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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”.

The charybdis IRCd, an IRCd that “started as an evolution from ircd-ratbox”, is now available as version 3.2.0.

The new release has loads of feature enhancements and bugfixes, some of which have been backported from ircd-seven – a fork of charybdis that is used on the freenode network.

The actual changelog is way too long to post in full, however networks already running the IRCd probably will benefit from the fixes found in this release since there have been some unspecified “crash issues” fixed.

The download can be obtained from here or checked out from their mercurial repository here.

freenode, the network hosting the channels for many free / opensource projects – who just recently announced that they have surpassed the 50,000 users mark – do have big news again.

Existing since 1995 as a stand-alone network, it’s gone through a few IRCds already – from ircu to dancer-ircu then dancer-hybrid and hyperion now.

Being in use since August 2005 now, hyperion could see it’s end-of-life on freenode pretty soon as this blog post, asking for users to get aboard the freenode testnet, might indicate.