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Quakenet open-sources core services

The gaming aimed IRC network Quakenet recently published their set of services, commonly known as Newserv, to the community. Among the different bots, the two most notable ones are Q and S, which handle user accounts, channel management and protection against floods in big channels.

A repository has been set-up, from which one can download a copy of the source code. Complete with a README file, it’s not only aimed at developers, but also network administrators. The repository is located at https://hg.quakenet.org/newserv. Available under GPL v2.0 license, freedom to use and extend the software has graciously been given by the maintainer slug.

Quakenet is based on a lot of modified and custom-crafted code. Whilst the network has released some software in the past, this is the first time they release the last version of something their core services. Prior to this release, the latest public version of Q dated back to January 2003.

KiwiIRC

KiwiIRC is a web-based, open source IRC Client that was started around two years ago by Darren Whitlen, known as prawnsalad on IRC, as a “Can I do this” type of project. It was abandoned for a few months due to lack of time. After those few months passed Darren had some other developers who grew an interest into the project and jumped in helping release it once again.

The goal of the KiwiIRC client is to allow users without IRC knowledge to be able to communicate with each other on a simple to use web-based irc client. Aside from the client being web-based, it can also be embedded onto your chatsite and used for your personal IRC network. For for information on this please see http://kiwiirc.com/embedding.

Besides the above facts, it now has a Google Chrome extension, as well as a Firefox application, and it is compatible with your Android/Apple phones and tablets.

KiwiIRC has plans for the near future to have a fully functional admin web-panel to help the admin/staff of an IRC network to maintain and control the users as well as change KiwiIRC configuration options, without having to manually edit the files.

Screenshots:

KiwiIRC

The open source project can be found at http://github.com/prawnsalad/kiwiirc.
For more information regarding KiwiIRC, please visit http://www.kiwiirc.com

iBash – The IRC Quote Database For Everyone

iBash is an online IRC quote database where everyone can set up their own IRC quote collection.

With this comes the ability to fully manage your quotes – you decide which quote gets approved or rejected, a major point of annoyance with the original bash.org quote database.

Example of a QDB on iBash.org

Example of a QDB on iBash.org

iBash has been founded in 2011 “after a 6 years incubation period” and now hosts a rapidly growing number of quotes for their users.

Setting up your own IRC quote database is easy – just register and after you’ve received and confirmed your email you and your users can begin to add quotes to the QDB.

For support and generic questions they have an IRC channel and are on Twitter and Facebook.

Share your thoughts about iBash.org in the comments!

Atheme NickServ CertFP Vulnerability

A security vulnerability related to certificate fingerprints has been found in the Atheme IRC services package.

 

All versions that have CertFP functionality are affected, which are version 5.2.x, 6.x and the current testing release, version 7.x.

 

The vulnerability is triggered once a NickServ user is dropped or expires that has a CertFP entry attached to it which will not be cleaned up upon deletion of the user account.

This will cause the CertFP entry to be in limbo and might result in pointing the entry to an other account which will result in being able to identify as another user via that certificate fingerprint.

 

Atheme maintainer nenolod released an update for all currently maintained versions of the services package so it is advised that you upgrade your IRC services immediately.

 

The advisory can be found here and the original bug report can be found here.

Anope releases v1.9.6

Anope has officially released v1.9.6 as of Feb. 3rd, 2012. This release has some major changes. Not only adds and fixes but some interior changes as well.

As of 1.9.6, Anope has changed some of the configuration, so it is recommended that users upgrading should start with a fresh configuration file.

There is also a new database format, so therefore the old db_plain has now been depreciated. It is recommended that users upgrading should read the example configuration on how to upgrade your databases.

Users using MySQL with previous versions will need to export their databases to flatfile first before importing into 1.9.6.

There have been some significant changes in this version, they are as followed:

  • Added ability to configure emails sent by services
  • Added chanserv/up and chanserv/down
  • Added m_proxyscan
  • Added more configurability for what vhosts are valid
  • Added chanserv/log
  • Added ability to configure ChanServ privileges
  • Added a new database format
  • Added SQLite support
  • Added more verbose messages on start up
  • Added ability for chanserv/suspend and nickserv/suspend to take an expiry time
  • Added no nickname ownership config option
  • Added m_rewrite
  • Added akill IDs
  • Fixed crash in clearusers
  • Fixed crash in /os oper info
  • Fixed eventfd Config check to work properly on OpenVZ

To download this version from the source, Click Here.
To download this version for Windows, Click Here.

Sources: http://www.anope.org/news_index.php