Konversation 1.1rc1 has been released!

July 14, 2008

We are extremely pleased to announce the first release candidate of Konversation’s next major release, v1.1. Konversation 1.1 is a special release for us in multiple ways: It’s our farewell to KDE 3, by way of being the last major release built upon that venerable platform. It’s also our biggest release yet, in terms of the number and magnitude of the changes. The additions and improvements in this release are both user-visible and under the hood. Some of the highlights are rewritten connection handling (robustness and correctness improvements, better support for IRC URLs, bookmarking and more), redone DCC with better UI and Passive/Reverse DCC support, a redone away system with the addition of auto-away support, redone and much more useful remember / marker line support, a new outbound traffic scheduler that is capable of aggressive throttling to avoid flooding while smartly reordering messages to improve latencies, great convenience additions like a “Next Active Tab” shortcut, and much, much more, along with a large number of bugfixes and tweaks to round things out. Please note that while we’re generally quite confident that this release candidate is the most robust and stable version of Konversation published so far, this is not a final release version, and so nasty bugs might still be present (if you find any, please report :-). Translation coverage is also not yet finalized. Changes from 1.0.1 to 1.1rc1: [See above post about the final 1.1 release for the full changelog.]