YaPP wist ons te vertellen dat versie 1.4.3 van KMess is uitgebracht, de MSN Messenger-client voor Linux gebruikers. Deze versie bevat een aantal bugfixes die tot op heden alleen in de ontwikkelversies terug waren te vinden. Met versie 1.4.3 kunnen eindgebruikers en distributiemakers weer even vooruit, voordat de grotere veranderingen die voor versie 1.5 in de pijplijn zitten volledig af en getest zijn. Het changelog van deze release laat de volgende veranderingen zien:
This is the summary of changes between KMess 1.4.3 and 1.4.2.[break]
- fixed a crash occuring when resuming a chat.
- fixed a crash at quit, caused in ContactAction disconnect code.
- fixed compilation error for KDE 3.5.1 (KURLLabel::setSizePolicy() API changed).
- fixed receiving files from Mercury Messenger, KMess responsed with an incorrect Content-Type field.
- fixed .Net messenger service status URL (was changed again).
- fixed two issues with certain unexpected MSNP2P packets:
- Bot2K3 4.1 sends the first ACK without flags.
- Encarta Instant Answers sends the data preparation message with the data flag set.
- fixed missing MSNP2P ack packets, accidently emulated a bug of MSN 7.0.
- fixed chat messages with links and emoticons (this is only a temporary fix)
- This fix disables emoticons in a chat message when there are links in the message too.
- As of 1.5 we can include a better the message parser/formatter which handles emoticons+links the right way.
- removed /debian folder as requested by Debian packagers (KMess is in Debian unstable now).
- removed --enable-phone, option is still not fully operational (needs to be replaced with libkcall).
- changed chat window statusbar to show by default, so it's more obvious why the contact picture lights up.
- added detection of https:// links
- added the (0) symbol for the clock emoticon.
- added contact status and picture to contact list tooltip.