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-- ChangeLog --
ngIRCd
ngIRCd Release 18
- Make [No]ZeroConf configuration option work with Howl.
- Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf: '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 are still
accepted, so there is no functional change.
- Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages.
ngIRCd 18~rc1
- PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
- New configuration opion "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
When enabled, signon time and idle time is censored. 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 incomming 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 needlesly 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 secods ("burst"). This
helps to speed up server login and network synchronisation.
- 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 hostname is used for
every client instead of the real DNS hostname (or IP address).
- New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
every clients' user name to their nick name 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
establis 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 beeing registered.
- Xcode: correctly sort files
- Don't assert() when serching a client for an invalid server token.
- Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
- Don't assert() when serching a client for an invalid server token (this is
only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
commands).
ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)

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-- NEWS --
ngIRCd Release 18
ngIRCd
- Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf: '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 are still
accepted, so there is no functional change.
- Don't throttle services and servers beeing registered.
ngIRCd 18~rc1
- New configuration opion "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
When enabled, signon time and idle time is censored. 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 incomming 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.
- 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.
- Avoid needlesly 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
- New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this hostname is used for
every client instead of the real DNS hostname (or IP address).
- New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
every clients' user name to their nick name and hides the user name
supplied by the IRC client.
- 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.
- 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
establis a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
- 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.
- 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.
ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)