ZoiteChat
Internet & Communication
ZoiteChat IRC Client
4 platformsSnap (recommended)
Arch Linux
Fedora
openSUSE3 buildsStandard: Stable
Standard: Git
Other builds: AppImage
Arch Linux (recommended)
Debian
Ubuntu
Fedora
openSUSE
Void Linux
Slackware
GentooStandard: Stable
Other builds: Python2
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About
HexChat is an easy to use yet extensible IRC Client. It allows you to securely join multiple networks and talk to users privately or in channels using a customizable interface. You can even transfer files. HexChat supports features such as: DCC, SASL, proxies, spellcheck, alerts, logging, custom themes, and Python/Perl scripts.
Changelog
This is a minor release with small improvements and fixes: - Add support for SCRAM SASL mechanisms - Add option to hide nick from window title - Change SERVER command to default to TLS, adding an "-insecure" argument - Increase max server password length to 1024 - Fix detecting some URLS causing a crash
Additional information
Project
- Developer
- HexChat
- License
- GPL-2.0+ (free software)What this license lets you do
- Homepage
- hexchat.github.io
- From the project
- Report a bugDonateDocumentation
- Latest release
- February 7, 2024 (2 years ago)Inactive · 0 releases in the last year
- Release history
Last 9 releases
- 2.16.2February 7, 2023
- 2.16.1February 12, 2022
- 2.16.0October 1, 2021
- 2.14.3December 20, 2019
- 2.14.2August 29, 2018
- 2.14.1March 13, 2018
- 2.14.0March 10, 2018
- 2.12.4December 10, 2016
- 2.12.3October 22, 2016
- Languages
- 49 languages
Install
- Available via
- Arch Linux (3) · Debian · Ubuntu · Fedora · openSUSE · Void Linux · Slackware · Gentoo
All 10 packagings
AUR, AUR (Git build), AUR (Python2 build), Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Void Linux, Slackware, Gentoo
About this data
- Sources
- 14 independent sources agree
- Catalog data as of
- October 12, 2026
How each source lists it (10)
| Source | Name | Version | Built by | License | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUR | hexchat | 2.16.2-5 | — | GPL-2.0-or-later | A popular and easy to use graphical IRC (chat) client |
| AUR (Git build) | hexchat-git | 2.16.2.r3.gb544ac33-1 | — | GPL | A GTK+ based IRC client |
| AUR (Python2 build) | hexchat-python2 | 2.14.3-1 | Community build, patched | GPL | A popular and easy to use graphical IRC (chat) client, with python2 support. |
| Debian | hexchat | 2.16.2-1+b6 | Distribution build | — | IRC client for X based on X-Chat 2 |
| Ubuntu | hexchat | 2.16.2-1build6 | Distribution build | — | IRC client for X based on X-Chat 2 |
| Fedora | hexchat | 2.16.2 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later | A popular and easy to use graphical IRC (chat) client |
| openSUSE | hexchat | 2.16.2 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later | A graphical IRC (chat) client |
| Void Linux | hexchat | 2.16.2_10 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later | GTK+ based IRC client successor of Xchat |
| Slackware | hexchat | 2.16.2-8 | Distribution build | — | hexchat (GTK+ IRC client) |
| Gentoo | hexchat | 2.16.2-r2 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-only | Graphical IRC client based on XChat |
