Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the configuraton file, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored the "SyslogFacility" configuration option. Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue!

Logging: remove "Activating ..." info message

ngIRCd release 19~rc1

Update RPM spec file description to match Debian "control file"

Update NEWS and ChangeLog files

Fix forwarding of LIST commands Bug reported by Cahata, thanks!

Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6

New_Connection(): don't set the client hostname twice Setting the hostname twice doesn't do much harm a lot, but isn't elegant. And for IPv6 addresses, it isn't correct the first time (missing []) ...

Client_SetHostname(): Code cleanup, more debug logging

io: use define for number of possible events

io: remove outer do {} while loops for epoll/kqueue/devpoll backends simplifies things a bit. io_dispatch() is called repeatedly from the main loop.

Enhance server command limits This patch updates the limits for handling commands from a remote server: - "<user count> / 5 + <min>" using "<min>=10" during normal operation, - the above count multiplied with 5 while servers are syncing. The intention is to a) make the limit dependent of the number of users in the network (the more users, the more commands required to sync) and b) to significantly rise this limit while servers are joining the network to make the login and synchronization faster.

Send a PING at the end of the server sync to detect it At the end of sending all "state" to the remote server, a PING command is sent to request a PONG reply. Until then, no "regual" PING was sent, so Conn_LastPing(<connection>) is null and now becomes non-null in the PONG command handler. So the servers are still synchronizing when Conn_LastPing(<connection>) is 0, which could easily be tested.

New function Conn_UpdatePing() to update the "ping timestamp"

Conn_UpdateIdle(): Code cleanup

RPL_ISUPPORT_MSG(005): add "EXCEPTS=e INVEX=I" Thanks to Cahata for the idea!

Fix "MAXLIST=beI:50": the limit is the sum of all lists "Modes which are specified in the same pair share the same maximum size", so "beI:50" means a total of 50 entries, regardless of the list. See <http://www.irc.org/tech_docs/draft-brocklesby-irc-isupport-03.txt>, thanks to Cahata for reporting this!

Update NEWS and ChangeLog files

New RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378): show hostname and IP address The numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378) returns the DNS hostname (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply. Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.

New function Conn_GetIPAInfo(): get IP address of a connection

G/K-Lines: only add and delete valid IRC masks

Check G/K-Lines before the client has been registered, too This allows to use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks to reject clients even before receiving PASS, NICK and USER commands and before forking authentication child processes which reduces resource usage.

Streamline handling of connection rejects (bad password, G/K-line) - Use Client_Reject(), get rid of Reject_Client(). - Refactor Class_IsMember() to Class_GetMemberReason(), - New function Class_HandleServerBans().

New function Client_Reject() to reject clients on connect

New function Lists_CheckReason() to get reason of list entries