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Editors' Review · August 29, 2010

XChat is a popular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. It has a choice of a tabbed document interface or tree interface, support for multiple servers and is highly configurable.

XChat is a full-featured IRC client and includes all basic functionalities that are found in most other IRC clients, including CTCP, DCC file transfers and chats.

It supports a plugin system for various languages (including C, C++, Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, Lua, CLISP, D, and DMDScript). By writing plugins, the features and functionality of XChat can be extended and customized.

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XChat 0/3

Technical

Title
XChat 2.8.9.0.0 for Windows
Requirements
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows 7
Language
English
Available languages
  • German
  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Polish
  • Chinese
License
Free
Latest update
Author
XChat.org
SHA-1
9892106c2ed7000b3a64b5582cbc17d7f7bdbe64
Filename
xchat-2.8.9.exe

Program available in other languages

- The balloon time is now adjustable via /set input_balloon_time <seconds>.- The /Ghost command's password parameter is now optional.- Updated the default IRC network list with various additions.- When switching tabs, made the treeview only scroll if the selected item isn't visible.- The Search/Find window can now be closed with the ESC key.- Selecting an item in the nickmenu will now copy it to clipboard.- New icons for notification area (systray).- For the auto-join command, added an 'x' filler for empty keys. This works around a bug in ircd-seven.- Lifted a limitation which only allowed the auto-join list to be 255 characters long.- When a single channel-MODE changes, xchat will no longer re-issue a MODE request for the titlebar display, but figure the new modes intelligently.- A favorite networks feature has been added to the network list.- Various text event changes:* Added "Private Action", "Private Action to Dialog", "SSL Message".* Added "Identified text" parameter all the 'action' events.* Added a $3 parameter to "Server Text".- Plugin API changes:* Added 'gtkwin_ptr' to xchat_get_info.* Added DCC fields 'poshigh' and 'resumehigh'.

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