DMDirc Changelog

What's new in DMDirc 0.8.1

Nov 13, 2015

Addon browser breaks when unticking verified and unverified
Ident plugin loads and unloads incorrectly
Nowplaying config only works when the plugin is loaded
OSX Launcher doesn't support JRE 1.7
Portable mode causes fatal error
PMD should disallow profiles with only whitespace in the name
Restart prompt lacks buttons
Newer-plugin extraction seems to be broken
Relative profile directory breaks client
Portable mode causes fatal error
NPE in IRCDocument if ui.frameBufferSize is an optional int
Some fatal errors not reported to sentry
Param modes don't use mode aliases
Status bar created off the EDT

New in DMDirc 0.6.5 (Dec 28, 2012)

New in DMDirc 0.6.3m1 (Jul 2, 2009)

Added disconnect item to server menu
Add quick snap handles to split panes
Merged nickname and alternate nickname fields in profile manager dialog
Paste dialog no longer sends trailing empty lines
Alias command now ignores extra slashes (so mIRC-style /alias syntax works)
Alias command now intelligently tab completes
UnsatisfiedLinkErrors are no longer reported to developers
/help now works globally not just in servers
The send feedback dialog can now include information from the about dialog
Layout fixes for the actions editor dialog
Unknown URL protocol dialog now includes substitutions
Lag display plugin now has popup showing information
Addon browser plugin (unreleased) can now install action packs
Uninstaller now detects if DMDirc is running on Vista
Change RMI port to a non-standard (less common) one, and decrease attempts made
Windows nowplaying plugin now has improved support for streaming in iTunes
FreeBSD 6 and 7 installer can now download and install a Java runtime environment
Fix typographical error in launcher
OS X now uses the same launcher as Linux
Preferences dialog look and feel revamp
Media sources can now show themselves as “stopped”
Linux installer no longer copies java binary to DMDirc directory
Installer correctly closes progress window on Solaris
If multiple actions in a group define the same setting it no longer shows up twice
Better handling of lag display plugin's alternate ping setting
Formats are now passed correctly when calling SERVER_NUMERIC actions (so output can be silenced)
Frame managers are now specified as class names instead of hardcoded
Revised nowplaying media sources to have one getState method instead of multiple methods covering all possible states
Fixed problem with command validation icon
NewServer dialog is no longer resizable
Nowplaying plugin's preferences page now includes substitutions
Some initial work on smilie support
Better support for SOCKS proxies (including authentication)
IRC Parser can now send client SSL certificates
DMDirc can now load client SSL certificates and pass them to the IRC parser
Added action call when a string is stylised
Added a custom runner for UI unit tests to prevent false failures
The OK button in the actions editor dialog is now disabled when there are illegal conditions
Plugins from incompatible versions no longer stop the preferences dialog from opening
IRC Parser behaviour when receiving a WHO reply for the local client has been improved
Colour picker is now enabled by default
Fixed problems when the user has multiple copies of the same plugin
Fixed the OK button becoming enabled in the actions editor dialog when illegal settings are present
IRC Parser now reports IO exceptions properly
The censored words list on Chatspike is now detected properly by the IRC parser
The linux installer has been repurposed for use on any unix platform
Using a relative path with the -d (directory) option no longer breaks
Fixed superfluous errors when receiving errors from IRC Parsers that are no longer in use
Improved handling of server state and enforce transition restrictions
Exceptions raised in swing worker threads are now logged correctly
Anti-aliasing is now enabled by default
Added WINDOW_TITLE action component
Changed format of missing mode aliases error reports
IRC Parser no longer requests list modes e and I on Charybdis without ops
Fixed typographical error in uninstaller
Fixed typographical error in “duplicate plugin” error message
The IRC parser no longer lowercases the user's ident for no explicable reason
Fixed exception when trying to talk in channels on disconnected sertvers
Fixed exception when specifying action condition trees with excessively large numbers
Fixed exception when adding ignore list entries with invalid syntax
Support for channel notices
The actions editor dialog is now modal with respect to the actions manager dialog
Substitutions are now shown in the alias manager dialog
Multi-line pastes now take the cursor position into account
Fix some concurrency problems when saving identities
Improve the way new identities are created
The IRC parser now calls onConnectError and onSocketClosed more consistently
Fixed exception when creating an alias with no conditions
Migrated from SVN to Git
Remove SVN $id$ text from lots of files
Moved IRC parser package to make room for other protocols in the future
The UI now fires actions for function key presses and normal keys with modifiers
Include more detailed error information when getNetwork is called inappropriately
Only rejoin channels when general.rejoinchannels is true (as opposed to if it existed at all)
Fix concurrency problems when creating/closing DCC plugin windows
Fixed exception when entering long lines into windows belonging to a disconnected server
Disable default behaviour of F8 and F10 keys (moving split panes and opening menus)
Scrolling in the colour picker now adjusts the saturation slider
Text labels now use the correct system font
Fix focus-stealing issue with On Screen Display plugin's dialog
Fix general focus-stealing issues
Look and feel changes can now be performed without a restart
Bundle JUnit 3.8 and 4.1 instead of requiring developers to have it installed locally
Upgrade Swing UI to use MiG 3.7
Anti-alias setting now prompts for a client restart
Add MDI bar
The nowplaying plugin now defers loading of MediaSourceManagers so they can provide sources dynamically
The client's nickname in actions is now linked correctly
Improved behaviour of ctrl+c (copy) when find bar is open
Preferences manager now loads its content in the background
Text can no longer be sent twice by quick repetitions of the enter key
Linux launcher no longer checks /usr/local/jdk1.6.0/jre/bin/java before the PATH
Windows media sources now only work on Windows
Line length calculations now use bytes not characters (fixes issue sending multi-byte/unicode chars)
Core plugins now use plugin.config instead of older plugin.info
Plugins can now specify that they provide or require services
Rename various plugins to not include “plugin” at the end of their name
Add detection for euIRCd
The IRC parser no longer includes callback names in error messages (which caused lots of duplicate issues)
Plugins no longer have to specify minimum versions
The user interfaces are now plugins instead of as part of the client itself
Plugins can now declare themselves as “sub plugins” of another plugin
Added 'services' option to debug command to show plugin services
Added detection for SwitftIRC, and handling of +q and +a lists
Loading plugins by any means will now add them to the autoload list
Nick changes before 001 messages are no longer incorrectly shown as auth notices
The build process now only builds plugins that don't exist or whose source has been modified
Fix inconsistent fonts in the about dialog license and informations panels
Plugins can now export and consume methods
Add oftc to detected ircds
Fixed exception when setting away when not connected
An error dialog is now shown if no UI can be loaded in a non-headless environment
The error manager no longer submits an infinite number of errors if it fails to connect the first few times
Empty lines are no longer sent in any pasted content
Various commands now require the relevant server to be connected
Preferences manager now passes dismiss events onto external categories
Added 'serverstate' and 'threads' options to debug command
Fixed exception when using SERVER_NICKNAME when nicknames aren't noticed yet
Error messages are now more useful when updates fail
Added support for validating and displaying SSL certificates
Fixed issue with autoloading plugins in subdirectories
Fix tab completion problems with plugins in subdirectories
Fix bug where parting channels sends two PART commands sometimes
Abstract command manager to enable one object to handle multiple commands
Preferences dialog now sets nicklist sort options correctly
No longer require JUnit 3 for unit tests
The position of channel splitpanes is now remembered automatically
Added action for client closing
Preferences dialog now sets browser launch delay option correctly
Commands now handle excess whitespace more appropriately
Abstract method errors are no longer reported by the error reporter
Added ability to change font in channel windows
Fatal error dialog can now manually send errors if auto send is disabled
Plugin default settings can now be specified in their config files
Added ability to change textpane font size
Add Mockito library for unit testing
Improved mode handling on WeIRCd
Update channel is now configuration based instead of hard coded
The 'actions defaults' identity is now called 'addon defaults'
Added interface and components to Swing UI to enable statusbar components to show popups
Validation of the length of /me commands is now correct (was off by 2 previously)
The percentage shown in the updater dialog now has a fixed precision
Config files are now always loaded as UTF-8
Error reports are now queued properly
Broken plugins can no longer prevent the client from starting
Added option to prevent tab completers from completing empty strings
Fixed concurrency issue related to sending pings in IRC Parser
Plugins can now specify their formatter and icon settings in their configs
Added method for plugins to specify their own custom default settings
Moved tab completion styles to addons
The client now auto-extracts necessary plugins (tab completers, UIs, etc)
Fix client hanging when updating default settings in some circumstances
Added information popup when hovering over error icon in status bar
Added information popup when hovering over invite icon in status bar
Lag display plugin now remembers ping history and can plot a graph
Improve list mode handling on Hyperion
Fixed issue with first lines not appearing properly in query windows
Improved tab completion of unloadplugin command to only suggest loaded plugins
Identities now escape illegal characters sanely
Errors downloading updates are no longer considered application errors
The frequency of pings is now configurable
Plugins are now versioned according to their git commit reference
Closing windows now switches focus to the correct window instead of skipping one
Formatters can now specify the last argument in a line to be included
The “alter the event's formatter” dropdown in the actions editor dialog is now sorted sanely
The client now offers to automatically restart after applying updates that require it
JRE download on windows no longer uses wget.
Windows installer UI no longer requires lazarus
Launchers will relaunch the client if it exits with code 42
Fixed Windows updater not showing success/failure dialog on windows XP
Fix windows uninstaller sometimes now showing dialogs
Fix deadlock on shutdown
Deleting an error in the error list dialog no longer removes selection
AMD Conditions that wrap shouln't be cut off anymore
Nicknames in Profile manager are now reorderable
Ident server plugin will unload itself if it gets a “permission denied” error when trying to listen
Fixed client clear the list of updates inappropriately.
Fixed Updater forgetting restart needed status sometimes
Fixed aliases dialog not expanding when opening substitutions panel
Fixes Restart dialog having no title
Better synchronise access to childWindows in WindowManager
Profile manager no longer allows profiles with no nicknames
Fixes reloading identities causing the nicklist selection to break
Enter in expanding settings adds setting rather than closing dialog
All dialogs now close with ctrl+enter not enter
The DCC plugin now shows transfers as failed if they fail.
Fix DCC plugin failing to parse turbo dcc sends properly sometimes.
Fix typo in DCC plugin
Allow enter to close NSD
Fix DCC windows not maximising properly.
Relax semaphoring in pingTimerTask to fix deadlocks
Remove duplicate ui.stylelinks pref in prefs pane
Added Setting to enable background downloading of updates
Fixed loading of icons in prefs dialog hanging the UI
Fixed showing the wrong application name on OS X
Prefs dialog tab list now scrolls vertically if required
Fixed windows being maximised on select if automaximise was true
Fixed Keyboard not being usable to okay the “do you want to paste multiple lines” dialog box
Fixed title flickering when changing window on windows
Fixed restart needed dialog being resizable/maximisable
Fixed unloading non-persistent plugins requiring restart
Fixed Topic changes dont alter application window caption when window is maximised
Fixed Logging history window starts a whole-screen above the text
Fix Searching being broken
Fixed Running with -v causing fatal error
Fixed Reconnecting fails sometimes
Plugin icons now load under XP in prefs pane
Fix some deadlocks when firing setting change listeners.
Fix some deadlocks when firing server_connected actions
Fix some wording in uninstaller dialog, search query dialog and OSD Settings
Alias editor dialog no longer allows spaces in alias names
GetServersByNetwork no longer fails with disconnected servers
Removed tooltip from invite label.
Restoring/maximising title changes don't happen on Windows until switching windows
Closing all windows doesn't reset titlebar
Auto submitting errors works again
General category no longer has double border in prefs dialog
server menu items now disable on disconnect
Window menu items are now disabled when the last server close
Fixes some Parser Callback bugs
OSD Plugin and systray plugin now define a common export “showNotification”
Descriptions now appear in AMD
Include status history in invalid parser errors.
Parser doesn't try to send any lines if the socket is not open.

New in DMDirc 0.4 (Jun 11, 2007)

Added support for actions and plugins
Rewrote textpane to improve speed and usability
Added search capability to all windows
Added update checker
Added first run wizard
Added /dcop and /nowplaying commands
Added ignore list and /ignore command
Added mode aliases for snircd
Channel CTCPs are now displayed (and DMDirc responds appropriately)
Added option to disable friendly server mode names
Channel notifications are now longer hard-coded to red, and can be set using the new /notify command.
Added preferences framework for plugin authors
Added /set command
Added logging plugin
Added system tray plugin
Added way to clear the error menu
Added /allchannels and /allservers commands (for, e.g., "amsgs")
Added /echo command
Added visual away indicator (shown next to the input field)
Added colour picker component (in prefs and optionally when using colour code)
Added auto reconnect options
Status bar components can now be dynamically added (by plugins)
Added option to hide queries when initially opened so they don't steal focus
Added lag display plugin
Added plugin manager UI
Reorganised preferences to make use of subcategories
Nicknames can now be coloured individually (and separately for both the nicklist and text area)
Added /setnickcolour command
The nicklist can now display a different background colour on alternate names
The treeview, input fields and nicklists can now have separate fore and background colours
Added /msg and /query commands
Added popup menu when right clicking on users in the nicklist
Most dialogs remember their state when re-opened (e.g. preferences dialog reopens to the category you were last looking at)
Added time plugin (provides a /timer command and time-related actions)
DMDirc now automatically pings the IRC server and can be configured to reconnect if the server doesn't respond promptly
Added /disconnect and /reconnect commands
Added /mode command
The client can now track away state of users in channels (with options to automatically send WHO requests to get this info)
The username set to the server can now be configured, and defaults to the local account name, rather than "ircparser"
Added handling for "nick in use" messages, added alternate nickname options to profiles
Added nick colour plugin
Added config option to hide mode prefixes in the text area
Added a new class of commands ("global")
Added /newserver and /server commands
Added /reloadplugin command
Added browser launcher delay options, to prevent double clicking opening multiple copies of a page
Commands can now be silenced (/.command by default)
Added window status plugin
Added option to auto-rejoin open channels
Added option to automatically style hyperlinks
Raw windows are now hidden by default
Added OSD (on screen display) plugin
Config file is no longer saved in an XML format (but DMDirc can still load them)
Added handling for user mode changes
Channel settings window now opens centered on the client
Nicknames are removed from the tab completer when the user quits
The client no longer sends 2-3 part messages when leaving a channel
Profile manager layout and text ("blurb") issues have been resolved
Parser error when receiving a CTCP reply from an eggdrop bot has been fixed
Fixed issue with displaying errors
Fixed exception when a connection is closed before a 001 line was received
/help now sorts commands alphabetically, regardless of the order they were loaded
Fixed logic bug affecting long actions in queries being erroneously sent and an erroneous error message being displayed locally
The error menu no longer displays a small square if there are no errors
Fixed error related to status bar timer
Fixed error in paste line count checking
Fixed bug whereby queries failed to work properly due to nickname case
Fixed exception when closing the channel settings window without changing modes
Fixed bug where channel events weren't displayed after rejoining a channel
Fixed tab completers not being updated when commands were added/removed
Connection errors are now handled sanely instead of being routed through DMDirc's error handler
The client no longer throws a fatal error if it can't open a query for some reason
Fixed exception when opening queries
Fixed typo in plugin load failure message
Fixed some display issues with the treeview under GTK
Nicklists are now cleared when the client is disconnected
Fixed new identities not being added to config managers (e.g. new channel settings not being registered until a channel was cycled)
Fixed issues when reconnecting to a server
Fixed exception when raw window is closed
Fixed profiles list in new server dialog not being updated
Fixed exception on certain mouse events
Dialogs can no longer be opened multiple times at once, where appropriate
Fixed potential memory leak when disconnecting from a server
Fixed nicklists being sized incorrectly in certain circumstances
Fixed exception when disconnecting in certain circumstances
Commands are now case-insensitive
Fixed nicklist not being updated on nickname change
Fixed pasting removing text from the input field
Error messages given by the browser launcher are now more descriptive
Fixed error when receiving blank messages
Invalid formats no longer cause an unhandled exception
The new server dialog now defaults to opening a new window
Fixed queries losing their callbacks ( thus not displaying new messages) when reconnecting
"0" is now treated as a valid channel name (for /join 0)
Fixed issue with the parser losing state when parting all channels (/join 0)
Fixed error when scrolling the treeview when it contains a single time
Fixed error list displaying every error with the most recent icon
Fixed issue with error reporter not reporting errors (d'oh)
Fixed clicking on URLs at the end of the topic including the '. in the URL
The "copy" menu item is no longer displayed if there is no text selected
Fixed exception when the client tries to send a message before it's connected
Fixed exception when closing server connections
Servers no longer try to reconnect if they're in the process of being closed