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
  • fix locking up UI during check
  • show graphical dialog on update
  • host update file on
• 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