matrix.org/content/blog/2016/12/2016-12-19-matrix-appservice-irc-0-7-0-is-out.md

+++ title = "matrix-appservice-irc 0.7.0 is out!" path = "/blog/2016/12/19/matrix-appservice-irc-0-7-0-is-out"

[taxonomies] author = ["Matthew Hodgson"] category = ["Tech"] +++

Also, we've just released a major update to the IRC bridge codebase after trialling it on the matrix.org-hosted bridges for the last few days.

The big news is:

• The bridge uses Synapse 0.18.5's new APIs for managing the public room list (improving performance a bunch)
• Much faster startup using the new /joined_rooms and /joined_members APIs in Synapse 0.18.5
• The bridge will now remember your NickServ password (encrypted at rest) if you want it to via the !storepass command
• You can now set arbitrary user modes for IRC clients on connection (to mitigate PM spam etc)
• After a split, the bridge will drop Matrix->IRC messages older than N seconds, rather than try to catch the IRC room up on everything they missed on Matrix :S
• Operational metrics are now implemented using Prometheus rather than statsd
• New !quit command to nuke your user from the remote IRC network
• Membership list syncing for IRC->Matrix is enormously improved, and enabled for all matrix.org-hosted bridges apart from Freenode.  <b>At last, membership lists should be in sync between IRC and Matrix; please let us know if they're not</b>.
• Better error logging

For full details, please see the changelog.

With things like NickServ-pass storing, !quit support and full bi-directional membership list syncing, it's never been a better time to run your own IRC bridge.  Please install or upgrade today from https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc!