2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2015 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
12 ngIRCd 23 (2015-11-16)
14 ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06)
15 - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is
16 a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea.
17 Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not
18 available. This mimics the behavior in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd
19 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217.
20 The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed
21 to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still
22 supported for compatibility reasons.
23 - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick
24 name while on this channel). Closes #214.
25 - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts.
26 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203.
27 - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients
28 expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly.
29 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
30 - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
31 in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't
32 hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect.
34 - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set.
35 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202.
36 - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents
37 ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see
39 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197.
40 - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure
41 that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users
42 to local ("&") channels.
43 Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183.
44 - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when
45 receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation
46 time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports
47 the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined
48 to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this.
49 This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
51 ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
53 - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch,
54 and testing by Christoph Biedl <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
55 - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating
56 systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example
57 "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to
58 "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve
59 "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using
60 DNS at all makes the test site much more portable.
62 ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
64 - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
65 ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
66 Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
68 ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
69 - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
70 lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
71 nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
72 Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
73 - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
74 - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
75 that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
76 this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
77 if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
78 - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
79 - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
80 settable by IRC Operators.
81 - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
82 "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
83 settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
84 careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
85 User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
86 - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
87 - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
88 - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
89 Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
90 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
91 on "VPATH builds", for example.
92 - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
93 and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
94 - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
95 using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
96 names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
97 is quite unexpected for users.
98 - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
99 allow using separate source and build trees.
100 - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
101 - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
103 - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
104 and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
105 useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
106 been linked at all ...).
107 - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
108 (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
109 daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
110 which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
111 - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
112 - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
113 Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
114 return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
115 DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
116 - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
119 ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
121 - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
122 disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
123 - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
124 - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
125 - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
126 linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
127 been implemented already).
128 - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
130 ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
132 - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
133 is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
134 initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
136 ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
137 - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
138 support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
140 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
141 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
142 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
143 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
144 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
145 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
146 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
147 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
148 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
149 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
150 the IRC "TRACE" command.
151 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
152 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
153 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
154 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
155 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
156 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
157 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
158 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
160 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
161 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
162 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
163 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
164 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
165 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
166 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
167 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
168 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
169 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
170 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
171 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
172 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
173 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
174 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
175 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
176 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
177 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
178 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
179 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
180 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
181 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
182 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
183 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
184 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
185 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
186 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
187 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
188 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
189 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
190 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
191 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
192 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
193 The default is 0, "never".
194 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
195 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
196 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
197 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
198 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
199 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
200 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
201 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
202 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
203 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
204 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
205 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
206 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
207 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
208 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
209 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
210 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
211 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
212 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
214 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
216 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
217 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
218 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
219 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
220 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
222 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
224 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
225 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
226 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to to crash the daemon
229 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
231 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
233 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
235 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
236 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
237 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
238 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
239 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
241 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
242 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
243 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
244 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
245 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
246 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
247 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
249 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
250 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
251 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
252 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
253 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
254 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
255 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
256 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
257 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
258 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
259 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
260 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
261 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
262 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
263 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
264 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
265 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
266 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
267 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
268 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
269 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
270 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
271 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
272 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
273 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
274 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
275 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
276 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
277 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
278 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
279 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
280 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
281 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
282 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
283 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
284 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
286 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
287 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
288 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
290 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
291 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
292 configuration file. (Closes #136)
293 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
294 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
295 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
296 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
297 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
298 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
299 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
300 behave, and so do we :-)
301 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
302 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
303 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
304 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
305 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
306 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
307 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
308 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
309 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
310 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
311 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
312 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
313 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
314 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
315 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
316 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
318 ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
320 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
321 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
322 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
323 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
324 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
325 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
326 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
327 and capability "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
328 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
330 ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
332 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
333 distribution archive ... ooops!
335 ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
337 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
338 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
339 is the only supported version.
340 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
341 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
342 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
343 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
344 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
345 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
346 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
347 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
348 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
349 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
350 by completely unknown clients.
351 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
352 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
353 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
354 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
355 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
356 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
357 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
358 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
359 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
360 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
361 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
362 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
363 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
364 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
365 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
366 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
367 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
368 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
369 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
370 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
371 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
372 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
373 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
374 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
375 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
376 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
377 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
378 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
379 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
380 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
381 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
382 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
383 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
384 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
385 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
386 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
387 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
388 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
389 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
390 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
391 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
392 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
393 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
394 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
395 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
396 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
397 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
398 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
399 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
400 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
401 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
403 ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
405 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
407 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
408 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
409 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
410 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
411 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
413 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
414 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
415 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
416 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
417 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
418 servers from TOR or I2P.
419 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
420 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
421 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
422 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
423 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
424 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
425 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
426 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
427 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
428 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
429 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
430 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
431 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
432 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
433 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
434 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
435 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
436 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
437 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
438 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
439 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
440 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
441 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
442 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
443 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
444 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
445 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
446 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
447 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
448 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
449 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
450 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
451 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
452 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
453 variable description.
454 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
455 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
456 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
457 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
458 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
459 supplied by the IRC client.
460 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
461 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
462 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
463 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
464 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
465 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
466 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
467 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
468 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
469 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
470 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
471 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
472 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
473 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
474 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
475 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
476 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
478 ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
480 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
481 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
482 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
484 ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
486 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
488 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
489 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
490 - Make source code compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
491 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
493 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
494 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
495 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
496 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
497 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
498 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
499 Possible values are system dependent, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
500 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
501 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
502 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
503 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
504 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
505 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
506 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
507 using the command line parameters.
508 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
509 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contents of the MOTD
510 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
511 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
512 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
513 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
514 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
515 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
516 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
517 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
518 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
519 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
520 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
522 ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
524 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
525 - Enhance connection statistics counters: display total number of served
526 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
527 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
529 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
530 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
531 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
532 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
533 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
534 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
535 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
536 to join such a channel.
537 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
538 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
539 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
540 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
542 ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
544 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
545 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
546 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
547 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (instead of the already
548 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
549 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
550 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
552 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
553 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
554 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
556 ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
558 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
559 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
560 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
562 ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
564 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
565 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
566 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
567 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
568 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
569 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
570 individual channel keys for different users.
571 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
573 ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
575 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
576 - New version number scheme :-)
577 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
578 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
579 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
580 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
581 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
582 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
583 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
584 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
585 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
586 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
587 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
588 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
589 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
590 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
591 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
593 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
595 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
596 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
597 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
598 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
599 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
600 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
602 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
604 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
605 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
607 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
609 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
610 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
611 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
612 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
613 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
614 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
615 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
616 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
617 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
618 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
620 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
622 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
623 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
624 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
625 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
626 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
627 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
628 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
629 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
630 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
631 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
634 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
636 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
637 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
638 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
639 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
640 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
642 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
644 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
645 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
646 join predefined channels.
648 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
650 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
651 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
652 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
653 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
654 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
655 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
656 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
657 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
658 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
659 lookup to prevent spoofing.
660 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
661 addition to the select() interface.
663 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
665 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
666 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
667 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
668 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
669 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
670 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
671 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
672 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
673 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
674 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
675 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
676 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
677 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
678 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
679 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
680 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
682 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
684 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
685 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
686 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
687 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
688 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
689 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
690 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
691 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
692 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
693 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
694 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
695 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
697 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
699 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
700 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
701 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
702 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
703 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
704 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
706 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
708 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
710 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
712 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
713 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
714 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
715 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
716 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
717 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
718 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
719 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
720 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
721 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
722 configure to enable it.
723 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
724 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
725 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
726 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
727 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
730 Older news (sorry, only available in German language):
732 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
734 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
735 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
736 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
737 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
738 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
739 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
740 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
741 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
742 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
743 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
744 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
745 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
746 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
747 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
748 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
749 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
750 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
751 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
752 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
753 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
754 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
755 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
756 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
757 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
758 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
759 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
761 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
763 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
764 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
765 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
766 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
767 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
768 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
769 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
770 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
771 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
772 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
773 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
774 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
775 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
776 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
777 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
778 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
779 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
781 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
783 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
784 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
786 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
788 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
789 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
790 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
791 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
792 zusaetzliche Informationen.
793 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
794 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
795 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
796 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
797 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
798 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
799 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
800 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
801 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
802 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
803 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
804 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
806 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
808 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
809 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
810 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
811 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
812 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
813 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
814 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
815 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
816 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
817 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
819 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
821 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
822 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
823 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
824 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
825 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
826 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
828 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
830 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
831 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
832 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
833 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
834 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
835 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
837 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
839 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
840 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
841 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
842 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
843 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
844 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
845 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
846 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
848 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
850 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
851 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
852 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
853 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
855 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
857 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)