2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
4 (c)2001-2010 Alexander Barton,
5 alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
7 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
8 terms of the GNU General Public License.
13 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
15 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
16 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
17 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
19 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
21 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
23 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
24 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
25 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
26 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
28 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
29 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
30 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
31 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
32 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
33 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
34 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
35 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
36 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
37 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
38 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
39 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
40 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
41 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
42 using the command line parameters.
43 - Implement user mode "x": hostname cloaking (closes: #102).
44 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
45 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
46 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
47 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
48 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
49 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
50 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
51 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
52 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
53 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
54 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
55 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
57 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
59 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
60 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
61 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
62 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
64 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
65 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
66 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
67 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
68 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
69 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
70 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
71 to join such a channel.
72 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
73 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
74 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
75 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
77 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
79 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
80 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
81 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
82 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
83 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
84 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
85 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
87 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
88 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
89 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
91 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
93 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
94 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
95 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
97 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
99 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
100 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
101 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
102 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
103 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
104 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
105 individual channel keys for different users.
106 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
108 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
110 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
111 - New version number scheme :-)
112 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
113 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
114 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
115 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
116 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
117 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
118 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
119 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
120 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
121 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
122 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
123 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
124 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
125 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
126 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
128 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
130 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
131 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
132 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
133 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
134 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
135 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
137 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
139 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
140 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
142 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
144 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
145 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
146 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
147 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
148 nickname/servername/hostname, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
149 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
150 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
151 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
152 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
153 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
155 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
157 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
158 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
159 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
160 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
161 length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
162 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
163 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
164 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
165 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
166 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
169 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
171 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
172 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
173 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
174 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
175 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
177 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
179 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
180 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
181 join predefined channels.
183 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
185 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
186 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
187 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
188 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
189 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
190 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
191 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
192 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
193 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
194 lookup to prevent spoofing.
195 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
196 addition to the select() interface.
198 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
200 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
201 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
202 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
203 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
204 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
205 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
206 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
207 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
208 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
209 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
210 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
211 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
212 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
213 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
214 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
215 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
217 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
219 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
220 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
221 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
222 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
223 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
224 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
225 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
226 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
227 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
228 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
229 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
230 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
232 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
234 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
235 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
236 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
237 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
238 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
239 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
241 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
243 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
245 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
247 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
248 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
249 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
250 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
251 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
252 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
253 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
254 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
255 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
256 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
257 configure to enable it.
258 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
259 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
260 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
261 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
262 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
265 Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
267 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
269 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
270 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
271 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
272 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
273 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
274 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
275 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
276 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
277 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
278 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
279 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
280 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
281 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asyncronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
282 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
283 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
284 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
285 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
286 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
287 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
288 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
289 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
290 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
291 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
292 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
293 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
294 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
296 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
298 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
299 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
300 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
301 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
302 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
303 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
304 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
305 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
306 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
307 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO syncronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
308 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
309 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
310 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
311 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
312 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
313 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
314 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
316 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
318 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
319 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
321 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
323 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
324 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
325 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
326 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
327 zusaetzliche Informationen.
328 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
329 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
330 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
331 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
332 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
333 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
334 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
335 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
336 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
337 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
338 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
339 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
341 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
343 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
344 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
345 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
346 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
347 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
348 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
349 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
350 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
351 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
352 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
354 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
356 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
357 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
358 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
359 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
360 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
361 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
363 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
365 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
366 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
367 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
368 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
369 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
370 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
372 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
374 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
375 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
376 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
377 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
378 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
379 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
380 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
381 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
383 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
385 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
386 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
387 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
388 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
390 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
392 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)
396 $Id: NEWS,v 1.88 2008/02/26 22:05:42 fw Exp $