WeeChat development
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...
AustNet inspired
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
InspIRCd 1.1.18
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.
NeoStats 3.0.1 Released
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
InspIRCd 1.2 Alpha
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.
InspIRCd 1.2.0a2 TexasLonghorn Released
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.
EPIC Releases
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
InspIRCd 1.1.19
w00t has announced the latest release of the Inspire stable branch 1.6.19, this version brings mostly fixes to the windows build of Inspire to address these things. The announcement reads like so:
A (very) minor update to 1.1 has been released, primarily of interest to Windows users, who will now experience faster loading (and less buggy behaviour), thanks largely to the work of new contributor GreenReaper.
Primarily:
Windows builds should also now be (significantly) smaller in file size and RAM use
Windows builds no longer (tempramentally) limit the maximum number of DLLs that may be loaded.
Windows no longer crashes with alltime and stripcolour
In terms of non-windows-specific fixes and enhancements:
There is a single crash fix in versions prior 1.1.19, in KLINE use. Opers on older versions are advised to avoid KLINE, and to use GLINE instead.
ezbounce 1.99.13
The latest version of ezbounce is out and about this version is mostly a fix and cleanup release with various issues that have been found in the earlier version being fixed.
There have as a result of one or two fixes been a change to some of the configuration options names. The only new feature would be that in the form of basic flood protection which only works when the BNC is in detached mode - makes sense 
- The File Library has been renamed to the "Virtual File System," abbreviated as the "VFS." This is a more fitting name for what it tries to do.
- Certain configuration options and user preferences have been renamed as a result. The old names will continue to be handled.
- Improved VFS handling of corrupt database files.
- Added a basic flood protection mechanism (currently only used while detached).
- Added more logging to user Event Log
- Cleaned up logging in proxy log and user chat logs.
- Fixed a crash that could occur after rehashing.
- Documentation updates.
1.2 a4 and 1.1.20 Released
Two new releases from the Inspire folks, one of which on there stable branch the other on there development branch, I'll save my feeble ramblings and
get on with w00t's announcement. "A double release!
1.1.20 follows up with the latest fixes of the maintenence release. It is a HIGHLY RECOMENDED upgrade for all 1.1.19 (and prior) users, as it addresses a number of client compatibility and general stability fixes.
1.2+a4 includes a number of mostly internal changes and fixes from a3, and is a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED upgrade for all current 1.2 users (things change very fast with 1.2 at the moment ;)).
As usual, changelogs follow in this post.
You can download the 1.2.0a4 release from:
- Source: http://www.inspircd.org/?p=downloads&ver=1.2.0a3
- Windows: http://www.inspircd.org/?p=downloads&ver=1.2.0a3&os=win
for the record - the correct download locations are:
