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DMDirc project is a new cross platform IRC client written in java
DMDirc was started to address the lack of a good IRC client for Linux, it can however be run on any java capable platform, including OSX and window. While there are plenty of reasonable clients, most are lacking in one respect or another. We hope that DMDirc will fill this gap.
We are accepting feature requests and bug reports to our issue tracker at Google Code.
Requirements:
· Java Runtime Environment (tested with JRE 6)
What's New in This Release:
Major feature additions
1. DMDirc now maintains a list of previous topics used in a channel, and previous topics can be selected from the channel settings dialog
2. Added a dialog to send feedback to the developers
3. Added a user modes tab to the server settings dialog
4. Added new URL handler, which allows non-http URLs to be opened with relevant applications
5. The channel settings dialog will now show extended information about list modes (who set them and when) if configured
6. Added launchers
7. Added uninstallers
8. Support for invites (and a nice UI)
9. DMDirc can now download and install new versions of itself
User Interface
1. DMDirc should now use the correct system font in most components
2. URLs are now linked more intelligently
3. Using ctrl+tab now cycles through windows in the same order as the treeview
4. Shift+ctrl+tab now cycles backwards through windows in the same order as the treeview
5. The profile manager has been rewritten to be more intuitive and now properly validates input
6. Added a counter to the list modes panel in the Channel Settings dialog
7. The error icon in the status bar is now only shown when there are errors
8. Servers no longer reopen their raw window every connect, regardless of the showraw setting
9. Servers and channels now switch their icons when inactive (disconnected/not in the channel)
10. Tidied up the "update available" icon so that it's centered properly
11. Redid the layout of many components, to improve looks and usability
1. The 'channel modes' tab of the channel settings dialog is now grouped properly and text fields have the same width
2. The alias manager is now resizable
3. The error manager is now resizable
12. Page up/down keys now work in windows without input fields
13. Fixed some layout issues with the search bar
14. Away indicators can now be enabled/disabled on a per-window basis.
15. Away indicators will now be removed properly if the config setting is changed while they're displayed
16. Many UI tweaks to make DMDirc look better under GTK
17. Raw windows now close correctly even if the server they're associated with doesn't have an IRC parser for some reason
18. The about dialog now has an 'information' tab
19. Fixed an exception in the IconManager?
20. Fixed a rare exception in the tree view
21. Fixed an exception caused by the perform panel
22. Raw windows are now removed from the window manager, and custom windows are now removed from the main window
23. Improved the look of DMDirc wizards
24. Fixed issue where clicking channel names wouldn't rejoin channels that were parted
25. Fixed profile list in New Server Dialog not updating properly
26. The profile manager now really deletes profiles
27. The profile manager can now be closed when no profile is selected
28. The profile manager now requires you to have at least one profile
29. Fixed strange issue where buttons in the Channel Settings Dialog would zoom off to the right and make the dialog unusable when using the Windows L&F
30. Fixed "show colours in..." settings not working in the preferences dialog
31. The nicklist now redraws itself straight away when its colour settings are changed
32. The away indicator now appears properly when DMDirc does't know the client's away message
33. Fixed logic error causing incorrect error icon to be displayed in the status bar
Commands, Notifications and Formatters
1. /debug configstats is now sorted by the number of accesses
2. The notifications system now supports several new targets:
1. "channel:" - directs the message to the named channel
2. "window:" - directs the message to the named custom window
3. "fork:" - allows messages to be sent to more than one target
4. "formatter:" - allows the format of the message to be changed
3. Added a variety of formatters and notification settings:
1. Wallusers, Wallops and desync notices
2. MAP responses
3. ERROR messages
4. Numeric 320 (is identified to services)
5. Numeric 404 (unable to send to channel)
6. Numeric 405 (you have joined too many channels)
7. Numeric 438 (nick change too fast)
8. Numeric 482 (you need to be an op to do that)
9. LUSERS messages
4. Numeric 401 (no such nickname) is now output to the last window that is likely to have caused the error
5. Added /openwindow command
6. The /echo command can now echo to a custom window
7. The formatter system now uses identity files, allowing greater flexibility
8. Added a default alias for /quote (aliased to /raw)
9. Added /map command
10. The /set command now has an --append switch
11. Fixed the command parser throwing an error when invoked from certain windows
12. Simplified the command parser so that commands no longer have arities (meaning /foo will execute the same command regardless of the number of parameters it has)
13. The /newserver and /server command now use :+port to denote SSL connections, rather than a --ssl switch
14. Fixed obscure bug in the formatter that occurs when two formats are identical but are called with different numbers of arguments
15. Added /debug notify
16. /set can now play with server-specific config settings using the --server switch
17. Fixed bug whereby letters after F were incorrectly parsed as hexadecimal
Actions
1. Action conditions now support chained components
2. Actions now support "condition trees" to specify how their conditions are evaluated
3. Implemented much tidier file format for actions
4. Added server_disconnected action type
5. Double clicking in an empty space in the actions manager no longer causes an error
6. The 'additional triggers' list is now enabled properly when creating a new action
7. Changed naming scheme for aliases so that multiple aliases with the same number of arguments (but different comparisons) can exist simultaneously.
8. Fixed exception when deleting aliases
Plugins
1. Completely overhauled the plugin system to allow greater flexibility, enable automatic updates in the future, and make it much easier for users to install and delete plugins
2. The nick colour plugin now accepts "" as a network, and applies the setting to all networks
3. The configure plugins menu is now correctly disabled if there are no configurable plugins
4. The lag display plugin now displays "Not connected" when the server isn't connected, and removes cached text on disconnection (fixing a potential minor memory leak)
5. Add basic VLC media source
6. Timeplugin onUnload won't npe if the timer broke.
7. Added URL Catcher plugin
8. Started dcc plugin (DCC chat send/receive, DCC Send receive)
9. Show something not nothing if the window is an unknown type (Window status plugin)
10. The plugin manager now checks if files exist before trying to load them, and raises a nicer error if they don't
11. Fixed exception when enabling plugins in some circumstances
12. The /loadplugin command now tries harder to load plugins, instead of failing in most circumstances
13. Fix rare stack overflow when enabling certain plugins
Installer, Updater and First Run/Migration Wizards
1. The First Run Wizard now asks the user if they wish to allow DMDirc to check for updates and report errors to the developers
2. The installers can now register DMDirc as the handler for irc:// URLs
3. Fixed a file handle leak when DMDirc downloads files
4. Made several changes to the update checker to ensure that the UI is updated properly, and that update checks are scheduled for the right times.
5. An icon is now displayed in the status bar when the update checker is checking for updates
6. The update system can now automatically update mode aliases, default settings, and the client itself.
7. The installer no longer shows the UAC information dialog if the user isn't using UAC.
8. Linux scripts no longer expect the user to be running them from a console; KDialog/Zenity are used if available to show messages graphically.
9. The installer now has a taskbar entry
10. The installer now shows the version number of the installer on the welcome screen and in the titlebar
11. The Linux installer now attempts to create the folder needed for its shortcuts, rather than failing if it didn't exist
12. The language used by the installer has been improved
13. The installer no longer uses inappropriate fixed-width text under Windows
14. The installer now correctly disables the previous button when installing
15. The Windows and Linux launchers can now update themselves
16. The Linux launcher now passes params with spaces in them correctly to the client
17. The updater no longer goes into a CPU-intensive loop if it's disabled
18. The update checker no longer permanently (accidentally) disables itself if it is set to not update for one check
19. The installer now uses the native look and feel correctly
20. Worked around Windows Vista "feature" which incorrectly alerted the user that DMDirc had failed to reinstall
Configuration and Identities
1. Identities may now be stored in subdirectories under the main 'identities' dir
2. Identities now support basic ordering
3. Global identity should no longer store useless settings
4. The dmdirc.config file now saves even if it's loaded with erroneous data
5. Cached a number of configuration settings to reduce CPU usage
6. The preferences dialog now sets the value of notifications.whois correctly
7. Fixed exception in ConfigManager? when adding multiple lines that use lastcommand: formatters
Error Handling
1. Fixed exception in ErrorManager? when errors are raised or accessed at the same time
2. ErrorManager? no longer reports errors where DMDircEventQueue is the first DMDirc-related line in the trace (these errors are due to JVM issues, not DMDirc)
3. DMDirc now only raises one error for missing mode aliases, rather than one per mode
4. The logger should now (re)create the error directory if it doesn't exist
5. The error manager now only submits one error every 20 seconds, to prevent massive floods of submissions when a large number of errors are generated
6. Duplicate errors in the error queue are no longer sent.
7. Errors are now reported to STDERR if there's no UI to handle them
8. Fixed issue where the error icon didn't display properly for some errors
Misc
1. Added inspircd mode aliases
2. Massive refactoring of server and channel event handling, reducing the number of potential bugs, and adding new action types for some events
3. Network names are now guessed from the server's hostname if the server doesn't provide one itself
4. Fix bug where user modes were handled incorrectly if the server had more than 31 modes
5. Fix bug where connection events were fired too soon for servers that sent an unexpected NOTICE after the 002 numeric
6. Added some initial mode aliases for user modes
7. DMDirc now uses weak references appropriately, which should prevent various memory leaks
8. Fixed bug where giving a channel client a mode they already had caused them to appear as though they had a higher mode
9. Fixed the IRC parser calculating an invalid ping time if the user manually sent a PING
10. The topic editor no longer defaults to limiting to 250 characters if the server doesn't specify a length
11. The IRC parser now handles requesting list modes better
12. Channel.sendLine and Query.sendLine now split on LFs properly
13. Updated themes to use identities for formatters
14. Added startchat ircd to ircd detection.
15. Added usermode alias checks to Server
16. Queries no longer send text/actions if the server isn't connected
17. Cycle now cycles not just parts
18. The IRC parser now correctly parses more complex maximum list mode limits
19. The IRC parser no longer throws an exception when trying to convert non-ASCII characters between upper and lower case.
20. The IRC parser now converts between ~ and ^ properly for RFC1459 and RFC1459-strict encodings, as appropriate
21. An error will no longer be raised if a connection attempt is made while the client is closing
22. Fixed exception when setting away in certain circumstances.

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