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We are back - with Quassel 0.8.0

  Sputnick 

Has been a while that this page has seen updates, as we, the main developers, are still too busy with real life to get as much done as we would like. So many plans, so little time… Thankfully, we have some pretty awesome guys from the community (al, Tucos, johu, kode54, Fish-Face, to name but a few) who help out not only with support in our IRC channel, but also with triaging bugs, and especially with sending patches. So we finally managed to clean out our merge request queue and got a new f...

Quassel IRC v0.7.3

  Sputnick 

On September 8th, the IRC was in turmoil because someone discovered and actively exploited a bug in Quassel’s CTCP handling that would cause the core to crash when processing a specially crafted CTCP message. What followed was masses of users quitting from Freenode, because their cores crashed. We found and fixed the issue within a few hours, and have issued a new bugfix release. We strongly recommend updating your core or monolithic client as soon as possible to avoid crashes. Client-only b...

The State of Quassel (or: Why Are There No Updates?)

  Sputnick 

Because people keep wondering why our repository has been rather… quiet for the past few months, and not everybody finds his way into our IRC channel to ask us in person what’s up, I think it’s a good idea to finally blog about this. I can assure everyone that the project isn’t dead or anything. But the main developers are currently quite busy with real life, mainly with thesis writing, and Quassel development needs to suffer for that for the next few months. We intend to get back to develop...

The Lucky (minor) Number – Releasing Quassel IRC v0.7.1

  Sputnick 

It’s that time of the year when we’re releasing a new Quassel, and this time we strongly recommend updating your core or monolithic client at least, as in older versions there was an issue with CTCP handling that might allow bad and ugly people to make your core unresponsive. This issue is also the reason for the 0.7.0 release being officially skipped. People still on 0.6.x and not wanting to update to a new feature release should upgrade to version 0.6.3 in which this issue is fixed as well....

Requiring Qt 4.6

  Sputnick 

In a few days, the master branch (which will become quassel-0.7) will start depending on Qt 4.6 for the client only. Besides giving us some very welcome API additions, and fixing a few bugs we currently have to work around, this also allows us to use Qt Kinetic and the Animation Framework in the future. Qt 4.6 has been released about half a year ago, and is also required by the current stable KDE release, so we think that most desktop distros should be up to par by now (or don’t care enough ...