Download XChat 2.8.7a

A new Windows version of XChat was released on Tuesday with version number 2.8.7a. 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 a gpl license, this is not the case for the Windows version. According to the makers, this is because building the Windows version is complicated and it has additional functionality, including spell checkers and graphical emoticons. After a thirty-day trial period, you have to pay twenty dollars for it. The changelog of this release looks like this:

Change log for 2.8.7a

• Fixed a possible crash if too many characters were typed or pasted into the input-box (this affected 2.8.7 only).
• Fixed logging if the global setting was OFF and you turned it ON for individual channels.
• Python scripts will now also be auto-loaded from C:\Program Files\XChat\Plugins\*.py.
• Fixed a Python crash [1931579] where the word array contained more than 28 words.
• /Ignore will now automatically add !*@* to be more user friendly.
• Fixed: Changing settings in a channel’s right-click menu while that channel wasn’t the front-most used to fail.
• The TCL plugin now requires ActiveTCL 8.5.

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