Archive for April, 2010

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InspIRCd 1.2.7 stable is out, fixes DoS bugs

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

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.

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Tags: InspIRCd, IRC, Software
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KVIrc 4.0 RC3 is available for testing

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

HelLViS69 of the KVIrc project just announced that release candidate 3 of their IRC client in the 4.0 branch is available for testing.

The changelog sounds pretty interesting and the client seems to have gotten lots of new features and more than 200 bugs have been fixed since RC1.

In the announcement, developer HelLViS69 lists the new features in this build, such as an “automagical wizard to create theme packages, the new class editor (no more classes in aliases!), the smart nick coloring which permits to select your favourite fore/background color”.

But how about something revolutionary? Developer CtrlAltCa has something in store for us:

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Tags: IRC, KVIrc, Software
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Yaaic Android IRC client 0.3 is available

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Yaaic developer pocmo just announced that he released version 0.3 of his Android IRC client which comes with quite a few enhancements and bugfixes – so lets have a look.

The first thing that immediately grabs the attention – for those that don’t follow the projects Twitter feed – is the addition of the new logo:

Yaaic Logo

Yaaic Logo

But there have been many under-the-hood improvements as well: You can now choose the encoding on a per-server basis and are not bound to the default UTF-8 as in the previous version. This version is also the first to support SSL encrypted connections but pocmo warns that the TrustManager currently will accept every certificate, valid or not.

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Tags: Android, IRC, Software, Yaaic
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ShadowIRCd project releases 6.1.0

Monday, April 12th, 2010

The ShadowIRCd project just released version 6.1.0 of their Charybdis-based IRCd, just little over a month after the release of version 6.0.0.

The new release adds a few new features, configuration options and “massive helpfile updates”.

The developer team implemented a server-side /CYCLE (also called /HOP in some clients) command which parts and rejoins the user from the channel he specifies.

A lot of management-commands like those pertaining to modules (like MODLOAD) can now be executed remotely, remote stopping or restarting the IRCd through DIE and RESTART has been introduced as well.

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Tags: charybdis, IRC, ShadowIRCd, Software
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DAL.net adds “Text CAPTCHA” to registration

Friday, April 9th, 2010

DAL.net adds – and is probably the first network to do this – a “text CAPTCHA” to its nick-registration process.

DAL.net Network Logo

DAL.net Network Logo

Their news announcement says that they want to ensure that a nickname and a channel should always be able to be registered first by a human and not a bot.

They do that in response to a trend they noticed where they reportedly have “seen increases in bots getting nicks and channels, holding them, and never releasing them” and continue to say that it’s “not fair to the average person that a botnet gets a nickname before a human does”.

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Tags: DalNET, IRC
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