Lantern Chess Interface to chessclub.com Changelog

See also Lantern Manual for help with Lantern Chess

Updates since 3.65:

6.2x

Updated Mac and Windows to Stockfish 16
Now saves settings to local preferences (10/22/2023: 6.27.4)

coordinates draw smaller
some settings like sound for tells that were not saving now save
random pieces and board sub menus of observing options moved to main observing options menu
unexamine added to game menu below examine actions
bug in font chooser were if you x'ed out it could change your font fixed
bug that incoming text and typed text that came in at same time would sometimes co-mingle the text fixed (8/24/2023: 6.27.3)

Updated to Stockfish 15 on Mac (Windows already had it)
In multi-line UCI analysis, second and third line are shortened to three moves such as e4 e5 nf3
Fixed line breaks in multi-line analysis
Cleaned up text displayed when engine is stopped
Added Show My Game Log File to Actions menu
Added Open Game Files on Computer as a first-level menu item above the PGN submenu (it does the same thing as Game / PGN / Open Pgn)
Vars command on right-click on name context menu opens in a po-pup, like lookup user
In the Activities Window, Events List now has an Open Videos Page button and Tournaments has a Tournament Schedule button at the top
Opening name prints earlier in move order in the title bar of opening explorer view
Popups that appear from selecting choices on console's tab menu are centered in app, not on screen (10/6/2022: 6.27)

Added Correspondence to Activities Window
Added Correspondence notification and a new setting on Options / Sound to turn the sound for them on and off
Added Toggle engine on toolbar, which calls start and stop engine menu items
Made Restart engine restart the default stockfish on Windows and macOS, even if not loaded
Added keyboard shortcuts Ctrl-G on Windows and Cmd-G on macOS to start engine and Ctrl-S/Cmd-S to stop and Ctrl-N/Cmd-N for opening explorer
Changed toolbar in examine mode to include Flip and Opening Explorer
Added a change font option on Activities window menu (this is the same as from Appearance menu)
Event List Font on Appearance and Activities window menu renamed Event List/Tournaments Font (it had already controlled both)
Application now saves its position, not just size, between launches
Pop-up windows are now positioned inside the app, not screen
Added a checkbox menu item to auto examine after playing to the Game menu (this stays in synch with server's examine variable)
Actions / Lookup User and Add Friend typing area now responds to Enter or Esc (to clear input line)
Show my profile and ratings on Actions menu now shows profile in a pop-up, not console
Help Discount menu item added to Help menu
@name, in addition to making a sound, adds a text effect to the line, making it brighter (6/24/2022: 6.26)

Added a sign up link to connect dialog.
Added a guest greeting message on connect.
Added the Chess coaches menu item on the Help menu. (12/2/2021: 6.25)

The Public and Private directories now set to Home/Documents/LanternChess and AppData/Roaming/LanternChess when OS is Windows.
Console on side now default when board is maximized, and uses one console size (ignoring the size settings).
Opening Book in Options menu now called Opening Explorer.
Lantern will only open web help links sent by ICC if it's help for guests. For example, a register link won't open the browser.
Adjustments to console size and move list on right of board sizing. (11/27/2021: 6.24)

Fixed bug, where if user had no open boards and went to File / Save Settings, the next time a board was opened, the board tab would be busted and say G, showing no game.
Now setting the public directory to save files on Windows to Documents/LanternChess and the private one to AppData/LanternChess.
Added a tournaments tab to the Activities Window.
Added Join Tournaments to Game menu.
When in a tournament, there is also now a challenge popup for the person you have to play if they challenge you first, not just the start-of-round suggestion popup to play the person.
Added Automato, yenta, and uscf to Options / Observing Options / Follow Tomato Tournament Games menu.
Made Mac default font for new users 18 point, to match what has been on Windows and Linux.
Made the default main application background color White for new users.
Made save name and password setting start at true for new users.
Changed Set WallPaper to Set Background and moved it to Appearance menu.
Added file filter to selecting wallpaper. Can look at jpg, jpeg, png, and omg.
On Mac, the default directory for Set Background will be /System/Library/Desktop Pictures, if it exists, and otherwise it will try to find /Library/Desktop Pictures/.
Added ICC Store and My ICC links to Actions menu, which launch in the user's browser. (11/15/2021: 6.23)

Created a build flag that, if set, will have Lantern save all files to either a public Lantern Chess Directory or a Private one. On Mac, this is Documents/LanternChess and Library/LanternChess.
Default connection on program launch now main.chessclub.com port 443.
Mac default font for new users changed from 14 point to 16.
Added double click to watch text to top of Notify window to alert users to the functionality.
ICC Calendar added to Help menu.
Created the Tournament help Lantern manual page.
Tournament Help and Tournament Schedule added to Game menu.
Turned off the chess font for move list option.
Upgraded Mac to Stockfish 10.
Added Java version to interface string when it's a native client. (11/8/2019: 6.22)

Link to privacy policy added to the Help menu. (This is also linked to on the lanternchess.com web page.)
A new option to play a sound when @yourname is mentioned in a channel. This is on by default, but can be turned off in the Options / Sounds menu. (8/18/2019: 6.21)

Engine analysis updates faster as moves are made or user goes forward and backward.
Very short lines of analysis are no longer shown, to prevent analysis from jumping from full line to one or two moves.
Additional lines beyond line one when doing multiple analysis lines are truncated to about 12 plies.
The tomato manager channel is now automatically grouped on a user's channels for new users or those without settings saved.
Auto-follow Pear on Options / Observing Options / Follow Tomato Tournament Games added. (4/7/2019: 6.20)

6.1x

Updated channel 231, the USCF channel. to be treated like other Tomato channels in the program.
Fixed four broken links in Lantern's menu: Help / Lost Password and Join/Renew, Actions / Show Relay Schedule and Open Videos Page (changed from Open Chess.fm). (8/26/2018: 6.19)

Option to disable hyperlinks added to Options / Advanced submenu. The links still show, but are inactive, and will not open the browser if this is set.
If the user tries to close Main Console 0, Lantern now prompts them to save settings and exit (normal exit flow).
Opening book is updated. It is still the same name lanternopeningbook19.db, but has more positions now. If the user already has it installed, they can delete their lanternopeningbook19.db file in the Lantern folder and try to open the book again in Lantern, and it will go through normal install flow and install the bigger book. (8/26/2018: 6.18)

Fix for members logged on anonymously, to be able to load PGN games saved on ICC, such as in their ICC log files, where the game was a rated game. It was trying to set it rated on the board with the match command, but anons cannot match for rated games. (12/9/2017: 6.17)

When opening PGN files, Lantern will now parse the variant tag, so variant games saved in other applications, like Winboard/Xboard, can be opened in Lantern and the correct variant set, such as Crazyhouse, on loading.
For guests who open games from PGN files that are variants, like Crazyhouse, Lantern will now change their wild var to match the variant before loading the game, so it loads correctly and then set it back to chess (wild 0).
Typed text now has a time stamp at the beginning of the line to the minute. It is in the same color as the typed text.
On Linux, Lantern will now try to open links using the browser that is set in the environment variable BROWSER.
Default Main Application Background Color is now a darker cream and no longer baby blue. (12/9/2017: 6.16)

New method of generating sound on Linux. (6/20/2017: 6.15)

Updated the order in which Lantern tries sound players to play sounds on Linux. (6/18/2017: 6.14)

Fixed a bug in the new save to PGN option on the game board tabs, where it could get info from the wrong game, if more than one game is up on the board.
Now on logging observed games or using save to PGN on the board tab right-click menu, the ECO code (representing openings) is saved with the PGN. (6/11/2017: 6.13)

On loading ICC games from PGN files, Lantern will check if the game was rated or unrated and upload the game accordingly.
In logging observed games from the Game / PGN submenu and using save to PGN from the board tab right-click menu, Lantern will indicate if the game was unrated. (6/11/2017: 6.12)

In the Game / PGN submenu, Log Observed Games To Pgn option now supports logging wild games to lantern_owild.pgn.
The save to PGN option on the board tabs will now include the FEN record (used to define a loaded starting position, like a trainingbot game) when it saves the game, if applicable. (6/11/2017: 6.11)

When loading ICC games from the Game / PGN submenu, Lantern will set the ICC time control saved in the game's Event tag, i.e., 3 0 or 15 10, etc.
The save to PGN menu item on the game board's tabs will add variant info, if it is a wild game like Loser's or Crazyhouse, so Lantern can properly load it later with Open PGN as a wild game. (6/10/2017: 6.10)

6.0x

Added save to PGN menu item to the board tab menu, when the user right-clicks or double-clicks on a game tab. It saves the current state of the game to a PGN file of the user's choice. (6/9/2017: 6.09)

For users who have the chess font on the move list, the PGN logged when observed games were logged (an option that may be turned from the Game / PGN submenu) was not correct, now fixed.
PGN logging of observed games was logging redundant copies of games when a logged PGN game was opened, now fixed.
Fix for logging of observed games to correctly set the date, if month or day is not two digits.
Issue where, with PGN logging of observed games, Lantern was not always placing the games in the right file, i.e. the lantern_oblitz.pgn vs lantern_obullet.pgn, fixed. (6/8/2017: 6.08)

Sending moves from the game board changed to use the chessmove command.
Moves sent as a result of double-clicking on moves in the Opening Book now also use chessmove and are prefixed by multi (to avoid any aliases). (6/6/2017: 6.07)

Fix engine's analysis FEN, which comes from ICC, in cases ICC indicates castling is possible, but it's not. This was causing engines like Stockfish to not analyze these set up positions.
Issue where lantern releases 6.04 and 6.05 were not bundled with the opening book, fixed. This caused new users of these versions to be unable to use the opening book, as there was no book to extract, but did not affect users who updated to this version and had a book extracted already. If users, who had 6.04 or 6.05 and could not extract the book, update to 6.06, the extraction will work. (6/5/2017: 6.06)

UCI Engine analysis (for engines like Stockfish) will now display the score in terms of white, not the side to move. Winboard remains up to the engine; for example, crafty already does this. (5/28/2017: 6.05)

Bug, where if Board / Things to Hide or Show / Chess Font for Move List was turned off, it would use the regular font but not correctly display the moves, such as substituting characters like K for knight when it should be N, fixed.
For Linux users who have a copy of Stockfish 8 named stockfish_8_x64 in the lantern folder, Lantern will add Analyze with Stockfish 8 to the Options menu and open this copy of Stockfish. (4/16/2017: 6.04)

Now, at program launch, the main application starts on the event dispatch thread. (4/11/2017: 6.03)

Added a Configure Random Square Tiles option to the Options / Observing Options / Random Pieces Boards on Observing submenu. Additionally, miscellaneous fixes to existing random pieces on observe customization dialog, such as its text field now using the user's console font, and layout fixed to be dynamic as pieces are added and removed. (4/11/2017: 6.02)

Moved clock updates onto event dispatch thread. (4/4/2017: 6.01)

Moved a variety of events, from closing games/boards and promotion dialogs to writing to consoles, off telnet thread onto main dispatch thread. (4/4/2017: 6.00)

5.9x

Moved all game event dispatching, new board creation, new moves, etc., off telnet thread and onto main dispatch thread. (4/4/2017: 5.99)

Now, for Windows and Mac users, Lantern comes bundled with Stockfish 8 in the jar. The user can select Options / Analyze with Stockfish 8 to start it. The first time, Lantern will prompt the user to copy stockfish from the jar's engine folder to the lantern folder. (To prevent it from overwriting any existing copies of stockfish, the file name of stockfish is modified to be l-<stockfish-filename>.) Information on how to obtain the source code of Stockfish, which is licensed under GPL, is in stockfish_readme.txt, also in the engines folder.
Added the Wood-8 choice to the Board / Boards sub menu. This board comes from Smallfish, which is derived from Stockfish and open source. (4/2/2017: 5.98)

Added more wood boards from Raptor. They are shown as Wood-6 and Wood-7 in the Boards menu.
Made changing boards and pieces in Lantern's menu safer. It will no longer try to redraw boards that are not visible.
All handling of the move list now reverted to pre-Lantern 5.93, with an additional call to set the font if Use Chess Font for Move List is enabled. (4/1/2017: 5.97)

The setting to Use Chess Font for Move List on the Board / Things to Hide and Show submenu now will only take effect on restarting the program. There were stability issues with changing font for the move list while running the program. (4/1/2017: 5.96)

Added three new board choices: Thief, Tournament Mat, and Tournament Mat2. They are from Raptor and under the BSD New License. (3/30/2017: 5.95)

Fix, for when game starts, that makes sure game tables for move lists are always updated with the new model. (3/30/2017: 5.94)

Lantern will use a chess font (Chess Alpha 2) for the moves on the board move list. This can be disabled on Board / Things to Hide and Show by unchecking Chess Font for Move List.
Support for the Chess Alpha 2 font, if selected as the analysis font, on Options / Analysis Display. (3/29/2017: 5.93)

Added another variant of the Alpha pieces listed as Alpha-2 in the Board / Pieces menu. Removed the Condal pieces previously added in version 5.90, as there were issues with these pieces at small sizes. Alpha-2 pieces appear near the top next to the other Alpha pieces. The Dyche pieces submenu also moved closer to the top. (3/23/2017: 5.92)

Reorganized the order of pieces on the Board / Pieces menu. Some pieces were moved up closer to the top and the Dyche, Bookup, and Molten pieces were moved towards the bottom, with the Molten pieces subfolder just above Random Pieces. The three Dyche pieces were also grouped into a subfolder.
The three Dyche and Bookup pieces will now be resized on large boards (possible on 1920x1080 or higher resolutions) when the desired size is at least 30 pixels more than the maximum available size for these pieces. (3/23/2017: 5.91)

Added Kingdom and Condal chess pieces from Jin and updated updated pieces-boards_copyrights.txt in the lantern folder found in the jar.
Reorganized menu separators on the context menu menu when right-clicking on a name. Removed one that was in twice above Edit List and grouped Challenge <name> with Follow and Observe. (3/22/2017: 5.90)

5.8x

Removed Gray Tiles board previously added in version 5.88. It did not scale well to smaller sizes with Lantern's board rendering. (3/21/2017: 5.89)

Added the Cold Marble, Green Marble, Gray Tiles, and Slate boards from Jin. Updated pieces-boards_copyrights.txt as well. (3/21/2017: 5.88)

When loading PGN games to the ICC board, Lantern no longer sends just the move, but sends multi chessmove <move>. So, in case parsing breaks with PGN comments, Lantern will not inadvertently execute commands thinking they are moves. (3/20/2017: 5.87)

Made the preinstalled engines, Mediocre Chess v0.5 and Cuckoo Chess 1.12, work only in examine mode. There were issues with these engines hanging when observing fast games. Users can continue to use engines they load (like Stockfish) in observe mode. (3/15/2017: 5.86)

Fixed bugs in looking at observed and copygame games with a chess engine. (3/15/2017: 5.85)

Added Cuckoo Chess 1.12 engine to the Options menu. Mediocre Chess v0.5 is now moved to a subfolder, Other Engines. Both engines Lantern uses are under GPL, and if the Lantern jar is extracted, not run, information about each engine is in the readmes in the engines folder. (3/14/2017: 5.84)

Added a 24-hour clock option for chat timestamp to Options / Chat Timestamp.
Actions / Server Time menu item added.
Assess added to the context menu (when right-clicking on a name).
Ctrl + Pg Up/Down now works as a shortcut for moving between console tabs, in addition to the existing ones.
The generic popup in Lantern, used to show informational messages, such as the warning that the user cannot use an engine when playing, now uses the user's console font. (3/12/2017: 5.83)

Fixed two bugs in Lantern so it will work with Java 9, which is soon to be released.
In engine analysis, when more than one line is shown, Lantern will not line break between first line of score and depth and the second line of moves. This is to prevent the console from scrolling because of too many lines of text. (3/11/2017: 5.82)

Lantern will no longer send, with commands or moves from game board, the command primary, if the user is logged in as a guest. Guests cannot use the primary command or play more than one game at a time. (3/10/2017: 5.81)

Opening book renamed lanternopeningbook19.db and made smaller, 3 MB now (instead of 160), with the same data through a better database scheme. The lantern jar now comes with the smaller-sized book, but Lantern will continue to open the larger size book, if installed. If users of previous versions of lantern can delete their lanternopeningbook18.db in the lantern folder; then, when they go to Options / Open Opening Book, it will prompt them to install the new book saving space. Due to the old book being greatly compressible, the savings in the jar's file size is only about 1.5 MB. (3/10/2017: 5.80)

5.7x

Added ability to open and extract a Java chess engine, Mediocre Chess v0.5, packaged with the jar in an engines folder. Lantern does not link to it in code, but extracts it to the local lantern folder, and then going to Options / Analyze with Mediocre Chess v0.5 will start it each time after without the user downloading or opening an engine. The engines folder in the jar has a mediocre_readme.txt file with information on how to get the engine's source and project page. (3/10/2017: 5.79)

Added the Monge Fantasy and Spatial pieces to the size 122 and 132 folders. This will allow larger pieces of these sets on higher-resolution monitors. (3/9/2017: 5.78)

Added the Merida pieces. Also updated pieces-boards_copyrights.txt found in the Lantern folder when the jar is extracted, or the lantern folder on Lantern's Github (https://github.com/lanternbugs/lanternicc). (3/9/2017: 5.77)

Added a guest button to the connection dialog for connecting as a guest. It is between OK and Cancel. Clicking the button does not reset the user's saved name and password, unless the user unchecks the save name and password box. (3/8/2017: 5.76)

Fix for plunk moves not being made when playing and viewing crazyhouse games, due to a bug in Lantern version 5.72. (3/1/2017: 5.75)

The Opening Book view now has a fourth stats column, Percent, to show the percentage of wins on the move, along with the existing Wins, Draws, and Losses columns.
The Opening Book view will now print the opening name in the title bar. This starts on ply 7. (2/28/2017: 5.74)

Speeded up analysis mode sending the move to the engine if the user just moves one move at a time. (2/26/2017: 5.73)

Added an Opening Book option on the Options menu. When first selected, a dialog will open prompting the user to extract the opening book, lanternopeningbook18.db, from the jar that runs Lantern. On the jar, the book is about 10 MB, but when extracted it is 160 MB on disk, of which the dialog informs the user. Once this is done, an Opening Book view will appear, which is an always-on-top window and displays the opening moves, if any, at the current position in examine mode. If not examining, then text appears in the window saying that the user will see moves when examining. Users can double-click on moves in the opening view to make the move on the examine board, as well as make their own moves on the examine board with the Opening Book view updating. (2/26/2017: 5.72)

Fix for mugshots starting to load, but not displaying in web view, when Options / Show Profile Mugshots was checked. This got broken in the cleanup of the Lantern internal browser in versions 5.69 and 5.70. (2/24/2017: 5.71)

Moved the web page view's set page to the URL off the main thread. (2/23/2017: 5.70)

5.6x

Removed the obsolete input typing area at the bottom of web view, which opens from the Help menu when Lantern Help Index or Change Log are selected.
Web view now displays the title of the page displayed in the title bar, rather than just saying Web. (2/22/2017: 5.69)

Broadcast Help item added to the Actions menu. This allows users to find the latest help in listening to broadcasts via the web help, which can be dynamically updated if anything changes. The message printed in then console, when the Follow Broadcast menu item selected, now also tells the user to check the broadcast help for any latest info.
On Options / Sound, Sounds for Draw Offers and Sounds for Moves added to allow users to mute these sounds while leaving other sounds on.
On the Actions menu, links used for Show Relay Schedule and Show Rating Graphs updated. The link now used for Show Rating Graphs includes the user's login name and, if the user has not logged in yet, it shows WimpB. Users can edit the link once it has opened in the browser to see other players' ratings graphs.
A right-click on selected text in web view (used to show Lantern help pages) now only offers to copy. Other items that were there did not work.
For the context menu from a right-click on selected text (or a double-click on a name), which displays in the console or the game console, Assess option removed and replaced with Ping. (2/22/2017: 5.68)

Fix for sound when advancing many moves, such as from the beginning to the end of a game.
Fix for sound not working on some Macs.
An unsafe check in the board creation code, which could cause an error in creating the chess board when a game starts, fixed. (2/19/2017: 5.67)

New Options / Multiple Lines(UCI) menu. It lets the user tell the UCI engine to analyze one, two, or three lines at once. User must stop and restart the engine, if it is already analyzing, for it to take effect. A warning will display once in the main console during a single run-time of the program, alerting the user, if the user makes this change while the engine is running.
Added, on Options / Sounds, an option to mute tells and not other sounds. (2/19/2017: 5.66)

When clicking Set User Buttons on the toolbar or Options / Customize User Buttons multiple times, the user buttons dialog will open, then close, then open with each click, rather than open multiple instances.
If the user closes the Activities window, by clicking on Activities on the toolbar when it is open, then, when next opened, it will remember its window position.
Bug in Options / Observing Options / Random ... Observing / ... Square Tiles ... where the Wood-5 board was not included in the rotation, now fixed. (2/18/2017: 5.65)

Menu item reset tab font to global added to the console Tab menu. If, in a console, a font is set for a specific tab, then this menu item can reset it to the global font, which is settable from Appearance / Change Font.
On the set tab colors dialog, a Reset to Global choice is added. This undoes any previous tab-specific colors and resets them to the global values settable from the Appearance menu.
On the Help menu, Lantern Manual is renamed Lantern Help Index. This name is more consistent with the name used in other places.
Six new menu items to get menu help added to the Lantern menu system. On the File menu, there is now Anon and Guest Login Help; on the Board menu, there is Customizing Board Help; on the Game menu, there is Getting a Game Help. On Board / Advanced, there is Board Advanced Menu Help; on Game / PGN and Communications, there are PGN Menu Help and Game Communication Menu Help, respectively. These all open a Lantern Help Index page in the Lantern internal browser.
On the Seek Graph's menu, the Seek a Game dialog opened by the Place a Seek menu item now gives the dialog the right title, rather than the older Get a Game title, which has already been replaced elsewhere. (2/18/2017: 5.64)

If observing a game with black on the bottom of the board, or playing black and entering examine mode after the game, and then starting engine analysis, Lantern will now correctly send the position to the engine. (11/13/2016: 5.63)

Bug where, if the user went backward rapidly in examine mode, the move list would get messed up, showing extra moves at the end, fixed.
Engine analysis in Lantern can now handle games where, on move one, it is not white to move, but black, like some TacticalTrainer games.
If the user edits the position with engine analysis on, Lantern will now correctly update the position sent to the engine, rather than wait till a move is made. (11/12/2016: 5.62)

Obsolete channels tab removed from the Activities window. The four tabs are now spaced equally across the full length of the window and the tab text centered in the tab's section. The selected tab will be colored steel blue.
Notify Window added to Lantern's toolbar and Run a Script removed from toolbar (it remains available from the Options menu). The notify window's selected item color is now sky blue and clicking on a selected item will deselect it (color-wise). The top row of the notify window changed from saying Notify List to Notify Online. The notify window's size is now a saved setting, though still not its position, and the notify window will be the same size after restarting Lantern if File / Save Settings (or selecting Yes in the Save Settings? dialog on exit) is done with the notify window open.
Window sizes and positions, when applicable, will now save when File / Save Settings is selected, not just on exiting the program.
In the Options menu's Engines section, Engine Analysis Help menu item added with a separator below it. In the Options menu, the Advanced, Features, and Observing Options submenus, menu item added at the top of each, Advanced Menu Help, Features Menu Help, and Observing Menu Help, respectively, with a separator below each. Choosing one of these help menu items opens the Lantern Manual pages on that topic.
The console's Edit menu now has Increase... and Decrease font size, which was previously on the now retired View menu. These also display on the Edit menu when it is the only one shown on the console menu. The Management menu on the console is now called Tab. Everything on this menu affects the currently selected tab on that console.
When opening PGN (Game / PGN / Open Pgn), the game list that opens has had its opening width changed from 600 to 750. This allows the columns to be wider and more game data/text to show without resizing the window.
The default board design (Board / Board Design) for new installs is now Modern. (10/22/2016: 5.61)

If Options / Advanced / Auto Buffer Chat Length is selected (default for new installs), Lantern will now by default buffer chat to 55,000 characters as opposed to the old 100,000 characters, creating a shorter chat buffer. A new setting, Options / Advanced / Large Chat Buffer, if selected, allows a user to restore the older value, 100,000, for a larger chat buffer.
The Lookup User window now supports selecting text and right-clicking for a pop-up menu with copy. Previously, only the keyboard shortcuts Cmd + C on Mac and Ctrl + C on Windows and Linux could be used to copy in that window. (10/21/2016: 5.60)

5.5x

Issue where Lantern was not printing the engine's mate in X score in UCI analysis, fixed.
PGN files can now be loaded with byte order marks (BOM) in the file and Lantern will still parse them. Lantern can also now load PGN that does not have the Event tag.
On Mac, the keyboard shortcut for opening the Activities window is now Cmd + E. Ctrl + I, the shortcut on Linux and Windows, was not working on Mac.
Lantern can now handle UCI analysis on a position set up after examine mode started. (10/16/2016: 5.59)

Console Menu no longer on by default for new users. If Appearance / Show Console Menu Bar is unchecked, it will continue to show the Edit menu on console unless Options / Advanced / Always Show Console Edit Menu is deselected.
On Mac, the main application menu at top of Mac screen's Quit Lantern menu item will now prompt Lantern to ask the user to save settings, so they can save their windows' sizes if they exit this way.
All the keyboard shortcuts in the Console Menu for Mac users now work.
Options / Load ... Engine now will print an error if there is an exception loading the engine on the engine tab, alerting the users that the engine failed to open. If the user loads a Winboard engine, it will print a warning that most engines are UCI, which will disappear if analysis starts.
Bug where Save Game to Library on a PGN game list did not work, now fixed.
Bug where Windows / Cascade did not cascade the board(s) if the board had no game of some sort on it, now fixed.
Obsolete menu items pertaining to channel notify now removed. This affected the Options / Advanced and Console Menu's View menu mostly, but one item removed from the Appearance menu.
Separators added to the File, Appearance, and Help menus for readability.
New default pieces and board settings for new users. Uses Wood-5 and the Alpha pieces. (10/14/2016: 5.58)

If Lantern is not maximized when it is closed, it will remember its window size the next time the application is opened, unless the size is too close to maximum or very small.
The menu item Options / Advanced / Show Console Menu changed and moved to Appearance / Show Console Menu Bar. (3/6/2016: 5.57)

In chess engine analysis, Lantern will now add move numbers to the engine line displayed. (2/21/2016: 5.56)

To start the engine the board need no longer have focus, if there is just one visible board, i.e., the user no longer needs to click on the board first.
Bug where analysis would not display if more than one tab is open, and the engine is supposed to analyze on the second or greater tab, unless the user clicked that tab as well after starting the engine, fixed.
Clicking a tab with engine analysis for the first time, which toggles it back into console mode, will print a prompt to let the user know they need to just click the tab again to toggle the analysis view back on. (2/17/2016: 5.55)

Fix for mugshots, where lantern was using an outdated link, now updated to the correct link. One consequence was lantern could not identify who did not have a mugshot and, if Options / Show Profile Mugshots was checked, the web window was popping up with an image not found every time the user issued the finger command. (2/12/2016: 5.54)

Examine and Sposition added to the context menu on Adjourned games (double-clicking also shows the menu when Options / Advanced / Auto history popup is selected).
Rematch added to the Game menu. Enter Examination Mode and Examine My Last Game moved from the Actions menu to the Game menu. Add a friend moved up on the Actions menu to be with Lookup User and Show my Profile and Ratings.
Lantern now sets multiple icon images so the OS can find the right-sized one. In places where multiframe would show to describe Lantern, such as on Mac OS X, the top menu bar of the computer now displays Lantern. (1/31/2016: 5.53)

Reorganized the main menu bar. Colors menu changed to Appearance, Game menu split into Board and Game, Options menu moved to the right of Game.
File / Quit menu option changed to File / Disconnect. (File / Quit was introduced in lantern551.)
Get a Game dialog is now Seek a Game. Pool buttons removed from this dialog. Bug, where, if Get a game/seek a game was chosen on the seek graph / place a seek menu option, the dialog would not stay on top of the program if you clicked outside, fixed. (1/30/2016: 5.52)

Quit menu item now on File menu.
Right-click on an adjourned game will show an option to Adjudicate if it's the user's own stored game. (5.51)

If connection to chessclub.com fails, lantern will automatically try to connect to alt.chessclub.com. This is necessary for some users to connect and connects to the same server, but can bypass some things like firewalls that can block connection.
Obsolete 45-minute and checkers pool buttons removed. 25-minute button added.
New Actions menu item, Show Titled Players Online. (1/29/2016: 5.50)

5.4x

Players with the server setting webhelp turned on (default for almost everyone) will have help files open in their external browser now, such as Safari or Chrome (whatever the user's default browser is), rather than internal web frame. The help web pages are now too advanced to open in the java internal browser.
Fixed errors for players who automatically go into examine mode after a game and used the engine to analyze these games; previously, it failed to keep track of the moves in played games. Note that this still does not allow the engine on in played games. (7/26/2015: 5.49)

Fix for memory leak as user opens or starts more games relating to the clock timer.
Fix for some cases of the engine not closing if the board was closed without stopping the engine. (5/10/2015: 5.48)

Added two new boards to choices on Game / Boards: Wood-4 and Wood-5.
Fixed error with clocks when examining. Previously, the value did not change, but it might have added a minus sign, e.g., 5.6 became -5.6. (2/6/2015: 5.47)

Plays a sound on game end when playing if Options / Sounds is selected. It's the same as the game start sound.
Backing up a move in examine mode will now delete the circles and arrows - this is a bug in previous lantern.
The Game / Communications / Block Opponents Says When Not Playing menu option no longer sends an automatic message after each say telling the user that the player doesn't accept says when not playing. Instead once one message is sent, it does not send another message unless 5 seconds have passed. (1/28/2015: 5.46)

Examine-mode drawing of Circles and Arrows with the mouse now supported. Right-click to make a circle and right-click and drag to make an arrow. Right-clicking will continue to cancel a click-click move if the piece is in the air/moving and cancel premoves when playing. (1/27/2015: 5.45)

Support for loading games from ICC that are saved as wild games to a PGN file, such as the user's log file, with Open PGN in the Game / PGN submenu, including Losers, Chess960, 2-Kings, Crazyhouse, Three Checks, Giveaway, Atomic, Shatranj, and Checkers.
Can now load PGN games that start at non-standard starting positions, such as TrainingBot games. (1/25/2015: 5.44)

Now prints country in the special Lookup User profile view. (5.43)

When loading PGN games into examine mode or the user's library from the game list that appears in Game Menu / PGN / Open PGN, Lantern will use the more specific ICC result such as Black forfeits on time rather than the generic result such as White wins, when available.
The PGN game list now has a new right click on game menu item, Show Game Data, which shows the raw PGN of that game. (5.42)

Lookup User now on right click on a user name in console or board console menu.
New Profile view (accessible by doing Lookup User on Actions menu or on right click on username in console's menu) now is off white background color with black lettering and centered within the application when it appears. (5.41)

PGN loading is more robust. Lantern can handle PGN comments better, $ symbols in PGN, moves that are not 1. e4 but lack the space such as 1.e4.
New Lookup User menu item in the Actions menu. This produces a dialog to type in the name to look up and then issues the finger command on that username but, unlike normal finger, it will show the profile output in a special popup window. (1/24/2015: 5.40)

5.3x

Fixed a bug in how wallpaper file name was saved that affected some OSs. (1/17/2015: 5.39)

Fixed the wallpaper settings (File / Set Wallpaper) to remember the wallpaper loaded between starting and stopping the program. The user can revert to using a solid-colored background by going to Colors / Set Application Background Color and setting a color (if you delete the wallpaper file, etc., Lantern will revert to a solid color after you restart it). (1/16/2015: 5.38)

Fixed winboard engine support to follow the patterns in UCI engine support (cleaner display of analysis, etc.). It appeared to be broken before. (5.37)

Fixed engine analysis to not hang if the user moves rapidly through the moves or forwards game to end. As a consequence, there is a slight delay before new analysis starts after move(s) are made. This gives it time to avoid sending multiple start/stops to the engine, instead sending only the last one. (1/13/2015: 5.36)

Engine output in analysis mode is cleaner showing for example only Depth: 11 Score .39 on line above the moves with .39 meaning 39% of a pawn. Prior versions gave score in centipawns (100 = 1 pawn) and printed extraneous info.
If using a UCI engine, users can create a text file named lantern_uci_script.txt and place it in the lantern folder and put valid UCI commands to the engine in the file, each on a new line. For example adding setoption name MultiPV value 2 would turn on multiple variation support and show two lines if the engine supported it. (1/12/2015: 5.35)

Added the color info, on hover in the seek graph, if the ad is seeking a specific color. (12/15/2014: 5.34)

Fixed bug with lantern not starting on Java 8. (12/8/2014: 5.33)

Second set of checkers pieces (black-white) to go along with the first (black-red). Checkers Pieces submenu is on Game menu below Pieces submenu. Style is the same; only the color changes between sets.
New Look for checkers kings. (5.32)

fixed a bug in moving introduced in lantern530 (6/15/2014: 5.31)

Support now for checkers (wild 30) - note lantern529 mistakenly claimed to support checkers.
New pieces (Black and Red) that show when the game is checkers. Black moves first.
Checkers button on the toolbar for issuing the auto pair command checkers, time control 5 0 (6/14/2014: 5.30)

5.2x

Auto Promote is added to the Game menu and on by default. If disabled, a promotion dialog will appear for promotions. (4/20/2014: 5.29)

On receiving a tell to the tell tab, if the user has a tell tab and switch tabs on tell (default for new users), the tell name send prefix will be added to the tell tab, so the users need only type their message. If the name is already there, it will be selected. This can be disabled in the Options / Features menu. (To prevent mistells, if the user is already typing in the tell console, Tell name will be added, but the new name not selected.)
Typed text color now settable in customize console colors dialog and customize tab console colors dialog. (12/18/2013: 5.28)

tab send prefix i.e. tell 1> now saved if the user selects tell prefixes and shuts the program and restarts.
new users who have had channels assigned to tabs will now have tell prefixes set for these tabs when possible.
ask a question added to the help menu.
direct tells (right-click-on-name option) now called quarantine and has an option to include quarantining channel tells. (12/15/2013: 5.27)

Show profile mugshots back on as a default settings and now it will check the file size to identify if the person does not have a mugshot to avoid showing the default no mugshot image. This may not work permanently if ICC changes the image they use to a new one with a different size. but that will have to be addressed later and at such a time I may talk to ICC about what they will keep standard. (5.26)

Added a draw sound that will sound when a user is playing a game and opponent sends a draw offer. Unchecking Options / Sounds will disable this along with other sounds.
Show profile mugshots no longer set to on for new users due to the large number of finger tries that don't produce a mugshot. A user can enable this with Options / show profile mugshots then file / save settings. (7/20/2013: 5.25)

ToolBox menu item changed to Run a Script and moved to Options menu. Dialog is redesigned to be easier to use.
Top games list window added which shows current top 5 games. This is an on top window like Notify Window and opens small. It is accessible from toolbar.
Look of Tool Bar redesigned. Run a Script, Top Games, and Set User Buttons added to toolbar. Toolbar uses less space now and is more compact and user buttons now only print their number on toolbar.
New users will now have two consoles open at startup and one is a tell console. Default Board for new users is Blitzin Green Board.
NoIdle is a saved setting.
Now printing ATELLS to make an atell more visible (atell are admin tells to the user, and used in norelay answers from the help channel) and using the qsuggest sound rather than the tell sound.
Channel Notify Map and Channel Notify Online menu options removed from Windows menu. Activities Window menu item renamed Activities Window/Events. (7/14/2013: 5.24)

Fixes a bug introduced in lantern521 where observing a game with black on the move would cause the wrong clock to tick down. Also loading a game with black on the move is now confined to wild 20(loadgame).(6/7/2013: 5.23)

Fixes for loading a FEN with black to move. No longer highlights a pseudo move, does not delete the piece on the square of a pseudo move and uses 1. - in the move list for the pseudo move, i.e., white's non-existent first move when a FEN is loaded with black to move. (5.22)

Lantern can now load a FEN with black on the move. This will support a new trainingbot being developed on ICC, TacticalTrainer. If black is on the move, Lantern will first add the move e2e2, which will do nothing, then play resumes normally with black to move.
Opening URLs from hyperlinks in the console moved to the GUI thread which seems to give better support on Macs, solving an occasional issue of URLs launching the browser, but not loading. (6/6/2013: 5.21)

In Window / Notify Window or Activities Window -> notify tab, the user can right click on a name of someone logged in on notify and, in the menu that appears, customize the tabs that notifications show on for that person, so as to show on select tabs, not all tabs that have channels. As usual, suppress login/logout messages is an option there if the user wishes to keep that person on notify, but not see any login/logout messages or get a sound. (3/31/2013: 5.20)

5.1x

Notify will now print on every tab with channels now by default. (3/30/2013: 5.19)

ICC has disabled the datagram that let lantern know the people in channels. This patch release will do =chan on login (not seen by user), so as to find the channels the user is in, and if the user does +chan then it will add that to the user's channels after login. -chan is not tracked. Where this is used is in customize channels on tab.
Showing channel names lists is now off at login (it is still possible to enable this after login, but there won't be any names to show in a channel except the user's). Other gui elements that depend on channel names list like add to channel notify are still accesible, but won't do anything. (3/28/2013: 5.18)

java 7 patch for horizontal scrolling made to consume less resources.
intermittent issue in the game board creation process fixed. (2/23/2013: 5.17)

Horizontal scrolling issue for java 7 users that occurred in the last week fixed. Current java 7 fix that has been in place also fixed to hopefully solve all remaining issues with horizontal scroll.
All calls from the telnet thread, which also acts as a worker thread for other threads for certain things, reduced to one thread to prevent collision issues. Previously up to three threads could touch the game board from telnet.(2/1/2013: 5.16)

Clicks on seek graph and using the menu for right clicking on seeks, when they print text to the console as a response, will no longer double space that text. The challenge dialog will also not double space text generated from a challenge. (1/28/2013: 5.15)

Bug in lantern 5.13 fixed where, if the internal web window was open, and the user did finger and a mugshot should appear, it would only appear if web window had been closed. (5.14)

Lantern will now check if there is a mugshot when the user fingers someone and, if there is, it will display it in the internal browser. If the user doesn't want this they can disable the feature in the Options Menu by unchecking Show Profile Mugshots. (5.13)

Line breaks at login corrected to not double space and space when it should.
Closing the board and unexamining will no longer force a line break in console when it says no longer examining... (1/27/2013: 5.12)

When the user executes a command in the right-click menu on the board or the right-click menu on names in notify output like vars or finger will no longer have line breaks between every line. Also on events when you click info or another button that executes a command like finger output will also not have extra line breaks. (5.11)

If you load an engine from a directory lantern will remember this directory if you do save settings between restarting lantern.
Default size of engine analysis font changed to be larger for new users (16 point). and on game board Vars Name added to right click on name menu (5.10)

5.0x

Right-click while making a move behavior changed to ignore right clicks. This is consistent with BlitzIn and Dasher. Right-clicking will continue to cancel a premove and cancel a point-and-click move being dragged. (5.09)

Right-click on board will cancel a move you are trying to make (piece in air dragging), and cancel a premove whether piece is in air or not.
Right-click menu in consoles has match renamed to challenge. Challenge popup now supports challenging for bughouse, and both challenge and get a game dialog support seeking/challenging for wild 15, which was missing. Get a game dialog has a choice for color. (1/26/2013: 5.08)

Chess Engine Analysis now occupies 2 lines in the console. The top line shows info like depth and score, the bottom line shows line of moves. This no longer scrolls and stays in a fixed space in the console and updates for easier readability. (5.07)

Added a Challenge dialog. Can be accessed in the menu at Game / Challenge and also appears if you use match in the right-click popup menu in the consoles. If you use the match popup, then, after selecting a name, the name will be populated for the opponent in the dialog. (1/25/2013: 5.06)

'Disable Names Lists To Reduce Bandwidth' menu item added to Options / Advanced. When on, the datagrams that ICC sends when someone enters and leaves your channels won't be on, reducing bandwidth. (The user can also, on each console, go to the View menu of the console and disable showing names lists so they don't show up blank while taking up space.)
Windows Menu 'New Board' removed. The new board had limited functionality if you didn't create a board by creating some kind of game or observing a game, and was complicating program maintenance to support it.
'Tabs Only' menu item moved to Game / Advanced. It was felt too confusing an option to be on the basic Game menu and distracted from finding common use items like Boards and Pieces.
Lantern will no longer show at login people on channel notify online if the user has nobody online on their channel notify list. (12/11/2012: 5.05)

Interface side move legality extended to pawns.
Bug in interface side move legality, where, if a move should be illegal, e.g., for a bishop but another bishop that is on the board could make the move, it would accept it as legal, fixed.
Bug, where, if you were dragging a piece and the game ended, it would still be gliding when the next game started, fixed.
Bug, where, if you lifted a piece to move it and then placed it back on the square it came from, Lantern would make an illegal move sound, fixed. (12/9/2012: 5.04)

Move input menu added to Game menu. Can choose drag move or click click. For now, to cancel a move in click click, just click on the square it came from. (12/8/2012: 5.03)

Fix used in Linux to prevent horizontal scrolling by adding and removing an attribute as text prints extended to mac and windows for java 7 users. The problem was that, in Java 7, a long line of text with no spaces would force horizontal scrolling if it exceeded the length of one line in the console. Fix used in linux that was extended also improved to not print a character at a time, but print blocks of 15 characters adding and removing a style on each block. A console in java 7 with less than 15 characters width would still produce horizontal scrolling if one line was longer than 15 chars. Actually in practice a buffer of 15 seems to force a minimum of about 30 chars to a line then it will wrap a link but that seems workable for allowing narrow consoles. If lantern detects the user is using Java 6, it will continue to use the older print method of printing all text of a single message at once. (12/6/2012: 5.02)

Now makes a sound when a qsuggest is received. Qsuggest is the popup at the start of a tournament round so there will be a sound to alert users the next round started. Sound is off if sounds are not enabled in menu or the qsuggest popup is disabled in the menu.
Default pieces for new users are now the xboard pieces.
Connection to the servers alt1.chessclub.com, chessclub.com and queen.chessclub.com is now done by DNS lookup rather than hard coded ips. If that fails, it will continue to use a hard coded ip. (12/1/2012: 5.01)

seek graph now prints rating at top left and the spots for 2500, 2000, 1500, and 1000 along the y-axis. Also prints Time at the bottom right. And boundary lines between bullet and blitz and blitz and standard are now dashed.
better sorting of two seeks that would go to the same spot. Before it would try to place the second seek above the first seek, now it will check if the rating of the first seek is higher or lower. if it's higher, it will first try to place the second seek below now.
notify list now sorts newest logins to the top.
Events list font and switch to new game tabs on observe (found in game / advanced submenu) now will work as saved settings if you restart the program. (9/23/2012: 5.00)

4.9x

Fix for events list. With the new format, it was not resetting the events on reconnect, so, if the user in lantern498 reconnected, some events would stop working on click. Now resets events on reconnect. Also horizontal grid lines now show on the events list.
Format for how Lantern sets the interface line changed so rather than, for example, Lantern Chess on Mac v4.99, it's now Lantern Chess v4.99 on Mac. (9/17/2012: 4.99)

Activities window redone to be more like BlitzIn and Dasher's with Join, Watch, and Info icons to click on, where applicable, rather than in some cases producing a dialog with these choices as it did in the past.
Activities window icon, an A, on toolbar centered so clicks on the side will open activities, not seek, if clicked close to the A.
Lantern will set the interface var now with the phrase 'on Windows' (or 'on Mac' or 'on Linux') depending on the user's operating system. (9/16/2012: 4.98)

Fix so with the don't reuse game tabs setting, in options / advanced menu, you can sposition multiple games.
When lantern selects the board when a game starts, if the board is minimized it will restore it to normal size. (9/4/2012: 4.97)

fixed bug introduced where clocks would not stop when game ended (4.96)

Turned off printing text to console a character at a time (patch for java 7 users) for windows and mac but left it on for linux. (8/27/2012: 4.95)

fixed some bugs in the logic of game board creation and how games are switched to when created. (4.94)

In Options Menu then Advanced Sub Menu, a new option, 'Don't Reuse Game Tabs' has been added and if checked new games will always create a new game tab and not overwrite a done game. You must manually close games with this setting to keep game tabs from reaching the max and new games not appearing.
New menu added to the console menu on chat consoles called 'Management'. This menu has the same options as the right click on tab name menu such as 'set tab channels and name' or 'trim chat'. If the user switches tab, the 'Management' menu becomes active for the new tab that the user is on.
Activities window now no longer an always on top window for new users as a default setting. This window can still be made an on top window or not through the menu on the activities window. Notify and Events list default background color now white for new users and no longer gray.
Text a new user sees on starting lantern shortened.
Bug where web window would open too small on some systems fixed. (4.93)

personal qtell tells from tomato bots which now always print on tabs tomato channels are on in addition to tell tab if unsolicited or tab you sent tell from if solicited, will no longer duplicate themselves on tabs in cases they only did so because the tab contained the bot channel when they are multi line qtells. i.e. responses to tell tomato finger or tell tomato history. they go only to tab you sent the bot a tell on now. responses to tell 220 tourn continues to print on tell tab or tab you last sent a bot a tell on as well as on tabs that have tomato channels. (8/26/2012: 4.92)

Fix for Java 7 users. Java 7 won't wrap a word or one of our links that is bigger than one line. The old Java (3-6) would split the word into 2 lines but now in Java 7 it's putting it on one line and turning on a horizontal scroll bar. This fix forces it to wrap long words or links and not turn on horizontal scrolling. Trick for programmers looking to fix this bug in their programs (found on stack overflow), is to insert the strings into the styled document a character at a time and add and remove a dummy style or attribute on each iteration, i.e., addAttribute("A", "B"), then next iteration removeAttribute("A"). Just inserting a char at a time isn't enough to fool Java 7, but if it sees the attribute changed on the next char it will line break. (8/25/2012: 4.91)

Improved personal qtell (bot tells) support for Tomato bots. Now if you've sent a tell to a bot like Slomato, in addition to receiving the qtells on the tab you sent, it will show on any tabs that have that bot's channel (e.g., 222 for Slomato). This became an issue because subsequent qtells go to last tab sent and when doing tell 220 t, output could scatter to different tabs. Now a user can trust that he will find bot tells on the tabs that have Tomato channels. (7/18/2012: 4.90)

4.8x

Set tab channels and name menu option on right click on tab or double click on tab has had dialog redone to be smarter. When customizing channels on a tab it will let you see all the channels you are in and add those channels as opposed to typing them in from your memory of what channels you are in. Now possible to control qtell behavior through the customize tab channel menu as an option as well for channels known to have bot tells like tomato channels.
Right click on name in chat console or game console popup menu fixed so that if you go into Edit List to add or remove someone from notify censor or noplay, it will print the result of that command in the tab you are working in, not on main. Not seeing the server response caused some confusion on if command executed i.e. were they added to notify or not.
right or double click on players names on board popup menu has history player added to it. After a game that you observed is over the user can now just right click on board and do history player with the top player on board or bottom and then from history examine the game if they wish without typing. (7/13/2012: 4.89)

Menu on console changed from one menu bar, was Menu, to Layout, Edit, View, User Buttons and Navigation. Layout and Edit include menu items that were in the old Menu. View has show channel names list from the old Menu and has added font bigger or smaller options. User buttons is the ten user buttons to execute, and navigation is commands to move between consoles and tabs. All new menu items were and still are keyboard short cuts and the keyboard command is next to the menu item. the funny symbols are either control or alt. For example control + 1 is user button 1.
Right click on name's popup menu or double click (in consoles, chat and game), reorganized with history, liblist and stored name moved to second grouping below finger. other menu items moved. (6/27/2012: 4.88)

The stored game list now indicates which color disconnected in the result field with W-Dis or B-Dis. you can match that with the color they have in stored to see if they disconnected.
notes field added to liblist game list.
shouts show names/titles in a brighter color and support for using ` these` in shouts.
windows menu / channel notify map or channel notify online choices now sorted. This also sorts the display of people on channel notify you see on login or by using control + D as this output matches the window menu / channel notify online.
When you sposition a game, you will now see the result string in game console or in main console if game console is disabled.
bug where in atomic the pawn that captures en passant was not blown up fixed.
It's now possible to premove on crazyhouse and bughouse plunk moves. (prior premove in crazyhouse and bughouse was limited to pieces on board, not plunks)
Bug in Fischer random or chess960 castling when black is shown on the bottom of the board and black castles queen side fixed. (5/27/2012: 4.87)

channel notify dialog made to be smarter. Can add multiple channels without closing the dialog. Can see what channels you share with a person in the dialog to enable you to pick to notify them from channels shared.
Fix for windows sound which is hopefully going to reset sound when lantern starts for a few windows users who report on the second run of lantern sound quality has issues. This issue currently doesn't affect mac. (5/6/2012: 4.86)

updated lantern country code to match the new case options that ICC can send for country codes. No longer always RU but can now be ru
undid a sound fix in lantern483 for the mac platform due to indications it could cause bad sound on some macs. (4/27/2012: 4.85)

Reconnect to ICC alternate has been added to the File menu. It allows users behind firewalls to connect to alt1.chessclub.com:443. You reach the main server (the same ICC with same people) but is an alternative way of connecting behind a firewall for some users. (4/25/2012: 4.84)

Now using the LGPL Jin Audio package in windows and mac not just linux. existing sound files that were wav files converted to au. This is to fix intermittent sound issues.
when Open Pgn is chosen from the Game menu, Pgn sub menu, the file chooser will filter to only files with the pgn extension to make it easier for the user to find their pgn files if many files are in folder. (4/24/2012: 4.83)

Auto Examine sub menu on Game menu (this lets you auto replay an examined game) has Start and Stop Auto examine menu items removed and Auto Examine Dialog menu item added. Lantern users now control all aspects of the examine game replay through the dialog and the dialog can be left up for multiple games.
Right click on a seek will no longer be treated the same as a regular click on a seek but instead bring up a popup menu with options for Finger, History, Variables, Ping and Assess (using the person seeking's name).
Right click on a name in console or game console now has an Edit List sub menu similar to BlitzIn with options to add to Notify, Noplay or Censor or remove the player from one of these lists.
Main menu at top of lantern has code cleaned up and organized in preparation for future changes/additions which should help in making maintaining the menu and adding keyboard short cuts more manageable. (3/22/2012: 4.82)

Bug introduced in lantern480 where it would not close a played game tab if you disconnected and reconnected (like if ICC connection had dropped) fixed. This had caused played games to be orphaned on reconnect if the disconnection happened during a game. (3/1/2012: 4.81)

Added to Options menu in the engine section the "Analysis Display" sub menu. It has three menu items, "Analysis Font", "Analysis Foreground Color" and "Analysis Background Color". These default to a times new roman 14 point black font on paper yellow background. new analysis font, colors are a saved setting now
Bug where closing the Activities Window or Seeks window via the toolbar would cause these windows to not remember their sizes fixed. (2/27/2012: 4.80)

4.7x

fixed bug on flip of an spositioned game where it would not flip the names.
fixed bug on scroll back of a set position game like chess 960 where it would not recognize the start position if black is on the bottom of the board before.
connection dialog resized larger to make all the buttons visible on all screen resolutions.
coordinates on board now use game board font face i.e. Arial or Times New Roman as chosen for game board font (still sizes dynamically)
Added an A image to tool bar to open activities window.
clicking A or seek image on tool bar to open seeks or activities will open it if it's not open now, bring it to the front if it's not at front, or close it if the window is already at front and selected.
closing game tab or board when playing will no longer resign your game. It will ignore closing a tab with a game until the user resigns or game ends. if they close the board they can bring back the played game by going to window / new board.
On game end of a played game a game end sound (same as game start) will issue. This can be disabled by unchecking options / sounds.
Pstat player, Notify player, and Game notify player menu items added to right click or double click on players name on board. (2/26/2012: 4.79)

Added the CCube Chess pieces. These are by PerlHacker and based on Raptor and are GPL (4.78)

Activities Window Color menu item in Colors menu changed to Notify an Events Background Color. Bug where notify list showed the default background color not the saved setting of formerly Activities Window Color now fixed.
Four new right click on name in Notify list window or Tab of Activities Window menu items added. These are History, Finger, Games, and Ping.
Sposition menu option added to right click on history, search or liblist. Double clicking with the right clicker in history will no longer be treated like a double click and a right click at once if done twice but instead just a right click. Auto history popup changed to false as as default setting for new users not using macs. Auto history popup causes a double click on history to be treated as a right click for those with mac laptops that don't have right click ability.
Secure links (https) such as if the user types c-buy or extend, and also the non secure link to register, will no longer open the internal browser but instead launch the user's default browser. (2/19/2012: 4.77)

Notify Window added. This is a separate way to see the notify list from the Activities window allowing for a smaller on top window for notify only to be up and Activities can be up as well on another tab. Windows Menu then Notify window sub item to access it. Has same functionality as Activities Window notify tab. Currently using the same Activities Background Color settable in the colors menu.
Game menu / Advanced sub menu/ Unobserve Games Gone Examine menu item added. When on if you watch a game and it finishes but one of the players automatically examines after the game, rather than still observe this setting will issue unobserve when the game is over.
In activities window, channel names list tab, formally any click moved you forward through your channel list. Now left click moves forward and right click moves backward, eliminating the need to cycle through the list to get back 1.
Bug in how activities window tabs were drawn fixed that was causing the font to get a bit bolder and grittier after clicking on a tab fixed. This bug was introduced when the on top setting of the activities window became settable. (4.76)

Added a menu to activities window to set and change if it is an always on top window. This is a saved setting. If it's on top it will always stay above other windows though you can use windows it covers. The menu will not work to change the state from on top to not or vice versa if a) the window is not currently an on top window and it is maximized, and b) if the window is an on top window and its vertical length is almost the full length of the screen (too tall).
Default Font for Mac made smaller (14 point rather than 18) and Activities window background color default setting value changed to a darker shade of gray.
Bug where if you had board up and clicked on seek graph while graph was maximized, it would bring board to top but not maximize it, now fixed. (2/18/2012: 4.75)

Dragging slider next to move list will scroll board and move list as you drag not just on release of slider.
Current move in move list is now highlighted on scroll back.
Control + shift + -/= works as a keyboard shortcut (3 key combo) to forward to start/end of a game when keyed in game console or chat console.
Mouse wheel can now scroll through game. Hover over move list or any part of the controls panel to right and scroll the wheel to see the moves scroll on board and move list and slider scroll back or forward.
Bug in how popup menus are rendered on board fixed. Was causing the modern layout or the mixed when full screen to not display the popup menu for right click or double click on players name on board. This menu gives options for finger, follow, observe player, etc.
Bug when ICC command links start at the beginning of line, like in a match challenge, "Decline Name", fixed so you can click on these and they work.
Vertical scroll bars always display in chat console or move list even if there is not enough text to make the area scrollable yet. This is to prevent redrawing and space of area changing when vertical scroll bar does appear. (2/15/2012: 4.74)

Issue in Linux where Lantern would not open full screen fixed. Sounds menu item in Options/ Sounds now a saved setting for those who want to start lantern with sound off. Seek Icon on toolbar updated to use brighter colors to make this icon more noticeable on tool bar.
The user can now set the Events List Font in the Colors menu. It defaults now to Tahoma 14, making Lantern 473's events list display in a larger size font by default.
Lantern Manual updated and a new page in the Options section at bottom on the Options / Advanced menu added. (2/12/2012: 4.73)

Linux sound issues fixed. When operating system is Linux, Lantern will now use the Jin sound package, located in lantern jar at free/util/audio (binary and source). This is an LGPL package by Alexander Maryanovsky Alex has some custom code for Linux sound. The way to run it is create a free.util.audio.AudioClip object like `clip`. then do clip.play(); The audio clip will try to play from all the players available until one works.
Channel notifications will now also print in main tab if channel is not on a tab. Currently if the channel prints in main and on another tab, it will not print in main unless you enable that in Options menu / Advanced. then check Print Channel Notify for Main Also. This is a saved setting. (2/5/2012: 4.72)

Added Lost Password and Join/Renew to help menu. Opens the browser with a related page. Added Withdraw Challenges to game menu. Will withdraw your match offers, seeks and pool seeks. Added Add a Friend to the Actions menu. Opens a dialog to add someone to notify.
Events list now orders the observe links to observe currently being played high rated games at the top for easy access to observe high rated games. Also in events list if the only command to do is observe or examine a game, it will execute that command without opening a dialog to click on the command to execute. (2/1/2012: 4.71)

switched images for pools that were in different colors to 6 more plain style buttons with same functionality to click the button to play 1-min, 3-min, 5-min, 15-min, 45, and 960. The toolbar is not finalized but the direction wanted is more functionality for users to achieve quick access to favorite features. (4.70)

4.6x

New functionality added to toolbar. 6 colored circles added to click on to enter the 1, 3, 5, 15, 45, and 960 pools. Button to click on that looks like a mini seek graph to open seek graph from toolbar. For new users toolbar will now be on by default. Older versions the initial setting was to hide the toolbar, so unless you've already made the toolbar visible, go to window / toolbar to show the toolbar to see the changes.
Activities window now says Activities window in the title bar. Lantern Chess in main application title bar is now followed by the version to help users figure out what version they are on without having to type vars or refer to the jar. One future goal that was done for is to have some documentation on how to upgrade lantern in the Lantern Manual, and it will streamline it with the change of having the version in the title bar they can compare to the current version in the change log. (4.69)

"Show Observers in Games" added to game menu / things to hide and show sub menu. It's on for new users. When on, all observers of game who come and go are shown along with their kib status in game console. Only hearing titled kibs/whispers will place the name in bracket [ ] and not hearing kibs will display name in ( ). Games that are observed or examined that are scratch games like relays, not played on icc, will not show observers due to the large number and spam issues in relays.
Scrolling back through games will now highlight the move as you scroll back, and update material count. The move highlight color is now settable in game / board colors and the scroll back highlight color is a separate color that is settable as well. For new users currently a lighter red. Bug when scrolling back and then return to current position that it would not highlight the last move till a new move was made is now fixed.
Seek text on seek graph made more readable. Says rated or unrated rather than r or u. Says seeks blitz 3 3 r for example were before it did not add in the word 'seeks'. Hovering over a seek will in addition to the text at bottom of graph that appears, create a tool tip near mouse that has text of seek as well.
Seeks now draw larger than before at different seek graph sizes. (1/29/2012: 4.68)

distribution of seeks width wise on seek graph fixed to reflect better the time control of seek and where it's placed width wise. bug in menu where check on board design type selected in game menu was allowing two board designs to be checked fixed. (4.67)

New option to Board Design menu added (game / board design to control look of area of board where move list and flags are), this is Mixed. Default menu item changed to Original, Modern left the same. New Users without settings will now get the Mixed Layout as a default settings. Mixed uses the Original Board Design when the board is not maximized and the Modern Board Design when the Board is maximized. Original, formally default, and Modern layouts not changed.
Seek graph now has a menu in top menu bar. Just one menu called 'menu' and on it is 3 items to select desired seek filter, All Seeks, Human Seeks, and Computer seeks. Will remember setting if you open close and re-open the graph but not yet saved for when you restart the program. This UI could expand with more filters. The decision to save the setting from login to login is being deferred till that is ironed out. Additionally a fourth menu item on Seek graph menu is 'Place a Seek' which opens the Get A Game dialog.
Seeks changed to not stretch and maintain a 1 to 1 aspect ratio. Seek graph green for human seeks color changed to forest green. Seeks of people on notify will display a slightly different shade of the seek color, for example notify green is spring green not forest green, and when you hover over it says Notified: at the start of the seek text.
Actions menu has Follow Broadcast – when on, and Unfollow on it. when you follow broadcast it prompts you with text in console to also turn on radio if not on already.
Default colors for the on move board clock background and foreground changed to a Blue foreground and Gray background. Game Board font default value is now Arial Font, though same 40 point size. This will affect new users without settings saved yet. (1/22/2012: 4.66)

Seek graph will open on log-in if you save settings on exit and it was open when you closed lantern.
Human and Computer seek tabs on Activities Window now show a graphical seek graph for either human or computer seeks and no longer show text lists of seeks. This can be used in addition to the regular seek graph which shows all seeks.
Windows menu re-organized with Activities Window and Seek graph now the top two items.
United Arab Emirates flag added. (1/15/2012: 4.65)

Lantern now switches cleanly between game menu/ modern and default layout
modern layout buttons issue where buttons could wrap two lines on the mac with small boards fixed.
Ability to open ratings graphs added to actions menu
right click on a link will no longer open the browser, allowing for right click and copy of link without opening browser
flip added to game menu (1/6/2012: 4.64)

Mac open link issue fixed where for some links which were not in channels but in other text like finger, it would before open with %OD tagged on at end of url causing page not found error.
X added as graphic to examine mode palette and it can be dragged to erase a piece on a square. (12/27/2011: 4.63)

Draw Coordinates now an option on the games menu / things to hide or show sub menu. This is on by default but can be turned off and the setting saved along with the other options in the things to hide and show sub menu.
Connection dialog has a check box for save name and pass. Name and Password are encoded so as not to store them as plain text on the users computer. (12/18/2011: 4.62)

improved circle drawing in drawings of circles and arrows.
changed link for change log and lantern manual to lanternchess.com from adammr.com. versions older than lantern461 have the help menu still point to copies of these documents on adammr.com. To insure you see the latest change log in versions older than lantern460 visit lanternchess.com.
popup when you try to load an engine but have not selected the board first by clicking on it adjusted to not just say you need to be examining or observing but also says that you must then also click on board to select which board and game tab lantern should be considering to open the engine for.
bug when observing a game using engine analysis and you would receive a kib or whisper in console and it would cause lantern to switch from the analysis console to the kib console fixed.
removed 'open web' from windows menu. The browser has limited functionality and is being limited to mainly opening help files and the items in the lantern / help menu. Decided opening a web browser for surfing would invite the user to invariably crash the browser. Also the default google page it opened to no longer worked with changed on google web site making the page more advanced than the lantern browser could handle. (12/11/2011: 4.61)

user button dialog re-organized for more streamlined look. Hitting enter after typing in your last button command will submit the form.
Menu item to customize User Buttons is now Customize User Buttons and No longer Customize Toolbar. 0 button ordered last both in toolbar and in customize User Buttons Dialog.
Connection dialog re-sized to be more compact and reorganized internally for more changes.
Game Menu on main application menu re-organized.
On right click on history clicks in game lists, options to finger or get history of the current selected game history opponent now available.
Game Menu / Advanced sub menu, now has an option to uncheck switch to new game tab on observe. (12/4/2011: 4.60)

4.5x

notifications are now timestamped, and the word Notification: has been dropped from the notification that prints.
Default tab colors for new users changed to shades of blue and white.
set channels to tab and tab name dialog design cleaned up.
notifications and channel notifications printing moved to same thread, to fix a possible collision exception. (11/18/2011: 4.59)

new menu options in Game menu, Log Observed Games To PGN, when checked will save games you observe and catch the end of to one of three pgn files, lantern_obullet.pgn, lantern_oblitz.pgn, and lantern_ostandard.pgn. Currently the logging of non wild 0 games is not supported. Due to server limitations the pgn of the games does not contain opening codes but is otherwise complete. (4.58)

when you close a game tab or game board the chat now clears in console, not just the board resetting. (11/13/2011: 4.57)

new users (launch lantern with no settings) will now have their channels automatically grouped on logging in. If they have fewer than 12 channels they will be grouped 1 per tab (C1 - C11) except channel 1 prints on main (M0). If they have more channels, lantern will try to group common channels and groups of channels onto tabs. (11/6/2011: 4.56)

Option in game board to select low time clock colors (bullet only). this is a saved setting. If it's enabled in bullet (any etime < 3) the lower time clock is red background and the clock with more time is green. the on move foreground is white and the non moving player's clock foreground is black. Only on when playing.
Default settings changes made are Dyche 2 is now the default piece set and the board background default is white. (11/5/2011: 4.55)

Fixed a bug where excessive cpu was used if you had a tell console and a visible tell tab.
Alt-L/R and Ctrl -/= work in game console.
game tab names won't be truncated if you go over 10 tabs
light wood is new default board, yellow is new tell name default color, default application background is light blue
new user message set up for users who launch lantern without settings giving them some help on how to use it. (10/22/2011: 4.54)

notify list displays players playing games in a red foreground on activities window. For now this color can be changed by changing the channel 400 color. (4.53)

when Block Opponents Says When Not Playing is selected. if you receive a tell after the game, lantern452 will now display a message to person who sent it, "[automatic Lantern Interface Message] ( your name ) does not receive opponents says when not playing." the response text, 'told so and so' is suppressed on the user of lantern's end and you will not be aware you received a say unless you type last theirname to view any tells between you and the former opponent. (4.52)

support for analysis with a winboard engine of wild variants. now sends variant command to engine.
game menu, then "Block Opponents Says When Not Playing" menu item can be chosen and if it is, says such as dasher auto thanks and other after game chat (unless opponent elects to use tell) will not be shown to the user. only says when playing. type last theirname to see if they sent you anything.
mac tell support improved if using a tell console. bug where cursor where typing would move back one space when a tell came in fixed. (10/8/2011: 4.51)

lantern now supports analysis in observed games. when you start analysis it will start on the board that has focus on the tab that has focus.
Bug where starting analysis in the middle of a game caused it to produce gibberish fixed. Still need to explore if there are going to be issues in games starting from non standard starting positions like fischer random. (10/3/2011: 4.50)

4.4x

Second Layout added affecting organization of right side of board where game list and flags are. This is accessed by the board design sub menu in the games menu. The user can choose there, default or modern. This is a saved setting.
Game menu slightly reorganized with check legality and open pgn moving toward the bottom of menu from where they were at the top, and tabs only moved higher up. Get A game is still the first menu item. Board Design is now the second menu item.
If the user is using a tell tab, its tab coloring will now be slightly brighter (though base colors don't change for tab events) (10/2/2011: 4.49)

added Tell Tab Border Color. If you have a tell tab set up, you can color its border different. If you change your tell tab with the ctrl + M keyboard shortcut (type that in tab you want to be tell tab) or use right click on tab menu, the color of the border updates as tell tab moves. (9/25/2011: 4.48)

new Keyboard Shortcut or Command, CTRL + F, will search for whatever text or word is typed in the input typing area of the console or game console. Instances of the word or phrase are highlighted. (9/13/2011: 4.47)

options menu then features sub menu then Send Game End Messages menu item if selected will cause lantern to send any of gameendwin, gameeendloss, and gameenddraw, to icc which are commands the user can alias to send a game end greeting that is dependent on result after a played game of the user finishes with a result. Activating the option or checking it will cause a popup to appear explaining how it works. (9/7/2011: 4.46)

when a bughouse game starts lantern currently issues the command observe partner. In lantern445, the board width is split in half and both the user's board and the partner's board are drawn on the single board with the user's board to left and partner's board to right.
bug where observing a new game caused you to game tab switch when you're playing fixed. ptells (bughouse partner tells) now go to game console (4.45)

now a configure random pieces for white and configure random pieces for black, dialog choice, in options / observing options / random pieces board when observing sub menu rather than just configure random pieces. Old choices for configure random pieces for users who have set up excluded pieces apply to white pieces now and black will have to be done from scratch.
changes to the algorithm that generates the random piece choice to make it more random
When the user clicks to check or uncheck a piece set in configure random pieces, the 6 piece images are drawn in the panel below the grid of choices to allow the user to visibly see which pieces he is changing. With each click it updates to the new choice of the user if the choice changes. (8/28/2011: 4.44)

you can double click on the 'Main' tab on game board and indicate which chat console tab you want to see there, not just limited to viewing main. A popup menu appears, choices are 'main' then 1 and next 2 through all tabs currently main through 11. After selecting you'll see that chat console tab under the game board. If you click away from the 'main' tab to a game console tab and back it will still remember the choice of chat console tab to display on the 'main' tab. When the 'main' tab is selected, you can also use the same alt + 1 through alt + - and alt + = that work in chat console, to move through chat tabs 1-12 under the game board without having to use the menu to change the chat tab the 'main' tab is looking at. (8/24/2011: 4.43)

`` Behavior sub menu in options advanced. can choose to have text between ` text ` made italics (like dasher), made a brighter color, or do nothing. default is italics, this is a saved setting.
issue with receiving multiple tells from a person (multiple copies of same tell) when game console is hidden fixed.
issue with over repainting board in some cases fixed.
further fix to new games causing all boards to switch to that game added. now only one board at most should switch to new game.
unnecessary work on reconnect setting any existing game tabs to done removed. now only a call to close all tabs. Hopefully might fix some issues on reconnect with dummy tabs etc. (4.42)

auto examine dialog redesigned
in windows menu open boards are now listed, selecting them brings the board selected to front.
if tabs only are checked and more than one board is open, only the first board it finds will have its tab changed to new game, not all tabs.
title of game boards now always starts with for example G1: for game 1, to help users find boards in windows menu which lists this number. (8/21/2011: 4.41)

fix for focus returning to console when a new game starts that was broken in lantern439.
Fix for mac users who did not have focus returning so that now it does. needed special code for mac. (8/15/2011: 4.40)

4.3x

Videos on events list, if Join link is tell webcast (which doesn't work in lantern) will automatically open the user's browser to the info link. Also if join or info after this check is an http link, the dialog that dispatches the join or info will open the browser now for links.
the setting highlight moves now saves.
if a user has sideways console and goes to hide console, it will turn off sideways console which fixes a bug where a user could not see game tabs.
%white and %black now work in chat console using first board it finds
ctrl - or = now work as commands to press in chat console to move through game on first board it finds.
move list now loads when game starts without the user having to press the tab. (8/14/2011: 4.39)

increased sleep time in telnet when it finds no data from 1ms to 8ms. From testing this looks to solve an issue of lantern using excessive CPU after a person idles out and no more data is coming in. (4.38)

fixed issue where games did not log even if log pgn was checked in game menu, if game entered examine mode after it was over. i.e. if user had examine set to 1 (8/9/2011: 4.37)

added Auto Chat to game menu. this is on by default but can be unchecked and the setting is saved. If Auto Chat is on, if lantern switches to a new game or game Tab when a game starts, say you start observing or examining or playing, the chat prefix selector will be set to whisper if the game starting is an observed game, kibitz if it's an examined game or tell opponent if it's a played game. If auto chat is off all game tabs stay and start at command unless changed by the user manually. (8/8/2011: 4.36)

alt + S works in game console as a keyboard shortcut to toggle between sideways game console and bottom game console.
alt + C works in game console as a keyboard shortcut to switch between compact board console, normal board console, and larger board console.
On login ctrl + d (which shows channel notify online) is done automatically. There is a slight delay to wait for all the people on channel to register before querying. The first channel datagram not in the login form triggers it. (4.35)

bug where tabs only was broken in lantern433 fixed.
bu where lantern would save a game board at maximum size fixed (bug in lantern 433) (4.34)

controls of game board where names and material count is resized slightly to allow a larger move list with a short board.
Fix for 64 squares if board is too wide to draw the board the full width or board is to tall to draw board as tell, rather than just fill up empty space to right or bottom, the board is now centered with similar emtpy space above and below or left and right.
When console on bottom layout is chosen and board is more horizontal than vertical, the controls, where players' names are will grow in horizontal size so as to create less blank space around board. This happens on resize. (4.33)

bug where an image would appear on game tabs after some use of board that couldn't be closed or removed fixed.
bug where the vertical height for flags was not always tall enough with a non tall board fixed.
new sound rules in observed games implemented. initially the first board that opens then if you open other boards the last board to be selected is the sound board. whatever tab it's looking at will be the observed game that has sound. If you use one tabbed board whatever tab that board is looking at when observing games will produce sound. Play and examine are not impacted.
current game tab you are on now uses the tab I'm on color for background that chat tabs use to indicate what tab is selected. This seems to make it easier to tell what game tab you are on. (8/6/2011: 4.32)

game menu reorganized with 'Things to hide or Show' sub menu added, and menu item show examine palette, added to this menu.
material count moved next to game listing display i.e. 5 0 r blitz then 39 - 39 for example.
- This currently only takes effect for wild 0 and wild 20 i.e. regular chess and loadgame like trainingbot.
- For other wilds it's in same place, next to names. Currently the space available in other wilds has to be looked at, i saw threechecks as a wild didn't leave room for material count.
A bug where loadgame games like trainingbot did not start out showing the correct material count is now fixed.
A bug when closing the game board and hte game closes or using the new Alt + X command to close the game now fixed.
F and W can now be used to access the file and window menu after pressing Alt. Currently about half the items combined have keyboard short cuts for the menu item. You can tell what they are if you open the two menus with W or F because menu items with shortcuts have the letter that you use underlined _. (8/5/2011: 4.31)

ALT + L and ALT + R will move the first visible board to the left or right tab (tab switch left or right), if pressed from a chat console.
ALT + B will bring the first visible board to the front if pressed from a chat console. focus returns to chat console.
ALT + X will close the current game on first visible board if pressed from a chat console or the game on the board if pressed from a game console.
Issue with CTRL + T being broken for boards (this command when pressed will rotate you through open boards and consoles) fixed.
Issue where game board fonts didn't initialize on board on starting the program, fixed. (8/3/2011: 4.30)

4.2x

pings now go to tab you type the ping command on. both game tabs and chat tabs work.
ctrl + M is keyboard shortcut to make current tab you type it on the tell tab (works in chat consoles)
%white and %black can be used on user buttons. but you must use a keyboard command to activate the user button from the game board so it knows what game it's supposed to find black and white on. for example put ping %white on user button 2. Press ctrl + 2 from a game tab to get a ping in the game tab of in this case the white player. (8/2/2011: 4.29)

right click on a tab now lets you manage channel qtell if you choose the manage qtells menu item. Can elect to show for a channel on the tab only the qtells from the channel, show both qtells and normal channel chat, or only the channel chat not qtells from a channel. this is a saved setting. If you type a number for the channel you must hit enter for it to register that channels current qtell setting or use the up down arrows on the spinner. (8/1/2011: 4.28)

fixed a logical bug in the parsing of `` which italics text inbetween the ``. In some cases was breaking when there was an uneven number of `. (7/31/2011: 4.27)

options menu/advanced sub menu has new menu item "Use Basketball for ICC Flag" and if checked the icc flag will use a different image that has a basketball and rook on it. this flag shows for example for players like trainingbot or strongbach. default is the lantern flag from lantern425 that shows an older icc logo.
typing ctrl + O in game board console, will display debug info about the boards open. (4.26)

a user can now use alt left and right arrow to move between games.
tells told from game console are added to the list of names preset to send tells to when the user hits f9 or f8 (was working in console not game console).
icc.png flag added. Using an old ICC Logo that was found on the pulsar.html page. (7/30/2011: 4.25)

fix for bugs when closing game tab 1. iamclosed variable now set when tab1 closes. (4.24)

if you close a board and after that there are no boards open, it will close all games, not just the one the board is pointing too.
Bug in Auto Follow Slomato fixed. Was a typo causing the setting to not work with slomato. (7/29/2011: 4.23)

fixes to game board due to issues created in lantern420. observing a game after closing the board should now bring up the board again at same size it was before it was closed. (7/28/2011: 4.22)

fix to initialize game to new game on new game board (4.21)

game tabs always open to right now with new games showing at end of the list. the exception is if a board has a game over it can be reused. issues with ghost tabs fixed. (7/24/2011: 4.20)

4.1x

on right click on a game tab, all open games are added to the right click popup menu for users to be able to use the right click menu to switch games on that board. they show by game number only currently. i.e 1446 81 775 etc. for a game to be on the popup menu it has to be an ongoing icc game, not a game that is over. games that end and enter examine mode do show on the popup menu. (4.19)

added window menu / channel notify online, a list of people on channel and connect notify online.
- ctrl + d is the keyboard shortcut for this in the console.
- output is formatted similar to the ICC command znotl which shows those on notify online as well as those notifying you.
- It's not possible with channel notify to show those channel notifying you but this works both ways, as people can't tell who if anyone is on the user's channel notify list.
- the start of the two lists "People on channel notify online:" will always show if you type ctrl + d, but the connect notify section will only show if you have people online on connect notify currently. (7/23/2011: 4.18)
changed default setting for board type to cherry and changed default board background color to a light silver gray, RGB(204,204,204) (4.17)

pieces-boards_copyrights.txt found in lantern.jar at lantern/pieces-boards_copyrights.txt modified to explain new copyright situation with new boards and flags.
fix for if links end a line and it's normal text like finger or you messaged someone (not a channel tell or shout or other level 2 datagram), that the link won't carry over into next line in terms of underlining first word of next line.
Fix for the always on top board so that if you use examine arrows, the board updates as you move forward and backward. This was a drawing issue introduced when we started supporting both a non always on top board and always on top board depending on user's setting in options/ advanced. (7/18/2011: 4.16)

added Cherry Board and Purple board (4.15)

added the Olive Board to game menu then Boards sub menu. (7/17/2011: 4.14)

added to game menu options to show flags and show opponent's ratings. if unchecked these will be hidden on board (4.13)

added to right click or double click on player's names on board popup menu, the menu items: finger player's name, move board up, and move board down.
move board up/down if selected will move the board 75 pixels vertically. This was done in particular for mac laptop users on a touch pad who report getting the board stuck at the top as another option rather than just window's menu / cascade.
If auto history popup is selected double click will still launch an spos if the game is stored. There is no right click menu yet on stored lists.
A bug where if you unchecked Auto history popup, you could not reselect it, introduced in 4.10 was fixed. (4.12)

issue with game board not remembering its size on startup fixed.
UK flag turned on now when country code is GB for Great Britain.
Serbia flag added. Sound issue when starting to observe a game or doing spos, where it made a sound on move list loading fixed.
Observe sounds now a setting to turn on or off in Options menu Sounds submenu.
Console on side will now properly save and load that setting on program start.
New menu item, options menu advanced submenu then Auto History Popup menu item. If checked (default), double clicking on a game in a game list like history, will bring up the right click menu. This is added for compatibility with macs that don't have right clickers. If Auto History Popup is unchecked, then double clicking will do SPOS.
Both Sounds for Observed Games option, and Auto History Popup option are saved settings. (7/16/2011: 4.11)

puerto rico, south africa, south korea, Russia, United Kingdom, US Virgin Islands added to list of countries that will display flags on the board.
Sound now turned on for observed games, this should become settable in the future.
Due to a bug in loading the setting for a console on the side, that setting won't save or load for now. The user can set game / board console / console on side on login. (7/13/2011: 4.10)

4.0x

Graphical flags now appear to the right of the clock indicating the player's country.
Country name in finger now in correct mix of upper and lower case.
some bugs in always on top board not repainting fixed. In particular not repainting when you clicked a new game tab.
Board on side setting was saved, but now will redraw board at log in according to the setting. (7/12/2011: 4.09)

Actions menu expanded to include Enter Examination mode, Examine Last game, Observe High Rated Game, Observe High Rated 5-minute game, Observe High Rated 15-minute game, show Relay Schedule, Game of the Week Index, and Open ChessFM.
Relay schedule opens in user's default browser not internal browser due to limitation in internal browser such as no back button yet. (4.08)

Alt + T will switch your tell console and check the tell checkbox in lower corner of console to next console open. Alt + shift + T will go in reverse.
An Actions menu is Created with Show recent games, show library, show stored games and show my profile. (7/10/2011: 4.07)

fixed it so when boards on top is selected it places the board at program start according to settings. (4.06)

in the options menu then advanced sub menu, the user can check 'Make Boards Always on Top'. If they do this a pop-up appears alerting them that next time they start the program game boards will be always on top windows. If they already have this setting they get a pop-up alerting them that next time they start the program, game boards will NOT be always on top windows. (4.05)

game boards converted to not being always on top windows. This was done to let users try the current lantern with game boards behaving more like BlitzIn boards. (7/9/2011: 4.04)

fixed issue with how a connection was established introduced in lantern402 (4.03)

double click on game in history library search (i.e. game list) now defaults to sposition.
when examining and there is an engine on, click the examine tab toggles between the engine output in the console and normal ICC output in the console. I.e. it starts showing engine output but click the examine tab and switches to kibs/whispers/etc., and click again back to engine analysis.
Support now for analyzing with an engine wild 20 games like trainingbot games or other non-standard start positions. currently limited to positions where in the initial position, white moves first, also limited to having castle rights when the start fen matches the traditional start fen, i.e. king on e1, queen on d1, etc. (7/7/2011: 4.02)

typing finger now displays the country code and full country name. Currently all in uppercase.
right click menu on game lists now has savepgn option. (4.01)

name and country show after finger. i.e. Mike US.
- This will show in the correct console.
- Currently not supported if you finger on a game board
- color is not yet settable nor does it follow response text.
- It's the default response text color before you customize it, sort of gray silver. (4.00)

3.9x

when observing a game country code shows next to names on board before material count. This is in early form and currently material count is cut off if name is too long due to length of information printing on name line right now. Not yet supported on finger. (3.99)

Auto Observe LittlePer, Slomato, Olive and Ketchup added to the follow tournaments sub menu of observing options, a sub menu of the options menu
lantern manual now includes support for observing options (7/4/2011: 3.98)

Board with console on side now has tabs go horizontally over the console not vertically along side.
history window now has vertical lines, color changed back to old color till it can be made customizable
game clock foreground color now only applies if game clock background is highlighting the clock, and not when the clock lettering is on the normal background (then the game foreground color is used). (7/3/2011: 3.97)

board clock background color now on in observed games.
New color Clock Foreground Color, is settable apart from Board Foreground Color, and is a saved setting.
History and Pgn windows no longer have grid lines and these windows are now colored with a white background instead of off white. (7/1/2011: 3.96)

Removed 3 new Monge chess pieces due to file size considerations. Added 3 more chess sets, Adventure, Maya, and Medieval, that are a little over a megabyte combined decreasing file size from 9500 to 8100 kilobytes.
Customize Random Pieces dialog now uses check boxes to select which ones show or don't show when a random set is chosen on observing if random pieces on observe option is set. (6/28/2011: 3.95)

Added 3 more piece sets. The final 3 of the 6 Monge piece sets. File size increased 2.7 megs from 6800 kilobytes to 9500 kilobytes. (6/27/2011: 3.94)

Configure Random Pieces menu option added to Random Pieces and Board Sub menu of options menu.
- When selected a dialog appears and the user sees a list of pieces available and their number to the left. The user can enter this number and hit OK to exclude this piece set from being picked on Random Pieces When Observing is chosen.
- The pieces already excluded appear on the title bar of this dialog by number. If a number is entered that is already excluded it will no longer be excluded.
- The excluded pieces are saved when a user saves settings on exit or goes to file / save settings. (3.93)

Added 3 new piece sets. Line, Motif, and Utrecht. File size increased from about 6100 kilobytes to 6800 kilobytes. (6/26/2011: 3.92)

put a read and write lock in the part of the code that updates a running clock with the change in time. There already was a lock in the section of code that got times from ICC after a turn.
Fixed a bug introduced in lantern390 when new boards beyond the first were created, and it didn't reuse a board, the game wouldn't show though a second or third board could appear.
Added by right clicking or double clicking on the players names on the game board, a popup menu appears with observe follow options for that player and unfollow option. (6/23/2011: 3.91)

Boards and history window are now always on top windows. The save settings dialog when you close the program is also an always on top window now. They remain on top even if you switch to another application (like the user's browser), but can be minimized to the task bar. It is possible to have a board up and lantern minimized now as well. (6/21/2011: 3.90)

3.8x

Console on side layout now places game board console to left and names and time control to right, with 64 squares in center.
misspelling of Random corrected in Options menu. (6/19/2011: 3.89)

Ability to have a random piece set and/or random board tiles each time you observe a game added. Go to options / observing options, and choose from Random Piece Board when Observing sub menu. Does not change default board for playing and examining.
follow tournaments moves to this new Observing Options sub menu as well. (6/18/2011: 3.88)

right click or double click on console tab popup menu re-organized.
customize tab renamed 'set tab channels and name' and is made the first menu item.
tells to this tab renamed 'make tell tab'.
Advanced menu created with some menu items moved to advanced sub menu.
tab C1 renamed 'double click to name tab' as a default setting for new users.
Auto switch channel on tells which can be set in the options menu / features sub menu, made to be on as a default setting. (6/12/2011: 3.87)

toolbar now turned off as visible on startup for default new installs
add and remove names from channel names list now wrapped inside a readlock in an attempt to fix bug where channels names list would flicker or disappear.
typing text in game or board console and hitting ctrl + g will open browser and google what you type. (3.86)

eliminated the use of 's' which stood for stand alone from lantern jar names
Replaced Ping name on right click pop-up menu (also can be activated with double click on word), with Google name. Will google that word. works in both game and chat consoles.
added Google to the right click on selected text menus of game and board console. can select text in console and google a multi word search term. (6/11/2011: 3.85)

checkbox for save settings added to game / get a game dialog. If this is checked the users time, inc, rated, minseek, maxseek, wild, manualaccept, and useformula will be sent to icc as new variable settings. If not checked, get a game dialog will still remember the value of your last seek but not save your seek parameters to your vars.
Get a game on login will first come up with the values from vars if you have just opened get a game since starting the program. Color not yet handled in get a game.
A bug where only f and m for formula and manual accept and not their opposites n and a were being added to the seek line sent is now fixed. if you have for example manual accept on in vars, if you don't check manual accept it will add an a to your seek line to override the variable setting from this seek. (3.84)

all wilds but Chess in get a game now start with the number like 9 Two Kings. In some cases you can type the number to select the wild type without using the mouse. wild 10 added to get a game dialog. wild 19 Two kings now renamed 19 KNNkp.
Support now for `s in tells and channel tells. when a pair of `s is found the text between `s is placed in italics. i.e. 99 Dave: i like `talking heads` a great deal. – talking heads in this case would be put in italics. Dasher supports this formatting with `s so both lantern and Dasher users will be able to see the italics. (3.83)

no check in formula checkbox now sends an n, and no check in manual checkbox now sends an a in game / get a game dialog.
wilds 7 17 18 and 19 added to game / get a game. wild 5 reversed now has a 5 before it. (5/30/2011: 3.82)

Activities window now remembers its size and location when you close it. This worked previously but was broken when it became an always on top window.
Kriegspiel added to list of games you can seek in the game menu / get a game option.
ctrl + h is now a keyboard short cut to make the history window come to the top of other windows if it is behind any windows. (3.81)

Error where names lists like people in channel 2 from last login, were not getting cleared on new login fixed. This affected the activities window which uses a separate set of names data (as of 3.79) sorted by newest login at top of list. (5/29/2011: 3.80)

3.7x

Changed console names list to sort alphabetically and activities window channel names list keeps same sort of newest logins at top. Fixes issue where channels with a lot of people when viewed in console, say chess fm channel, appear to have the top name constantly replacing and the list ordering down.
Command hyperlinks like 'help value' now work if multiple spaces are between help and value. (5/27/2011: 3.79)

changed sorting order to order newest logins at top of channel names lists so a person can without scrolling catch up on latest additions to channel. (3.78)

channel list tab on activities window now contains 3 horizontally side by side lists allowing the view of 3 channel names list at once. say channel 1, 2 and 50.
in activities window, channel names list tab uses the font, background color and foreground color same as the channel names list in console, settable in the colors menu. events, seeks etc tabs on activities window are still just controlled by colors menu / activities window background color.
the Sound menu is now a sub menu of the Options menu. (5/26/2011: 3.77)

activities window turned into an always on top window. (3.76)

channel names list now part of activities window. can view any list of people on any of your channels there. click to scroll through channels (3.75)

When switching between tabs if you have a channels names list enabled, on a tab click it will restore the same choice of channel names list that you had set it on last. Comes into play if you are on a tab with more than one channel. click to get to a names list, then switch tabs and back, now the names list in that multi channel tab will be remembered from what you had last set it on that tab. Additionally promote command sent in wild 26 and 17 won't be sent on observed games. (5/24/2011: 3.74)

Change Log created and Help menu / Change Log to see it (3.73)

channel names lists now in alphabetical order.
channel notify messages now timestamped if person has channel timestamp on. (3.72)

connect notify redone. if you connect notify a person say Rookers, any channel on any tab other than main he is on will show channel join and leave messages. if he is on 2 4 50 and 99, and you have shared channels with him on 4 50 and 99 on tabs. all 3 channels show joined channel and leave channel messages without you having to manually add the player to channel notify for your shared channels on tabs one by one. (3.71)

lantern when you promote a piece, no longer indicates a promotion piece. the server will default to a queen and the user can use the promote command to change that at the beginning of the game or any point. in wild 17 and wild 26 lantern will issue the promote command at game start for pieces other than the queen but that can be overridden if the user then uses the promote command himself. (5/22/2011: 3.70)

3.6x

ctrl+enter from a chat console will switch you to the next available tab (if any) that is not the main console, has no channels and is not a tells-to-this-tab tab (a console) (3.69)

variable madeMove (1 or 0), which is added to moves for turn computation was incremented for delivery of a premove, but if the user moved the turn stayed the same count and madeMove didn't become 1, making it not your turn. now madeMove is incremented to 1 on normal move delivery. (5/8/2011: 3.68)

redesigned menu system, removed auto menu, stuff menu became file menu, board colors menu integrated with games menu, options menu redesigned and expanded (3.67)

alt+left/right arrow now switches tabs instead of shift+left/right. (5/7/2011: 3.66)

Some earlier update messages:

3.48-3.56

names list font added. with a compact names list in terms of screen area it makes sense to be able to make the font smaller so the whole name is more likely to fit in the width area. (3.56)

compact channel names list added to options menu as an option. allows for a less wide names list area in the console for people with multiple consoles open who want the names list to use less horizontal space. (3.55)

names list foreground and names list background colors added to colors/fonts menu (3.54)

channels names list now works in all tab layouts, console menu has an option to now show channel names list in a tab. (3.51)

channel names list added to tabs. works in no tabs console layout. (3.48)

3.03

chat timestamp added for the first time to the auto menu and off by default. timestamps tells, shouts, channels. first format was: name(21:07:26)(99): body

Around 2.80

if a console gets info on multiple tabs and sees the new info on one tab. like a given tell goes to main and tab 8 and you are on main, now tab 8 won't light up with new info. This is the absence of coloring. won't affect if it already has one of the two new info color for some other reason.

more things moved to options menu
show console menu an option on options menu. initially checked. uncheck it and it hides the menu on consoles. [this is not yet a saved setting, also console tab layout settings are not yet saved. this will all have to be done at once probably this weekend along with remaining bugs like tab name not changing in combo box when a tell arrives or you rename a tab]
alt + 1 is now main console or M0. goes up from there alt + 2 is second tab from left. - and = are 11 and 12
finger -n Name is an option on the right click popup menu in console and game console. // couple of nights ago games Name was added as well.
new tab color. visited/unvisited under tab background submenu. initially defaults to visited tab color. this IS a saved setting. Essentially it's a second new info color. If you are on tab 2 in one console and on tab 3 in your other, if new info comes in tab 2, normally it would paint the second console (which is on tab 3) the new info color. Now it will paint it the visited/unvisited color. if you set visited and visited=unvisited to the same color. any tabs your on in windows will eventually all be visited as new info comes in, or appear to have same color.

two main things are new piece logic and the colors/fonts menu tab layout sub menu (two rows of tabs and no visible tabs and single row of tabs are choices there). and the board console submenu on games got console on side (you can still change console size with console on side)
there is also an attempt to fix a premove bug that hasn't worked yet. when you try to make two moves rapidly get it's not your turn
toolbar displays tool bar command next to button name. that's an opt in or out in options menu
shouts can have a main also property
new molten pieces.
material count is an option (make sure game font not over 20). enable it in game menu.

1.77-2.22

arrows with clearboard support (2.22)

indentation turned off for now (2.21)

more style work (2.19)

indentation font bug fixed (2.18)

indentation of extra lines (2.17)

added spinner.
some promotion fixes (2.16)

auto menu / noidle
windows menu / toolbox (2.13)

sizes remembered (2.11)

remember last board size
tabs light up (2.10)

fixed links.
typed text can now be hyperlinked. (2.09)

right click menu works in game console
right click menu for commands like finger shows finger handle in menu like blitzin.
commands go to console/tab you execute the right click on.
a piece set randomly generated to choose in pieces menu. (2.08)

Improvement only partially implemented. typed text will be its own color
Works in main console and its tabs.
Works when you use ctrl + # to use user buttons from chat consoles.
typed text of user button command displayed.
Not directly settable. To set typed text color go to color/fonts / channel colors and set the channel 0 color. this is a saved setting. (2.06)

add style to channel with bold fixed (2.04)

typed text is in italics
you can in customize channel color add the style of italic or bold or both to a channel
the above is supported by save settings. (2.03)

toolbar working, windows / toolbar to make it visible. starts out not visible. this setting is saved.
windows / customize tool bar to configure. tool bar commands are a saved setting.
ctrl + 0-9 to activate tool bar command with keyboard. works when cursor is blinking in chat window or game console
shouts, s-shouts now remember their tab that they are customized onto (a save setting fix) (2.02)

set up qtells to go to the active tab the tell console is on. (2.01)

clear tab in chat console right click menu changed to clear tab chat.
clear tab chat added to game board tabs.
misc game text like forward 1 or mike moves e2e4 was printing a blank line after typed text, now fixed
kriegspiel wild 16 should be working (2.00)

crazyhouse and examine piece palette flip when black (1.97)

illegal move in fr should handle properly now and not flip castles (1.96)

right click on console text and choosing an option returns focus to typing area when done.
choosing another channel from combo box changes pre selected channel and gives focus back to typing area. (1.95)

alt up and down work on default font as well if that is what tab shows. customize tab now remembers custom tab names (1.94)

alt-up/down to resize font
alt 0, 1, 3 tab number etc. change to that tab
customize tab now remembers shouts or sshouts in that console setting. (1.93)

select a tell tab. make sure in auto menu tell switching is checked. in tells console when you get a tell it switches to tell tab.
tab font saved
can custom name tabs in customize tab. this is saved (1.92)

if you go to save settings. it will save where the first console and first board are located. if the windows are maximized it ignores the save. also if the board is closed, and you are not on first board anymore, it will not save. but will always work best at login to configure and save.
tab colors when saved now repaint, remaining bug is tab foreground on tabs doesn't update till you click on a tab, then all foregrounds update. but background starts out right.
Tab titles can now include Shouts or S-Shouts this is ordered shouts first then s-shouts after channels. (1.91)

the console that has tell console selected (check box in corner of console (right)) gets tells to any tab you are in. In this console you can right click on tab and choose tells to this tab. that tab is the tell tab. unselect it and any tab you are in becomes tell tab. change selection to another tab and it overrides. (1.90)

you can direct shouts or sshouts or both to a tab. they stay on tab now and not on main.
tab colors saving. the colors don't refresh it seems immediately on login. but you click tabs they repaint. (1.89)

s-shout color: added back to shouts and s-shouts (1.88)

tell bug fixed (1.87)

F9 starts with /
font chooser remembers size and name of current font when asked to reset the font
ESC key works in game console
/ works in game console
spelling of Response, standardized
kibitzes spelled right when printing kibitzes to screen
Losers now displays Loser's or Giveaway on board not just Losers (1.86)

spelling of suppress fixed.
esc in input area of chat window clears text
typing first with / lets you send commands with Tell 280 selected in combo box like blitzin and dasher
last two working in chat windows not game console yet (1.85)

suppress > (1.84)

qtell support (1.83)

better tab title support (1.81)

right click on tab has menus for:
- set tab font
- set tab colors (tell color, response text color, non response text color, background color, qtell color)
- show typed text (defaults to checked)
- suppress (told ...) (defaults to unchecked)
All of the above supported with stuff / save settings or click yes on logout to save settings (1.80)

right click on tab to set font for that tab currently not a saved setting and changing the global font would override the tab fonts (limited work done right now, proof of concept) (1.79)

Keyboard short cuts: these work if the input box in board or chat window has focus, i.e. blinking cursor there. When a board or chat window is selected it automatically gives focus to input box.
ctrl + t. This will cycle through your open boards and chat consoles similar to control tab.
shift left arrow and shift right arrow. this works on a chat window. will cycle left or right through the tabs.
It's possible to cycle with ctrl + t to a chat window and then use shift right or left arrow all without leaving the keyboard.
Additional: right click on chat console tab lets you customize it. (1.78)

new customize tab option
backward in move list fixed as well (1.77)

1.58

fixed mostly autoexamine. seems to be working. got game messages going in datagram 77 for easy routing reconnect will make games all go W and be over.

1.50-1.53

added jin boards and pieces
added internal browser
sub folder shows how to convert to console application, that code is not up to date with parent folder.