konversation 1.2-beta1 has been released!

September 21, 2009

Konversation 1.2-beta1 marks the departure from active feature development for Konversation 1.2 and the entrance into the much-vaunted halls of bug-fixing-until-the-final-release, which we expect to materialize in early October. Until then, you can enjoy what this beta has to offer: HTTP and SOCKS v5 proxy support, further redesign of the DCC Status tab (many of you will be happy to find the minimum window size with the DCC Status tab open much reduced now), the long-awaited return of marker and remember lines and the resurrection of link dragging from the text display widget are of particular note, but the changelog has the details on a variety of other additions, plus the usual assortment of bugfixes, as well.

Changes from 1.2-alpha6 to 1.2-beta1:

• Added a topic widget for Konsole windows and hooked it up to the KPart’s setWindowCaption signal
• Added tooltips to items in the new DCC transfer lists that describe the transfer’s status more verbosely.
• Fixed the OSD stealing focus when it appears on Windows.
• Running DCC file transfers are now properly aborted on application quit.
• Removed the ‘ucs2’ encoding from the encoding list, as it is is not supported on IRC. This also resolves a crash when sending messages after selecting it (however the crashing codepath has been independently made more robust as well).
• Fixed a crash when sending a message containing only spaces.
• Added a “Manage Profiles” button to the information area above the terminal area in Konsole tabs.
• Added SOCKS v5 and HTTP proxy support. Proxy credentials are stored in KWallet.
• Moved the buttons in the DCC Status tab to a toolbar, similar to how things were already laid out in log viewer tabs.
• Redesigned the DCC transfer info panel in the DCC Status tab to have a smaller minimum size. This should mean that less people will see their window size increase when a DCC transfer is initiated, as it reduces the minimum size of the window with the DCC Status tab open.
• Added a “Clear Completed” item to the DCC Status tab’s toolbar.
• Fixed a crash on the processing of illegal lines sent by the server that contain only spaces (as sent by the buggy lidegw lide.cz gateway script).
• Made DCC transfer speed reporting more reliable.
• Fixed sorting the transfer list in the DCC Status tab by its “Started At” column. Previously, sorting by that column would sort alphabetically by the string value of the fields rather than properly by date.
• Fixed the Channel Settings no longer disabling interface elements allowing the manipulation of channel properties when the user lacks the necessary operator privileges in the channel.
• The position of the splitter handle determining the size of the info panel in the DCC Status tab is now saved across application restarts.
• Fixed a crash when changing settings after the “Insert Character” dialog had been used.
• When an attempt to set up a port forward via UPnP fails, an error message stating as much will now be shown in the currently active or last active tab for the associated IRC server connection.
• Made the ‘/amsg’ command work properly again.
• Fixed two close icons (one on the left, one on the right) being shown on tabs when close buttons were enabled and the tabs were in top or bottom position.
• Fixed incorrect colors in the listview version of the tab bar when initially switching to it within a session.
• Fixed a regression vs. the KDE 3 version that caused a failure to correctly parse shortened IPv6 addresses except when using RFC 2732-style bracket notation and explicitly stating a port to connect to.
• Made the display of server address and port number in various connection-related chat view messages more consistent and IPv6-friendly (with the ‘<ip>:<port>’ forward previously used, it could be hard to tell where the IP ended and the port began – now it’s ‘<ip> (port <port>)’).
• Updated the scripting documentation to talk about D-Bus rather than DCOP.
• The initial width of the nickname lists in channel tabs is now more sensible.
• Added back the ability to drag links out of the chat view.
• Resurrected the RTL text support in the chat view.
• Fixed a crash during UPnP discovery when the router doesn’t respond in the expected way.
• Various actions that operate on the active tab (e.g. those found in the “Insert” menu) are now properly disabled when the last tab is closed.
• Fixed a bug with Qt 4.5 where after closing a tab a tab adjacent to it would briefly be activated before subsequently activating the tab that was active before the just closed one (i.e. only noticable when ‘a tab adjacent to the just closed tab’ and ‘the previously active tab’ are not the same).
• Marker lines and the remember line are back.
• Fixed a bug that could cause queue flushing rates to be entered into the configuration that would prevent successfully connecting to Freenode and potentially other IRC networks.