PlanB have released the latest version of quite a popular IRC client, XChat. I personally use mIRC but XChat does seem to be a very good app. The changelog is simply “Released a little bug-fix update of XChat for Windows: 2.8.7d”.

Description: XChat is an IRC chat program for both Linux and Windows. It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one conversations etc. Even file transfers are possible. X-Chat has two good features of usability: colored nicknames and alignment by text as opposed to alignment by nicks. When you read text, it’s enough for eyes to notice the colors of nicknames, which they can do when they are focused to somewhere else near, and you may know at once who is writing. Colors are inobtrusive and there just 6 of them not to burden your short-term memory. And eyes don’t have to search for ends of nicknames, they can start reading text at once when text is aligned by the beginning.

Release Name: XChat.v2.8.7d-PlanB
Filename: pb009801
Size: 1.13 MB
OS: Win Vista/XP/2000/Server
NFO: Here
Links: Homepage, Wikipedia
Download: Torrent, Usenet