IRCReport started once upon a time as IRCNews and prior to that it went through various different names all with the basic same goal, to report on not just the IRCReportniche IRC news but all the news, as time passed IRCNews and then later IRCReport expanded beyond just offering news but also offering files and resources. IRCReport's founder X-Ception is a fan of opensource so near every part of the site is powered by open source technology including the site and its extensions.

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WeIRCd - Security Update 0.8.2

A few days ago the WeIRCd team had found a possible security problem and have released a updated version 0.8.2, anyone using WeIRCd is urged to download and install it a.s.a.p.The download can be found at http://eloxoph.com/weircd/

IRCd | Scott | Monday, 30 August 2010

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Colloquy Update v1.3.2

Attention all iDevice users! Colloquy v1.3.2 has been released in the app store.This update includes: Speak new messages and events when VoiceOver is enabled. Added setting to control multitasking timeout. Added setting to only alert for first private message. Added /safari, /aaway, /anick, /amsg, /ame and /aquit commands. Added support for auto away while multitasking. Made users that are away or idle display as dimmed out. Improved auto-detection of URLs. Use white scrollbars for dark styles. Fixed the autocorrection setting

Clients | Scott | Saturday, 28 August 2010

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KVIrc - Possible Security Flaws?

KVIrc's security has come under fire recently, with two recent vulnerabilities being reported regarding KVIrc's handling of DCCs. Quite recently, the discoverer of these issues has come forward under anonymity to voice claims that there are no less than 14 additional vulnerabilities which are known to affect the client, with several giving access to the operating system in some capacity. Many of these issues are said to be automated, requiring no user intervention in order to execute. Our source also shared several minor issues with KVIrc that were not part of this list, in order to give the c...

Clients | Scott | Monday, 9 August 2010

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DALnet - Services Extra

DALnet have announced the new addition of a Portuguese language pack for NickServ thanks to Master_Of_Chaos.This bring their NickServ languages up to 9, they also sent out special thanks to those who helped document the lanuages.eDdYk0nG (Indonesian, Malaysian),Fredfred (German),Maha (Urdu),Master_Of_Chaos (Portuguese),salman_Arfie (Urdu),uzay (Turkish),Zappu (Romanian),Car`a`carn (Swedish),Leo`King (Urdu).

Networks | Scott | Monday, 2 August 2010

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mIRC - Version 7.1 Released

The much awaited final version of the world famous IRC client mIRC 7 is now here. Released on the 30th July 2010, mIRC 7.1 is available for public download. Among the many enhancements, fixes and additions to mIRC 7 is the much publicized UniCode support. This is not just for displaying UniCode characters in chat, but for all internal functions including communication with DLLs. You can now set a boolean value in your DLL's LoadInfo structure to True and full UniCode communication is then active. It defaults to ANSI for compatibility with older DLLs. As well as UniCode support, the list of oth...

Clients | Scott | Saturday, 31 July 2010

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Smart MUltipleXed Irc

Codenamed "LoveGod" version 0.7.2 has been released with 29 bugfixes and 13 new features.Their latest release has also gained them alot of support which has gained them alot of translation help which now includes:New languages includes: Portuguese (Americo Monteiro), Danish (Joe Hansen), partially Finnish (Kalle Kaitala), and partially Catalan (Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals). Updated languages includes: French (Clément BOURGEOIS), German (Bianca Mix), Italian (Vincenzo Campanella), Czech (Michal Simunek), Swedish (Martin Bagge), and British (Ryan Smith-Evans). Since that release they have al...

IRCd | Scott | Friday, 30 July 2010

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InspIRCd - Version 2.0.0 Released

Peavey has proudly announced the release of InspIRCd 2.0.0 on their official forums.A number of changes include: * Use EFD_NONBLOCK in test creation of eventfd (makes it require glibc 2.8/linux 2.6.27) * Fix umode -r on nick change being denied by permission check * Be consistent in testing PURE_STATIC for defined vs == 1 * Add some missing <connect> updates from rehash, noticed by mixx941 * Fix negative array access in channame * Correct source of initial BURST line from servers sending it without one (like denora) * Compile testing can be useful * Change -debug to force RAWIO level log...

IRCd | Scott | Friday, 30 July 2010

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GeeksIRC - Ininity-IRC

GeeksIRC a small network who once had over 1000 users but lost them due to unshared circumstances has decided to merge databases and users with Infinity-IRC.Databases will be merged, GeeksIRC DNS will be pointed to Infinity-IRC and the network name Infinity-IRC will be kept. If you have any queries about this move, you can contact staff in #Support.We would like to wish both sets of staff all the best in their new endeavour.

Networks | Scott | Friday, 30 July 2010

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WeIRCd - Version 0.8.1 Released

Apart from some small bugfixes including the autoop feature again, version 0.8.1 also brings resolved ip's to the plate as seen in many IRCd's.A full changelog can be found here: http://eloxoph.com/weircd/changelog.txt  

IRCd | Scott | Saturday, 24 July 2010

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DALnet - Update

Users on DALnet have been treated to some nice updates as of late, most being memo related.Some users have reported memos "disappearing" even tho they were present, this was a caching bug which should now be fixed.Faking channel memos with "/MemoServ SEND nick #channel >> messagge" has also been fixed with normal non-channel memos being shown as "normal memos".Three other changes included:* MemoServ SENDCHAN - Lets users send channel memos to specific access lists (founder always gets a copy).* ChanServ LISTOPS - Lets AOPs+ list all the AOPs/SOPs/managers/founder of a channel with one co...

Networks | Scott | Monday, 19 July 2010

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