**Vichan has next to no active development<!--, however you can still pay for support. Basic support costs $40/hr, and is only payable in BTC. New features depend on what you want. Email COPYPASTE <AT> KITTENS <DOT> PH if you're interested—Vichan forks such as OpenIB are included in this offer-->.**
In November 2017, Marcin Łabanowski (@czaks) retired as maintainer for personal reasons. His retirement may be temporary, but in his absence, Fredrick Brennan (@ctrlcctrlv), co-maintainer since 2013, and #3 in terms of number of commits, took his place as interim sole maintianer and point of contact. (See [issue #266](https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/issues/266))
*Security problems can be reported to Fredrick Brennan at his email: COPYPASTE \<AT\> KITTENS \<DOT\> PH.*
Vichan is still accepting patches, but there is at the moment no active development besides fixing security problems and other serious bugs as they emerge. Given the lack of active development, we strongly urge you to consider other imageboard packages. It is the opinion of the vichan development team that no new vichan imageboards should be deployed, and other imageboard packages used instead.
vichan makes use of [wPaint](https://github.com/websanova/wPaint) for oekaki. After you pull the repository, however, you will need to download wPaint separately using git's `submodule` feature. Use the following commands: