The AustNet team have recently made the following announcement, this was also coupled by an announcement by the InspireIRCd team in regards to there migration to a new IRCd basecode. both teams openly admitting that the old codebase used on AustNEt was no longer deemed of worth and the new state of the art codebase InspireIRCd was too much to resist

Tuesday the 25th of March, 2008, saw AustNet begin a long-awaited change to new server software, based on InspIRCd. While the migration did take a little longer to complete than expected, both servers and our custom Services software, OPAS, are now updated.

This update should not be seen as a ‘once off’, the primary reason for the change of code was to bring things up to date so new features, suggestions, and fixes can be easily implemented now and in future. We welcome suggestions from everyone on what can be done to further improve the servers and services.

A huge thankyou to the team at InspIRCd, to our staff and admins, and most of all to our users for their patience through this.

Summary of changes:

• Stronger host masking
• Improved flooding, spam and abuse control
• Enhanced user and channel controls (modes)
• IP bans and exempts can also now be in CIDR notation
• SSL client support (selected servers only - see individual server motd)
• Extended limits for nicknames and channels

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w00t has announced the latest version of InspIRCd version 1.1.18 brings to the table a whole bunch of major and minor fixes to both the core and some of its core modules, a new module has also made its way into the codebase in the form of an LDAP module which will allow you to plug InspIRCd into virtually any system ( such as Joomla ) that supports the protocol. The announcement reads like so: 1.1.18 is now available for download, the latest of the stable 1.1.x series. This release rolls together a number of major (and minor) fixes, some critical which may cause crashes under some conditions.

Also include is a new module, m_ldapauth, for authing against an LDAP directory server. This module was based on the module written by Stskeeps for the (now defunct) Unreal 4, with a few changes to make it more secure.

This is a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED release. You SHOULD upgrade to it ASAP as it contains security fixes.

Major changes:

• dccallow: fix incorrect api usage
• mysql: fix race condition (crash) on unload
• core: LoopCall fix that fixes modules which call it in a command handler so that spanningtree doesnt break (useful for third party module authors only)
• snomasks: Accidentally hidden quits is fixed (it wasn't me, I swear --w00t)
• ssl: Reworded prompts in configure
• invisible: Fix multiple +Q and -Q notices (harmless)
• configreader: Better checking of newline values
• swhois: Don't desync when setting a title on an already-titled user.
• new module: m_ldapauth

I'd like to say a big thanks to the following people for their help in this release:

• Darom (working with us on the mysql patch)
• Skip (uhnames/namesx stuff)

Two followup posts will be added in this thread about hotpatching and the full changelog for anyone interested.

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Justin has just announced a new version of the stable version of NeoStats with the release of 3.0.1 which mainly has a fix for the inspire users which in effect can cause your entire network user base getting glined - not handy - other issues fixed in this release are minor compile issues which are not overaly critical so if you are an inspire user, upgrade ASAP if you cant compile, try now and if your running 3.0.0 smooth;y RELAX. The announcement reads like so:

Hi All,
Ive just put up NeoStats 3.0.1 on the download pages. If your using Inspircd with NeoStats, I strongly encourage you to upgrade ASAP. There is a bug in the Inspircd Module that causes NeoStats to gline your entire network!

There are a few other minor changes compared to 3.0.0, but these are mainly to do with Compile problems.

As always, the downloads are available at http://www.neostats.net/downloads/?id=5 and the Release Notes are at http://wiki.neostats.net/confluence/display/NeoStats/3.0.1

Cheers

Justin

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