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Welcome to the official site of the ircd-hybrid development projects! Here you’ll be able to find everything you’ll need to get started in hosting your own IRC server as well as support.

We hope that you enjoy ircd-hybrid and continue to use it for many years to come.

In case you’re also looking for an IRC services package, we strongly recommend the Anope IRC Services.

» Latest STABLE release of ircd-hybrid: 8.2.38
– Noteworthy changes in version 8.2.38 (2021-01-17)

• Backwards compatibility mode for ircd-hybrid 8.2.22 and below has been removed
• Minimum supported version of the Anope IRC services is now 2.0.8
• Fixed displaying issue with channel MODE messages
• Characters valid for user names for local clients are now [A-Za-z0-9.-]. ‘Special’
  characters like }|{`^][$, that were allowed previously, are no longer valid.
  Also user names may not begin with ‘.’, ‘’, or ‘-‘.
• The general::dots_in_ident configuration directive has been renamed to
  general::specials_in_ident and now covers the ‘-‘ and ‘_’ characters in
  addition to ‘.’
• Fixed issue with clients connected from IPv6 localhost that, depending on the
  system’s getaddrinfo() implementation, could lead to a crash of remote servers
• For a full list of all changes in this release, see https://git.io/JtkgL

» Latest STABLE release of HOPM (hybrid open proxy monitor): 1.1.9
– Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.9 (2020-11-16)

• Implemented support for loading a user-provided private key and tls client
  certificate. The irc::rsa_private_key_fileand irc::tls_certificate_file
  configuration directives have been added for this.
  As a side effect this now allows HOPM to use certificate fingerprints for
  NickServ authentication
• The vhost configuration directive found in the irc {} and scanner {} blocks
  has been renamed to bind

Travis CI and Coverity Scan ::

» ircd-hybrid on Travis CI
» HOPM on Travis CI
» ircd-hybrid on Coverity Scan