IRCv3 support.
A reference of the IRCv3 extensions bIRC supports.
✓ Supported · draft work-in-progress · names link to the IRCv3 spec.
Core & message format
| capability-negotiation | ✓ | CAP 302 negotiation — paged LS, REQ / ACK / NAK, and live NEW / DEL. |
| message-tags | ✓ | The tag format every client tag below rides on. |
| oper-tagdraft | ✓ | Marks operator messages — a server-set tag (draft/oper + solanum.chat/oper). |
| batch | ✓ | Nested batches; drives history, netsplit, and multiline. |
| client-batchdraft | ✓ | Client-initiated batches — the mechanism bIRC uses to send a multiline message. |
| message-ids | ✓ | A msgid on every message — keys reactions, replies, redaction, and dedup. |
| server-time | ✓ | Server-supplied timestamps, so replayed history keeps its original time. |
| echo-message | ✓ | The server echoes your own sends; bIRC shows them once. |
| labeled-response | ✓ | Correlates a reply to the command that caused it. |
| standard-replies | ✓ | FAIL / WARN / NOTE parsed and surfaced. |
| extended-isupportdraft | ✓ | Fetch the ISUPPORT list on demand. |
Accounts, presence & membership
| account-notify | ✓ | See when others log in to or out of an account. |
| account-tag | ✓ | The sender's account on each message. |
| away-notify | ✓ | Live away status for people in your channels. |
| chghost | ✓ | A user/host change without a quit and rejoin. |
| extended-join | ✓ | JOIN carries the account and real name. |
| extended-monitor | ✓ | Away / account / host changes for watched users too. |
| invite-notify | ✓ | See invites sent in a channel. |
| monitor | ✓ | Watch nicks (the Notify List), with an ISON fallback where absent. |
| multi-prefix | ✓ | All of a member's prefixes (@%+), not just the highest. |
| userhost-in-names | ✓ | nick!user@host in NAMES, not just the nick. |
| no-implicit-names | ✓ | Skip the implicit NAMES burst after JOIN when offered. |
| setname | ✓ | Change your real name live (/setname). |
| whox | ✓ | Extended WHO with field selection. |
| bot-mode | ✓ | Bots are flagged in the member list, WHOIS, and the script API. |
| account-extban | ✓ | Ban by account (Ban Account / /banaccount). |
Authentication & connection
| sasl-3.1 | ✓ | PLAIN and EXTERNAL (CertFP). |
| sasl-3.2 | ✓ | Reauthentication; plus SCRAM-SHA-256 and OAUTHBEARER. |
| sts | ✓ | Auto-upgrade to TLS and remember the secure port. |
| utf8-only | ✓ | UTF-8 enforced both ways when the network requires it. |
| websocket | ✓ | Connect to ws:// / wss:// networks. |
History & long messages
| chathistorydraft | ✓ | CHATHISTORY paging plus the chathistory batch. |
| event-playbackdraft | ✓ | Replays joins / parts / etc. alongside message history. |
| read-markerdraft | ✓ | Sync your read position across clients (MARKREAD). |
| multilinedraft | ✓ | Send a multi-line or over-length message as one message. |
| message-redactiondraft | ✓ | Redact your last message (/redact). |
| netsplit / netjoin | ✓ | Quit / join floods collapse into a single line. |
Client-only tags
| +typing | ✓ | Typing indicators. |
| +reply | ✓ | Threaded replies, with jump-to-parent. |
| +reactdraft | ✓ | Emoji / text reactions. |
| +channel-context | ✓ | Show a tagged DM in its channel (inbound). |
Files, metadata & other drafts
| FILEHOSTdraft | ✓ | Upload a file to the server's own host and post the link — draft/FILEHOST (PR #562) and soju.im/FILEHOST. |
| metadatadraft | ✓ | View / edit avatar, color, pronouns, status… (draft/metadata-2). |
| network-icondraft | ✓ | Show the network's icon. |
| channel-renamedraft | ✓ | Rename a channel (/rename). |
| account-registrationdraft | ✓ | Register and verify an account (/register, /verify). |
| pre-awaydraft | ✓ | Mark away during connect, before registration finishes. |
Vendor & adjacent
| soju.im/bouncer-networksvendor | ✓ | List, add, edit, and remove a soju bouncer's upstream networks. |
| znc.in/playbackvendor | ✓ | Resume history on older ZNC bouncers. |
| znc.in/self-messagevendor | ✓ | See messages you sent from another client. |
| STARTTLS | ✓ | Upgrade a plaintext connection to TLS in-band. (Deprecated spec.) |
| OAUTHBEARER | ✓ | OAuth 2.0 token login — SASL, RFC 7628. |
Per-feature notes live in the documentation; the spec index is at ircv3.net.