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README

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   You should read through the new eggdrop.conf file for all of the new
   options in Eggdrop 1.8.x. You can copy and paste any of these settings
   into you current conf file if you do not want to use the default
-  settings.
+  settings. For an overview of the major changes and details about
+  upgrading from 1.6 to 1.8, please read the README.1.8 file.
 
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README.1.8.0

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+Eggdrop 1.8.0
+=============
+
+Upgrading from 1.6.x
+--------------------
+
+Eggdrop1.8 is fully compatible with Eggdrop1.6 with regards to both 3rd party modules and Tcl scripts.
+
+You SHOULD make a backup of your userfile, chanfile and configfile before upgrading, just in case.
+
+However, because most 3rd party modules include a version check and refuse to work with 1.8.x out of the box,
+we are providing adapted versions of the most popular modules at ftp://eggheads.org/pub/eggdrop/modules/1.8/.
+
+Scripts are fully compatible, and benefit from utf-8 support (other encodings than utf-8 and iso8859-1 are
+not supported yet, but we are hoping to fully support them in a later version of Eggdrop1.8) and various bug fixes.
+
+You can view a list of changes (in patch form) in the default config on http://eggheads.org/eggconf180.txt,
+but the only significant change other than introducing IPv6 configuration variables, is that the my-ip/my-hostname
+setting has been split into vhost4, vhost6 and listen-addr. You should set vhost4 and listen-addr to what you had
+set my-ip/my-hostname to, and it should work the same.
+
+If you have a botnet, be advised that for botnet links to establish a SSL connection, you need to "make sslcert" after
+"make install" to generate a self-signed certificate for the hub bot.
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+The biggest changes in Eggdrop1.8 are IPv6 and SSL/TLS support for both IRC connections and the partyline connections.
+Please read doc/TLS and doc/IPV6 for details.
+
+The most noticable bug fixes include fixing the "timer bug" (where during execution of a timed Tcl procedure, it might
+not always see its own timer), the "onchan bug" (where Eggdrop did not reset the channel list after leaving a channel),
+a lot of compilation fixes for various operating systems (including cygwin, see README for how to build Eggdrop on cygwin),
+and a change from the supported encoding from iso8859-x to utf-8 (iso8859-x still works).
+We are planning support for various other encodings in a later release of Eggdrop1.8.
+
+Eggdrop1.8.0 includes an eggdrop-basic.conf that is installed with "make install", that can be used to configure
+a pretty standard Eggdrop with no advanced features. We still recommend reading and using eggdrop.conf to get
+full control over the settings of all of Eggdrop's features.
+
+For a full list of changes and contributors, you can consult the doc/Changes1.8 file, or follow our development on
+https://github.com/eggheads/eggdrop.
+
+Support
+-------
+
+If you have any questions, found a bug, or have suggestions, we recommend contacting us on Freenode #eggdrop.