MCABBER
Introdution
mcabber is a small Jabber console client.
mcabber includes features such as SSL support, MUC
(Multi-User Chat) support, history logging, command completion,
OpenPGP encryption, OTR (Off-the-Record Messaging) support and
external action triggers.
Please read the manual page (manpage link below) for more information.
mcabber is released under the GNU GPL, and has been tested on
GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Cygwin.
News
- 2008/04/17: mcabber 0.9.7 released.
FIFO support, new external event ("unread"), a few new
options, and a lots of small fixes and improvements.
- 2008/01/13: mcabber 0.9.6 released.
(Bugfix release) Better Cygwin support, better OpenBSD
support, misc. small improvements and bugfixes.
- 2007/11/19: mcabber 0.9.5 released.
Internal hooks, improved command /source,
removed UI restriction on the message size, misc. improvements and
bugfixes.
- 2007/10/27: mcabber 0.9.4 released.
GnuTLS support, OTR (Off-The-Record) support, improved
user interface with MUC nickname coloring and selectable time prefixes,
misc. improvements and bugfixes.
- 2007/06/19: mcabber 0.9.3 released.
(Bugfix release)
- 2007/06/12: mcabber 0.9.2 released.
Aspell support, improved MUC nickname completion and line
highlighting, loading of configuration files from within mcabber, as well
as other enhancements and bug fixes.
- 2007/02/10: mcabber 0.9.1 released.
Better memory management, a few bugfixes, a few additions
to the contrib directory...
- 2006/12/16: mcabber 0.9.0 released.
This release offers many new features including support for
events and chatstates, OpenPGP, VCard-temp retrieval, bookmark storage,
annotations, last activity requests, roster management improvements, and
more. There are also additional translations, a fix for unicode
detection on BSD systems, and other miscellaneous bugfixes and
improvements.
Download & documentation
Packages
Please see the wiki for a list of
known
MCabber packages for your operating system.
Support, Development
MCabber is maintained by Mikael BERTHE.
There is currently no mailing list about mcabber. You can join the
MCabber MUC conference room if you have some suggestions or questions:
mcabber@conf.lilotux.net.
There's also a
FAQ
on the wiki.
New versions are announced on the
freshmeat
website, and you can subscribe to new releases on the freshmeat page to be
notified when a new mcabber version is out.
If you are interested in mcabber development, please have a look at
the Mercurial repository. You can join the MCabber MUC
conference room too (see above).
Screenshots
You can see what mcabber looks like on the screenshot below:
More screenshots
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Donations
mcabber is free (libre) software. If you like it, please
consider making a donation.
You can make a donation using PayPal, or if you wish to donate by other means,
please contact me directly.
