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The KDE IRC client Konversation pushed out a bugfix release shortly after its 1.3 milestone which brought support for DCC Whiteboard, a collaborative drawing extension.

According to their announcement, this minor release brings quite a few bugfixes and also reverts a regression that causes “data corruption or even loss of Watched Nicknames Online lists on application quit”.

Another thing to take note of is the improvement of RFC 1459 PING/PONG handling which might have caused users of bouncers to flood the IRCd when they attach to the same connection multiple times, possibly resulting in them getting kicked off of the network.

The KDE IRC client Konversation released version 1.3-beta1 this weekend which brings many changes to the table compared to the last release, version 1.2.3.

With this new version, Konversation now depends on KDE 4.3 and Qt 4.5 and also has gotten a few “interface tweaks, new keyboard shortcuts and many bugfixes [to] round things out” according to the announcement on their homepage.

The most exciting new feature Konversation 1.3 brings to the table is called “DCC Whiteboard” which brings “collaborative drawing – think two-player Kolourpaint – to IRC”.

To get an idea how this is implemented and how it looks like, see the screenshot below:

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″.