Harbinger / News: Recent posts

08.21.2002 - Harbinger 1.0 beta 2 released

Changes:
- Several severe bugs fixed:
* When you closed a chat window, and the remote user
tried to send you a message, Harbinger would segfault.
* The switchboard server will close the connection
after some idle time. Harbinger would not reopen
the connection when needed.
* Messages which are not received by a single recv()
system call are now handled correctly.
- Not a bug as such, but Harbinger will try to resolve
the directory where the executable is located.
The directory is needed for loading the icons.
- Some minor bugs fixed.
- The chat edit control will disable/enable when users
logs out/in.
- Now possible to put your public IP address in the
ini-file, useful if you are behind a NAT firewall and
want to send files, in addition to receiving them.
(See the example harbinger.ini file)

08.18.2002 - Harbinger 1.0 beta 1 released

Changes:
- Rewrite of the MSN Messenger library
- Requires the ZThread library (http://zthread.sourceforge.net/)
- Sending/receiving files
- Urlencoding/urldecoding of nicknames
- Resizing of the main canvas when needed
- Different colors for users in the chat session

Changes:
- Opening the chat window immediately after the double-click
- Fixed bug regarding sessions with more than two users
- Added "invite contact" dialog
- "invite contact" and "add contact" widgets are no longer resizable
- Progress dialog when logging in

06.15.2002 - Harbinger 0.7 released

Changes:
- Now possible to have more than two users in a chat session
- Fixed a bug that affected messages that spanned several lines
- Now using "nick=<my nick>" from harbinger.ini
- Will display the nickname changes of other users as they happen
- Sending "TypingUser" messages
- Added rainbow emoticon
- Removed dependency of libiconv, now using Qt for text translation

Added:
- Now using qmake (remember to set the QTDIR and QMAKESPEC
environment variables)
- Exception handling in the MSN Messenger library
- Emoticons
- Allowing "Shift-Enter" as well as "Ctrl-Enter" for typing
multiple lines

Bugfixes:
- The application would crash if you tried to remove an offline contact
- "\r\n" in messages is now parsed correctly
- Mutex locking when accessing the MSN thread from "chat.cpp"

Changes:
- The possibility to change own state. (Online, Away, Busy, etc.)
- The ability to see the state of the contacts.
- Offline contact list.