Last night we released a new version of the HipChat desktop client with lots of updates, including several user requests. Among the goodies are a new, more compact lobby display, putting status icons into tabs, and dividers in chats to show breaks between days.

Other updates included some new shortcut keys (ctrl-a for beginning of line, ctrl-e for end of line, ctrl-h for delete character, ctrl-shift-z for redo), an option for hiding chat history, and a modified text layout that should make it easier to distinguish a long wrapping message from several individual messages.

As always, we’re eager to hear any feedback. You can post your thoughts at http://help.hipchat.com or send us an email directly at support@hipchat.com