MCABBER
Introdution
mcabber is a small Jabber console client.
mcabber includes features such as SASL/SSL/TLS support, MUC
(Multi-User Chat) support, history logging, command completion,
OpenPGP encryption, OTR (Off-the-Record Messaging) support,
dynamic modules 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
- 2011/12/04: An updated
loudmouth tarball has been uploaded. It contains fixes from our
LM git tree.
- 2010/12/01: mcabber 0.10.1 released.
Bugfix release.
See the changelog file or the repository
for details.
- 2010/05/24: Google Summer of Code.
Nicolas (a.k.a. alkino) is working on Jingle file transfer
modules for mcabber. See his blog.
Please check the wiki for the Jingle modules!
- 2010/04/11: mcabber 0.10.0 released.
Switch to the Loudmouth library, support for dynamic
modules, and much more. See the changelog file
for a list of changes. Do not forget to update your configuration file
before starting the new version :)
Please see the
module wiki
page as well!
- 2010/04/06: mcabber 0.10.0-rc5 released.
5th Release Candidate for 0.10.0.
- 2010/04/04: mcabber 0.10.0-rc3 released.
3rd Release Candidate for 0.10.0.
- 2010/03/28: mcabber 0.10.0-rc2 released.
Release Candidate for 0.10.0. MCabber now uses the
Loudmouth XMPP library, and has support for dynamic module
loading/unloading.
- 2009/10/06: mcabber 0.9.10 released.
Support for spell checking with Enchant, many bugfixes
and improvements. Please note that spellchecking-related options
have changed a little in the configuration file.
- 2008/10/11: New user guide. See the links below
for franky's mcabber user guide!
- 2008/10/09: mcabber 0.9.9 released.
A few bugfixes, help translation updates and new
Czech translation.
- 2008/10/05: mcabber 0.9.8 released.
URLs can be extracted from messages to the log window
with the new url_regex option, OTR messages are now displayed with
"O" flag, a few new commands and options are available, as well as
several UI improvements.
- 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.
Download & documentation
We have added a few patches to the Loudmouth library.
If your version doesn't work please try ours:
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.
This is an English-speaking room;
you can also join the French (mcabber-fr@conf...),
German (mcabber-de@conf...) or
Russian (mcabber-ru@conf...) conference rooms if you do not speak English.
There are a
FAQ
and a
Community Portal
on the wiki.
You can report bugs or add suggestions to the
Bitbucket Issue Tracker.
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
-- Your screenshots look better? Send them to me!! ;-)
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.
