HexChat ChangeLog
=================

2.10.2 (2014-11-25)
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- verify hostnames of certificates
- use more secure openssl options (No SSLv2/3)
- detect utf8 urls in chat
- fix using multiple client certs at the same time
- fix checking for Perl on some distros
- fix friends list not properly updating
- fix building with format-security
- fix more non-ascii path issues on Windows
- fix opening utf8 urls on Windows and OSX
- update deps on Windows
- update translations

2.10.1 (2014-07-28)
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- add configure check for python 3.4
- improve spell check handling apostrophes
- disable unsupported tray feature on Elementary OS
- disable installing on Vista (would just crash on x64)
- fix possible crash in banlist
- fix some crashes in pluginpref API
- fix crash in spell check
- fix notify list being sent to wrong networks
- fix scrolling the chanview on Unix
- fix building plugin support on some platforms (OS X 10.8)
- fix FiSHLiM decryption when identify-msg is enabled
- fix expanding *~user* on Unix
- fix missing license files on Windows
- fix silent installer on Windows
- update translations
- update network list
- update Python versions on Windows

2.10.0 (2014-06-01)
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- fix SASL on InspIRCd networks
- fix building on OpenBSD
- fix crash when using invalid timestamps on Windows
- fix Lag Meter reporting invalid numbers
- fix drag and drop on User List/Channel Switcher
- fix various Unicode issues on Windows
- add fullscreen display mode
- add ``/getbool`` command
- add support for userhost-in-names capability
- add --command command line flag on Windows
- add message parameter to ``/query``
- add help messages to user commands
- add ``plugin_pref`` to Perl
- add regex search to the Channel List on Windows
- add option to hide nick change messages
- redesign various settings windows (notably key bindings)
- render colors and attributes in the Input Box and Topic Bar
- bind middle-click to close tabs
- build the GTK+ PixBuf theme engine on Windows
- change ``/list`` to open the Channel List window
- change the format key bindings are stored in (will convert automatically)
- enable italics
- rewrite ``/dns`` adding support for Windows and replacing the plugin
- rebrand the Perl plugin
- replace the Search window with a Search Bar
- replace Text Box transparency with full window transparency (may come back)
- remove all deprecated GTK+ usage
- remove all direct use of X11, fixing XWayland support
- hide unsupported channel modes from the Topic Bar
- improve spell check (handle contractions)
- improve rendering and selection in the Text Box
- improve OS X integration (custom theme, app menu, dock icon, spell check, app bundle, key bindings)
- improve the Windows installer (downloads requirements when ran)
- update Visual Studio to 2013
- update Perl to 5.20 on Windows
- update Python to 3.4 on Windows
- update OpenSSL on Windows to fix "Heartbleed"
- update translations

2.9.6.1 (2013-09-15)
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- fix some utilities causing crash `#740 <https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/issues/740>`_

2.9.6 (2013-09-11)
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- redesign edit window in network list
- rename favorites to autojoin
- improve URL detection yet again (this time with more IPv6!)
- implement ``/exec -o`` on Windows
- improvements to the DCC window
- improvements to sysinfo on Unix, including ``-e`` to print info instead of saying
- add support for BLOWFISH, AES, and EXTERNAL SASL mechanisms
- add reload command and button in plugingui
- add support for server-time and znc.in/server-time[-iso] capabilities
- add attributes to ``hook_print``/``server`` and ``emit_print`` for information such as server-time
- add support for QuakeNet's challangeauth
- add chanopt for stripping colors
- add copy option to banlist entries
- add autoconnect option to context menu of networks
- add option for omitting alerts while window is focused
- add python3 support along with various bugfixes
- add libcanberra support on Unix
- add tracking of users accounts
- add ``%u`` to userlist popups for accounts
- add channelkey to channel lists in plugin api
- add ``MONITOR`` support for the friends list
- add ``QUIET`` and ``UNQUIET`` commands
- add support for the away-notify, account-notify, and extended-join capabilities
- add notifications for friends away status (requires away-notify)
- add events for quiet, unquiet, and quietlist
- add Ctrl+N (New Server Window) keybinding
- add Ctrl+Home/End keybinding for scrolling to top/bottom
- add theme manager to Unix build system
- fix compilation on FreeBSD
- fix running as root
- fix splitting ctcps and notices
- fix alerts and scrollback chanopts
- fix crash when attaching/detaching tabs
- fix sending limited channel messages (op messages) to the wrong tab
- change ``/load -e`` to load from config dir
- remove Ctrl+L (Clear Text) keybinding
- remove custom sound applications
- remove away announce, replaced by away-notify on supported servers (`alternative python script <https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat-addons/blob/master/python/awayannounce/awayanounce.py>`_)
- update network list

2.9.5 (2013-04-01)
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- fix Checksum plugin with DCC download directory set
- fix false positives with Update Checker
- fix sound directory option on Unix
- fix loading custom icons
- fix tray icon not reappearing if the tray crashes
- fix restoring maximized windows from tray
- fix ``/QUERY -nofocus``
- fix reconnecting to channels with keys
- fix compilation on FreeBSD
- fix showing the join dialog when autojoining channels
- fix Plugin-Tray menu not closing on Windows
- fix close dialog minimizing to tray before selection
- fix Python plugin compilation on Ubuntu 13.04
- fix Theme Manager crashing with read-only files
- fix channel tree indentation without server tab or with icons
- add auto-away support to Plugin-Tray
- add Plugin-Tray option to disable blinking
- add option to always show notices on current tab
- add support for notification filtering in GNOME 3.8
- add support for channel keys in URLs
- add option to color nicks in the user list the same way as in the chat area
- add ability to automatically switch to last activity on change-page hotkey
- add ability to save divider position between combined user list and channel tree
- add global real name option to Preferences
- add Safe Mode shortcut to the Start Menu group on Windows
- add helpful links to the setup wizard on Windows
- make the source tree compliant with Debian policies
- install SVG icon on Unix
- enable Plugin-Tray menu on Windows
- enable IPv6 by default on Unix
- show ``/WHOIS`` response on current tab by default
- redesign the Ban List window to show invites, bans, exemptions and quiets
- make user list icons slightly smaller
- close all utility windows with the Esc key
- improve URL and username detection in the chat area
- make ``/JOIN`` focus the existing channel if already joined
- change default DCC download directory to ~/Downloads on Unix
- allow Plugins and Scripts utility to be opened in a tab
- only beep when the HexChat window is not active
- use the certs subfolder of the config folder for loading custom certificates
- disable tray icon when using Unity
- remove Lua and Tcl
- remove HexTray in favor of built-in Plugin-Tray
- remove installer theming on Windows
- cease support for Perl 5.12 and 5.14 on Windows
- rebuild every dependency with Visual C++ on Windows
- stop using the WDK on Windows and depend on the Visual C++ Redistributable
- update GTK+ to 2.24 on Windows
- update default text events
- update translations
- update the network list

2.9.4 (2012-11-11)
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- fix alerts when omit alerts in away option is set
- fix dialog icon in userlist popup
- fix opening links on Mac
- fix default network in the Network List
- fix initial folder in file dialogs
- fix positioning the nick change dialog
- fix error message for busy servers
- fix filename encoding errors
- fix Fedora spec file
- fix Raw Log content being impossible to copy when auto-copy is disabled
- fix rough icon rendering in most windows on Windows
- fix config folder when specified with -d argument
- add built-in support for SASL authentication via CAP
- add support for identify-msg/multi-prefix server capabilities
- add text events for CAP related messages
- add support for the SysInfo plugin on Unix
- add option to change update check frequency and delay for first check
- add option to change GUI language on Windows
- add Ignore entry to userlist popup
- add Afrikaans, Asturian, Danish, Gujarati, Indonesian, Kinyarwanda and Malayalam translations
- add ChangeLog and ReadMe links to Start Menu during installation on Windows
- add manual page on Unix
- add icon support for 3 levels above op user mode
- change default colors, text events and user list/channel tree icons
- make Esc key close the Raw Log window
- use Consolas as the default font where available
- open dialog window for double-clicking in the user list by default
- variable separation, cleanup and renaming
- check in the installers whether Windows release is supported by HexChat
- display previous value after ``/SET``
- reorganize the Settings menu and add new options
- redesign the About dialog
- show certain help messages in GTK+ dialogs instead of command line
- disable faulty one instance option
- build system cosmetics on Unix
- reorganize repo file structure
- rebranding
- update translations
- update the network list

2.9.3 (2012-10-14)
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- fix various URL detection bugs
- fix default folders for file transfers in portable mode
- fix Autotools warnings with recent releases
- add ``/ADDSERVER`` command
- add option to save URLs to disk on-the-fly
- add option to omit alerts when marked as being away
- add default icons for channel tree and option to turn them off
- change certain default colors
- enhance Non-BMP filtering performance
- accept license agreement by default on Windows
- update the network list

2.9.2 (2012-10-05)
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- fix compilation on Red Hat and Fedora
- fix portable to non-portable migrations on Windows
- fix ban message in HexTray
- fix icon in Connection Complete dialog
- fix determining if the log folder path is full or relative
- fix desktop notification icons on Unix
- fix URL grabber saving an unlimited number of URLs by default
- fix URL grabber memory leaks under certain circumstances
- fix URL grabber trying to export URL lists to system folders by default
- fix opening URLs without ``http(s)://``
- add support for regenerating text events during compilation on Windows
- add support for the theme manager on Unix
- add Unifont to the default list of alternative fonts
- add option to retain colors in the topic
- allow the installer to preserve custom GTK+ theme settings on Windows
- use the icons subfolder of the config folder for loading custom icons
- use port 6697 for SSL connections by default
- install the SASL plugin by default on Windows
- ``/lastlog`` improvements
- build system cosmetics on Unix
- open links with just left click by default
- enable timestamps and include seconds by default
- make libproxy an optional dependency on Unix
- update German translation
- update the network list

2.9.1 (2012-07-27)
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- fix installing/loading plugins on Unix
- fix restoring the HexChat window via shortcuts on Windows
- fix HexTray icon rendering for certain events
- fix the Show marker line option in Preferences
- fix ``/lastlog`` regexp support on Windows
- add support for the Checksum, Do At, FiSHLiM and SASL plugins on Unix
- add option to retain colors when displaying scrollback
- add MS Gothic to the default list of alternative fonts
- rebranding and cleanup
- eliminate lots of compiler warnings
- Unix build system fixes and cosmetics
- make Git ignore Unix-specific intermediate files
- use better compression for Windows installers
- switch to GTK+ file dialogs on Windows
- restructure the Preferences window
- use the addons subfolder of the config folder for auto-loading plugins/scripts
- improve the dialog used for opening plugins/scripts
- remember user limits in channel list between sessions
- remember last search pattern during sessions
- update XChat to r1521

2.9.0 (2012-07-14)
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- rebranding
- migrate code to GitHub
- update XChat to r1515
- fix x64 Perl interface installation for Perl 5.16
- improve URL detection with new TLDs and file extensions

1508-3 (2012-06-17)
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- add XChat Theme Manager
- fix problems with Turkish locale

1508-2 (2012-06-15)
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- add support for Perl 5.16
- update Do At plugin
- fix drawing of chat area bottom
- avoid false hits when restoring from tray via shortcut
- migrate from NMAKE to Visual Studio

1508 (2012-06-02)
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- remove Real Name from Network List
- search window improvements
- restore XChat-WDK from tray via shortcut if X-Tray is used

1507 (2012-05-13)
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- update OpenSSL to 1.0.1c
- FiSHLiM updates

1506 (2012-05-04)
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- update OpenSSL to 1.0.1b
- update German translation

1503 (2012-03-16)
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- update OpenSSL to 1.0.1
- URL grabber updates
- FiSHLiM updates

1500 (2012-02-16)
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- add option for specifying alternative fonts
- fix crash due to invalid timestamp format
- X-Tray cosmetics

1499-7 (2012-02-08)
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- fix update notifications
- fix compilation on Linux
- add IPv6 support to built-in identd

1499-6 (2012-01-20)
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- add DNS plugin

1499-5 (2012-01-20)
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- built-in fix for client crashes
- update OpenSSL to 1.0.0g

1499-4 (2012-01-18)
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- add Non-BMP plugin to avoid client crashes

1499-3 (2012-01-15)
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- rework and extend plugin config API
- add ``ADD``/``DEL``/``LIST`` support to X-SASL

1499-2 (2012-01-11)
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- add X-SASL plugin

1499 (2012-01-09)
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- fix saving FiSHLiM keys
- update OpenSSL to 1.0.0f

1498-4 (2011-12-05)
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- fix updates not overwriting old files
- display WinSys output in one line for others
- use Strawberry Perl for building

1498-3 (2011-12-02)
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- add plugin config API
- add Exec plugin
- add WinSys plugin
- perform periodic update checks automatically

1498-2 (2011-11-25)
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- add FiSHLiM plugin
- add option to allow only one instance of XChat to run

1498 (2011-11-23)
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- separate x86 and x64 installers (uninstall any previous version!)
- downgrade GTK+ to 2.16
- re-enable the transparent background option
- various X-Tray improvements
- add WMPA plugin
- add Do At plugin
- automatically save set variables to disk by default
- update OpenSSL to 1.0.0e

1496-6 (2011-08-09)
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- add option to auto-open new tab upon ``/MSG``
- fix the update checker to use the git repo
- disable update checker cache

1496-5 (2011-08-07)
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- fix attach/detach keyboard shortcut
- add multi-language support to the spell checker

1496-4 (2011-07-27)
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- recognize Windows 8 when displaying OS info
- update OpenSSL certificate list
- fix X-Tray blinking on unselected events
- fix X-Tray keyboard shortcut handling
- cease support for Perl 5.10
- use Strawberry Perl for 5.12 DLLs

1496-3 (2011-06-16)
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- add option for changing spell checker color

1496-2 (2011-06-05)
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- add support for custom license text

1496 (2011-05-30)
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- display build type in CTPC VERSION reply
- add support for Perl 5.14

1494 (2011-04-16)
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- update Visual Studio to 2010 SP1
- update OpenSSL to 1.0.0d
- ship MySpell dictionaries in a separate installer

1489 (2011-01-26)
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- fix unloading the Winamp plugin
- enable the Favorite Networks feature
- add Channel Message event support to X-Tray
- add mpcInfo plugin

1486 (2011-01-16)
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- fix a possible memory leak in the update checker
- fix XChat-Text shortcut creation
- fix XChat version check via the plugin interface
- add option for limiting the size of files to be checksummed
- add X-Tray as an install option
- disable Plugin-Tray context menu completely

1479-2 (2011-01-10)
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- improve command-line argument support
- add auto-copy options
- enable XChat-Text
- disable faulty tray menu items

1479 (2010-12-29)
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- update GTK+ to 2.22.1
- update OpenSSL to 1.0.0c
- update Python to 2.7.1
- replace X-Tray with Plugin-Tray

1469-3 (2010-10-20)
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- add Checksum plugin
- menu integration for Update Checker and Winamp

1469-2 (2010-10-09)
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- fix DCC file sending
- native open/save dialogs
- make the version info nicer
- register XChat-WDK as IRC protocol handler
- add option to run XChat-WDK after installation
- disable erroneous uninstall warnings
- disable Plugin-Tray, provide X-Tray only
- cease support for Perl 5.8
- replace EasyWinampControl with Winamp

1469 (2010-10-08)
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- use Visual C++ 2010 for all WDK builds
- build Enchant with WDK and update it to 1.6.0
- fix SSL validation
- fix opening the config folder from GUI in portable mode
- further improve dialog placement for closing network tabs

1468-2 (2010-10-02)
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- update GTK+ to 2.22
- spelling support
- more config compatibility with official build
- improve dialog placement for closing network tabs
- remove themes from the installer
- disable toggle for favorite networks until it's usable
- disable transparent backgrounds
- hide mnemonic underlines until Alt key pressed
- fix XP lagometer and throttlemeter rendering

1468 (2010-09-19)
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- update Perl to 5.12.2
- update Tcl to 8.5.9
- fix scrollback shrinking
- enable advanced settings pane
- retain emoticon settings
- add ``/IGNALL`` command

1464-6 (2010-09-06)
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- fix Perl interface breakage
- update checker plugin

1464-5 (2010-08-30)
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- primitive update checker

1464-4 (2010-08-30)
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- selectable tray icon
- selectable theme for portable
- selectable plugins

1464-3 (2010-08-29)
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- black theme for portable

1464-2 (2010-08-29)
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- make Perl version selectable during install

1464 (2010-08-26)
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- Perl interface updates

1462 (2010-08-25)
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- update XChat to r1462
- build system cleanup

1459-3 (2010-08-23)
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- more installer changes (uninstall any previous version!)

1459-2 (2010-08-23)
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- universal installer
- update build dependencies

1459 (2010-08-19)
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- portable mode and installer fixes

1457 (2010-08-17)
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- disable GUI warnings

1455-2 (2010-08-17)
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- unified installer for standard and portable

1455 (2010-08-15)
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- support for gtkwin\_ptr in the Perl interface

1454 (2010-08-14)
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- gtkwin\_ptr for plugins introduced

1452 (2010-08-14)
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- fix taskbar alerts on x86
- upgrade Perl to 5.12 and make 5.8/5.10 builds available separately

1451-6 (2010-08-12)
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- include Lua-WDK with the installer

1451-5 (2010-08-12)
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- switch to Inno Setup (uninstall any previous version!)
- add Lua support

1451-4 (2010-08-11)
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- enable the XDCC plugin

1451-3 (2010-08-11)
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- enable Python support

1451-2 (2010-08-11)
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- enable SSL support
- fix simultaneous connections
- re-enable identd by default

1451 (2010-08-10)
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- update XChat to r1451
- disable identd by default
- remove DNS plugin

1444 (2010-07-30)
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- update XChat to r1444
- downgrade Tcl to 8.5
- add Tcl support to the x64 build

1441 (2010-06-15)
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- update XChat to r1441
- enable transfer of files bigger than 4 GB

1439 (2010-05-30)
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- update XChat to r1439 (2.8.8)

1431-6 (2010-05-30)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- re-enable the transparent background option
- add branding to Plugin-Tray
- installer updates

1431-5 (2010-05-29)
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- fix installer
- add DNS plugin status messages

1431-4 (2010-05-28)
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- disable the transparent background option
- downgrade GTK+ to more stable 2.16

1431-3 (2010-05-23)
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- add portable build support

1431-2 (2010-05-22)
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- replace X-Tray with Plugin-Tray

1431 (2010-05-21)
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- update XChat to r1431
- include a lot of XChat translations added since 2.8.6

1412-3 (2010-05-02)
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- fix GTK function call

1412-2 (2010-05-02)
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- re-enable taskbar alerts on x64

1412 (2010-05-02)
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- update XChat to r1412
- update GTK+ and friends
- update Visual Studio to 2010
- fix Perl warning message
- include GTK L10n with the installer

1409-9 (2010-04-18)
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- fix loading of scrollback

1409-8 (2010-04-03)
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- fix X-Tray on x64

1409-7 (2010-04-02)
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- disable taskbar notification options

1409-6 (2010-03-31)
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- display version numbers everywhere

1409-5 (2010-03-31)
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- add DNS plugin
- add EasyWinampControl plugin
- disable Plugin-Tray settings

1409-4 (2010-03-30)
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- add X-Tray

1409-3 (2010-03-29)
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- plugin linkage fixes

1409-2 (2010-03-29)
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- enable IPv6 support
- enable NLS support
- enable Perl support
- enable Tcl support

1409 (2010-03-29)
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- initial release
