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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″.

The upcoming 2.0 release of the well-known InspIRCd has a new beta release – being at beta2 now – available for download.

Developer danieldg writes in the announcement on their website that “enough has been done on 2.0 that it’s probably a good idea to release another beta”.

With this release, version 2.0 of the IRCd enters an “unofficial feature freeze” and danieldg says that “hopefully the protocol won’t need any further tweaks”.

Continuing the announcement he asks for beta testers of the upcoming new version that could test it “especially in a live environment” and stressed that version 2.0 is able to be linked to a network that is running InspIRCd 1.2 – to “get real network traffic”.

The lightIRC project just released version 0.9.8 of their free Flash webchat which contains a bunch of bugfixes and feature additions.

lightIRC Webinterface

The biggest improvement probably is that the client now offers “basic SSL support” which is still marked being beta at this point.

A whole host of new parameters for better customization has been added – you now can predefine the ident, realname and quitmessage the client uses. Also a new translation has been added, lightIRC now speaks Polish

A detailed changelog as well as the download can be found here.

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The InspIRCd stable tree has a new release and is now available as version 1.2.3.

The new version is mostly a bugfix release and developer danieldg cites “clone counting on CGI:IRC” as the “biggest fix this time, along with a bug letting users change to Q:lined nicks on their local server”.

Another bugfix worth mentioning is the fix for a memory leak in SetSockAddr that could be triggered by CGI:IRC clients – but there also have been feature additions, for example support for accountname-based InvEx extended bans (+I R:accountname)

The complete changelog as well as the link to the download can be found here.