InspIRCd v4.12.0 is now available, download it from the releases page.

The most notable changes in this release are:

• Changed extended ban R: (account) to also match against account identifiers.

• Fixed build errors on OpenSSL 4.

• Fixed erroneously rejecting TLS groups without a nid in ssl_openssl.

• Fixed flushing WebSocket frames when using native pings.

• Reworked the terminal output on startup to be more helpful.

InspIRCd v4.11.0 is now available, download it from the releases page.

The most notable changes in this release are:

• Added extended ban B: (bot) to the botmode module.

• Added support for forwarding TLS fingerprints from HAProxy using a custom TLV.

• Fixed sending malformed line-wrapped FJOINs for large channels in the v3 protocol compatibility layer.

• Fixed the ldapauth and ldapoper not escaping user-provided values that are used in a search filter.

• Fixed the log_json module not writing messages correctly when built against yyjson.

InspIRCd v4.10.1 is now available, download it from the releases page.

The most notable changes in this release are:

• Fixed the Windows binary containing the wrong version in the main executable.

• Relaxed validation of usernames in USER as it broke some clients.

• Whitelisted the +channel-context tag in the ircv3_ctctags module.

InspIRCd v4.10.0 is now available, download it from the releases page.

The most notable changes in this release are:

• Added extended ban d: (redirect) to the redirect module.

• Added support for the IRCv3 ACCOUNTEXTBAN ISupport token.

• Added support for the IRCv3 no-implicit-names specification to the ircv3 module.

• Added support for the IRCv3 UTF8ONLY specification.

• Added support for validating extended bans before they are set.

• Added the sharebans module which allows bans to be shared between channels.

The third development snapshot of v5 was tagged today. This release brings some major changes including:

• Modules and extensions being switched from reference<> and raw pointers to std::shared_ptr<>.

• Unification of how module services (e.g. commands, modes, etc) are registered with the core.

• A redesign of how IRC case-insensitive strings are hashed and compared to be more robust and work with newer C++ features like std::string_view.

• A redesign of how server messages are built and emitted to allow future changes to the server protocol wire format.

• Many modules with related behaviour (e.g. chg* and set*) being merged.

• Many custom numerics and server notices being replaced with IRCv3 standard replies.

As you might imagine such large changes will need a lot of testing and we’re looking for volunteers to help out.