2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
14 - Implemented hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
15 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
16 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
17 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
18 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
19 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
21 ngIRCd Release 19.2 (2012-06-19)
23 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
24 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
25 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
26 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
27 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
28 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
29 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
30 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
31 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
33 ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
35 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
36 distribution archive ... ooops!
38 ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
40 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
41 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
42 is the only supported version.
43 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
44 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
45 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
46 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
47 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
48 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
49 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
50 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
51 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
52 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
53 by completely unknown clients.
54 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
55 indicates if a nick name is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
56 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
57 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
58 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
59 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
60 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
61 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
62 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
63 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
64 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
65 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
66 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
67 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
68 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
69 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
70 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
71 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
72 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
73 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
74 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
75 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
76 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
77 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
78 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
79 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
80 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
81 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
82 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
83 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
84 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
85 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
86 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
87 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
88 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
89 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
90 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
91 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nick name of this user
92 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
93 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
94 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
95 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
96 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
97 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
98 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
99 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
100 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
101 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
102 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nick name"
103 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
104 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
106 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
108 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
110 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
111 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
112 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
113 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
114 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
116 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
117 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
118 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
119 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
120 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
121 servers from TOR or I2P.
122 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
123 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
124 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
125 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
126 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
127 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
128 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
129 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
130 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
131 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
132 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
133 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
134 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
135 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
136 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
137 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
138 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
139 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
140 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
141 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
142 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
143 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
144 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
145 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
146 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
147 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
148 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
149 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
150 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
151 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
152 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
153 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
154 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
155 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
156 variable description.
157 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
158 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
159 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
160 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
161 every clients' user name to their nick name and hides the user name
162 supplied by the IRC client.
163 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
164 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
165 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
166 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
167 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
168 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
169 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
170 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
171 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
172 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
173 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
174 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
175 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
176 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
177 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
178 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
179 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
181 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
183 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
184 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
185 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
187 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
189 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
191 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
192 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
193 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
194 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
196 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
197 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
198 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
199 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
200 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
201 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
202 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
203 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
204 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
205 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
206 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
207 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
208 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
209 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
210 using the command line parameters.
211 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
212 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
213 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
214 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
215 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
216 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
217 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
218 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
219 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
220 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
221 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
222 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
223 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
225 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
227 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
228 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
229 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
230 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
232 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
233 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
234 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
235 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
236 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
237 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
238 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
239 to join such a channel.
240 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
241 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
242 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
243 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
245 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
247 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
248 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
249 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
250 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
251 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
252 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
253 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
255 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
256 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
257 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
259 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
261 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
262 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
263 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
265 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
267 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
268 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
269 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
270 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
271 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
272 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
273 individual channel keys for different users.
274 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
276 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
278 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
279 - New version number scheme :-)
280 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
281 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
282 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
283 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
284 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
285 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
286 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
287 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
288 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
289 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
290 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
291 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
292 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
293 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
294 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
296 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
298 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
299 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
300 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
301 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
302 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
303 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
305 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
307 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
308 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
310 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
312 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
313 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
314 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
315 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
316 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
317 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
318 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
319 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
320 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
321 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
323 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
325 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
326 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
327 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
328 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
329 length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
330 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
331 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
332 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
333 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
334 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
337 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
339 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
340 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
341 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
342 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
343 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
345 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
347 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
348 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
349 join predefined channels.
351 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
353 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
354 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
355 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
356 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
357 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
358 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
359 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
360 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
361 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
362 lookup to prevent spoofing.
363 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
364 addition to the select() interface.
366 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
368 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
369 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
370 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
371 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
372 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
373 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
374 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
375 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
376 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
377 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
378 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
379 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
380 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
381 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
382 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
383 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
385 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
387 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
388 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
389 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
390 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
391 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
392 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
393 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
394 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
395 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
396 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
397 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
398 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
400 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
402 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
403 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
404 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
405 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
406 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
407 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
409 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
411 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
413 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
415 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
416 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
417 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
418 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
419 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
420 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
421 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
422 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
423 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
424 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
425 configure to enable it.
426 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
427 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
428 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
429 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
430 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
433 Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
435 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
437 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
438 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
439 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
440 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
441 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
442 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
443 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
444 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
445 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
446 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
447 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
448 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
449 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
450 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
451 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
452 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
453 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
454 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
455 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
456 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
457 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
458 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
459 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
460 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
461 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
462 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
464 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
466 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
467 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
468 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
469 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
470 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
471 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
472 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
473 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
474 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
475 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
476 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
477 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
478 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
479 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
480 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
481 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
482 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
484 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
486 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
487 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
489 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
491 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
492 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
493 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
494 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
495 zusaetzliche Informationen.
496 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
497 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
498 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
499 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
500 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
501 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
502 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
503 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
504 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
505 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
506 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
507 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
509 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
511 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
512 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
513 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
514 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
515 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
516 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
517 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
518 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
519 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
520 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
522 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
524 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
525 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
526 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
527 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
528 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
529 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
531 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
533 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
534 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
535 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
536 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
537 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
538 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
540 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
542 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
543 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
544 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
545 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
546 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
547 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
548 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
549 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
551 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
553 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
554 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
555 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
556 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
558 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
560 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)