December 29th, 2008 by phrozen77
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”.
Tags: IRC, Software, Unreal IRCd
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December 26th, 2008 by phrozen77
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.
Tags: IRC, ngIRCd, Software
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December 18th, 2008 by phrozen77
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
Tags: IRC, Ratbox, Software
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December 8th, 2008 by phrozen77
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.”
Tags: IRC, Software, Unreal IRCd
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November 25th, 2008 by phrozen77
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.
Tags: charybdis, freenode, IRC, ircd-seven
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