The latest release of the HipChat client went out last night with several user-requested features (and a few tidbits of our own).  Some of the additions:

Spell checking – We’re all guilty of the misspelled word here and there. Several of you were disappointed that HipChat didn’t have the red spell checking lines you find in modern browsers and document editing programs. Now you can feel a little more at ease that your team won’t have to call the spelling police on you (at least for our English users). For our non-english speakers, we apologize but hopefully we’ll be able to figure out a solution for you in the future.

Image links display inline – Several of you requested it – now when you paste a link to an image, we’ll grab it and display it in the chat as a medium-sized thumbnail:

Avoid large pastes – One frustrating thing about sharing large blocks of text or code is that they tend to take up the whole chat so you have to scroll in order to tell what’s going on. Now, when you post a really long paragraph or something that runs over 7 lines of text, we’ll truncate it with a link to view the whole thing:

Improved disconnection interface – Losing your connection to HipChat is inevitable sometimes. We all know the feeling when the internet drops out. Now you can continue to type and view history while we try to get you connected again:

We want to thank all our users that are providing feedback about the app. If you have any comments or suggestions about what we could better, head on over to http://help.hipchat.com/ and send us a message.