I just replaced 11.4 with 13.1. Now KSIRC instead of auto-connecting properly displays this in the output window:
[03:48:20] Your perl interpreter is *really* screwed up: the getopts.pl library is not [03:48:20] even there! Have you even bothered to run 'install'?
Is it possible some perl package didn't get installed that KSIRC depends on? I have 47 as wc result from package query for perl. What "install" could it be referring to?