Release Notes for Licq 1.3.4

  • Fix a few bugs where users would falsely go offline
  • Make sending typing notifications optional
  • Fixes for newly registered users
  • Fix the handling of pidfiles so that Licq always starts unless there actually is an other instance of Licq running.
  • 64-bit compatibility changes
  • Compilation fixes
  • Fixes for Licq on Mac OS X (with Fink)
  • Iconv fixes
  • ICQ: Fix a bug where contacts would receive empty messages
  • ICQ: Update the protocol to properly set info
  • ICQ: Show more version information of remote clients
  • ICQ: Fix SSL issue
  • MSN: Fix a race error in MSN packet parsing
  • MSN: Fix socket handling
  • KDE: Addressbook fix
  • KDE: Add spell checking to the kde-gui (Using KSpell)
  • Qt/KDE: Show user's pictures as a tooltip or status icon
  • Qt/KDE: Optional "Send with Enter"
  • Qt/KDE: Improve hyperlink detection
  • Qt/KDE: Improve emoticon detection and processing
  • Qt/KDE: Add a custom message box handler
  • Qt/KDE: New KDE iconset to better integrate with the KDE desktop
  • Many various minor bugs and crashes fixed... See log:trunk@4287:4696 and milestone:1.3.4 for details.

Tickets fixed in 1.3.4

#175
licq.micqconvert script bug
#292
Does not honor Qt highlight colour
#322
configure socks5
#523
html tags are stipped from message
#538
Url between " " doesn't works
#540
when out of diskspace, licq continuously creates windows
#622
./configure --libdir= doesn't have any effect on plugins
#630
DESTDIR installation misbehaving
#641
"cancel" that becomes "close"
#646
emoticon support needs improvement
#676
Using [Enter] to send messages
#705
proxy name resolving
#733
url recognition doesn't work properly
#735
1.3.0 build fails under solaris 10 / gcc 3.4.4
#736
configure under solaris 10 / gcc 3.4.4 fails not finding qt
#737
configure fails when using --with-qt and --with-kde
#740
> does not work in emoticons.xml
#765
{ctrl,shift}-{ins,del} clipboard management
#767
Typing in the message dialog when sending is still pending
#778
Some buddies become offline even if they are still online
#784
use kde-config rather than KDEDIR
#794
QT plugin won't build
#800
console plugin Segmentation Violation Detected
#805
qt-gui can not be build on 64bit Suse 10.
#819
Auto-away from Occupied does not work
#834
Fails to gmake on Fedora Core 5
#840
Ctrl+TABto change focused tab
#1348
Crash when inserting smileys/changing attributes in "send contact list" window
#1353
licq should check for stale pidfile
#1355
Updated German Translation
#1356
licq goes auto away even when offline
#1357
account manager - add account - nothing happens
#1358
after sending message cursor is lost
#1359
Alias in the main window's tooltip is not displayed properly
#1365
Closing send contact is crashing kde gui
#1366
alt + arrow right doesn't work in chat window
#1368
licq crashes on drag&drop file send if chat window is opened
#1371
MSN plugin goes out away even when offline
#1375
URLs with escape chars as shown as %2
#1386
Trouble in gpg.cpp
#1387
Fix for some warnings
#1390
viewurl-seamonkey.sh and viewurl-firefox.sh
#1400
Wrong version in the "About" info
#1401
Licq needs patch to compile on MacOSX
#1403
Accessing dialog box causes Licq to crash

More details

Acknowledgements

The following people, in addition to everybody providing valuable feedback and bug reports, has contributed to this release. If we have forgotten someone, it was not intentionally.

In alphabetical order:

  • Patrick Cernko - patch
  • Peter Colberg - patch
  • Mitch Davis - patch
  • Quentin Denis - icons and theme
  • Martin Garbe - patches
  • Ignatiy Goloviznin - translation
  • Christian Heim - patch
  • Daniel Hess - patch
  • Philipp Kolmann - patch, sticky windows
  • Danil Krivopustov - patch
  • Geoffrey Lee - patch
  • Roger Oksanen - patch
  • Eugene Paskevich - patch
  • Sebastian Renzi - translation
  • Arne Schmitz - patch, translation
  • Joachim Staib - patch
  • Alexey Varjat - translations

Thank you all!