HexChat 2.9.6 expanded SASL support to include BLOWFISH and AES encryption and EXTERNAL for using client certs, added server-time support so bouncers like ZNC can print their playback and show native timestamps. See the ChangeLog:
- redesign edit window in network list
- rename favorites to autojoin
- improve url detection yet again (this time w/ more ipv6!)
- implement /exec -o on Windows
- improvements to the dcc window
- improvements to sysinfo on unix, including -e to print info instead of saying
- add support for BLOWFISH, AES, and EXTERNAL SASL mechanisms
- add reload command and button in plugingui
- add support for server-time and znc.in/server-time[-iso] capabilities
- add attributes to hook_print/server and emit_print for information such as server-time
- add support for QuakeNet’s challangeauth
- add chanopt for stripping colors
- add copy option to banlist entries
- add autoconnect option to context menu of networks
- add option for omitting alerts while window is focused
- add python3 support along with various bugfixes
- add libcanberra support on unix
- add tracking of users accounts
- add %u to userlist popups for accounts
- add channelkey to channel lists in plugin api
- add MONITOR support for the friends list
- add QUIET and UNQUIET commands
- add support for the away-notify, account-notify, and extended-join capabilities
- add notifications for friends away status (requires away-notify)
- add events for quiet, unquiet, and quietlist
- add Ctrl+N (New Server Window) keybinding
- add ctrl+home/end keybinding for scrolling to top/bottom
- add theme manager to unix build system
- fix compilation on FreeBSD
- fix running as root
- fix splitting ctcps and notices
- fix alerts and scrollback chanopts
- fix crash when attaching/detaching tabs
- fix sending limited channel messages (op messages) to the wrong tab
- change /load -e to load from config dir
- remove Ctrl+L (Clear Text) keybinding
- remove custom sound applications
- remove away announce, replaced by away-notify on supported servers. (alternative python script)
- update network list
Install HexChat via PPA:
The PPA supports for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and their derivatives such as Linux Mint and Elementary OS.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/hexchat-stable
Then update and install it:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install hexchat
