Textual is the world's most popular application for interacting with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chatrooms on OS X. First appearing in 2010, Textual has since evolved and matured into the top IRC client for OS X; relied on and trusted by thousands of people.

Beautiful Interface. Textual includes two elegantly designed dark and light variants of the user interface which have been refined all the way down to the very last pixel.

Powerful. Textual supports very powerful modern technologies such as native IPv6, the latest IRCv3 specifications, client-side certificate authentication, and much, much more in an easy to navigate, clutter free environment.

Privacy is valued. Textual protects your privacy by leveraging widely accepted, proven technologies such as Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) to ensure that the only people reading your conversations are those that you intend to. Customizable. Textual takes customization to the next level with styles created using well documented, open web standards in addition to addons built using a multitude of programming languages such as AppleScript, Objective-C, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Shell, and Swift.

User Interface - The entire user interface of Textual, from the smallest window to the largest, has been refined to take full advantage of the dark appearance of macOS Mojave. Additionally, Textual can now be configured to automatically inherit your Mac's appearance to avoid the unnecessary burden of changing it in two places. To do this, change the “Main window appearance” preference in the Interface section of Preferences to “Your Mac's Default”. This is the default for new installations. Existing installations will default to the appearance that was configured before upgrading to macOS Mojave. Modern Sockets - A new way for apps to establish connections, referred to by Textual as “modern sockets”, is available in macOS Mojave.

When conditions are right, Textual will use this to connect to IRC. Modern sockets can't be configured to prefer IPv4. To accommodate users that want this behavior, the “Prefer IPv4” preference has been replaced with a preference to enable only IPv4, only IPv6, or enable both. Users that had the old preference enabled will be automatically migrated to only IPv4. See the Network Socket section of Server Properties. Scrollback Improvements - An indicator now appears in the scrollback when the day changes. This indicator can be toggled in the Style section of Preferences.

Other Changes -. ADDED: Added spoiler formatting option which is compatible with other apps.

ADDED: Added support for chghost capability. ADDED: Added “:thinking:” to the Smiley Converter addon. (Thanks Perry). ADDED: Added preference to the Flood Control section of Preferences that can used to add a delay before automatically joining channels. This preference defaults to no delay.

ADDED: Added support for color codes 16 through 98. Click “More” in the color formatting menu to access these colors. ADDED: Added inline image support for speedtest.net results. CHANGED: Tweaked the appearance of the application icon. CHANGED: Errors in Server Properties, Channel Properties, and related windows are now much more descriptive. CHANGED: The command “/cs deop” and other variations no longer auto corrects to “/cs drop”.

CHANGED: Simplified some menus to make them easier to navigate. CHANGED: Log files are now automatically closed after 20 minutes of inactivity. CHANGED: Log files are now automatically closed if there isn't enough space available for them.

You will be alerted of this. CHANGED: File transfers are now automatically stopped if there isn't enough space available at the save location. CHANGED: The “lagcheck” and “mylag” commands now work regardless of whether automatic Client-to-Client Protocol (CTCP) responses are enabled.

CHANGED: The channel quick select window is now detached from the main window. It can be dragged around and will remain on screen until escape is pressed.

CHANGED: The following RPLISUPPORT configuration options are now correctly handled: AWAYLEN, EXCEPTS, INVEX, KEYLEN, KICKLEN, STATUSMSG, and TOPICLEN. FIXED: Fixed the “clearall” command not working correctly. FIXED: Fixed the “conn” command not working correctly. FIXED: Fixed running timers not being stopped when disconnected from IRC. FIXED: Fixed incorrect implementation of RPLREDIR. FIXED: Fixed a crash that may occur when using the “keyx” command.

FIXED: Fixed Preferences window reopening at incorrect location on screen. FIXED: Fixed some alerts not displaying a “Do not show this again” option when they are supposed to. See textualapp.com/changes for history of changes. 7.0.10 May 24, 2018. ADDED: Added inline video support for public Nest camera clips. ADDED: Added setqueryname command which can be used to rename query windows.

ADDED: Added preference beneath “Only inline images and videos” in the Inline Media section of Preferences that when disabled, disables embeddable video services such as Vimeo, YouTube, and others. ADDED: Added “Enable Off-the-Record Messaging” preference to the Off-the-Record Messaging section of Preferences which can be used to disable Off-the-Record Messaging support. CHANGED: The timer command has been rewritten from scratch. The new command supports repeating timers. It also supports listing, stopping, and restarting timers. Type “/timer help” for more information.

CHANGED: The lagcheck and mylag commands now outputs time in milliseconds. CHANGED: The correct syntax for many commands is now shown when a command is used incorrectly. CHANGED: Query windows are no longer renamed during nickname changes if one is already opened for the new nickname. CHANGED: “Begin Session” no longer appears in log files unless at least one item is logged during the session.

CHANGED: Support for echo-message has been disabled until message-tags is more widely supported. CHANGED: The per-channel preferences labeled “Show inline media” and “Disable inline media” are now saved internally as separate flags. When the global preference to show media inline with chat is toggled, the per-channel preferences no longer behave as an inverse of the user's intent. FIXED: Fixed main window segmented controller appearing clipped on the right side. FIXED: Fixed app becoming unresponsive when displaying certain prompts together. See textualapp.com/changes for history of changes. 7.0.9 May 8, 2018.

ADDED: Added support for RPLREAWAY (597), RPLGONEAWAY (598), and RPLNOTAWAY (599). CHANGED: Away status can now be found next to your nickname in the title bar of the main window.

CHANGED: Commands are now sorted alphabetically when performing tab completion. (Thanks Christopher).

CHANGED: Improved performance and reliability of ignores. CHANGED: myip.codeux.com is now used by default for obtaining IP address information during file transfers when all other means have failed. This behavior can be changed in the File Transfer section of Preferences. CHANGED: The means by which IP address information is obtained during file transfers can now be changed to use information from the router with no external sources as a fallback.

See the File Transfer section of Preferences. FIXED: Fixed a crash that may occur when clicking “View Logs” or “Query Logs”. FIXED: Fixed inability to jump to highlights by double clicking them in the Highlight List window. FIXED: Fixed inability to reveal new messages when scrolled up when using the style Equinox.

FIXED: Fixed the scrollback going dark when using the style Equinox. FIXED: Fixed highlight exclusions not working correctly for per-server and per-client highlights.

FIXED: Fixed the “Textual is unable to access the folder that's configured for your log location” prompt appearing on screen even when logging is disabled. FIXED: Fixed the -interceptUserInput:command: plugin API throwing an exception for nil return values. See textualapp.com/changes for history of changes. 7.0.8 Mar 9, 2018. Inline Media: New Services Textual is now capable of showing more than images inline with chat. Beginning with version 7.0.7, the follow types of media can be inlined:. Dailymotion. Gfycat. Gyazo. Imgur.gifv files. Liveleak¹. Streamable. Twitch Clips. Twitch Live. Twitter. Regular image files. Regular video files. Vimeo. xkcd. YouTube ¹ Disabled by default - Inline Media: New Preferences Several preferences have been added to the Advanced sections of Preferences to provide more control over what is shown inline with chat. These new preferences include:.

“Only show images and videos” (disabled by default) Controls whether only images and videos are shown inline with chat. This includes video services such as Dailymotion, Streamable, Vimeo, YouTube, and others. “Only inline media that is safe to view in public” (enabled by default) Controls whether to only inline media that is safe to view in public. Media that is disabled as a result of this preference includes: Liveleak, Pornhub. “Only inline media from safe sources” (enabled by default) Controls whether to only inline media that is hosted by safe sources. Safe sources are services that don't inject HTML nor load external JavaScript resources.

Media that is disabled as a result of this preference includes: Twitter. “Load everything” (disabled by default) Controls whether to load the contents of every URL posted in a channel to determine which are images or videos. Inline Media: Other Changes To improve performance, when a piece of media is hidden, it is completely removed from memory. Nickname Colors The logic that determines which color is assigned to a nickname has changed. Nicknames are now assigned a consistent, unique color instead of picking from a pool of thirty possibilities.

A specific color can now be assigned to a nickname using the “setcolor” command. For example: “/setcolor milky” to open selection prompt.

Other Improvements CHANGED Multiple versions of the same style (built-in, custom, or iCloud) are now selectable in Preferences. CHANGED A “Perform authentication” link is now presented in lieu of a sheet when an Off-the-Record conversation is started with a chat partner that is not recognized. FIXED Fixed crash that may occur when restoring messages from previous session. FIXED Fixed crash that may occur when syncing custom fonts using iCloud syncing. FIXED Fixed bug in Blowfish Encryption addon that caused messages not appear in chat.

7.0.6 Oct 12, 2017. Changes in 7.0.6 - CHANGED Updated the Blowfish Encryption addon to include the latest version of LibreSSL. CHANGED Updated the Blowfish Encryption addon to hook into a new decryption endpoint. FIXED Fixed Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging negotiation messages not being ignored when posted inside a channel. Changes in 7.0.5 - NEW Added preference to Interface section of Preference that allows multiple channels to be viewed left to right, instead of top to bottom.

FIXED Fixed inability to read or write preferences on macOS High Sierra. FIXED Fixed trial expired message appearing even after Textual was purchased. Changes in 7.0.4 - NEW The style “Sulaco” authored by Ryan Grove has been added to the list of default styles.

Changes in 7.0.3 - Dynamic Buffer - The new dynamic buffer feature improves memory use by limiting how many messages are visible in the scrollback. While scrolled to the bottom, no more than two hundred messages will ever be visible in the scrollback. More messages (up to 30,000) can then be revealed by scrolling upward. By default, Textual will keep a record of 15,000 messages per-channel that are accessible by scrolling upward. This limit can be increased up to 30,000 or lowered to low as 1,000 in the Style section of Preferences.

Some custom styles will not work correctly with this feature without modification. To view modifications that need to be made, see this web page: Other Changes - NEW Added a “Current Session” marker to indicate where messages from the previous session end. NEW Added “Jump to Present” action to Navigation menu which can be activated using the keyboard shortcut Control Command B.

This action jumps the scrollback to the most recent message. NEW Added “Jump to Current Session” action to Navigation menu which can be assigned a keyboard shortcut. This action jumps the scrollback to the “Current Session” marker. NEW Added “Only play back messages you missed” preference to the ZNC Bouncer section of Server Properties. This preference, which is enabled by default, controls whether the entire playback buffer or only the parts you missed are played back when the playback module is installed. CHANGED Connection names are no longer forced uppercase when Textual is running on OS X Yosemite or later. CHANGED Connections now gracefully disconnect when your Mac goes to sleep even if the preference “Perform reconnect when waking from sleep” is disabled.

CHANGED Textual will now wait for images to be 100% loaded before they are shown inline with chat. FIXED Fixed scrollbars appearing invisible (plain white). FIXED Fixed a crash that may occur when iCloud syncing was enabled. FIXED Fixed inability to save trust for a self-signed certificate.

FIXED Fixed incorrect description for TLS 1.3 cipher suites. FIXED Fixed new messages not appearing when received while Textual is hidden or miniaturized. FIXED Fixed a lock appearing next to private messages that are not encrypted.

FIXED Fixed notifications appearing for the ZNC playback buffer when disabled. 7.0.5 Sep 29, 2017.

Changes in 7.0.5 - NEW Added preference to Interface section of Preference that allows multiple channels to be viewed left to right, instead of top to bottom. FIXED Fixed inability to read or write preferences on macOS High Sierra. FIXED Fixed trial expired message appearing even after Textual was purchased. Changes in 7.0.4 - NEW The style “Sulaco” authored by Ryan Grove has been added to the list of default styles. Changes in 7.0.3 - Dynamic Buffer - The new dynamic buffer feature improves memory use by limiting how many messages are visible in the scrollback. While scrolled to the bottom, no more than two hundred messages will ever be visible in the scrollback.

More messages (up to 30,000) can then be revealed by scrolling upward. By default, Textual will keep a record of 15,000 messages per-channel that are accessible by scrolling upward. This limit can be increased up to 30,000 or lowered to low as 1,000 in the Style section of Preferences. Some custom styles will not work correctly with this feature without modification. To view modifications that need to be made, see this web page: Other Changes - NEW Added a “Current Session” marker to indicate where messages from the previous session end. NEW Added “Jump to Present” action to Navigation menu which can be activated using the keyboard shortcut Control Command B.

This action jumps the scrollback to the most recent message. NEW Added “Jump to Current Session” action to Navigation menu which can be assigned a keyboard shortcut. This action jumps the scrollback to the “Current Session” marker.

NEW Added “Only play back messages you missed” preference to the ZNC Bouncer section of Server Properties. This preference, which is enabled by default, controls whether the entire playback buffer or only the parts you missed are played back when the playback module is installed. CHANGED Connection names are no longer forced uppercase when Textual is running on OS X Yosemite or later. CHANGED Connections now gracefully disconnect when your Mac goes to sleep even if the preference “Perform reconnect when waking from sleep” is disabled. CHANGED Textual will now wait for images to be 100% loaded before they are shown inline with chat. FIXED Fixed scrollbars appearing invisible (plain white). FIXED Fixed a crash that may occur when iCloud syncing was enabled.

FIXED Fixed inability to save trust for a self-signed certificate. FIXED Fixed incorrect description for TLS 1.3 cipher suites. FIXED Fixed new messages not appearing when received while Textual is hidden or miniaturized.

FIXED Fixed a lock appearing next to private messages that are not encrypted. FIXED Fixed notifications appearing for the ZNC playback buffer when disabled. 7.0.4 Sep 20, 2017. Changes in 7.0.4 - NEW The style “Sulaco” authored by Ryan Grove has been added to the list of default styles. Changes in 7.0.3 - Dynamic Buffer - The new dynamic buffer feature improves memory use by limiting how many messages are visible in the scrollback.

While scrolled to the bottom, no more than two hundred messages will ever be visible in the scrollback. More messages (up to 30,000) can then be revealed by scrolling upward. By default, Textual will keep a record of 15,000 messages per-channel that are accessible by scrolling upward. This limit can be increased up to 30,000 or lowered to low as 1,000 in the Style section of Preferences. Some custom styles will not work correctly with this feature without modification. To view modifications that need to be made, see this web page: Other Changes - NEW Added a “Current Session” marker to indicate where messages from the previous session end.

NEW Added “Jump to Present” action to Navigation menu which can be activated using the keyboard shortcut Control Command B. This action jumps the scrollback to the most recent message. NEW Added “Jump to Current Session” action to Navigation menu which can be assigned a keyboard shortcut. This action jumps the scrollback to the “Current Session” marker. NEW Added “Only play back messages you missed” preference to the ZNC Bouncer section of Server Properties. This preference, which is enabled by default, controls whether the entire playback buffer or only the parts you missed are played back when the playback module is installed.

CHANGED Connection names are no longer forced uppercase when Textual is running on OS X Yosemite or later. CHANGED Connections now gracefully disconnect when your Mac goes to sleep even if the preference “Perform reconnect when waking from sleep” is disabled. CHANGED Textual will now wait for images to be 100% loaded before they are shown inline with chat. FIXED Fixed scrollbars appearing invisible (plain white). FIXED Fixed a crash that may occur when iCloud syncing was enabled. FIXED Fixed inability to save trust for a self-signed certificate.

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FIXED Fixed incorrect description for TLS 1.3 cipher suites. FIXED Fixed new messages not appearing when received while Textual is hidden or miniaturized. FIXED Fixed a lock appearing next to private messages that are not encrypted. FIXED Fixed notifications appearing for the ZNC playback buffer when disabled. 7.0.3 Sep 18, 2017. Dynamic Buffer - The new dynamic buffer feature improves memory use by limiting how many messages are visible in the scrollback.

While scrolled to the bottom, no more than two hundred messages will ever be visible in the scrollback. More messages (up to 30,000) can then be revealed by scrolling upward. By default, Textual will keep a record of 15,000 messages per-channel that are accessible by scrolling upward. This limit can be increased up to 30,000 or lowered to low as 1,000 in the Style section of Preferences. Some custom styles will not work correctly with this feature without modification. To view modifications that need to be made, see this web page: Additions -. Added a “Current Session” marker to indicate where messages from the previous session end. Added “Jump to Present” action to Navigation menu which can be activated using the keyboard shortcut Control Command B. This action jumps the scrollback to the most recent message. Added “Jump to Current Session” action to Navigation menu which can be assigned a keyboard shortcut.

This action jumps the scrollback to the “Current Session” marker. Added “Only play back messages you missed” preference to the ZNC Bouncer section of Server Properties. This preference, which is enabled by default, controls whether the entire playback buffer or only the parts you missed are played back when the playback module is installed. Changes -. Connection names are no longer forced uppercase when Textual is running on OS X Yosemite or later. Connections now gracefully disconnect when your Mac goes to sleep even if the preference “Perform reconnect when waking from sleep” is disabled. Textual will now wait for images to be 100% loaded before they are shown inline with chat.

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Fixes -. Fixed scrollbars appearing invisible (plain white). Fixed a crash that may occur when iCloud syncing was enabled. Fixed inability to save trust for a self-signed certificate. Fixed incorrect description for TLS 1.3 cipher suites. Fixed new messages not appearing when received while Textual is hidden or miniaturized. Fixed a lock appearing next to private messages that are not encrypted. Fixed notifications appearing for the ZNC playback buffer when disabled. 7.0.2 Aug 28, 2017. Changes in 7.0.2 -Fixes -. Fixed in-app purchase window not correctly recognizing successful orders. Changes in 7.0.1 -Additions -. Added support for sending text formatted with a fixed width (monospace) font. Added support for sending text formatted with any color.

Changes -. CTCP TIME now responds with the date and time formatted as ISO 8601. CTCP USERINFO now replies with the Real name value of your identity. You can change your Real name in the Identity section of Server Properties.

Fixes -. Fixed a crash that may occur when running Textual on OS X Mavericks. Fixed a crash that may occur when clicking the “Frequently Asked Questions” menu item. 7.0.1 Aug 25, 2017. Additions -.

Added support for sending text formatted with a fixed width (monospace) font. Added support for sending text formatted with any color. Changes -.

CTCP TIME now responds with the date and time formatted as ISO 8601. CTCP USERINFO now replies with the Real name value of your identity. You can change your Real name in the Identity section of Server Properties. Fixes -. Fixed a crash that may occur when running Textual on OS X Mavericks. Fixed a crash that may occur when clicking the “Frequently Asked Questions” menu item. 7.0.0 Aug 18, 2017.

User Interface - The entire user interface of Textual, from the smallest window to the largest, has been refined to take full advantage of the dark appearance of macOS Mojave. Additionally, Textual can now be configured to automatically inherit your Mac's appearance to avoid the unnecessary burden of changing it in two places. To do this, change the “Main window appearance” preference in the Interface section of Preferences to “Your Mac's Default”. This is the default for new installations. Existing installations will default to the appearance that was configured before upgrading to macOS Mojave. Modern Sockets - A new way for apps to establish connections, referred to by Textual as “modern sockets”, is available in macOS Mojave. When conditions are right, Textual will use this to connect to IRC.

Modern sockets can't be configured to prefer IPv4. To accommodate users that want this behavior, the “Prefer IPv4” preference has been replaced with a preference to enable only IPv4, only IPv6, or enable both. Users that had the old preference enabled will be automatically migrated to only IPv4.

See the Network Socket section of Server Properties. Scrollback Improvements - An indicator now appears in the scrollback when the day changes.

This indicator can be toggled in the Style section of Preferences. Other Changes -.

ADDED: Added spoiler formatting option which is compatible with other apps. ADDED: Added support for chghost capability. ADDED: Added “:thinking:” to the Smiley Converter addon.

(Thanks Perry). ADDED: Added preference to the Flood Control section of Preferences that can used to add a delay before automatically joining channels. This preference defaults to no delay. ADDED: Added support for color codes 16 through 98.

Click “More” in the color formatting menu to access these colors. ADDED: Added inline image support for speedtest.net results. CHANGED: Tweaked the appearance of the application icon. CHANGED: Errors in Server Properties, Channel Properties, and related windows are now much more descriptive. CHANGED: The command “/cs deop” and other variations no longer auto corrects to “/cs drop”. CHANGED: Simplified some menus to make them easier to navigate.

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CHANGED: Log files are now automatically closed after 20 minutes of inactivity. CHANGED: Log files are now automatically closed if there isn't enough space available for them. You will be alerted of this. CHANGED: File transfers are now automatically stopped if there isn't enough space available at the save location. CHANGED: The “lagcheck” and “mylag” commands now work regardless of whether automatic Client-to-Client Protocol (CTCP) responses are enabled. CHANGED: The channel quick select window is now detached from the main window.

It can be dragged around and will remain on screen until escape is pressed. CHANGED: The following RPLISUPPORT configuration options are now correctly handled: AWAYLEN, EXCEPTS, INVEX, KEYLEN, KICKLEN, STATUSMSG, and TOPICLEN. FIXED: Fixed the “clearall” command not working correctly.

FIXED: Fixed the “conn” command not working correctly. FIXED: Fixed running timers not being stopped when disconnected from IRC. FIXED: Fixed incorrect implementation of RPLREDIR. FIXED: Fixed a crash that may occur when using the “keyx” command. FIXED: Fixed Preferences window reopening at incorrect location on screen.

FIXED: Fixed some alerts not displaying a “Do not show this again” option when they are supposed to. See textualapp.com/changes for history of changes.