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“After a long time with development snapshots only (due to lack of importance given to producing a release tagged as stable), KVIrc has just released version 3.4″, user Elephantman tipped IRC-Junkie.

“This one took a very long time but, well, finally it’s here” the KVIrc development team announced on their homepage.

Some of the changed highlighted on the announcement:

* improved themeing support

* better desktop integration

* nicer support for many different IRC servers

* a totally revised option layout

* basic support for script “addons”

* improved help subsystem

A new version of the popular XChat client for Windows has been released.

This post on the XChat forum highlights some of the new features, illustrated with screenshots.

Highlights include /WHOIS information in nicklist on right-click, settings like tray icon blinking on a per-channel basis and support for colors in places as channel lists and topic bar.

The Windows built went shareware due to the costs of compiling for this platform. Free builds from the otherwise still open source code are released by third parties including Silverex. These builds are usually released at a later date.

“Up until a few years ago, I maintained the project which you can find on this site: Winbot – A windows IRC bot. In 2005, the Winbot project dropped off the face of the earth due to the fact I no longer had time to maintain it, and was no longer using windows as my operating system. I have promised for quite a while now that I would release Winbot as open source, so here it is” Winbot developer Craig Edwards announced on the Winbot website.

Assuming this was a commonly known fact, it was never reported before on IRC-Junkie. But as I had contact over the past few weeks with several smaller IRC networks, it became clear not many small networks with servers.ini aspiration also realize the potential negative effects of being listed in the world largest IRC server list.

“So that everyone is aware, BitchX.[com] is not a trusted domain and nothing coming from that site should be trusted”, Sin announced on BitchX’s official website.

In a reaction to IRC-Junkie, Sin explains the several domains including BitchX.com were all owned by singular individuals to prevent third parties to abuse the domain. Sin explained: “The former owner of the .com became disenchanted with the project and certain persons such as myself taking the initiative to revive the project, website, and other aspects because he was not in control over the core web content nor the FTP sites.”