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 2.1.25 Release

Anope 2.1.25 has been released. This is a development release.

The most notable changes are:

General Changes

  • Added a cooldown timer to hs_request for after a vhost is approved or rejected.

  • Added environment variables for configuring hashing algorithms to anope-mkpasswd.

  • Added support for building with position-independent code on supported platforms.

  • Added support for prioritising WHOIS entries in ns_set_misc.

  • Documented the ns_flexible and ns_monospace account options.

  • Dropped support for the +draft/reply tag in favour of the non-draft variant.

  • Fixed a crash on shutdown when trying to send a global without an uplink.

  • Fixed a crash when a temporary ban expires.

  • Fixed a crash when trying to upgrade TLS fingerprints from an older algorithm.

  • Fixed a potential crash caused by unusual timestamps being passed to Anope::strftime.

  • Fixed confirming accounts when {ns_register}:registration is set to “admin”.

  • Fixed edge cases relating to IRCd-sent account names.

  • Fixed extra CMake arguments from ./Config being ignored.

  • Fixed flag migration sometimes giving users higher privileges than they had originally when a flag provides multiple privileges.

  • Fixed not being able to update the description of a flags access entry.

  • Fixed not migrating the last seen time with an access entry.

  • Fixed not using the extra CMake arguments from ./Config.

  • Fixed some command descriptions not being imperative statements.

  • Fixed some help messages that did not reflect the default flag/level/xop access when changed in the configuration.

  • Fixed the default memory hardness in the enc_argon2 module.

  • Improved configuring paths at build time.

  • Improved help output for the nickserv/set/timezone command.

  • Improved importing databases from Atheme.

  • Improved support for reproducible builds.

  • Redocumented the nickserv/set/keepmodes command.

  • Separated the delay between nickname registrations from the delay between grouping nicknames.

  • Updated the Portuguese translation.

  • Updated the Romanian translation.

Developer Changes

  • Added Block::GetBlocks to allow using a range-based for loop to iterate config blocks.

  • Added an event to IRCDProto to populate common tags onto a S2S message.

  • Added automated testing on InspIRCd, Solanum, and UnrealIRCd using irctest.

  • Added support for adding ajoin entries from modules.

  • Changed various configuration block index fields to use an unsigned integer.

  • Changed vendored libraries to be built as static libraries and linked into the modules that require them.

  • Simplified timer repeat logic by allowing tick events to return bool to control whether the timer continues running.

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: d0837d752ced2cc3ad4a1fe84c7eb89ef2c6185634c4548b4eeb5ac77ae29621 anope-2.1.25.tar.gz
SHA256 Sum: 25e5b243dfd43260694e8a6fc32d1acc8bad78200b8c63f74482150421e1d751 anope-2.1.25.exe

Posted on 10 Jul 2026 by Sadie

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