Konversation 1.4 has been released! (December 4th, 2011)

March 24, 2005

The dominant theme in Konversation v1.4 is improvements and feature additions to the user interface, particularly to text views, dialogs, (context) menus and input line commands. However, nearly all areas of the application have seen some amount of improvements in this release, as is to be expected given the relatively long relase cycle: Connection behavior, IRC protocol handling, scripting support, encryption support, user documentation - new features, polish and certainly also bug fixes are to be found in all of them. In summary, we hope you will enjoy the best Konversation yet.

The changelog for this release starts with a (very) brief summary of major highlights relative to v1.3.1, followed by the short list of changes since v1.4-beta1. If you skipped the beta, please do refer to the changelog for v1.4-beta1 as well, which is highly detailed and categorized for your reading pleasure.

A brief selection of highlights since 1.3.1:

• URL and email detection in text views has been rewritten from scratch, greatly improving the handling of various types of URLs and the contexts they might appear in.

• Extensive improvements to IRC formatting code handling, including the return of background color support.
• Extensive, sometimes full rewrites of user interface elements such as nearly all context menus, the URL Catcher and the Warning Dialogs system for a long list of user interface improvements and bug fixes.
• Improved SSL connection behavior.
• Translation support and various other improvements in several bundled scripts.
• Expanded Python scripting support via the introduction of an API support package.
• Support for more IRC numerics.+ Various bugfixes to input line command handling and connection behavior.

Changes from 1.4-beta1 to 1.4:

• Fixed +q Type A channel modes (Freenode’s “quiet bans”) being reported as awarding channel owner privileges.
• Fixed a bug causing the +r channel mode to be incorrectly described as “server reop” in the user interface.
• Improved the description string for the +l channel mode.
• Fixed the parameter handling of the example script in the handbook’s section on scripting.
• Fixed build with KDE Platform versions below 4.6.0. The minimum required version is 4.4.3.
• The ‘/setkey’ command now supports keys that have spaces in them, by treating all parameters after the first as part of the key.
• The ‘Edit Multiline Paste’ editor now puts initial focus on the text field, rather than the Send button.
• Added a sanity check to avoid a crash while processing broken, empty NAMES messages from a server, encountered with the shroudBNC bouncer.