diff --git a/net/xchat/Makefile b/net/xchat/Makefile
index f12dcdb0dbd..4f25ff11232 100644
--- a/net/xchat/Makefile
+++ b/net/xchat/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.5 1999/07/26 23:35:14 brad Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.6 1999/08/03 03:48:31 brad Exp $
 # $FreeBSD: Makefile,v 1.12 1999/06/08 23:41:54 steve Exp $
 
-DISTNAME=	xchat-1.1.5
+DISTNAME=	xchat-1.1.6
 CATEGORIES=	x11
 MASTER_SITES=	http://xchat.org/files/beta/ \
 		http://xchat.linuxpower.org/files/beta/
diff --git a/net/xchat/files/md5 b/net/xchat/files/md5
index ffbcc9b1b87..b0bc654fd93 100644
--- a/net/xchat/files/md5
+++ b/net/xchat/files/md5
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-MD5 (xchat-1.1.5.tar.bz2) = aa5cb980de918e1ec2f93700d3f12e0d
-RMD160 (xchat-1.1.5.tar.bz2) = bd2da695c8412757296e4b5f80a8440f925fa6d1
-SHA1 (xchat-1.1.5.tar.bz2) = c8f2226b38837d19bb968b999a424a317fabebfd
+MD5 (xchat-1.1.6.tar.bz2) = b0adbbdfe47d72335146db9fb65d3b23
+RMD160 (xchat-1.1.6.tar.bz2) = e3a52cffb52415c5f597d4474bda0abe86b6fb7d
+SHA1 (xchat-1.1.6.tar.bz2) = 9247a91d8f8b3c533a06a8a657eef8d3dd9111d3
diff --git a/net/xchat/patches/patch-ab b/net/xchat/patches/patch-ab
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..da1d364b984
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/xchat/patches/patch-ab
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- src/plugin.c.orig	Mon Aug  2 23:11:18 1999
++++ src/plugin.c	Mon Aug  2 23:11:27 1999
+@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
+    int (*module_init) (int version, struct module * mod,
+                struct session * sess);
+ 
+-   handle = dlopen (name, RTLD_NOW);
++   handle = dlopen (name, RTLD_LAZY);
+ 
+    if (handle == NULL)
+ #ifdef HAVE_DLERROR