2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2021 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
11 ngIRCd 26.1 (2021-01-02)
13 - Fix a "format string" compiler warning (detected on OpenBSD).
14 - No longer set "AI_ADDRCONFIG" when resolving host names, even when it
15 exists: with this option set, on an IPv6-only host, we prevent 127.0.0.1
16 to get translated properly, even when the loopback interface has this
17 address configured! And as the test suite uses 127.0.0.1, it was broken
19 The drawback is that the resolver possibly returns more addresses now,
20 even of an unsupported/not connected address family; but this shouldn't
21 do much harm in practice, as ngIRCd iterates over all returned addresses
22 while trying to establish an outgoing connection.
24 - Revert "Show allowed channel types in ISUPPORT(005) numeric only", which
25 was introduced in 26~rc1: This lead to some IRC clients assuming "oh, no
26 channel prefix characters at all, so no channels at all, so no PRIVMSG can
27 go to any channel" when "AllowedChannelTypes" was set to the empty string
28 ("") -- which is not the case when there are pre-defined channel set up or
29 other servers still having channels!
30 So "allowed channel types" != "supported channel types", and we always have
31 to list all supported ones in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric!
33 - Test suite: Wait 2 seconds after reloading the daemon, which is required
34 because on reload, all listening ports are closed, configuration updated,
35 and then opened again. This lead to subsequent tests running while the
36 daemon isn't listening on any ports, and that's why some tests could fail.
38 - platformtest.sh: Try to mangle CLang name more intelligently.
39 - Documentation: Fixed URLs of Atheme IRC services, updated all mentions
40 from CVS to Git, and updated Platforms.txt -- Oh, and it is 2021 now! ;-)
42 ngIRCd 26 (2020-06-20)
44 ngIRCd 26~rc2 (2020-06-11)
45 - Add AppStream metadata file (contrib/de.barton.ngircd.metainfo.xml).
46 - Don't send invalid CHANINFO commands when a channel has mode +k set but no
47 key is known to the server. This can happen with a misconfigured predefined
48 channel, for example, and looked like this: "CHANINFO #test +Pk 0 :" --
49 note the unset key represented by the two spaces. Fix this by sending a
50 "*" in this case and update the CHANINFO documentation, too.
51 - ngircd.spec: Fix names of README.md and INSTALL.md, add ".md" extension.
52 - Update description texts in the README.md file, the RPM and Debian package
53 files and the manual page: bring them in line with the updated homepage.
54 - Server-Server protocol: Fix use-after-free when unregistering a directly
55 connected server sending a SQUIT for itself.
56 - Server-Server protocol: Detect bogus SERVER commands lacking a prefix.
57 Thanks Hilko Bengen (hillu) for finding & reporting this as well for the
58 patch & pull request (even if fixed differently).
60 - Fix the PING-PONG logic: In ngIRCd 26~rc1 this was completely broken (while
61 trying to fix timeouts during server handshakes in bigger networks): the
62 daemon never disconnected any stale peers but kept sending out PINGs over
64 - Test suite: Add missing files needed to test SSL support to "EXTRA_DIST",
65 so that they are included in distribution archives: in rc1, "make check"
66 fails when using sources from an archive and enabling SSL support.
67 Thanks to Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de> for the patch!
69 ngIRCd 26~rc1 (2020-05-10)
70 - Tweak & update doc/HowToRelease.txt, .mailmap and AUTHORS files.
71 - Allow up to 512 characters per line in MOTD and help text files (but keep
72 in mind that lines can't get that long, because they have to be prefixed
73 before being sent to the client). But this allows for more fancy MOTDs :-)
75 - Show the actually allowed channel types in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric which
76 are configured by the "AllowedChannelTypes" configuration variable.
78 - Handle commands in the read buffer before reading more data and don't wait
79 for the network in this case: If there are more bytes in the read buffer
80 already than a single valid IRC command can get long (513 bytes), wait for
81 this/those command(s) to be handled first and don't try to read even more
82 data from the network (which most probably would overflow the read buffer
83 of this connection soon).
84 - Update Travis-CI configuration, "sudo" is deprecated.
85 - Log G-/K-Line changes only when not initiated by a server: this prevents
86 the log from becoming spammed during "net bursts".
87 - Update test suite to include SSL tests, including checking for reloading
88 certificates during runtime.
89 - Makefile.am: Replace "make" with "${MAKE}". This fixes warnings like this:
90 "warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule."
91 Thanks to Sam James (sam_c) <sam@cmpct.info>!
93 - Add support for GnuTLS certificate reload, which is quite handy when using
94 Let's Encrypt, for example. Until now this was only supported when linked
95 with OpenSSL. Thanks a lot, Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de>!
96 - Remove deprecated legacy configuration options and related functions that
97 have been marked for removal for quite some time:
98 - PredefChannelsOnly (v22)
101 - Old '[GLOBAL]' section handling (v19)
102 Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
103 - Fix recursion bug on write errors: Depending on the stack size, too many
104 clients on the same channel quitting at the same time would trigger a crash
105 due to too many recursive calls to Conn_Close(). Thanks to Michi
106 <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
107 - Fix builds using GCC option -fno-common, which is the default starting with
108 GCC 10. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch!
110 - Convert INSTALL and README files to Markdown.
111 - Allow setting arbitrary channel modes in the configuration file by handling
112 them like in MODE commands, and allow multiple "Modes =" lines per [Channel]
113 section. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org>!
115 - Add "FNC" (forced nick changes) to ISUPPORT(005) numeric. Most probably
116 this doesn't make any difference to any client, but it seems correct.
117 See <http://www.irc.org/tech_docs/005.html> for details.
118 - Reuse old SSL key if loading a new one failed.
119 - Remove outdated OpenBSD/NetBSD systrace.policy.
120 - Enhance handling of command line errors, and return with exit code 0 ("no
121 error") when "--help" or "--version" is used (which resulted in exit code 1,
122 "error" before). Exit with code 2 ("command line error") for all other
123 invalid command line options, and show the error message itself on stderr
124 (instead of stdout and exit code 1, "generic error", as before).
125 This new behaviour is more in line with the GNU "coding standards",
126 see <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html>.
127 - Fix and update Xcode project: Reference correct contrib/Makefile.am file,
128 correctly sort contrib/nglog.sh and add "ORGANIZATIONNAME" setting.
129 - contrib/ngindent.sh: Add more GNU indent options for better results, and
130 add the ".sh" suffix to bring this script in line with the others in the
132 - Add ./contrib/nglog.sh: This script parses the log output of ngircd(8),
133 and colorizes the messages according to their log level. Example usage:
134 ngircd -f $PWD/doc/sample-ngircd.conf -np | ./contrib/nglog.sh
135 - Log received signals with their names using strsignal(3), when available.
136 - Make test suite compatible with Haiku OS.
137 - Fix host mask cloaking bug, don't cloak multiple times: Previously, each
138 server would cloak every user's host mask. The problem is that if a network
139 has more than one server, then a user's host mask would get cloaked twice.
140 This patch ensures that a server only cloaks the host mask if it has not yet
141 been cloaked (the period indicates it's still an IP address). Thanks to
142 JRMU <jrmu@lecturify.com> for the patch!
144 - Enlarge buffers of info texts to 128 bytes. This includes:
145 - "Real name" of a client (4th filed of the USER command).
146 - Server info text ("Info" configuration option).
147 - Admin info texts and email address ("AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" and
148 "AdminEmail" configuration options).
149 - Network name ("Network" configuration option).
150 The limit was 64 bytes before ...
152 - Streamline handling of invalid and unset server name: Don't exit during
153 runtime (REHASH command, HUP signal), because the server name can't be
154 changed in this case anyway and the new invalid name will be ignored.
155 - Fix and extend documentation: Fix some typos, fix syntax of LINKS and LIST
156 commands, whitespace and spelling fixes, update dependencies and add some
157 more information about IRCv3 support.
158 Thanks to Thanks Windree, Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> and
159 Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
161 - Slightly reorder startup steps, and enhance logging:
162 - Show name of configuration file at the beginning of start up.
163 - Add a message when ngIRCd is ready, including its host name.
164 - Show name of configuration file on REHASH (SIGHUP), too.
165 - Change level of "done message" to NOTICE, like "starting" & "ready".
166 - Initialize IO functions before channels, connections, clients, ...
167 - configure.ng: OpenSSL can depends on lz or latomic so use pkg-config to
168 find those dependencies and fallback to existing mechanism.
170 - ngircd.conf.5: Fix wording as suggested by lintian.
172 ngIRCd 25 (2019-01-23)
174 - Fix documentation of MotdPhrase length, which actually is 126 characters:
175 update sample configuration file as well as the man page. Thanks to
176 shankari <shankari@eecs.berkeley.edu>.
178 - Implement new configuration option "MaxPenaltyTime", which configures the
179 maximum penalty time increase in seconds, per penalty event. Set to -1 for
180 no limit (the default), 0 to disable penalties altogether. ngIRCd doesn't
181 use penalty increases higher than 2 seconds during normal operation, so
182 values higher than 1 rarely make sense.
183 Disabling (or reducing) penalties can greatly speed up "make check" runs
184 for example, see below, but are mostly a debugging feature and normally
185 not meant to be used on production systems!
186 Some example timings running "make check" from my macOS workstation:
187 - MaxPenaltyTime not set: 4:41,79s
188 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 1": 3:14,71s
189 - "MaxPenaltyTime = 0": 25,46s
190 Closes #249 and #251.
191 - Fix compilation without deprecated OpenSSL APIs. Thanks to Rosen Penev
192 <rosenp@gmail.com> for the patch!
194 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (10.0)
195 - Fix some compiler warnings of Apple Xcode/Clang
196 - Allow a 5th parameter in WEBIRC. Thanks to "ItsOnlyBinary".
198 - Update some more documentation files and source code comments.
199 - Platforms.txt: Add and update systems.
201 ngIRCd 25~rc1 (2018-08-11)
202 - Update config.guess (2018-03-08) and config.sub (2018-03-08) files.
203 - Correctly retry to establish an outgoing connections when forking of the
204 resolver sub-process failed (for example because of lack of free memory).
205 Until now, such a connection was never retried once this error was hit.
206 Thanks to Robert Obermeier for reporting this bug!
208 - Fix a "use after free" bug which can be triggered on a newly established
209 connection when the daemon handles an ERROR command received from the peer
210 during client login. Thanks a lot to Joseph Bisch <joseph.bisch@gmail.com>
211 for discovering and reporting this issue!
212 - Only send TOPIC updates to a channel when the topic actually changed:
213 This prevents the channel from becoming flooded by unnecessary TOPIC update
214 messages, that can happen when IRC services try to enforce a certain topic
215 but which is already set (at least on the local server), for example.
216 Therefore still forward it to all servers, but don't inform local clients
217 (still update setter and timestamp information, though).
218 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (9.2). This includes adding
219 missing and deleting obsolete file references.
220 - Handle user mode "C" ("Only users that share a channel are allowed to send
221 messages") like user mode "b" ("block private messages and notices"): allow
222 messages from servers, services, and IRC Operators, too. Change proposed by
223 "wowaname" back in 2015 in #ngircd, thanks!
224 - Fix some compiler warnings.
225 - Add contrib/ngircd.logcheck: Some sample logcheck(8) rules.
226 - Allow IRC Ops and remote servers to KILL service clients: such clients
227 behave like regular users, therefore IRC operators and servers should be
228 able to KILL them: for example to resolve nick collisions.
230 - Don't forward KILLs to other servers if they've been blocked locally:
231 This prevents clients from killing IRC services, for example.
232 Closes #238 and #239.
233 - Fix a cross-compiler issue related to the Get_Error() function.
234 Closes #240 and #241.
235 - Update ./doc/Services.txt, enhance configuration examples.
237 ngIRCd 24 (2017-01-20)
239 - Make sure that ./contrib/platformtest.sh aborts when ./autogen.sh fails.
240 - Update config.guess (2016-10-02) and config.sub (2016-11-04) files.
241 - Build Debian packages with OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS: OpenSSL allows
242 to reload used certificates on runtime for example (which is very
243 useful when using Let's Encrypt), and therefore is preferred. And
244 explicitly specify the "source format".
245 - Fix handling of connection pool allocation and enlargement: up to now,
246 the daemon only enlarged its connection pool when accepting new incoming
247 client or server connections, not when establishing new outgoing server
248 links, which could lead to problems when hitting the configured limit,
249 see "MaxConnections". Thanks to Lukas Braun (k00mi) for reporting this!
252 ngIRCd 24~rc1 (2017-01-07)
253 - Enhance systemd service file, and install it in Debian package.
254 - Update configuration of Debian package.
255 - Log privilege violations and failed OPER request with log level "error"
256 and send it to the "&SERVER" channel, too.
257 - Immediately shut down connection when receiving an "ERROR" command,
258 don't wait for the peer to close the connection. This allows the daemon
259 to forward the received "ERROR" message in the network, instead of the
260 very generic "client closed connection" message.
261 - Fix sending of entry duration (no negative values!) when synchronizing
263 - List expiration (G-LINES): use same log level as when setting, and log
264 this event to the &SERVER channel, too.
265 - Explicitly forbid remote servers to modify "x-lines" (G-LINES) when the
266 "AllowRemoteOper" configuration option isn't set, even when the command
267 seems to originate from the remote server itself: this prevents GLINE's
268 to become set during server handshake in this case (what wouldn't be
269 possible during regular runtime when a remote IRC Op sends the command)
270 and what can't be undone by IRC Ops later on (because of the missing
271 "AllowRemoteOper" option) ...
272 - Make scripts and init-files in ./contrib executable.
273 - Fix building ngIRCd with OpenSSL 1.1. Thanks to Christoph Biedl
274 <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de> for the patch!
275 - Fix code indentation warnings of gcc 6.2.
276 - Update config.guess (2016-04-02) and config.sub (2016-03-30) files.
277 - Fix warnings of the "shellcheck" linter in autogen.sh, contrib/ngindent
278 and contrib/platformtest.sh.
279 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (8.0), and fix "duplicate
280 symbols" error messages when building (linking) the binary.
281 - Add "Documentation" variables to systemd configuration files.
282 - Make sure that SYSCONFDIR is always set, which can be handy when
283 using source code linters when ./configure hasn't been run already.
284 - Add the new "PAMServiceName" configuration option to specify the name
285 used as PAM service name. This setting allows to run multiple ngIRCd
286 instances with different PAM configurations for each instance.
287 Thanks to Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at> for the
289 - Add an ".editorconfig" file to the project.
290 - Travis-CI: use "container-based infrastructure".
291 - Limit the number of message targets, and suppress duplicates: This
292 prevents an user from flooding the server using commands like this:
293 "PRIVMSG nick1,nick1,nick1,...".
294 Duplicate targets are suppressed silently (channels and clients).
295 In addition, the maximum number of targets per PRIVMSG, NOTICE, ...
296 command are limited to MAX_HNDL_TARGETS (25). If there are more, the
297 daemon sends the new 407 (ERR_TOOMANYTARGETS_MSG) numeric, containing
298 the first target that hasn't been handled any more. Closes #187.
299 - Test suite: Add new test for server-server logins.
300 - contrib/ngindent: Fix shebang line.
301 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh script more portable, and only show
302 "runs=Y" when the test suite really has been passed successfully.
303 - Code cleanup in the NJON handler and the function killing clients as
304 well as the function sending messages to a "mask" (cleaner code, more
305 fault tolerant, better code comments).
306 - Update and enhance documentation: README file, doc/Platforms.txt,
307 doc/Modes.txt, doc/Commands.txt, doc/PAM.txt.
308 - Fix NJOIN not propagating "half ops" status: ngIRCd tested for the wrong
309 prefix of "half ops" when processing NJOIN commands and therefore never
310 classified a remote user as "half op".
311 Thanks to wowaname for pointing this out on #ngircd!
313 ngIRCd 23 (2015-11-16)
315 - Explicitly cast time_t to long when printing it out: this prevents
316 wrong sized data types on platforms where time_t doesn't equal a
317 long any more, for example on OpenBSD (which would result in garbled
318 output on those platforms).
319 - contrib/Debian/changelog: Fix email address.
320 - Documentation: Spelling fixes; update doc/Platforms.txt.
322 ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06)
323 - Add ".clang_complete" file, which is used by the "linter-clang" package
324 of the Atom editor, for example.
325 - Make server-to-server protocol more robust: ngIRCd now catches more
326 errors on the server-to-server (S2S) protocol that could crash the
327 daemon before. This hasn't been a real problem because the IRC S2S
328 protocol is "trusted" by design, but the behavior is much better now.
329 Thanks to wowaname on #ngircd for pointing this out!
330 - Make platformtest.sh, autogen.sh, and ngircd.init more portable.
331 - Enables "reproducible builds" for ngIRCd: Use the optional BIRTHTIME
332 constant while building ngIRCd, which contains a time stamp for the
333 "Birth Date" information, in seconds since the epoch.
334 See <https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds>.
335 - Update "contrib/ngircd.service" file for systemd.
336 - INSTALL: Add deprecation notice for "PredefChannelsOnly" variable.
337 - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is
338 a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea.
339 Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not
340 available. This mimics the behavior in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd
341 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217.
342 The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed
343 to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still
344 supported for compatibility reasons.
345 - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick
346 name while on this channel). Closes #214.
347 - README, AUTHORS: Update mailing list and issue tracker URLs.
348 - Remove doc/GIT.txt (it is outdated), update doc/Contributing.txt:
349 ngIRCd uses GitHub, and Git itself is quite common today. So don't
350 include an own Git "mini HowTo" any longer.
351 - Specify session context for OpenSSL clients. This enables some OpenSSL
352 clients, including Pidgin and stunnel 5.06, to reuse a session.
353 Patch by Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>, thanks! Closes #182.
354 - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts.
355 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203.
356 - Make setgroups(3) function optional: For example, Interix is missing
357 this function, which prevented ngIRCd to build on this platform. When
358 setgroups(3) isn't available, a warning message is issued on startup.
359 - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients
360 expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly.
361 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
362 - Update ngircd.conf.5: "CloakUserToNick" hides user _and_ real name.
364 - Fix case insensitive pattern matching: Up to now, only the input
365 string became lowercased and was then compared to the pattern -- which
366 failed when the pattern itself wasn't all lowercase!
367 - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation
368 in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't
369 hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect.
371 - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set.
372 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202.
373 - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents
374 ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see
376 Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197.
377 - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure
378 that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users
379 to local ("&") channels.
380 Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183.
381 - INVITE command: Enforce 1 second penalty time, which prevents flooding
382 of the target client.
383 This closes #186. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
384 - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when
385 receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation
386 time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports
387 the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined
388 to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this.
389 This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
390 - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (6.3).
392 ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06)
394 - Update doc/Platforms.txt and doc/FAQ.txt.
395 - Fix spelling of RPL_WHOISBOT message text.
396 - Don't send nick name as default PART reason: No other IRC daemon seems
397 to do this (today?). Closes #185.
398 Reported by Cahata in #ngircd, thanks!
399 - Fix "WHO #<chan>" showing invisible users and hiding all visible, the
400 logic was reversed! This bug has been introduced by commit c74115f2,
401 "Simplify mode checking on channels and users within a channel", ngIRCd
402 releases 21, 21.1, and 22 are affected :-( Problem reported by Cahata
404 - Fix typo in src/testsuite/README
405 - Auth PING: Fix our information text for manual sending of "PONG". Up to
406 now, ngIRCd doesn't send a valid IRC command at all, oops!
407 - Auth PING: Fix internal time stamp conversion and don't send a prefix in
408 our PING command. The prefix confuses WeeChat, at least, which doesn't
409 send an appropriate PONG in the case ...
410 Debugging and patch by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
411 - Fix syntax of ERR_LISTFULL_MSG(478) numeric. Pointed out by "wowaname"
413 - Enhance debug messages while sending CHANINFO commands.
414 - Reset "last try" timer when enabling a passive server. This results in
415 a new connection attempt as soon as possible.
416 - Change log message for "Can't resolve address" and for IP address
418 - doc/HowToRelease.txt: Add note about the bug tracker.
419 - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch,
420 and testing by Christoph Biedl <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
421 - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating
422 systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example
423 "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to
424 "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve
425 "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using
426 DNS at all makes the test site much more portable.
428 ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
430 - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
431 ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
432 Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
434 ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
435 - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
436 lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
437 nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
438 Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
439 - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
440 - Correctly check that a server has a valid hostname and port, thanks to
441 David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com> who reported this bug.
442 - Fix the function which generates complete "IRC masks" from user input,
443 don't destroy the source buffer and use all provided parts (nick, user,
444 host name). This fixes GLINEs/KLINEs from not working in some situations.
445 - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
446 that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
447 this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
448 if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
449 - Debian: Don't adjust path names that are correct by default and correctly
450 set and use "docdir".
451 - Update config.guess and config.sub to recent versions.
452 - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
453 - doc/Bopm.txt: Update "connregex" and "kline" for current ngIRCd.
454 - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
455 settable by IRC Operators.
456 - Spoofed prefixes: Really kill connection on non-server links.
457 - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
458 "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
459 settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
460 careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
461 User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
462 - Handle "throttling" in a single function: ngIRCd implements "command
463 throttling" and "bps throttling" (bytes per second). The states are
464 detected in different functions, Conn_Handler() and Read_Request(), but
465 handle the actual "throttling" in a common function: this enables us to
466 guarantee consistent behavior and to disable throttling for special
467 connections in only one place
468 - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
469 - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
470 - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
471 Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
472 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
473 on "VPATH builds", for example.
474 - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
475 and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
476 - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
477 using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
478 names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
479 is quite unexpected for users.
480 - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
481 allow using separate source and build trees.
482 - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
483 - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
485 - Update configure.ng: ngIRCd requires GNU autoconf 2.61 for generating its
486 build system, so update the build system accordingly and implement all
487 changes that autoupdate(1) suggests: Update AC_PREREQ and AC_INIT, use
488 AC_LINK_IFELSE, AC_RUN_IFELSE, and AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, and remove
489 AC_TYPE_SIGNAL (we don't use RETSIGTYPE).
490 - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
491 and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
492 useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
493 been linked at all ...).
494 - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
495 (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
496 daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
497 which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
498 - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
499 - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
500 Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
501 return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
502 DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
503 - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
506 ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
508 - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
509 disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
510 - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
511 - Really kill connections that send "spoofed prefixes" on non-server links.
512 This fixes commit 6cbe1308 which only killed the connection when the
513 spoofed prefix itself belonged to a non-server client.
514 - CHARCONV command: Fix handling conversion errors, don't overwrite already
516 - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
517 - Correctly use cloaked IRC masks on "INVITE nickname": The cloaked IRC mask
518 of a user is his visible mask, so the daemon has to use it for generating
519 the "one time" entries for the invite list of the given channel, and not
520 the "real" mask which will never match while the target client is "+x", and
521 even worse, will disclose the real mask on "MODE #channel +I" commands :-/
522 Bug reported by Cahata on #ngircd, thanks!
523 - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists. This isn't the case on
524 "VPATH builds", for example.
525 - Use $(MKDIR_P) instead of $(mkinstalldirs) in Makefile's and test for
526 "mkdir -p" using AC_PROG_MKDIR_P in "configure".
527 - Fix configure script and "make check" for TCP Wrappers (problems spotted on
528 OpenBSD): add missing #include's and static variables, and add libwrap at
529 the end of the configure run because if libwrap becomes added earlier,
530 other tests may fail.
531 - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
532 linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
533 been implemented already).
534 - platformtest.sh and Makefile.am: Don't use "test -e", it isn't portable.
535 - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
536 - Fix permanent {G|K}LINES (with a timeout of 0 seconds).
537 - WEBIRC: Don't set the hostname received by the WEBIRC command when DNS
538 lookups are disabled, but use the IP address instead.
539 Reported by Toni Spets <toni.spets@iki.fi>, thanks!
540 - Check for working getaddrinfo() function: At least AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1 have a
541 broken implementation of getaddrinfo() which doesn't handle "0" as numeric
542 service correctly. This patch adds a configure check for this case and
543 changes all calling functions to only use getaddrinfo() if it "works".
544 See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/lists/heimdal-discuss/2004-05/msg00059.html>
545 - Only use the unsetenv() function when it is available (AIX 4.3 doesn't
546 support it, for example).
547 - Make sure that the source code is still compatible with the "ansi2knr" tool
548 and builds using non-ANSI K&R C compilers. Tested with Apple C on A/UX.
549 - Fix building ngIRCd without support for ZLIB compression. Reported by
550 "der_baer" on #ngircd, thanks!
552 ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
554 - ./contrib/Debian/ngircd.init: Make sure no stale PID file is left over
555 when (re-)starting ngIRCd.
556 - Change ./contrib/platformtest.sh and update ./doc/Platforms.txt to
557 allow user names up to 8 characters.
558 - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
559 is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
560 initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
561 - Update our own Debian package configuration and fix the default path
562 of the "HelpFile" of the "full" package variants.
564 ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
565 - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
566 support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
567 - Use arc4random() function to generate "random" numbers, when available.
568 - platformtest.sh: Detect clang compiler, and clean up GIT source tree
569 before building (when possible).
570 - Update (date of) manual pages.
571 - Update "Upgrade Information" in INSTALL file, add more systems to
572 doc/Platforms.txt, and fix spelling in NEWS and ChangeLog files =:)
573 - Fix remaining compiler warnings on OpenBSD.
575 ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
576 - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
577 - Adjust log messages for invalid and spoofed prefixes, which cleans up
578 logging of commands related to already KILL'ed clients. And don't
579 forward KILL commands for (already) unknown clients any more to prevent
580 unnecessary duplicates.
581 - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
582 command (restricted to IRC Operators).
583 - Fixed blocking of server reconnects in some error configurations.
584 - Don't ignore SSL-related errors during startup any more: abort startup
585 when SSL is requested by the configuration but can't be initialized and
586 don't continue only listening on plain text communication ports.
588 - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
589 using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
590 changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
591 OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
592 - Fix "TRACE": Correctly return ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) (which basically
593 is "syntax error") when there are too many parameters.
594 - Clean up lots of permission and parameter checks in functions handling
595 IRC commands; and more consistently add penalty times on errors.
596 - Fix error numeric of WHOIS when no nick name has been provided:
597 as per RFC it should be ERR_NONICKNAMEGIVEN(431).
598 - Only log "IDENT ... no result" messages when an IDENT looked took place
599 and didn't return any data, not when IDENT has been disabled.
600 - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
601 you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
602 the IRC "TRACE" command.
603 - Correctly discard supplementary groups on server startup.
604 - Save client IP address text for "WebIRC" users and correctly display
605 it on WHOIS, for example. (Closes bug #159)
606 - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
607 user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
608 after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
609 could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
610 for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
611 "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
612 - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
613 services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
615 - Enforce "penalty times" on error conditions more consistently and in
616 more places. Now most error codes sent back from the IRC server to the
617 client should result in a 2 second "penalty".
618 - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
619 all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
620 on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
621 If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
622 all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
623 This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
624 still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
625 setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
626 warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
627 - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
628 passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
629 forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
630 user using this certificate and not using passwords.
631 - IRC Operator names, as defined in ngircd.conf, are logged now when
632 handling successful OPER commands.
633 - Some error conditions while handling IRC commands, like "permission
634 denied" or "need more parameters", result in more penalty times.
635 - The numeric replies of some commands became split too early which
636 resulted in more numeric reply lines than necessary.
637 - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
638 section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
639 further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
640 the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
641 configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
642 parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
643 possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
644 into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
645 - Fix use-after-free in the Lists_CheckReason() function, which is used
646 to check if a client is a member of a particular ban/invite/... list.
647 - Xcode: fix detection of host OS, vendor, and CPU type, and update
648 project settings for Xcode 5.
649 - OS X PackageMaker: use relative path names in project files and package
650 with correct file permissions (requires root privileges on "make").
651 - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
652 - Look for possible cloaked Masks in Lists. Users with +x user mode can
653 be banned with their cloaked hostname now.
654 - Don't read SSL client data before DNS resolver is finished which could
655 have resulted in discarding the resolved client hostname and IDENT
656 reply afterwards, because in some situations (timing dependent) the
657 NICK and USER commands could have already been read in from the client,
658 stored in the buffer, and been processed.
659 Thanks to Julian Brost for reporting the issue and testing, and to
660 Federico G. Schwindt <fgsch@lodoss.net> for helping to debug it!
661 - Increase password length limit to 64 characters. (Closes bug #154)
662 - doc/Services.txt: Update Anope status and URL.
663 - Clean up Xcode project file, remove outdated files, add missing ones.
664 - Update Doxygen configuration file.
665 - configure: search for iconv_open as well as libiconv_open, because
666 on some installations iconv_open() is actually libiconv_open().
667 iconv_open() is the glibc version while libiconv_open() is the
668 libiconv version, now both variants are supported. (Closes bug #151)
669 - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
670 unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
671 of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
672 ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
673 - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
674 server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
675 for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
676 - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
677 section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
678 in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
679 connections are left active after handling at least one client.
680 The default is 0, "never".
681 This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
682 activation" with systemd(8), for example.
683 - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
684 - contrib/README: add description for more files.
685 - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
686 numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
687 InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
688 like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
689 Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
690 of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
691 - Exit message: use singular & plural :-)
692 - autogen.sh: Check for autoconf/automake wrapper scripts
693 - Add missing punctuation marks in log messages, adjust some severity
694 levels, and make SSL-related messages more readable.
695 - AUTHORS file: Update list of contributors.
696 - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
697 the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
698 enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
699 and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
700 configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
701 - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
702 set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
703 which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
704 and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
705 Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
707 ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
709 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
710 when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
711 default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
712 clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
714 ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
716 - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
717 commands that could be used by arbitrary users to crash the daemon
719 - WHO command: Use the currently "displayed hostname" (which can be cloaked!)
720 for hostname matching, not the real one. In other words: don't display all
721 the cloaked users on a specific real hostname!
722 - configure: The header file "netinet/in_systm.h" already is optional in
723 ngIRCd, so don't require it in the configure script. Now ngIRCd can be
724 built on Minix 3 again :-)
725 - Return better "Connection not registered as server link" errors: Now ngIRCd
726 returns a more specific error message for numeric ERR_NOTREGISTERED(451)
727 when a regular user tries to use a command that isn't allowed for users but
729 - Don't report ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) when a MDOE command with more modes
730 than nicknames is handled, as well as for channel limit and key changes
731 without specifying the limit or key parameters.
732 This is how a lot (all?) other IRC servers behave, including ircd2.11,
733 InspIRCd, and ircd-seven. And because of clients (tested with Textual and
734 mIRC) sending bogus MODE commands like "MODE -ooo nick", end-users got the
735 expected result as well as correct but misleading error messages ...
736 - Correctly detect when SSL subsystem must be initialized and take
737 outgoing connections (server links!) into account, too.
738 - autogen.sh: Enforce serial test harness on GNU automake >=1.13. The
739 new parallel test harness which is enabled by default starting with
740 automake 1.13 isn't compatible with our test suite.
741 And don't use "egrep -o", instead use "sed", because it isn't portable
742 and not available on OpenBSD, for example.
744 ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
746 - Allow ERROR command on server and service links only, ignore them and
747 add a penalty time on all other link types.
748 - Enforced mode setting by IRC Operators: Only check the channel user
749 modes of the initiator if he is joined to the channel and not an IRC
750 operator enforcing modes (which requires the configuration option
751 "OperCanUseMode" to be enabled), because trying to check channel user
752 modes of a non-member results in an assertion when running with debug
753 code or could crash the daemon otherwise. This closes bug #147, thanks
754 to James Kirwill <james.kirwill@bk.ru> for tracking this down!
755 - Fix build system to cope with spaces in path names.
756 - Code cleanups, mostly to fix build warnings on Cygwin.
758 ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
760 - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
761 been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
762 external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
763 Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
764 <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
766 ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
767 - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
768 subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
769 "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
770 "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
771 hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
772 additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
773 - RPL_UMODEIS: send correct target name, even on server links.
774 - Update platformtest.sh to follow autoconf changes and only generate
775 the "configure" script when it is missing.
776 - Fix the test suite to correctly execute test scripts even when stdout
778 - Fix some compiler warnings on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
780 ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
781 - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
782 then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
783 in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
784 - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
785 and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
786 ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
787 configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
788 This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
789 hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
790 - Fix error message when trying to join non-predefined channels and the
791 "PredefChannelsOnly" configuration option is set.
792 - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
793 services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
794 command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
795 to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
796 initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
797 This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
798 SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
799 are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
800 - Make server reconnect time a little bit more random, so that two
801 servers trying to connect to each other asynchronously don't try this
802 in exactly the same time periods and kick each other off ...
803 - Don't accept connections for servers already being linked: there was a
804 time frame that could result in one connection overwriting the other,
805 e. g. the incoming connection overwriting the status of the outgoing
806 one. And this could lead to all kind of weirdness (even crashes!) later
807 on: now such incoming connections are dropped.
808 - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
809 of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
810 - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
811 all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
812 originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
813 originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
814 ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
815 - WHOIS: Not only show RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG to local IRC operators, but show
816 it to all IRC operators in the network. And don't show it to anybody if
817 the "more privacy" configuration option is enabled. (Closes #134)
818 - Test suite: make expect scripts more verbose displaying dots for each
819 reply of the server that it is waiting for.
820 - WHOIS: Implement numeric RPL_WHOISMODES_MSG (379) and show user modes in
821 the reply of the WHOIS command for the user himself or, if MorePrivacy
822 isn't set, for request initiated by an IRC operator. (Closes #129)
823 - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
824 "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
825 new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
826 - KICK-protect IRC services.
827 - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
828 from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
829 mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
830 - Debian: require "telnet" or "telnet-ssl" for building and enable
831 CHARCONV in ngircd-full[-dbg] variants.
832 - Send RPL_REHASHING (382) numeric if a REHASH command was accepted.
833 - Fix spelling and variable names in some log messages.
834 - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
835 variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
836 IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
837 mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
838 the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
840 - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
841 don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
842 Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
844 - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
845 as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
846 configuration file. (Closes #136)
847 - Enhance build system: Support new (>=1.12) and old (<=1.11) GNU automake
848 versions, update checks for required and optional features, enable
849 colored test output of automake (if available), rename configure.in to
850 more modern configure.ac, include .mailmap and all build-system files in
851 distribution archives and no longer require a GIT tree to detect the
852 correct version string.
853 - Update documentation: add doc/Contributing.txt and include version
854 numbers in doc/Modes.txt.
855 - Free all listen ports on initialization: now listen ports can be
856 reconfigured on runtime using a configuration reload.
857 - Initialize SSL when needed only, and disable SSL on errors.
858 - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
859 character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
860 This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
861 the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
862 doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
863 - Allow limited punctuation in usernames, for better PAM integration.
864 - Correctly re-initialize signal handlers on RESTART commands.
865 - Show a warning on startup if the configuration file is not a full path:
866 ngIRCd is a long-running process and changes its working directory to
867 "/" to not block mounted filesystems and the like when running as daemon
868 ("not in the foreground"); therefore the path to the configuration file
869 must be relative to "/" (or the chroot() directory), which basically is
870 "not relative", to ensure that "kill -HUP" and the "REHASH" command work
871 as expected later on. (Closes #127)
872 - Make the "&SERVER" channel definable in a [Channel] configuration block,
873 which enables server operators to overwrite the built-in topic and
874 channel modes. (Closes #131)
875 - Don't limit list size of "WHO #channel" commands, because it makes no
876 sense to not return all the users in that channel, so I removed the
877 check. But if there are more than MAX_RPL_WHO(25) replies, the client
878 requesting the list will be "penalized" one second more, then 2 in
880 - Make ngIRCd buildable using the kqueue() IO interface on FreeBSD 4.x.
881 - Fix the "NoticeAuth" configuration option when using SSL connections and
882 enhance the message to show the hostname and IDENT reply of the client.
883 - Introduce numeric RPL_HOSTHIDDEN_MSG (396): This numeric is sent to the
884 client each time it changes its displayed hostname using "MODE +/-x",
885 and if "CloakHost" is set right after the MOTD has been sent.
886 - Fix USERHOST not displaying the correctly cloaked hostname.
887 - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
888 every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
889 behave, and so do we :-)
890 - Dynamically allocate memory for connection passwords: This a) saves
891 memory for clients not using passwords at all and b) allows for
892 "arbitrarily" long passwords.
893 - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
894 operators are able to talk in such a channel.
895 - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
896 configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
897 variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
898 - Now "make uninstall" removes the installed "ngircd.conf" file, if it is
899 still equal to our "sample-ngircd.conf" file and therefore hasn't been
900 modified by the user. If it has been modified, it isn't removed and a
901 notice is displayed to the user. And "make install" now displays a
902 message when no ngircd.conf file exists and the "sample-ngircd.conf"
903 file will be installed as a starting point.
904 - Add contrib/ngircd.service, a systemd service file for ngircd.
905 - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
906 the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
907 ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
908 +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
909 modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
910 - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
911 "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
912 '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
913 and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
914 the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
915 random salt will be generated after each server restart. (Closes #133)
917 ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
919 - doc/Capabilities.txt: document "multi-prefix" capability
921 ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
922 - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
923 that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
924 Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
925 which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
926 - Correctly handle asynchronously re-established server links: a race
927 condition could let the daemon loose track of an already re-established
928 incoming server link while preparing its own outgoing connection.
929 Peers that both try to connect each other could have been affected.
930 - Log a debug message when SIGUSR2 is handled in debug mode.
931 - Only allow alphanumeric characters in user-supplied user names of
932 USER command and IDENT replies.
933 - Change wording of "TLS initialized" message to make it more consistent.
934 - Don't leak file descriptors on error path when creating "PID files".
935 - Add missing mode "r" to CHANMODES in 005 "ISUPPORT" numeric.
936 - Update doc/Modes.txt and doc/Platforms.txt documents.
937 - contrib/platformtest.sh: correctly detect Open64 C compiler and handle
938 "CC=xxx MAKE=yyy ./platformtest.sh" calling convention.
939 - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
940 - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
941 and capability "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
942 handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
943 - Update Xcode project files: reference missing documentation files.
944 - Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot.
945 - FAQ: enhance description of chroot setup.
947 ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
949 - Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL.
950 - Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note",
951 and fix lintian(1) warning ""hyphen-used-as-minus-sign", too.
952 - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
953 distribution archive ... ooops!
954 - getpid.sh: Fix test case error for Debian using sbuild(1).
955 - Don't log "ngIRCd hello message" two times when starting up.
957 ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
959 - Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by
960 GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions.
961 - Fix configuration file parser: don't accept "[SSL]" blocks in the
962 configuration file when no SSL support is built in ngIRCd.
963 - Fix building ngIRCd with old gcc versions (e. g. 2.7.2).
964 - Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration
965 file: Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the
966 configuration, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored
967 the "SyslogFacility" configuration option ...
968 Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue!
970 ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
971 - Enhance command limits for server links: the limit now is dependent
972 on the number of users connected in the network and higher while
973 servers are joining the network to make the login of servers faster.
974 - Log more information about server synchronization.
975 - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
976 is the only supported version.
977 - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
978 (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
979 Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
980 - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
981 operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
982 channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
983 the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
984 - PRIVMSG and NOTICE: Handle nick!user@host masks case-insensitive.
985 - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
986 command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
987 and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
988 by completely unknown clients.
989 - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
990 indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
991 - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
992 duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
993 or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
994 - Fix both ERR_SUMMONDISABLED(445) and ERR_USERSDISABLED(446) replies.
995 - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for
996 unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501).
997 - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES",
998 add "EXCEPTS=e" and "INVEX=I", add "MAXLIST=beI:50".
999 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
1000 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
1001 - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive.
1002 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
1003 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
1004 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
1005 - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments.
1006 For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling
1007 "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f".
1008 - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of
1009 the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an
1010 assertion and end the daemon in some error paths.
1011 - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child
1012 processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases
1013 with IDENT lookups enabled.
1014 - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS,
1015 don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is
1016 case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the
1017 unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client).
1018 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
1019 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
1020 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
1021 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
1022 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
1023 - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variable in the
1024 configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user).
1025 - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-)
1026 - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single
1027 channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel
1028 limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check
1029 the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when
1030 trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of.
1031 - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nicknames.
1032 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
1033 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
1034 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
1035 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
1036 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
1037 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
1038 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
1039 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
1040 - Fixed some spelling errors in documentation and code comments
1041 (Thanks to Christoph Biedl).
1042 - contrib/Debian/control: Update and complete "Build-Depends" and
1043 update our Debian package descriptions with "official" ones.
1044 - Fixed typo in two error messages.
1045 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
1046 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
1047 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
1048 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
1049 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
1050 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
1051 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
1052 - README: Update list of implemented commands.
1053 - Log better error messages when rejecting clients.
1054 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
1055 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
1056 If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
1057 are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
1058 NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
1059 processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
1060 - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR
1061 for Mac OS X Xcode builds.
1062 - ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use
1063 poll() when poll.h exists as well.
1064 - Suppress 'Can't create pre-defined channel: invalid name: ""' message.
1065 - whois-test: handle local host name = "localhost.localdomain" using the
1066 pattern "localhost*" for valid local host names.
1067 - sample-ngircd.conf: show correct default for "PAM" variable: The
1068 default of "PAM" is "yes" when ngIRCd has been configured to use it,
1069 so show the correct default value in the sample configuration file.
1071 - Update GPL 2 license text to current version.
1072 - Only close "unrelated" sockets in forked child processes: This fixes
1073 the problem that ngIRCd can't do any IDENT lookups because of the
1074 socket has already been closed in the child process.
1075 The bug has been introduced starting with ngIRCd 17 ... :-(
1076 (commit ID 6ebb31ab35e)
1077 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
1078 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
1079 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
1080 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
1081 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
1082 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
1083 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
1084 - New 2nd message "Nickname too long" for error code 432.
1085 - Xcode: Mac OS X config.h: support 10.5 as well as 10.6/10.7 SDK.
1086 - Xcode: exclude more Xcode 4 specific directories in ".gitignore".
1087 - Disconnect directly linked servers sending QUIT. Without this,
1088 the server becomes removed from the network and the client list,
1089 but the connection isn't shut down at all ...
1090 - contrib/ngindent: detect "gindent" as GNU indent.
1091 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
1092 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
1093 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
1094 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
1095 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
1096 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
1097 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
1098 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
1099 - Correctly inform clients when other servers change their user modes.
1100 This is required for some services to work correctly.
1101 - Test suite: make getpid.sh work even when run as root.
1102 - Spoofed prefixes: close connection on non-server links only.
1103 On server-links, spoofed prefixes can happen because of the
1104 asynchronous nature of the IRC protocol. So don't break server-
1105 links, only log a message and ignore the command. (Closes #113)
1107 ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
1109 - Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page.
1110 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
1111 - Don't register WHOWAS information when "MorePrivacy" option is in effect.
1113 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
1114 - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-)
1115 - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section.
1116 - ngircd.8: document debugging options.
1117 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
1118 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
1119 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
1120 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
1122 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
1123 - PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
1124 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
1125 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
1126 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
1127 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
1128 servers from TOR or I2P.
1129 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
1130 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
1131 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
1132 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
1133 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
1134 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
1135 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
1136 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
1137 - Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest".
1138 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
1139 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
1140 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
1141 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
1142 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
1143 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
1144 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
1145 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
1146 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
1147 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
1148 - Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers.
1149 - GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients
1150 refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it
1151 would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
1152 current hardware ...
1153 - contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
1154 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
1155 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
1156 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
1157 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
1158 - Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links
1159 (often used by services, for example) are not affected.
1160 - Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-)
1161 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
1162 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
1163 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
1164 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
1165 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
1166 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
1167 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
1168 - Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
1169 like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
1170 - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This
1171 helps to speed up server login and network synchronization.
1172 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
1173 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
1174 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
1175 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
1176 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
1177 variable description.
1178 - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
1179 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
1180 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
1181 every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
1182 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
1183 every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
1184 supplied by the IRC client.
1185 - doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
1186 - Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
1187 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
1188 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
1189 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
1190 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
1191 - Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
1192 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
1193 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
1194 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
1195 - Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
1196 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
1197 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
1198 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
1199 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
1200 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
1201 - TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other
1202 servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when
1203 the client is not joined to this channel.
1204 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
1205 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
1206 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
1207 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
1208 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
1209 - Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
1210 ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
1211 - Don't throttle services and servers being registered.
1212 - Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
1213 - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is
1214 only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
1217 ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
1219 - --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase
1220 - Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit
1221 - Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly
1222 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
1223 - Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section
1224 - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section
1225 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
1226 - README: Updated list of implemented commands
1227 - add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball
1228 - Merge branch 'numeric-329'
1229 - add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball
1230 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
1231 - Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()
1233 ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
1235 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
1236 - Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf
1237 - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa
1238 - contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent
1240 ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27)
1241 - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updated project file
1242 to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it
1243 is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default
1244 PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd.
1245 - Debian: updated standards version to 3.9.1, added libpam0g-dev to the
1246 dependencies, and install a default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins.
1247 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable.
1248 - Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links.
1250 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
1251 - ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a.
1252 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
1253 - Make source code compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
1254 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
1255 - ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C.
1256 - ./configure: check support for C prototypes again.
1257 - Don't use PARAMS() macro for function implementations.
1258 - Added m68k/apple/aux3.0.1 (gcc 2.7.2) to doc/Platforms.txt.
1259 - Only try to set FD_CLOEXEC if this flag is defined.
1260 - Only use "__attribute__ ((unused))" if GCC >=2.8 is used.
1261 - doc/Makefile.am: don't set docdir, automake handles it already.
1263 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
1264 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
1265 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
1266 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
1267 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
1268 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
1269 Possible values are system dependent, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
1270 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
1271 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
1272 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
1273 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
1274 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
1275 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
1276 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
1277 using the command line parameters.
1278 - Signal handler: added new 'delayed' signal handlers, including fallback
1279 to deprecated sysv API. And removed global NGIRCd_SignalRehash variable.
1280 - IO: add io_cloexec() to set close-on-exec flag.
1281 - ng_ipaddr.h: include required assert.h header.
1282 - Conn_SyncServerStruct(): test all connections; and work case insensitive
1283 - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output.
1284 - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the
1285 client lag debug-output is working again.
1286 - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
1287 - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
1288 - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
1289 - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
1290 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contents of the MOTD
1291 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
1292 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
1293 - Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon.
1294 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
1295 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
1296 - Added mailmap file for git-[short]log and git-blame.
1297 - Authenticated users should be registered without the "~" mark.
1298 - Set NoPAM=yes in configuration files used for the testsuite.
1299 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
1300 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
1301 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
1302 - Resolver: Implement signal handler and catch TERM signals.
1303 - Don't set a penalty time when doing DNS lookups.
1304 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
1305 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
1306 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
1307 - ngircd.init: require "$network" and "$remote_fs" when stopping ngircd.
1308 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
1309 - Include correct header files when testing for arpa/inet.h (Closes: #105).
1310 - Don't access already freed memory in IRC_KILL().
1311 - Fix "beeing" typo ...
1312 - SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message.
1314 ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
1316 - doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker
1318 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
1319 - Updated some more copyright notices, it's 2010 already :-)
1320 - Only compile in Get_Error() if really needed
1321 - Fix gcc warning "ignoring return value of ..."
1322 - Include netinet/in_systm.h alongside netinet/ip.h
1323 - Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h
1324 - Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists
1325 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt
1326 - Enhance connection statistics counters: display total number of served
1327 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
1328 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
1330 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
1331 - Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups.
1332 - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit.
1333 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
1334 how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA).
1335 - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list).
1336 - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define
1337 - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric
1338 - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output.
1339 - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable.
1340 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
1341 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
1342 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
1343 - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts".
1344 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
1345 - Only link "nsl" library when really needed.
1346 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
1347 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
1348 to join such a channel.
1349 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
1350 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
1351 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
1352 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
1354 ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
1356 - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset.
1358 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
1359 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
1360 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
1361 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (instead of the already
1362 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
1363 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
1364 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
1365 on the local server.
1366 - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0
1367 for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file.
1368 - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names.
1369 - Fix LSB header of Debian init script.
1370 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh
1371 to ease generating platform reports.
1372 - Fix connection information for already registered connections.
1373 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
1374 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
1375 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
1376 - Fix connection counter.
1377 - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections.
1378 - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.
1380 ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
1382 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
1383 - BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh.
1384 - New start/stop script for RedHat-based distributions:
1385 contrib/ngircd-redhat.init, thanks to Naoya Nakazawa <naoya@sanow.net>.
1386 - Doxygen: update source code repository link to GIT.
1387 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
1388 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
1389 - Fix error handling on compressed links.
1390 - Fix server list announcement.
1391 - Do not remove host names from info text.
1393 ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
1395 - Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections.
1397 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
1398 - Updated Debian/Linux init script (see contrib/Debian/ngircd.init).
1399 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
1400 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
1401 - Spell check and enhance ngIRCd manual pages.
1402 - Channel mode changes: break on syntax errors in MODE command.
1403 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
1404 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
1405 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
1406 individual channel keys for different users.
1407 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
1408 - Updated ngircd.spec file for building RPM packages.
1409 - Add new and missing files to Mac OS X Xcode project, and update project.
1410 - Reject masks with wildcard after last dot.
1411 - TLS/SSL: remove useless error message when ssl connection is closed.
1412 - Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down.
1413 (closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net)
1414 - Fix handling of channels containing dots.
1415 (closes bug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
1417 ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
1419 - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
1420 - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
1422 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
1423 - New version number scheme :-)
1424 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
1425 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
1426 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
1427 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
1428 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
1429 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
1430 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
1431 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
1432 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
1433 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
1434 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
1435 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
1436 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
1437 - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
1438 - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
1439 - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
1440 - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
1441 - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
1442 - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two
1443 servers are started for testing server-server linking.
1444 - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
1445 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
1446 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
1448 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
1450 - Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode
1451 - Don't allow stray \r or \n in command parameters
1452 - --configtest: return non-zero exit code if there are errors
1453 - Update ngIRCd manual pages
1454 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
1455 - Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error.
1456 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
1457 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
1458 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
1459 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
1460 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
1462 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
1464 - Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns
1465 proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran)
1466 - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
1467 - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number.
1469 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
1470 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
1471 - Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now!
1472 - Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT.
1473 - Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition.
1474 - Report ERR_NOTONCHANNEL when trying to part a channel one is not member of.
1475 - Testsuite: remove erroneous ConfUID setting in config file.
1477 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
1478 - Include Mac OS X Xcode project in distribution archives.
1479 - Do not exit on SIGHUP or /REHASH if the config file cannot opened.
1481 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
1482 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
1483 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1484 - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+).
1486 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
1487 nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
1488 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
1489 - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1490 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
1491 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
1492 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
1493 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
1495 ngIRCd 0.11.1 (2008-02-26)
1497 - Fix sending of JOIN commands between servers when remote server appended
1498 mode flags. (Rolf Eike Beer) [from HEAD]
1499 - Send "G" instead of "H" flag in WHO replies. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
1500 - Under some circumstances ngIRCd issued channel MODE message with a
1501 trailing space. (Dana Dahlstrom) [from HEAD]
1503 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
1505 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07)
1506 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
1507 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
1509 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
1510 - Use dotted-decimal IP address if host name is >= 64.
1511 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
1512 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
1513 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
1514 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
1515 length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
1516 - Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
1517 enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
1518 See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
1519 - Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!?
1520 - Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced
1521 to the network as well as the wrong output of the LINKS command.
1522 - Update Mac OS X Xcode project file for Xcode 3.
1523 - Adjust test suite to be usable on HP/UX 11.11 :-)
1524 - Fix code to compile using K&R C compiler and ansi2kr again.
1525 - New config option NoDNS: Disables DNS lookups when clients connect.
1526 - Fixed propagation of channel mode 'P' on server links.
1527 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
1528 - Fixed code that prevented GCC 2.95 to compile ngIRCd.
1529 - Adjust path names in manual pages according to "./configure" settings.
1530 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
1531 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
1532 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
1533 - Don't connect to a server if a connection to another server within the
1534 same group is already in progress.
1535 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
1538 ngIRCd 0.10.4 (2008-01-07)
1540 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
1541 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
1543 ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01)
1545 - SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could
1546 cause the server to crash. Thanks to Sebastian Vesper, <net@veoson.net>.
1549 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
1551 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre2 (2007-05-19)
1552 - Server links are allowed to use larger write buffers now (up to 50 KB).
1554 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre1 (2007-05-05)
1555 - Fix compressed server links (broken since 0.10.0).
1556 - Predefined Channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
1557 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l).
1558 - When using epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
1559 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
1560 - New configure option "--without-select" to disable select() IO API
1561 (even when using epoll(), see above).
1562 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
1563 - Reorganized internal handling of invite and ban lists.
1565 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
1567 - Fixed validation of server names containing digits.
1568 - Update the "info text" of the local server after re-reading configuration.
1569 - Changed Numerics 265 and 266 to follow ircd 2.11.x "standards".
1570 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
1571 - Enhanced ISUPPORT message (005 numeric).
1572 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
1573 join predefined channels.
1574 - Code cleanups: use "LogDebug(...)" instead of "Log(LOG_DEBUG, ...)", use
1575 "strcspn()", unsigned vs. signed, use "const", fix whitespaces, ...
1577 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
1579 - Fixed file handle leak when daemon is not able to send MOTD to a client.
1581 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre2 (2006-09-09)
1582 - Fixed build problems with GCC option -fstack-protector.
1583 - Minor documentation updates.
1585 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
1586 - Validate "ServerName" (see RFC 2812, section 2.3.1).
1587 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
1588 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
1589 - The ngIRCd handles time shifts backwards more gracefully now (the
1590 timeout handling doesn't disconnect clients by mistake any more).
1591 - Internal: Restructured connection handling (the connection ID is equal
1592 to the file descriptor of the connection).
1593 - Internal: Simplified resolver code.
1594 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
1595 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
1596 - Enhanced the handler for PING and PONG commands: fix forwarding and enable
1597 back-passing of a client supplied additional argument of PING.
1598 - Changed handling of timeouts for unregistered connections: don't reset
1599 the counter if data is received and disconnect clients earlier.
1600 - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead.
1601 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
1602 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
1603 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
1604 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
1605 lookup to prevent spoofing.
1606 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
1607 addition to the select() interface.
1609 ngIRCd 0.9.2 (2005-10-15)
1611 - Fixed a bug that could cause the daemon to crash when outgoing server
1612 connections can't be established.
1613 - Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to leak file descriptors when no
1614 resolver subprocesses could be created.
1615 - Fixed server NOTICEs to users with "s" mode ("server messages").
1616 - Fixed a format string bug in "connection statistics" messages to clients.
1618 ngIRCd 0.9.1 (2005-08-03)
1620 - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!)
1621 when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in
1622 ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by <qssl@fastmail.fm>, Thanks!
1623 - Changed some constants to be "signed" (instead of unsigned) to solve
1624 problems with old (pre-ANSI) compilers.
1626 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
1628 ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09)
1629 - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters.
1630 - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead
1631 of shutting down the (wrong) connection.
1632 - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the
1633 client is registered with the server (like the original ircd).
1634 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
1635 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
1636 - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client
1637 is member of multiple channels.
1638 - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and
1639 pray that this will be "the right thing" ...
1640 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
1641 - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug.
1642 - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
1643 - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
1644 to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
1645 - Removed typedefs for the native C data types.
1646 Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available.
1647 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
1648 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
1649 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
1650 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1651 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
1652 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
1653 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
1654 - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug
1655 code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process.
1656 - Don't create version information string each time a client connects
1657 but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
1658 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
1659 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
1660 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1661 - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1662 - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters.
1663 - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc()
1664 failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway.
1665 Patch from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1666 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
1667 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
1668 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
1669 - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and
1670 most probably other older C compilers on other systems.
1671 - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in
1672 the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it
1673 changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This
1674 should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
1677 ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03)
1679 - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled
1680 to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
1681 <coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
1682 (CVE-2005-0226; http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
1684 ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
1686 - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution.
1687 - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found
1688 by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. (CVE-2005-0199)
1689 - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks
1690 to Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1691 - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by
1692 Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1693 - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has
1694 been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/
1695 It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself,
1696 not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
1698 ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25)
1700 - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub
1701 - Added some more debug code ...
1702 - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest".
1703 - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for
1704 ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after
1706 - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README!
1708 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
1710 - Fixed wrong buffer size calculation for results of the resolver.
1712 ngircd 0.8.0-pre2 (2004-05-16)
1713 - Enhanced logging to console when running in "no-detached mode": added
1714 PID and log messages of resolver sub-processes.
1715 - Fixed host name lookups when using IDENT user lookups.
1716 - "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean" remove more files now.
1718 ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07)
1719 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
1720 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
1721 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
1722 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
1723 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
1724 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
1725 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
1726 - Reorganized autogen.sh and configure scripts.
1727 - Fixed a wrong assert() which could cause the daemon to exit spuriously
1728 when closing down connections.
1729 - Better logging of decompression errors returned by zlib.
1730 - Servers other than the destination server didn't clean up the invite
1731 list of an "invite-only" channel properly when an INVITE'd user joined.
1732 - Changed the reply of the MODE command to match the syntax of the
1733 original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last
1734 parameter has been added.
1735 - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info.
1736 - Results of the resolver (host names and IDENT names) are discarded after
1737 the client is successfully registered with the server.
1738 - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections.
1739 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
1740 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
1741 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
1742 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
1743 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
1745 ngIRCd 0.7.7 (2004-02-05)
1747 - The info text ("real name") of users is set to "-" if none has been
1748 specified using the USER command (e. g. "USER user * * :"). Reason:
1749 the original ircd doesn't like empty ones and would KILL such users.
1750 - Fixed (optional) TCP Wrapper test which was broken and could result in
1751 false results. Thanks to Fuminori Tanizaki <tany@mcnet.ad.jp>!
1752 - Removed "USE_" prefixes of configuration #defines.
1754 ngIRCd 0.7.6 (2003-12-05)
1756 - Fixed abort() ("server crash") when INVITE'ing users to nonexistent
1757 channels. Bug found by <hiddenx@wp.pl>.
1758 - Extended version numbering of CVS versions (added date).
1759 - Enhanced/fixed doc/Protocol.txt;
1761 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-11-07)
1763 - Fixed ban behavior: users which are banned from a channel can't no
1764 longer send PRIVMSG's to this channel (fixes Bug #47).
1765 - Fixed and enhanced the "penalty handling" of the server: commands that
1766 require more resources block the client for a short time.
1767 - Changed the internal time resolution to one second.
1768 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
1769 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
1770 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
1771 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
1772 - Fixed build problems under Mac OS X 10.3.
1773 - Use "-pipe" when compiling with gcc, speeds things up a little :-)
1774 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
1775 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
1776 - Suppress misleading error message of diff during make run.
1777 - Enhanced test-suite and made it work on GNU/Hurd.
1778 - Fixed minor typo in debug output :-)
1780 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
1782 - Included files to build Debian packages (located in "debian/").
1783 - Updated config.guess and config.sub to newer upstream versions.
1784 - NJOIN propagates user channel modes correctly again ... Upsa.
1785 - Made Makefile more compatible with "make -j<n>".
1786 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
1787 - Fixed a compiler warning related to an unnecessary assert().
1788 - Enhanced VERSION command when using debug versions.
1790 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
1792 - "ServerName" is checked better now: a dot (".") is required.
1793 - The KILL command verifies and logs more parameters.
1795 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre2 (2003-04-27)
1796 - CVS build system fixes (made autogen.sh more portable).
1797 - Fixed compilation and test-suite on Solaris (tested with 2.6).
1798 - New documentation file "doc/Platforms.txt" describing the status of
1799 ngIRCd on the various tested platforms.
1800 - Test for broken GCC on Mac OS X and disable "-pedantic" in this case.
1801 - Disable "-ansi" on Cygwin: system headers are incompatible.
1802 - The server tried to connect to other servers only once when DNS or
1803 socket failures occurred.
1804 - Fixed --configtest: There is no variable "ServerPwd", it's "Password".
1806 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 (2003-04-22)
1807 - New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside).
1808 - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled.
1809 - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the
1810 more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems
1811 that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included
1812 in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h).
1813 - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that
1814 can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken.
1815 - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-)
1816 - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and
1817 removing servers during runtime works more reliable now.
1818 - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]"
1819 - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]".
1820 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
1821 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
1822 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
1823 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
1824 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
1825 - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The
1826 German documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
1827 - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision.
1828 - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding.
1829 - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool".
1830 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
1831 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
1832 - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS)
1833 if an outgoing server link can't be established.
1834 - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility.
1835 - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly.
1836 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
1837 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
1838 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
1839 configure to enable it.
1840 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
1841 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
1842 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
1843 - Better error reporting to clients on connect.
1844 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
1845 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
1846 - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
1848 ngIRCd 0.6.1 (2003-01-21)
1850 - Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more,
1851 ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you
1852 can kill only valid users now.
1853 - The server no longer forwards commands to ordinary users, instead it
1854 answers with the correct error message ("no such server") now.
1855 - WHOIS commands weren't always forwarded as requested.
1856 - The server sets a correct default AWAY message now when propagating
1857 between servers (bug introduced in 0.6.0).
1858 - Fixed up and enhanced CHANINFO command: channel keys and user limits
1859 are synchronized between servers now, too.
1860 - MODE returns the key and user limit for channel members correctly now.
1861 - Non-members of a channel could crash the server when trying to change
1862 its modes or modes of its members.
1863 - The server didn't validate weather a target user is a valid channel
1864 member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd.
1867 Older changes (sorry, only available in German language):
1869 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
1871 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 23.12.2002
1872 - neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect.
1873 - LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen
1874 Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start
1875 dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt.
1877 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 18.12.2002
1878 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
1879 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
1880 - der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den
1881 Resolver (4 Sekunden), wenn das Ergebnis eintrifft setzt er aber den
1882 Login sofort fort (bisher wurde immer mind. 1 Sekunde gewartet).
1883 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
1884 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
1885 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sektion "Global")
1886 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
1887 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
1888 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
1889 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
1890 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
1891 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
1892 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
1893 - Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst.
1894 - unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
1895 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
1896 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
1897 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
1898 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
1899 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
1900 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
1901 - Channel-Mode "P" ("persistent") kann nur noch von IRC-Operatoren gesetzt
1902 werden. Grund: User koennen den Server sonst leicht "Channel-Flooden".
1903 - MOTD kann nun an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1904 - IRC-Befehl "TIME" implementiert.
1905 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
1906 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
1907 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
1908 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
1909 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
1910 - Handling der Schreibpuffer umgestellt: Server sollte schneller arbeiten.
1911 - Prefix-Fehler werden besser protokolliert (mit verursachendem Befehl).
1912 - SQUIT wird nicht mehr doppelt an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1913 - Der Server versucht nun vor dem Schliessen einer Verbindung Daten, die
1914 noch im Schreibpuffer stehen, zu senden.
1915 - Source in weiteres Modul "irc-info" aufgespalten.
1916 - Konfigurationsvariablen werden besser validiert: Laengen, Zahlen, ...
1917 - neuen Befehl STATS begonnen: bisher unterstuetzt wird "l" und "m".
1918 - bei ISON und USERHOST fehlte im Ergebnis-String der korrekte Absender.
1919 - IRC Operatoren koennen nun mit KILL User toeten. Achtung: ein Grund muss
1920 zwingend als zweiter Parameter angegeben werden!
1921 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
1922 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
1923 - neuer, deutlich flexiblerer Parser fuer den MODE Befehl.
1924 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
1926 ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002
1928 - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
1929 unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden.
1930 - in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht
1931 nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe
1932 verwendet werden. Beim Start des Daemons wird nun beides angezeigt.
1933 - Besseres Logging von Prefix-Fehlern.
1934 - angenommene Sockets werden nun korrekt auf "non-blocking" konfiguriert,
1935 beim Senden und Empfangen werden Blockierungen besser abgefangen.
1936 - RPL_UMODEIS hat Code 221, nicht 211 ... *argl*
1937 - select() in Try_Write() hat falschen (keinen!) Timeout verwendet;
1938 die "Zeit-Aufloesung" des Servers sind zudem nun 2 Sekunden (TIME_RES).
1939 Insgesamt sollte die Reaktionszeit des Server nun besser sein.
1941 ngIRCd 0.5.3, 08.11.2002
1943 - NOTICE liefert nun wirklich nie mehr einen Fehler, auch dann nicht,
1944 wenn der sendende Client noch gar nicht registriert ist.
1945 - ein "schneller Server-Reconnect" wird nur noch dann versucht, wenn die
1946 Verbindung zuvor ordentlich (="lange genug") in Ordnung war; somit also
1947 nicht meht, wenn der Peer-Server gleich beim Connect ein ERROR liefert.
1948 Das vermeidet "Connect-Orgien".
1949 - einige Datentypen aufgeraumt: z.B. sind viele INT32s nun LONGs. Das ist
1950 auf Platformen mit 8-Byte-Integern kompatibler.
1951 - RPL_YOURHOST_MSG ist nun ircII- und RFC-kompatibel ;-)
1952 - Segfault unter hoher Netzaktivitaet behoben: in Conn_Close() wird die
1953 Connection-Struktur nun frueher als "ungueltig" markiert.
1955 ngIRCd 0.5.2, 04.10.2002
1957 - Buffer Overflow in Read_Resolver_Result() behoben.
1958 - Format-String-Bugs, die zum Abbruch des Servers fuehrten, behoben.
1959 - Maximale Laenge eines IRC-Prefix wurde falsch berechnet.
1961 ngIRCd 0.5.1, 03.10.2002
1963 - in RPL_YOURHOST_MSG wurde ein fehlerhafter Versionsstring geliefert.
1964 - Test-Suite: start-server.sh, stop-server.sh und stress-server.sh koennen
1965 nun "manuell" von der Kommandozeile gestartet werden, stress-server.sh
1966 startet per Default nur noch 5 Sessions, eine andere Zahl kann auf der
1967 Kommandozeile uebergeben werden (Syntax: "stress-server.sh <count>").
1968 - In bestimmten Faellen hat der Server versucht auf einen bereits wieder
1969 geschlossenen Socket Daten zu schreiben; das fuehrte zu einem Abbruch des
1970 Servers durch ein assert(). Nun wird geprueft, ob der Socket noch ok ist.
1971 - im "contrib"-Verzeichnis befindet sich nun eine RPM-Spec-Datei, aus den
1972 .tar.gz's koennen nun mit "rpm -ta <archiv>" RPM's erzeugt werden. Danke
1973 an Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>!
1974 - Syntax von RPL_MYINFO_MSG korrigiert: liefert nun vier Parameter.
1976 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
1978 - Dokumentation aktualisiert.
1979 - Fehler bei Validierung von "AdminInfo2" behoben.
1980 - Test der Flags fuer "ps" in der Testsuite verbessert, ist nun zu mehr
1981 Plattformen kompatibler.
1983 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre2, 17.09.2002
1984 - Fix in IRC_WriteStrServersPrefix() war "badly broken" -- behoben.
1986 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre1, 16.09.2002
1987 - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen.
1988 - Wird der Netzwerk-Sniffer aktiviert (--sniffer), so schaltet der
1989 ngIRCd nun automatisch in den Debug-Modus.
1990 - auf Systemen, die inet_aton() nicht kennen (wie z.B. A/UX), kann der
1991 ngIRCd nun dennoch auch aktiv Server-Links aufbauen.
1992 - h_errno wird auf Systemen, die das nicht kennen (wie z.B. HP-UX 10.20)
1993 nicht mehr verwendet. Somit compiliert der ngIRCd nun auch dort :-)
1994 - um auf dem Ziel-System nicht vorhandene Funktionen nachzubilden wird nun
1995 die "libngportab" erzeugt; genutzt wird dies bisher fuer vsnprintf().
1996 Nun compiliert der ngIRCd auch unter Solaris 2.5.1.
1997 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
1998 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
1999 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
2000 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. Zu Channel-Operatoren werden bisher
2001 nur IRC-Operatoren, die den Channel betreten. Die persistenten Channels
2002 werden durch das Flag "P" gelennzeichnet, welches normal durch Channel-
2003 Op's gesetzt und geloescht werden kann.
2004 - bei "--configtest" werden keine leere Abschnitte mehr ausgegeben.
2005 - Source in weitere Module aufgespalten: lists, irc-op und resolve.
2006 - #include's aufgeraeumt: Header includieren keine anderen mehr.
2007 - KICK implementiert (bisher kann nur ein User aus einem Channel geckicked
2008 werden, Listen, wir im RFC vorgesehen, werden bisher nicht unterstuetzt).
2009 - INVITE, den Channel-Mode "i" sowie Invite-Lists ueber den MODE-Befehl
2010 (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
2011 - Source an ansi2knr fuer pre-ANSI-Compiler angepasst; ansi2knr in Source-
2012 Tree aufgenommen und in Build-System integriert; der ngIRCd compiliert
2013 nun z.B. unter A/UX mit dem nativen Compiler von Apple.
2014 - TOPIC lieferte bei unbekanntem Channel einen falschen Fehlercode.
2015 - LIST versteht nun Wildcards und kann an andere Server geforwarded werden.
2016 - wurde ein KILL fuer nicht-lokale Clients empfangen, so wurden die
2017 Verwaltungs-Strukturen nicht korrekt freigegeben.
2018 - empfangene NJOIN's wurden "zerhackt" an andere Server weitergegeben.
2019 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
2020 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
2021 - Dokumentation des neuen IRC+-Protokolls begonnen: doc/Protocol.txt
2022 - Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt;
2023 bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet.
2024 Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben.
2025 - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
2026 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics.
2027 - neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das
2028 IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert).
2029 - Ban-Lists (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
2030 - wird der Server mit "-n"/"--nodaemon" gestartet, so werden keine Mel-
2031 dungen mehr ueber Syslog ausgegeben, sondern nur noch auf der Konsole.
2032 - "Test-Suite" begonnen (in "make check" integriert): Dabei wird ein
2033 speziell konfigurierter Server auf Port 6789 gestartet, mit dem dann
2034 einige Tests durchgefuehrt werden (u.a. "Stress-Test" mit 50 Clients).
2035 - zu lange Operator-Namen in der Konfiguration wurden falsch gekuerzt.
2036 - kleine Anpassung an AIX 3.2.5: nun laeuft der ngIRCd auch dort :-)
2037 - ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei
2038 im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und
2039 "AdminEMail" konfiguriert.
2041 ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002
2043 - Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel
2044 ueberhaupt ein User ist. War es keiner, so fuehrte dies zu einem
2045 Abbruch des Servers [es wurde assert() aufgerufen].
2047 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
2049 - LUSERS verzaehlt sich bei eigenen Server-Links nicht mehr.
2050 - QUIT wird nun auch von noch nicht registrierten Clients akzeptiert.
2051 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
2052 Wildcards (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
2054 ngIRCd 0.4.1, 08.04.2002
2056 - Bei Server-Links wird nicht mehr an Hand der Anzahl der Parameter
2057 eines empfangenen SERVER-Befehls, sondern "intern" erkannt, ob es
2058 sich um eine ein- oder ausgehende Verbindung handelt und somit das
2059 eigene PASS-SERVER-Paar gesendet werden muss oder nicht. Da sich
2060 verschiedene Versionen des Original-ircd's anders verhalten, schlug
2061 die Anmeldung je nach Gehenseite evtl. fehl.
2062 - Bei einem NICK-Befehl eines lokalen Client konnte der Server ab-
2063 stuerzen, da ein Format-String einer Log-Meldung fehlerhaft war.
2065 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
2067 - IRC-Befehle nochmal auf weitere Source-Dateien aufgespalten.
2068 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
2069 - Der AWAY-Mode wurde nicht ueber mehrere Server-Links weitergegeben.
2070 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err).
2071 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
2072 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
2073 zusaetzliche Informationen.
2074 - In Nicknames wird das Zeichen "-" nun als zulaessig erkannt.
2075 - die Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei (doc/sample-ngircd.conf) wird als
2076 ngircd.conf installiert, wenn noch keine "echte" Konfigurationsdatei
2078 - bei WHO, WHOIS und NAMES wird nun nur noch der Status "Operator" oder
2079 "voiced" geliefert -- nicht mehr beides.
2080 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
2081 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
2082 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert (Variable "Group" in der Kon-
2083 figurationsdatei, Sektion [Server]).
2084 - IRC_PING() ist, wenn nicht im "strict RFC"-Mode, toleranter und ak-
2085 zeptiert beliebig viele Parameter (z.B. BitchX sendet soetwas).
2086 - die "Portab-Header" werden nicht mehr benoetigt, die System-Erkennung
2087 wird nun ausschliesslich vom configure-Script durchgefuehrt. System-
2088 abhaengige Definitionen finden sich nun unter src/portrab/.
2089 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
2090 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
2091 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
2092 gelesen und dann die verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
2093 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
2094 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
2095 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
2096 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
2097 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
2098 - URL der Homepage wird u.a. bei "--version" mit angezeigt.
2100 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
2102 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
2103 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
2104 - FAQ um Hinweise auf den Bugtracker erweitert.
2105 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
2106 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
2107 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
2108 - direkt nach dem Start schreibt der ngIRCd nun die aktiven Kommando-
2109 zeilenschalter in's Logfile (Passive, Debug, Sniffer ...).
2110 - das Signal-Flag SA_RESTART wird nur noch gesetzt, wenn es auf dem
2111 jeweiligen System auch definiert ist.
2112 - bei ausgehenden Verbindungen wird nun der Ziel-Port protokolliert.
2113 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert.
2114 - make-Target "check" (und "distcheck") mit Sinn erfuellt :-)
2115 (die Tests sind aber bisher nicht all zu tiefgehend ...)
2116 - Durch einen Ueberlauf konnte die Idle-Time bei WHOIS negativ werden ...
2117 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
2118 - WHOIS wird nicht mehr automatisch an den "Original-Server" weiterge-
2119 leitet: war eh nicht RFC-konform und machte mit Clients Probleme.
2120 - an User wird nun immer ein "komplettes" Prefix (mit Host-Mask) ver-
2121 schickt, Server bekommen nach wie vor kurze: das "Original" hat bei
2122 bestimmten Befehlen (PRIVMSG) ansonsten evtl. Probleme ...
2123 - NAMES korrigiert und vollstaendig implementiert.
2124 - SQUIT wird auf jeden Fall geforwarded, zudem besseres Logging.
2125 - Ist ein Nick bei der User-Registrierung bereits belegt, nimmt der
2126 Server nun korrekt weitere NICK-Befehle an und verwendet diese.
2127 - PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m".
2128 - AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst.
2129 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
2130 - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asynchron connectiert und
2131 blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht
2132 erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!).
2133 - Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet.
2134 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
2136 ngIRCd 0.2.1, 17.02.2002
2138 - NICK korrigiert: es werden nun auch alle "betroffenen" User informiert.
2139 - configure-Script erweitert, u.a. bessere Anpassung an BeOS: dort wird
2140 nun die "libbe" zum ngIRCd gelinkt, somit funktioniert auch syslog.
2141 - Fehlerhafte bzw. noch nicht verstandene Modes werden nun ausfuehrlicher
2142 an den Client geliefert.
2144 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
2146 - Nicknames und Channel-Namen werden etwas besser auf Gueltigkeit ueber-
2147 prueft; ist aber nach wie vor noch nicht ausreichend.
2148 - NJOINS von Servern wurden nicht an andere Server weitergeleitet.
2149 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
2150 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
2151 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
2152 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
2153 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
2154 - Benutzer von connectierenden Servern wurden nicht in den Channels ange-
2155 kuendigt, es wurden nur die internen Strukturen angepasst.
2156 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
2158 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
2160 - User-Modes bei User-Registrierungen von andere Servern (NICK-Befehl)
2161 wurden falsch uebernommen. Zudem wurden die Modes falsch gekuerzt.
2162 - Server-Verbindungen werden nun nach dem Start erst nach einer kurzen
2163 Pause aufgebaut (zur Zeit drei Sekunden).
2164 - Hilfetext korrigiert: --help und --version waren vertauscht, die
2165 Option --sniffer wurde gar nicht erwaehnt.
2166 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
2167 - der IRC-Sniffer wird nur noch aktiviert, wenn die Option auf der
2168 Kommandozeile angegeben wurde (bei entsprechend compiliertem Server).
2169 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
2170 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
2171 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
2172 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
2173 - durch die Channels einige Aenderungen an PRIVMSG, WHOIS, MODE etc.
2174 - neu connectierenden Servern werden nun Channels mit NJOIN angekuendigt.
2175 - Signal-Hander geaendert: die Fehlermeldung "interrupted system call"
2176 sollte so nicht mehr auftreten.
2177 - "spaeter" neu connectierende Server werden nun im Netz angekuendigt.
2178 - SERVER-Meldungen an andere Server sind nun korrekt sortiert.
2179 - Clients werden nun korrekt sowohl nur ueber den Nickname als auch die
2180 komplette "Host Mask" erkannt.
2182 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
2184 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
2185 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
2186 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
2187 - MODE und NICK melden nun die Aenderungen an andere Server, ebenso
2188 die Befehle QUIT und SQUIT.
2189 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
2190 - Parses handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
2191 - Status-Codes an den Server selber werden ignorier.
2192 - Log-Meldungen und Log-Level ueberarbeitet und korrigiert.
2193 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
2194 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
2195 - WHOIS korrigiert: Anfrage wurde u.U. an User geforwarded anstatt vom
2196 Server beantwortet zu werden.
2197 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS
2198 - Client-Modes von Remote-Servern wurden nicht korrekt uerbernommen.
2200 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
2202 - Struktur der Konfigurationsdatei geaendert: sie ist nun "Samba like",
2203 d.h. sie besteht aus Abschnitten (siehe "doc/sample-ngircd.conf").
2204 - Es koennen mehrere IRC-Server-Opertatoren konfiguriert werden.
2205 - Zombies der Resolver-Prozesse werden nun ordentlich "getoetet".
2206 - NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern.
2207 - ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar.
2208 - neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT.
2209 - Asynchroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
2210 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
2211 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige
2212 Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert
2213 aber bereits, ebenso wie WHOIS (letzterer wird immer an den Server,
2214 auf dem der User registriert ist, weitergegeben).
2215 - "arpa/inet.h" wird nur noch includiert, wenn vorhanden.
2216 - Fehler bei select() fuerhen nun zum Abbruch von ngIRCd, bisher landete
2217 der Server zumeist in einer Endlosschleife.
2218 - Logmeldungen und Level an vielen Stellen verbessert.
2219 - lokalen Usernamen wird nun ein "~" vorangestellt, da bisher noch keine
2220 Ident-Anfragen gemacht werden.
2222 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
2224 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)
