Hi All!

Finally, after two release candidates, the final version of ngIRCd 20 has been published! Yiiiha! Thanks a lot to all contributors, testers, and otherwiese involved people!

Since the last release candidate only a single change has been made: now ngIRCd supports user names ("IDENT names") up to 19 characters length: this can be useful if you want to authenticate your users to some "external" data sources that are already using longer user names than the formerly supported 9 characters.

You can read the full ChangeLog and NEWS files online, and it is included in out source distribution archives, of course:

• http://ngircd.barton.de/doc/NEWS • http://ngircd.barton.de/doc/ChangeLog

More information can be found on the homepage http://ngircd.barton.de/ and its mirror http://ngircd.berlios.de/.

The primary download locations are:

• ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/ngircd/ • http://ngircd.barton.de/pub/ngircd/

And as always: please report any bugs, problems, and regressions to this mailing list or directly using the bug tracker. Or connect to the "official" IRC channel #ngircd on irc.barton.de: irc://irc.barton.de/ngircd – thanks!

Regards Alex