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ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
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http://ngircd.barton.de/
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(c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
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ngIRCd is free software and published under the
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terms of the GNU General Public License.
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-- NEWS --
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ngIRCd
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- Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes',
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'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes', 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and
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'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and vice-versa).
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The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables are still
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accepted, so there is no functional change.
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- Don't throttle services and servers beeing registered.
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ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
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- Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
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- Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
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- New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
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ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
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- doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
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ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
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- Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
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- Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
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ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
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ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
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- New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
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runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
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Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
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- New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
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(the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
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Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
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"user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
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Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
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- Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
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connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
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the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
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- Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
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signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
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using the command line parameters.
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- Implement user mode "x": hostname cloaking (closes: #102).
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- Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
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file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
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re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
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- Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
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- Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
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- New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
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- Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
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file doc/PAM.txt for details.
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- Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
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- Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
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this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
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- Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
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ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
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ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
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- Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
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connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
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the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
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ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
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- Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
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required to secure this command must be configured using the new
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"WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
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- Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
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- A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
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Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
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to join such a channel.
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But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
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when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
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every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
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mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
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ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
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ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
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- Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
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ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
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- Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
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implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
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- New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
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enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
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on the local server.
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- Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
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a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
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per second before a one second pause is enforced.
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ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
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- Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
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- Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
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- Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
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ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
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ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
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- Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
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- The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
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- Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
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new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
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here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
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individual channel keys for different users.
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- Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
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ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
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ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
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- New version number scheme :-)
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- Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
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tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
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For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
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to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
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- Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
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OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
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New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
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SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
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- Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
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visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
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In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
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all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
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- New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
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- New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
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daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
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ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
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- Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
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- Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
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obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
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is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
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Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
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but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
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ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
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ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
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- IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
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ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
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- Add IPv6 support.
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- Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
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- Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
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enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
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- IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
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nickname/servername/hostname, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
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(reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
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- Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
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as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
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member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
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- Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
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ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
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- Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
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- New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
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the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
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- New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
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length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
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- Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
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- Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
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disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
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but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
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- Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
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operators.
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ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
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- Predefined channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
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(mode k) and maximum user count (mode l): variables "Key" and "MaxUsers".
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- When using the epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
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well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
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- Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
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ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
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- Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
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- New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
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join predefined channels.
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ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
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ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
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- Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
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to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
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- JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
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- Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
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- Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
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is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
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limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
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- Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
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lookup to prevent spoofing.
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- Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
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addition to the select() interface.
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ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
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- Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
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- Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
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- Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
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- New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
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when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
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to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
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Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
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- Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
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- New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
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commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
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- New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
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the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
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Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
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- Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
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Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
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API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
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ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
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- Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
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Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
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its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
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to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
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"real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
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- INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
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establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
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- The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
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- Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
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- Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
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have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
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The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
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ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-07-11)
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- New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
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simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
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This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
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(DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
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- Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
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sockets of the server to a single IP address.
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ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
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- Added support for GNU/Hurd.
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ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
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- New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
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RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
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configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
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to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
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- Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
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- New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
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- New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
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- ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
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new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
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- Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
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configure to enable it.
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- Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
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instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
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"--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
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- Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
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- Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
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Older news (sorry, only available in german language):
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ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
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- beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
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noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
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- Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
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bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
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- Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sekion "Global")
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kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
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Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
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- der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
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Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
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ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
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Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
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werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
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- Server identifizieren sich nun mit asyncronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
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Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
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B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
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wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
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- Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
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macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
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- Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
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(www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
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nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
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kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
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miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
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- neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
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der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
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- neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
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ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
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- AIX (3.2.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), NetBSD (1.5.3/m68k) und Solaris
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(2.5.1, 2.6) gehoeren nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
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- Unter A/UX (und evtl. weiteren Systemen) kompiliert der ngIRCd nun mit
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dem "nativen" (ggf. pre-ANSI) Compiler.
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- "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
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Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
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Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
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wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist.
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- neue IRC-Befehle: KICK, INVITE, ADMIN, CHANINFO; LIST wurde erweitert.
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Mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO syncronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
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Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics. Fuer den ADMIN-Befehl
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gibt es neue Konfigurationsoptionen (Sektion "Global"): "AdminInfo1",
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"AdminInfo2" und "AdminEMail".
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- Invite- und Ban-Lists implementiert.
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- neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
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ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
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- "Test-Suite" begonnen: mit "make check" wird sie durchlaufen.
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ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
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- IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
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Regular Expressions (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
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ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
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- WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
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- stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/ngircd-<PID>.err).
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Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
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ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
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zusaetzliche Informationen.
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- Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
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einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
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nicht, so wird der naechste probiert.
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- Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
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einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
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- neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
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gelesen und die dann verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
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- Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
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- mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
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alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
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- nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
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zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
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ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
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- bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
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er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
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- neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
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verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
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Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
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- neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert. NAMES korrigiert.
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- Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
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- AWAY (und der User-Mode 'a') ist nun implementiert.
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- der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
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- Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
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ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
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- Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
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Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
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noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
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bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
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nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
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- Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
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ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
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- Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
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es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
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Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
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Dadurch zum Teil groessere Aenderungen an bisherigen Funktionen.
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- neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
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- FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
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ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
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- Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
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"Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
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IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
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- WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
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- Parser handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
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- Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
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- ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
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- neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS.
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ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
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- neuer Aufbau der Konfigurationsdatei,
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- mehrere IRC-Operatoren koennen konfiguriert werden,
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- Server-Links teilweise implementiert. Bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
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nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben.
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ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
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- erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)
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$Id: NEWS,v 1.88 2008/02/26 22:05:42 fw Exp $
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