XChat is an IRC (chat) program for Windows and UNIX (Linux/BSD) operating systems. I.R.C. is Internet Relay Chat, see http://irchelp.org for more information about IRC in general.

XChat runs on most BSD and POSIX compliant operating systems.

Here are some key features of "XChat":

· Full featured IRC client
· Fully customizable
· Tabbed window interface
· Small resource footprint
· 41 language translations
· encrypted connections using OpenSSL 0.9.8d
· native IPv6 support
· Perl, Python, Ruby and Tcl language interface plugins for scripting

What's New in This Release:

· Updated translations (de, fi, fr, hu, lt, nb, ru, th, zh_CN).
· Fixed creation of ~/.xchat2/scrollback/ paths (xc284-scrollbmkdir.diff).
· Fixed a leak of file descriptors related to the scrollback feature
(resource leak) (xc284-fix-scrollbfdleak.diff).
· Stopped scrollback files growing too large by fixing the file-shrink code.
· Put a "Display scrollback from previous session" into the Setup GUI
(logging section) so people can turn this off without typing commands.
· Made /away work even when the reason setting is empty.
· Using /part on a channel that contains a quotation mark now works [1800855].
· Changed the default encoding to "IRC" (CP1252/Unicode Hybrid) for both Unix
and Windows.
· Fixed a possible Channel List crash if you searched many times while the
download was still going.
· Fixed alert balloons failing if the text contained "