Greetings, Eggheads!
It looks like the Eggdrop community is getting an early (or perhaps very, very late) Christmas present- we are proud to announce the stable release of Eggdrop 1.8.0! This effort has taken years of hard work, and over 15,000 commits adding more than 50,000 lines of code; we can't express how much we appreciate your patience with us as we worked to shape this into a stable and functional product.
Among literally hundreds of smaller fixes, the biggest changes include v1.8.0 adds SSL and IPv6 support. These additions mean extra config file settings to use them, so while your old config file will still work, you may want to consider using the new eggdrop.conf included with this release.
Speaking of the config file, we've also brought back an old feature- eggdrop-basic.conf. This file is a simplified version of the standard eggdrop.conf targeted towards new users to make the first run a little less daunting. While this file is good for a quick start, we still strongly recommend you use the full eggdrop.conf to take advantage of all the features of Eggdrop.
If you were worried, fear not- TCL scripts written for v1.6 should still function with the v1.8 series of Eggdrop. While the core functionality of most 3rd party modules should still work, many are hard-coded to only run on a v1.6 Eggdrop. We have assembled a variety of popular third-party modules at ftp://ftp.eggheads.org/pub/eggdrop/modules/1.8/ and edited them to remove this restriction, thus allowing them to function with v1.8.
For a list of major changes and advice on upgrading from 1.6.x, check out the NEWS-1.8.0 file included with the Eggdrop source.
Once again, we can't express how happy we are to have reached this milestone, and look forward to 1.8.1 in the (hopefully) not-too-distant future!
~The Eggheads Development Team