1This ChangeLog mostly lists changes relevant to users. A full log can be 2found in the git commit logs, for example you can try: 3 4https://github.com/bitlbee/bitlbee/commits/master 5 6Version 3.6: 7 8- irc/core: 9 * Add server-time IRCv3 capability (blastrock) 10 * Add PROXY command for haproxy/stunnel 11 * Large performance improvements for large contact lists 12 * Many UX/documentation improvements 13 * Added built-in crash handler that writes to /var/lib/bitlbee/crash.log 14 * Try to join long spaceless lines in paste_buffer without a newline. The 15 main use case for this is pasting long URLs and not breaking them 16 * Fix status message being set to null accidentally 17 * Fix handling utf8 nick renames when loading configs (MaskRay) 18 * Fix SSL's SNI with hostnames starting with a digit (CMB) 19 * Show correct nick when `rename -del` is used (arcnmx) 20 21- twitter: 22 * Disable the stream setting by default. Filter streams still work. 23 * Update default character limit to 280 chars (qyliss) 24 * Fix quote tweet url display. 25 26- jabber: 27 * Try to join anyway after "Already present in chat" 28 * Fix chat joins when ext_jid is provided for your own user. 29 Seen with Biboumi (a gateway from XMPP to IRC) 30 * Handle always_use_nicks more gracefully to reduce nick change noise 31 32- otr: 33 * Don't block attempts to connect/smp/smpq to "offline" users 34 35- Removed dead protocols: 36 * msn: Use the skypeweb purple plugin instead. 37 * skype (the dbus based thing): ditto. 38 * yahoo: It's so dead even the replacement protocol died. 39 * oscar: AIM is dead, for ICQ use the icyque purple plugin instead. 40 41- For plugin devs: 42 * Add datadir to pkgconfig file and config.h (sm00th) 43 * Add "bitlbee-set-account-password" purple signal (for hangouts) 44 * Support libpurple 2.12.0's PURPLE_MESSAGE_REMOTE_SEND for groupchat 45 self-messages (for slack) 46 47- Packaging/distro specific stuff: 48 * bitlbee@.service now sends stderr to syslog instead of the socket 49 * debian: only enable bitlbee.service, not bitlbee.socket too 50 * cygwin: portability fixes for plugins 51 * Support OpenSSL 1.1 built without backwards compat (cotequeiroz) 52 53Finished 7 Feb 2019 54 55Version 3.5.1: 56 57- purple: 58 * Fix crash on file transfer requests from unknown contacts. This was the 59 result of an incomplete fix in the previous release and may result in 60 remote DoS. Read the full security advisory at: 61 https://bugs.bitlbee.org/ticket/1282 62- After some investigation we decided to reclassify a crash fix from the 63 previous release as a security issue. Read the full security advisory at: 64 https://bugs.bitlbee.org/ticket/1281 65- Included help.txt in the release tarball, which was missing in the previous 66 release and resulted in adding python as a build dependency. The release 67 tarball of 3.5.1 does not require python. 68 69Finished 30 Jan 2017 70 71Version 3.5: 72 73- ui: 74 * "chat list": shows a list of existing server-side chatrooms. With some 75 protocols, this is often the only way to add new channels. 76 See 'help chat list' for details. (jgeboski) 77 * "plugins": lists the installed plugins and their versions (jgeboski) 78 * Add 'nick_lowercase' and 'nick_underscores' settings. 79 * "handle_unknown" can be set per-account, not just globally 80 81- jabber: 82 * Add "always_use_nicks" channel setting, for non-anonymous MUCs (trac #415) 83 See 'help set always_use_nicks' for possible side effects. 84 * Properly handle rejected file transfers 85 * Don't send parts in a chat if someone is still connected from other devices 86 * hipchat: support personal oauth tokens (manually generated ones) 87 88- twitter: 89 * Hide muted tweets / no-retweets, add mute/unmute commands (Flexo) 90 * Show full version of extended tweets (with slightly more than 140 chars) 91 92- purple: 93 * Support setting chat room topics (EionRobb) 94 * Support for extra groupchat settings. Shows an error if any required 95 ones are missing. Look for purple_ prefixed settings in "chan #... set" 96 * SIPE: persistent chats can be joined now, thanks to the "chat list" command 97 and the above ("purple_uri" channel setting) 98 * Fix a file transfer crash bug (Mainly affected telegram) 99 * Honor protocol flag to not require a password (used in hangouts, telegram) 100 * Set the contacts' nicks to the %full_name for a few whitelisted protocols 101 (hangouts, funyahoo, icq, line) 102 * LINE: added a hack to save its auth token, to avoid re-auth every time 103 * Show self-messages in groupchat backlogs (before join) 104 105- yahoo: 106 * Removed because they killed their old protocol on a two month notice. 107 Use EionRobb's funyahoo purple plugin, or better yet, don't use yahoo. 108 109- Stuff for enterprise deployments (all done by Sevas) 110 * Locked down accounts, useful when pregenerating user config files. An 111 account that is marked with the locked="true" attribute can't be removed 112 and its username/password can't be changed. 113 * Locked down settings. Same as above, but for individual account settings. 114 * AllowAccountAdd setting in bitlbee.conf, to disable adding new accounts. 115 * PAM and LDAP authentication backends (not compiled by default) 116 117- For packagers: 118 * Enabled debug symbols in non-debug builds, disabled stripping by default. 119 This is closer to the default behavior of autotools, and --debug=1 is mostly 120 to set the DEBUG macro and disable optimization. 121 122- For plugin devs: 123 * Plugins should now include an "init_plugin_info" function which will be used 124 for ABI version checking in the future. It's optional for now, but will be 125 enforced later. See the commit log of d28fe1c for details. (jgeboski) 126 127Finished 8 Jan 2017 128 129Version 3.4.2: 130- irc: 131 * Self-messages (messages sent by yourself from other IM clients), given 132 support by the IM protocols and your IRC client. See this for details: 133 https://wiki.bitlbee.org/SelfMessages 134 * IRCv3.1 support and part of 3.2: cap-3.2, sasl-3.2, multi-prefix, 135 away-notify, extended-join, userhost-in-names 136 * Send numeric errors when failing to join a channel, to not confuse clients 137 * Channel autojoins should be more reliable now. 138- jabber: 139 * Carbons (XEP-0280), for self-message support. It's not widely supported 140 by most public XMPP servers (easier if you host your own), but this will 141 probably change in the next few years. Thanks kormat for the original patch. 142 * Fix typing notifications between two bitlbee users or with gtalk users 143 * Remove facebook XMPP code, point people at bitlbee-facebook. 144 * Show groupchat kick/ban/leave reasons 145 * SASL ANONYMOUS (XEP-0175), for "guest" logins, see "help set anonymous" 146 * Hipchat: 'chat add hipchat "channel name"' now tries to guess the JID 147- purple: 148 * Fix problems remembering SSL certificates as trusted 149 * Fix /join #channel, which joined a differently named channel 150 * Fix crash when doing "chat with" with skypeweb 151 * Fix html entities appearing in some protocols 152 * Fix setting away states in jabber, which failed silently 153 * Implement notify_message UI op, to be able to show some error messages. 154- skype: 155 * Show all messages as groupchats since we can't tell which ones are private. 156 * This plugin is mostly-deprecated and mostly-broken but it's still useful 157 for p2p-based groupchats, which aren't delivered over newer protocols. 158 Everyone else should use the skypeweb purple plugin or msn instead. 159- msn: 160 * Minor tweaks. Faster login, better error reporting, fixed add/remove. 161 Still MSNP21. Disregard that "Next release!" in the previous release. 162- otr: 163 * Don't use NOTICE for user messages (revmischa) 164 * Fix crashes when using the jabber xmlconsole 165 * A few minor fixes: color multiline messages, filter incoming color codes. 166- Packaging: 167 * Show ./configure args in bitlbee -V, config.h and Makefile.settings 168 * Allow setting the plugin dir in bitlbee.conf, for NixOS (anderspapitto) 169 * Improved cross compiler support (gamaral) 170- Other important bugfixes: 171 * Fix potential crashes when leaving temporary channels 172 * Fix all sorts of crashing bugs when cancelling in-progress connections. 173 174Finished 19 Mar 2016 175 176Version 3.4.1: 177- msn: 178 * Upgraded protocol to MSNP21, works again (dx) 179 * Contact list management, groupchats and skype username logins won't work. 180 Next release! 181- jabber: 182 * Add "hipchat" protocol, for smoother login. Takes the same username as 183 the official client. Note that unlike the 'hip-cat' branch, this doesn't 184 preload channels. https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoHipchat for details (dx) 185 * Fixed a bug when receiving topics set by people who left the channel (dx) 186 * Create fake users instead of showing "unknown participant" errors (dx) 187 * Gmail mail notifications support (Artem Savkov) 188 * Lowering xmpp presence priority on away (Artem Savkov) 189- twitter: 190 * Show quoted tweets/RTs with comment inline (wilmer) 191 * Added "url" command, can be used to quote tweets (wilmer) 192 * Make replies to self work (wilmer) 193- Building documentation is now done with a python script (both 2.x/3.x work) 194 Asciidoc/xsltproc/xmlto are no longer build dependencies (dx) 195 196Finished 16 Jun 2015 197 198Version 3.4: 199- First release pretty much fully prepared by dx instead of Wilmer. Just look 200 at the tightly structured changelog! 201- Main repository migrated from bzr to git 202- Some API/ABI changes. Recompiling third party plugins is required! 203- Important bugfixes: 204 * Fix memory leak when calling word_wrap() on groupchat messages (dx) 205 * Fix segfault after a file transfer is complete (dx) 206 * Fix bug where NSS would refuse to work in forkdaemon mode (dx) 207 * Fix several bugs with UTF8 nicks (dx) 208 * Fix some nasty deadlocks that appared mostly with libpurple (dx) 209- General changes: 210 * Add a 'pattern' parameter to the blist command, to filter it (tribut) 211 * Implemented /kick support, only supported by purple for now (jgeboski) 212 * Add a "special" state to show_users (mapped to the % prefix) (jgeboski) 213 * Improved support for cygwin, openbsd and darwin (jcopenha) 214 * Create temporary users instead of showing "Message from unknown 215 participant" (jgeboski) 216- purple: 217 * Local contact lists for gadugadu and whatsapp (dx) 218 * Add topic and name_hint to groupchats (seirl) 219 * Support for 'input' requests (such as telegram auth codes) (seirl) 220 Note that telegram-purple itself is rather unstable ATM, it may crash. 221- jabber: 222 * Handle compressed DNS responses in SRV lookup (jcopenha) 223 * Fix case sensitivity issues with JIDs (GRMrGecko, dx) 224 * Implement XEP-0203 style message timestamps (dx) 225 * Fix "Server claims your JID is X instead of Y" warnings (dx) 226 * Account-wide display_name setting, mostly for hipchat (dx) 227- twitter: 228 * Filter channels. Search by keyword/hashtag or a list of users (jgeboski) 229 * Fix bug in "reply" command which removed the first quote character (dx) 230 * Add "rawreply" command, like reply but bitlbee won't add @mention (WillP) 231 * Add support for The United States of America (favorite/fav aliases) (dx) 232 * Default show_old_mentions to 0 (dx) 233 * Start stream from last tweet on connect/reconnect (roger) 234- msn: 235 * Disabled module by default. The protocol we used (MSNP18) stopped working 236 last week. This is being worked on, but it's far from ready for release. 237- And lots of small bugfixes, too many to list here. 238 239Finished 25 Mar 2015 240 241Version 3.2.2: 242- The OTR plugin now uses libotr 4.0 (AKA libotr5 in debian based distros) 243- Rejecting buddy requests in jabber won't accept them. Sorry for that. 244- Purple builds can now enable built in protocols when configuring, by 245 passing a parameter such as --jabber=1 to configure 246- You can now use /oper to change passwords with "ac x set -del password" 247- Complex unicode characters (non-BMP) now display correctly in twitter. 248- A few init / build script / pkg-config fixes. Added "install-systemd" 249 make target. 250 251Finished 5 Jul 2014 252 253Version 3.2.1: 254- Most important change: http_client updated to use HTTP/1.1, now required 255 by Twitter. 256- fill_by setting can now be used to fill a channel contacts *not* in a 257 certain group/on a certain account/etc. See "help set fill_by" 258- Added utf8_nicks setting which lets you use non-ASCII nicknames for your 259 contacts. Might not work with all IRC clients, use at your own risk! 260- Lots of bugfixes. 261 262Finished 27 Nov 2013 263 264Version 3.2: 265- By far the most important change, a thorough update to the Twitter 266 module: 267 * Now using Twitter API 1.1, 268 * which means it's now using JSON instead of XML, 269 * which means access to the streaming API (Twitter only, other Twitter 270 API services don't seem to have it). No more 60-second polls, #twitter 271 looks even more like real IRC now! 272 * Also, the streaming API means nice things like receiving DMs. 273 * show_ids, already enabled by default for a while, now uses hexa- 274 decimal numbers, which means a 256-entry backlog instead of just 100. 275 * Added a mode=strict setting which requires everything to be a command. 276 The "post" command should then be used to post a Tweet. 277- Jabber module bugfix that fixes connection issues with at least Google 278 Talk but reportedly some other servers (OpenFire?) as well. 279- SSL modules improved a little bit. GnuTLS module now supports SNI and 280 session caching. Shouldn't change much, but hopefully reduces latency 281 and bandwidth usage a little bit. 282- A bunch of other fixes/improvements here and there. 283 284Finished 6 Jan 2013 285 286Version 3.0.6: 287- Updated MSN module to speak MSNP18: 288 * Biggest change is that this brings MPOP support (you can sign in to 289 one account from multiple locations). 290 * Restored support for *sending* offline messages. 291 * Some support for federated (i.e. Yahoo!) contacts. (Only messages 292 might work, you won't see them online.) 293- Twitter: 294 * Work-around for stalls that are still happening sometimes. 295 * Added "favourite" command. 296 * "show_ids" enabled by default. 297- Handle see-other-host Jabber messages which should fix support for 298 MSN-XMPP. 299- Misc. fixes and improvements. 300 301Finished 14 Oct 2012 302 303Version 3.0.5: 304- SSL certificate verification (edit your bitlbee.conf to enable it). 305 Works only with GnuTLS! 306- OAuth2 support in Jabber module (works with Google Talk, Facebook and 307 MSN Messenger). 308- Support for ad-hoc Jabber groupchats. Just create a channel and start 309 inviting people, similar to how this works on other IM networks. Works 310 fine with GTalk, depends on a conference server being set up on other 311 networks. 312- Allow old-style Jabber login (non-SASL), this solves problems with some 313 old/buggy Jabber servers. (acc jabber set sasl off) 314- Use HTTPS for OAuth1 authentication traffic. 315- Awareness of Twitter's t.co URL lengt^Wshortening when checking message 316 length. 317- Fixed identi.ca OAuth support. OAuth will now always be used for both 318 Twitter and identi.ca accounts. 319- Fix nick_format=%full_name with libpurple. 320- Instead of "protocol(handle)", use the account tags introduced in 3.0 321 when root wants to refer to an account (in log messages, queries, etc.) 322- Many small bugfixes, improvements, etc. 323 324Finished 18 Feb 2012 325 326Version 3.0.4: 327- Merged Skype support. This used to be a separate plugin, and it still is, 328 but by including it with BitlBee by default it will be easier to keep it 329 in sync with changes to BitlBee. 330- Fixed a file descriptor leak bug that may have caused strange behaviour 331 in BitlBee sessions running for a long time. 332- Now fetches Twitter mentions as well if the "fetch_mentions" account 333 setting is enabled. 334- With t.co now all over Twitter, show the original (but truncated) URL 335 between <brackets>. 336- Fixed MSN Messenger login issues ("timeout" while fetching buddy list). 337- Another (related) GnuTLS compatibility fix (now 2.13+?). 338 339Finished 4 Dec 2011 (Exactly 6 years since 1.0!) 340 341Version 3.0.3: 342- Fixed Twitter compatibility. (The API call used to get the following list 343 was deprecated.) 344- Twitter: Enable the show_ids setting to assign a two-digit short ID to 345 recent tweets to use for retweets and replies (so you can RT/reply to more 346 than just a person's last message). 347- Some other Twitter fixes/improvements. 348- "otr reconnect" command and some other fixes. 349- GnuTLS 2.12 compatibility fix. 350- Include "FLOOD=0/9999" in the 005/ISUPPORT line at login to hint the IRC 351 client that rate limiting is not required. (Next step: Get IRC clients to 352 parse it.) 353- Other stuff too small to mention. 354 355Finished 12 Jun 2011 356 357Version 3.0.2: 358- Fixed MSN login issues with @msn.com accounts. 359- /CTCP support: You can CTCP VERSION Jabber contacts, and CTCP NUDGE MSN 360 contacts. More may come later, ideas are welcome. 361- By default, leave Twitter turned on for libpurple builds. 362- Allow using /OPER to identify/register as well. (Password security hack.) 363- Fixed proxy support with libpurple. 364- Some minor changes/fixes. 365 366Finished 7 Mar 2011 367 368Version 3.0.1: 369- Fixed some bugs that were found only after releasing 3.0, including 370 Jabber contacts never going offline, MSN login issues, compilation 371 issues on some non-Linux systems, a fairly big memory leak in the MSN 372 SOAP code, etc... 373- Better handling of multiple control channels and set private=false. 374- Using login.icq.com for ICQ logins again since AOL sold ICQ so it 375 doesn't live on the AIM servers anymore. 376- Fixed ability to join password-protected Jabber rooms. 377- Time out if logging into an account takes too long. 378- Fixed NSS SSL module. 379- Support for server-side Gadu-Gadu contact lists (via libpurple, there's 380 still no native gg support). 381- Allow omitting password when using "account add", the password can be 382 entered using /OPER to prevent echoing to screen and logs. 383 384Finished 24 Nov 2010 385 386Version 3.0: 387- Important: This version drops backward compatibility with the file format 388 used for user settings in versions before 1.2. If you're upgrading from 389 very old BitlBee versions (like 1.0.x), you'll have to recreate your 390 BitlBee account - or use an 1.2.x BitlBee once to do the conversion. 391- Rewrote the IRC core, which brings: 392 * Support for multiple (control) channels, so you can have one channel per 393 buddy group, per IM account/protocol, or for example a &offline with all 394 offline contacts. See "help channels" for information on how to use this. 395 * You can also leave and rejoin all channels. Being in &bitlbee is no 396 longer required. 397 * Now you can start groupchats by just joining a new channel and inviting 398 contacts. (The "chat with" command still works as well.) 399 * You can change your nickname, whenever you want. 400 * Root commands: 401 + To hopefully resolve confusion about the "account set" syntax, the 402 ordering was changed slightly: "account set acc/setting value" 403 becomes "account acc set setting value". Obviously the same order 404 should now be used for other account subcommands. 405 + Shortcuts: Instead of "account list" you can say "acc li". 406 * /whois shows idle/login times of your contacts when available. 407 * paste_buffer (previously known as buddy_sendbuffer) now works for chats 408 as well. 409 * The nick_source setting was replaced with a nick_format setting, which 410 looks more or less like a format string, and lets you tweak how nicknames 411 for contacts are generated in more detail. It also tries to convert non- 412 ASCII characters (i.e. accents) properly. 413 * A per-channel show_users setting lets you configure exactly which kinds 414 of contacts (online/away/offline) should show up in a channel and what 415 modes (none/voice/etc) they should have. Like show_offline, but together 416 with other new features it can for example create an &offline channel 417 with just offline contacts. 418 * If you connect (and identify) to a BitlBee server you're already 419 connected to, you can take over the existing session instead of starting 420 a new one. 421 * More correct validation of channel names: They can contain pretty much 422 any character, unlike nicknames. 423- Support for using libpurple instead of BitlBee's built-in IM protocol 424 modules. This can be enabled by passing --purple=1 to the configure script. 425 * This adds support for many more IM protocols to BitlBee. 426 * And new functionality to existing protocols. 427 * This is and will always be optional and using it on public servers is 428 *not* recommended. It should be pretty stable, but costs more RAM/etc. 429 * Switching to libpurple should be pretty transparent. See "help purple" 430 for a list of supported protocols (works only in libpurple-enabled 431 binaries). 432- Rewritten MSN module, implementing MSNP15 instead of the old MSNP8: 433 * MSNP8 support from MSN was getting pretty unreliable. There were issues 434 with remembering display names and adding contacts/auth requests (or 435 even contacts silently getting blocked!). This upgrade should fix all 436 of that. 437 * Support for sending offline messages. 438 * Support for setting and reading status messages. 439- Integrated the bitlbee-otr branch in a mostly non-intrusive way. Since 440 this is not end-to-end it should *not* be enabled on public servers. 441 Distro packagers are requested to offer OTR as a separately installable 442 plugin. (Compile with --otr=plugin) Please do not enable it by default as 443 there is no easy way to disable OTR once the plugin is loaded/built in. 444- Support for file transfers, in and out. /DCC SEND a file to a contact and 445 it becomes a file transfer, and incoming file transfers become /DCC SENDs 446 to you. Note that this is mostly useful when combined with libpurple, as 447 only the Jabber native protocol module currently supports file transfers. 448- Updated Yahoo! module to be in sync again with libyahoo2. This mostly 449 fixes issues with authorization requests. 450- Show if a contact is mobile or not. See "help set mobile_is_away". 451- Easier handling of XMPP chatroom invitations. 452- The chatroom mode of the Twitter module is now enabled by default, since 453 this was by far the most popular. To disable it, see "help set mode". 454- Added some Twitter-specific commands that can only be used in the Twitter 455 window. Most important addition: Retweets. See "help set commands". 456- Removed some ancient account/nick migration scripts and added one for 457 easier switching from Pidgin and other libpurple-based clients to BitlBee. 458- Many bug fixes in both the core and IM modules, small feature enhancements 459 and other minor changes. 460 461Finished 22 Oct 2010 462 463Version 1.2.8: 464- Now always using the AIM-style authentication method for OSCAR connections, 465 even when connecting to ICQ. This solves login issues some people were 466 having. (If you have problems, try changing the old_icq_auth setting.) 467- Twitter: 468 * Allow changing the Twitter API base URL so the module can also be used 469 for identi.ca or any other compatible network. 470 * Fetch the full list of Twitter contacts instead of slowly adding all 471 contacts as they post a message. 472 * Fixed message length counting. 473 * Allow following/unfollowing people using the usual add/remove commands. 474 * Better error reporting. 475- Added a user_agent setting to the Jabber module to get around artificial 476 client restrictions. 477- Allow nick changes (although only before register/identify). 478- Some more minor bugfixes/etc. 479 480Finished 4 Jul 2010 481 482Version 1.2.7: 483- Fixed problems with MSN Messenger authentication. ("Could not parse 484 Passport server response") 485- Fixed broken typing notifications when talking to GTalk contacts. 486- Fixed an issue with non-anonymous Jabber chatrooms polluting the nick 487 namespace, sometimes generating odd warning messages. 488- Restored ability to start groupchats on ICQ. 489- Added show_offline setting that will also show offline contacts in the 490 control channel. 491- OAuth support for Twitter: This means the module will keep working after 492 June (this also changes "via API" under your tweets into "via BitlBee"). 493 494Finished 15 May 2010 495 496Version 1.2.6a: 497- Fixed a typo that renders the Twitter groupchat mode unusable. A last- 498 minute change that came a few minutes late. 499 500Finished 19 Apr 2010 501 502Version 1.2.6: 503- Native (very basic) support for Twitter, implemented by Geert Mulders. 504 Currently supported are posting tweets, reading the ones of people you 505 follow, and sending (not yet receiving!) direct messages. 506- Fixed format of status messages in /WHOIS to improve IRC client 507 compatibility. 508- Show timestamps of offline messages/channel backlogs. 509- Allow saving MSN display names locally since sometimes this stuff breaks 510 server-side. (Use the local_display_name per-account setting.) 511- Suppress empty "Headline:" messages for certain new XMPP broadcast 512 messages. 513- Better handling of XMPP contacts with multiple resources on-line. Default 514 behaviour now is to write to wherever the last message came from, or to 515 the bare JID (usually becomes a broadcast) if there wasn't any recent msg. 516- Added a switchboard_keepalives setting which should solve some issues with 517 talking to offline MSN contacts. (Although full support for offline 518 messages is not ready yet!) 519- The usual misc. bug fixes. 520 521Finished 19 Apr 2010 522 523Version 1.2.5: 524- Many bug fixes, including a fix for MSN login issues, Jabber login timing 525 issues, Yahoo! crashes at login time with huge contact lists, 526- Avoid linking in a static version of libresolv now that glibc has all 527 relevant functions available in the dynamic version. 528- Improved away state code and added the ability to set (non-away) status 529 messages using "set status" (also possible per account) and see them in 530 blist and /whois output. 531- Added a post-1.2 equivalent of encode/decode to quickly encrypt/decrypt 532 passwords in a way that BitlBee can read them. 533- Allow using the full name for generating nicknames, instead of just the 534 handle. This is especially useful when using the Facebook XMPP server. 535- Auto reconnect is now enabled by default since all protocols can properly 536 detect cases where auto reconnect should be avoided (i.e. concurrent 537 logins). 538- Changed the default resource_select setting which should reduce message 539 routing issues on Jabber (i.e. messages going someone's phone instead of 540 the main client). 541 542Finished 17 Mar 2010 543 544Version 1.2.4: 545- Most important change (and main reason for releasing now): Upgraded Yahoo! 546 module to a newer version to get it working again. 547- join_chat command replaced with the much better chat command: 548 * Similar to how account replaced login/slist/logout. Add a chatroom once, 549 then just /join it like any other room. Also automatic joining at login 550 time is now possible. 551 * Note that the old way of starting groupchats (/join #nickname) is now 552 also deprecated, use "chat with" instead. 553 * See "help chat" and "help chat add" for more information. 554- Rewrote bitlbee.conf parser to be less dumb. 555- Fixed compatibility (hopefully) with AIM mobile messages, certain kinds 556 of Google Talk chatrooms. 557- Fixed numerous stability/reliability bugs over the last year. 558 559Finished 17 Oct 2009 560 561Version 1.2.3: 562- Fixed one more flaw similar to the previous hijacking bug, caused by incon- 563 sistent handling of the USTATUS_IDENTIFIED state. All code touching these 564 variables was reviewed and should be correct now. 565 566Finished 7 Sep 2008 567 568Version 1.2.2: 569- Security bugfix: It was possible to hijack accounts (without gaining access 570 to the old account, it's simply an overwrite) 571- Some more stability improvements. 572- Fixed bug where people with non-lowercase nicks couldn't drop their account. 573- Easier upgrades of non-forking daemon mode servers (using the DEAF 574 command). 575- Can be cross-compiled for Win32 now! (No support for SSL yet though, which 576 makes it less useful for now.) 577- Exponential backoff on auto-reconnect. 578- Changing passwords gives less confusing feedback ("password is empty") now. 579 580Finished 26 Aug 2008 581 582Version 1.2.1: 583- Fixed proxy support. 584- Fixed stalling issues while connecting to Jabber when using the OpenSSL 585 module. 586- Fixed problem with GLib and ForkDaemon where processes didn't die when 587 the client disconnects. 588- Fixed handling of "set charset none". (Which pretty much breaks the account 589 completely in 1.2.) 590- You can now automatically identify yourself to BitlBee by setting a server 591 password in your IRC client. 592- Compatible with all crazy kinds of line endings that clients can send. 593- Changed root nicknames are now saved. 594- Added ClientInterface setting to bind() outgoing connections to a specific 595 network interface. 596- Support for receiving Jabber chatroom invitations. 597- Relaxed port restriction of the Jabber module: added ports 80 and 443. 598- Preserving case in Jabber resources of buddies, since these should 599 officially be treated as case sensitive. 600- Fully stripping spaces from AIM screennames, this didn't happen completely 601 which severely breaks the IRC protocol. 602- Removed all the yellow tape around daemon mode, it's pretty mature by now: 603 testing.bitlbee.org serves all (~30) SSL users from one daemon mode 604 process without any serious stability issues. 605- Fixed GLib <2.6 compatibility issue. 606- Misc. memory leak/crash fixes. 607 608Finished 24 Jun 2008 609 610Version 1.2: 611- Added ForkDaemon mode next to the existing Daemon- and inetd modes. With 612 ForkDaemon you can run BitlBee as a stand-alone daemon and every connection 613 will run in its own process. No more need to configure inetd, and still you 614 don't get the stability problems BitlBee unfortunately still has in ordinary 615 (one-process) daemon mode. 616- Added inter-process/connection communication. This made it possible to 617 implement some IRC operator features like WALLOPs, KILL, DIE, REHASH and 618 more. 619- Added hooks for using libevent instead of GLib for event handling. This 620 should improve scalability, although this won't really be useful yet because 621 the one-process daemon mode is not reliable enough. 622- BitlBee now makes the buddy quits when doing "account off" look like a 623 netsplit. Modern IRC clients show this in a different, more compact way. 624 (This can be disabled if your client doesn't support this.) 625- GLib 1.x compatibility was dropped. BitlBee now requires GLib 2.4 or newer. 626 This allows us to use more GLib features (like the XML parser). By now GLib 627 1.x is so old that supporting it really isn't necessary anymore. 628- Many, many, MANY little changes, improvements, fixes. Using non-blocking 629 I/O as much as possible, replaced the Gaim (0.59, IOW heavily outdated) 630 API, fixed lots of little bugs (including bugs that affected daemon mode 631 stability). See the bzr logs for more information. 632- One of the user-visible changes from the API change: You can finally see 633 all away states/messages properly. 634- Added units tests. Test coverage is very minimal for now. 635- Better charset handling: Everything is just converted from/to UTF-8 right 636 in the IRC core, and charset mismatches are detected (if possible) and the 637 user is asked to resolve this before continuing. Also, UTF-8 is the default 638 setting now, since that's how the world seems to work these days. 639- One can now keep hashed passwords in bitlbee.conf instead of the cleartext 640 version. 641- Most important change: New file format for user data (accounts, nicks and 642 settings). Migration to the new format should happen transparently, 643 BitlBee will read the old files and once you quit/save it will save in the 644 new format. It is recommended to delete the old files (BitlBee doesn't do 645 this automatically, it will just ignore them) since they won't be used 646 anymore (and since the old file format is a security risk). Some advantages 647 of this file format switch: 648 * Safer format, since the identify-password is now salted before generating 649 a checksum. This way one can't use MD5 reverse lookup databases to crack 650 passwords. Also, the IM-account passwords are encrypted using RC4 instead 651 of the simple obfuscation scheme which BitlBee used so far. 652 * Easier to extend than the previous format (at least the .nicks format was 653 horribly limited). 654 * Nicknames for buddies are now saved per-account instead of per-protocol. 655 So far having one buddy on multiple accounts of the same protocol was a 656 problem because the nicks generated for the two "instances" of this buddy 657 were very unpredictable. 658 NOTE: This also means that "account del" removes not just the account, 659 BUT ALSO ALL NICKNAMES! If you're changing IM accounts and don't want to 660 lose the nicknames, you can now use "account set" to change the username 661 and password for the existing connection. 662 * Per-account settings (see the new "account set" command). 663- A brand new Jabber module. Besides the major code cleanup, it also has 664 has these new features: 665 * Pretty complete XMPP support: RFC3920, RFC3921 plus a number of XEPs 666 including XEP45, XEP73 and XEP85. (See http://www.xmpp.org/ for what all 667 these things mean exactly.) Privacy lists are not supported for obvious 668 reasons. 669 * This complete support also includes TLS and SASL support and SRV record 670 lookup. This means that specifying a server tag for connections should 671 (almost) never be necessary anymore, BitlBee can find the server and can 672 automatically convert plaintext connections to TLS-encrypted ones. 673 * XEP45: Jabber chatroom support! 674 * XEP85 means typing notifications. The older XEP22 (still used by some 675 clients including Gaim <2.0) is not supported. 676 * Better handling of buddies who have more than one resource on-line. As 677 long as one resource is on-line (and visible), BitlBee will show this. 678 (The previous module didn't keep track of resources and sent an offline 679 event as soon as any resource disappears.) 680 * You can now set your resource priority. 681 * The info command now gives away state/message information for all 682 resources available for that buddy. (Of course this only works if the 683 buddy is in your contact list.) 684 * An XML console (add xmlconsole to your contact list or see "help set 685 xmlconsole" if you want it permanently). 686- The Yahoo! module now says it supports YMSG protocol version 12, which will 687 hopefully keep the Yahoo module working after 2008-04-02 (when Yahoo! is 688 dropping support for version 6.x of their client). 689- MSN switchboard handling changes. Hopefully less messages will get lost now, 690 although things are still not perfect. 691 692Finished 17 Mar 2008 693 694Version 1.0.4: 695- Removed sethostent(), which causes problems for many people, especially on 696 *BSD. This is basically the reason for this release. 697- "allow" command actually displays the allow list, not the block list. 698- Yahoo away state/msg fix. 699- Don't display "Gender: Male" by default if nothing's filled in (OSCAR 700 "info" command) 701- Fixed account cleanup (possible infinite loop) in irc_free(). 702- Fixed configdir error message to not always display the compile-time 703 setting. 704 705Finished 20 Aug 2007 706 707Version 1.0.3: 708- Fixed ugliness in block/allow list commands (still not perfect though, the 709 list is empty or not up-to-date for most protocols). 710- OSCAR module doesn't send the ICQ web-aware flag anymore, which seems to 711 get rid of a lot of ICQ spam. 712- added show_got_added(), BitlBee asks you, after authorizing someone, if you 713 want to add him/her to your list too. 714- add -tmp, mainly convenient if you want to talk to people who are not in 715 your list. 716- Fixed ISON command, should work better with irssi now. 717- Fixed compilation with tcc. 718- Fixed xinetd-file. 719- Misc. (crash)bug fixes, including one in the root command parsing that 720 caused mysterious error messages sometimes. 721 722Finished 24 Jun 2006 (Happy 4th birthday, BitlBee!) 723 724Version 1.0.2: 725- Pieces of code cleanup, fixes for possible problems in error checking. 726- Fixed an auto-reconnect cleanup problem that caused crashes in daemon mode. 727- /AWAY in daemon mode now doesn't set the away state for every connection 728 anymore. 729- Fixed a crash-bug on empty help subjects. 730- Jabber now correctly sets the current away state when connecting. 731- Added Invisible and Hidden to the away state alias list, invisible mode 732 should be pretty usable now. 733- Fixed handling of iconv(): It's now done for everything that goes between 734 BitlBee and the IRC client, instead of doing it (almost) every time 735 something goes to or come from the IM-modules. Should've thought about 736 that before. :-) 737- When cleaning up MSN switchboards with unsent msgs, it now also says which 738 contact those messages were meant for. 739- You can now use the block and allow commands to see your current block/ 740 allow list. 741 742Finished 1 Apr 2006 743 744Version 1.0.1: 745- Support for AIM groupchats. 746- Improved typing notification support for at least AIM. 747- BitlBee sends a 005 reply when logging in, this informs modern IRC clients 748 of some of BitlBee's capabilities. This might also solve problems some 749 people were having with the new control channel name. 750- MSN switchboards are now properly reset when talking to a person who is 751 offline. This fixes problems with messages to MSN people that sometimes 752 didn't arrive. 753- Fixed one of the problems that made BitlBee show online Jabber people as 754 offline. 755- Fixed problems with commas in MSN passwords. 756- Added some consts for read-only data, which should make the BitlBee per- 757 process memory footprint a bit smaller. 758- Other bits of code cleanup. 759 760Finished 14 Jan 2006 761 762Version 1.0: 763- Removed some crashy debugging code. 764- QUIT command now works before logging in. (Mainly an RFC-compliancy fix.) 765- Hopefully slightly clearer handling of buddy add requests. 766- set buddy_sendbuffer_delay now also supports milisecond precision. 767- Renamed #bitlbee to &bitlbee to avoid confusion with the channel on OFTC. 768- Reviewed the xinetd file and installation instructions. 769- HTML stripping is configurable again. 770- Quit messages (at least on crashes) should appear again. 771- Cleaned up some unnecessary code in the Jabber module, and implemented 772 handlers for headline messages (which allows you to use RSS-to-Jabber 773 gateways). 774- Lowered the line splitting limit a bit to fix data loss issues. 775- The $proto($handle) format used for messages specific to one IM-connection 776 now only include the ($handle) part when there's more than one $proto- 777 connection. 778- Fix for a crash-bug on broken Jabber/SSL connections. 779- Incoming typing notifications now also come in as CTCP TYPING messages, for 780 better consistency. Don't forget to update your scripts! 781- AIM typing notifications are supported now. 782- Jabber module only accepts ports 5220-5229 now, to prevent people from 783 abusing it as a port scanner. We aren't aware of any Jabber server that 784 runs on other ports than those. If you are, please warn us. 785- Send flood protection can't be enabled anymore. It was disabled by default 786 for a good reason for some time already, but some package maintainers 787 turned it back on while it's way too unreliable and trigger-happy to be 788 used. 789- Removed TODO file, the current to-do list is always in the on-line bug 790 tracking system. 791- Fixed a potential DoS bug in input handling. 792 793Finished 4 Dec 2005 794 795Version 0.99: 796- Fixed memory initialization bug in OSCAR module that caused crashes on 797 closing the connection. 798- Most likely fixed the bug that caused BitlBee to use 100% CPU time in 799 some situations. 800- Outgoing MSN typing notifications are now understood correctly by the 801 original MS Mac/Windows clients (again). 802- Added "account add $protocol" to the documentation, got rid of a lot 803 of over-markup (i.e. overuse of bold-tags), reviewed some other parts. 804- Small changes to help.xsl to fix small flaws in the help.txt formatting. 805- Messaging yourself now doesn't make irssi or mIRC crash anymore. 806 807Finished 3 Nov 2005 808 809Version 0.93: 810- " is now correctly converted to " instead of '. 811- Code cleanup in OSCAR module. 812- Some changes for better RFC-compliancy. 813- It's now possible to specify an alternate Jabber server. 814- bitlbee_save() now also checks the return value of fclose(), which might 815 solve more problems with lost account data. 816- Fixed a file descriptor leak in bitlbee.c. 817- Signedness fixes (mainly to keep GCC4 happy). 818- Away messages are now sent correctly to most ICQ clients. 819- BitlBee knows now which connection sends HTML, so it will strip HTML 820 automatically, "set html strip" is no longer necessary. Also, outgoing HTML 821 is escaped correctly. 822- info-command works for AIM-connections too now. 823- /notices to users will be sent as auto-away replies. 824- Messages about a connection now also mention a handle, for people who have 825 multiple accounts in use of the same protocol. 826- Examples are back in help.txt. 827 828Finished 31 Oct 2005 829 830Version 0.92: 831- Fixed some formatting issues with the help.txt XSL-sheet. 832- Moved the polling of the IRC connections to glib instead of a separate 833 select(). 834- Added ctags generation to the Makefiles. 835- Sending a CTCP TYPING message to a user in your buddy list now sends a 836 typing notification to that person, if the protocol supports it. You 837 probably want to write/use a script for your IRC client to do this. 838- A dash is no longer considered a lowercase underscore in nicknames. 839- CTCP's to buddies no longer alter their private/non-private state. 840- Clean shutdown (with saving settings) on SIGTERM. 841- Fixed a crash on connecting to unreachable Jabber/SSL servers. 842- On ICQ, offline messages are now requested after receiving the buddy 843 list. This should get rid of the "Message from unknown OSCAR handle" 844 messages on login. 845- The linked list of buddies/nicks is now always sorted, which makes the 846 blist output a bit more useful. 847- Fixed a crash on renaming NickServ. (There's no reason to do this, but 848 still crashing isn't really how BitlBee should tell you that. ;-) 849- Now the message about the "new" ICQ server-side buddy lists is only 850 displayed when the server-side list is still empty. 851- The Yahoo! markup language stripper is now less likely to strip things 852 that shouldn't be stripped. 853- Working around a shortcoming in the Yahoo! cleanup code that didn't 854 cause any serious problems in previous versions, but got pretty nasty 855 (100% CPU time usage) now with everything in the glib main loop. 856- Fixed a bug in http_encode that might have caused buffer overflows 857 (although not likely to be exploitable) when trying to encode strings 858 with non-ASCII characters. 859- Fixed AIM screenname handling on ICQ connections. 860- When blocking someone, the MSN module now closes the conversation you're 861 having with him/her (if any) so he/she can't continue talking to you 862 (for as long as the conversation lasts). 863- Away messages are only sent when messaging someone outside the control 864 channel. (And now also when the user is offline instead of just away.) 865- Moved charset conversion in serv_buddy_rename() to the right place so 866 bogus changes are always detected now. 867- iso8859-1 is now the default charset because -15 caused some problems 868 and because -1 is enough for most people anyway. 869- Fixed crashes on attempting to add a buddy (or do other things) on 870 connections that are still initializing. 871- Added support for server-side notifies using the WATCH command. 872- IRC_MAX_ARGS is dead, at least for IRC commands. 873- Fixed a bug that made BitlBee crash on failing fresh MSN switchboard 874 connections. 875- Fixed an invisibility bug in the MSN code that handled transfers to 876 other servers in the middle of a session. 877- Newline stripping added to prevent newline-in-friendlyname attacks. 878 (Which allowed remote people to make BitlBee send raw custom IRC lines.) 879 880Finished 23 Feb 2005 881 882Version 0.91: 883- Full support for ICQ server-side contact lists! 884 NOTE: BitlBee now ignores your client-side contact list. If you want to 885 import your ICQ contact list, use the import_buddies command. 886- Added the import_buddies command for upgrading purposes. 887- Added support for OpenSSL. 888- Fixed one major problem with the daemon mode by getting rid of the global 889 IRC structure. 890- Documentation fixes. help.txt is now generated from XML. Also updated the 891 installation manual. 892- Made the quickstart up-to-date. (By Elizabeth Krumbach) 893- Some bitlbeed additions. (By Marcus Dennis) 894- info-command support for Jabber, MSN, Yahoo! and a more verbose info-reply 895 for ICQ. (By Frank Thieme) 896- Support for Jabber over SSL. 897- nick_get() appends a _ on duplicates instead of chopping off the last 898 character. 899- Got rid of an unused piece of code that caused crashes. 900 (oscar.c:gaim_parse_clientauto) 901- When splitting long messages into 450-char chunks, BitlBee now tries not 902 to cut off in the middle of a line. 903- Added a warning when the user specifies an unknown OSCAR server. 904- Removed GLib 2.x dependency, BitlBee will work with GLib 1.x again. 905- Improved strip_html(), now less likely to strip non-HTML things. 906- An invalid account-command will now display an error message. 907- Fixed a bug that caused crashes when /CTCP'ing a groupchat channel. 908- Hopefully better Unicode/non-ASCII support for ICQ. 909- Fixed MSN connection crash on non-ASCII characters in screenname. 910- Added some missing charset conversion calls. (serv_got_crap, 911 serv_buddy_rename) 912- "account off" without extra arguments now logs off all connections. 913- Fixed a crash-bug on disconnecting Yahoo! connections before they're fully 914 connected. 915- Fixed a bug in helpfile handling which sometimes caused crashes in daemon 916 mode. 917- block and allow commands work with just a nick as an argument again. 918- Working around a crash on some probably invalid Yahoo! packets. 919- Fixed a possible double free() on shutdown in irc_free(). 920- Talking to ICQ people on AIM and vice versa and talking to people with 921 @mac.com accounts now possible. 922- Low ASCII chars are now stripped from away-messages so the Jabber module 923 won't barf on BitchX and lame-script away messages anymore. 924 925Finished 25 Sep 2004 926 927Version 0.90a: 928- Fixed the Yahoo! authentication code. 929 930Finished 28 Jun 2004 931 932Version 0.90: 933- A complete rewrite of the MSN module. This gives BitlBee the following 934 new features/improvements: 935 * You can now start groupchats with MSN people without having to send them 936 a bogus message first. 937 * People who are in your MSN block/allow list, but not in your contact 938 list, shouldn't show up in your BitlBee buddy lists anymore. 939 * Passport authentication shouldn't lock up the whole program for a couple 940 of seconds anymore. Additionally, it should also work behind proxies now. 941 * Better recognition of incoming file transfers; they're now recognized 942 when coming from non-English MS Messenger clients too. 943 * Fixed a problem with MSN passwords with non-alphanumeric characters. 944 * Mail notification support (also for Yahoo!)... 945 * Parsing of maintenance messages (ie "Server is going down in x minutes"). 946 * Hopefully more stability. 947- Changes in the OSCAR module: 948 * Better reading of ICQ-away-states. 949 * Lots of cleanups. 950- Yahoo! module: 951 * Fixed authentication on 64-bit machines. (Patch from Matt Rogers) 952 * Better stripping of markup tags. 953- Lots of cleanup in all IM-modules. 954- Added support for using libnss instead of libgnutls. 955- Reverse hostname lookups work on IPv6 sockets too now. (And don't crash 956 the program anymore.) 957- Fixed a little problem with identifying right after registering a nick. 958- Restored complete proxy support and added a proxy setting to the conffile. 959- BitlBee can now tell you when people in your buddy list change their 960 "friendly name". 961- Instead of an account number, you can also specify the protocol name or 962 (part of) the username as an account identification with commands like 963 "account on", "add", etc. 964- BitlBee remembers what connection a question (i.e. authorization request) 965 belongs to and cleans it up when the connection goes down; this fixes 966 (one of) the last known crash bugs. 967- Plus some other changes in question management. (The query_order setting 968 is one of them. The default behaviour changed a bit, for more information 969 please read "help set query_order".) 970- Also fixed a memory management bug in the question code which caused some 971 crashes. 972- Optimized some nick handling functions and added a hash of all the users 973 to speed up user_find() a bit (especially good for people with large 974 buddy and notify lists). 975- Lots of changes for the Win32 port (see http://jelmer.vernstok.nl/). 976- Added the drop-command. 977- Fixed small problem with versions of sed which don't support the + 978 "operator" (the BSD version, for example, even though the operator is 979 documented properly in the re_format manpage...). 980- Added the default_target setting. 981- Added a CenterICQ2BitlBee conversion script. 982- Put back the evaluator for "set charset" (which got lost somewhere between 983 0.84 and 0.85), so an incorrect charset will be rejected again. 984- ISON now (A) gives one single reply and (B) also replies when none of the 985 persons asked for are on-line. 986- Using GConv instead of iconv now. 987- Incoming messages larger than 450 characters are now split into parts 988 before sending them to the user. 989- Fixed a bug in irc_exec() which could crash the program when some commands 990 were called with too little arguments. 991- Fixed a dumb NULL pointer dereference in the JOIN command. 992- Added rate limiting to bitlbeed. (Against server hammering) 993- Added handling of CTCP PINGs (yet another self-ping used by some IRC 994 clients...) 995- Added bitlbee_tab_completion.pl. 996- Removed the vCard handling code from Jabber because it's (A) not used and 997 (B) had a possible format string vulnerability. 998- Got rid of strcpy() in account.c. (Thanks to NETRIC for reporting these two 999 problems.) 1000- ISO8859-15 is now the default charset. 1001 1002Finished 21 May 2004 1003 1004Version 0.85a: 1005- Fixed an authentication problem with logging into some MSN accounts. 1006- Removed a non-critical warning message from the ICQ servers when logging 1007 in with an empty contact list. 1008- Fixed reading the [defaults] section of bitlbee.conf. 1009- The last newline in outgoing messages when using the buddy_sendbuffer is 1010 now removed correctly. 1011- Yahoo! colour/font tag stripping now actually works. 1012- Fixed compilation on *BSD and some Linux architectures. 1013 1014Finished 24 Mar 2004 1015 1016Version 0.85: 1017- Users can specify alternate configuration files/directories at runtime 1018 now. 1019- Rename now doesn't choke on name changes with only case changes anymore. 1020- Imported the daemon patch into the main source tree. The daemon mode is 1021 still experimental, this just eases maintenance. This daemon patch brings 1022 a lot of features, including (as the name says) a real daemon mode and 1023 also buffering of the data sent to the user, and flood protection. 1024- Strips font and colour codes from Yahoo! messages. 1025- Support for groupchats on Yahoo! 1026- Fixed removing Yahoo! buddies from a different group than "Buddies". 1027- Jabber presence packets with error messages are interpreted correctly now. 1028 (They used to be parsed as a signin.) 1029- bitlbee_save() checks return values from fprintf() and writes to tempfiles 1030 first to make sure no old files get lost when there's a write error. 1031- ICQ buddies are added all at once instead of once at a time. This should 1032 solve problems with huge buddy lists. 1033- Made the client pinging timings configurable. (Without requiring 1034 recompilation) 1035- MSN and Yahoo flag the connection as "wants_to_die" when they're logged 1036 off because of a concurrent login. This means reconnection will be disabled 1037 on concurrent logins. 1038- BitlBee can now buffer the messages sent to someone before they're actually 1039 sent, and wait for a specified number of seconds for more lines to be added 1040 to the buffer before the message will really be sent. 1041- Renamed the reconnect_delay setting to auto_reconnect_delay. 1042- Unknown settings aren't saved anymore. 1043 1044Finished 13 Mar 2004 1045 1046Version 0.84: 1047- Removed the libsoup dependency. 1048- Fixed AuthMode=Registered: It will now restore your accounts when 1049 identifying. 1050- Fixed Yahoo! support. 1051- Fixed a little memory leak in user.c. 1052- Fixed a security bug in unused code in proxy.c, only people who use 1053 the HTTP proxy support and an untrusted proxy might need this. We 1054 haven't done an emergency release for this fix because proxy support 1055 is disabled by default. 1056- Fixed some memory leaks in IM-code. 1057 1058Finished 13 Feb 2004 1059 1060Version 0.83: 1061- Fixed a crash bug on connecting to unsupported accounts. 1062- Fixed a problem with connecting to MSN accounts with empty buddy 1063 lists. 1064- Fixed another inifite-loop bug in nick_get() and added a piece 1065 of code which detects the infinite loop and asks the user to send 1066 a bug report. 1067- Fixed iconv-Solaris linking issues. 1068- Fixed all the problems with spaces in AIM screennames now, we hope. 1069- Fixed a buffer overflow in the nick handling code. Buffers are 1070 overflowed with static data (nulls), so we don't think it's exploitable. 1071- Added server-client pinging, useful for remote servers. 1072- Added the hostname setting. 1073- Some bitlbeed changes. 1074- Added a little part to the on-line quickstart about the settings and 1075 other help topics, this hopefully answers a lot of FAQ's. 1076- Fixed the signal handler to re-raise the signal after the handler quits. 1077 This makes sure the default handler is called after our handler sends 1078 the user a bye-message, so core dumps are created and the parent will 1079 get more useful information back from wait(). 1080- Added support for ICQ URL messages. 1081- Fixed strip_html() behaviour on unknown &entities;. 1082- Fixed a possible problem with Yahoo! 1083- Fixed a problem with logging into more than one MSN account at once. 1084 1085Finished 31 Dec 2003 1086 1087Version 0.82: 1088- Fixed a little bug in nick.c which could cause a complete hang for 1089 some tricky buddylists. (Thanks to Geert Hauwaerts for helping with 1090 fixing this bug) 1091- Fixed MSN support. (Lots of thanks to Wouter Paesen!) 1092- Removed the old login/logout commands. 1093- Added the qlist command. 1094- Fixed a buffer overflow in the nick checking code. (Thanks to Jon 1095 Åslund for pointing us at this problem) 1096- Adds the add_private and add_channel options for set handle_unknown. 1097- Some documentation updates. 1098- Added two small utilities to encode/decode BitlCrypted files. 1099 1100Finished 31 Oct 2003 1101 1102Version 0.81a: 1103- This version just fixes some small things we should've fixed before 1104 releasing 0.81: 1105- Fixed a small bug in the auto-reconnect cleanup code. 1106- Fixed the Makefile: Now it doesn't just overwrite your etc files when 1107 installing. 1108- Fixed the Makefile: $prefix/etc/bitlbee/ is the default etcdir now. 1109- Disabling MSN by default, now that it doesn't work. It'll be back on 1110 as soon as we get the module working again. 1111 1112Finished 16 Oct 2003 1113 1114Version 0.81: 1115- Added a configuration file. 1116- Added support for the PASS command to restrict access to the daemon to 1117 only the people who know this password. 1118- Only allowing registered people to use the daemon is possible too. 1119- In case you, at some time, need to check the currently running BitlBee 1120 version, just CTCP-VERSION someone in the channel. 1121- Added the auto_connect setting for people who don't want the program 1122 to connect to IM-networks automatically. 1123- Extended the blist command. 1124- Applied the auto-reconnect patch from G-Lite. 1125- Applied the iconv patch from Yuri Pimenov. 1126- Imported the MSN-friendlyname patch from Wouter Paesen. 1127- Away-message aliasing code now just parses the beginning of the string, 1128 not the whole string. This allows you to have a more descriptive away 1129 message like "Busy - Fixing bugs in BitlBee" and all the IM connections 1130 will have a busy-like away-state. 1131- Added some information about away states to the help system. 1132- MSN file transfers aren't silently ignored anymore. 1133- Integrated the Yahoo protocol fix from Cerulean Studios (Trillian). 1134 (Thanks to Tony Perrie!) 1135- Made all protocol plugins optional. (Patch from Andrej Kacian/Ticho) 1136 1137Finished 15 Oct 2003 1138 1139Version 0.80: 1140- Fixed a very stupid bug in the MSN away-state reading. 1141- nick_cmp() now actually works, RFC-compliant. 1142- Fixed and cleaned up the away-state handling, there were some very 1143 weird things in the original Gaim code base which broke this completely 1144 all the time. 1145- The daemon prevents you from using root/NickServ as your nick now, 1146 previous versions crashed on that. 1147- At last ... GROUP CHAT SUPPORT! :-D 1148- People who are *not* away get mode +v in #bitlbee now, so you can see 1149 in /names who's away and who's not. 1150- Crashing BitlBee by using the NICKSERV command without any arguments 1151 is impossible now. 1152- Added some notes about Darwin/OSX portability. 1153- Separated connections from accounts. This means restoring a lost 1154 connection can be done using a simple "account on <number>" command. 1155 See "help account" for more information. 1156 *** For now this won't cause problems when upgrading because the login 1157 command still exists (as an alias for "account add"). This alias will 1158 not stay forever, though. 1159- irc_process() now makes sure it reads the whole available buffer before 1160 executing the commands. Previous versions were very bad at handling 1161 long floods from non-floodprotected clients. The code is still not 1162 perfect, but good enough for local links. 1163- Allow/Deny questions from msn.c now also mention your own screenname. 1164 This is useful for people who run two (or even more) MSN accounts in 1165 one BitlBee. 1166- Fixed a little bug in the helpfile-changed-check code. 1167- A little trick in "make install" makes sure the help function in running 1168 sessions doesn't break while upgrading. 1169- Added a nifty (and editable) MOTD. 1170- Added IRIX to the compatibility list. 1171- Added support for Cygwin. 1172- Better HTML-stripping, it also handles &entities; correctly now. 1173- Fixed some problems to make it compile on Solaris. 1174- Added support for messages from Miranda/Mac ICQ. (Code port from Gaim 0.59) 1175- Fixed the crash problem when removing yahoo buddies. 1176- Added the handle_unknown setting. 1177- Did some editing on a few docs. 1178- Added a FAQ. 1179- Added the daemon-patch by Maurits Dijkstra which adds stand-alone daemon 1180 support to BitlBee. 1181- Jabber now doesn't barf on high ASCII characters in away messages anymore. 1182 (Thanks to Christian Häggström <chm@c00.info>) 1183 1184Finished 24 Jun 2003 1185 1186Version 0.74a: 1187- The music-festivals-are-bad-for-your-mind release. 1188- This one actually contains the fix for the bug 0.74 claimed to have. 1189 1190Finished 11 Jun 2003 1191 1192Version 0.74: 1193- Fixed a security leak, where using a / in the nickname causes the saved 1194 settings and account information to be stored in undesirable places. 1195 1196Finished 10 Jun 2003 1197 1198Version 0.73: 1199- Fixed the unable-to-remove-icq-users (actually users from any *local* 1200 contact list) bug. 1201- Fixed away bug in aim protocol. 1202- Fixed the 'statistics' under the blist command output. 1203- Removed the commands from the XML documentation because they're 'on-line' 1204 already. 1205- Added some signal handling; ignoring SIGPIPE should als get rid of some 1206 crashes (for some weird reason this has to be done). Also, crashes because 1207 of things like segfaults are a bit more verbose now. ;-) 1208- Changed the select() timeout in main(), this might improve some latencies. 1209 (At leasts it speeds up signing on (especially for ICQ) a lot!) 1210- Made the own-QUIT messages more compliant, probably. 1211- Fixed some memory-bugs, thanks to valgrind. 1212- irc_write() now checks the write() return value, and tries to send the rest 1213 of the string, if it could not write it completely the first time. 1214- Hostname lookups also work on NetBSD now. 1215 (Thanks to David.Edmondson*sun*com (hi spambot)) 1216- At last, a new protocol. Welcome to ... YAHOO! 1217- Documentation and code cleanup. Somehow the helpfile documented register 1218 and identify twice, now that's what I call over-documenting.. :-/ 1219- Added the rename command to the helpfile, somehow I forgot that one. 1220- Been a bit pedantic about compiler warnings. They're all dead now. 1221- Fixed a small Makefile problem which gave an error when a clean tree was 1222 "made distclean" 1223- Fixed a (possible) memory leak in nogaim.c:proto_away() 1224- Fixed the way proto_away() calls proto_away_alias_find(), now it gives 1225 the *whole* list of away states 1226- proto_away() doesn't give a NULL message anymore because AIM didn't like 1227 that 1228- Got rid of the last goto in my code (without ruining the code) 1229- Created a more samba-like compiling process (without the complete command 1230 lines, just a simple echo) 1231- "help set ops" works now too, without quoting the "set ops" 1232- Trying to log in with a protocol without a prpl (ICQ and TOC, for example) 1233 made previous versions crash 1234 1235Finished 13 Apr 2003 1236 1237Version 0.72: 1238- Updated the documentation. 1239- Improved the MSN friendlyname code. (Although it doesn't seem to be perfect 1240 yet..) 1241- info-command added to get more information about ICQ users. 1242- blist-command added to get a complete buddy list. 1243- Fixed a bug which broke the AIM code when adding a screenname with a space 1244 in it. 1245- Added the NS alias for the NICKSERV command (Tony Vroon). 1246- Fixed the USERHOST command implementation (Tony Vroon). 1247- /me from IM-networks is now converted to a CTCP ACTION correctly. 1248- Added an utils/ directory with some misc toys and handy things. 1249- Added a /notice to the on_typing event. Don't use it though, the /notice 1250 flood will just be a big annoyance. ;-) 1251- Some people like root and themself to be ops, some don't. Now it's 1252 configurable. (set ops) 1253- Now the umode stuff actually works. Next step: Use those modes... (How?) 1254 1255Finished 19 Dec 2002 1256 1257Version 0.71: 1258- Fixed the help command output layout (alignment) 1259- Added a sample xinetd file 1260- Cleaned up, 0.70 released with a build-stamp and DEADJOE file (oops).. 1261- Messages can be sent like '<user>, <message>' in the control channel now, 1262 instead of just '<user>: <message>' 1263- Added a debug setting boolean: Set it to true for some debugging crap 1264 which used to be on by default.. 1265- Changed the /whois reply: In the server section you now see the 1266 connection this user belongs to. 1267- Added some root/permission checks. 1268- configure script works correctly when the terminating / is forgotten for 1269 a directory. 1270- Fixed format string bug in protocols/oscar/meta.c (Hmm, what's the use of 1271 that file?) 1272- Added '#include "crypting.h"' to commands.c to get rid of stupid warnings 1273- Fixed crash-bug (SIGSEGV when adding an @-less contact to MSN/Jabber) 1274- Added to_char setting 1275- Fixed bug in set.c: It ignored the new value returned by the evaluator 1276 :-( 1277- Removed protocol tag from 'hostname' in user hostmask because this info 1278 is in /whois' server section now 1279- Added the GPL. Somehow 0.7 released without a COPYING file.. :-/ 1280- Enhanced the root_command() parser, you can 'quote' "arguments" now so 1281 arguments can be strings with spaces 1282- Debugging versions have True as the default value for set debug 1283- NICKSERV is now an alternative for PRIVMSG root. This does not affect 1284 functionality of current NICKSERV commands, but does allow people to just 1285 do identify <pass> in channel. 1286- NICKSERV REGISTER now doesn't try to log you in (to check if the user 1287 exists) but checks for the existence of the user-configuration files. 1288- NICKSERV SET password now works (as does set password in channel). This 1289 makes changing your password possible. 1290- NICKSERV password now stored in irc_t. 1291- ./configure now only bugs you about possible problems with strip if it's 1292 actually going to strip (wooohoooo! _sexy_ :) 1293- Fixed a load of warnings in oscar.c, irc.c, nick.c and set.c 1294- Split up root_command() into a version which eats raw strings and one 1295 which eats split strings 1296- New help system: Help available for most (all?) commands, all read from 1297 an external help-file. 1298- Changed the maximum message length in irc_usermsg() from IRC_MAX_LINE to 1299 1024 (for loooong help messages..). 1300- Only allow user to set supported umodes. 1301- Fixed a memory leak in crypting.c (Thanks to Erik Hensema.) 1302- Added a send_handler callback to user_t. Needed for the following entry: 1303- Added the NickServ user as a root-clone. 1304- Disabled tcpd by default because it's just a PITA for a lot of systems 1305 and because you can use /usr/sbin/tcpd as well. 1306- The root user can be renamed now. 1307 1308Finished 16 Sep 2002 1309