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Anope

IRC services suite for nickname and channel registration

Chat & Communication ★ 366 stars Medium setup GPL-2.0

Anope is a set of IRC services that provides NickServ, ChanServ, and related registration features for IRC networks. It works with most major IRCd implementations and supports SQL and LDAP backends.

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Key features

  • NickServ and ChanServ
  • Works with many IRCds
  • SQL and LDAP integration
  • Web panel available

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-2.0 license
  • Written in C++
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM

Is Anope secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Anope's latest release (2.0.20). OSV.dev lists 1 past advisory for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2024-30187, published 2024-03-25 (933 days ago), fixed in 2.0.15

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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