IRC-Junkie.org – IRC News

DMDirc, a free and open source IRC client written in Java, just announced the availability of a new version of their client.

DMDirc 0.6.3 Channelview

This release, 0.6.3, introduces lots and lots of new features and improvements.

The DCC plugin has had a “particularly silly bug which rate limited all DCCs to 10KB/s in past versions” as well as a few other misc bugs.

Channel & URL links now work better since a few extra characters are now parsed correctly which would’ve broken them before.

AndChat (previously known as AndroidIRC), a free and powerful IRC client for the Android platform, has been updated and is now available at version 1.2.8.

AndChat Channelview

The free – although not Open Source’d – client provides a great number of features such as multi-server and SSL support, highlights and notifications, timestamps, a scrollback buffer and nick-completion – and it reportedly works with all major bouncers.

AndChat Options Menu

The new version, available since today, has a few bugfixes and new features added:

wsIRC, a new webchat client, is now at version 1.0 – their first release version.

wsIRC Channelview

As you can see from the screenshot, the most important functions are already there: right-click menus for miscellaneous functions such as /WHOIS or /PRIVMSG’ing users, a Channel-Central to handle the most basic modes and bans. Registering your nick or channel through a simple popup is implemented and the usual buttons for smileys, font-color and style are available too.

The KVIrc team has issued an update of their IRC client although it’s technically still at RC2.

The update is recommended for all users of the freenode IRC network that experience problems with “Excess Flood” disconnects from the network, mostly due to autojoining a large number of channels where the client automatically issues a series of commands (/WHO, gets channelmodes and lists of bans as well as ban and invite exemptions) – neither of those events have been rate-limited in the past.

The Konversation IRC client – a “user-friendly Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client built on the KDE Platform” – has been updated to version 1.2.3.

Konversation Channel View

Version 1.2.3 is a hotfix release that “improves upon an earlier fix, originally included in Konversation 1.2.2, that increases the reliability of Konversation’s interaction with the D-Bus inter-process communication daemon”.

Apart from that, the earlier update to 1.2.2 included loads of fixes for DCC-related functions like DCC Chat and DCC file transfers, stability fixes that address a number of crashbugs and most notably a “change addressing the high CPU usage some users have experienced with Qt 4.6″.