The third beta version for future UnrealIRCd 6.2.0 is now available for testing. This is not a stable release and does not contain all the features that are scheduled for 6.2.0 yet. This beta exists so people can test things, report bugs and give other feedback. Please use https://bugs.unrealircd.org/ for that.
This release has channel flood protection turned on by default, UTF8 Text Analysis and Spamfilter enhancements, new best practices w.r.t. plaintext port 6667 + having a TLS certificate that is issued by a trusted CA and for the correct name, PQC enhancements, etc. See the Release notes for the details.
Perhaps good to know: the beta1/beta2/beta3 followed each other relatively quickly. However, next beta (or release candidate) is not expected before September.
Download / Upgrade
If you want to try out this beta, you can download UnrealIRCd from www.unrealircd.org. If you want to upgrade on *NIX, then use: ./unrealircd upgrade --beta (if you use this latter method, be sure to read next)
PGP key rotation
Note that our PGP key expired in June 2025, so all our files are signed by the new PGP key. The new key was created and announced in Nov 2024 already in this post. UnrealIRCd 6.1.9 and 6.1.10 have the new key in the doc/KEYS file (because they were published on/after Nov 2024). With UnrealIRCd 6.1.9 and 6.1.10 the ./unrealircd upgrade --beta command will work fine. On older versions of UnrealIRCd, however, you will get a warning.