Eggdrop Development
Well, we’ve done it again- a new stable release for Eggdrop! This is going to be a “bug fix” version- there isn’t a whole lot in the way of new user-facing features here, but there has been a LOT of work done “under the hood”. We particularly wanted to push this out sooner rather than...
Currently merged into the develop branch (and will be released with version 1.9.4), long-time user PeGaSuS has contributed an Eggdrop systemd job! To install the service, use the autobotchk script and add the “-systemd” flag to the end of the command. This will install a systemd job that can be controlled with the start, stop,...
Greetings Eggheads, On the tail of 1.9.3, we’re already putting out 1.9.4! We wanted to get this out quickly because, as some of you noticed, we inadvertently moved some internal functionality that affected advanced Tcl scripts. Additionally, we FINALLY tracked down one of our most notorious bug, an issue where an improperly tracked DNS lookup...
Unfortunately, after we migrated the uptime contest server to a new home in late 2021, we discovered a bug in the uptime module that cached the IP of the contest URL for the entirety of the Eggdrop running. In simple words, this means that Eggdrops running before the migration occurred are still trying to send...
Greetings Eggheads, As you may know, there has been a major shift in Freenode leadership and control across the last month. IRC politics and behind-the-scenes intrigue is not something the Eggdrop developers wish to engage in nor comment publicly on. However, for whatever reason, the current freenode staff initiated a series of tangible, public actions...