- Updated Swedish translation (Christian Rose).
- Updated Russian translation (Anton Farygin).
- Added Latvian translation (Artis Trops).
- Made a work-around for a refresh glitch when delinking a tab under
gnome (the topic bar was overlapped).
- Fixed the need for signed chars (e.g. on PPC and s390).
- Fixed background garbage being drawn when using hidden tabs.
- Cleaned up alot of the nick completion code. Fixed some behaviour
too (Mukund, dinkles, me).
- Connect Cmd is executed again if you get auto-reconnected.
- Added safe-gaurd to stop duplicate nicks in userlist.
- Added an option to automatically remove finished/failed dccs
from the list. Use /set dcc_remove ON to enable it.
- Added an option to truncate long channel tabs. Use:
/set truncchans xx, where xx is the max chars (Jyrki Muukkonen).
- Made the default popup menu, dialog buttons, userlist buttons,
usermenu and urlhandlers translatable (via gettext).
- MMX tinting is now built on any x86 machine (it's checked at
runtime anyway).
- Added "Automatic Unmark Away" option in setup->away (Mads Martin).
- Immediately abort file transfers when out of space.
- Fixed a serious CTCP reply vulnerability (Hanno Hecker).
- Updated Danish translation (Morten Brix Pedersen).
- Updated Spanish translation (Antonio de la Torre).
- Updated French translation (Olivier Berger).
- The server "Connect cmd" is now executed before auto-join-channels,
so you can use it to authenticate to nickserv etc.
- Fixed autoresume again, for the last time... no, really.
- Fixed sending parts for all channels instead of one quit when you
exit the whole program (helps bncs).
- Autocomplete in the middle of a sentence won't jump to the end of
the textbox (Darell Tan).
- Fixed the buggy 1.8.5 outbound queue. It now sends privmsg/notice
with a lower priority, but never out-of-order.
- Updated Slovak translation (Stano Visnovsky).
- Updated Swedish translation (Christian Rose).
- Updated Spanish translation (Antonio de la Torre).
- Updated Hebrew translation (Dan Fruehauf).
- Some fixes to the MODE parser.
- Added ability to customize dialog tab buttons (Oskar Liljeblad).
- Added an extra field in the EditServer window to enter a command
to execute after logging in.
- /load -e <file> can now load a file of commands to execute.
- Added ability to change the log timestamp format (Jyrki Muukkonen).
- Fixed default keybinding for Shift-PageUp (Mukund).
- Changed the outbound throttle behaviour. Now only privmsgs and
notices go to the back of the queue, everything else goes to the
front.
- Made it possible to compile with older than 5.6 perl again.
- The main window's size and position is now saved on exit. Use
/set mainwindow_save OFF to revert to the old behaviour.
- Avoid auto-resuming the same file from two different people
(without breaking autoresume this time).
- Removed /sslserver and added a -ssl arg to /server, /reconnect,
/servchan and /newserver.
- Added support for /server irc://host:port/channel.
- Added some mmx asm code written by Willem Monsuwe for tinting
transparency. Use --disable-mmx to revert to gdk-pixbuf method.
- Fixed resetting your away status after an auto-reconnect.
- Updated Spanish translation (Antonio de la Torre and Manuel
García Aguilar).
- Updated Russian translation (Valek Filippov).
- Fixed lockup when a file being offered is shortened before being
accepted.
- Fixed ** ERROR **: file python.c: line 743 (pysH_Eget_users):
assertion failed: (cur->hostname).
- /kickban now deops and bans in one line (-o+b) (Felix Nawothnig).
- Auto-nickcompletion now uses the nicksuffix setting (Mukund).
- win32: change log-filenames with a | character to _.
- When binding to a set hostname/ip, it would try to bind to port
65535 - fixed.
- Fixed crash when closing a dcc chat in a perl-dcc-chat-callback.
- Added option "Beep on Channel Messages" and a Beep button to the
toolbox ("<" button in the botton right) (Jason Wies).
- Avoid auto-resuming the same file from two different people.
- /close -m now closes all dialog/query windows.
- xtext: marked text goes to clipboard aswell as primary selection.
- xtext: some speedup optimizations.
- xtext: fixed a problem when rendering a fixed-width font with
missing chars.
- Fixed hints for "You're kicked" text event, which showed the $ vars
incorrectly.
- When a user is seen to quit or join a channel you're in, your
notify list will be modified instantly. No notify textevent is
shown if it happened in the front-most tab (Alexander Hvostov).
- Fixed binding server connects to different interface/address
(ipv4 only) (Claus Riemann).
- Avoid negative ping timeout when system clock changes.
- Updated Italian translation (Stefano Fava).
- Updated Spanish translation (Antonio de la Torre).
- Added text event "Channel Notice" so you can differentiate between
private and channel notices (Fuentes Xavier).
- Added ability to dcc send filenames with spaces. See "Fill Spaces"
setting in Setup->File Transfer (Fuentes Xavier).
- Included some makefiles for ms visual c.
1.6.x release are:
- A new banlist window.
- Support for ircd numeric 005 and dynamic channel/nick modes.
- Uses WATCH command for notify list when available (like on Dalnet).
- Http proxy support.
- Throttle meter.
- Perl errors no longer stop xchat, just the script itself.
- Perl scripts can now use modules successfully.
- Efficiency improvements and bug fixes to xchat's text widget: xtext.
- IPv6 support.
- Lots of new foreign language translations.
- Japanese code conversion (Kanji locale <=> JIS translation).
- Compiles on win32.
