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We are very sorry to announce development on CodingIRC IRCd is now dead. The last release was not public, and was pre1. The last release ever made was utucs-ircd-2.0.00 (somewhere in there). CodingIRC will go back to stock Bahamut.

Hello all,

We were expected to have codingirc-2.2.00-pre2 out within the next few days.

Unfortunately, that did not happen. The reason CodingIRC IRCd 2.2 is taking so long is because of the extra features that are being added. Features include (some are bug fixes):

* Little fix in /warn and /snotice.
* Whowas bug fix (only a user will be shown 5 times).
* New installation scripts (awesome!).
* New tools.
* Easier linking to the CodingIRC IRC Network.
* Configuration generator (yes!)
* Client sends 1024 length buffer, client gets disconnected.... read more

Server modes have been a good feature in IRCds like Undernet's IRCu. While this IRCd is not as good as others (I have to say that, Undernet's IRCd is not as feature-packet as Bahamut/codingirc), the server mode feature is still good. Good news!

This feature has been added in codingirc-2.2(00)pre2. Expect the release of pre2 to be out for the public in about 2 days.

How it is done: &me is used to send a *server* command. &me is the server's little information center. The server name is stored inside it. It is basically an aClient structure. Well, we use this and change the sender to the name. It can be done by IRC operators that have +a, in /samode. In our testing server, we saw this:... read more

Note to all users running the old utucs-ircd versions

In the new codingirc version, running 1.8.3 (utucs-ircd versions were created using 1.8.1) of Bahamut, we found a /whowas issue. A patch will be released in codingirc 2.2's prerelease version 2.

It is very easy to trigger, for example: /whowas Eddie on any CodingIRC server (note: trogdor is running codingirc-2.2(00)pre2; sunlight is running bahamut-1.8(03)):... read more

A lot of progress has been made on CodingIRC 2.2.00. CodingIRC servers will be running this prerelease software. The first publicly available version will be release canidate 1 (RC1).

Thank you,
CodingIRC Coding Team

We would like to alert everyone that download.us.utucs-ircd.org has been shut down permanently, due to a lack of bandwidth. We are unable to continue hosting this, however SourceForge.net's download servers are still going to be mirroring the codingirc releases.

We are now called CodingIRC - and would like to let you know CodingIRC's Coding Team has been getting to work on the new IRCd! codingirc-2.2.00 will be released as the next release. 2.2 will be based on Bahamut 1.8.4 from CVS and will have many more features.

Our new server is irc.codingirc.net, #Coding.

Thanks,
CodingIRC Coding Team

Hello all,

UTUCS.com Development Team would like to notify you about the new changes in utucs-ircd. First, utucs-ircd-2.1.00 is starting to be developed. You may expect 1 or 2 more major releases of utucs-ircd-2.0.00, but that is unlikely.

utucs-ircd-2.1.00 will feature many more features - such as enhanced code, better-written documentation, changed configuration parser, new example config, and some IRC docs (RFC, and more).... read more

UTUCS.com, a part of JShark Networks, is proud to announce a new download mirror - download.us.utucs-ircd.org. All UTUCS.com things will be mirrored on there. This server is in Tucson, AZ (Easynews' server is in Phoenix, AZ).

To get utucs-ircd-2.0.01 from this mirror, please go to:

http://download.us.utucs-ircd.org/utucs-ircd-2.0.01.i386.tar.gz

We are happy to announce we have created a new site for utucs-ircd! Of course, we are always looking for comments, so you may send us some.

utucs-ircd-2.0.01 has been released. This fixes some things in utucs-ircd-2.0.00 - but not much.

- UTUCS.com Development Team

Hello,

We are very happy to announce the releasing of utucs-ircd-2.0.00! utucs-ircd-2.0.00 is a major upgrade for those of you running utucs-ircd-1.0.00.

This is a production/stable release.

In the next few months, we will be working on a new version! This will be utucs-ircd-2.1.00. For now, we will work on utucs-ircd-2.0.00, though.

All UTUCS.com servers are going to be upgraded to this release, and you can expect to have the hub back up very, very soon!!... read more

Hello all,

It's been a long time since there's a post - but that doesn't mean development has stopped. At this time we are still coding utucs-ircd-2.0.00.

There might be 1 more release of 1.0.00 - but, at this time, development has stopped for 1.0.00.

Thank you,
UTUCS.com Development Team

All utucs-ircd-1.0.00 development will (officialy) stop, due to the upcoming utucs-ircd-2.0.00 release. utucs-ircd-2.0.00 will be based on Bahamut 1.8.1.

Features in utucs-ircd-2.0.00 will include:

* More statilibity.
* More security.
* Easier to set up.
... and many more new features

Currently, we do not have a release date - but we will post updates.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to go on irc.utucs.com and ask in #utucs-ircd.... read more

A compile error on gcc 3.4.1 has been addressed. We would like to thank Trystan for notifying us of this.

Please download utucs-ircd-1.0.02 if you are running any old version of utucs-ircd. This is in the debug code.

Thank you,
UTUCS.com Development Team

The UTUCS.com Development Team is happy to announce we are thinking of creating precompiled binaries of utucs-ircd.

If you have a Debian, Slackware, or Gentoo system (i386), help would be appreciated. We will create binaries on FreeBSD 4.9, Fedora Core 3 test1, (possibly) Fedora Core 2, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS.

Thank you,
UTUCS.com Development Team

One change has been added to utucs-ircd - the /info text said utucs-ircd-1.0.00 is an RC. utucs-ircd-1.0.01 fixes this.

All UTUCS.com servers will be upgraded to this IRCd released.

Thank you,
UTUCS.com Development Team

We are very happy to announce utucs-ircd-1.0.00 is now available! There are not any major changes - other than a /oper fix - which blacklists a known hacking host (*@as22-126.qualitynet.net), that floods /oper requests (we suspect), by sending it an error, whether it has a valid oper username/password or not.

Thank you,
UTUCS.com Development Team

We have released the second RC. No improvements - only better written docs.

Thank you,
UTUCS.com Development Team

The UTUCS.com Development Team is very happy to announce utucs-ircd has its first release canidate! We are done adding features to utucs-ircd - we are now looking for exploits and bugs.

All UTUCS.com servers will be upgraded. The client server has already been updated - we are upgrading the hub, at this time or writing.

There will probably be 3 RCs before we go to a stable/production version.

Thank you,
UTUCS.com Development Team

utucs-ircd-1.0.00-pre3 has been released! This upgrade is highly recommended. In addition, all UTUCS.com servers will be upgraded.

utucs-ircd-1.0.00-pre3 is the stable release of the CVS version. Changes:

* Fixed ./config
* Fixed Makefiles
* Fixed /info bug, fixed in (CVS)pre3

For more information on utucs-ircd development, please read the "New MD5 Sums & Extra Info" news post as well.... read more

We have added MD5 sums to all of our releases! The *.md5 files are the MD5 checksums. You should use this command to check:

md5 utucs-ircd-1.0.00-preX.tar.gz

Then, verify that the MD5 sum matches with the one in the *.md5 file.

In addition to MD5 sums and i386 support, we are planning on adding Solaris/SPARC support. If you would like to help by porting utucs-ircd to other platforms/archs, please e-mail eddie at linux101.net (e-mail put in format non-readable by spam bots).... read more

A remote crash exploit with /info has been found - and a fix has been made available in CVS.

The exploit can be triggered by any user with a simple /info command. Large nets running utucs-ircd are *URGED* to upgrade due to this serious exploit.

It cannot start a DoS attack, but any backtraces with s_serv.c are due to this /info exploit. Basically, a bit of code in m_info() caused utucs-ircd to segfault. The code altogether has been removed.... read more

utucs-ircd-1.0.00-pre2 has been released. This only has 1 fix - compile errors. Also added has been Bahamut's resfix, which allows gcc 3.x support. UTUCS.com servers are being upgraded to this release.

The first version of utucs-ircd has been released. utucs-ircd-1.0.00-pre1 does not have any major changes to the Bahamut 1.4.36p3 IRCd - but we hope to redo the documents soon, etc.

- Eddie