2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2020 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
14 - Various bug fixes, see the ChangeLog. No new or changed functionality.
16 ngIRCd 26~rc1 (2020-05-10)
17 - Allow up to 512 characters per line in MOTD and help text files (but keep
18 in mind that lines can't get that long, because they have to be prefixed
19 before being sent to the client). But this allows for more fancy MOTDs :-)
21 - Show the actually allowed channel types in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric which
22 are configured by the "AllowedChannelTypes" configuration variable.
24 - Handle commands in the read buffer before reading more data and don't wait
25 for the network in this case: If there are more bytes in the read buffer
26 already than a single valid IRC command can get long (513 bytes), wait for
27 this/those command(s) to be handled first and don't try to read even more
28 data from the network (which most probably would overflow the read buffer
29 of this connection soon).
30 - Log G-/K-Line changes only when not initiated by a server: this prevents
31 the log from becoming spammed during "net bursts".
32 - Update test suite to include SSL tests, including checking for reloading
33 certificates during runtime.
34 - Add support for GnuTLS certificate reload, which is quite handy when using
35 Let's Encrypt, for example. Until now this was only supported when linked
36 with OpenSSL. Thanks a lot, Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de>!
37 - Allow setting arbitrary channel modes in the configuration file by handling
38 them like in MODE commands, and allow multiple "Modes =" lines per [Channel]
39 section. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org>!
41 - Add "FNC" (forced nick changes) to ISUPPORT(005) numeric. Most probably
42 this doesn't make any difference to any client, but it seems correct.
43 See <http://www.irc.org/tech_docs/005.html> for details.
44 - Enhance handling of command line errors, and return with exit code 0 ("no
45 error") when "--help" or "--version" is used (which resulted in exit code 1,
46 "error" before). Exit with code 2 ("command line error") for all other
47 invalid command line options, and show the error message itself on stderr
48 (instead of stdout and exit code 1, "generic error", as before).
49 This new behaviour is more in line with the GNU "coding standards",
50 see <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html>.
51 - Add ./contrib/nglog.sh: This script parses the log output of ngircd(8),
52 and colorizes the messages according to their log level. Example usage:
53 ngircd -f $PWD/doc/sample-ngircd.conf -np | ./contrib/nglog.sh
54 - Enlarge buffers of info texts to 128 bytes. This includes:
55 - "Real name" of a client (4th filed of the USER command).
56 - Server info text ("Info" configuration option).
57 - Admin info texts and email address ("AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" and
58 "AdminEmail" configuration options).
59 - Network name ("Network" configuration option).
60 The limit was 64 bytes before ...
62 - Streamline handling of invalid and unset server name: Don't exit during
63 runtime (REHASH command, HUP signal), because the server name can't be
64 changed in this case anyway and the new invalid name will be ignored.
65 - Slightly reorder startup steps, and enhance logging:
66 - Show name of configuration file at the beginning of start up.
67 - Add a message when ngIRCd is ready, including its host name.
68 - Show name of configuration file on REHASH (SIGHUP), too.
69 - Change level of "done message" to NOTICE, like "starting" & "ready".
70 - Initialize IO functions before channels, connections, clients, ...
71 - configure.ng: OpenSSL can depends on lz or latomic so use pkg-config to
72 find those dependencies and fallback to existing mechanism.
75 ngIRCd 25 (2019-01-23)
77 - Implement new configuration option "MaxPenaltyTime", which configures the
78 maximum penalty time increase in seconds, per penalty event. Set to -1 for
79 no limit (the default), 0 to disable penalties altogether. ngIRCd doesn't
80 use penalty increases higher than 2 seconds during normal operation, so
81 values higher than 1 rarely make sense.
82 Disabling (or reducing) penalties can greatly speed up "make check" runs
83 for example, see below, but are mostly a debugging feature and normally
84 not meant to be used on production systems!
85 Some example timings running "make check" from my macOS workstation:
86 - MaxPenaltyTime not set: 4:41,79s
87 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 1": 3:14,71s
88 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 0": 25,46s
90 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (10.0)
91 - Allow a 5th parameter in WEBIRC. Thanks to "ItsOnlyBinary".
94 ngIRCd 25~rc1 (2018-08-11)
95 - Only send TOPIC updates to a channel when the topic actually changed:
96 This prevents the channel from becoming flooded by unnecessary TOPIC update
97 messages, that can happen when IRC services try to enforce a certain topic
98 but which is already set (at least on the local server), for example.
99 Therefore still forward it to all servers, but don't inform local clients
100 (still update setter and timestamp information, though!).
101 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (9.2). This includes adding
102 missing and deleting obsolete file references.
103 - Handle user mode "C" ("Only users that share a channel are allowed to send
104 messages") like user mode "b" ("block private messages and notices"): allow
105 messages from servers, services, and IRC Operators, too. Change proposed by
106 "wowaname" back in 2015 in #ngircd, thanks!
107 - Allow IRC Ops and remote servers to KILL service clients: such clients
108 behave like regular users, therefore IRC operators and servers should be
109 able to KILL them: for example to resolve nick collisions.
112 ngIRCd 24 (2017-01-20)
114 ngIRCd 24~rc1 (2017-01-07)
115 - Log privilege violations and failed OPER request with log level "error"
116 and send it to the "&SERVER" channel, too.
117 - Immediately shut down connection when receiving an "ERROR" command,
118 don't wait for the peer to close the connection. This allows the daemon
119 to forward the received "ERROR" message in the network, instead of the
120 very generic "client closed connection" message.
121 - Explicitly forbid remote servers to modify "x-lines" (G-LINES) when the
122 "AllowRemoteOper" configuration option isn't set, even when the command
123 seems to originate from the remote server itself: this prevents GLINE's
124 to become set during server handshake in this case (what wouldn't be
125 possible during regular runtime when a remote IRC Op sends the command)
126 and what can't be undone by IRC Ops later on (because of the missing
127 "AllowRemoteOper" option) ...
128 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (8.0), and fix "duplicate
129 symbols" error messages when building (linking) the binary.
130 - Add "Documentation" variables to systemd configuration files.
131 - Make sure that SYSCONFDIR is always set, which can be handy when
132 using source code linters when ./configure hasn't been run already.
133 - Add the new "PAMServiceName" configuration option to specify the name
134 used as PAM service name. This setting allows to run multiple ngIRCd
135 instances with different PAM configurations for each instance.
136 Thanks to Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at> for the
138 - Add an ".editorconfig" file to the project.
139 - Limit the number of message target, and suppress duplicates: This
140 prevents an user from flooding the server using commands like this:
141 "PRIVMSG nick1,nick1,nick1,...".
142 Duplicate targets are suppressed silently (channels and clients).
143 In addition, the maximum number of targets per PRIVMSG, NOTICE, ...
144 command are limited to MAX_HNDL_TARGETS (25). If there are more, the
145 daemon sends the new 407 (ERR_TOOMANYTARGETS_MSG) numeric, containing
146 the first target that hasn't been handled any more. Closes #187.
147 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh script more portable, and only show
148 "runs=Y" when the test suite really has been passed successfully.
150 ngIRCd 23 (2015-11-16)
152 ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06)
153 - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is
154 a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea.
155 Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not
156 available. This mimics the behavior in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd
157 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217.
158 The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed
159 to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still
160 supported for compatibility reasons.
161 - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick
162 name while on this channel). Closes #214.
163 - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts.
164 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203.
165 - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients
166 expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly.
167 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
168 - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
169 in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't
170 hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect.
172 - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set.
173 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202.
174 - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents
175 ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see
177 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197.
178 - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure
179 that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users
180 to local ("&") channels.
181 Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183.
182 - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when
183 receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation
184 time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports
185 the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined
186 to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this.
187 This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
189 ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
191 - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch,
192 and testing by Christoph Biedl <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
193 - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating
194 systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example
195 "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to
196 "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve
197 "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using
198 DNS at all makes the test site much more portable.
200 ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
202 - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
203 ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
204 Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
206 ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
207 - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
208 lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
209 nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
210 Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
211 - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
212 - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
213 that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
214 this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
215 if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
216 - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
217 - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
218 settable by IRC Operators.
219 - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
220 "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
221 settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
222 careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
223 User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
224 - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
225 - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
226 - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
227 Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
228 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
229 on "VPATH builds", for example.
230 - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
231 and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
232 - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
233 using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
234 names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
235 is quite unexpected for users.
236 - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
237 allow using separate source and build trees.
238 - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
239 - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
241 - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
242 and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
243 useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
244 been linked at all ...).
245 - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
246 (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
247 daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
248 which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
249 - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
250 - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
251 Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
252 return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
253 DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
254 - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
257 ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
259 - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
260 disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
261 - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
262 - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
263 - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
264 linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
265 been implemented already).
266 - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
268 ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
270 - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
271 is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
272 initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
274 ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
275 - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
276 support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
278 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
279 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
280 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
281 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
282 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
283 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
284 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
285 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
286 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
287 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
288 the IRC "TRACE" command.
289 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
290 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
291 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
292 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
293 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
294 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
295 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
296 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
298 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
299 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
300 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
301 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
302 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
303 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
304 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
305 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
306 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
307 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
308 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
309 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
310 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
311 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
312 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
313 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
314 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
315 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
316 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
317 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
318 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
319 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
320 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
321 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
322 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
323 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
324 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
325 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
326 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
327 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
328 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
329 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
330 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
331 The default is 0, "never".
332 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
333 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
334 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
335 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
336 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
337 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
338 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
339 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
340 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
341 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
342 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
343 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
344 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
345 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
346 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
347 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
348 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
349 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
350 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
352 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
354 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
355 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
356 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
357 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
358 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
360 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
362 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
363 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
364 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to crash the daemon
367 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
369 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
371 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
373 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
374 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
375 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
376 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
377 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
379 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
380 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
381 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
382 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
383 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
384 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
385 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
387 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
388 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
389 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
390 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
391 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
392 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
393 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
394 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
395 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
396 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
397 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
398 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
399 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
400 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
401 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
402 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
403 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
404 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
405 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
406 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
407 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
408 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
409 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
410 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
411 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
412 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
413 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
414 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
415 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
416 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
417 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
418 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
419 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
420 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
421 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
422 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
424 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
425 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
426 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
428 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
429 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
430 configuration file. (Closes #136)
431 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
432 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
433 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
434 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
435 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
436 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
437 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
438 behave, and so do we :-)
439 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
440 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
441 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
442 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
443 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
444 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
445 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
446 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
447 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
448 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
449 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
450 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
451 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
452 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
453 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
454 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
456 ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
458 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
459 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
460 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
461 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
462 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
463 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
464 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
465 and capability "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
466 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
468 ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
470 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
471 distribution archive ... ooops!
473 ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
475 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
476 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
477 is the only supported version.
478 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
479 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
480 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
481 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
482 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
483 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
484 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
485 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
486 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
487 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
488 by completely unknown clients.
489 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
490 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
491 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
492 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
493 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
494 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
495 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
496 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
497 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
498 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
499 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
500 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
501 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
502 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
503 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
504 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
505 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
506 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
507 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
508 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
509 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
510 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
511 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
512 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
513 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
514 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
515 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
516 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
517 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
518 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
519 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
520 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
521 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
522 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
523 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
524 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
525 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
526 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
527 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
528 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
529 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
530 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
531 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
532 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
533 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
534 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
535 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
536 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
537 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
538 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
539 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
541 ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
543 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
545 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
546 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
547 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
548 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
549 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
551 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
552 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
553 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
554 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
555 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
556 servers from TOR or I2P.
557 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
558 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
559 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
560 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
561 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
562 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
563 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
564 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
565 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
566 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
567 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
568 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
569 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
570 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
571 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
572 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
573 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
574 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
575 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
576 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
577 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
578 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
579 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
580 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
581 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
582 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
583 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
584 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
585 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
586 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
587 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
588 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
589 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
590 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
591 variable description.
592 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
593 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
594 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
595 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
596 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
597 supplied by the IRC client.
598 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
599 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
600 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
601 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
602 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
603 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
604 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
605 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
606 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
607 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
608 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
609 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
610 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
611 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
612 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
613 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
614 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
616 ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
618 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
619 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
620 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
622 ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
624 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
626 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
627 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
628 - Make source code compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
629 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
631 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
632 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
633 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
634 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
635 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
636 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
637 Possible values are system dependent, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
638 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
639 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
640 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
641 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
642 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
643 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
644 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
645 using the command line parameters.
646 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
647 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contents of the MOTD
648 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
649 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
650 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
651 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
652 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
653 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
654 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
655 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
656 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
657 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
658 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
660 ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
662 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
663 - Enhance connection statistics counters: display total number of served
664 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
665 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
667 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
668 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
669 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
670 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
671 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
672 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
673 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
674 to join such a channel.
675 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
676 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
677 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
678 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
680 ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
682 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
683 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
684 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
685 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (instead of the already
686 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
687 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
688 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
690 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
691 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
692 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
694 ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
696 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
697 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
698 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
700 ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
702 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
703 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
704 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
705 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
706 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
707 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
708 individual channel keys for different users.
709 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
711 ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
713 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
714 - New version number scheme :-)
715 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
716 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
717 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
718 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
719 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
720 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
721 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
722 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
723 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
724 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
725 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
726 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
727 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
728 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
729 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
731 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
733 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
734 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
735 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
736 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
737 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
738 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
740 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
742 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
743 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
745 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
747 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
748 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
749 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
750 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
751 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
752 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
753 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
754 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
755 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
756 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
758 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
760 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
761 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
762 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
763 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
764 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
765 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
766 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
767 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
768 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
769 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
772 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
774 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
775 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
776 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
777 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
778 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
780 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
782 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
783 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
784 join predefined channels.
786 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
788 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
789 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
790 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
791 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
792 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
793 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
794 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
795 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
796 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
797 lookup to prevent spoofing.
798 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
799 addition to the select() interface.
801 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
803 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
804 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
805 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
806 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
807 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
808 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
809 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
810 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
811 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
812 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
813 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
814 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
815 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
816 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
817 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
818 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
820 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
822 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
823 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
824 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
825 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
826 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
827 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
828 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
829 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
830 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
831 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
832 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
833 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
835 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
837 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
838 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
839 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
840 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
841 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
842 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
844 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
846 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
848 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
850 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
851 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
852 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
853 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
854 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
855 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
856 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
857 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
858 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
859 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
860 configure to enable it.
861 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
862 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
863 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
864 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
865 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
868 Older news (sorry, only available in German language):
870 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
872 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
873 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
874 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
875 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
876 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
877 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
878 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
879 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
880 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
881 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
882 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
883 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
884 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
885 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
886 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
887 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
888 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
889 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
890 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
891 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
892 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
893 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
894 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
895 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
896 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
897 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
899 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
901 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
902 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
903 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
904 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
905 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
906 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
907 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
908 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
909 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
910 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
911 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
912 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
913 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
914 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
915 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
916 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
917 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
919 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
921 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
922 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
924 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
926 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
927 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
928 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
929 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
930 zusaetzliche Informationen.
931 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
932 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
933 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
934 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
935 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
936 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
937 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
938 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
939 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
940 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
941 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
942 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
944 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
946 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
947 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
948 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
949 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
950 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
951 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
952 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
953 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
954 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
955 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
957 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
959 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
960 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
961 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
962 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
963 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
964 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
966 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
968 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
969 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
970 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
971 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
972 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
973 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
975 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
977 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
978 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
979 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
980 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
981 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
982 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
983 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
984 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
986 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
988 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
989 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
990 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
991 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
993 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
995 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)