From: Alexander Barton Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:24:28 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Updated documentation for release 15 X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;h=9627a5c758b3bda83d800d0b820827bdda2db053;p=ngircd-web.git Updated documentation for release 15 --- diff --git a/doc/AUTHORS b/doc/AUTHORS index b9e3eea..e0e1d07 100644 --- a/doc/AUTHORS +++ b/doc/AUTHORS @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ directly, if possible! Main Authors ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alexander Barton, (alex) -Florian Westphal, (fw) +Florian Westphal, Contributors diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index adba5f6..9b38170 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -10,6 +10,32 @@ -- ChangeLog -- +ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07) + + - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset. + + ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15) + - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so + ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now. + - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already + implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command). + - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that + enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT + on the local server. + - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0 + for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file. + - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names. + - Fix LSB header of Debian init script. + - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh + to ease generating platform reports. + - Fix connection information for already registered connections. + - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements + a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes + per second before a one second pause is enforced. + - Fix connection counter. + - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections. + - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation. + ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05) - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code. diff --git a/doc/NEWS b/doc/NEWS index 25494c2..5a0a9dd 100644 --- a/doc/NEWS +++ b/doc/NEWS @@ -10,6 +10,20 @@ -- NEWS -- +ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07) + + ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15) + - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so + ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now. + - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already + implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command). + - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that + enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT + on the local server. + - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements + a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes + per second before a one second pause is enforced. + ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05) - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code. diff --git a/doc/Platforms.txt b/doc/Platforms.txt index a77cc88..8a1282e 100644 --- a/doc/Platforms.txt +++ b/doc/Platforms.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server - (c)2001-2008 Alexander Barton + (c)2001-2009 Alexander Barton alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/ ngIRCd is free software and published under the @@ -30,26 +30,29 @@ alpha/unknown/netbsd3.0 gcc 3.3.3 CVSHEAD 06-05-07 fw Y Y Y Y (3) hppa/unknown/openbsd3.5 gcc 2.95.3 CVSHEAD 04-05-25 alex Y Y Y Y hppa1.1/unknown/linux-gnu gcc 3.3.3 0.8.0 04-05-30 alex Y Y Y Y hppa2.0/unknown/linux-gnu gcc 3.3.5 13~rc1 08-12-02 alex Y Y Y Y -i386/apple/darwin9.5.1 gcc 4.0.1 13~rc1 08-12-02 alex Y Y Y Y (3) +hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 gcc 4.2.3 14.1 09-07-22 goetz Y Y Y Y +i386/apple/darwin9.7.0 gcc 4.0.1 14.1 09-08-04 alex Y Y Y Y (3) +i386/apple/darwin10.0.0b2 gcc 4.2.1 14.1 09-07-27 alex Y Y Y Y (3) i386/pc/solaris2.9 gcc 3.2.2 CVSHEAD 04-02-24 alex Y Y Y Y -i386/pc/solaris2.11 gcc 3.4.3 13~rc1 08-12-03 alex Y Y Y Y (4) +i386/pc/solaris2.11 gcc 3.4.3 14.1 09-08-03 alex Y Y Y Y (4) i386/unknown/freebsd5.2.1 gcc 3.3.3 0.8.0 04-05-30 alex Y Y Y Y i386/unknown/freebsd6.0 gcc 3.4.4 0.10.0-p1 06-08-04 alex Y Y Y Y (3) i386/unknown/freebsd6.1 gcc 3.4.4 CVSHEAD 06-05-07 fw Y Y Y Y (3) -i386/unknown/freebsd6.2 gcc 3.4.6 13~rc1 08-12-04 alex Y Y Y Y (3) -i386/unknown/freebsd7.0 gcc 4.2.1 13~rc1 08-12-04 alex Y Y Y Y (3) +i386/unknown/freebsd6.2 gcc 3.4.6 14.1 09-07-27 alex Y Y Y Y (3) +i386/unknown/freebsd7.0 gcc 4.2.1 14.1 09-07-28 alex Y Y Y Y (3) +i386/unknown/freebsd7.2 gcc 4.2.1 14.1 09-08-03 alex Y Y Y Y (3) i386/unknown/gnu0.3 gcc 3.3.3 0.8.0 04-05-30 alex Y Y n Y -i686/unknown/gnu0.3 gcc 4.3.1 13~rc1 08-12-05 alex Y Y Y Y +i686/unknown/gnu0.3 gcc 4.3.1 14.1 09-07-28 alex Y Y Y Y i386/unknown/netbsdelf1.6.1 gcc 2.95.3 CVSHEAD 04-02-24 alex Y Y Y Y i386/unknown/netbsdelf3.0.1 gcc 3.3.3 0.10.0-p1 06-08-30 alex Y Y Y Y (3) -i386/unknown/netbsdelf4.0 gcc 4.1.2 13~rc1 08-12-05 alex Y Y Y Y (3) +i386/unknown/netbsdelf4.0 gcc 4.1.2 14.1 09-07-28 alex Y Y Y Y (3) i386/unknown/openbsd3.9 gcc 3.3.5 0.10.0-p1 06-08-30 alex Y Y Y Y (3) -i386/unknown/openbsd4.1 gcc 3.3.5 13~rc1 08-12-05 alex Y Y Y Y (3) +i386/unknown/openbsd4.1 gcc 3.3.5 14.1 09-07-28 alex Y Y Y Y (3) i686/pc/cygwin gcc 3.3.1 0.8.0 04-05-30 alex Y Y n Y i686/pc/linux-gnu gcc 2.95.4 0.8.0 04-05-30 alex Y Y Y Y (1) -i686/pc/linux-gnu gcc 3.3.5 13~rc1 08-12-05 alex Y Y Y Y (1) +i686/pc/linux-gnu gcc 3.3.5 14.1 09-08-04 alex Y Y Y Y (1) i386/pc/linux-gnu gcc 4.1.2 13~rc1 08-12-05 alex Y Y Y Y (1) -i386/pc/linux-gnu gcc 4.3.2 13~rc1 08-12-05 alex Y Y Y Y (1) +i686/pc/linux-gnu gcc 4.3.2 14.1 09-08-04 alex Y Y Y Y (1) m68k/apple/aux3.1.1 Orig. A/UX 0.7.x-CVS 03-04-22 alex Y Y Y Y (2) m68k/hp/hp-ux9.10 Orig. HPUX 0.7.x-CVS 03-04-30 goetz Y Y Y Y m88k/dg/dgux5.4R3.10 gcc 2.5.8 CVSHEAD 04-03-15 alex Y Y ? ? @@ -62,19 +65,19 @@ powerpc/unknown/openbsd3.6 gcc 2.95.3 0.10.0 06-10-08 alex Y Y n Y sparc/sun/solaris2.6 gcc 2.95.3 0.7.x-CVS 03-04-22 alex Y Y Y Y sparc/sun/solaris2.7 gcc 3.3 0.8.0 04-05-30 alex Y Y Y Y sparc/unkn./netbsdelf1.6.1 gcc 2.95.3 0.8.0 04-05-30 alex Y Y Y Y -x86_64/unknown/linux-gnu 4.3.2 13~rc1 08-12-05 alex Y Y Y Y (5) +x86_64/unknown/linux-gnu gcc 4.3.2 14.1 09-08-04 alex Y Y Y Y (1) Notes ~~~~~ -(1) i686/pc/linux-gnu: +(1) i686/pc/linux-gnu & x86_64/unknown/linux-gnu: ngIRCd has been tested with various Linux distributions, such as SuSE, RedHat, Debian, and Gentoo using Kernels 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x with various versions of the GNU C compiler (starting with 2.95.x and up to version 4.3.x). The eldest glibc used was glibc-2.0.7. ngIRCd compiled and run on all these systems without problems. - Actual Linux kernels (2.6.x) and glic's support the epoll() IO interface. + Actual Linux kernels (2.6.x) and glibc's support the epoll() IO interface. (2) This compiler is an pre-ANSI C compiler, therefore the source code is automatically converted using the included ansi2knr tool while building. diff --git a/doc/sample-ngircd.conf b/doc/sample-ngircd.conf index 0d0061b..b945224 100644 --- a/doc/sample-ngircd.conf +++ b/doc/sample-ngircd.conf @@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ # server? (This is a compatibility hack for ircd-irc2 servers) ;OperServerMode = no + # Are remote IRC operators allowed to control this server, e. g. + # use commands like CONNECT, SQUIT, DIE, ...? + ;AllowRemoteOper = no + # Allow Pre-Defined Channels only (see Section [Channels]) ;PredefChannelsOnly = no