Name: HexChat
Author: HexChat

Perl Plugin

OTR Plugin

Adds support for Off-the-Record Messaging

HexChat is an easy to use yet extensible IRC Client. It allows you to securely join multiple networks and talk to users privately or in channels using a customizable interface. You can even transfer files.HexChat supports features such as: DCC, SASL, proxies, spellcheck, alerts, logging, custom themes, and Python/Perl scripts.

HexChat

This is a minor release with small improvements and fixes:<ul><li>Add support for SCRAM SASL mechanisms</li><li>Add option to hide nick from window title</li><li>Change SERVER command to default to TLS, adding an "-insecure" argument</li><li>Increase max server password length to 1024</li><li>Fix detecting some URLS causing a crash</li></ul>

This is a minor release with mostly bug-fixes:<ul><li>Add `-NOOVERRIDE` flag to the `GUI COLOR` command</li><li>Add `-q` (quiet) flag to the `EXECWRITE` command</li><li>Rename installed icon to match app-id (Fixes notification icon)</li><li>Fix escaping already escaped URLs when opening them</li><li>Fix Python scripts not being opened as UTF-8</li><li>Fix `TIMER` command supporting decimals regardless of locale</li></ul>

This is a feature release:<ul><li>Add support for IRCv3 SETNAME, invite-notify, account-tag, standard replies, and UTF8ONLY</li><li>Add support for strikethrough formatting</li><li>Fix text clipping issues by respecting font line height</li><li>Fix URLs not being escaped when opened</li><li>Fix possible hang when showing notifications</li><li>Print ChanServ notices in the front tab by default</li><li>Update network list</li><li>python: Rewrite plugin improving memory usage and compatibility</li><li>fishlim: Add support for CBC and other improvements</li></ul>

This is a bug-fix release:<ul><li>Fix various incorrect parsing of IRC messages relating to trailing parameters</li><li>Fix SASL negotiation combined with multi-line cap</li><li>Fix input box theming with Yaru theme</li><li>python: Work around Python 3.7 regression causing crash on unload</li><li>sysinfo: Add support for /etc/os-release</li><li>sysinfo: Ignore irrelevant mounts when calculating storage size</li></ul>

This is a minor release:<ul><li>Remove shift+click to close tab binding</li><li>Always unminimize when opening from tray</li><li>Fix some translations containing invalid text events</li><li>Fix sending server passwords starting with ":"</li></ul>

This is a very minor bug-fix release:<ul><li>Fix performance regression</li></ul>

This is largely a bug fix release though it has some large behind the scenes changes:<ul><li>Rename data files to use *io.github.Hexchat* name</li><li>Add option (irc_reconnect_rejoin) to disable auto-rejoin on reconnect</li><li>Add ability to set custom tray icon separate of app icon</li><li>Fix Enchant 2.0+ support</li><li>Fix input box theming with Adwaita-dark</li><li>Fix custom sounds not respecting omit if away option</li><li>Fix detecting if a tray doesn't exist on x11</li><li>Fix cutting off ctcp text after ending \01</li><li>Fix /ignore not accepting full hosts</li><li>Fix characters getting cut off when their width changes</li><li>Fix various possible crashes</li><li>Change preference window to be scroll-able</li><li>Remove ctrl+w binding by default</li><li>doat: Fix channels with / in them</li><li>fishlim: Fix key exchange</li><li>fishlim: Fix building against LibreSSL</li><li>sysinfo: Fix pci.ids file not being found on some distros</li><li>sysinfo: Make libpci optional</li><li>lua: Avoid loading the same script multiple times</li><li>Update translations</li></ul>

This is another bug fix release:<ul><li>Fix issue with timers causing ping timeouts</li><li>Fix building against OpenSSL 1.1</li><li>Fix /exec output printing invalid utf8</li><li>Replace doat plugin with an internal command</li><li>Change how tab colors interact with plugins</li><li>Enable filtering the beep character by default</li></ul>

This is a minor bug fix release just cleaning up a few issues:<ul><li>Fix crash with bad translations</li><li>Add new mhop command</li><li>Change ping timeout to 60 by default</li></ul>

HexChat

IRC Client

Changes in version 2.16.2

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