Release Notes

  • Changes in version 1.3:
    • New Multi Chat Split Mode
    • Revamped graphical user interface
    • Major performance improvements
    • Automatic reconnection after unexpected disconnections or errors
    • New and improved count badges for public messages, private messages and highlights
    • Plain text or formatted logging
    • Spotlight integration for log files
    • New Autocompletion (Tab cycling through nicks, spacebar validation...)
    • Improved auto-away behavior
    • Automatic Away Nick
    • Added option to Revert Color Selections
    • Added option to show/hide IRC Message of the Day
    • Fixed Unicode Problems
    • Fixed a bug where messages would stop displaying
    • Added contextual menus in the sidebars
    • Added contextual menus in the chat view when clicking a nickname
    • Added an option for default nicknames, usernames and realnames
    • Support for /amsg and /ame
    • Updated Sysinfo (now a plug-in with its own preference pane)
    • Updated iTunes Script
    • New Weather Script
    • New Apps Script
    • Added support for Logitech Control Center
  • Changes in version 1.2.2 and 1.2.3:
    • Large RAM and CPU performance improvements
    • Compatibility with Logitech Scroll Enhancer (LCC)
    • [#190] Display/caching Problem With Tooltips in User List
    • [#206] Default Real Name
    • [#238] Highlighting Issues
    • [#188] Log System Needs Redesign!
    • [#127] /kill Shouldn't Be in a Context Menu
    • [#166] Infinite Recursion in [lccontroller Channel:didaddline:shouldnotify:ishighlight:]
    • [#227] Nick Change Closes Query Window
    • [#19] Add Incremental Search to Search Box
    • [#226] Update All Scripts
    • [#222] Update Pastie Script
    • [#223] Getscript Is Not Downloading Scripts
    • [#221] Update Sysinfo Script to Reflect Current Product Line
    • [#24] Add Nickserv Authentication With Keychain Support
    • [#78] Automatic Setting of Nick when Primary Nick Is Not Available
    • [#95] Logging Doesn't Write Continously
    • [#217] Always Highlight Own Nickname
    • [#204] Highlights Search Inside a Word Unwanted at Times
    • [#179] Mark All Read
    • [#168] Change Nick on Away
    • [#117] Default Action Options
    • [#137] Linkinus Chan/pm Sorting
    • [#114] Nickserv Support
    • [#100] /go Tab Completion Does Not Work Across Servers.
    • [#174] Up or Down Arrows While Typing an Irc Message
    • [#197] Allow for More Lines Per Channel (unlimited)
    • [#47] Add Ability to Send /notices to the Current Window Rather Than a Query Window
    • [#170] Invalid Handling of Notices
    • [#142] Prefix Special Users With @,etc Doesn't Work Anymore
    • [#39] Add Shortcut Key Combo to Switch to Last Active Tab
    • [#187] Jump to Last Viewed Channel
    • [#180] "flood Protection" Pref Pane Doesn't Expand Properly on Macbook Air
    • [#196] Shortcuts Should Display "option"
    • [#192] Remove Preference Nstoolbar Toogle Button
    • [#149] Shortcut for Whois Info - Command Shift I
    • [#172] App Lock when /oper Cmd Issued
    • [#160] Esc Key - Foreign Language Text Input Problems
    • [#130] Messages Arrive in Incorrect Order.
    • [#132] Agent Freezes when Joining Multiple Channels at Once
    • [#93] Stall when Logging Into Freenode
    • [#119] Nick Being Cut Short
  • Changes in version 1.2.1:
    • Blowfish support for chat/query encryption (new commands: "/setkey key", "/delkey", "/key", "/keyx", "/keyx nick")
    • Fixed CTCP issues
    • Shows notices in current window
    • Added /omsg and /onotice support
    • Cmd Option up/down arrow to go to next chat with content
    • Overlong messages notification
    • Foreground transparency
    • Greatly improved text and Growl notifications
    • Keyboard preference pane (includes Outbound History setup)
    • Prettier tooltips
    • Ability to see long topics at once
    • More elegant sounds
    • Fixed "New Highlight" triggers
    • Ability kill and reattach the interface in Leopard just like in Tiger
    • Tab completion does not get in the way anymore when changing nicks
  • Changes in version 1.2:
    • Leopard friendly
    • Built-in log viewer
    • Fixed a cross-encoding bug that would cause lines to disappear
    • Unique nick coloring (makes it easier to follow conversations) - currently only supported by Simplified
    • Faster way of switching between active channels/bookmarks (new shortcuts)
    • Selective auto-completion in Preferences
    • Ability to turn off Join/part messages
    • Polished the user interface (improved a few icons, new banner gradients, nicer output for certain commands...)
    • Double-clicking on grips now collapses or expands sidebars
    • Option to disable message count badges
    • /mute and /unmute temporarily override sound settings
    • Warning when invoking a blank shortcut
    • Reorganized User menu and added CTCP commands
    • Aliases that don't start with / now just say the text (with $var replacements, of course) in your current channel or query
    • Better user/channel modes handling
    • Better nick limit management
    • Fixed muh/BNC reattach problems
    • Fixed a nick coloring bug
    • Fixed server password
    • Fixed AppleScript bugs
    • Improved IP bans
    • /join #channel now select that channel if you're already in
    • No More NULL returned when AppleScript doesn't return anything
    • /cycle now includes a part message
    • Fixed displayed target nickname for CTCP messages
    • smsg = Secret message command - will not open a new query
    • Scripts/Plugins now drag and drop onto the main app's icon
    • Added scrollbars and resizable columns to the banlist
    • Added a preference to send CTCP notices to console window
    • Added a button to lift selected bans
    • Added Alias autocompletion
    • Added $nick variable in Aliases
    • Added "Go Up/Down skips consoles" Misc preference
    • Added "Play for initial message only" Sound preference
    • Added /go (channel | query) command
    • Added Ignore/Unignore menu items to the User menu and contextual menu
    • Improved Highlight recognition
    • Improved connection to LAN servers
    • Channel List menu item
    • Added a Sidebars preference pane with rearranging settings (automatic/animated or manual/drag and drop)
    • Growl 1.1.1 included
  • Changes in version 1.1:
    • New Application Icon
    • New Website
    • Added five new styles (Simplified, Apt, acid_burn, Erstwhile, and Mmm... IRC)
    • Added ability to change font size from 9pt to 24pt
    • Dock icon is now also badged for highlights
    • Support for personal/individual proxies
    • Support for SSL connections
    • Increased Growl support
    • Reset demo trial for 1.1
    • Added a list of most servers to startup wizard & Servers Editor
    • Channels/queries are now sorted by name automatically.
    • Added contextual menu to right click of servers/channels
    • Added menu items to edit channels and connections
    • Added new auto-away options
    • Find Box
    • Added better support for UTF-8, Hebrew, Asian and Arabic languages
    • Autoexec commands now execute before joining channels
    • Added System Information script. /sysinfo to execute.
    • Drag and drop on queries in the sidebar starts DCC Transfer
    • Added preference for status symbols in Userlist.
    • Added wildcard support in highlights.
    • Improved log writing.
    • Improved highlight parsing and recognition
    • Added a way to quit Linkinus and/or the agent from the application menu (Linkinus menu)
    • Log storage now formatted yyyy-mm-dd
    • Added a slider to customize auto-completion delay and a preference to disable it
    • Linkinus now remembers away state through Disconnect/Reconnect
    • Added /brb command to say "brb" in every channel
    • Message totals are now shown for all channels combined when connection is collapsed
    • The channel key is now displayed in the topic bar.
    • //command now sends "/command" to the channel instead of executing it
    • Added preference to set Cmd-W to close tabs
    • Removed /idis, replaced with /itunes, formatted the output differently
    • Include helpful mouse-over tooltips for the 4 buttons along the bottom
    • Add link to Linkinus channel in help menu. "Chat With Us"
    • Users are notified when speaking in a channel/connection that's not active
    • /join directly after a part in the same channel window no longer requires the channel to be supplied
    • Transfers completely revamped
    • Delay added to begin scrolling topic on mouse-over
    • Timestamp customization is now in the preferences
    • Allow userlist and server/channel lists to be collapsable (Simply drag them to oblivion)
    • Pressing enter when editing channel topic now commits changes
    • Added preference to turn off sound while away
    • Added ability to make dock icon bounce on highlights
    • Added ability to preview sound in the sound pref pane (via double culck)
    • The text box now has a separate state for every channel/PM
    • Some channels didn't show up properly
    • Greatly improved sockets
    • Linkinus now remembers the width of the channel and userlist sidebar
    • Fixed inconsistencies in graphics in the main window
    • Fixed several bugs that caused Linkinus to crash
    • Oper-only channels are now supported
    • Topic is now scrolled all the way once scroll has started
    • Joining channels with odd characters in the title (exclamation points, etc) now works.
    • Aliases that are a superstring of another alias no longer execute the substring
    • Fixed inconsistent usage of "room" and "channel" in the interface
    • Fixed /mode behavior
    • Detaching and reattaching now saves the collapsed/expanded state of connections.
    • /clearall now resets message counts for all channels
    • Fixed a menu bar glitch
    • Spellchecking option now persists through sessions
    • Linkinus now provides a reason when closing connections
    • Executing a blank shortcut no longer sends an empty message to the channel
    • Made linkinus://nick@host:port/#channel smarter