Download HexChat 2.12.0
After almost a year and a half of silence, version 2.12.0 of HexChat has been released. HexChat is an open source irc client with downloads for Windows, Linux and OS X. HexChat started out as XChat-WDK, a Windows version of XChat. After development of the original XChat came to a standstill, XChat-WDK also made a Linux and later OS X version and changed the name to HexChat. The changelog for this release shows the following changes and improvements:
HexChat 2.12.0 ChangeLog
- add support for native Windows 8+ spell check
- add support for native Windows 8.1+ and OSX notifications
- add support for IRCv3.2
- add cap 3.2
- add sasl 3.2
- add chghost
- add cap-notify
- add support for twitch.tv/membership cap
- add support for SNI (Server Name Indication)
- add ability to do DnD reordering in some settings dialogs
- add option to disable middle-click closing tabs
- rewrite sysinfo plugin
- add support for OSX
- add multi-gpu info on win32
- add hdd info on win32
- add ability to print single piece of info
- change formatting, unified across platforms
- fix handling unsupported CPU arch on unix
- rewrite ident plugin
- add support for unix
- add ability to change port
- fix handling multiple connections
- fix threading issues
- rewrite update plugin
- rewrite checksum plugin
- fix support for very large files
- remove openssl dependency
- remove DH-{AES,BLOWFISH} mechanisms (insecure)
- remove “IRC” encoding, replaced with UTF-8
- remove “System Default” encoding, replaced with UTF-8
- remove configure option to disable ipv6
- remove msproxy and socks5 library support (unused)
- change tab-complete to favor other user nicks over own
- change url detection to support unicode
- change decoding to not attempt ISO-8859-1 fixing corruption
- change pluginpref to escape values
- change installer on Windows to not overwrite gtkrc file
- minor changes to icons
- fix numerous crashes (but not #600)
- fix crash on printing very long lines
- fix crash on failing to open log file
- fix crash when using unsorted userlist
- fix crash when timestamp format set to nothing
- fix crash when tab-completeing long strings
- fix crash with long values in pluginpref API
- fix various other unsafe string handling throughout
- fix poor performance with nick indent enabled
- fix UTF-8 text in winamp plugin
- fix fishlim plugin handling networks with server-time
- fix logging hostname of users in new queries
- fix Key Press event sending non-UTF-8 text to plugins
- fix VERSION response on windows 10
- fix get_info(‘win_ptr’) from python
- fix running portable mode from another directory
- fix duplicate timestamps on selection
- fix –cfgdir argument
- fix mode button text being cut off
- fix scrollback timestamps with server-time
- fix url handler accepting quoted paths with spaces
- fix using correct encoding when jumping networks
- improve DCC handling large files
- improve python detection in configure
- improve scrollback file handling (corruption, line endings)
- improve building in cygwin
- improve build options on unix to be more secure
- update to VS 2015 on windows
- update deps on windows (openssl, python 3.5, etc)
- update translations
- update network list
Version number | 2.12.0 |
Release status | Final |
Operating systems | Windows 7, Linux, Windows XP, macOS, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows 10 |
Website | HexChat |
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File size |
8.36MB |
License type | GPL |