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