konversation 1.7.3 released!

November 11, 2017

While the Konversation team is currently hard at work on the upcoming major version 2.0 (which will debut an all-new UI and Matrix support, and pave the way for mobile versions - here and here, we continue to support users of the stable version 1.7 with maintenance releases. Konversation v1.7.3 re-enables the lost channel mode buttons, adds minor UI refinements and includes fixes for several annoyances and crashes. Most notable in this regard are fixed color scheme handling for the treelist version of the tab bar, and crash fixes in IRC v3 extended-join and IRC color formatting code parsing.

Changes from Konversation 1.7.2 to 1.7.3:

• Added a copy action to the context menu of nicknames in the chat text view.
• Re-enabled channel mode buttons.
• Reduced emission of Unicode directional control characters in the chat text view. Unnecessary control characters could sometimes cause problems with copying text from Konversation and pasting it into terminal applications, confusing them.
• Fixed handling of nick and channel prefix characters potentially using the same set of symbols.
• Removed redundant escaping of angle brackets in GECOS (“realname”) field.
• The nickname combobox will no longer change the nickname to the current value whenvever it loses focus.
• Fixed color scheme handling in the treelist version on the tab bar, fixing an issue where the background and text color of the selected item would sometimes be the same, rendering the item unreadable.
• Fixed handling of IRC URLs for channels starting with more than one #, addressing a percent-encoding problem with bookmarks of them.
• Fixed custom chat text view font family reverting to system default font family upon using the increase/decrease font size actions.
• Fixed chat text view font size adjusted via the increase/decrease font size actions reverting to configuration default when OK’ing the config dialog.
• Fixed incorrect checkbox states in the Channel Invite dialog.
• Fixed a crash in IRC v3 extended-join parsing.
• Fixed a crash in parsing IRC color formatting codes.
• Fixed a minor memory leak in the Join Channel dialog code.
• Removed unnecessary nickname list debug message sent as warning.