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.

The Gozerbot blog and homepage has announced the latest version of Gozerbot beta - this version looks to pick up on the 8.x series in the form of 8.1.x and brings to the tables some interesting new features. The announcement reads like so:

working to a new 0.8.1 release we make a BETA available to be tested by interested users.

new features:

• ssl connections are now supported
• third party software included into gozerbot:
  • feedparser (used by RSS) .. makes atom feeds possible
  • simplejson (used by COLLECTIVE)
  • BeautifulSoup (used to parse webpages)
• renewed RSS plugin
• renewed collective plugin
• renewed webserver plugin .. new webserver API
• tcp.py notification plugin as well as a totcp.py client program