Hello!

Today I prepared the first release candidate for the next release of ngIRCd: version 19~rc1.

Since the last release back in July, there have been lots of enhancements, new features, and bug fixes. Thanks to all testers, bug reporters and contributors!

There is support for more user modes (like „C“), channel modes (like „R“), IRC commands (like GLINE and KLINE), much better flood and overload protection, and an updated protocol module for Anope IRC services 1.9.6.

Please have a look at the GIT history or the NEWS and ChangeLog files:

* http://ngircd.barton.de/doc/NEWS * http://ngircd.barton.de/doc/ChangeLog * http://ngircd.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd.git

This is our first release candidate; not the final release. So keep in mind that there can be bugs: please report all problems you encounter, to the mailing list or our bug tracker — thanks!

You can find this on the download page and the usual mirrors:

* http://ngircd.barton.de/download * http://ngircd.barton.de/pub/ngircd/ * ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/ngircd/

There are source packages, GnuPG signatures, and a binary package for Mac OS X.

And I updated my unofficial Debian packages as well.

Regards Alex