Hello!

After releasing ngIRCd 0.10.4, which is "only" a bug-fix release, we are going to release our new "major release" 0.11.0 containing new features: the most prominent is the introduction of the "MaxNickLength" configuration option, which enables administrators to define the maxmimum nick name length dynamically.

As usual, ngIRCd 0.11.0 can be downloaded from:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/ngircd/ngircd-0.11.0.tar.gz ftp://ngircd.barton.de/pub/ngircd/ngircd-0.11.0.tar.gz

GnuPG signatures and a patch from 0.10.4 are available and can be downloaded from here:

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

The 0.11.x branch is tagged as "branch-0-11-x" in CVS, and this release is tagged as "rel-0-11-0".

The NEWS file of ngIRCd 0.11.0 lists the following enhancements:

- Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command. - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify the source ip adress to use when connecting to remote server. - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network! - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result). - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd, but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer) - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC operators.

You can view the complete NEWS and ChangeLog files online here:

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

There have been no changes since ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2.

Have fun!

Regards Alex