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title: "Irssi 0.8.17-rc1 Released"
author: "Alexander Færøy"
email: "ahf@irssi.org"
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Irssi 0.8.17-rc1 has been released. The changes includes bug fixes,
documentation cleanup, 256 colour support, truecolour support and various other
enhancements. Check out the NEWS file for all changes and please report bugs
back to us.

The release can be downloaded from
[http://irssi.org/files/irssi-0.8.17-rc1.tar.gz](http://irssi.org/files/irssi-0.8.17-rc1.tar.gz).

This is the first release candidate of Irssi after we moved to Github which
means your feedback is much valued. Bugs can be reported via our [issue
tracker](https://github.com/irssi/irssi/issues).