Morphie Desktop v0.5.0

Morphie Desktop v0.5.0

Morphie Desktop v0.5.0 brings together the improvements tested throughout the v0.4.x beta cycle, with major upgrades to window performance and emoji rendering.

What's new:

• Significantly improved responsiveness when opening channel and private-message windows.
• Faster switching between Status, channels, and private messages.
• Improved minimize and restore performance for Morphie's internal windows.
• Background and cascade windows are now refreshed without delaying the active window.
• Multiple open windows continue to remain visible while benefiting from the new performance improvements.
• Morphie now includes the complete Twemoji 17.0.3 artwork library directly with the client.
• More than 4,000 emoji assets are packaged locally for consistent rendering.
• Emoji rendering no longer depends on the Windows version or installed Windows emoji fonts.
• Added improved support for flags, skin tones, keycaps, ZWJ sequences, and other multi-character emoji.
• The emoji picker now uses the same packaged artwork used in chat.
• Packaged emoji work completely offline without requiring a CDN.
• Normal IRC text uses Morphie's bundled Inter renderer for more consistent text rendering.
• Improved emoji rendering for Morphie game bots, including Warforge.
• Improved Address Book layout and fixed clipped controls.
• Improved Keyboard Shortcuts window layout and text wrapping.
• Preserves movable internal windows and their placement during the current connection.
• Includes all fixes and refinements tested during the v0.4.1 through v0.4.7 beta cycle.

Thank you to everyone helping test Morphie Desktop.

Morphie Desktop v0.4.0

Morphie Desktop v0.4.0

This release brings the latest tested Morphie Desktop improvements from the beta channel to the public stable release.

What's new:

• Added movable mIRC-style internal Status, channel, and private-message windows.
• Window positions and resized dimensions are remembered during the current server connection.
• Added an optional Beta Updates channel for users who want to test upcoming Morphie Desktop versions.
• Expanded multi-server support and window management.
• Improved IRC operator tools, favorites, server management, notices, commands, and client options.
• Updated the Morphie Windows application icon and shortcut packaging.
• Includes additional interface improvements, fixes, and refinements tested during the v0.3.x beta cycle.

Morphie Desktop v0.3.0

Morphie Desktop v0.3.0

Morphie Desktop v0.3.0 is a major beta update focused on improving customization, reliability, window behavior, and the built-in update experience.

What's New

Beta Update Channel

• Added an option to receive Morphie Desktop beta updates.
• Users can choose between the Stable and Beta update channels.
• Beta builds are distributed separately from normal public releases.
• Improved the built-in update interface to show which update channel is active.

Settings & Preferences

• Expanded the Options area with additional client preferences.
• Added minimize-to-tray support.
• Added options for controlling tray and window behavior.
• Improved persistence of user settings between client updates.
• Improved restoration of window placement and workspace state.

Window & Interface Improvements

• Improved handling of minimized and active channel windows.
• Improved sidebar highlighting so it better reflects the currently active window.
• Improved multi-server window and Status behavior.
• Improved consistency of popup and dialog close buttons.
• Fixed issues that could cause duplicate close (X) buttons to accumulate after the client had been running for an extended period.
• Additional interface cleanup and usability improvements.

IRC Improvements

• Improved IRC operator tools and right-click actions.
• Improved /MAP and /LINKS handling.
• Improved channel mode and user privilege handling.
• Improved server notice handling so server notices remain in the appropriate Status window.
• Improved reconnect and manual disconnect behavior.
• Improved channel and private-message window handling.

Updates

• Improved the built-in Morphie Desktop updater.
• Stable releases now use the public Morphie Desktop release channel.
• Beta testers can receive builds through the separate beta release channel.
• Update settings are retained between sessions.

Beta Notice

Morphie Desktop is still under active development. Additional features, interface improvements, and bug fixes will continue to be released as testing progresses.

If you encounter a problem, please use Help → Report a Bug from within Morphie Desktop.

Thank you for helping test Morphie Desktop!

Morphie Desktop v0.2.69

Morphie Desktop v0.2.69

This update brings a large collection of reliability, usability, multi-network, notification, logging, and IRC protocol improvements to Morphie Desktop.

What's New

• Improved the Morphie application icon and Windows integration.
• Added better channel and private-message activity indicators, including unread and mention priority.
• Improved taskbar attention notifications for important activity.
• Improved Status window network identification.
• Added a connection watchdog to better detect interrupted IRC connections.
• Improved automatic reconnect behavior and restoration of IRC sessions.
• Added better multi-network session handling.
• Improved local IRC logging organization by network and date.
• Added UTF-8-aware handling and splitting of long IRC messages.
• Improved support for smaller displays and Windows display scaling.
• Added more consistent Escape-key behavior throughout dialogs and overlays.
• Refreshed Morphie's built-in command help and IRC command information.
• Cleaned up sidebar and notification behavior.

IRC Reliability Improvements

• Serialized outgoing IRC writes so simultaneous commands, automatic replies, and user actions cannot interfere with each other.
• Added protection against embedded carriage-return and newline characters in outgoing IRC messages.
• Added final UTF-8 IRC protocol line-size validation before messages are sent.
• Improved handling of unusual and high-activity IRC situations.

Additional Improvements

This release also includes numerous smaller fixes and refinements discovered during private beta testing.

Thank you to everyone helping test Morphie Desktop and improve the client.

Morphie IRC Network
morphie.com

Morphie Desktop Client v0.2.52

Morphie Desktop Client v0.2.52

This public beta update includes a large collection of improvements made since v0.2.31, with a focus on IRC usability, channel management, customization, and reliability.

What's New

• Added collapsible server groups in the sidebar.
• Redesigned the channel user list with separate groups for Owners, Admins, Operators, Half Operators, Voiced Users, and Users.
• User-list groups can be expanded and collapsed independently.
• User privilege changes, joins, parts, quits, kicks, and nickname changes now update the grouped user list dynamically.
• Restored full right-click user controls within the grouped user list.
• Improved visual distinction between user-list categories.

IRC Commands & Input

• Added built-in /help command documentation.
• Use /help <command> for syntax and information about individual commands.
• Added direct channel privilege shortcuts:
  • /v and /dv — Voice / Devoice
  • /h, /hop, /dh, /dehop — Half-op controls
  • /op and /deop — Operator controls
  • /admin and /deadmin — Admin controls
  • /owner and /deowner — Owner controls
• Added ChanServ privilege shortcuts.
• Added friendly command validation and usage messages for common IRC commands.
• Added Tab nickname completion with support for cycling through multiple matches.
• Added Up/Down message and command history independently for each window.
• Added per-window unsent message drafts, including caret-position restoration when switching windows.

Chat & Interface

• URLs in chat, private messages, topics, and Status are now clickable and open in the default browser.
• Double-clicking the Status transcript requests updated IRC network user statistics.
• Expanded the emoji picker with many additional emoji.
• Added country flags to the emoji picker with improved Windows rendering.
• Improved user-list typography and layout.

Options & Startup

Expanded Options → General with additional controls for:

• Automatically connecting to Morphie at startup.
• Starting Morphie minimized.
• Minimizing or closing Morphie to the system tray.
• Remembering window size and position.
• Remembering open channel and private-message windows.
• Exit, disconnect, and channel-close confirmations.
• Automatic update checks.

These settings are saved between client updates.

Reliability & Window Management

• Remembered channel windows can automatically rejoin after reconnecting when rejoin is enabled.
• Improved tray-icon behavior.
• Added Morphie-styled confirmation prompts.
• Improved handling of window and workspace state.
• Input history and unsent drafts are isolated by window and server connection.

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Morphie Desktop Client is still in public beta. Please report any bugs or unexpected behavior so we can continue improving the client.

Visit Morphie: https://morphie.com

Morphie Desktop v0.2.31

Morphie Desktop v0.2.31

This release includes a substantial set of improvements to Morphie Desktop, including expanded multi-server support, improved window management, network management, connection settings, and numerous usability fixes.

Highlights

Improved multi-server support with separate Status and channel windows for each connection.
Added a built-in IRC network list with Morphie at the top and popular IRC networks available from the Connect screen.
Added Options → Networks for viewing and managing IRC networks.
Custom IRC networks can be added, edited, and deleted.
Improved the Connect dialog with a cleaner network, nickname, and password layout.
IRC Username and Real Name settings are now managed under Options.
Added a customizable default disconnect message.
Improved automatic window sizing for different screen sizes and resolutions.
Improved Status, channel, private-message, and utility window management.
Left sidebar entries now toggle windows: click an open window to minimize it and click it again to restore it.
Numerous UI, connection, and stability improvements from private beta testing.

Windows

This release is for 64-bit Windows (win-x64) and is self-contained, so users do not need to install .NET separately.

Morphie Desktop is currently beta software. Additional features and improvements are still under active development.

Morphie Desktop v0.2.1

Morphie Desktop v0.2.1

This is a major update to Morphie Desktop with new IRC features, customization options, favorites, utilities, operator tools, and numerous interface improvements.

Highlights

• Added a redesigned Morphie Options window with settings for connection, chat, appearance, notifications, logging, privacy, and advanced features.
• Added a full Morphie Tools area with Address Book, Notify List, Block List, IRC Utilities, and local log viewing.
• Added channel Favorites with quick access from the main menu.
• #Morphie and #Help are automatically included as permanent favorites.
• Expanded the File, View, Channels, Tools, Window, and Help menus with many new actions and shortcuts.
• Added automatic reconnect and optional channel rejoin support.
• Added local chat logging with separate controls for channels, private messages, and Status/server windows.
• Added Notify List support using IRC MONITOR.
• Added IRC utilities including Whois, DNS lookup, CTCP Ping, CTCP Version, server information, and advanced commands.
• Added right-click actions for usernames directly inside channel and private-message conversations.
• Added Status-window right-click server commands for regular users and additional controls for IRC operators.
• Added IRC operator actions including Kill, K-Line, G-Line, Shun, Rehash, network notices, and Deoper controls where appropriate.
• Added a much larger mIRC-compatible color palette.
• Expanded and redesigned the emoji picker.
• Improved channel mode detection and display.
• Channel List topics now display IRC/mIRC colors.
• Improved window activation, positioning, minimizing, restoring, and active-window highlighting.
• Added in-client bug reporting through the Morphie Desktop GitHub issue tracker.
• Added an IRC Command Reference and Keyboard Shortcuts help.
• Redesigned Release Notes and organized releases by version family.
• Release-note information is now maintained separately from the main client code for easier future updates.
• Numerous interface fixes, usability improvements, and internal cleanup.

Updating

Existing Morphie Desktop users can install this release through the built-in updater.

New users can download MorphieIRC.Morphie-win-Setup.exe below.

Morphie Desktop is currently in beta. Please report any bugs you encounter using Help → Report a Bug.

Morphie Desktop v0.1.75

Morphie Desktop v0.1.75

This release includes several IRC client improvements, new IRC operator tools, and usability fixes.

What's new:
• Added random Guest nicknames for users connecting without choosing a nickname.
• Added IRC operator support after manually using /oper.
• IRCop passwords are never stored by Morphie.
• Added IRC Operator right-click actions for Kill, K-Line, G-Line, and Shun.
• Added in-client prompts for duration and reason when using IRCop commands.
• IRCop menus clearly identify local and network-wide actions.
• Added a Deoper button to the Status window that appears only while IRCop status is active.
• Clicking the message input box of a background chat window now brings that window to the front.
• Includes recent Options, minimize-to-tray, settings persistence, and automatic-update improvements.

Existing Morphie Desktop users can receive this release through the automatic update system.

Morphie Desktop v0.1.71

Morphie Desktop v0.1.71

This release adds release-note history directly to Morphie Desktop.

What's new:
• Added a Release Notes button to the About Morphie window.
• Added an in-client release-notes viewer.
• Current and previous Morphie Desktop release notes are now retained.
• Release notes will be updated with every future Morphie Desktop release.
• Continues using the new public Morphie Desktop update service.

This release is also the first test of Morphie's fully automatic in-client update process.

Morphie Desktop v0.1.70

Morphie Desktop v0.1.70

Early development release of the Morphie IRC desktop client for Windows.

This release moves Morphie's automatic update system to the new public Morphie Desktop release feed while keeping the development source repository private.

This version establishes the foundation for automatic in-client updates in future releases.