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The InspIRCd team released version 1.2.7 of their stable branch yesterday which fixes 2 critical bugs that can result in DoS conditions, so an upgrade is advised.

The first crash that has been fixed is triggerable when a remote server has the same name as a local one which possibly crashes the linking IRCd. This bug was squashed by developer danieldg in this commit.

The second bug can lead to a Denial of Service condition due to memory exhaustion which is possible since ban exception masks weren’t limited in length and numbers according to MAXBANS.

Those who closely follow either projects development will have noticed a few “odd” looking commits to their sourcecode in the past few days.

The commits all concerned InspIRCds m_invisible module which provides similar functionality as the old mode +I in UnrealIRCd 3.1.x.

Quoting the InspIRCd wiki page about m_invisible the module

adds support for quiet (invisible) opers. A quiet oper is invisible to normal users on channels. This can be used for surveillence of botnet channels, statistics bots, etc. Note that other opers CAN see invisible opers; +Q only hides the oper from non-opers.

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.

The InspIRCd project just released a new version of their IRCd in the stable tree which is now at version 1.2.6.

The release mainly consists of bugfixes where the most important ones fix another CPU spike issue and a possible crash when servers suffered a ping timeout – both fixes have been made in the spanningtree linking module.

Another bugfix in the form of a compile-fix made the LDAP Auth module work again.

The download can be obtained from here, the full changelog can be viewed here.

Shortly after the last two releases, the InspIRCd project released another bugfix release in their stable tree as well as another release in their 2.0 branch, which is now at beta 3.

The stable tree of the IRCd is now at version 1.2.5 which fixes the “crash-on-delink bug that 1.2.4 was intended to fix” but in the end only “one method of triggering the bug” has been fixed then.

Developer danieldg continues that this release is “more thoroughly tested” and also fixes a “100% CPU use bug in epoll that will require an ircd restart to fix if you have hit it”.