Irssi 1.0.0 Released

Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before.<p>Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90&#x27;s I worked at General Magic, and wrote my own IRC client [1] for our handheld devices. I attached a Metricom wireless modem to the bottom of mine and could be on IRC from <i>anywhere</i>; it was like living in the future! &#x2F;s<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joshcarter.com&#x2F;magic_cap&#x2F;cujochat" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joshcarter.com&#x2F;magic_cap&#x2F;cujochat</a>

Heh, great! And only 17 years in development!<p>First commit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;irssi&#x2F;irssi&#x2F;commit&#x2F;770ae45" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;irssi&#x2F;irssi&#x2F;commit&#x2F;770ae45</a>

This release fixes a couple of vulnerabilities, some of them found via fuzzing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;irssi.org&#x2F;security&#x2F;irssi_sa_2017_01.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;irssi.org&#x2F;security&#x2F;irssi_sa_2017_01.txt</a><p>I hope I&#x27;ll find time to write up a blogpost how I fuzzed irssi later.

For those interested in consulting, IRC is a great way to find clients. You can both contribute your expertise and socialize and network with developers who specialize in technologies that you know well. I&#x27;ve found a great number of contractors through IRC (especially freenode). The fact that it requires a modicum of tech cred to navigate makes it a bit of a self-selecting pool, which is great.

&gt; Binary test packages for various Linux distributions are automatically generated by the openSUSE Build Service<p>The most underused Linux service to the rest of the community. So glad they are using this.

I&#x27;ve moved to weechat these days, but I&#x27;m glad to see the revived project making progress.<p>Irsii was my daily communications hero for many years.

I feel like I just discovered the Coelacanth isn&#x27;t actually extinct. I initially assumed either:<p>1) I misread the name of something that merely looked like irssi, or 2) there was a new project names irssi that unfortunately used a name of a much older project.<p>There was a several year period of my life where the vast majority of my online communication took place inside irssi. And that time was not particularly recent!<p>Congrats to the team, awesome to see it still going.

Interesting, I just learned that one of the developer (Kenny Root) also develops the ConnectBot Android app (SSH Client)!

Congrats to the team! Long time irssi user here, I&#x27;ve tried to move to several other clients over the years (for change&#x27;s sake rather than any real reason), but nothing ever &quot;stuck&quot; with me.<p>Relatedly to this happy news, a gentle plug for a project I was involved in: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rburchell&#x2F;irssi-relay" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rburchell&#x2F;irssi-relay</a><p>irssi-relay allows you to connect weechat&#x27;s relay clients to an irssi instance. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s gotten much use outside the few of us that work on it, more eyes are of course welcome.

It&#x27;s pity that Irssi only support Perl as its scripting language. In contrast, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weechat.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weechat.org&#x2F;</a> support: Python&#x2F;Perl&#x2F;Ruby&#x2F;lua&#x2F;tcl&#x2F;guile&#x2F;Javascript.<p>UPDATE: I stand corrected.

Social networks come and go... but IRC lasts forever! :)<p>I&#x27;ve tried sooooo many different IRC clients. I <i>always</i> end up coming back to irssi.

Can anyone compare it to weechat? Never used irssi but weechat is my client of choice these days since my old client fell victim to the whole gtk2&#x2F;gtk3 thing.

If you are looking for Irssi with a very nice native OS X interface make sure to checkout MacIrssi <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Dakta&#x2F;MacIrssi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Dakta&#x2F;MacIrssi</a>

Ofcourse Irssi wouldn&#x27;t be complete without its ircII minimalist theme:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;irssi&#x2F;irssi&#x2F;pull&#x2F;181&#x2F;commits&#x2F;0494925a465b2394dacd78b014d002ffd9d22b31" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;irssi&#x2F;irssi&#x2F;pull&#x2F;181&#x2F;commits&#x2F;0494925a465b...</a><p>Also, +1 for Ruby support.

It also comes with security fixes that were simultaneously released as a 0.8.21 bugfix-only release:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;irssi.org&#x2F;security&#x2F;irssi_sa_2017_01.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;irssi.org&#x2F;security&#x2F;irssi_sa_2017_01.txt</a>

Funny, I was using that more than 10 years ago! My source of archlinux support when KDE didn&#x27;t work.<p>Now we got phones with internet though, so it&#x27;s no longer that hard to look up stuff when your computer is half down :)

Wow, I would have guessed Irssi passed version 1.0.0 a long long time ago. I&#x27;ve been using it at least 10 years and it&#x27;s a great and stable application.<p>I guess that goes to show how much I pay attention to versions.

I&#x27;m glad to see another project dropping the meaningless major version number(s). If you don&#x27;t have a criteria for incrementing the major number, just drop it. This seems to finally be catching on, hopefully we&#x27;ll see the billion open source projects with meaningless &quot;0.&quot; continue to fall off.

Are there any good irssi&#x2F;weechat relay clients for iPhone or do I just have to live with that this phone sucks for geeky things like IRC?<p>I certainly can&#x27;t seem to find anything in the istore...<p>Coming from android, that was such a surprise, and similarly, a massive downer.

I used Irssi 15 years ago. Back then they announced a rewrite that was to become 1.0.

neat. I&#x27;ve been using irssi for half a decade. Never realized it was &lt;1.0

Today&#x27;s XKCD celebrates IRC: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1782&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1782&#x2F;</a>

long live xircon!<p>all said, duck yeah, irssi remains one of my fav pieces of software. watching the rise of slack and so forth has been quite amusing to me, as a longtime irc chick. my barometer for new chat networks being good or not is &quot;can i somehow use it in irssi?&quot;<p>awaiting a good and proper discord-irc bridge to make up for all the funtimes tryin to make twitch&#x2F;ustream&#x2F;hitbox chat work via irc.

BitchX forever!! :P<p>(seriously though, not really, I could never figure out how to actually use that client)

Did seccomp sandboxing make it to this release? (Not in the highlights listed.)

The best irc-client ever! I love this client so much.

Just about time.

Still no vertically split windows?

Does irssi proxy support TLS yet?