The latest version of mIRC, version 6.32, was released this week. mIRC is the leading IRC Client for Windows. According to the mIRC web site this update includes over 50 changes and fixes. In particular, mIRC can now handle longer nick names, channel names, and messages, as well as longer variable values in the scripting [...]
DMDirc has released version 0.5.5. This release is an interim release as 0.6 is still unstable but several important features from 0.6 were needed in 0.5.5. The new launchers which give the client the ability to update itself via the updater URL Handler to allow adding support for non-http links (Eg steam://, ftp://) Much improved [...]
Gamers.IRC version 5.16 was released just after the New Year’s Eve. The version includes “small improvements,” according to the official release notes. New/Bugfix/Changed: Some small things New: Aliases: clear, clearall, mar New: Winamp control Bugfix/Changed: L/Q Admin Changed: UserInfo Changed: Installer copies files to %APPDATA%\mIRC when using Vista with UAC Update: mIRC 6.31 Update: FAQ [...]
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 [...]
A minor update for the PSPIRC client has been released. The update included a bug fix for the login menu. Apparently the PSP would freeze if a key was depressed while the script menu is selected.
Xchat 2.8.3b fixes “lots of rare crash bugs, which should make this release one of the most stable yet” according to the Xchat web site. The changes in this release include: SSL: Display “AES” as the algorithm on Windows Vista, instead of the raw number. Fixed: Crash on start up when running XChat on Windows [...]
savIRC is a cross platform Open Source IRC Client written in Tcl/Tk. Version 2.1 changes include: * Added “Show idle pings” to Configuration –> IRC * Added a checkbox to hide serverpings. * /disconnect now stops autoreconnect * Anti-Flood: Chunks of text are broken into 400 chars or less. This prevents you from flooding yourself [...]
An update to Snak, a full featured IRC Client for the Mac OS, was quietly released a few weeks ago. Version 5.2 is available as an Universal Binary in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, UK English, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Visit the Snak web site for a list of all its features, the [...]
