The ngIRCd project has announced the availability of a new stable version of their IRCd, version 13.

Starting with this release “the leading “0″ is stripped off, so we have  “[.]” now. So ngIRCd 13 is the direct successor of  ngIRCd 0.12.1.”

A lot of progress has been made since the last stable release, 0.12.1 – the biggest changes are support for SSL encrypted connections both between servers and clients to servers using either OpenSSL or GnuTLS. The IRCd now also supports local-server channels that are prefixed with & instead of global #-prefixed channels.

Also, as of 13~rc1, ngIRCd added support for services with IRCServices by Andrew Church being the first one available.

For users of the release candidate there don’t seem to be many important changes as the announcement claims:

Since the release candidate 13~rc1 only minor changes have been
committed, mostly to enhance the documentation and to fix the testsuite.

A full changelog can be found here – you can also have a look at every single change that has been committed to the IRCd’s GIT repository.

Oh and – here’s the link to the source archive of course

Closing the announcement, the projects head Alexander Barton asks to “let me know if you encounter any bugs or need more/better documentation (best is to file bugs using the bug tracker or to mail to this list).”