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WeeChat

WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light IRC client for many operating systems. Everything can be done with a keyboard, and it is customizable and extensible with C plugins and scripts. It is compliant with RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812, and 2813.

Tags	Communications Chat IRC Jabber
Licenses	GPLv3
Operating Systems	Mac OS X POSIX BSD Windows Windows Linux GNU/Hurd Unix QNX Solaris
Implementation	C
Translations	English French German Spanish Hungarian Polish Russian Czech Italian

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Recent releases

0.4.1

20 May 2013 17:38

Release Notes: This release has some new features, including support for multiple layouts, automatic unmask of join (when smart filter is enabled), DH-AES encryption for SASL, WebSocket support in the relay plugin, and optimizations in the aspell plugin. Many bugs have been fixed.

0.4.0

21 Jan 2013 02:34

Release Notes: This release has some new features, including IPv6 connection by default (with fallback to IPv4), support of IPv6 in the relay plugin, default values in /set, command /eval, expression in conditions for bars, and a backlog in relay for the IRC protocol. Many bugs have been fixed.

0.3.9.2

18 Nov 2012 20:53

Release Notes: This release fixes a security problem (untrusted commands for the function hook_process could lead to execution of commands because of shell expansions).

0.3.9.1

10 Nov 2012 01:49

Release Notes: This release fixes a security problem (a buffer overflow when decoding IRC colors in strings).

0.3.9

29 Sep 2012 09:40

Release Notes: This release has some new features including a new plugin script (replaces weeget.py and script.pl), support for SSL in relay plugin, and color for offline nicks. Many bugs have been fixed.