Weechat Security Issues
At the start of the week my Weechat CLI Irc client segfaulted for the first time in the last year of using it. I reconnected to rejoin #weechat on freenode. I pinged FlashCode (The main dev of Weechat) and asked him if he wanted my bug report he replied It is a known issue and he was busy patching Weechat 0.2.6 (The current version in ubuntu[Gutsy,hardy,Itrepid,Januty]) later that day he released 0.2.6.1.
Debian has released a security update patch for this package. I filed this as a bug on launchpad but no response as of yet.
Since then people have been joining channels just to try crash Weechat more and more and my weechat continued to segfault. I had two choices. 1) Download and compile the patch 2) Install the devel version. I chose to go with the devel version! 
The new devel version is pretty much a stable release with minor features missing here and there but the application isn’t buggy at all. The new version is under active development by FlashCode. The new almost complete re-write of weechat boasts a much fuller API for scripts and plugins. Script such as weetris(Inline tetris game) would never have been possible on the older version. I have been using for the last few hours with no issues. The TUI is much smoother and easier to use .
Missing scripts 
1) urlgrap.py Allows user to choose to open the last url in their browser i.e. /url 1
2) weenotify.py Uses libnotify to alert a user of private messages or highlights in any channel.
Screen shots and install instructions are located here hopefully there will be a patch released for 0.2.6 but either way I am staying on the Dev version.
Or you could use irssi.
/hides
No ways have you seen the new devel version of weechat? It has built in tetris and mastermind! Talk about being productive at work.
/me recompiles todays patches.
[...] have been using the devel version of weechat since the security issue was [...]
[...] have been using the devel version of Weechat since about march 2009 because of a exploit in 0.2.6 (Which has been fixed in the repo’s from [...]