Download XChat 2.4.2

XChat is an IRC client that is very popular especially on the Linux platform. In addition, this program is also available for the Mac OS X and Windows platform, the latter however has to make do with a shareware release. The developer wants to see part of the effort he has to put in to make a binary for this platform. Recently version 2.4.2 has seen the light of day with the following changes:

Version 2.4.2:

• Updated translations (ca, de, lt, nl, ru, sk, sr, vi).
• Added command line args -u and -p.
• Fixed handling of “MODE -o+o nick nick” (#1094026).
• Plugin API changes:
  • Added “Key Press” print event.
  • Added “state_cursor” for xchat_get_prefs.
  • Added xchat_strip and xchat_free functions.
  • Added “lasttalk” field to “users” list.
  • Added “charset” field to xchat_get_info.
• Perl plugin changes (Lian Wan Situ):
  • Move each script into their own unique package/namespace. Scripts containing multiple packages will not be loaded.
  • When warning messages are emitted you will now be told which script it came from.
  • Xchat::set_context will now accept Xchat::set_context( $channel ) and Xchat::set_context( $channel, $server ) in addition to Xchat::set_context( $context ).
  • Fix display of loaded scripts in the Plugins and Scripts window.
• TCL: Fixed crash with invalidated TCL timer (#1110306) (Daniel P. Stasinski).
• /TIMER now supports timeouts to one decimal place.
• Fixed possible crash of open-file dialog on 64-bit machines.
• Pressing CTRL-O in the DCC Receive window will now open your downloads folder.
• Win32: Default download folder changed to “My DocumentsDownloads”.
• Added -quiet arg to the /charset command.
• The /country command now supports a wildcard search.
• The user is now warned when real/user name is left blank in the server list window.
• Added the /URL command.
• Added a text event for all unknown WHOIS reply lines.
• Added /ALLCHANL which sends to the current server only.
• Actions (/ME) are now treated like PRIV/CHAN for purposes of the ignore list.