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
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.
