The latest version of KvIRC's stable branch has hit the downloads and has been in the works for quite some time. There is a whole list of features most of them concerning how KvIRC integrates with your desktop, its themeing ability and all new statusbar applets. the announcement reads like so:

Happy Easter! ;)

Here we go with another release :)

This one took a very long time but, well, finally it's here.

Notable new features of this release include:

• improved themeing support
• better desktop integration
• nicer support for many different IRC servers
• a totally revised option layout
• basic support for script "addons"
• improved help subsystem
• new nice statusbar applets
• improved scripting engine
• improved windows and macosx support
• ....

There is also a lot of small new details that you will find out by yourself while playing around and finally we obviously also have a huge number of bugfixes.

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The next major version of WeeChat has already got underway with the announcement on the WeeChat homepage stating that ther eis to be a whole new line of development which will make the client not only quicker but more portable than ever. One of the screenshots on the wikipage shows Weechat with a scripted version of the age old game Tetris dubbed WeeTris being played while chatting in IRC showing the extendability of the client. The official announcement reads like so:

Next WeeChat version (codename "revolution") is under development. Large part of code was rewritten, it's now faster, easier, and more extensible. List of new features and screenshots can be found on wiki page (see link below).

Today there's no planed release date, some features are still missing, and there's lot of work until a stable version. We need help, like beta testers, to test this version. You can look at wiki page for more info.

To be continued in some months for other news...

• • Wiki page about development

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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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w00t announces that the new 1.2 breed(?) of InspIRCd is now in the ALPHA stages, the 1.2 version brings a whole mass of new stuff to the table and is as superior to 1.1.x was to 1.0.x. There are improvements to the flood control, such as fake lag - ban improvements - CPU usage is lower overall due to imrpvements and bad channels make usage of the redirection option.

Welcome to the next evolution of IRC.

InspIRCd 1.2 has (as of NOW) just hit alpha. We've been working hard for the past 14 months since 1.1's release, and we think we now have something ready to be released: 1.2 Alpha 1.

Announcement:

First I'd like to point out that this is not (yet) ready for use by the faint of heart: 1.2 does introduce some 6,000 new lines of code along with significant changes to existing code.

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w00t has announced, already the next alpha release of the 1.2 series, this version brings into the fold a whole mass of fixes and improvements which only brings to myself one question "when does the inspire team sleep ?" - they seem somewhat unstoppable these days churning our quality releases in quick succession but always with a huge list of fixes, this release is no different.

w00t posted the below regarding the TexasLonghorn release:

 

We *did* only release a1 last week, but a lot of fixes have gone in since then, mostly trivial fixes to protocol or snotices. A few minor features have gone in also, MAP may now be requested remotely (/map server.mask), and m_shun is now in the core distribution - please use it wisely.

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Chris of the DMDirc team has announced that there has been several improvements to there homepage as well as the move away from the google code repositories due to poor services provided by google. This change comes complete with a whole new site which is looking fantastic. The announcement reads like so:

As you may have noticed if you're a regular visitor, the DMDirc website has recently been given a lick of paint. There is now a common header across all of the DMDirc sites (the main website, addons site, bug tracker and blog), which allows easy navigation between all aspects of the DMDirc website, and is a lot better looking than the old header, too!

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The first release of the year of 2008 for the EPIC team brings to the table several fixes in there previous versions and is looked upon as a mainly bugfix release but is suggested to be updated as soon as possible due to major issues ( well major enough ) in the previous release, announcement like so:

This is a stable alpha release that fixes all of the known issues with epic5-0.3.6 and epic5-0.3.7 and is stable enough to be targeted by scripts and packagers.

There were some nasty bugs in epic5-0.3.6 and epic5-0.3.7, so it's recommended that you upgrade to this version if you are using those.

Enjoy!
Jeremy

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lara has announced the latest version of epona which looks to fix up any known issues and some one exploit Most of the fixes are the likes of language files causing crashes (german) a fix fore the !unban command which would show more than it was supposed too and some additional error messages for those that don't have them. The changelog reads like this - however lara has stated this does not include backported stuff.

• 2008/04/18 Fixed !unban command exploit that could be used to reveal the real hostname of a user.
• 2008/02/01 ChanServ no longer restores empty topics.
• 2007/11/11 Fixed two language strings in the German language file causing crash.
• 2007/10/06 ChanServ now restores topic on channels registered from external programs. (#40)
• 2007/10/06 Added an error message for NickServ STATUS used with no parameters. (#38)

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