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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.

The InspIRCd project just announced the availability of a new stable release of their IRCd, 1.2.2.

At the same time, the new version 2.0 which was available as an early alpha release is now entering beta stage – a list of already implemented features and a general roadmap can be found here.

The new stable release of the IRCd mainly consists of bugfixes with one crashbug fixed that possibly could be triggered doing a /rehash.

The links to the downloads and changelogs can be found here.

Little over 4 weeks after their last release of rc1 in the 1.2 branch, the InspIRCd project announces a new release candidate of their IRCd.

The release, called “PepperSteik”, is a recommended update since it – among a few new features – also fixes a security issue were other linked IRCds wouldn’t have their password checked on connect. There also have been a few bugs fixed which further adds to the IRCds stability.

Developer w00t calls the following items the “most notable new features” in this release:

• Add fantasy:allowbots (to allow +B users to use fantasy <alias> commands)

Today the InspIRCd project announced the availability of 1.2rc1 of their IRCd, named “Sirloin”.

Developer w00t writes in the newspost that “after a slightly longer development cycle than normal, we are proud as punch to announce that 1.2 has finally hit RC stage”. They consider this release “essentially feature-complete, and that relatively, the number of bugs is lower than in beta phase” but also note that “it’s not a final release yet, so you may still encounter some rough edges or bugs, we do ask that you report those to us on our bugtracker, so they may be addressed!”.