Irssi Open-Source Terminal-Based IRC Client Hits 1.0 Milestone After 18 Years

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

We bet you did not see that coming, but the Irssi team proudly announced today, January 5, 2017, the availability of Irssi 1.0.0, the newest stable series of the popular, open-source terminal-based IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client for UNIX systems.

And it’s clearly not a coincidence to release the 1.0 milestone now as Irssi has been in development since January 1999, during which it received numerous snapshots, the last one being version 0.8.20 released in September 2016. The fact of the matter is that the team also announced Irssi 0.8.21 to fix a total of four remote crash issues.

Back to Irssi 1.0.0, it’s a major release that introduces lots of exciting new features, among which we can mention support for irssiproxy to forward all tags through a single port, certificate pinning for Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates, UTF-8 string operations for /names and $[…], and new “completion_nicks_match_case” setting.

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