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ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
http://ngircd.barton.de/
(c)2001-2015 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
-- ChangeLog --
ngIRCd 23
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 behaviour 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- Remove doc/GIT.txt (it is outdated), update doc/Contributing.txt: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.
Idee 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.
Idee and implementation by LucentW, Thanks! Closes #207.
- Update ngircd.conf.5: "CloadUserToNick" hides user _and_ real name.
This closes #208.
- Fix case insensitive pattern matching: Up to now, only the 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.
Idee 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).
Idee 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 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 capablity "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, updateed 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 sourcecode 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 dependant, 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 contens 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.