Two announcements from the guys working on the InspIRCd project, a release for both there stable and development branch, as ever both the windows and source distributions are both already packaged up and ready for download. It' was w00t announcing once more both releases so rather than waffle on here are said announcements:

1.1.21+Caciocavallo released!

The latest release in the stable 1.1 series has been released, consisting of a number of internal fixes for increased reliability and performance.

This is a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED release.

Fixes include problems with Anope support, m_ident sometimes not correctly resolving ident, OpenSSL connections terminating when they shouldn't, corruption on /map output, silent SVSHOLD (no more annoying notices), and U:Lines may now deoper users without resorting to /kill (so defender's secureoper functionality will work properly).

I would also like to specially thank Namegduf for his help and efforts with a number of fixes in this release.

Full changelog is attached for the terminally curious!

and the second story reads a little like this:

1.2+a6-Tuxer released!

The next alpha towards 1.2, carrying a number of fixes, and a few new additions.

Important notes:

• Snomasks are now under umode +s, not umode +n. This is more consistent with other IRCds, and avoids wasting a usermode.
• INVITE behaviour is now such that it defaults to only allowing chanops to invite. m_allowinvite offers extban +b A: (and chanmode +A) that allows everyone to invite freely if wanted.
• m_permchannels now offers a config tag to create channels on startup
• Older operating systems may now use poll() if a better socket engine isn't available
• Much improved ziplinks support
• New Windows GUI stuff - Performance monitoring, graphs, remote management, etc. Follow the link for screenshots and info - MORE TO COME on this in the next alpha including a configuration wizard!
• Windows version now runs as a service - You will need to install InspIRCd as an administrator in order to install the service, which will allow for better remote management (with and without the gui) and the ability to keep the ircd running when there is nobody logged onto the computer.

All existing 1.2 users should upgrade to this release.

If you are not yet running 1.2, feel free to check it out and help us with testing.

Feel free to idle in #inspircd and give us feedback also!

Just remember if you do opt to idle in #inspircd don't do what i did and look a total idjit in the process :D

<X-Ception> that'll explain it then
<w00t> sorry ;)
<w00t> I'll see whether we can do something about it
<X-Ception> you are ? what you do lol
<w00t> hmm?