mcIRC 2026.10.23-4 - one alert per earthquake, not one per area; settings can't be wiped

mcIRC 2026.10.23-4: one alert per earthquake, not one per area; settings can't be wiped

One alert per earthquake, not one per area (Area alerts 2.1.3). With several areas chosen, one earthquake near all of them went out once per area ("... 80 km from area A", "... 170 km from area B", ...), eight messages for one quake. Now an event found for several of your areas goes out once, worded for the nearest area. If you broadcast alerts, please update.

Reworded alerts aren't sent twice (Area alerts 2.1.3). When an agency rewords or republishes an alert it already sent (a new id, the same words), it is shown in the Area alerts window as (again, not sent) and not broadcast again for 6 hours.

Your settings can't be wiped any more. gui_settings.json is now saved whole or not at all, so a crash or power cut while saving can't leave half a file. If the file can't be read at startup, it is kept as gui_settings.json.broken-<date-time> and mcIRC starts with defaults; if it can't be opened (cloud sync such as OneDrive, or antivirus, holding it), mcIRC never saves over it that session. Either way the Status window says what happened and what to do. Before, mcIRC quietly started with defaults and saved them over your settings.

Everything from 2026.10.23-3 is included.

Updating: Help > Check for updates (update the addons too), then restart mcIRC, or click the red UPDATE square on the toolbar.