Quassel IRC v0.5.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2009-10-14 // over 14 years ago
    • ๐Ÿ›  Tons of bugfixes
    • โšก๏ธ Many translation updates
    • ๐Ÿ‘‰ Use DrKonqi/Apport to provide backtraces in case of a crash
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Support for Ayatana's Message Indicator (libindicate; *buntu specific feature for now)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix wordwrap issues
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improved notification behavior (highlighted channels can now be cycled)
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improved icon packaging (don't install them if KDE is available and current enough)
    • Menubar can now be hidden (Ctrl+M to toggle)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Ignore list support
    • ๐ŸŽ Vast performance improvements in the handling of synced objects
      • Core startup/shutdown now almost instant
      • Joining/leaving large channels much more efficient
    • Netsplit detection
    • ๐Ÿ†• New topic widget dynamically resizes to show all of the topic
    • Usability tweaks
      • Reworked configuration dialogs
      • Renamed "Buffer" to "Chat" throughout in all user-visible strings
    • ๐Ÿ’… Introduce stylesheet-based (QSS) styling for ChatView and the whole application
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Allow configuration of ping timeouts and auto-WHO
    • ๐Ÿ”ง Make toolbars configurable in KDE
    • Alt+A shortcut for jumping to cycle through active buffers
    • Properly remember the mainwindow state on shutdown/restart
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Multiline input support
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improved systray notifications
    • Lazy backlog fetching for hidden buffers
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improved flood control
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Spell check support (requires KDE integration)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ /exec support for executing external scripts/programs
    • CLI interface for managing core users with quasselcore rather than a script
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improved ping timeout detection
    • ๐Ÿ‘ PostgreSQL database backend support
    • Smart nickname completion (most recently active)