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Textual 4 release notes

The complete recorded changes for Textual 4, grouped by release without losing individual fixes.

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These are the original Codeux release records; references to future plans, support and availability describe the release at the time.

Release Notes for Version 4.1.8

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 4.1.8 of the Textual IRC Client.

Fixes

  • Fixed a crash that would occur when closing Textual.

Release Notes for Version 4.1.7

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 4.1.7 of the Textual IRC Client.

Fixes

  • Fixed a crash that would occur when Textual tried to remove a user from the user list that does not exist there.

Release Notes for Version 4.1.6

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 4.1.6 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

  • Added the finduser command to assist channel operators with the task of finding users that meet certain criteria.

Release Notes for Version 4.1.5

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 4.1.5 of the Textual IRC Client.

Changes

  • Automatic approval of untrusted certificates no longer occurs during a reconnect on disconnect. An untrusted certificate can be marked as trusted using the confirmation dialog to allow automatic reconnects.

Release Notes for Version 4.1.4

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 4.1.4 of the Textual IRC Client.

Changes

  • The preference to speak notifications will now wait for other applications to finish speaking before Textual does so.

  • Empty encrypted lines (e.g. “+OK “) are now replaced with a single whitespace.

Release Notes for Version 4.1.3

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 4.1.3 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

  • Single clicking a user in the chat view will now highlight all messages written by that user.

Changes

  • The IP address resolved by DNS lookup is now shown in the server console.

  • Textual will now wait for the Internet to be available before reconnecting after disconnect.

Release Notes for Version 4.1.2

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 4.1.2 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

Release Notes for Version 4.1.1

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 4.1.1 of the Textual IRC Client.

Fixes

  • Fixed the inline image parser not correctly handling URLs with an international domain name.

  • Fixed the inline image parser not correctly handling URLs with a query string.

  • Fixed a crash that would occur when Textual tried to remove a user from the user list that does not exist there.

Release Notes for Version 4.1.0

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 4.1.0 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

Changes

  • The visibility of channel mode changes is now controlled by the “Show general event messages” preference.

Release Notes for Version 4.0.3

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 4.0.3 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

  • Added the late-2013 Mac Pro to list of models for the sysinfo command.

Release Notes for Version 4.0.2

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 4.0.2 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

  • Added support for identifying with NickServ services (or other) using a client-side certificate. More Information.

Changes

  • Dock icon badge colors have been swapped to reflect the server list.

Release Notes for Version 4.0.1

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 4.0.1 of the Textual IRC Client.

Changes

  • The topic bar can now be double clicked to edit the topic.

Release Notes for Version 4.0.0

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 4.0.0 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

  • Added support for iCloud. See the iCloud Syncing knowledge base article for more information.

  • Added Diffie–Hellman key exchange support to the Blowfish Encryption addon.

  • Added preference to change the behavior of Control Enter to send a message instead of inserting a new line.

Changes

  • The visibility of nickname changes is now controlled by the “Show general event messages” preference.

  • Strengthened the amount of security that goes into storing passwords.

  • The detach command now disables auto join for the targeted channel.

  • Command Zero (0) now comes after Command Nine (9) in the Navigation menu.

  • Highlights that use Regular Expression will no longer consider a match valid if it is inside a URL.

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