Contact Information:

  * Bug Reports:
    - bugs@ircd-hybrid.org
  * General Discussion and Support mailing list:
    - https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
    - hybrid@lists.ircd-hybrid.org
  * IRC contact:
    - #ircd-coders on irc.ircd-hybrid.org

******************************* IMPORTANT *************************************

  ************ Note for those who don't bother reading docs ***************
  * - Reading INSTALL is now a must, as the old DPATH is now specified    *
  *   when configure is run.                                              *
  *   You now need to ./configure --prefix="/path/to/install/it"          *
  * - The old config format WILL NOT WORK. Please see doc/example.conf !  *
  * - The old kline, dline, xline format WILL NOT WORK.                   *
  *************************************************************************

  ALSO, IF YOU ARE UPGRADING YOUR CURRENT SOURCE TREE, AND YOU TRY TO BUILD
  IN IT WITHOUT PERFORMING AT LEAST 'make clean', THINGS _WILL_ BREAK. IT IS
  RECOMMENDED THAT YOU RUN 'make distclean' AND THEN RERUN './configure'!

******************************* REQUIREMENTS **********************************

Necessary Requirements:

- A supported platform (look below)

- A working dynamic load library

Feature Specific Requirements:

- For the SSL Challenge controlled OPER feature, compressed and/or
  SSL/TLS server links, as well as SSL/TLS client connections,
  a working OpenSSL library is required

- For encrypted oper and (optional) server passwords, a working DES and/or
  MD5 library

- For regular expression based kline{} and gecos{} blocks, the
  PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library is required

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- See the INSTALL document for info on configuring and compiling
  ircd-hybrid.

- Please read doc/index.txt to get an overview of the current documentation.

- TESTED PLATFORMS:  The code has been tested on the following platforms, and
  is known to run properly.
  (FIXME: this list is out of date)
  CentOS 5.8
  Red Hat Linux 9
  Ubuntu 12.04
  FreeBSD 9.1
  OpenBSD 5.2
  Arch Linux 2012.12.01
  Debian GNU/Hurd 0.3

- /etc/resolv.conf must exist for the resolver to work.

- Please read NEWS for information about what is in this release.

- Other files recommended for reading: INSTALL

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