### Important Notice

The `master` branch contains the latest development version. If you are running
a server then you probably want the `insp20` branch. You can obtain this from
the [releases](https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/releases) page or by running
`git checkout insp20` if you are installing via Git.

### About

InspIRCd is a modular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server written in C++ for Linux,
BSD, Windows and Mac OS X systems which was created from scratch to be stable,
modern and lightweight.

As InspIRCd is one of the few IRC servers written from scratch, it avoids a
number of design flaws and performance issues that plague other more established
projects, such as UnrealIRCd, while providing the same level of feature parity.

InspIRCd is one of only a few IRC servers to provide a tunable number of
features through the use of an advanced but well documented module system. By
keeping core functionality to a minimum we hope to increase the stability,
security and speed of InspIRCd while also making it customisable to the needs of
many different users.

### Links

* [Website](http://inspircd.org)
* [GitHub](https://github.com/inspircd)
* IRC: \#inspircd on irc.inspircd.org