After four months since the release of 2.0 Release Candidate 2. The pressure has slightly eased off, for the InspIRCd dev team. 

• Use EFD_NONBLOCK in test creation of eventfd (makes it require glibc 2.8/linux 2.6.27)
• Fix umode -r on nick change being denied by permission check
• Be consistent in testing PURE_STATIC for defined vs == 1
• Add some missing updates from rehash
• Fix negative array access in channame
• Correct source of initial BURST line from servers sending it without one (like denora)
• Compile testing can be useful
• Change -debug to force RAWIO level logging and disable all other logs
• Send HALFOP= line in CAPAB CAPABILITIES for 1201 compat (anope relies on this)
• Use unit-cc for all compile and and link tasks
• Don't use an empty direction when receiving a sourceless server command
• Removing example for m_spy which doesn't exist in insp20
• Helpop: Add snomask +v (requires override module)
• Add log header including ircd version

• is now correctly reading "password" not "pass"
• Connect blocks used prior to registration aren't used afterwards, closing a loophole on forcing ident, account, or resolved hosts.
• blocks with "::" as the address will not accept IPv4 connections; use "*" or an additional "0.0.0.0" block to do this.
• Cloak key generation now matches 1.2
• can be changed from ".IP" to a network-specific mark (only for IP-based cloaks, not used in 1.2 compat mode)
• DNS resolution bugfix on some BSD systems
• Fix "freezes" in output during processing of long NickServ (or other bot) replies when clients are using openssl.
• Minor textual changes

The KDE (desktop enviroment) IRC Client, Konversation has released a maintenance version 1.3.1, which emphasises on more improvements in terms of the client behaviour and other forms of defects which was reported, including some data corruption and "loss of Watched Nicknames Online lists on application quit", and "connection failure and RFC 1459 PING/PONG exchanges".

• In addition to the '/disconnect' command, the graphical 'Disconnect' action and the '/quit' command can now be used to cancel an in-progress automatic
• reconnect in the event of connection failure as well.
• The '/disconnect' and '/reconnect' commands now take optional quit message parameters.
• Fixed crashes when pressing the "Edit" buttons below the server or channel lists in the "New Network"/"Edit Network" dialogs after adding a new server or channel and there was no item selected before in the respective list.
• Fixed bugs causing the "Edit" buttons below the server or channel lists in the "New Network"/"Edit Network" dialogs to edit the previously selected list items rather than the ones shown as selected after adding a new server or channel.
• Fixed a bug that could cause outdated status information for nicks to be displayed in channel nickname lists after a reconnect.
• Efficiency improvements for channel join.
• Don't send PING in response to PONG if another PING is already scheduled to be sent in the future. This avoids getting kicked off a server for flooding when multiple clients are connected to a bouncer that forwards PONGs to all of them.
• Fixed numerous cases in which Konversation would incorrectly apply the KDE system color scheme to input lines, nickname lists and the listview version of the tab bar. This general overhaul of the relevant code also brought about minor efficiency and memory usage improvements.
• Fixed nickname lists not respecting the "Alternate Background" setting when set to use custom colors.
• Fixed the listview version of the tab bar not greying out disconnected tabs when set to use custom colors.
• Fixed a bug causing the processing of incoming CTCP CLIENTINFO and CTCP TIME requests not to take the ignore list into account.
• The "Insert IRC Color" dialog will now add a leading zero to colors which have single-digit numbers in the '%C...' string it inserts into the input line, to allow the text that follows to start with a digit rather than such a digit getting interpreted as part of the color number.
• Fixed a bug causing the Watched Nicknames Online nickname list for a network to be stored under the wrong network or lost entirely on application quit.
• Fixed a bug causing the order of the Quick Buttons below the nickname list in channel tabs to be flipped every time the config dialog was OK'd.
• Improved consistency of the filter fields in the URL Catcher and Channel List tabs with other KDE applications.
• Correct use of singular or plural unit suffixes for several numeric preferences in the configuration dialog.
• It is no longer possible to set the auto-way time to the nonsensical value of zero minutes. Rather, a minimum of one minute is now enforced.

The mIRC Unicode beta has released a newer version, 7.06.

1. Changed "Split long channel/query messages" option to handle action messages and to ignore other CTCP messages.
2. Updated to OpenSSL 0.9.8o library.
3. Changed CAP event handling so that scripts can no longer prevent the CAP reply from being sent.
4. Fixed find text dialog not matching text in wrapped lines.
5. Fixed /timer parameter error handling and display.
6. Fixed display width of some characters when using monospace fonts.
7. Fixed hotlink cursor not being updated in some situations.
8. Added support for full screen display with F11 function key. Also added /showmirc -f switch and $appstate value "full".
9. Fixed switchbar separator display bug.
10. Fixed main window system menu bug when main menubar is hidden.
11. mIRC now remembers if MDI windows were maximized on exit and opens them maximized on next startup.
12. Fixed /signal -n recursion gpf. 

Zach Thibeau (PChat developer) announced the released of 1.1, the first initial pre-release version.

• Various improvements to xtext engine for loading scrollbacks faster
• updated OpenSSL to version 1.0.0
• Added support for freenode's ircd-seven CAP feature
• Various memory leak fixes in the perl plugin
• includes by default a Portable mode for the Portable version so for whatever reason if the launcher doesn't work it will still save it's settings in the Data/Settings folder (a fail safe feature)
• Language Switching now works (special thanks to Chris Morgan
• PChat Portable is now using PAL (which is the reason I thanked Chris for the language switching help, twas the only part that was pretty difficult to work with.)