HexChat

HexChat is an Internet Relay Chat client that forked from XChat. It has a choice of a tabbed document interface or tree interface, support for multiple servers, and numerous configuration options. Both command-line and graphical versions were available.[3][4]

HexChat
Screenshot of Hexchat 2.10.2
Developer(s)Patrick Griffis[1]
Initial release6 July 2012 (2012-07-06)
Stable release
2.16.0 / 1 October 2021 (2021-10-01)[2]
Repositorygithub.com/hexchat/hexchat
PlatformUnix-like,
Windows 10 App,
Windows 7+ 64-bit,
Windows 7+ 32-bit,
Flatpak,
Snap,
Source Code
LicenseGPL-2.0 only with OpenSSL linking exception
Websitehexchat.github.io
hexchat.readthedocs.io
github.com/hexchat

The client runs on Unix-like operating systems,[3] and many Linux distributions include packages in their repositories.[5]

History

The XChat-WDK (XChat Windows Driver Kit) project started in 2010 and was originally Windows-only. The project's original goal was to merge itself with XChat, but evolved from just fixing Windows bugs to adding new features. It started to make sense to support more platforms than Windows. On July 6, 2012, XChat-WDK officially changed its name to HexChat.[6]

Releases
  • HexChat 2.9.4 - 11 November 2012
  • HexChat 2.9.5 - 1 April 2013
  • HexChat 2.9.6 - 11 September 2013
  • HexChat 2.10.0 - 1 June 2014
  • HexChat 2.10.2 - 25 November 2014
  • HexChat 2.12.0 - 12 March 2016
  • HexChat 2.12.1 - 1 May 2016
  • HexChat 2.12.2 - 8 October 2016
  • HexChat 2.14.0 - 12 March 2018
  • HexChat 2.14.2 - 29 August 2018
  • HexChat 2.14.3 - 20 December 2019
  • HexChat 2.16.0 - 1 October 2021

See also

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-05-14. Retrieved 2018-05-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "HexChat ChangeLog — HexChat 2.16.0 documentation". hexchat.readthedocs.io.
  3. "News – HexChat". hexchat.github.io.
  4. Announcement of HexChat Posted on 06 Jul, 2012
  5. "Shareware background". hexchat.github.io.
  6. "Announcement". HexChat - IRC client. July 6, 2012. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
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