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title: "Irssi 0.8.18-beta1 Released"
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**Irssi 0.8.18-beta1 has been released.** This beta release awaits your
testing and sports 2281 line insertions, and 1014 deletions, compared
to 1965 insertions and 604 deletions that were on the road to our
0.8.17 release roughly one year ago. Our top contributor TheLemonMan
changed 1937 lines and the up-runner dequis changed 805. There were
also several contributions from the community, see
[AUTHORS](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/irssi/irssi/master/AUTHORS)
for a list of names and our [Github](https://github.com/irssi/irssi)
repository for details.

**New in this release**. CAP SASL supported natively. ZNC "self
messages" shown in the correct window. Line splitting now splits on
space. Bracketed paste markers supported for better paste
detection. Nick is hilighted everywhere in a message. Config parser is
more robust. And as usual many fixes, see the
[NEWS](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/irssi/irssi/0.8.18-beta1/NEWS)
for details.

This pre-release can be downloaded from
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/releases

Thanks to the [Open Build Service](https://build.opensuse.org/) testing packages for some distributions were prepared on [ailin_nemui:irssi-test](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ailin_nemui:/irssi-test/).

We are always looking for contributors so if you find any
[Issues](https://github.com/irssi/irssi/issues) report them, and if
you can fix any of them do not hesitate to send in a
[Patch](https://github.com/irssi/irssi/pulls)!

Remember to check out Irssi's [Facebook fan page](https://facebook.com/irssi),
[LinkedIn group](http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=147751), [Twitter
profile](https://twitter.com/IrssiProject) or pop into `#irssi` on freenode.

The Irssi Team.