Unreleased * xC: fixed keyboard EOF behaviour with Readline >= 8.0 * xC: made it possible to stream commands into the binary * xM/xW: various bugfixes * Added a Fyne frontend for xC called xA * Added a Qt Widgets frontend for xC called xT 2.0.0 (2024-07-28) "Perfect Is the Enemy of Good" * xD: now using SHA-256 for client certificate fingerprints * 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: the servers.*.command configuration option now supports multiple lines * 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 * Added a Win32 frontend for xC called xW * Added a Cocoa frontend for xC called xM * Added a Go port of xD called xS * Added a simple notifier called xN 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