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Changelog

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Version 1.3.3 (07. August 2014):

• Webcam streams can be recorded with parameter webcamRecord=true
• Added onActiveWindowChange JavaScript callback
• Fix: IP/Host naming in whois changed #598
• Fix: User modes were sometimes shown incorrectly #499

Version 1.3.2 (17. July 2013):

• Added CSS selectors for many message types #285
• Added JavaScript callback method to parse every outgoing command (parameter loopClientCommands)
• Added channel and host variables to onContextMenuSelect and onChatAreaClick JavaScript callback methods
• Added close icon on channel and query buttons #412
• Added parameters to disable foreground/background color selection in rich text controls popup (parameters showRichTextControlsForegroundColor, showRichTextControlsBackgroundColor) #462
• Added user information box upon hovering a nickname in the user list (parameters showUserListInformationPopup, userListInformationPopupItems) #424
• Changed default value for timestampFormat to [HH:mm:ss] (24 hours format)
• /clear command supports channel or query name as a parameter #459
• Removed 'have fun' from channel welcome message #406
• Fix: Channel list would not populate when receiving multiple joins from the same nick
• Fix: Voice/Halfop items did not always appear properly in the user list context menu #417
• Fix: Emoticon parsing in nicknames disabled
• Fix: Channel header CSS didn't work #370
• Fix: +a channel mode didn't work #434
• Fix: Colons in messages could misleadingly produce URL hyperlinks #371 #388 #420
• Fix: Sound wasn't always disableable in the options panel #377
• Fix: Angle brackets could be used for HTML injections in topics #482

Version 1.3.1 (02. December 2012):

• userListCustomFormatting supports channels modes (e.g. mode=v) #321
• Custom timestamp format using parameter timestampFormat #378
• Fix: Emoticon replacements don't break words anymore (e.g. :Pizza) #383
• Fix: userListCustomFormatting user list update is enforced when joining a channel #382
• Fix: Private webcam accept popup does not receive keyboard input anymore #376
• Fix: Default emoticon transparency improved and glow filter for emoticon popup added
• Fix: Unexpected behavior when language file could not be found #379

Version 1.3 (22. October 2012):

• Webcam module with admin features, cam overview, publishers can kick viewers, improved user interface
• The context menu item "whois" is being removed if you pass whois in blockedCommands
• The part item in the channel button context menu is being removed if you pass part in blockedCommands
• Parameter defaultBanmask for the ban popup
• JavaScript method sendMessageToActiveWindow to add custom messages to the active window
• Transparent lightIRC background possible (to use the website background in the chat)
• User icons can be shown in the chat area (showNickPrefixIcons), also for users without modes (like voice, op, ...)
• The quit message will also be sent if the user simply closes the browser tab (with the help of a JavaScript unload method)
• Nick list rows are stylable through regular expressions and CSS settings
• onContextMenuSelect and onChatAreaClick JavaScript methods provide nickname, ident and realname
• Strip formatting codes for the tooltips in the channel header and list overview
• Custom security error message usable with customSecurityErrorMessage
• Changed the chat window text buffer to prevent the client from consuming too much memory
• Fix: Multiple spaces don't collapse anymore (you often see many spaces in motds for example)
• Fix: User mode changes did not always show up properly (+vo, then -o)
• Fix: New query stole the focus, even if showNewQueriesInBackground was set
• Fix: /away with a single word as a description didn't work
• Fix: webcamAudio/webcamVideo/webcamPublic/webcamPrivateOnly didn't work with the new webcam module
• Fix: The webcam admin panel wasn't closable in some cases

Version 1.2.3 (16. February 2012)

• Added Arabian (ar) translation
• Parameter showVerboseUserInformation (default false) adds ident and host information for joins, parts and quits
• Parameter targetFrame (default "_blank") lets you specify the target frame for clicked URLs in the chat area
• Fix: Focus did jump to channel input if identify password popup was open
• Fix: Space key did accept webcam requests while typing a message
• Fix: Errors occured if having webcam enabled without rtmfp parameter
• Fix: webcamVideoOnly/webcamAudioOnly bug

Version 1.2.2 (09. December 2011)

• Changes in default CSS files to configure the webcam popup
• Fix: Application didn't load properly when using different languages
• Fix: Text area crashed when receiving long messages
• Fix: webcamChannelBlacklist/webcamChannelWhitelist bug

Version 1.2.1 (29. November 2011)

• Flex 4 runtime shared libraries included in package
• Show ban removals in channel when channel central is open
• Fix: webcamPrivateOnly/webcamPublicOnly bug

Version 1.2 (27. November 2011)

• Added Finnish, Croatian, Indonesian and Portuguese translations
• %prefix% in userListCustomIcons will be replaced by q/a/o/h/v or an empty string.
• setTextInputContent JavaScript method
• Rejoin button in kick poup
• Removed Red5 webcam module, added peer to peer webcam streaming
• Parameters to control webcam behavior: webcamShowOnStartup, webcamPrivateOnly, webcamPublicOnly, webcamVideoOnly, webcamAudioOnly, webcamChannelBlacklist, webcamChannelWhitelist
• Webcam icon appears on top of the query button if the user is broadcasting
• To open a channel from the channel list, a double click is needed instead of a single click
• Removed translation feature because Google does not offer the translation API for free anymore
• Startup improved, flickering when loading styles removed
• Fix: Socket read method optimized
• Fix: Set focus to text input after selecting an emoticon
• Fix: Message history optimized (up and down cursor buttons in the text input)
• Fix: IRCX messages partially supported
• Fix: Button overflow (channels, queries) fixed

Version 1.1 (12. March 2011)

• Added Hungarian, Czech, Polish and Slovenian translations
• Server password is not being displayed in plain text anymore
• Parameter charset makes you able to define a custom encoding (default: utf-8)
• Parameter iconPath allows to use custom user list icons instead of having @+ prefixes
• Parameter userListCustomIcons allows you to include own icons for nicknames
• Parameter contextMenuExternalEvent is now able to take more than one item
• Various predefined ban masks are now available in the ban popup
• Away messages are displayed in the active chat window
• Added /back alias to unset an away state
• /clear command added
• Emoticons are not shown in the server window anymore
• Channel header supports channel and URL links
• Background image support for CSS stylesheets
• Ignores are being remembered
• A click on a nick in the chat area calls a JavaScript method
• Identify message default value changed to "NickServ:This nickname is registered"
• Support for mIRC background colors
• Scrolling for the emoticon popup when having many emoticons
• The parameters nickPrefix and nickPostfix define what should be shown around a nick in the chat area. Default:
• The parameter showNickPrefixes indicates whether a nick in the chat area is displayed like this: @nick or +nick (default: yes)
• Last used nick is being stored when using rememberNickname
• Menu, translation, emoticons are small popus now
• Server input can be sent to JavaScript with parameter loopServerCommands
• Specific commands can be blocked from being entered from the user with parameter blockedCommands
• Fix: notices in query windows were not shown
• Fix: fontWeight CSS setting for links didn't work
• Fix: parameter nickAlternate didn't work properly
• Fix: ftp:// links were not supported
• Fix: the chat area scrollbar stopped scrolling down in some cases
• Fix: +vv mode change did only apply for the first nick
• Fix: < and > in emoticon codes were not supported
• Fix: emoticons were shown horizontally flipped due to a bug in Flex 4.1
• Fix: Removed control key for nick completion as it caused problems when hitting CTRL+V in a query
• Fix: /memoserv or other commands starting with /me were interpreted as actions

Version 1.0 (04. October 2010)
Far too many news to list, but the most important stuff:

• Completely rewritten from scratch
• Supports emoticons
• Supports text background colors
• Automatic text input translation
• Support for CSS stylesheets
• New parameters to customize almost everything
• Improved webcam module with microphone only support and private broadcasting
• External language files and translations to over 20 languages
• Countless bug fixes and small enhancements

Version 0.9.9 (01 April 2010)

• Added Greek (gr), Brasilian Portuguese (br), Italian (it), Catalan (cat) and Bulgarian (bg) translations and corrected Turkish translation
• lightIRC is not accessing an authentication file at www.lightirc.com anymore. lightIRC 0.9.9 is completely independent and can even work in a local network without internet access.
• You can omit the # when typing /join channel or /j channel
• Reduced row height in the user list
• Removed proxy functionality as it is not running good enough for production environments
• Parameter nickCentral is now called showRegisterNicknameButton (for the sake of consistency)
• Parameter nickselectSuggestion is deprecated. If you have nickselect=yes, the parameter nick gets filled in
• List popup window resizes automatically if there is little space
• Webcam windows are resizable
• Code cleanup and some refactoring
• Fix: Sometimes the chat text did not properly scroll down
• Fix: Removed white as default background color (skins with background colors didn't work correctly in 0.9.8)
• Fix: User list got filled incorrectly when performing an automatic reconnect after a connection abort
• Fix: Topics in list output were not parsed properly

Version 0.9.8 (07 February 2010)

• Support for TLS1.0 (SSL) connections (beta). Try it with ssl=yes and (e.g.) port=6697
• lightIRC is compiled in UTF8 from now on
• Added Polish translation (pl)
• Translated channel central (more space for longer texts now) and register nickname
• Param ident (default=lightIRC) defines the ident
• Param realname (default=lightIRC.com Flash IRC Client) defines the real name
• Param quitmsg (default=powered by lightIRC.com) defines the quit message
• Param showButtonTexts (default=yes) hides all texts for the buttons in the navigation bar. This is useful if you have limited space where the buttons would overlap each other.
• Param showRegisterChannelButton (default=no) added. Shows up a panel to register a channel to ChanServ.
• Param showSubmitMessageButton (default=no) added. Shows a button to submit a typed message.
• Param showPartChannelButton (default=yes) can hide the leave channel button
• Support for who messages
• Added some more numeric replies from specific IRC servers
• Added the command /clear to remove everything from the current window
• Input field to change the nickname contains current nick
• Quit messages get displayed in queries as well
• Fix: Joining large channels is a lot faster now
• Fix: Improved regular expression to match URLs
• Fix: Setting away messages didn't work properly
• Fix: Show default ban mask in the User Central
• Fix: Hitting tab to complete a nick while typing a message does not leave the focus anymore

Version 0.9.7 (16. January 2010)

• Added translations for French (fr) and Albanian (al)
• Added options panel to manage some local settings. Can be disabled through showOptionsButton=no
• Added SharedObject support to store options locally. lightIRC will use your old nickname and preferences if you come back
• Param policyPort lets you define on which port Flash Player should look for a crossdomain.xml (default: 843)
• Panel to select a nickname pops up again if server sends "nickname in use" (if nickselect=yes)
• Whois in the User Central looks cleaner now
• Errors are written to the active window, e.g. "No such nick" messages
• Switched order of autojoin and perform. Perform will now be executed before joining the channels
• Added support for part messages
• If your own nickname gets mentioned in a channel, you receive an acoustic signal and your nick is written bold
• Default ban bask in the User Central is now *!*@host instead of nick!*@*
• You can use the variable $me in the perform parameter. This allows things like perform="/mode $me +x" to cloak your hostmask
• Param newMessageSound is now called soundAlerts
• Param nickServPass identifies the user to NickServ with the given password
• Param showListButton lets you hide the button to list all channels on a server
• Param showJoinPartMessages hides joins, parts and quits in all channels
• Param showButtonBar=no hides server, channel and query buttons at the bottom
• Param showRichTextControls=no hides buttons for text formatting (bold, underline, color)
• Param showNickChangeButton=no hides button to change the nickname
• Param showTimestamps=no hides timestamps in front of all received messages and commands
• Param chatAreaClickOnUser has different options (select, central, query). It defines the event that should happen when you click on a nickname in front of a message in the chat area
• Fix: Old lines in the chat area get dropped if there are more than 500 messages (chat became very slow without this change on verbose channels)
• Fix: Dates were not correctly displayed in topics and whois requests
• Fix: Nickchange of your partner while having a query was not updated
• Fix: Nickchange during login process was not updated internally
• Fix: Receiving < and > and formatted text in notices were broken
• Fix: Optimized color rendering and fixed that sometimes URLs were not shown
• Fix: Special hostnames like user!user@0::ffff:127.0.0.1 were not supported
• Fix: First channel gets opened when leaving a channel or closing a query (instead of showing the server window)

Version 0.9.6 (29 December 2009)

• Added buttons and icons for a better user experience. If you do not like it, the old lightIRC GUI can be restored with showNavigationBar = "no" and showActionsButton = "yes"
• Right-click menu for the user list offers features to ignore/kick/ban/op/query users with one click
• The commands /ignore nick, /unignore nick, /ignores make you able to mute people
• Added translations for Dutch (nl), Swedish (se), Finnish (fi), Romanian (ro), Estonian (ee), Serbian Cyrillic (sr_cyr) and Serbian Latin (sr_lat)
• Clicking a nickname in the chat area selects that user in the user list
• Commands can be put into the parameter "perform" and will be executed on connect. Example: "/mode nick +x,/msg nick2 hello"
• User list does not scroll to top anymore if a user joins or parts
• Refactored user list sorting algorithm again (much faster in channels with many users and lots of joins/parts)
• User list in channels is now draggable and can therefore be resized. Initial width can be set through userListWidth to any value >= 130 or 0 to hide the user list completely
• Font color resets automatically to default if +c is set in a channel
• Parameter "fontSize" lets you adjust how large fonts in text input and chat area should be displayed. It defaults to 12px
• Changed the parameter infoLineColorCode to infoLineColor that takes now RGB values: default is #fc7f00
• New sound for message alert
• Parameter "doubleClickForQuery" (default: "no") disables the user central and opens a query upon doubleclicking a nickname
• Fix: Topic overflows the available space
• Fix: When using /msg #channel or /msg nick the message will not be displayed to the chat area

Version 0.9.5

• Added more IRC commands (errors and replies)
• Clicking on a channel in the user central (whois) joins it
• Typing /query nick opens a query with nick
• Replaced the action button in channels by a ComboBox
• Passing % in nicknames (parameter "nick") will be replaced by a random number
• /j #channel joins #channel
• /hop typed in a channel parts it and joins again
• /amsg text sends a message to all open channels
• Added Hungarian (parameter language = "hu") and Turkish ("tr")
• NickServ registration popup appears in the actions box when passing parameter "nickCentral" = "yes"
• Fix: User mode (e.g. +o) gets lost when changing nickname

Version 0.9.4

• Activation of IRC servers not needed anymore
• A sound will be played if a new query message is received and the window is not active (can be disabled through newMessageSound = "no")
• Notices and selected errors appear in the active window (server, channel or query)
• Nickname isn't displayed as real name anymore
• Changed font size to 12px in Aeon style and cleaned text input area
• Added two more styles (BlueTan and Moxy)
• Fix: Sending notice through IRC command does not work
• Fix: Chat message does not appear if it contains < or >
• Fix: Replacement of URLs does not work when combined with custom font color

Version 0.9.3

• Added multi language support (English, Spanish, German). Parameter language = "en"/"es"/"de"
• Channel and query buttons don't overflow the window area anymore, but resize if necessary
• Query buttons appear now always behind channel buttons
• Setting topic through IRC command fixed
• Added channel central to manage channel modes, bans and topics
• Added a form to enter a server password when needed (must be enabled through a parameter (serverPassword = "yes"))
• Added remove/add half operator function to user central
• lightIRC supports now custom user prefixes set by the IRC network (owner, admin, op, halfop, voice)
• Refactored user list sorting algorithm
• Autojoin fixed (is bound to the end of motd message and wasn't called when no motd exists)
• Auto reconnect with rejoin of all open channels (default on, can be switched off through autoReconnect = "no")