Quassel

Quassel is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client, meaning that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach to and detach from a central core -- much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client such as WeeChat, but graphical. In addition to this uniqe feature, we aim to bring a pleasurable, comfortable chatting experience to all major platforms (including Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X as well as Qtopia-based cell phones and PDAs), making communication with your peers not only convenient, but also ubiquitous available.

And the best of all: It's free - as in beer and as in speech, since we distribute Quassel under the GPL, and you are welcome to download and see for yourself!

What is new in this release:

• Notable new features and changes of this release are channel-specific highlights, improved OS X integration, DockManager compatibility, and proper handling of intermediate CA certificates.
• Quassel 0.9.0 also adds Halfop support, DH1080 key exchange, authentication via SASL EXTERNAL, updated translations (now also available in Lithuanian, Romanian, and even Esperanto), and bugfixes of all sorts.

What is new in version 0.7.4:

• This version fixes a bug which caused parts of the nick list (and sometimes the chat lists) not to be shown when using Qt 4.8.

What is new in version 0.7.3:

• This version fixes a bug in Quassel's CTCP handling that would cause the core to crash when processing a specially crafted CTCP message.

What is new in version 0.7.1:

• Improved Desktop Environment integration: We now properly support DBusMenu (which gives you a proper tray menu in both GNOME and KDE), improved Ayatana support, and fixed some issues with StatusNotifier
• Editable shortcuts for all platforms, not only KDE
• Shortcuts for navigation between chats (Alt+Left/Right/Up/Down) -- though there are still some known bugs there
• Emacs-style keybindings for the input line
• Marker line can now be set manually (Ctrl+R), and one can jump directly to the marker line (Ctrl+K)
• Blowfish encryption (via /setkey and /delkey), also known as mircryption, FiSH or RFC 2045
• Fullscreen mode
• New languages: Greek, Galician, Japanese

What is new in version 0.6.1:

• Completely reworked client/core connection featuring the long-awaited reconnection and Solid support as well as a streamlined UI
• Support for the new DBus-based system tray of KDE and, in some distros, Gnome (StatusNotifier spec)
• Improved notification handling
• Support for inputting formatted (colored/bold/...) text
• SASL auth support (replaces NickServ e.g. in Freenode)
• Several new languages and improved translations for alreay existing ones
• Build system improvements

What is new in version 0.5.2:

• Quassel-0.5.2 mostly contains build system fixes for recent versions of KDE and Qt. Some issues with netsplit handling have also been fixed. Also, if you accidentally had your menu bar vanish, you can now use the context menu on the chatview to re-enable it.

What is new in version 0.5.1:

• Most notably, 0.5.1 fixes some problems with the newly released Qt 4.6-rc1. Also, newly joined channels are now properly rejoined on the next core restart. The scrolling behavior on initial backlog fetch for a channel has been fixed, and some more small stuff.
• This release also includes updated translations for French, Italian, and Finnish. And you'll get jussi01's dark stylesheet as a bonus!