UnrealIRCd

Open Source IRC Server, serving thousands of networks since 1999. Also at Mastodon at

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

UnrealIRCd 6.2.5 release & hot-patch ❗ Improves IPv6 clone detection.

If your IRC network has IPv6, hot-patching (no restart) or upgrading is highly recommended.

On 6.2.x: ./unrealircd hot-patch ipv6-clones

Details at https://t.co/QFL7Mrizec #IRC

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

UnrealIRCd 6.2.4 is out! 🎉 This release comes with optional multiline support and more. #IRC
👉 Release notes: https://t.co/2ySPANOBr9
👉 Download: https://t.co/MmbxsL9MJs
👉 *NIX: ./unrealircd upgrade

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

UnrealIRCd 6.2.4-rc1 is available for testing. Comes with optional multiline support and more. #IRC

👉 Release notes: https://t.co/cXXHsZwRD5
👉 Download: https://t.co/e5ZKtnzujj
👉 *NIX: ./unrealircd upgrade --rc

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

UnrealIRCd 6.2.3 is out! 🎉

New: soft bans in ban user { }, control SETIDENT/SETNAME usage, improved security hardening, EXTJWT docs. Also a bunch of fixes. #IRC

👉 Release notes: https://t.co/MsjfktHYej
👉 Download: https://t.co/e5ZKtnzujj
👉 *NIX: ./unrealircd upgrade

[Bram Matthys @VULNSCAN]

I made a blog post about post-quantum cryptography, specifically on how "Harvest now, decrypt later" is a real threat, and what it means for IRC and UnrealIRCd. https://t.co/aqw0qQUw4T #IRC #PQC

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

@afpromania If you change only those items, your configuration should be OK. Still, we do recommend to check https://t.co/FdLQFeKR21 afterwards. Like, you may want "Services", and we very much encourage you to get a valid TLS cert from Let's Encrypt (or similar), as mentioned there.

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

UnrealIRCd 6.2.3-rc2 is available for testing. Release notes are available on https://t.co/Yq0ZPUKqct. Found any issues? Please report on https://t.co/ICdQWKFJYL. #IRC

Downloads are on https://t.co/NGDcJP6bwB. To upgrade to this RC on *NIX you can use: ./unrealircd upgrade --rc

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

@afpromania UnrealIRCd has an insane amount of options you could possibly change/set. However, we do care very much about "good defaults" (as that's what 99% of users will use). If you use our example.conf then only a few changes are necessary. We even marked them with "CHANGE THIS".

[IRC Statistics @IRC_Stats]

NEW STATS: #IRC server software in use on the Internet (based on 4991 publicly accessible servers):
#UnrealIRCd 37%, #InspIRCd 22%, ngircd 9%, Hybrid 7%, Ergo 7% (+2% compared to last year). See details at https://t.co/xhbaP7VZ81

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

Spam waves on IRC at the end of the year again. We have done our part in shielding the #IRC community from the first wave on Dec 24/25. Unfortunately no longer working on Dec 26. Using UnrealIRCd? Consider using CBL which is still highly effective: https://t.co/MFKKZ0GAyl

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

See the "UnrealIRCd 6.2.2 released & wrapping up the year" post at the forums https://t.co/HhEXsyAdV7 for more info. #IRC

As always, you can download UnrealIRCd from https://t.co/NGDcJP6Jm9 and on *NIX you can run ./unrealircd upgrade

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

UnrealIRCd 6.2.2 is out! Fixes a few minor issues. If running 6.2.1 then no reason to upgrade. But if you are still running 6.0.x/6.1.x then we highly recommend to upgrade to 6.2.x in December. The 6.2.x series have proven to be stable and are a leap forward in terms of security.

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

UnrealIRCd 6.2.1 is out! Main focus was on performance improvements, but also has new features like webhooks, UTF8ONLY, IRCv3 draft/extended-isupport, support multiple certificate/keys, etc. #IRC
Release notes: https://t.co/lKFchj8Ary
Download: https://t.co/MmbxsLakz0

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

UnrealIRCd 6.2.1-rc2 is now available for testing. If you can, please help test this release so 6.2.1 stable release will be...stable. #IRC
👉 Announcement: https://t.co/wsTF9WY03B
👉 Release notes: https://t.co/PeV6ix4DGj
👉 *NIX: ./unrealircd upgrade --rc

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

UnrealIRCd 6.2.1-rc1 is available for testing. Main focus was on performance improvements but also various small new features were added, like an option to set UTF8ONLY. See https://t.co/qTf1S9fZyS for more information. #IRC

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

The beta's for 6.2.0 didn't receive as much testing as I would have liked. If you are cautious or if you depend on 3rd party modules (some may not be updated yet for 6.2) then feel free to wait for version 6.2.1.
👉 Download: https://t.co/xgGtAiW7wJ
👉*NIX: ./unrealircd upgrade

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

UnrealIRCd 6.2.0 is out! 🎉 Channel flood protection turned on by default, UTF8 Text Analysis & Spamfilter enhancements, new best practices regarding SSL/TLS, PQC enhancements. All to make chatting on #IRC more secure and with less spam.
👉 Release notes: https://t.co/dDv4CJFgNf

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

For example, you could start with using Strict Transport Security to automatically redirect users from plaintext to TLS if they have a capable IRC client, such as mIRC, AdiIRC, IRCCloud, The Lounge, Colloquy, Palaver, and even bots like BitBot and Limnoria.

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

Starting with UnrealIRCd 6.2.0-beta3 we now print a "best practices"-advice to close user plaintext ports (such as port 6667). See https://t.co/9TzJc0zQOS on how to move your users to SSL/TLS step-by-step.

[UnrealIRCd @Unreal_IRCd]

UnrealIRCd 6.2.0-beta3 is available for testing. This release has channel flood protection turned on by default, UTF8 Text Analysis, Spamfilter enhancements, new best practices, etc. See release notes: https://t.co/0G4YL9WK4Y. Please report issues at https://t.co/SnqasyPjKM #IRC