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diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README index 4e792d540..8fa051612 100644 --- a/doc/README +++ b/doc/README @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ Currently this is the bleeding-edge development version of KVIrc. +This development version someday will be KVIrc4. + If you need stable software you'd better look at http://www.kvirc.net for the latest stable source packages. @@ -6,391 +8,11 @@ See the INSTALL file for installation instructions. ############################################################################### +This is the place for the log of old versions. +KVIrc4 started as a fork of KVIrc 3.4.0. -23.03.2008: Release 3.4.0 "Virgo" -############################################################################### - -Here we go with another release :) - -This one took a very long time but, well, finally it's here. - -Notable new features of this release include: - - - improved themeing support - - better desktop integration - - nicer support for many different IRC servers - - a totally revised option layout - - basic support for script "addons" - - improved help subsystem - - new nice statusbar applets - - improved scripting engine - - improved windows and macosx support - - .... - -There is also a lot of small new details that you will -find out by yourself while playing around and finally -we obviously also have a huge number of bugfixes. - -This will be the last stable release of the 3.* series and also the last -one using Qt3. From now on we'll be working on major version 4 and -switching completly to Qt4. This release actually contains a preliminary -Qt4 support and if you feel brave you might test it by passing -the "hidden" --enable-qt swtich to configure. - -Have fun :) -Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team - - - - - - -############################################################################### -General notes for the 3.4.0 release of the KVIrc IRC client -############################################################################### - -- Installation - -The detailed installation instructions for the unix source distribution -are in the INSTALL file. - -The Windows version needs no installation: you just need to run the -installer executable and follow the proposed steps. - -Other documentation can be found in the doc subdirectory. - -- Reporting problems - -You are encouraged to "mess" with all the KVIrc options and features, -and to report bugs and misbehaviours to the author. -Anyway , before reporting a bug , ask yourself if it can be caused -by some other part of your system: KVIrc uses many external libraries -and (as all programs) relies on a correct system behaviour. -Make sure that the libraries you use are the correct ones (!!!). - -When you encounter a problem please read the FAQ that is found -in the distribution and also take a look at http://www.kvirc.net -for a more recent version. If nothing helps to solve your problem -then you might consider issuing a bug report. - -The best way to report a bug is to use the bugtrack system at -http://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/. Another way is to subscribe -to the kvirc mailing list (see http://www.kvirc.net for instructions) -and report the problem there. In both cases your bug report -should be written in english and should contain most informations -possible about the problem. If you have encountered a crash -on an unix platform you should include a gdb backtrace (stack dump). -The more gdb info you send, the biggest is the possibility for us -to find the problem and maybe a solution. There is a FAQ entry -that explains how to produce a suitable gdb backtrace. -If you can't obtain a gdb backtrace (maybe because you're on -a platform where gdb is not available) or if the problem -is not related to a program crash then you should include -a detailed procedure that leads to the manifestation of your problem. -You should always include a short description of the platform you -are running on: the operating system, the cpu (if not an x86), -the version of the Qt library and the KDE environment (if relevant). -You should also mention the relevant version of KVIrc and where -you got it from (cvs, kvirc site, other sites). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -############################################################################### -# Historic entries : just for the curious -############################################################################### - - -22.02.2005: Release 3.2.0 "Realia" ############################################################################### -Here we go again: 3.2.0 is out! - -The long road to stability has reached an important milestone. The previous -releases of the 3.* series were the first ones after a huge codebase rewrite. -3.2.0 is a result of several months of testing, debugging and improving. -You will surely find it more stable, fast and user friendly. - -The old scripting toolbars have been replaced by the new "action" based -approach. Besides the scripting flexibility of the actions we have also -gained "drag & drop" toolbar editing. Just select "Settings -> Toolbars --> Customize" from the menu and drag your favorite actions (buttons!) to the -toolbars you wish. You can obviously create new toolbars on the fly and destroy -old ones. There is a set of builtin actions and new ones can be added -by the means of the action editor (another new feature) accessible from -the Scripting menu. Play with it :) - -The UNICODE support has been improved yet more. Now you can set global, -per-network, per-server and per-window encodings! There is also a new -set of "smart" encoding engines that first try to decode the text as UTF8 -and in case of failure fallback to your standard encoding. - -The translators did a really good (and hard) job: we actually have KVIrc -translated in 14 languages. I'm really happy about that. - -There is a new nice Instant-Messager-like notifier window that pops up when -a query message arrives and KVIrc is not the active application. Yes, -you can disable it, but I'm sure you will not. The notifier is also fully -scriptable and we're working on a simple skinning engine for it. - -We also have perl support: now you can use perl from KVS and -KVS from perl. The engine is still quite essential but with some hacking -you can obtain really good results from it. - -The small IRC-Context-Display has been removed from the toolbar and has been -replaced by a real status bar that is capable of displaying the same -informations in a much cleaner way. The IRC-Context-Display is still -available as an action so you can just drag it back in its place -and hide the status bar to return to the previous release configuration. -The statusbar also supports applets that can be added/dragged/removed by the -means of the mouse: just try the right click. - -The scripting engine has been improved and there are several new object -classes. An interesting new feature here is the $tr() function that allows -your scripts to be translated with the standard gettext mechanism. The -widely requested DCOP communication function has been implemented too. - -Out-of-the-box mircryption support has been added. The KVIrc's mircryption -engine supports the standard ECB mode and the new CBC mode - -The DCC transfers have been improved and seveal related bugs have been -fixed. It is also possible to limit the bandwidth for each transfer. - -There is a lot of minor new features that will make your IRC sessions funnier -and more exciting: some of them are described in the ChangeLog file and -other can be found by exploring the user interface. - -The small one-man-project has grown to the level of a small community. -People from around the world have joined our development efforts and are -constantly donating their time, eyes and bandwidth in order to make KVIrc -a really good IRC client. Besides of simply giving you a free (as in freedom!) -and nice program for chatting, they are giving you the great opportunity to see -what's behind the scenes: you have the source code for the whole application. -In practical terms this means more or less 300.000 lines of tested, debugged and -commented C++ code, several perl scripts, dozens of makefiles and all the means -that you need to produce a working KVIrc executable on all the supported platforms. -There is a lot of knowledge (some people call it "technology" because it sells better) -inside, ready to be acquired by an attentive reader. Don't forget that the freedom of -building your own executable from the sources gives you the opportunity -of verifying the source itself: for example you might be interested in verifying -that KVIrc will not run any malware code on your machine nor will collect -your private data and sell it to someone while you're happily chatting with a friend. -We call it freedom, please respect it :) - -Our community is contantly growing and this release was possible thanks to the -contribution of really many people. There are new mighty developers, new addicted -fans and we have seen a lot of new users. The list of the major contributors -can be found on the KVIrc site, in the about dialog and all around the sources. -If you want to meet them please join the #kvirc channel on your favorite -IRC network or subscribe to our mailing list. - -Ah, I was going to forget it: you might have noticed that there is -a version bump from 3.0.1 to 3.2.0. It's a typo that we arbitrairly -decided not to fix :) - -Have fun :) -Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team - -31.05.2004: Release 3.0.1 "System Virtue" -############################################################################### - -Here we go again: 3.0.1 is out! - -3.0.1 is mainly a bugfix release. 3.0.0 was the first public release -after long time and even if we have tested it for a very long time -some bugs didn't miss to jump out. 3.0.1 contains the fixes for these -problems and adds some minor functionality. The detailed list of -changes is in the ChangeLog file. - -The bugs for this release should be reported by using the bugtrack system available -at http://bugtrack.kvirc.omnikron.net - -Have fun :) -Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team - - -17.04.2004: Release 3.0.0 "Awakening" -############################################################################### - -After a couple of years from the last stable release, here we go again :) - -Since the 2.* releases the KVIrc source code has been almost completely -rewritten. The major differences are summarized in the following list: - - - Multiserver: you can have multiple IRC connections in a single window - - IPV6 support, also for DCC transfers - - SSL support (also over IPV6) - - UNICODE support for the user interface - - Better scripting language - - A basic Theme Engine - -The first major goal of the rewrite was "user-friendliness": you should be -able to start an IRC session by selecting a server and clicking "Connect Now" -just after the installation. -The second major goal was "extreme-flexibility": you can customize the way KVIrc -looks and the scripting language allows you to implement complex responses -to IRC generated events. - -There is a lot of minor new features that will make your IRC sessions funnier -and more exciting: some of them are described in the ChangeLog file and -other can be found by exploring the user interface. - -This release was possible thanks to the contribution of many people. -The list includes but is not limited to: Triskelios, Jan Wagner (spion), -Juanjo Alvarez (Kane), Andrea Parrella (Yap), Luk De Ketelaere (Balboy), -Sara D'Alia (Sbrokka), Ted Podgurski (alch3m1st), Ciro Guariglia (d3vah), -Christoph Thielecke (Crissi), Eva Schaller (Penny), Niklas Luerßen (Tequila) -Olle Hallnas (Crocodile), Francesco Meloni (Princo), Alessandro Rossini (Aronnax), -Alex Grijalba Martinez (SuD), SuperbepS, Thilo Schulz (Thilo), Dworf, -Jorma Tuomainen (Wiza), Michele Pinassi (O-Zone), Paolo Sammicheli (XDatap1), -Ahinu, xevilstar, The Siena Linux Users Group, cyco & samweis, -The Firenze Linux Users Group, all the subscribers of the KVIrc public mailing -list and finally all the people from #kvirc on IRCNet and Freenode. - -Have fun :) -Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team - -############################################################################### -General notes for the 3.0.0 release of the KVIrc IRC client -############################################################################### - -- Installation - -The detailed installation instructions for the unix source distribution -are in the INSTALL file. - -The Windows version needs no installation: just unzip the archive in -a suitable directory (such as C:\Program Files\) and run kvirc.exe from there. - -Other documentation can be found in the doc subdirectory. - -- Reporting problems - -In this release , the changes are so huge that it was not possible -to test them in all the possible conditions. A 'normal' irc session -should give you no problems. -You are encouraged to "mess" with all the KVIrc options and features, -and to report bugs and misbehaviours to the author. -Anyway , before reporting a bug , ask yourself if it can be caused -by some other part of your system: KVIrc uses many external libraries -and (as all programs) relies on a correct system behaviour. -Make sure that the libraries you use are the correct ones (!!!). - -- Contents of a good bug report: - -- A gdb backtrace in case of a segfault. - The more gdb info you send , the biggest is the possibility - for me to find the problem and maybe a solution. -- A detailed description (read : procedure) to reproduce the bug - Obviously if possible... -- All informations on your system that you think that may be - related to KVIrc and to the problem itself. - -To enable the gdb debugging you must compile kvirc with -the --enable-debug configure option. - - - -03.01.2003: Release 3.0.0 beta2 -############################################################################### - - -Here we go again! -Yes , this is still called "beta" , but it should be stable on most machines. -We're simply still missing some features planned for the final 3.0.0. - -Beta2 is being released as a source package. -Binary packages (for windows and other platforms) might be available soon -so check out the download section once in a while. - -90% of the 2.* branch features have been already re-implemented and there are -many new things to play with. - -There is a preliminary UNICODE port: KVIrc UI starts to "speak" foreign (non Latin1) based languages. -IRC character set mapping has been implemented (with 8 commonly used codepages for now). -You should be able to use the Euro sign (ISO-8859-15), write Cyrillic (KOI-8-R , CP-1251 , ISO-8859-5), -Greek (ISO-8859-7) and even use ideograms with the UTF-8 encoding. -Character mapping selection is window based thus you should be able to write Cyrillic on #russian, -Greek on #athens and write plain English on #kvirc in the same IRC session. - -Some modules have been removed from the main distribution. This is because the source -tree has been growing too much: we are removing the non-strictly-necessary features -and we will release them as separate packages. - -On the CVS you can already find the "nap" module that allows chatting (no file sharing yet) -on OpenNap networks. - -The scriptcenter dialog has been splitted in smaller "pieces" and a GUI toolbar editor has been added. - -Finally there are tons of bugfixes and improvements: just play with it :) - -The bugs for this release should be reported by using the bugtrack system available -at http://bugtrack.kvirc.omnikron.net. - -Have fun :) -Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team - -############################################################################### - - - -25.06.2002 -############################################################################### - -3.0.0 beta1 (Codename: "Eve's Avatar") - -This release is "floating around" since a couple of months... -Well... finally... here we go :) -This is not stable yet, but many people use it and we get a really small number of -critical reports: this means that you probably can use it for your daily chatting. - -Beta1 is being released as a source package and a binary distro for the windows platform. -Binary packages for other platforms might be available soon so check out the download section once in a while. - -If you had previous KVIrc installations and you experience problems (missing menus for example) -try to remove (or better just rename) the old local configuration directory (locaed -in your home dir probably) and to restart KVIrc. - -80% of the 2.* branch features have been already re-implemented and there is a whole -bunch of new things to play with. One of the greates "ChangeLog" entries is the preliminary -SSL support that works for IRC and DCC CHAT (both over IPv4 and IPv6). -CTCP PAGE support has been added and there were some major changes to the variable -management in the scripting language (added "real" array support and changed the syntax for the dictionaries). -Those of you that like colors can now enable the icon-like display of emoticons -and play with icons in the text sent through the server (a new escape code). -The documentation has been reworked a little bit more, there are some new modules and -a lot of new options to try. - -The windows version is not completely in sync with the linux one thus you might find -that it lacks some features (mainly advanced scripting language, sound support etc...). -We hope to have a completely synchronized versions on both platforms for the time -of 3.0.0 final. - -The bugs for this release should be reported by using our new shiny bugtrack system available -at http://bugtrack.kvirc.omnikron.net. - -Well.. -That's all folks! - -Have fun :) -Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team - -############################################################################### - |