Anope IRC Services

Anope is a set of IRC Services designed for flexibility and ease of use.

Anope is available in two flavors: Stable and Development. The stable version has been tested for months and is as stable as a rock, while the development version gets new features added constantly and allows you to enjoy the future of services today.



Latest News - Anope 2.1.16 Release

Anope 2.1.16 has been released. This is a development release.

The most notable changes are:

  • Added fantasy:require_privilege (defaults to yes).
  • Added support for on-IRC code confirmation.
  • Added the ability for fantasy commands to be executable without the FANTASY privilege.
  • Added the ability to prepend to topics as well as appending to them.
  • Added the nickserv/confirm/email command.
  • Added the nickserv/confirm/email oper privilege.
  • Added the nickserv/confirm/register command.
  • Added the ns_confirm module.
  • Added {ns_email}:changeexpire (defaults to 1 day).
  • Added {ns_resetpass}:resetexpire (defaults to 1 day).
  • Changed various fields to serialize to the database as a string not an integer.
  • Disabled db_flatfile by default in preparation for becoming import-only.
  • Fixed a memory leak in the db_json module.
  • Fixed building on OpenSSL 1.1.1 (for now).
  • Fixed removed and later re-added temporary bans being removed automatically.
  • Fixed sometimes sending malformed LMODE messages on InspIRCd.
  • Fixed the “did you mean” message suggesting unloaded commands.
  • Fixed various issues with the example config files.
  • Marked db_json as the recommended database module.
  • Moved the BAN, UNBAN, and KICK commands to the chanserv/management group.
  • Removed support for the 1.8-style seen command.
  • Removed the irc2sql module (migrate to JSON-RPC instead).
  • Removed {ns_seen}:simple (1.8-style seen has been removed).
  • Renamed the nickserv/confirm oper privilege to nickserv/confirm/register.
  • Reworked confirmation to allow confirmation of multiple account actions.
  • When dropping a display nickname the new display will now be the oldest in the group.

The full change log can be found on GitHub.

Users who want to test out new features are encouraged to upgrade. Before upgrading you may wish to take a backup of your databases and read the upgrading guide. If you encounter any incompatibilities that aren’t mentioned on this page then please open an issue.

SHA256 Sum: dffc17e39b21216a064738931de078bb9328d5a615d4173399213c5730c2a933 anope-2.1.16.tar.gz
SHA256 Sum: b1953cf37053e4b931e9ca2496b60c77cc822eae117fdbbd71d4dfb0a9fe52f2 anope-2.1.16.exe

Posted on 01 Jul 2025 by Sadie

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