It includes the ability to password-protect server restart and stop commands, for operator use only. Some of Unreal's features are referred to as "nonstandard", in that they are not listed in the IRC-related RFCs 14–2813, but are beneficial "from a security point of view." The software "possibly has the most security features of any IRC server", including "spam filters, different styles of user bans, various channel modes to prevent abuse and flooding, SSL ( Secure Sockets Layer) connection support, and compressed server connections." For example, the shun command blocks a user from transmitting any text, the spamfilter uses regular expressions and can automatically ban, shun or disconnect users, and dccdeny can block files from being transmitted. Next UnrealIRCd 5 stable series was first released on December 13, 2019. Īn UnrealIRCd 4.0.0 stable release was made on December 24, 2015. In October 2015 it was announced that due to the many changes the new series will be called UnrealIRCd 4 and the first Release Candidate was made available for download. The 3.2 series will be maintained until the new version has been declared stable, which was expected to happen somewhere in 2014. With the release of version 3.2.10 in December 2012, Bram Matthys (Syzop), the current project leader of UnrealIRCd, announced that development has been started on a 3.4 version.
Munk (stskeeps), the founder of the UnrealIRCd project, announced that a future v4.0 would be a fork of InspIRCd.
UnrealIRCd was originally based on DALnet's DreamForge IRCd, "a now deprecated IRC server that was the predecessor to the actively maintained Bahamut server." May 1999, many new features have been added and modified, including advanced security features and bug fixes, and it has become a popular server. Since the beginning of development on UnrealIRCd c. UnrealIRCd is an open-source IRC daemon, originally based on DreamForge, and is available for Unix-like operating systems and Windows. Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows
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