07/01/2007: Another major bug fix release, maybe the latest before 1.0-final. A major refactoring on AJAX request handling has been done, pfc now only uses prototype library, no more xajax. So that the chat loading is a bit faster. Moreover, lot of bugs has been fixed: recurrent timeouts on IE6, sometimes the cursor was invisible on FF login prompt… and some translations were updated.
03/28/2007: This is a major bug fix release. A very annoying focus problem related to the new DHTML login prompt was fixed. Sometimes nicknames is the list disappeared. Some URLs were badly parsed. A lot of small bugs were fixed and a lot of translations files were updated.
02/18/2007: This release changes the manner how the chat is loaded: styles and html structure are now loaded by ajax calls. Thanks to this improvement, the chat is easier to integrate because printStyle() and printJavascript() function are removed, you just need to call printChat() in your html body where you want the chat appears. This release also integrate lot of optimizations, lot of bug fixes and some new translations.
12/18/2006: This release adds sound notifications, new /invite command, a new mysql container, and new translations (Esperanto, Romanian, Armenian, Bangla). Some small optimisations were done on the file container (wait for the next release for stronger optimizations). It also fixes some bugs : directories with 777 rights were not browsable on special servers (755 rights is better), and the chat was broken on special windows servers.
12/05/2006: Lot of users asked me about how to integrate the chat in forums. This is why I just wrote two FAQ entry about how to connect punbb or phpbb users to phpfreechat.
11/01/2006: This release fixes lot of bugs, adds nicknames metadata that make possible to display customized informations on the client side (eg. a gold shield icon for the admins, users avatars …), and improve the default theme appearance.
09/23/2006: This release is a big step in phpfreechat life, it fixes lot of major bugs and add lot of great features. Here is a quick summary :
09/04/2006: This releases is a deep refactoring. It has been done in order to :
This release also fixes lot of bugs, adds new translations and improve usability of the chat.
Don't hesitate to download it.
08/01/2006: This release adds a lock proxy command which make possible to disable the chat access dynamically users to a given url and fixes aand automatically redirect kicked users to a given url : nick and frozen_nick parameters were broken, prototype js lib dependencies have been removed because it made the chat not compatible with other js libs, and many other small problems.
Bugs fixes and patches reports move to sourceforge. This is a try to relieve me of some moderation work on the forum. Here is the related post.
New release 1.0-beta3 - This release adds a censor proxy which filters bad words, a new /identify command used to get admins rights with a login/password, a new API used to query the chat infos from external scripts (who is online, N last posted messages) and fixes lot of annoying bugs.
Don't hesitate to download it.
New release 1.0-beta2 - This release adds some bandwidth optimization, and CPU optimizations and fixes lot of annoying bugs.
Don't hesitate to download it.
New release 1.0-beta - This release adds major features: multi channels (/join command), moderation (/kick and /ban commands), tabs highligting and more. Keep in mind this is a beta release, don't consider it stable.
Don't hesitate to download it.
New release 0.9.3 - This release fixes minor bugs (some include paths were wrong, long nicknames were trucated on IE, anoying warning popup was shown sometime on IE, …) and adds a new translation: traditional Chinese.
Don't hesitate to download it.
New release 0.9.2 - This release fixes minor bug (IE display bug is now cleanly fixed) and adds two new translations: turkish and greek.
Don't hesitate to download it.
The first part of 1.0 release features is now submitted on the subversion trunk:
A preview demo is available. You can checkout the source code on the subversion. Don't hesitate to report bugs, ideas, patches, on the forum.
New release 0.9.1 - This release fix minor bugs on parsing (urls, colors …), try to fix again the IE display bug and add a new translation: bosnian.
Don't hesitate to download it.
New release 0.9 - This release add the abality to use the TAB key for nicknames completion and to choose a permanent color for the written text. It also fixes some major bugs : a crash due to a memory leak on IE6, the nicknames was case sensitive and add few new translations: ukrainian, dutch from netherlands and norwegian.
Don't hesitate to download it.
New release 0.8 - This release add a flexible theme architecture (see examples: 1, 2, 3, 4 ), make possible to easily create custom commands (see the dice demo), some refactoring has been done on the JavaScript code using the prototype library, add lot of new translations : portuguese from brazilian, japanese, serbian/croatian, italian, spanish, indonesian, swedish, russian and portuguese from portugal, three new smiley themes : phpbb2, cerutti and blune, BBCODE support, a new memory container, bandwidth optimizations and many bug fixes!
Many thanks to all contributors !
Don't hesitate to download it.
New release 0.7 - This release add multilanguage support (english, french, german, chinese, and arabic), two new smiley themes and many bug fixes!
Don't hesitate to download it.
We received too many emails ! To simplify bug report, contributions … a forum is now online !
New release 0.6 - Major bug fix : problem with relative paths on php cgi installation + Major feature enhancements: add the minimize/maximize button which make possible to integrate the chat easily into weblogs or forums.
Don't hesitate to download it.
Added an installer to the download section. This is a beta php script which should install phpfreechat easily using a nice user interface. No need to unzip the archive and change the directory rights, just download the php setup script, upload it to your server and execute it !
New release 0.5 - Major feature enhancements: add the nickname colorization for a better readability. Don't hesitate to download it.
Arabic Web site translation ! (thanks to sandra)
Major bug fix release which add a new connect/disconnect button (v0.4). Don't hesitate to download it.
Major bug fix and documentation update (fr/en) release v0.3. Don't hesitate to download it.