DBabble Windows Client Changes

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DBabble Windows Client Changes

Below is a list of new features and problems fixed in recent versions of the DBabble Windows client. To upgrade from an older version of the Windows client, right click on the icon in the system tray (by the clock) and choose the upgrade option. You will be automatically notified when new versions are available if you have the "Tell me when upgrades are available" option on in your preferences.

Version 2.9e (Thu, Oct 14 2004)

New features in version 2.9e

URLs in the user details section tab (available when composing an instant message) are now clickable.
Changed default printing to use a larger font and a page margin. Added preferences to change these.
Edited forum articles are now marked unread and resent to users who receive email/instant message copies of new articles.
Added forum administrator and moderator options to move articles between threads and forums.

Problems fixed in version 2.9e

None

Version 2.7w (Tue, Aug 17 2004)

New features in version 2.7w

None

Problems fixed in version 2.7w

Fixed a memory leak bug that could occasionally happen when connected to ICQ, MSN, etc gateway servers. In rare situations this could cause DBabble to hang (stop working).

Version 2.7u (Tue, Aug 10 2004)

New features in version 2.7u

None

Problems fixed in version 2.7u

Fixed bug in 2.7s where a web page embedded at the top of a chat room window did not work.

Version 2.7s (Wed, Aug 4 2004)

New features in version 2.7s

Added option (default on) so that the button image is highlighted when the mouse is hovering over it.

Problems fixed in version 2.7s

Fixed bug where choosing to save all attachments to a folder that does not exist saves them into the default 'documents and settings' folder.
Fixed printing bug where tab characters were not being correctly printed.
Fixed bug where the login window could remain visible but disabled after you logged in in some situations.
Fixed bug where the send button in the online support chat window had a blank caption.
Fixed bug where changing your user details in your preferences would sometimes leave ugly gray boxes in the window.

Version 2.7q (Wed, Jul 14 2004)

New features in version 2.7q

None

Problems fixed in version 2.7q

Fixed rare crash bug caused when creating a reminder for a deleted message.

Version 2.7h (Thu, May 20 2004)

New features in version 2.7h

None

Problems fixed in version 2.7h

Fixed a few minor bugs

Version 2.7e (Tue, May 11 2004)

New features in version 2.7e

None

Problems fixed in version 2.7e

Fixed a few minor bugs

Version 2.6k (Mon, Feb 9 2004)

New features in version 2.6k

None

Problems fixed in version 2.6k

Fixed minor bug in 2.6h - pressing a button and moving mouse away before releasing button would click the button when it shouldn't have.
If your machine supports 256 colors or less, then the background image preferences defaults to off due to it not looking good and causing performance problems.
Fixed problem where replying to a sent message or a message to multiple recipients would refer to the user by their user-id instead of user-name for encryption certificate purposes.

Version 2.6h (Wed, Jan 14 2004)

New features in version 2.6h

When sending a message to a gateway user who is on your contacts list, it now displays their online status at the top of the window.
Added immediate reconnect preference so that if your connection to the server is lost it will try to reconnect immediately. Useful if your ISP does not allow connections to remain open for more than a few minutes.

Problems fixed in version 2.6h

Fixed problem with MSN communication showing your name as "(NULL)" to other users in some situations. If you are already using MSN through DBabble then in the preferences window, you may need to delete your MSN name/password in DBabble, click apply, then enter them again to make this fix take effect.
Fixed problem with the 'start in chat mode with gateway users' preference not always working.
Fixed bug where instant message headers could continuously flicker in very rare situations.
Fixed problem where some animated gif images would not display correctly.
Fixed bug that could crash DBabble in rare situations when upgrading to a new version. If this happens while upgrading you should shut down your existing version and download the new version from your DBabble server web page (e.g. http://domain.name.com:8132 where you replace domain.name.com with your DBabble server domain name) and install that over the top of your old version. Your existing preferences and settings will be maintained.

Version 2.6e (Wed, Nov 19 2003)

New features in version 2.6e

Added support for connecting to the server through a proxy server using SSL (encrypted communication).
Added forum and chat room option to automatically open the window on startup.
Added option to dock chat room windows to the main window and a preference to automatically dock newly open chat room windows.
Added option to only display contacts and subscribed discussions in old instant message user list.

Problems fixed in version 2.6e

Fixed warning display about message not being signed for instant message copies of articles posted to forums.

Version 2.5r (Wed, Oct 22 2003)

New features in version 2.5r

None

Problems fixed in version 2.5r

Fixed minor bugs and improved performance for some features.

Version 2.5q (Tue, Oct 7 2003)

New features in version 2.5q

Added chat room option to not be notified when users enter the chat room while the window is not focussed
Added 'Start in chat mode with user groups' preference.

Problems fixed in version 2.5q

Fixed chat room bug where it would scroll down on every refresh when connecting through a proxy server
Upgraded to OpenSSL 0.9.7c to fix encrypted communication security bugs.

Version 2.5i (Mon, Sep 1 2003)

New features in version 2.5i

None

Problems fixed in version 2.5i

Fixed problem where program could crash in rare situations when upgrading to a new version
Fixed bug (in versions 2.5c and later) where typing the letters r, k, or w in the forum search box would not work due to those characters being treated as hot keys.
Fixed bug that could cause received attachments to be saved to disk as empty files.

Version 2.5f (Tue, Aug 26 2003)

New features in version 2.5f

Added status options in the system tray right click menu to set your state to idle/offline until you move the mouse.
Added status options for whether you are available for online support (only applies if the server administrator allows guest users on your server)
Added option to not notify you about partial typing in private conversation windows.

Problems fixed in version 2.5f

Fixed bug that happened if you tried to send an instant message larger than 20K in size. It would ask you if you wanted to send it as an attachment instead, but if you choose yes it would not work.
Fixed bug where sending a digitally signed instant message with an attachment to an email address would include the attachment signature as part of the attachment data in the email.

Version 2.5e (Mon, Aug 11 2003)

New features in version 2.5e

None

Problems fixed in version 2.5e

When you save an encrypted instant message to disk it now decrypts the message before saving it.
Fixed bug where importing AIM buddy lists would not work in some situations.
In instant message chat mode, it now does not display the full user name after the first chat message from each user in order to make it easier to read.

Version 2.5c (Tue, Aug 5 2003)

New features in version 2.5c

Added an instant message chat mode (click the chat mode button when composing an instant message). This means that when you send a message the window does not disappear from your screen, and you can see recent replies to the message in the same window. This feature works with multiple recipients and with user groups. You can optionally see text as other users type it. This feature replaces the private conversation feature in previous versions and is better in that it works with multiple recipients and with gateway (ICQ, MSN) and email users and supports client to client encryption. When communicating with gateway users chat mode (rather than message mode) is now the default communication method.
Added better instant message reply options, so that if someone sends a message to a user group which they are not a member of, then when you choose to reply to all recipients, then sender is included in the recipients of the reply.
Added instant message folders so you can file important instant messages to make them easier to find later.
Added options in forum windows to select whether you want to be sent email and/or instant message copies of all articles posted to the forum.
When sending an instant message to a user who is not on your contacts list you are now asked if you want them added to your contacts list. There is a checkbox option to not display this message in future.
If you try to send an instant message larger than the maximum size allowed (20K) you are now asked if you want to send it as an attachment instead.
After you download an instant message attachment from the server it now asks you if you want the attachment deleted from the server. There are options to automatically delete attachments from the server after downloading and to never delete attachments from the server after downloading.
When adding a user group to the recipients of an instant message, the options to send only to all recipients or online recipients are now displayed.
Added 'reply to discussion' and 'reply to sender' buttons in forum window
Added forum option to open the forum with all threads expanded.
In forums, added 'expand all threads' and 'contract all threads' menu options.
Added option to expand forum threads on double click.
In forums, added option to only display threads that contain unread articles.
Added option to mark forum threads as watched and added option to only display watched threads.
Added option to ignore forum threads which means any articles in such threads will not be visible to you in future unless you turn on the option to show ignored threads. Additionally if you choose to receive instant message or email copies of articles posted to the forum then you won't receive those posted to threads you are ignoring.
When downloading additional forum items the currently selected article remains selected in this version.
Added retry button when downloading an attachment fails due to a lost connection. When you click the retry button the download will continue from where it was up to.
Added option to save all attachments at once in a single message rather than having to save them all one at a time.

Problems fixed in version 2.5c

None

Version 2.4r (Wed, Jul 9 2003)

New features in version 2.4r

None

Problems fixed in version 2.4r

Fixed bug that could crash program when pressing a hot key in the main window in versions 2.4e and later.

Version 2.4n (Tue, Apr 15 2003)

New features in version 2.4n

None

Problems fixed in version 2.4n

Fixed bug where your idle/offline time could appear wrong on the server in rare situations

Version 2.4k (Mon, Apr 14 2003)

New features in version 2.4k

Added support for communicating with users on other instant messaging protocols (ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, AIM). You must have an existing account on each of these protocols and you can specify it in your preferences so that you are automatically connected to these protocols whenever you connect to DBabble.
Improved performance when using a large background image.
Added system wide hot key preferences for searching old instant messages and for setting state to idle.
Changed column sorting header arrows to point in the same direction as they would for Microsoft products. There is now an 'invert sorting arrows' preference to make them point in the direction they pointed in previous versions
Added option to automatically set state to idle when using a full screen application. Also added option to not be notified about new messages (or only particular priority messages) while using a full screen application
When viewing user group members, it now lists the unique user name of each member and you can search members based on the unique user name.
Position and sizes of user group, chat room, and forum member windows are now maintained between sessions.

Problems fixed in version 2.4k

Fixed bug in 2.4e where cached attachment downloads could become corrupted.
Fixed problem with wrapping of long lines in chat rooms not working properly in some situations.

Version 2.4g (Tue, Mar 4 2003)

New features in version 2.4g

None

Problems fixed in version 2.4g

Fixed bug with background images not being correctly redrawn when resizing some windows.
Fixed bug where notify of new messages in chat rooms did not work if you turned of the user enters and exits messages.

Version 2.4e (Fri, Feb 28 2003)

New features in version 2.4e

Added optional subject field (which is hidden by default unless replying to an instant message with a subject) when composing instant messages. Useful when sending instant messages to email addresses.
Added caching of attachment downloads on your disk drive as well as caching of partial downloads to you can continue the downloads latter without having to restart them if you loose your connection to the server.
Added option to switch between different account names you have used to system tray popup menu.
Added option to mark particular chat rooms as encrypted so that all messages sent in such chat rooms must be signed and encrypted.
Chat room feature additions: Optionally gives messages when users enter/leave chat rooms. Optionally view full user names of users present in chat rooms. Optionally hide attachment options and checkbox options at bottom of window.
Added option to specify how many bits long your public key encryption private key should be rather than the default of 1024 bits.
Added option to save drafts of forum posts
Added support for multiple attachments in forum posts

Problems fixed in version 2.4e

None

Version 2.3r (Fri, Feb 21 2003)

New features in version 2.3r

None

Problems fixed in version 2.3r

Fixed security problem that could have allowed an attacker to view encrypted communication between the server and client due to a problem with the OpenSSL encryption libraries that DBabble uses.

Version 2.3q (Tue, Feb 11 2003)

New features in version 2.3q

None

Problems fixed in version 2.3q

Fixed minor bugs.

Version 2.3p (Fri, Jan 24 2003)

New features in version 2.3p

Private conversation features. Option to not let other user see text as you type it. Option to automatically accept private conversation requests. Option to initiate private conversations by double clicking on contacts.
Added preference (default is on) where DBabble does not attempt to connect to the server when you are not connected to the internet. This is to prevent your computer automatically prompting you to connect to the internet when DBabble automatically starts when your computer starts.

Problems fixed in version 2.3p

Fixed minor bugs.

Version 2.3j (Mon, Dec 30 2002)

New features in version 2.3j

Added command line interface for sending instant messages. Run im.exe, or download unix versions from the server.
Added encryption preference to clear private key password from memory after x seconds.
Added option to sort old instant messages by from/to instead of by date.

Problems fixed in version 2.3j

Fixed bug in 2.3h where uninstalling would not work.
Fixed bug in 2.3h that could crash program if you made changes to the background image preference, cancelled the change, then went back and viewed your preferences again.
Fixed bug where choosing a custom instant message reminder time would not use the reminder time specified

Version 2.3h (Fri, Dec 6 2002)

New features in version 2.3h

Added preference to have a background image
Replying to encrypted messages now sets the replied message to be encrypted by default
When viewing user group members, there is now a checkbox (default on) to only show members who receive messages sent to the user group.
Added option when sending reminder messages to only send to recipients who are online
Chat rooms now display users present as idle if they haven't typed or moved their mouse recently.

Problems fixed in version 2.3h

Fixed bug that could crash program when viewing preferences if encryption feature was disabled
Changed shortcut menu keys that used ctrl-alt key combinations to ctrl-shift instead to avoid conflicts with international language settings where right-alt key combinations are equivalent to ctrl-alt key combinations.

Version 2.3d (Mon, Nov 4 2002)

New features in version 2.3d

Added editing of existing forum posts by the original poster unless it is a moderated discussion. Moderator/administrator users can modify articles posted by any user.
Reply below original message preference now applies to forum posts as well as instant messages.

Problems fixed in version 2.3d

Fixed bug that could crash program in rare situations if you turned on the preference to automatically show messages when they arrive (rather than flashing the tray icon)

Version 2.3a (Wed, Oct 23 2002)

New features in version 2.3a

Added SSL (encrypted server to client communication) so that any information you send over the network can not be viewed by others.
Added public key encryption for sending encrypted messages to other users and digitally signing messages.
Added option to remove close button from instant message window (right click on the close button to show option to remove it)
After the sender of an instant message it now displays the full unique user name of the sender after their display name. (right click on name to show option to remove it)
Can now right click on instant message attachments when composing message to remove them.

Problems fixed in version 2.3a

None

Version 2.2h (Wed, Oct 2 2002)

New features in version 2.2h

None

Problems fixed in version 2.2h

Fixed bug where DBabble would crash on Windows XP service pack 1 when the screen saver comes on and password locks the computer
Fixed bug with some animated gif images not displaying correctly

Version 2.2f (Wed, Sep 11 2002)

New features in version 2.2f

None

Problems fixed in version 2.2f

Fixed bug where upgrading to new versions in some cases would give error message about not being able to install the file called tmp
Fixed bug on Windows 98 where viewing text attachments would sometimes show up blank until the window was resized.

Version 2.2d (Tue, Aug 20 2002)

New features in version 2.2d

None

Problems fixed in version 2.2d

Fixed bug where adding multiple attachments from a single directory using * (e.g. c:\test\*) would try and add the invalid file (c:\test\..)
Fixed problem with DBabble using up to 4K (or more if you changed the maximum number of messages to insert into instant message list preference) of memory per instant message received since logging in due to memory fragmentation problems.

Version 2.2c (Fri, Aug 16 2002)

New features in version 2.2c

Added the time to chat room messages.
Added a preference (default 100) to restrict the number of contacts added to popup menus since it can get quite slow if you have too many.
The menu that pops up when you right click on the tray icon now defaults to being in simple mode where the less commonly used features are not displayed. Additionally you can now customize the menu to pick whichever items you want it to contain.
Added preference (on by default) to automatically retry to send failed instant messages every 15 seconds. Useful it your network connection is not working at the time you try to send the message.
Added feature to automatically login as a different user if you are already online, or were online recently at a different location. (useful if you often connect from 2 different locations, but don't want DBabble to login as your normal account if you are online at one location and someone else uses your computer at the other location)
Added an optional rating system to forums. All articles can be given a rating from 1 to 5 by each user. When viewing a forum you can choose to only see articles with average ratings or more than a particular value. (average ratings are only used when at least 3 people have rated the article)
ftp:// links with spaces in the directory names now work when clicking on them.
F3 now repeats last search in messages composition window.

Problems fixed in version 2.2c

Fixed bug where you sometimes could not right click on an instant message attachment and view or save it.
Fixed bug that causes it to crash when uninstalling.
Fixed bug where marking a sent message as unread and the read again would change the time that the message was recorded as sent to the current time (but it would not be updated in the Windows client, so you would not notice this unless you viewed the message again using a different client or using the web browser interface).
When right clicking on the quick message window and choosing options like "online contacts only" it now updates the contacts list immediately rather than a few seconds later.
Fixed bug where if you logged out and then shutdown DBabble by right clicking on the tray icon and choosing shutdown, then your locally stored preferences would be cleared.
Printing now wraps long lines so that they appear on the printed page.
Fixed problem where displaying large text attachments (> 1 MB) was sometimes very slow. Also fixed problem with large attachments always being very slow if they contained hundreds of http links.
Fixed tab ordering in instant message composition window so that pressing tab in To: field takes you to the message content.
When the system is set up to display advertisements and some advertisement images are different sizes than others, it now centers the image before showing it, rather than showing the image in the wrong place and then centering it.
Fixed bug where instant messages with multiple attachments would sometimes incorrectly say "Deleted from server" for all attachments after the first one.

Version 2.2b (Tue, Jul 16 2002)

New features in version 2.2b

None

Problems fixed in version 2.2b

Fixed bug where sometimes trying to change colors in the "windows default" color scheme would switch to a scheme other than custom (The custom scheme is a copy of the windows default scheme which you are allowed to edit)
Fixed bug where program could crash if your server administrator turned on the setting to force you to upgrade to a new version. Program would crash when you started it without having your password saved and you needed to upgrade.
Fixed bug where for 1 minute after logging in you could not create discussions (if you have permission to) or upgrade to newer versions.
Removed buttons and menu items to reply to transcript messages from chat rooms. Previously clicking reply to these messages would do nothing.

Version 2.1s (Thu, Jun 27 2002)

New features in version 2.1s

If you get sent a message containing a file link to a program file, when you click on the link DBabble now prompts for confirmation before running it.
Added 'Never receive forum messages you send' preference so that you don't have to receive email or instant message copies of forum messages you post.
All references to contacts now use the display name you have set for them rather than their current display name (unless you have the 'synchronize names in contacts list with contact display names' preference on). For example, if in your contacts list you have a contact called 'Matt', but Matt has set his display name to 'Matthew', then when he sends you a message, it will now say 'message from Matt' rather than 'message from Matthew' like previous versions did.
Added color scheme preferences for the colors of online,idle and offline contacts. Also contacts list boxes don't keep contacts highlighted when no longer focused.
When composing instant messages, you can now right-click on the reminder tab to quickly choose a reminder time.
Old instant message viewing list is now split into columns for easier reading.
Size and position of discussion searching window is not saved between sessions
Sender's current status(online/idle/offline) is now displayed adjacent to senders name in received instant messages
Forums and chat rooms now display how long since the most recent message was posted to them.
Forums and chat room search results are now sorted by either name, most recent post time, or total number of posts.
User search results are now sorted by user choice of display name, unique user name, full name, or how long since they were last online
Quota used and message delete button are changed to red when quota usage is over 90%
There is now a window for listing all users on the system who are currently online
Repeating reminder messages can now be selected in conjunction with the send now option when composing messages.

Problems fixed in version 2.1s

Fixed bug that could hang DBabble if you had contact names containing the quote character (")
Fixed bug where DBabble could crash if it is configured to use a proxy server but make a direct connection to server if possible instead.
Fixed memory leak bug (memory used would very slowly increase as you did things in DBabble)
Fixed problem where if the server was reinstalled, or your account deleted and recreated, then you would not receive some instant messages sent to you unless you choose "Clear messages and download from server again" from the message menu. This version automatically does this command if it detects that the account you are connecting to is different.
Fixed program crashing bug on Windows 98 machines if you clicked on the tray icon before the program had finished loading.
Fixed problems with flickering of menu bars on Windows XP machines.
Fixed bug on Windows XP machines where closing the quick message window in some situations would cause it to reappear a second later.
Fixed problem on Win9x machines where Windows explorer right click menu would not have the Open/Print options available. This would happen if you had more than 100 contacts and also have additional software installed that adds explorer menu items. There is a limit on the number of menu items that can be added, and while DBabble obeys the limit, some other programs (like WinZip) don't, so if they added their menu items after DBabble, then there would be too many. DBabble now stops adding items 10 short of the limit, and there is an additional preference to remove the "Send using DBabble To" option from explorer and leave the "Send using DBabble" option there.
Fixed flickering problems when removing lots of contacts from contacts list at once.

Version 2.1j (Tue, May 28 2002)

New features in version 2.1j

All message content windows now have a right click option to change the font and a checkbox to view the message in a fixed width font
The main window is now independent of other windows, so if you minimize it, other windows are not minimized, and the main window no longer needs to be restored (if it was minimized) to view other windows that were already open when it was originally minimized.
If Windows Explorer crashes while quick message window is docked to the desktop, it now automatically re-docks after Windows Explorer starts again.
When a user group member's permissions are changed (or the user group name is changed) that members user group list is automatically refreshed.
Removed word wrapping from instant messages so that they when the recipient views a message, it doesn't matter if their window width is not the same width as the text was wrapped to when you sent it.
Added view most recent message and view most recent message from each contact options to right click on tray icon popup menu
Added buttons on instant message window to show previous or next message to or from the same person.
Chat rooms can now be optionally moderated, which means that any messages from non-moderator users are not visible to other users until a moderator has accepted it.
Option to delete all old instant message attachments from the server (this is an easy way to reduce your quota usage without actually deleting any message contents)
A reply option is now available on messages you sent (which quotes the original message and lets you send a new message to the same recipient(s).
Ctrl-F now shows a search dialog in message composition and 'To Do' list windows.
Added preference so that reminder messages do not have to be always listed first in your list of old instant messages.
Popup menus listing contacts now show times since contacts were last online. There is a preference to turn this off.
When left clicking on the tray menu, it now shows a list of your contacts to send a message to. There is an option in the menu you can uncheck to revert to the old behavior.
A user group owner can be changed by anyone who is already able to modify the user group (and can create user groups that other users can see and find) by right clicking on the user group owner label in the Windows client.
Can save transcripts of chat room and talk sessions to disk from the file menu in the chat room or talk window. This is in addition to the already existing feature where transcripts are automatically saved in your old instant messages list.
Popup menus that list all your contacts now defaults to only showing recently contacted contacts, and there is an additional sub menu to show all contacts. This behavior can be changed to the way previous versions worked with the 'Filter options' sub menu.
Popup menus that have sub menus now have a final sub-menu option to merge all items in the sub menu into the parent menu. For example, you might use this to show all your subscribed user groups on the same level menu as your contacts are listed.
When state is set to idle or offline, tray icon changes so you know what your own state is
Multiple contacts can now be selected from contacts lists, and right-clicking gives options to send a message to all selected contacts, and to remove all selected contacts from your contacts list.
Can now set online/offline status messages. For example 'gone to lunch - back at 2pm'. You can also set an online message status on a per client basis. For example if you use two different machines - one from work and one from home, you could set it so that either (work) or (home) appears after your name depending on where you login from.
Preference for removing contact state change messages after x seconds.
The 'Online contacts only' checkbox in the quick message window can not be right-clicked on and you can change to it show only users who are online, or have been online within the last specified time interval.
Added preference for hiding contacts who have not been online since more than a given number of days ago.

Problems fixed in version 2.1j

Fixed bug where if you logged in using uppercase characters in your login name, then your preferences which should be saved on your local disk drive were not correctly saved.
Fixed problems with window resizing in chat rooms taking a long time when there were a few hundred messages. It now works fine with 10,000 or more messages. Saving transcripts of thousands of messages is now faster too.
When viewing user details of someone who has field more than 1 line long, it now wraps to the next line.
Fixed bug where if you change the color scheme while viewing a forum, it could crash the program.
No longer truncates preference signatures to 80 characters.
If a modal dialog window would not be visible due to a different top most window obscuring it, the modal dialog window is now made a top most window too.
Fixed bug when viewing text attachments larger than 64 K on Windows 2000 would show additional formatting text mixed in with the attachment text.
Fixed bug (in version 2.1c only) where program could crash in rare situations when you tried to shut it down.
Fixed bug where messages could be printed on the wrong printer when you have multiple printers installed. This bug only occurred on Win 95 and not Win NT based systems.
Fixed bug caused by trying to print messages when you have no printers installed.
Fixed problems caused when you have more than 10,000 old instant messages and choose to download them all from the server again.
Fixed problem with old instant messages not being correctly saved to disk (so you would have to download them again next time you login) if someone sent you a message containing the End of File character (ASCII 26)
When right clicking on a user and choosing the view most recent message from option, it would sometimes display a message other than the most recent message from them.

Version 2.1c (Tue, Apr 9 2002)

New features in version 2.1c

A small window that displays your contacts list. Can optionally be made to stay on top of other windows, or docked to the desktop so it is always visible and does not overlap other windows. Left clicking on the tray icon shows this window, unless the "show quick message window when left click on tray icon" preference is turned off.
Preferences to play sound when anything is said in chat room and talk windows.
A 'To Do' list that is saved on the server, allowing you to access it from any location you login from. You can optionally allow it to be viewed by other users (e.g. everyone or contacts or particular user group members)
Double click on tray icon now shows the main window (if the preference "show quick message window when left click on tray icon" is off, then double clicking shows the quick message window)
Most windows now save their position as well as size between sessions
When viewing messages from users who are not in your contacts list, there is now an add to contacts button available.
You can now choose to not be notified of new messages, or only be notified of high priority messages from the Notify sub-menu when right clicking on the system tray icon.
When logging in and you have only one unread message, it now shows you this message rather than showing you a message saying you have one unread message.
Can now drag and drop attachments onto forum and user group lists on the main window.
When right clicking on users, there are now options to "View most recent message from", "View most recent message to", and "view message history"
A checkbox to only display recently contacted contacts in contacts list. Recently contacted time interval can be changed by right clicking on the checkbox.
Instant messages can now have multiple attachments with each message.
Attachments have added an "Open with..." option to their popup menu.
Many windows now have the option of "Stay on top" available from the window system menu.

Problems fixed in version 2.1c

Fixed excessive system resource usage on Win 95/98/ME systems. Now uses about 1/3 of the system resources previous versions used.
Fixed problem where if preference to open hyperlinks in new windows was enabled, then all file links would try and open in default web browser.
When quickly double right clicking on tray icon, the task bar was not redrawn properly when the popup menu disappeared on some computers.
Fixed bug where if the status of an instant message changed while not logged in to server (e.g. marked or deleted using a different client, or a reminder message delivered while offline), then sometimes that status was not correctly updated in the local copy of the messages stored on your computer next time you logged in.
When right clicking on files in Windows Explorer, and choosing the Send to user option, if you had more contacts than the height of the screen, then clicking on contacts in the second column of contacts would select the wrong contact for sending the file to. You may need to restart your computer after upgrading to fix this problem.
Chat room "invite users" button was accidentally hidden in some previous versions.
Sent attachments now have the correct attachment size appearing next to them when the preference to not save sent attachments is enabled.
Combo box drop down menus now only use available space on the screen either above or below the combo box rather than the entire screen space. This fixes problems with it selecting items when the mouse button is released instead of it waiting for items to be selected.
Size and position of main window are now correctly saved between sessions. Previously, these sizes were reset when configured to login automatically after starting.
Fixed problems with menu bars and message text flickering on some machines when changing between windows and/or messages. Fixed problems with small sections of menu bars sometimes not using the current color scheme.

Version 2.0e (Thu, Feb 28 2002)

New features in version 2.0e

Preferences to show delete, forward, and remind buttons when viewing instant messages

Problems fixed in version 2.0e

Minor color scheme bug fixes to 2.0c
Choosing 'Open' or 'View old messages' from Windows tray popup menu when you have new incoming messages does not open the incoming messages anymore

Version 2.0c (Tue, Feb 26 2002)

New features in version 2.0c

Can override the default windows color scheme. Administrator can create new schemes and set them as the default for downloads from their server, and user can choose to override the color scheme with whatever they want
Can search within the text of a single message in for particular words
Can right click on hyperlinks in windows client and choose to 'copy link location to clipboard' or 'open in new browser window' or 'open in existing browser window'
Can choose to make reminder messages into reminder messages that are periodically repeated. Also now accepts different reminder time formats. e.g 0955 for 9:55 am
Preference for automatically checking subscribed discussion list for new items once a minute. Also, subscribed discussion list tab caption now appears in bold if there are any subscribed discussions containing new items
When it asks if you want to upgrade to future versions, the message gives a http link that lists changes made to each version. Also when the upgrade message briefly pops up above system clock, it is no longer truncated part way through a sentence
Preference to place signature above original message when replying to messages
Preference to quote/not quote messages when forwarding them
Preference for synchronizing names in contacts list with display names of users (default is off)

Problems fixed in version 2.0c

Clicking on hyperlinks that are longer than a single line no longer truncates the link to the first line.
Fixed problem with messages that are flagged as replied-to loosing their replied-to status
When choosing to be notified of contact coming online, and contact went offline again before the popup window above the system clock naturally disappeared (default 3 seconds) then that window remained, and was not properly drawn for the remainder of the 3 seconds. Also fixed bug with icq user contacts come online, and go offline again before reading the online message
When logging in, the message that says 'You have x unread messages' no longer counts unread messages in the trash