KouChat

KouChat is a simple serverless chat client for local area networks. KouChat project is written in Java, and is free software.

Features:

• Main chat
• Private chat
• Selectable text color for your user
• See when someone writes
• Away mode
• Topic
• File transfer
• System tray integration
• Sound notification when minimized to tray
• Logging
• No configuration needed
• Console mode

What is new in this release:

• Improved debug logging
• Added support for user specified network interface, in the settings
• Fix for "java.io.IOException: mark/reset not supported" when playing sound on newer versions of Java 6 (u33) and Java 7 (u5)
• Added the 4 status icons in svg format
• Added prescaled status icons for the system tray. 16x16px for Windows, 22x22px for KDE and 24x24px for Gnome
• Updated kou_shortcut.ico with sizes from 16x16px to 256x256px
• Updated kou_shortcut.png to 256x256px
• Fixed crash when starting KouChat on systems with the clock set to unix epoch, to support devices without a clock battery
• Fixed several Swing event dispatch thread issues
• Changed the /cancel command from /cancel to /cancel
• Changed the /receive command from /receive to /receive
• Changed the /reject command from /reject to /reject
• Fixed issue where file transfers were still shown in the /transfers command after a user had logged off without cancelling, rejecting or accepting the transfer
• Fixed repaint issue with the buttons when returning from the system tray, on some configurations

What is new in version 1.1.0:

• Fix for PatternSyntaxException when parsing commands containing regex meta characters
• If the main window is minimized to the system tray and the system tray disappears, the window is shown as minimized in the taskbar instead
• If the system tray is missing, the minimize feature minimizes to the taskbar instead of being deactivated
• Removed annoying error message if the system tray is missing
• Added optional balloon notification on new messages and new private messages
• Changed license to LGPL v3
• Added support for logging private chats
• Added support for the startup argument --no-private-chat to disable private chat
• Added support for the startup argument --always-log to force logging enabled and disable the option to deactivate again
• Added support for the startup argument --log-location to specify a custom directory to store log files
• Increased the number of possible simultaneous KouChat instances (with private chat) and file transfers from 10 to 50

What is new in version 1.0.0:

• Fixed a bug when canceling an ongoing file transfer
• Fixed a concurrency bug in classes for sending and receiving messages
• Changed to using the user name from the operating system as the default nick name if no settings are found
• Added a new dialog window for showing unexpected errors to the user
• Added missing commands for file transfer in console mode
• Added --debug startup option to activate all logging
• Added tips & tricks from the wiki to the help menu
• And some fixes and improvements here and there

What is new in version 0.9.9:

• Hopefully better handling of the network connection
• Smileys
• A choice of which look and feel to use
• Tweaks to the user interface, especially with the GTK+ and Nimbus look and feels
• Improvements to notifications when a new message arrives
• Lots of new code documentation
• Open folder button on the file transfer dialog
• Support for running KouChat on more advanced local networks with routers
• Misc tweaks and fixes all over

Requirements:

• Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment