A windows installer is now available for IRSSI version 0.8.12 and better. Joshua Dick and I (Sebastian Pipping) have been putting our work into improving the Irssi experience for Windows users. We made an installer built on NSIS and an USB archive made to be put on an USB stick and allow carrying your personal [...]
XChat.org has announced they released version 2.8.5e for Windows 2000 or better. Support for Windows 98 and Windows ME has been dropped. You can now optionally install OpenSSL libraries, if you prefer to use them instead of Window’s own SChannel library. Fixed a crash if you changed the channel-switcher to Hidden and then back to [...]
Chris Pirillo was asked, “How safe is the chat room?” so he posted the following video and an accompanying article to explain safety and security on IRC. Chris wrote after recording the video: When you’re on IRC, you’re as secure as you want to be. Don’t give out any personal information you don’t want others [...]
Hot on the heals of the release of DMDirc 0.5, DMDirc version 0.5.1 was recently released. DMDirc is a Java-based IRC client that can be used on any Java-capable operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.)
Irsii for Unix, version 0.8.12 has been released. If you enjoy UNIX terminal Irsii is for you. Irssi also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins. This update includes many fixes and updates. The full change log is after the jump.
Version 2.8.5b has been released for XChat for Windows. According to the XChat web site it’s a minor update. Fixed: If you set your away reason blank in the settings, it was impossible to set yourself away using the Away menu item. Added a setting in the logging section: Display scrollback from previous session, which [...]
A vulnerability has been reported in Apple iChat which allegedly may be used to cause a Denial of Service attack. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in iChat agent using Bonjour within the processing of TXT key hashes. This can be exploited to cause the application to crash by broadcasting a specially crafted [...]
A new version of PSPIRC, an IRC client for the PSP, has been released. Version 1.0.6 includes the following changes and additions: Add all iso8859-1 characters in danzeff virtual keyboard All text fonts are now compatible with iso8859-1 characters Bug fix in IR keyboard .ini files with UTF8 specification (for example mapping string such as [...]
We’ve dramatically increased the word list for the channel mode +G today and are still making some tweaks. The +G channel mode replaces vulgar words, racial slurs, and rude phrases that are listed in our wordlist with when a channel is set +G. To enable this mode, you must be an operator, and use the [...]
More critical vulnerabilities are reported to exist in Trillian versions prior to 3.1.6.0. Trillian has released version 3.1.7.0 to close these vulnerabilities and also fix other bugs. If you use Trillian, it’s important you upgrade immediately.
