Download XChat 2.8.3b

The Windows version of XChat has been updated to version 2.8.3b today. XChat is one of the most widely used IRC programs on the Linux platform. Although the source code and the program for Linux are released under GPL license, this is not the case for the Windows version. According to the makers, building the Windows version is complicated and it also has extra functionality, including a spell checker and graphical emoticons. After a thirty-day trial period, you have to pay twenty dollars for it. Below are all the changes that have been made to the program since the previous entry in the muck tracker:

News for 2.8.3b:

• SSL: Display “AES” as the algorithm on Windows Vista, instead of the raw number.
• Fixed: Crash on startup when running XChat on Windows set to a Chinese code page.
• Fixed: A rare crash when aborting a connection attempt.
• Fixed various other rare crashes based on feedback from the automatic crash reporting, too technical to list them here. This should be the most solid and stable release so far.

News for 2.8.3a:

• Fixed a rare Channel-List crash associated with failed unicode collation (minigtk.dll bug).
• Fixed a tray bug that caused a crash if you right-clicked the icon after the context of the previous flashing event was closed (confused yet?).
• Added an E-Mail and comments field to the automatic crash dialog, so people can add some details.

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