Aurora IRC Client 0.8.4
Released: 2026-10-04

Targeted startup and connection performance release:
- Start the main window maximized.
- Use a five-second TCP/TLS connection ceiling with dual-stack endpoint handling.
- Remove unnecessary multi-second settling delays between ordinary saved connect commands while preserving explicit user-requested waits.
- Bulk-render saved scrollback to eliminate the large Qt startup stall caused by line-by-line historical rendering.
- Skip the IRC 001 full-scrollback rerender when the accepted nickname is unchanged.

Validation on Greyline86 IRC showed network registration in under one second and the complete application ready for channel navigation in under five seconds after the rendering fix.

Existing settings, logs, profiles, saved history, 15-second latency measurement, update checking, and internationalization groundwork from v0.8.3 are retained.
