-- AUTHORS and CONTRIBUTORS --
-Note: If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel free to
-post a mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: <ngircd-ml@arthur.barton.de> (please
-see <http://ngircd.barton.de/#ml> for details).
+Note:
+If you have comments, patches or something else, please feel free to post
+a mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: <ngircd-ml@ngircd.barton.de> (please see
+<http://ngircd.barton.de/support.php> for details) or join the ngIRCd IRC
+channel: <irc://irc.barton.de/ngircd>.
Don't mail the people listed here directly, if possible!
Federico G. Schwindt <fgsch@lodoss.net>
Gabor Adam Toth <tg@tgbit.net>
Goetz Hoffart <goetz@hoffart.de>
+Ian Chard <ian@chard.org>
Ilja Osthoff <i.osthoff@gmx.net>
Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
+LucentW <lucent@zebes.info>
+Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@gmail.com>
Neale Pickett <neale@woozle.org>
+Peter Powell <petpow@saberuk.com>
Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de>
+Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>
Scott Perry <scperry@ucsd.edu>
Sean Reifschneider <jafo-rpms@tummy.com>
Sebastian Köhler <sebkoehler@whoami.org.uk>
Tassilo Schweyer <dev@welterde.de>
+Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>
+Unit 193 <unit193@ubuntu.com>
William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org>
+Yecheng Fu <cofyc.jackson@gmail.com>
xor <xorboy@gmail.com>
-- ChangeLog --
+ngIRCd 23
+
+ ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06)
+ - Add ".clang_complete" file, which is used by the "linter-clang" package
+ of the Atom editor, for example.
+ - Make server-to-server protocol more robust: ngIRCd now catches more
+ errors on the server-to-server (S2S) protocol that could crash the
+ daemon before. This hasn't been a real problem because the IRC S2S
+ protocol is "trusted" by design, but the behavior is much better now.
+ Thanks to wowaname on #ngircd for pointing this out!
+ - Make platformtest.sh, autogen.sh, and ngircd.init more portable.
+ - Enables "reproducible builds" for ngIRCd: Use the optional BIRTHTIME
+ constant while building ngIRCd, which contains a time stamp for the
+ "Birth Date" information, in seconds since the epoch.
+ See <https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds>.
+ - Update "contrib/ngircd.service" file for systemd.
+ - INSTALL: Add deprecation notice for "PredefChannelsOnly" variable.
+ - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is
+ a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea.
+ Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not
+ available. This mimics the behaviour in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd
+ 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217.
+ The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed
+ to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still
+ supported for compatibility reasons.
+ - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick
+ name while on this channel). Closes #214.
+ - README, AUTHORS: Update mailing list and issue tracker URLs.
+ - Remove doc/GIT.txt (it is outdated), update doc/Contributing.txt:
+ ngIRCd uses GitHub, and Git itself is quite common today. So don't
+ include an own Git "mini HowTo" any longer.
+ - Specify session context for OpenSSL clients. This enables some OpenSSL
+ clients, including Pidgin and stunnel 5.06, to reuse a session.
+ Patch by Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>, thanks! Closes #182.
+ - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts.
+ Idee and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203.
+ - Make setgroups(3) function optional: For example, Interix is missing
+ this function, which prevented ngIRCd to build on this platform. When
+ setgroups(3) isn't available, a warning message is issued on startup.
+ - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients
+ expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly.
+ Idee and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
+ - Update ngircd.conf.5: "CloadUserToNick" hides user _and_ real name.
+ This closes #208.
+ - Fix case insensitive pattern matching: Up to now, only the the input
+ string became lowercased and was then compared to the pattern -- which
+ failed when the pattern itself wasn't all lowercase!
+ - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
+ in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't
+ hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect.
+ This closes #198.
+ - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set.
+ Idee and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202.
+ - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents
+ ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see
+ the channel list).
+ Idee and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197.
+ - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure
+ that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users
+ to local ("&") channels.
+ Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183.
+ - INVITE command: Enforce 1 second penalty time, which prevents flooding
+ of the target client.
+ This closes #186. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
+ - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when
+ receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation
+ time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports
+ the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined
+ to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this.
+ This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
+ - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (6.3).
+
ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
- Update doc/Platforms.txt and doc/FAQ.txt.
ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
http://ngircd.barton.de/
- (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
+ (c)2001-2015 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
And this is open source, your work must not be 100% finished and perfect,
work in progress is interesting, too: "release early, release often"!
+
+- Use GitHub to create "Pull Requests"
+
+ ngIRCd is hosted on GitHub (<https://github.com/ngircd>), so please use the
+ tools available there and open issues (comment!) and create pull requests!
+ See <https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/> for details.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
a) Make sure the source tree is in a releasable state ;-)
+ - is the AUTHORS file up to date?
b) Make sure you have working versions of GNU autoconf and GNU automake
installed on the system you use for generating the release:
Differences to version 22.x
+- The "NoticeAuth" ngircd.conf configuration variable has been renamed to
+ "NoticeBeforeRegistration". The old "NoticeAuth" variable still works but
+ is deprecated now.
+
- The default value of the SSL "CipherList" variable has been changed to
"HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH:!SSLv3" (OpenSSL) and "SECURE128:-VERS-SSL3.0"
(GnuTLS) to disable the old SSLv3 protocol by default.
the new mask will be KILL'ed. This was not the case with earlier versions
that only added the mask but didn't kill already connected users.
+- The "PredefChannelsOnly" configuration variable has been superseeded by the
+ new "AllowedChannelTypes" variable. It is still supported and translated to
+ the apropriate "AllowedChannelTypes" setting but is deprecated now.
+
Differences to version 19.x
- Starting with ngIRCd 20, users can "cloak" their hostname only when the
set mode +x. This prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
-Differences to version 17
+Differences to version 17.x
- Support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration has been
removed. The configuration option "NoZeroconf" is no longer available.
You should adjust your ngircd.conf and run "ngircd --configtest" to make
sure that your settings are correct and up to date!
-Differences to version 16
+Differences to version 16.x
- Changes to the "MotdFile" specified in ngircd.conf now require a ngircd
configuration reload to take effect (HUP signal, REHASH command).
ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
http://ngircd.barton.de/
- (c)2001-2014 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
+ (c)2001-2015 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
C 19 Only users that share a channel are allowed to send messages.
F 22 Relaxed flood protection (only settable by IRC Operators).
i 0.0.1 User is "invisible".
+ I 23 No channels are shown on WHOIS (IRC Ops can always see those).
o 0.0.1 User is IRC operator.
q 20 User is protected, can not be kicked from a channel.
r 0.0.1 User is restricted.
m 0.3.0 Channel is moderated, only "voiced" users can send messages.
M 20 Only registered users (and IRC Ops) can send messages.
n 0.3.0 Channel doesn't allow messages of users not being members.
+ N 23 Users can't change their nickname while on this channel.
O 18 Only IRC operators are allowed to join this channel.
P 0.5.0 Channel is "persistent".
Q 20 Nobody can be kicked from the channel.
-- NEWS --
+ngIRCd 23
+
+ ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06)
+ - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is
+ a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea.
+ Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not
+ available. This mimics the behaviour in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd
+ 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217.
+ The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed
+ to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still
+ supported for compatibility reasons.
+ - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick
+ name while on this channel). Closes #214.
+ - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts.
+ Idee and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203.
+ - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients
+ expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly.
+ Idee and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
+ - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
+ in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't
+ hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect.
+ This closes #198.
+ - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set.
+ Idee and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202.
+ - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents
+ ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see
+ the channel list).
+ Idee and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197.
+ - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure
+ that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users
+ to local ("&") channels.
+ Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183.
+ - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when
+ receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation
+ time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports
+ the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined
+ to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this.
+ This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
+
ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
- Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch,
If you are interested in the latest development versions (which are not
always stable), then please read the section about "GIT" on the homepage and
the file "doc/GIT.txt" which describes the use of GIT, the version control
-system used by ngIRCd (homepage: http://git-scm.com/).
+system used by ngIRCd (homepage: <http://git-scm.com/>).
VI. Bugs
If you find bugs in the ngIRCd (which might be there :-), please report
them at the following URL:
-<http://ngircd.barton.de/bugtracker.php>
+<https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/issues>
There you can read about known bugs and limitations, too.
-If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel free to post a
-mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: <ngircd-ml@arthur.barton.de> (please see
-<http://ngircd.barton.de/support.php#ml> for details) or join the ngIRCd
-IRC channel: <irc://irc.barton.de/ngircd>.
+If you have comments, patches or something else, please feel free to post
+a mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: <ngircd-ml@ngircd.barton.de> (please see
+<http://ngircd.barton.de/support.php> for details) or join the ngIRCd IRC
+channel: <irc://irc.barton.de/ngircd>.
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