BarnOwl News

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• August 16, 2009: BarnOwl 1.3 Released. Download it here, read the announcement or see the ChangeLog
• July 5, 2009: BarnOwl 1.2.1 Released. Download it here. or see the ChangeLog
• May 3, 2009: BarnOwl 1.1.1 Released. Fixes multiple significant memory leaks. Download it here. or see the ChangeLog
• March 15, 2009: BarnOwl 1.1 Released, including built-in IRC support. Download it here. or see the ChangeLog
• February 13, 2009: BarnOwl 1.0.5 Released. Fixes multiple security problems (CVE-2009-0363). All users are encouraged to upgrade immediately. See the announcement for more information.

Download it here, or see the ChangeLog

• December 13, 2008: BarnOwl 1.0.4.1 Released. Download it here. or see the ChangeLog
• October 31, 2008: BarnOwl 1.0.3 Released. Fixes a segfault in zcrypt and some other bugs. Download it here. or see the ChangeLog
• BarnOwl has moved its source into git. Get the source from ​github or the mirror at scripts.mit.edu: ​git://barnowl.mit.edu/barnowl.git
• Sep 15, 2008: BarnOwl 1.0.2.1 Released. Fixes :reload-modules with PAR modules. Download it here.
• Sep 15, 2008: BarnOwl 1.0.2 Released. Download a source tarball from the download page or see the ChangeLog.
• May 30, 2008: BarnOwl 1.0.1 Released. Fixes some small bugs in .owlconf backwards-compatibility, Jabber, and the copyright notice. See the ChangeLog.
• May 27, 2008: BarnOwl 1.0.0 Released. Download a source tarball from the download page.

Welcome to BarnOwl

BarnOwl is a curses-based IM client forked from the ​ktools owl project. BarnOwl currently supports Zephyr, AIM, Jabber, and IRC, and aims to be easily extensible and customizable through a Perl plugin interface.

• GettingStarted with BarnOwl on Athena
• Getting started from BarnOwl's BuiltinDocs
• CustomizingAndExtending BarnOwl
• The old MediaWiki If you find anything useful there that's not here, move it over!

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