We are happy to announce another maintenance release of SLiteChat, version 1.6.3. This release patches a major bug that was introduced on the 1.6.X line--when SLiteChat loses connection to the server and times out, a dialog pops up informing the user that the connection was lost. However, in previous versions, that dialog would pop up so many times recursively that it was shown that this crash could render the user's computer completely inoperative.
We are happy to announce another maintenance release of SLiteChat, verion 1.6.2. This release addresses the following issues:
We are happy to announce a maintenance release of SLiteChat, verion 1.6.1. This release addresses the following issues:
For those SLiteChat users who are experiencing the following error message:
Cannot log in! Reason: Login failure: data, First name parameter must be alphanumeric.
If you feel this is an error, please contact
If you see this error message, it is because you have a leading space in your Second Life name in the log in dialog. Just delete the space and you should be able to log in normally:
A companion product of SLiteChat, XGridChat, written by Cathy Pfeffer, has been released, version 0.3.0. Please see the downloads page. XGridChat is bundled with SLiteChat, and it is released in binary form only for Linux platforms.
For more information about XGridChat (Cross Grid Chat), please see the main site.
SLiteChat has been moved to the servers of Made to Order Software Corporation in an effort to keep up with this project's growing popularity. The site was created using Drupal, and it has many features available to help me with publishing updates and issuing newsletters.