Release History of IRCG 4

IRCG 4 Gamma 23

• Added support for FastCGI
• Added support for the PHP FastCGI SAPI
• Added ircg.keep_alive_interval to define the interval in seconds between sending keep-alive sequences (default 60s)
• Fixed a tiny bug which caused a dead HTTP connection to be read multiple times unnecessarily

IRCG 4 Gamma 22

• Fixed incomplete relocation callback map

IRCG 4 Gamma 21

• Added ircg_lusers(int connection)
• Added ircg_names(int connection, string channel [, string target])
• Added ircg_oper(int connection, string name, string password)
• Added ircg_list(int connection, string channel)
• Added support for RPL_LUSER*, RPL_YOUREOPER, various ERR_*
• Added HTML-encoding of all data sources (%c etc.)
• Added highest used fd/maximum open fds info to phpinfo()

IRCG 4 Gamma 20

• Fixed parameter offset when handling normal IRC error messages, so that the message text is passed through to PHP.
• Added three new format messages for NOTICE handling.

IRCG 4 Gamma 19

• Improved shared memory handling by adapting FreeBSD's malloc.c for our needs. This should improve (a) performance, (b) portability, (c) stability.
• Fixed a memory error handling in POST request handling

IRCG 4 Gamma 18

• Added handling of arbitrary RGB colors in IRC message scanner
• Added ERR_CHANNELISFULL error code
• Increased maximum nickname length to 255

IRCG 4 Gamma 17

• Improved binary safety of ircg_register_format_messages

IRCG 4 Gamma 16

• Improved portability to SRV4-based systems (e.g. Solaris)
• Added checks and corresponding warnings to ircg_set_current/file, so that improper use does not result in unexpected behaviour.
• Fixed locking issue with utility functions - ircg_whois, channel_mode, topic, who, invite, kick, notice
• Fixed ircg_disconnect issue

IRCG 4 Gamma 15

• Added a warning to ircg_set_current - the function needs to be called before any output is generated by your PHP scripts.
• Switched public builds to use poll instead of select.

IRCG 4 Gamma 14

• Added support for Apache HTTP Server 2.0
• Added support for IBM HTTP Server 1.3
• Added bidirectional data support (e.g. for Flash XMLSocket) using ircg_set_on_read_data()
• Fixed ircg_set_file()

IRCG 4 Gamma 12

• Improved format message handling
• Added ircg.max_format_message_sets INI setting
• Fixed garbage output after URLs
• Improved Pre-PHP 4.3.2 compatibility: Binaries are linked against libdl

IRCG 4 Gamma 11

• Added Pre-PHP 4.3.2 compatibility
• Fixed a possible segfault during apachectl configtest

IRCG 4 Gamma 10

• Added integrated DNS lookup cache
• Added round-robin DNS handling for load distribution
• Added multi-IP iterator, in case servers are unreachable. This will try all IPs associated with a DNS entry, if necessary, before giving up.
• Added spin locks-based locking (PostgreSQL-like)
• Added strategic buffer size limitation (WB_EXCEEDED_BUFSIZE)
• Improved phpinfo() output

IRCG 4 Beta 8

• Fixed a Linux 2.2 compatibility issue in the semaphore subsystem

IRCG 4 Beta 7

• Initial public release
• IRCG is now hot-swappable: Update IRCG without interrupting the chat.
• Fully compatible with multi-process web servers