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Linkinus Changelog

What's new in Linkinus 2.4.3

Apr 18, 2012
  • Fixed an issue with the way Growl alerts were handled by Linkinus
  • Updated Growl to the latest version
  • Improved compatibility with Mountain Lion

New in Linkinus 2.4.2 (Nov 7, 2011)

  • Fixed an issue where Linkinus would fail to read proper proxy settings from System Preferences

New in Linkinus 2.4.1 (Sep 27, 2011)

  • Fixes an issue with the channel creation panel
  • Fixes an issue with the shortcut assignment panel

New in Linkinus 2.4 (Aug 24, 2011)

  • [Core changes]
  • Full screen: Added full-screen support for Lion
  • Gestures: Added 2/4 finger swipe left/right to switch channel selection
  • Dock: Added Connect All and Disconnect All actions in the Dock menu
  • Main window: Added current nickname in the title bar
  • Logs: moved logs from the Documents folder to the Application Support/Linkinus 2/Logs folder
  • Added /list Channel List Sorting options
  • Resolved issue with BlowFish encryption losing the exchanged key during a /keyx sessions
  • Resolved issue with Inspector sometimes appearing blank
  • Resolved issue with drag & drop rearranging of offline queries
  • Removed incorrect resizers on Preferences window
  • [Updated] SysInfo:
  • Improved UI
  • Resolved issue which could lead to customized fields to be displayed in the output regardless of preference
  • Bundled /netinfo command with native speed and proper formatting
  • [New] XSysInfo Script
  • Written by Xeon3D. This is a more detailed, more nerdy version of the SysInfo command
  • /xsysinfo
  • [New] Spotify Now playing Script
  • /spotify
  • [New] Colorme Script
  • /colorme #COLOR TEXTHERE
  • /colorme colorlist
  • Example: /color #blue I'm the color blue!
  • Color List: black navy green red brown purple orange yellow lime teal aqua blue fuchsia grey silver white
  • [Updated] Slap Script
  • Fixed typos in some of the pre-canned slaps
  • [Updated] Weather Script
  • Removed last updated time from the output
  • [Updated] Getscript
  • No longer requires Growl
  • Script install status report is now displayed
  • /getscript -all will now properly pull down and update all available scripts
  • [Update] Simplified:
  • Resolved issue which could lead to duplicate messages being displayed
  • Added support for spotify: links
  • [Update] Midnight, Control, Circus:
  • Resolved issue which could lead to duplicate messages being displayed
  • Replaced unreadable green nickname colors
  • Removed embedding on Amazon.com and IMDB results.
  • Resolved issue which prevented text from being linkified under certain circumstances
  • Resolved issue which prevented CloudApp, Droplr, Instrgram, Pastie.org, Gist, and other embedding to show under certain circumstances
  • Added support for spotify: links
  • [Update] I Are Sea!:
  • Resolved issue which could lead to duplicate messages being displayed
  • Added support for spotify: links
  • [Update] Erstwhile:
  • Resolved issue which could lead to duplicate messages being displayed
  • Resolved issue which could lead to YouTube links not being displayed
  • Added support for spotify: links
  • [Updated] Whisper:
  • Removed embedding on Amazon.com and IMDB results.
  • Resolved issue which prevented text from being linkified under certain circumstances
  • Resolved issue which prevented CloudApp, Droplr, Instrgram, Pastie.org, Gist, and other embedding to show under certain circumstances
  • Added support for spotify: links

New in Linkinus 2.3.3 (Jul 6, 2011)

  • Improved sensibility to changes in Internet/router connectivity
  • Fixed a glitch where the message 'Connections went offline' was shown mistakenly
  • Updated Growl to 1.2.2

New in Linkinus 2.3.2 (Apr 11, 2011)

  • More aggressive auto-reconnect in case of unstable network connections
  • Fixed a bug where default part messages wouldn't be displayed when parting channels
  • Timestamp customization (Styles preferences)
  • Updated /paste and /ppaste scripts
  • New style variant: Simplified Stealth
  • More scrollback size options
  • Updated IRCnet default servers list
  • Whisper: fixed issue where the first message of a query could be displayed twice

New in Linkinus 2.3.1 (Mar 15, 2011)

  • Timestamp customization (Styles preferences)
  • Updated /paste and /ppaste scripts
  • New style variant: Simplified Stealth
  • More scrollback size options
  • Updated IRCnet default servers list
  • Whisper: fixed issue where the first message of a query could be displayed twice

New in Linkinus 2.3 (Mar 3, 2011)

  • Fixed actions logging (/me)
  • Improved Highlights management performance
  • Auto-join/auto-connect behavior can now be implicit or explicit. If implicit is chosen, all newly added channels/connections will be auto-joined/auto-connected by default. If explicit is chosen, new items are never auto-joined on launch unless you manually opt-in in the Inspector. (Preferences > Status)
  • Fixed race conditions when buffering channels on launch
  • Fixed an issue where some channels would appear blank
  • Improved /shell script and new /vshell script - a big thanks to Till Theis!

New in Linkinus 2.2.2 (Feb 2, 2011)

  • Added an option to the toggle the Shift+Enter new line functionality (Preferences > Keyboard)
  • New style: Erstwhile
  • Fixed an issue when a channel's ban list wouldn't appear when requested
  • Fixed /weather
  • Whisper style: Fixed issue with which could cause HTML to be rendered with embedded pasties
  • Whisper style: Fixed issue which could prevent links from being clickable under certain circumstances
  • Whisper style: Fixed issue which could lead to Flickr URLs not being replaced correctly when closing embeds
  • Whisper style: Added Droplr embedding
  • Whisper style: Added feature which keeps nicknames colored the same under most channels
  • Added an option to close all queries when quitting the app (Preferences > Status > Clear Queries on Quit)
  • Closing the 'New Filter' sheet using the red button doesn't cause any issues anymore
  • The menu widget can now display a 'busy' state (new messages) even if blinking is disabled

New in Linkinus 2.2 (Jan 4, 2011)

  • Greatly improved overall performance and CPU usage: Greatly is an understatement at its best. Speed and responsiveness have increased by several orders of magnitude!
  • Multi-line input field: Requested long ago, finally implemented. Note this only works if you have enough vertical space beneath the application window.
  • Channel listing up to 20 times more responsive
  • Better support for /who and /names
  • Revamped IRC identities – set them up the Preferences: One place to set them all, one place to find them, one place to bring them all and in the preferences bind them
  • Updated Styles: This includes new embed features for e.g. Whisper (instragr.am and cloudapp). Also the classic Simplified is going through rejuvenation!
  • Improved support for systemwide SOCKS proxy
  • Added UPnP support for file transfers
  • Fixed issues with PCRE regular expression supports in Highlights: You can now fully enjoy being highlighted all across IRC because your malformed regular expression finally works as expected!
  • Fixed an issue where Filters wouldn’t stick across sessions, not to mention that we decided to take pity on the poor souls who wanted to add new filters and henceforth provide an appropriate button for precisely this
  • Fixed IRC Quit messages
  • Fixed an issue where the main window would be blank on first launch
  • Added shortcut to clear all queries
  • Improved contextual menus relevance
  • Added an option to hide the ‘Groups’ button in the title bar
  • Improved SSL support
  • Faster processing of bouncers backscroll
  • Fixed a bug preventing users from removing certain channels or queries (‘phantom channels’)
  • Improved ‘/msg nick’ with no content
  • Allowed the main window to resize to a smaller size
  • Greatly improved DCC support
  • Now up to 1000 (that’s a thousand for those that can’t read Arabic numbers) lines of backlog per channel
  • Updated SysInfo plugin
  • MOAR, specifically, more options for queries and channels, including Growl/sound muting
  • /mark … mark my words (slow clap) here comes a command you can use to add a marker to the current channel
  • /delay (a new plugin) that enables you to delay execution of commands e.g. when chaining them in the alias section
  • Fixed a bug where Agent status items wouldn't launch and select channels when clicked
  • Fixed a legacy issue where importing previous preferences would create 'Console' channels
  • Fixed a bug where renaming a network wouldn't show changes until connections go offline
  • Fixed a bug where removing channels from the UI wouldn't actually part them
  • Fixed a sleep/wake reattach UI crash
  • Smoothed out the sending of /who and /mode commands upon joining channels to avoid excess flood in connections with numerous channels
  • Fixed minor log viewer issues
  • Fixed a bug where the 'Linkinus 2 Logs' folder would be created even when logging was off
  • 'Join on kick' is now disabled on new channels by default

New in Linkinus 2.1.2 (Jan 21, 2010)

  • Added list-only mode and icon/list toggle to Network Picker.
  • Added list-only mode and icon/list toggle to Channel List.
  • Added list-only mode and icon/list toggle to Ban List.
  • Fixed a GUI crash when connecting to certain servers.

New in Linkinus 2.1.1 (Jan 11, 2010)

  • Added support for +z channel mode
  • Added option to choose the destination of incoming notices: disabled, new query, console, current channel. (see Miscellaneous prefs)
  • Added lnkdebug script
  • Memory management improvements
  • Fixed issues when miniaturizing the main window

New in Linkinus 2.1 (Nov 2, 2009)

  • Plain-text logging
  • Rich-text logs pruning
  • New Determinate and cancelable logs import assistant
  • Added "last-spoke order" nickname completion option
  • Fixed a crash while importing certain logs
  • Fixed a bug whereby the Network Picker wouldn't load properly on Leopard
  • Disable menubar updates on per-channel basis (Ticket #642)
  • Whisper 2.1 changes:
  • Fixed issue with imgur.com (Ticket #927)
  • Usernames ending with d no longer cause unwanted emoticons when using tab completion
  • Resolved numerous url linkifying issues
  • Added support for TwitPic and img.ly embedding
  • Switched short url expansion service to longurlplease.com, supporting 75 services including bit.ly, cli.gs, digg.com, is.gd, j.mp, kl.am, su.pr, tinyurl.com, and many more.
  • Short urls are only expanded to the previous size of the short url, hover over for a tooltip with the full url
  • Dismissing embeds no longer replaces the original url with a direct url to the embedded content
  • Audio embedding now utilizes the built-in Mac OS X audio playback mechanisms, and allow for dismissal
  • Embedded pasties, now with the ability to dismiss them
  • Preliminary support for github gists. Currently only RAW urls trigger embedded pastie.
  • Performance enhancements

New in Linkinus 1.3 (Jun 2, 2008)

  • 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

New in Linkinus 1.2.3 (May 4, 2008)

  • Many improvements and bugfixes for Tiger users
  • 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
  • [#242] 9067: New Log System Eats Logs
  • [#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