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diff --git a/ngircd/ChangeLog b/ngircd/ChangeLog deleted file mode 100644 index 0744e25..0000000 --- a/ngircd/ChangeLog +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2408 +0,0 @@ - - ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server - http://ngircd.barton.de/ - - (c)2001-2024 Alexander Barton and Contributors. - ngIRCd is free software and published under the - terms of the GNU General Public License. - - -- ChangeLog -- - -ngIRCd 27 (2024-04-26) - - - Update ChangeLog, NEWS, AUTHORS.md & doc/Platforms.txt for ngIRCd 27. - - Clarify in the sample configuration file and the ngircd.conf(5) manual - page that the "CAFile" option is unset by default. - - Fix channel symbol returned in the RPL_NAMREPLY(353) numeric of NAMES - commands for secret (mode +s) channels: this should be "@", not "=". - Thanks Val Lorentz <progval+git@progval.net> for the patch! - Closes #313. - - Add an example filter file for "Fail2Ban": contrib/ngircd-fail2ban.conf. - - Don't abort startup when setgid/setuid() fails with EINVAL: Both setgid(2) - as well as setuid(2) can fail with EINVAL in addition to EPERM, their - manual pages state "EINVAL: The user/group ID specified in uid/gid is not - valid in this user namespace ". So not only treat EPERM as an "acceptable - error" and continue with logging the error, but do the same for EINVAL. - This was triggered by the Void Linux xbps-uunshare(1) tool used for - building "XBPS source packages" and reported by luca in #ngircd. Thanks! - - Test suite: Don't use "pgrep -u" when LOGNAME and USER are not set - Thanks for reporting this on IRC, luca! - - ngIRCd 27~rc1 (2024-04-13) - - Validate certificates on server links. Up to now, ngIRCd optionally used - SSL/TLS encrypted server-server links but never checked and validated any - certificates. Now ngIRCd validates SSL/TLS certificates on outgoing - server-server links by default and drops(!) connections when the remote - certificate is invalid (for example self-signed, expired, not matching the - host name, ...). Therefore you have to make sure that all relevant - *certificates are valid* (or to disable certificate validation on this - connection using the new `SSLVerify = false` setting in the affected - `[Server]` block, where the remote certificate is not valid and you can not - fix this issue). - The original patch for OpenSSL dates back to 2009 and was written by Florian - Westphal and was extended for GnuTLS in 2014 by Christoph Biedl. But it took - us another 10 years to bring it to life ... oh my! Many thanks to both - Florian and Christoph! - Closes #120. - - Add support for the "sd_notify" protocol of systemd(8): Periodically - "ping" the service manager (every 3 seconds) and set a status message - showing current connection statistics which then is included in "systemctl - status ngircd.service" output. In addition, this enables using the - systemd(8) watchdog functionality ("WatchdogSec") for the "ngircd.service" - unit and allows it to use the "notify" service type, which results in - better status tracking by the service manager. - - Try to set file descriptor limit to its maximum and show info on startup: - The number of possible parallel connections is limited by the file - descriptor limit of the process (among other things). Therefore try to - upgrade the current "soft" limit to its "hard" maximum (but limited to - 100000 instead of "infinite"), and show an information or even warning when - the limit is still less than the configured "MaxConnections" setting. Please - note that ngIRCd and its linked libraries (like PAM) need file descriptors - not only for incoming and outgoing IRC connections, but for reading files - and inter-process communication, too! Therefore the actual connection limit - is less(!) than the file descriptor limit! - - Update and fix the logcheck(8) rules file. - - METADATA: Fix unsetting the "cloakhost" hostname, which did not result in - the original hostname being restored, but actually resulted in an empty - string being used as the client hostname -- which is a protocol violation. - - Update the "rpm" make target to use the rpmbuild(8) command. - - Add a "Docker file" (contrib/Dockerfile) and corresponding documentation - (doc/Container.md) to the project. The resulting container is based on the - latest Debian "stable-slim" container and built using a "build container". - - Remove outdated, unsupported and broken support for splint(1). - - Don't show the default config file name on config errors: The configuration - can be set in drop-in files in the include directory, too, so it is not - clear in which file it is actually missing. - - No longer use a default built-in value for the "IncludeDir" directive when - a configuration file was explicitly specified on the command line using - "--config"/"-f": This way no default include directory is scanned when a - possibly non-default configuration file is used which (intentionally) did - not specify an "IncludeDir" directive. So now you can use "-f /dev/null" - for checking all built-in defaults, regardless of any local configuration - files in the default drop-in directory (which would have been read in - until this change). - - No longer log channel keys ("passwords") for predefined channels. - - The server "Name" in the "[Global]" section of the configuration file no - longer needs to be set: When not set (or empty), ngIRCd now tries to - deduce a valid IRC server name from the local host name ("node name"), - possibly adding a ".host" extension when the host name does not contain a - dot (".") which is required in an IRC server name ("ID"). - This new behavior, with all configuration parameters now being optional, - allows running ngIRCd without any configuration file at all. - - Silence some compiler warnings. - - autogen.sh: Prefer automake 1.11 over other releases because this is the - last release supporting "de-ANSI-fication" using the included ansi2knr tool. - And because we _want_ to support old K&R platforms, we try hard to use this - release of automake when available to generate our build system. - Note: This is only relevant for you if you are building from Git sources. - - Autodetect support for IPv6 by default: Until now, IPv6 support was disabled - by default, which seems a bit outdated in 2024. Note: You still can pass - "--enable-ipv6"/"--disable-ipv6" to the ./configure script to forcefully - activate or deactivate IPv6 support. - - Do IDENT requests even when DNS lookups are disabled: Up to now disabling - DNS in the configuration disabled IDENT lookups as well (for no good - reason). Now you can activate/deactivate DNS lookups and IDENT requests - completely separately. Thanks for reporting this, Miniontoby! - Closes #291. - - Update config.guess (2023-08-22) and config.sub (2023-09-19) files. - - Fix Channel Admins being able to to set Channel Owner status! "Sarah" - reported this back in April 2021 and proposed a patch, thanks a lot! - - Test suite: Update for OpenSSL 3.x, some command outputs changed, clean up - shell scripts and make the getpid.sh script more robust. - - Allow SSL client-only configurations without keys/certificates: You don't - need to configure certificates/keys as long as you don't configure - SSL-enabled listening ports. This can make sense when you want to only link - your local daemon to an uplink server using SSL and only have clients on - your local host or in your fully trusted network, where SSL is not required. - - Remove the unmaintained contrib/MacOSX/ folder: this includes the Xcode - project as well as the outdated macOS "Package Maker" configuration. The - sample launchd(8) configuration properties list file was moved to - "contrib/de.barton.ngircd.plist" and kept. - - Fix showing the "Ident" option in "--configtest" output which was never - shown because of a coding error. Whoops! - - Change GnuTLS "slot handling" messages to debug level: Those messages are - about an internal implementation detail, not relevant for an administrator - of ngIRCd. - - Enlarge buffer for log messages: For example, SSL/TLS certificate - information can easily get longer than 256 characters. So enlarge the log - buffer to 1 KB to avoid cutting off relevant information. - - Respect "SSLConnect" option for incoming connections and do not accept - incoming plain-text ("non SSL") server connections for servers configured - with "SSLConnect" enabled. This change prevents an authenticated - client-server being able to force the server-server to send its password - on a plain-text connection when SSL/TLS was intended. - - Always try to close a connection with errors immediately, but try hard - to avoid too much recursion. Without this patch, an outgoing server - connection could get stuck in an "endless" state trying to write out data - over and over again. - - Add "hopm.service" to "Wants" and "Before" dependencies in the sample - systemd unit file (Hopm is the successor of Bopm). - - Update Debian package configuration using current "dh_make", package - dependencies and build rules. And no longer build 3 different versions, - only build "ngircd" which now includes support for IDENT, PAM (disabled in - the ngircd.conf installed by the package), SSL (OpenSSL), ZLib and IPv6. - - Return ERR_NOTEXTTOSEND on empty PRIVMSG content, which matches the - behavior of other servers. - - Add a new option "Autojoin" to [Channel] blocks: When it is set, ngIRCd - automatically joins all local users to this channel on connect. Note: The - users must have permissions to access the channel, otherwise joining them - will fail! - Thanks Ivan Agarkov <i_agarkov@wargaming.net> for the initial patch! - - Hide invisible (+i) users on "WHOIS <pattern>": Let's behave like most(?) - other IRC daemons (at least ircd2.11) and hide all +i users when WHOIS is - used with a pattern. Otherwise privacy of this users is not guaranteed and - the +i mode a bit useless ... - Reported by Cahata on #ngircd, thanks! - - Update the final "closing connection" message: Add some more information - like nick name, user name, host name and bring it in line with some other - implementations (at least ircd2.11 and Hybrid). - - Fix RPL_INVITING message: All numeric replies must originate from an IRC - server, never from a client. Thanks "tommyrot" for reporting this! - Closes #307. - - Enhance some log messages, for example for errors when accepting new - connections. - - Make the debug log level ("--debug"/-"d" command line option) always - available, not only when ./configure'd with "--enable-debug": the latter - now only enables additional checks (like the tests done using assert(2)) - and is signalled by adding "+DEBUG" to the version "feature string". This - change enables everyone to get even more detailed logging when required. - - Always report an error when a parameter is missing in a channel "MODE +k" - or "MODE +l" command, and better validate their parameters: return the new - numeric ERR_INVALIDMODEPARAM_MSG(696) on errors. - Thanks Val Lorentz for reporting this! - Closes #290. - - Allow IRC Operators to use the WHO command on any channel. - - Add configuration for "ngIRCd CI" GitHub Action, no longer use Travis-CI. - - Send the NAMES list and channel topic to users "forcefully" joined to a - channel using NJOIN, like they joined on their own using JOIN, and - streamline the order of NAMES list and channel topic messages. - Closes #288. - - Fix (invalid) error messages when setting modes on local channels which - are defined in the configuration file. - - Fix handling of G-Lines/K-Lines with cloaked host names. - - Streamline logging of debug messages. - - Added a new command line option "-y"/"--syslog", with which logging to - syslog can be activated/deactivated separately from running on the console - (using "--nodaemon") or in the background. - Thanks Katherine Peeters for the patch and pull request! - Closes #294. - - Fix a possible race condition while introducing new clients in the network. - - Update, enhance and extend our documentation in README.md, INSTALL.md, - doc/HowToRelease.txt and the manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5), add - a new doc/QuickStart.md document, and convert some more documentation files - to Markdown (AUTHORS.md, contrib/README.md, doc/FAQ.md, doc/SSL.md). - -ngIRCd 26.1 (2021-01-02) - - - Fix a "format string" compiler warning (detected on OpenBSD). - - No longer set "AI_ADDRCONFIG" when resolving host names, even when it - exists: with this option set, on an IPv6-only host, we prevent 127.0.0.1 - to get translated properly, even when the loopback interface has this - address configured! And as the test suite uses 127.0.0.1, it was broken - on IPv6-only hosts. - The drawback is that the resolver possibly returns more addresses now, - even of an unsupported/not connected address family; but this shouldn't - do much harm in practice, as ngIRCd iterates over all returned addresses - while trying to establish an outgoing connection. - Closes #281. - - Revert "Show allowed channel types in ISUPPORT(005) numeric only", which - was introduced in 26~rc1: This lead to some IRC clients assuming "oh, no - channel prefix characters at all, so no channels at all, so no PRIVMSG can - go to any channel" when "AllowedChannelTypes" was set to the empty string - ("") -- which is not the case when there are pre-defined channel set up or - other servers still having channels! - So "allowed channel types" != "supported channel types", and we always have - to list all supported ones in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric! - Closes #285. - - Test suite: Wait 2 seconds after reloading the daemon, which is required - because on reload, all listening ports are closed, configuration updated, - and then opened again. This lead to subsequent tests running while the - daemon isn't listening on any ports, and that's why some tests could fail. - Closes #280. - - platformtest.sh: Try to mangle CLang name more intelligently. - - Documentation: Fixed URLs of Atheme IRC services, updated all mentions - from CVS to Git, and updated Platforms.txt -- Oh, and it is 2021 now! ;-) - -ngIRCd 26 (2020-06-20) - - ngIRCd 26~rc2 (2020-06-11) - - Add AppStream metadata file (contrib/de.barton.ngircd.metainfo.xml). - - Don't send invalid CHANINFO commands when a channel has mode +k set but no - key is known to the server. This can happen with a misconfigured predefined - channel, for example, and looked like this: "CHANINFO #test +Pk 0 :" -- - note the unset key represented by the two spaces. Fix this by sending a - "*" in this case and update the CHANINFO documentation, too. - - ngircd.spec: Fix names of README.md and INSTALL.md, add ".md" extension. - - Update description texts in the README.md file, the RPM and Debian package - files and the manual page: bring them in line with the updated homepage. - - Server-Server protocol: Fix use-after-free when unregistering a directly - connected server sending a SQUIT for itself. - - Server-Server protocol: Detect bogus SERVER commands lacking a prefix. - Thanks Hilko Bengen (hillu) for finding & reporting this as well for the - patch & pull request (even if fixed differently). - Closes #275. - - Fix the PING-PONG logic: In ngIRCd 26~rc1 this was completely broken (while - trying to fix timeouts during server handshakes in bigger networks): the - daemon never disconnected any stale peers but kept sending out PINGs over - and over again ... - - Test suite: Add missing files needed to test SSL support to "EXTRA_DIST", - so that they are included in distribution archives: in rc1, "make check" - fails when using sources from an archive and enabling SSL support. - Thanks to Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de> for the patch! - - ngIRCd 26~rc1 (2020-05-10) - - Tweak & update doc/HowToRelease.txt, .mailmap and AUTHORS files. - - Allow up to 512 characters per line in MOTD and help text files (but keep - in mind that lines can't get that long, because they have to be prefixed - before being sent to the client). But this allows for more fancy MOTDs :-) - Closes #271. - - Show the actually allowed channel types in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric which - are configured by the "AllowedChannelTypes" configuration variable. - Closes #273. - - Handle commands in the read buffer before reading more data and don't wait - for the network in this case: If there are more bytes in the read buffer - already than a single valid IRC command can get long (513 bytes), wait for - this/those command(s) to be handled first and don't try to read even more - data from the network (which most probably would overflow the read buffer - of this connection soon). - - Update Travis-CI configuration, "sudo" is deprecated. - - Log G-/K-Line changes only when not initiated by a server: this prevents - the log from becoming spammed during "net bursts". - - Update test suite to include SSL tests, including checking for reloading - certificates during runtime. - - Makefile.am: Replace "make" with "${MAKE}". This fixes warnings like this: - "warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule." - Thanks to Sam James (sam_c) <sam@cmpct.info>! - Closes #270. - - Add support for GnuTLS certificate reload, which is quite handy when using - Let's Encrypt, for example. Until now this was only supported when linked - with OpenSSL. Thanks a lot, Hilko Bengen <bengen@hilluzination.de>! - - Remove deprecated legacy configuration options and related functions that - have been marked for removal for quite some time: - - PredefChannelsOnly (v22) - - NoticeAuth (v24) - - NoXXX (v19) - - Old '[GLOBAL]' section handling (v19) - Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch! - - Fix recursion bug on write errors: Depending on the stack size, too many - clients on the same channel quitting at the same time would trigger a crash - due to too many recursive calls to Conn_Close(). Thanks to Michi - <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch! - - Fix builds using GCC option -fno-common, which is the default starting with - GCC 10. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org> for the patch! - Closes #266. - - Convert INSTALL and README files to Markdown. - - Allow setting arbitrary channel modes in the configuration file by handling - them like in MODE commands, and allow multiple "Modes =" lines per [Channel] - section. Thanks to Michi <michi+ngircd@dataswamp.org>! - Closes #55. - - Add "FNC" (forced nick changes) to ISUPPORT(005) numeric. Most probably - this doesn't make any difference to any client, but it seems correct. - See <http://www.irc.org/tech_docs/005.html> for details. - - Reuse old SSL key if loading a new one failed. - - Remove outdated OpenBSD/NetBSD systrace.policy. - - Enhance handling of command line errors, and return with exit code 0 ("no - error") when "--help" or "--version" is used (which resulted in exit code 1, - "error" before). Exit with code 2 ("command line error") for all other - invalid command line options, and show the error message itself on stderr - (instead of stdout and exit code 1, "generic error", as before). - This new behavior is more in line with the GNU "coding standards", - see <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html>. - - Fix and update Xcode project: Reference correct contrib/Makefile.am file, - correctly sort contrib/nglog.sh and add "ORGANIZATIONNAME" setting. - - contrib/ngindent.sh: Add more GNU indent options for better results, and - add the ".sh" suffix to bring this script in line with the others in the - contrib/ folder. - - Add ./contrib/nglog.sh: This script parses the log output of ngircd(8), - and colorizes the messages according to their log level. Example usage: - ngircd -f $PWD/doc/sample-ngircd.conf -np | ./contrib/nglog.sh - - Log received signals with their names using strsignal(3), when available. - - Make test suite compatible with Haiku OS. - - Fix host mask cloaking bug, don't cloak multiple times: Previously, each - server would cloak every user's host mask. The problem is that if a network - has more than one server, then a user's host mask would get cloaked twice. - This patch ensures that a server only cloaks the host mask if it has not yet - been cloaked (the period indicates it's still an IP address). Thanks to - JRMU <jrmu@lecturify.com> for the patch! - Closes #228. - - Enlarge buffers of info texts to 128 bytes. This includes: - - "Real name" of a client (4th filed of the USER command). - - Server info text ("Info" configuration option). - - Admin info texts and email address ("AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" and - "AdminEmail" configuration options). - - Network name ("Network" configuration option). - The limit was 64 bytes before ... - Closes #258. - - Streamline handling of invalid and unset server name: Don't exit during - runtime (REHASH command, HUP signal), because the server name can't be - changed in this case anyway and the new invalid name will be ignored. - - Fix and extend documentation: Fix some typos, fix syntax of LINKS and LIST - commands, whitespace and spelling fixes, update dependencies and add some - more information about IRCv3 support. - Thanks to Thanks Windree, Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> and - Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>. - Closes #264. - - Slightly reorder startup steps, and enhance logging: - - Show name of configuration file at the beginning of start up. - - Add a message when ngIRCd is ready, including its host name. - - Show name of configuration file on REHASH (SIGHUP), too. - - Change level of "done message" to NOTICE, like "starting" & "ready". - - Initialize IO functions before channels, connections, clients, ... - - configure.ng: OpenSSL can depends on lz or latomic so use pkg-config to - find those dependencies and fallback to existing mechanism. - Closes #256. - - ngircd.conf.5: Fix wording as suggested by lintian. - -ngIRCd 25 (2019-01-23) - - - Fix documentation of MotdPhrase length, which actually is 126 characters: - update sample configuration file as well as the man page. Thanks to - shankari <shankari@eecs.berkeley.edu>. - Closes #254. - - Implement new configuration option "MaxPenaltyTime", which configures the - maximum penalty time increase in seconds, per penalty event. Set to -1 for - no limit (the default), 0 to disable penalties altogether. ngIRCd doesn't - use penalty increases higher than 2 seconds during normal operation, so - values higher than 1 rarely make sense. - Disabling (or reducing) penalties can greatly speed up "make check" runs - for example, see below, but are mostly a debugging feature and normally - not meant to be used on production systems! - Some example timings running "make check" from my macOS workstation: - - MaxPenaltyTime not set: 4:41,79s - - "MaxPenaltyTime = 1": 3:14,71s - - "MaxPenaltyTime = 0": 25,46s - Closes #249 and #251. - - Fix compilation without deprecated OpenSSL APIs. Thanks to Rosen Penev - <rosenp@gmail.com> for the patch! - Closes #252. - - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (10.0) - - Fix some compiler warnings of Apple Xcode/Clang - - Allow a 5th parameter in WEBIRC. Thanks to "ItsOnlyBinary". - Closes #247. - - Update some more documentation files and source code comments. - - Platforms.txt: Add and update systems. - - ngIRCd 25~rc1 (2018-08-11) - - Update config.guess (2018-03-08) and config.sub (2018-03-08) files. - - Correctly retry to establish an outgoing connections when forking of the - resolver sub-process failed (for example because of lack of free memory). - Until now, such a connection was never retried once this error was hit. - Thanks to Robert Obermeier for reporting this bug! - Closes #243. - - Fix a "use after free" bug which can be triggered on a newly established - connection when the daemon handles an ERROR command received from the peer - during client login. Thanks a lot to Joseph Bisch <joseph.bisch@gmail.com> - for discovering and reporting this issue! - - Only send TOPIC updates to a channel when the topic actually changed: - This prevents the channel from becoming flooded by unnecessary TOPIC update - messages, that can happen when IRC services try to enforce a certain topic - but which is already set (at least on the local server), for example. - Therefore still forward it to all servers, but don't inform local clients - (still update setter and timestamp information, though). - - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (9.2). This includes adding - missing and deleting obsolete file references. - - Handle user mode "C" ("Only users that share a channel are allowed to send - messages") like user mode "b" ("block private messages and notices"): allow - messages from servers, services, and IRC Operators, too. Change proposed by - "wowaname" back in 2015 in #ngircd, thanks! - - Fix some compiler warnings. - - Add contrib/ngircd.logcheck: Some sample logcheck(8) rules. - - Allow IRC Ops and remote servers to KILL service clients: such clients - behave like regular users, therefore IRC operators and servers should be - able to KILL them: for example to resolve nick collisions. - Closes #242. - - Don't forward KILLs to other servers if they've been blocked locally: - This prevents clients from killing IRC services, for example. - Closes #238 and #239. - - Fix a cross-compiler issue related to the Get_Error() function. - Closes #240 and #241. - - Update ./doc/Services.txt, enhance configuration examples. - -ngIRCd 24 (2017-01-20) - - - Make sure that ./contrib/platformtest.sh aborts when ./autogen.sh fails. - - Update config.guess (2016-10-02) and config.sub (2016-11-04) files. - - Build Debian packages with OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS: OpenSSL allows - to reload used certificates on runtime for example (which is very - useful when using Let's Encrypt), and therefore is preferred. And - explicitly specify the "source format". - - Fix handling of connection pool allocation and enlargement: up to now, - the daemon only enlarged its connection pool when accepting new incoming - client or server connections, not when establishing new outgoing server - links, which could lead to problems when hitting the configured limit, - see "MaxConnections". Thanks to Lukas Braun (k00mi) for reporting this! - Closes #231. - - ngIRCd 24~rc1 (2017-01-07) - - Enhance systemd service file, and install it in Debian package. - - Update configuration of Debian package. - - Log privilege violations and failed OPER request with log level "error" - and send it to the "&SERVER" channel, too. - - Immediately shut down connection when receiving an "ERROR" command, - don't wait for the peer to close the connection. This allows the daemon - to forward the received "ERROR" message in the network, instead of the - very generic "client closed connection" message. - - Fix sending of entry duration (no negative values!) when synchronizing - "x-lines" (G-LINES). - - List expiration (G-LINES): use same log level as when setting, and log - this event to the &SERVER channel, too. - - Explicitly forbid remote servers to modify "x-lines" (G-LINES) when the - "AllowRemoteOper" configuration option isn't set, even when the command - seems to originate from the remote server itself: this prevents GLINE's - to become set during server handshake in this case (what wouldn't be - possible during regular runtime when a remote IRC Op sends the command) - and what can't be undone by IRC Ops later on (because of the missing - "AllowRemoteOper" option) ... - - Make scripts and init-files in ./contrib executable. - - Fix building ngIRCd with OpenSSL 1.1. Thanks to Christoph Biedl - <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de> for the patch! - - Fix code indentation warnings of gcc 6.2. - - Update config.guess (2016-04-02) and config.sub (2016-03-30) files. - - Fix warnings of the "shellcheck" linter in autogen.sh, contrib/ngindent - and contrib/platformtest.sh. - - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (8.0), and fix "duplicate - symbols" error messages when building (linking) the binary. - - Add "Documentation" variables to systemd configuration files. - - Make sure that SYSCONFDIR is always set, which can be handy when - using source code linters when ./configure hasn't been run already. - - Add the new "PAMServiceName" configuration option to specify the name - used as PAM service name. This setting allows to run multiple ngIRCd - instances with different PAM configurations for each instance. - Thanks to Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at> for the - patch, closes #226. - - Add an ".editorconfig" file to the project. - - Travis-CI: use "container-based infrastructure". - - Limit the number of message targets, and suppress duplicates: This - prevents an user from flooding the server using commands like this: - "PRIVMSG nick1,nick1,nick1,...". - Duplicate targets are suppressed silently (channels and clients). - In addition, the maximum number of targets per PRIVMSG, NOTICE, ... - command are limited to MAX_HNDL_TARGETS (25). If there are more, the - daemon sends the new 407 (ERR_TOOMANYTARGETS_MSG) numeric, containing - the first target that hasn't been handled any more. Closes #187. - - Test suite: Add new test for server-server logins. - - contrib/ngindent: Fix shebang line. - - Make contrib/platformtest.sh script more portable, and only show - "runs=Y" when the test suite really has been passed successfully. - - Code cleanup in the NJOIN handler and the function killing clients as - well as the function sending messages to a "mask" (cleaner code, more - fault tolerant, better code comments). - - Update and enhance documentation: README file, doc/Platforms.txt, - doc/Modes.txt, doc/Commands.txt, doc/PAM.txt. - - Fix NJOIN not propagating "half ops" status: ngIRCd tested for the wrong - prefix of "half ops" when processing NJOIN commands and therefore never - classified a remote user as "half op". - Thanks to wowaname for pointing this out on #ngircd! - -ngIRCd 23 (2015-11-16) - - - Explicitly cast time_t to long when printing it out: this prevents - wrong sized data types on platforms where time_t doesn't equal a - long any more, for example on OpenBSD (which would result in garbled - output on those platforms). - - contrib/Debian/changelog: Fix email address. - - Documentation: Spelling fixes; update doc/Platforms.txt. - - ngIRCd 23~rc1 (2015-09-06) - - Add ".clang_complete" file, which is used by the "linter-clang" package - of the Atom editor, for example. - - Make server-to-server protocol more robust: ngIRCd now catches more - errors on the server-to-server (S2S) protocol that could crash the - daemon before. This hasn't been a real problem because the IRC S2S - protocol is "trusted" by design, but the behavior is much better now. - Thanks to wowaname on #ngircd for pointing this out! - - Make platformtest.sh, autogen.sh, and ngircd.init more portable. - - Enables "reproducible builds" for ngIRCd: Use the optional BIRTHTIME - constant while building ngIRCd, which contains a time stamp for the - "Birth Date" information, in seconds since the epoch. - See <https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds>. - - Update "contrib/ngircd.service" file for systemd. - - INSTALL: Add deprecation notice for "PredefChannelsOnly" variable. - - Use "NOTICE *" before registration instead of "NOTICE AUTH". "AUTH" is - a valid nickname so sending notices to it is probably not a good idea. - Use "*" as the target instead as done with numerics when the nick is not - available. This mimics the behavior in Charybdis, IRCD-Hybrid, InspIRCd - 2.2, Plexus 4, etc. Closes #217. - The "NoticeAuth" configuration variable (ngircd.conf) has been renamed - to "NoticeBeforeRegistration" accordingly, but the old name is still - supported for compatibility reasons. - - Implement new channel mode "N" (regular users can't change their nick - name while on this channel). Closes #214. - - README, AUTHORS: Update mailing list and issue tracker URLs. - - Remove doc/GIT.txt (it is outdated), update doc/Contributing.txt: - ngIRCd uses GitHub, and Git itself is quite common today. So don't - include an own Git "mini HowTo" any longer. - - Specify session context for OpenSSL clients. This enables some OpenSSL - clients, including Pidgin and stunnel 5.06, to reuse a session. - Patch by Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>, thanks! Closes #182. - - Keep track of who placed bans, invites, and excepts. - Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #203. - - Make setgroups(3) function optional: For example, Interix is missing - this function, which prevented ngIRCd to build on this platform. When - setgroups(3) isn't available, a warning message is issued on startup. - - Implement numeric RPL_LISTSTART(321). lightIRC and other clients - expecting RPL_LISTSTART should now behave correctly. - Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207. - - Update ngircd.conf.5: "CloakUserToNick" hides user _and_ real name. - This closes #208. - - Fix case insensitive pattern matching: Up to now, only the input - string became lowercased and was then compared to the pattern -- which - failed when the pattern itself wasn't all lowercase! - - Streamline the effect of "MorePrivacy" option: Update documentation - in ngircd.conf(5); don't hide channels for IRC Ops on LIST and don't - hide IP addresses/hostnames on WHOIS when "MorePrivacy" is in effect. - This closes #198. - - IRC operators now can kick anyone when "OperCanMode" is set. - Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #202. - - Implement user mode "I": Hide channels on WHOIS: this mode prevents - ngIRCd from showing channels on WHOIS (IRC Operators can always see - the channel list). - Idea and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #197. - - INVITE command: Implement ERR_USERNOTONSERV(504) numeric and make sure - that the target user is on the same server when inviting other users - to local ("&") channels. - Idea by Cahata, thanks! Closes #183. - - INVITE command: Enforce 1 second penalty time, which prevents flooding - of the target client. - This closes #186. Reported by Cahata, thanks! - - MODE command: Always report channel creation time. Up to now when - receiving a MODE command, ngIRCd only reported the channel creation - time to clients that were members of the channel. This patch reports - the channel creation time to all clients, regardless if they are joined - to that channel or not. At least ircd-seven behaves like this. - This closes #188. Reported by Cahata, thanks! - - Update Xcode project for latest Xcode version (6.3). - -ngIRCd 22.1 (2015-04-06) - - - Update doc/Platforms.txt and doc/FAQ.txt. - - Fix spelling of RPL_WHOISBOT message text. - - Don't send nick name as default PART reason: No other IRC daemon seems - to do this (today?). Closes #185. - Reported by Cahata in #ngircd, thanks! - - Fix "WHO #<chan>" showing invisible users and hiding all visible, the - logic was reversed! This bug has been introduced by commit c74115f2, - "Simplify mode checking on channels and users within a channel", ngIRCd - releases 21, 21.1, and 22 are affected :-( Problem reported by Cahata - in #ngircd, Thanks! - - Fix typo in src/testsuite/README - - Auth PING: Fix our information text for manual sending of "PONG". Up to - now, ngIRCd doesn't send a valid IRC command at all, oops! - - Auth PING: Fix internal time stamp conversion and don't send a prefix in - our PING command. The prefix confuses WeeChat, at least, which doesn't - send an appropriate PONG in the case ... - Debugging and patch by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks! - - Fix syntax of ERR_LISTFULL_MSG(478) numeric. Pointed out by "wowaname" - in #ngircd, thanks! - - Enhance debug messages while sending CHANINFO commands. - - Reset "last try" timer when enabling a passive server. This results in - a new connection attempt as soon as possible. - - Change log message for "Can't resolve address" and for IP address - forgeries. - - doc/HowToRelease.txt: Add note about the bug tracker. - - Update "CipherList" to not enable SSLv3 by default. Idea, initial patch, - and testing by Christoph Biedl <ngircd.anoy@manchmal.in-ulm.de>. - - Change ngIRCd test suite not to use DNS lookups: Different operating - systems do behave quite differently when doing DNS lookups, for example - "127.0.0.1" sometimes resolves to "localhost" and sometimes to - "localhost.localdomain" (for example OpenBSD). And other OS resolve - "localhost" to the real host name (for example Cygwin). So not using - DNS at all makes the test site much more portable. - -ngIRCd 22 (2014-10-11) - - - Match all list patterns case-insensitive: this affects the invite-, - ban-, and except lists, as well as G-Lines an K-Lines. - Problem pointed out by "wowaname" on #ngircd, thanks! - - ngIRCd 22~rc1 (2014-09-29) - - Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line - lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously - nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now. - Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd. - - Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication. - - Correctly check that a server has a valid hostname and port, thanks to - David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com> who reported this bug. - - Fix the function which generates complete "IRC masks" from user input, - don't destroy the source buffer and use all provided parts (nick, user, - host name). This fixes GLINEs/KLINEs from not working in some situations. - - Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there - that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase - this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make - if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ... - - Debian: Don't adjust path names that are correct by default and correctly - set and use "docdir". - - Update config.guess and config.sub to recent versions. - - Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped. - - doc/Bopm.txt: Update "connregex" and "kline" for current ngIRCd. - - Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only - settable by IRC Operators. - - Spoofed prefixes: Really kill connection on non-server links. - - Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode - "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only - settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be - careful and only set it on "trusted" clients! - User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example. - - Handle "throttling" in a single function: ngIRCd implements "command - throttling" and "bps throttling" (bytes per second). The states are - detected in different functions, Conn_Handler() and Read_Request(), but - handle the actual "throttling" in a common function: this enables us to - guarantee consistent behavior and to disable throttling for special - connections in only one place - - Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled. - - Streamline punctuation of log messages. - - Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven, - Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example. - - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case - on "VPATH builds", for example. - - Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis - and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330). - - Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code - using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick - names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which - is quite unexpected for users. - - platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and - allow using separate source and build trees. - - Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking. - - Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key" - in all replies. - - Update configure.ng: ngIRCd requires GNU autoconf 2.61 for generating its - build system, so update the build system accordingly and implement all - changes that autoupdate(1) suggests: Update AC_PREREQ and AC_INIT, use - AC_LINK_IFELSE, AC_RUN_IFELSE, and AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, and remove - AC_TYPE_SIGNAL (we don't use RETSIGTYPE). - - portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(), - and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite - useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have - been linked at all ...). - - Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the - (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the - daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric - which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in. - - Update doc/Platforms.txt. - - Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling. - Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf() - return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline - DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions. - - Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an - invalid password. - -ngIRCd 21.1 (2014-03-25) - - - Don't ignore but use the server password when PAM is compiled in but - disabled. Thanks to Roy Sindre Norangshol <roy.sindre@norangshol.no>! - - doc/Platforms.txt: Update from master branch. - - Really kill connections that send "spoofed prefixes" on non-server links. - This fixes commit 6cbe1308 which only killed the connection when the - spoofed prefix itself belonged to a non-server client. - - CHARCONV command: Fix handling conversion errors, don't overwrite already - converted text! - - doc/Services.txt: Update information for Anope 2.x. - - Correctly use cloaked IRC masks on "INVITE nickname": The cloaked IRC mask - of a user is his visible mask, so the daemon has to use it for generating - the "one time" entries for the invite list of the given channel, and not - the "real" mask which will never match while the target client is "+x", and - even worse, will disclose the real mask on "MODE #channel +I" commands :-/ - Bug reported by Cahata on #ngircd, thanks! - - configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists. This isn't the case on - "VPATH builds", for example. - - Use $(MKDIR_P) instead of $(mkinstalldirs) in Makefile's and test for - "mkdir -p" using AC_PROG_MKDIR_P in "configure". - - Fix configure script and "make check" for TCP Wrappers (problems spotted on - OpenBSD): add missing #include's and static variables, and add libwrap at - the end of the configure run because if libwrap becomes added earlier, - other tests may fail. - - configure: add support for the LDFLAGS_END and LIBS_END variables to add - linker flags and libraries at the end of the configure run (CFLAGS_END has - been implemented already). - - platformtest.sh and Makefile.am: Don't use "test -e", it isn't portable. - - Update Copyright notices for 2014 :-) - - Fix permanent {G|K}LINES (with a timeout of 0 seconds). - - WEBIRC: Don't set the hostname received by the WEBIRC command when DNS - lookups are disabled, but use the IP address instead. - Reported by Toni Spets <toni.spets@iki.fi>, thanks! - - Check for working getaddrinfo() function: At least AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1 have a - broken implementation of getaddrinfo() which doesn't handle "0" as numeric - service correctly. This patch adds a configure check for this case and - changes all calling functions to only use getaddrinfo() if it "works". - See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/lists/heimdal-discuss/2004-05/msg00059.html> - - Only use the unsetenv() function when it is available (AIX 4.3 doesn't - support it, for example). - - Make sure that the source code is still compatible with the "ansi2knr" tool - and builds using non-ANSI K&R C compilers. Tested with Apple C on A/UX. - - Fix building ngIRCd without support for ZLIB compression. Reported by - "der_baer" on #ngircd, thanks! - -ngIRCd 21 (2013-10-30) - - - ./contrib/Debian/ngircd.init: Make sure no stale PID file is left over - when (re-)starting ngIRCd. - - Change ./contrib/platformtest.sh and update ./doc/Platforms.txt to - allow user names up to 8 characters. - - Call arc4random_stir() in forked subprocesses, when available. This - is required by FreeBSD <10 and current NetBSD at least to correctly - initialize the "arc4" random number generator on these platforms. - - Update our own Debian package configuration and fix the default path - of the "HelpFile" of the "full" package variants. - - ngIRCd 21~rc2 (2013-10-20) - - Report the correct configuration file name on configuration errors, - support longer configuration lines, and warn when lines are truncated. - - Use arc4random() function to generate "random" numbers, when available. - - platformtest.sh: Detect clang compiler, and clean up GIT source tree - before building (when possible). - - Update (date of) manual pages. - - Update "Upgrade Information" in INSTALL file, add more systems to - doc/Platforms.txt, and fix spelling in NEWS and ChangeLog files =:) - - Fix remaining compiler warnings on OpenBSD. - - ngIRCd 21~rc1 (2013-10-05) - - Actually KILL clients on GLINE/KLINE. (Closes bug #156) - - Adjust log messages for invalid and spoofed prefixes, which cleans up - logging of commands related to already KILL'ed clients. And don't - forward KILL commands for (already) unknown clients any more to prevent - unnecessary duplicates. - - Add support to show all user links using the "STATS L" (uppercase) - command (restricted to IRC Operators). - - Fixed blocking of server reconnects in some error configurations. - - Don't ignore SSL-related errors during startup any more: abort startup - when SSL is requested by the configuration but can't be initialized and - don't continue only listening on plain text communication ports. - (Closes bug #163) - - Implement configurable SSL cipher list selection for GnuTLS and OpenSSL - using the new configuration option "CipherList". In addition, this - changes the defaults to more secure values: "HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" for - OpenSSL, and "SECURE128" for GnuTLS. - - Fix "TRACE": Correctly return ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) (which basically - is "syntax error") when there are too many parameters. - - Clean up lots of permission and parameter checks in functions handling - IRC commands; and more consistently add penalty times on errors. - - Fix error numeric of WHOIS when no nick name has been provided: - as per RFC it should be ERR_NONICKNAMEGIVEN(431). - - Only log "IDENT ... no result" messages when an IDENT looked took place - and didn't return any data, not when IDENT has been disabled. - - Show connection flag "s" (SSL) in RPL_TRACE{LINK|SERVER} messages: now - you can check if a server-to-server link is SSL-encrypted or not using - the IRC "TRACE" command. - - Correctly discard supplementary groups on server startup. - - Save client IP address text for "WebIRC" users and correctly display - it on WHOIS, for example. (Closes bug #159) - - Implement the new configuration option "DefaultUserModes" which lists - user modes that become automatically set on new local clients right - after login. Please note that only modes can be set that the client - could set on itself, so you can't set "a" (away) or "o" (IRC Op), - for example! User modes "i" (invisible) or "x" (cloaked) etc. are - "interesting", though. (Closes bug #160) - - Add support for the new METADATA "account" property, which allows - services to automatically identify users after netsplits and across - service restarts. - - Enforce "penalty times" on error conditions more consistently and in - more places. Now most error codes sent back from the IRC server to the - client should result in a 2 second "penalty". - - Implement a new configuration option "AllowedChannelTypes" that lists - all allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels - on the local server. By default, all supported channel types are allowed. - If set to the empty string, local clients can't create new channels at - all, which equals the old "PredefChannelsOnly = yes" setting. - This change deprecates the "PredefChannelsOnly" variable, too, but it is - still supported and translated to the appropriate "AllowedChannelTypes" - setting. When the old "PredefChannelsOnly" variable is processed, a - warning message is logged. (Closes bug #152) - - Add support for "client certificate fingerprinting". When a client - passes an SSL certificate to the server, the "fingerprint" will be - forwarded in the network which enables IRC services to identify the - user using this certificate and not using passwords. - - IRC Operator names, as defined in ngircd.conf, are logged now when - handling successful OPER commands. - - Some error conditions while handling IRC commands, like "permission - denied" or "need more parameters", result in more penalty times. - - The numeric replies of some commands became split too early which - resulted in more numeric reply lines than necessary. - - Implement a new configuration option "IncludeDir" in the "[Options]" - section that can be used to specify a directory which can contain - further configuration files and configuration file snippets matching - the pattern "*.conf". These files are read in after the main server - configuration file ("ngircd.conf" by default) has been read in and - parsed. The default is "$SYSCONFDIR/ngircd.conf.d", so that it is - possible to adjust the configuration only by placing additional files - into this directory. (Closes bug #157) - - Fix use-after-free in the Lists_CheckReason() function, which is used - to check if a client is a member of a particular ban/invite/... list. - - Xcode: fix detection of host OS, vendor, and CPU type, and update - project settings for Xcode 5. - - OS X PackageMaker: use relative path names in project files and package - with correct file permissions (requires root privileges on "make"). - - Add Travis-CI configuration file (".travis.yml") to project. - - Look for possible cloaked Masks in Lists. Users with +x user mode can - be banned with their cloaked hostname now. - - Don't read SSL client data before DNS resolver is finished which could - have resulted in discarding the resolved client hostname and IDENT - reply afterwards, because in some situations (timing dependent) the - NICK and USER commands could have already been read in from the client, - stored in the buffer, and been processed. - Thanks to Julian Brost for reporting the issue and testing, and to - Federico G. Schwindt <fgsch@lodoss.net> for helping to debug it! - - Increase password length limit to 64 characters. (Closes bug #154) - - doc/Services.txt: Update Anope status and URL. - - Clean up Xcode project file, remove outdated files, add missing ones. - - Update Doxygen configuration file. - - configure: search for iconv_open as well as libiconv_open, because - on some installations iconv_open() is actually libiconv_open(). - iconv_open() is the glibc version while libiconv_open() is the - libiconv version, now both variants are supported. (Closes bug #151) - - ngIRCd now accepts user names including "@" characters, saves the - unmodified name for authentication but stores only the part in front - of the "@" character as "IRC user name". And the latter is how - ircd2.11, Bahamut, and irc-seven behave as well. (Closes bug #155) - - Lots of IRC "information functions" like ADMIN, INFO, ... now accept - server masks and names of connected users (in addition to server names) - for specifying the target server of the command. (Closes bug #153) - - Implement a new configuration option "IdleTimeout" in the "[Limits]" - section of the configuration file which can be used to set a timeout - in seconds after which the whole daemon will shutdown when no more - connections are left active after handling at least one client. - The default is 0, "never". - This can be useful for testing or when ngIRCd is started using "socket - activation" with systemd(8), for example. - - Implement support for systemd(8) "socket activation". - - contrib/README: add description for more files. - - Enable WHOIS to display information about IRC Services using the new - numeric 310(RPL_WHOISSERVICE) This numeric is used for this purpose by - InspIRCd, for example -- but as usual, other numerics are in use, too, - like 613 in UltimateIRCd ... - Please note that neither the Operator (+o) not the "bot status" (+B) - of an IRC service is displayed in the output. - - Exit message: use singular & plural :-) - - autogen.sh: Check for autoconf/automake wrapper scripts - - Add missing punctuation marks in log messages, adjust some severity - levels, and make SSL-related messages more readable. - - AUTHORS file: Update list of contributors. - - Update systemd(8) example configuration files in ./contrib/ directory: - the "ngircd.service" file now uses the "forking" service type which - enhances the log messages shown by "systemctl status ngircd.service", - and the new "ngircd.socket" file configures a systemd socket that - configures a socket for ngIRCd and launches the daemon on demand. - - Enhance help system and the HELP command: now a "help text file" can be - set using the new configuration option "HelpFile" ("global" section), - which is read in and parsed on server startup and configuration reload, - and then is used to output individual help texts to specific topics. - Please see the file ./doc/Commands.txt for details. - -ngIRCd 20.3 (2013-08-23) - - - Security: Fix a denial of service bug (server crash) which could happen - when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the - default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new - clients connecting to the server (CVE-2013-5580). - -ngIRCd 20.2 (2013-02-15) - - - Security: Fix a denial of service bug in the function handling KICK - commands that could be used by arbitrary users to crash the daemon - (CVE-2013-1747). - - WHO command: Use the currently "displayed hostname" (which can be cloaked!) - for hostname matching, not the real one. In other words: don't display all - the cloaked users on a specific real hostname! - - configure: The header file "netinet/in_systm.h" already is optional in - ngIRCd, so don't require it in the configure script. Now ngIRCd can be - built on Minix 3 again :-) - - Return better "Connection not registered as server link" errors: Now ngIRCd - returns a more specific error message for numeric ERR_NOTREGISTERED(451) - when a regular user tries to use a command that isn't allowed for users but - for servers. - - Don't report ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS(461) when a MDOE command with more modes - than nicknames is handled, as well as for channel limit and key changes - without specifying the limit or key parameters. - This is how a lot (all?) other IRC servers behave, including ircd2.11, - InspIRCd, and ircd-seven. And because of clients (tested with Textual and - mIRC) sending bogus MODE commands like "MODE -ooo nick", end-users got the - expected result as well as correct but misleading error messages ... - - Correctly detect when SSL subsystem must be initialized and take - outgoing connections (server links!) into account, too. - - autogen.sh: Enforce serial test harness on GNU automake >=1.13. The - new parallel test harness which is enabled by default starting with - automake 1.13 isn't compatible with our test suite. - And don't use "egrep -o", instead use "sed", because it isn't portable - and not available on OpenBSD, for example. - -ngIRCd 20.1 (2013-01-02) - - - Allow ERROR command on server and service links only, ignore them and - add a penalty time on all other link types. - - Enforced mode setting by IRC Operators: Only check the channel user - modes of the initiator if he is joined to the channel and not an IRC - operator enforcing modes (which requires the configuration option - "OperCanUseMode" to be enabled), because trying to check channel user - modes of a non-member results in an assertion when running with debug - code or could crash the daemon otherwise. This closes bug #147, thanks - to James Kirwill <james.kirwill@bk.ru> for tracking this down! - - Fix build system to cope with spaces in path names. - - Code cleanups, mostly to fix build warnings on Cygwin. - -ngIRCd 20 (2012-12-17) - - - Allow user names ("INDENT") up to 20 characters when ngIRCd has not - been configured for "strict RFC mode". This is useful if you are using - external (PAM) authentication mechanisms that require longer user names. - Patch suggested by Brett Smith <brett@w3.org>, see - <http://arthur.barton.de/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2012-October/000579.html>. - - ngIRCd 20~rc2 (2012-12-02) - - Rework cloaked hostname handling and implement the "METADATA cloakhost" - subcommand: Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the - "real" hostname and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. This allows - "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and cloaked - hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself issues - additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands. - - RPL_UMODEIS: send correct target name, even on server links. - - Update platformtest.sh to follow autoconf changes and only generate - the "configure" script when it is missing. - - Fix the test suite to correctly execute test scripts even when stdout - is redirected. - - Fix some compiler warnings on NetBSD and OpenBSD. - - ngIRCd 20~rc1 (2012-11-11) - - Update doc/Services.txt: describe the upcoming version of Anope 1.9.8, - then including a protocol module for ngIRCd. And remove our own patches - in ./contrib/Anope because they aren't supported any more ... - - Implement new "METADATA" command which can be used by remote servers - and IRC services to update client metadata like the client info text - ("real name"), user name, and hostname, and use this command to - configure an cloaked hostname (user mode "+x") on remote servers: - This prevents "double cloaking" of hostnames and even cloaked - hostnames are in sync on all servers supporting "METADATA" now. - - Fix error message when trying to join non-predefined channels and the - "PredefChannelsOnly" configuration option is set. - - Implement new IRC "SVSNICK" command to allow remote servers (and IRC - services) to change nicknames of already registered users. The SVSNICK - command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes forwarded - to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this server - initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands. - This allows to run mixed networks with old servers not supporting the - SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers - are silently ignored and don't cause a desynchronization of the network. - - Make server reconnect time a little bit more random, so that two - servers trying to connect to each other asynchronously don't try this - in exactly the same time periods and kick each other off ... - - Don't accept connections for servers already being linked: there was a - time frame that could result in one connection overwriting the other, - e. g. the incoming connection overwriting the status of the outgoing - one. And this could lead to all kind of weirdness (even crashes!) later - on: now such incoming connections are dropped. - - New configuration option "MaxListSize" to configure the maximum number - of channels returned by a LIST command. The default is 100, as before. - - Implement user mode "b", "block messages": when a user has set mode "b", - all private messages and notices to this user are blocked if they don't - originate from a registered user, an IRC Op, server or service. The - originator gets an error numeric sent back in this case, - ERR_NONONREG_MSG (486), which is used by UnrealIRCd, too. (Closes #144) - - WHOIS: Not only show RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG to local IRC operators, but show - it to all IRC operators in the network. And don't show it to anybody if - the "more privacy" configuration option is enabled. (Closes #134) - - Test suite: make expect scripts more verbose displaying dots for each - reply of the server that it is waiting for. - - WHOIS: Implement numeric RPL_WHOISMODES_MSG (379) and show user modes in - the reply of the WHOIS command for the user himself or, if MorePrivacy - isn't set, for request initiated by an IRC operator. (Closes #129) - - Implement channel mode "V" (invite disallow): If the new channel mode - "V" is set, the INVITE command becomes invalid and all clients get the - new ERR_NOINVITE_MSG (518) reply. (Closes #143) - - KICK-protect IRC services. - - Implement channel mode "Q" and user mode "q": Both modes protect users - from channel kicks: only IRC operators and servers can kick users having - mode "q" or in channels with mode "Q". (Closes #141) - - Debian: require "telnet" or "telnet-ssl" for building and enable - CHARCONV in ngircd-full[-dbg] variants. - - Send RPL_REHASHING (382) numeric if a REHASH command was accepted. - - Fix spelling and variable names in some log messages. - - Allow users to "cloak" their hostname only when the configuration - variable "CloakHostModeX" (introduced in 19.2) is set. Otherwise, only - IRC operators, other servers, and services are allowed to set the user - mode "+x": this prevents regular users from changing their hostmask to - the name of the IRC server itself, which confused quite a few people ;-) - (Closes #133) - - New configuration option "OperChanPAutoOp": If disabled, IRC operators - don't become channel operators in persistent channels when joining. - Enabled by default, which has been the behavior of ngIRCd up to this - patch. (Closes #135) - - Allow IRC operators to see secret (+s) channels in LIST command as long - as the "MorePrivacy" configuration option isn't enabled in the - configuration file. (Closes #136) - - Enhance build system: Support new (>=1.12) and old (<=1.11) GNU automake - versions, update checks for required and optional features, enable - colored test output of automake (if available), rename configure.in to - more modern configure.ac, include .mailmap and all build-system files in - distribution archives and no longer require a GIT tree to detect the - correct version string. - - Update documentation: add doc/Contributing.txt and include version - numbers in doc/Modes.txt. - - Free all listen ports on initialization: now listen ports can be - reconfigured on runtime using a configuration reload. - - Initialize SSL when needed only, and disable SSL on errors. - - Implement new (optional) IRC+ "CHARCONV" command to set a client - character set that the server translates all messages to/from UTF-8. - This feature requires the "libiconv" library and must be enabled using - the new "--with-iconv" option of the ./configure script. See - doc/Protocol.txt for details. (Closes #109) - - Allow limited punctuation in usernames, for better PAM integration. - - Correctly re-initialize signal handlers on RESTART commands. - - Show a warning on startup if the configuration file is not a full path: - ngIRCd is a long-running process and changes its working directory to - "/" to not block mounted filesystems and the like when running as daemon - ("not in the foreground"); therefore the path to the configuration file - must be relative to "/" (or the chroot() directory), which basically is - "not relative", to ensure that "kill -HUP" and the "REHASH" command work - as expected later on. (Closes #127) - - Make the "&SERVER" channel definable in a [Channel] configuration block, - which enables server operators to overwrite the built-in topic and - channel modes. (Closes #131) - - Don't limit list size of "WHO #channel" commands, because it makes no - sense to not return all the users in that channel, so I removed the - check. But if there are more than MAX_RPL_WHO(25) replies, the client - requesting the list will be "penalized" one second more, then 2 in - total. (Closes #125) - - Make ngIRCd buildable using the kqueue() IO interface on FreeBSD 4.x. - - Fix the "NoticeAuth" configuration option when using SSL connections and - enhance the message to show the hostname and IDENT reply of the client. - - Introduce numeric RPL_HOSTHIDDEN_MSG (396): This numeric is sent to the - client each time it changes its displayed hostname using "MODE +/-x", - and if "CloakHost" is set right after the MOTD has been sent. - - Fix USERHOST not displaying the correctly cloaked hostname. - - Implement user mode "B" ("Bot flag"): it is settable and unsettable by - every (non-restricted) client. This is how Unreal and InspIRCd do - behave, and so do we :-) - - Dynamically allocate memory for connection passwords: This a) saves - memory for clients not using passwords at all and b) allows for - "arbitrarily" long passwords. - - Implement channel mode "M": Only the server, identified users and IRC - operators are able to talk in such a channel. - - Block nicknames that are reserved for services and are defined using the - configuration variable "ServiceMask" in "Server" blocks; And this - variable now can handle more than one mask separated by commas. - - Now "make uninstall" removes the installed "ngircd.conf" file, if it is - still equal to our "sample-ngircd.conf" file and therefore hasn't been - modified by the user. If it has been modified, it isn't removed and a - notice is displayed to the user. And "make install" now displays a - message when no ngircd.conf file exists and the "sample-ngircd.conf" - file will be installed as a starting point. - - Add contrib/ngircd.service, a systemd service file for ngircd. - - Implemented XOP channel user modes: "Half Op" ("+h", prefix "%") can set - the channel modes +imntvIbek and kick all +v and normal users; "Admin" - ("+a", prefix "&") can set channel modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +o, - +h, +v and normal users; and "Owner" ("+q", prefix "~") can set channel - modes +imntvIbekoRsz and kick all +a, +o, +h, +v and normal users. - - Implement hashed cloaked hostnames for both the "CloakHost" and - "CloakHostModeX" configuration options: now the admin can use the new - '%x' placeholder to insert a hashed version of the clients hostname, - and the new configuration option "CloakHostSalt" defines the salt for - the hash function. When "CloakHostSalt" is not set (the default), a - random salt will be generated after each server restart. (Closes #133) - -ngIRCd 19.2 (2012-06-19) - - - doc/Capabilities.txt: document "multi-prefix" capability - - ngIRCd 19.2~rc1 (2012-06-13) - - New configuration option "CloakHostModeX" to configure the hostname - that gets used for IRC clients which have user mode "+x" enabled. - Up to now, the name of the IRC server itself has been used for this, - which still is the default when "CloakHostModeX" isn't set. - - Correctly handle asynchronously re-established server links: a race - condition could let the daemon loose track of an already re-established - incoming server link while preparing its own outgoing connection. - Peers that both try to connect each other could have been affected. - - Log a debug message when SIGUSR2 is handled in debug mode. - - Only allow alphanumeric characters in user-supplied user names of - USER command and IDENT replies. - - Change wording of "TLS initialized" message to make it more consistent. - - Don't leak file descriptors on error path when creating "PID files". - - Add missing mode "r" to CHANMODES in 005 "ISUPPORT" numeric. - - Update doc/Modes.txt and doc/Platforms.txt documents. - - contrib/platformtest.sh: correctly detect Open64 C compiler and handle - "CC=xxx MAKE=yyy ./platformtest.sh" calling convention. - - Add instructions for setting up Atheme IRC services. - - Implement support for IRC capability handling, the new "CAP" command, - and capability "multi-prefix" which allows both the NAME and WHO command - handlers to return more than one "class prefix" to the client. - - Update Xcode project files: reference missing documentation files. - - Fix: Don't ignore "permission denied" errors when enabling chroot. - - FAQ: enhance description of chroot setup. - -ngIRCd 19.1 (2012-03-19) - - - Fix gcc warning (v4.6.3), initialize "list" variable to NULL. - - Fix typos: "recieved" -> "received", "Please not" -> "Please note", - and fix lintian(1) warning ""hyphen-used-as-minus-sign", too. - - Really include _all_ patches to build the Anope module into the - distribution archive ... ooops! - - getpid.sh: Fix test case error for Debian using sbuild(1). - - Don't log "ngIRCd hello message" two times when starting up. - -ngIRCd 19 (2012-02-29) - - - Update build system: bump config.guess and config.sub files used by - GNU autoconf/automake to recent versions. - - Fix configuration file parser: don't accept "[SSL]" blocks in the - configuration file when no SSL support is built in ngIRCd. - - Fix building ngIRCd with old gcc versions (e. g. 2.7.2). - - Correctly re-open syslog logging after reading of configuration - file: Syslog logging has been initialized before reading the - configuration, so ngIRCd always used the default facility and ignored - the "SyslogFacility" configuration option ... - Thanks to Patrik Schindler for reporting this issue! - - ngIRCd 19~rc1 (2012-02-12) - - Enhance command limits for server links: the limit now is dependent - on the number of users connected in the network and higher while - servers are joining the network to make the login of servers faster. - - Log more information about server synchronization. - - Update preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9.6, which now - is the only supported version. - - New numeric RPL_WHOISHOST_MSG(378), which returns the DNS host name - (if available) and the IP address of a client in the WHOIS reply. - Only the user itself and local IRC operators get this numeric. - - Implement channel exception list (mode 'e'). This allows a channel - operator to define exception masks that allow users to join the - channel even when a "ban" would match and prevent them from joining: - the exception list (e) overrides the ban list (b). - - PRIVMSG and NOTICE: Handle nick!user@host masks case-insensitive. - - Implement user mode 'C': If the target user of a PRIVMSG or NOTICE - command has the user mode 'C' set, it is required that both sender - and receiver are on the same channel. This prevents private flooding - by completely unknown clients. - - New RPL_WHOISREGNICK_MSG(307) numeric in WHOIS command replies: it - indicates if a nickname is registered (if user mode 'R' set). - - Limit channel invite, ban, and exception lists to 50 entries and fix - duplicate check and error messages when adding already listed entries - or deleting no (longer) existing ones. - - Fix both ERR_SUMMONDISABLED(445) and ERR_USERSDISABLED(446) replies. - - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for - unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501). - - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES", - add "EXCEPTS=e" and "INVEX=I", add "MAXLIST=beI:50". - - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25), - WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands. - - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive. - - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes - that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number - in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5". - - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments. - For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling - "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f". - - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of - the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an - assertion and end the daemon in some error paths. - - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child - processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases - with IDENT lookups enabled. - - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS, - don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is - case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the - unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client). - - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply. - - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE - commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with - commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit. - Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks! - - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variable in the - configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user). - - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-) - - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single - channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel - limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check - the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when - trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of. - - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nicknames. - - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not - sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become - "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied - user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details. - - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>" - returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata, - thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead - of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel. - - Fixed some spelling errors in documentation and code comments - (Thanks to Christoph Biedl). - - contrib/Debian/control: Update and complete "Build-Depends" and - update our Debian package descriptions with "official" ones. - - Fixed typo in two error messages. - - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting - client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by - using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks! - - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but - are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now - handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least. - Reported by Cahata, thanks! - - README: Update list of implemented commands. - - Log better error messages when rejecting clients. - - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are - synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only. - If you use "*!<user>@<host>" or "*!*@<host>" masks, these connections - are blocked even before the user is fully logged in (before PASS, - NICK, and USER commands have been processed) and before the child - processes for authentication are forked, so resource usage is smaller. - - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR - for Mac OS X Xcode builds. - - ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use - poll() when poll.h exists as well. - - Suppress 'Can't create pre-defined channel: invalid name: ""' message. - - whois-test: handle local host name = "localhost.localdomain" using the - pattern "localhost*" for valid local host names. - - sample-ngircd.conf: show correct default for "PAM" variable: The - default of "PAM" is "yes" when ngIRCd has been configured to use it, - so show the correct default value in the sample configuration file. - (Closes #119) - - Update GPL 2 license text to current version. - - Only close "unrelated" sockets in forked child processes: This fixes - the problem that ngIRCd can't do any IDENT lookups because of the - socket has already been closed in the child process. - The bug has been introduced starting with ngIRCd 17 ... :-( - (commit ID 6ebb31ab35e) - - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd. - - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nickname of this user - is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must - be set and unset by IRC services like Anope. - - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user - mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel. - - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only. - - New 2nd message "Nickname too long" for error code 432. - - Xcode: Mac OS X config.h: support 10.5 as well as 10.6/10.7 SDK. - - Xcode: exclude more Xcode 4 specific directories in ".gitignore". - - Disconnect directly linked servers sending QUIT. Without this, - the server becomes removed from the network and the client list, - but the connection isn't shut down at all ... - - contrib/ngindent: detect "gindent" as GNU indent. - - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and - forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise. - - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers. - These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment, - but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes" - and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nickname" - argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved - and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise. - - Correctly inform clients when other servers change their user modes. - This is required for some services to work correctly. - - Test suite: make getpid.sh work even when run as root. - - Spoofed prefixes: close connection on non-server links only. - On server-links, spoofed prefixes can happen because of the - asynchronous nature of the IRC protocol. So don't break server- - links, only log a message and ignore the command. (Closes #113) - -ngIRCd 18 (2011-07-10) - - - Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page. - - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/. - - Don't register WHOWAS information when "MorePrivacy" option is in effect. - - ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29) - - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-) - - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section. - - ngircd.8: document debugging options. - - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables - ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients - that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no - longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections). - - ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27) - - PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored. - - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information. - When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit - messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped. - All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd - servers from TOR or I2P. - - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If - activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both - other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward - the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell - trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP - commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users. - There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me - commands") requests are not scrubbed. - - Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest". - - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options], - and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the - [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that - most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional - variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of - ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables - are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in - the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized. - => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"! - - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt. - - Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers. - - GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients - refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it - would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on - current hardware ... - - contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection. - - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer - space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid - wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer - overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording. - - Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links - (often used by services, for example) are not affected. - - Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-) - - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When - enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric - "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the - network until the client responds with the correct PONG. - - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When - active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time - like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does. - - Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves - like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator. - - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This - helps to speed up server login and network synchronization. - - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one - wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather - than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion. - - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables - (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each - variable description. - - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net". - - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST". - - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this host name is used for - every client instead of the real DNS host name (or IP address). - - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets - every clients' user name to their nickname and hides the user name - supplied by the IRC client. - - doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands. - - Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ... - - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client - got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients - can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at - the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links. - - Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops. - - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers - that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to - establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed. - - Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values. - - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services. - - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is - used on DALnet (bahamut), for example. - - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration - including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option. - - TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other - servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when - the client is not joined to this channel. - - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new - [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes', - 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and - vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables - in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change. - - Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to - ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ... - - Don't throttle services and servers being registered. - - Xcode: correctly sort files :-) - - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is - only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid - commands). - -ngIRCd 17.1 (2010-12-19) - - - --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase - - Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit - - Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly - - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr - - Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section - - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section - - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled - - README: Updated list of implemented commands - - add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball - - Merge branch 'numeric-329' - - add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball - - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands - - Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime() - -ngIRCd 17 (2010-11-07) - - - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir - - Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf - - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa - - contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent - - ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27) - - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updated project file - to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it - is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default - PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd. - - Debian: updated standards version to 3.9.1, added libpam0g-dev to the - dependencies, and install a default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins. - - Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable. - - Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links. - - ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25) - - ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a. - - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag. - - Make source code compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile - ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again. - - ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C. - - ./configure: check support for C prototypes again. - - Don't use PARAMS() macro for function implementations. - - Added m68k/apple/aux3.0.1 (gcc 2.7.2) to doc/Platforms.txt. - - Only try to set FD_CLOEXEC if this flag is defined. - - Only use "__attribute__ ((unused))" if GCC >=2.8 is used. - - doc/Makefile.am: don't set docdir, automake handles it already. - - ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11) - - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at - runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using - Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X). - - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility" - (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages. - Possible values are system dependent, but most probably "auth", "daemon", - "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3). - Default is "local5" for historical reasons. - - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established - connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving - the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled. - - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using - signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup - using the command line parameters. - - Signal handler: added new 'delayed' signal handlers, including fallback - to deprecated sysv API. And removed global NGIRCd_SignalRehash variable. - - IO: add io_cloexec() to set close-on-exec flag. - - ng_ipaddr.h: include required assert.h header. - - Conn_SyncServerStruct(): test all connections; and work case insensitive - - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output. - - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the - client lag debug-output is working again. - - Implement user mode "x": host name cloaking (closes: #102). - - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108). - - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit. - - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile. - - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contents of the MOTD - file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to - re-read the MOTD file when its content changed. - - Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon. - - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set. - - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100). - - Added mailmap file for git-[short]log and git-blame. - - Authenticated users should be registered without the "~" mark. - - Set NoPAM=yes in configuration files used for the testsuite. - - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM. - - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the - file doc/PAM.txt for details. - - Resolver: Implement signal handler and catch TERM signals. - - Don't set a penalty time when doing DNS lookups. - - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt. - - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that - this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator. - - ngircd.init: require "$network" and "$remote_fs" when stopping ngircd. - - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275. - - Include correct header files when testing for arpa/inet.h (Closes: #105). - - Don't access already freed memory in IRC_KILL(). - - Fix "beeing" typo ... - - SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message. - -ngIRCd 16 (2010-05-02) - - - doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker - - ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25) - - Updated some more copyright notices, it's 2010 already :-) - - Only compile in Get_Error() if really needed - - Fix gcc warning "ignoring return value of ..." - - Include netinet/in_systm.h alongside netinet/ip.h - - Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h - - Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists - - Updated doc/Platforms.txt - - Enhance connection statistics counters: display total number of served - connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using - the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250). - - ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25) - - Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups. - - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit. - - Updated doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting - how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA). - - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list). - - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define - - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric - - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output. - - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable. - - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password - required to secure this command must be configured using the new - "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file. - - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts". - - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators. - - Only link "nsl" library when really needed. - - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented: - Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed - to join such a channel. - But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked - when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join - every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this - mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join. - -ngIRCd 15 (2009-11-07) - - - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset. - - ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15) - - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so - ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now. - - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (instead of the already - implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command). - - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that - enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT - on the local server. - - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0 - for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file. - - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names. - - Fix LSB header of Debian init script. - - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh - to ease generating platform reports. - - Fix connection information for already registered connections. - - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements - a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes - per second before a one second pause is enforced. - - Fix connection counter. - - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections. - - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation. - -ngIRCd 14.1 (2009-05-05) - - - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code. - - BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh. - - New start/stop script for RedHat-based distributions: - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init, thanks to Naoya Nakazawa <naoya@sanow.net>. - - Doxygen: update source code repository link to GIT. - - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package. - - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value. - - Fix error handling on compressed links. - - Fix server list announcement. - - Do not remove host names from info text. - -ngIRCd 14 (2009-04-20) - - - Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections. - - ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29) - - Updated Debian/Linux init script (see contrib/Debian/ngircd.init). - - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels. - - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available). - - Spell check and enhance ngIRCd manual pages. - - Channel mode changes: break on syntax errors in MODE command. - - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce - new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf, - here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains - individual channel keys for different users. - - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf. - - Updated ngircd.spec file for building RPM packages. - - Add new and missing files to Mac OS X Xcode project, and update project. - - Reject masks with wildcard after last dot. - - TLS/SSL: remove useless error message when ssl connection is closed. - - Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down. - (closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net) - - Fix handling of channels containing dots. - (closes bug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga) - -ngIRCd 13 (2008-12-25) - - - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt. - - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris. - - ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21): - - New version number scheme :-) - - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface, - tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13. - For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming - to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask. - - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using - OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls). - New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword, - SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect. - - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only - visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network. - In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs - all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives. - - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package. - - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)). - - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available. - - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators). - - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits. - - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets. - - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two - servers are started for testing server-server linking. - - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console. - - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the - daemon is compiled with IDENT support. - -ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09) - - - Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode - - Don't allow stray \r or \n in command parameters - - --configtest: return non-zero exit code if there are errors - - Update ngIRCd manual pages - - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help). - - Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error. - - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also - obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it - is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0". - Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized, - but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file. - -ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13) - - - Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns - proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran) - - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX. - - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number. - - ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29) - - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support. - - Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now! - - Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT. - - Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition. - - Report ERR_NOTONCHANNEL when trying to part a channel one is not member of. - - Testsuite: remove erroneous ConfUID setting in config file. - - ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20) - - Include Mac OS X Xcode project in distribution archives. - - Do not exit on SIGHUP or /REHASH if the config file cannot opened. - - Add IPv6 support. - - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X. - - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and - enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom) - - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+). - (Dana Dahlstrom) - - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user - nickname/server name/host name, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1. - (reported by Dana Dahlstrom) - - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom) - - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated - as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a - member of. (Dana Dahlstrom) - - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager) - -ngIRCd 0.11.1 (2008-02-26) - - - Fix sending of JOIN commands between servers when remote server appended - mode flags. (Rolf Eike Beer) [from HEAD] - - Send "G" instead of "H" flag in WHO replies. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom) - - Under some circumstances ngIRCd issued channel MODE message with a - trailing space. (Dana Dahlstrom) [from HEAD] - -ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15) - - ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07) - - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing - ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285) - - ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02) - - Use dotted-decimal IP address if host name is >= 64. - - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command. - - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify - the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server. - - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum - length of user nicknames. Note: must be unique in an IRC network! - - Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and - enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD). - See doc/Protocol.txt for details. - - Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!? - - Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced - to the network as well as the wrong output of the LINKS command. - - Update Mac OS X Xcode project file for Xcode 3. - - Adjust test suite to be usable on HP/UX 11.11 :-) - - Fix code to compile using K&R C compiler and ansi2kr again. - - New config option NoDNS: Disables DNS lookups when clients connect. - - Fixed propagation of channel mode 'P' on server links. - - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result). - - Fixed code that prevented GCC 2.95 to compile ngIRCd. - - Adjust path names in manual pages according to "./configure" settings. - - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to - disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd, - but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer) - - Don't connect to a server if a connection to another server within the - same group is already in progress. - - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC - operators. - -ngIRCd 0.10.4 (2008-01-07) - - - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing - ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285) - -ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01) - - - SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could - cause the server to crash. Thanks to Sebastian Vesper, <net@veoson.net>. - (CVE-2007-6062) - -ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08) - - ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre2 (2007-05-19) - - Server links are allowed to use larger write buffers now (up to 50 KB). - - ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre1 (2007-05-05) - - Fix compressed server links (broken since 0.10.0). - - Predefined Channel configuration now allows specification of channel key - (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l). - - When using epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as - well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime. - - New configure option "--without-select" to disable select() IO API - (even when using epoll(), see above). - - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll". - - Reorganized internal handling of invite and ban lists. - -ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17) - - - Fixed validation of server names containing digits. - - Update the "info text" of the local server after re-reading configuration. - - Changed Numerics 265 and 266 to follow ircd 2.11.x "standards". - - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too. - - Enhanced ISUPPORT message (005 numeric). - - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only - join predefined channels. - - Code cleanups: use "LogDebug(...)" instead of "Log(LOG_DEBUG, ...)", use - "strcspn()", unsigned vs. signed, use "const", fix whitespaces, ... - -ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01) - - - Fixed file handle leak when daemon is not able to send MOTD to a client. - - ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre2 (2006-09-09) - - Fixed build problems with GCC option -fstack-protector. - - Minor documentation updates. - - ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02) - - Validate "ServerName" (see RFC 2812, section 2.3.1). - - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent - to all locally connected clients before the server goes down. - - The ngIRCd handles time shifts backwards more gracefully now (the - timeout handling doesn't disconnect clients by mistake any more). - - Internal: Restructured connection handling (the connection ID is equal - to the file descriptor of the connection). - - Internal: Simplified resolver code. - - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time. - - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic. - - Enhanced the handler for PING and PONG commands: fix forwarding and enable - back-passing of a client supplied additional argument of PING. - - Changed handling of timeouts for unregistered connections: don't reset - the counter if data is received and disconnect clients earlier. - - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead. - - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit - is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this - limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead). - - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional - lookup to prevent spoofing. - - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in - addition to the select() interface. - -ngIRCd 0.9.2 (2005-10-15) - - - Fixed a bug that could cause the daemon to crash when outgoing server - connections can't be established. - - Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to leak file descriptors when no - resolver subprocesses could be created. - - Fixed server NOTICEs to users with "s" mode ("server messages"). - - Fixed a format string bug in "connection statistics" messages to clients. - -ngIRCd 0.9.1 (2005-08-03) - - - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!) - when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in - ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by <qssl@fastmail.fm>, Thanks! - - Changed some constants to be "signed" (instead of unsigned) to solve - problems with old (pre-ANSI) compilers. - -ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24) - - ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09) - - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters. - - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead - of shutting down the (wrong) connection. - - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the - client is registered with the server (like the original ircd). - - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID. - - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant. - - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client - is member of multiple channels. - - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and - pray that this will be "the right thing" ... - - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS". - - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug. - - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well. - - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path - to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident". - - Removed typedefs for the native C data types. - Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available. - - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed - when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled - to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators. - Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. - - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s"). - - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER - commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal. - - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug - code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process. - - Don't create version information string each time a client connects - but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal. - - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined, - the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off. - Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. - - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. - - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters. - - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc() - failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway. - Patch from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. - - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/) - Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available - API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous". - - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and - most probably other older C compilers on other systems. - - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in - the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it - changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This - should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with - root privileges ... - -ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03) - - - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled - to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi, - <coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot! - (CVE-2005-0226; http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt) - -ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26) - - - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution. - - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found - by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. (CVE-2005-0199) - - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks - to Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. - - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by - Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. - - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has - been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/ - It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself, - not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. - -ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25) - - - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub - - Added some more debug code ... - - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest". - - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for - ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after - reading this file. - - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README! - -ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26) - - - Fixed wrong buffer size calculation for results of the resolver. - - ngircd 0.8.0-pre2 (2004-05-16) - - Enhanced logging to console when running in "no-detached mode": added - PID and log messages of resolver sub-processes. - - Fixed host name lookups when using IDENT user lookups. - - "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean" remove more files now. - - ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07) - - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to - Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change - its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used - to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the - "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail". - - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when - establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well. - - Reorganized autogen.sh and configure scripts. - - Fixed a wrong assert() which could cause the daemon to exit spuriously - when closing down connections. - - Better logging of decompression errors returned by zlib. - - Servers other than the destination server didn't clean up the invite - list of an "invite-only" channel properly when an INVITE'd user joined. - - Changed the reply of the MODE command to match the syntax of the - original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last - parameter has been added. - - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info. - - Results of the resolver (host names and IDENT names) are discarded after - the client is successfully registered with the server. - - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections. - - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now. - - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest". - - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You - have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident". - The default is not to do IDENT lookups. - -ngIRCd 0.7.7 (2004-02-05) - - - The info text ("real name") of users is set to "-" if none has been - specified using the USER command (e. g. "USER user * * :"). Reason: - the original ircd doesn't like empty ones and would KILL such users. - - Fixed (optional) TCP Wrapper test which was broken and could result in - false results. Thanks to Fuminori Tanizaki <tany@mcnet.ad.jp>! - - Removed "USE_" prefixes of configuration #defines. - -ngIRCd 0.7.6 (2003-12-05) - - - Fixed abort() ("server crash") when INVITE'ing users to nonexistent - channels. Bug found by <hiddenx@wp.pl>. - - Extended version numbering of CVS versions (added date). - - Enhanced/fixed doc/Protocol.txt; - -ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-11-07) - - - Fixed ban behavior: users which are banned from a channel can't no - longer send PRIVMSG's to this channel (fixes Bug #47). - - Fixed and enhanced the "penalty handling" of the server: commands that - require more resources block the client for a short time. - - Changed the internal time resolution to one second. - - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of - simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept. - This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks - (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP. - - Fixed build problems under Mac OS X 10.3. - - Use "-pipe" when compiling with gcc, speeds things up a little :-) - - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening - sockets of the server to a single IP address. - - Suppress misleading error message of diff during make run. - - Enhanced test-suite and made it work on GNU/Hurd. - - Fixed minor typo in debug output :-) - -ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18) - - - Included files to build Debian packages (located in "debian/"). - - Updated config.guess and config.sub to newer upstream versions. - - NJOIN propagates user channel modes correctly again ... Upsa. - - Made Makefile more compatible with "make -j<n>". - - Added support for GNU/Hurd. - - Fixed a compiler warning related to an unnecessary assert(). - - Enhanced VERSION command when using debug versions. - -ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01) - - - "ServerName" is checked better now: a dot (".") is required. - - The KILL command verifies and logs more parameters. - - ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre2 (2003-04-27) - - CVS build system fixes (made autogen.sh more portable). - - Fixed compilation and test-suite on Solaris (tested with 2.6). - - New documentation file "doc/Platforms.txt" describing the status of - ngIRCd on the various tested platforms. - - Test for broken GCC on Mac OS X and disable "-pedantic" in this case. - - Disable "-ansi" on Cygwin: system headers are incompatible. - - The server tried to connect to other servers only once when DNS or - socket failures occurred. - - Fixed --configtest: There is no variable "ServerPwd", it's "Password". - - ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 (2003-04-22) - - New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside). - - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled. - - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the - more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems - that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included - in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h). - - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that - can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken. - - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-) - - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and - removing servers during runtime works more reliable now. - - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]" - - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]". - - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not - RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an - configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>" - to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!). - - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers. - - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The - German documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer). - - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision. - - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding. - - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool". - - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment). - - New command HELP that lists all understood commands. - - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS) - if an outgoing server link can't be established. - - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility. - - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly. - - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the - new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure. - - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to - configure to enable it. - - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix - instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib", - "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous". - - Better error reporting to clients on connect. - - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5). - - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd. - - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions. - -ngIRCd 0.6.1 (2003-01-21) - - - Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more, - ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you - can kill only valid users now. - - The server no longer forwards commands to ordinary users, instead it - answers with the correct error message ("no such server") now. - - WHOIS commands weren't always forwarded as requested. - - The server sets a correct default AWAY message now when propagating - between servers (bug introduced in 0.6.0). - - Fixed up and enhanced CHANINFO command: channel keys and user limits - are synchronized between servers now, too. - - MODE returns the key and user limit for channel members correctly now. - - Non-members of a channel could crash the server when trying to change - its modes or modes of its members. - - The server didn't validate weather a target user is a valid channel - member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd. - - -Older changes (sorry, only available in German language): - -ngIRCd 0.6.0, 24.12.2002 - - ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 23.12.2002 - - neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect. - - LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen - Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start - dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt. - - ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 18.12.2002 - - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR - noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an. - - der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den - Resolver (4 Sekunden), wenn das Ergebnis eintrifft setzt er aber den - Login sofort fort (bisher wurde immer mind. 1 Sekunde gewartet). - - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird - bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert. - - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sektion "Global") - kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden. - Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert". - - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem - Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene - ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden - Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert - werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren). - - Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst. - - unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED. - - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das - Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches - B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server", - wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt. - - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies - macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird. - - Channel-Mode "P" ("persistent") kann nur noch von IRC-Operatoren gesetzt - werden. Grund: User koennen den Server sonst leicht "Channel-Flooden". - - MOTD kann nun an andere Server geforwarded werden. - - IRC-Befehl "TIME" implementiert. - - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib - (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung - nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist - kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen - miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren. - - Handling der Schreibpuffer umgestellt: Server sollte schneller arbeiten. - - Prefix-Fehler werden besser protokolliert (mit verursachendem Befehl). - - SQUIT wird nicht mehr doppelt an andere Server weitergeleitet. - - Der Server versucht nun vor dem Schliessen einer Verbindung Daten, die - noch im Schreibpuffer stehen, zu senden. - - Source in weiteres Modul "irc-info" aufgespalten. - - Konfigurationsvariablen werden besser validiert: Laengen, Zahlen, ... - - neuen Befehl STATS begonnen: bisher unterstuetzt wird "l" und "m". - - bei ISON und USERHOST fehlte im Ergebnis-String der korrekte Absender. - - IRC Operatoren koennen nun mit KILL User toeten. Achtung: ein Grund muss - zwingend als zweiter Parameter angegeben werden! - - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl - der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden. - - neuer, deutlich flexiblerer Parser fuer den MODE Befehl. - - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert. - -ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002 - - - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch - unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden. - - in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht - nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe - verwendet werden. Beim Start des Daemons wird nun beides angezeigt. - - Besseres Logging von Prefix-Fehlern. - - angenommene Sockets werden nun korrekt auf "non-blocking" konfiguriert, - beim Senden und Empfangen werden Blockierungen besser abgefangen. - - RPL_UMODEIS hat Code 221, nicht 211 ... *argl* - - select() in Try_Write() hat falschen (keinen!) Timeout verwendet; - die "Zeit-Aufloesung" des Servers sind zudem nun 2 Sekunden (TIME_RES). - Insgesamt sollte die Reaktionszeit des Server nun besser sein. - -ngIRCd 0.5.3, 08.11.2002 - - - NOTICE liefert nun wirklich nie mehr einen Fehler, auch dann nicht, - wenn der sendende Client noch gar nicht registriert ist. - - ein "schneller Server-Reconnect" wird nur noch dann versucht, wenn die - Verbindung zuvor ordentlich (="lange genug") in Ordnung war; somit also - nicht meht, wenn der Peer-Server gleich beim Connect ein ERROR liefert. - Das vermeidet "Connect-Orgien". - - einige Datentypen aufgeraumt: z.B. sind viele INT32s nun LONGs. Das ist - auf Platformen mit 8-Byte-Integern kompatibler. - - RPL_YOURHOST_MSG ist nun ircII- und RFC-kompatibel ;-) - - Segfault unter hoher Netzaktivitaet behoben: in Conn_Close() wird die - Connection-Struktur nun frueher als "ungueltig" markiert. - -ngIRCd 0.5.2, 04.10.2002 - - - Buffer Overflow in Read_Resolver_Result() behoben. - - Format-String-Bugs, die zum Abbruch des Servers fuehrten, behoben. - - Maximale Laenge eines IRC-Prefix wurde falsch berechnet. - -ngIRCd 0.5.1, 03.10.2002 - - - in RPL_YOURHOST_MSG wurde ein fehlerhafter Versionsstring geliefert. - - Test-Suite: start-server.sh, stop-server.sh und stress-server.sh koennen - nun "manuell" von der Kommandozeile gestartet werden, stress-server.sh - startet per Default nur noch 5 Sessions, eine andere Zahl kann auf der - Kommandozeile uebergeben werden (Syntax: "stress-server.sh <count>"). - - In bestimmten Faellen hat der Server versucht auf einen bereits wieder - geschlossenen Socket Daten zu schreiben; das fuehrte zu einem Abbruch des - Servers durch ein assert(). Nun wird geprueft, ob der Socket noch ok ist. - - im "contrib"-Verzeichnis befindet sich nun eine RPM-Spec-Datei, aus den - .tar.gz's koennen nun mit "rpm -ta <archiv>" RPM's erzeugt werden. Danke - an Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>! - - Syntax von RPL_MYINFO_MSG korrigiert: liefert nun vier Parameter. - -ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002 - - - Dokumentation aktualisiert. - - Fehler bei Validierung von "AdminInfo2" behoben. - - Test der Flags fuer "ps" in der Testsuite verbessert, ist nun zu mehr - Plattformen kompatibler. - - ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre2, 17.09.2002 - - Fix in IRC_WriteStrServersPrefix() war "badly broken" -- behoben. - - ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre1, 16.09.2002 - - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen. - - Wird der Netzwerk-Sniffer aktiviert (--sniffer), so schaltet der - ngIRCd nun automatisch in den Debug-Modus. - - auf Systemen, die inet_aton() nicht kennen (wie z.B. A/UX), kann der - ngIRCd nun dennoch auch aktiv Server-Links aufbauen. - - h_errno wird auf Systemen, die das nicht kennen (wie z.B. HP-UX 10.20) - nicht mehr verwendet. Somit compiliert der ngIRCd nun auch dort :-) - - um auf dem Ziel-System nicht vorhandene Funktionen nachzubilden wird nun - die "libngportab" erzeugt; genutzt wird dies bisher fuer vsnprintf(). - Nun compiliert der ngIRCd auch unter Solaris 2.5.1. - - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der - Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel- - Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen, - wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. Zu Channel-Operatoren werden bisher - nur IRC-Operatoren, die den Channel betreten. Die persistenten Channels - werden durch das Flag "P" gelennzeichnet, welches normal durch Channel- - Op's gesetzt und geloescht werden kann. - - bei "--configtest" werden keine leere Abschnitte mehr ausgegeben. - - Source in weitere Module aufgespalten: lists, irc-op und resolve. - - #include's aufgeraeumt: Header includieren keine anderen mehr. - - KICK implementiert (bisher kann nur ein User aus einem Channel geckicked - werden, Listen, wir im RFC vorgesehen, werden bisher nicht unterstuetzt). - - INVITE, den Channel-Mode "i" sowie Invite-Lists ueber den MODE-Befehl - (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert. - - Source an ansi2knr fuer pre-ANSI-Compiler angepasst; ansi2knr in Source- - Tree aufgenommen und in Build-System integriert; der ngIRCd compiliert - nun z.B. unter A/UX mit dem nativen Compiler von Apple. - - TOPIC lieferte bei unbekanntem Channel einen falschen Fehlercode. - - LIST versteht nun Wildcards und kann an andere Server geforwarded werden. - - wurde ein KILL fuer nicht-lokale Clients empfangen, so wurden die - Verwaltungs-Strukturen nicht korrekt freigegeben. - - empfangene NJOIN's wurden "zerhackt" an andere Server weitergegeben. - - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"): - ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen. - - Dokumentation des neuen IRC+-Protokolls begonnen: doc/Protocol.txt - - Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt; - bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet. - Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben. - - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+- - Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. - - neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das - IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert). - - Ban-Lists (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert. - - wird der Server mit "-n"/"--nodaemon" gestartet, so werden keine Mel- - dungen mehr ueber Syslog ausgegeben, sondern nur noch auf der Konsole. - - "Test-Suite" begonnen (in "make check" integriert): Dabei wird ein - speziell konfigurierter Server auf Port 6789 gestartet, mit dem dann - einige Tests durchgefuehrt werden (u.a. "Stress-Test" mit 50 Clients). - - zu lange Operator-Namen in der Konfiguration wurden falsch gekuerzt. - - kleine Anpassung an AIX 3.2.5: nun laeuft der ngIRCd auch dort :-) - - ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei - im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und - "AdminEMail" konfiguriert. - -ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002 - - - Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel - ueberhaupt ein User ist. War es keiner, so fuehrte dies zu einem - Abbruch des Servers [es wurde assert() aufgerufen]. - -ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002 - - - LUSERS verzaehlt sich bei eigenen Server-Links nicht mehr. - - QUIT wird nun auch von noch nicht registrierten Clients akzeptiert. - - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine - Wildcards (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt. - -ngIRCd 0.4.1, 08.04.2002 - - - Bei Server-Links wird nicht mehr an Hand der Anzahl der Parameter - eines empfangenen SERVER-Befehls, sondern "intern" erkannt, ob es - sich um eine ein- oder ausgehende Verbindung handelt und somit das - eigene PASS-SERVER-Paar gesendet werden muss oder nicht. Da sich - verschiedene Versionen des Original-ircd's anders verhalten, schlug - die Anmeldung je nach Gehenseite evtl. fehl. - - Bei einem NICK-Befehl eines lokalen Client konnte der Server ab- - stuerzen, da ein Format-String einer Log-Meldung fehlerhaft war. - -ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002 - - - IRC-Befehle nochmal auf weitere Source-Dateien aufgespalten. - - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks). - - Der AWAY-Mode wurde nicht ueber mehrere Server-Links weitergegeben. - - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err). - Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm- - ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl. - zusaetzliche Informationen. - - In Nicknames wird das Zeichen "-" nun als zulaessig erkannt. - - die Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei (doc/sample-ngircd.conf) wird als - ngircd.conf installiert, wenn noch keine "echte" Konfigurationsdatei - vorhanden ist. - - bei WHO, WHOIS und NAMES wird nun nur noch der Status "Operator" oder - "voiced" geliefert -- nicht mehr beides. - - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in - einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server - nicht, so wird der naechste probiert (Variable "Group" in der Kon- - figurationsdatei, Sektion [Server]). - - IRC_PING() ist, wenn nicht im "strict RFC"-Mode, toleranter und ak- - zeptiert beliebig viele Parameter (z.B. BitchX sendet soetwas). - - die "Portab-Header" werden nicht mehr benoetigt, die System-Erkennung - wird nun ausschliesslich vom configure-Script durchgefuehrt. System- - abhaengige Definitionen finden sich nun unter src/portrab/. - - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern - einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein. - - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird - gelesen und dann die verwendeten Werte angezeigt. - - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert. - - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine - alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden. - - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft, - zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln. - - URL der Homepage wird u.a. bei "--version" mit angezeigt. - -ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002 - - - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie - er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert. - - FAQ um Hinweise auf den Bugtracker erweitert. - - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so - verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern. - Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-) - - direkt nach dem Start schreibt der ngIRCd nun die aktiven Kommando- - zeilenschalter in's Logfile (Passive, Debug, Sniffer ...). - - das Signal-Flag SA_RESTART wird nur noch gesetzt, wenn es auf dem - jeweiligen System auch definiert ist. - - bei ausgehenden Verbindungen wird nun der Ziel-Port protokolliert. - - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. - - make-Target "check" (und "distcheck") mit Sinn erfuellt :-) - (die Tests sind aber bisher nicht all zu tiefgehend ...) - - Durch einen Ueberlauf konnte die Idle-Time bei WHOIS negativ werden ... - - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen. - - WHOIS wird nicht mehr automatisch an den "Original-Server" weiterge- - leitet: war eh nicht RFC-konform und machte mit Clients Probleme. - - an User wird nun immer ein "komplettes" Prefix (mit Host-Mask) ver- - schickt, Server bekommen nach wie vor kurze: das "Original" hat bei - bestimmten Befehlen (PRIVMSG) ansonsten evtl. Probleme ... - - NAMES korrigiert und vollstaendig implementiert. - - SQUIT wird auf jeden Fall geforwarded, zudem besseres Logging. - - Ist ein Nick bei der User-Registrierung bereits belegt, nimmt der - Server nun korrekt weitere NICK-Befehle an und verwendet diese. - - PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m". - - AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst. - - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl). - - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asynchron connectiert und - blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht - erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!). - - Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet. - - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert. - -ngIRCd 0.2.1, 17.02.2002 - - - NICK korrigiert: es werden nun auch alle "betroffenen" User informiert. - - configure-Script erweitert, u.a. bessere Anpassung an BeOS: dort wird - nun die "libbe" zum ngIRCd gelinkt, somit funktioniert auch syslog. - - Fehlerhafte bzw. noch nicht verstandene Modes werden nun ausfuehrlicher - an den Client geliefert. - -ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002 - - - Nicknames und Channel-Namen werden etwas besser auf Gueltigkeit ueber- - prueft; ist aber nach wie vor noch nicht ausreichend. - - NJOINS von Servern wurden nicht an andere Server weitergeleitet. - - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der - Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings - noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind - bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange- - nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen. - - Benutzer von connectierenden Servern wurden nicht in den Channels ange- - kuendigt, es wurden nur die internen Strukturen angepasst. - - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt. - -ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002 - - - User-Modes bei User-Registrierungen von andere Servern (NICK-Befehl) - wurden falsch uebernommen. Zudem wurden die Modes falsch gekuerzt. - - Server-Verbindungen werden nun nach dem Start erst nach einer kurzen - Pause aufgebaut (zur Zeit drei Sekunden). - - Hilfetext korrigiert: --help und --version waren vertauscht, die - Option --sniffer wurde gar nicht erwaehnt. - - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen. - - der IRC-Sniffer wird nur noch aktiviert, wenn die Option auf der - Kommandozeile angegeben wurde (bei entsprechend compiliertem Server). - - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h. - es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp. - Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-) - - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN. - - durch die Channels einige Aenderungen an PRIVMSG, WHOIS, MODE etc. - - neu connectierenden Servern werden nun Channels mit NJOIN angekuendigt. - - Signal-Hander geaendert: die Fehlermeldung "interrupted system call" - sollte so nicht mehr auftreten. - - "spaeter" neu connectierende Server werden nun im Netz angekuendigt. - - SERVER-Meldungen an andere Server sind nun korrekt sortiert. - - Clients werden nun korrekt sowohl nur ueber den Nickname als auch die - komplette "Host Mask" erkannt. - -ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002 - - - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch - "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem - IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten. - - MODE und NICK melden nun die Aenderungen an andere Server, ebenso - die Befehle QUIT und SQUIT. - - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet. - - Parses handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer". - - Status-Codes an den Server selber werden ignorier. - - Log-Meldungen und Log-Level ueberarbeitet und korrigiert. - - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe. - - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um. - - WHOIS korrigiert: Anfrage wurde u.U. an User geforwarded anstatt vom - Server beantwortet zu werden. - - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS - - Client-Modes von Remote-Servern wurden nicht korrekt uerbernommen. - -ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002 - - - Struktur der Konfigurationsdatei geaendert: sie ist nun "Samba like", - d.h. sie besteht aus Abschnitten (siehe "doc/sample-ngircd.conf"). - - Es koennen mehrere IRC-Server-Opertatoren konfiguriert werden. - - Zombies der Resolver-Prozesse werden nun ordentlich "getoetet". - - NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern. - - ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar. - - neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT. - - Asynchroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert. - - Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch - nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige - Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert - aber bereits, ebenso wie WHOIS (letzterer wird immer an den Server, - auf dem der User registriert ist, weitergegeben). - - "arpa/inet.h" wird nur noch includiert, wenn vorhanden. - - Fehler bei select() fuerhen nun zum Abbruch von ngIRCd, bisher landete - der Server zumeist in einer Endlosschleife. - - Logmeldungen und Level an vielen Stellen verbessert. - - lokalen Usernamen wird nun ein "~" vorangestellt, da bisher noch keine - Ident-Anfragen gemacht werden. - -ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001 - - - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-) |