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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.