UnrealIRCd 5.0.6 released

[Bram M. <sy...@un...>]

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Hi everyone,

UnrealIRCd 5.0.6 is now available. This is a small small maintenance
release for the stable 5.x series. See the release notes
<https://github.com/unrealircd/unrealircd/blob/422244a2e56fd293c0ad2126dc1af8f9aca6a7c3/doc/RELEASE-NOTES.md#unrealircd-506-release-notes>
for full details.

*Reminder: UnrealIRCd 4 will be EOL at the end of 2020*

UnrealIRCd 4 will be maintained until 31 December 2020 (security fixes
only!). After that date UnrealIRCd 4 is no longer supported
<https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/UnrealIRCd_4_EOL>.
Admins are recommended to upgrade to UnrealIRCd 5 soon.

*UnrealIRCd 5*

UnrealIRCd 5 was released in December 2019 and is the current "stable"
branch. In particular I would like to thank Gottem and 'i' for their
source code contributions and PeGaSuS and westor for testing releases.
When we transitioned from 3.2.x to 4.0.0 there were 175,000 lines of
source code added/removed during 3 years of development. This time it
was 120,000 lines in only 8 months, a major effort!

A short summary of release highlights for UnrealIRCd 5 in general is
available here
<https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/What%27s_new_in_UnrealIRCd_5>. The full
release notes are available here
<https://github.com/unrealircd/unrealircd/blob/422244a2e56fd293c0ad2126dc1af8f9aca6a7c3/doc/RELEASE-NOTES.md#unrealircd-5>.
If you have some spare time, we recommended reading the full release
notes (the new and changed sections, anyway) so you don't miss out on
anything.

If you are upgrading from 4.x to 5.x then it would be wise to read
Upgrading from 4.x <https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Upgrading_from_4.x>.
In any case, be sure to upgrade your services package first! (if you use
any). UnrealIRCd 5 is known to work with the following services:

  * anope <https://www.anope.org/> (version 2.0.7 or higher) - with the
    "unreal4" protocol module
  * atheme <https://atheme.github.io/atheme.html> (version 7.2.9 or
    higher) - with the "unreal4" protocol module

As always, you can download UnrealIRCd from https://www.unrealircd.org/

-- 
Bram Matthys
Security researcher                     sy...@vu...
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