2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2024 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
13 - autogen.sh: Prefere automake 1.11 over other releases because this is the
14 last release supporting "de-ANSI-fication" using the included ansi2knr tool.
15 And becuase we _want_ to support old K&R platforms, we try hard to use this
16 release of automake when available to generate our build system.
17 Note: This is only relevant for you if you are building from Git sources.
18 - Autodetect support for IPv6 by default: Until now, IPv6 support was disabled
19 by default, which seems a bit outdated in 2024. Note: You still can pass
20 "--enable-ipv6"/"--disable-ipv6" to the ./configure script to forcefully
21 activate or deactivate IPv6 support.
22 - Update config.guess and config.sub to recent versions
23 - Remove the unmaintained contrib/MacOSX/ folder: this includes the Xcode
24 project as well as the outdated macOS "Package Maker" configuration. The
25 sample launchd(8) configuration properties list file was moved to
26 "contrib/de.barton.ngircd.plist" and kept.
27 - Fix Channel Admins being able to to set Channel Owner status! "Sarah"
28 reported this back in April 2021 and proposed a patch, thanks a lot!
29 - Test suite: Update for OpenSSL 3.x, some command outputs changed.
30 - Fix showing the "Ident" option in "--configtest" output which was never
31 shown because of a coding error. Whoops!
32 - Change GnuTLS "slot handling" messages to debug level: Those messages are
33 about an internal implementation detail, not relevant for an administrator
35 - Enlarge buffer for log messages: For example, SSL/TLS certificate
36 information can easily get longer than 256 characters. So enlarge the log
38 - Respect "SSLConnect" option for incoming connections and do not accept
39 incoming plain-text ("non SSL") server connections for servers configured
40 with "SSLConnect" enabled. This change prevents an authenticated
41 client-server being able to force the server-server to send its password
42 on a plain-text connection when SSL/TLS was intended.
43 - Add "hopm.service" to "Wants" and "Before" dependencies in the sample
44 systemd unit file (Hopm is the successor of Bopm).
45 - Return ERR_NOTEXTTOSEND on empty PRIVMSG content, which matches the
46 behaviour of other servers.
47 - Add a new option "Autojoin" to [Channel] blocks: When it is set, ngIRCd
48 automatically joins all local users to this channel on connect. Note: The
49 users must have permissions to access the channel, otherwise joining them
51 Thanks Ivan Agarkov <i_agarkov@wargaming.net> for the initial patch!
52 - Hide +i users on "WHOIS <pattern>": Let's behave like most(?) other IRC
53 daemons (at least ircd2.11) and hide all +i users when WHOIS is used with a
54 pattern. Otherwise privacy of this users is not guaranteed and the +i mode
56 Reported by Cahata on #ngircd, thanks!
57 - Update the final "closing connection" message: Add some more information
58 like nick name, user name, host name and bring it in line with some other
59 implementations (at least ircd2.11 and Hybrid).
60 - Fix RPL_INVITING message: All numeric replies must originate from an IRC
61 server, never from a client. Thanks "tommyrot" for reporting this!
63 - Enhance some log messages, for example for errors when accepting new
65 - Add "+DEBUG" to the version "feature string" only when the daemon is
66 ./configure'd and build with "--enable-debug".
67 - Always report an error when a parameter is missing in a channel "MODE +k"
68 or "MODE +l" command, and better validate their parameters: return the new
69 numeric ERR_INVALIDMODEPARAM_MSG(696) on errors.
70 Thanks Val Lorentz for reporting it!
72 - Allow IRC Operators to use the WHO command on any channel.
73 - No longer use Travis-CI, add configuration for "ngIRCd CI" GitHub Action.
74 - Send the NAMES list and channel topic to users "forcefully" joined to a
75 channel using NJOIN, like they joined on their own using JOIN, and
76 streamline the order of NAMES list and channel topic messages.
78 - Fix (invalid) error messages when setting modes on local channels which
79 are defined in the configuration file.
80 - Fix handling of G-Lines/K-Lines with cloaked host names.
81 - Add new "-y"/"--syslog" command line option to allow logging to syslog to
82 be enabled/disabled separately from running on the console ("--nodaemon")
84 Thanks Katherine Peeters for the patch and pull request!
86 - Fix a possible race condition while introducing new clients in the network.
87 - Update and enhance our documentation a bit (README.md, INSTALL.md), add
88 doc/QuickStart.md, convert some more files to Markdown (SSL.md, FAQ.md).
90 ngIRCd 26.1 (2021-01-02)
92 - Fix a "format string" compiler warning (detected on OpenBSD).
93 - No longer set "AI_ADDRCONFIG" when resolving host names, even when it
94 exists: with this option set, on an IPv6-only host, we prevent 127.0.0.1
95 to get translated properly, even when the loopback interface has this
96 address configured! And as the test suite uses 127.0.0.1, it was broken
98 The drawback is that the resolver possibly returns more addresses now,
99 even of an unsupported/not connected address family; but this shouldn't
100 do much harm in practice, as ngIRCd iterates over all returned addresses
101 while trying to establish an outgoing connection.
103 - Revert "Show allowed channel types in ISUPPORT(005) numeric only", which
104 was introduced in 26~rc1: This lead to some IRC clients assuming "oh, no
105 channel prefix characters at all, so no channels at all, so no PRIVMSG can
106 go to any channel" when "AllowedChannelTypes" was set to the empty string
107 ("") -- which is not the case when there are pre-defined channel set up or
108 other servers still having channels!
109 So "allowed channel types" != "supported channel types", and we always have
110 to list all supported ones in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric!
112 - Test suite: Wait 2 seconds after reloading the daemon, which is required
113 because on reload, all listening ports are closed, configuration updated,
114 and then opened again. This lead to subsequent tests running while the
115 daemon isn't listening on any ports, and that's why some tests could fail.
117 - platformtest.sh: Try to mangle CLang name more intelligently.
118 - Documentation: Fixed URLs of Atheme IRC services, updated all mentions
119 from CVS to Git, and updated Platforms.txt -- Oh, and it is 2021 now! ;-)
121 ngIRCd 26 (2020-06-20)
123 ngIRCd 26~rc2 (2020-06-11)
124 - Add AppStream metadata file (contrib/de.barton.ngircd.metainfo.xml).
125 - Don't send invalid CHANINFO commands when a channel has mode +k set but no
126 key is known to the server. This can happen with a misconfigured predefined
127 channel, for example, and looked like this: "CHANINFO #test +Pk 0 :" --
128 note the unset key represented by the two spaces. Fix this by sending a
129 "*" in this case and update the CHANINFO documentation, too.
130 - ngircd.spec: Fix names of README.md and INSTALL.md, add ".md" extension.
131 - Update description texts in the README.md file, the RPM and Debian package
132 files and the manual page: bring them in line with the updated homepage.
133 - Server-Server protocol: Fix use-after-free when unregistering a directly
134 connected server sending a SQUIT for itself.
135 - Server-Server protocol: Detect bogus SERVER commands lacking a prefix.
136 Thanks Hilko Bengen (hillu) for finding & reporting this as well for the
137 patch & pull request (even if fixed differently).
139 - Fix the PING-PONG logic: In ngIRCd 26~rc1 this was completely broken (while
140 trying to fix timeouts during server handshakes in bigger networks): the
141 daemon never disconnected any stale peers but kept sending out PINGs over
143 - Test suite: Add missing files needed to test SSL support to "EXTRA_DIST",
144 so that they are included in distribution archives: in rc1, "make check"
145 fails when using sources from an archive and enabling SSL support.
146 Thanks to Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de> for the patch!
148 ngIRCd 26~rc1 (2020-05-10)
149 - Tweak & update doc/HowToRelease.txt, .mailmap and AUTHORS files.
150 - Allow up to 512 characters per line in MOTD and help text files (but keep
151 in mind that lines can't get that long, because they have to be prefixed
152 before being sent to the client). But this allows for more fancy MOTDs :-)
154 - Show the actually allowed channel types in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric which
155 are configured by the "AllowedChannelTypes" configuration variable.
157 - Handle commands in the read buffer before reading more data and don't wait
158 for the network in this case: If there are more bytes in the read buffer
159 already than a single valid IRC command can get long (513 bytes), wait for
160 this/those command(s) to be handled first and don't try to read even more
161 data from the network (which most probably would overflow the read buffer
162 of this connection soon).
163 - Update Travis-CI configuration, "sudo" is deprecated.
164 - Log G-/K-Line changes only when not initiated by a server: this prevents
165 the log from becoming spammed during "net bursts".
166 - Update test suite to include SSL tests, including checking for reloading
167 certificates during runtime.
168 - Makefile.am: Replace "make" with "${MAKE}". This fixes warnings like this:
169 "warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule."
170 Thanks to Sam James (sam_c) <sam@cmpct.info>!
172 - Add support for GnuTLS certificate reload, which is quite handy when using
173 Let's Encrypt, for example. Until now this was only supported when linked
174 with OpenSSL. Thanks a lot, Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de>!
175 - Remove deprecated legacy configuration options and related functions that
176 have been marked for removal for quite some time:
177 - PredefChannelsOnly (v22)
180 - Old '[GLOBAL]' section handling (v19)
181 Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
182 - Fix recursion bug on write errors: Depending on the stack size, too many
183 clients on the same channel quitting at the same time would trigger a crash
184 due to too many recursive calls to Conn_Close(). Thanks to Michi
185 <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
186 - Fix builds using GCC option -fno-common, which is the default starting with
187 GCC 10. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
189 - Convert INSTALL and README files to Markdown.
190 - Allow setting arbitrary channel modes in the configuration file by handling
191 them like in MODE commands, and allow multiple "Modes =" lines per [Channel]
192 section. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org>!
194 - Add "FNC" (forced nick changes) to ISUPPORT(005) numeric. Most probably
195 this doesn't make any difference to any client, but it seems correct.
196 See <http://www.irc.org/tech_docs/005.html> for details.
197 - Reuse old SSL key if loading a new one failed.
198 - Remove outdated OpenBSD/NetBSD systrace.policy.
199 - Enhance handling of command line errors, and return with exit code 0 ("no
200 error") when "--help" or "--version" is used (which resulted in exit code 1,
201 "error" before). Exit with code 2 ("command line error") for all other
202 invalid command line options, and show the error message itself on stderr
203 (instead of stdout and exit code 1, "generic error", as before).
204 This new behaviour is more in line with the GNU "coding standards",
205 see <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html>.
206 - Fix and update Xcode project: Reference correct contrib/Makefile.am file,
207 correctly sort contrib/nglog.sh and add "ORGANIZATIONNAME" setting.
208 - contrib/ngindent.sh: Add more GNU indent options for better results, and
209 add the ".sh" suffix to bring this script in line with the others in the
211 - Add ./contrib/nglog.sh: This script parses the log output of ngircd(8),
212 and colorizes the messages according to their log level. Example usage:
213 ngircd -f $PWD/doc/sample-ngircd.conf -np | ./contrib/nglog.sh
214 - Log received signals with their names using strsignal(3), when available.
215 - Make test suite compatible with Haiku OS.
216 - Fix host mask cloaking bug, don't cloak multiple times: Previously, each
217 server would cloak every user's host mask. The problem is that if a network
218 has more than one server, then a user's host mask would get cloaked twice.
219 This patch ensures that a server only cloaks the host mask if it has not yet
220 been cloaked (the period indicates it's still an IP address). Thanks to
221 JRMU <jrmu@lecturify.com> for the patch!
223 - Enlarge buffers of info texts to 128 bytes. This includes:
224 - "Real name" of a client (4th filed of the USER command).
225 - Server info text ("Info" configuration option).
226 - Admin info texts and email address ("AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" and
227 "AdminEmail" configuration options).
228 - Network name ("Network" configuration option).
229 The limit was 64 bytes before ...
231 - Streamline handling of invalid and unset server name: Don't exit during
232 runtime (REHASH command, HUP signal), because the server name can't be
233 changed in this case anyway and the new invalid name will be ignored.
234 - Fix and extend documentation: Fix some typos, fix syntax of LINKS and LIST
235 commands, whitespace and spelling fixes, update dependencies and add some
236 more information about IRCv3 support.
237 Thanks to Thanks Windree, Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> and
238 Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
240 - Slightly reorder startup steps, and enhance logging:
241 - Show name of configuration file at the beginning of start up.
242 - Add a message when ngIRCd is ready, including its host name.
243 - Show name of configuration file on REHASH (SIGHUP), too.
244 - Change level of "done message" to NOTICE, like "starting" & "ready".
245 - Initialize IO functions before channels, connections, clients, ...
246 - configure.ng: OpenSSL can depends on lz or latomic so use pkg-config to
247 find those dependencies and fallback to existing mechanism.
249 - ngircd.conf.5: Fix wording as suggested by lintian.
251 ngIRCd 25 (2019-01-23)
253 - Fix documentation of MotdPhrase length, which actually is 126 characters:
254 update sample configuration file as well as the man page. Thanks to
255 shankari <shankari@eecs.berkeley.edu>.
257 - Implement new configuration option "MaxPenaltyTime", which configures the
258 maximum penalty time increase in seconds, per penalty event. Set to -1 for
259 no limit (the default), 0 to disable penalties altogether. ngIRCd doesn't
260 use penalty increases higher than 2 seconds during normal operation, so
261 values higher than 1 rarely make sense.
262 Disabling (or reducing) penalties can greatly speed up "make check" runs
263 for example, see below, but are mostly a debugging feature and normally
264 not meant to be used on production systems!
265 Some example timings running "make check" from my macOS workstation:
266 - MaxPenaltyTime not set: 4:41,79s
267 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 1": 3:14,71s
268 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 0": 25,46s
269 Closes #249 and #251.
270 - Fix compilation without deprecated OpenSSL APIs. Thanks to Rosen Penev
271 <rosenp@gmail.com> for the patch!
273 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (10.0)
274 - Fix some compiler warnings of Apple Xcode/Clang
275 - Allow a 5th parameter in WEBIRC. Thanks to "ItsOnlyBinary".
277 - Update some more documentation files and source code comments.
278 - Platforms.txt: Add and update systems.
280 ngIRCd 25~rc1 (2018-08-11)
281 - Update config.guess (2018-03-08) and config.sub (2018-03-08) files.
282 - Correctly retry to establish an outgoing connections when forking of the
283 resolver sub-process failed (for example because of lack of free memory).
284 Until now, such a connection was never retried once this error was hit.
285 Thanks to Robert Obermeier for reporting this bug!
287 - Fix a "use after free" bug which can be triggered on a newly established
288 connection when the daemon handles an ERROR command received from the peer
289 during client login. Thanks a lot to Joseph Bisch <joseph.bisch@gmail.com>
290 for discovering and reporting this issue!
291 - Only send TOPIC updates to a channel when the topic actually changed:
292 This prevents the channel from becoming flooded by unnecessary TOPIC update
293 messages, that can happen when IRC services try to enforce a certain topic
294 but which is already set (at least on the local server), for example.
295 Therefore still forward it to all servers, but don't inform local clients
296 (still update setter and timestamp information, though).
297 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (9.2). This includes adding
298 missing and deleting obsolete file references.
299 - Handle user mode "C" ("Only users that share a channel are allowed to send
300 messages") like user mode "b" ("block private messages and notices"): allow
301 messages from servers, services, and IRC Operators, too. Change proposed by
302 "wowaname" back in 2015 in #ngircd, thanks!
303 - Fix some compiler warnings.
304 - Add contrib/ngircd.logcheck: Some sample logcheck(8) rules.
305 - Allow IRC Ops and remote servers to KILL service clients: such clients
306 behave like regular users, therefore IRC operators and servers should be
307 able to KILL them: for example to resolve nick collisions.
309 - Don't forward KILLs to other servers if they've been blocked locally:
310 This prevents clients from killing IRC services, for example.
311 Closes #238 and #239.
312 - Fix a cross-compiler issue related to the Get_Error() function.
313 Closes #240 and #241.
314 - Update ./doc/Services.txt, enhance configuration examples.
316 ngIRCd 24 (2017-01-20)
318 - Make sure that ./contrib/platformtest.sh aborts when ./autogen.sh fails.
319 - Update config.guess (2016-10-02) and config.sub (2016-11-04) files.
320 - Build Debian packages with OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS: OpenSSL allows
321 to reload used certificates on runtime for example (which is very
322 useful when using Let's Encrypt), and therefore is preferred. And
323 explicitly specify the "source format".
324 - Fix handling of connection pool allocation and enlargement: up to now,
325 the daemon only enlarged its connection pool when accepting new incoming
326 client or server connections, not when establishing new outgoing server
327 links, which could lead to problems when hitting the configured limit,
328 see "MaxConnections". Thanks to Lukas Braun (k00mi) for reporting this!
331 ngIRCd 24~rc1 (2017-01-07)
332 - Enhance systemd service file, and install it in Debian package.
333 - Update configuration of Debian package.
334 - Log privilege violations and failed OPER request with log level "error"
335 and send it to the "&SERVER" channel, too.
336 - Immediately shut down connection when receiving an "ERROR" command,
337 don't wait for the peer to close the connection. This allows the daemon
338 to forward the received "ERROR" message in the network, instead of the
339 very generic "client closed connection" message.
340 - Fix sending of entry duration (no negative values!) when synchronizing
342 - List expiration (G-LINES): use same log level as when setting, and log
343 this event to the &SERVER channel, too.
344 - Explicitly forbid remote servers to modify "x-lines" (G-LINES) when the
345 "AllowRemoteOper" configuration option isn't set, even when the command
346 seems to originate from the remote server itself: this prevents GLINE's
347 to become set during server handshake in this case (what wouldn't be
348 possible during regular runtime when a remote IRC Op sends the command)
349 and what can't be undone by IRC Ops later on (because of the missing
350 "AllowRemoteOper" option) ...
351 - Make scripts and init-files in ./contrib executable.
352 - Fix building ngIRCd with OpenSSL 1.1. Thanks to Christoph Biedl
353 <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de> for the patch!
354 - Fix code indentation warnings of gcc 6.2.
355 - Update config.guess (2016-04-02) and config.sub (2016-03-30) files.
356 - Fix warnings of the "shellcheck" linter in autogen.sh, contrib/ngindent
357 and contrib/platformtest.sh.
358 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (8.0), and fix "duplicate
359 symbols" error messages when building (linking) the binary.
360 - Add "Documentation" variables to systemd configuration files.
361 - Make sure that SYSCONFDIR is always set, which can be handy when
362 using source code linters when ./configure hasn't been run already.
363 - Add the new "PAMServiceName" configuration option to specify the name
364 used as PAM service name. This setting allows to run multiple ngIRCd
365 instances with different PAM configurations for each instance.
366 Thanks to Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at> for the
368 - Add an ".editorconfig" file to the project.
369 - Travis-CI: use "container-based infrastructure".
370 - Limit the number of message targets, and suppress duplicates: This
371 prevents an user from flooding the server using commands like this:
372 "PRIVMSG nick1,nick1,nick1,...".
373 Duplicate targets are suppressed silently (channels and clients).
374 In addition, the maximum number of targets per PRIVMSG, NOTICE, ...
375 command are limited to MAX_HNDL_TARGETS (25). If there are more, the
376 daemon sends the new 407 (ERR_TOOMANYTARGETS_MSG) numeric, containing
377 the first target that hasn't been handled any more. Closes #187.
378 - Test suite: Add new test for server-server logins.
379 - contrib/ngindent: Fix shebang line.
380 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh script more portable, and only show
381 "runs=Y" when the test suite really has been passed successfully.
382 - Code cleanup in the NJOIN handler and the function killing clients as
383 well as the function sending messages to a "mask" (cleaner code, more
384 fault tolerant, better code comments).
385 - Update and enhance documentation: README file, doc/Platforms.txt,
386 doc/Modes.txt, doc/Commands.txt, doc/PAM.txt.
387 - Fix NJOIN not propagating "half ops" status: ngIRCd tested for the wrong
388 prefix of "half ops" when processing NJOIN commands and therefore never
389 classified a remote user as "half op".
390 Thanks to wowaname for pointing this out on #ngircd!
392 ngIRCd 23 (2015-11-16)
394 - Explicitly cast time_t to long when printing it out: this prevents
395 wrong sized data types on platforms where time_t doesn't equal a
396 long any more, for example on OpenBSD (which would result in garbled
397 output on those platforms).
398 - contrib/Debian/changelog: Fix email address.
399 - Documentation: Spelling fixes; update doc/Platforms.txt.
401 ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06)
402 - Add ".clang_complete" file, which is used by the "linter-clang" package
403 of the Atom editor, for example.
404 - Make server-to-server protocol more robust: ngIRCd now catches more
405 errors on the server-to-server (S2S) protocol that could crash the
406 daemon before. This hasn't been a real problem because the IRC S2S
407 protocol is "trusted" by design, but the behavior is much better now.
408 Thanks to wowaname on #ngircd for pointing this out!
409 - Make platformtest.sh, autogen.sh, and ngircd.init more portable.
410 - Enables "reproducible builds" for ngIRCd: Use the optional BIRTHTIME
411 constant while building ngIRCd, which contains a time stamp for the
412 "Birth Date" information, in seconds since the epoch.
413 See <https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds>.
414 - Update "contrib/ngircd.service" file for systemd.
415 - INSTALL: Add deprecation notice for "PredefChannelsOnly" variable.
416 - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is
417 a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea.
418 Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not
419 available. This mimics the behavior in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd
420 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217.
421 The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed
422 to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still
423 supported for compatibility reasons.
424 - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick
425 name while on this channel). Closes #214.
426 - README, AUTHORS: Update mailing list and issue tracker URLs.
427 - Remove doc/GIT.txt (it is outdated), update doc/Contributing.txt:
428 ngIRCd uses GitHub, and Git itself is quite common today. So don't
429 include an own Git "mini HowTo" any longer.
430 - Specify session context for OpenSSL clients. This enables some OpenSSL
431 clients, including Pidgin and stunnel 5.06, to reuse a session.
432 Patch by Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>, thanks! Closes #182.
433 - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts.
434 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203.
435 - Make setgroups(3) function optional: For example, Interix is missing
436 this function, which prevented ngIRCd to build on this platform. When
437 setgroups(3) isn't available, a warning message is issued on startup.
438 - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients
439 expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly.
440 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
441 - Update ngircd.conf.5: "CloakUserToNick" hides user _and_ real name.
443 - Fix case insensitive pattern matching: Up to now, only the input
444 string became lowercased and was then compared to the pattern -- which
445 failed when the pattern itself wasn't all lowercase!
446 - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
447 in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't
448 hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect.
450 - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set.
451 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202.
452 - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents
453 ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see
455 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197.
456 - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure
457 that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users
458 to local ("&") channels.
459 Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183.
460 - INVITE command: Enforce 1 second penalty time, which prevents flooding
461 of the target client.
462 This closes #186. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
463 - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when
464 receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation
465 time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports
466 the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined
467 to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this.
468 This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
469 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (6.3).
471 ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
473 - Update doc/Platforms.txt and doc/FAQ.txt.
474 - Fix spelling of RPL_WHOISBOT message text.
475 - Don't send nick name as default PART reason: No other IRC daemon seems
476 to do this (today?). Closes #185.
477 Reported by Cahata in #ngircd, thanks!
478 - Fix "WHO #<chan>" showing invisible users and hiding all visible, the
479 logic was reversed! This bug has been introduced by commit c74115f2,
480 "Simplify mode checking on channels and users within a channel", ngIRCd
481 releases 21, 21.1, and 22 are affected :-( Problem reported by Cahata
483 - Fix typo in src/testsuite/README
484 - Auth PING: Fix our information text for manual sending of "PONG". Up to
485 now, ngIRCd doesn't send a valid IRC command at all, oops!
486 - Auth PING: Fix internal time stamp conversion and don't send a prefix in
487 our PING command. The prefix confuses WeeChat, at least, which doesn't
488 send an appropriate PONG in the case ...
489 Debugging and patch by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
490 - Fix syntax of ERR_LISTFULL_MSG(478) numeric. Pointed out by "wowaname"
492 - Enhance debug messages while sending CHANINFO commands.
493 - Reset "last try" timer when enabling a passive server. This results in
494 a new connection attempt as soon as possible.
495 - Change log message for "Can't resolve address" and for IP address
497 - doc/HowToRelease.txt: Add note about the bug tracker.
498 - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch,
499 and testing by Christoph Biedl <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
500 - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating
501 systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example
502 "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to
503 "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve
504 "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using
505 DNS at all makes the test site much more portable.
507 ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
509 - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
510 ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
511 Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
513 ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
514 - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
515 lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
516 nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
517 Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
518 - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
519 - Correctly check that a server has a valid hostname and port, thanks to
520 David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com> who reported this bug.
521 - Fix the function which generates complete "IRC masks" from user input,
522 don't destroy the source buffer and use all provided parts (nick, user,
523 host name). This fixes GLINEs/KLINEs from not working in some situations.
524 - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
525 that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
526 this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
527 if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
528 - Debian: Don't adjust path names that are correct by default and correctly
529 set and use "docdir".
530 - Update config.guess and config.sub to recent versions.
531 - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
532 - doc/Bopm.txt: Update "connregex" and "kline" for current ngIRCd.
533 - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
534 settable by IRC Operators.
535 - Spoofed prefixes: Really kill connection on non-server links.
536 - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
537 "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
538 settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
539 careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
540 User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
541 - Handle "throttling" in a single function: ngIRCd implements "command
542 throttling" and "bps throttling" (bytes per second). The states are
543 detected in different functions, Conn_Handler() and Read_Request(), but
544 handle the actual "throttling" in a common function: this enables us to
545 guarantee consistent behavior and to disable throttling for special
546 connections in only one place
547 - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
548 - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
549 - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
550 Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
551 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
552 on "VPATH builds", for example.
553 - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
554 and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
555 - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
556 using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
557 names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
558 is quite unexpected for users.
559 - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
560 allow using separate source and build trees.
561 - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
562 - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
564 - Update configure.ng: ngIRCd requires GNU autoconf 2.61 for generating its
565 build system, so update the build system accordingly and implement all
566 changes that autoupdate(1) suggests: Update AC_PREREQ and AC_INIT, use
567 AC_LINK_IFELSE, AC_RUN_IFELSE, and AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, and remove
568 AC_TYPE_SIGNAL (we don't use RETSIGTYPE).
569 - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
570 and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
571 useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
572 been linked at all ...).
573 - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
574 (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
575 daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
576 which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
577 - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
578 - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
579 Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
580 return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
581 DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
582 - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
585 ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
587 - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
588 disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
589 - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
590 - Really kill connections that send "spoofed prefixes" on non-server links.
591 This fixes commit 6cbe1308 which only killed the connection when the
592 spoofed prefix itself belonged to a non-server client.
593 - CHARCONV command: Fix handling conversion errors, don't overwrite already
595 - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
596 - Correctly use cloaked IRC masks on "INVITE nickname": The cloaked IRC mask
597 of a user is his visible mask, so the daemon has to use it for generating
598 the "one time" entries for the invite list of the given channel, and not
599 the "real" mask which will never match while the target client is "+x", and
600 even worse, will disclose the real mask on "MODE #channel +I" commands :-/
601 Bug reported by Cahata on #ngircd, thanks!
602 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists. This isn't the case on
603 "VPATH builds", for example.
604 - Use $(MKDIR_P) instead of $(mkinstalldirs) in Makefile's and test for
605 "mkdir -p" using AC_PROG_MKDIR_P in "configure".
606 - Fix configure script and "make check" for TCP Wrappers (problems spotted on
607 OpenBSD): add missing #include's and static variables, and add libwrap at
608 the end of the configure run because if libwrap becomes added earlier,
609 other tests may fail.
610 - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
611 linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
612 been implemented already).
613 - platformtest.sh and Makefile.am: Don't use "test -e", it isn't portable.
614 - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
615 - Fix permanent {G|K}LINES (with a timeout of 0 seconds).
616 - WEBIRC: Don't set the hostname received by the WEBIRC command when DNS
617 lookups are disabled, but use the IP address instead.
618 Reported by Toni Spets <toni.spets@iki.fi>, thanks!
619 - Check for working getaddrinfo() function: At least AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1 have a
620 broken implementation of getaddrinfo() which doesn't handle "0" as numeric
621 service correctly. This patch adds a configure check for this case and
622 changes all calling functions to only use getaddrinfo() if it "works".
623 See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/lists/heimdal-discuss/2004-05/msg00059.html>
624 - Only use the unsetenv() function when it is available (AIX 4.3 doesn't
625 support it, for example).
626 - Make sure that the source code is still compatible with the "ansi2knr" tool
627 and builds using non-ANSI K&R C compilers. Tested with Apple C on A/UX.
628 - Fix building ngIRCd without support for ZLIB compression. Reported by
629 "der_baer" on #ngircd, thanks!
631 ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
633 - ./contrib/Debian/ngircd.init: Make sure no stale PID file is left over
634 when (re-)starting ngIRCd.
635 - Change ./contrib/platformtest.sh and update ./doc/Platforms.txt to
636 allow user names up to 8 characters.
637 - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
638 is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
639 initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
640 - Update our own Debian package configuration and fix the default path
641 of the "HelpFile" of the "full" package variants.
643 ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
644 - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
645 support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
646 - Use arc4random() function to generate "random" numbers, when available.
647 - platformtest.sh: Detect clang compiler, and clean up GIT source tree
648 before building (when possible).
649 - Update (date of) manual pages.
650 - Update "Upgrade Information" in INSTALL file, add more systems to
651 doc/Platforms.txt, and fix spelling in NEWS and ChangeLog files =:)
652 - Fix remaining compiler warnings on OpenBSD.
654 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
655 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
656 - Adjust log messages for invalid and spoofed prefixes, which cleans up
657 logging of commands related to already KILL'ed clients. And don't
658 forward KILL commands for (already) unknown clients any more to prevent
659 unnecessary duplicates.
660 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
661 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
662 - Fixed blocking of server reconnects in some error configurations.
663 - Don't ignore SSL-related errors during startup any more: abort startup
664 when SSL is requested by the configuration but can't be initialized and
665 don't continue only listening on plain text communication ports.
667 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
668 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
669 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
670 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
671 - Fix "TRACE": Correctly return ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) (which basically
672 is "syntax error") when there are too many parameters.
673 - Clean up lots of permission and parameter checks in functions handling
674 IRC commands; and more consistently add penalty times on errors.
675 - Fix error numeric of WHOIS when no nick name has been provided:
676 as per RFC it should be ERR_NONICKNAMEGIVEN(431).
677 - Only log "IDENT ... no result" messages when an IDENT looked took place
678 and didn't return any data, not when IDENT has been disabled.
679 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
680 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
681 the IRC "TRACE" command.
682 - Correctly discard supplementary groups on server startup.
683 - Save client IP address text for "WebIRC" users and correctly display
684 it on WHOIS, for example. (Closes bug #159)
685 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
686 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
687 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
688 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
689 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
690 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
691 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
692 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
694 - Enforce "penalty times" on error conditions more consistently and in
695 more places. Now most error codes sent back from the IRC server to the
696 client should result in a 2 second "penalty".
697 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
698 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
699 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
700 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
701 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
702 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
703 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
704 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
705 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
706 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
707 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
708 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
709 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
710 - IRC Operator names, as defined in ngircd.conf, are logged now when
711 handling successful OPER commands.
712 - Some error conditions while handling IRC commands, like "permission
713 denied" or "need more parameters", result in more penalty times.
714 - The numeric replies of some commands became split too early which
715 resulted in more numeric reply lines than necessary.
716 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
717 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
718 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
719 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
720 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
721 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
722 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
723 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
724 - Fix use-after-free in the Lists_CheckReason() function, which is used
725 to check if a client is a member of a particular ban/invite/... list.
726 - Xcode: fix detection of host OS, vendor, and CPU type, and update
727 project settings for Xcode 5.
728 - OS X PackageMaker: use relative path names in project files and package
729 with correct file permissions (requires root privileges on "make").
730 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
731 - Look for possible cloaked Masks in Lists. Users with +x user mode can
732 be banned with their cloaked hostname now.
733 - Don't read SSL client data before DNS resolver is finished which could
734 have resulted in discarding the resolved client hostname and IDENT
735 reply afterwards, because in some situations (timing dependent) the
736 NICK and USER commands could have already been read in from the client,
737 stored in the buffer, and been processed.
738 Thanks to Julian Brost for reporting the issue and testing, and to
739 Federico G. Schwindt <fgsch@lodoss.net> for helping to debug it!
740 - Increase password length limit to 64 characters. (Closes bug #154)
741 - doc/Services.txt: Update Anope status and URL.
742 - Clean up Xcode project file, remove outdated files, add missing ones.
743 - Update Doxygen configuration file.
744 - configure: search for iconv_open as well as libiconv_open, because
745 on some installations iconv_open() is actually libiconv_open().
746 iconv_open() is the glibc version while libiconv_open() is the
747 libiconv version, now both variants are supported. (Closes bug #151)
748 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
749 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
750 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
751 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
752 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
753 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
754 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
755 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
756 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
757 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
758 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
759 The default is 0, "never".
760 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
761 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
762 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
763 - contrib/README: add description for more files.
764 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
765 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
766 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
767 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
768 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
769 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
770 - Exit message: use singular & plural :-)
771 - autogen.sh: Check for autoconf/automake wrapper scripts
772 - Add missing punctuation marks in log messages, adjust some severity
773 levels, and make SSL-related messages more readable.
774 - AUTHORS file: Update list of contributors.
775 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
776 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
777 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
778 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
779 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
780 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
781 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
782 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
783 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
784 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
786 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
788 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
789 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
790 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
791 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
793 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
795 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
796 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to crash the daemon
798 - WHO command: Use the currently "displayed hostname" (which can be cloaked!)
799 for hostname matching, not the real one. In other words: don't display all
800 the cloaked users on a specific real hostname!
801 - configure: The header file "netinet/in_systm.h" already is optional in
802 ngIRCd, so don't require it in the configure script. Now ngIRCd can be
803 built on Minix 3 again :-)
804 - Return better "Connection not registered as server link" errors: Now ngIRCd
805 returns a more specific error message for numeric ERR_NOTREGISTERED(451)
806 when a regular user tries to use a command that isn't allowed for users but
808 - Don't report ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) when a MDOE command with more modes
809 than nicknames is handled, as well as for channel limit and key changes
810 without specifying the limit or key parameters.
811 This is how a lot (all?) other IRC servers behave, including ircd2.11,
812 InspIRCd, and ircd-seven. And because of clients (tested with Textual and
813 mIRC) sending bogus MODE commands like "MODE -ooo nick", end-users got the
814 expected result as well as correct but misleading error messages ...
815 - Correctly detect when SSL subsystem must be initialized and take
816 outgoing connections (server links!) into account, too.
817 - autogen.sh: Enforce serial test harness on GNU automake >=1.13. The
818 new parallel test harness which is enabled by default starting with
819 automake 1.13 isn't compatible with our test suite.
820 And don't use "egrep -o", instead use "sed", because it isn't portable
821 and not available on OpenBSD, for example.
823 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
825 - Allow ERROR command on server and service links only, ignore them and
826 add a penalty time on all other link types.
827 - Enforced mode setting by IRC Operators: Only check the channel user
828 modes of the initiator if he is joined to the channel and not an IRC
829 operator enforcing modes (which requires the configuration option
830 "OperCanUseMode" to be enabled), because trying to check channel user
831 modes of a non-member results in an assertion when running with debug
832 code or could crash the daemon otherwise. This closes bug #147, thanks
833 to James Kirwill <james.kirwill@bk.ru> for tracking this down!
834 - Fix build system to cope with spaces in path names.
835 - Code cleanups, mostly to fix build warnings on Cygwin.
837 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
839 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
840 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
841 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
842 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
843 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
845 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
846 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
847 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
848 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
849 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
850 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
851 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
852 - RPL_UMODEIS: send correct target name, even on server links.
853 - Update platformtest.sh to follow autoconf changes and only generate
854 the "configure" script when it is missing.
855 - Fix the test suite to correctly execute test scripts even when stdout
857 - Fix some compiler warnings on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
859 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
860 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
861 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
862 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
863 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
864 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
865 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
866 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
867 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
868 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
869 - Fix error message when trying to join non-predefined channels and the
870 "PredefChannelsOnly" configuration option is set.
871 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
872 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
873 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
874 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
875 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
876 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
877 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
878 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
879 - Make server reconnect time a little bit more random, so that two
880 servers trying to connect to each other asynchronously don't try this
881 in exactly the same time periods and kick each other off ...
882 - Don't accept connections for servers already being linked: there was a
883 time frame that could result in one connection overwriting the other,
884 e. g. the incoming connection overwriting the status of the outgoing
885 one. And this could lead to all kind of weirdness (even crashes!) later
886 on: now such incoming connections are dropped.
887 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
888 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
889 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
890 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
891 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
892 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
893 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
894 - WHOIS: Not only show RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG to local IRC operators, but show
895 it to all IRC operators in the network. And don't show it to anybody if
896 the "more privacy" configuration option is enabled. (Closes #134)
897 - Test suite: make expect scripts more verbose displaying dots for each
898 reply of the server that it is waiting for.
899 - WHOIS: Implement numeric RPL_WHOISMODES_MSG (379) and show user modes in
900 the reply of the WHOIS command for the user himself or, if MorePrivacy
901 isn't set, for request initiated by an IRC operator. (Closes #129)
902 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
903 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
904 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
905 - KICK-protect IRC services.
906 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
907 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
908 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
909 - Debian: require "telnet" or "telnet-ssl" for building and enable
910 CHARCONV in ngircd-full[-dbg] variants.
911 - Send RPL_REHASHING (382) numeric if a REHASH command was accepted.
912 - Fix spelling and variable names in some log messages.
913 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
914 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
915 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
916 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
917 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
919 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
920 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
921 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
923 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
924 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
925 configuration file. (Closes #136)
926 - Enhance build system: Support new (>=1.12) and old (<=1.11) GNU automake
927 versions, update checks for required and optional features, enable
928 colored test output of automake (if available), rename configure.in to
929 more modern configure.ac, include .mailmap and all build-system files in
930 distribution archives and no longer require a GIT tree to detect the
931 correct version string.
932 - Update documentation: add doc/Contributing.txt and include version
933 numbers in doc/Modes.txt.
934 - Free all listen ports on initialization: now listen ports can be
935 reconfigured on runtime using a configuration reload.
936 - Initialize SSL when needed only, and disable SSL on errors.
937 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
938 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
939 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
940 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
941 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
942 - Allow limited punctuation in usernames, for better PAM integration.
943 - Correctly re-initialize signal handlers on RESTART commands.
944 - Show a warning on startup if the configuration file is not a full path:
945 ngIRCd is a long-running process and changes its working directory to
946 "/" to not block mounted filesystems and the like when running as daemon
947 ("not in the foreground"); therefore the path to the configuration file
948 must be relative to "/" (or the chroot() directory), which basically is
949 "not relative", to ensure that "kill -HUP" and the "REHASH" command work
950 as expected later on. (Closes #127)
951 - Make the "&SERVER" channel definable in a [Channel] configuration block,
952 which enables server operators to overwrite the built-in topic and
953 channel modes. (Closes #131)
954 - Don't limit list size of "WHO #channel" commands, because it makes no
955 sense to not return all the users in that channel, so I removed the
956 check. But if there are more than MAX_RPL_WHO(25) replies, the client
957 requesting the list will be "penalized" one second more, then 2 in
959 - Make ngIRCd buildable using the kqueue() IO interface on FreeBSD 4.x.
960 - Fix the "NoticeAuth" configuration option when using SSL connections and
961 enhance the message to show the hostname and IDENT reply of the client.
962 - Introduce numeric RPL_HOSTHIDDEN_MSG (396): This numeric is sent to the
963 client each time it changes its displayed hostname using "MODE +/-x",
964 and if "CloakHost" is set right after the MOTD has been sent.
965 - Fix USERHOST not displaying the correctly cloaked hostname.
966 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
967 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
968 behave, and so do we :-)
969 - Dynamically allocate memory for connection passwords: This a) saves
970 memory for clients not using passwords at all and b) allows for
971 "arbitrarily" long passwords.
972 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
973 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
974 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
975 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
976 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
977 - Now "make uninstall" removes the installed "ngircd.conf" file, if it is
978 still equal to our "sample-ngircd.conf" file and therefore hasn't been
979 modified by the user. If it has been modified, it isn't removed and a
980 notice is displayed to the user. And "make install" now displays a
981 message when no ngircd.conf file exists and the "sample-ngircd.conf"
982 file will be installed as a starting point.
983 - Add contrib/ngircd.service, a systemd service file for ngircd.
984 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
985 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
986 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
987 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
988 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
989 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
990 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
991 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
992 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
993 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
994 random salt will be generated after each server restart. (Closes #133)
996 ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
998 - doc/Capabilities.txt: document "multi-prefix" capability
1000 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
1001 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
1002 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
1003 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
1004 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
1005 - Correctly handle asynchronously re-established server links: a race
1006 condition could let the daemon loose track of an already re-established
1007 incoming server link while preparing its own outgoing connection.
1008 Peers that both try to connect each other could have been affected.
1009 - Log a debug message when SIGUSR2 is handled in debug mode.
1010 - Only allow alphanumeric characters in user-supplied user names of
1011 USER command and IDENT replies.
1012 - Change wording of "TLS initialized" message to make it more consistent.
1013 - Don't leak file descriptors on error path when creating "PID files".
1014 - Add missing mode "r" to CHANMODES in 005 "ISUPPORT" numeric.
1015 - Update doc/Modes.txt and doc/Platforms.txt documents.
1016 - contrib/platformtest.sh: correctly detect Open64 C compiler and handle
1017 "CC=xxx MAKE=yyy ./platformtest.sh" calling convention.
1018 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
1019 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
1020 and capability "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
1021 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
1022 - Update Xcode project files: reference missing documentation files.
1023 - Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot.
1024 - FAQ: enhance description of chroot setup.
1026 ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
1028 - Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL.
1029 - Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note",
1030 and fix lintian(1) warning ""hyphen-used-as-minus-sign", too.
1031 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
1032 distribution archive ... ooops!
1033 - getpid.sh: Fix test case error for Debian using sbuild(1).
1034 - Don't log "ngIRCd hello message" two times when starting up.
1036 ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
1038 - Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by
1039 GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions.
1040 - Fix configuration file parser: don't accept "[SSL]" blocks in the
1041 configuration file when no SSL support is built in ngIRCd.
1042 - Fix building ngIRCd with old gcc versions (e. g. 2.7.2).
1043 - Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration
1044 file: Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the
1045 configuration, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored
1046 the "SyslogFacility" configuration option ...
1047 Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue!
1049 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
1050 - Enhance command limits for server links: the limit now is dependent
1051 on the number of users connected in the network and higher while
1052 servers are joining the network to make the login of servers faster.
1053 - Log more information about server synchronization.
1054 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
1055 is the only supported version.
1056 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
1057 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
1058 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
1059 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
1060 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
1061 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
1062 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
1063 - PRIVMSG and NOTICE: Handle nick!user@host masks case-insensitive.
1064 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
1065 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
1066 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
1067 by completely unknown clients.
1068 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
1069 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
1070 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
1071 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
1072 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
1073 - Fix both ERR_SUMMONDISABLED(445) and ERR_USERSDISABLED(446) replies.
1074 - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for
1075 unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501).
1076 - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES",
1077 add "EXCEPTS=e" and "INVEX=I", add "MAXLIST=beI:50".
1078 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
1079 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
1080 - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive.
1081 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
1082 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
1083 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
1084 - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments.
1085 For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling
1086 "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f".
1087 - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of
1088 the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an
1089 assertion and end the daemon in some error paths.
1090 - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child
1091 processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases
1092 with IDENT lookups enabled.
1093 - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS,
1094 don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is
1095 case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the
1096 unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client).
1097 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
1098 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
1099 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
1100 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
1101 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
1102 - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variable in the
1103 configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user).
1104 - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-)
1105 - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single
1106 channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel
1107 limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check
1108 the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when
1109 trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of.
1110 - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nicknames.
1111 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
1112 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
1113 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
1114 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
1115 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
1116 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
1117 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
1118 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
1119 - Fixed some spelling errors in documentation and code comments
1120 (Thanks to Christoph Biedl).
1121 - contrib/Debian/control: Update and complete "Build-Depends" and
1122 update our Debian package descriptions with "official" ones.
1123 - Fixed typo in two error messages.
1124 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
1125 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
1126 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
1127 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
1128 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
1129 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
1130 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
1131 - README: Update list of implemented commands.
1132 - Log better error messages when rejecting clients.
1133 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
1134 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
1135 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
1136 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
1137 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
1138 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
1139 - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR
1140 for Mac OS X Xcode builds.
1141 - ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use
1142 poll() when poll.h exists as well.
1143 - Suppress 'Can't create pre-defined channel: invalid name: ""' message.
1144 - whois-test: handle local host name = "localhost.localdomain" using the
1145 pattern "localhost*" for valid local host names.
1146 - sample-ngircd.conf: show correct default for "PAM" variable: The
1147 default of "PAM" is "yes" when ngIRCd has been configured to use it,
1148 so show the correct default value in the sample configuration file.
1150 - Update GPL 2 license text to current version.
1151 - Only close "unrelated" sockets in forked child processes: This fixes
1152 the problem that ngIRCd can't do any IDENT lookups because of the
1153 socket has already been closed in the child process.
1154 The bug has been introduced starting with ngIRCd 17 ... :-(
1155 (commit ID 6ebb31ab35e)
1156 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
1157 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
1158 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
1159 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
1160 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
1161 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
1162 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
1163 - New 2nd message "Nickname too long" for error code 432.
1164 - Xcode: Mac OS X config.h: support 10.5 as well as 10.6/10.7 SDK.
1165 - Xcode: exclude more Xcode 4 specific directories in ".gitignore".
1166 - Disconnect directly linked servers sending QUIT. Without this,
1167 the server becomes removed from the network and the client list,
1168 but the connection isn't shut down at all ...
1169 - contrib/ngindent: detect "gindent" as GNU indent.
1170 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
1171 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
1172 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
1173 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
1174 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
1175 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
1176 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
1177 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
1178 - Correctly inform clients when other servers change their user modes.
1179 This is required for some services to work correctly.
1180 - Test suite: make getpid.sh work even when run as root.
1181 - Spoofed prefixes: close connection on non-server links only.
1182 On server-links, spoofed prefixes can happen because of the
1183 asynchronous nature of the IRC protocol. So don't break server-
1184 links, only log a message and ignore the command. (Closes #113)
1186 ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
1188 - Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page.
1189 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
1190 - Don't register WHOWAS information when "MorePrivacy" option is in effect.
1192 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
1193 - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-)
1194 - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section.
1195 - ngircd.8: document debugging options.
1196 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
1197 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
1198 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
1199 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
1201 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
1202 - PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
1203 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
1204 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
1205 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
1206 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
1207 servers from TOR or I2P.
1208 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
1209 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
1210 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
1211 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
1212 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
1213 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
1214 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
1215 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
1216 - Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest".
1217 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
1218 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
1219 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
1220 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
1221 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
1222 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
1223 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
1224 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
1225 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
1226 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
1227 - Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers.
1228 - GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients
1229 refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it
1230 would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
1231 current hardware ...
1232 - contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
1233 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
1234 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
1235 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
1236 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
1237 - Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links
1238 (often used by services, for example) are not affected.
1239 - Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-)
1240 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
1241 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
1242 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
1243 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
1244 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
1245 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
1246 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
1247 - Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
1248 like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
1249 - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This
1250 helps to speed up server login and network synchronization.
1251 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
1252 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
1253 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
1254 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
1255 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
1256 variable description.
1257 - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
1258 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
1259 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
1260 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
1261 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
1262 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
1263 supplied by the IRC client.
1264 - doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
1265 - Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
1266 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
1267 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
1268 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
1269 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
1270 - Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
1271 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
1272 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
1273 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
1274 - Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
1275 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
1276 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
1277 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
1278 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
1279 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
1280 - TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other
1281 servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when
1282 the client is not joined to this channel.
1283 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
1284 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
1285 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
1286 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
1287 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
1288 - Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
1289 ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
1290 - Don't throttle services and servers being registered.
1291 - Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
1292 - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is
1293 only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
1296 ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
1298 - --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase
1299 - Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit
1300 - Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly
1301 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
1302 - Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section
1303 - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section
1304 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
1305 - README: Updated list of implemented commands
1306 - add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball
1307 - Merge branch 'numeric-329'
1308 - add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball
1309 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
1310 - Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()
1312 ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
1314 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
1315 - Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf
1316 - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa
1317 - contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent
1319 ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27)
1320 - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updated project file
1321 to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it
1322 is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default
1323 PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd.
1324 - Debian: updated standards version to 3.9.1, added libpam0g-dev to the
1325 dependencies, and install a default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins.
1326 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable.
1327 - Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links.
1329 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
1330 - ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a.
1331 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
1332 - Make source code compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
1333 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
1334 - ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C.
1335 - ./configure: check support for C prototypes again.
1336 - Don't use PARAMS() macro for function implementations.
1337 - Added m68k/apple/aux3.0.1 (gcc 2.7.2) to doc/Platforms.txt.
1338 - Only try to set FD_CLOEXEC if this flag is defined.
1339 - Only use "__attribute__ ((unused))" if GCC >=2.8 is used.
1340 - doc/Makefile.am: don't set docdir, automake handles it already.
1342 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
1343 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
1344 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
1345 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
1346 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
1347 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
1348 Possible values are system dependent, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
1349 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
1350 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
1351 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
1352 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
1353 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
1354 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
1355 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
1356 using the command line parameters.
1357 - Signal handler: added new 'delayed' signal handlers, including fallback
1358 to deprecated sysv API. And removed global NGIRCd_SignalRehash variable.
1359 - IO: add io_cloexec() to set close-on-exec flag.
1360 - ng_ipaddr.h: include required assert.h header.
1361 - Conn_SyncServerStruct(): test all connections; and work case insensitive
1362 - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output.
1363 - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the
1364 client lag debug-output is working again.
1365 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
1366 - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
1367 - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
1368 - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
1369 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contents of the MOTD
1370 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
1371 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
1372 - Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon.
1373 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
1374 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
1375 - Added mailmap file for git-[short]log and git-blame.
1376 - Authenticated users should be registered without the "~" mark.
1377 - Set NoPAM=yes in configuration files used for the testsuite.
1378 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
1379 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
1380 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
1381 - Resolver: Implement signal handler and catch TERM signals.
1382 - Don't set a penalty time when doing DNS lookups.
1383 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
1384 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
1385 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
1386 - ngircd.init: require "$network" and "$remote_fs" when stopping ngircd.
1387 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
1388 - Include correct header files when testing for arpa/inet.h (Closes: #105).
1389 - Don't access already freed memory in IRC_KILL().
1390 - Fix "beeing" typo ...
1391 - SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message.
1393 ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
1395 - doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker
1397 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
1398 - Updated some more copyright notices, it's 2010 already :-)
1399 - Only compile in Get_Error() if really needed
1400 - Fix gcc warning "ignoring return value of ..."
1401 - Include netinet/in_systm.h alongside netinet/ip.h
1402 - Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h
1403 - Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists
1404 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt
1405 - Enhance connection statistics counters: display total number of served
1406 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
1407 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
1409 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
1410 - Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups.
1411 - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit.
1412 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
1413 how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA).
1414 - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list).
1415 - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define
1416 - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric
1417 - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output.
1418 - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable.
1419 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
1420 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
1421 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
1422 - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts".
1423 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
1424 - Only link "nsl" library when really needed.
1425 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
1426 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
1427 to join such a channel.
1428 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
1429 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
1430 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
1431 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
1433 ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
1435 - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset.
1437 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
1438 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
1439 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
1440 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (instead of the already
1441 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
1442 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
1443 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
1444 on the local server.
1445 - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0
1446 for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file.
1447 - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names.
1448 - Fix LSB header of Debian init script.
1449 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh
1450 to ease generating platform reports.
1451 - Fix connection information for already registered connections.
1452 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
1453 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
1454 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
1455 - Fix connection counter.
1456 - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections.
1457 - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.
1459 ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
1461 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
1462 - BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh.
1463 - New start/stop script for RedHat-based distributions:
1464 contrib/ngircd-redhat.init, thanks to Naoya Nakazawa <naoya@sanow.net>.
1465 - Doxygen: update source code repository link to GIT.
1466 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
1467 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
1468 - Fix error handling on compressed links.
1469 - Fix server list announcement.
1470 - Do not remove host names from info text.
1472 ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
1474 - Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections.
1476 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
1477 - Updated Debian/Linux init script (see contrib/Debian/ngircd.init).
1478 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
1479 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
1480 - Spell check and enhance ngIRCd manual pages.
1481 - Channel mode changes: break on syntax errors in MODE command.
1482 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
1483 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
1484 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
1485 individual channel keys for different users.
1486 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
1487 - Updated ngircd.spec file for building RPM packages.
1488 - Add new and missing files to Mac OS X Xcode project, and update project.
1489 - Reject masks with wildcard after last dot.
1490 - TLS/SSL: remove useless error message when ssl connection is closed.
1491 - Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down.
1492 (closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net)
1493 - Fix handling of channels containing dots.
1494 (closes bug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
1496 ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
1498 - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
1499 - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
1501 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
1502 - New version number scheme :-)
1503 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
1504 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
1505 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
1506 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
1507 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
1508 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
1509 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
1510 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
1511 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
1512 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
1513 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
1514 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
1515 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
1516 - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
1517 - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
1518 - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
1519 - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
1520 - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
1521 - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two
1522 servers are started for testing server-server linking.
1523 - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
1524 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
1525 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
1527 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
1529 - Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode
1530 - Don't allow stray \r or \n in command parameters
1531 - --configtest: return non-zero exit code if there are errors
1532 - Update ngIRCd manual pages
1533 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
1534 - Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error.
1535 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
1536 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
1537 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
1538 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
1539 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
1541 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
1543 - Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns
1544 proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran)
1545 - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
1546 - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number.
1548 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
1549 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
1550 - Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now!
1551 - Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT.
1552 - Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition.
1553 - Report ERR_NOTONCHANNEL when trying to part a channel one is not member of.
1554 - Testsuite: remove erroneous ConfUID setting in config file.
1556 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
1557 - Include Mac OS X Xcode project in distribution archives.
1558 - Do not exit on SIGHUP or /REHASH if the config file cannot opened.
1560 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
1561 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
1562 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1563 - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+).
1565 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
1566 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
1567 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
1568 - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1569 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
1570 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
1571 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1572 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
1574 ngIRCd 0.11.1 (2008-02-26)
1576 - Fix sending of JOIN commands between servers when remote server appended
1577 mode flags. (Rolf Eike Beer) [from HEAD]
1578 - Send "G" instead of "H" flag in WHO replies. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
1579 - Under some circumstances ngIRCd issued channel MODE message with a
1580 trailing space. (Dana Dahlstrom) [from HEAD]
1582 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
1584 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07)
1585 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
1586 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
1588 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
1589 - Use dotted-decimal IP address if host name is >= 64.
1590 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
1591 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
1592 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
1593 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
1594 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
1595 - Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
1596 enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
1597 See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
1598 - Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!?
1599 - Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced
1600 to the network as well as the wrong output of the LINKS command.
1601 - Update Mac OS X Xcode project file for Xcode 3.
1602 - Adjust test suite to be usable on HP/UX 11.11 :-)
1603 - Fix code to compile using K&R C compiler and ansi2kr again.
1604 - New config option NoDNS: Disables DNS lookups when clients connect.
1605 - Fixed propagation of channel mode 'P' on server links.
1606 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
1607 - Fixed code that prevented GCC 2.95 to compile ngIRCd.
1608 - Adjust path names in manual pages according to "./configure" settings.
1609 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
1610 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
1611 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
1612 - Don't connect to a server if a connection to another server within the
1613 same group is already in progress.
1614 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
1617 ngIRCd 0.10.4 (2008-01-07)
1619 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
1620 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
1622 ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01)
1624 - SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could
1625 cause the server to crash. Thanks to Sebastian Vesper, <net@veoson.net>.
1628 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
1630 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre2 (2007-05-19)
1631 - Server links are allowed to use larger write buffers now (up to 50 KB).
1633 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre1 (2007-05-05)
1634 - Fix compressed server links (broken since 0.10.0).
1635 - Predefined Channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
1636 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l).
1637 - When using epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
1638 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
1639 - New configure option "--without-select" to disable select() IO API
1640 (even when using epoll(), see above).
1641 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
1642 - Reorganized internal handling of invite and ban lists.
1644 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
1646 - Fixed validation of server names containing digits.
1647 - Update the "info text" of the local server after re-reading configuration.
1648 - Changed Numerics 265 and 266 to follow ircd 2.11.x "standards".
1649 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
1650 - Enhanced ISUPPORT message (005 numeric).
1651 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
1652 join predefined channels.
1653 - Code cleanups: use "LogDebug(...)" instead of "Log(LOG_DEBUG, ...)", use
1654 "strcspn()", unsigned vs. signed, use "const", fix whitespaces, ...
1656 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
1658 - Fixed file handle leak when daemon is not able to send MOTD to a client.
1660 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre2 (2006-09-09)
1661 - Fixed build problems with GCC option -fstack-protector.
1662 - Minor documentation updates.
1664 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
1665 - Validate "ServerName" (see RFC 2812, section 2.3.1).
1666 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
1667 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
1668 - The ngIRCd handles time shifts backwards more gracefully now (the
1669 timeout handling doesn't disconnect clients by mistake any more).
1670 - Internal: Restructured connection handling (the connection ID is equal
1671 to the file descriptor of the connection).
1672 - Internal: Simplified resolver code.
1673 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
1674 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
1675 - Enhanced the handler for PING and PONG commands: fix forwarding and enable
1676 back-passing of a client supplied additional argument of PING.
1677 - Changed handling of timeouts for unregistered connections: don't reset
1678 the counter if data is received and disconnect clients earlier.
1679 - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead.
1680 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
1681 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
1682 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
1683 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
1684 lookup to prevent spoofing.
1685 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
1686 addition to the select() interface.
1688 ngIRCd 0.9.2 (2005-10-15)
1690 - Fixed a bug that could cause the daemon to crash when outgoing server
1691 connections can't be established.
1692 - Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to leak file descriptors when no
1693 resolver subprocesses could be created.
1694 - Fixed server NOTICEs to users with "s" mode ("server messages").
1695 - Fixed a format string bug in "connection statistics" messages to clients.
1697 ngIRCd 0.9.1 (2005-08-03)
1699 - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!)
1700 when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in
1701 ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by <qssl@fastmail.fm>, Thanks!
1702 - Changed some constants to be "signed" (instead of unsigned) to solve
1703 problems with old (pre-ANSI) compilers.
1705 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
1707 ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09)
1708 - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters.
1709 - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead
1710 of shutting down the (wrong) connection.
1711 - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the
1712 client is registered with the server (like the original ircd).
1713 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
1714 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
1715 - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client
1716 is member of multiple channels.
1717 - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and
1718 pray that this will be "the right thing" ...
1719 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
1720 - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug.
1721 - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
1722 - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
1723 to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
1724 - Removed typedefs for the native C data types.
1725 Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available.
1726 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
1727 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
1728 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
1729 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1730 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
1731 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
1732 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
1733 - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug
1734 code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process.
1735 - Don't create version information string each time a client connects
1736 but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
1737 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
1738 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
1739 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1740 - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1741 - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters.
1742 - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc()
1743 failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway.
1744 Patch from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1745 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
1746 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
1747 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
1748 - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and
1749 most probably other older C compilers on other systems.
1750 - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in
1751 the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it
1752 changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This
1753 should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
1756 ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03)
1758 - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled
1759 to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
1760 <coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
1761 (CVE-2005-0226; http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
1763 ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
1765 - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution.
1766 - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found
1767 by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. (CVE-2005-0199)
1768 - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks
1769 to Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1770 - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by
1771 Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1772 - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has
1773 been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/
1774 It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself,
1775 not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1777 ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25)
1779 - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub
1780 - Added some more debug code ...
1781 - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest".
1782 - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for
1783 ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after
1785 - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README!
1787 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
1789 - Fixed wrong buffer size calculation for results of the resolver.
1791 ngircd 0.8.0-pre2 (2004-05-16)
1792 - Enhanced logging to console when running in "no-detached mode": added
1793 PID and log messages of resolver sub-processes.
1794 - Fixed host name lookups when using IDENT user lookups.
1795 - "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean" remove more files now.
1797 ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07)
1798 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
1799 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
1800 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
1801 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
1802 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
1803 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
1804 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
1805 - Reorganized autogen.sh and configure scripts.
1806 - Fixed a wrong assert() which could cause the daemon to exit spuriously
1807 when closing down connections.
1808 - Better logging of decompression errors returned by zlib.
1809 - Servers other than the destination server didn't clean up the invite
1810 list of an "invite-only" channel properly when an INVITE'd user joined.
1811 - Changed the reply of the MODE command to match the syntax of the
1812 original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last
1813 parameter has been added.
1814 - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info.
1815 - Results of the resolver (host names and IDENT names) are discarded after
1816 the client is successfully registered with the server.
1817 - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections.
1818 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
1819 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
1820 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
1821 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
1822 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
1824 ngIRCd 0.7.7 (2004-02-05)
1826 - The info text ("real name") of users is set to "-" if none has been
1827 specified using the USER command (e. g. "USER user * * :"). Reason:
1828 the original ircd doesn't like empty ones and would KILL such users.
1829 - Fixed (optional) TCP Wrapper test which was broken and could result in
1830 false results. Thanks to Fuminori Tanizaki <tany@mcnet.ad.jp>!
1831 - Removed "USE_" prefixes of configuration #defines.
1833 ngIRCd 0.7.6 (2003-12-05)
1835 - Fixed abort() ("server crash") when INVITE'ing users to nonexistent
1836 channels. Bug found by <hiddenx@wp.pl>.
1837 - Extended version numbering of CVS versions (added date).
1838 - Enhanced/fixed doc/Protocol.txt;
1840 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-11-07)
1842 - Fixed ban behavior: users which are banned from a channel can't no
1843 longer send PRIVMSG's to this channel (fixes Bug #47).
1844 - Fixed and enhanced the "penalty handling" of the server: commands that
1845 require more resources block the client for a short time.
1846 - Changed the internal time resolution to one second.
1847 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
1848 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
1849 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
1850 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
1851 - Fixed build problems under Mac OS X 10.3.
1852 - Use "-pipe" when compiling with gcc, speeds things up a little :-)
1853 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
1854 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
1855 - Suppress misleading error message of diff during make run.
1856 - Enhanced test-suite and made it work on GNU/Hurd.
1857 - Fixed minor typo in debug output :-)
1859 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
1861 - Included files to build Debian packages (located in "debian/").
1862 - Updated config.guess and config.sub to newer upstream versions.
1863 - NJOIN propagates user channel modes correctly again ... Upsa.
1864 - Made Makefile more compatible with "make -j<n>".
1865 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
1866 - Fixed a compiler warning related to an unnecessary assert().
1867 - Enhanced VERSION command when using debug versions.
1869 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
1871 - "ServerName" is checked better now: a dot (".") is required.
1872 - The KILL command verifies and logs more parameters.
1874 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre2 (2003-04-27)
1875 - CVS build system fixes (made autogen.sh more portable).
1876 - Fixed compilation and test-suite on Solaris (tested with 2.6).
1877 - New documentation file "doc/Platforms.txt" describing the status of
1878 ngIRCd on the various tested platforms.
1879 - Test for broken GCC on Mac OS X and disable "-pedantic" in this case.
1880 - Disable "-ansi" on Cygwin: system headers are incompatible.
1881 - The server tried to connect to other servers only once when DNS or
1882 socket failures occurred.
1883 - Fixed --configtest: There is no variable "ServerPwd", it's "Password".
1885 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 (2003-04-22)
1886 - New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside).
1887 - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled.
1888 - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the
1889 more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems
1890 that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included
1891 in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h).
1892 - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that
1893 can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken.
1894 - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-)
1895 - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and
1896 removing servers during runtime works more reliable now.
1897 - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]"
1898 - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]".
1899 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
1900 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
1901 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
1902 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
1903 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
1904 - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The
1905 German documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
1906 - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision.
1907 - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding.
1908 - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool".
1909 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
1910 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
1911 - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS)
1912 if an outgoing server link can't be established.
1913 - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility.
1914 - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly.
1915 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
1916 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
1917 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
1918 configure to enable it.
1919 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
1920 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
1921 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
1922 - Better error reporting to clients on connect.
1923 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
1924 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
1925 - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
1927 ngIRCd 0.6.1 (2003-01-21)
1929 - Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more,
1930 ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you
1931 can kill only valid users now.
1932 - The server no longer forwards commands to ordinary users, instead it
1933 answers with the correct error message ("no such server") now.
1934 - WHOIS commands weren't always forwarded as requested.
1935 - The server sets a correct default AWAY message now when propagating
1936 between servers (bug introduced in 0.6.0).
1937 - Fixed up and enhanced CHANINFO command: channel keys and user limits
1938 are synchronized between servers now, too.
1939 - MODE returns the key and user limit for channel members correctly now.
1940 - Non-members of a channel could crash the server when trying to change
1941 its modes or modes of its members.
1942 - The server didn't validate weather a target user is a valid channel
1943 member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd.
1946 Older changes (sorry, only available in German language):
1948 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
1950 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 23.12.2002
1951 - neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect.
1952 - LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen
1953 Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start
1954 dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt.
1956 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 18.12.2002
1957 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
1958 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
1959 - der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den
1960 Resolver (4 Sekunden), wenn das Ergebnis eintrifft setzt er aber den
1961 Login sofort fort (bisher wurde immer mind. 1 Sekunde gewartet).
1962 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
1963 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
1964 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sektion "Global")
1965 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
1966 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
1967 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
1968 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
1969 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
1970 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
1971 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
1972 - Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst.
1973 - unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
1974 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
1975 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
1976 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
1977 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
1978 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
1979 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
1980 - Channel-Mode "P" ("persistent") kann nur noch von IRC-Operatoren gesetzt
1981 werden. Grund: User koennen den Server sonst leicht "Channel-Flooden".
1982 - MOTD kann nun an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1983 - IRC-Befehl "TIME" implementiert.
1984 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
1985 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
1986 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
1987 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
1988 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
1989 - Handling der Schreibpuffer umgestellt: Server sollte schneller arbeiten.
1990 - Prefix-Fehler werden besser protokolliert (mit verursachendem Befehl).
1991 - SQUIT wird nicht mehr doppelt an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1992 - Der Server versucht nun vor dem Schliessen einer Verbindung Daten, die
1993 noch im Schreibpuffer stehen, zu senden.
1994 - Source in weiteres Modul "irc-info" aufgespalten.
1995 - Konfigurationsvariablen werden besser validiert: Laengen, Zahlen, ...
1996 - neuen Befehl STATS begonnen: bisher unterstuetzt wird "l" und "m".
1997 - bei ISON und USERHOST fehlte im Ergebnis-String der korrekte Absender.
1998 - IRC Operatoren koennen nun mit KILL User toeten. Achtung: ein Grund muss
1999 zwingend als zweiter Parameter angegeben werden!
2000 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
2001 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
2002 - neuer, deutlich flexiblerer Parser fuer den MODE Befehl.
2003 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
2005 ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002
2007 - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
2008 unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden.
2009 - in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht
2010 nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe
2011 verwendet werden. Beim Start des Daemons wird nun beides angezeigt.
2012 - Besseres Logging von Prefix-Fehlern.
2013 - angenommene Sockets werden nun korrekt auf "non-blocking" konfiguriert,
2014 beim Senden und Empfangen werden Blockierungen besser abgefangen.
2015 - RPL_UMODEIS hat Code 221, nicht 211 ... *argl*
2016 - select() in Try_Write() hat falschen (keinen!) Timeout verwendet;
2017 die "Zeit-Aufloesung" des Servers sind zudem nun 2 Sekunden (TIME_RES).
2018 Insgesamt sollte die Reaktionszeit des Server nun besser sein.
2020 ngIRCd 0.5.3, 08.11.2002
2022 - NOTICE liefert nun wirklich nie mehr einen Fehler, auch dann nicht,
2023 wenn der sendende Client noch gar nicht registriert ist.
2024 - ein "schneller Server-Reconnect" wird nur noch dann versucht, wenn die
2025 Verbindung zuvor ordentlich (="lange genug") in Ordnung war; somit also
2026 nicht meht, wenn der Peer-Server gleich beim Connect ein ERROR liefert.
2027 Das vermeidet "Connect-Orgien".
2028 - einige Datentypen aufgeraumt: z.B. sind viele INT32s nun LONGs. Das ist
2029 auf Platformen mit 8-Byte-Integern kompatibler.
2030 - RPL_YOURHOST_MSG ist nun ircII- und RFC-kompatibel ;-)
2031 - Segfault unter hoher Netzaktivitaet behoben: in Conn_Close() wird die
2032 Connection-Struktur nun frueher als "ungueltig" markiert.
2034 ngIRCd 0.5.2, 04.10.2002
2036 - Buffer Overflow in Read_Resolver_Result() behoben.
2037 - Format-String-Bugs, die zum Abbruch des Servers fuehrten, behoben.
2038 - Maximale Laenge eines IRC-Prefix wurde falsch berechnet.
2040 ngIRCd 0.5.1, 03.10.2002
2042 - in RPL_YOURHOST_MSG wurde ein fehlerhafter Versionsstring geliefert.
2043 - Test-Suite: start-server.sh, stop-server.sh und stress-server.sh koennen
2044 nun "manuell" von der Kommandozeile gestartet werden, stress-server.sh
2045 startet per Default nur noch 5 Sessions, eine andere Zahl kann auf der
2046 Kommandozeile uebergeben werden (Syntax: "stress-server.sh <count>").
2047 - In bestimmten Faellen hat der Server versucht auf einen bereits wieder
2048 geschlossenen Socket Daten zu schreiben; das fuehrte zu einem Abbruch des
2049 Servers durch ein assert(). Nun wird geprueft, ob der Socket noch ok ist.
2050 - im "contrib"-Verzeichnis befindet sich nun eine RPM-Spec-Datei, aus den
2051 .tar.gz's koennen nun mit "rpm -ta <archiv>" RPM's erzeugt werden. Danke
2052 an Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>!
2053 - Syntax von RPL_MYINFO_MSG korrigiert: liefert nun vier Parameter.
2055 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
2057 - Dokumentation aktualisiert.
2058 - Fehler bei Validierung von "AdminInfo2" behoben.
2059 - Test der Flags fuer "ps" in der Testsuite verbessert, ist nun zu mehr
2060 Plattformen kompatibler.
2062 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre2, 17.09.2002
2063 - Fix in IRC_WriteStrServersPrefix() war "badly broken" -- behoben.
2065 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre1, 16.09.2002
2066 - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen.
2067 - Wird der Netzwerk-Sniffer aktiviert (--sniffer), so schaltet der
2068 ngIRCd nun automatisch in den Debug-Modus.
2069 - auf Systemen, die inet_aton() nicht kennen (wie z.B. A/UX), kann der
2070 ngIRCd nun dennoch auch aktiv Server-Links aufbauen.
2071 - h_errno wird auf Systemen, die das nicht kennen (wie z.B. HP-UX 10.20)
2072 nicht mehr verwendet. Somit compiliert der ngIRCd nun auch dort :-)
2073 - um auf dem Ziel-System nicht vorhandene Funktionen nachzubilden wird nun
2074 die "libngportab" erzeugt; genutzt wird dies bisher fuer vsnprintf().
2075 Nun compiliert der ngIRCd auch unter Solaris 2.5.1.
2076 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
2077 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
2078 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
2079 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. Zu Channel-Operatoren werden bisher
2080 nur IRC-Operatoren, die den Channel betreten. Die persistenten Channels
2081 werden durch das Flag "P" gelennzeichnet, welches normal durch Channel-
2082 Op's gesetzt und geloescht werden kann.
2083 - bei "--configtest" werden keine leere Abschnitte mehr ausgegeben.
2084 - Source in weitere Module aufgespalten: lists, irc-op und resolve.
2085 - #include's aufgeraeumt: Header includieren keine anderen mehr.
2086 - KICK implementiert (bisher kann nur ein User aus einem Channel geckicked
2087 werden, Listen, wir im RFC vorgesehen, werden bisher nicht unterstuetzt).
2088 - INVITE, den Channel-Mode "i" sowie Invite-Lists ueber den MODE-Befehl
2089 (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
2090 - Source an ansi2knr fuer pre-ANSI-Compiler angepasst; ansi2knr in Source-
2091 Tree aufgenommen und in Build-System integriert; der ngIRCd compiliert
2092 nun z.B. unter A/UX mit dem nativen Compiler von Apple.
2093 - TOPIC lieferte bei unbekanntem Channel einen falschen Fehlercode.
2094 - LIST versteht nun Wildcards und kann an andere Server geforwarded werden.
2095 - wurde ein KILL fuer nicht-lokale Clients empfangen, so wurden die
2096 Verwaltungs-Strukturen nicht korrekt freigegeben.
2097 - empfangene NJOIN's wurden "zerhackt" an andere Server weitergegeben.
2098 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
2099 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
2100 - Dokumentation des neuen IRC+-Protokolls begonnen: doc/Protocol.txt
2101 - Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt;
2102 bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet.
2103 Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben.
2104 - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
2105 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics.
2106 - neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das
2107 IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert).
2108 - Ban-Lists (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
2109 - wird der Server mit "-n"/"--nodaemon" gestartet, so werden keine Mel-
2110 dungen mehr ueber Syslog ausgegeben, sondern nur noch auf der Konsole.
2111 - "Test-Suite" begonnen (in "make check" integriert): Dabei wird ein
2112 speziell konfigurierter Server auf Port 6789 gestartet, mit dem dann
2113 einige Tests durchgefuehrt werden (u.a. "Stress-Test" mit 50 Clients).
2114 - zu lange Operator-Namen in der Konfiguration wurden falsch gekuerzt.
2115 - kleine Anpassung an AIX 3.2.5: nun laeuft der ngIRCd auch dort :-)
2116 - ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei
2117 im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und
2118 "AdminEMail" konfiguriert.
2120 ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002
2122 - Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel
2123 ueberhaupt ein User ist. War es keiner, so fuehrte dies zu einem
2124 Abbruch des Servers [es wurde assert() aufgerufen].
2126 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
2128 - LUSERS verzaehlt sich bei eigenen Server-Links nicht mehr.
2129 - QUIT wird nun auch von noch nicht registrierten Clients akzeptiert.
2130 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
2131 Wildcards (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
2133 ngIRCd 0.4.1, 08.04.2002
2135 - Bei Server-Links wird nicht mehr an Hand der Anzahl der Parameter
2136 eines empfangenen SERVER-Befehls, sondern "intern" erkannt, ob es
2137 sich um eine ein- oder ausgehende Verbindung handelt und somit das
2138 eigene PASS-SERVER-Paar gesendet werden muss oder nicht. Da sich
2139 verschiedene Versionen des Original-ircd's anders verhalten, schlug
2140 die Anmeldung je nach Gehenseite evtl. fehl.
2141 - Bei einem NICK-Befehl eines lokalen Client konnte der Server ab-
2142 stuerzen, da ein Format-String einer Log-Meldung fehlerhaft war.
2144 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
2146 - IRC-Befehle nochmal auf weitere Source-Dateien aufgespalten.
2147 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
2148 - Der AWAY-Mode wurde nicht ueber mehrere Server-Links weitergegeben.
2149 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err).
2150 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
2151 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
2152 zusaetzliche Informationen.
2153 - In Nicknames wird das Zeichen "-" nun als zulaessig erkannt.
2154 - die Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei (doc/sample-ngircd.conf) wird als
2155 ngircd.conf installiert, wenn noch keine "echte" Konfigurationsdatei
2157 - bei WHO, WHOIS und NAMES wird nun nur noch der Status "Operator" oder
2158 "voiced" geliefert -- nicht mehr beides.
2159 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
2160 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
2161 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert (Variable "Group" in der Kon-
2162 figurationsdatei, Sektion [Server]).
2163 - IRC_PING() ist, wenn nicht im "strict RFC"-Mode, toleranter und ak-
2164 zeptiert beliebig viele Parameter (z.B. BitchX sendet soetwas).
2165 - die "Portab-Header" werden nicht mehr benoetigt, die System-Erkennung
2166 wird nun ausschliesslich vom configure-Script durchgefuehrt. System-
2167 abhaengige Definitionen finden sich nun unter src/portrab/.
2168 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
2169 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
2170 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
2171 gelesen und dann die verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
2172 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
2173 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
2174 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
2175 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
2176 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
2177 - URL der Homepage wird u.a. bei "--version" mit angezeigt.
2179 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
2181 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
2182 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
2183 - FAQ um Hinweise auf den Bugtracker erweitert.
2184 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
2185 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
2186 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
2187 - direkt nach dem Start schreibt der ngIRCd nun die aktiven Kommando-
2188 zeilenschalter in's Logfile (Passive, Debug, Sniffer ...).
2189 - das Signal-Flag SA_RESTART wird nur noch gesetzt, wenn es auf dem
2190 jeweiligen System auch definiert ist.
2191 - bei ausgehenden Verbindungen wird nun der Ziel-Port protokolliert.
2192 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert.
2193 - make-Target "check" (und "distcheck") mit Sinn erfuellt :-)
2194 (die Tests sind aber bisher nicht all zu tiefgehend ...)
2195 - Durch einen Ueberlauf konnte die Idle-Time bei WHOIS negativ werden ...
2196 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
2197 - WHOIS wird nicht mehr automatisch an den "Original-Server" weiterge-
2198 leitet: war eh nicht RFC-konform und machte mit Clients Probleme.
2199 - an User wird nun immer ein "komplettes" Prefix (mit Host-Mask) ver-
2200 schickt, Server bekommen nach wie vor kurze: das "Original" hat bei
2201 bestimmten Befehlen (PRIVMSG) ansonsten evtl. Probleme ...
2202 - NAMES korrigiert und vollstaendig implementiert.
2203 - SQUIT wird auf jeden Fall geforwarded, zudem besseres Logging.
2204 - Ist ein Nick bei der User-Registrierung bereits belegt, nimmt der
2205 Server nun korrekt weitere NICK-Befehle an und verwendet diese.
2206 - PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m".
2207 - AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst.
2208 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
2209 - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asynchron connectiert und
2210 blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht
2211 erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!).
2212 - Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet.
2213 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
2215 ngIRCd 0.2.1, 17.02.2002
2217 - NICK korrigiert: es werden nun auch alle "betroffenen" User informiert.
2218 - configure-Script erweitert, u.a. bessere Anpassung an BeOS: dort wird
2219 nun die "libbe" zum ngIRCd gelinkt, somit funktioniert auch syslog.
2220 - Fehlerhafte bzw. noch nicht verstandene Modes werden nun ausfuehrlicher
2221 an den Client geliefert.
2223 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
2225 - Nicknames und Channel-Namen werden etwas besser auf Gueltigkeit ueber-
2226 prueft; ist aber nach wie vor noch nicht ausreichend.
2227 - NJOINS von Servern wurden nicht an andere Server weitergeleitet.
2228 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
2229 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
2230 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
2231 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
2232 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
2233 - Benutzer von connectierenden Servern wurden nicht in den Channels ange-
2234 kuendigt, es wurden nur die internen Strukturen angepasst.
2235 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
2237 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
2239 - User-Modes bei User-Registrierungen von andere Servern (NICK-Befehl)
2240 wurden falsch uebernommen. Zudem wurden die Modes falsch gekuerzt.
2241 - Server-Verbindungen werden nun nach dem Start erst nach einer kurzen
2242 Pause aufgebaut (zur Zeit drei Sekunden).
2243 - Hilfetext korrigiert: --help und --version waren vertauscht, die
2244 Option --sniffer wurde gar nicht erwaehnt.
2245 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
2246 - der IRC-Sniffer wird nur noch aktiviert, wenn die Option auf der
2247 Kommandozeile angegeben wurde (bei entsprechend compiliertem Server).
2248 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
2249 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
2250 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
2251 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
2252 - durch die Channels einige Aenderungen an PRIVMSG, WHOIS, MODE etc.
2253 - neu connectierenden Servern werden nun Channels mit NJOIN angekuendigt.
2254 - Signal-Hander geaendert: die Fehlermeldung "interrupted system call"
2255 sollte so nicht mehr auftreten.
2256 - "spaeter" neu connectierende Server werden nun im Netz angekuendigt.
2257 - SERVER-Meldungen an andere Server sind nun korrekt sortiert.
2258 - Clients werden nun korrekt sowohl nur ueber den Nickname als auch die
2259 komplette "Host Mask" erkannt.
2261 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
2263 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
2264 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
2265 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
2266 - MODE und NICK melden nun die Aenderungen an andere Server, ebenso
2267 die Befehle QUIT und SQUIT.
2268 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
2269 - Parses handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
2270 - Status-Codes an den Server selber werden ignorier.
2271 - Log-Meldungen und Log-Level ueberarbeitet und korrigiert.
2272 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
2273 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
2274 - WHOIS korrigiert: Anfrage wurde u.U. an User geforwarded anstatt vom
2275 Server beantwortet zu werden.
2276 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS
2277 - Client-Modes von Remote-Servern wurden nicht korrekt uerbernommen.
2279 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
2281 - Struktur der Konfigurationsdatei geaendert: sie ist nun "Samba like",
2282 d.h. sie besteht aus Abschnitten (siehe "doc/sample-ngircd.conf").
2283 - Es koennen mehrere IRC-Server-Opertatoren konfiguriert werden.
2284 - Zombies der Resolver-Prozesse werden nun ordentlich "getoetet".
2285 - NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern.
2286 - ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar.
2287 - neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT.
2288 - Asynchroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
2289 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
2290 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige
2291 Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert
2292 aber bereits, ebenso wie WHOIS (letzterer wird immer an den Server,
2293 auf dem der User registriert ist, weitergegeben).
2294 - "arpa/inet.h" wird nur noch includiert, wenn vorhanden.
2295 - Fehler bei select() fuerhen nun zum Abbruch von ngIRCd, bisher landete
2296 der Server zumeist in einer Endlosschleife.
2297 - Logmeldungen und Level an vielen Stellen verbessert.
2298 - lokalen Usernamen wird nun ein "~" vorangestellt, da bisher noch keine
2299 Ident-Anfragen gemacht werden.
2301 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
2303 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)