This release has over 200 feature additions, bugfixes, and other changes, including a redesign of the preferences dialog, improved support for SSL certficates (both client and server), support for SOCKS proxies, the ability to automatically restart the client after installing updates, the ability for plugins to specify ’services’ that they provide/require, the ability for plugins to export (share) methods with each other, improved MDI support, and a more robust DCC plugin. The UI was moved to a plugin, allowing it to be updated separately from the main client.
Over 100 improvements and bugfixes were made since
version 0.3. This release introduces support for
"actions", a powerful tool allowing users to have
the client automatically respond to events,
without having to learn or use a scripting
language. The textpane was completely rewritten
and should be much faster and much more usable
than that in previous versions.
