Update NEWS and ChangeLog file for our upcoming next release
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-- ChangeLog --
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-- ChangeLog --
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ngIRCd
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ngIRCd Release 18
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- Make [No]ZeroConf configuration option work with Howl.
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ngIRCd 18~rc1
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- Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes',
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- PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
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'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes', 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and
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- New configuration opion "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
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'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and vice-versa).
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When enabled, signon time and idle time is censored. Part and quit
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The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables are still
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messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
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accepted, so there is no functional change.
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All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
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- Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages.
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servers from TOR or I2P.
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- New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
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activated, the server silently drops incomming CTCP requests from both
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other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
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the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
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trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
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commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
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There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
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commands") requests are not scrubbed.
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- Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest".
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- Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
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and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
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[Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
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most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
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variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
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ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
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are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
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the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
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=> Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
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- New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
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- Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers.
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- GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients
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refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it
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would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
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current hardware ...
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- contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
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- Avoid needlesly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
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space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
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wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
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overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
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- Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links
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(often used by services, for example) are not affected.
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- Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-)
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- New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
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enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
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"token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
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network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
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- New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
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active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
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like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
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- Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
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like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
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- Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 secods ("burst"). This
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helps to speed up server login and network synchronisation.
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- Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
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wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
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than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
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- ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
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(booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
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variable description.
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- Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
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- Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
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- New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this hostname is used for
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every client instead of the real DNS hostname (or IP address).
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- New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
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every clients' user name to their nick name and hides the user name
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supplied by the IRC client.
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- doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
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- Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
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- Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
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got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
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can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
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the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
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- Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
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- Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
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that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
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establis a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
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- Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
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- Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
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- Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
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used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
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- Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
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including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
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- TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other
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servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when
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the client is not joined to this channel.
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- Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
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[Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
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'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
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vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
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in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
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- Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
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ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
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- Don't throttle services and servers beeing registered.
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- Don't throttle services and servers beeing registered.
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- Xcode: correctly sort files
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- Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
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- Don't assert() when serching a client for an invalid server token.
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- Don't assert() when serching a client for an invalid server token (this is
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only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
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commands).
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ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
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ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
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-- NEWS --
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ngIRCd Release 18
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ngIRCd
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- New configuration opion "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
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- Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes',
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When enabled, signon time and idle time is censored. Part and quit
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'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes', 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and
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messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
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'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and vice-versa).
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All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
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The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables are still
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servers from TOR or I2P.
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accepted, so there is no functional change.
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- New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
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- Don't throttle services and servers beeing registered.
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activated, the server silently drops incomming CTCP requests from both
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other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
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the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
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trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
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commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
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There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
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commands") requests are not scrubbed.
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- Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
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and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
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[Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
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most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
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variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
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ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
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are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
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the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
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=> Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
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- New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
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- Avoid needlesly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
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wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
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overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
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- New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
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enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
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"token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
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network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
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- New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
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active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
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like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
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- Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
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wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
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than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
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- ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
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(booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
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variable description.
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- Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
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- New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this hostname is used for
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every client instead of the real DNS hostname (or IP address).
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- New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
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every clients' user name to their nick name and hides the user name
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supplied by the IRC client.
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- Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
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got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
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can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
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the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
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- Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
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that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
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establis a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
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- Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
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- Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
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used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
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- Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
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including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
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- Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
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[Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
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'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
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vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
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in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
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ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
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ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
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