Revision history for glirc

2.40.1

• Fix exception on /exec with a non-zero exit code
• Externalize command documentation

2.40.0.1

• Build on GHC 9.0

2.40

• vty-6 support
• deduplicated /url
• locally processed /who
• locally processed /list
• colorized channel identifiers
• better channel and user-mode highlighting. highlights are now per-server so configuration files will need to be updated
• support for 24-bit color output
• OS notification support
• More notification levels for each window
• Better away status handling
• Config file level window hint configuration

2.39

• Extra oper commands and reply parsing
• Account tracking with account-tags
• Added matterbridge hook
• Support SASL SCRAM
• Add locked editor mode (F7)
• Add tls-verify to specify expected certificate hostname

2.38

• Avoid ping timeout disconnects while other packets are still arriving
• Add never-highlights configuration setting to stop common words from being treated as nicknames
• Add a multi-line editor mode (default toggle with F6)
• More tolerate nickname completion
• Preserve server names in server replies (visible in detail view)
• Window names are persistent rather than alphabetical. Manage them with /setname and /setwindow
• Added hook for extension to query window lines
• More complete rendering for rare server replies
• Prettier columns in /names
• Add small scroll with Meta-PgUp/PgDown
• Built-in support for /umode for changing user modes (a common macro previously)
• Support strikethrough formatting (can require terminfo edits on common terminals to see it)
• Removed DCC support

2.37

• Add /new-self-signed-certificate PATH [keysize] to make it easier to configure secure services logon
• Add STARTTLS support: tls: configuration settings are now: yes, no, starttls
• Add separate tls-verify: no setting for disabling hostname verification instead of old tls: yes-insecure
• Configuration file supports $ macros and @load / @splice directives from config-value
• Updates for hookup library improvements to concurrent connect algorithm

2.36

• Changed executable name to glirc

• Allow all windows (not just chat message windows) to be added as split-screen targets

• Chose a random nickname when list of alternatives is exhausted

• Add simple man page

• Add /monitor

• Support specifying bind-hostname to pick a local address to connect from in favor of protocol-family. To pick a protocol family you can now specify bind-hostname: "0.0.0.0" or bind-hostname: "::"

• Add TLS key PEM password configuration

• Make all configuration file passwords able to be loaded from executing a command

• Make SASL mechanism specification specific and support an optional authorization identity authzid used in rare circumstances but supported by SASL.

  sasl: -- example 1
    mechanism: plain -- sasl defaults to plain if not specified
    username: "myuser"
    password: "mypassword"
  
  sasl: -- example 2
    mechanism: external
    authzid: "otheruser" -- optional
  
  sasl: -- example 3
    mechanism: ecdsa-nist256p-challenge
    username: "myuser"
    private-key: "path/to/my.key"
  

  Note that now using a client-side TLS certificate is an independent configuration from using EXTERNAL. To use both you need to configure both!

2.35

• Added client certificate information to /cert

2.34

• Add /dump command
• Fix command tab-completion with leading spaces
• Preserve last message timestamp across /reconnect
• Add regular expression for QUIT message that trigger reconnects
• Removes unused userinfo field from configuration
• Wallops are more noticable now

2.33.1

• Support for GHC 8.8.1
• Add /trace command

2.33

• Fixed cursor position with wide characters in input box
• Added ability to force request capabilities.
• Generalized FreRelay hook
• Add show-accounts setting to make account status visible
• Query channel modes on join

2.32

• Fix SASL EXTERNAL
• Better /url matching
• Support for config-schema improvements

2.31

• Added TLS fingerprint pinning with tls-cert-fingerprint and tls-pubkey-fingerprint
• Addded /cert command
• Improved C API void* passing to always pass around a single pointer.
• Better rendering for /whois and /whowas
• Better support for ircop commands, responses, and modes
• Channel, user, and snomask modes are can be styled
• Bugfix in textbox rendering for formatted multi-line inputs.
• Improved /palette rendering
• Switch window focus when forwarded
• Add support for receiving files with DCC (thanks Ruben Astudillo)

2.30

• Implement support for chghost https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/chghost-3.2.html
• Implement support for userhost-in-names https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/userhost-in-names-3.2.html
• Implement support for SASL EXTERNAL authentication
• Implement support for CAP 302 https://ircv3.net/specs/core/capability-negotiation.html
• Implement support for sts https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/sts.html
• Add ACCOUNT messages to the metadata lines
• Add logic for server defined user modes
• Ignore leading whitespace when interpreting commands
• Handle more formatting color codes

2.29

• Add support for timers to the extension API
• Add glirc_set_focus API call

2.28

• Add formatting reference to /palette
• Make RTLD flags configurable when loading an extension
• Update client's internal hostname on RPL_HOSTHIDDEN
• Support IRCv3.2 server-time extension over ZNC-specific one
• Lots of work on the Lua extension code and documentation
• Added glirc_user_account and glirc_user_channel_modes extension API entrypoints.
• Added support for account-notify and extended-join
• Added configurable "arguments" to the C extensions

2.27

• Requires GHC 8.4
• Show channel topic in channel on join
• Fix socket leak when failing to load TLS certificates
• Add delay when indicating sent ping to reduce noise
• Add support for italics in formatting

2.26

• Updates for GHC 8.4.1
• Added /toggle-show-ping and show-ping configuration setting to toggle visibility of the ping round-trip times.

2.25

• /ignore can list ignores and supports full wildcard masks
• Updated C extension API
• Improved OTR extension to avoid interacting with ZNC replays
• Added protocol-family configuration option. Set to inet or inet6 to force a particular IP protocol.

2.24

• /query now takes a message parameter and tab-completes like /msg.

2.23

• CONFIGURATION FILE CHANGE: Relative paths are now resolved from the directory of the configuration file. The "~" alias for the home directory works for resolving paths relative to $HOME. Absolute paths are unmodified.

• Support network:#channel in /query

• Add an optional OTR extension. See the otr-extension/ directory and the wiki for more information.

• Extended the C API with glirc_inject_chat and chat_entrypoint

• Smarter WYSIWYG highlighting in text edit box. Nicknames are highlighted and /mode command parameters get correct placeholders.

• Added more information to /palette

• Added "human readable" labels to /rtsstats

2.22

• Added dynamic indentation of wrapped lines. Lines now wrap to where the message portion of the line started. This removes indent-wrapped-lines configuration setting
• Added pervasive word-boundary oriented line wrapping (beyond what was previously restricted to chat messages)
• Made nick prefix padding configurable to be on left or right. See nick-padding setting in glirc2 --config-format. In addition this setting is now reconfigurable at runtime via /reload
• Added /oper command for network operator authentication.
• Memory savings by packing message timestamp information, and using the "detailed" image for regular expression matching.
• Added /rtsstats command for inspecting the GHC RTS statistics
• Added many minor IRC query commands: admin, info, map, rules motd, version, lusers, kill, knock, list.

2.21.1

• Support for latest config-schema
• Adapt extension API to help support stub Rust extension

2.21

• Make metadata toggle F4 a window-level setting instead of client level
• Add configuration option to hide metadata by default hide-metadata
• Make keymap configurable under key-bindings, add /keymap command
• Add transient error message view, press ESC to clear
• Implement two-column split window mode: /toggle-layout and F5
• Implement word-boundary based line wrapping

2.20.6

• Switch to new config-schema package for configuration file loading.
• Add --config-format flag to executable to show configuration file format.

2.20.5

• Add line indicating message since previous time window was focused. The palette for this is configurable as line-marker

2.20.4

• Add /query alias for /channel
• Add /names alias for /users
• Update to build on GHC 8.2.1-rc1 with Cabal-2.0.0.0

2.20.3

• Nicer /help system, commands are grouped
• Added /splits+ and /splits- for incremental updates to splits
• Jump-to-activity returns to original window after activity is visited
• Extended activity view makes use of empty space above text input
• Parse the timestamp and duration from /whois response

2.20.2.1

• Support vty-5.15

2.20.2

• Remove memory dependency
• Add indent-wrapped-lines setting

2.20.1.1

• Remove macro dependency on happy and alex being installed for version information

2.20.1

• Support vty-5.11.1

2.20

• Move from tls to HsOpenSSL support via the new hookup package

2.19

• Smarter text box tracks "scroll" position independently from cursor
• Added --full-version flag
• Remove regex-tdfa-text dependency
• Added bell-on-mention client setting
• Added ExportCApi cabal flag to help with loading the client in GHCi

2.18

• Add digraph support under M-k and /digraphs
• Add ECDSA-NIST256P-CHALLENGE support
• Load mask list on /masks
• Add C-x to change to next network window
• Allow /clear NETWORK * to clear all windows for the given network

2.17

• Add reconnect-attempts setting
• Add persistence for /grep and /grepi
• Add filter argument to /windows
• Better tab completion for /channel and /focus
• Isolate and number URLs in view with /url
• Map M-Left and M-Right to backward word and forward word

2.16

• Add /splits to show multiple chat windows simultaneously

2.15

• Add /mentions
• Add macro argument declarations
• Add indication when a command is still a prefix or not of a valid command
• Support quoted strings arguments to /exec
• Add F4 to toggle visibility of metadata lines
• tls-insecure setting was incorrectly behaving like normal insecure
• Add C-t to swap characters
• Add ESC to return to messages window

2.14

• Add /help
• Add /palette
• Add F3 to toggle activity detail bar

2.13

• Add disconnect expansion, support expansions in connect-cmds
• Add default expansion syntax ${var|default}
• Add support for multiple nicknames to try on connect
• Add ignores section to configuration
• Add url-opener section to configuration and /url command

2.12

• Remove tls-insecure configuration option in favor of tls: yes-insecure
• Implement fancy command placeholder rendering and argument parsing
• Improved reconnect logic
• Improved connection error messages

2.11

• Add M-S to jump to previously focused window
• Add extra-highlights section
• Tab complete server names in /connect
• Add /windows command for listing active windows
• Add glirc_clear_window C API procedure
• Allow process_message callback to drop messages
• Add optional network and channel arguments to /clear (intended to assist macros)
• Automatically reconnect on ping timeout
• Many commands will report message to client window on error

2.10

• Fixes for multi-line editing
• Multiple, sequential kills all fill the same yank buffer

2.9

• Dynamically loadable extensions
• Implement Lua scripting extension
• Enable support for batch messages
• Grow metadata lines to the right

2.8

• Support vty-5.8
• Implement initial support for macros
• Support znc.in/self-message

2.7

• Switch to regex-tdfa (easier to install on MacOS than text-icu)
• Tab-complete starts with most recent nick
• Add /reload
• Add custom palette entry for self highlights
• Add ability to set background colors and styles in palette

2.6

• connect-cmds now use actual client commands instead of raw IRC messages. For example msg user my message or join #mychannel
• Multiple lines can be held in the textbox at once. Pasting multiple lines insert those lines into the textbox rather than sending them immediately.
• Added M-d and M-Enter key bindings
• Added name field to server configuration
• Extract irc-core library again
• Configurable self color

2.5

• Add facilities for hooks that can alter the IRC message stream.
• Implement a hook that handles the ZNC buffextras plugin.
• Implement configurable nick color highlight palette.
• Resolve relative paths starting at the home directory.
• Significantly configurable UI colors

2.4

• Support XDG configuration directory, e.g. ~/.config/glirc/config
• Add more window names. Shift selects second set of names.
• Add /channel and /say
• Improve /focus tab completion

2.3

• Add commands /znc
• Add initial support for ZNC's playback module and /znc-playback command
• Don't consider message seen when in masklist, userlist, or channelinfo windows
• Add terminal bell on command error

2.2

• Add commands /ison, /userhost, /away, /notice, /ctcp, /links, /time, /stats
• Added context-sensitive completion to /mode
• Render CTCP messages
• Memory performance improvements
• Improved logic on nick changes
• Support for fractional flood settings
• Fixed VTY formatting bug
• Add counts to the mask and user lists

2.1

• Add red highlighting for own nick
• Synchronize reply codes with ircd-seven
• Add textual interpretation of reply codes
• Add SASL support
• Add /channelinfo command

2.0

• First version of glirc rewrite