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