Good news everyone!
The latest InspIRCd for your enjoyment is out! We’re sorry about the delay in announcement but our site maintainer was busy with RL and all that boring stuff. On a positive note, yours truly is now also a maintainer of the site and thusly you can also spam me with any site related issues.
A detailed changelog since last release will be attached as always.
Archive for category IRC
Inspircd released 2.0
Jul 7
Recently, the Linux version of UnrealIRCd was discovered to have had a Trojan worm its way into the source code. Even more embarrassing for the developers of Unreal is that the Trojan’s been holding open the backdoor in the source code since November of 2009– not very recently. And, of course, bloggers and press in general are taking the opportunity of another breach in Linux security to point out doomsday devices that don’t really exist.
http://www.osnews.com/story/23448/Linux_IRC_Server_Gets_Trojan_Press_Harps_On_Linux_Security
Anope 1.8.4 – Release
Apr 5
We’re pleased to announce the latest release of the Anope stable branch; 1.8.4.
This release brings a list of fixes generally, and some further compatibility with InspIRCd 1.2.
As always we recommend you test the new version out in a testnet environment with your database and third party modules before considering upgrading.
We are in the process of also adding the functionality to our modules site (http://modules.anope.org/) to ‘mass’ build modules for Windows each time there is a new release from us which should hopefully help Windows’ users make decisions upon upgrading irrespective of whether the module author has produced a new dll for them.
Inspircd 2.0 beta 2
Mar 19
Enough has been done on 2.0 that it’s probably a good idea to release another beta. There is now an unofficial feature freeze on 2.0, and hopefully the protocol won’t need any further tweaks. Linking with 1.2.x servers is still supported as it has been throughout the entire 2.0 line.
We need people to test 2.0, especially in a live environment. Since it can link to 1.2 servers, it’s possible to link a test server to an existing network and get real network traffic, while (hopefully) restricting any stability issues from the new code to the test server. Alternatively, contact us on IRC if you would like information on linking to the inspircd dev/QA testnet.
Are you looking for low cost blade server? I guess InstaVPS is a good place to consider. We just made an order of one blade server with at low cost starting from 20usd/month.
The server spec:
* 60 GB Disk Space
* 500 GB Bandwidth/ 2 IPs
* PM 1.0 GHZ
* 1 GB RAM
* Choice Of OS
* Free Setup
The port speed is 10Mbits (100Mbits is upgradable with 5usd/month extra). They also accept IRCD stuffs.
lightIRC is a free Flash IRC client that includes all well known IRC features.
It supports stylesheets for it’s own skins, has support for multiple languages, and can be used with every IRCd.
lightIRC supports channels, queries, a lot of IRC commands, some CTCP commands and is much customizable through StyleSheets. It has multi language support (currently English, Spanish, German, Turkish, Hungarian, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Serbian, Estonian, Romanian) and a nice GUI to set kicks, bans and channel modes.
The client uses a socket to connect directly to the IRC server (no XMLSocket, no gateway).
You need flash policy server running at IRCD’s host. Otherwise the lightIRC client can not connect to your IRCD. Here is a link of how to setup a socket policy server: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/socket_policy_files.html
KhClub Network
Jan 28
Yes, this is just another Khmer IRC Network. They are running some UnrealIRCD servers with Anope IRC services and extra Statistic Denora. I have no comment for this Network yet.
Freely connect them with this address: irc.khclub.net
IRC statistic via web: http://khclub.net/phpdenora/
Today, I just found one free shell on the net. Its name is Bshellz. You can get your linux account up instantly. They currently have two type of account – standard user and elite user. Simply visit their IRC channel in freenode (irc://#bshellz@irc.freenode.org), and type !register. I got my account created in less than 5mn.
Here are what you will get:
- SSH / SFTP
- File space 50MB for standard users
- File space 500MB for elite users
- cron
- screen
- IPV4/6
Development/Scripting
- GNU tools, gcc, g++, make, etc…
- Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby, Bash
- Subversion
Web Devel/Hosting
- Apache Server (SSL)
- PHP
- Perl
- MYSQL
- Python
- Mono
- phpMyAdmin
Chat / IRC
- Irssi
- (FiSH, OTR, SILC, XMPP)
- finch / pidgin
- centerim
- ekg
- BitchX
- Bitlbee server (MSN, ICQ, YAHOO, etc…)
- Jabber
- psybnc/bnc/eggdrop/bots etc… ONLY for elite users.
- pine
- mutt
- IMAP access (SSL)
- SMTP access (SSL)
Web
- lynx
- links
- elinks
- Tor
- I2P
Editors
- vim
- pico
- joe
- nano
- emacs
Their website: http://www.bshellz.net. One important note is: you _MUST_ every 168 hours visit their channel #bshellz on Freenode Network, and say !keep username.
you _MUST_ every 168 hours visit our channel #bshellz on Freenode Network, and say !keep
You might already know mibbit which I ever mentioned it before. Today, I just found one opensource webirc client named qwebirc.
Here are its feature I extracted from its official website:
- AJAX IRC client.
- Multiple channels and queries.
- Nick list menus.
- Scalability: used by QuakeNet: the world’s largest IRC network.
- Cross platform (pure Python), so works under Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and probably more platforms.
- Embedded webserver, so very little configuration.
- SSL support.
- Supports WEBIRC style hostname setting with asynchronous DNS.
- Optional dedicated message and/or notice windows.
- Irssi style /msg, query, channel and nickname autocompletion (sorted correctly by last used/spoke order).
- Completely open source (GPLv2).
- Ability to offer a direct connection, no third party.
- Can pass your hostname through directly to the IRC server.
- Keyboard shortcuts for window selection (alt+a, alt+1..0).
- Irssi style global input history.
- Mouse wheel on tabs.
- UTF-8 support.
- Clickable channels, links and authnames.
- mIRC colour/underline/bold support.
- Minimalistic design with a decent colour scheme.
- Direct integration into QuakeNet’s secure authing system.
- No profit motive, so no logging, link hijacking, advertising or data mining whatsoever.
- Irssi style multiple highlight levels.
- Wizard to allow users to easily embed the client into their own websites.
It releases under GPLv2.
Homepage: http://qwebirc.org/
InspIRCD 1.2 Final
Aug 31
Finally, Inspire IRCD release their official version 1.2.
A few years in the making, months in the testing, thousands of lines of code in the writing, we’re finally done. 1.2.0 is ready for every day usage. A grand total of 0 issues have been reported since rc5, so we are confident that things should have settled down now, though we will remain ready to rectify any problems that arise.
1.2 aims at following on from the surge in popularity following our stable 1.1 series. A number of new features have been introduced, borrowing on ideas from many other parts of the IRC community, as well as introducing a few of our own. Some performance enhancements and many architectural improvements have also been made.
1.2.0 is now recommended for usage. Networks that do not require any of the new features are still free to run 1.1, which is still supported.
Read it more here.
