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  1. ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
  2. http://ngircd.barton.de/
  3. (c)2001-2014 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
  4. ngIRCd is free software and published under the
  5. terms of the GNU General Public License.
  6. -- NEWS --
  7. ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11)
  8. - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-,
  9. ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines.
  10. Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks!
  11. ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29)
  12. - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line
  13. lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously
  14. nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now.
  15. Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd.
  16. - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication.
  17. - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there
  18. that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase
  19. this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make
  20. if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ...
  21. - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped.
  22. - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only
  23. settable by IRC Operators.
  24. - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode
  25. "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only
  26. settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be
  27. careful and only set it on "trusted" clients!
  28. User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example.
  29. - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled.
  30. - Streamline punctuation of log messages.
  31. - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven,
  32. Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example.
  33. - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case
  34. on "VPATH builds", for example.
  35. - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis
  36. and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330).
  37. - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code
  38. using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick
  39. names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which
  40. is quite unexpected for users.
  41. - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and
  42. allow using separate source and build trees.
  43. - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking.
  44. - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key"
  45. in all replies.
  46. - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(),
  47. and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite
  48. useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have
  49. been linked at all ...).
  50. - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the
  51. (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the
  52. daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric
  53. which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in.
  54. - Update doc/Platforms.txt.
  55. - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling.
  56. Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf()
  57. return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline
  58. DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions.
  59. - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an
  60. invalid password.
  61. ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25)
  62. - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but
  63. disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>!
  64. - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch.
  65. - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x.
  66. - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add
  67. linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has
  68. been implemented already).
  69. - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-)
  70. ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30)
  71. - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This
  72. is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly
  73. initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms.
  74. ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20)
  75. - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors,
  76. support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated.
  77. ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05)
  78. - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156)
  79. - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase)
  80. command (restricted to IRC Operators).
  81. - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL
  82. using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this
  83. changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for
  84. OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS.
  85. - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now
  86. you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using
  87. the IRC "TRACE" command.
  88. - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists
  89. user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right
  90. after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client
  91. could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op),
  92. for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are
  93. "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160)
  94. - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows
  95. services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across
  96. service restarts.
  97. - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists
  98. all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
  99. on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed.
  100. If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at
  101. all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting.
  102. This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is
  103. still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes"
  104. setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a
  105. warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152)
  106. - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client
  107. passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be
  108. forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the
  109. user using this certificate and not using passwords.
  110. - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]"
  111. section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain
  112. further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching
  113. the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server
  114. configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and
  115. parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is
  116. possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files
  117. into this directory. (Closes bug #157)
  118. - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project.
  119. - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the
  120. unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front
  121. of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how
  122. ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155)
  123. - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept
  124. server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names)
  125. for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153)
  126. - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]"
  127. section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout
  128. in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more
  129. connections are left active after handling at least one client.
  130. The default is 0, "never".
  131. This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket
  132. activation" with systemd(8), for example.
  133. - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation".
  134. - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new
  135. numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by
  136. InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too,
  137. like 613 in UltimateIRCd ...
  138. Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B)
  139. of an IRC service is displayed in the output.
  140. - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory:
  141. the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which
  142. enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service",
  143. and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that
  144. configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand.
  145. - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be
  146. set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section),
  147. which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload,
  148. and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics.
  149. Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details.
  150. ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23)
  151. - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
  152. - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen
  153. when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the
  154. default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new
  155. clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580).
  156. ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15)
  157. - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
  158. - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK
  159. commands that could be used by arbitrary users to to crash the daemon
  160. (CVE-2013-1747).
  161. ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02)
  162. - This release is a bugfix release only, without new features.
  163. ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17)
  164. - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not
  165. been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using
  166. external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names.
  167. Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see
  168. <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>.
  169. ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02)
  170. - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost"
  171. subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the
  172. "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows
  173. "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked
  174. hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues
  175. additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
  176. ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11)
  177. - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8,
  178. then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches
  179. in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ...
  180. - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers
  181. and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text
  182. ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to
  183. configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers:
  184. This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked
  185. hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now.
  186. - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC
  187. services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK
  188. command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded
  189. to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server
  190. initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
  191. This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the
  192. SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
  193. are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network.
  194. - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number
  195. of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before.
  196. - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b",
  197. all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't
  198. originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The
  199. originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case,
  200. ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144)
  201. - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode
  202. "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the
  203. new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143)
  204. - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users
  205. from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having
  206. mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141)
  207. - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration
  208. variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only
  209. IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user
  210. mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to
  211. the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-)
  212. (Closes #133)
  213. - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators
  214. don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining.
  215. Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this
  216. patch. (Closes #135)
  217. - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long
  218. as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the
  219. configuration file. (Closes #136)
  220. - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client
  221. character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8.
  222. This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using
  223. the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See
  224. doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109)
  225. - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by
  226. every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do
  227. behave, and so do we :-)
  228. - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC
  229. operators are able to talk in such a channel.
  230. - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the
  231. configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this
  232. variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas.
  233. - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set
  234. the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin"
  235. ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o,
  236. +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel
  237. modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users.
  238. - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and
  239. "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new
  240. '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname,
  241. and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for
  242. the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a
  243. random salt will be generated after each server restart.
  244. ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19)
  245. ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13)
  246. - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname
  247. that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled.
  248. Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this,
  249. which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set.
  250. - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services.
  251. - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command,
  252. and capablity "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command
  253. handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client.
  254. ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19)
  255. - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the
  256. distribution archive ... ooops!
  257. ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29)
  258. ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12)
  259. - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now
  260. is the only supported version.
  261. - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name
  262. (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply.
  263. Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric.
  264. - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel
  265. operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the
  266. channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining:
  267. the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b).
  268. - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE
  269. command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender
  270. and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding
  271. by completely unknown clients.
  272. - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it
  273. indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set).
  274. - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix
  275. duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries
  276. or deleting no (longer) existing ones.
  277. - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
  278. WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
  279. - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
  280. that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
  281. in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
  282. - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
  283. - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
  284. commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
  285. commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
  286. Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
  287. - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
  288. sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
  289. "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
  290. user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
  291. - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
  292. returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
  293. thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
  294. of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
  295. - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
  296. client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
  297. using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
  298. - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
  299. are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
  300. handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
  301. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
  302. - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
  303. synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
  304. If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections
  305. are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS,
  306. NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child
  307. processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller.
  308. - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
  309. - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user
  310. is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
  311. be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
  312. - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
  313. mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
  314. - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
  315. - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
  316. forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
  317. - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
  318. These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
  319. but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
  320. and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname"
  321. argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
  322. and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
  323. ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10)
  324. - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
  325. ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
  326. - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
  327. ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
  328. that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
  329. longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
  330. ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
  331. - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
  332. When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
  333. messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
  334. All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
  335. servers from TOR or I2P.
  336. - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
  337. activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
  338. other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
  339. the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
  340. trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
  341. commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
  342. There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
  343. commands") requests are not scrubbed.
  344. - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
  345. and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
  346. [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
  347. most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
  348. variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
  349. ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
  350. are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
  351. the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
  352. => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
  353. - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
  354. - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
  355. space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
  356. wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
  357. overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
  358. - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
  359. enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
  360. "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
  361. network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
  362. - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
  363. active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
  364. like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
  365. - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
  366. wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
  367. than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
  368. - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
  369. (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
  370. variable description.
  371. - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
  372. - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for
  373. every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address).
  374. - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
  375. every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name
  376. supplied by the IRC client.
  377. - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
  378. got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
  379. can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
  380. the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
  381. - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
  382. that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
  383. establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
  384. - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
  385. - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
  386. used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
  387. - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
  388. including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
  389. - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
  390. [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
  391. 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
  392. vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
  393. in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
  394. ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19)
  395. - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
  396. - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
  397. - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
  398. ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07)
  399. - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
  400. ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
  401. - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
  402. - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
  403. ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
  404. ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
  405. - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
  406. runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
  407. Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
  408. - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
  409. (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
  410. Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
  411. "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
  412. Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
  413. - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
  414. connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
  415. the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
  416. - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
  417. signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
  418. using the command line parameters.
  419. - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102).
  420. - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
  421. file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
  422. re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
  423. - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
  424. - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
  425. - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
  426. - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
  427. file doc/PAM.txt for details.
  428. - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
  429. - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
  430. this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
  431. - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
  432. ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02)
  433. ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
  434. - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
  435. connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
  436. the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
  437. ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
  438. - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
  439. required to secure this command must be configured using the new
  440. "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
  441. - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
  442. - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
  443. Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
  444. to join such a channel.
  445. But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
  446. when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
  447. every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
  448. mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
  449. ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07)
  450. ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
  451. - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
  452. ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
  453. - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
  454. implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
  455. - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
  456. enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
  457. on the local server.
  458. - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
  459. a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
  460. per second before a one second pause is enforced.
  461. ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05)
  462. - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
  463. - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
  464. - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
  465. ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20)
  466. ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
  467. - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
  468. - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
  469. - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
  470. new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
  471. here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
  472. individual channel keys for different users.
  473. - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
  474. ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25)
  475. ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
  476. - New version number scheme :-)
  477. - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
  478. tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
  479. For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
  480. to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
  481. - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
  482. OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
  483. New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
  484. SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
  485. - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
  486. visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
  487. In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
  488. all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
  489. - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
  490. - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
  491. daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
  492. ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
  493. - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
  494. - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
  495. obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
  496. is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
  497. Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
  498. but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
  499. ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
  500. ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
  501. - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
  502. ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
  503. - Add IPv6 support.
  504. - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
  505. - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
  506. enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
  507. - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
  508. nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
  509. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
  510. - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
  511. as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
  512. member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
  513. - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
  514. ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
  515. - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
  516. - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
  517. the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
  518. - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
  519. length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
  520. - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
  521. - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
  522. disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
  523. but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
  524. - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
  525. operators.
  526. ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
  527. - Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
  528. (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
  529. - When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
  530. well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
  531. - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
  532. ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
  533. - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
  534. - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
  535. join predefined channels.
  536. ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
  537. ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
  538. - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
  539. to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
  540. - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
  541. - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
  542. - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
  543. is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
  544. limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
  545. - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
  546. lookup to prevent spoofing.
  547. - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
  548. addition to the select() interface.
  549. ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
  550. - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
  551. - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
  552. - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
  553. - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
  554. when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
  555. to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
  556. Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
  557. - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
  558. - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
  559. commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
  560. - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
  561. the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
  562. Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
  563. - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
  564. Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
  565. API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
  566. ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
  567. - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
  568. Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
  569. its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
  570. to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
  571. "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
  572. - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
  573. establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
  574. - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
  575. - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
  576. - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
  577. have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
  578. The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
  579. ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
  580. - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
  581. simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
  582. This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
  583. (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
  584. - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
  585. sockets of the server to a single IP address.
  586. ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
  587. - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
  588. ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
  589. - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
  590. RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
  591. configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
  592. to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
  593. - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
  594. - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
  595. - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
  596. - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
  597. new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
  598. - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
  599. configure to enable it.
  600. - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
  601. instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
  602. "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
  603. - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
  604. - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
  605. Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
  606. ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002
  607. - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
  608. noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
  609. - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
  610. bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
  611. - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
  612. kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
  613. Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
  614. - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
  615. Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
  616. ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
  617. Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
  618. werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
  619. - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
  620. Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
  621. B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
  622. wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
  623. - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
  624. macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
  625. - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
  626. (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
  627. nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
  628. kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
  629. miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
  630. - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
  631. der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
  632. - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
  633. ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
  634. - AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
  635. (2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
  636. - Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
  637. dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
  638. - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
  639. Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
  640. Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
  641. wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
  642. - neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
  643. Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
  644. Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
  645. gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
  646. "AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
  647. - Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
  648. - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
  649. ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
  650. - "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
  651. ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
  652. - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
  653. Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
  654. ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
  655. - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
  656. - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
  657. Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
  658. ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
  659. zusaetzliche Informationen.
  660. - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
  661. einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
  662. nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
  663. - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
  664. einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
  665. - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
  666. gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
  667. - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
  668. - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
  669. alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
  670. - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
  671. zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
  672. ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
  673. - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
  674. er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
  675. - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
  676. verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
  677. Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
  678. - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
  679. - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
  680. - AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
  681. - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
  682. - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
  683. ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
  684. - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
  685. Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
  686. noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
  687. bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
  688. nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
  689. - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
  690. ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
  691. - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
  692. es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
  693. Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
  694. Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
  695. - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
  696. - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
  697. ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
  698. - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
  699. "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
  700. IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
  701. - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
  702. - Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
  703. - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
  704. - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
  705. - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
  706. ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
  707. - neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
  708. - mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
  709. - Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
  710. nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
  711. ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
  712. - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)