IRC technology news from the second half of 2024
There’s a smörgåsbord of IRC happenings in this post, including multiple new desktop clients as well as clients for Sega Megadrive/Genesis and those old Macs that look like birdhouses.
A presentation about IRC modernisation will be given at FOSDEM conference on 1 Feb 2025. A video recording will be made available after the conference.
There’s a new commercial service for bouncer access hosted in France called IRC Today. It is run by delthas, creator of the senpai client and contributor to projects such as soju.
The Undernet network, established in 1993, now supports IRCv3 capabilities thanks to updates to its ircu2 daemon. The future is finally starting to become evenly distributed.
The working group wrote a spec round-up in November. A new version of a metadata specification was published as draft in September.
Modern IRC Client Protocol docs received updates and clarifications related to RPL_ENDOFWHOIS, RPL_WHOISCHANNELS, ISUPPORT tokens and ERR_WASNOSUCHNICK.
