Linkinus Release Notes

Linkinus 2.4.3 ★

• Fixed an issue with the way Growl alerts were handled by Linkinus
• Updated Growl to the latest version
• Improved compatibility with Mountain Lion

Linkinus 2.4.1

• Fixes an issue with the channel creation panel
• Fixes an issue with the shortcut assignment panel

[Core changes]
- Full screen: Added full-screen support for Lion
- Gestures: Added 2/4 finger swipe left/right to switch channel selection
- Dock: Added Connect All and Disconnect All actions in the Dock menu
- Added /list Channel List Sorting options
- Resolved issue with BlowFish encryption losing the exchanged key during a /keyx sessions
- Resolved issue with Inspector sometimes appearing blank
- Resolved issue with drag & drop rearranging of offline queries
- Removed incorrect resizers on Preferences window

[Updated] SysInfo:
- Improved UI
- Resolved issue which could lead to customized fields to be displayed in the output regardless of preference
- Bundled /netinfo command with native speed and proper formatting

[New] XSysInfo Script
- Written by Xeon3D. This is a more detailed, more nerdy version of the SysInfo command
- /xsysinfo

[New] Spotify Now playing Script
- /spotify

[New] Colorme Script
- /colorme #COLOR TEXTHERE
/colorme colorlist

Example: /color #blue I'm the color blue!
Color List: black - navy - green - red - brown - purple - orange - yellow - lime - teal - aqua -
- blue - fuchsia - grey - silver - white

[Updated] Slap Script
- Fixed typos in some of the pre-canned slaps

[Updated] Weather Script
- Removed last updated time from the output

[Updated] Getscript
- No longer requires Growl
- Script install status report is now displayed
- /getscript -all will now properly pull down and update all available scripts

[Update] Simplified:
- Resolved issue which could lead to duplicate messages being displayed
- Added support for spotify: links

[Update] Midnight, Control, Circus:
- Resolved issue which could lead to duplicate messages being displayed
- Replaced unreadable green nickname colors
- Removed embedding on Amazon.com and IMDB results.
- Resolved issue which prevented text from being linkified under certain circumstances
- Resolved issue which prevented CloudApp, Droplr, Instrgram, Pastie.org, Gist, and other embedding to show under certain circumstances
- Added support for spotify: links
[Update] I Are Sea!:
- Resolved issue which could lead to duplicate messages being displayed
- Added support for spotify: links
[Update] Erstwhile:
- Resolved issue which could lead to duplicate messages being displayed
- Resolved issue which could lead to YouTube links not being displayed
- Added support for spotify: links
[Updated] Whisper:
- Removed embedding on Amazon.com and IMDB results.
- Resolved issue which prevented text from being linkified under certain circumstances
- Resolved issue which prevented CloudApp, Droplr, Instrgram, Pastie.org, Gist, and other embedding to show under certain circumstances
- Added support for spotify: links

Linkinus 2.4

[Core changes]
- Full screen: Added full-screen support for Lion
- Gestures: Added 2/4 finger swipe left/right to switch channel selection
- Dock: Added Connect All and Disconnect All actions in the Dock menu
- Main window: Added current nickname in the title bar
- Logs: moved logs from the Documents folder to the Application Support/Linkinus 2/Logs folder
- Added /list Channel List Sorting options
- Resolved issue with BlowFish encryption losing the exchanged key during a /keyx sessions
- Resolved issue with Inspector sometimes appearing blank
- Resolved issue with drag & drop rearranging of offline queries
- Removed incorrect resizers on Preferences window

[Updated] SysInfo:
- Improved UI
- Resolved issue which could lead to customized fields to be displayed in the output regardless of preference
- Bundled /netinfo command with native speed and proper formatting

[New] XSysInfo Script
- Written by Xeon3D. This is a more detailed, more nerdy version of the SysInfo command
- /xsysinfo

[New] Spotify Now playing Script
- /spotify

[New] Colorme Script
- /colorme #COLOR TEXTHERE
/colorme colorlist

Example: /color #blue I'm the color blue!
Color List: black - navy - green - red - brown - purple - orange - yellow - lime - teal - aqua -
- blue - fuchsia - grey - silver - white

[Updated] Slap Script
- Fixed typos in some of the pre-canned slaps

[Updated] Weather Script
- Removed last updated time from the output

[Updated] Getscript
- No longer requires Growl
- Script install status report is now displayed
- /getscript -all will now properly pull down and update all available scripts

[Update] Simplified:
- Resolved issue which could lead to duplicate messages being displayed
- Added support for spotify: links

[Update] Midnight, Control, Circus:
- Resolved issue which could lead to duplicate messages being displayed
- Replaced unreadable green nickname colors
- Removed embedding on Amazon.com and IMDB results.
- Resolved issue which prevented text from being linkified under certain circumstances
- Resolved issue which prevented CloudApp, Droplr, Instrgram, Pastie.org, Gist, and other embedding to show under certain circumstances
- Added support for spotify: links

[Update] I Are Sea!:
- Resolved issue which could lead to duplicate messages being displayed
- Added support for spotify: links

[Update] Erstwhile:
- Resolved issue which could lead to duplicate messages being displayed
- Resolved issue which could lead to YouTube links not being displayed
- Added support for spotify: links
[Updated] Whisper:
- Removed embedding on Amazon.com and IMDB results.
- Resolved issue which prevented text from being linkified under certain circumstances
- Resolved issue which prevented CloudApp, Droplr, Instrgram, Pastie.org, Gist, and other embedding to show under certain circumstances
- Added support for spotify: links

Linkinus 2.3.3

- Improved sensibility to changes in Internet/router connectivity
- Fixed a glitch where the message 'Connections went offline' was shown mistakenly
- Updated Growl to 1.2.2

Linkinus 2.3.2

- More aggressive auto-reconnect in case of unstable network connections
- Fixed a bug where default part messages wouldn't be displayed when parting channels
- Timestamp customization (Styles preferences)
- Updated /paste and /ppaste scripts
- New style variant: Simplified Stealth
- More scrollback size options
- Updated IRCnet default servers list
- Whisper: fixed issue where the first message of a query could be displayed twice

Linkinus 2.3

- Fixed actions logging (/me)
- Improved Highlights management performance
- Auto-join/auto-connect behavior can now be implicit or explicit. If implicit is chosen, all newly added channels/connections will be auto-joined/auto-connected by default. If explicit is chosen, new items are never auto-joined on launch unless you manually opt-in in the Inspector. (Preferences > Status)
- Fixed race conditions when buffering channels on launch
- Fixed an issue where some channels would appear blank
- Improved /shell script and new /vshell script - a big thanks to Till Theis!

Linkinus 2.2.2

- Added an option to the toggle the Shift+Enter new line functionality (Preferences > Keyboard)
- New style: Erstwhile
- Fixed an issue when a channel's ban list wouldn't appear when requested
- Fixed /weather
- Whisper style: Fixed issue with which could cause HTML to be rendered with embedded pasties
- Whisper style: Fixed issue which could prevent links from being clickable under certain circumstances
- Whisper style: Fixed issue which could lead to Flickr URLs not being replaced correctly when closing embeds
- Whisper style: Added Droplr embedding
- Whisper style: Added feature which keeps nicknames colored the same under most channels
- Added an option to close all queries when quitting the app (Preferences > Status > Clear Queries on Quit)
- Closing the 'New Filter' sheet using the red button doesn't cause any issues anymore
- The menu widget can now display a 'busy' state (new messages) even if blinking is disabled

Linkinus 2.2

• Greatly improved overall performance and CPU usage: Greatly is an understatement at its best. Speed and responsiveness have increased by several orders of magnitude!
• Multi-line input field: Requested long ago, finally implemented. Note this only works if you have enough vertical space beneath the application window.
• Channel listing up to 20 times more responsive
• Better support for /who and /names
• Revamped IRC identities – set them up the Preferences: One place to set them all, one place to find them, one place to bring them all and in the preferences bind them
• Updated Styles: This includes new embed features for e.g. Whisper (instragr.am and cloudapp). Also the classic Simplified is going through rejuvenation!
• Improved support for systemwide SOCKS proxy
• Added UPnP support for file transfers
• Fixed issues with PCRE regular expression supports in Highlights: You can now fully enjoy being highlighted all across IRC because your malformed regular expression finally works as expected!
• Fixed an issue where Filters wouldn’t stick across sessions, not to mention that we decided to take pity on the poor souls who wanted to add new filters and henceforth provide an appropriate button for precisely this
• Fixed IRC Quit messages
• Fixed an issue where the main window would be blank on first launch
• Added shortcut to clear all queries
• Improved contextual menus relevance
• Added an option to hide the ‘Groups’ button in the title bar
• Improved SSL support
• Faster processing of bouncers backscroll
• Fixed a bug preventing users from removing certain channels or queries (‘phantom channels’)
• Improved ‘/msg nick’ with no content
• Allowed the main window to resize to a smaller size
• Greatly improved DCC support
• Now up to 1000 (that’s a thousand for those that can’t read Arabic numbers) lines of backlog per channel
• Updated SysInfo plugin
• MOAR, specifically, more options for queries and channels, including Growl/sound muting
• /mark … mark my words (slow clap) here comes a command you can use to add a marker to the current channel
• /delay (a new plugin) that enables you to delay execution of commands e.g. when chaining them in the alias section
• Fixed a bug where Agent status items wouldn't launch and select channels when clicked
• Fixed a legacy issue where importing previous preferences would create 'Console' channels
• Fixed a bug where renaming a network wouldn't show changes until connections go offline
• Fixed a bug where removing channels from the UI wouldn't actually part them
• Fixed a sleep/wake reattach UI crash
• Smoothed out the sending of /who and /mode commands upon joining channels to avoid excess flood in connections with numerous channels
• Fixed minor log viewer issues
• Fixed a bug where the 'Linkinus 2 Logs' folder would be created even when logging was off
• 'Join on kick' is now disabled on new channels by default

Linkinus 2.1.2

• Added list-only mode and icon/list toggle to Network Picker
• Added list-only mode and icon/list toggle to Channel List
• Added list-only mode and icon/list toggle to Ban List
• Fixed a GUI crash when connecting to certain servers