ngIRCd Release 27~rc1

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        News & History
 </h2>
 <p>
-       Latest news: ngIRCd on <a href="https://twitter.com/ngIRCd">Twitter</a>.
+       Latest news: ngIRCd on <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@ngircd">Mastodon</a>
+       or <a href="https://twitter.com/ngIRCd">X</a>.
 </p>
 <h3 id="status">
        Status
 </h3>
 <p>
        The current stable version is
-       <strong>Release 25</strong> of January 23 2019,
+       <strong>Release 26.1</strong> of January 1 2021,
+       and
+       <strong>Release 27~rc1</strong> of April 13 2024
+       is ready for testing;
        please refer to the <a href="download.php.en">Download</a>
        options.
 </p>
+<p>
+       ngIRCd is used as the daemon in real-world in-house and public IRC
+       networks and included in the package repositories of various operating
+       systems.
+</p>
 <h3 id="history">
        History
 </h3>
+<p>
+       Development of ngIRCd started back in 2001: The server has been written
+       from scratch in C, tries to follow all relevant standards, and is not
+       based on the forefather, the daemon of the IRCNet.
+</p>
+<p>
+       It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviors of
+       the original ircd or corner-cases in the RFCs, but to implement most of
+       the useful commands and semantics that are used by existing clients.
+</p>
 <p class="security">
        <strong>Caution:</strong>
        ngIRCd 20, 20.1, and 20.2 contain an error that could crash
@@ -27,8 +46,8 @@
        enabled (which is <em>not</em> the default).
        ngIRCd 20 and 20.1 both contain an additional error that allows
        arbitrary users to crash the server daemon.
-       <strong>All installations should be updated to version 20.3 or
-       newer!</strong>
+       <strong>All installations should be updated to version 20.3 (released
+       August 23, 2013) or newer!</strong>
 </p>
 <p>
        The <a href="doc/NEWS">NEWS</a>-file and the