From Changelog
* Pressing enter when a group is selected will toggle the fold status
* New option 'ignore_self_presence'
* New option 'log_display_presence'
* New option 'eventcmd_use_nickname'
* New option 'statefile' to keep track of unread messages across restarts
* New option to customize the away/notavail priority (Michael Gehring)
* New external "UNREAD" event
* Add FIFO named command pipe
* New switches for /say_to: -q, -f
* New command /status message (to only change the status description string)
* Let /del remove a MUC entry from the roster
* Allow more than the 16 default colors (mjs)
* Randomize the default resource
* Improve OTR support
* Improve Remote Controlling Clients (XEP-0146)
* Improve reading of history files
* Fix compilation on systems which need -lcharset
* Add optional SIGWINCH handler (Markus Hennecke)
(improves resize events on OpenBSD)
* Fixes from MirBSD (Thorsten Glaser)
* Some more fixes and improvements (see detailed changelog)
The changelog for 0.9.6 is following
* Improve Cygwin support
* Fix compilation on OpenBSD
* [UI] New option 'escdelay'
* [MUC] New command /room setopt
* [MUC] More room settings are stored in the server private storage
* [MUC] The command /room ban can be used with a nickname
* [MUC] New rooms are automatically unlocked (suggested by M. Weiser)
* A few misc. bugfixes
Changes since 0.9.4 are:
* Implement internal hooks: post-connect, pre-disconnect
* Extend command /source; any command can be used in a sourced file
once mcabber is running
* [OTR] New option 'otr' (to enable OTR support in the conf. file)
* [OTR] Disable OTR encryption for non-user contacts
* [SSL] Do not connect when the SSL settings can't be used
* [MUC] Add "/room names --detail"
* Add command /roster item_toggle_lock
* A group name can be specified in the /group command
* [UI] Remove the restriction on the message sizes for displaying
incoming messages
* History logfile: Use a special code (MI) for local MUC info messages
* Usual misc. improvements and bugfixes
* Update Polish translation
Notable thing about this release :
Otr support ( please read TODO about that)
aspell support
Better MUC support (nick coloring and so on)
While here, use the options framework
Add xdg and examples files.
Add MESSAGE.
2007/06/19: mcabber 0.9.3 released. (Bugfix release)
2007/06/12: mcabber 0.9.2 released. Aspell support, improved MUC nickname completion and line highlighting, loading of configuration files from within mcabber, as well as other enhancements and bug fixes.
* Fix truncation of UTF-8 buddy names in the roster (Myhailo Danylenko)
* Fix SSL support on OS X (Alexis Hildebrandt)
* Fix a freeze with some mistakes in the configuration file
* Update the sample event script to be more portable
* Fix some UTF-8 related issues
* Fix permissions of help files
* Correctly display the first message of a buffer (it wasn't wrapped)
Some commands were causing a freeze when there was a trailing space
in the command line.
* The current ssl_verify value is used in /connect (no need to restart
mcabber)
* System messages are not blocked anymore when the option
"block_unsubscribed" is set
* Do not enter chat mode after command "/del" or when somebody joins a room
* Display mcabber version in the status window (when chat mode is disabled)
(Suggested by pmw & hednod)
* Small code cleanup and a few cosmetic changes
