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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>News - the qwebirc project</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="images/favicon.png"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen"/> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <div class="image" style="height: 134px; overflow: hidden;"> <a href="./"><img src="images/qwebircsmall.png" alt="qwebirc" title="qwebirc" height="134" width="134"/></a> </div> <div class="right"> <div class="text"> <div id="text-image"> <h1>qwebirc</h1> </div> <span class="slogan">a fast, minimalistic, open source IRC client</span> </div> <div id="menu"> <span> <a href="./">News</a> | <a href="about">About</a> | <a href="features">Features</a> | <a href="license">License</a> | <a href="faq">FAQ</a> | <a href="installation">Installation</a> | <a href="download">Download</a> | <a href="https://github.com/qwebirc/qwebirc/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Abug">Bugs</a> | <a href="https://github.com/qwebirc/qwebirc/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aenhancement">Wishlist/TODO</a> | <a href="https://github.com/qwebirc/qwebirc/">source code (Github)</a> | <a href="irc">IRC channel</a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div id="blocker"></div> <div id="content"> <h2>News</h2> <div id="text"> qwebirc is a fast, easy to use, free and open source IRC client designed by and originally just for the <a href="http://www.quakenet.org/">QuakeNet IRC network</a>. <h3>News</h3> <h4>2017-07-25: move to git and github</h4> After many years on Mercurial and Bitbucket: the project has moved to git and Github. <h4>2012-02-15: various updates</h4> Recent additions to qwebirc since last news post: <ul> <li>CTCP website support</li> <li>Nicklist hiding support in widget</li> <li>User-friendly nickname validation</li> <li>IE9 support</li> <li>support for server SSL connections.</li> <li>adaptive timeout for COMET connections (saves a lot of bandwidth).</li> <li>experimental: API for external commands (currently only /SAY).</li> <li>experimental: more theming support.</li> <li>IPv6 proxy support</li> <li>in progress: multiple server support (multiserver branch).</li> </ul> <h4>2009-06-20: SSL!</h4> SSL support has been added, so now you can use qwebirc over https. <h4>2009-06-06: New features</h4> Some new experimental features have been added, including notification by favicon/titlebar flashing, operator menus, and dependency checking (should make installation clearer). <h4>2009-04-12: WEBIRC style blocks</h4> qwebirc now supports WEBIRC style blocks, allowing hostname setting on most ircds, as well as ASCII case-mapping. <h4>2009-03-18: Initial release</h4> qwebirc's source code has finally been released to the public under the GPLv2!<br/> Feel free to download and have a play. </div> </div> </body> </html>