2 include('includes/common.php');
3 begin_page('en', 'News');
9 Latest news: ngIRCd on <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@ngircd">Mastodon</a>
10 or <a href="https://twitter.com/ngIRCd">X</a>.
16 The current stable version is
17 <strong>Release 26.1</strong> of January 1 2021,
19 <strong>Release 27~rc1</strong> of April 13 2024
21 please refer to the <a href="download.php.en">Download</a>
25 ngIRCd is used as the daemon in real-world in-house and public IRC
26 networks and included in the package repositories of various operating
33 Development of ngIRCd started back in 2001: The server has been written
34 from scratch in C, tries to follow all relevant standards, and is not
35 based on the forefather, the daemon of the IRCNet.
38 It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviors of
39 the original ircd or corner-cases in the RFCs, but to implement most of
40 the useful commands and semantics that are used by existing clients.
43 <strong>Caution:</strong>
44 ngIRCd 20, 20.1, and 20.2 contain an error that could crash
45 the server daemon when the configuration option <q>NoticeAuth</q> is
46 enabled (which is <em>not</em> the default).
47 ngIRCd 20 and 20.1 both contain an additional error that allows
48 arbitrary users to crash the server daemon.
49 <strong>All installations should be updated to version 20.3 (released
50 August 23, 2013) or newer!</strong>
53 The <a href="doc/NEWS">NEWS</a>-file and the
54 <a href="doc/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>
55 are available online and in the archives.