The latest version of xchat for windows is out and looks to be all about making the interfaces a lot cleaner and more bling bling, while there have been one or two introductions to none gui functions such as several auth methods introduced and two plugin fixes brought into the code, this one is all about the gui as there are a fair amount of changes the changelog is appended to the read more of this post.

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The latest version of KvIRC's stable branch has hit the downloads and has been in the works for quite some time. There is a whole list of features most of them concerning how KvIRC integrates with your desktop, its themeing ability and all new statusbar applets. the announcement reads like so:

Happy Easter! ;)

Here we go with another release :)

This one took a very long time but, well, finally it's here.

Notable new features of this release include:

• improved themeing support
• better desktop integration
• nicer support for many different IRC servers
• a totally revised option layout
• basic support for script "addons"
• improved help subsystem
• new nice statusbar applets
• improved scripting engine
• improved windows and macosx support
• ....

There is also a lot of small new details that you will find out by yourself while playing around and finally we obviously also have a huge number of bugfixes.

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This is actually a post i missed some time ago the Autumn leaves project ( PHP IRC Bot ) not only renamed itself into the more simple 'Autumn' project but also reworked and recoded its entire framework from the ground up support many new functions and a brand new shiney API. There have however been 3 releases since i missed the initial conversion You will find the latest changelogs for the versions we missed attached to this changelog, once again many apologies for missing this one.

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The next major version of WeeChat has already got underway with the announcement on the WeeChat homepage stating that ther eis to be a whole new line of development which will make the client not only quicker but more portable than ever. One of the screenshots on the wikipage shows Weechat with a scripted version of the age old game Tetris dubbed WeeTris being played while chatting in IRC showing the extendability of the client. The official announcement reads like so:

Next WeeChat version (codename "revolution") is under development. Large part of code was rewritten, it's now faster, easier, and more extensible. List of new features and screenshots can be found on wiki page (see link below).

Today there's no planed release date, some features are still missing, and there's lot of work until a stable version. We need help, like beta testers, to test this version. You can look at wiki page for more info.

To be continued in some months for other news...

• • Wiki page about development

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The administration has voted in favour of granting Twilight* a testlink. Warm welcome to Twilight.MY.Galaxynet.org and its admin Panda^_^!

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Linkinus the popular mac based client has released its latest version in the form of 1.2.2 this version comes with a huge changelog of fixed and added items in a brief oveview the updates include but are not limited too: performance improvements, NickServ support, ability to send notices to .. anywhere.. a new default realname, fixes to the paste bin script and a hell of a lot more. The changelog as ever has been placed below as well as the file being found in our downloads section for support you can visit our forums. Remember this is a shareware client so after a 30 days of usage you must register the client.

 

• 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

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Oddly i missed this one and was totally unaware there had been a release, it was Chain whom prompted me to the release of the latest version via his post on the forums here - so rather than me waffle on about a release i knew nothing about, here is the mIRC announcement as it stands.

This version of mIRC builds on recent releases by focusing on stability and reliability and addressing the various issues that have been reported by users since the last release. It includes cosmetic changes to the interface, fixes, optimizations, and improvements to the scripting language.

In particular, mIRC can now handle longer nick names, channel names, and messages, as well as longer variable values in the scripting language.

Various other changes include:

• Added support for network-specific window position saving.
• Fixed mouse wheel handling of scrolling with high resolution mice.
• A "Check for Updates" option has been added to the mIRC Help menu to automatically check for new versions of mIRC.
• Optimized INI file handling to only update those parts of a file that have changed. This decreases file writes and speeds up a number of features in mIRC, including USB drive usage.
• Improved display speed of text in all windows.
• Fixed multi-byte text-wrapping display issues.
• Fixed and optimized a number of @window display features, including the way tabstops are handled.
• Improved unicode support in the $mp3() identifier.

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A new version of leafchat has come around once again this time in the form of 2.1 there are one or two new features but a hell of a lot of changes in all departments, some from user reports, some just issues, some auto reported bugs - similar to the way the xchat windows version works and some API changes which plugin coders will be interested in.

The highlighted changes in this release are:

• Channel user status display
• Away status handling
• Automatically close spare windows
• popup notification events

The changes appear to be rather well accepted by the community as leafchat ( excuse the poor word play ) turns over yet another new leaf ( i know, sorry ) The change log as ever has been attached, note it has been broke across several pages as its .. big! and the downloads have been attached ( in order of os lin, win, osx)

 

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GalaxyNet has turned 13 today unlucky for some, not so bad for them. The network has over its years never been far from the top of the pile and often has had its fair share of issues but for the most part they have been overcome. Last year i forgot the date and failed to post on the birthday so this time around i made it a post hast point to ensure i remembered it!

So from all at IRCNews to all involved behind and around the Galaxynet scene "happy birthday to you... happy birthday to you ... happppyyyy birthday galaxyyyyyyy..net ... happy birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Singing was never our strong point over here, so i think in the future we will just stick the news huh

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A historic moment for the network Enter The Game, I'm quite certain there will be a big party with lots of cookies and a fair amount of m00'ing done as ETG celebrates its first decade in operation. Quite a feat really as most networks don't last beyond the first year. ETG has always and will always be a gamers network but it does have some friendly residence for the none gaming side of things too!

So we would like to wish all at ETG a very well done and congratulations on reaching the magic 10th year and hope you will ensure there are a further 10 more years in the old network yet.

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