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.
12 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
14 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
15 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
16 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
17 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
18 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
19 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
20 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
21 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
22 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
23 the IRC "TRACE" command.
24 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
25 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
26 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
27 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
28 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
29 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
30 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
31 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
33 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
34 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
35 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
36 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
37 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
38 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
39 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
40 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
41 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
42 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
43 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
44 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
45 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
46 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
47 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
48 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
49 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
50 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
51 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
52 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
53 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
54 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
55 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
56 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
57 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
58 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
59 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
60 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
61 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
62 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
63 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
64 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
65 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
66 The default is 0, "never".
67 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
68 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
69 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
70 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
71 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
72 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
73 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
74 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
75 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
76 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
77 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
78 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
79 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
80 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
81 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
82 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
83 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
84 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
85 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
87 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
89 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
90 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
91 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
92 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
93 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
95 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
97 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
98 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
99 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to to crash the daemon
102 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
104 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
106 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
108 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
109 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
110 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
111 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
112 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
114 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
115 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
116 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
117 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
118 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
119 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
120 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
122 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
123 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
124 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
125 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
126 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
127 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
128 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
129 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
130 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
131 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
132 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
133 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
134 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
135 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
136 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
137 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
138 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
139 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
140 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
141 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
142 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
143 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
144 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
145 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
146 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
147 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
148 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
149 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
150 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
151 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
152 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
153 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
154 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
155 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
156 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
157 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
159 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
160 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
161 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
163 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
164 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
165 configuration file. (Closes #136)
166 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
167 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
168 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
169 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
170 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
171 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
172 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
173 behave, and so do we :-)
174 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
175 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
176 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
177 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
178 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
179 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
180 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
181 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
182 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
183 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
184 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
185 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
186 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
187 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
188 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
189 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
191 ngIRCd Release 19.2 (2012-06-19)
193 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
194 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
195 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
196 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
197 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
198 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
199 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
200 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
201 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
203 ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
205 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
206 distribution archive ... ooops!
208 ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
210 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
211 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
212 is the only supported version.
213 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
214 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
215 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
216 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
217 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
218 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
219 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
220 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
221 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
222 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
223 by completely unknown clients.
224 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
225 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
226 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
227 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
228 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
229 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
230 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
231 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
232 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
233 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
234 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
235 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
236 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
237 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
238 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
239 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
240 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
241 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
242 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
243 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
244 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
245 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
246 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
247 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
248 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
249 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
250 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
251 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
252 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
253 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
254 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
255 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
256 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
257 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
258 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
259 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
260 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
261 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
262 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
263 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
264 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
265 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
266 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
267 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
268 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
269 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
270 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
271 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
272 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
273 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
274 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
276 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
278 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
280 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
281 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
282 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
283 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
284 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
286 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
287 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
288 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
289 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
290 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
291 servers from TOR or I2P.
292 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
293 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
294 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
295 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
296 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
297 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
298 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
299 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
300 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
301 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
302 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
303 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
304 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
305 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
306 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
307 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
308 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
309 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
310 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
311 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
312 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
313 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
314 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
315 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
316 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
317 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
318 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
319 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
320 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
321 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
322 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
323 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
324 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
325 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
326 variable description.
327 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
328 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
329 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
330 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
331 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
332 supplied by the IRC client.
333 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
334 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
335 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
336 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
337 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
338 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
339 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
340 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
341 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
342 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
343 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
344 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
345 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
346 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
347 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
348 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
349 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
351 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
353 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
354 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
355 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
357 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
359 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
361 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
362 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
363 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
364 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
366 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
367 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
368 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
369 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
370 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
371 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
372 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
373 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
374 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
375 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
376 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
377 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
378 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
379 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
380 using the command line parameters.
381 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
382 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
383 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
384 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
385 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
386 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
387 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
388 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
389 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
390 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
391 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
392 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
393 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
395 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
397 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
398 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
399 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
400 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
402 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
403 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
404 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
405 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
406 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
407 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
408 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
409 to join such a channel.
410 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
411 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
412 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
413 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
415 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
417 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
418 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
419 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
420 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
421 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
422 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
423 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
425 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
426 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
427 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
429 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
431 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
432 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
433 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
435 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
437 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
438 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
439 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
440 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
441 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
442 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
443 individual channel keys for different users.
444 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
446 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
448 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
449 - New version number scheme :-)
450 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
451 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
452 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
453 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
454 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
455 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
456 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
457 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
458 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
459 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
460 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
461 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
462 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
463 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
464 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
466 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
468 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
469 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
470 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
471 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
472 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
473 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
475 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
477 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
478 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
480 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
482 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
483 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
484 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
485 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
486 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
487 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
488 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
489 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
490 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
491 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
493 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
495 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
496 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
497 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
498 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
499 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
500 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
501 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
502 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
503 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
504 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
507 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
509 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
510 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
511 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
512 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
513 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
515 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
517 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
518 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
519 join predefined channels.
521 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
523 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
524 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
525 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
526 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
527 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
528 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
529 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
530 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
531 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
532 lookup to prevent spoofing.
533 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
534 addition to the select() interface.
536 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
538 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
539 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
540 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
541 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
542 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
543 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
544 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
545 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
546 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
547 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
548 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
549 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
550 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
551 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
552 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
553 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
555 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
557 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
558 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
559 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
560 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
561 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
562 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
563 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
564 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
565 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
566 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
567 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
568 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
570 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
572 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
573 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
574 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
575 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
576 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
577 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
579 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
581 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
583 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
585 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
586 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
587 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
588 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
589 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
590 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
591 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
592 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
593 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
594 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
595 configure to enable it.
596 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
597 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
598 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
599 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
600 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
603 Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
605 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
607 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
608 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
609 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
610 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
611 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
612 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
613 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
614 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
615 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
616 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
617 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
618 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
619 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
620 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
621 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
622 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
623 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
624 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
625 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
626 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
627 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
628 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
629 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
630 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
631 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
632 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
634 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
636 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
637 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
638 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
639 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
640 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
641 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
642 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
643 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
644 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
645 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
646 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
647 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
648 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
649 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
650 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
651 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
652 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
654 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
656 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
657 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
659 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
661 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
662 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
663 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
664 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
665 zusaetzliche Informationen.
666 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
667 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
668 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
669 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
670 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
671 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
672 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
673 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
674 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
675 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
676 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
677 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
679 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
681 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
682 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
683 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
684 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
685 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
686 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
687 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
688 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
689 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
690 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
692 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
694 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
695 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
696 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
697 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
698 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
699 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
701 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
703 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
704 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
705 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
706 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
707 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
708 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
710 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
712 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
713 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
714 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
715 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
716 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
717 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
718 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
719 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
721 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
723 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
724 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
725 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
726 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
728 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
730 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)