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@@ -0,0 +1,330 @@ +2.0.0 (Unreleased) + + * xD: implemented WALLOPS, choosing to make it target even non-operators + + * xC: made it show WALLOPS messages, as PRIVMSG for the server buffer + + * xC: all behaviour.* configuration options have been renamed to general.*, + with the exception of editor_command/editor, backlog_helper/pager, + and backlog_helper_strip_formatting/pager_strip_formatting + + * xC: all attributes.* configuration options have been made abstract in + a subset of the git-config(1) format, and renamed to theme.*, + with the exception of attributes.reset, which has no replacement + + * xC: replaced behaviour.save_on_quit with general.autosave + + * xC: improved pager integration capabilities + + * xC: unsolicited JOINs will no longer automatically activate the buffer + + * xC: made Readline insert the longest common completion prefix first, + and prevented the possible-completions command from duplicating the prompt + + * xC: normalized editline's history behaviour, making it a viable frontend + + * xC: various bugfixes + + * xC: added a relay interface, enabled through the general.relay_bind option + + * Added a web frontend for xC called xP + + +1.5.0 (2021-12-21) "The Show Must Go On" + + * xC: made it possible to pass the cursor position to external editors, + in particular VIM and Emacs + + * xC: started quoting text coming from bracketed pastes, + to minimize the risk of trying to execute filesystem paths as commands + + * xC: fixed to work with post-2021-08-29 editline + + * xC: extended editline's autocomplete to show all options + + * utm-filter.lua: added Facebook's tracking parameter to the filter + + +1.4.0 (2021-10-06) "Call Me Scruffy Scruffington" + + * xC: made message autosplitting respect text formatting + + * xC: fixed displaying IRC colours above 16 + + * xC: offer IRCnet as an IRC network to connect to, + rather than the lunatic new Freenode + + * xD: started bumping the soft limit on file descriptors to the hard one + + +1.3.0 (2021-08-07) "New World Order" + + * xC: made nick autocompletion offer recent speakers first + + * All binaries have been renamed to something even sillier, + and all references in the source tree have been redacted; + this represents a major incompatible change for all plugins; + configuration and program data have to be adjusted manually + + +1.2.0 (2021-07-08) "There Are Other Countries As Well" + + * xC: added a /squery command for IRCnet + + * xC: added trivial support for SASL EXTERNAL, enabled by adding "sasl" + to the respective server's "capabilities" list + + * xC: now supporting IRCv3.2 capability negotiation, including CAP DEL + + * xC: added support for IRCv3 chghost + + * xC: /deop and /devoice without arguments will use the client's user + + * xC: /set +=/-= now treats its argument as a string array + + * xC: made "/help /command" work the same way as "/help command" does + + * xC: /ban and /unban don't mangle extended bans anymore + + * xC: joining new channels no longer switches to their buffer automatically + if the current input line isn't empty + + * censor.lua: now stripping colours from censored messages; + their attributes are also configurable rather than always black on black + + +1.1.0 (2020-10-31) "What Do You Mean By 'This Isn't Germany'?" + + * xC: made fancy-prompt.lua work with libedit + + * xD: fixed a regression with an unspecified "bind_host" + + * Miscellaneous minor improvements + + +1.0.0 (2020-10-29) "We're Finally There!" + + * Coming with real manual pages instead of help2man-generated stubs + + * xC: added support for more IRC colours and strike-through text (M-m x) + + * xC: now tolerating all UTF-8 messages cut off by the server + + * xC: disabled "behaviour.backlog_helper_strip_formatting" by default + since the relevant issue with ACS terminfo entries has been resolved + + * xC: enabled word wrapping in the backlog by default + + * xC: made the unread marker span the whole line, with a configurable + character; the previous behaviour can be obtained by setting it empty + + * xC: fixed the prompt not showing back up after exiting a backlog helper + when an external event has provoked an attempt to change it + + * xC: now watching fellow channel users' away status when the server + supports the away-notify capability; indicated by italicised nicknames + + * xC: added a plugin to highlight prime numbers in incoming messages + + * xD: make sure an unspecified "bind_host" binds to both IPv4 and IPv6 + + * xB: install plugins to /usr/share and look for them in XDG data dirs + + * Miscellaneous little fixes + + +0.9.8 (2020-09-02) "Yep, Still Using It" + + * xC: fixed a crash and prompt attribute output in libedit 20191231-3.1, + though users are officially discouraged from using this library + + * xC: fixed Lua 5.4 build, so far the support is experimental + + * Miscellaneous little fixes + + +0.9.7 (2018-10-21) "Business as Usual" + + * xD: fix wildcard handling in WHOIS + + * xD: properly handle STATS without parametetrs + + * xD: abort earlier when an invalid mode character is detected while + processing channel MODE messages + + * xD: do not send NICK notifications when the nickname doesn't really change + + * xD: fix hostname string verification (only used for "server_name") + + +0.9.6 (2018-06-22) "I've Been Sitting Here All This Time" + + * Code has been relicensed to 0BSD and moved to a private git hosting + + * Fix LibreSSL compatibility + + * xC: a second /disconnect cuts the connection by force + + * xC: send a QUIT message to the IRC server on Ctrl-C + + * xC: add a Slack plugin (even though the gateway's now defunct) + + * xC: show an error message on log write failure + + * xC: fix parsing of literal IPv6 addresses with port numbers + + * xC: fix some error messages + + * xC: workaround a Readline bug in the fancy-prompt.lua plugin + + * xD: fix two memory leaks + + * xD: improve error handling for incoming connections + + * xD: disable TLS session reuse + + +0.9.5 (2016-12-30) "It's Time" + + * Better support for the KILL command + + * xC: export many more fields to the Lua API, add a prompt hook + + * xC: show channel user count in the prompt + + * xC: allow hiding join/part messages and other noise (Meta-Shift-H) + + * xC: allow autojoining channels with keys + + * xC: rejoin channels with keys on reconnect + + * xC: make /query without arguments just open the buffer + + * xC: add a censor plugin + + * xC: die on configuration parse errors + + * xC: request channel modes also on rejoin + + * xC: don't show remembered channel modes on parted channels + + * xC: fix highlight detection in colored text + + * xC: fix CTCP handling for the real world and don't decode X-QUOTEs + + * xC: add support for OpenSSL 1.1.0 + + +0.9.4 (2016-04-28) "Oops" + + * xC: fix crash on characters invalid in Windows-1252 + + * xC: add an auto-rejoin plugin + + * xC: better date change messages with customizable formatting; + now also used in the backlog, so it looks closer to regular output + + * xB: add a calc plugin providing a basic Scheme REPL + + * xB: add a seen plugin + + * xD, xB: use pledge(2) on OpenBSD + + +0.9.3 (2016-03-27) "Doesn't Even Suck" + + * Use TLS Server Name Indication when connecting to servers + + * xC: now we erase the screen before displaying buffers + + * xC: implemented word wrapping in buffers + + * xC: added autocomplete for /topic + + * xC: Lua API was improved and extended + + * xC: added a basic last.fm "now playing" plugin + + * xC: backlog limit was made configurable + + * xC: allow changing the list of IRC capabilities to use if available + + * xC: optimize buffer memory usage + + * xC: added logging of messages sent from /quote and plugins + + * xC: M-! and M-a to go to the next buffer in order with a highlight + or new activity respectively + + * xC: added --format for previewing things like MOTD files + + * xC: added /buffer goto supporting case insensitive partial matches + + * xD: add support for IRCv3.2 server-time + + * xB: plugins now run in a dedicated data directory + + * xB: added a factoids plugin + + * Remote addresses are now resolved asynchronously + + * Various bugfixes + + +0.9.2 (2015-12-31) + + * xC: added rudimentary support for Lua scripting + + * xC: added detection of pasting, so that it doesn't trigger other + keyboard shortcuts, such as for autocomplete + + * xC: added auto-away capability + + * xC: added an /oper command + + * xC: libedit backend works again + + * xC: added capability to edit the input line using VISUAL/EDITOR + + * xC: added Meta-Tab to switch to the last used buffer + + * xC: correctly respond to stopping and resuming (SIGTSTP) + + * xC: fixed decoding of text formatting + + * xC: unseen PMs now show up as highlights + + * xC: various bugfixes + + +0.9.1 (2015-09-25) + + * All "ssl" options have been renamed to "tls" + + * The project now builds on OpenBSD + + * Pulled in kqueue support + + * xC: added backlog/scrollback functionality using less(1) + + * xC: made showing the entire set of channel mode user prefixes optional + + * xC: nicknames in /names are now ordered + + * xC: nicknames now use the 256-color terminal palette if available + + * xC: now we skip entries in the "addresses" list that can't be resolved + to an address, along with displaying a more helpful message + + * xC: joins, parts, nick changes and quits don't count as new buffer + activity anymore + + * xC: added Meta-H to open the full log file + + * xC: various bugfixes and little improvements + + +0.9.0 (2015-07-23) + + * Initial release + |