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Interview with the author of EPIC5

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

After being 5 years and 11 days in the making, there was the first production release of the ircII fork EPIC5, now being at version 1.0, in the end of December.

For readers that don’t know the project yet, the website explains a little of EPIC’s history:

EPIC is an irc client project. The EPIC software was forked from ircII-2.8.2 in fall 1994. There have been 5 generations of EPIC, of which the newest two (EPIC4 and EPIC5) are still supported and in development.

5 years and 11 days – What caused that kind of delay?

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Tags: EPIC5, Interview, IRC, Software
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Twitter and IRC – Posting Tweets from the comfort of your IRC client

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Hack a Day has an interesting article on how to write Tweets from within your IRC client.

Sounds good? But how?

The article (and one comment) mention 2 methods on how to achieve this – one would be by using a local IRCd written in PERL and another one by using a bot in a channel.

The bot seems to be a bit more of a “bare bone” approach since all of the features it currently supports is is posting Tweets by issueing commands like “!t your message goes here” after you make it connect to the server of your choice and joining a channel you told it to.

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Tags: IRC, irctotwit, Software, tircd, Twitter
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Anope releases 1.8.0-stable of their IRC services package

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

The Anope project announces the availability of version 1.8.0, the new stable release of their IRC services package.

It’s been a long couple of years, with many changes both to the product and indeed to the team as a whole.

For those of you with Modules which won’t work beyond 1.7.21 we understand your plight and will be available to assist module authors if they need a hand revising their mods for general consumption.

We want everyone to move away from 1.7.x as a development branch and join us on -stable. (with your modules of course!)

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Tags: Anope, IRC, Network Addons, Software
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UnrealIRCd 3.2.8-rc1 is ready for testing

Monday, December 29th, 2008

And another one in the IRCd updates list – this time it’s Unreal.

After it has been announced that Stskeeps will leave the project behind there has been quite some uproar as it is one of the most widely used IRCd’s today.

The announcement was quickly followed up by nate, who explained that he will indeed continue development on version 3.3.x so the project is far away from being dead but he also noted that “Its still going to be a few months off before any code is here for base uses” as he is “the only one working on 3.3 right now”.

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Tags: IRC, Software, Unreal IRCd
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ngIRCd version 13 released

Friday, December 26th, 2008

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.

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Tags: IRC, ngIRCd, Software
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