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Yaaic – Yet another Android IRC client 0.1 Beta released

phrozen77 — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:30:27 +0000

The Yaaic project – short for “Yet another Android IRC client” – just released a 0.1 Beta version of their IRC client for the Android platform.

The announcement came via Twitter from @Yaaic who had posted a screenshot of the first-ever query handled by his IRC client earlier:

Yaaics first query ever

All the basic features seem to be there and even though it is an early version it already has multi-server support which seems to work flawlessly.

Developer pocmo has posted a video on Vimeo, demonstrating his IRC client:

We’ll keep watching this client closely & wish pocmo all the best for his client and all of its future releases!

Have you tried it on your Android device? Will you switch your mobile IRC client in favour of Yaaic?

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ShadowIRCd 6.0.0 released

phrozen77 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:20:05 +0000

ShadowIRCd, a project that died off in 2004, has been revived and is now based on the charybdis IRCd.

The IRCd, formerly based on IRCd-Hybrid, brings a whole lot of features and enhancements that can be considered useful for opers and users alike.

New features include lots of user & channel modes like the implementation of usermode +C (blocks CTCPs) and +G which prevents users from messaging you “unless you’re both on at least one channel together”. Usermode +V prevents users from getting invites from others, to which coder jdhore says that “as far as I’m aware no other IRCd has”.

Useful channelmodes like +T which prevents notices to channels, +G stops messages with more than 50% caps in them and chanmode +K which blocks repeated messages to channels “regardless of who they’re from”.

Opers will like features such as being able to see the users modes in a /whois as well as secret channels the user is in without having to resort to a /spywhois. Oper-override has been modified and needs a special usermode set on ShadowIRCd. Once the oper sets himself +p he’ll be able to use the override but it’ll unset itself after a configurable amount of time.

All in all this looks like a very promising IRCd which according to coder jdhore, doesn’t “try to compete with other established IRCds” but that they’re trying to “make what we find to be the absolute best IRCd possible”.

The changelog can be found here and the homepage of the project is here.

Are you going to consider using this IRCd on your network and if not – why?

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DMDirc 0.6.3 released

phrozen77 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:16:53 +0000

DMDirc, a free and open source IRC client written in Java, just announced the availability of a new version of their client.

DMDirc 0.6.3 Channelview

This release, 0.6.3, introduces lots and lots of new features and improvements.

The DCC plugin has had a “particularly silly bug which rate limited all DCCs to 10KB/s in past versions” as well as a few other misc bugs.

Channel & URL links now work better since a few extra characters are now parsed correctly which would’ve broken them before.

A topic bar has been added which lets you view and edit it easily – topic history handling has been improved as well.

The plugin browser which has been introduced with the previous release now actually works (yay! ) and lets you “browse through plugins, themes and action packs from within DMDirc, and download and install them with one click”.

Aside from that, developer Chris announces that at the same time they end their support for their Subversion repository as they’ve migrated everything – including their build scripts – to Git now.

The download can be obtained from here and the pretty extensive changelog can be viewed here.

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InspIRCd 2.0 beta 4 released

phrozen77 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:44:17 +0000

The InspIRCd team brings us another fresh release of the upcoming generation of their IRCd – InspIRCd 2.0 beta4.

The features and enhancements that are introduced with the new branch are huge and tops those available in the 1.2 stable branch in every aspect.

And just as in the stable version, every feature, every mode and every module can either be enabled or disabled – customize your IRCd the way you want it.

The features the team ponders to implement are listed on their Roadmap page in their Wiki – a list with already programmed features can be found here.

If you want to try the upcoming generation of the IRCd, you can grab the current beta here – the changelog is available here.

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UnrealIRCd team releases patch against Firefox XPS Attack

phrozen77 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:14:14 +0000

In a posting on the UnrealIRCd project website, coder Syzop announced a module that can help mitigate and completely stop the so-called “Firefox XPS Attack” (NSFW link).

The attack, which exploits the fact that malicious JavaScript can send arbitrary data to a wide range of ports, gained publicity when it was used against the freenode network over a period of a few weeks.

Even though the Mozilla project has a blocklist of ports that are specifically not allowed to be communicated to, the port commonly used by IRC networks (6667) was not on those lists.

The attack – which ironically doesn’t affect Safari, Internet Explorer or Firefox with the NoScript extension – only works if the targeted IRC server does not use anti-spoofing measures before proceeding to the login phase.

UnrealIRCd generally is immune to the threat when it was compiled with the NOSPOOF feature which is enabled by default for the Windows builds but an option that defaults to “no” on Linux (“Do you want to enable the server anti-spoof protection?” – the first question on ./Config).

With the module you can now instantly K/G/Z:Line such connections and therefore prevent them from filling up connection slots which might cause a DoS situation before they eventually time out. For maximum efficiency it is recommended you use both the module and the NOSPOOF option, however one works fine without the other.

To test whether your IRCd is vulnerable or the implemented measures against the attack are effective you can find the code that has been used against freenode here.

Thanks for the tip go to katsklaw!

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