OpenIRCd

Published 03/05/2023 Updated 03/26/2023

📝 This is a work in progress.

OpenIRCd is an easy-to-use non-blocking high performance IRC server written in Java.

What Does It Do?

Allows you to host your own IRC server, or acts as a base for you to edit into a general use TCP server.

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Links

• Download
• View Source Code
• Report An Issue

Requirements

• Java 8 or greater

Start IRC Server

• Start by downloading the latest release, then you can launch the IRCd using the Java -jar flag.

java -jar OpenIRCd-v0.1.0.jar

• This will create the default config under ./config.ini
• Adjust the configuration as needed, then restart the server.

CLI / Server Commands

• You can execute commands through the CLI by executing it directly as a program argument
  • This will save the database to disk once the command has finished executing.
• Or, you can execute commands from the terminal just by executing it normally and typing into the console.
• Type help to get started.
• To give operator priviliges just type op add <nick> - Oppers have to setup and verify with nickserv.
• To list all languages type lang list, then to set the language type lang set <language>.

Translations

• Translations are automatically selected with your system language, to define a specific translation go into the config.ini and edit translation=<language>
• Fully translated into English, Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Bulgarian, Danish, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Georgian, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lativan, Lithuanian, Malay, Mandarin, Nederlands, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Serbian, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian & Vietnamese.

Implementation Progress

• IRC v1 is the target but certain IRC v3 extensions are planned to be supported (SASL)
• Configuration is done
• CLI is done
• Protocol Decoding / Encoding is done
• Core API is started
• Object Serialization is started / partially finished
• Channel Functionality is done, missing permissions
• Resource Limiter is done
• NickServ / Authorization is started
• User Modes not started
• Channel Modes not started
• Plugins / Event System is done but external plugins are not finished

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