| guide | WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a free and open source lightweight IRC client that is highly customizable and can be extended through scripts . |
WeeChat supports most platforms and operating systems such as Linux , BSD, macOS, Debian GNU/Hurd, HP-UX, Solaris, QNX, Haiku and Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin library and API)
The recent GA release of 4.0.0 uses Semantic Versioning and includes many breaking changes.
Main new features of this version:
- More readable keybindings
- 256 colors are used by default
- Rename SSL option to TLS, use TLS by default to connect to IRC servers
- Many identifiers are now case sensitive, also renamed default aliases to lowercase
- Similar command names are displayed when the command is unknown
- Add support for new IRC features: draft/multiline, batch and echo-message
- Add support for LINELEN and UTF8ONLY in IRC plugin
- Added IRC commands /action,/rules,/knock
- Add API function config_set_version
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See the release announcement and Release Notes for details.