2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2014 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
12 ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
14 - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
15 disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
16 - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
17 - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
18 - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
19 linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
20 been implemented already).
21 - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
23 ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
25 - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
26 is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
27 initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
29 ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
30 - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
31 support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
33 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
34 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
35 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
36 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
37 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
38 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
39 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
40 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
41 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
42 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
43 the IRC "TRACE" command.
44 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
45 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
46 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
47 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
48 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
49 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
50 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
51 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
53 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
54 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
55 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
56 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
57 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
58 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
59 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
60 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
61 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
62 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
63 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
64 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
65 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
66 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
67 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
68 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
69 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
70 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
71 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
72 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
73 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
74 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
75 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
76 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
77 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
78 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
79 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
80 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
81 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
82 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
83 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
84 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
85 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
86 The default is 0, "never".
87 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
88 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
89 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
90 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
91 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
92 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
93 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
94 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
95 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
96 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
97 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
98 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
99 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
100 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
101 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
102 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
103 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
104 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
105 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
107 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
109 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
110 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
111 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
112 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
113 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
115 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
117 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
118 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
119 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to to crash the daemon
122 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
124 - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
126 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
128 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
129 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
130 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
131 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
132 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
134 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
135 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
136 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
137 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
138 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
139 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
140 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
142 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
143 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
144 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
145 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
146 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
147 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
148 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
149 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
150 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
151 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
152 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
153 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
154 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
155 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
156 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
157 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
158 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
159 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
160 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
161 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
162 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
163 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
164 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
165 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
166 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
167 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
168 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
169 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
170 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
171 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
172 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
173 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
174 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
175 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
176 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
177 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
179 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
180 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
181 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
183 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
184 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
185 configuration file. (Closes #136)
186 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
187 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
188 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
189 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
190 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
191 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
192 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
193 behave, and so do we :-)
194 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
195 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
196 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
197 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
198 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
199 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
200 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
201 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
202 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
203 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
204 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
205 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
206 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
207 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
208 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
209 random salt will be generated after each server restart.
211 ngIRCd Release 19.2 (2012-06-19)
213 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
214 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
215 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
216 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
217 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
218 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
219 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
220 and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
221 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
223 ngIRCd Release 19.1 (2012-03-19)
225 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
226 distribution archive ... ooops!
228 ngIRCd Release 19 (2012-02-29)
230 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
231 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
232 is the only supported version.
233 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
234 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
235 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
236 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
237 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
238 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
239 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
240 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
241 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
242 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
243 by completely unknown clients.
244 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
245 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
246 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
247 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
248 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
249 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
250 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
251 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
252 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
253 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
254 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
255 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
256 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
257 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
258 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
259 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
260 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
261 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
262 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
263 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
264 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
265 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
266 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
267 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
268 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
269 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
270 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
271 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
272 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
273 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
274 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
275 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
276 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
277 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
278 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
279 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
280 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
281 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
282 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
283 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
284 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
285 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
286 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
287 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
288 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
289 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
290 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
291 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
292 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
293 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
294 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
296 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
298 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
300 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
301 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
302 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
303 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
304 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
306 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
307 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
308 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
309 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
310 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
311 servers from TOR or I2P.
312 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
313 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
314 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
315 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
316 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
317 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
318 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
319 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
320 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
321 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
322 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
323 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
324 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
325 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
326 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
327 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
328 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
329 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
330 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
331 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
332 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
333 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
334 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
335 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
336 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
337 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
338 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
339 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
340 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
341 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
342 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
343 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
344 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
345 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
346 variable description.
347 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
348 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
349 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
350 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
351 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
352 supplied by the IRC client.
353 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
354 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
355 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
356 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
357 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
358 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
359 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
360 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
361 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
362 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
363 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
364 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
365 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
366 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
367 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
368 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
369 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
371 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
373 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
374 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
375 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
377 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
379 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
381 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
382 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
383 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
384 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
386 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
387 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
388 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
389 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
390 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
391 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
392 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
393 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
394 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
395 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
396 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
397 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
398 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
399 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
400 using the command line parameters.
401 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
402 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
403 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
404 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
405 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
406 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
407 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
408 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
409 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
410 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
411 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
412 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
413 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
415 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
417 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
418 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
419 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
420 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
422 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
423 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
424 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
425 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
426 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
427 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
428 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
429 to join such a channel.
430 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
431 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
432 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
433 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
435 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
437 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
438 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
439 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
440 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
441 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
442 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
443 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
445 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
446 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
447 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
449 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
451 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
452 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
453 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
455 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
457 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
458 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
459 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
460 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
461 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
462 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
463 individual channel keys for different users.
464 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
466 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
468 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
469 - New version number scheme :-)
470 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
471 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
472 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
473 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
474 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
475 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
476 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
477 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
478 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
479 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
480 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
481 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
482 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
483 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
484 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
486 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
488 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
489 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
490 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
491 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
492 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
493 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
495 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
497 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
498 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
500 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
502 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
503 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
504 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
505 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
506 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
507 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
508 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
509 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
510 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
511 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
513 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
515 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
516 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
517 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
518 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
519 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
520 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
521 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
522 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
523 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
524 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
527 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
529 - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
530 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
531 - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
532 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
533 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
535 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
537 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
538 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
539 join predefined channels.
541 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
543 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
544 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
545 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
546 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
547 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
548 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
549 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
550 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
551 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
552 lookup to prevent spoofing.
553 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
554 addition to the select() interface.
556 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
558 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
559 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
560 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
561 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
562 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
563 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
564 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
565 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
566 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
567 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
568 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
569 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
570 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
571 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
572 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
573 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
575 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
577 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
578 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
579 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
580 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
581 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
582 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
583 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
584 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
585 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
586 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
587 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
588 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
590 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
592 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
593 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
594 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
595 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
596 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
597 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
599 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
601 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
603 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
605 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
606 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
607 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
608 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
609 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
610 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
611 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
612 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
613 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
614 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
615 configure to enable it.
616 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
617 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
618 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
619 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
620 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
623 Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
625 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
627 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
628 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
629 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
630 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
631 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
632 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
633 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
634 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
635 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
636 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
637 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
638 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
639 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
640 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
641 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
642 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
643 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
644 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
645 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
646 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
647 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
648 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
649 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
650 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
651 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
652 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
654 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
656 - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
657 (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
658 - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
659 dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
660 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
661 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
662 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
663 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
664 - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
665 Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
666 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
667 gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
668 "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
669 - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
670 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
671 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
672 - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
674 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
676 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
677 Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
679 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
681 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
682 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
683 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
684 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
685 zusaetzliche Informationen.
686 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
687 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
688 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
689 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
690 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
691 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
692 gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
693 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
694 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
695 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
696 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
697 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
699 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
701 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
702 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
703 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
704 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
705 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
706 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
707 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
708 - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
709 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
710 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
712 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
714 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
715 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
716 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
717 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
718 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
719 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
721 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
723 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
724 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
725 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
726 Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
727 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
728 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
730 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
732 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
733 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
734 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
735 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
736 - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
737 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
738 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
739 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
741 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
743 - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
744 - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
745 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
746 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
748 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
750 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)