 time frame that could result in one connection overwriting the other,
971 e. g. the incoming connection overwriting the status of the outgoing
972 one. And this could lead to all kind of weirdness (even crashes!) later
973 on: now such incoming connections are dropped.
974 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
975 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
976 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
977 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
978 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
979 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
980 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
981 - WHOIS: Not only show RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG to local IRC operators, but show
982 it to all IRC operators in the network. And don't show it to anybody if
983 the "more privacy" configuration option is enabled. (Closes #134)
984 - Test suite: make expect scripts more verbose displaying dots for each
985 reply of the server that it is waiting for.
986 - WHOIS: Implement numeric RPL_WHOISMODES_MSG (379) and show user modes in
987 the reply of the WHOIS command for the user himself or, if MorePrivacy
988 isn't set, for request initiated by an IRC operator. (Closes #129)
989 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
990 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
991 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
992 - KICK-protect IRC services.
993 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
994 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
995 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
996 - Debian: require "telnet" or "telnet-ssl" for building and enable
997 CHARCONV in ngircd-full[-dbg] variants.
998 - Send RPL_REHASHING (382) numeric if a REHASH command was accepted.
999 - Fix spelling and variable names in some log messages.
1000 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
1001 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
1002 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
1003 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
1004 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
1006 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
1007 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
1008 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
1009 patch. (Closes #135)
1010 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
1011 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
1012 configuration file. (Closes #136)
1013 - Enhance build system: Support new (>=1.12) and old (<=1.11) GNU automake
1014 versions, update checks for required and optional features, enable
1015 colored test output of automake (if available), rename configure.in to
1016 more modern configure.ac, include .mailmap and all build-system files in
1017 distribution archives and no longer require a GIT tree to detect the
1018 correct version string.
1019 - Update documentation: add doc/Contributing.txt and include version
1020 numbers in doc/Modes.txt.
1021 - Free all listen ports on initialization: now listen ports can be
1022 reconfigured on runtime using a configuration reload.
1023 - Initialize SSL when needed only, and disable SSL on errors.
1024 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
1025 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
1026 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
1027 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
1028 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
1029 - Allow limited punctuation in usernames, for better PAM integration.
1030 - Correctly re-initialize signal handlers on RESTART commands.
1031 - Show a warning on startup if the configuration file is not a full path:
1032 ngIRCd is a long-running process and changes its working directory to
1033 "/" to not block mounted filesystems and the like when running as daemon
1034 ("not in the foreground"); therefore the path to the configuration file
1035 must be relative to "/" (or the chroot() directory), which basically is
1036 "not relative", to ensure that "kill -HUP" and the "REHASH" command work
1037 as expected later on. (Closes #127)
1038 - Make the "&SERVER" channel definable in a [Channel] configuration block,
1039 which enables server operators to overwrite the built-in topic and
1040 channel modes. (Closes #131)
1041 - Don't limit list size of "WHO #channel" commands, because it makes no
1042 sense to not return all the users in that channel, so I removed the
1043 check. But if there are more than MAX_RPL_WHO(25) replies, the client
1044 requesting the list will be "penalized" one second more, then 2 in
1045 total. (Closes #125)
1046 - Make ngIRCd buildable using the kqueue() IO interface on FreeBSD 4.x.
1047 - Fix the "NoticeAuth" configuration option when using SSL connections and
1048 enhance the message to show the hostname and IDENT reply of the client.
1049 - Introduce numeric RPL_HOSTHIDDEN_MSG (396): This numeric is sent to the
1050 client each time it changes its displayed hostname using "MODE +/-x",
1051 and if "CloakHost" is set right after the MOTD has been sent.
1052 - Fix USERHOST not displaying the correctly cloaked hostname.
1053 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
1054 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
1055 behave, and so do we :-)
1056 - Dynamically allocate memory for connection passwords: This a) saves
1057 memory for clients not using passwords at all and b) allows for
1058 "arbitrarily" long passwords.
1059 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
1060 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
1061 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
1062 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
1063 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
1064 - Now "make uninstall" removes the installed "ngircd.conf" file, if it is
1065 still equal to our "sample-ngircd.conf" file and therefore hasn't been
1066 modified by the user. If it has been modified, it isn't removed and a
1067 notice is displayed to the user. And "make install" now displays a
1068 message when no ngircd.conf file exists and the "sample-ngircd.conf"
1069 file will be installed as a starting point.
1070 - Add contrib/ngircd.service, a systemd service file for ngircd.
1071 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
1072 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
1073 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
1074 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
1075 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
1076 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
1077 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
1078 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
1079 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
1080 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
1081 random salt will be generated after each server restart. (Closes #133)
1083 ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
1085 - doc/Capabilities.txt: document "multi-prefix" capability
1087 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
1088 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
1089 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
1090 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
1091 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
1092 - Correctly handle asynchronously re-established server links: a race
1093 condition could let the daemon loose track of an already re-established
1094 incoming server link while preparing its own outgoing connection.
1095 Peers that both try to connect each other could have been affected.
1096 - Log a debug message when SIGUSR2 is handled in debug mode.
1097 - Only allow alphanumeric characters in user-supplied user names of
1098 USER command and IDENT replies.
1099 - Change wording of "TLS initialized" message to make it more consistent.
1100 - Don't leak file descriptors on error path when creating "PID files".
1101 - Add missing mode "r" to CHANMODES in 005 "ISUPPORT" numeric.
1102 - Update doc/Modes.txt and doc/Platforms.txt documents.
1103 - contrib/platformtest.sh: correctly detect Open64 C compiler and handle
1104 "CC=xxx MAKE=yyy ./platformtest.sh" calling convention.
1105 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
1106 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
1107 and capability "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
1108 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
1109 - Update Xcode project files: reference missing documentation files.
1110 - Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot.
1111 - FAQ: enhance description of chroot setup.
1113 ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
1115 - Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL.
1116 - Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note",
1117 and fix lintian(1) warning ""hyphen-used-as-minus-sign", too.
1118 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
1119 distribution archive ... ooops!
1120 - getpid.sh: Fix test case error for Debian using sbuild(1).
1121 - Don't log "ngIRCd hello message" two times when starting up.
1123 ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
1125 - Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by
1126 GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions.
1127 - Fix configuration file parser: don't accept "[SSL]" blocks in the
1128 configuration file when no SSL support is built in ngIRCd.
1129 - Fix building ngIRCd with old gcc versions (e. g. 2.7.2).
1130 - Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration
1131 file: Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the
1132 configuration, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored
1133 the "SyslogFacility" configuration option ...
1134 Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue!
1136 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
1137 - Enhance command limits for server links: the limit now is dependent
1138 on the number of users connected in the network and higher while
1139 servers are joining the network to make the login of servers faster.
1140 - Log more information about server synchronization.
1141 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
1142 is the only supported version.
1143 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
1144 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
1145 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
1146 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
1147 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
1148 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
1149 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
1150 - PRIVMSG and NOTICE: Handle nick!user@host masks case-insensitive.
1151 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
1152 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
1153 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
1154 by completely unknown clients.
1155 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
1156 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
1157 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
1158 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
1159 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
1160 - Fix both ERR_SUMMONDISABLED(445) and ERR_USERSDISABLED(446) replies.
1161 - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for
1162 unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501).
1163 - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES",
1164 add "EXCEPTS=e" and "INVEX=I", add "MAXLIST=beI:50".
1165 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
1166 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
1167 - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive.
1168 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
1169 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
1170 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
1171 - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments.
1172 For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling
1173 "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f".
1174 - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of
1175 the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an
1176 assertion and end the daemon in some error paths.
1177 - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child
1178 processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases
1179 with IDENT lookups enabled.
1180 - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS,
1181 don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is
1182 case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the
1183 unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client).
1184 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
1185 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
1186 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
1187 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
1188 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
1189 - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variable in the
1190 configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user).
1191 - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-)
1192 - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single
1193 channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel
1194 limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check
1195 the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when
1196 trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of.
1197 - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nicknames.
1198 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
1199 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
1200 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
1201 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
1202 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
1203 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
1204 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
1205 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
1206 - Fixed some spelling errors in documentation and code comments
1207 (Thanks to Christoph Biedl).
1208 - contrib/Debian/control: Update and complete "Build-Depends" and
1209 update our Debian package descriptions with "official" ones.
1210 - Fixed typo in two error messages.
1211 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
1212 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
1213 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
1214 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
1215 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
1216 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
1217 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
1218 - README: Update list of implemented commands.
1219 - Log better error messages when rejecting clients.
1220 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
1221 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
1222 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
1223 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
1224 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
1225 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
1226 - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR
1227 for Mac OS X Xcode builds.
1228 - ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use
1229 poll() when poll.h exists as well.
1230 - Suppress 'Can't create pre-defined channel: invalid name: ""' message.
1231 - whois-test: handle local host name = "localhost.localdomain" using the
1232 pattern "localhost*" for valid local host names.
1233 - sample-ngircd.conf: show correct default for "PAM" variable: The
1234 default of "PAM" is "yes" when ngIRCd has been configured to use it,
1235 so show the correct default value in the sample configuration file.
1237 - Update GPL 2 license text to current version.
1238 - Only close "unrelated" sockets in forked child processes: This fixes
1239 the problem that ngIRCd can't do any IDENT lookups because of the
1240 socket has already been closed in the child process.
1241 The bug has been introduced starting with ngIRCd 17 ... :-(
1242 (commit ID 6ebb31ab35e)
1243 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
1244 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
1245 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
1246 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
1247 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
1248 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
1249 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
1250 - New 2nd message "Nickname too long" for error code 432.
1251 - Xcode: Mac OS X config.h: support 10.5 as well as 10.6/10.7 SDK.
1252 - Xcode: exclude more Xcode 4 specific directories in ".gitignore".
1253 - Disconnect directly linked servers sending QUIT. Without this,
1254 the server becomes removed from the network and the client list,
1255 but the connection isn't shut down at all ...
1256 - contrib/ngindent: detect "gindent" as GNU indent.
1257 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
1258 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
1259 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
1260 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
1261 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
1262 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
1263 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
1264 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
1265 - Correctly inform clients when other servers change their user modes.
1266 This is required for some services to work correctly.
1267 - Test suite: make getpid.sh work even when run as root.
1268 - Spoofed prefixes: close connection on non-server links only.
1269 On server-links, spoofed prefixes can happen because of the
1270 asynchronous nature of the IRC protocol. So don't break server-
1271 links, only log a message and ignore the command. (Closes #113)
1273 ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
1275 - Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page.
1276 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
1277 - Don't register WHOWAS information when "MorePrivacy" option is in effect.
1279 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
1280 - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-)
1281 - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section.
1282 - ngircd.8: document debugging options.
1283 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
1284 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
1285 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
1286 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
1288 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
1289 - PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
1290 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
1291 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
1292 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
1293 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
1294 servers from TOR or I2P.
1295 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
1296 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
1297 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
1298 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
1299 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
1300 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
1301 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
1302 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
1303 - Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest".
1304 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
1305 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
1306 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
1307 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
1308 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
1309 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
1310 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
1311 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
1312 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
1313 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
1314 - Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers.
1315 - GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients
1316 refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it
1317 would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
1318 current hardware ...
1319 - contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
1320 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
1321 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
1322 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
1323 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
1324 - Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links
1325 (often used by services, for example) are not affected.
1326 - Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-)
1327 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
1328 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
1329 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
1330 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
1331 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
1332 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
1333 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
1334 - Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
1335 like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
1336 - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This
1337 helps to speed up server login and network synchronization.
1338 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
1339 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
1340 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
1341 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
1342 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
1343 variable description.
1344 - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
1345 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
1346 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
1347 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
1348 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
1349 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
1350 supplied by the IRC client.
1351 - doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
1352 - Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
1353 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
1354 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
1355 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
1356 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
1357 - Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
1358 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
1359 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
1360 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
1361 - Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
1362 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
1363 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
1364 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
1365 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
1366 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
1367 - TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other
1368 servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when
1369 the client is not joined to this channel.
1370 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
1371 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
1372 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
1373 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
1374 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
1375 - Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
1376 ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
1377 - Don't throttle services and servers being registered.
1378 - Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
1379 - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is
1380 only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
1383 ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
1385 - --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase
1386 - Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit
1387 - Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly
1388 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
1389 - Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section
1390 - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section
1391 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
1392 - README: Updated list of implemented commands
1393 - add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball
1394 - Merge branch 'numeric-329'
1395 - add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball
1396 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
1397 - Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()
1399 ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
1401 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
1402 - Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf
1403 - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa
1404 - contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent
1406 ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27)
1407 - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updated project file
1408 to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it
1409 is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default
1410 PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd.
1411 - Debian: updated standards version to 3.9.1, added libpam0g-dev to the
1412 dependencies, and install a default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins.
1413 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable.
1414 - Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links.
1416 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
1417 - ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a.
1418 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
1419 - Make source code compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
1420 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
1421 - ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C.
1422 - ./configure: check support for C prototypes again.
1423 - Don't use PARAMS() macro for function implementations.
1424 - Added m68k/apple/aux3.0.1 (gcc 2.7.2) to doc/Platforms.txt.
1425 - Only try to set FD_CLOEXEC if this flag is defined.
1426 - Only use "__attribute__ ((unused))" if GCC >=2.8 is used.
1427 - doc/Makefile.am: don't set docdir, automake handles it already.
1429 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
1430 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
1431 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
1432 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
1433 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
1434 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
1435 Possible values are system dependent, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
1436 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
1437 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
1438 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
1439 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
1440 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
1441 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
1442 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
1443 using the command line parameters.
1444 - Signal handler: added new 'delayed' signal handlers, including fallback
1445 to deprecated sysv API. And removed global NGIRCd_SignalRehash variable.
1446 - IO: add io_cloexec() to set close-on-exec flag.
1447 - ng_ipaddr.h: include required assert.h header.
1448 - Conn_SyncServerStruct(): test all connections; and work case insensitive
1449 - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output.
1450 - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the
1451 client lag debug-output is working again.
1452 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
1453 - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
1454 - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
1455 - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
1456 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contents of the MOTD
1457 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
1458 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
1459 - Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon.
1460 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
1461 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
1462 - Added mailmap file for git-[short]log and git-blame.
1463 - Authenticated users should be registered without the "~" mark.
1464 - Set NoPAM=yes in configuration files used for the testsuite.
1465 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
1466 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
1467 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
1468 - Resolver: Implement signal handler and catch TERM signals.
1469 - Don't set a penalty time when doing DNS lookups.
1470 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
1471 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
1472 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
1473 - ngircd.init: require "$network" and "$remote_fs" when stopping ngircd.
1474 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
1475 - Include correct header files when testing for arpa/inet.h (Closes: #105).
1476 - Don't access already freed memory in IRC_KILL().
1477 - Fix "beeing" typo ...
1478 - SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message.
1480 ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
1482 - doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker
1484 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
1485 - Updated some more copyright notices, it's 2010 already :-)
1486 - Only compile in Get_Error() if really needed
1487 - Fix gcc warning "ignoring return value of ..."
1488 - Include netinet/in_systm.h alongside netinet/ip.h
1489 - Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h
1490 - Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists
1491 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt
1492 - Enhance connection statistics counters: display total number of served
1493 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
1494 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
1496 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
1497 - Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups.
1498 - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit.
1499 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
1500 how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA).
1501 - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list).
1502 - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define
1503 - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric
1504 - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output.
1505 - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable.
1506 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
1507 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
1508 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
1509 - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts".
1510 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
1511 - Only link "nsl" library when really needed.
1512 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
1513 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
1514 to join such a channel.
1515 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
1516 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
1517 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
1518 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
1520 ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
1522 - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset.
1524 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
1525 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
1526 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
1527 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (instead of the already
1528 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
1529 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
1530 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
1531 on the local server.
1532 - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0
1533 for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file.
1534 - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names.
1535 - Fix LSB header of Debian init script.
1536 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh
1537 to ease generating platform reports.
1538 - Fix connection information for already registered connections.
1539 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
1540 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
1541 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
1542 - Fix connection counter.
1543 - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections.
1544 - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.
1546 ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
1548 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
1549 - BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh.
1550 - New start/stop script for RedHat-based distributions:
1551 contrib/ngircd-redhat.init, thanks to Naoya Nakazawa <naoya@sanow.net>.
1552 - Doxygen: update source code repository link to GIT.
1553 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
1554 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
1555 - Fix error handling on compressed links.
1556 - Fix server list announcement.
1557 - Do not remove host names from info text.
1559 ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
1561 - Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections.
1563 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
1564 - Updated Debian/Linux init script (see contrib/Debian/ngircd.init).
1565 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
1566 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
1567 - Spell check and enhance ngIRCd manual pages.
1568 - Channel mode changes: break on syntax errors in MODE command.
1569 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
1570 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
1571 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
1572 individual channel keys for different users.
1573 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
1574 - Updated ngircd.spec file for building RPM packages.
1575 - Add new and missing files to Mac OS X Xcode project, and update project.
1576 - Reject masks with wildcard after last dot.
1577 - TLS/SSL: remove useless error message when ssl connection is closed.
1578 - Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down.
1579 (closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net)
1580 - Fix handling of channels containing dots.
1581 (closes bug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
1583 ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
1585 - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
1586 - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
1588 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
1589 - New version number scheme :-)
1590 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
1591 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
1592 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
1593 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
1594 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
1595 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
1596 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
1597 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
1598 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
1599 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
1600 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
1601 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
1602 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
1603 - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
1604 - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
1605 - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
1606 - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
1607 - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
1608 - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two
1609 servers are started for testing server-server linking.
1610 - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
1611 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
1612 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
1614 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
1616 - Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode
1617 - Don't allow stray \r or \n in command parameters
1618 - --configtest: return non-zero exit code if there are errors
1619 - Update ngIRCd manual pages
1620 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
1621 - Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error.
1622 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
1623 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
1624 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
1625 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
1626 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
1628 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
1630 - Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns
1631 proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran)
1632 - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
1633 - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number.
1635 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
1636 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
1637 - Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now!
1638 - Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT.
1639 - Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition.
1640 - Report ERR_NOTONCHANNEL when trying to part a channel one is not member of.
1641 - Testsuite: remove erroneous ConfUID setting in config file.
1643 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
1644 - Include Mac OS X Xcode project in distribution archives.
1645 - Do not exit on SIGHUP or /REHASH if the config file cannot opened.
1647 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
1648 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
1649 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1650 - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+).
1652 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
1653 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
1654 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
1655 - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1656 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
1657 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
1658 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1659 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
1661 ngIRCd 0.11.1 (2008-02-26)
1663 - Fix sending of JOIN commands between servers when remote server appended
1664 mode flags. (Rolf Eike Beer) [from HEAD]
1665 - Send "G" instead of "H" flag in WHO replies. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
1666 - Under some circumstances ngIRCd issued channel MODE message with a
1667 trailing space. (Dana Dahlstrom) [from HEAD]
1669 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
1671 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07)
1672 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
1673 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
1675 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
1676 - Use dotted-decimal IP address if host name is >= 64.
1677 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
1678 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
1679 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
1680 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
1681 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
1682 - Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
1683 enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
1684 See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
1685 - Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!?
1686 - Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced
1687 to the network as well as the wrong output of the LINKS command.
1688 - Update Mac OS X Xcode project file for Xcode 3.
1689 - Adjust test suite to be usable on HP/UX 11.11 :-)
1690 - Fix code to compile using K&R C compiler and ansi2kr again.
1691 - New config option NoDNS: Disables DNS lookups when clients connect.
1692 - Fixed propagation of channel mode 'P' on server links.
1693 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
1694 - Fixed code that prevented GCC 2.95 to compile ngIRCd.
1695 - Adjust path names in manual pages according to "./configure" settings.
1696 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
1697 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
1698 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
1699 - Don't connect to a server if a connection to another server within the
1700 same group is already in progress.
1701 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
1704 ngIRCd 0.10.4 (2008-01-07)
1706 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
1707 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
1709 ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01)
1711 - SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could
1712 cause the server to crash. Thanks to Sebastian Vesper, <net@veoson.net>.
1715 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
1717 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre2 (2007-05-19)
1718 - Server links are allowed to use larger write buffers now (up to 50 KB).
1720 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre1 (2007-05-05)
1721 - Fix compressed server links (broken since 0.10.0).
1722 - Predefined Channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
1723 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l).
1724 - When using epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
1725 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
1726 - New configure option "--without-select" to disable select() IO API
1727 (even when using epoll(), see above).
1728 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
1729 - Reorganized internal handling of invite and ban lists.
1731 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
1733 - Fixed validation of server names containing digits.
1734 - Update the "info text" of the local server after re-reading configuration.
1735 - Changed Numerics 265 and 266 to follow ircd 2.11.x "standards".
1736 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
1737 - Enhanced ISUPPORT message (005 numeric).
1738 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
1739 join predefined channels.
1740 - Code cleanups: use "LogDebug(...)" instead of "Log(LOG_DEBUG, ...)", use
1741 "strcspn()", unsigned vs. signed, use "const", fix whitespaces, ...
1743 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
1745 - Fixed file handle leak when daemon is not able to send MOTD to a client.
1747 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre2 (2006-09-09)
1748 - Fixed build problems with GCC option -fstack-protector.
1749 - Minor documentation updates.
1751 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
1752 - Validate "ServerName" (see RFC 2812, section 2.3.1).
1753 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
1754 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
1755 - The ngIRCd handles time shifts backwards more gracefully now (the
1756 timeout handling doesn't disconnect clients by mistake any more).
1757 - Internal: Restructured connection handling (the connection ID is equal
1758 to the file descriptor of the connection).
1759 - Internal: Simplified resolver code.
1760 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
1761 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
1762 - Enhanced the handler for PING and PONG commands: fix forwarding and enable
1763 back-passing of a client supplied additional argument of PING.
1764 - Changed handling of timeouts for unregistered connections: don't reset
1765 the counter if data is received and disconnect clients earlier.
1766 - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead.
1767 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
1768 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
1769 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
1770 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
1771 lookup to prevent spoofing.
1772 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
1773 addition to the select() interface.
1775 ngIRCd 0.9.2 (2005-10-15)
1777 - Fixed a bug that could cause the daemon to crash when outgoing server
1778 connections can't be established.
1779 - Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to leak file descriptors when no
1780 resolver subprocesses could be created.
1781 - Fixed server NOTICEs to users with "s" mode ("server messages").
1782 - Fixed a format string bug in "connection statistics" messages to clients.
1784 ngIRCd 0.9.1 (2005-08-03)
1786 - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!)
1787 when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in
1788 ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by <qssl@fastmail.fm>, Thanks!
1789 - Changed some constants to be "signed" (instead of unsigned) to solve
1790 problems with old (pre-ANSI) compilers.
1792 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
1794 ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09)
1795 - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters.
1796 - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead
1797 of shutting down the (wrong) connection.
1798 - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the
1799 client is registered with the server (like the original ircd).
1800 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
1801 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
1802 - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client
1803 is member of multiple channels.
1804 - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and
1805 pray that this will be "the right thing" ...
1806 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
1807 - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug.
1808 - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
1809 - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
1810 to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
1811 - Removed typedefs for the native C data types.
1812 Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available.
1813 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
1814 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
1815 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
1816 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1817 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
1818 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
1819 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
1820 - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug
1821 code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process.
1822 - Don't create version information string each time a client connects
1823 but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
1824 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
1825 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
1826 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1827 - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1828 - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters.
1829 - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc()
1830 failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway.
1831 Patch from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1832 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
1833 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
1834 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
1835 - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and
1836 most probably other older C compilers on other systems.
1837 - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in
1838 the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it
1839 changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This
1840 should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
1843 ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03)
1845 - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled
1846 to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
1847 <coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
1848 (CVE-2005-0226; http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
1850 ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
1852 - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution.
1853 - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found
1854 by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. (CVE-2005-0199)
1855 - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks
1856 to Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1857 - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by
1858 Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1859 - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has
1860 been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/
1861 It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself,
1862 not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1864 ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25)
1866 - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub
1867 - Added some more debug code ...
1868 - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest".
1869 - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for
1870 ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after
1872 - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README!
1874 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
1876 - Fixed wrong buffer size calculation for results of the resolver.
1878 ngircd 0.8.0-pre2 (2004-05-16)
1879 - Enhanced logging to console when running in "no-detached mode": added
1880 PID and log messages of resolver sub-processes.
1881 - Fixed host name lookups when using IDENT user lookups.
1882 - "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean" remove more files now.
1884 ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07)
1885 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
1886 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
1887 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
1888 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
1889 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
1890 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
1891 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
1892 - Reorganized autogen.sh and configure scripts.
1893 - Fixed a wrong assert() which could cause the daemon to exit spuriously
1894 when closing down connections.
1895 - Better logging of decompression errors returned by zlib.
1896 - Servers other than the destination server didn't clean up the invite
1897 list of an "invite-only" channel properly when an INVITE'd user joined.
1898 - Changed the reply of the MODE command to match the syntax of the
1899 original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last
1900 parameter has been added.
1901 - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info.
1902 - Results of the resolver (host names and IDENT names) are discarded after
1903 the client is successfully registered with the server.
1904 - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections.
1905 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
1906 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
1907 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
1908 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
1909 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
1911 ngIRCd 0.7.7 (2004-02-05)
1913 - The info text ("real name") of users is set to "-" if none has been
1914 specified using the USER command (e. g. "USER user * * :"). Reason:
1915 the original ircd doesn't like empty ones and would KILL such users.
1916 - Fixed (optional) TCP Wrapper test which was broken and could result in
1917 false results. Thanks to Fuminori Tanizaki <tany@mcnet.ad.jp>!
1918 - Removed "USE_" prefixes of configuration #defines.
1920 ngIRCd 0.7.6 (2003-12-05)
1922 - Fixed abort() ("server crash") when INVITE'ing users to nonexistent
1923 channels. Bug found by <hiddenx@wp.pl>.
1924 - Extended version numbering of CVS versions (added date).
1925 - Enhanced/fixed doc/Protocol.txt;
1927 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-11-07)
1929 - Fixed ban behavior: users which are banned from a channel can't no
1930 longer send PRIVMSG's to this channel (fixes Bug #47).
1931 - Fixed and enhanced the "penalty handling" of the server: commands that
1932 require more resources block the client for a short time.
1933 - Changed the internal time resolution to one second.
1934 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
1935 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
1936 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
1937 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
1938 - Fixed build problems under Mac OS X 10.3.
1939 - Use "-pipe" when compiling with gcc, speeds things up a little :-)
1940 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
1941 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
1942 - Suppress misleading error message of diff during make run.
1943 - Enhanced test-suite and made it work on GNU/Hurd.
1944 - Fixed minor typo in debug output :-)
1946 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
1948 - Included files to build Debian packages (located in "debian/").
1949 - Updated config.guess and config.sub to newer upstream versions.
1950 - NJOIN propagates user channel modes correctly again ... Upsa.
1951 - Made Makefile more compatible with "make -j<n>".
1952 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
1953 - Fixed a compiler warning related to an unnecessary assert().
1954 - Enhanced VERSION command when using debug versions.
1956 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
1958 - "ServerName" is checked better now: a dot (".") is required.
1959 - The KILL command verifies and logs more parameters.
1961 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre2 (2003-04-27)
1962 - CVS build system fixes (made autogen.sh more portable).
1963 - Fixed compilation and test-suite on Solaris (tested with 2.6).
1964 - New documentation file "doc/Platforms.txt" describing the status of
1965 ngIRCd on the various tested platforms.
1966 - Test for broken GCC on Mac OS X and disable "-pedantic" in this case.
1967 - Disable "-ansi" on Cygwin: system headers are incompatible.
1968 - The server tried to connect to other servers only once when DNS or
1969 socket failures occurred.
1970 - Fixed --configtest: There is no variable "ServerPwd", it's "Password".
1972 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 (2003-04-22)
1973 - New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside).
1974 - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled.
1975 - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the
1976 more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems
1977 that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included
1978 in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h).
1979 - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that
1980 can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken.
1981 - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-)
1982 - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and
1983 removing servers during runtime works more reliable now.
1984 - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]"
1985 - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]".
1986 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
1987 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
1988 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
1989 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
1990 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
1991 - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The
1992 German documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
1993 - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision.
1994 - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding.
1995 - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool".
1996 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
1997 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
1998 - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS)
1999 if an outgoing server link can't be established.
2000 - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility.
2001 - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly.
2002 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
2003 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
2004 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
2005 configure to enable it.
2006 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
2007 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
2008 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
2009 - Better error reporting to clients on connect.
2010 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
2011 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
2012 - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
2014 ngIRCd 0.6.1 (2003-01-21)
2016 - Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more,
2017 ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you
2018 can kill only valid users now.
2019 - The server no longer forwards commands to ordinary users, instead it
2020 answers with the correct error message ("no such server") now.
2021 - WHOIS commands weren't always forwarded as requested.
2022 - The server sets a correct default AWAY message now when propagating
2023 between servers (bug introduced in 0.6.0).
2024 - Fixed up and enhanced CHANINFO command: channel keys and user limits
2025 are synchronized between servers now, too.
2026 - MODE returns the key and user limit for channel members correctly now.
2027 - Non-members of a channel could crash the server when trying to change
2028 its modes or modes of its members.
2029 - The server didn't validate weather a target user is a valid channel
2030 member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd.
2033 Older changes (sorry, only available in German language):
2035 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
2037 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 23.12.2002
2038 - neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect.
2039 - LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen
2040 Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start
2041 dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt.
2043 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 18.12.2002
2044 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
2045 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
2046 - der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den
2047 Resolver (4 Sekunden), wenn das Ergebnis eintrifft setzt er aber den
2048 Login sofort fort (bisher wurde immer mind. 1 Sekunde gewartet).
2049 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
2050 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
2051 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sektion "Global")
2052 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
2053 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
2054 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
2055 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
2056 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
2057 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
2058 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
2059 - Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst.
2060 - unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
2061 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
2062 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
2063 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
2064 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
2065 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
2066 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
2067 - Channel-Mode "P" ("persistent") kann nur noch von IRC-Operatoren gesetzt
2068 werden. Grund: User koennen den Server sonst leicht "Channel-Flooden".
2069 - MOTD kann nun an andere Server geforwarded werden.
2070 - IRC-Befehl "TIME" implementiert.
2071 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
2072 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
2073 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
2074 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
2075 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
2076 - Handling der Schreibpuffer umgestellt: Server sollte schneller arbeiten.
2077 - Prefix-Fehler werden besser protokolliert (mit verursachendem Befehl).
2078 - SQUIT wird nicht mehr doppelt an andere Server weitergeleitet.
2079 - Der Server versucht nun vor dem Schliessen einer Verbindung Daten, die
2080 noch im Schreibpuffer stehen, zu senden.
2081 - Source in weiteres Modul "irc-info" aufgespalten.
2082 - Konfigurationsvariablen werden besser validiert: Laengen, Zahlen, ...
2083 - neuen Befehl STATS begonnen: bisher unterstuetzt wird "l" und "m".
2084 - bei ISON und USERHOST fehlte im Ergebnis-String der korrekte Absender.
2085 - IRC Operatoren koennen nun mit KILL User toeten. Achtung: ein Grund muss
2086 zwingend als zweiter Parameter angegeben werden!
2087 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
2088 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
2089 - neuer, deutlich flexiblerer Parser fuer den MODE Befehl.
2090 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
2092 ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002
2094 - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
2095 unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden.
2096 - in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht
2097 nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe
2098 verwendet werden. Beim Start des Daemons wird nun beides angezeigt.
2099 - Besseres Logging von Prefix-Fehlern.
2100 - angenommene Sockets werden nun korrekt auf "non-blocking" konfiguriert,
2101 beim Senden und Empfangen werden Blockierungen besser abgefangen.
2102 - RPL_UMODEIS hat Code 221, nicht 211 ... *argl*
2103 - select() in Try_Write() hat falschen (keinen!) Timeout verwendet;
2104 die "Zeit-Aufloesung" des Servers sind zudem nun 2 Sekunden (TIME_RES).
2105 Insgesamt sollte die Reaktionszeit des Server nun besser sein.
2107 ngIRCd 0.5.3, 08.11.2002
2109 - NOTICE liefert nun wirklich nie mehr einen Fehler, auch dann nicht,
2110 wenn der sendende Client noch gar nicht registriert ist.
2111 - ein "schneller Server-Reconnect" wird nur noch dann versucht, wenn die
2112 Verbindung zuvor ordentlich (="lange genug") in Ordnung war; somit also
2113 nicht meht, wenn der Peer-Server gleich beim Connect ein ERROR liefert.
2114 Das vermeidet "Connect-Orgien".
2115 - einige Datentypen aufgeraumt: z.B. sind viele INT32s nun LONGs. Das ist
2116 auf Platformen mit 8-Byte-Integern kompatibler.
2117 - RPL_YOURHOST_MSG ist nun ircII- und RFC-kompatibel ;-)
2118 - Segfault unter hoher Netzaktivitaet behoben: in Conn_Close() wird die
2119 Connection-Struktur nun frueher als "ungueltig" markiert.
2121 ngIRCd 0.5.2, 04.10.2002
2123 - Buffer Overflow in Read_Resolver_Result() behoben.
2124 - Format-String-Bugs, die zum Abbruch des Servers fuehrten, behoben.
2125 - Maximale Laenge eines IRC-Prefix wurde falsch berechnet.
2127 ngIRCd 0.5.1, 03.10.2002
2129 - in RPL_YOURHOST_MSG wurde ein fehlerhafter Versionsstring geliefert.
2130 - Test-Suite: start-server.sh, stop-server.sh und stress-server.sh koennen
2131 nun "manuell" von der Kommandozeile gestartet werden, stress-server.sh
2132 startet per Default nur noch 5 Sessions, eine andere Zahl kann auf der
2133 Kommandozeile uebergeben werden (Syntax: "stress-server.sh <count>").
2134 - In bestimmten Faellen hat der Server versucht auf einen bereits wieder
2135 geschlossenen Socket Daten zu schreiben; das fuehrte zu einem Abbruch des
2136 Servers durch ein assert(). Nun wird geprueft, ob der Socket noch ok ist.
2137 - im "contrib"-Verzeichnis befindet sich nun eine RPM-Spec-Datei, aus den
2138 .tar.gz's koennen nun mit "rpm -ta <archiv>" RPM's erzeugt werden. Danke
2139 an Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>!
2140 - Syntax von RPL_MYINFO_MSG korrigiert: liefert nun vier Parameter.
2142 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
2144 - Dokumentation aktualisiert.
2145 - Fehler bei Validierung von "AdminInfo2" behoben.
2146 - Test der Flags fuer "ps" in der Testsuite verbessert, ist nun zu mehr
2147 Plattformen kompatibler.
2149 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre2, 17.09.2002
2150 - Fix in IRC_WriteStrServersPrefix() war "badly broken" -- behoben.
2152 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre1, 16.09.2002
2153 - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen.
2154 - Wird der Netzwerk-Sniffer aktiviert (--sniffer), so schaltet der
2155 ngIRCd nun automatisch in den Debug-Modus.
2156 - auf Systemen, die inet_aton() nicht kennen (wie z.B. A/UX), kann der
2157 ngIRCd nun dennoch auch aktiv Server-Links aufbauen.
2158 - h_errno wird auf Systemen, die das nicht kennen (wie z.B. HP-UX 10.20)
2159 nicht mehr verwendet. Somit compiliert der ngIRCd nun auch dort :-)
2160 - um auf dem Ziel-System nicht vorhandene Funktionen nachzubilden wird nun
2161 die "libngportab" erzeugt; genutzt wird dies bisher fuer vsnprintf().
2162 Nun compiliert der ngIRCd auch unter Solaris 2.5.1.
2163 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
2164 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
2165 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
2166 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. Zu Channel-Operatoren werden bisher
2167 nur IRC-Operatoren, die den Channel betreten. Die persistenten Channels
2168 werden durch das Flag "P" gelennzeichnet, welches normal durch Channel-
2169 Op's gesetzt und geloescht werden kann.
2170 - bei "--configtest" werden keine leere Abschnitte mehr ausgegeben.
2171 - Source in weitere Module aufgespalten: lists, irc-op und resolve.
2172 - #include's aufgeraeumt: Header includieren keine anderen mehr.
2173 - KICK implementiert (bisher kann nur ein User aus einem Channel geckicked
2174 werden, Listen, wir im RFC vorgesehen, werden bisher nicht unterstuetzt).
2175 - INVITE, den Channel-Mode "i" sowie Invite-Lists ueber den MODE-Befehl
2176 (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
2177 - Source an ansi2knr fuer pre-ANSI-Compiler angepasst; ansi2knr in Source-
2178 Tree aufgenommen und in Build-System integriert; der ngIRCd compiliert
2179 nun z.B. unter A/UX mit dem nativen Compiler von Apple.
2180 - TOPIC lieferte bei unbekanntem Channel einen falschen Fehlercode.
2181 - LIST versteht nun Wildcards und kann an andere Server geforwarded werden.
2182 - wurde ein KILL fuer nicht-lokale Clients empfangen, so wurden die
2183 Verwaltungs-Strukturen nicht korrekt freigegeben.
2184 - empfangene NJOIN's wurden "zerhackt" an andere Server weitergegeben.
2185 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
2186 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
2187 - Dokumentation des neuen IRC+-Protokolls begonnen: doc/Protocol.txt
2188 - Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt;
2189 bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet.
2190 Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben.
2191 - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
2192 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics.
2193 - neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das
2194 IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert).
2195 - Ban-Lists (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
2196 - wird der Server mit "-n"/"--nodaemon" gestartet, so werden keine Mel-
2197 dungen mehr ueber Syslog ausgegeben, sondern nur noch auf der Konsole.
2198 - "Test-Suite" begonnen (in "make check" integriert): Dabei wird ein
2199 speziell konfigurierter Server auf Port 6789 gestartet, mit dem dann
2200 einige Tests durchgefuehrt werden (u.a. "Stress-Test" mit 50 Clients).
2201 - zu lange Operator-Namen in der Konfiguration wurden falsch gekuerzt.
2202 - kleine Anpassung an AIX 3.2.5: nun laeuft der ngIRCd auch dort :-)
2203 - ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei
2204 im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und
2205 "AdminEMail" konfiguriert.
2207 ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002
2209 - Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel
2210 ueberhaupt ein User ist. War es keiner, so fuehrte dies zu einem
2211 Abbruch des Servers [es wurde assert() aufgerufen].
2213 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
2215 - LUSERS verzaehlt sich bei eigenen Server-Links nicht mehr.
2216 - QUIT wird nun auch von noch nicht registrierten Clients akzeptiert.
2217 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
2218 Wildcards (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
2220 ngIRCd 0.4.1, 08.04.2002
2222 - Bei Server-Links wird nicht mehr an Hand der Anzahl der Parameter
2223 eines empfangenen SERVER-Befehls, sondern "intern" erkannt, ob es
2224 sich um eine ein- oder ausgehende Verbindung handelt und somit das
2225 eigene PASS-SERVER-Paar gesendet werden muss oder nicht. Da sich
2226 verschiedene Versionen des Original-ircd's anders verhalten, schlug
2227 die Anmeldung je nach Gehenseite evtl. fehl.
2228 - Bei einem NICK-Befehl eines lokalen Client konnte der Server ab-
2229 stuerzen, da ein Format-String einer Log-Meldung fehlerhaft war.
2231 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
2233 - IRC-Befehle nochmal auf weitere Source-Dateien aufgespalten.
2234 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
2235 - Der AWAY-Mode wurde nicht ueber mehrere Server-Links weitergegeben.
2236 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err).
2237 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
2238 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
2239 zusaetzliche Informationen.
2240 - In Nicknames wird das Zeichen "-" nun als zulaessig erkannt.
2241 - die Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei (doc/sample-ngircd.conf) wird als
2242 ngircd.conf installiert, wenn noch keine "echte" Konfigurationsdatei
2244 - bei WHO, WHOIS und NAMES wird nun nur noch der Status "Operator" oder
2245 "voiced" geliefert -- nicht mehr beides.
2246 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
2247 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
2248 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert (Variable "Group" in der Kon-
2249 figurationsdatei, Sektion [Server]).
2250 - IRC_PING() ist, wenn nicht im "strict RFC"-Mode, toleranter und ak-
2251 zeptiert beliebig viele Parameter (z.B. BitchX sendet soetwas).
2252 - die "Portab-Header" werden nicht mehr benoetigt, die System-Erkennung
2253 wird nun ausschliesslich vom configure-Script durchgefuehrt. System-
2254 abhaengige Definitionen finden sich nun unter src/portrab/.
2255 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
2256 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
2257 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
2258 gelesen und dann die verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
2259 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
2260 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
2261 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
2262 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
2263 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
2264 - URL der Homepage wird u.a. bei "--version" mit angezeigt.
2266 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
2268 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
2269 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
2270 - FAQ um Hinweise auf den Bugtracker erweitert.
2271 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
2272 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
2273 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
2274 - direkt nach dem Start schreibt der ngIRCd nun die aktiven Kommando-
2275 zeilenschalter in's Logfile (Passive, Debug, Sniffer ...).
2276 - das Signal-Flag SA_RESTART wird nur noch gesetzt, wenn es auf dem
2277 jeweiligen System auch definiert ist.
2278 - bei ausgehenden Verbindungen wird nun der Ziel-Port protokolliert.
2279 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert.
2280 - make-Target "check" (und "distcheck") mit Sinn erfuellt :-)
2281 (die Tests sind aber bisher nicht all zu tiefgehend ...)
2282 - Durch einen Ueberlauf konnte die Idle-Time bei WHOIS negativ werden ...
2283 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
2284 - WHOIS wird nicht mehr automatisch an den "Original-Server" weiterge-
2285 leitet: war eh nicht RFC-konform und machte mit Clients Probleme.
2286 - an User wird nun immer ein "komplettes" Prefix (mit Host-Mask) ver-
2287 schickt, Server bekommen nach wie vor kurze: das "Original" hat bei
2288 bestimmten Befehlen (PRIVMSG) ansonsten evtl. Probleme ...
2289 - NAMES korrigiert und vollstaendig implementiert.
2290 - SQUIT wird auf jeden Fall geforwarded, zudem besseres Logging.
2291 - Ist ein Nick bei der User-Registrierung bereits belegt, nimmt der
2292 Server nun korrekt weitere NICK-Befehle an und verwendet diese.
2293 - PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m".
2294 - AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst.
2295 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
2296 - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asynchron connectiert und
2297 blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht
2298 erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!).
2299 - Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet.
2300 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
2302 ngIRCd 0.2.1, 17.02.2002
2304 - NICK korrigiert: es werden nun auch alle "betroffenen" User informiert.
2305 - configure-Script erweitert, u.a. bessere Anpassung an BeOS: dort wird
2306 nun die "libbe" zum ngIRCd gelinkt, somit funktioniert auch syslog.
2307 - Fehlerhafte bzw. noch nicht verstandene Modes werden nun ausfuehrlicher
2308 an den Client geliefert.
2310 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
2312 - Nicknames und Channel-Namen werden etwas besser auf Gueltigkeit ueber-
2313 prueft; ist aber nach wie vor noch nicht ausreichend.
2314 - NJOINS von Servern wurden nicht an andere Server weitergeleitet.
2315 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
2316 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
2317 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
2318 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
2319 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
2320 - Benutzer von connectierenden Servern wurden nicht in den Channels ange-
2321 kuendigt, es wurden nur die internen Strukturen angepasst.
2322 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
2324 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
2326 - User-Modes bei User-Registrierungen von andere Servern (NICK-Befehl)
2327 wurden falsch uebernommen. Zudem wurden die Modes falsch gekuerzt.
2328 - Server-Verbindungen werden nun nach dem Start erst nach einer kurzen
2329 Pause aufgebaut (zur Zeit drei Sekunden).
2330 - Hilfetext korrigiert: --help und --version waren vertauscht, die
2331 Option --sniffer wurde gar nicht erwaehnt.
2332 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
2333 - der IRC-Sniffer wird nur noch aktiviert, wenn die Option auf der
2334 Kommandozeile angegeben wurde (bei entsprechend compiliertem Server).
2335 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
2336 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
2337 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
2338 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
2339 - durch die Channels einige Aenderungen an PRIVMSG, WHOIS, MODE etc.
2340 - neu connectierenden Servern werden nun Channels mit NJOIN angekuendigt.
2341 - Signal-Hander geaendert: die Fehlermeldung "interrupted system call"
2342 sollte so nicht mehr auftreten.
2343 - "spaeter" neu connectierende Server werden nun im Netz angekuendigt.
2344 - SERVER-Meldungen an andere Server sind nun korrekt sortiert.
2345 - Clients werden nun korrekt sowohl nur ueber den Nickname als auch die
2346 komplette "Host Mask" erkannt.
2348 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
2350 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
2351 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
2352 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
2353 - MODE und NICK melden nun die Aenderungen an andere Server, ebenso
2354 die Befehle QUIT und SQUIT.
2355 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
2356 - Parses handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
2357 - Status-Codes an den Server selber werden ignorier.
2358 - Log-Meldungen und Log-Level ueberarbeitet und korrigiert.
2359 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
2360 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
2361 - WHOIS korrigiert: Anfrage wurde u.U. an User geforwarded anstatt vom
2362 Server beantwortet zu werden.
2363 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS
2364 - Client-Modes von Remote-Servern wurden nicht korrekt uerbernommen.
2366 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
2368 - Struktur der Konfigurationsdatei geaendert: sie ist nun "Samba like",
2369 d.h. sie besteht aus Abschnitten (siehe "doc/sample-ngircd.conf").
2370 - Es koennen mehrere IRC-Server-Opertatoren konfiguriert werden.
2371 - Zombies der Resolver-Prozesse werden nun ordentlich "getoetet".
2372 - NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern.
2373 - ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar.
2374 - neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT.
2375 - Asynchroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
2376 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
2377 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige
2378 Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert
2379 aber bereits, ebenso wie WHOIS (letzterer wird immer an den Server,
2380 auf dem der User registriert ist, weitergegeben).
2381 - "arpa/inet.h" wird nur noch includiert, wenn vorhanden.
2382 - Fehler bei select() fuerhen nun zum Abbruch von ngIRCd, bisher landete
2383 der Server zumeist in einer Endlosschleife.
2384 - Logmeldungen und Level an vielen Stellen verbessert.
2385 - lokalen Usernamen wird nun ein "~" vorangestellt, da bisher noch keine
2386 Ident-Anfragen gemacht werden.
2388 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
2390 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)