Hi all!

The next stable release of ngIRCd has been published: ngIRCd 13.

Starting with this release, the version numering scheme has been canged: The leading "0" is stripped off, so we have "<major>[.<minor>]" now. So ngIRCd 13 is the direct successor of ngIRCd 0.12.1.

The most prominet changes are support for SSL encrypted client-server and server-server links using OpenSSL or GNUTLS (see doc/SSL.txt), support for IRC services (see doc/Services.txt), and server-local channels with prefix "&". And as usual, lots of minor enhancements and bug fixes are included as well.

Since the release candidate 13~rc1 only minor changes have been committed, mostly to enhance the documentation and to fix the testsuite.

Thanks a lot to all contributors!

In addition, the ngIRCd website has been revised. Thanks go to Götz Hoffart (layout) and Lucia Hoffart (english translation):

http://ngircd.barton.de/ http://ngircd.berlios.de/

Direct download links for the source archive:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/ngircd/ngircd-13.tar.gz ftp://ngircd.barton.de/pub/ngircd/ngircd-13.tar.gz

The ChangeLog can be found here:

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

GnuPG signature and patches from 0.12.1 as well as 13~rc1 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:

MD5 (ngircd-13.tar.gz) = f26064f0232e050ddba6f312ad34ec94 MD5 (ngircd-0.12.1-13.patch.gz) = 48b34eb4c33b631f3ac90908ec7e5777 MD5 (ngircd-13~rc1-13.patch) = 839b294bf18b6b24b8c07cf8e37b4a1e

You can habe 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 me 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