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Hi!

There have been no reports of problems in our release candidate for ngIRCd 15, so here it is!

Since our last ngIRCd release 14.1 on April 9 quite a few fixes and enhancements have been developed and been integrated into our master branch.

The changes are:

- - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL encrypted connections now. - - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command). - - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT on the local server. - - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0 for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file. - - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names. - - Fix LSB header of Debian init script. - - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh to ease generating platform reports. - - Fix connection information for already registered connections. - - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes per second before a one second pause is enforced. - - Fix connection counter. - - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections. - - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.

You can download ngIRCd release 15 here:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/ngircd/ngircd-15.tar.gz ftp://ngircd.barton.de/pub/ngircd/ngircd-15.tar.gz

The GnuPG signatures for 15, a Mac OS X installer package, and patches from release 14.1 are available and can be downloaded from here:

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

The relevant MD5 sums are:

ngircd-15.tar.gz: c183a85eba6fe51255983848f099c8ae ngircd-14.1-15.patch.gz: 8a114618bfc23d3301762e0dbee704ac

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 let us know if you encounter any bugs or need more/better documentation (best is to file bugs using the bug tracker or to mail to this list). Thanks!

Regards Alex