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Changes from 0.7.4.1-RELEASE to 0.7.5-RELEASE 
- Garbage collector will now run once a hour rather than each ten minutes.
- Dynamic thread pool improvements.
- Removed equiv-http-refresh meta tag from the online list. 
- Minor bugfix in the /topic command.
- Implemented "User list"

Changes from 0.7.4-RELEASE to 0.7.4.1-RELEASE: 
- Dynamic thread pool bugfix (dead lock)

Changes from 0.7.3-RELEASE to 0.7.4-RELEASE: 
- Code cleanup.
- Made the thread pool increasing dynamic. 
- Added some thread pool optimazions.
- Added some more ${MAKE} vars to the Makefiles.
- Added Content-length to the HTTPD header.
- Added the !command to the command line interface.
- Added Content-type text/plain.
- Added scrolling checkbox to input.html
- Removed modl from yhttpd. Dynamic modules are not needed in yhttpd yet.
- Improved session engine.
- Fixed auto logout bug.
- Fixed newline bug (one \n too much for each html template)
- Logging can now be completely disabled.

Changes from 0.7.2 to 0.7.3-RELEASE:
- Added FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE support.
- Added chat.enableguest option. 
- Added the /all command (Global system message)
- Renamed the /getstatus command into /about.
- Fixed the &-bug (& should be allowed in messages). \AND is now a
  synonym for & too.
- Fixed the /msg bug (In /msg the string replacer should be activated).
- Fixed logging bug (do not log any timestamps if there are no messages).

Changes from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2-RELEASE:
New features:
- /morph
- Added the new standard html template design.
Bugfixes:
- /away prints a . instead of a : if no away reason is given.
- /ko message was wrong. Displayed not room name of the user to be kicked out.
- /invisible command displayed wrong private messages.
- /getstatus had no help text.
- /msg and /s should now print the system time if printalwaystime == true.
- Added a blank to the /uptime message. 
- /topic now prints the topic in the user's color.
- Fixed some typos.

Changes from 0.7.0 to 0.7.1-RELEASE:
- Added ${MAKE} to the config file because some Linux distros dont use 
  the "gmake" command for GNU make but just "make"! Modified the
  configure script to generate a make.version file.
- Removed some typos from the ychat.conf.
- Fixed the auto away message. This one will be posted in the room
  as public rather than only private to the auto-away-user.
- Fixed some documentation stuff for yhttpd because yhttpd does not
  need MySQL at all.
- Added the chat.maxlength.word option.

Changes from 0.6 to 0.7.0-RELEASE:
- Better stability 
- Better performance (using more hmaps) 
- HTML color switcher menu 
- New commands: /away /room /j /ren 
- Simple garbage collector for old user and room objects 
- Use of the database (MySQL) 
- Nick registration and password protection 
- Status images for Operator, Half-Operator, Voiced user and Guests 
- New Makefiles 
- Useful Perl scripts for sourcecode stats generation etc.
- Added system_log and room logging to access_log logging 
- Added time-offset option 
- Added to the admin interface new options 
- Added Logout button 
- Added string replacer there certain substr. of postings will be replaced by another string (such as smiley images) 
- Added Superuser levels and the /ko and /set commands 
- Added admin CLI (Command Line Interface) mode 
- Added memory rusage history which tracks memory usage for the last 10 days 
- Added HTTP POST request parsing 
- Made yChat more modular so yhttpd can be extracted from it (scripts/makeyhttpd.pl)
- Added CGI support
- Rewrote big parts of the Makefiles and the configure scripts
- Made it compatible to GNU G++ 3.4, 3.3, 3.2 and 3.1 (3.0 and earlier does not work)
- XML based configuration file (ychat.conf)
- Added default operator option: chat.defaultop