[dot] Konversation 0.15 Released

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1101916633/

From: Konversation Team <konversation-devel at kde.org>
Dept: shiny-present-before-christmas
Date: Wednesday01/Dec/2004, @16:57

Konversation 0.15 Released
==========================

   After months of heavy development we are pleased to announce the
release of Konversation 0.15! Konversation
[http://konversation.sourceforge.net/] is a simple and easy to use IRC
client. New features include a brand-new Kontact [http://kontact.org/]
integration, better KDE HIG compliance, DCC rewritten with KIO, support
for SSL IRC servers and much more!

     Featured Changes:
    * Improved settings dialog
    * New network based server settings
    * SSL IRC server support
    * Ported socket code to KNetwork, should solve most connection
      problems
    * KIO-fied local I/O on DCC send/receive
    * Full irc:/ URL support (channel name & password now supported in
      url)
    * Get default username and ident information from system for new
      users
    * Improved display of bi-directional text
    * Support for bouncer prefixes in nick completion
    * Scripts now work via "/script" or "/exec script"
    * XChat-like "/charset" command
    * Per-channel encoding settings


     New Options:
    * "Open Watched Nicks Online panel on startup"
    * Stay in systray all the time (hides window from taskbar)
    * Get own IP from IRC server for DCC send/chat
    * OSD positioning
    * Automatically issue /WHO to display away status of nicks in nick
      list
    * DCC port range support


     Debian, SUSE and Mandrake packages are in progress, however you can
download the source tarball
[http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/konversation/konversation-0.15.tar.bz2].


     Unfortunately www.konversation.org is down at the moment, but
please refer to our temporary page at http://konversation.sf.net
[http://konversation.sourceforge.net/].

     We are greatly driven by user feedback, so if you wish to see a new
feature in Konversation please join us on our IRC channel at
irc.kde.org, #konversation.
 [irc://irc.kde.org/konversation]
     --The Konversation Team.