News & History
Latest news: ngIRCd on Mastodon.
Status
The current stable version is Release 28 of July 12 2026, please refer to the Download options.
ngIRCd is used as the daemon in real-world in-house and public IRC networks and included in the package repositories of various operating systems.
History
Development of ngIRCd started back in 2001: The server has been written from scratch in C, tries to follow all relevant standards, and is not based on the forefather, the daemon of the IRCNet.
It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviors of the original ircd or corner-cases in the RFCs, but to implement most of the useful commands and semantics that are used by existing clients.
Caution: ngIRCd up to and including release 27 has a bug, which can result in 100% CPU usage on a single core (DoS) while handling certain malicious connections. All installations should be upgraded to ngIRCd 28 (released July 12, 2026) or newer!
The NEWS-file and the ChangeLog are available online and in the archives.