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Version 3.4.1:
- msn:
* Upgraded protocol to MSNP21, works again (dx)
* Contact list management, groupchats and skype username logins won't work.
Next release!
- jabber:
* Add "hipchat" protocol, for smoother login. Takes the same username as
the official client. Note that unlike the 'hip-cat' branch, this doesn't
preload channels. https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoHipchat for details (dx)
* Fixed a bug when receiving topics set by people who left the channel (dx)
* Create fake users instead of showing "unknown participant" errors (dx)
* Gmail mail notifications support (Artem Savkov)
* Lowering xmpp presence priority on away (Artem Savkov)
- twitter:
* Show quoted tweets/RTs with comment inline (wilmer)
* Added "url" command, can be used to quote tweets (wilmer)
* Make replies to self work (wilmer)
- Building documentation is now done with a python script (both 2.x/3.x work)
Asciidoc/xsltproc/xmlto are no longer build dependencies (dx)
Finished 16 Jun 2015
Version 3.4:
- First release pretty much fully prepared by dx instead of Wilmer. Just look
at the tightly structured changelog!
- Main repository migrated from bzr to git
- Some API/ABI changes. Recompiling third party plugins is required!
- Important bugfixes:
* Fix memory leak when calling word_wrap() on groupchat messages (dx)
* Fix segfault after a file transfer is complete (dx)
* Fix bug where NSS would refuse to work in forkdaemon mode (dx)
* Fix several bugs with UTF8 nicks (dx)
* Fix some nasty deadlocks that appared mostly with libpurple (dx)
- General changes:
* Add a 'pattern' parameter to the blist command, to filter it (tribut)
* Implemented /kick support, only supported by purple for now (jgeboski)
* Add a "special" state to show_users (mapped to the % prefix) (jgeboski)
* Improved support for cygwin, openbsd and darwin (jcopenha)
* Create temporary users instead of showing "Message from unknown
participant" (jgeboski)
- purple:
* Local contact lists for gadugadu and whatsapp (dx)
* Add topic and name_hint to groupchats (seirl)
* Support for 'input' requests (such as telegram auth codes) (seirl)
Note that telegram-purple itself is rather unstable ATM, it may crash.
- jabber:
* Handle compressed DNS responses in SRV lookup (jcopenha)
* Fix case sensitivity issues with JIDs (GRMrGecko, dx)
* Implement XEP-0203 style message timestamps (dx)
* Fix "Server claims your JID is X instead of Y" warnings (dx)
* Account-wide display_name setting, mostly for hipchat (dx)
- twitter:
* Filter channels. Search by keyword/hashtag or a list of users (jgeboski)
* Fix bug in "reply" command which removed the first quote character (dx)
* Add "rawreply" command, like reply but bitlbee won't add @mention (WillP)
* Add support for The United States of America (favorite/fav aliases) (dx)
* Default show_old_mentions to 0 (dx)
* Start stream from last tweet on connect/reconnect (roger)
- msn:
* Disabled module by default. The protocol we used (MSNP18) stopped working
last week. This is being worked on, but it's far from ready for release.
- And lots of small bugfixes, too many to list here.
Finished 25 Mar 2015
- The OTR plugin now uses libotr 4.0 (AKA libotr5 in debian based distros)
- Rejecting buddy requests in jabber won't accept them. Sorry for that.
- Purple builds can now enable built in protocols when configuring, by
passing a parameter such as --jabber=1 to configure
- You can now use /oper to change passwords with "ac x set -del password"
- Complex unicode characters (non-BMP) now display correctly in twitter.
- A few init / build script / pkg-config fixes. Added "install-systemd"
make target.
Finished 5 Jul 2014
Version 3.2.1:
- Most important change: http_client updated to use HTTP/1.1, now required
by Twitter.
- fill_by setting can now be used to fill a channel contacts *not* in a
certain group/on a certain account/etc. See "help set fill_by"
- Added utf8_nicks setting which lets you use non-ASCII nicknames for your
contacts. Might not work with all IRC clients, use at your own risk!
- Lots of bugfixes.
Finished 27 Nov 2013
Version 3.2 (released 2013-01-06) hilights:
Updated Twitter module. Support for Twitter API 1.1, streaming API, direct
messages and some other improvements.
Fixed potential connection issue to Google Talk, OpenFire, possibly other
Jabber services.
A bunch of other things.
Version 3.0.6 (released 2012-10-14) hilights:
Updated MSN module, now speaking the MSNP18 protocol. This adds support for
MPOP and also fixes sending off-line messages.
Loads of bugfixes, etc. accumulated over the last half a year.
GnuTLS deprecated gnutils_transport_set_lowat function in version 2.12.0
and finally removed it with version 3.0, breaking any packages that
still reference it.
The lowat feature is now disabled permanently I think.
The patch uses the GNUTLS_VERSION_NUMBER macro to appropriately conceal
the function reference. The same patch is widely seen on the 'net with
other packages that use GnuTLS.
- Fixed Twitter compatibility. (The API call used to get the following list
was deprecated.)
- Twitter: Enable the show_ids setting to assign a two-digit short ID to
recent tweets to use for retweets and replies (so you can RT/reply to more
than just a person's last message).
- Some other Twitter fixes/improvements.
- "otr reconnect" command and some other fixes.
- GnuTLS 2.12 compatibility fix.
- Include "FLOOD=0/9999" in the 005/ISUPPORT line at login to hint the IRC
client that rate limiting is not required. (Next step: Get IRC clients to
parse it.)
- Other stuff too small to mention.
Finished 2 Jun 2011
Version 3.0.2:
- Fixed MSN login issues with @msn.com accounts.
- /CTCP support: You can CTCP VERSION Jabber contacts, and CTCP NUDGE MSN
contacts. More may come later, ideas are welcome.
- By default, leave Twitter turned on for libpurple builds.
- Allow using /OPER to identify/register as well. (Password security hack.)
- Fixed proxy support with libpurple.
- Some minor changes/fixes.
Patch provided by gls@
Changes:
Version 3.0.1 (released 2010-11-24) hilights:
- MSN login fixes, Jabber (3.0 had a bug that made Jabber contacts never go
offline), some other minor IM module fixes (including the new default ICQ
login server).
- Fixed build issues on some non-Linux systems.
- Minor bugfixes/improvements.
Version 3.0 (released 2010-10-22) hilights:
* Lots of stuff, see the development version below.
* MSN protocol module was rewritten. This fixes some problems many people were
having with the old code lately, and adds support for things like status
messages and offline messages.
* The bitlbee-otr branch is now merged into mainline, which means you can
compile BitlBee with OTR encryption support, if you want, without any need
for patches/alternative branches.
* Many more fixes, small changes, etc. Just read the full non-bzr changelog for
all details.
Fix PR pkg/43329
- Version 1.2.7 (released 2010-05-15) hilights:
* Resolved MSN Messenger login issues.
* Twitter module now uses OAuth, so it'll still work after June.
* Various other fixes and small feature additions.
- Version 1.2.6a (released 2010-04-19) hilights:
* (1.2.6a because the original 1.2.6 release had one unfortunate bug in the
Twitter module.)
* Twitter support! (Implemented by Geert Mulders.)
* Fixed issues with MSN friendly names getting lost by allowing to store
them locally (see the local_display_name MSN setting.), and worked around
problems when talking to offline MSN contacts (see the
switchboard_keepalives MSN setting).
The usual bug fixes and small feature enhancements.
- Version 1.2.5 (released 2010-03-17) hilights:
* Full support for non-away status messages.
* Ability to generate nicknames from the contact's full name, making
Facebook's XMPP server work much better with BitlBee.
* Lots of misc. bug fixes and small feature enhancements.
Fixes security issue http://secunia.com/advisories/31633/
Changelog:
Version 1.2.2 (released 2008-08-26) hilights:
* Fixed a security issue where it was possible to recreate/hijack already
existing accounts.
* Various stability improvements and minor feature enhancements.
Version 1.2.1 (released 2008-06-24) hilights:
* Mostly a lot of fixes for bugs found after the 1.2 release.
* Daemon mode is now officially declared stable.
- Fixed proxy support.
- Fixed stalling issues while connecting to Jabber when using the OpenSSL
module.
- Fixed problem with GLib and ForkDaemon where processes didn't die when
the client disconnects.
- Fixed handling of "set charset none". (Which pretty much breaks the account
completely in 1.2.)
- You can now automatically identify yourself to BitlBee by setting a server
password in your IRC client.
- Compatible with all crazy kinds of line endings that clients can send.
- Changed root nicknames are now saved.
- Added ClientInterface setting to bind() outgoing connections to a specific
network interface.
- Support for receiving Jabber chatroom invitations.
- Relaxed port restriction of the Jabber module: added ports 80 and 443.
- Preserving case in Jabber resources of buddies, since these should
officially be treated as case sensitive.
- Fully stripping spaces from AIM screennames, this didn't happen completely
which severly breaks the IRC protocol.
- Removed all the yellow tape around daemon mode, it's pretty mature by now:
testing.bitlbee.org serves all (~30) SSL users from one daemon mode
process without any serious stability issues.
- Fixed GLib <2.6 compatibility issue.
- Misc. memory leak/crash fixes.
Changelog:
* Version 1.2 (released 2008-03-17) hilights:
- See 1.1.1dev and 1.1dev (Jabber module rewrite, Jabber groupchats, better
(and more secure) file format for user data, ForkDaemon mode).
- Yahoo! support in this release will hopefully still work next month.
* Development version 1.1.1dev (released 2007-11-24) hilights:
- Mostly internal changes (resolved some GPL issues, changed some parts of the
IM API).
- Support for Jabber chatrooms and an XML console.
- Support for named AIM chatrooms.
* Development version 1.1dev (released 2007-02-19) hilights:
- Many new features, enhancements, bugfixes, for example:
- Rewritten Jabber module.
- Improved file format for storing user configuration.
- ForkDaemon mode: Daemon mode without the stability problems.
Version 1.0.4 (released 2007-08-20) hilights:
- Removed call to sethostent() from proxy.c, this caused a lot of
problems especially for people on *BSD.
- Just some small bugfixes.
INSTALLATION_DIRS, as well as all occurrences of ${PREFIX}/man with
${PREFIX}/${PKGMANDIR}.
Fixes PR 35265, although I did not use the patch provided therein.
From changelog:
Version 1.0.3 (released 2006-06-24) hilights:
- Less ICQ spam because the web-aware flag is disabled.
- It's easier to talk to people who are not in your buddy list.
- ISON command works better with irssi (and probably other clients).
- The usual bug fixes.
Version 1.0.2 (released 2006-04-01) hilights:
- Fixed some issues in charset handling.
- Better handling of Jabber away states.
- Some daemon mode stability/usability fixes.
- Lots of miscellaneous fixes, cleanups, etc.
Version 1.0.1 (released 2006-01-14) hilights:
- This version contains some of the changes from the current bzr tree, mainly bug fixes
- AIM groupchat support
- Fixes problems with MSN messages failing to arrive
- Fixes problems with not seeing Jabber buddies online
- Now handles MSN passwords with commas correctly
- Code cleanup
CHANGES contains:
- renamed control channel to &bitlbee, to avoid confusions
- Jabber cleanup
- Handle RSS-to-Jabber feeds
- AIM notifications
- typing notifications come in as CTCP
- fixes a possible DoD bug
Also, the package now installs the full user-guide, and bitlbee.conf(5) man
page
