Here is the situation for this patch. In Eggdrop 1.1+grant, join protocols are sent as join while in 1.0x they are sent as join . Because 1.0 bots don't expect there to be anything after the flag character, when it relays the join command to all the other bots, it sends it out as a 1.0 protocol, so if it received a 1.1 protocol, the socket got stripped. This meant that 1.1 bots on a botnet connected through a 1.0 bot wouldn't be able to communicate properly since the part protocols were sent as are because the part protocol has the socket at the end. This patch fixes the 1.0 relaying of join protocols so that 1.1 protocols are sent out properly. If you don't have any 1.1 eggdrops in your bot net, then you don't really NEED it, but if you do, I strongly suggest it because the other 1.1 eggdrop will be registering users that have left for at least the next 24 hours.