I am happy to annouce the release of Hircules 0.2. Hircules is an IRC client written in Haskell, using gtk2hs for its user interface. Since the last release about 2 months ago, many bugs have been fixed and some new features added. A brief list of the main changes is appended below. See the Hircules webpage <http://haskell.org/hircules/> for more details. A source tarball and an i386 rpm built for Linux with glibc-2.3 and gtk2-2.2 are available for download from the project site page <http://sourceforge.net/projects/hircules/>. Going forward I want to make an effort to keep the cvs repository more up-to-date with more regular commits. The TODO list contains the list of features I would like to implement in coming versions. Enjoy, and as usual please send your feedback and comments, Jens * Summary of changes in Hircules 0.2 - Whitespace in messages received, sent and displayed is now preserved. - Hircules can now be run from a non-tty. - The "/me" command has been added for writing ctcp actions. - CTCP actions are now displayed properly. - When users join a channel their "user@host" info is also displayed now. - MODE changes should now be displayed properly. - All channels are now logged to a log file in ".hircules/log/". - Channel tabs are now numbered. - Channel members are now tracked per channel. Quit and nick-change messages only appear now in the relevant channel. - Private messages and public messages addressed to one (with "nick: ...") cause an audible beep. - Public messages addressed to one appear also in a new virtual Alert channel. - /join can now also be used to display a hidden channel or start a private conversation.