Here it is, the second bugfix release of the 0.6 series!

New features:

• German translation (please contribute other translations, see *.pot files). (trac#94 trac#95)
• Window size and position is now restored after startup. (trac#91)
• Timestamps can be disabled now. (trac#84)
• Timestamp format variables are now explained. (trac#102)
• Nick-colors now tries to avoid colors that give a bad contrast depending on the background color.
• Added Next/Previous Chat entry to menu (so the shortcut is visble now).
• Logging date format is much more human readable now.

Bug fixes:

• Adding servers with the same hostname is now prevented. (trac#100)
• Switching between local engine and remote engine without restart works now. (trac#106)
• Quick connect dialog doesn't just close if a server is selected using double click. (trac#80)
• Chats are now sorted correctly if there is no next protocol chat tab available. (trac#87)
• mIRC clear color character wasn't honored correctly. (trac#89)
• /quit command is working now. (trac#92)
• Reconnect is not breaking open person chats anymore. (trac#99)
• First message of a person chat is now triggering a highlight again.

OK thats it from the 0.6.2 front, just head to the download page and get the real stuff!

PS: Smuxi is now available in Debian/Unstable and ArchLinux (thanks goes to Jense for the ArchLinux package)!

As promised here are the Debian and Ubuntu packages for the 0.6.1 release of smuxi!

How to install them, just head to the download page.

For Linux package maintainers out there, I welcome very much smuxi packages for other Linux distributions like OpenSUSE, Gentoo, ArchLinux, ForeSight and so on! Visit me on IRC #smuxi @ OFTC or write me an email.

So one week after 0.6.0, here we go, the first minor bugfix/feature release of the 0.6 series!

I received a lot of feedback from smuxi users, thanks goes to all smuxi users for that. This helps me making smuxi a great IRC client. So what does this bugfix release include? Well, it contains some bugfixes but there was no major bugs like crashes or anything, seems like someone tested smuxi very well

As it didn't contain much bugs, I also added some smaller features, here the list:

New features:

• Group chats behind their protocol chat. (trac #54)
• Added Whois to popup menu in channels. (trac #57)
• Added Kick+Ban to popup menu in channels. (trac #58)
• Reduced logging from debug to info level, to get debug level -d can be passed as argument to smuxi-server and smuxi-frontend-gnome. (trac #59 trac #60)
• Tabs can be re-ordered now, but only with GTK# 2.10, the order will not be retained though after restart. (trac #68)
• Multiple users can be selected in channels now to do actions. (trac #73)

Bug fixes:

• Changing topic and user list position will now be applied without restarting. (trac #56)
• Fixed "make check" (trac #53)
• Fixed "/window close" command and ctrl+w hotkey (trac #67)

So what are you waiting for? Get smuxi 0.6.1 from the download page!

Please keep giving me feedback by submitting TRAC tickets, joining on IRC or writing emails! That's what make me going

Attention to Windows users: with the 0.6.1 release I made a win32 package that will run if you follow the "Windows Install" instructions from the download page!

Tomorrow I will try to get Debian and Ubuntu packages done for Smuxi. For some odd reason I couldn't get 0.6.0 packages building because autofoo failed on Debian/Etch not finding install-sh while it was there...

Update: the source tarball of smuxi 0.6.1 and smartirc4net have been updated! Smuxi builds from source cleanly now, check the download page.

Yep, you read correctly the title, finally smuxi 0.6.0 is released!

After 3 years of development here it is, the flexible and cross-platform IRC client (actually it's multi-protocol, but the 0.6 only includes IRC support).

So here a feature list of what the 0.6 release includes:

• multi-server support
• multi-protocol support (currently only IRC  included)
• detachable frontend (limitation: requires TCP ports in both directions -> not NAT safe (yet))
• basic theming
• server manager
• find group chat (channels)
• quick connect to servers
• configurable interface
• on startup commands
• on connect commands (global and per server)
• nickname completion (normal and bash-style)

So here it is, in all proud and glory:

 

Are you hot already? Get smuxi now as long it's steaming hot!

For binary tarball, source tarball, packages for Debian/Ubuntu and Windows just head to the download page.

If you wondered what's happening, the beta release is very close. I plan to release smuxi beta (0.6) this month. Smuxi made good steps forward regarding stability and API design. I've been using smuxi as my primary IRC client almost a year already and it's fun.

Also the GNOME frontend is not the only one anymore I made proof-of-concept frontends using different UI toolkits like Curses / STFL and WinForms (native Windows). The WinForms frontend was started and is maintained by Zhila. The proof-of-concept frontends will be a very good base for other developers wanting to contribute to the smuxi project. The different frontends was needed to find possible API design flaws, and I found some but those were minor issues.

That's not all yet I need to blog! The IRC protocol implementation was always made in modular fashion. It is only an implementation of a protocol manager interface. But I never managed to implement a different protocol (no time, no real interest) but some months ago I got hot trying the XMPP / Jabber protocol, as many of my friends are using different protocols (like ICQ, AIM, MSN). Jabber supports gateways to other protocols, so I thought with Jabber I could kill all protocol holes with one stone. And that was a big success, smuxi has now experimental Jabber support too, supporting person and group chats (no presence / contacts though). Too much text already? Then check this screenshot. On that screenshot you can see me connected to a Jabber server, chatting to iamthejaymann through the Jabber server over the AIM gateway I think that's enough news for now, it's getting hot in here

Stay tuned, it's worth it!