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ircd-ratbox 3.0.1 released

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Yesterday, the ircd-ratbox project announced the release of their latest testing version of their IRCd.

Now being available as version 3.0.1, it still clearly is labeled as an early release and better not being used in a production environment.

NOTE: Whilst every effort has been made to make sure this code is usable, it
is still not classified as a stable release.  You assume full
responsibility for running this on a production network.

The  changelog is rather short but there seem to be a few big changes included like reenabling SSL and ziplinks

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Tags: IRC, Ratbox, Software
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Stskeeps quits developing for UnrealIRCd

Monday, December 8th, 2008

In an announcement on the IRCd’s website, Stskeeps posts his “resignation letter”:

“So, after a long wait, I’ve decided to pull out of the UnrealIRCd project – which I started back in 1999. My reasons for this is that IRC has reached a point where it’s growing increasingly difficult to do anything remotely inventive, restricted by the lack of cooperation in the IRCd community and amongst networks & clients, and lack of people interested in helping out with doing the actual code. And when it’s not possible to do anything inventive, it just isn’t exciting anymore, and it’s a drag to code on.”

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Tags: IRC, Software, Unreal IRCd
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freenode testing a new IRCd

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

freenode, the network hosting the channels for many free / opensource projects – who just recently announced that they have surpassed the 50,000 users mark – do have big news again.

Existing since 1995 as a stand-alone network, it’s gone through a few IRCds already – from ircu to dancer-ircu then dancer-hybrid and hyperion now.

Being in use since August 2005 now, hyperion could see it’s end-of-life on freenode pretty soon as this blog post, asking for users to get aboard the freenode testnet, might indicate.

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Tags: charybdis, freenode, IRC, ircd-seven
Posted in IRC, IRCd, Networks | No Comments »

KVIrc 3.4.2 URI handler in combination with IE exploitable [Updated]

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Not even a month ago, it was KVIrc 3.4.0 in it’s Windows release which has been vulnerable to what has been at least a DoS/crash.

As of yesterday, there have been new exploits posted on the usual sites around the internet – but this time it is not the fault of KVIrc’s URI handler, because the bug is only exploitable if the malicious link is opened with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and is possible because of its unique way to handle double quotes (“) in links.

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Tags: Hack, IRC, KVIrc, Software
Posted in Clients, Hack, IRC, Software | 6 Comments »

Client Review: Rooms for the iPhone

Friday, November 14th, 2008

When the iPhone first hit the stores, it was a long time where there was no native IRC client available for it and there was no other option than jailbreaking the phone to get one.

Luckily for all IRC users among the iPhone owners, Björn Teichmann created Rooms to fill that gap.

Now being available in version 0.6.8 (and 0.7.0 in a few days) from the AppStore, it already has matured quite a bit, is pretty usable and incorporates most features one could think of to make it a full-blown client that caters to almost everyones needs.

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Tags: iPhone, IRC, Rooms, Software
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