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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”.

The upcoming 2.0 release of the well-known InspIRCd has a new beta release – being at beta2 now – available for download.

Developer danieldg writes in the announcement on their website that “enough has been done on 2.0 that it’s probably a good idea to release another beta”.

With this release, version 2.0 of the IRCd enters an “unofficial feature freeze” and danieldg says that “hopefully the protocol won’t need any further tweaks”.

Continuing the announcement he asks for beta testers of the upcoming new version that could test it “especially in a live environment” and stressed that version 2.0 is able to be linked to a network that is running InspIRCd 1.2 – to “get real network traffic”.

The InspIRCd stable tree has a new release and is now available as version 1.2.3.

The new version is mostly a bugfix release and developer danieldg cites “clone counting on CGI:IRC” as the “biggest fix this time, along with a bug letting users change to Q:lined nicks on their local server”.

Another bugfix worth mentioning is the fix for a memory leak in SetSockAddr that could be triggered by CGI:IRC clients – but there also have been feature additions, for example support for accountname-based InvEx extended bans (+I R:accountname)

The complete changelog as well as the link to the download can be found here.