NEWS

20th July 2002

Another minor bugfix release, fixing problems that have surfaced in
compiling with gnome support, and compiling with the gcc 3.xx series
of compilers. Lots of namespace tidying up and tidying for gcc 3.1.

26th April 2002

This is a minor bugfix release, fixing many small bugs that were found
since the 0.3.0 major release.

16th April 2002
(it's been a long time, I know..)

The long awaited version 0.3.0 of ickle is released.

Changes since 0.2 (it's a biggy):

* Added support for Authorisation Requests
* Support for `user added you' requests
* Support for your own away message
* Predefined away messages
* More icon sets
* SMTP delivery of SMS messages where required
* Title and icon indication of messages on the main ickle window,
  and on contact windows.
* Better handling of when a message is 'read'
* Statistics for contacts in user info
* Whitepage searches (detailed, UIN and Keyword)
* Invisibility
* Auto-away on idle time
* Retrieving/setting own info
* About box
* gcc 3.0 fixes - message history problems mainly
* Urgent and `To Contact List' delivery modes
* Sorting of contact list
* Extensively more Settings
  (Direct connection control, Servers, Logging.. )
* More README
* Registering new UINs and a Wizard to help too
* Spell checking in Message box (with ispell/aspell)
* Probably more stuff..

26th December 2001

ickle version 0.2.1 released.

* Numerous bug fixes for 0.2 release.
* Improved history behaviour
* gcc 3.0 should definitely work now

15th December 2001

ickle version 0.2.0 released. Changes since last version includes:

* Support for direct connections
* History-viewing support
* Optional support for a GNOME applet
* Support for dealing with authorization requests/responses
* Support for fetching away messages
* Support for character set translation
* Numerous bugfixes
* Portability fixes (OpenBSD, gcc 3.*, sstream)
* New settings:
  - autologin
  - autoraise messagebox
  - autopopup messagebox
  - autoclose messagebox
  - autoreconnect
  - logging
  - font selection for messagebox
  - network

7th November 2001

ickle version 0.1.2 released. Interrim release before the next major
release, to fix important bugs that have emerged. ICQ decided to stop
sending the MOTD today which screwed ickle up, but it is fixed in this
release. Also bugfixes to hopefully get it compiling on FreeBSD and
Solaris more easily.

8th October 2001

ickle version 0.1.1 released. Many bugfixes to catch missing libraries
at configure time. Added fetching basic user info off server, history
logging (although not reviewing yet) and tweaked GUI generally.

1st October 2001

ickle version 0.1.0 released. Supports through server messaging, urls
and SMSs to mobile phones.