2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2015 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
12 ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
14 - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
15 ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
16 Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
18 ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
19 - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
20 lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
21 nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
22 Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
23 - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
24 - Correctly check that a server has a valid hostname and port, thanks to
25 David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com> who reported this bug.
26 - Fix the function which generates complete "IRC masks" from user input,
27 don't destroy the source buffer and use all provided parts (nick, user,
28 host name). This fixes GLINEs/KLINEs from not working in some situations.
29 - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
30 that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
31 this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
32 if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
33 - Debian: Don't adjust path names that are correct by default and correctly
35 - Update config.guess and config.sub to recent versions.
36 - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
37 - doc/Bopm.txt: Update "connregex" and "kline" for current ngIRCd.
38 - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
39 settable by IRC Operators.
40 - Spoofed prefixes: Really kill connection on non-server links.
41 - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
42 "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
43 settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
44 careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
45 User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
46 - Handle "throttling" in a single function: ngIRCd implements "command
47 throttling" and "bps throttling" (bytes per second). The states are
48 detected in different functions, Conn_Handler() and Read_Request(), but
49 handle the actual "throttling" in a common function: this enables us to
50 guarantee consistent behavior and to disable throttling for special
51 connections in only one place
52 - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
53 - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
54 - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
55 Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
56 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
57 on "VPATH builds", for example.
58 - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
59 and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
60 - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
61 using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
62 names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
63 is quite unexpected for users.
64 - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
65 allow using separate source and build trees.
66 - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
67 - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
69 - Update configure.ng: ngIRCd requires GNU autoconf 2.61 for generating its
70 build system, so update the build system accordingly and implement all
71 changes that autoupdate(1) suggests: Update AC_PREREQ and AC_INIT, use
72 AC_LINK_IFELSE, AC_RUN_IFELSE, and AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, and remove
73 AC_TYPE_SIGNAL (we don't use RETSIGTYPE).
74 - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
75 and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
76 useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
77 been linked at all ...).
78 - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
79 (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
80 daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
81 which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
82 - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
83 - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
84 Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
85 return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
86 DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
87 - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
90 ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
92 - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
93 disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
94 - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
95 - Really kill connections that send "spoofed prefixes" on non-server links.
96 This fixes commit 6cbe1308 which only killed the connection when the
97 spoofed prefix itself belonged to a non-server client.
98 - CHARCONV command: Fix handling conversion errors, don't overwrite already
100 - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
101 - Correctly use cloaked IRC masks on "INVITE nickname": The cloaked IRC mask
102 of a user is his visible mask, so the daemon has to use it for generating
103 the "one time" entries for the invite list of the given channel, and not
104 the "real" mask which will never match while the target client is "+x", and
105 even worse, will disclose the real mask on "MODE #channel +I" commands :-/
106 Bug reported by Cahata on #ngircd, thanks!
107 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists. This isn't the case on
108 "VPATH builds", for example.
109 - Use $(MKDIR_P) instead of $(mkinstalldirs) in Makefile's and test for
110 "mkdir -p" using AC_PROG_MKDIR_P in "configure".
111 - Fix configure script and "make check" for TCP Wrappers (problems spotted on
112 OpenBSD): add missing #include's and static variables, and add libwrap at
113 the end of the configure run because if libwrap becomes added earlier,
114 other tests may fail.
115 - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
116 linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
117 been implemented already).
118 - platformtest.sh and Makefile.am: Don't use "test -e", it isn't portable.
119 - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
120 - Fix permanent {G|K}LINES (with a timeout of 0 seconds).
121 - WEBIRC: Don't set the hostname received by the WEBIRC command when DNS
122 lookups are disabled, but use the IP address instead.
123 Reported by Toni Spets <toni.spets@iki.fi>, thanks!
124 - Check for working getaddrinfo() function: At least AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1 have a
125 broken implementation of getaddrinfo() which doesn't handle "0" as numeric
126 service correctly. This patch adds a configure check for this case and
127 changes all calling functions to only use getaddrinfo() if it "works".
128 See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/lists/heimdal-discuss/2004-05/msg00059.html>
129 - Only use the unsetenv() function when it is available (AIX 4.3 doesn't
130 support it, for example).
131 - Make sure that the source code is still compatible with the "ansi2knr" tool
132 and builds using non-ANSI K&R C compilers. Tested with Apple C on A/UX.
133 - Fix building ngIRCd without support for ZLIB compression. Reported by
134 "der_baer" on #ngircd, thanks!
136 ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
138 - ./contrib/Debian/ngircd.init: Make sure no stale PID file is left over
139 when (re-)starting ngIRCd.
140 - Change ./contrib/platformtest.sh and update ./doc/Platforms.txt to
141 allow user names up to 8 characters.
142 - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
143 is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
144 initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
145 - Update our own Debian package configuration and fix the default path
146 of the "HelpFile" of the "full" package variants.
148 ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
149 - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
150 support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
151 - Use arc4random() function to generate "random" numbers, when available.
152 - platformtest.sh: Detect clang compiler, and clean up GIT source tree
153 before building (when possible).
154 - Update (date of) manual pages.
155 - Update "Upgrade Information" in INSTALL file, add more systems to
156 doc/Platforms.txt, and fix spelling in NEWS and ChangeLog files =:)
157 - Fix remaining compiler warnings on OpenBSD.
159 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
160 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
161 - Adjust log messages for invalid and spoofed prefixes, which cleans up
162 logging of commands related to already KILL'ed clients. And don't
163 forward KILL commands for (already) unknown clients any more to prevent
164 unnecessary duplicates.
165 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
166 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
167 - Fixed blocking of server reconnects in some error configurations.
168 - Don't ignore SSL-related errors during startup any more: abort startup
169 when SSL is requested by the configuration but can't be initialized and
170 don't continue only listening on plain text communication ports.
172 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
173 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
174 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
175 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
176 - Fix "TRACE": Correctly return ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) (which basically
177 is "syntax error") when there are too many parameters.
178 - Clean up lots of permission and parameter checks in functions handling
179 IRC commands; and more consistently add penalty times on errors.
180 - Fix error numeric of WHOIS when no nick name has been provided:
181 as per RFC it should be ERR_NONICKNAMEGIVEN(431).
182 - Only log "IDENT ... no result" messages when an IDENT looked took place
183 and didn't return any data, not when IDENT has been disabled.
184 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
185 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
186 the IRC "TRACE" command.
187 - Correctly discard supplementary groups on server startup.
188 - Save client IP address text for "WebIRC" users and correctly display
189 it on WHOIS, for example. (Closes bug #159)
190 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
191 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
192 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
193 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
194 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
195 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
196 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
197 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
199 - Enforce "penalty times" on error conditions more consistently and in
200 more places. Now most error codes sent back from the IRC server to the
201 client should result in a 2 second "penalty".
202 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
203 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
204 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
205 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
206 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
207 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
208 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
209 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
210 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
211 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
212 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
213 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
214 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
215 - IRC Operator names, as defined in ngircd.conf, are logged now when
216 handling successful OPER commands.
217 - Some error conditions while handling IRC commands, like "permission
218 denied" or "need more parameters", result in more penalty times.
219 - The numeric replies of some commands became split too early which
220 resulted in more numeric reply lines than necessary.
221 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
222 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
223 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
224 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
225 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
226 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
227 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
228 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
229 - Fix use-after-free in the Lists_CheckReason() function, which is used
230 to check if a client is a member of a particular ban/invite/... list.
231 - Xcode: fix detection of host OS, vendor, and CPU type, and update
232 project settings for Xcode 5.
233 - OS X PackageMaker: use relative path names in project files and package
234 with correct file permissions (requires root privileges on "make").
235 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
236 - Look for possible cloaked Masks in Lists. Users with +x user mode can
237 be banned with their cloaked hostname now.
238 - Don't read SSL client data before DNS resolver is finished which could
239 have resulted in discarding the resolved client hostname and IDENT
240 reply afterwards, because in some situations (timing dependent) the
241 NICK and USER commands could have already been read in from the client,
242 stored in the buffer, and been processed.
243 Thanks to Julian Brost for reporting the issue and testing, and to
244 Federico G. Schwindt <fgsch@lodoss.net> for helping to debug it!
245 - Increase password length limit to 64 characters. (Closes bug #154)
246 - doc/Services.txt: Update Anope status and URL.
247 - Clean up Xcode project file, remove outdated files, add missing ones.
248 - Update Doxygen configuration file.
249 - configure: search for iconv_open as well as libiconv_open, because
250 on some installations iconv_open() is actually libiconv_open().
251 iconv_open() is the glibc version while libiconv_open() is the
252 libiconv version, now both variants are supported. (Closes bug #151)
253 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
254 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
255 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
256 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
257 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
258 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
259 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
260 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
261 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
262 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
263 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
264 The default is 0, "never".
265 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
266 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
267 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
268 - contrib/README: add description for more files.
269 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
270 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
271 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
272 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
273 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
274 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
275 - Exit message: use singular & plural :-)
276 - autogen.sh: Check for autoconf/automake wrapper scripts
277 - Add missing punctuation marks in log messages, adjust some severity
278 levels, and make SSL-related messages more readable.
279 - AUTHORS file: Update list of contributors.
280 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
281 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
282 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
283 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
284 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
285 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
286 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
287 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
288 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
289 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
291 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
293 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
294 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
295 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
296 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
298 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
300 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
301 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to to crash the daemon
303 - WHO command: Use the currently "displayed hostname" (which can be cloaked!)
304 for hostname matching, not the real one. In other words: don't display all
305 the cloaked users on a specific real hostname!
306 - configure: The header file "netinet/in_systm.h" already is optional in
307 ngIRCd, so don't require it in the configure script. Now ngIRCd can be
308 built on Minix 3 again :-)
309 - Return better "Connection not registered as server link" errors: Now ngIRCd
310 returns a more specific error message for numeric ERR_NOTREGISTERED(451)
311 when a regular user tries to use a command that isn't allowed for users but
313 - Don't report ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) when a MDOE command with more modes
314 than nicknames is handled, as well as for channel limit and key changes
315 without specifying the limit or key parameters.
316 This is how a lot (all?) other IRC servers behave, including ircd2.11,
317 InspIRCd, and ircd-seven. And because of clients (tested with Textual and
318 mIRC) sending bogus MODE commands like "MODE -ooo nick", end-users got the
319 expected result as well as correct but misleading error messages ...
320 - Correctly detect when SSL subsystem must be initialized and take
321 outgoing connections (server links!) into account, too.
322 - autogen.sh: Enforce serial test harness on GNU automake >=1.13. The
323 new parallel test harness which is enabled by default starting with
324 automake 1.13 isn't compatible with our test suite.
325 And don't use "egrep -o", instead use "sed", because it isn't portable
326 and not available on OpenBSD, for example.
328 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
330 - Allow ERROR command on server and service links only, ignore them and
331 add a penalty time on all other link types.
332 - Enforced mode setting by IRC Operators: Only check the channel user
333 modes of the initiator if he is joined to the channel and not an IRC
334 operator enforcing modes (which requires the configuration option
335 "OperCanUseMode" to be enabled), because trying to check channel user
336 modes of a non-member results in an assertion when running with debug
337 code or could crash the daemon otherwise. This closes bug #147, thanks
338 to James Kirwill <james.kirwill@bk.ru> for tracking this down!
339 - Fix build system to cope with spaces in path names.
340 - Code cleanups, mostly to fix build warnings on Cygwin.
342 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
344 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
345 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
346 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
347 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
348 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
350 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
351 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
352 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
353 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
354 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
355 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
356 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
357 - RPL_UMODEIS: send correct target name, even on server links.
358 - Update platformtest.sh to follow autoconf changes and only generate
359 the "configure" script when it is missing.
360 - Fix the test suite to correctly execute test scripts even when stdout
362 - Fix some compiler warnings on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
364 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
365 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
366 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
367 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
368 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
369 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
370 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
371 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
372 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
373 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
374 - Fix error message when trying to join non-predefined channels and the
375 "PredefChannelsOnly" configuration option is set.
376 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
377 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
378 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
379 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
380 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
381 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
382 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
383 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
384 - Make server reconnect time a little bit more random, so that two
385 servers trying to connect to each other asynchronously don't try this
386 in exactly the same time periods and kick each other off ...
387 - Don't accept connections for servers already being linked: there was a
388 time frame that could result in one connection overwriting the other,
389 e. g. the incoming connection overwriting the status of the outgoing
390 one. And this could lead to all kind of weirdness (even crashes!) later
391 on: now such incoming connections are dropped.
392 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
393 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
394 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
395 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
396 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
397 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
398 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
399 - WHOIS: Not only show RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG to local IRC operators, but show
400 it to all IRC operators in the network. And don't show it to anybody if
401 the "more privacy" configuration option is enabled. (Closes #134)
402 - Test suite: make expect scripts more verbose displaying dots for each
403 reply of the server that it is waiting for.
404 - WHOIS: Implement numeric RPL_WHOISMODES_MSG (379) and show user modes in
405 the reply of the WHOIS command for the user himself or, if MorePrivacy
406 isn't set, for request initiated by an IRC operator. (Closes #129)
407 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
408 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
409 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
410 - KICK-protect IRC services.
411 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
412 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
413 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
414 - Debian: require "telnet" or "telnet-ssl" for building and enable
415 CHARCONV in ngircd-full[-dbg] variants.
416 - Send RPL_REHASHING (382) numeric if a REHASH command was accepted.
417 - Fix spelling and variable names in some log messages.
418 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
419 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
420 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
421 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
422 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
424 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
425 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
426 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
428 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
429 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
430 configuration file. (Closes #136)
431 - Enhance build system: Support new (>=1.12) and old (<=1.11) GNU automake
432 versions, update checks for required and optional features, enable
433 colored test output of automake (if available), rename configure.in to
434 more modern configure.ac, include .mailmap and all build-system files in
435 distribution archives and no longer require a GIT tree to detect the
436 correct version string.
437 - Update documentation: add doc/Contributing.txt and include version
438 numbers in doc/Modes.txt.
439 - Free all listen ports on initialization: now listen ports can be
440 reconfigured on runtime using a configuration reload.
441 - Initialize SSL when needed only, and disable SSL on errors.
442 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
443 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
444 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
445 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
446 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
447 - Allow limited punctuation in usernames, for better PAM integration.
448 - Correctly re-initialize signal handlers on RESTART commands.
449 - Show a warning on startup if the configuration file is not a full path:
450 ngIRCd is a long-running process and changes its working directory to
451 "/" to not block mounted filesystems and the like when running as daemon
452 ("not in the foreground"); therefore the path to the configuration file
453 must be relative to "/" (or the chroot() directory), which basically is
454 "not relative", to ensure that "kill -HUP" and the "REHASH" command work
455 as expected later on. (Closes #127)
456 - Make the "&SERVER" channel definable in a [Channel] configuration block,
457 which enables server operators to overwrite the built-in topic and
458 channel modes. (Closes #131)
459 - Don't limit list size of "WHO #channel" commands, because it makes no
460 sense to not return all the users in that channel, so I removed the
461 check. But if there are more than MAX_RPL_WHO(25) replies, the client
462 requesting the list will be "penalized" one second more, then 2 in
464 - Make ngIRCd buildable using the kqueue() IO interface on FreeBSD 4.x.
465 - Fix the "NoticeAuth" configuration option when using SSL connections and
466 enhance the message to show the hostname and IDENT reply of the client.
467 - Introduce numeric RPL_HOSTHIDDEN_MSG (396): This numeric is sent to the
468 client each time it changes its displayed hostname using "MODE +/-x",
469 and if "CloakHost" is set right after the MOTD has been sent.
470 - Fix USERHOST not displaying the correctly cloaked hostname.
471 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
472 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
473 behave, and so do we :-)
474 - Dynamically allocate memory for connection passwords: This a) saves
475 memory for clients not using passwords at all and b) allows for
476 "arbitrarily" long passwords.
477 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
478 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
479 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
480 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
481 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
482 - Now "make uninstall" removes the installed "ngircd.conf" file, if it is
483 still equal to our "sample-ngircd.conf" file and therefore hasn't been
484 modified by the user. If it has been modified, it isn't removed and a
485 notice is displayed to the user. And "make install" now displays a
486 message when no ngircd.conf file exists and the "sample-ngircd.conf"
487 file will be installed as a starting point.
488 - Add contrib/ngircd.service, a systemd service file for ngircd.
489 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
490 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
491 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
492 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
493 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
494 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
495 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
496 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
497 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
498 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
499 random salt will be generated after each server restart. (Closes #133)
501 ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
503 - doc/Capabilities.txt: document "multi-prefix" capability
505 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
506 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
507 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
508 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
509 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
510 - Correctly handle asynchronously re-established server links: a race
511 condition could let the daemon loose track of an already re-established
512 incoming server link while preparing its own outgoing connection.
513 Peers that both try to connect each other could have been affected.
514 - Log a debug message when SIGUSR2 is handled in debug mode.
515 - Only allow alphanumeric characters in user-supplied user names of
516 USER command and IDENT replies.
517 - Change wording of "TLS initialized" message to make it more consistent.
518 - Don't leak file descriptors on error path when creating "PID files".
519 - Add missing mode "r" to CHANMODES in 005 "ISUPPORT" numeric.
520 - Update doc/Modes.txt and doc/Platforms.txt documents.
521 - contrib/platformtest.sh: correctly detect Open64 C compiler and handle
522 "CC=xxx MAKE=yyy ./platformtest.sh" calling convention.
523 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
524 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
525 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
526 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
527 - Update Xcode project files: reference missing documentation files.
528 - Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot.
529 - FAQ: enhance description of chroot setup.
531 ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
533 - Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL.
534 - Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note",
535 and fix lintian(1) warning ""hyphen-used-as-minus-sign", too.
536 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
537 distribution archive ... ooops!
538 - getpid.sh: Fix test case error for Debian using sbuild(1).
539 - Don't log "ngIRCd hello message" two times when starting up.
541 ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
543 - Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by
544 GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions.
545 - Fix configuration file parser: don't accept "[SSL]" blocks in the
546 configuration file when no SSL support is built in ngIRCd.
547 - Fix building ngIRCd with old gcc versions (e. g. 2.7.2).
548 - Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration
549 file: Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the
550 configuration, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored
551 the "SyslogFacility" configuration option ...
552 Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue!
554 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
555 - Enhance command limits for server links: the limit now is dependent
556 on the number of users connected in the network and higher while
557 servers are joining the network to make the login of servers faster.
558 - Log more information about server synchronization.
559 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
560 is the only supported version.
561 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
562 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
563 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
564 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
565 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
566 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
567 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
568 - PRIVMSG and NOTICE: Handle nick!user@host masks case-insensitive.
569 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
570 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
571 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
572 by completely unknown clients.
573 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
574 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
575 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
576 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
577 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
578 - Fix both ERR_SUMMONDISABLED(445) and ERR_USERSDISABLED(446) replies.
579 - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for
580 unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501).
581 - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES",
582 add "EXCEPTS=e" and "INVEX=I", add "MAXLIST=beI:50".
583 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
584 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
585 - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive.
586 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
587 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
588 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
589 - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments.
590 For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling
591 "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f".
592 - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of
593 the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an
594 assertion and end the daemon in some error paths.
595 - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child
596 processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases
597 with IDENT lookups enabled.
598 - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS,
599 don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is
600 case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the
601 unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client).
602 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
603 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
604 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
605 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
606 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
607 - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variable in the
608 configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user).
609 - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-)
610 - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single
611 channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel
612 limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check
613 the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when
614 trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of.
615 - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nicknames.
616 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
617 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
618 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
619 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
620 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
621 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
622 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
623 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
624 - Fixed some spelling errors in documentation and code comments
625 (Thanks to Christoph Biedl).
626 - contrib/Debian/control: Update and complete "Build-Depends" and
627 update our Debian package descriptions with "official" ones.
628 - Fixed typo in two error messages.
629 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
630 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
631 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
632 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
633 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
634 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
635 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
636 - README: Update list of implemented commands.
637 - Log better error messages when rejecting clients.
638 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
639 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
640 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
641 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
642 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
643 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
644 - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR
645 for Mac OS X Xcode builds.
646 - ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use
647 poll() when poll.h exists as well.
648 - Suppress 'Can't create pre-defined channel: invalid name: ""' message.
649 - whois-test: handle local host name = "localhost.localdomain" using the
650 pattern "localhost*" for valid local host names.
651 - sample-ngircd.conf: show correct default for "PAM" variable: The
652 default of "PAM" is "yes" when ngIRCd has been configured to use it,
653 so show the correct default value in the sample configuration file.
655 - Update GPL 2 license text to current version.
656 - Only close "unrelated" sockets in forked child processes: This fixes
657 the problem that ngIRCd can't do any IDENT lookups because of the
658 socket has already been closed in the child process.
659 The bug has been introduced starting with ngIRCd 17 ... :-(
660 (commit ID 6ebb31ab35e)
661 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
662 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
663 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
664 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
665 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
666 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
667 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
668 - New 2nd message "Nickname too long" for error code 432.
669 - Xcode: Mac OS X config.h: support 10.5 as well as 10.6/10.7 SDK.
670 - Xcode: exclude more Xcode 4 specific directories in ".gitignore".
671 - Disconnect directly linked servers sending QUIT. Without this,
672 the server becomes removed from the network and the client list,
673 but the connection isn't shut down at all ...
674 - contrib/ngindent: detect "gindent" as GNU indent.
675 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
676 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
677 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
678 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
679 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
680 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
681 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
682 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
683 - Correctly inform clients when other servers change their user modes.
684 This is required for some services to work correctly.
685 - Test suite: make getpid.sh work even when run as root.
686 - Spoofed prefixes: close connection on non-server links only.
687 On server-links, spoofed prefixes can happen because of the
688 asynchronous nature of the IRC protocol. So don't break server-
689 links, only log a message and ignore the command. (Closes #113)
691 ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
693 - Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page.
694 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
695 - Don't register WHOWAS information when "MorePrivacy" option is in effect.
697 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
698 - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-)
699 - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section.
700 - ngircd.8: document debugging options.
701 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
702 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
703 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
704 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
706 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
707 - PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
708 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
709 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
710 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
711 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
712 servers from TOR or I2P.
713 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
714 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
715 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
716 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
717 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
718 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
719 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
720 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
721 - Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest".
722 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
723 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
724 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
725 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
726 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
727 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
728 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
729 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
730 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
731 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
732 - Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers.
733 - GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients
734 refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it
735 would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
737 - contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
738 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
739 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
740 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
741 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
742 - Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links
743 (often used by services, for example) are not affected.
744 - Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-)
745 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
746 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
747 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
748 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
749 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
750 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
751 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
752 - Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
753 like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
754 - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This
755 helps to speed up server login and network synchronization.
756 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
757 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
758 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
759 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
760 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
761 variable description.
762 - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
763 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
764 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
765 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
766 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
767 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
768 supplied by the IRC client.
769 - doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
770 - Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
771 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
772 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
773 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
774 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
775 - Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
776 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
777 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
778 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
779 - Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
780 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
781 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
782 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
783 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
784 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
785 - TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other
786 servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when
787 the client is not joined to this channel.
788 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
789 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
790 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
791 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
792 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
793 - Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
794 ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
795 - Don't throttle services and servers being registered.
796 - Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
797 - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is
798 only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
801 ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
803 - --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase
804 - Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit
805 - Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly
806 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
807 - Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section
808 - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section
809 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
810 - README: Updated list of implemented commands
811 - add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball
812 - Merge branch 'numeric-329'
813 - add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball
814 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
815 - Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()
817 ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
819 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
820 - Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf
821 - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa
822 - contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent
824 ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27)
825 - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updateed project file
826 to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it
827 is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default
828 PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd.
829 - Debian: updated standards version to 3.9.1, added libpam0g-dev to the
830 dependencies, and install a default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins.
831 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable.
832 - Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links.
834 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
835 - ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a.
836 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
837 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
838 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
839 - ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C.
840 - ./configure: check support for C prototypes again.
841 - Don't use PARAMS() macro for function implementations.
842 - Added m68k/apple/aux3.0.1 (gcc 2.7.2) to doc/Platforms.txt.
843 - Only try to set FD_CLOEXEC if this flag is defined.
844 - Only use "__attribute__ ((unused))" if GCC >=2.8 is used.
845 - doc/Makefile.am: don't set docdir, automake handles it already.
847 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
848 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
849 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
850 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
851 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
852 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
853 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
854 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
855 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
856 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
857 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
858 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
859 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
860 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
861 using the command line parameters.
862 - Signal handler: added new 'delayed' signal handlers, including fallback
863 to deprecated sysv API. And removed global NGIRCd_SignalRehash variable.
864 - IO: add io_cloexec() to set close-on-exec flag.
865 - ng_ipaddr.h: include required assert.h header.
866 - Conn_SyncServerStruct(): test all connections; and work case insensitive
867 - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output.
868 - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the
869 client lag debug-output is working again.
870 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
871 - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
872 - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
873 - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
874 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
875 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
876 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
877 - Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon.
878 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
879 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
880 - Added mailmap file for git-[short]log and git-blame.
881 - Authenticated users should be registered without the "~" mark.
882 - Set NoPAM=yes in configuration files used for the testsuite.
883 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
884 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
885 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
886 - Resolver: Implement signal handler and catch TERM signals.
887 - Don't set a penalty time when doing DNS lookups.
888 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
889 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
890 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
891 - ngircd.init: require "$network" and "$remote_fs" when stopping ngircd.
892 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
893 - Include correct header files when testing for arpa/inet.h (Closes: #105).
894 - Don't access already freed memory in IRC_KILL().
895 - Fix "beeing" typo ...
896 - SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message.
898 ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
900 - doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker
902 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
903 - Updated some more copyright notices, it's 2010 already :-)
904 - Only compile in Get_Error() if really needed
905 - Fix gcc warning "ignoring return value of ..."
906 - Include netinet/in_systm.h alongside netinet/ip.h
907 - Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h
908 - Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists
909 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt
910 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
911 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
912 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
914 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
915 - Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups.
916 - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit.
917 - Updatet doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
918 how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA).
919 - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list).
920 - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define
921 - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric
922 - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output.
923 - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable.
924 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
925 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
926 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
927 - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts".
928 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
929 - Only link "nsl" library when really needed.
930 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
931 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
932 to join such a channel.
933 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
934 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
935 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
936 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
938 ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
940 - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset.
942 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
943 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
944 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
945 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
946 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
947 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
948 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
950 - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0
951 for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file.
952 - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names.
953 - Fix LSB header of Debian init script.
954 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh
955 to ease generating platform reports.
956 - Fix connection information for already registered connections.
957 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
958 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
959 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
960 - Fix connection counter.
961 - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections.
962 - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.
964 ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
966 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
967 - BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh.
968 - New start/stop script for RedHat-based distributions:
969 contrib/ngircd-redhat.init, thanks to Naoya Nakazawa <naoya@sanow.net>.
970 - Doxygen: update source code repository link to GIT.
971 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
972 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
973 - Fix error handling on compressed links.
974 - Fix server list announcement.
975 - Do not remove host names from info text.
977 ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
979 - Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections.
981 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
982 - Updated Debian/Linux init script (see contrib/Debian/ngircd.init).
983 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
984 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
985 - Spell check and enhance ngIRCd manual pages.
986 - Channel mode changes: break on syntax errors in MODE command.
987 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
988 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
989 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
990 individual channel keys for different users.
991 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
992 - Updated ngircd.spec file for building RPM packages.
993 - Add new and missing files to Mac OS X Xcode project, and update project.
994 - Reject masks with wildcard after last dot.
995 - TLS/SSL: remove useless error message when ssl connection is closed.
996 - Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down.
997 (closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net)
998 - Fix handling of channels containing dots.
999 (closes ug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
1001 ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
1003 - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
1004 - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
1006 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
1007 - New version number scheme :-)
1008 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
1009 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
1010 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
1011 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
1012 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
1013 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
1014 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
1015 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
1016 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
1017 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
1018 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
1019 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
1020 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
1021 - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
1022 - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
1023 - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
1024 - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
1025 - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
1026 - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two
1027 servers are started for testing server-server linking.
1028 - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
1029 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
1030 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
1032 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
1034 - Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode
1035 - Don't allow stray \r or \n in command parameters
1036 - --configtest: return non-zero exit code if there are errors
1037 - Update ngIRCd manual pages
1038 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
1039 - Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error.
1040 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
1041 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
1042 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
1043 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
1044 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
1046 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
1048 - Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns
1049 proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran)
1050 - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
1051 - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number.
1053 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
1054 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
1055 - Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now!
1056 - Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT.
1057 - Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition.
1058 - Report ERR_NOTONCHANNEL when trying to part a channel one is not member of.
1059 - Testsuite: remove erroneous ConfUID setting in config file.
1061 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
1062 - Include Mac OS X Xcode project in distribution archives.
1063 - Do not exit on SIGHUP or /REHASH if the config file cannot opened.
1065 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
1066 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
1067 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1068 - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+).
1070 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
1071 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
1072 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
1073 - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1074 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
1075 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
1076 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1077 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
1079 ngIRCd 0.11.1 (2008-02-26)
1081 - Fix sending of JOIN commands between servers when remote server appended
1082 mode flags. (Rolf Eike Beer) [from HEAD]
1083 - Send "G" instead of "H" flag in WHO replies. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
1084 - Under some circumstances ngIRCd issued channel MODE message with a
1085 trailing space. (Dana Dahlstrom) [from HEAD]
1087 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
1089 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07)
1090 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
1091 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
1093 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
1094 - Use dotted-decimal IP address if host name is >= 64.
1095 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
1096 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
1097 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
1098 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
1099 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
1100 - Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
1101 enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
1102 See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
1103 - Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!?
1104 - Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced
1105 to the network as well as the wrong output of the LINKS command.
1106 - Update Mac OS X Xcode project file for Xcode 3.
1107 - Adjust test suite to be usable on HP/UX 11.11 :-)
1108 - Fix code to compile using K&R C compiler and ansi2kr again.
1109 - New config option NoDNS: Disables DNS lookups when clients connect.
1110 - Fixed propagation of channel mode 'P' on server links.
1111 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
1112 - Fixed code that prevented GCC 2.95 to compile ngIRCd.
1113 - Adjust path names in manual pages according to "./configure" settings.
1114 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
1115 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
1116 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
1117 - Don't connect to a server if a connection to another server within the
1118 same group is already in progress.
1119 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
1122 ngIRCd 0.10.4 (2008-01-07)
1124 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
1125 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
1127 ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01)
1129 - SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could
1130 cause the server to crash. Thanks to Sebastian Vesper, <net@veoson.net>.
1133 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
1135 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre2 (2007-05-19)
1136 - Server links are allowed to use larger write buffers now (up to 50 KB).
1138 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre1 (2007-05-05)
1139 - Fix compressed server links (broken since 0.10.0).
1140 - Predefined Channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
1141 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l).
1142 - When using epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
1143 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
1144 - New configure option "--without-select" to disable select() IO API
1145 (even when using epoll(), see above).
1146 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
1147 - Reorganized internal handling of invite and ban lists.
1149 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
1151 - Fixed validation of server names containing digits.
1152 - Update the "info text" of the local server after re-reading configuration.
1153 - Changed Numerics 265 and 266 to follow ircd 2.11.x "standards".
1154 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
1155 - Enhanced ISUPPORT message (005 numeric).
1156 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
1157 join predefined channels.
1158 - Code cleanups: use "LogDebug(...)" instead of "Log(LOG_DEBUG, ...)", use
1159 "strcspn()", unsigned vs. signed, use "const", fix whitespaces, ...
1161 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
1163 - Fixed file handle leak when daemon is not able to send MOTD to a client.
1165 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre2 (2006-09-09)
1166 - Fixed build problems with GCC option -fstack-protector.
1167 - Minor documentation updates.
1169 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
1170 - Validate "ServerName" (see RFC 2812, section 2.3.1).
1171 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
1172 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
1173 - The ngIRCd handles time shifts backwards more gracefully now (the
1174 timeout handling doesn't disconnect clients by mistake any more).
1175 - Internal: Restructured connection handling (the connection ID is equal
1176 to the file descriptor of the connection).
1177 - Internal: Simplified resolver code.
1178 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
1179 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
1180 - Enhanced the handler for PING and PONG commands: fix forwarding and enable
1181 back-passing of a client supplied additional argument of PING.
1182 - Changed handling of timeouts for unregistered connections: don't reset
1183 the counter if data is received and disconnect clients earlier.
1184 - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead.
1185 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
1186 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
1187 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
1188 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
1189 lookup to prevent spoofing.
1190 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
1191 addition to the select() interface.
1193 ngIRCd 0.9.2 (2005-10-15)
1195 - Fixed a bug that could cause the daemon to crash when outgoing server
1196 connections can't be established.
1197 - Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to leak file descriptors when no
1198 resolver subprocesses could be created.
1199 - Fixed server NOTICEs to users with "s" mode ("server messages").
1200 - Fixed a format string bug in "connection statistics" messages to clients.
1202 ngIRCd 0.9.1 (2005-08-03)
1204 - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!)
1205 when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in
1206 ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by <qssl@fastmail.fm>, Thanks!
1207 - Changed some constants to be "signed" (instead of unsigned) to solve
1208 problems with old (pre-ANSI) compilers.
1210 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
1212 ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09)
1213 - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters.
1214 - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead
1215 of shutting down the (wrong) connection.
1216 - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the
1217 client is registered with the server (like the original ircd).
1218 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
1219 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
1220 - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client
1221 is member of multiple channels.
1222 - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and
1223 pray that this will be "the right thing" ...
1224 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
1225 - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug.
1226 - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
1227 - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
1228 to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
1229 - Removed typedefs for the native C datatypes.
1230 Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available.
1231 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
1232 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
1233 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
1234 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1235 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
1236 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
1237 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
1238 - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug
1239 code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process.
1240 - Don't create version information string each time a client connects
1241 but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
1242 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
1243 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
1244 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1245 - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1246 - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters.
1247 - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc()
1248 failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway.
1249 Patch from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1250 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
1251 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
1252 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
1253 - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and
1254 most probably other older C compilers on other systems.
1255 - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in
1256 the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it
1257 changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This
1258 should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
1261 ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03)
1263 - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled
1264 to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
1265 <coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
1266 (CVE-2005-0226; http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
1268 ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
1270 - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution.
1271 - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found
1272 by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. (CVE-2005-0199)
1273 - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks
1274 to Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1275 - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by
1276 Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1277 - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has
1278 been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/
1279 It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself,
1280 not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1282 ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25)
1284 - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub
1285 - Added some more debug code ...
1286 - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest".
1287 - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for
1288 ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after
1290 - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README!
1292 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
1294 - Fixed wrong buffer size calculation for results of the resolver.
1296 ngircd 0.8.0-pre2 (2004-05-16)
1297 - Enhanced logging to console when running in "no-detached mode": added
1298 PID and log messages of resolver sub-processes.
1299 - Fixed host name lookups when using IDENT user lookups.
1300 - "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean" remove more files now.
1302 ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07)
1303 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
1304 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
1305 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
1306 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
1307 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
1308 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
1309 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
1310 - Reorganized autogen.sh and configure scripts.
1311 - Fixed a wrong assert() which could cause the daemon to exit spuriously
1312 when closing down connections.
1313 - Better logging of decompression errors returned by zlib.
1314 - Servers other than the destination server didn't clean up the invite
1315 list of an "invite-only" channel properly when an INVITE'd user joined.
1316 - Changed the reply of the MODE command to match the syntax of the
1317 original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last
1318 parameter has been added.
1319 - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info.
1320 - Results of the resolver (host names and IDENT names) are discarded after
1321 the client is successfully registered with the server.
1322 - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections.
1323 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
1324 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
1325 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
1326 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
1327 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
1329 ngIRCd 0.7.7 (2004-02-05)
1331 - The info text ("real name") of users is set to "-" if none has been
1332 specified using the USER command (e. g. "USER user * * :"). Reason:
1333 the original ircd doesn't like empty ones and would KILL such users.
1334 - Fixed (optional) TCP Wrapper test which was broken and could result in
1335 false results. Thanks to Fuminori Tanizaki <tany@mcnet.ad.jp>!
1336 - Removed "USE_" prefixes of configuration #defines.
1338 ngIRCd 0.7.6 (2003-12-05)
1340 - Fixed abort() ("server crash") when INVITE'ing users to nonexistent
1341 channels. Bug found by <hiddenx@wp.pl>.
1342 - Extended version numbering of CVS versions (added date).
1343 - Enhanced/fixed doc/Protocol.txt;
1345 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-11-07)
1347 - Fixed ban behavior: users which are banned from a channel can't no
1348 longer send PRIVMSG's to this channel (fixes Bug #47).
1349 - Fixed and enhanced the "penalty handling" of the server: commands that
1350 require more resources block the client for a short time.
1351 - Changed the internal time resolution to one second.
1352 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
1353 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
1354 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
1355 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
1356 - Fixed build problems under Mac OS X 10.3.
1357 - Use "-pipe" when compiling with gcc, speeds things up a little :-)
1358 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
1359 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
1360 - Suppress misleading error message of diff during make run.
1361 - Enhanced test-suite and made it work on GNU/Hurd.
1362 - Fixed minor typo in debug output :-)
1364 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
1366 - Included files to build Debian packages (located in "debian/").
1367 - Updated config.guess and config.sub to newer upstream versions.
1368 - NJOIN propagates user channel modes correctly again ... Upsa.
1369 - Made Makefile more compatible with "make -j<n>".
1370 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
1371 - Fixed a compiler warning related to an unnecessary assert().
1372 - Enhanced VERSION command when using debug versions.
1374 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
1376 - "ServerName" is checked better now: a dot (".") is required.
1377 - The KILL command verifies and logs more parameters.
1379 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre2 (2003-04-27)
1380 - CVS build system fixes (made autogen.sh more portable).
1381 - Fixed compilation and test-suite on Solaris (tested with 2.6).
1382 - New documentation file "doc/Platforms.txt" describing the status of
1383 ngIRCd on the various tested platforms.
1384 - Test for broken GCC on Mac OS X and disable "-pedantic" in this case.
1385 - Disable "-ansi" on Cygwin: system headers are incompatible.
1386 - The server tried to connect to other servers only once when DNS or
1387 socket failures occurred.
1388 - Fixed --configtest: There is no variable "ServerPwd", it's "Password".
1390 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 (2003-04-22)
1391 - New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside).
1392 - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled.
1393 - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the
1394 more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems
1395 that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included
1396 in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h).
1397 - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that
1398 can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken.
1399 - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-)
1400 - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and
1401 removing servers during runtime works more reliable now.
1402 - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]"
1403 - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]".
1404 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
1405 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
1406 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
1407 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
1408 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
1409 - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The
1410 german documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
1411 - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision.
1412 - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding.
1413 - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool".
1414 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
1415 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
1416 - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS)
1417 if an outgoing server link can't be established.
1418 - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility.
1419 - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly.
1420 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
1421 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
1422 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
1423 configure to enable it.
1424 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
1425 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
1426 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
1427 - Better error reporting to clients on connect.
1428 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
1429 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
1430 - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
1432 ngIRCd 0.6.1 (2003-01-21)
1434 - Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more,
1435 ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you
1436 can kill only valid users now.
1437 - The server no longer forwards commands to ordinary users, instead it
1438 answers with the correct error message ("no such server") now.
1439 - WHOIS commands weren't always forwarded as requested.
1440 - The server sets a correct default AWAY message now when propagating
1441 between servers (bug introduced in 0.6.0).
1442 - Fixed up and enhanced CHANINFO command: channel keys and user limits
1443 are synchronized between servers now, too.
1444 - MODE returns the key and user limit for channel members correctly now.
1445 - Non-members of a channel could crash the server when trying to change
1446 its modes or modes of its members.
1447 - The server didn't validate weather a target user is a valid channel
1448 member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd.
1451 Older changes (sorry, only available in german language):
1453 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
1455 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 23.12.2002
1456 - neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect.
1457 - LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen
1458 Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start
1459 dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt.
1461 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 18.12.2002
1462 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
1463 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
1464 - der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den
1465 Resolver (4 Sekunden), wenn das Ergebnis eintrifft setzt er aber den
1466 Login sofort fort (bisher wurde immer mind. 1 Sekunde gewartet).
1467 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
1468 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
1469 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sektion "Global")
1470 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
1471 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
1472 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
1473 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
1474 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
1475 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
1476 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
1477 - Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst.
1478 - unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
1479 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
1480 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
1481 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
1482 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
1483 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
1484 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
1485 - Channel-Mode "P" ("persistent") kann nur noch von IRC-Operatoren gesetzt
1486 werden. Grund: User koennen den Server sonst leicht "Channel-Flooden".
1487 - MOTD kann nun an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1488 - IRC-Befehl "TIME" implementiert.
1489 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
1490 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
1491 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
1492 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
1493 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
1494 - Handling der Schreibpuffer umgestellt: Server sollte schneller arbeiten.
1495 - Prefix-Fehler werden besser protokolliert (mit verursachendem Befehl).
1496 - SQUIT wird nicht mehr doppelt an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1497 - Der Server versucht nun vor dem Schliessen einer Verbindung Daten, die
1498 noch im Schreibpuffer stehen, zu senden.
1499 - Source in weiteres Modul "irc-info" aufgespalten.
1500 - Konfigurationsvariablen werden besser validiert: Laengen, Zahlen, ...
1501 - neuen Befehl STATS begonnen: bisher unterstuetzt wird "l" und "m".
1502 - bei ISON und USERHOST fehlte im Ergebnis-String der korrekte Absender.
1503 - IRC Operatoren koennen nun mit KILL User toeten. Achtung: ein Grund muss
1504 zwingend als zweiter Parameter angegeben werden!
1505 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
1506 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
1507 - neuer, deutlich flexiblerer Parser fuer den MODE Befehl.
1508 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
1510 ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002
1512 - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
1513 unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden.
1514 - in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht
1515 nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe
1516 verwendet werden. Beim Start des Daemons wird nun beides angezeigt.
1517 - Besseres Logging von Prefix-Fehlern.
1518 - angenommene Sockets werden nun korrekt auf "non-blocking" konfiguriert,
1519 beim Senden und Empfangen werden Blockierungen besser abgefangen.
1520 - RPL_UMODEIS hat Code 221, nicht 211 ... *argl*
1521 - select() in Try_Write() hat falschen (keinen!) Timeout verwendet;
1522 die "Zeit-Aufloesung" des Servers sind zudem nun 2 Sekunden (TIME_RES).
1523 Insgesamt sollte die Reaktionszeit des Server nun besser sein.
1525 ngIRCd 0.5.3, 08.11.2002
1527 - NOTICE liefert nun wirklich nie mehr einen Fehler, auch dann nicht,
1528 wenn der sendende Client noch gar nicht registriert ist.
1529 - ein "schneller Server-Reconnect" wird nur noch dann versucht, wenn die
1530 Verbindung zuvor ordentlich (="lange genug") in Ordnung war; somit also
1531 nicht meht, wenn der Peer-Server gleich beim Connect ein ERROR liefert.
1532 Das vermeidet "Connect-Orgien".
1533 - einige Datentypen aufgeraumt: z.B. sind viele INT32s nun LONGs. Das ist
1534 auf Platformen mit 8-Byte-Integern kompatibler.
1535 - RPL_YOURHOST_MSG ist nun ircII- und RFC-kompatibel ;-)
1536 - Segfault unter hoher Netzaktivitaet behoben: in Conn_Close() wird die
1537 Connection-Struktur nun frueher als "ungueltig" markiert.
1539 ngIRCd 0.5.2, 04.10.2002
1541 - Buffer Overflow in Read_Resolver_Result() behoben.
1542 - Format-String-Bugs, die zum Abbruch des Servers fuehrten, behoben.
1543 - Maximale Laenge eines IRC-Prefix wurde falsch berechnet.
1545 ngIRCd 0.5.1, 03.10.2002
1547 - in RPL_YOURHOST_MSG wurde ein fehlerhafter Versionsstring geliefert.
1548 - Test-Suite: start-server.sh, stop-server.sh und stress-server.sh koennen
1549 nun "manuell" von der Kommandozeile gestartet werden, stress-server.sh
1550 startet per Default nur noch 5 Sessions, eine andere Zahl kann auf der
1551 Kommandozeile uebergeben werden (Syntax: "stress-server.sh <count>").
1552 - In bestimmten Faellen hat der Server versucht auf einen bereits wieder
1553 geschlossenen Socket Daten zu schreiben; das fuehrte zu einem Abbruch des
1554 Servers durch ein assert(). Nun wird geprueft, ob der Socket noch ok ist.
1555 - im "contrib"-Verzeichnis befindet sich nun eine RPM-Spec-Datei, aus den
1556 .tar.gz's koennen nun mit "rpm -ta <archiv>" RPM's erzeugt werden. Danke
1557 an Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>!
1558 - Syntax von RPL_MYINFO_MSG korrigiert: liefert nun vier Parameter.
1560 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
1562 - Dokumentation aktualisiert.
1563 - Fehler bei Validierung von "AdminInfo2" behoben.
1564 - Test der Flags fuer "ps" in der Testsuite verbessert, ist nun zu mehr
1565 Plattformen kompatibler.
1567 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre2, 17.09.2002
1568 - Fix in IRC_WriteStrServersPrefix() war "badly broken" -- behoben.
1570 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre1, 16.09.2002
1571 - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen.
1572 - Wird der Netzwerk-Sniffer aktiviert (--sniffer), so schaltet der
1573 ngIRCd nun automatisch in den Debug-Modus.
1574 - auf Systemen, die inet_aton() nicht kennen (wie z.B. A/UX), kann der
1575 ngIRCd nun dennoch auch aktiv Server-Links aufbauen.
1576 - h_errno wird auf Systemen, die das nicht kennen (wie z.B. HP-UX 10.20)
1577 nicht mehr verwendet. Somit compiliert der ngIRCd nun auch dort :-)
1578 - um auf dem Ziel-System nicht vorhandene Funktionen nachzubilden wird nun
1579 die "libngportab" erzeugt; genutzt wird dies bisher fuer vsnprintf().
1580 Nun compiliert der ngIRCd auch unter Solaris 2.5.1.
1581 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
1582 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
1583 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
1584 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. Zu Channel-Operatoren werden bisher
1585 nur IRC-Operatoren, die den Channel betreten. Die persistenten Channels
1586 werden durch das Flag "P" gelennzeichnet, welches normal durch Channel-
1587 Op's gesetzt und geloescht werden kann.
1588 - bei "--configtest" werden keine leere Abschnitte mehr ausgegeben.
1589 - Source in weitere Module aufgespalten: lists, irc-op und resolve.
1590 - #include's aufgeraeumt: Header includieren keine anderen mehr.
1591 - KICK implementiert (bisher kann nur ein User aus einem Channel geckicked
1592 werden, Listen, wir im RFC vorgesehen, werden bisher nicht unterstuetzt).
1593 - INVITE, den Channel-Mode "i" sowie Invite-Lists ueber den MODE-Befehl
1594 (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
1595 - Source an ansi2knr fuer pre-ANSI-Compiler angepasst; ansi2knr in Source-
1596 Tree aufgenommen und in Build-System integriert; der ngIRCd compiliert
1597 nun z.B. unter A/UX mit dem nativen Compiler von Apple.
1598 - TOPIC lieferte bei unbekanntem Channel einen falschen Fehlercode.
1599 - LIST versteht nun Wildcards und kann an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1600 - wurde ein KILL fuer nicht-lokale Clients empfangen, so wurden die
1601 Verwaltungs-Strukturen nicht korrekt freigegeben.
1602 - empfangene NJOIN's wurden "zerhackt" an andere Server weitergegeben.
1603 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
1604 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
1605 - Dokumentation des neuen IRC+-Protokolls begonnen: doc/Protocol.txt
1606 - Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt;
1607 bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet.
1608 Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben.
1609 - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
1610 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics.
1611 - neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das
1612 IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert).
1613 - Ban-Lists (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
1614 - wird der Server mit "-n"/"--nodaemon" gestartet, so werden keine Mel-
1615 dungen mehr ueber Syslog ausgegeben, sondern nur noch auf der Konsole.
1616 - "Test-Suite" begonnen (in "make check" integriert): Dabei wird ein
1617 speziell konfigurierter Server auf Port 6789 gestartet, mit dem dann
1618 einige Tests durchgefuehrt werden (u.a. "Stress-Test" mit 50 Clients).
1619 - zu lange Operator-Namen in der Konfiguration wurden falsch gekuerzt.
1620 - kleine Anpassung an AIX 3.2.5: nun laeuft der ngIRCd auch dort :-)
1621 - ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei
1622 im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und
1623 "AdminEMail" konfiguriert.
1625 ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002
1627 - Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel
1628 ueberhaupt ein User ist. War es keiner, so fuehrte dies zu einem
1629 Abbruch des Servers [es wurde assert() aufgerufen].
1631 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
1633 - LUSERS verzaehlt sich bei eigenen Server-Links nicht mehr.
1634 - QUIT wird nun auch von noch nicht registrierten Clients akzeptiert.
1635 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
1636 Wildcards (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
1638 ngIRCd 0.4.1, 08.04.2002
1640 - Bei Server-Links wird nicht mehr an Hand der Anzahl der Parameter
1641 eines empfangenen SERVER-Befehls, sondern "intern" erkannt, ob es
1642 sich um eine ein- oder ausgehende Verbindung handelt und somit das
1643 eigene PASS-SERVER-Paar gesendet werden muss oder nicht. Da sich
1644 verschiedene Versionen des Original-ircd's anders verhalten, schlug
1645 die Anmeldung je nach Gehenseite evtl. fehl.
1646 - Bei einem NICK-Befehl eines lokalen Client konnte der Server ab-
1647 stuerzen, da ein Format-String einer Log-Meldung fehlerhaft war.
1649 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
1651 - IRC-Befehle nochmal auf weitere Source-Dateien aufgespalten.
1652 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
1653 - Der AWAY-Mode wurde nicht ueber mehrere Server-Links weitergegeben.
1654 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err).
1655 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
1656 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
1657 zusaetzliche Informationen.
1658 - In Nicknames wird das Zeichen "-" nun als zulaessig erkannt.
1659 - die Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei (doc/sample-ngircd.conf) wird als
1660 ngircd.conf installiert, wenn noch keine "echte" Konfigurationsdatei
1662 - bei WHO, WHOIS und NAMES wird nun nur noch der Status "Operator" oder
1663 "voiced" geliefert -- nicht mehr beides.
1664 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
1665 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
1666 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert (Variable "Group" in der Kon-
1667 figurationsdatei, Sektion [Server]).
1668 - IRC_PING() ist, wenn nicht im "strict RFC"-Mode, toleranter und ak-
1669 zeptiert beliebig viele Parameter (z.B. BitchX sendet soetwas).
1670 - die "Portab-Header" werden nicht mehr benoetigt, die System-Erkennung
1671 wird nun ausschliesslich vom configure-Script durchgefuehrt. System-
1672 abhaengige Definitionen finden sich nun unter src/portrab/.
1673 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
1674 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
1675 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
1676 gelesen und dann die verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
1677 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
1678 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
1679 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
1680 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
1681 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
1682 - URL der Homepage wird u.a. bei "--version" mit angezeigt.
1684 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
1686 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
1687 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
1688 - FAQ um Hinweise auf den Bugtracker erweitert.
1689 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
1690 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
1691 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
1692 - direkt nach dem Start schreibt der ngIRCd nun die aktiven Kommando-
1693 zeilenschalter in's Logfile (Passive, Debug, Sniffer ...).
1694 - das Signal-Flag SA_RESTART wird nur noch gesetzt, wenn es auf dem
1695 jeweiligen System auch definiert ist.
1696 - bei ausgehenden Verbindungen wird nun der Ziel-Port protokolliert.
1697 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert.
1698 - make-Target "check" (und "distcheck") mit Sinn erfuellt :-)
1699 (die Tests sind aber bisher nicht all zu tiefgehend ...)
1700 - Durch einen Ueberlauf konnte die Idle-Time bei WHOIS negativ werden ...
1701 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
1702 - WHOIS wird nicht mehr automatisch an den "Original-Server" weiterge-
1703 leitet: war eh nicht RFC-konform und machte mit Clients Probleme.
1704 - an User wird nun immer ein "komplettes" Prefix (mit Host-Mask) ver-
1705 schickt, Server bekommen nach wie vor kurze: das "Original" hat bei
1706 bestimmten Befehlen (PRIVMSG) ansonsten evtl. Probleme ...
1707 - NAMES korrigiert und vollstaendig implementiert.
1708 - SQUIT wird auf jeden Fall geforwarded, zudem besseres Logging.
1709 - Ist ein Nick bei der User-Registrierung bereits belegt, nimmt der
1710 Server nun korrekt weitere NICK-Befehle an und verwendet diese.
1711 - PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m".
1712 - AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst.
1713 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
1714 - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asynchron connectiert und
1715 blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht
1716 erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!).
1717 - Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet.
1718 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
1720 ngIRCd 0.2.1, 17.02.2002
1722 - NICK korrigiert: es werden nun auch alle "betroffenen" User informiert.
1723 - configure-Script erweitert, u.a. bessere Anpassung an BeOS: dort wird
1724 nun die "libbe" zum ngIRCd gelinkt, somit funktioniert auch syslog.
1725 - Fehlerhafte bzw. noch nicht verstandene Modes werden nun ausfuehrlicher
1726 an den Client geliefert.
1728 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
1730 - Nicknames und Channel-Namen werden etwas besser auf Gueltigkeit ueber-
1731 prueft; ist aber nach wie vor noch nicht ausreichend.
1732 - NJOINS von Servern wurden nicht an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1733 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
1734 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
1735 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
1736 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
1737 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
1738 - Benutzer von connectierenden Servern wurden nicht in den Channels ange-
1739 kuendigt, es wurden nur die internen Strukturen angepasst.
1740 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
1742 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
1744 - User-Modes bei User-Registrierungen von andere Servern (NICK-Befehl)
1745 wurden falsch uebernommen. Zudem wurden die Modes falsch gekuerzt.
1746 - Server-Verbindungen werden nun nach dem Start erst nach einer kurzen
1747 Pause aufgebaut (zur Zeit drei Sekunden).
1748 - Hilfetext korrigiert: --help und --version waren vertauscht, die
1749 Option --sniffer wurde gar nicht erwaehnt.
1750 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
1751 - der IRC-Sniffer wird nur noch aktiviert, wenn die Option auf der
1752 Kommandozeile angegeben wurde (bei entsprechend compiliertem Server).
1753 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
1754 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
1755 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
1756 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
1757 - durch die Channels einige Aenderungen an PRIVMSG, WHOIS, MODE etc.
1758 - neu connectierenden Servern werden nun Channels mit NJOIN angekuendigt.
1759 - Signal-Hander geaendert: die Fehlermeldung "interrupted system call"
1760 sollte so nicht mehr auftreten.
1761 - "spaeter" neu connectierende Server werden nun im Netz angekuendigt.
1762 - SERVER-Meldungen an andere Server sind nun korrekt sortiert.
1763 - Clients werden nun korrekt sowohl nur ueber den Nickname als auch die
1764 komplette "Host Mask" erkannt.
1766 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
1768 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
1769 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
1770 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
1771 - MODE und NICK melden nun die Aenderungen an andere Server, ebenso
1772 die Befehle QUIT und SQUIT.
1773 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
1774 - Parses handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
1775 - Status-Codes an den Server selber werden ignorier.
1776 - Log-Meldungen und Log-Level ueberarbeitet und korrigiert.
1777 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
1778 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
1779 - WHOIS korrigiert: Anfrage wurde u.U. an User geforwarded anstatt vom
1780 Server beantwortet zu werden.
1781 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS
1782 - Client-Modes von Remote-Servern wurden nicht korrekt uerbernommen.
1784 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
1786 - Struktur der Konfigurationsdatei geaendert: sie ist nun "Samba like",
1787 d.h. sie besteht aus Abschnitten (siehe "doc/sample-ngircd.conf").
1788 - Es koennen mehrere IRC-Server-Opertatoren konfiguriert werden.
1789 - Zombies der Resolver-Prozesse werden nun ordentlich "getoetet".
1790 - NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern.
1791 - ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar.
1792 - neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT.
1793 - Asynchroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
1794 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
1795 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige
1796 Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert
1797 aber bereits, ebenso wie WHOIS (letzterer wird immer an den Server,
1798 auf dem der User registriert ist, weitergegeben).
1799 - "arpa/inet.h" wird nur noch includiert, wenn vorhanden.
1800 - Fehler bei select() fuerhen nun zum Abbruch von ngIRCd, bisher landete
1801 der Server zumeist in einer Endlosschleife.
1802 - Logmeldungen und Level an vielen Stellen verbessert.
1803 - lokalen Usernamen wird nun ein "~" vorangestellt, da bisher noch keine
1804 Ident-Anfragen gemacht werden.
1806 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
1808 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)