Ərk 0.822

Ərk is an open-source IRC client written with Python, Qt, and Twisted. Python 3 is required, as is PyQt5, Twisted, and qt5reactor. If Python 3 is already installed, these can be installed with pip:

pip install pyqt5
pip install Twisted
pip install qt5reactor

To connect to IRC servers using SSL/TLS, install PyOpenSSL:

pip install pyOpenSSL
pip install service_identity

Ərk is functional, and ready for daily use. Most features are complete. Ərk is ready for daily use.

This is the first version of Ərk to officially support Linux. Note: if you want to use Erk on a Debian or Debian variant distro, you must install PyQt and qt5reactor from pip, not from the software repository.