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Hi!

The next release of ngIRCd is on the horizon, and here we go with the first release candidate.

Starting with this release, the version numering scheme will be canged: the leading "0" is stripped off, so we have "<major>[.<minor>]". The next version will be named "Release 13".

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

Thanks a lot to all contributors!

You can download this release candidate here:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/ngircd/ngircd-13~rc1.tar.gz ftp://ngircd.barton.de/pub/ngircd/ngircd-13~rc1.tar.gz

The GnuPG signature and a patch from 0.12.1 is available and can be downloaded from here:

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

The ChangeLog can be found here:

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

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 test this release candidate and report all bugs you encounter using the bug tracker and/or this mailing list. Thanks!

And again: thanks a lot to all users, testers, contributors and co-authors!

Regards Alex