2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
14 - Implemented hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
15 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
16 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
17 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
18 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
19 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
21 ngIRCd Release 19.2 (2012-06-19)
23 - doc/Capabilities.txt: document "multi-prefix" capability
25 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
26 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
27 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
28 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
29 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
30 - Correctly handle asynchronously re-established server links: a race
31 condition could let the daemon loose track of an already re-established
32 incoming server link while preparing its own outgoing connection.
33 Peers that both try to connect each other could have been affected.
34 - Log a debug message when SIGUSR2 is handled in debug mode.
35 - Only allow alphanumeric characters in user-supplied user names of
36 USER command and IDENT replies.
37 - Change wording of "TLS initialized" message to make it more consistent.
38 - Don't leak file descriptors on error path when creating "PID files".
39 - Add missing mode "r" to CHANMODES in 005 "ISUPPORT" numeric.
40 - Update doc/Modes.txt and doc/Platforms.txt documents.
41 - contrib/platformtest.sh: correctly detect Open64 C compiler and handle
42 "CC=xxx MAKE=yyy ./platformtest.sh" calling convention.
43 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
44 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
45 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
46 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
47 - Update Xcode project files: reference missing documentation files.
48 - Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot.
49 - FAQ: enhance description of chroot setup.
51 ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
53 - Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL.
54 - Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note",
55 and fix lintian(1) warning ""hyphen-used-as-minus-sign", too.
56 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
57 distribution archive ... ooops!
58 - getpid.sh: Fix test case error for Debian using sbuild(1).
59 - Don't log "ngIRCd hello message" two times when starting up.
61 ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
63 - Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by
64 GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions.
65 - Fix configuration file parser: don't accept "[SSL]" blocks in the
66 configuration file when no SSL support is built in ngIRCd.
67 - Fix building ngIRCd with old gcc versions (e. g. 2.7.2).
68 - Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration
69 file: Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the
70 configuration, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored
71 the "SyslogFacility" configuration option ...
72 Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue!
74 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
75 - Enhance command limits for server links: the limit now is dependent
76 on the number of users connected in the network and higher while
77 servers are joining the network to make the login of servers faster.
78 - Log more information about server synchronization.
79 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
80 is the only supported version.
81 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
82 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
83 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
84 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
85 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
86 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
87 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
88 - PRIVMSG and NOTICE: Handle nick!user@host masks case-insensitive.
89 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
90 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
91 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
92 by completely unknown clients.
93 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
94 indicates if a nick name is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
95 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
96 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
97 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
98 - Fix both ERR_SUMMONDISABLED(445) and ERR_USERSDISABLED(446) replies.
99 - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for
100 unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501).
101 - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES",
102 add "EXCEPTS=e" and "INVEX=I", add "MAXLIST=beI:50".
103 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
104 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
105 - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive.
106 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
107 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
108 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
109 - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments.
110 For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling
111 "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f".
112 - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of
113 the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an
114 assertion and end the daemon in some error paths.
115 - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child
116 processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases
117 with IDENT lookups enabled.
118 - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS,
119 don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is
120 case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the
121 unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client).
122 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
123 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
124 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
125 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
126 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
127 - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variable in the
128 configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user).
129 - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-)
130 - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single
131 channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel
132 limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check
133 the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when
134 trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of.
135 - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nick names.
136 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
137 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
138 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
139 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
140 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
141 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
142 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
143 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
144 - Fixed some spelling errors in documentation and code comments
145 (Thanks to Christoph Biedl).
146 - contrib/Debian/control: Update and complete "Build-Depends" and
147 update our Debian package descriptions with "official" ones.
148 - Fixed typo in two error messages.
149 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
150 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
151 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
152 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
153 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
154 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
155 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
156 - README: Update list of implemented commands.
157 - Log better error messages when rejecting clients.
158 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
159 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
160 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
161 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
162 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
163 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
164 - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR
165 for Mac OS X Xcode builds.
166 - ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use
167 poll() when poll.h exists as well.
168 - Suppress 'Can't create pre-defined channel: invalid name: ""' message.
169 - whois-test: handle local host name = "localhost.localdomain" using the
170 pattern "localhost*" for valid local host names.
171 - sample-ngircd.conf: show correct default for "PAM" variable: The
172 default of "PAM" is "yes" when ngIRCd has been configured to use it,
173 so show the correct default value in the sample configuration file.
175 - Update GPL 2 license text to current version.
176 - Only close "unrelated" sockets in forked child processes: This fixes
177 the problem that ngIRCd can't do any IDENT lookups because of the
178 socket has already been closed in the child process.
179 The bug has been introduced starting with ngIRCd 17 ... :-(
180 (commit ID 6ebb31ab35e)
181 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
182 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nick name of this user
183 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
184 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
185 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
186 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
187 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
188 - New 2nd message "Nickname too long" for error code 432.
189 - Xcode: Mac OS X config.h: support 10.5 as well as 10.6/10.7 SDK.
190 - Xcode: exclude more Xcode 4 specific directories in ".gitignore".
191 - Disconnect directly linked servers sending QUIT. Without this,
192 the server becomes removed from the network and the client list,
193 but the connection isn't shut down at all ...
194 - contrib/ngindent: detect "gindent" as GNU indent.
195 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
196 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
197 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
198 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
199 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
200 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nick name"
201 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
202 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
203 - Correctly inform clients when other servers change their user modes.
204 This is required for some services to work correctly.
205 - Test suite: make getpid.sh work even when run as root.
206 - Spoofed prefixes: close connection on non-server links only.
207 On server-links, spoofed prefixes can happen because of the
208 asynchronous nature of the IRC protocol. So don't break server-
209 links, only log a message and ignore the command. (Closes #113)
211 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
213 - Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page.
214 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
215 - Don't register WHOWAS information when "MorePrivacy" option is in effect.
217 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
218 - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-)
219 - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section.
220 - ngircd.8: document debugging options.
221 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
222 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
223 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
224 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
226 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
227 - PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
228 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
229 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
230 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
231 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
232 servers from TOR or I2P.
233 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
234 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
235 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
236 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
237 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
238 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
239 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
240 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
241 - Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest".
242 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
243 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
244 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
245 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
246 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
247 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
248 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
249 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
250 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
251 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
252 - Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers.
253 - GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients
254 refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it
255 would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
257 - contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
258 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
259 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
260 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
261 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
262 - Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links
263 (often used by services, for example) are not affected.
264 - Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-)
265 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
266 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
267 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
268 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
269 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
270 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
271 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
272 - Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
273 like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
274 - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This
275 helps to speed up server login and network synchronization.
276 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
277 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
278 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
279 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
280 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
281 variable description.
282 - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
283 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
284 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
285 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
286 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
287 every clients' user name to their nick name and hides the user name
288 supplied by the IRC client.
289 - doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
290 - Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
291 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
292 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
293 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
294 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
295 - Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
296 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
297 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
298 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
299 - Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
300 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
301 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
302 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
303 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
304 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
305 - TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other
306 servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when
307 the client is not joined to this channel.
308 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
309 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
310 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
311 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
312 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
313 - Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
314 ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
315 - Don't throttle services and servers being registered.
316 - Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
317 - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is
318 only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
321 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
323 - --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase
324 - Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit
325 - Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly
326 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
327 - Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section
328 - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section
329 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
330 - README: Updated list of implemented commands
331 - add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball
332 - Merge branch 'numeric-329'
333 - add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball
334 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
335 - Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()
337 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
339 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
340 - Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf
341 - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa
342 - contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent
344 ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27)
345 - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updateed project file
346 to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it
347 is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default
348 PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd.
349 - Debian: updated standards version to 3.9.1, added libpam0g-dev to the
350 dependencies, and install a default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins.
351 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable.
352 - Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links.
354 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
355 - ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a.
356 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
357 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
358 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
359 - ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C.
360 - ./configure: check support for C prototypes again.
361 - Don't use PARAMS() macro for function implementations.
362 - Added m68k/apple/aux3.0.1 (gcc 2.7.2) to doc/Platforms.txt.
363 - Only try to set FD_CLOEXEC if this flag is defined.
364 - Only use "__attribute__ ((unused))" if GCC >=2.8 is used.
365 - doc/Makefile.am: don't set docdir, automake handles it already.
367 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
368 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
369 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
370 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
371 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
372 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
373 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
374 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
375 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
376 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
377 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
378 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
379 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
380 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
381 using the command line parameters.
382 - Signal handler: added new 'delayed' signal handlers, including fallback
383 to deprecated sysv API. And removed global NGIRCd_SignalRehash variable.
384 - IO: add io_cloexec() to set close-on-exec flag.
385 - ng_ipaddr.h: include required assert.h header.
386 - Conn_SyncServerStruct(): test all connections; and work case insensitive
387 - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output.
388 - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the
389 client lag debug-output is working again.
390 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
391 - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
392 - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
393 - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
394 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
395 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
396 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
397 - Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon.
398 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
399 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
400 - Added mailmap file for git-[short]log and git-blame.
401 - Authenticated users should be registered without the "~" mark.
402 - Set NoPAM=yes in configuration files used for the testsuite.
403 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
404 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
405 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
406 - Resolver: Implement signal handler and catch TERM signals.
407 - Don't set a penalty time when doing DNS lookups.
408 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
409 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
410 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
411 - ngircd.init: require "$network" and "$remote_fs" when stopping ngircd.
412 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
413 - Include correct header files when testing for arpa/inet.h (Closes: #105).
414 - Don't access already freed memory in IRC_KILL().
415 - Fix "beeing" typo ...
416 - SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message.
418 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
420 - doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker
422 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
423 - Updated some more copyright notices, it's 2010 already :-)
424 - Only compile in Get_Error() if really needed
425 - Fix gcc warning "ignoring return value of ..."
426 - Include netinet/in_systm.h alongside netinet/ip.h
427 - Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h
428 - Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists
429 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt
430 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
431 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
432 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
434 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
435 - Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups.
436 - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit.
437 - Updatet doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
438 how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA).
439 - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list).
440 - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define
441 - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric
442 - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output.
443 - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable.
444 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
445 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
446 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
447 - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts".
448 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
449 - Only link "nsl" library when really needed.
450 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
451 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
452 to join such a channel.
453 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
454 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
455 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
456 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
458 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
460 - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset.
462 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
463 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
464 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
465 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
466 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
467 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
468 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
470 - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0
471 for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file.
472 - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names.
473 - Fix LSB header of Debian init script.
474 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh
475 to ease generating platform reports.
476 - Fix connection information for already registered connections.
477 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
478 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
479 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
480 - Fix connection counter.
481 - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections.
482 - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.
484 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
486 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
487 - BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh.
488 - New start/stop script for RedHat-based distributions:
489 contrib/ngircd-redhat.init, thanks to Naoya Nakazawa <naoya@sanow.net>.
490 - Doxygen: update source code repository link to GIT.
491 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
492 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
493 - Fix error handling on compressed links.
494 - Fix server list announcement.
495 - Do not remove host names from info text.
497 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
499 - Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections.
501 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
502 - Updated Debian/Linux init script (see contrib/Debian/ngircd.init).
503 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
504 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
505 - Spell check and enhance ngIRCd manual pages.
506 - Channel mode changes: break on syntax errors in MODE command.
507 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
508 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
509 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
510 individual channel keys for different users.
511 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
512 - Updated ngircd.spec file for building RPM packages.
513 - Add new and missing files to Mac OS X Xcode project, and update project.
514 - Reject masks with wildcard after last dot.
515 - TLS/SSL: remove useless error message when ssl connection is closed.
516 - Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down.
517 (closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net)
518 - Fix handling of channels containing dots.
519 (closes ug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
521 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
523 - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
524 - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
526 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
527 - New version number scheme :-)
528 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
529 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
530 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
531 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
532 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
533 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
534 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
535 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
536 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
537 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
538 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
539 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
540 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
541 - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
542 - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
543 - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
544 - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
545 - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
546 - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two
547 servers are started for testing server-server linking.
548 - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
549 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
550 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
552 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
554 - Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode
555 - Don't allow stray \r or \n in command parameters
556 - --configtest: return non-zero exit code if there are errors
557 - Update ngIRCd manual pages
558 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
559 - Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error.
560 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
561 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
562 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
563 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
564 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
566 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
568 - Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns
569 proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran)
570 - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
571 - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number.
573 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
574 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
575 - Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now!
576 - Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT.
577 - Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition.
578 - Report ERR_NOTONCHANNEL when trying to part a channel one is not member of.
579 - Testsuite: remove erroneous ConfUID setting in config file.
581 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
582 - Include Mac OS X Xcode project in distribution archives.
583 - Do not exit on SIGHUP or /REHASH if the config file cannot opened.
585 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
586 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
587 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
588 - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+).
590 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
591 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
592 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
593 - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom)
594 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
595 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
596 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
597 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
599 ngIRCd 0.11.1 (2008-02-26)
601 - Fix sending of JOIN commands between servers when remote server appended
602 mode flags. (Rolf Eike Beer) [from HEAD]
603 - Send "G" instead of "H" flag in WHO replies. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
604 - Under some circumstances ngIRCd issued channel MODE message with a
605 trailing space. (Dana Dahlstrom) [from HEAD]
607 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
609 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07)
610 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
611 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
613 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
614 - Use dotted-decimal IP address if host name is >= 64.
615 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
616 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
617 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
618 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
619 length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
620 - Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
621 enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
622 See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
623 - Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!?
624 - Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced
625 to the network as well as the wrong output of the LINKS command.
626 - Update Mac OS X Xcode project file for Xcode 3.
627 - Adjust test suite to be usable on HP/UX 11.11 :-)
628 - Fix code to compile using K&R C compiler and ansi2kr again.
629 - New config option NoDNS: Disables DNS lookups when clients connect.
630 - Fixed propagation of channel mode 'P' on server links.
631 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
632 - Fixed code that prevented GCC 2.95 to compile ngIRCd.
633 - Adjust path names in manual pages according to "./configure" settings.
634 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
635 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
636 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
637 - Don't connect to a server if a connection to another server within the
638 same group is already in progress.
639 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
642 ngIRCd 0.10.4 (2008-01-07)
644 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
645 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
647 ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01)
649 - SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could
650 cause the server to crash. Thanks to Sebastian Vesper, <net@veoson.net>.
653 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
655 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre2 (2007-05-19)
656 - Server links are allowed to use larger write buffers now (up to 50 KB).
658 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre1 (2007-05-05)
659 - Fix compressed server links (broken since 0.10.0).
660 - Predefined Channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
661 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l).
662 - When using epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
663 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
664 - New configure option "--without-select" to disable select() IO API
665 (even when using epoll(), see above).
666 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
667 - Reorganized internal handling of invite and ban lists.
669 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
671 - Fixed validation of server names containing digits.
672 - Update the "info text" of the local server after re-reading configuration.
673 - Changed Numerics 265 and 266 to follow ircd 2.11.x "standards".
674 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
675 - Enhanced ISUPPORT message (005 numeric).
676 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
677 join predefined channels.
678 - Code cleanups: use "LogDebug(...)" instead of "Log(LOG_DEBUG, ...)", use
679 "strcspn()", unsigned vs. signed, use "const", fix whitespaces, ...
681 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
683 - Fixed file handle leak when daemon is not able to send MOTD to a client.
685 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre2 (2006-09-09)
686 - Fixed build problems with GCC option -fstack-protector.
687 - Minor documentation updates.
689 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
690 - Validate "ServerName" (see RFC 2812, section 2.3.1).
691 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
692 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
693 - The ngIRCd handles time shifts backwards more gracefully now (the
694 timeout handling doesn't disconnect clients by mistake any more).
695 - Internal: Restructured connection handling (the connection ID is equal
696 to the file descriptor of the connection).
697 - Internal: Simplified resolver code.
698 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
699 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
700 - Enhanced the handler for PING and PONG commands: fix forwarding and enable
701 back-passing of a client supplied additional argument of PING.
702 - Changed handling of timeouts for unregistered connections: don't reset
703 the counter if data is received and disconnect clients earlier.
704 - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead.
705 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
706 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
707 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
708 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
709 lookup to prevent spoofing.
710 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
711 addition to the select() interface.
713 ngIRCd 0.9.2 (2005-10-15)
715 - Fixed a bug that could cause the daemon to crash when outgoing server
716 connections can't be established.
717 - Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to leak file descriptors when no
718 resolver subprocesses could be created.
719 - Fixed server NOTICEs to users with "s" mode ("server messages").
720 - Fixed a format string bug in "connection statistics" messages to clients.
722 ngIRCd 0.9.1 (2005-08-03)
724 - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!)
725 when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in
726 ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by <qssl@fastmail.fm>, Thanks!
727 - Changed some constants to be "signed" (instead of unsigned) to solve
728 problems with old (pre-ANSI) compilers.
730 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
732 ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09)
733 - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters.
734 - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead
735 of shutting down the (wrong) connection.
736 - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the
737 client is registered with the server (like the original ircd).
738 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
739 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
740 - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client
741 is member of multiple channels.
742 - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and
743 pray that this will be "the right thing" ...
744 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
745 - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug.
746 - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
747 - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
748 to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
749 - Removed typedefs for the native C datatypes.
750 Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available.
751 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
752 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
753 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
754 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
755 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
756 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
757 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
758 - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug
759 code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process.
760 - Don't create version information string each time a client connects
761 but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
762 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
763 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
764 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
765 - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
766 - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters.
767 - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc()
768 failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway.
769 Patch from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
770 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
771 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
772 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
773 - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and
774 most probably other older C compilers on other systems.
775 - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in
776 the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it
777 changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This
778 should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
781 ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03)
783 - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled
784 to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
785 <coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
786 (CVE-2005-0226; http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
788 ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
790 - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution.
791 - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found
792 by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. (CVE-2005-0199)
793 - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks
794 to Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
795 - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by
796 Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
797 - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has
798 been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/
799 It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself,
800 not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
802 ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25)
804 - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub
805 - Added some more debug code ...
806 - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest".
807 - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for
808 ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after
810 - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README!
812 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
814 - Fixed wrong buffer size calculation for results of the resolver.
816 ngircd 0.8.0-pre2 (2004-05-16)
817 - Enhanced logging to console when running in "no-detached mode": added
818 PID and log messages of resolver sub-processes.
819 - Fixed host name lookups when using IDENT user lookups.
820 - "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean" remove more files now.
822 ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07)
823 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
824 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
825 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
826 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
827 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
828 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
829 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
830 - Reorganized autogen.sh and configure scripts.
831 - Fixed a wrong assert() which could cause the daemon to exit spuriously
832 when closing down connections.
833 - Better logging of decompression errors returned by zlib.
834 - Servers other than the destination server didn't clean up the invite
835 list of an "invite-only" channel properly when an INVITE'd user joined.
836 - Changed the reply of the MODE command to match the syntax of the
837 original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last
838 parameter has been added.
839 - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info.
840 - Results of the resolver (host names and IDENT names) are discarded after
841 the client is successfully registered with the server.
842 - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections.
843 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
844 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
845 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
846 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
847 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
849 ngIRCd 0.7.7 (2004-02-05)
851 - The info text ("real name") of users is set to "-" if none has been
852 specified using the USER command (e. g. "USER user * * :"). Reason:
853 the original ircd doesn't like empty ones and would KILL such users.
854 - Fixed (optional) TCP Wrapper test which was broken and could result in
855 false results. Thanks to Fuminori Tanizaki <tany@mcnet.ad.jp>!
856 - Removed "USE_" prefixes of configuration #defines.
858 ngIRCd 0.7.6 (2003-12-05)
860 - Fixed abort() ("server crash") when INVITE'ing users to nonexistent
861 channels. Bug found by <hiddenx@wp.pl>.
862 - Extended version numbering of CVS versions (added date).
863 - Enhanced/fixed doc/Protocol.txt;
865 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-11-07)
867 - Fixed ban behavior: users which are banned from a channel can't no
868 longer send PRIVMSG's to this channel (fixes Bug #47).
869 - Fixed and enhanced the "penalty handling" of the server: commands that
870 require more resources block the client for a short time.
871 - Changed the internal time resolution to one second.
872 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
873 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
874 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
875 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
876 - Fixed build problems under Mac OS X 10.3.
877 - Use "-pipe" when compiling with gcc, speeds things up a little :-)
878 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
879 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
880 - Suppress misleading error message of diff during make run.
881 - Enhanced test-suite and made it work on GNU/Hurd.
882 - Fixed minor typo in debug output :-)
884 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
886 - Included files to build Debian packages (located in "debian/").
887 - Updated config.guess and config.sub to newer upstream versions.
888 - NJOIN propagates user channel modes correctly again ... Upsa.
889 - Made Makefile more compatible with "make -j<n>".
890 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
891 - Fixed a compiler warning related to an unnecessary assert().
892 - Enhanced VERSION command when using debug versions.
894 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
896 - "ServerName" is checked better now: a dot (".") is required.
897 - The KILL command verifies and logs more parameters.
899 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre2 (2003-04-27)
900 - CVS build system fixes (made autogen.sh more portable).
901 - Fixed compilation and test-suite on Solaris (tested with 2.6).
902 - New documentation file "doc/Platforms.txt" describing the status of
903 ngIRCd on the various tested platforms.
904 - Test for broken GCC on Mac OS X and disable "-pedantic" in this case.
905 - Disable "-ansi" on Cygwin: system headers are incompatible.
906 - The server tried to connect to other servers only once when DNS or
907 socket failures occurred.
908 - Fixed --configtest: There is no variable "ServerPwd", it's "Password".
910 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 (2003-04-22)
911 - New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside).
912 - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled.
913 - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the
914 more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems
915 that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included
916 in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h).
917 - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that
918 can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken.
919 - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-)
920 - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and
921 removing servers during runtime works more reliable now.
922 - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]"
923 - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]".
924 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
925 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
926 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
927 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
928 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
929 - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The
930 german documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
931 - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision.
932 - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding.
933 - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool".
934 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
935 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
936 - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS)
937 if an outgoing server link can't be established.
938 - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility.
939 - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly.
940 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
941 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
942 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
943 configure to enable it.
944 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
945 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
946 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
947 - Better error reporting to clients on connect.
948 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
949 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
950 - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
952 ngIRCd 0.6.1, 2003-01-21
954 - Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more,
955 ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you
956 can kill only valid users now.
957 - The server no longer forwards commands to ordinary users, instead it
958 answers with the correct error message ("no such server") now.
959 - WHOIS commands weren't always forwarded as requested.
960 - The server sets a correct default AWAY message now when propagating
961 between servers (bug introduced in 0.6.0).
962 - Fixed up and enhanced CHANINFO command: channel keys and user limits
963 are synchronized between servers now, too.
964 - MODE returns the key and user limit for channel members correctly now.
965 - Non-members of a channel could crash the server when trying to change
966 its modes or modes of its members.
967 - The server didn't validate weather a target user is a valid channel
968 member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd.
971 Older changes (sorry, only available in german language):
973 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
975 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 2002-12-23
976 - neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect.
977 - LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen
978 Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start
979 dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt.
981 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 2002-12-18
982 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
983 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
984 - der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den
985 Resolver (4 Sekunden), wenn das Ergebnis eintrifft setzt er aber den
986 Login sofort fort (bisher wurde immer mind. 1 Sekunde gewartet).
987 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
988 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
989 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sektion "Global")
990 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
991 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
992 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
993 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
994 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
995 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
996 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
997 - Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst.
998 - unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
999 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
1000 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
1001 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
1002 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
1003 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
1004 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
1005 - Channel-Mode "P" ("persistent") kann nur noch von IRC-Operatoren gesetzt
1006 werden. Grund: User koennen den Server sonst leicht "Channel-Flooden".
1007 - MOTD kann nun an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1008 - IRC-Befehl "TIME" implementiert.
1009 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
1010 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
1011 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
1012 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
1013 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
1014 - Handling der Schreibpuffer umgestellt: Server sollte schneller arbeiten.
1015 - Prefix-Fehler werden besser protokolliert (mit verursachendem Befehl).
1016 - SQUIT wird nicht mehr doppelt an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1017 - Der Server versucht nun vor dem Schliessen einer Verbindung Daten, die
1018 noch im Schreibpuffer stehen, zu senden.
1019 - Source in weiteres Modul "irc-info" aufgespalten.
1020 - Konfigurationsvariablen werden besser validiert: Laengen, Zahlen, ...
1021 - neuen Befehl STATS begonnen: bisher unterstuetzt wird "l" und "m".
1022 - bei ISON und USERHOST fehlte im Ergebnis-String der korrekte Absender.
1023 - IRC Operatoren koennen nun mit KILL User toeten. Achtung: ein Grund muss
1024 zwingend als zweiter Parameter angegeben werden!
1025 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
1026 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
1027 - neuer, deutlich flexiblerer Parser fuer den MODE Befehl.
1028 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
1030 ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002
1032 - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
1033 unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden.
1034 - in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht
1035 nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe
1036 verwendet werden. Beim Start des Daemons wird nun beides angezeigt.
1037 - Besseres Logging von Prefix-Fehlern.
1038 - angenommene Sockets werden nun korrekt auf "non-blocking" konfiguriert,
1039 beim Senden und Empfangen werden Blockierungen besser abgefangen.
1040 - RPL_UMODEIS hat Code 221, nicht 211 ... *argl*
1041 - select() in Try_Write() hat falschen (keinen!) Timeout verwendet;
1042 die "Zeit-Aufloesung" des Servers sind zudem nun 2 Sekunden (TIME_RES).
1043 Insgesamt sollte die Reaktionszeit des Server nun besser sein.
1045 ngIRCd 0.5.3, 08.11.2002
1047 - NOTICE liefert nun wirklich nie mehr einen Fehler, auch dann nicht,
1048 wenn der sendende Client noch gar nicht registriert ist.
1049 - ein "schneller Server-Reconnect" wird nur noch dann versucht, wenn die
1050 Verbindung zuvor ordentlich (="lange genug") in Ordnung war; somit also
1051 nicht meht, wenn der Peer-Server gleich beim Connect ein ERROR liefert.
1052 Das vermeidet "Connect-Orgien".
1053 - einige Datentypen aufgeraumt: z.B. sind viele INT32s nun LONGs. Das ist
1054 auf Platformen mit 8-Byte-Integern kompatibler.
1055 - RPL_YOURHOST_MSG ist nun ircII- und RFC-kompatibel ;-)
1056 - Segfault unter hoher Netzaktivitaet behoben: in Conn_Close() wird die
1057 Connection-Struktur nun frueher als "ungueltig" markiert.
1059 ngIRCd 0.5.2, 04.10.2002
1061 - Buffer Overflow in Read_Resolver_Result() behoben.
1062 - Format-String-Bugs, die zum Abbruch des Servers fuehrten, behoben.
1063 - Maximale Laenge eines IRC-Prefix wurde falsch berechnet.
1065 ngIRCd 0.5.1, 03.10.2002
1067 - in RPL_YOURHOST_MSG wurde ein fehlerhafter Versionsstring geliefert.
1068 - Test-Suite: start-server.sh, stop-server.sh und stress-server.sh koennen
1069 nun "manuell" von der Kommandozeile gestartet werden, stress-server.sh
1070 startet per Default nur noch 5 Sessions, eine andere Zahl kann auf der
1071 Kommandozeile uebergeben werden (Syntax: "stress-server.sh <count>").
1072 - In bestimmten Faellen hat der Server versucht auf einen bereits wieder
1073 geschlossenen Socket Daten zu schreiben; das fuehrte zu einem Abbruch des
1074 Servers durch ein assert(). Nun wird geprueft, ob der Socket noch ok ist.
1075 - im "contrib"-Verzeichnis befindet sich nun eine RPM-Spec-Datei, aus den
1076 .tar.gz's koennen nun mit "rpm -ta <archiv>" RPM's erzeugt werden. Danke
1077 an Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>!
1078 - Syntax von RPL_MYINFO_MSG korrigiert: liefert nun vier Parameter.
1080 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
1082 - Dokumentation aktualisiert.
1083 - Fehler bei Validierung von "AdminInfo2" behoben.
1084 - Test der Flags fuer "ps" in der Testsuite verbessert, ist nun zu mehr
1085 Plattformen kompatibler.
1087 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre2, 17.09.2002
1088 - Fix in IRC_WriteStrServersPrefix() war "badly broken" -- behoben.
1090 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre1, 16.09.2002
1091 - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen.
1092 - Wird der Netzwerk-Sniffer aktiviert (--sniffer), so schaltet der
1093 ngIRCd nun automatisch in den Debug-Modus.
1094 - auf Systemen, die inet_aton() nicht kennen (wie z.B. A/UX), kann der
1095 ngIRCd nun dennoch auch aktiv Server-Links aufbauen.
1096 - h_errno wird auf Systemen, die das nicht kennen (wie z.B. HP-UX 10.20)
1097 nicht mehr verwendet. Somit compiliert der ngIRCd nun auch dort :-)
1098 - um auf dem Ziel-System nicht vorhandene Funktionen nachzubilden wird nun
1099 die "libngportab" erzeugt; genutzt wird dies bisher fuer vsnprintf().
1100 Nun compiliert der ngIRCd auch unter Solaris 2.5.1.
1101 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
1102 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
1103 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
1104 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. Zu Channel-Operatoren werden bisher
1105 nur IRC-Operatoren, die den Channel betreten. Die persistenten Channels
1106 werden durch das Flag "P" gelennzeichnet, welches normal durch Channel-
1107 Op's gesetzt und geloescht werden kann.
1108 - bei "--configtest" werden keine leere Abschnitte mehr ausgegeben.
1109 - Source in weitere Module aufgespalten: lists, irc-op und resolve.
1110 - #include's aufgeraeumt: Header includieren keine anderen mehr.
1111 - KICK implementiert (bisher kann nur ein User aus einem Channel geckicked
1112 werden, Listen, wir im RFC vorgesehen, werden bisher nicht unterstuetzt).
1113 - INVITE, den Channel-Mode "i" sowie Invite-Lists ueber den MODE-Befehl
1114 (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
1115 - Source an ansi2knr fuer pre-ANSI-Compiler angepasst; ansi2knr in Source-
1116 Tree aufgenommen und in Build-System integriert; der ngIRCd compiliert
1117 nun z.B. unter A/UX mit dem nativen Compiler von Apple.
1118 - TOPIC lieferte bei unbekanntem Channel einen falschen Fehlercode.
1119 - LIST versteht nun Wildcards und kann an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1120 - wurde ein KILL fuer nicht-lokale Clients empfangen, so wurden die
1121 Verwaltungs-Strukturen nicht korrekt freigegeben.
1122 - empfangene NJOIN's wurden "zerhackt" an andere Server weitergegeben.
1123 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
1124 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
1125 - Dokumentation des neuen IRC+-Protokolls begonnen: doc/Protocol.txt
1126 - Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt;
1127 bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet.
1128 Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben.
1129 - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
1130 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics.
1131 - neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das
1132 IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert).
1133 - Ban-Lists (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
1134 - wird der Server mit "-n"/"--nodaemon" gestartet, so werden keine Mel-
1135 dungen mehr ueber Syslog ausgegeben, sondern nur noch auf der Konsole.
1136 - "Test-Suite" begonnen (in "make check" integriert): Dabei wird ein
1137 speziell konfigurierter Server auf Port 6789 gestartet, mit dem dann
1138 einige Tests durchgefuehrt werden (u.a. "Stress-Test" mit 50 Clients).
1139 - zu lange Operator-Namen in der Konfiguration wurden falsch gekuerzt.
1140 - kleine Anpassung an AIX 3.2.5: nun laeuft der ngIRCd auch dort :-)
1141 - ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei
1142 im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und
1143 "AdminEMail" konfiguriert.
1145 ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002
1147 - Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel
1148 ueberhaupt ein User ist. War es keiner, so fuehrte dies zu einem
1149 Abbruch des Servers [es wurde assert() aufgerufen].
1151 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
1153 - LUSERS verzaehlt sich bei eigenen Server-Links nicht mehr.
1154 - QUIT wird nun auch von noch nicht registrierten Clients akzeptiert.
1155 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
1156 Wildcards (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
1158 ngIRCd 0.4.1, 08.04.2002
1160 - Bei Server-Links wird nicht mehr an Hand der Anzahl der Parameter
1161 eines empfangenen SERVER-Befehls, sondern "intern" erkannt, ob es
1162 sich um eine ein- oder ausgehende Verbindung handelt und somit das
1163 eigene PASS-SERVER-Paar gesendet werden muss oder nicht. Da sich
1164 verschiedene Versionen des Original-ircd's anders verhalten, schlug
1165 die Anmeldung je nach Gehenseite evtl. fehl.
1166 - Bei einem NICK-Befehl eines lokalen Client konnte der Server ab-
1167 stuerzen, da ein Format-String einer Log-Meldung fehlerhaft war.
1169 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
1171 - IRC-Befehle nochmal auf weitere Source-Dateien aufgespalten.
1172 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
1173 - Der AWAY-Mode wurde nicht ueber mehrere Server-Links weitergegeben.
1174 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err).
1175 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
1176 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
1177 zusaetzliche Informationen.
1178 - In Nicknames wird das Zeichen "-" nun als zulaessig erkannt.
1179 - die Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei (doc/sample-ngircd.conf) wird als
1180 ngircd.conf installiert, wenn noch keine "echte" Konfigurationsdatei
1182 - bei WHO, WHOIS und NAMES wird nun nur noch der Status "Operator" oder
1183 "voiced" geliefert -- nicht mehr beides.
1184 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
1185 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
1186 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert (Variable "Group" in der Kon-
1187 figurationsdatei, Sektion [Server]).
1188 - IRC_PING() ist, wenn nicht im "strict RFC"-Mode, toleranter und ak-
1189 zeptiert beliebig viele Parameter (z.B. BitchX sendet soetwas).
1190 - die "Portab-Header" werden nicht mehr benoetigt, die System-Erkennung
1191 wird nun ausschliesslich vom configure-Script durchgefuehrt. System-
1192 abhaengige Definitionen finden sich nun unter src/portrab/.
1193 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
1194 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
1195 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
1196 gelesen und dann die verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
1197 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
1198 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
1199 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
1200 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
1201 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
1202 - URL der Homepage wird u.a. bei "--version" mit angezeigt.
1204 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
1206 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
1207 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
1208 - FAQ um Hinweise auf den Bugtracker erweitert.
1209 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
1210 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
1211 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
1212 - direkt nach dem Start schreibt der ngIRCd nun die aktiven Kommando-
1213 zeilenschalter in's Logfile (Passive, Debug, Sniffer ...).
1214 - das Signal-Flag SA_RESTART wird nur noch gesetzt, wenn es auf dem
1215 jeweiligen System auch definiert ist.
1216 - bei ausgehenden Verbindungen wird nun der Ziel-Port protokolliert.
1217 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert.
1218 - make-Target "check" (und "distcheck") mit Sinn erfuellt :-)
1219 (die Tests sind aber bisher nicht all zu tiefgehend ...)
1220 - Durch einen Ueberlauf konnte die Idle-Time bei WHOIS negativ werden ...
1221 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
1222 - WHOIS wird nicht mehr automatisch an den "Original-Server" weiterge-
1223 leitet: war eh nicht RFC-konform und machte mit Clients Probleme.
1224 - an User wird nun immer ein "komplettes" Prefix (mit Host-Mask) ver-
1225 schickt, Server bekommen nach wie vor kurze: das "Original" hat bei
1226 bestimmten Befehlen (PRIVMSG) ansonsten evtl. Probleme ...
1227 - NAMES korrigiert und vollstaendig implementiert.
1228 - SQUIT wird auf jeden Fall geforwarded, zudem besseres Logging.
1229 - Ist ein Nick bei der User-Registrierung bereits belegt, nimmt der
1230 Server nun korrekt weitere NICK-Befehle an und verwendet diese.
1231 - PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m".
1232 - AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst.
1233 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
1234 - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asynchron connectiert und
1235 blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht
1236 erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!).
1237 - Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet.
1238 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
1240 ngIRCd 0.2.1, 17.02.2002
1242 - NICK korrigiert: es werden nun auch alle "betroffenen" User informiert.
1243 - configure-Script erweitert, u.a. bessere Anpassung an BeOS: dort wird
1244 nun die "libbe" zum ngIRCd gelinkt, somit funktioniert auch syslog.
1245 - Fehlerhafte bzw. noch nicht verstandene Modes werden nun ausfuehrlicher
1246 an den Client geliefert.
1248 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
1250 - Nicknames und Channel-Namen werden etwas besser auf Gueltigkeit ueber-
1251 prueft; ist aber nach wie vor noch nicht ausreichend.
1252 - NJOINS von Servern wurden nicht an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1253 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
1254 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
1255 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
1256 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
1257 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
1258 - Benutzer von connectierenden Servern wurden nicht in den Channels ange-
1259 kuendigt, es wurden nur die internen Strukturen angepasst.
1260 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
1262 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
1264 - User-Modes bei User-Registrierungen von andere Servern (NICK-Befehl)
1265 wurden falsch uebernommen. Zudem wurden die Modes falsch gekuerzt.
1266 - Server-Verbindungen werden nun nach dem Start erst nach einer kurzen
1267 Pause aufgebaut (zur Zeit drei Sekunden).
1268 - Hilfetext korrigiert: --help und --version waren vertauscht, die
1269 Option --sniffer wurde gar nicht erwaehnt.
1270 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
1271 - der IRC-Sniffer wird nur noch aktiviert, wenn die Option auf der
1272 Kommandozeile angegeben wurde (bei entsprechend compiliertem Server).
1273 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
1274 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
1275 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
1276 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
1277 - durch die Channels einige Aenderungen an PRIVMSG, WHOIS, MODE etc.
1278 - neu connectierenden Servern werden nun Channels mit NJOIN angekuendigt.
1279 - Signal-Hander geaendert: die Fehlermeldung "interrupted system call"
1280 sollte so nicht mehr auftreten.
1281 - "spaeter" neu connectierende Server werden nun im Netz angekuendigt.
1282 - SERVER-Meldungen an andere Server sind nun korrekt sortiert.
1283 - Clients werden nun korrekt sowohl nur ueber den Nickname als auch die
1284 komplette "Host Mask" erkannt.
1286 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
1288 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
1289 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
1290 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
1291 - MODE und NICK melden nun die Aenderungen an andere Server, ebenso
1292 die Befehle QUIT und SQUIT.
1293 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
1294 - Parses handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
1295 - Status-Codes an den Server selber werden ignorier.
1296 - Log-Meldungen und Log-Level ueberarbeitet und korrigiert.
1297 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
1298 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
1299 - WHOIS korrigiert: Anfrage wurde u.U. an User geforwarded anstatt vom
1300 Server beantwortet zu werden.
1301 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS
1302 - Client-Modes von Remote-Servern wurden nicht korrekt uerbernommen.
1304 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
1306 - Struktur der Konfigurationsdatei geaendert: sie ist nun "Samba like",
1307 d.h. sie besteht aus Abschnitten (siehe "doc/sample-ngircd.conf").
1308 - Es koennen mehrere IRC-Server-Opertatoren konfiguriert werden.
1309 - Zombies der Resolver-Prozesse werden nun ordentlich "getoetet".
1310 - NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern.
1311 - ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar.
1312 - neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT.
1313 - Asynchroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
1314 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
1315 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige
1316 Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert
1317 aber bereits, ebenso wie WHOIS (letzterer wird immer an den Server,
1318 auf dem der User registriert ist, weitergegeben).
1319 - "arpa/inet.h" wird nur noch includiert, wenn vorhanden.
1320 - Fehler bei select() fuerhen nun zum Abbruch von ngIRCd, bisher landete
1321 der Server zumeist in einer Endlosschleife.
1322 - Logmeldungen und Level an vielen Stellen verbessert.
1323 - lokalen Usernamen wird nun ein "~" vorangestellt, da bisher noch keine
1324 Ident-Anfragen gemacht werden.
1326 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
1328 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)