This is the website for charybdis. Charybdis is a performance-oriented ircd used on StaticBox, SorceryNet and other networks, and is also used as the basis of many interesting derivitive codebases.
Charybdis can be discussed at irc.staticbox.net #charybdis.
| Release Branch | Download |
|---|---|
| Development | 3.1 -- see mercurial |
| Stable | 3.0.1 |
| Legacy | 2.2.1 |
Charybdis as a whole is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.
Many components of charybdis are released under less restrictive licenses, see the source headers for details.
The operator's guide for charybdis is available here. It is built from our Mercurial repository's SGML source, and may not relate exactly to earlier versions.
The charybdis development repository may be checked out by using Mercurial. Use the following command:
$ hg clone http://hg.atheme.org/charybdis
Additionally, we have a branch for backporting critical security and stability fixes to 2.2, this can be checked out by:
$ hg clone http://hg.atheme.org/release/charybdis-2.2
If you've found a bug in charybdis, please report it to our Bugzilla.
Charybdis is designed to work with a "u:lined" companion daemon called Services. There are several different implementations of Services available:
atheme-services - the services on now defunct irc.atheme.org (part of StaticBox now); supports charybdis as well as a host of other protocols. Recommended.
sorservices - the services on irc.sorcery.net, very old and supports charybdis only through TS5 compatibility. Not recommended for production use.
anope - another services implementation. Support for charybdis is supposedly good, but hasn't been tested by any developers.
Additionally, you might want some statistics:
Charybdis implements the following documented extensions to IRC; please note that many extensions might not be available on every charybdis server due to software limitiations in their services and whatnot:
For more information about irc and ircds, visit: