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MCABBER

Introduction

mcabber is a small XMPP (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

• 2021-01-25: loudmouth 1.5.4 released.
  Bugfix release.
   
• 2020-09-19: mcabber 1.1.2 released.
  This release fixes a UI issue introduced in version 1.1.1 and reported by Minoru.
   
• 2020-09-06: mcabber 1.1.1 released.
  Maintenance release.
   
• 2018-03-22: Official Github mirror.
  Since I've been asked a few times, I've set up an official git mirror repository on Github.
   
• 2017-06-04: mcabber 1.1.0 released.
  VI mode (by Holger Weiß), bugfixes.
   
• 2017-01-29: mcabber 1.0.5 released.
  Bugfixes, and huge speed optimizations for large rosters.
  This release fixes CVE-2017-5589.
   
• 2016-11-21: mcabber 1.0.4 released.
  This is a maintenance release with an important bugfix. See Daniel Gultsch's article on Gajim Roster Push Attack.
  Thanks to Sam Whited for the report.
   
• 2016-09-18: mcabber 1.0.3 released.
  This is a maintenance release with a few bugfixes and documentation updates.
   
• 2016-02-27: loudmouth 1.5.3 released.
  Switch to SHA256 fingerprints.
  Do not load system certificates if trusted certs are explicitly provided.
  Improve automake/autoconf support.
• 2016-02-27: mcabber 1.0.2 released.
  Support for Loudmouth 1.5.3+ SHA256 fingerprints.
  Stop HTML-escaping OTR messages.
  Fix usage of $HOME/.mcabberrc broken in previous release.
   
• 2016-01-27: mcabber 1.0.1 released.
  Many improvements in Message Carbons, PGP, OTR and SSL support.
  The GnuPG engine can be specified with the gpg_path option.
  Support for the XDG configuration directory.
  Several memory leaks and bugs have been fixed.
  Please see the changelog file or the repository for details.
   
• 2016-01-26: loudmouth 1.5.2 released.
  Maintenance release 1.5.2.
  See the github changelog for the details. Our release is published here.
   
• 2015-11-09: loudmouth 1.5.1 released.
  The upstream Loudmouth repository has not been updated for a while, and since our repository is the only one getting some updates, we have been requested several times to make real releases.
  Mikael Hallendal (from the Loudmouth team) agreed so... here is the first release by the mcabber community.
  The repository is still at https://github.com/mcabber/loudmouth and our release is published here.
   
• 2015-06-28: mcabber 1.0.0 released. Message Carbons, multilanguages spellchecking, backward completion, smart buffer scroll-locking, a few new options and bugfixes.
  New SSL options available if a recent Loudmouth version is used.
  mcabber is 10 years old, many thanks to all the users and contributors!
   
• 2014-05-08: mcabber 0.10.3 released. Several improvements and bugfixes. Please see the changelog file or the repository for details.
• 2012-12-02: mcabber 0.10.2 released. Multiple improvements and bugfixes.
• 2012-12-01: New Loudmouth snapshot tarball from our LM git tree available.
• 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.
  Please see the module wiki page as well!
  
• 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.
• 2005-06-08: Initial release. First mcabber public release!

Download & documentation

• mcabber-1.1.2.tar.bz2 [sig, minisig, md5, sha256]
• mcabber user guide (PDF)
• mcabber manpage (slightly outdated, please use the online help system)
• mcabber changelog
• sample configuration file
• Mercurial repository (Git mirror)
• file directory
• mcabber wiki [ de - fr - ru - uk ]

• loudmouth-1.5.4.tar.bz2 [sig, minisig, md5, sha256]
• Loudmouth repository
• Loudmouth reference documentation
• Loudmouth file directory

Packages

Please see the wiki for a list of known mcabber packages for your operating system.

Signatures

My PGP public key is here and my Minisign public key is here.
(The minisign key is itself PGP-signed there.)

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 is a FAQ on the wiki.


If you are interested in mcabber development, please have a look at the Mercurial repository. The best way to get in touch with us is to 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.