2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2021 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
11 ngIRCd 26.1 (2021-01-02)
13 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
15 ngIRCd 26 (2020-06-20)
17 ngIRCd 26~rc2 (2020-06-11)
18 - Add AppStream metadata file (contrib/de.barton.ngircd.metainfo.xml).
19 - Various bug fixes, see the ChangeLog. No new or changed functionality.
21 ngIRCd 26~rc1 (2020-05-10)
22 - Allow up to 512 characters per line in MOTD and help text files (but keep
23 in mind that lines can't get that long, because they have to be prefixed
24 before being sent to the client). But this allows for more fancy MOTDs :-)
26 - Show the actually allowed channel types in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric which
27 are configured by the "AllowedChannelTypes" configuration variable.
29 - Handle commands in the read buffer before reading more data and don't wait
30 for the network in this case: If there are more bytes in the read buffer
31 already than a single valid IRC command can get long (513 bytes), wait for
32 this/those command(s) to be handled first and don't try to read even more
33 data from the network (which most probably would overflow the read buffer
34 of this connection soon).
35 - Log G-/K-Line changes only when not initiated by a server: this prevents
36 the log from becoming spammed during "net bursts".
37 - Update test suite to include SSL tests, including checking for reloading
38 certificates during runtime.
39 - Add support for GnuTLS certificate reload, which is quite handy when using
40 Let's Encrypt, for example. Until now this was only supported when linked
41 with OpenSSL. Thanks a lot, Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de>!
42 - Allow setting arbitrary channel modes in the configuration file by handling
43 them like in MODE commands, and allow multiple "Modes =" lines per [Channel]
44 section. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org>!
46 - Add "FNC" (forced nick changes) to ISUPPORT(005) numeric. Most probably
47 this doesn't make any difference to any client, but it seems correct.
48 See <http://www.irc.org/tech_docs/005.html> for details.
49 - Enhance handling of command line errors, and return with exit code 0 ("no
50 error") when "--help" or "--version" is used (which resulted in exit code 1,
51 "error" before). Exit with code 2 ("command line error") for all other
52 invalid command line options, and show the error message itself on stderr
53 (instead of stdout and exit code 1, "generic error", as before).
54 This new behaviour is more in line with the GNU "coding standards",
55 see <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html>.
56 - Add ./contrib/nglog.sh: This script parses the log output of ngircd(8),
57 and colorizes the messages according to their log level. Example usage:
58 ngircd -f $PWD/doc/sample-ngircd.conf -np | ./contrib/nglog.sh
59 - Enlarge buffers of info texts to 128 bytes. This includes:
60 - "Real name" of a client (4th filed of the USER command).
61 - Server info text ("Info" configuration option).
62 - Admin info texts and email address ("AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" and
63 "AdminEmail" configuration options).
64 - Network name ("Network" configuration option).
65 The limit was 64 bytes before ...
67 - Streamline handling of invalid and unset server name: Don't exit during
68 runtime (REHASH command, HUP signal), because the server name can't be
69 changed in this case anyway and the new invalid name will be ignored.
70 - Slightly reorder startup steps, and enhance logging:
71 - Show name of configuration file at the beginning of start up.
72 - Add a message when ngIRCd is ready, including its host name.
73 - Show name of configuration file on REHASH (SIGHUP), too.
74 - Change level of "done message" to NOTICE, like "starting" & "ready".
75 - Initialize IO functions before channels, connections, clients, ...
76 - configure.ng: OpenSSL can depends on lz or latomic so use pkg-config to
77 find those dependencies and fallback to existing mechanism.
80 ngIRCd 25 (2019-01-23)
82 - Implement new configuration option "MaxPenaltyTime", which configures the
83 maximum penalty time increase in seconds, per penalty event. Set to -1 for
84 no limit (the default), 0 to disable penalties altogether. ngIRCd doesn't
85 use penalty increases higher than 2 seconds during normal operation, so
86 values higher than 1 rarely make sense.
87 Disabling (or reducing) penalties can greatly speed up "make check" runs
88 for example, see below, but are mostly a debugging feature and normally
89 not meant to be used on production systems!
90 Some example timings running "make check" from my macOS workstation:
91 - MaxPenaltyTime not set: 4:41,79s
92 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 1": 3:14,71s
93 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 0": 25,46s
95 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (10.0)
96 - Allow a 5th parameter in WEBIRC. Thanks to "ItsOnlyBinary".
99 ngIRCd 25~rc1 (2018-08-11)
100 - Only send TOPIC updates to a channel when the topic actually changed:
101 This prevents the channel from becoming flooded by unnecessary TOPIC update
102 messages, that can happen when IRC services try to enforce a certain topic
103 but which is already set (at least on the local server), for example.
104 Therefore still forward it to all servers, but don't inform local clients
105 (still update setter and timestamp information, though!).
106 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (9.2). This includes adding
107 missing and deleting obsolete file references.
108 - Handle user mode "C" ("Only users that share a channel are allowed to send
109 messages") like user mode "b" ("block private messages and notices"): allow
110 messages from servers, services, and IRC Operators, too. Change proposed by
111 "wowaname" back in 2015 in #ngircd, thanks!
112 - Allow IRC Ops and remote servers to KILL service clients: such clients
113 behave like regular users, therefore IRC operators and servers should be
114 able to KILL them: for example to resolve nick collisions.
117 ngIRCd 24 (2017-01-20)
119 ngIRCd 24~rc1 (2017-01-07)
120 - Log privilege violations and failed OPER request with log level "error"
121 and send it to the "&SERVER" channel, too.
122 - Immediately shut down connection when receiving an "ERROR" command,
123 don't wait for the peer to close the connection. This allows the daemon
124 to forward the received "ERROR" message in the network, instead of the
125 very generic "client closed connection" message.
126 - Explicitly forbid remote servers to modify "x-lines" (G-LINES) when the
127 "AllowRemoteOper" configuration option isn't set, even when the command
128 seems to originate from the remote server itself: this prevents GLINE's
129 to become set during server handshake in this case (what wouldn't be
130 possible during regular runtime when a remote IRC Op sends the command)
131 and what can't be undone by IRC Ops later on (because of the missing
132 "AllowRemoteOper" option) ...
133 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (8.0), and fix "duplicate
134 symbols" error messages when building (linking) the binary.
135 - Add "Documentation" variables to systemd configuration files.
136 - Make sure that SYSCONFDIR is always set, which can be handy when
137 using source code linters when ./configure hasn't been run already.
138 - Add the new "PAMServiceName" configuration option to specify the name
139 used as PAM service name. This setting allows to run multiple ngIRCd
140 instances with different PAM configurations for each instance.
141 Thanks to Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at> for the
143 - Add an ".editorconfig" file to the project.
144 - Limit the number of message target, and suppress duplicates: This
145 prevents an user from flooding the server using commands like this:
146 "PRIVMSG nick1,nick1,nick1,...".
147 Duplicate targets are suppressed silently (channels and clients).
148 In addition, the maximum number of targets per PRIVMSG, NOTICE, ...
149 command are limited to MAX_HNDL_TARGETS (25). If there are more, the
150 daemon sends the new 407 (ERR_TOOMANYTARGETS_MSG) numeric, containing
151 the first target that hasn't been handled any more. Closes #187.
152 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh script more portable, and only show
153 "runs=Y" when the test suite really has been passed successfully.
155 ngIRCd 23 (2015-11-16)
157 ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06)
158 - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is
159 a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea.
160 Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not
161 available. This mimics the behavior in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd
162 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217.
163 The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed
164 to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still
165 supported for compatibility reasons.
166 - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick
167 name while on this channel). Closes #214.
168 - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts.
169 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203.
170 - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients
171 expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly.
172 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
173 - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
174 in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't
175 hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect.
177 - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set.
178 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202.
179 - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents
180 ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see
182 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197.
183 - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure
184 that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users
185 to local ("&") channels.
186 Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183.
187 - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when
188 receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation
189 time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports
190 the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined
191 to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this.
192 This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
194 ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
196 - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch,
197 and testing by Christoph Biedl <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
198 - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating
199 systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example
200 "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to
201 "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve
202 "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using
203 DNS at all makes the test site much more portable.
205 ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
207 - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
208 ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
209 Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
211 ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
212 - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
213 lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
214 nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
215 Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
216 - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
217 - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
218 that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
219 this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
220 if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
221 - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
222 - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
223 settable by IRC Operators.
224 - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
225 "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
226 settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
227 careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
228 User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
229 - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
230 - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
231 - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
232 Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
233 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
234 on "VPATH builds", for example.
235 - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
236 and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
237 - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
238 using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
239 names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
240 is quite unexpected for users.
241 - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
242 allow using separate source and build trees.
243 - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
244 - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
246 - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
247 and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
248 useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
249 been linked at all ...).
250 - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
251 (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
252 daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
253 which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
254 - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
255 - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
256 Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
257 return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
258 DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
259 - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
262 ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
264 - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
265 disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
266 - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
267 - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
268 - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
269 linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
270 been implemented already).
271 - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
273 ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
275 - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
276 is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
277 initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
279 ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
280 - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
281 support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
283 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
284 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
285 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
286 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
287 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
288 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
289 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
290 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
291 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
292 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
293 the IRC "TRACE" command.
294 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
295 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
296 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
297 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
298 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
299 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
300 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
301 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
303 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
304 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
305 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
306 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
307 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
308 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
309 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
310 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
311 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
312 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
313 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
314 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
315 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
316 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
317 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
318 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
319 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
320 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
321 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
322 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
323 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
324 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
325 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
326 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
327 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
328 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
329 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
330 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
331 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
332 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
333 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
334 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
335 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
336 The default is 0, "never".
337 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
338 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
339 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
340 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
341 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
342 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
343 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
344 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
345 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
346 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
347 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
348 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
349 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
350 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
351 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
352 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
353 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
354 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
355 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
357 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
359 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
360 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
361 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
362 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
363 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
365 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
367 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
368 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
369 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to crash the daemon
372 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
374 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
376 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
378 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
379 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
380 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
381 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
382 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
384 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
385 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
386 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
387 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
388 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
389 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
390 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
392 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
393 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
394 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
395 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
396 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
397 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
398 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
399 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
400 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
401 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
402 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
403 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
404 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
405 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
406 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
407 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
408 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
409 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
410 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
411 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
412 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
413 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
414 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
415 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
416 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
417 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
418 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
419 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
420 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
421 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
422 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
423 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
424 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
425 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
426 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
427 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
429 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
430 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
431 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
433 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
434 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
435 configuration file. (Closes #136)
436 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
437 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
438 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
439 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
440 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
441 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
442 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
443 behave, and so do we :-)
444 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
445 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
446 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
447 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
448 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
449 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
450 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
451 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
452 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
453 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
454 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
455 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
456 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
457 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
458 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
459 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
461 ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
463 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
464 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
465 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
466 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
467 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
468 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
469 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
470 and capability "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
471 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
473 ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
475 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
476 distribution archive ... ooops!
478 ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
480 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
481 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
482 is the only supported version.
483 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
484 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
485 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
486 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
487 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
488 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
489 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
490 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
491 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
492 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
493 by completely unknown clients.
494 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
495 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
496 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
497 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
498 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
499 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
500 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
501 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
502 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
503 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
504 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
505 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
506 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
507 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
508 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
509 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
510 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
511 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
512 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
513 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
514 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
515 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
516 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
517 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
518 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
519 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
520 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
521 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
522 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
523 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
524 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
525 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
526 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
527 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
528 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
529 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
530 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
531 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
532 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
533 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
534 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
535 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
536 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
537 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
538 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
539 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
540 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
541 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
542 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
543 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
544 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
546 ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
548 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
550 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
551 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
552 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
553 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
554 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
556 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
557 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
558 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
559 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
560 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
561 servers from TOR or I2P.
562 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
563 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
564 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
565 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
566 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
567 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
568 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
569 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
570 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
571 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
572 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
573 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
574 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
575 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
576 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
577 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
578 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
579 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
580 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
581 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
582 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
583 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
584 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
585 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
586 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
587 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
588 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
589 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
590 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
591 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
592 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
593 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
594 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
595 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
596 variable description.
597 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
598 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
599 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
600 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
601 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
602 supplied by the IRC client.
603 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
604 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
605 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
606 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
607 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
608 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
609 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
610 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
611 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
612 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
613 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
614 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
615 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
616 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
617 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
618 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
619 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
621 ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
623 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
624 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
625 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
627 ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
629 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
631 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
632 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
633 - Make source code compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
634 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
636 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
637 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
638 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
639 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
640 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
641 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
642 Possible values are system dependent, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
643 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
644 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
645 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
646 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
647 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
648 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
649 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
650 using the command line parameters.
651 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
652 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contents of the MOTD
653 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
654 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
655 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
656 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
657 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
658 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
659 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
660 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
661 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
662 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
663 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
665 ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
667 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
668 - Enhance connection statistics counters: display total number of served
669 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
670 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
672 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
673 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
674 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
675 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
676 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
677 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
678 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
679 to join such a channel.
680 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
681 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
682 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
683 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
685 ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
687 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
688 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
689 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
690 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (instead of the already
691 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
692 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
693 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
695 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
696 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
697 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
699 ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
701 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
702 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
703 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
705 ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
707 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
708 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
709 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
710 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
711 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
712 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
713 individual channel keys for different users.
714 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
716 ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
718 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
719 - New version number scheme :-)
720 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
721 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
722 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
723 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
724 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
725 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
726 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
727 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
728 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
729 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
730 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
731 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
732 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
733 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
734 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
736 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
738 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
739 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
740 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
741 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
742 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
743 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
745 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
747 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
748 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
750 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
752 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
753 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
754 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
755 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
756 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
757 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
758 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
759 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
760 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
761 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
763 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
765 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
766 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
767 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
768 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
769 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
770 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
771 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
772 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
773 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
774 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
777 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
779 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
780 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
781 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
782 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
783 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
785 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
787 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
788 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
789 join predefined channels.
791 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
793 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
794 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
795 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
796 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
797 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
798 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
799 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
800 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
801 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
802 lookup to prevent spoofing.
803 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
804 addition to the select() interface.
806 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
808 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
809 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
810 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
811 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
812 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
813 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
814 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
815 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
816 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
817 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
818 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
819 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
820 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
821 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
822 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
823 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
825 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
827 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
828 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
829 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
830 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
831 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
832 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
833 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
834 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
835 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
836 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
837 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
838 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
840 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
842 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
843 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
844 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
845 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
846 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
847 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
849 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
851 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
853 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
855 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
856 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
857 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
858 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
859 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
860 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
861 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
862 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
863 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
864 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
865 configure to enable it.
866 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
867 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
868 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
869 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
870 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
873 Older news (sorry, only available in German language):
875 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
877 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
878 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
879 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
880 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
881 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
882 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
883 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
884 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
885 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
886 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
887 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
888 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
889 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
890 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
891 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
892 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
893 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
894 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
895 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
896 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
897 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
898 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
899 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
900 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
901 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
902 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
904 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
906 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
907 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
908 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
909 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
910 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
911 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
912 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
913 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
914 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
915 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
916 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
917 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
918 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
919 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
920 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
921 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
922 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
924 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
926 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
927 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
929 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
931 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
932 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
933 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
934 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
935 zusaetzliche Informationen.
936 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
937 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
938 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
939 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
940 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
941 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
942 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
943 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
944 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
945 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
946 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
947 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
949 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
951 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
952 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
953 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
954 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
955 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
956 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
957 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
958 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
959 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
960 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
962 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
964 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
965 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
966 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
967 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
968 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
969 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
971 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
973 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
974 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
975 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
976 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
977 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
978 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
980 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
982 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
983 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
984 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
985 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
986 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
987 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
988 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
989 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
991 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
993 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
994 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
995 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
996 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
998 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
1000 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)
