-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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