Weechat
Weechat is an open-source, self-hosted app in the IRC & XMPP category, licensed GPL-3.0 and written mainly in C. It ships a Docker image. It has 3,413 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 21, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 3,413
- Forks
- 363
- Open issues
- 351
- Commits, last 12 months
- 901
- Last commit
- Oct 21, 2026
- Latest release
- v4.10.1Sep 5, 2026
- Created
- Mar 3, 2014
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 21, 2026, 901 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 21, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 901 |
| Latest release | v4.10.1 (Sep 5, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 89 |
| Open issues | 351 |
| Open pull requests | 35 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Mar 3, 2014 |
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About Weechat
Fast, light and extensible chat client.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/weechat/weechat.
Topics
- chat
- irc
- c
- extensible
- scripting
- python
- perl
- ruby
- lua
- tcl
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Is Weechat free and open source?
Yes. Weechat is open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Weechat with Docker?
Yes. Weechat provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Weechat?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Weechat include ejabberd, The Lounge and Ergo.
Is Weechat actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Weechat was on Oct 21, 2026 with 901 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v4.10.1, published Sep 5, 2026. It had 351 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.