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