HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat highly scriptable with Python and Perl. The program is translated in multiple languages, it offers multi-network support with auto-connect, join and identify. It also has spell-check, proxies, SASL and DCC support.
v2.1 [Jun 1, 2014]
- verify hostnames of certificates
- use more secure openssl options (No SSLv2/3)
- detect utf8 urls in chat
- fix using multiple client certs at the same time
- fix checking for Perl on some distros
- fix friends list not properly updating
- fix building with format-security
- fix more non-ascii path issues on Windows
- fix opening utf8 URLs on Windows
- update deps on Windows
- update translations
