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.

The DMDIrc development team releases a new milestone, version 0.6.3m1 of the JAVA IRC client.

After nearly a year, we have just released DMDirc 0.6.3m1, with over 1000 commits resulting in over 200 feature additions, bug fixes and other changes

Developer Shane lists the below most notable fixes and additions in their blogpost:

• A redesign of the preferences dialog
• Improved support for SSL certficates (both client and server)
• Support for SOCKS proxies
• Ability to automatically restart the client after installing updates
• Ability for plugins to specify ’services’ that they provide/require.