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