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XChat 2.8.7e for Windows has been released

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

Just a little more than 2 weeks after the last update there already is another update for XChat on Windows, now being available as version 2.8.7e.

The changelog is short but includes a couple of crash-fixes, so the upgrade might be worth it.

  • Fixed a rare Auto-Nick-Completion (non-TAB key) crash.
  • Fixed a possible crash if you clicked “Add to favourites” in the main text area, while the server-list window was open in the background.
  • The setting added in the previous version: “/set -or gui_tweaks 64 will now turn OFF user list icons.” will now properly remove the prefix character from the right-click menu.
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Tags: IRC, Software, XChat
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Interview with the author of EPIC5

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

After being 5 years and 11 days in the making, there was the first production release of the ircII fork EPIC5, now being at version 1.0, in the end of December.

For readers that don’t know the project yet, the website explains a little of EPIC’s history:

EPIC is an irc client project. The EPIC software was forked from ircII-2.8.2 in fall 1994. There have been 5 generations of EPIC, of which the newest two (EPIC4 and EPIC5) are still supported and in development.

5 years and 11 days – What caused that kind of delay?

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Tags: EPIC5, Interview, IRC, Software
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Twitter and IRC – Posting Tweets from the comfort of your IRC client

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Hack a Day has an interesting article on how to write Tweets from within your IRC client.

Sounds good? But how?

The article (and one comment) mention 2 methods on how to achieve this – one would be by using a local IRCd written in PERL and another one by using a bot in a channel.

The bot seems to be a bit more of a “bare bone” approach since all of the features it currently supports is is posting Tweets by issueing commands like “!t your message goes here” after you make it connect to the server of your choice and joining a channel you told it to.

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Tags: IRC, irctotwit, Software, tircd, Twitter
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Anope releases 1.8.0-stable of their IRC services package

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

The Anope project announces the availability of version 1.8.0, the new stable release of their IRC services package.

It’s been a long couple of years, with many changes both to the product and indeed to the team as a whole.

For those of you with Modules which won’t work beyond 1.7.21 we understand your plight and will be available to assist module authors if they need a hand revising their mods for general consumption.

We want everyone to move away from 1.7.x as a development branch and join us on -stable. (with your modules of course!)

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Tags: Anope, IRC, Network Addons, Software
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