* A bug that caused left-to-right text contained in lines determined to be right-to-left text to appear reversed has been fixed.
* Whether a line is treated as right-to-left vs. left-to-right text is now determined by the amount of each type of character in the line, improving the user experience in chats involving bi-directional text considerably.
* The "Edit Network" dialog has been refined for clarity and ease of use.
* A warning dialog to prevent accidentally quitting Konversation has been added.
* The Auto Replace list can now be sorted.
* The '/media' script command now sports improved player recognition, enhanced and easier configurability, the ability to distinguish between audio and video media as well as newly added support for kdetv. New '/audio' and '/video' command aliases have been added to expose these new abilities.
* The lower boundary of the default DCC port range has been raised from 1025 to 1026 to avoid conflicts with the commonly blocked Windows RPC port 1025.
* Dismissing an OSD notification by clicking on it will now also cancel the systray notification flash.
* A new configuration file option [OSD]OSDCheckDesktopLock has been added, allowing to manually disable the screensaver check in non-KDE environments that do not support it, causing the OSD not to be displayed.
* A bug that could lead to the "Switch to" sub-menu in the context menus of tabs not to be updated properly upon switching tabs has been fixed.
* A bug that caused the 'irc setBack' DCOP call not to function has been fixed.
* A bug that caused ampersands in the names of tabs not to be displayed and an immediately following character to be used as keyboard accelerator has been fixed.
* A bug that caused ignoring nicknames with '[' or ']' characters in them to fail has been fixed.
* Command aliases containing regular expression syntax can no longer cause built-in commands not to function.
* A bug that caused the Konversation irc:// protocol handler not to function has been fixed. Its compatibility with systems that do not use the GNU bash shell as default shell has been improved.
* A notable number of code quality improvements suggested by KDEs automated quality control service EBN have been implemented.
since they always need a C compiler, even when the source code is
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Features
* Standard IRC features
* SSL server support
* Bookmarking support
* Easy to use graphical user interface
* Multiple servers and channels in one single window
* DCC file transfer
* Multiple identities for different servers
* Text decorations and colors
* OnScreen Display for notifications
* Automatic UTF-8 detection
* Per channel encoding support
* Theme support for nick icons
* Highly configurable
