About 3 weeks after releasing Smuxi 0.7 I am proud to announce the first bugfix release, 0.7.1 codenamed 'Heidi'.  This version fixes all bugs that were reported since the release of 0.7.

Notable changes are: important crash fixes, seen and unseen highlights are now remembered when reconnecting to the smuxi-server, improved error tolerance for temporarly Twitter issues, fixed /join command and adaptive excess flood handling.

A full list of changes is included below.

Bugfixes:

• Bug #290: Twitter hostname and port can be configured in settings
• Bug #293: Crash when using numeric passwords
• Bug #294: Smuxi needs to tolerate temporarly Twitter issues
• Bug #297: NullReferenceException on start with auto-connecting Twitter account
• Bug #299: /server and /connect $server crashes with NullReferenceException
• Bug #301: Highlights are not shown when connecting to remote engine
• Bug #302: First message after opening a new query tab is not highlighted
• Bug #303: Reconnect loop with bouncers (irssi-proxy)
• Bug #307: Adding Server crashes with NullReferenceException
• Bug #308: Netsplit triggers “excess flood” kick cycle on Freenode
• Bug #311: /join suddenly stops working
• Bug #312: Random Startup / Connect Crash: NullReferenceException
• Bug #314: Tarball contains binaries
• Bug #320: Smuxi crashes when trying to add a server with an invalid/unsupported protocol
• Bug #321: Show away-messages only once does not work
• Bug #323: Partial self triggered highlights
• Bug #326: /topic command can trigger highlights
• Bug #327: Using /rejoin on an unconnected channel blocks, gives error msg

New translations:

• Partial Catalan translation (Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals)

Smuxi is available for download from here.

I am pleased to announce that Smuxi 0.7 'Bianca' is out NOW! This is the most exciting release since the initial public release in 2008.

This release contains 4 major highlights in addition to many other enhancements and fixes: Initial support for Twitter has been implemented. This will allow you to send and receive tweets to the Twitter microblogging service. It supports the friends timeline, replies view, and direct messages. The character counter, Reply-To feature, and avatar support will follow in later releases.

Smuxi is now able to flawlessly handle network connections with high latency which are common with UMTS, WLAN, and busy DSL and cable lines. All communication between the Smuxi frontend and the Smuxi server is now done as a background task using threads. This gives Smuxi a very responsive feel - just like a normal, locally running application - even with difficult network conditions

The IRC experience has been significantly improved.  Smuxi will now send all unrecognized commands transparently to the IRC server and will show the reply directly to the user. In addition, the userlist and query menu have been extended to include common CTCP actions.

Smuxi now ensures that the text colors used in the tabs are easily readable, regardless of your GTK theme.  It does this by using the proven-reliable color-contrast algorithm used by Smuxi 0.6.4.1 to generate nick colors.

A full list of changes is included below.

New features:

• Feature #228: Twitter integration
• Feature #20: more colors for message types
• Feature #259: Split too long IRC messages into smaller messages
• Feature #25: Pass unknown commands to protocol manager as fallback.
• Feature #29: show away-msg only once per query (David Paleino)
• Feature #46: nickname completion on private chat (David Paleino)
• Feature #71: Add popup menu to links in the chat/channel window
• Feature #146: Please add right-click menu to queries (Clément Bourgeois)
• Feature #147: Please add CTCP to on-nick right-click menu (Clément Bourgeois)
• Feature #225: Use colors with good contrast for tab label
• Feature #235: Smuxi Server Manager (Clément Bourgeois)
• Feature #236: Process "On Connect Commands" for Quick Connect
• Feature #242: Entry Command Queue
• Feature #243: SSH tunnel setup needs to check the local forwarding port
• Feature #248: stray SSH tunnel checker
• Feature #256: Show unknown IRC replies to the user
• Feature #258: Optimize SSH on difficult networks
• Feature #269: Show CTCP replies on query tabs (Clément Bourgeois)
• Feature #270: Find Group Chat should show colored IRC topics (David Paleino)
• Feature #273: Support context-menu key in user list
• Feature #274: Make URLs copyable with a context menu

Bugfixes:

• Bug #149: Highlights are not always remembered
• Bug #183: Leaking FrontendManager threads
• Bug #198: Missing dictionary on WIndows
• Bug #211: /names command takes ages on big channels
• Bug #223: Many beeps when connecting to a smuxi-server on Windows
• Bug #224: "Find Group Chat" might block forever
• Bug #232: Client throws unhandled exceptions upon network connection loss (Windows)
• Bug #233: Switching between tabs is not instantaneous on slow connections to remote servers
• Bug #234: crash on open
• Bug #240: excess flood caused by joining many channels at once
• Bug #241: Marking topic text (grab-focus kicks in)
• Bug #244: Transition remote -> remote fails with connection refused on localhost:7689/SessionManager
• Bug #245: Status bar too short short for german language
• Bug #246: two remote engines with the same name
• Bug #247: Highlight is triggered by self-written messages
• Bug #249: /reconnect crashes after failed connect attempt
• Bug #250: default IRCnet server entry is wrong
• Bug #251: /join is sometimes not doing anything at all
• Bug #252: not showing failed attempts when joining a channel
• Bug #253: &chans have wrong tab colors
• Bug #260: /server command throws exception
• Bug #261: Closing a channel tab shows ErrorNotOnChannel
• Bug #262: Remote engine connection check might block the GUI
• Bug #263: Find group chat should use wildcard by default (David Paleino)
• Bug #268: configure.ac error, Twitter engine is controlled by "engine-msnp" macro... (David Paleino)
• Bug #281: Race condition in PangoTools.ToMarkup (David Paleino)
• Bug #283: GroupChatView.cs missing _Logger protection
• Bug #285: Almost all IRC commands might suffer from a race condition

Big thanks goes to the reviewers of the english messages strings done on debian-l10n-english @ lists.debian.org:

• Justin B Rye
• Esko Arajärvi

New translations:

• Czech translation (Michal Simunek)
• Swedish translation (Martin Bagge)
• Argentinian translation (Damian Kleiman)

Updated translations:

• German translation (Bianca Mix)
• French translation (Clément Bourgeois)
• Italian translation (Vincenzo Campanella)
• British English translation (Ryan Smith-Evans)

Thank you everyone who contributed to this release!

Smuxi is available for download from here.

After a successful hacking weekend I am happy to announce that Smuxi has a cool new feature. With the next Smuxi release you will be able to receive and send tweets from/to Twitter. For those who don't know yet what Twitter is, it's a micro-blogging tool which I am using heavily for the past few weeks/months. Smuxi supports the friends timeline, replies view and direct messages. Check out this screenshot which shows this feature in action. I am planning to add avatar and reply-mode support at some point later.

PS: If you want to follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/meebey

I uploaded a new version (0.6.4.1-2) of the Windows installer, as the SSH support was broken spitting out the following error message each time you try to connect:

plink: unknown option "-auto_store_key_in_cache"

This issue was caused by the wrong included plink version (an application part of the putty tools) used for the SSH tunnel. Also the installer no longer requires a reboot after the automatic GTK# install, which should make new users happy.

Linux users don't have to update anything, no issues or changes there.

2 months after releasing Smuxi 0.6.4 I am proud to announce the first bugfix release, 0.6.4.1 codenamed 'Claire'. This version fixes all bugs that were reported since the release of 0.6.4.

The most notable change is the optimized nickname color feature which has been redesigned to select colors which will look good on your screen. The algorithm is based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published by the W3C. This feature is now enabled by default for new installs. Existing users are encouraged to visit the preferences to enable the feature. To assist in tracking your conversations, nicknames in your replies will now be colored too.

The default font for Windows was changed from Monospace to FixedSys which should give a much improved experience.

A full list of changes is included below.

New features:

• Feature #192: Allow adding options to the ssh command.
• Feature #199: Use nick-colors for mode changes
• Feature #200: Detect nicknames in replies and replace with colors
• Feature #202: Include translations in the windows installer
• Feature #208: SSH password support for plink
• Feature #210: Use better default font on Windows
• Feature #193: Include plink.exe in the Windows installer

Bugfixes:

• Bug #153: Configured tab colors are lost after restart
• Bug #189: Font and color settings are not applied to userlist and topic
• Bug #194: Clicking an http:// link will crash the application if it fails to start the browser
• Bug #197: nick colors sometime gives very bad contrast
• Bug #203: Day change line is not honoring the local timezone
• Bug #204: Highlight gets cleared by regular messages
• Bug #206: Topic can trigger highlights
• Bug #207: Engine -> Add Remote Engine is doing nothing
• Bug #209: output of /names is unsorted
• Bug #190: Hide plink.exe window on Windows
• Bug #195: Windows installer thinks GTK# 2.12.9 is older than 2.12.9

Updated translations:

• German translation

(Smuxi is seeking for translators!)

Smuxi is available for download from here.