About WeeChat
Why WeeChat?
In early 2003, I searched for an IRC client with following features:- free software
- running on Linux
- text interface
- real nicklist
- extensible with scripts written in various languages
And then WeeChat was born, on June 2003.
Key dates
- 2003, June: first line of code
- 2003, September: first version (v0.0.1)
- 2004, January: perl plugin (v0.0.4)
- 2005, March: dcc chat and file, fifo plugin (v0.1.1)
- 2005, May: python plugin (v0.1.2)
- 2005, July: proxy support, ipv6, SSL (v0.1.3)
- 2005, November: full utf-8 support (v0.1.6)
- 2006, January: ruby plugin (v0.1.7)
- 2006, March: lua plugin (v0.1.8)
- 2006, August: aspell plugin (v0.2.0)
- 2007, March: incremental text search in buffers (v0.2.4)
- 2007, September: last version before a major rewrite of WeeChat (v0.2.6)
- 2009, September: new site weechat.org, major rewrite of WeeChat with new plugin API, tcl plugin (v0.3.0)
- 2010, April: SASL authentication (v0.3.2)
- 2011, January: 256 colors, irc proxy, rmodifier, redirection of irc commands (v0.3.4)
- 2011, May: dynamic allocation and attributes for colors (v0.3.5)
- 2011, October: mouse support, cursor mode (v0.3.6)
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