XDCC Catcher - Version history (Pro)

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XDCC Catcher Pro version history

2.3.0.0:

Changed: Icons

Changed: Maximum rollback bytes from 65539 to 8193 (+ check on startup)

Fixed: Some small bugs

Added: 'Dedicated window' (Settings -> 'Messages') now also works for messages from bots in your packet list

Added: 'Default autoconnect flag' and 'Default autojoin flag' (Settings -> 'Association'), applied while fast adding IRC links

Added: Channel sort function ('Edit network' dialog -> 'Channels' tab)

Added: Networks data and queue data statistics (tooltip of statusbar's rightmost (# Requests) panel)

Added: You can now search by using (Boolean-like) Expressions (examples and list of variables included; operators: and, or and not)

2.2.1.0:

Fixed: Some small bugs

Added: /help command which displays the different commands (channel chat window and private chat window)

Added: Allow '/msg [bot] xdcc send string #1' while chatting

Added: Right-click pack in the Packet list and choose 'Bot -> Change request string' to manually modify the xdcc send syntax

Added: Support for 'Auto-ignore activated for ...'

Added: When exporting queues and packs, more bot options are saved (such as request string)

2.2.0.1:

Fixed: Security issues

Fixed: Problems with resuming

Fixed: Several other issues

2.2.0.0:

Changed: 'Show XDCC Catcher' is changed to 'Minimize XDCC Catcher' when main window is showing (tray icon)

Changed: Moved over to a different, more performant memory manager

Changed: Pro user guide updated to version 2.2.0.0

Changed: Removed XDCCZ from search bar

Changed: Three digits after comma are only shown when TFR is '...G', two digits when TFR is '...M' and no digits when '...K'

Changed: When a pack is set to paused, skip when doing a disconnect/connect idle

Fixed: 'KB' column now sorted numerical instead of alphanumerical

Fixed: Bug when closing channel chat form in MDI Tab ('Close')

Fixed: New autojoin value was only saved to XML, not internal, when you changed value in channel's context menu or Edit channel dialog

Fixed: Resuming problems

Fixed: Weird sizes could appear in Packet list

Added: +i and +k channels are also added to 'Attention needed channels'

Added: Activation is required the first time you start XDCC Catcher Pro on every PC or when you change your hardware config. There'll be no limit on amount of PCs linked to one XDCC Catcher Pro account. It's just another type of anti-piracy protection.

Added: Amount of users is shown in status bar when you select channel in network list (because of the limitations of IRC, amount of users in a channel can't be kept up-to-date after join)

Added: Improved connecting networks. Servers and IPs that can't be connected for three times (invalid) are disabled. You can reset invalid servers and IPs of one network in network's context menu (Reset invalid servers). To reset invalid servers and IPs of all networks go to File -> Reset -> Invalid servers. Previous File -> Reset function is now File -> Reset -> Forced flags.

Added: More bot syntaxes

Added: More color messages

Added: Packet lists and queues are saved binary instead of by XML, because XML is slow with large amount of nodes (importing XML queues is still supported)

Added: Right click on a server and you can open an existing logfile

Added: Splitter in the chat form

2.1.2.1:

Fixed: Security issues

2.1.2.0:

Changed: Max rollback from 100000 to 65539 to fix 'stuck connecting problem'

Changed: Packet list updates from 10 to 5 seconds

Changed: Pro user guide updated to version 2.1.2.0

Changed: Shortcut 'Search' now Ctrl+F

Fixed: 'xdcc catcher message' (Email control) wasn't deleted

Fixed: Chat channels were parted (automatic leaving of channels)

Fixed: Incorrect 'queue place' sorting (queue list)

Fixed: Incorrect history handling (internal web browser)

Added: 'Change background color' (right click messagelist chat window)

Added: 'Create separate download folder for each XDCC bot' option (Settings -> Transfers)

Added: 'Edit description' (Queue tab)

Added: 'Exclude from cleanup' option (to set option: right click channel and choose 'Edit')

Added: 'Go to request' (Packet list/Search results)

Added: If you click on statusbar, wordwrapped version of Last Message is shown (useful on large Last Messages)

Added: New icon

Added: Now possible to select with right mouse button (queue list)

Added: SERVed2 (0.93)

Added: SMTP server username/password authentication (Email control)

Added: Support for pack numbers higer than 99 (e.g. #121)

Added: Tab highlighting when a new message arrives

Added: When chat window is visible, network name, channel name and topic are shown in title bar (<network name> - <channel name>: <topic>)

Added: When XDCC Catcher window is showing and you double click on tray icon XDCC Catcher window is minimized

Added: You can now fill in the request string when requesting a pack manually

2.1.1.0:

Changed: 'Detect lag' now done by CTCP PING instead of CTCP LAG

Fixed: Several bugs

Added: Chat interface (rightclick (not yet joined) channel and choose 'Chat')

2.1.0.0:

Changed: Made search entry box (search bar) 50% bigger

Changed: Minimum retry delay to 150 (was: 30)

Changed: No quit will be done anymore on all connected networks, when you close XDCC Catcher (so no quit messages as well)

Changed: Only change the description for an existing pack if the new description differs from '?'

Changed: Speeded up server messages processing (connecting networks faster, joining/parting channels faster, less lag, packets are faster processed, etc.)

Fixed: Autojoin state wouldn't be saved to XML when you changed it in the channel's context menu

Fixed: CTCP time reply

Added: 'Minimize on close' option (Settings -> Display)

Added: Automatic leaving idle channels (disabled by default, Settings -> Clean up)

Added: Bind to local port (Settings -> Transfers)

Added: Network list clean up (manually: File -> Network list -> Clean up; automatically: disabled by default, Settings -> Clean up)

Added: Quit message editable (default: <nothing>)

Added: Support for '** (etc.)'

Added: Support for 'cannot join channel (+r)'

Added: Support for 'target changed too fast' (channel kept on 'joining')

Added: Support for 'Your name has been listed and your file (...)'

Added: Support for another type of bot (Kiri)

Added: Version reply editable (default: mIRC v6.16 Khaled Mardam-Bey)

Added: When (XDCC List) request times out, CTCP <-> MSG (switch)

2.0.2.0:

Changed: SERVed removed from setup package, because some virus scanners detect the file as a possible virus

Changed: XML component (fixes incompatibility with some characters in network list/queue files)

Fixed: 'Import Catcher packet list' is much faster now

Fixed: 'Import network list' is much faster now

Fixed: 'Welcome screen' could appear when 'Show welcome screen on startup' was disabled

Fixed: Issue with 'Delete file'

Fixed: Sometimes you could get 'Unauthorized DCC SEND', despite of existence of pack in local queue

Fixed: Several other bugs

Added: 'Show all packs of network/channel' (network list)

Added: Detailed information about netwerk/channel (botcount, connected/joined for, total bytes received) when you select connected/joined network/channel in network list

Added: If you did a search with auto-refresh on, but no results were found, Search results will open as soon as you get one or more matches

Added: In Restore Queue dialog: if no more queue files are available to load (after an import or delete), form is automatically closed

Added: Multiple selections queue list (only remove uses multiple selections)

Added: Support for 'Sorry, XDCC is currently down'

Added: Support for pools (manual XDCC list requests)

Added: You can now click on the colors in the Packet list/Search results to change their values (instead of having to go through the settings)

2.0.1.0:

Final release