Hello!
I just prepared ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1. If this version appoves as stable and no more bugs are found it'll become ngIRCd 0.7.0 very soon :-)
ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 contains all enhancements and fixes from CVS-HEAD.
The new CVS branch has the tag "branch-0.7.x". Use "cvs up -d -P -r branch-0-7-x" to switch an existing CVS tree from HEAD to this branch.
Changes since 0.6.1:
- New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside). - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled. - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h). - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken. - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-) - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and removing servers during runtime works more reliable now. - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]" - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]". - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>" to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!). - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers. - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The german documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer). - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision. - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding. - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool". - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment). - New command HELP that lists all understood commands. - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS) if an outgoing server link can't be established. - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility. - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly. - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure. - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to configure to enable it. - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib", "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous". - Better error reporting to clients on connect. - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5). - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd. - Enhanced hanling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
Download (~248 KB):
- ftp://Arthur.Ath.CX/pub/Users/alex/ngircd/ngircd-0.7.0-pre1.tar.gz
Patch from 0.6.1 to 0.7.0-pre1 (~70 KB):
- ftp://Arthur.Ath.CX/pub/Users/alex/ngircd/ngircd-0.6.1-0.7.0-pre1.patch.gz
Read the INSTALL file for upgrading information!
Please test and report bugs to this mailing list. Thanks!
Regards Alex