UnrealIRCd

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UnrealIRCd
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Programming language: C
Platform: Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows
Status: Active
Based on: EliteIRCd[1]
License: GNU General Public License
Latest release: 3.2.8.1
Homepage: http://www.unrealircd.com/

UnrealIRCd is an IRC daemon forked from EliteIRCd[1] (which is a Dreamforge fork) written in C and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). UnrealIRCd is very popular amongst small networks and less experienced users and out of those networks indexed by SearchIRC, it ranks #1 in servers using it.

Development of UnrealIRCd began around May 1999, but by today, development got a bit stale and saw many developers quitting[2][3] while plans for a new release that is more than a bug fix release are often changing.[4][5]

UnrealIRCd is commonly used alongside the Anope services package, although UnrealIRCd is supported of a wide range of other services, such as Atheme and IRC Services. UnrealIRCd can also be used with the extended services Denora and NeoStats which will both provide statistics for the IRC server.

It was discovered in June 2010 that the Unreal3.2.8 tarball had a trojan in it, that allowed any user, regardless of privileges to execute commands. It is believed the trojan was placed in the tar.gz in November 2009.[6] However the UnrealIRCd team have implemented counter measures to prevent this happening again.[7]

July 2011, UnrealIRCd released a second release candidate for UnrealIRCd 3.2.9[8]

Supported Extended Services

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