This document fully describes the new features and fixes 
since Hotline Client 1.8.3r2 and Hotline Server 1.8.2.

Who Should Update?
We encourage all to upgrade to the newest version to take 
advantage of the fixes thatare detailed below. Server admins 
who want to edit permissions for multiple accounts 
simultaneously will especially benefit from our easy new 
administration features. 

New Features:
- Hotline account administration easier
- Hotline Client 1.8.4 adds the Hotline administrator 
Window, which allows server admins to add and edit multiple 
accounts at the same time on their 1.8.4 servers. Using the 
new Hotline Administrator Window, admins can create a number 
of accounts, and then assign some or all of them the same 
privileges.

User account administration:	
a) When an account is deleted the Server disconnects 
all users who are connected using this account.	
b) When the Can Disconnect User and Can Use Any Name 
privileges are modified for an account the Server 
updates the status of all users who are connected using 
this account.

New admin account options:
- You can now reset the head admin account's password and 
privileges from the Server Options window. You can also 
change the admin account's login, or specify an existing 
account as the head admin account. In addition, from the 
Server Toolbar, you can launch a Client and connect directly 
to the admin account on your server with the click of a 
button.
- New checks on admin account for additional security
- To keep you server secure, 
the server will now check to make sure that the head admin 
account exists and has a password. If it does not, the 
server will prompt you to create a head admin account, 
and/or specify a password for the account.

Fixes in Version 1.8.4:
Issue: 	Win95 fails to play Quicktime banners or view 
Quicktime files
Solution: 	Fixed.

Issue: 	The Chat window goes blank after 32,000 pixels are 
used. As well, long lists of Files or Trackers are cut off.
Solution: 	Fixed. 

Issue: 	Text in the Chat window is not updated when the 
window is minimized.
Solution:	The text in the Chat window is updated if 
the window is open but minimized.

Issue: Broadcast messages are "cut off" if you do not insert 
hard returns after 142 characters. 
Solution: 	Broadcast messages are now displayed in a 
new dialog with a scroll bar. The size limit for broadcast 
messages has been increased to 4096 characters.

Issue: 	The Client "forgets" the widths of columns in the 
Files and News windows.
Solution: 	Fixed.

Issue: 	The Client uses the time at which the download 
connection is established to generate stats, rather than 
the time that the download actually starts. When a download 
waits in the server queue to start, the stats displayed in 
the taskbar are incorrect.
Solution:	In order to establish the connection speed 
and caclulate the completion percentage of a file transfer,
which are displayed in the Tasks bar, the Client now uses 
the time at which the download starts.

Fixes in Version 1.8.4:
Issue: 	Users are allowed to add a tracker with a blank 
address field.
Solution: 	Users are no longer allowed to add a 
tracker with an empty address.

Issue: 	If the user clicks the Next Ad button while a 
server banner is displayed in the toolbar, a new banner 
is requested from the Advertising System but is not 
displayed.  The Client ignores the new banner and continues 
to display the server banner.
Solution:	The Next Ad button will be disabled while 
a server banner is displayed in the toolbar.

Issue:	The ToolTip associated with a button is sometimes 
displayed after the mouse is no longer over the button.
Solution:	Fixed

Issue:	In Windows, the toolbar of a Client in the 
background will continue to flash, after a private message 
is received and	immediately dismissed without first 
selecting the application.
Solution:	Fixed

Issue:	Horizontal or vertical scrollbars are sometimes 
displayed on top of the banner in the Client toolbar.
Solution:	Fixed

Issue:	On servers running on Windows, uploading to a 
folder that is actually a shortcut to a network folder 
fails to upload because the function that calculates free 
disk space fails.
Solution:	Fixed the function that calculates the 
free disk space, allowing uploads to occur.

Issue:	When a user with the Can Upload Anywhere privilege 
attempts to upload to a shortcut which includes "upload" 
or "dropbox" in its name that links to a folder that does 
not, the 
upload fails. (For example, "artuploads.lnk", a shortcut to 
"art".) The user receives the error message "Cannot accept 
upload... because you are only allowed to upload to the 
Uploads folder."
Solution:	Fixed so that the Client can upload

Issue:	In the Windows version of the Client, some 
buttons are not displayed correctly (for example, 
chat button, broadcast button).
Solution:	Fixed

Issue:	A corruption of the "News History" database results 
in news posts being displayed incorrectly. Most often, 
already read news posts are displayed as unread. 
Solution:	Fixed

Issue:	On servers running on Windows, downloading a 
shortcut results in the target file or folder being 
downloaded.  However, the .lnk extension is not removed.
Solution:	The extension (.lnk) is removed after the 
download completes.

Issue:	When a Client receives a broadcast message from 
another client on the server, and dismisses it after the 
connection to the server has been ended, the Client crashes.
Solution:	Fixed.