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Current stable/release version: BitlBee 1.2.1, released 2008-06-24
Current testing/development version: BitlBee 1.1.1dev, released 2007-11-24
Some people maintain BitlBee packages for other systems. They're not maintained by us, so they might be out of date. Here are links to the ones we know:
- Many Linux distributions (including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE) have BitlBee packages already. Just use apt-get, yast or whatever it is on your distro of choice.
- RPM packages for Fedora Core are in the Fedora Extras repository.
- SuSE packages by Pascal Bleser. (BitlBee RPM's for SuSE are also available on your installation media, for SuSE 9.1 and higher!)
- Mandriva packages by Eskild Hustvedt: The latest release can always be found in the unstable cooker branch. Backports to the latest stable Mandriva release can be found at http://zarb.org/~zerodogg/rpm/
- BackPorts.Org has backports of BitlBee for older Debian releases.
- Slackware packages (pretty old version though) by Matto Fransen.
- Fedora/RedHat packages on Dag Wieers' apt-rpm repository.
- Red Hat 9/Fedora Core 4 RPM's by Tony Perrie, also some packages of patches BitlBee versions. (Instructions to build them yourself also available.)
- Amiga package by Rachael.
- Ports should be available for OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD now. They're all in the official ports trees, so I don't host them here.
- Windows binaries. Not supported by us, known not to be very stable (but they're getting better!). You can use a native port or a CygWin port. Both versions are mirrored on our site.
For the brave and curious
We have a bzr repository which holds the current development tree (plus some other branches).
Some random patches sent to us can be found in the patch archive. They're not all tested by us, use them at your own risk. Most of them will be imported into the standard source tree, sooner or later.
