Versie 2.0.0 van Anope is uitgebracht. Anope is een verzameling irc-services die aan een irc-daemon kunnen worden gehangen. Zo kent Anope onder meer een 'nickserv' en 'chanserv', waarmee respectievelijk gebruikers en kanalen te beheren zijn door zowel de gebruikers als de operators. Ook de irc-server van Tweakers.net maakt gebruik van Anope. De release notes voor deze uitgave zien er als volgt uit:
Anope 2.0.0 - Release
We are proud to announce that after five years of development our latest stable release, Anope 2.0.0, is now available for download.
With this release we are deprecating the 1.8 branch and no longer recommend users use it.
Overview of changes from 1.8 to 2.0:
- Use an account style system instead of the old NSNickTracking option, which allows you to stay logged in no matter what nick you are on.
- Fantasy support for all commands.
- Can assign core pseudo clients (such as ChanServ) to channels.
- A built in web panel.
- Persistent channels, which allows services bots to stay in empty channels.
- Channel passwords replaced with founder level access (QOP, or the FOUNDER access level).
- OWNER access levels added, defaults to access level 9999.
- The option to use a flags based channel access system.
- Ability to authenticate via SSL certificates
- Autojoin channels on authentication (ns_ajoin)
- Significantly more advanced logging system, choose what is logged and where it is logged.
- Support for other optional database backends, such as SQL and Redis.
- Granular command configuration. Configure which command is on what service, what it's called, and who can use it.
- Configurable opertypes, which allows defining new services operator levels (Root, Admin, Oper, etc.) and what permissions each has.
- Ability to authenticate users against external databases, such as by SQL or LDAP.
- Capability to switch between different encryption methods.
- DNSBL support.
