Software Update: Eggdrop 1.6.16

EggHEADS has released eggdrop 1.6.16 after a year of silence. Eggdrop is an IRC bot, a piece of software for managing an IRC channel. For more on eggdrop and IRC bots in general here’s some interesting reading material† The changelog for release 1.6.16 shows the following changes:

Some of the major changes in this release are:

• IPv6 protocol support has been removed. It was poorly implemented in 1.6.15, and it will be done correctly in a later release. You can still connect to an IPv6 server using 6tunnel.
• Many, many bug fixes.
• The eggdrop binary is no longer stripped during the compile process. This will make bug reports more useful to the development team, and ultimately will help for a more stable bot. You can still use ./configure –enable-strip to enable stripping, which will create a smaller binary.
• Several more functions have been exported for use by module coders.
• Support for non-x86 platforms and uncommon improved. doc/COMPILING-FAQ has been updated, and now contains a compile guide, which will be updated in versions to come as Eggdrop is tested on more platforms.
• Support for +E/+I modes on EFnet has been added.
• The hand2idx Tcl command works for bots now.
• Added a new Tcl EVNT bind type, “userfile-loaded”, which is called after the bot’s userfile has been loaded.
• All users can now .whois their own handle.
• Better support for Mac OS X. This is still not perfect. If you have a Mac OS X box and experience any problems, please let us know.
• Better support for non-standard “op” prefixes There is now a config file option named “opchars”, which will allow you to configure what prefixes the bot will consider an op.
• Tcl 8.5 alpha is now correctly detected.
• A long-present bug has been fixed in dnslookup, having to do with the concatenation of its arguments. It now works the way it has always been documented in tcl-commands.doc. This could possibly create problems with some scripts.
• A security flaw reported to bugtraq recently, related to bot linking, has been corrected.
• Updated Undernet nickle to 12.