2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2013 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
12 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
14 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
15 - Adjust log messages for invalid and spoofed prefixes, which cleans up
16 logging of commands related to already KILL'ed clients. And don't
17 forward KILL commands for (already) unknown clients any more to prevent
18 unnecessary duplicates.
19 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
20 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
21 - Fixed blocking of server reconnects in some error configurations.
22 - Don't ignore SSL-related errors during startup any more: abort startup
23 when SSL is requested by the configuration but can't be initialized and
24 don't continue only listening on plain text communication ports.
26 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
27 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
28 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
29 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
30 - Fix "TRACE": Correctly return ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) (which basically
31 is "syntax error") when there are too many parameters.
32 - Clean up lots of permission and parameter checks in functions handling
33 IRC commands; and more consistently add penalty times on errors.
34 - Fix error numeric of WHOIS when no nick name has been provided:
35 as per RFC it should be ERR_NONICKNAMEGIVEN(431).
36 - Only log "IDENT ... no result" messages when an IDENT looked took place
37 and didn't return any data, not when IDENT has been disabled.
38 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
39 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
40 the IRC "TRACE" command.
41 - Correctly discard supplementary groups on server startup.
42 - Save client IP address text for "WebIRC" users and correctly display
43 it on WHOIS, for example. (Closes bug #159)
44 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
45 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
46 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
47 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
48 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
49 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
50 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
51 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
53 - Enforce "penalty times" on error conditions more consistently and in
54 more places. Now most error codes sent back from the IRC server to the
55 client should result in a 2 second "penalty".
56 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
57 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
58 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
59 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
60 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
61 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
62 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
63 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
64 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
65 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
66 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
67 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
68 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
69 - IRC Operator names, as defined in ngircd.conf, are logged now when
70 handling successful OPER commands.
71 - Some error conditions while handling IRC commands, like "permission
72 denied" or "need more parameters", result in more penalty times.
73 - The numeric replies of some commands became split too early which
74 resulted in more numeric reply lines than necessary.
75 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
76 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
77 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
78 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
79 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
80 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
81 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
82 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
83 - Fix use-after-free in the Lists_CheckReason() function, which is used
84 to check if a client is a member of a particular ban/invite/... list.
85 - Xcode: fix detection of host OS, vendor, and CPU type, and update
86 project settings for Xcode 5.
87 - OS X PackageMaker: use relative path names in project files and package
88 with correct file permissions (requires root privileges on "make").
89 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
90 - Look for possible cloaked Masks in Lists. Users with +x user mode can
91 be banned with their cloaked hostname now.
92 - Don't read SSL client data before DNS resolver is finished which could
93 have resulted in discarding the resolved client hostname and IDENT
94 reply afterwards, because in some situations (timing dependent) the
95 NICK and USER commands could have already been read in from the client,
96 stored in the buffer, and been processed.
97 Thanks to Julian Brost for reporting the issue and testing, and to
98 Federico G. Schwindt <fgsch@lodoss.net> for helping to debug it!
99 - Increase password length limit to 64 characters. (Closes bug #154)
100 - doc/Services.txt: Update Anope status and URL.
101 - Clean up Xcode project file, remove outdated files, add missing ones.
102 - Update Doxygen configuration file.
103 - configure: search for iconv_open as well as libiconv_open, because
104 on some installations iconv_open() is actually libiconv_open().
105 iconv_open() is the glibc version while libiconv_open() is the
106 libiconv version, now both variants are supported. (Closes bug #151)
107 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
108 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
109 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
110 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
111 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
112 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
113 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
114 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
115 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
116 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
117 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
118 The default is 0, "never".
119 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
120 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
121 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
122 - contrib/README: add description for more files.
123 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
124 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
125 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
126 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
127 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
128 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
129 - Exit message: use singular & plural :-)
130 - autogen.sh: Check for autoconf/automake wrapper scripts
131 - Add missing punctuation marks in log messages, adjust some severity
132 levels, and make SSL-related messages more readable.
133 - AUTHORS file: Update list of contributors.
134 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
135 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
136 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
137 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
138 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
139 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
140 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
141 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
142 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
143 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
145 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
147 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
148 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
149 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
150 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
152 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
154 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
155 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to to crash the daemon
157 - WHO command: Use the currently "displayed hostname" (which can be cloaked!)
158 for hostname matching, not the real one. In other words: don't display all
159 the cloaked users on a specific real hostname!
160 - configure: The header file "netinet/in_systm.h" already is optional in
161 ngIRCd, so don't require it in the configure script. Now ngIRCd can be
162 built on Minix 3 again :-)
163 - Return better "Connection not registered as server link" errors: Now ngIRCd
164 returns a more specific error message for numeric ERR_NOTREGISTERED(451)
165 when a regular user tries to use a command that isn't allowed for users but
167 - Don't report ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) when a MDOE command with more modes
168 than nicknames is handled, as well as for channel limit and key changes
169 without specifying the limit or key parameters.
170 This is how a lot (all?) other IRC servers behave, including ircd2.11,
171 InspIRCd, and ircd-seven. And because of clients (tested with Textual and
172 mIRC) sending bogus MODE commands like "MODE -ooo nick", end-users got the
173 expected result as well as correct but misleading error messages ...
174 - Correctly detect when SSL subsystem must be initialized and take
175 outgoing connections (server links!) into account, too.
176 - autogen.sh: Enforce serial test harness on GNU automake >=1.13. The
177 new parallel test harness which is enabled by default starting with
178 automake 1.13 isn't compatible with our test suite.
179 And don't use "egrep -o", instead use "sed", because it isn't portable
180 and not available on OpenBSD, for example.
182 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
184 - Allow ERROR command on server and service links only, ignore them and
185 add a penalty time on all other link types.
186 - Enforced mode setting by IRC Operators: Only check the channel user
187 modes of the initiator if he is joined to the channel and not an IRC
188 operator enforcing modes (which requires the configuration option
189 "OperCanUseMode" to be enabled), because trying to check channel user
190 modes of a non-member results in an assertion when running with debug
191 code or could crash the daemon otherwise. This closes bug #147, thanks
192 to James Kirwill <james.kirwill@bk.ru> for tracking this down!
193 - Fix build system to cope with spaces in path names.
194 - Code cleanups, mostly to fix build warnings on Cygwin.
196 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
198 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
199 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
200 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
201 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
202 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
204 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
205 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
206 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
207 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
208 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
209 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
210 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
211 - RPL_UMODEIS: send correct target name, even on server links.
212 - Update platformtest.sh to follow autoconf changes and only generate
213 the "configure" script when it is missing.
214 - Fix the test suite to correctly execute test scripts even when stdout
216 - Fix some compiler warnings on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
218 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
219 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
220 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
221 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
222 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
223 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
224 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
225 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
226 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
227 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
228 - Fix error message when trying to join non-predefined channels and the
229 "PredefChannelsOnly" configuration option is set.
230 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
231 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
232 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
233 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
234 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
235 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
236 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
237 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
238 - Make server reconnect time a little bit more random, so that two
239 servers trying to connect to each other asynchronously don't try this
240 in exactly the same time periods and kick each other off ...
241 - Don't accept connections for servers already being linked: there was a
242 time frame that could result in one connection overwriting the other,
243 e. g. the incoming connection overwriting the status of the outgoing
244 one. And this could lead to all kind of weirdness (even crashes!) later
245 on: now such incoming connections are dropped.
246 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
247 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
248 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
249 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
250 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
251 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
252 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
253 - WHOIS: Not only show RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG to local IRC operators, but show
254 it to all IRC operators in the network. And don't show it to anybody if
255 the "more privacy" configuration option is enabled. (Closes #134)
256 - Test suite: make expect scripts more verbose displaying dots for each
257 reply of the server that it is waiting for.
258 - WHOIS: Implement numeric RPL_WHOISMODES_MSG (379) and show user modes in
259 the reply of the WHOIS command for the user himself or, if MorePrivacy
260 isn't set, for request initiated by an IRC operator. (Closes #129)
261 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
262 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
263 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
264 - KICK-protect IRC services.
265 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
266 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
267 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
268 - Debian: require "telnet" or "telnet-ssl" for building and enable
269 CHARCONV in ngircd-full[-dbg] variants.
270 - Send RPL_REHASHING (382) numeric if a REHASH command was accepted.
271 - Fix spelling and variable names in some log messages.
272 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
273 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
274 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
275 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
276 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
278 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
279 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
280 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
282 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
283 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
284 configuration file. (Closes #136)
285 - Enhance build system: Support new (>=1.12) and old (<=1.11) GNU automake
286 versions, update checks for required and optional features, enable
287 colored test output of automake (if available), rename configure.in to
288 more modern configure.ac, include .mailmap and all build-system files in
289 distribution archives and no longer require a GIT tree to detect the
290 correct version string.
291 - Update documentation: add doc/Contributing.txt and include version
292 numbers in doc/Modes.txt.
293 - Free all listen ports on initialization: now listen ports can be
294 reconfigured on runtime using a configuration reload.
295 - Initialize SSL when needed only, and disable SSL on errors.
296 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
297 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
298 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
299 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
300 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
301 - Allow limited punctuation in usernames, for better PAM integration.
302 - Correctly re-initialize signal handlers on RESTART commands.
303 - Show a warning on startup if the configuration file is not a full path:
304 ngIRCd is a long-running process and changes its working directory to
305 "/" to not block mounted filesystems and the like when running as daemon
306 ("not in the foreground"); therefore the path to the configuration file
307 must be relative to "/" (or the chroot() directory), which basically is
308 "not relative", to ensure that "kill -HUP" and the "REHASH" command work
309 as expected later on. (Closes #127)
310 - Make the "&SERVER" channel definable in a [Channel] configuration block,
311 which enables server operators to overwrite the built-in topic and
312 channel modes. (Closes #131)
313 - Don't limit list size of "WHO #channel" commands, because it makes no
314 sense to not return all the users in that channel, so I removed the
315 check. But if there are more than MAX_RPL_WHO(25) replies, the client
316 requesting the list will be "penalized" one second more, then 2 in
318 - Make ngIRCd buildable using the kqueue() IO interface on FreeBSD 4.x.
319 - Fix the "NoticeAuth" configuration option when using SSL connections and
320 enhance the message to show the hostname and IDENT reply of the client.
321 - Introduce numeric RPL_HOSTHIDDEN_MSG (396): This numeric is sent to the
322 client each time it changes its displayed hostname using "MODE +/-x",
323 and if "CloakHost" is set right after the MOTD has been sent.
324 - Fix USERHOST not displaying the correctly cloaked hostname.
325 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
326 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
327 behave, and so do we :-)
328 - Dynamically allocate memory for connection passwords: This a) saves
329 memory for clients not using passwords at all and b) allows for
330 "arbitrarily" long passwords.
331 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
332 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
333 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
334 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
335 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
336 - Now "make uninstall" removes the installed "ngircd.conf" file, if it is
337 still equal to our "sample-ngircd.conf" file and therefore hasn't been
338 modified by the user. If it has been modified, it isn't removed and a
339 notice is displayed to the user. And "make install" now displays a
340 message when no ngircd.conf file exists and the "sample-ngircd.conf"
341 file will be installed as a starting point.
342 - Add contrib/ngircd.service, a systemd service file for ngircd.
343 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
344 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
345 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
346 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
347 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
348 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
349 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
350 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
351 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
352 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
353 random salt will be generated after each server restart. (Closes #133)
355 ngIRCd Release 19.2 (2012-06-19)
357 - doc/Capabilities.txt: document "multi-prefix" capability
359 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
360 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
361 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
362 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
363 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
364 - Correctly handle asynchronously re-established server links: a race
365 condition could let the daemon loose track of an already re-established
366 incoming server link while preparing its own outgoing connection.
367 Peers that both try to connect each other could have been affected.
368 - Log a debug message when SIGUSR2 is handled in debug mode.
369 - Only allow alphanumeric characters in user-supplied user names of
370 USER command and IDENT replies.
371 - Change wording of "TLS initialized" message to make it more consistent.
372 - Don't leak file descriptors on error path when creating "PID files".
373 - Add missing mode "r" to CHANMODES in 005 "ISUPPORT" numeric.
374 - Update doc/Modes.txt and doc/Platforms.txt documents.
375 - contrib/platformtest.sh: correctly detect Open64 C compiler and handle
376 "CC=xxx MAKE=yyy ./platformtest.sh" calling convention.
377 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
378 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
379 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
380 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
381 - Update Xcode project files: reference missing documentation files.
382 - Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot.
383 - FAQ: enhance description of chroot setup.
385 ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
387 - Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL.
388 - Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note",
389 and fix lintian(1) warning ""hyphen-used-as-minus-sign", too.
390 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
391 distribution archive ... ooops!
392 - getpid.sh: Fix test case error for Debian using sbuild(1).
393 - Don't log "ngIRCd hello message" two times when starting up.
395 ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
397 - Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by
398 GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions.
399 - Fix configuration file parser: don't accept "[SSL]" blocks in the
400 configuration file when no SSL support is built in ngIRCd.
401 - Fix building ngIRCd with old gcc versions (e. g. 2.7.2).
402 - Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration
403 file: Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the
404 configuration, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored
405 the "SyslogFacility" configuration option ...
406 Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue!
408 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
409 - Enhance command limits for server links: the limit now is dependent
410 on the number of users connected in the network and higher while
411 servers are joining the network to make the login of servers faster.
412 - Log more information about server synchronization.
413 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
414 is the only supported version.
415 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
416 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
417 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
418 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
419 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
420 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
421 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
422 - PRIVMSG and NOTICE: Handle nick!user@host masks case-insensitive.
423 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
424 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
425 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
426 by completely unknown clients.
427 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
428 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
429 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
430 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
431 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
432 - Fix both ERR_SUMMONDISABLED(445) and ERR_USERSDISABLED(446) replies.
433 - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for
434 unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501).
435 - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES",
436 add "EXCEPTS=e" and "INVEX=I", add "MAXLIST=beI:50".
437 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
438 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
439 - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive.
440 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
441 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
442 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
443 - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments.
444 For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling
445 "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f".
446 - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of
447 the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an
448 assertion and end the daemon in some error paths.
449 - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child
450 processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases
451 with IDENT lookups enabled.
452 - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS,
453 don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is
454 case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the
455 unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client).
456 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
457 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
458 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
459 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
460 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
461 - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variable in the
462 configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user).
463 - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-)
464 - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single
465 channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel
466 limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check
467 the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when
468 trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of.
469 - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nicknames.
470 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
471 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
472 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
473 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
474 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
475 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
476 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
477 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
478 - Fixed some spelling errors in documentation and code comments
479 (Thanks to Christoph Biedl).
480 - contrib/Debian/control: Update and complete "Build-Depends" and
481 update our Debian package descriptions with "official" ones.
482 - Fixed typo in two error messages.
483 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
484 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
485 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
486 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
487 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
488 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
489 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
490 - README: Update list of implemented commands.
491 - Log better error messages when rejecting clients.
492 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
493 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
494 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
495 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
496 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
497 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
498 - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR
499 for Mac OS X Xcode builds.
500 - ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use
501 poll() when poll.h exists as well.
502 - Suppress 'Can't create pre-defined channel: invalid name: ""' message.
503 - whois-test: handle local host name = "localhost.localdomain" using the
504 pattern "localhost*" for valid local host names.
505 - sample-ngircd.conf: show correct default for "PAM" variable: The
506 default of "PAM" is "yes" when ngIRCd has been configured to use it,
507 so show the correct default value in the sample configuration file.
509 - Update GPL 2 license text to current version.
510 - Only close "unrelated" sockets in forked child processes: This fixes
511 the problem that ngIRCd can't do any IDENT lookups because of the
512 socket has already been closed in the child process.
513 The bug has been introduced starting with ngIRCd 17 ... :-(
514 (commit ID 6ebb31ab35e)
515 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
516 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
517 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
518 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
519 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
520 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
521 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
522 - New 2nd message "Nickname too long" for error code 432.
523 - Xcode: Mac OS X config.h: support 10.5 as well as 10.6/10.7 SDK.
524 - Xcode: exclude more Xcode 4 specific directories in ".gitignore".
525 - Disconnect directly linked servers sending QUIT. Without this,
526 the server becomes removed from the network and the client list,
527 but the connection isn't shut down at all ...
528 - contrib/ngindent: detect "gindent" as GNU indent.
529 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
530 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
531 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
532 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
533 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
534 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
535 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
536 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
537 - Correctly inform clients when other servers change their user modes.
538 This is required for some services to work correctly.
539 - Test suite: make getpid.sh work even when run as root.
540 - Spoofed prefixes: close connection on non-server links only.
541 On server-links, spoofed prefixes can happen because of the
542 asynchronous nature of the IRC protocol. So don't break server-
543 links, only log a message and ignore the command. (Closes #113)
545 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
547 - Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page.
548 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
549 - Don't register WHOWAS information when "MorePrivacy" option is in effect.
551 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
552 - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-)
553 - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section.
554 - ngircd.8: document debugging options.
555 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
556 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
557 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
558 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
560 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
561 - PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
562 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
563 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
564 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
565 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
566 servers from TOR or I2P.
567 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
568 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
569 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
570 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
571 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
572 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
573 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
574 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
575 - Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest".
576 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
577 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
578 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
579 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
580 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
581 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
582 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
583 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
584 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
585 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
586 - Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers.
587 - GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients
588 refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it
589 would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
591 - contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
592 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
593 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
594 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
595 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
596 - Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links
597 (often used by services, for example) are not affected.
598 - Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-)
599 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
600 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
601 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
602 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
603 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
604 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
605 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
606 - Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
607 like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
608 - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This
609 helps to speed up server login and network synchronization.
610 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
611 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
612 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
613 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
614 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
615 variable description.
616 - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
617 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
618 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
619 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
620 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
621 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
622 supplied by the IRC client.
623 - doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
624 - Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
625 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
626 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
627 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
628 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
629 - Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
630 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
631 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
632 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
633 - Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
634 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
635 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
636 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
637 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
638 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
639 - TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other
640 servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when
641 the client is not joined to this channel.
642 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
643 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
644 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
645 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
646 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
647 - Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
648 ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
649 - Don't throttle services and servers being registered.
650 - Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
651 - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is
652 only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
655 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
657 - --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase
658 - Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit
659 - Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly
660 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
661 - Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section
662 - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section
663 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
664 - README: Updated list of implemented commands
665 - add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball
666 - Merge branch 'numeric-329'
667 - add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball
668 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
669 - Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()
671 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
673 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
674 - Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf
675 - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa
676 - contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent
678 ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27)
679 - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updateed project file
680 to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it
681 is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default
682 PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd.
683 - Debian: updated standards version to 3.9.1, added libpam0g-dev to the
684 dependencies, and install a default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins.
685 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable.
686 - Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links.
688 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
689 - ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a.
690 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
691 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
692 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
693 - ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C.
694 - ./configure: check support for C prototypes again.
695 - Don't use PARAMS() macro for function implementations.
696 - Added m68k/apple/aux3.0.1 (gcc 2.7.2) to doc/Platforms.txt.
697 - Only try to set FD_CLOEXEC if this flag is defined.
698 - Only use "__attribute__ ((unused))" if GCC >=2.8 is used.
699 - doc/Makefile.am: don't set docdir, automake handles it already.
701 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
702 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
703 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
704 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
705 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
706 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
707 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
708 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
709 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
710 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
711 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
712 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
713 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
714 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
715 using the command line parameters.
716 - Signal handler: added new 'delayed' signal handlers, including fallback
717 to deprecated sysv API. And removed global NGIRCd_SignalRehash variable.
718 - IO: add io_cloexec() to set close-on-exec flag.
719 - ng_ipaddr.h: include required assert.h header.
720 - Conn_SyncServerStruct(): test all connections; and work case insensitive
721 - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output.
722 - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the
723 client lag debug-output is working again.
724 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
725 - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
726 - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
727 - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
728 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
729 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
730 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
731 - Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon.
732 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
733 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
734 - Added mailmap file for git-[short]log and git-blame.
735 - Authenticated users should be registered without the "~" mark.
736 - Set NoPAM=yes in configuration files used for the testsuite.
737 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
738 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
739 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
740 - Resolver: Implement signal handler and catch TERM signals.
741 - Don't set a penalty time when doing DNS lookups.
742 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
743 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
744 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
745 - ngircd.init: require "$network" and "$remote_fs" when stopping ngircd.
746 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
747 - Include correct header files when testing for arpa/inet.h (Closes: #105).
748 - Don't access already freed memory in IRC_KILL().
749 - Fix "beeing" typo ...
750 - SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message.
752 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
754 - doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker
756 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
757 - Updated some more copyright notices, it's 2010 already :-)
758 - Only compile in Get_Error() if really needed
759 - Fix gcc warning "ignoring return value of ..."
760 - Include netinet/in_systm.h alongside netinet/ip.h
761 - Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h
762 - Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists
763 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt
764 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
765 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
766 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
768 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
769 - Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups.
770 - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit.
771 - Updatet doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
772 how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA).
773 - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list).
774 - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define
775 - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric
776 - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output.
777 - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable.
778 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
779 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
780 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
781 - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts".
782 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
783 - Only link "nsl" library when really needed.
784 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
785 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
786 to join such a channel.
787 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
788 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
789 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
790 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
792 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
794 - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset.
796 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
797 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
798 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
799 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
800 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
801 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
802 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
804 - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0
805 for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file.
806 - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names.
807 - Fix LSB header of Debian init script.
808 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh
809 to ease generating platform reports.
810 - Fix connection information for already registered connections.
811 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
812 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
813 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
814 - Fix connection counter.
815 - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections.
816 - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.
818 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
820 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
821 - BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh.
822 - New start/stop script for RedHat-based distributions:
823 contrib/ngircd-redhat.init, thanks to Naoya Nakazawa <naoya@sanow.net>.
824 - Doxygen: update source code repository link to GIT.
825 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
826 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
827 - Fix error handling on compressed links.
828 - Fix server list announcement.
829 - Do not remove host names from info text.
831 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
833 - Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections.
835 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
836 - Updated Debian/Linux init script (see contrib/Debian/ngircd.init).
837 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
838 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
839 - Spell check and enhance ngIRCd manual pages.
840 - Channel mode changes: break on syntax errors in MODE command.
841 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
842 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
843 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
844 individual channel keys for different users.
845 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
846 - Updated ngircd.spec file for building RPM packages.
847 - Add new and missing files to Mac OS X Xcode project, and update project.
848 - Reject masks with wildcard after last dot.
849 - TLS/SSL: remove useless error message when ssl connection is closed.
850 - Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down.
851 (closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net)
852 - Fix handling of channels containing dots.
853 (closes ug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
855 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
857 - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
858 - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
860 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
861 - New version number scheme :-)
862 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
863 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
864 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
865 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
866 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
867 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
868 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
869 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
870 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
871 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
872 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
873 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
874 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
875 - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
876 - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
877 - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
878 - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
879 - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
880 - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two
881 servers are started for testing server-server linking.
882 - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
883 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
884 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
886 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
888 - Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode
889 - Don't allow stray \r or \n in command parameters
890 - --configtest: return non-zero exit code if there are errors
891 - Update ngIRCd manual pages
892 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
893 - Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error.
894 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
895 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
896 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
897 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
898 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
900 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
902 - Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns
903 proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran)
904 - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
905 - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number.
907 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
908 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
909 - Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now!
910 - Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT.
911 - Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition.
912 - Report ERR_NOTONCHANNEL when trying to part a channel one is not member of.
913 - Testsuite: remove erroneous ConfUID setting in config file.
915 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
916 - Include Mac OS X Xcode project in distribution archives.
917 - Do not exit on SIGHUP or /REHASH if the config file cannot opened.
919 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
920 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
921 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
922 - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+).
924 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
925 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
926 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
927 - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom)
928 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
929 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
930 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
931 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
933 ngIRCd 0.11.1 (2008-02-26)
935 - Fix sending of JOIN commands between servers when remote server appended
936 mode flags. (Rolf Eike Beer) [from HEAD]
937 - Send "G" instead of "H" flag in WHO replies. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
938 - Under some circumstances ngIRCd issued channel MODE message with a
939 trailing space. (Dana Dahlstrom) [from HEAD]
941 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
943 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07)
944 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
945 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
947 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
948 - Use dotted-decimal IP address if host name is >= 64.
949 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
950 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
951 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
952 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
953 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
954 - Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
955 enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
956 See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
957 - Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!?
958 - Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced
959 to the network as well as the wrong output of the LINKS command.
960 - Update Mac OS X Xcode project file for Xcode 3.
961 - Adjust test suite to be usable on HP/UX 11.11 :-)
962 - Fix code to compile using K&R C compiler and ansi2kr again.
963 - New config option NoDNS: Disables DNS lookups when clients connect.
964 - Fixed propagation of channel mode 'P' on server links.
965 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
966 - Fixed code that prevented GCC 2.95 to compile ngIRCd.
967 - Adjust path names in manual pages according to "./configure" settings.
968 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
969 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
970 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
971 - Don't connect to a server if a connection to another server within the
972 same group is already in progress.
973 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
976 ngIRCd 0.10.4 (2008-01-07)
978 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
979 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
981 ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01)
983 - SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could
984 cause the server to crash. Thanks to Sebastian Vesper, <net@veoson.net>.
987 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
989 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre2 (2007-05-19)
990 - Server links are allowed to use larger write buffers now (up to 50 KB).
992 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre1 (2007-05-05)
993 - Fix compressed server links (broken since 0.10.0).
994 - Predefined Channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
995 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l).
996 - When using epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
997 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
998 - New configure option "--without-select" to disable select() IO API
999 (even when using epoll(), see above).
1000 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
1001 - Reorganized internal handling of invite and ban lists.
1003 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
1005 - Fixed validation of server names containing digits.
1006 - Update the "info text" of the local server after re-reading configuration.
1007 - Changed Numerics 265 and 266 to follow ircd 2.11.x "standards".
1008 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
1009 - Enhanced ISUPPORT message (005 numeric).
1010 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
1011 join predefined channels.
1012 - Code cleanups: use "LogDebug(...)" instead of "Log(LOG_DEBUG, ...)", use
1013 "strcspn()", unsigned vs. signed, use "const", fix whitespaces, ...
1015 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
1017 - Fixed file handle leak when daemon is not able to send MOTD to a client.
1019 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre2 (2006-09-09)
1020 - Fixed build problems with GCC option -fstack-protector.
1021 - Minor documentation updates.
1023 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
1024 - Validate "ServerName" (see RFC 2812, section 2.3.1).
1025 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
1026 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
1027 - The ngIRCd handles time shifts backwards more gracefully now (the
1028 timeout handling doesn't disconnect clients by mistake any more).
1029 - Internal: Restructured connection handling (the connection ID is equal
1030 to the file descriptor of the connection).
1031 - Internal: Simplified resolver code.
1032 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
1033 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
1034 - Enhanced the handler for PING and PONG commands: fix forwarding and enable
1035 back-passing of a client supplied additional argument of PING.
1036 - Changed handling of timeouts for unregistered connections: don't reset
1037 the counter if data is received and disconnect clients earlier.
1038 - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead.
1039 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
1040 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
1041 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
1042 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
1043 lookup to prevent spoofing.
1044 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
1045 addition to the select() interface.
1047 ngIRCd 0.9.2 (2005-10-15)
1049 - Fixed a bug that could cause the daemon to crash when outgoing server
1050 connections can't be established.
1051 - Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to leak file descriptors when no
1052 resolver subprocesses could be created.
1053 - Fixed server NOTICEs to users with "s" mode ("server messages").
1054 - Fixed a format string bug in "connection statistics" messages to clients.
1056 ngIRCd 0.9.1 (2005-08-03)
1058 - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!)
1059 when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in
1060 ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by <qssl@fastmail.fm>, Thanks!
1061 - Changed some constants to be "signed" (instead of unsigned) to solve
1062 problems with old (pre-ANSI) compilers.
1064 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
1066 ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09)
1067 - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters.
1068 - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead
1069 of shutting down the (wrong) connection.
1070 - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the
1071 client is registered with the server (like the original ircd).
1072 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
1073 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
1074 - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client
1075 is member of multiple channels.
1076 - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and
1077 pray that this will be "the right thing" ...
1078 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
1079 - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug.
1080 - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
1081 - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
1082 to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
1083 - Removed typedefs for the native C datatypes.
1084 Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available.
1085 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
1086 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
1087 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
1088 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1089 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
1090 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
1091 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
1092 - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug
1093 code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process.
1094 - Don't create version information string each time a client connects
1095 but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
1096 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
1097 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
1098 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1099 - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1100 - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters.
1101 - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc()
1102 failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway.
1103 Patch from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1104 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
1105 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
1106 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
1107 - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and
1108 most probably other older C compilers on other systems.
1109 - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in
1110 the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it
1111 changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This
1112 should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
1115 ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03)
1117 - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled
1118 to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
1119 <coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
1120 (CVE-2005-0226; http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
1122 ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
1124 - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution.
1125 - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found
1126 by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. (CVE-2005-0199)
1127 - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks
1128 to Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1129 - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by
1130 Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1131 - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has
1132 been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/
1133 It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself,
1134 not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1136 ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25)
1138 - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub
1139 - Added some more debug code ...
1140 - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest".
1141 - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for
1142 ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after
1144 - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README!
1146 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
1148 - Fixed wrong buffer size calculation for results of the resolver.
1150 ngircd 0.8.0-pre2 (2004-05-16)
1151 - Enhanced logging to console when running in "no-detached mode": added
1152 PID and log messages of resolver sub-processes.
1153 - Fixed host name lookups when using IDENT user lookups.
1154 - "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean" remove more files now.
1156 ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07)
1157 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
1158 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
1159 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
1160 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
1161 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
1162 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
1163 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
1164 - Reorganized autogen.sh and configure scripts.
1165 - Fixed a wrong assert() which could cause the daemon to exit spuriously
1166 when closing down connections.
1167 - Better logging of decompression errors returned by zlib.
1168 - Servers other than the destination server didn't clean up the invite
1169 list of an "invite-only" channel properly when an INVITE'd user joined.
1170 - Changed the reply of the MODE command to match the syntax of the
1171 original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last
1172 parameter has been added.
1173 - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info.
1174 - Results of the resolver (host names and IDENT names) are discarded after
1175 the client is successfully registered with the server.
1176 - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections.
1177 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
1178 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
1179 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
1180 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
1181 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
1183 ngIRCd 0.7.7 (2004-02-05)
1185 - The info text ("real name") of users is set to "-" if none has been
1186 specified using the USER command (e. g. "USER user * * :"). Reason:
1187 the original ircd doesn't like empty ones and would KILL such users.
1188 - Fixed (optional) TCP Wrapper test which was broken and could result in
1189 false results. Thanks to Fuminori Tanizaki <tany@mcnet.ad.jp>!
1190 - Removed "USE_" prefixes of configuration #defines.
1192 ngIRCd 0.7.6 (2003-12-05)
1194 - Fixed abort() ("server crash") when INVITE'ing users to nonexistent
1195 channels. Bug found by <hiddenx@wp.pl>.
1196 - Extended version numbering of CVS versions (added date).
1197 - Enhanced/fixed doc/Protocol.txt;
1199 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-11-07)
1201 - Fixed ban behavior: users which are banned from a channel can't no
1202 longer send PRIVMSG's to this channel (fixes Bug #47).
1203 - Fixed and enhanced the "penalty handling" of the server: commands that
1204 require more resources block the client for a short time.
1205 - Changed the internal time resolution to one second.
1206 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
1207 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
1208 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
1209 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
1210 - Fixed build problems under Mac OS X 10.3.
1211 - Use "-pipe" when compiling with gcc, speeds things up a little :-)
1212 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
1213 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
1214 - Suppress misleading error message of diff during make run.
1215 - Enhanced test-suite and made it work on GNU/Hurd.
1216 - Fixed minor typo in debug output :-)
1218 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
1220 - Included files to build Debian packages (located in "debian/").
1221 - Updated config.guess and config.sub to newer upstream versions.
1222 - NJOIN propagates user channel modes correctly again ... Upsa.
1223 - Made Makefile more compatible with "make -j<n>".
1224 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
1225 - Fixed a compiler warning related to an unnecessary assert().
1226 - Enhanced VERSION command when using debug versions.
1228 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
1230 - "ServerName" is checked better now: a dot (".") is required.
1231 - The KILL command verifies and logs more parameters.
1233 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre2 (2003-04-27)
1234 - CVS build system fixes (made autogen.sh more portable).
1235 - Fixed compilation and test-suite on Solaris (tested with 2.6).
1236 - New documentation file "doc/Platforms.txt" describing the status of
1237 ngIRCd on the various tested platforms.
1238 - Test for broken GCC on Mac OS X and disable "-pedantic" in this case.
1239 - Disable "-ansi" on Cygwin: system headers are incompatible.
1240 - The server tried to connect to other servers only once when DNS or
1241 socket failures occurred.
1242 - Fixed --configtest: There is no variable "ServerPwd", it's "Password".
1244 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 (2003-04-22)
1245 - New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside).
1246 - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled.
1247 - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the
1248 more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems
1249 that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included
1250 in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h).
1251 - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that
1252 can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken.
1253 - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-)
1254 - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and
1255 removing servers during runtime works more reliable now.
1256 - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]"
1257 - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]".
1258 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
1259 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
1260 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
1261 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
1262 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
1263 - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The
1264 german documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
1265 - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision.
1266 - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding.
1267 - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool".
1268 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
1269 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
1270 - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS)
1271 if an outgoing server link can't be established.
1272 - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility.
1273 - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly.
1274 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
1275 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
1276 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
1277 configure to enable it.
1278 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
1279 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
1280 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
1281 - Better error reporting to clients on connect.
1282 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
1283 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
1284 - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
1286 ngIRCd 0.6.1, 2003-01-21
1288 - Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more,
1289 ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you
1290 can kill only valid users now.
1291 - The server no longer forwards commands to ordinary users, instead it
1292 answers with the correct error message ("no such server") now.
1293 - WHOIS commands weren't always forwarded as requested.
1294 - The server sets a correct default AWAY message now when propagating
1295 between servers (bug introduced in 0.6.0).
1296 - Fixed up and enhanced CHANINFO command: channel keys and user limits
1297 are synchronized between servers now, too.
1298 - MODE returns the key and user limit for channel members correctly now.
1299 - Non-members of a channel could crash the server when trying to change
1300 its modes or modes of its members.
1301 - The server didn't validate weather a target user is a valid channel
1302 member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd.
1305 Older changes (sorry, only available in german language):
1307 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
1309 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 2002-12-23
1310 - neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect.
1311 - LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen
1312 Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start
1313 dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt.
1315 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 2002-12-18
1316 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
1317 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
1318 - der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den
1319 Resolver (4 Sekunden), wenn das Ergebnis eintrifft setzt er aber den
1320 Login sofort fort (bisher wurde immer mind. 1 Sekunde gewartet).
1321 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
1322 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
1323 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sektion "Global")
1324 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
1325 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
1326 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
1327 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
1328 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
1329 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
1330 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
1331 - Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst.
1332 - unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
1333 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
1334 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
1335 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
1336 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
1337 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
1338 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
1339 - Channel-Mode "P" ("persistent") kann nur noch von IRC-Operatoren gesetzt
1340 werden. Grund: User koennen den Server sonst leicht "Channel-Flooden".
1341 - MOTD kann nun an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1342 - IRC-Befehl "TIME" implementiert.
1343 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
1344 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
1345 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
1346 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
1347 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
1348 - Handling der Schreibpuffer umgestellt: Server sollte schneller arbeiten.
1349 - Prefix-Fehler werden besser protokolliert (mit verursachendem Befehl).
1350 - SQUIT wird nicht mehr doppelt an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1351 - Der Server versucht nun vor dem Schliessen einer Verbindung Daten, die
1352 noch im Schreibpuffer stehen, zu senden.
1353 - Source in weiteres Modul "irc-info" aufgespalten.
1354 - Konfigurationsvariablen werden besser validiert: Laengen, Zahlen, ...
1355 - neuen Befehl STATS begonnen: bisher unterstuetzt wird "l" und "m".
1356 - bei ISON und USERHOST fehlte im Ergebnis-String der korrekte Absender.
1357 - IRC Operatoren koennen nun mit KILL User toeten. Achtung: ein Grund muss
1358 zwingend als zweiter Parameter angegeben werden!
1359 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
1360 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
1361 - neuer, deutlich flexiblerer Parser fuer den MODE Befehl.
1362 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
1364 ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002
1366 - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
1367 unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden.
1368 - in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht
1369 nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe
1370 verwendet werden. Beim Start des Daemons wird nun beides angezeigt.
1371 - Besseres Logging von Prefix-Fehlern.
1372 - angenommene Sockets werden nun korrekt auf "non-blocking" konfiguriert,
1373 beim Senden und Empfangen werden Blockierungen besser abgefangen.
1374 - RPL_UMODEIS hat Code 221, nicht 211 ... *argl*
1375 - select() in Try_Write() hat falschen (keinen!) Timeout verwendet;
1376 die "Zeit-Aufloesung" des Servers sind zudem nun 2 Sekunden (TIME_RES).
1377 Insgesamt sollte die Reaktionszeit des Server nun besser sein.
1379 ngIRCd 0.5.3, 08.11.2002
1381 - NOTICE liefert nun wirklich nie mehr einen Fehler, auch dann nicht,
1382 wenn der sendende Client noch gar nicht registriert ist.
1383 - ein "schneller Server-Reconnect" wird nur noch dann versucht, wenn die
1384 Verbindung zuvor ordentlich (="lange genug") in Ordnung war; somit also
1385 nicht meht, wenn der Peer-Server gleich beim Connect ein ERROR liefert.
1386 Das vermeidet "Connect-Orgien".
1387 - einige Datentypen aufgeraumt: z.B. sind viele INT32s nun LONGs. Das ist
1388 auf Platformen mit 8-Byte-Integern kompatibler.
1389 - RPL_YOURHOST_MSG ist nun ircII- und RFC-kompatibel ;-)
1390 - Segfault unter hoher Netzaktivitaet behoben: in Conn_Close() wird die
1391 Connection-Struktur nun frueher als "ungueltig" markiert.
1393 ngIRCd 0.5.2, 04.10.2002
1395 - Buffer Overflow in Read_Resolver_Result() behoben.
1396 - Format-String-Bugs, die zum Abbruch des Servers fuehrten, behoben.
1397 - Maximale Laenge eines IRC-Prefix wurde falsch berechnet.
1399 ngIRCd 0.5.1, 03.10.2002
1401 - in RPL_YOURHOST_MSG wurde ein fehlerhafter Versionsstring geliefert.
1402 - Test-Suite: start-server.sh, stop-server.sh und stress-server.sh koennen
1403 nun "manuell" von der Kommandozeile gestartet werden, stress-server.sh
1404 startet per Default nur noch 5 Sessions, eine andere Zahl kann auf der
1405 Kommandozeile uebergeben werden (Syntax: "stress-server.sh <count>").
1406 - In bestimmten Faellen hat der Server versucht auf einen bereits wieder
1407 geschlossenen Socket Daten zu schreiben; das fuehrte zu einem Abbruch des
1408 Servers durch ein assert(). Nun wird geprueft, ob der Socket noch ok ist.
1409 - im "contrib"-Verzeichnis befindet sich nun eine RPM-Spec-Datei, aus den
1410 .tar.gz's koennen nun mit "rpm -ta <archiv>" RPM's erzeugt werden. Danke
1411 an Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>!
1412 - Syntax von RPL_MYINFO_MSG korrigiert: liefert nun vier Parameter.
1414 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
1416 - Dokumentation aktualisiert.
1417 - Fehler bei Validierung von "AdminInfo2" behoben.
1418 - Test der Flags fuer "ps" in der Testsuite verbessert, ist nun zu mehr
1419 Plattformen kompatibler.
1421 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre2, 17.09.2002
1422 - Fix in IRC_WriteStrServersPrefix() war "badly broken" -- behoben.
1424 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre1, 16.09.2002
1425 - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen.
1426 - Wird der Netzwerk-Sniffer aktiviert (--sniffer), so schaltet der
1427 ngIRCd nun automatisch in den Debug-Modus.
1428 - auf Systemen, die inet_aton() nicht kennen (wie z.B. A/UX), kann der
1429 ngIRCd nun dennoch auch aktiv Server-Links aufbauen.
1430 - h_errno wird auf Systemen, die das nicht kennen (wie z.B. HP-UX 10.20)
1431 nicht mehr verwendet. Somit compiliert der ngIRCd nun auch dort :-)
1432 - um auf dem Ziel-System nicht vorhandene Funktionen nachzubilden wird nun
1433 die "libngportab" erzeugt; genutzt wird dies bisher fuer vsnprintf().
1434 Nun compiliert der ngIRCd auch unter Solaris 2.5.1.
1435 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
1436 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
1437 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
1438 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. Zu Channel-Operatoren werden bisher
1439 nur IRC-Operatoren, die den Channel betreten. Die persistenten Channels
1440 werden durch das Flag "P" gelennzeichnet, welches normal durch Channel-
1441 Op's gesetzt und geloescht werden kann.
1442 - bei "--configtest" werden keine leere Abschnitte mehr ausgegeben.
1443 - Source in weitere Module aufgespalten: lists, irc-op und resolve.
1444 - #include's aufgeraeumt: Header includieren keine anderen mehr.
1445 - KICK implementiert (bisher kann nur ein User aus einem Channel geckicked
1446 werden, Listen, wir im RFC vorgesehen, werden bisher nicht unterstuetzt).
1447 - INVITE, den Channel-Mode "i" sowie Invite-Lists ueber den MODE-Befehl
1448 (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
1449 - Source an ansi2knr fuer pre-ANSI-Compiler angepasst; ansi2knr in Source-
1450 Tree aufgenommen und in Build-System integriert; der ngIRCd compiliert
1451 nun z.B. unter A/UX mit dem nativen Compiler von Apple.
1452 - TOPIC lieferte bei unbekanntem Channel einen falschen Fehlercode.
1453 - LIST versteht nun Wildcards und kann an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1454 - wurde ein KILL fuer nicht-lokale Clients empfangen, so wurden die
1455 Verwaltungs-Strukturen nicht korrekt freigegeben.
1456 - empfangene NJOIN's wurden "zerhackt" an andere Server weitergegeben.
1457 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
1458 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
1459 - Dokumentation des neuen IRC+-Protokolls begonnen: doc/Protocol.txt
1460 - Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt;
1461 bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet.
1462 Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben.
1463 - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
1464 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics.
1465 - neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das
1466 IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert).
1467 - Ban-Lists (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
1468 - wird der Server mit "-n"/"--nodaemon" gestartet, so werden keine Mel-
1469 dungen mehr ueber Syslog ausgegeben, sondern nur noch auf der Konsole.
1470 - "Test-Suite" begonnen (in "make check" integriert): Dabei wird ein
1471 speziell konfigurierter Server auf Port 6789 gestartet, mit dem dann
1472 einige Tests durchgefuehrt werden (u.a. "Stress-Test" mit 50 Clients).
1473 - zu lange Operator-Namen in der Konfiguration wurden falsch gekuerzt.
1474 - kleine Anpassung an AIX 3.2.5: nun laeuft der ngIRCd auch dort :-)
1475 - ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei
1476 im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und
1477 "AdminEMail" konfiguriert.
1479 ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002
1481 - Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel
1482 ueberhaupt ein User ist. War es keiner, so fuehrte dies zu einem
1483 Abbruch des Servers [es wurde assert() aufgerufen].
1485 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
1487 - LUSERS verzaehlt sich bei eigenen Server-Links nicht mehr.
1488 - QUIT wird nun auch von noch nicht registrierten Clients akzeptiert.
1489 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
1490 Wildcards (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
1492 ngIRCd 0.4.1, 08.04.2002
1494 - Bei Server-Links wird nicht mehr an Hand der Anzahl der Parameter
1495 eines empfangenen SERVER-Befehls, sondern "intern" erkannt, ob es
1496 sich um eine ein- oder ausgehende Verbindung handelt und somit das
1497 eigene PASS-SERVER-Paar gesendet werden muss oder nicht. Da sich
1498 verschiedene Versionen des Original-ircd's anders verhalten, schlug
1499 die Anmeldung je nach Gehenseite evtl. fehl.
1500 - Bei einem NICK-Befehl eines lokalen Client konnte der Server ab-
1501 stuerzen, da ein Format-String einer Log-Meldung fehlerhaft war.
1503 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
1505 - IRC-Befehle nochmal auf weitere Source-Dateien aufgespalten.
1506 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
1507 - Der AWAY-Mode wurde nicht ueber mehrere Server-Links weitergegeben.
1508 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err).
1509 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
1510 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
1511 zusaetzliche Informationen.
1512 - In Nicknames wird das Zeichen "-" nun als zulaessig erkannt.
1513 - die Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei (doc/sample-ngircd.conf) wird als
1514 ngircd.conf installiert, wenn noch keine "echte" Konfigurationsdatei
1516 - bei WHO, WHOIS und NAMES wird nun nur noch der Status "Operator" oder
1517 "voiced" geliefert -- nicht mehr beides.
1518 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
1519 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
1520 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert (Variable "Group" in der Kon-
1521 figurationsdatei, Sektion [Server]).
1522 - IRC_PING() ist, wenn nicht im "strict RFC"-Mode, toleranter und ak-
1523 zeptiert beliebig viele Parameter (z.B. BitchX sendet soetwas).
1524 - die "Portab-Header" werden nicht mehr benoetigt, die System-Erkennung
1525 wird nun ausschliesslich vom configure-Script durchgefuehrt. System-
1526 abhaengige Definitionen finden sich nun unter src/portrab/.
1527 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
1528 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
1529 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
1530 gelesen und dann die verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
1531 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
1532 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
1533 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
1534 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
1535 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
1536 - URL der Homepage wird u.a. bei "--version" mit angezeigt.
1538 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
1540 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
1541 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
1542 - FAQ um Hinweise auf den Bugtracker erweitert.
1543 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
1544 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
1545 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
1546 - direkt nach dem Start schreibt der ngIRCd nun die aktiven Kommando-
1547 zeilenschalter in's Logfile (Passive, Debug, Sniffer ...).
1548 - das Signal-Flag SA_RESTART wird nur noch gesetzt, wenn es auf dem
1549 jeweiligen System auch definiert ist.
1550 - bei ausgehenden Verbindungen wird nun der Ziel-Port protokolliert.
1551 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert.
1552 - make-Target "check" (und "distcheck") mit Sinn erfuellt :-)
1553 (die Tests sind aber bisher nicht all zu tiefgehend ...)
1554 - Durch einen Ueberlauf konnte die Idle-Time bei WHOIS negativ werden ...
1555 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
1556 - WHOIS wird nicht mehr automatisch an den "Original-Server" weiterge-
1557 leitet: war eh nicht RFC-konform und machte mit Clients Probleme.
1558 - an User wird nun immer ein "komplettes" Prefix (mit Host-Mask) ver-
1559 schickt, Server bekommen nach wie vor kurze: das "Original" hat bei
1560 bestimmten Befehlen (PRIVMSG) ansonsten evtl. Probleme ...
1561 - NAMES korrigiert und vollstaendig implementiert.
1562 - SQUIT wird auf jeden Fall geforwarded, zudem besseres Logging.
1563 - Ist ein Nick bei der User-Registrierung bereits belegt, nimmt der
1564 Server nun korrekt weitere NICK-Befehle an und verwendet diese.
1565 - PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m".
1566 - AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst.
1567 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
1568 - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asynchron connectiert und
1569 blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht
1570 erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!).
1571 - Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet.
1572 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
1574 ngIRCd 0.2.1, 17.02.2002
1576 - NICK korrigiert: es werden nun auch alle "betroffenen" User informiert.
1577 - configure-Script erweitert, u.a. bessere Anpassung an BeOS: dort wird
1578 nun die "libbe" zum ngIRCd gelinkt, somit funktioniert auch syslog.
1579 - Fehlerhafte bzw. noch nicht verstandene Modes werden nun ausfuehrlicher
1580 an den Client geliefert.
1582 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
1584 - Nicknames und Channel-Namen werden etwas besser auf Gueltigkeit ueber-
1585 prueft; ist aber nach wie vor noch nicht ausreichend.
1586 - NJOINS von Servern wurden nicht an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1587 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
1588 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
1589 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
1590 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
1591 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
1592 - Benutzer von connectierenden Servern wurden nicht in den Channels ange-
1593 kuendigt, es wurden nur die internen Strukturen angepasst.
1594 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
1596 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
1598 - User-Modes bei User-Registrierungen von andere Servern (NICK-Befehl)
1599 wurden falsch uebernommen. Zudem wurden die Modes falsch gekuerzt.
1600 - Server-Verbindungen werden nun nach dem Start erst nach einer kurzen
1601 Pause aufgebaut (zur Zeit drei Sekunden).
1602 - Hilfetext korrigiert: --help und --version waren vertauscht, die
1603 Option --sniffer wurde gar nicht erwaehnt.
1604 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
1605 - der IRC-Sniffer wird nur noch aktiviert, wenn die Option auf der
1606 Kommandozeile angegeben wurde (bei entsprechend compiliertem Server).
1607 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
1608 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
1609 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
1610 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
1611 - durch die Channels einige Aenderungen an PRIVMSG, WHOIS, MODE etc.
1612 - neu connectierenden Servern werden nun Channels mit NJOIN angekuendigt.
1613 - Signal-Hander geaendert: die Fehlermeldung "interrupted system call"
1614 sollte so nicht mehr auftreten.
1615 - "spaeter" neu connectierende Server werden nun im Netz angekuendigt.
1616 - SERVER-Meldungen an andere Server sind nun korrekt sortiert.
1617 - Clients werden nun korrekt sowohl nur ueber den Nickname als auch die
1618 komplette "Host Mask" erkannt.
1620 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
1622 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
1623 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
1624 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
1625 - MODE und NICK melden nun die Aenderungen an andere Server, ebenso
1626 die Befehle QUIT und SQUIT.
1627 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
1628 - Parses handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
1629 - Status-Codes an den Server selber werden ignorier.
1630 - Log-Meldungen und Log-Level ueberarbeitet und korrigiert.
1631 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
1632 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
1633 - WHOIS korrigiert: Anfrage wurde u.U. an User geforwarded anstatt vom
1634 Server beantwortet zu werden.
1635 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS
1636 - Client-Modes von Remote-Servern wurden nicht korrekt uerbernommen.
1638 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
1640 - Struktur der Konfigurationsdatei geaendert: sie ist nun "Samba like",
1641 d.h. sie besteht aus Abschnitten (siehe "doc/sample-ngircd.conf").
1642 - Es koennen mehrere IRC-Server-Opertatoren konfiguriert werden.
1643 - Zombies der Resolver-Prozesse werden nun ordentlich "getoetet".
1644 - NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern.
1645 - ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar.
1646 - neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT.
1647 - Asynchroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
1648 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
1649 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige
1650 Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert
1651 aber bereits, ebenso wie WHOIS (letzterer wird immer an den Server,
1652 auf dem der User registriert ist, weitergegeben).
1653 - "arpa/inet.h" wird nur noch includiert, wenn vorhanden.
1654 - Fehler bei select() fuerhen nun zum Abbruch von ngIRCd, bisher landete
1655 der Server zumeist in einer Endlosschleife.
1656 - Logmeldungen und Level an vielen Stellen verbessert.
1657 - lokalen Usernamen wird nun ein "~" vorangestellt, da bisher noch keine
1658 Ident-Anfragen gemacht werden.
1660 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
1662 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)