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- What's New in Hotline 1.8.5
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- This document fully describes the new features and fixes since Hotline
- Client 1.8.4 and Hotline Server 1.8.4.1.
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- Who Should Update?
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- We encourage all to upgrade to the newest version to take advantage of
- the fixes that are detailed below. All users will benefit from the new
- "Confirm Quit" feature, which ensures that you'll never end up
- accidentally disconnecting from a server during a download again. Users
- who wish to register the Client to gain the benefits of the enhanced
- Toolbar will need to download 1.8.5 to do so. Finally, server
- administrators who did not upgrade their Server to 1.8.4.1 from 1.8.4
- should upgrade to fix the security loophole present in the 1.8.4 Server.
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- New Features:
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- **Enhanced Toolbar with Registration
- Client owners can buy a unique license number from Hotline
- Communications Ltd. Once the Client is registered, users will have an
- enhanced Toolbar that is resizable, bannerless, and that allows
- two-click bookmarking of the current Server.
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- **Confirm Quit and Confirm Disconnect
- The program will prompt the user if the user attempts to quit while
- transferring files or connected to a server. The program will give the
- user the option to wait until downloads are complete, or to remain
- connected to the server.
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- **Recoverable Private messages
- Users who send a message to a user who has just disconnected will see a
- message explaining this and containing the text of the message.
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- **Limit on the number of connections per IP address
- Server owners can control the limit on the number of connections from a
- single IP address.
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- Fixes in Version 1.8.5:
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- Issue: When a file transfer is in the queue, it sometimes fails to
- start when the queue count reaches "0".
- Solution: Fixed so that the transfer starts when the transfer gets to
- "0" in the server queue.
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- Issue: When a folder transfer is cancelled and then resumed, the
- statistics displayed in the taskbar are incorrect.
- Solution: Fixed
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- Issue: When the Toolbar is minimized and the Client requests a banner
- that is larger than the current one, the new banner will not be
- displayed properly when the Client is restored.
- Solution: Fixed
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- Issue: A security loophole in the server. This server weakness could
- allow a malicious user to get a random set of privileges.
- Solution: Fixed
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- Issue: The tooltip associated with a view is not displayed properly
- when the view is inside a scroller.
- Solution: Fixed
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- Issue: On the Macintosh, all of the windows except the toolbar can be
- moved over the System Menu.
- Solution: Fixed
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- Issue: When a user sends a private message and disconnects before the
- receiving user is able to click the Reply button, the receiving user's
- Client gives the user no feedback about what has occurred.
- Solution: When the user clicks the Reply button after the first user
- has disconnected, the following message will be displayed: "The user
- <user name> is no longer connected to the Server."
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