+---
author: christel
date: 2005-08-29 12:52:45+00:00
slug: scheduled-maintenance-ircd-upgrade-2
title: [Scheduled Maintenance] IRCD upgrade.
+imported: yes
---
By now you've noticed that the **freenode** network was upgraded late this morning to hyperion-ircd release 1.0.1. Due to overwhelming problems with floodbots during the last few days, we've added an experimental feature to hyperion ircd and we'll be implementing it this afternoon.
In a few minutes, we'll be reconfiguring the network to prevent unregistered users from sending private messages. This is an experimental feature which can be turned on and off at will. In the short term, it should prevent private message flooding from spambots; in the long term, combined with changes to authentication, it could make such flooding very rare. Please email us at **_policy at freenode dot net_** and let us know what you think of the feature. You'll also be able to use
-<blockquote> **_/stats p_**</blockquote>
+> **_/stats p_**
to locate a staffer if you wish to comment, and staffers will be able to see your comments, whether or not you are registered and identified. Please take the opportunity to register your IRC nickname if you need the ability to send private messages. If you've already registered your nickname and have not set auto-identification on, please configure your client accordingly. Remember that the easiest way to auto-identify is to connect with your registered nick and specify your nickserv password as your server password.
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