Release Notes for Licq 1.3.7

Changes since 1.3.6:

  • Various bugs in both Licq and plugins that caused crashes and hangings have been fixed.
  • Build: Various fixes to make Licq and plugins compile cleaner.
  • ICQ: Line breaks in received messages from some clients were lost.
  • ICQ: Manually set aliases were sometimes lost during logon.
  • ICQ: Files were left open after canceled transfers.
  • MSN: Sometimes sockets were getting associated with the wrong conversation.
  • Plugin API: Renamed ICQUser class to LicqUser.
  • Plugin API: Introduced a user id data type to replace account+ppid.
  • Plugin API: Introduced mutex guard classes for user and group objects.
  • Plugin API: Added IPv6 support to socket class (currently not used by ICQ or MSN plugin).
  • Plugin API: Various other changes and improvements.
  • Qt4-Gui: Deleting a user caused the contact list to behave strange or even crash.
  • Qt4-Gui: Moved Qt style setting from command line to settings dialog.
  • Qt4-Gui: Moved skin and icon set selections to settings dialog.
  • Qt4-Gui: Alt+1, Alt+2, etc in message dialog can be used to switch between tabs.
  • Qt4-Gui: Made keyboard shortcuts configurable.
  • Qt4-Gui: Several additional functions can be configured to have keyboard shortcuts.
  • Qt4-Gui: Added option to disable sound for active message window.
  • Qt4-Gui: Size of view event and send event dialogs are remembered.
  • Qt4-Gui: Current group in contact list can be changed using scroll wheel on message field.
  • Qt4-Gui: Shift+PgUp/PgDn in message input can be used to scroll history area.
  • Qt4-Gui: Added spell checking support (using Hunspell) for message dialog.
  • Qt4-Gui: Thread contact list can be split in online and offline parts (group mode 2).

Note: Hunspell is required to get spell checking support in Qt4-Gui.

Tickets fixed in 1.3.7

#573
Group Mode 2
#739
disable sound-notification on active window
#764
FIFO status offline bug
#824
Spellcheck
#1200
multiperson chat action -> internal error
#1345
Too long away message
#1367
Pressing alt + 1 for switching to the first tab etc.
#1408
MSN messages send, but not disappear from desktop, thus no history entry.
#1458
segfault on sending message
#1465
Actualize all users
#1504
Patch to fix variable-size arrays
#1507
Stray messages in MSN conversations
#1516
NULL ptr dereferences found with Calysto static checker
#1571
crash upon CL redraw
#1593
New broken or unknown contacts after connecting
#1634
qt4-gui with buddy icons sometimes uses 100% CPU
#1644
File handle isn't closed after canceled file transfer
#1648
Deadlock crash when removing user from contact list
#1649
licq 1.3.6 qt4-gui do not comply LIB_SUFFIX
#1650
Patch to install .desktop file of qt4-plugin/kde4-plugin
#1652
MSN crash during toggle offline / online
#1653
Drag and drop of URL onto MSN user crashes Licq
#1656
Richtext linebreaks in messages are lost
#1659
LICQ-Crash while deleting users from Contact-list
#1661
crazy behaviour after deleting contact
#1663
ICQ Login problems
#1664
licq kde4-gui (svn r6610) crashes during chating
#1665
Current SVN version crashes in MonitorSockets (?)
#1667
Crash after going offline
#1668
fix build with gcc 4.3 and 4.4
#1669
aim message readability issues
#1672
Asterisk for new messages missing in 1.3.5/1.3.6
#1673
Llicq 1.3.6 doesn't compile on Fedora 11 x64
#1674
Licq SVN Version Crashes (segfault) on message sent (qt4-gui)
#1675
Licq runaway process whenever use Search History
#1676
[r6773] Compile failure

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