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
<p>
The current stable version is
<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
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>
- 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 class="security">
<strong>Caution:</strong>
ngIRCd 20, 20.1, and 20.2 contain an error that could crash
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