Anope
| Anope | |
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| Programming language: | C[1] - C++[2] |
| Platform: | Linux, BSD, Apple OS X, Windows |
| Status: | Active |
| Based on: | Epona[3] |
| Latest release: | 1.8.9 (Legacy)[4] 2.0.1 (Stable)[5] |
| Homepage: | http://www.anope.org |
Anope is a services package which was first released in 2003 and is based on Epona and contains common services bots such as OperServ, NickServ, ChanServ, HostServ, BotServ, MemoServ.[3] Anope is one of the most common and popular services for IRC, it is commonly used alongside UnrealIRCd[6] aswell as InspIRCd. It has the capability to load a variety of modules to enhance the services.
Latest releases
- Anope 2.0.1 was released in June 2014, this is now the current stable branch.[5]
- Anope 1.8.9 was released on March 4rd 2014.[4] This was the last planned release in the 1.x branch as Anope 2 becomes the current stable branch, and this becomes a legacy version
Features
Anope's NickServ supports nickname grouping and also has an optional password retrieval feature. Nicknames may be protected from being taken by other users.
Services
Defcon system
Anope has a defcon system can be used to implement a pre-defined set of restrictions to services useful during an attempted attack on the network to secure the services which is explained here.
HelpServ
A skeleton service used to serve help files. (Removed in Anope 1.9.1+)
Supported IRCds
- Bahamut
- Charybdis
- DreamForge
- Hybrid
- InspIRCd
- Plexus
- PTLink
- RageIRCd
- Ratbox
- ShadowIRCd
- Solid IRCd
- UltimateIRCd
- UnrealIRCd
- ViagraIRCd