Op het forum van XChat is een nieuwe versie van de software gepost. Dit programma is een van de meest gebruikte IRC-clients op het Linux-platform. Naast de verschillende Linux-uitvoeringen is er ook een versie gecompileerd voor Windows. Het volledig changelog van deze release ziet er als volgt uit:
Updated translations (bg, cs, de, en_GB, eu, fi, lt, nl, ru, sk, uk, wa). Fixed the Socks5 overflow security bug. DCC IP address setting can now be a hostname too (Flavio Chierichetti) [773229]. Don't try random DCC ports when a range is set (mib) [889987]. Fix: Spurious nick completion (mib) [916944]. Serverlist passwd box is now masked (Cristian Peraferrer) [920113]. Fix: Sometimes messes up the tab order on reconnect (Gabor Szeder) [941773]. Fix: Crashes when setting $CHARSET to nonexistant charset [945855]. Plugin API: Added some fields to the "channels" list. Plugin API: Added "win_status" and "xchatdirfs" fields to xchat_get_info. Plugin API: Added xchat_send_modes() function. Fix: Unload, then reload a plugin on FreeBSD fails (Kevin Leung). Plugins should now work on HPUX too. Perl-plugin: Fixes for 3 arg version of emit_print, unhooking the same hook multiple times and get_list returning correct values for address32 field and some memory leaks (Lian Situ). Made menu keybindings work when the menubar is hidden on GTK 2.4. Added support for the new GTK 2.4 file chooser dialog. Fix for BiDi in xtext (Ilya Konstantinov). Smaller bug fixes [962211] [958599] [950353] and [945617] (Frederic Krueger).