Changelog

v2.7.154
24 January 2012

• Bug fix: pressing tab in a private message window would cause application to crash; cause: regression introduced in v2.7.152.

v2.7.153
24 January 2012

• Bug fix (minor): channel name tab completion did not ignore case when sorting the match list.

v2.7.152
24 January 2012

• New feature: tab completion for channel names added.

v2.7.151
23 January 2012

• Bug fix: parts of the program data stored in XML files are not read correctly resulting in favourites and window appearance customization not working; cause: regression introduced in v2.7.147 due to bug in core library changes (NoFussXML).

v2.7.150
23 January 2012

• Bug fix (minor): backward nick completion tabbing would not always cycle from start match to end match.

v2.7.149
22 January 2012

• Bug fix (minor): changing tab nick completion direction by pressing the shift key after previously tabbing forward does not work (shift key press resets nick completion state).

v2.7.148
22 January 2012

• Bug fix: nicknames could no longer be clicked on or displayed using "crazy colours" in the channel text control; cause: regression in previous release due to changes to the core library (string.h) not being completely reflected in C&W IRC code.

v2.7.147
22 January 2012

• New feature: shift+tab now performs tab completion in reverse order.

• New feature: tab completion now works in private message windows.

• New feature: incorporated improvements to networking code and core library.

v2.7.146
6 September 2011

• New feature: incorporated improvements to networking code.

• Legal: Removed accidental and unnecessary dependency on GPL'd code (crc32).

v2.7.145
10 April 2011

• Bug fix: displaying right-to-left text could cause a crash.

v2.7.144
8 February 2011

• Bug fix: several toolbar buttons would remain disabled; cause: v2.7.143 appears to be a corrupt build/installation.

v2.7.143
5 February 2011

• Bug fix (minor): some animated GIFs would animate too slowly; frames with a frame duration of 0 are now displayed for 50ms rather than 1 second.

v2.7.142
10 January 2011

• New feature (minor): "/timer" (no arguments) will now display usage of the /timer command.

v2.7.141
10 January 2011

• New feature: timers added; see the user guide for details of usage.

v2.7.140
9 January 2011

• Bug fix (minor): channel key would not be remembered for use when rejoining a channel after a server reconnect.

v2.7.139
9 January 2011

• Bug fix (minor): if "Open channel window immediately" option was enabled channel keys could not be used in auto-joins (cause: regression introduced in v2.7).

v2.7.138
20 December 2010

• Bug fix (minor): contacts could be erroneously removed from the contacts control.

v2.7.137
20 December 2010

• RELEASE PULLED.

v2.7.136
18 December 2010

• Bug fix (minor): servers which sent blank MOTD messages caused the application to display error (assert) dialog boxes.

v2.7.135
18 December 2010

• Bug fix (minor): passing user masks to the /ignore and /unignore commands resulted in incorrect behaviour.

v2.7.134
17 December 2010

• New feature (minor): away messages are now properly formatted and appear in the active window if appropriate.

• New feature (minor): channel "no such service" messages are now sent to the channel window instead of the server window if available; this includes the message relating to sending colour codes to a channel with +c mode set.

v2.7.133
10 December 2010

• New feature (minor): /open command added which opens a new console window and connects to the given server. Usage: /open <server>[:<port>] [<identity>] [<password>]

v2.7.132
6 December 2010

• Bug fix (minor): possible upload/download speed reduction when certain (modal) dialogs were displayed.

v2.7.131
6 December 2010

• Bug fix (minor): displaying of scrollback logs was slow/erratic (cause: regression introduced in v2.7.128).

v2.7.130
1 December 2010

• Bug fix (minor): previous Bug fix included a change that may reduce GUI responsiveness slightly.

v2.7.129
30 November 2010

• Bug fix: network traffic would not be processed or be processed erratically whilst a modal dialog was displayed (cause: regression introduced in v2.7.128).

v2.7.128
16 November 2010

• Bug fix (minor): GUI would become unresponsive if a /who <channel> command was issued in a channel with lots of users.

v2.7.127
22 October 2010

• Bug fix (minor): fixed spelling mistake ("Properites" instead of "Properties").

v2.7.126
12 October 2010

• Bug fix (minor): scripting related change introduced a bug whereby unused suspended threads were created and not destroyed (regression introduced in v2.7.124).

v2.7.125
9 October 2010

• Bug fix (minor): previous change had a minor defect in implementation that did not appear to manifest any problems.

v2.7.124
9 October 2010

• New feature: option to turn on word wrapping and min/max line number specification for the input box added.

v2.7.123
1 October 2010

• Bug fix (minor): adding a keyword containing word delimiter characters whilst "Whole word only" is unchecked would result in multiple sub-keywords being added.

v2.7.122
1 October 2010

• Bug fix (minor): fixed a spelling mistake in one of the options dialogs.

v2.7.121
28 September 2010

• Bug fix (minor): if window flashing was disabled for a window the tab for that window would not indicate that there were unread messages.

v2.7.120
27 September 2010

• Bug fix (minor): clicking on irc:// links would not join the given channel if connection to the given server failed and auto connection to another server in the same network succeeded.

v2.7.119
25 September 2010

• Bug fix (minor/cosmetic): spoiler text could be visible if text outline was enabled.

v2.7.118
18 September 2010

• New feature (minor): a sound can now be played on receipt of a CTCP request, configurable in the "Miscellaneous" options dialog.

v2.7.117
18 September 2010

• Internal (minor refactor): minor code quality improvement to IRC engine including changes to prepare for scripting.

v2.7.116
17 September 2010

• Bug fix (minor/cosmetic): user activity popup could be slow to redraw (possible cause: previous Bug fixes related to scrollback log processing).

v2.7.115
17 September 2010

• Bug fix (minor/optimization): improved quality of keyword matching code.

v2.7.114
17 September 2010

• Bug fix (minor/optimization): tweaked GUI responsiveness whilst processing scrollback logs.

• Bug fix (minor): mouse cursor was not the standard arrow and small hourglass whilst processing scrollback logs in DCC chat windows.

v2.7.113
17 September 2010

• Bug fix: application would slow down more/become more unresponsive depending on how many windows were open whilst processing scrollback logs.

v2.7.112
16 September 2010

• Bug fix: application user interface would be unusable (lockup) whilst processing scrollback logs for DCC chat windows.

v2.7.111
11 September 2010

• New feature (minor): changed the appearance of the "spoiler text" box.

v2.7.110
9 September 2010

• New feature (minor): "spoiler text" is now surrounded by a box to indicate its presence which might otherwise not be obvious.

• Bug fix (minor): certain text would not display correctly in "Text Effects" dialog and theme preview control (cause: regression introduced in v2.7.106).

v2.7.109
9 September 2010

• New feature (minor): holding down the "Alt Gr" key now reveals "spoiler text".

v2.7.108
9 September 2010

• Bug fix (minor): some text elements in the "Edit Theme" dialog would not display correctly (cause: regression introduced in v2.7.106).

v2.7.107
9 September 2010

• Bug fix (minor): some text elements in the "Edit Theme" dialog would not display correctly (cause: regression introduced in v2.7.106).

v2.7.106
8 September 2010

• Bug fix (minor): text displayed with the same colour as the background colour was invisible whilst text formatted to be invisible (spoiler text) was not; the reverse is now true.

v2.7.105
8 September 2010

• RELEASE PULLED (Bug fix contained a regression).

v2.7.104
19 August 2010

• New feature (minor): Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down now perform single line scrolling of the channel/window text control.

v2.7.103
12 August 2010

• Bug fix (minor/cosmetic): if a user's full name contained formatting codes WHOIS information for that user would display incorrectly (closing parenthesis could be incorrectly formatted).

v2.7.102
10 August 2010

• Bug fix (minor): nicknames containing non-ASCII characters in the range 0x80 to 0xFF were not supported causing problems on some networks (e.g. RusNet).

v2.7.101
8 August 2010

• Bug fix (minor): a channel part message could be erroneously sent to the server when closing a channel to which the user is not currently joined.

v2.7.100
6 August 2010

• Bug fix: chat (DCC) scrollback logs did not display correctly (cause: regression introduced in v2.7.49).

v2.7.99
6 August 2010

• Bug fix: failure to connect to remote user (DCC) did not display an error message box.

• New feature (minor): attempted "Reverse / Firewall DCC" (currently unsupported) is now flagged to the user.

v2.7.98
5 August 2010

• Bug fix: previous Bug fix had a crash causing regression.

v2.7.97
5 August 2010

• Bug fix (minor): paragraph spacing could function incorrectly in column mode if format spans (for example due to crazy colours) were present.

v2.7.96
4 August 2010

• Bug fix (minor): clicking in the text buffer window would remove focus from the input box.

v2.7.95
4 August 2010

• Bug fix (minor): it was not possible to change the topic of a channel using the "Channel Properties" dialog if the user was not a channel operator.

v2.7.94
28 July 2010

• Bug fix (minor): if the user selected in the user list leaves the channel an adjacent user could then be automatically selected to whom an action could erroneously be performed (via right-click menu).

v2.7.93
16 July 2010

• New feature (minor): window now flashes when a keyword is detected.

v2.7.92
13 July 2010

• New feature (minor): hovering mouse over contacts now displays user information (if available).

v2.7.91
12 July 2010

• Bug fix (minor): program would crash when dismissing a popup menu when the menu's associated window was closed.

v2.7.90
12 July 2010

• Bug fix (minor): mouse cursor could be a hand instead of an arrow whilst displaying a right-click popup menu.

v2.7.89
11 July 2010

• Bug fix: sometimes the replies to automatic WHO requests (for away status and/or user information) are erroneously displayed in the server window.

v2.7.88
11 July 2010

• Bug fix: if a CTCP message was received in addition to other messages from an IRC server then the other messages would not be processed until a further message was received from the IRC server.

v2.7.87
4 July 2010

• Bug fix (minor): /all /echo did not echo to all IRC buffers.

v2.7.86
4 July 2010

• New feature (minor): you can now use /all with macros (i.e. issue a macro in all IRC connections/buffers).

v2.7.85
3 July 2010

• New feature (minor): added /leave command (an alias for /part).

v2.7.84
3 July 2010

• Internal (minor): improved quality of network implementation (possible performance improvement).

v2.7.83
3 July 2010

• New feature (minor): downloading file is now locked (kept open) so explorer file preview or opening the file whilst downloading can no longer cause the download to abort.

v2.7.82
1 July 2010

• Bug fix: files larger than 2GB and smaller than 4GB in size could not be transferred using DCC.

• Bug fix: GUI can become unresponsive or freeze during heavy network I/O.

v2.7.81
1 July 2010

• Bug fix (minor): unread DCC chat status messages were treated as unread normal messages in connection explorer and tab bar leading to unread message indication or erroneous tab flashing.

v2.7.80
30 June 2010

• Bug fix (minor): fixed crash if failed upload is retried after IRC server connection associated with remote user has been closed.

v2.7.79
30 June 2010

• RELEASE PULLED (reason: program version number not updated).

v2.7.78
30 June 2010

• New feature (minor): the upload failure message box now has the option to retry the upload.

• New feature (minor): the upload and download failure message boxes now display the filename of the failed transfer.

• Bug fix (minor): fixed memory leak (file transfer dialog object not deleted).

v2.7.77
29 June 2010

• New feature (minor): the user list control text labels of away users are now displayed dimmed out (previously just the icon was displayed dimmed out).

v2.7.76
27 June 2010

• Bug fix: "Window/New Window" no longer functioned.  Cause: regression introduced in v2.7.75.

v2.7.75
27 June 2010

• Bug fix: clicking on items in the connection explorer does not always set focus to the item's window.  Cause: regression introduced in v2.7.73.

v2.7.74
27 June 2010

• Bug fix (minor): "Reconnected to server" message erroneously displayed the first time a server is connected to.  Cause: regression introduced in v2.7.73.

v2.7.73
27 June 2010

• New feature (minor): during an auto-join sequence the focus now remains with the first channel joined whilst other channels are auto-joined allowing the user to place their favourite channel at the top of their auto-join list.  Feature will only work if the "Open Channel Window Immediately" checkbox in the "Tools/Options/Windows" dialog is checked.

v2.7.72
26 June 2010

• Bug fix (minor): opening a private message window (outgoing) did not use existing user information (if available) for contact matching purposes.

v2.7.71
25 June 2010

• Bug fix (minor): any pre-existing private message window appearance settings would not be updated with matching contact information.

v2.7.70
25 June 2010

• New feature (minor): private message windows are now aware of contacts; they will display using the same appearance settings if the user changes their nickname but still matches in the contact list; the contact name (if present and different to the nickname) will be displayed in the private message window title bar.

• New feature (minor): improved contact matching algorithm.

v2.7.69
25 June 2010

• Bug fix (minor): previous Bug fix caused "Joining #channel..." message to be displayed twice.

v2.7.68
24 June 2010

• Bug fix: users do not regain operator status in channels after a server reconnect due to automatic channel join commands being issued before connection script commands (containing auth commands).  Cause: regression introduced in v2.7.

v2.7.67
24 June 2010

• New feature: the order of auto-joins can now be set using the new "Move Up" and "Move Down" buttons in the "Manage Auto-Joins" dialog.

v2.7.66
23 June 2010

• Bug fix: fixed possible cause of crashes during program shutdown if user activity pop-up window is visible.

v2.7.65
23 June 2010

• Bug fix (minor): "Display contact groups" checkbox was displayed truncated in the Miscellaneous Options dialog.

v2.7.64
23 June 2010

• Bug fix: /whois channel information channel links to which a user's channel mode is prefixed either go to the wrong channel (&#channel and +#channel instead of #channel) or aren't linked at all (~#channel, @#channel, and %#channel).

• Bug fix (minor): the @ symbol is missing between the user's ident (~user) and host (my.isp.com) in the whois information. A space is in its place.

• Bug fix (minor): if ERR_NOCHANMODES or ERR_NOSUCHCHANNEL is received and you have not joined the channel any associated channel buffer is now closed.

v2.7.63
13 June 2010

• Internal (minor refactor): improved quality of HTTP implementation.

• Bug fix (minor): regression introduced in v2.7.52 HTTP implementation prevented program installer download progress bar from working correctly.

v2.7.62
12 June 2010

• Bug fix (minor): fixed minor defect in HTTP implementation that should not have manifested any problems (a case sensitive comparison of the transfer encoding token was incorrectly used).

v2.7.61
12 June 2010

• Bug fix: The server list could not always be downloaded from the ClicksAndWhistles server due to lack of support for HTTP "chunked" transfer encoding (support for which has now been added).

v2.7.60
12 June 2010

• Bug fix (minor): if server list download was incomplete or corrupt "Server list download successful" message box would be incorrectly displayed.

v2.7.59
12 June 2010

• Bug fix (minor): "Remove" and "Properties" buttons in "Manage Keywords and Emoticons" dialog would behave incorrectly if both keyword and emoticon list items have been selected.

v2.7.58
31 May 2010

• Bug fix (minor): regression introduced in v2.7.57 prevented /all /me emote from a server window from working.

v2.7.57
31 May 2010

• Bug fix (minor): /me emote command could be initiated from a server window.

• Bug fix (minor/internal): fixed a defect in the source code which did not appear to manifest any problems.

v2.7.56
31 May 2010

• New feature (minor): Ctrl-T can now be used to minimize to tray.

v2.7.55
30 May 2010

• New feature (minor): /autorejoin [on|off|?] command added which enables the client to automatically rejoin a channel after being kicked.

v2.7.54
28 May 2010

• Bug fix (minor): US language version did not have status bar command indication for "View Log..." and "New Console".

• Bug fix (minor): UK language version displayed incorrect status bar command indication for "View Log...".

v2.7.53
23 May 2010

• Bug fix: fixed cause of possible crash during program shutdown.  Cause: regression introduced in v2.7.49.

v2.7.52
23 May 2010

• New feature (minor): "Group List" renamed to "Contacts", "Group List Entry" renamed to "Contact" and similar related string changes.

• New feature (minor): "New Contact..." menu item added to Contacts control right click menu.

v2.7.51
18 May 2010

• Bug fix (minor): some new Twitter code was not disabled (Twitter support not yet ready).

v2.7.50
17 May 2010

• New feature: You can now use "Ctrl +" and "Ctrl -" keys to zoom in/out (changes font size).

v2.7.49
17 May 2010

• New feature (minor): DCC chat and download dialogs now have keyboard shortcuts "Y", "N" and "I".

• Bug fix: tiling a small background image was too slow.

• Bug fix: blank lines would cause an "assertion" crash when loading scrollback logs.

• Bug fix (minor): DCC chat and download dialogs had more than one default button.

• Bug fix (minor): "/web" command now works from a DCC window even if there are no IRC connections.

v2.7.48
10 April 2010

• Bug fix: Closing a notice window tab caused a crash.

• Bug fix (minor): Closing a server window tab when there are no other windows for the connection did not perform a disconnection query if server window was previously hidden.

v2.7.47
1 April 2010

• Bug fix (minor): "No such nick" and "No such channel" messages are now sent to relevant window (if it exists) rather than the server window.

v2.7.46
1 April 2010

• Bug fix: certain Unicode character combinations could cause a crash.

v2.7.45
12 March 2010

• Bug fix (minor): sometimes the scrollback log divider line would not be displayed by the text control (column display mode).

• Bug fix (minor/cosmetic): improved the appearance of the scrollback log divider line in column display mode.

• Internal: changed how to decide when to process incoming IRC messages during heavy GUI activity.

v2.7.44
11 March 2010

• Bug fix (regression): fix in v2.7.38 would cause crashes when closing connections.

v2.7.43
11 March 2010

• Bug fix: fix in v2.7.38 would prevent IRC messages from being processed whilst scrollback logs are restored.

v2.7.42
11 March 2010

• Internal: removed debugging code accidentally left in previous release.

v2.7.41
11 March 2010

• Bug fix: fixed cause of crashes when a text buffer contains maximum number of lines in column display mode.

v2.7.40
11 March 2010

• Bug fix (minor/cosmetic): fixed possible text control drawing problem.

v2.7.39
11 March 2010

• Bug fix: "/amsg" would only send the first two words of the message.  Cause: problem with implementation of "/all".

v2.7.38
10 March 2010

• Bug fix: fixed cause of freezes and/or sluggish responsiveness when joining channels with lots of users when "Get user information" was enabled.  The freezes were worse on slower computers.

v2.7.37
10 March 2010

• New feature: new console windows can now be opened without connecting to a server ("File/New Console").

• New feature (minor): connection explorer DCC chat items now flash if a keyword is mentioned.

• Internal (refactor): code changes in support of upcoming Twitter support.

v2.7.36
8 March 2010

• Internal (minor refactor): code review uncovered some minor QA problems with the code.  No defects fixed or new features added.

v2.7.35
8 March 2010

• RELEASE PULLED.

v2.7.34
6 March 2010

• Bug fix (minor): there was no limit on the number of characters you could enter for an alternate nickname in the identity dialog.

v2.7.33
5 March 2010

• Bug fix (minor): regression caused background images to not be displayed if the buffer text window was smaller than the image.

v2.7.32
4 March 2010

• New feature (minor): channel notices can now display differently to user notices (channel now appears in parentheses by default).  For users who are upgrading (rather than doing a fresh install) to get this behaviour they should toggle the "Notice message" checkbox twice in "Tools/Options/Messages".

v2.7.31
4 March 2010

• Bug fix (minor): notices sent to channels were treated the same as notices sent to you, they now appear in the channel buffer instead of the active buffer or the server buffer unless the notice buffer has been enabled.

v2.7.30
1 March 2010

• Bug fix (minor): it was not possible to enter a long alternate nickname in the identity dialog.

• Internal (minor refactor): internal code change (HTTP) in preparation for adding OAuth support for Twitter support.

v2.7.29
27 February 2010

• Internal: updated after source code reorganization allowing IRC engine to become open source.

v2.7.28
26 February 2010

• Bug fix (minor): text would display incorrectly if crazy colours were enabled and the nickname in a message was formatted with formatting codes.

v2.7.27
24 February 2010

• New feature (minor): added support for buggy IRC servers that send LF instead of CRLF.

v2.7.26
24 February 2010

• Bug fix (minor): users upgrading from a version prior to v2.7 could see their auto-joins stop working if associated server network and/or server names were overwritten with different names from the new online server list.

v2.7.25
22 February 2010

• Bug fix: overlapping windows would not redraw correctly in MDI (unmaximized) mode during activation/deactivation.

v2.7.24
22 February 2010

• Bug fix (minor): mouse pointer would remain an hourglass until the mouse was moved if over the channel list in the channel list dialog and channel list download was complete.

v2.7.23
22 February 2010

• Bug fix (minor/cosmetic): reduced flicker in the channel list dialog.

• Bug fix (minor): channel count control in the channel list dialog would not update correctly if a search term was present.

v2.7.22
22 February 2010

• New feature (minor): channel list is now cached and a "Refresh" button has been added to the channel list dialog.

v2.7.21
19 February 2010

• Bug fix (minor): improved text selection behaviour if mouse pointer is moved outside the bounds of the text control window.

v2.7.20
11 February 2010

• Bug fix (minor): you no longer have to set the appropriate font script for right-to-left language text to be displayed in the correct order.

v2.7.19
11 February 2010

• Bug fix (minor/cosmetic): increased column border width for "Column" display mode.

v2.7.18
11 February 2010

• Bug fix: toggling a custom message for "Column" display mode in "Tools/Options/Messages" did not reset it to the default "Column" display mode message.

• New feature (minor): changed default standard message for "Column" display mode to display nicknames as "foo" and not "<foo>".

v2.7.17
11 February 2010

• Bug fix: DCC chat windows displayed text incorrectly in "Column" display mode.

v2.7.16
8 February 2010

• New feature (minor): window and tab flashing can now be turned off for an individual window.

v2.7.15
5 February 2010

• Bug fix: channels with certain characters in their name could not be joined from the channel list dialog (cause: regression introduced in v2.7.8).

v2.7.14
5 February 2010

• Bug fix: the channel list dialog would display channels incorrectly if sorting by user count or topic.

• Bug fix (minor/cosmetic): tidied up the program icons.

v2.7.13
4 February 2010

• Bug fix (minor): fixed possible cause of application hangs on shutdown (cause: GDI+ startup/shutdown being called from DllMain).  This bug is minor as it doesn't appear to manifest any problems in current versions.

v2.7.12
31 January 2010

• Bug fix (minor/cosmetic): two identd configuration controls in the "Tools/Options/Connection" dialog overlapped slightly.

• Bug fix (minor): it was possible to choose "Other" as an identd user ID type without entering a user ID.

v2.7.11
30 January 2010

• Bug fixes (minor): code review uncovered some QA problems with the code.  The defects fixed do not appear to manifest any problems.

v2.7.10
30 January 2010

• New feature (minor): "Open" favourite added to "Organize Favourites" dialog.

• New feature (minor): "Disconnect" added to "File" menu and toolbar.

• New feature (minor): "Stay connected to xxx" changed to "Disconnect from xxx".

v2.7.9
27 January 2010

• Bug fix (documentation): The redistributable (install package) did not conform to the OpenSSL license requirement of including the phrase "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)."

v2.7.8
26 January 2010

• New feature: "UTF-8" encoding mode renamed to "Mixed" as it sends characters which are in the range U+0080 to U+00FF (after conversion according to current regional settings) unencoded.  A new encoding mode called "UTF-8" has been added which always does UTF-8 encoding ignoring current regional settings.  "Mixed" remains the default encoding mode.

v2.7.7
22 January 2010

• Bug fix (minor): when copying text to clipboard the last line's CR/LF characters where also copied resulting in an extra blank line (cause: regression introduced in v2.7).

v2.7.6
22 January 2010

• Bug fix (minor): connection monitor entries displayed incorrectly when in column display mode (tabs caused words to be concatenated).

v2.7.5
22 January 2010

• New feature (minor): auto-updates now defaults to enabled.

• Bug fix (optimization): window resizing could be sluggish.

• Bug fix (minor): help channel URL was not being downloaded.

• Bug fix (minor): copyright message was out of date.

v2.7.4
21 January 2010

• Bug fix: if the first line was highlighted or had a background colour it would draw incorrectly in "column" display mode.

v2.7.3
21 January 2010

• Bug fix: a highlighted line would draw incorrectly in "column" display mode (regression introduced in v2.7.2).

v2.7.2
21 January 2010

• Bug fix: previous Bug fix caused a new regression.

v2.7.1
21 January 2010

• Bug fix: a highlighted line would cause subsequent lines to also be drawn highlighted (regression introduced in v2.7).

v2.7
21 January 2010

• New feature: column display mode added.

• New feature: SSL support added.

• New feature: automatic updates added (program and server list).

• New feature: server list can now be downloaded via the Manage Servers dialog.

• New feature: embedded web browser (IE) added, hold down Ctrl whilst clicking a hyperlink to open browser in a C&W tab.

• New feature: "bevel" text effect added in addition to two new themes, "Slate" and "Candy".

• New feature: emoticon support added, keywords can now be replaced with an image.

• New feature (minor): away status indication added.

• New feature (minor): UTF-8 is now the default encoding format (only affects fresh installs).

• New feature (minor): default font is now the shell font instead of Arial (only affects fresh installs).

• New feature (minor): server list is now stored in an XML file.

• New feature (minor): /version request should now return "Windows 7" for OS type when running on Windows 7.

• New feature (minor): you can now issue IRC commands from a DCC chat window if the IRC connection is still present.

• New feature (minor): JPEG and GIF image support added.

• New feature (minor): "View Log..." added to "File" menu, tab right-click and Connection Explorer right-click.

• New feature (minor): "View Log..." now available for DCC chat windows.

• New feature (minor): macros can now be added to user context menus.

• New feature (minor): up and down arrows now work when the channel text control has focus.

• New feature (minor): /finduser user search command added.

• New feature (minor): ":ip" macro parameter now returns just the host name.  /clones macro added that utilizes this change which finds all users with same host name as given user. ":id" or ":who" returns what ":ip" used to return.

• New feature (minor): channel windows can now be opened immediately on a join command rather than waiting for join to complete.

• New feature (minor): channel properties dialog is now modeless (allows you to chat whilst it is open).

• New feature (minor): channel properties dialog now displays the date a mode entry (e.g. ban) was set.

• Bug fix (minor): double clicking on a message in the Connection Monitor or activity pop-up window did not scroll to the message correctly if paragraph spacing was enabled.

• Bug fix (minor): keyword sounds were not played in DCC chat.

• Bug fix (minor): if flood prevention was enabled commands could be delayed unnecessarily.

• Bug fix (minor): incorrect user information could be displayed in the status bar when moving the mouse over a message nickname for a user who has quit/parted.

• Bug fix (minor): the user group explorer would not always display an item highlighted when right-clicked.

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