Hello fellow Eggheads!
We did it! After just over three years, the first release candidate for Eggdrop 1.9.0 is finally here! As this was a major release, it spent a little extra time getting the finishing touches put on, but I think you'll find it well worth the wait with the new features and fixes. As we still managed to find small and mostly up-to-now unnoticed bugs to fix, we also added some SIGNIFICANT changes, to include:
- CAP support, with native support for some IRCv3 features
- SASL authentication support
- A Twitch module
- Away-status tracking
- PBKDF2 hashing for password storage in the userfile (Make sure you read the docs for this one, or you may break your userfile!)
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, or at least comparing files to see the new changes.
If you were worried, fear not- Tcl scripts written for v1.6 and v1.8 should still function with the v1.9 series of Eggdrop.
As this is an RC, we're depending on you to help us find those last few bugs before we declare 1.9.0 as stable. Please use it and report any bugs you find to https://github.com/eggheads/eggdrop/issues . We plan on leaving this comment period open for 2-3 weeks.
We HIGHLY recommend you read NEWS for a full summary of all the changes made; it's not a terrible read, we promise and you may just find something useful tucked away in there.