A new bugfix release KVIrc 5.2.10 "Quasar" has been released. This release adds misc logic and graphical fixes to various issues emerged in the last months, and adds proper support for the cap-notify IRCv3 capability. For every need, or even just for some small talking, come and say hi at #kvirc@Libera.chat Have fun! The KVIrc Development Team Dec 18, 2025 NOTE for Windows users: A possible crash has been identified and fixed in the Windows release due to a missing dll library. The package has been updated with the fix, please re-download it. More info at #2740 What's Changed

• FileTransferWindow: use current theme palette to draw items by @ctrlaltca in #2717
• Fix error handling of QSslSocket by @ctrlaltca in #2718
• KDE notifications: don't always set notifications as persistent. by @ctrlaltca in #2719
• Fix DBUS notifier arguments by @Bartkk0 in #2715
• CI: update to Qt 6.10, fix missing NSIS in Windows-2025 CI image by @ctrlaltca in #2716
• Add BRASnet IRC network. Fix #2721 by @ctrlaltca in #2722
• Fix the "Join KVIrc channel" button by @ctrlaltca in #2723
• Support cap-notify; fix #2724 by @ctrlaltca in #2725
• SSL: ignore SIGPIPE in SSL_connect(); fix #2701 by @ctrlaltca in #2726
• Grow the receive buffer from 1k to 16k to accomodate max ssl packet size by @ctrlaltca in #2727
• Painter object fixes; fix #2494 by @ctrlaltca in #2728
• Revert "Use floating point widths in KviIrcView: fixes overlapping texts" by @ctrlaltca in #2730
• Fix geometry sanity check to permit startup on secondary monitors by @ctrlaltca in #2731
• Options dialog: when searching don't force text to be black, on dark themes it's unreadable by @ctrlaltca in #2732
• Topic widget: make the read-only label as similar as possible to the editable input editor by @ctrlaltca in #2733
• Add missing description for libera.chat modes by @ctrlaltca in #2734
• Translation updates by @ctrlaltca in #2735
• Release 5.2.10 by @ctrlaltca in #2737 New Contributors
• @Bartkk0 made their first contribution in #2715 Full Changelog: 5.2.8...5.2.10