It’s been a long time since we released 1.0 — over 6 months. Today, we’re releasing the first beta of 1.2.0. Everyone is encouraged to upgrade. If you’re upgrading from 1.0, you’ll find that there are a lot of new features. Way too many to list them all. You can go through the previous news items to see the full list. For those of you that have been using our 1.1 developer snapshots, here is what’s newly available in 1.2.0:

  • OSSv4 support!
  • A new configuration file system. Your config file will be automatically migrated from ~/.manglerrc to a newly created directory of ~/.mangler
  • The “send silenty” option is available for setting comments
  • An on-screen display (overlay) is available
  • Support for the celt codec (note that the Windows/Mac client will not be able to hear this)
  • You can right click on the status icon to mute or quickly open the settings window
  • You can adjust the master volume by using the mouse scroll wheel on the status icon
  • The server ban list editor is available
  • The server properties editor is available
  • You can specify command line arguments to automatically connect to a server at startup
  • Channel mute is supported
  • User mute state is remembered
  • Ability to record to VRF format (compatible with the Windows/Mac client)
  • Some TTS notifications
  • G15 Keyboard support (requires g15daemon to be running)
  • User paging support
  • Many new, exciting and mysterious bugs were added!

Thanks to Haxar, Bob Shaffer, humbaba, Daniel Sloof, cesium, Mesreth, Roman Tetelman, FWishbringer and everyone else that contributed code, donations, provided feedback, and helped test for bugs. Without the community, this project would not have been possible.