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
</h3>
<p>
The current stable version is
- <strong>Release 26.1</strong> of January 1 2021,
+ <strong>Release 27</strong> of April 26 2024,
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
- the server daemon when the configuration option <q>NoticeAuth</q> is
- 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>
+ ngIRCd up to and including release 26.1 did <em>not validate</em> SSL
+ certificates on server-server links! If you run a network of ngIRCd
+ daemons <strong>you should upgrade to ngIRCd 27 (released April 26,
+ 2024) or newer!</strong>
</p>
<p>
The <a href="doc/NEWS">NEWS</a>-file and the