XChat is een IRC-client die vooral op het Linux-platform zeer populair is. Daarnaast is dit programma ook beschikbaar voor het Mac OS X- en Windows-platform, de laatste echter moet het doen met een shareware uitgave. De ontwikkelaar wil namelijk een deel van de moeite die hij moet doen om een binary voor dit platform te maken vergoed zien. Sinds kort heeft versie 2.4.2 het levenslicht gezien met de volgende aanpassingen:
Version 2.4.2:
- Updated translations (ca, de, lt, nl, ru, sk, sr, vi).
- Added command line args -u and -p.
- Fixed handling of "MODE -o+o nick nick" (#1094026).
- Plugin API changes:
- Added "Key Press" print event.
- Added "state_cursor" for xchat_get_prefs.
- Added xchat_strip and xchat_free functions.
- Added "lasttalk" field to "users" list.
- Added "charset" field to xchat_get_info.
- Perl plugin changes (Lian Wan Situ):
- Move each script into their own unique package/namespace. Scripts containing multiple packages will not be loaded.
- When warning messages are emitted you will now be told which script it came from.
- Xchat::set_context will now accept Xchat::set_context( $channel ) and Xchat::set_context( $channel, $server ) in addition to Xchat::set_context( $context ).
- Fix display of loaded scripts in the Plugins and Scripts window.
- TCL: Fixed crash with invalidated TCL timer (#1110306) (Daniel P. Stasinski).
- /TIMER now supports timeouts to one decimal place.
- Fixed possible crash of open-file dialog on 64-bit machines.
- Pressing CTRL-O in the DCC Receive window will now open your downloads folder.
- Win32: Default download folder changed to "My Documents\Downloads".
- Added -quiet arg to the /charset command.
- The /country command now supports a wildcard search.
- The user is now warned when real/user name is left blank in the server list window.
- Added the /URL command.
- Added a text event for all unknown WHOIS reply lines.
- Added /ALLCHANL which sends to the current server only.
- Actions (/ME) are now treated like PRIV/CHAN for purposes of the ignore list.