Konversation 1.2-alpha4 for KDE 4 released

[Eike Hein]

--- Description ---

Konversation is a user-friendly Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client
for KDE.


--- Release Notes ---

Alpha 4 marks a significant milestone on the way to feature com-
pleteness for the v1.2 release of Konversation. New features in
this release include UPnP NAT traversal support for DCC file
transfers and chats, DH1080 key exchange support for Blowfish
encryption and the ability to automatically split very long ac-
tions (i.e. usage of the '/me' command) into multiple messages
conforming to the maximum length of an IRC message (this was al-
ready supported for regular messages for some time).

Many bugs have also been addressed, including an important fix
for invitation dialogs causing disconnects by timeout if they
were not dealt with quickly enough - and not only is the rewrit-
ten dialog non-blocking, it also allows for handling multiple
outstanding invitations in a single dialog, rather than a new
dialog being displayed for every additional invitation received.
Other fixes include further interface polish and robustness and
correctness improvements to Blowfish encryption, the Watched
Nicks Online system and the storage of per-tab encoding prefe-
rences in the configuration file.

A closing note for packagers: In this release we have replaced
our custom implementation of the Blowfish encryption algorithm
with an optional dependency on the Qt Cryptographic Architecture
(QCA) library in version 2 or higher. By implication, Blowfish
encryption support is now optional: A QCA2-enabled build will
have it; a build not using QCA2 will not.


Full changelog available at:
http://konversation.kde.org/

Download available at:
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2684


--- Links ---

Websites:
* http://konversation.kde.org/
* http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=9927

Bug tracker:
http://bugs.kde.org/


-- 
Regards,
Eike Hein, hein at kde.org