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An Update on Konversation and KDE 4

Many of you have been wondering what our plans with regard to KDE 4 are, and since you most certainly deserve a good answer on that one, here's our little official statement. First, let's get the important bits out of the way: Yes, Konversation will be ported to KDE 4.

That said, what we're currently working on is a last release for KDE 3.5, Konversation 1.1. Why work on KDE 3 at this stage? There are a number of reasons:

• As the current release cycle on the KDE 3 codebase is nearing its end, we feel it's the right call to deliver the significant improvements that have been made to you now, rather than make you wait longer for the additional time we'd need to finish the KDE 4 port.
• 2008 will see a number of significant distribution releases which will still base their default desktop on KDE 3.5, such as Kubuntu 8.04 ("Hardy Heron"). We feel that the mature KDE 3 codebase in the form of the updated and improved Konversation 1.1 will be a perfect fit for these mature, reliable KDE 3.5 desktops.
• We think that a KDE 3-based version of Konversation will provide the most value to you in this timeframe, as implementing a version of Konversation that achieves feature parity with Konversation 1.0.1 (or 1.1) is not possible on top of KDE 4.0. As it stands, KDE 4.0 will lack a secure socket API (enabling SSL support integrated with KDE's certificate management) and an equivalent of the API we currently use to provide integration with KAddressBook. Both will materialize in due time, but are not available to us now.

What's the schedule then, you ask? We currently expect to close the book on Konversation 1.1 in the near future, and deliver it to you lovingly shrink-wrapped in a fetching tarball soon after. Meanwhile, preliminary work on the KDE 4 port has started in the form of prototyping a while ago, and it will switch into high gears when Konversation 1.1 goes into string freeze (the period in which the feature complete codebase undergoes final localization updates for the release).

Assorted news

• The developers of pisg, the popular IRC log analysis and statistics generator toolkit written in Perl, have recently added support for Konversation's log file format. Available in their CVS repository it is destined for wider circulation as part of their next release. Thanks to Torbjörn Svensson of the pisg team!
• Starting with version 0.2.15, the desktop search application Beagle (KDE frontends here, here and here) features a plugin capable of extracting and indexing conversations from Konversation's log files. Thanks to Debajyoti Bera of the Beagle team for writing it!
• And finally, Kubuntu users are urged to upgrade to the upcoming Kubuntu release 7.04 Feisty Fawn, scheduled for April of this year, at their earliest convenience, due to bugs in the Konversation packaging for Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft that break a number of menu structures and application behaviors. The same may apply to some Kubuntu-derived distributions.

Konversation 1.0.1 has been released!

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Konversation 1.0.1, a maintenance release featuring notable improvements for users of right-to-left languages (including new Arabic and Hebrew translations), further refinement of the user interface and application functionality, and fixes for minor defects found in the previous release.

Changes in 1.0.1:

• A bug that caused left-to-right text contained in lines determined to be right-to-left text to appear reversed has been fixed.
• Whether a line is treated as right-to-left vs. left-to-right text is now determined by the amount of each type of character in the line, improving the user experience in chats involving bi-directional text considerably.
• The "Edit Network" dialog has been refined for clarity and ease of use.
• A warning dialog to prevent accidentally quitting Konversation has been added.
• The Auto Replace list can now be sorted.
• The '/media' script command now sports improved player recognition, enhanced and easier configurability, the ability to distinguish between audio and video media as well as newly added support for kdetv. New '/audio' and '/video' command aliases have been added to expose these new abilities.
• The lower boundary of the default DCC port range has been raised from 1025 to 1026 to avoid conflicts with the commonly blocked Windows RPC port 1025.
• Dismissing an OSD notification by clicking on it will now also cancel the systray notification flash.
• A new configuration file option [OSD]OSDCheckDesktopLock has been added, allowing to manually disable the screensaver check in non-KDE environments that do not support it, causing the OSD not to be displayed.
• A bug that could lead to the "Switch to" sub-menu in the context menus of tabs not to be updated properly upon switching tabs has been fixed.
• A bug that caused the 'irc setBack' DCOP call not to function has been fixed.
• A bug that caused ampersands in the names of tabs not to be displayed and an immediately following character to be used as keyboard accelerator has been fixed.
• A bug that caused ignoring nicknames with '[' or ']' characters in them to fail has been fixed.
• Command aliases containing regular expression syntax can no longer cause built-in commands not to function.
• A bug that caused the Konversation irc:// protocol handler not to function
has been fixed. Its compatibility with systems that do not use the GNU bash shell as default shell has been improved.
• A notable number of code quality improvements suggested by KDEs automated quality control service EBN have been implemented.

Konversation 1.0 has been released!

We are extremely pleased to announce the immediate availability of Konversation 1.0, a significant milestone in the lifetime of the Konversation project. This release includes major new functionality as well as a large amount of improvements to existing functionality, with an emphasis on user interface polish and overall reliability. Notable new features include a vertical treelist of tabs as an alternative to the traditional tab bar, auto-replacement of words in incoming and outgoing messages, an improved Channel Settings dialog now featuring a ban list, an optional expanding input box and many improvements to both DCC file transfers and DCC chats. Enjoy!

Changes in 1.0:

User Interface

• It is now possible to place the tabs on the left side of the application window. This has been implemented as a treelist of tabs. The treelist supports all of the cosmetic and interactive properties of the original horizontal tab bar, including colored notifications, LED icons, (hover) close buttons with delayed activation, reordering, drag'n'drop and mouse wheel cruising. And a few tricks of its own.
• Connection status tabs now feature specific context menu entries to disconnect and reconnect, as well as to join a channel on that connection.
• The automatic resizing of tabs in the tab bar first implemented in version 0.19 is now optional.
• The grouping behavior of Channel List and Raw Log tabs in the tab bar has been improved.
• Disabling notification for a tab will now unset the active notification.
• The enabled/disabled state of the notifications for connection status tabs will now be remembered across sessions for configured networks.
• The speed of switching tabs in quick succession with the auto-spellchecking preference enabled has been improved.
• Using custom fonts in the user interface is now optional. The font used by the tab bar is now configurable.
• Events in the connection status tabs are now logged into separate logfiles.
• The Channel Settings dialog now includes a Ban List tab that allows viewing, adding and removing bans in a channel. The dialog can now be opened from the menu bar and chat window context menu in addition to the button in the topic area.
• Mode and topic handling in the Channel Settings dialog and the channel mode buttons have been overhauled to make them more robust and reliable.
• The number of Quick Buttons to show below the nickname list in channel tabs is now configurable. Additional buttons may be added or existing buttons removed.
• Konversation now supports auto-replacing words in incoming and outgoing messages. Regular expressions are supported. The auto-replace configuration can be found in the preferences dialog. The static Wiki link feature found in older versions has been retired in favor of an auto-replace rule.
• The search bar has been redesigned to provide a better user experience.
• The "Find Next" action will now open the search bar when there is no active search, matching the behavior of Konqueror and other KDE applications.
• The sorting of the nick completion list has been improved to put the last active user for a given completion prefix at the beginning of the list.
• The tab completion of the user's own nickname has been reenabled.
• The nick completion feature has been significantly cleaned up and made more reliable. A bug that could lead to an application crash during nick completion has been fixed.
• An option to expand the vertical size of the input box automatically when the text entered grows beyond the length of a single line has been added.
• The behavior of the input box on pasting text including leading or trailing newline characters has been improved never to cause lines being sent without user acknowledgement.
• The input box of connection status, channel and query tabs will now be disabled and the nickname list of channel tabs cleared when the respective server connection is closed.
• Konversation can now optionally insert a remember line whenever a tab is hidden, either by switching to a different tab or minimizing the window.
• Multiple consecutive remember lines will no longer be inserted.
• Remember lines can now also be inserted into the chat windows of connection status and DCC Chat tabs.
• The Colored Nicknames feature will now always assign the same color to the same nickname.
• The number of backlog lines to show in the chat window is now configurable.
• The recognition of URLs in the chat window has been improved to cope better with URLs containing or being surrounded by parenthesis and to exclude trailing dots and commas.
• Channel links following mode characters or surrounded by interpunctuation are now properly recognized in the chat window.
• The context menus for URLs and channel links in the topic area now match the context menus in the chat window.
• Multiple ignore or unignore actions ordered at the same time will no longer be shown on separate lines in the chat window.
• The nickname context menus in the chat window, topic are and the nickname list will now show "Ignore", "Unignore" and "Add to Watched Nicknames" entries as applicable.
• A bug that could lead to the chat window nickname context menu actions ceasing to function after the targeted user left the channel has been fixed.
• The Server List dialog now allows connecting to a specific server in a network even when a connection to that network has been previously established. If that connection is active, a dialog box will verify whether to disconnect from the current server and connect to the chosen one instead, otherwise the connection will simply be reestablished using the newly chosen server.
• The Quick Connect feature will now properly warn when the identity to be used in the connection attempt is not set up properly.
• The appearance and behavior of the warning about an incorrectly set-up identity have been improved. A prior connection attempt will now be automatically resumed after the identity settings have been corrected.
• Many of the pages in the Konversation preferences dialog have been redesigned and rewritten for improved consistency, reliability and clarity. The general layout of the dialog has been improved as well.
• The naming of certain actions in the Configure Shortcuts dialog has been improved to make them easier to recognize outside of their normal context in the application interface.
• Numerous improvements to keyboard navigation have been made.
• The nickname list now longer allows drag'n'drop of channel or user links from the chat window onto list entries, as a DCC transfer of those data sources cannot succeed.
• The preference to show or hide the real names of users in the nickname list will now be applied immediately.
• The columns of the nickname list will no longer resize erratically when the preferences to show or hide real names and hostmasks are changed at runtime.
• A bug that could lead to nicknames being sent as messages when double-clicking a selection of multiple nicknames in the nickname list has been fixed.
• The placement of actions in the application menus has been improved.
• The shown/hidden state of the application menubar will now be remembered across sessions. When the menubar is hidden, a menu action to show it again will now be added to the chat window context menu.
• The "Close All Open Queries" menu action is now be disabled properly when there are no open queries.
• A bug that could lead to the "Close All Open Queries" menu action failing to properly close all open queries has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to an application crash when closing the tab after choosing to ignore someone in a query has been fixed.
• The "Hide Nicklist" menu action will now be disabled properly when the tab shown does not have a nickname list has been fixed.
• The actions in the "Insert" menu will now be disabled properly when the current tab does not support them.
• The default double-click action in the "Watched Nicks Online" tab is now to open a query to the respective contact.
• The sorting in the Watched Nicks Online tab has been improved: Offline users are now always sorted at the bottom.
• Several bugs in the "Watched Nicknames Online" tab that could lead to application crashes have been fixed.
• Several errors in the chat window status messages produced by the Watched Nicks Online system have been corrected.
• A bug that could lead the the columns in the "Watched Nicks Online" list resizing erratically has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to the status bar not being cleared properly when the last tab was closed or the application window lost focus after a link was launched from the chat window has been fixed.
• The display of temporary and static info texts in the status bar has been improved not to interfere with each other and provide more useful information. Also, the status bar lag info section is now updated more consistently to avoid jumping around of the other status bar sections.
• A bug that could lead to a wrong nickname count being shown in the status bar of channel tabs has been fixed.
• Repeated triggering of the "Open URL Catcher" menu action will now properly show and hide the URL Catcher tab.
• The warning about pasting text with multiple lines can now be properly disabled and reenabled from the Warning Dialogs preferences page.
• A bug that could lead to IRC bookmarks showing up as actions in the Configure Shortcuts dialog has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to changes of the global KDE icon set not being applied to the tab bar close buttons immediately has been fixed.
• A bug that caused the application window to change its horizontal size after opening a Query to a user with a very long hostmask has been fixed. The DCC Chat and query tabs now use the same heading style as channel tabs.
• A bug that could lead to the topic and nickname list areas not keeping their size properly across tab switches has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to certain types of KNotify event notifications not being executed properly when the system tray icon was enabled has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to ampersands in network names being shown as underscores in the menu under certain circumstances has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to an application crash when trying to access non-existing tabs via the Alt+number keyboard shortcuts has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to the toolbar being hidden after it was edited has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to the chat window context menu not being cancelled properly when clicking outside of it has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to heavy disk seeking when the splitters separating the topic area and the nickname list from the chat window were moved has been fixed.
• The option to only show the application in the system tray at all times has been retired in favor of the standard KDE mechanic of minimizing into the system tray.

Commands

• The 'Now Playing' script invoked via the /media command alias now features support for XMMS and KSCD as well as improved support for untagged media files playing in Amarok. Support for non-ASCII encodings in file names and meta tags has been improved as well.
• New "/hop" and "/dehop" commands to grant or remove half-op status from a user have been added.
• A new "/devoice" command has been added.
• A new "/kickban" command to ban and immediately kick a user has been added. It supports the same parameters as the "/ban" command plus an additional "kickban reason" parameter.
• Commands to grant or remove status for users will now be applied to the user's own nickname when no nickname parameter is given.
• The "/unignore" command now supports the same simple nickname-only format as the "/ignore" command.
• If given no parameter, the "/away" command will now set the away state with the default away message. The "/back" and "/unaway" commands can be used to unset the away state.
• You may now use "%nick" as a placeholder for your own nickname in the auto- connect commands for a network.
• A bug that could lead to the auto-connect commands for a network not being executed correctly has been fixed.

DCC

• DCC file transfers now support file names containing spaces on send, receive and resume. The automatic replacement of spaces with underscores in file names can now be optionally disabled in the DCC preferences.
• File names are no longer being needlessly lower-cased during DCC transfers.
• The DCC file transfer and DCC Chat info messages shown in the chat window have been significantly improved to provide more useful information while being less excessively verbose.
• DCC Chats will now be logged properly.
• It is now possible to select multiple files in the DCC Status tab.
• The default size of the buffer used in DCC transfers has been increased to 8192kb for improved DCC performance.
• The DCC Status tab will no longer show a speed of '?' for completed, failed or aborted transfers.
• Bugs that could lead to the IP used for DCC transfers not being retrieved from the server correctly upon reconnect or in general on certain servers have been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to the progress bar of a transfer in the DCC Status tab being rendered at a wrong position has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to Konversation's CPU usage spiking to 100% after a DCC Chat was closed from the remote side has been fixed.
• Several bugs that could lead to application crashes in DCC Chat tabs after the server connection from which the DCC Chat originated was closed have been fixed.

Technology

• Konversation will now properly split up very long lines into multiple messages by calculating the length of the message preamble and the number of bytes of the text payload. Encodings that use multiple or variable numbers of bytes per character are accounted for.
• The Disconnect and Reconnect menu actions and the respective input box commands have been rewritten for increased reliability. Their state will now be updated properly, and they will quit the IRC server in the correct manner.
• A previous away state will now be recreated upon reconnection to a server.
• The Quick Connect feature will now no longer join the auto-join channels of the configured network that the quick connect server was recognized as being a part of.
• The "Konversation" and "KonvDCOPIdentity" DCOP objects have been renamed to "irc" and "identity", respectively. Several bugs in the DCOP API have been fixed, and deprecated interfaces removed.
• Processing of the user lists of newly joined channels has been rewritten to fix several bugs, including improved compatibility with the Bip IRC proxy and other servers.
• The lag calculation and timeout handling code has been rewritten for improved reliability and performance.
• Recognition of the half-op user status has been improved.
• The detection of text being typed into the input box to prevent focussing new tabs at inconvenient times has been improved to work correctly with non-ASCII characters.
• The handling of channel user limits in the Channel Settings dialog is now more reliable.
• Support for mode flags encountered on UnrealIRCD servers has been improved.
• Support for RPL_DATASTR on UnrealIRCD servers has been improved.
• A bug that could lead to the mode flags displayed for users not being updated properly after they were kicked from a channel has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to iterating over a configured network's servers failing after a connection failure has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to Konversation connecting to the wrong server in a network when choosing to connect to a specific server from the Server List dialog has been fixed.
• A dialog will now ask the user for an additional nickname when all nicknames configured in the identity where tried unsuccessfully during a connection attempt. This replaces the previous behavior of repeatedly appending underscores to the last nickname, which eventually ran into the nickname length limit on the server.
• A bug that could lead to unnecessary nick changes immediately after connecting to a server has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to Konversation trying to auto-identify multiple times upon connect on certain servers has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to Konversation not picking up on users leaving a channel without providing a part or quit message on UnrealIRCD servers has been fixed.
• Changes to the list of auto-join channels for a network will now be applied immediately.
• The auto-reconnect preference will now be properly applied at runtime.
• Konversation will no longer enable IDENTIFY-MSG mode on servers that support it, but continues to be able to process messages with IDENTIFY-MSG prefixes in case an involved IRC proxy chose to enable IDENTIFY-MSG mode.
• The broken default for the Custom Web Browser preference has been fixed.
• Konversation will no longer allow Konsole tabs to be opened in KDE environments in which the use of terminals is prohibited by the KIOSK framework.
• A bug that could lead to an application crash when a Konsole tab was closed from the Konsole component's context menu has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to an application crash when a channel was joined while the application window was hidden has been fixed.

Konversation 0.19 has been released!

We are extremely pleased to announce the immediate release of Konversation 0.19. The focus of this release is on extending and improving upon established functionality. Most notable in this regard are significantly improved management of IRC networks and servers all across the application, a redesigned tab bar and better support for common IRC commands. A long list of further additions and improvements has us confident of this being the best version of Konversation yet. Enjoy!

Changes in 0.19:

User Interface

• The Server List dialog has been rewritten to allow direct manipulation of a network's servers and features more intelligent sorting behavior. Reordering networks via drag and drop is now possible. A behavioral audit of all actions in the dialog resulted in numerous improvements.
• A redesigned tab bar sports highly configurable text- and LED icon-based notifications as well as more intelligent scaling behavior under space-critical conditions.
• Tabs are now intelligently grouped around their respective connection status tab.
• Status tab labels now display the user-configured network name where appropriate.
• The Find Text dialog has been replaced by a search bar that no longer interrupts your workflow.
• Channel links in the chat area now feature a context menu for quick access to common actions.
• Usage of the status bar has been extended to show context-relevant information as the cursor passes over various interface elements. The lag information segment is now only shown where appropriate.
• A channel's topic can now be cleared by setting an empty text in the Channel Options dialog.
• The Channel Options dialog has been redesigned to allow editing the current topic while browsing a channel's topic history.
• The Watched Nicknames interface has been fully integrated with network management.
• Pressing the Arrow Down key in the input line now preserves any input entered by adding it to the history.
• Commands may now be sent as regular messages by typing Ctrl+Enter.
• The multi-line paste editor window now highlights whitespace characters and prepends the existing content of the input line.
• The Colored Nicknames feature has been improved to better handle nickname changes and immediately apply any changes to the color palette.
• Some previously not configurable notification events have been made configurable.
• Users leaving a server will now be announced in any query you have open with them.
• Query tab labels will now update when a user you have a query open with changes his/her name.
• The DCC file transfer dialogs have seen a number of cosmetic improvements. Among other things, in the event of a file being renamed on save, the local file name is now shown across the application.
• Various status and error messages have been rewritten for improved consistency and clarity.
• The KDE standard text font will now be correctly set as initial default chat font.
• It is now possible to skip displaying a server's MOTD on connect.
• If the application is set to display a server's MOTD in a fixed-width font and the previously configured default chat font is already a fixed-width font, the chat font will now be used rather than the global KDE default fixed-width font.
• The state of the automatic spell checking functionality is now remembered across sessions and set for all tabs.
• Networks no longer lose their channel history when their settings are changed.
• The Server List dialog will no longer close when a connection attempt fails due to the identity not being set up correctly.
• After changing your nickname using the optional drop-down menu to the left of the input line, focus will now be returned to the input line.
• The configuration dialog has been rewritten to correctly update the button state of its primary actions and improve consistency with the KDE style guide.
• The vertical and horizontal splitters in channel tabs now behave better when the application window is resized and correctly retain their positions across sessions.
• The OSD preview in the OSD settings page is now always shown correctly.
• The OSD will no longer be shown when the desktop is locked.
• A bug that prevented copying text from the chat area under certain circumstances has been fixed.
• Keyboard search in the channel nickname list has been fixed.
• A number of issues affecting nickname context menus in the chat area have been fixed.
• A bug leading to a wrong operator count in the status bar has been fixed.
• It is no longer possible to add nameless networks or hostless servers in the responsible management dialogs.
• Bugs that led to parts of the interface not reacting to KDE color scheme changes have been fixed.
• The status bar now correctly reacts to KDE font size changes.
• A bug that led to the application window resizing on overly long status bar contents has been fixed.
• A bug that led to multiple remember lines being inserted into the frontmost tab when away mode was activated has been fixed.
• A bug that led to wrong link addresses being opened from the chat area has been fixed.
• Bugs that led to wrong URLs being produced by dragging a link from the chat area to the input line have been fixed.
• Channel names are now better recognized as such by the chat area.

Bookmarking

• Bookmark titles now default to the channel name.
• Bookmarks now store the network name rather than the server address where available.
• Bookmarks now support IPv6 addresses.

Commands

• The '/server' command now recognizes a greater variety of address notations including network names.
• The '/names' command now always succeeds in returning the user list of a channel.
• The '/topic' command now always succeeds in returning the topic of a channel.
• A '/dns' command has been added that facilitates resolving the host name of a user on the server as well as generic host names. Reverse resolve is supported on KDE 3.5.1+.
• An '/unignore' command has been added.
• A '/disconnect' command has been added.
• A '/reconnect' command has been added that disconnects and then reconnects the respective server.
• A '/setkey' command has been added to set the Blowfish encryption/decryption key for the respective context.
• The '/list' command now correctly opens the Channel List tab.
• A bug in parsing the arguments of the '/join' command has been fixed.
• Usage information and error reporting for various commands has been rewritten for improved consistency and clarity.
• A bug that led to a 'clear' command being sent to the server when using the '/clear' command to clear the contents of a query tab has been fixed.

Miscellaneous

• The 'media' script has been rewritten and now features improved compatibility with common character sets, greatly enhanced support for the Kaffeine media player and newly added support for the Yammi media player.
• The 'sysinfo' script has been rewritten to produce more concise output and better handle a variety of storage scenarios.
• The convenience feature expanding [[term]] into a Wikipedia link is now localizable and generates a link that performs an intelligent lookup for the term in the Wikipedia rather than assume a correct direct link.

Technology

• Konversation now depends on KDE 3.4+.
• The preferences storage system has been rewritten to facilitate easier maintenance and faster development in future release cycles.
• Localized support for a long list of IRC protocol primitives has been added.
• The application will now correctly iterate over a network's servers on successive failed connection attempts.
• When the '/server' command or the Quick Connect dialog is used to connect to a server that has previously been added to a network in the Server List dialog, it will be recognized as being part of the network and the respective identity settings will be applied.
• The automated reply to a highlight event can now reference the groups of the matched pattern by the identifiers %1-%9 and the entire match by the identifier %0.
• The CABAP IDENTIFY-MSG technology is now supported.
• Compatibility with the Unreal IRC server has been improved.
• Initial support for Blowfish encryption (compatible with mIRCryption and FiSH) has been added. Note that Diffie-Hellman key exchange (DHX) is not yet supported.
• The Watched Nicknames reporting has been made more reliable.
• Socket handling in the DCC file transfer feature has been improved.
• Alpha-blending of icons in the channel nickname list has been fixed.
• Support for the iso-2022-jp encoding has been enhanced.
• The custom web browser feature will now automatically append the URL as a parameter to the specified command when the %u identifier is missing.
• Channel modes are now correctly cleared and updated in the internal representation on rejoin.
• A bug that led to an infinite loop during a connection attempt when all nicknames configured in the identity were in use has been fixed.
• A bug that could lead to a crash when opening the log file for a closed connection has been fixed.

Konversation 0.18 has been released!

Changes in 0.18:

• All nicks were blue when colored nicks are disabled with some setups
• /cycle now works as expected
• /gauge script was not working correctly when given an argument greater than 100
• /mail script has been added
• Button to invoke Regular Expression Editor (if installed) in Settings -> Highlight.
• Complete command line argument system for connection
• An option to disable clickable nicks. Add ClickableNicks=false to konversationrc to disable it.
• Fixed a big memory leak in message processing
• Nicklist slider now correctly resizes in all channels when it's resized and correctly restores on startup
• [[foo]] is now a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/foo

Konversation 0.17 has been released!

Changes in 0.17:

• Add an option to hide realnames in nicklist
• Show away users as disabled ala Xchat
• Remove sort by away status
• Fix whois replies for normal users on safe channels ( IRCNet alike )
• Fix whois replies from ircd-hybrid ( Efnet alike )
• Better handling of quiet bans ( especially Freenode )
• Enable clickable nicks even if colored nicks are off
• Per identity pre-shell command support with a GUI
• Bookmarking support
• Detect Japanese encoding correctly while trying to auto-detect Unicode
• Fix Logging preferences not showing with French translation

Konversation 0.16 has been released!

Changes in 0.16:

• Dropping URLs onto nick on nicklist or onto query initiates DCC send
• You can now do SSL connections from Quick Connect Dialog
• Nicklist Icon Themes
• New topic widget
• Added a channel dialog
• Made the nickname box optional
• Fix DCC resume when its set to auto-accept
• Calculate DCC CPS more accurately
• Colored nicks support
• Added dcop functions to set away and added alt+a shortcut to toggle away
• Clicking nicks in channel text will now open a query and similarly, clicking #foo will now join channel #foo
• Nicks in channel view now have a context menu as in nicklistview
• Tab at begining of line inserts last completed nick
• A media script added to replace amarok,juk,noatun,kaffeine scripts.Use /media instead of using /amarok,/juk etc.
• Links can now be dragged & dropped from channels
• Midde clicking urls now opens them in new tab in konqueror ( if konqueror is used for links )
• Improved unicode detection
• Fix unicode detection for strings containing color markup
• /omsg,/onotice support
• Added an option to use an IPv4 interface for IPv6 dcc sends
• New /google script added to search Google using Google SOAP api
• Redesigned settings page
• A new application icon
• Lots of optimizations all around