konversation 1.2 has been released!

October 09, 2009

Konversation 1.2 is the first release of Konversation for the KDE 4 application platform and desktop environment. In addition to preserving the full functionality of the KDE 3 version, this release offers a significant amount of new features and improvements to the user interface, performance, memory usage, energy efficiency, correctness and stability. Sum total, the changelog of all development releases since Konversation 1.1 and of this final release combined once again make for the longest changelog in Konversation’s release history.

Some of the highlights compared to Konversation 1.1 include support for SOCKS v5 and HTTP proxies, a redesigned DCC file transfer user interface (and much improved DCC code under the hood with several new features, such as support for IPv6 and DCC REJECT), support for UPnP for NAT traversal, rewritten and much improved support for Blowfish encryption (now supporting DH1080 key exchange, for example), a significantly better performing channel list, a rewrite of the channel nickname lists for better performance and improved battery-friendlyness, a new channel join invitation user interface, an improved auto-replace feature, expanded media player support and many improvements to the IRC protocol implementation.

Enjoy!

Changes from 1.2-rc1 to 1.2:

• When dragging a link from the chat text view, the drag object will now contain a plain text version in addition to the URL version. This allows dragging a link to places that don’t accept URL drops, such as Konsole, the Konqueror address bar or Konversation’s own input line.