MELANGE USER GUIDE 1.10 - INDEX BACK TO THE INDEX

HISTORY

Version 1.10
    Released Apr-25-1999
    
    - Bugfixes
    - Easier commands, espacially the join command.
    - Introduced groups.
    - Introduced unique nicknames.
    - Idletime implemented
    - Many new admin commands (11 commands !)
    - A couple of new user commands
    - New additional logfile
    - 2 new clients.
    - Both clients have the fullscreen feature.
    - And of course, we have our own vhost now: melange.terminal.at 
    
Version 1.02
    Released on Feb-26-1999
    
    - Bugfixes
    - New "goodies" - directory
    - Users can change to an existing channel using the # before the channelname, too.

Version 1.01
    Released on Feb-23-1999
    
    - New "system messages" feature
    - New clients
    - Users can yell now more than one word. (bugfix)
    - Fixed a bug which wrote errormessages to the logfile until the disk was full.
    - Fixed a bufferoverflow which lead to wrong uptimes and server crashes.
    - Fixed some other smaller bugs

Version 0.99b
    Released on Dec-16-1998
    
    - Fixed a bug which BMT (displays beats > 1000)
    - Fixed a bug which could lead to an infinite loop

Version 0.99a
    Released on Dec-15-1998
    
    - Completly rewritten code from the scratch up !!!
    - New /TIME command.
    - New administrator commands: /LOGLEVEL, /STAT and /SHUTDOWN.
    - Support for BMT (Biel Mean Time, Internet Time)

Version 0.94a
    Released on Dec-03-1998
    
    - Some really small fixes
    - New "printable" HTML-Documentation

Version 0.94
    Released on Nov-25-1998
    
    - New features for banning/allowing hosts
    - You can now use different logfiles for each server running
    - New admin features for security handling
    - New "uptime" command
    - Users, who have been kicked out, now have to wait some time before they can come back
    - Changes in the client's srollbar behaviour
    - New HTML-Documentation

Version 0.93-2
    Released on Oct-31-1998

    - New Client added. It has a scrollbar now and works with the older browsers
      again.
    - Added additional melange.conf parameters.
    - Fixed a bug, which squelched a channel if the line had crashed before
    
Version 0.93
    Released on Oct-29-1998

    - Complete redesign of the Client (It's now 100% JAVA 1.1 compatible)    
    - Added kick out by channel owner
    - Added invite user to channel
    - Added COMMANDS file
    - Fixed some minor bugs with the command line parameters
    - Fixed a bug with channel locking.
	      
Version 0.92-2
    Released on Oct-25-1998
    
    - International server version introduced (support for language.h)
    - Added language support for german and english
    
Version 0.92
    Released on Oct-24-1998
    
    - Admin command handling changed and new admin features added.
    - Changed internal command-line handling
    - Additional command set added. (IRC-compatible commands !!!)
    - Command line parameter for admin-file added.	        

Version 0.91
    Released on Oct-21-1998
    
    - Added support for admin login (melange.conf)
    - Added user "kick out" for administrators
        
Version 0.90-2b
    Released on Oct-19-1998
    
    - Fixed user could change their name to (null)
    - Fixed buffer overflow, when user entered text bigger than 500 bytes
    - Minor bugs fixes:
	    * user could send private messages without text - fixed
	    * user could change to invalid channels - fixed
	    * user could change their names to invalid values - fixed
	    * some other similar bugs - fixed
    - Offers better resistance against server attacks !!!
    - New: Change to a new channel by typing it's number or it's NAME !
    - Added Makefile for Solaris 2.x ( Thanks to Frank Stolze !)
    - Changed timeout value in select statement to NULL (CPU state not longer
      at 99,999% :) (Thanks to Sven Lankes !)

Version 0.90-2a
    Released on Oct-15-1998
    
    - English Translation
    - Some minor changes in logfile handling

Version 0.90-2
    Released on Oct-10-1998 (German Version)

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