ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
http://ngircd.barton.de/
- (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
+ (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
-- ChangeLog --
-ngIRCd Release 19
-
+ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
+
+ - Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL.
+ - Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note",
+ and fix lintian(1) warning ""hyphen-used-as-minus-sign", too.
+ - Really include _all_ patchtes to build the Anope module into the
+ distribution archive ... ooops!
+ - getpid.sh: Fix testcase error for Debian using sbuild(1).
+ - Don't log "ngIRCd hello message" two times when starting up.
+
+ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
+
+ - Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by
+ GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions.
+ - Fix configuration file parser: don't accept "[SSL]" blocks in the
+ configuration file when no SSL support is built in ngIRCd.
+ - Fix building ngIRCd with old gcc versions (e. g. 2.7.2).
+ - Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration
+ file: Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the
+ configuraton, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored
+ the "SyslogFacility" configuration option ...
+ Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue!
+
+ ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
+ - Enhance command limits for server links: the limit now is dependent
+ on the number of users connected in the network and higher while
+ servers are joining the network to make the login of servers faster.
+ - Log more information about server synchronization.
+ - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
+ is the only supported version.
+ - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS hostname
+ (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
+ Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
+ - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
+ operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
+ channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
+ the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
+ - PRIVMSG and NOTICE: Handle nick!user@host masks case-insensitive.
+ - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
+ command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
+ and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
+ by completely unknown clients.
+ - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
+ indicates if a nick name is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
+ - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
+ duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
+ or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
+ - Fix both ERR_SUMMONDISABLED(445) and ERR_USERSDISABLED(446) replies.
+ - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for
+ unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501).
+ - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES",
+ add "EXCEPTS=e" and "INVEX=I", add "MAXLIST=beI:50".
+ - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
+ WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
+ - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive.
+ - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
+ that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
+ in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
+ - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments.
+ For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling
+ "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f".
+ - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of
+ the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an
+ assertion and end the daemon in some error paths.
+ - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child
+ processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases
+ with IDENT lookups enabled.
+ - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS,
+ don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is
+ case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the
+ unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client).
+ - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
+ - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
+ commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
+ commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
+ Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
+ - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variabe in the
+ configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user).
+ - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-)
+ - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single
+ channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel
+ limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check
+ the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when
+ trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of.
+ - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nick names.
- New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
"identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
- Log better error messages when rejecting clients.
- Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
+ If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
+ are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
+ NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
+ processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
- Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR
for Mac OS X Xcode builds.
- ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use