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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.