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A couple of month has passed, and 5.2.4 is available.

This is mostly a bugfix release, including some quality of life improvements for Wayland users on GNU/Linux and Windows users running KVirc as a "portable" app. It also includes an important fix for a crash related to the undo/redo functionality. As a goodie, a new "Vertical line margin" option has been added to the ircview to make your ASCII art look better than ever.

For every need, or even just for some small talking, come and say hi at #[email protected]

Have fun! The KVIrc Development Team

Here we go again: 5.2.2 is ready.

This release introduces the use of Qt version 6 on all platforms. This adds better support for recent operating systems like Windows 10/11 and macOS, fixing a few long standing issues. Since 5.2.0 a few critical bugfixes has been added, including fixes for crashes and memory leaks.

For every need, or even just for some small talking, come and say hi at #[email protected]

Have fun! The KVIrc Development Team

NOTE: Packages are being built right now, will be published here as soon as they are ready

KVIrc 5.2.0 "Quasar" has been released.

This release contains changes from the last 5 years of development, including:

• Support for the latest version of upstream libraries: Qt5.15/6.6, KDE5/6, OpenSSL 1.x/3.x
• Wayland support
• Fix for some nasty crash bugs
• an improved font rendering engine able to represent complex characters like emojis with ligatures
• a reworked tray icon that now follows your OS style
• better support for solanum ircd (Libera net)

For every need, or even just for some small talking, come and say hi at #[email protected]

Have fun! The KVIrc Development Team

Long time overdue, the first refresh of KVIrc 5.x is now taking form. This is a beta of what will eventually be released as 5.2.0. But, there's still some work to do before the final release.

Users and developers are encouraged to test this beta and report any problem. If you detect an already known problem, just add a comment on the relevant issue. Generic feedback about the new release can be reported at https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/issues/2576

Translators, now it's the right time to translate your language, please check Transifex/KVIrc and update any untranslated string.

For every need, or even just for some small talking, come and say hi at #[email protected]

Have fun! The KVIrc Development Team

Long time overdue, the first refresh of KVIrc 5.x is now taking form. This is a beta of what will eventually be released as 5.2.0. But, there's still some work to do before the final release.

Users and developers are encouraged to test this beta and report any problem. If you detect an already known problem, just add a comment on the relevant issue. Generic feedback about the new release can be reported at https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/issues/2576

Translators, now it's the right time to translate your language, please check Transifex/KVIrc and update any untranslated string.

For every need, or even just for some small talking, come and say hi at #[email protected]

Have fun! The KVIrc Development Team

Long time overdue, the first refresh of KVIrc 5.x is now taking form. This is a beta of what will eventually be released as 5.2.0. But, there's still some work to do before the final release.

Users and developers are encouraged to test this beta and report any problem. If you detect an already known problem, just add a comment on the relevant issue. Generic feedback about the new release can be reported at https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/issues/2576

Translators, now it's the right time to translate your language, please check Transifex/KVIrc and update any untranslated string.

For every need, or even just for some small talking, come and say hi at #[email protected]

Have fun! The KVIrc Development Team

It took quite some time, but here it is: an official stable 5.0.0.

Since the beta1 release several bugs were fixed and the codebase has been polished a quite lot. The last stable release was more than six years ago, so the changes are really too many to be listed. You're encouraged to upgrade and just try it out.

Most prominent contributors to this release are @IceN9ne, @wodim, @Stanzilla, @DarthGandalf, @Dessa, @staticfox, @AndrioCelos and @craftwar: Honor and Glory! :) As usual, developers hang around #kvirc@Freenode. Come in and say hi!

Have fun! Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team

Here we go with another release :)

This one took a very long time but, well, finally it's here.

Notable new features of this release include:

- improved themeing support
- better desktop integration
- nicer support for many different IRC servers
- a totally revised option layout
- basic support for script "addons"
- improved help subsystem
- new nice statusbar applets
- improved scripting engine
- improved windows and macosx support
- ....

There is also a lot of small new details that you will find out by yourself while playing around and finally we obviously also have a huge number of bugfixes.

This will be the last stable release of the 3.* series and also the last one using Qt3. From now on we'll be working on major version 4 and switching completely to Qt4. This release actually contains a preliminary Qt4 support and if you feel brave you might test it by passing the "hidden" --enable-qt swtich to configure.

Have fun :) Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team

Here we go with another release :)

In march we said that 3.4.0 was the last release of the 3.* but we've found that a little update wasn't going to hurt while the mainstream 4.* is being worked out. Technically this is a mainly bugfix release: there are no major new features inside. Some annoying 3.4.0 bugs were wiped out, some docs were updated and we'll hopefully have a more stable windows binary.

If you're using 3.4.0 (or some older version) then you're strongly encouraged to upgrade.

Have fun :) Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team

And again, after more than one year, we're back with a new release.

The major version increment from 3 to 4 reflects a big milestone reached by the project: the port to Qt4 has been officially completed. This required a lot of code to be rewritten and I must say that we have suffered it a bit. But now it's done and Qt4 is a great framework to base KVIrc on, far better than Qt3.

Notable new features of this release include:

• Definitive and stable port to the Qt4 libraries
• A brand new build system based on CMake (no more ./configure)
• Better support for server tecnologies: CAPS, STARTTLS, SASL, irc services...
• A new UPnP module to control and remotely map your router ports for DCC
• A totally rewritten MDI subsystem, with the look and feel of your OS
• A nice graphical addon packager
• A visual class editor for object oriented scripting
• A rewritten iograph module to check your bandwidth usage
• Support for animated avatars
• Ability to get other user's avatars/information without the need to CTCP the whole channel
• Support for DBus inter-process communication
• Support for the MPRIS media player control and info reporting
• Support for Phonon direct media playback
• Improved platform compatibility for KDE4, MacOSX, Seven etc...
• A lot of new options to better customize your client
• A lot of new KVS commands and functions for your scripting needs
• Tons of bug fixes, more than 500 only from the bugtracker
• A better documentation of the code for those who like to give a look at it.
• Months of testing and fixing to assure you an optimal IRC experience ;) _ ...

Again a lot of people contributed to this release. It would be simply unfair not to mention the huge development effort made by Elvio Basello (HelLViS69), Fabio Bas (CtrlAltCa) and Alessandro Carbone (Noldor). Without their hard work KVIrc 4.0.0 wouldn't be possible.

Other kudos go to Markus Rennings (mren), Kai Wasserbäch (Curan), Jan Wagner (spy6), Claudia Mongini (etherea), Jose (Zé) Melo (mmodem), Alexey Uzhva (alexey), Robert Förster (Dessa), ambossarm, TheXception, Voker57, Thomas Kalla, bugslayer, Aeriana, Desowin and obviously to everyone on #kvirc@freenode who provided testing and support.

Well... it's time to play with it.

Have fun :) Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team