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Doing Some Maintenance - Quassel 0.13.1

  Sputnick 

Hi all, we’re back in 2019 with a maintenance release for the 0.13 cycle, Quassel 0.13.1. Besides a handful of fixes and improvements over the previous release, 0.13.1 fixes a particularly annoying issue with 0.13.0 on Qt4-based systems where backlog messages would not all be fetched. I’d like to thank Janne “justJanne” Koschinski and Shane “digitalcircuit” Synan in particular for finding the cause for this problem, as well as implementing and testing the fix! So if you happen to run Quasse...

It’s happening! - Quassel 0.13.0

  Sputnick 

Hi all, 1312 days have gone by since the last feature release of Quassel IRC. At times, the project went almost dormant; then it was buzzing with activity again due to some very active contributors (digitalcircuit, justJanne, romibi, mamarley, just to name a few). And in the end, even I could not help myself and had to start coding again! As a result, we can finally unleash a new feature release on you. And what a release it is! We have a new branding and application icon, support the moder...

The Final Stretch - Quassel 0.13-rc2

  Sputnick 

Hi all, the first release candidate for the impending 0.13 release uncovered some issues, the fixing of which required some more complex changes than we would have liked. Thus, we decided to roll a second release candidate. Most significant changes compared to rc1: Rework the init and shutdown sequence as well as signal handling to properly clean up everything on shutdown Rework the handling of regular expressions e.g. for ignore and highlight rules for more flexibility and better perform...

A Candidate Long in the Making - Quassel 0.13-rc1

  Sputnick 

Hi all, more than three years since 0.12.0 was released, and over 500 commits on top of what went into the current stable branch, we’re finally in the last stretch of the next major feature release! Since so much work and changes went into this, this time we’ve decided to not only roll a release candidate, but also announce it publicly, so daring people can test things before final release. Some caveats upfront: Both the database schema and the config file formats have been updated since 0...

Two Years!? - Quassel 0.12.5

  Sputnick 

Hi all, yes, it’s been exactly two years today since 0.12.4 was tagged… Even though development speed has picked up again recently (mostly thanks to some very active new and old contributors, and only to a small degree thanks to myself), and several hundred commits have gone into the main development branch since 0.12 was forked away, we’re still some weeks away from a new feature release. However, chaign_c has recently discovered two vulnerabilites in the 0.12.4 core, so a new maintenance ...

Fixing Bugs - Quassel 0.12.4

  Sputnick 

Hi all, while feature development is still slow – too slow for my own taste, really, but what can you do – some rather annoying bugs have been fixed that warrant another maintenance release. Most notably, Tucos (thanks a lot!) has figured out that invalid handshake data may cause the core to crash. Another annoying issue was the lack of support for the STATUSMSG feature available in some IRC networks. This one was recently abused by idio^Wpeople to pop up tons of spam queries for some of our...

Long Time No See - Quassel 0.12.3

  Sputnick 

Hi all, it’s been a while that we did a new release, and it’s still “just” a bugfix release this time. Turns out that real life is still keeping us busy… but it’s the good kind of busy, so there’s that. Thankfully, we have a bunch of cool people in the community who contribute patches, fixes and features while the core development team is on semi-hiatus – many thanks to all of you! Anyway, say hello to <a href=”/pub/quassel-0.12.3.tar.bz2>Quassel 0.12.3</a>. Many fixes went into...

New Cuties - Quassel 0.11.0

  Sputnick 

Hi all, It’s that time of the year again for another Quassel release! For 0.11.0, we’ve focused mainly on full support for Qt 5.2+ (in addition to Qt 4.6+, which will be supported alongside for the time being). Since Qt 4.x has not seen much development for quite some time, and subsequently we’ve missed out on much work that has been done by the Qt developers, this marks a major improvement in particular for our users on Windows and Mac OSX. Support for both platforms has seen many improveme...

Into the Double Digits - Quassel 0.10.0 Is Out!

  Sputnick 

Hi all, we proudly announce the latest release of Quassel IRC, version 0.10.0! As promised, development has become more active in the past few months (both because we gained several new contributors (thanks a bunch!), and I myself have finally some more time for development), so besides a host of bugfixes that already went into 0.9.x, this development cycle also saw various new features as listed in the ChangeLog. Besides, for example, various improvements related to SSL connections, optiona...

We Have Mailing Lists!

  Sputnick 

Hi all, finally (after years of pushing and prodding for it), we now have mailing lists for Quassel IRC. While most of user support and discussions happens in our IRC channels (mostly #quassel on Freenode), mailing lists have distinct advantages - in particular, there is an archive, and people can chime in asynchronously. So now we offer the following lists: quassel-announce This is a read-only list, where the development team will send important announcements to. We highly recommend dis...