Features
+ Free native mobile app for iOS and Android devices
+ Support for white-labelled mobile apps (i.e. app with your site name,logo, icon, colors)
+ New Broadcast plugin enables your users to broadcast their audio & video to other users
+ New AddLive partnership for audio/video chat and screensharing
+ Ability for guest to change name
Enhancements
+ Seamless login for Gtalk chat feature (using Google OAuth2)
+ Friendly upgrade mechanism (no longer removes chatrooms)
+ Ability for moderators to join password-protected rooms
+ CometService is now enabled for chatrooms as well
+ Ability to ban users by IP
+ Ability to modify colors/language of Desktop Messenger & Native App directly via Administration Panel
+ Logs updated to show chatroom logs as well
+ Added "Manage blocked users" option in lightweight chat
+ Code clean-up
Fixes
+ Fixed issue of dropped/repeat messages on page reload
+ Security fixes and enhancements
+ Improved handling of special characters in usernames
+ Fixed invite functionality in chatrooms/video-chat
+ Chat history fix for CometService
Features
+ Chatrooms support in mobile web apps
+ Kick/ban and moderators features added to chatrooms
+ Guests mode enabled for chatrooms
+ Chat history support for chatrooms
+ Ability to resize plugin windows from Administration Panel
Enhancements
+ Added leaderboard for single player games
+ User avatars added in chatrooms
+ Improved caching mechanism for mobile web app
+ Added sleek scroller in Announcements, Real time translate, Page translate and Twitter modules
+ LinkedIn option added to Share module
+ RED5 and FMS support for screenshare, whiteboard and audio/video chat
Fixes
+ New message notification fix for IE
+ Real time translate and Transliterate fixes for Chatrooms
+ Smilies fix in embedded chatrooms
+ Directory separator issue fix
Features
+ Jabber/XMPP support
+ Inline popups for plugins/extensions
+ Desktop Messenger support
+ CometService/BeaconPush/APE enabled for chatrooms
+ Facebook chat login with your own Facebook application keys
+ Enhanced and simplified theming
+ Sleaker scroller
Enhancements
+ Real-time translation now works with CometService (beta)
+ Facebook/Gtalk chat tweaks and fixes
+ Google+ option added to Share module
+ Block plugin does not allow messages to be sent
+ Peer-to-peer option for audio/video chat
+ Re-written Twitter plugin (reduced server load)
+ New admin enhancements in themes & language
+ Groups feature (user categories) for standalone integration
+ New set of smileys :)
+ Improved caching mechanism
Fixes
+ Facebook Fan Page fix
+ Mobile web-app fix
+ open_basedir issue fix
Enhancements
+ Improved SSL support
+ Ad extension now accepts Google Adsense code
+ Enhanced and enabled Guests feature
+ High definition video chat
+ New single player games module
+ New real-time translate module
+ New writeboard plugin
+ Aggressive caching mechanism
Bug Fixes
+ Transport fixes
+ jQuery 1.6.X compatibility
+ Facebook/Gtalk chat fixes
+ Miscellaneous bug fixes
Features
+ Facebook and Gtalk chat support
+ Android and other mobile platforms generic webapp
+ Single link for chat webapp (auto-detection)
+ Basic Advertisements plugin
+ Guests functionality
+ Ability to select color in chatrooms
+ Report conversations plugin
+ Block user plugin
+ Alternative page translation module
Enhancements
+ Sound notification in chatrooms
+ Improvement in friends list fetching
+ Lazy loading of avatar images to reduce bandwidth usage
+ Enhanced CometService to avoid dropping messages
+ Enabled private announcements/notifications feature
Bug Fixes
+ File transfer plugin fix for file names with spaces
+ Banned words filter fix
+ Duplicate status message fix
+ Long status message fix
Features
+ Multi-transport support
+ Cross-domain support
+ Blackberry web-app
+ Improved video chat
+ Improved Chatroom module (ability to use plugins in chatrooms)
+ Light version of CometChat
+ Improved iPhone web-app
+ Improved CRON functionality
+ Ability to change sound notification
+ JavaScript code optimization
+ Ability to display text next to modules icon
+ Many minor tweaks and fixes
New Modules/Plugins
+ Translate conversations (on-the-fly) module
+ White-board plugin
+ Write-board plugin
Enhancements
+ Auto-connect if network connection fails
+ Speed enhancements in light version
Bug fixes
+ Alert popup fix
+ Brower compatibility fixes
+ Auto join chatrooms on page change
+ Session destroy fix
Features
+ APE Server support
+ Cross-domain support
+ Blackberry web-app
+ Improved video chat
+ Many minor tweaks and fixes
New Modules/Plugins
+ Write-board plugin
Enhancements
+ Auto-connect if network connection fails
+ Speed enhancements in light version
Features
+ Improved Chatroom module (ability to use plugins in chatrooms)
+ Light version of CometChat
+ Improved iPhone web-app
+ Improved CRON functionality
+ Ability to change sound notification
+ JavaScript code optimization
+ Ability to display text next to modules icon
+ Many minor tweaks and fixes
New Modules/Plugins
+ Translate conversations (on-the-fly) module
+ White-board plugin
Admin Features
+ Language management and creation
+ Theme management and creation
+ Ability to remove games based on keywords
+ Embed links for chatrooms and modules
Bug fixes
+ Auto join chatrooms on page change
+ Session destroy fix
Features
+ iPhone/iPad web app for Premium/Platinum Edition
+ Improved screensharing plugin (Platinum Edition)
Bug fixes
+ Special characters fix for announcements
+ Create custom tray icon fix
+ Auto linking bug fix
+ Admin session fix
Features
+ Ability to update base URL using administration panel
Bug fixes
+ Miscellaneous bug fixes
Features
+ CometService compatible
Features
+ Streamlined installation procedure
+ Ability to hide CometChat bar (by user and for non-logged in users)
+ Improved themes
+ Ability to send announcements in real-time
+ Enhanced support for RTL languages
+ Full UTF-8 support
+ Popup notification when user comes online/goes offline
+ Ability for users to disable notification
+ Improved licensing technology
+ Improved support for Internet Explorer 6
+ Improved hyperlinking of domains in messages
+ Improved status messages feature
+ Better notification of new messages when user is away
+ Option to show bar above flash objects
+ Ability to switch between friends and online users
+ JavaScript speed enhancements & optimizations
+ Enhanced JS API
+ Miscellaneous bug fixes
+ Database optimization
+ Improved CRONJOB
+ Advanced administration panel
Plugins
+ Ability transfer files in any format
+ New Screen Sharing plugin
+ Ability to save conversations
+ New smileys plugin
+ New transliterate plugin
Modules
+ Advanced chatrooms module
+ Improved single player games module
+ Improved share this functionaliy
+ Improved Facebook Fan Page
+ Scroll to top module
Features
+ Plugins pre-loaded with CometChat
Bug fixes
+ Chatrooms functionality
+ Simplified installation process
Enhancements
+ Streamlined installation process
Bug fixes
+ YouTube link feature
+ Chatrooms functionality
+ Miscellaneous reported bugs
Features
+ Avatar support
+ Gravatar support for sites with no avatars
+ Ability to go to user profile on clicking of name (in chatbox)
+ Youtube video integration
+ Ability to display first name only in chat conversations
+ Overall chat speed enhancements
+ Ability to login by clicking on yellow alert icon
+ Title-bar update when new message arrives
+ Different colors for incoming and outgoing messages
+ Improved synchronization with multiple open windows
+ Plugins/modules support
+ Themes support
Themes
+ Default theme
+ Dark theme
Administration features
+ Spy: View users chatting in real-time!
+ Logs: View conversation logs of users
+ Chatrooms: Ability to specify default chatrooms
Bundled Modules
+ Chatroom module
Bundled Plugins
+ Timestamp Plugin: Display time when messages arrive
+ Send File Plugin: Ability to send files to users
+ Clear Chat History Plugin: Ability to clear chat window
+ View History Plugin: View user chat logs
API
+ chatWith: Allows you to add a link on your page to chat with users (including users not part of friends list)
+ sendMessage: Allows you to send a message to a user (from the logged-in user)
Bug fixes
+ Auto-linking bug fix
+ Better support for Internet Explorer
+ Miscellaneous bug fixes
Fix: 10x Speed Enhancements
Feature: Custom popup boxes
Feature: Custom icons feature (left-side)
Feature: Auto-parsing of links
Feature: Smileys
Feature: Bad-word filter
Feature: Internationalization option
Feature: Sound alerts (user-level disable feature)
Feature: Auto-popup of boxes feature
Feature: Added various customization options (fine-tweaking)
Bug: Charset fix
Bug: Newline character fix
Bug: \' slashes bug
Bug: Slowing of script due to large number of friends
Initial release of script
5.0.0
I was looking for a user chat solution for my website that would be non intrusive and user friendly. I am very happy I chose CometChat. It is very simple to install and the support has been great at resolving any issues.
I would recommend it for any website.
Thanks CometChat.
- Redgie Campbell of wefreaks.com
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