Public bug reported: The development is dead and it has serious issues like missing SASL support and not supporting TLS. Networks are disabling SSLv3 and ZNC 1.6 which was released on 2015-02-12 also disabled it. Current configuration can be imported to HexChat with instructions at https://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq.html#how-do-i-migrate-my- settings-from-xchat .
There appears to be some kind of patch in Ubuntu adding the TLS support, but it doesn't seem like a good idea to me that Ubuntu (and all other distributions) will maintain their own version with multiple different patches. Server side Charybdis (where freenode's IRCd-seven is based on) has disabled SSLv3 and InspIRCd also released instructions on disabling SSLv3. https://www.notehub.org/2014/10/20/inspircd-poodle-psa Freenode is planning to update their ircd-seven which in turn breaks XChat's SSL entirely. This was originally a question where I was suggested opening bug reprort and my question on whether to just turn it into question is unanswered so I will do it now. ** Affects: xchat (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1437272 Title: XChat is dead and distributions are maintaining their own set of patches for it To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat/+bug/1437272/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
