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23.03.2008: Release 3.4.0 "Virgo"
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Here we go with another release :)
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This one took a very long time but, well, finally it's here.
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Notable new features of this release include:
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- improved themeing support
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- better desktop integration
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- nicer support for many different IRC servers
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- a totally revised option layout
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- basic support for script "addons"
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- improved help subsystem
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- new nice statusbar applets
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- improved scripting engine
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- improved windows and macosx support
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- ....
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There is also a lot of small new details that you will
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find out by yourself while playing around and finally
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we obviously also have a huge number of bugfixes.
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Have fun :)
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Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team
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###############################################################################
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General notes for the 3.4.0 release of the KVIrc IRC client
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- Installation
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The detailed installation instructions for the unix source distribution
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are in the INSTALL file.
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The Windows version needs no installation: you just need to run the
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installer executable and follow the proposed steps.
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Other documentation can be found in the doc subdirectory.
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- Reporting problems
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You are encouraged to "mess" with all the KVIrc options and features,
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and to report bugs and misbehaviours to the author.
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Anyway , before reporting a bug , ask yourself if it can be caused
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by some other part of your system: KVIrc uses many external libraries
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and (as all programs) relies on a correct system behaviour.
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Make sure that the libraries you use are the correct ones (!!!).
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When you encounter a problem please read the FAQ that is found
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in the distribution and also take a look at http://www.kvirc.net
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for a more recent version. If nothing helps to solve your problem
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then you might consider issuing a bug report.
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The best way to report a bug is to use the bugtrack system at
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http://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/. Another way is to subscribe
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to the kvirc mailing list (see http://www.kvirc.net for instructions)
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and report the problem there. In both cases your bug report
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should be written in english and should contain most informations
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possible about the problem. If you have encountered a crash
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on an unix platform you should include a gdb backtrace (stack dump).
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The more gdb info you send, the biggest is the possibility for us
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to find the problem and maybe a solution. There is a FAQ entry
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that explains how to produce a suitable gdb backtrace.
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If you can't obtain a gdb backtrace (maybe because you're on
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a platform where gdb is not available) or if the problem
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is not related to a program crash then you should include
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a detailed procedure that leads to the manifestation of your problem.
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You should always include a short description of the platform you
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are running on: the operating system, the cpu (if not an x86),
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the version of the Qt library and the KDE environment (if relevant).
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You should also mention the relevant version of KVIrc and where
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you got it from (cvs, kvirc site, other sites).
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# Historic entries : just for the curious
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22.02.2005: Release 3.2.0 "Realia"
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###############################################################################
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Here we go again: 3.2.0 is out!
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The long road to stability has reached an important milestone. The previous
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releases of the 3.* series were the first ones after a huge codebase rewrite.
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3.2.0 is a result of several months of testing, debugging and improving.
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You will surely find it more stable, fast and user friendly.
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The old scripting toolbars have been replaced by the new "action" based
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approach. Besides the scripting flexibility of the actions we have also
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gained "drag & drop" toolbar editing. Just select "Settings -> Toolbars
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-> Customize" from the menu and drag your favorite actions (buttons!) to the
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toolbars you wish. You can obviously create new toolbars on the fly and destroy
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old ones. There is a set of builtin actions and new ones can be added
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by the means of the action editor (another new feature) accessible from
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the Scripting menu. Play with it :)
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The UNICODE support has been improved yet more. Now you can set global,
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per-network, per-server and per-window encodings! There is also a new
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set of "smart" encoding engines that first try to decode the text as UTF8
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and in case of failure fallback to your standard encoding.
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The translators did a really good (and hard) job: we actually have KVIrc
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translated in 14 languages. I'm really happy about that.
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There is a new nice Instant-Messager-like notifier window that pops up when
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a query message arrives and KVIrc is not the active application. Yes,
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you can disable it, but I'm sure you will not. The notifier is also fully
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scriptable and we're working on a simple skinning engine for it.
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We also have perl support: now you can use perl from KVS and
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KVS from perl. The engine is still quite essential but with some hacking
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you can obtain really good results from it.
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The small IRC-Context-Display has been removed from the toolbar and has been
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replaced by a real status bar that is capable of displaying the same
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informations in a much cleaner way. The IRC-Context-Display is still
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available as an action so you can just drag it back in its place
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and hide the status bar to return to the previous release configuration.
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The statusbar also supports applets that can be added/dragged/removed by the
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means of the mouse: just try the right click.
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The scripting engine has been improved and there are several new object
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classes. An interesting new feature here is the $tr() function that allows
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your scripts to be translated with the standard gettext mechanism. The
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widely requested DCOP communication function has been implemented too.
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Out-of-the-box mircryption support has been added. The KVIrc's mircryption
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engine supports the standard ECB mode and the new CBC mode
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The DCC transfers have been improved and seveal related bugs have been
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fixed. It is also possible to limit the bandwidth for each transfer.
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There is a lot of minor new features that will make your IRC sessions funnier
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and more exciting: some of them are described in the ChangeLog file and
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other can be found by exploring the user interface.
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The small one-man-project has grown to the level of a small community.
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People from around the world have joined our development efforts and are
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constantly donating their time, eyes and bandwidth in order to make KVIrc
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a really good IRC client. Besides of simply giving you a free (as in freedom!)
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and nice program for chatting, they are giving you the great opportunity to see
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what's behind the scenes: you have the source code for the whole application.
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In practical terms this means more or less 300.000 lines of tested, debugged and
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commented C++ code, several perl scripts, dozens of makefiles and all the means
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that you need to produce a working KVIrc executable on all the supported platforms.
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There is a lot of knowledge (some people call it "technology" because it sells better)
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inside, ready to be acquired by an attentive reader. Don't forget that the freedom of
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building your own executable from the sources gives you the opportunity
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of verifying the source itself: for example you might be interested in verifying
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that KVIrc will not run any malware code on your machine nor will collect
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your private data and sell it to someone while you're happily chatting with a friend.
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We call it freedom, please respect it :)
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Our community is contantly growing and this release was possible thanks to the
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contribution of really many people. There are new mighty developers, new addicted
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fans and we have seen a lot of new users. The list of the major contributors
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can be found on the KVIrc site, in the about dialog and all around the sources.
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If you want to meet them please join the #kvirc channel on your favorite
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IRC network or subscribe to our mailing list.
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Ah, I was going to forget it: you might have noticed that there is
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a version bump from 3.0.1 to 3.2.0. It's a typo that we arbitrairly
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decided not to fix :)
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Have fun :)
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Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team
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31.05.2004: Release 3.0.1 "System Virtue"
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###############################################################################
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Here we go again: 3.0.1 is out!
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3.0.1 is mainly a bugfix release. 3.0.0 was the first public release
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after long time and even if we have tested it for a very long time
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some bugs didn't miss to jump out. 3.0.1 contains the fixes for these
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problems and adds some minor functionality. The detailed list of
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changes is in the ChangeLog file.
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The bugs for this release should be reported by using the bugtrack system available
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at http://bugtrack.kvirc.omnikron.net
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Have fun :)
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Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team
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17.04.2004: Release 3.0.0 "Awakening"
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###############################################################################
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After a couple of years from the last stable release, here we go again :)
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Since the 2.* releases the KVIrc source code has been almost completely
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rewritten. The major differences are summarized in the following list:
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- Multiserver: you can have multiple IRC connections in a single window
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- IPV6 support, also for DCC transfers
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- SSL support (also over IPV6)
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- UNICODE support for the user interface
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- Better scripting language
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- A basic Theme Engine
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The first major goal of the rewrite was "user-friendliness": you should be
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able to start an IRC session by selecting a server and clicking "Connect Now"
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just after the installation.
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The second major goal was "extreme-flexibility": you can customize the way KVIrc
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looks and the scripting language allows you to implement complex responses
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to IRC generated events.
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There is a lot of minor new features that will make your IRC sessions funnier
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and more exciting: some of them are described in the ChangeLog file and
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other can be found by exploring the user interface.
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This release was possible thanks to the contribution of many people.
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The list includes but is not limited to: Triskelios, Jan Wagner (spion),
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Juanjo Alvarez (Kane), Andrea Parrella (Yap), Luk De Ketelaere (Balboy),
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Sara D'Alia (Sbrokka), Ted Podgurski (alch3m1st), Ciro Guariglia (d3vah),
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Christoph Thielecke (Crissi), Eva Schaller (Penny), Niklas Luer<65>en (Tequila)
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Olle Hallnas (Crocodile), Francesco Meloni (Princo), Alessandro Rossini (Aronnax),
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Alex Grijalba Martinez (SuD), SuperbepS, Thilo Schulz (Thilo), Dworf,
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Jorma Tuomainen (Wiza), Michele Pinassi (O-Zone), Paolo Sammicheli (XDatap1),
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Ahinu, xevilstar, The Siena Linux Users Group, cyco & samweis,
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The Firenze Linux Users Group, all the subscribers of the KVIrc public mailing
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list and finally all the people from #kvirc on IRCNet and Freenode.
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Have fun :)
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Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team
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###############################################################################
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General notes for the 3.0.0 release of the KVIrc IRC client
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###############################################################################
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- Installation
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The detailed installation instructions for the unix source distribution
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are in the INSTALL file.
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The Windows version needs no installation: just unzip the archive in
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a suitable directory (such as C:\Program Files\) and run kvirc.exe from there.
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Other documentation can be found in the doc subdirectory.
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- Reporting problems
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In this release , the changes are so huge that it was not possible
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to test them in all the possible conditions. A 'normal' irc session
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should give you no problems.
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You are encouraged to "mess" with all the KVIrc options and features,
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and to report bugs and misbehaviours to the author.
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Anyway , before reporting a bug , ask yourself if it can be caused
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by some other part of your system: KVIrc uses many external libraries
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and (as all programs) relies on a correct system behaviour.
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Make sure that the libraries you use are the correct ones (!!!).
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- Contents of a good bug report:
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- A gdb backtrace in case of a segfault.
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The more gdb info you send , the biggest is the possibility
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for me to find the problem and maybe a solution.
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- A detailed description (read : procedure) to reproduce the bug
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Obviously if possible...
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- All informations on your system that you think that may be
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related to KVIrc and to the problem itself.
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To enable the gdb debugging you must compile kvirc with
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the --enable-debug configure option.
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03.01.2003: Release 3.0.0 beta2
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###############################################################################
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Here we go again!
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Yes , this is still called "beta" , but it should be stable on most machines.
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We're simply still missing some features planned for the final 3.0.0.
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Beta2 is being released as a source package.
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Binary packages (for windows and other platforms) might be available soon
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so check out the download section once in a while.
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90% of the 2.* branch features have been already re-implemented and there are
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many new things to play with.
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There is a preliminary UNICODE port: KVIrc UI starts to "speak" foreign (non Latin1) based languages.
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IRC character set mapping has been implemented (with 8 commonly used codepages for now).
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You should be able to use the Euro sign (ISO-8859-15), write Cyrillic (KOI-8-R , CP-1251 , ISO-8859-5),
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Greek (ISO-8859-7) and even use ideograms with the UTF-8 encoding.
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Character mapping selection is window based thus you should be able to write Cyrillic on #russian,
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Greek on #athens and write plain English on #kvirc in the same IRC session.
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Some modules have been removed from the main distribution. This is because the source
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tree has been growing too much: we are removing the non-strictly-necessary features
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and we will release them as separate packages.
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On the CVS you can already find the "nap" module that allows chatting (no file sharing yet)
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on OpenNap networks.
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The scriptcenter dialog has been splitted in smaller "pieces" and a GUI toolbar editor has been added.
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Finally there are tons of bugfixes and improvements: just play with it :)
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The bugs for this release should be reported by using the bugtrack system available
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at http://bugtrack.kvirc.omnikron.net.
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Have fun :)
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Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team
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###############################################################################
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25.06.2002
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3.0.0 beta1 (Codename: "Eve's Avatar")
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This release is "floating around" since a couple of months...
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Well... finally... here we go :)
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This is not stable yet, but many people use it and we get a really small number of
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critical reports: this means that you probably can use it for your daily chatting.
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Beta1 is being released as a source package and a binary distro for the windows platform.
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Binary packages for other platforms might be available soon so check out the download section once in a while.
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If you had previous KVIrc installations and you experience problems (missing menus for example)
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try to remove (or better just rename) the old local configuration directory (locaed
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in your home dir probably) and to restart KVIrc.
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80% of the 2.* branch features have been already re-implemented and there is a whole
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bunch of new things to play with. One of the greates "ChangeLog" entries is the preliminary
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SSL support that works for IRC and DCC CHAT (both over IPv4 and IPv6).
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CTCP PAGE support has been added and there were some major changes to the variable
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management in the scripting language (added "real" array support and changed the syntax for the dictionaries).
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Those of you that like colors can now enable the icon-like display of emoticons
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and play with icons in the text sent through the server (a new escape code).
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The documentation has been reworked a little bit more, there are some new modules and
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a lot of new options to try.
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The windows version is not completely in sync with the linux one thus you might find
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that it lacks some features (mainly advanced scripting language, sound support etc...).
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We hope to have a completely synchronized versions on both platforms for the time
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of 3.0.0 final.
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The bugs for this release should be reported by using our new shiny bugtrack system available
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at http://bugtrack.kvirc.omnikron.net.
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Well..
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That's all folks!
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Have fun :)
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Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team
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