As you may have noticed if you’re a regular visitor, the DMDirc website has recently been given a lick of paint. There is now a common header across all of the DMDirc sites (the main website, addons site, bug tracker and blog), which allows easy navigation between all aspects of the DMDirc website, and is a lot better looking than the old header, too!

We have also relocated our subversion repository from its previous home at Google’s Project Hosting service, to our own server. We made this switch because of the fairly poor uptime of Google’s offering, and the seemingly random delays between commits being made and announcement e-mails being sent. If you have the DMDirc source code checked out from our subversion repository, follow the instructions here to migrate to the new repository.

We have just released version 0.5.5 of DMDirc. This release is an interim release between 0.5.1 and 0.6 to get some important features of 0.6 in use in the stable version.

Some of the main changes include:

• The new launchers which give the client the ability to update itself via the updater
• URL Handler to allow adding support for non-http links (Eg steam://, ftp://)
• Much improved plugin system (Plugins are now stored in jar files rather than loads of .class files)
• Many more, read the changelog for a full list.

The installer for DMDirc 0.5.5 can be downloaded for Windows or Linux.

We have just released version 0.5.1 of DMDirc. This is mainly a bug fix release with a couple of minor 0.6 improvements included, see the changelog for more information.

The installer for DMDirc 0.5.1 can be downloaded for Windows or Linux.

We have just released version 0.5 of DMDirc.

0.5 has just under 100 features or improvements and 77 bug fixes since 0.4, the major additions in 0.5 are

* Added action wrappers for aliases and performs
* Added intelligent tab completion for commands
* Added server settings dialog
* Added support for themes
* Added support for character transcoding
* Added support for various command-line options
* Added installers for Windows and Linux

See the changelog for more information on this release. As always we recommend existing users to upgrade, and non-users to give it a go, come visit us in #DMDirc on Quakenet (see the help menu) with your feedback or just to visit.

0.5 can be downloaded for windows and linux

We have just released version 0.4 of DMDirc :) (Applause).

0.4 Brings many improvements over previous versions, with over 500 svn commits since 0.3, 0.4 includes amongst other things:

• The actions system (See these two blog posts)
• The plugins system (See this blog post)
• Completely new, faster, text pane
• Searching
• Over 100 improvements bug fixes

See the changelog and readme for more information on this release. We encourage existing users to upgrade, and non-users to give it a go, and let us know in #DMDirc on Quakenet what you think :)

0.4 can be downloaded here