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- Latest news: ngIRCd on Twitter. + Latest news: ngIRCd on Mastodon + or X.

Status

The current stable version is - Release 24 of January 20 2017, + Release 27 of April 26 2024, please refer to the Download options.

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+ 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. +

History

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+ 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. +

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+ 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. +

Caution: - ngIRCd 20, 20.1, and 20.2 contain an error that could crash - the server daemon when the configuration option NoticeAuth is - enabled (which is not the default). - ngIRCd 20 and 20.1 both contain an additional error that allows - arbitrary users to crash the server daemon. - All installations should be updated to version 20.3 or - newer! + ngIRCd up to and including release 26.1 did not validate SSL + certificates on server-server links! If you run a network of ngIRCd + daemons you should upgrade to ngIRCd 27 (released April 26, + 2024) or newer!

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