= Welcome to BarnOwl =

BarnOwl is a curses-based IM client forked from the [http://ktools.org/owl/ ktools owl] project.
BarnOwl currently supports [wiki:GettingStarted Zephyr], AIM, [wiki:Jabber], and [wiki:IRC], and aims to be easily extensible and
customizable through a Perl plugin interface.

== BarnOwl News ==

 * '''March 02, 2010''': BarnOwl 1.5.1 Released, fixes CVE-2010-0793. [wiki:Download] it here, read the [wiki:barnowl-1.5.1-announce announcement]  or see the [/browser/ChangeLog?rev=barnowl-1.5.1 ChangeLog]
 * '''December 31, 2009''': BarnOwl 1.5 Released. [wiki:Download] it here, or see the [/browser/ChangeLog?rev=barnowl-1.5 ChangeLog]
 * '''October 19, 2009''': BarnOwl 1.4 Released. [wiki:Download] it here, or see the [/browser/ChangeLog?rev=barnowl-1.4 ChangeLog]
 * '''August 16, 2009''': BarnOwl 1.3 Released. [wiki:Download] it here, read the [wiki:barnowl-1.3-announce announcement] or see the [/browser/ChangeLog?rev=barnowl-1.3 ChangeLog]
 * See [wiki:OldNews] for old announcements.

== Exploring BarnOwl ==

 * [wiki:Download Download BarnOwl!]
 * GettingStarted with BarnOwl on Athena
   * Getting help from the BuiltinDocs
   * Some UsefulCommands
 * [wiki:Contributing] to BarnOwl
 * [wiki:CustomizingAndExtending] BarnOwl
   * Introductory [http://stuff.mit.edu/iap/2009/barnowl/slides.pdf slides]
   * Creating [wiki:Filters]
   * Setting [wiki:Keybindings]
   * Using [wiki:Plugins]
   * [wiki:CreatingAModule Creating] your own plugins.
   * [wiki:ColorUtils]
 * BarnOwl's [wiki:code-review code review policy] for developers.
 * The old [/mediawiki MediaWiki] -- if you find anything useful there that's not here, move it over!

= Screenshot =
[[Image(barnowl.png,25%)]]