Konversation 1.5-rc1
(KDE Chat Application)
Konversation is a user-friendly Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client built on the KDE Platform.

— What’s new —

1.5-rc1:
Konversation 1.5-rc1 is the first test release for our next major release. The 1.5 development cycle has lead to significant new features in many areas of the application, from support for SASL and client certificate authentication on the protocol side, to all-new topic management UI, overhauled authentication UI, per-tab spell-checking language settings, user-configurable nick context menu entries and mouse spring-loading in the frontend and all-new versions of major bundled scripts. Improved Ignore, Watched Nicknames and Edit Paste functionality and behavior, performance improvements in some critical codepaths and many other bug fixes and minor UI touch-ups round things out.

1.4:
The dominant theme in Konversation v1.4 is improvements and feature additions to the user interface, particularly to text views, dialogs, (context) menus and input line commands. However, nearly all areas of the application have seen some amount of improvements in this release, as is to be expected given the relatively long relase cycle: Connection behavior, IRC protocol handling, scripting support, encryption support, user documentation – new features, polish and certainly also bug fixes are to be found in all of them. In summary, we hope you will enjoy the best Konversation yet.

— Essential links —

Konversation’s website: http://konversation.kde.org/
Wiki: http://userbase.kde.org/Konversation
Report bugs and wishes at: https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=konversation
Older releases: http://konversation.kde.org/wiki/Releases

changelog:
Changes from 1.4 to 1.5-rc1:
* The user interface for the Auto Identify settings in the Identities dialog has been extended by a combo box that allows choosing the type of authentification to be performed. Depending on the chosen type, different input fields are shown below the combo box.
* The server password-based authentification supported by some networks is now configurable in the Identities dialog as well, making it more discoverable and allowing to keep Auto Identify settings generally with the Identity rather than requiring going through the Edit Server dialog.
* SASL PLAIN authentification is now supported. To use, pick SASL as the Auto Identify type in the Identities dialog and fill in your account name and password.
* Standard NickServ authentification has been further improved. The command sent to to the service, previously hard-coded to “identify”, is now configurable, and the name of the service now defaults to “nickserv” in new identities (the previous default was an empty field).
* Added support for authenticating via a SSL Client Certificate in the form of a PEM file if Konversation is built against KDE Platform v4.8.3 or higher. Choosing this type of authentication in the Identities dialog forces SSL to be enabled for a connection, overriding any server settings.
* Added the ability to set a different spell-checking language for every tab, from the context menu of the input box. The chosen language setting is preserved across application restarts.
* The Topic tab …read more
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