Hi IRC’ers!
We are in preparation of the next ngIRCd release, release 16, which will contain the following changes, enhancements, and new features:
- Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups. - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit. - Updatet doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA). - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list). - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output. - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable. - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password required to secure this command must be configured using the new "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file. - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts". - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators. - Only link "nsl" library when really needed. - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented: Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed to join such a channel. But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
The first release candidate, version 16~rc1, is available for downloading and testing since a few days, and it would be really great if you could vive it a try and do some testing. Thanks!
As usual the download locations are:
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/ngircd/ngircd-16~rc1.tar.gz ftp://ngircd.barton.de/pub/ngircd/ngircd-16~rc1.tar.gz
The GnuPG signatures for 16~rc1 and patches from release 15 are available as well and can be downloaded from here:
ftp://ngircd.barton.de/pub/ngircd/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/ngircd/
You can have a look at the complete history and every single patch using the GIT web-frontend located at:
http://ngircd.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd.git
Please test this release candidate and report all bugs you encounter using the bug tracker and/or this mailing list. Thanks a lot for your support!
Regards Alex