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== History ==
== 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.<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 6, 2012|title=Announcement|url=https://hexchat.github.io/news/announcement.html|url-status=live|access-date=July 22, 2021|website=HexChat - IRC client}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 6, 2012|title=Announcement|url=https://hexchat.github.io/news/announcement.html|access-date=July 22, 2021|website=HexChat - IRC client}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 04:24, 27 September 2023

HexChat
Developer(s)Patrick Griffis[1]
Initial release6 July 2012; 11 years ago (2012-07-06)
Stable release
2.16.2[2][3] Edit this on Wikidata / 7 February 2024
Repositorygithub.com/hexchat/hexchat
PlatformUnix-like,
Windows 10/11 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 is an Internet Relay Chat client that is a fork of 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 are available.[4][5]

The client runs on Unix-like operating systems,[4] and many Linux distributions include packages in their repositories.[6]

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.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "About | TingPing's blog". Archived from the original on 2018-05-14. Retrieved 2018-05-13.
  2. ^ "2.16.2, The Final Release". 9 February 2024. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  3. ^ "HexChat ChangeLog". 7 February 2024. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  4. ^ a b "News – HexChat". hexchat.github.io.
  5. ^ Announcement of HexChat Posted on 06 Jul, 2012
  6. ^ "Shareware background". hexchat.github.io.
  7. ^ "Announcement". HexChat - IRC client. July 6, 2012. Retrieved July 22, 2021.

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