UnrealIRCd 6.2.8-rc1 available for testing and webpanel security update
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2026 12:15 pm
Last weekend was quite an event! Having to do an upgrade as an admin, with a tight deadline, is never fun but everyone I spoke to was very understanding. In this new era of AI every project has to deal with urgent security releases. I want to thank everyone for their kind words, donations even, and spreading the word about the hot-patch and 6.2.7.1 upgrade.
First things first: the webpanel had a security release today. That's not UnrealIRCd itself, but a separate project, and only a few dozen people use it. If you do use it, please upgrade the webpanel to v1.1.1.
Now, what this post is actually about: the Release Candidate for future version 6.2.8 is available for testing!
You can help us by testing this release and reporting bugs to https://bugs.unrealircd.org/. We hope to do a 6.2.8 stable release at the end of this month.
On *NIX you can use ./unrealircd upgrade --rc to upgrade to this Release Candidate. You can download releases from unrealircd.org.
If you are trying 6.2.8-rc1 then please check out the release notes. And if you use a webchat that connects directly to UnrealIRCd with websockets then you MUST add it to set::websocket::allowed-origins. See the first item under Changes there.
First things first: the webpanel had a security release today. That's not UnrealIRCd itself, but a separate project, and only a few dozen people use it. If you do use it, please upgrade the webpanel to v1.1.1.
Now, what this post is actually about: the Release Candidate for future version 6.2.8 is available for testing!
You can help us by testing this release and reporting bugs to https://bugs.unrealircd.org/. We hope to do a 6.2.8 stable release at the end of this month.
On *NIX you can use ./unrealircd upgrade --rc to upgrade to this Release Candidate. You can download releases from unrealircd.org.
If you are trying 6.2.8-rc1 then please check out the release notes. And if you use a webchat that connects directly to UnrealIRCd with websockets then you MUST add it to set::websocket::allowed-origins. See the first item under Changes there.