2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2013 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
14 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
15 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
16 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
17 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
18 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
19 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
20 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
21 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
22 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
23 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
24 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
25 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
26 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
27 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
28 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
29 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
30 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
31 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
32 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
33 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
34 The default is 0, "never".
35 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
36 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
37 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
38 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
39 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
40 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
41 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
42 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
43 of an IRC service id displayed in the output.
44 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
45 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
46 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
47 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
48 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
49 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
50 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
51 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
52 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
53 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
55 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
57 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
58 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
59 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to to crash the daemon
62 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
64 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
66 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
68 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
69 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
70 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
71 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
72 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
74 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
75 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
76 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
77 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
78 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
79 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
80 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
82 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
83 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
84 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
85 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
86 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
87 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
88 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
89 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
90 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
91 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
92 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
93 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
94 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
95 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
96 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
97 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
98 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
99 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
100 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
101 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
102 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
103 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
104 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
105 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
106 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
107 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
108 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
109 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
110 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
111 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
112 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
113 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
114 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
115 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
116 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
117 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
119 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
120 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
121 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
123 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
124 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
125 configuration file. (Closes #136)
126 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
127 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
128 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
129 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
130 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
131 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
132 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
133 behave, and so do we :-)
134 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
135 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
136 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
137 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
138 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
139 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
140 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
141 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
142 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
143 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
144 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
145 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
146 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
147 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
148 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
149 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
151 ngIRCd Release 19.2 (2012-06-19)
153 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
154 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
155 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
156 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
157 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
158 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
159 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
160 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
161 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
163 ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
165 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
166 distribution archive ... ooops!
168 ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
170 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
171 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
172 is the only supported version.
173 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
174 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
175 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
176 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
177 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
178 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
179 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
180 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
181 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
182 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
183 by completely unknown clients.
184 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
185 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
186 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
187 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
188 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
189 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
190 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
191 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
192 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
193 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
194 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
195 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
196 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
197 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
198 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
199 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
200 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
201 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
202 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
203 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
204 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
205 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
206 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
207 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
208 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
209 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
210 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
211 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
212 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
213 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
214 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
215 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
216 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
217 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
218 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
219 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
220 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
221 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
222 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
223 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
224 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
225 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
226 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
227 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
228 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
229 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
230 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
231 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
232 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
233 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
234 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
236 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
238 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
240 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
241 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
242 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
243 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
244 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
246 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
247 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
248 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
249 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
250 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
251 servers from TOR or I2P.
252 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
253 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
254 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
255 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
256 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
257 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
258 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
259 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
260 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
261 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
262 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
263 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
264 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
265 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
266 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
267 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
268 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
269 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
270 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
271 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
272 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
273 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
274 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
275 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
276 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
277 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
278 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
279 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
280 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
281 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
282 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
283 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
284 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
285 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
286 variable description.
287 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
288 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
289 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
290 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
291 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
292 supplied by the IRC client.
293 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
294 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
295 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
296 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
297 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
298 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
299 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
300 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
301 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
302 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
303 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
304 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
305 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
306 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
307 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
308 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
309 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
311 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
313 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
314 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
315 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
317 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
319 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
321 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
322 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
323 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
324 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
326 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
327 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
328 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
329 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
330 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
331 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
332 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
333 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
334 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
335 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
336 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
337 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
338 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
339 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
340 using the command line parameters.
341 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
342 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
343 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
344 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
345 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
346 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
347 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
348 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
349 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
350 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
351 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
352 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
353 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
355 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
357 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
358 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
359 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
360 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
362 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
363 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
364 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
365 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
366 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
367 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
368 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
369 to join such a channel.
370 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
371 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
372 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
373 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
375 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
377 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
378 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
379 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
380 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
381 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
382 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
383 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
385 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
386 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
387 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
389 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
391 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
392 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
393 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
395 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
397 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
398 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
399 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
400 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
401 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
402 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
403 individual channel keys for different users.
404 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
406 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
408 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
409 - New version number scheme :-)
410 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
411 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
412 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
413 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
414 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
415 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
416 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
417 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
418 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
419 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
420 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
421 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
422 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
423 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
424 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
426 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
428 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
429 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
430 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
431 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
432 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
433 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
435 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
437 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
438 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
440 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
442 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
443 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
444 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
445 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
446 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
447 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
448 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
449 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
450 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
451 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
453 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
455 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
456 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
457 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
458 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
459 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
460 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
461 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
462 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
463 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
464 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
467 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
469 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
470 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
471 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
472 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
473 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
475 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
477 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
478 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
479 join predefined channels.
481 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
483 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
484 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
485 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
486 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
487 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
488 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
489 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
490 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
491 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
492 lookup to prevent spoofing.
493 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
494 addition to the select() interface.
496 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
498 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
499 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
500 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
501 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
502 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
503 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
504 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
505 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
506 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
507 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
508 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
509 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
510 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
511 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
512 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
513 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
515 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
517 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
518 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
519 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
520 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
521 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
522 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
523 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
524 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
525 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
526 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
527 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
528 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
530 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
532 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
533 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
534 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
535 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
536 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
537 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
539 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
541 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
543 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
545 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
546 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
547 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
548 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
549 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
550 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
551 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
552 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
553 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
554 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
555 configure to enable it.
556 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
557 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
558 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
559 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
560 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
563 Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
565 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
567 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
568 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
569 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
570 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
571 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
572 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
573 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
574 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
575 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
576 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
577 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
578 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
579 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
580 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
581 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
582 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
583 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
584 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
585 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
586 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
587 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
588 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
589 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
590 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
591 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
592 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
594 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
596 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
597 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
598 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
599 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
600 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
601 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
602 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
603 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
604 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
605 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
606 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
607 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
608 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
609 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
610 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
611 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
612 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
614 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
616 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
617 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
619 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
621 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
622 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
623 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
624 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
625 zusaetzliche Informationen.
626 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
627 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
628 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
629 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
630 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
631 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
632 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
633 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
634 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
635 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
636 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
637 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
639 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
641 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
642 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
643 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
644 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
645 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
646 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
647 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
648 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
649 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
650 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
652 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
654 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
655 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
656 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
657 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
658 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
659 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
661 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
663 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
664 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
665 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
666 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
667 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
668 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
670 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
672 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
673 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
674 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
675 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
676 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
677 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
678 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
679 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
681 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
683 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
684 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
685 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
686 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
688 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
690 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)