Features
* Standard IRC features
* SSL server support
* Bookmarking support
* Easy to use graphical user interface
* Multiple servers and channels in one single window
* DCC file transfer
* Multiple identities for different servers
* Text decorations and colors
* OnScreen Display for notifications
* Automatic UTF-8 detection
* Per channel encoding support
* Theme support for nick icons
* Highly configurable
Don't set O_NDELAY (and leave it set!) on all sockets, all the time. This
was making select always return immediately and was causing the daemon to
spin on CPU.
Instead, set O_NONBLOCK (= O_NDELAY) on sockets only when reading/writing
them, and clear it afterwards, so select is always safe.
This release folds in pkgsrc patches patch-ad through patch-ai.
For the moment, remove patch-aj as well, since it doesn't apply (file paths
are wrong). I'll try to fold this into the next beta, however.
was making select always return immediately and was causing the daemon to
spin on CPU.
Instead, set O_NONBLOCK (= O_NDELAY) on sockets only when reading/writing
them, and clear it afterwards, so select is always safe.
> 0.5.8
> - Translations into German, Dutch, Romanian and Norwegian (thanks
> OUTsider/scarynet)
> - Russian translation of help
> - Some more UTF-8 fixes (including joining channels with non-ASCII chars,
> thanks to Jonas Liljegren)
> - Server balancing support
> - Identd supports multiple installs
> - Fix buffer overflow in client.cgi
> - Other misc fixes (see http://cvs.cgiirc.org/timeline?d=300&e=2006-Apr-30&c=2)
>
> 0.5.7
> - Fixed to work on Perl <5.8
> - Perform config option
Changes since version 2.6.1:
- Updated translations (de, fr, ja, sv).
- Made "/server freenode" send auto-join channels but not
"/server irc://freenode".
- Fixed building of xchat-text (although not recommended!).
- Fixed using Strip mIRC colors & Color nicks at the same time.
- Fixed a bug in timestamp drawing using non-fixed-width font [1404341].
- Fixed display of realname in the nick-name right-click menu when it
contains a '<' or '&' character [1403069].
- Added support for UniBG's nickserv (ongeboren).
- The move-to-complete-dir routine now treats encoding/UTF8 correctly.
- Show help when using wrong args for /DCC, instead of silence.
- Support receiving 2048 bytes per line from server and dcc-chat, so we
can support 512 UTF-8 characters that some servers now send.
- Added /gui detach and /gui attach commands for scripters.
- The server list window now remembers its size.
PKGLOCALEDIR and which install their locale files directly under
${PREFIX}/${PKGLOCALEDIR} and sort the PLIST file entries. From now
on, pkgsrc/mk/plist/plist-locale.awk will automatically handle
transforming the PLIST to refer to the correct locale directory.
* Quick build fix release when building without SSL, LM-25.
Changes 1.0.2:
* Fixed issue when opening in blocking mode failed, LM-15
* Unregister sources when connection fails to avoid later segfault, LM-16
* Fixed an issue where large messages would get trunkated, LM-17
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.
RECOMMENDED is removed. It becomes ABI_DEPENDS.
BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED.foo becomes BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.foo.
BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.foo becomes BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.foo.
BUILDLINK_DEPENDS does not change.
IGNORE_RECOMMENDED (which defaulted to "no") becomes USE_ABI_DEPENDS
which defaults to "yes".
Added to obsolete.mk checking for IGNORE_RECOMMENDED.
I did not manually go through and fix any aesthetic tab/spacing issues.
I have tested the above patch on DragonFly building and packaging
subversion and pkglint and their many dependencies.
I have also tested USE_ABI_DEPENDS=no on my NetBSD workstation (where I
have used IGNORE_RECOMMENDED for a long time). I have been an active user
of IGNORE_RECOMMENDED since it was available.
As suggested, I removed the documentation sentences suggesting bumping for
"security" issues.
As discussed on tech-pkg.
I will commit to revbump, pkglint, pkg_install, createbuildlink separately.
Note that if you use wip, it will fail! I will commit to pkgsrc-wip
later (within day).
NEWS in 0.10.2:
===============
- Add runtime controlled debugging facilities (Richard).
- Display an event in the group chat window when a user changes the
topic, previously it just happened with no indication of who changed
it or when (Kristian Rietveld).
- Changed the account ID for Jabber IDs back to 'username@server' and
make the resource a separate entity in the accounts.xml (note: there
is some extra code to make sure the same problems that occurred last
time don't reoccurr this time with invalid usernames when trying to
connect) (Martyn).
- Updated the spell checker dialog to use "Replace" instead of "OK"
(Martyn).
- Cleaned up the glade windows and dialogs so windows are not shown
automatically, this reduces flickering when they are created (Richard).
- Fixed the assistant used to add accounts so it now accepts a
username of username@server and make the resource optional on the next
(connections) page (Martyn).
- Fixed the add account assistant so that account details are properly
checked before proceeding to the following page (Martyn).
- Updated the personal information dialog so there is no longer a
progress bar when saving or loading, it just makes widgets
insensitive. Also the buttons are now Save and Cancel which is clearer
(Martyn).
- Fixed the jabber chatroom join presence handling so it actually
checks the presence message is for the right room instead of just
accepting any old presence message - this means auto-connecting on
startup works properly and will also give the correct error if you
can't join for some reason (Martyn).
- The chatrooms window now allows selection of multiple rooms for
joining, deleteing, etc and the dialog will close when a rooms are
joined. Chatrooms will also be joined on the treeview "row-activate"
signal now (Martyn).
- Updated the CSS used for logging so the font isn't so big (Martyn).
- Improve the X screensaver detection (Richard, Tommi Komulainen).
- Added the 'x' to close separate chat tabs back in (Richard, Martyn).
- Improve the build scripts (Richard, Bryan Pepple).
- Fixed#334890, Make it possible to forget saved passwords (Paul Van
Tilburg).
- Fixed#334390, Use iso-codes for the language names for spell
checking (Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Richard).
- Fixed#331910, Make the accounts info file not readable by others
than the owner (Richard).
- Fixed#332058, Don't spell check chat commands like "/me" (Ross
Burton).
- Fixed#332063, Don't spell check numberic strings, e.g. "1234" (Ross
Burton).
- Fixed#332169, Update the libnotify code to work with the 0.3.2 API
(Martyn, Brian Pepple).
- Fixed#332713, Use the default foreground colour for the classic
chat theme (Richard).
- Fixed#332240, Change some keyboard mnemonics for chat windows
(Brian Pepple).
Translations:
Clytie Siddall (vi)
Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
Mikhail Zabaluev (ru)
Øivind Hoel (nb)
Richard Hult (sv)
Wouter Bolsterlee (nl)
Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
News in 0.10.1:
===============
- Changed the accounts dialog and removed the enable/disable account
checkbutton in the accounts list, it was pointless (Martyn).
- Changed the account button tooltip to only show the account id and
any error that might of occurred (Martyn).
- Added typing notification on the roster (Martyn, Richard).
- Added a chat theme selection in the preferences to choose between
Classic and Blue (which is a block message format), try it!
(Richard).
- Don't ellipsize text in the menu created for status presets, this
usually is not shown in full when using the menu on the tray icon
(Martyn).
- Added libnotify support for contacts coming online and sending first
time messages (note: this only works with libnotify 0.2.1 at the
moment, not with the 0.3.x API, if you have 0.3.x you might have to
disable it with configure --disable-libnotify) (Martyn).
- Use a GtkWindow instead of a GnomeApp for the main window. The
widget spacing for toolbars and menus is much better now (Martyn).
- Fixed#306719, Make sure Wordstar style key bindings work (i.e
Ctrl+Insert copies, Ctrl+Delete and cuts Shift+Insert pastes)
(Richard).
- Fixed#332052, Be more flexible with DTD validation in XML files
(Richard, Ross Burton).
- Fixed#332423, Make sure special characters are escaped when saving
to XML files (for accounts, presets, and contact groups) (Richard,
Jonatan Magnusson).
- Fixed#322030, Added the 'x' button back onto chat tabs to close
conversations (Richard, Sjoerd Simons)
- Fixed#332333, Fixed weird menu detachment behaviour (Diego
González).
- Fixed#142188, Don't scroll the chat window when drag and dropping
across them (Richard).
- Fixed#165565, Don't scroll the chat window when on the first or
last tab and pressing Ctrl+Pg[Up|Down] (Richard)
- Fixed#172013, Make sure group chat windows scroll to the bottom
(Richard)
- Fixed#332020, Corrected some UI typos (Clytie Siddall)
- Fixed#331664, Don't crash when trying to connect with an error
about a missing resource in the account id, instead we now signal the
error and the user is informed so they are able to correct it
(Martyn).
- Fixed#331707, Depend on GTK+ 2.8 because we are using some GTK+
stock icons from it (Brian Pepple).
- Fixed#331868, Corrected some UI typos (Clytie Siddall).
Translations:
- Clytie Siddall (vi)
- David Nielsen (da)
- Jordi Mallach (ca)
- Miloslav Trmac (cs)
- Richard Hult (sv)
- Wouter Bolsterlee (nl)
News in 0.10:
=============
- Added support for changing topics in group chat (Martyn).
- Added support incoming message sound if your name is used in group
chat (Martyn).
- Reworked the chat code in places and added the beginings of a theme
engine (Richard).
- Reworked the group chat join code (Martyn).
- Reworked the group chat configuration to use an XML file (Martyn).
- Reworked the status preset code (Richard).
- Reworked the status preset configuration to use an XML file (Martyn,
Richard).
- Added *VERY* basic support for file transfer (this means you can
respond to incoming requests, but you can not accept or initiate them)
(Martyn).
- Added Help->Contents (Brian Pepple and Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni).
- Added new DBus API for post-net-up and pre-net-down so things can
clean up (Mikael).
- Use the Gnome smiley theme so there are now more emote icons that
can be used in chat (Martyn):
:* = Kiss
:s = Confused
:@ = Angry
*| = Sorry
*) = Look Away
:x = Oooh
*s = Blush
8D = Cool Big Smile
<) = Angel
@) = Boss
#) = Monkey
O) = Silly
+o( = Sick
- Added "composing" support back into Gossip (Martyn).
- Added "auto_connect" feature for accounts when starting Gossip
(Martyn).
- Clean up unused ellipsize and tree model filter code borrowed from
libegg which is now in GTK+ (Richard).
- Fixed#331229, Avoid critical warning when getting presence
information about offline contacts (Wouter Bolsterlee).
- Fixed#331412, Use "Remove" and "Cancel instead of "Yes" and "No"
when removing a contact (Wouter Bolsterlee).
- Fixed#331228, GTK+ gtk_widget_hide() warning causing a crash (Diego
González).
- Fixed#330830, Make sure the chatrooms window clears widget values
when closed (since it is hidden) (Paul Van Tilburg).
- Fixed#330828, Make sure the nickname for chatrooms is honored (Paul
Van Tilburg).
- Fixed#330916, Missing files in POTFILES.in (Brian Pepple).
- Fixed#306321, Make sure errors returned from failed registration
attempts are more user friendly rather than esoteric (Joe Shaw).
- Fixed#131290, Fixed nickname used in chat to be the full name from
the users vcard, which is also now set when registering new accounts
(Michal Janeczek).
- Fixed#321569, Possibility to set server seperately from jabber id
in the startup wizard (Brian Pepple).
- Fixed#325841, Support automatically joining chat rooms when
connecting to the server (Martyn, Ross Burton).
- Fixed#325740, Fixed crasher when joining the same group chat for
the 2nd time (Martyn).
- Fixed#325378, Updated help documentation to reflect the latest
user interface changes (Brian Pepple).
- Fixed#308041, Made the show/hide contact list configurable from the
main menu not just the notification area (Radomir Dopieralski).
- Fixed#321801, Don't send "composing" notification from every
account, only from the account that has that contact (Ross Burton).
- Fixed#119971, Support inviting people to group chat rooms (Mikael
Hallendal).
- Fixed#325258, Make sure the default vcard is looked up when showing
the Personal Information dialog (Brian Pepple).
- Fixed#141225, Added status and resource information to the Contact
Information dialog (jon@tgpsolutions.com).
- Fixed#322775, Reworked the Chat->New Message dialog (Martyn, Brian
Pepple).
- Fixed#323099, Made name and group configurable on new subscriptions
(Maciej Katafiasz).
- Fixed#305103, Translation bugs in jabber transport modules (Gabor
Kelemen).
- Fixed#322712, Build issues with DBus and Galago (Brian Pepple).
- Fixed#321538, Windows and dialogs have transients to positioned
children over their parents (Christian Neumair, Martyn).
- Fixed#316925, Added support for Galago (Ross Burton).
- Fixed#314848, Disable sound when showing/hiding offline contacts
(Martyn).
- Fixed#316172, Stop sending blank messages with "composing"
information (Ross Burton).
- Fixed#317107, Fixed GossipAccountButton implementation (Martyn,
Tommi Komulainen).
- Fixed#135472, Added shortcut (Escape) to hide main window (Edd
Dumbill).
- Fixed#316340, Make sure newly opened chat windows get focus (Keywan
Najafi Tonekaboni).
- Fixed#316917, Added "presence-changed" signal to the session for
Galago (Ross Burton).
- Fixed#316625, Resolved build issues with pkg-config (Tommi
Komulainen).
- Fixed#316621, Make the offline GossipAccountButton icon clearer
(Tommi Komulainen).
- Fixed#315181, Moved DBus initiation out of libgossip (Brian
Pepple).
- Fixed#153110, Resolved group chat text wrapping issues (Sven
Salzwedel).
- Fixed#165404, Support registering using SSL (Martyn, Mikael,
skadz@mindstorm.com).
- Fixed#165519, Support configuring multiple accounts (Martyn).
- Fixed#314140, Resolved "Login" grammar error (Adam Weinberger).
- Fixed#155135, Added confirmation dialog when trying to quit with
unread messages, subscriptions, etc (Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni).
- Fixed#142192, Make dragging contacts into chat windows highlight
the target to make things clearer and only drop when the button is
released (Sjoerd Simons).
- Fixed#151859, Stop the new message icon flashing on a contact when
dragging them to a chat window (Paul van Tilburg).
- Fixed#160216, Make the add contact druid continue when pressing
Next (bram@luon.net).
- Fixed#141787, Support adding contacts from a chat window (Brad
Taylor).
- Fixed#156285, Added completion to the status preset dialogs
(Martyn).
- Fixed#313486, Stop crash when joining a group chat and canceling it
immediately after (Brian Pepple).
Translations:
- Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
- Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_HK)
- Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_TW)
- Christian Rose (sv)
- Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
- Gabor Kelemen (hu)
- Jaydeep Bhusal (ne)
- Pawan Chitrakar (ne)
- Richard Hult (sv)
- Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
location for both emacs and xemacs.
* List the info files directly in the PLIST.
* Use EMACS_MODULES to deal with a possible xemacs-packages dependency.
Changes since version 2.4.5 include:
- Updated translations (de, el, fi, fr, gl, hu, ko, nl, pa, sq, vi).
- Added support for log rotation based on time or date.
- Double-click in tree layout will now expand/collapse (Lian Wan Situ).
- Keys to move tabs around now work in Tree layout too (Lian Wan Situ/Me).
- Largely re-written "Search Text" function with much better
behaviour and match case on/off and search backwards options
(Richard Hitt and Me).
- The parent row in the tree layout now changes color if you have
that group collapsed (Lian Wan Situ).
- Fixed crash when trying to Detach or Close a utility tab via
right-click, when it's not the currently focused tab.
- Made DCC resume handle case-insensitive file systems properly.
- Fixed the flashing when you click on a colored treeview row.
- Fixed auto-completion during /exec -o [1375530].
- Added "Join Channel" menu item to the Server menu.
- Unshade the Disconnect menu item when a connection is in progress.
- Fixed a possible crash in changing color settings before changing
to/from the tree layout (SF bug #1349088).
- Added "Auto accept file offers" to the File Transfer settings.
- Added support for brackets "<>" around nicknames in cut and paste,
without displaying them (hidden text) (Camillo Lugaresi).
- Fixed opening URL irc://NetWork/#channel not joining the channel
[1362155].
- Fixed the nickname label becoming small when you're marked Back
if you have "Small tabs" turned on.
- The textevents GUI has been re-written to use GtkTreeView.
- Randomized DNS lookups on Mac OS X on hostnames that return
multiple IP numbers (SG / CL).
- Added a dialog window to help newbies join a channel.
- Opening irc:// URLs will now JOIN only if you are already connected
to the network.
- Plugin API (Lian Wan Situ):
* Added selected flag to "users" list.
* Added "id" to xchat_get_prefs.
* Changed xchat_find_context (ph, channel, NULL) to return results
from the same server group as the current context when possible.
- Perl (Lian Wan Situ):
* using emit_print/command/recv will no longer trigger their own
callbacks.
* Fix compiling issues with versions older than 5.8.2.
* Make all scripts appear in the "Plugins and Scripts" window, even
those that do not call register().
- Updated translations (nl, zh_TW).
- Message boxes are now warning, error or info with appropriate icon.
- Red marker line feature enabled by default.
- Added /SEND <nick> [file] which will automatically switch to PSEND
when detecting a private net address.
- Simplified default nick-right-click menu.
- Show "Last Talk" in nick-right-click menu as "minutes ago".
- Strip mIRC colour from away message in right-click menu.
- Warn when opening banlist in non-channel.
- Reorganised and simplified IRC/Server menus and new View menu.
- The editable Server menu is no more, if you want it type
/set gui_usermenu 1 and restart.
- Option to view channels in tabs or tree structure.
- Shorter titlebar text for better viewing in taskbar.
- Disabled key-search in server list, as GTK's auto-find does this
better.
- Removed "Connect in new tab" button in server list, it now does it
intelligently. Use stock Connect icon.
- Removed "Tint (shade) transparency" item from settings and figure
it out based on tint values.
- When closing a tab, re-focus the one near by, instead of always the
last.
- Firefox style close button.
- The lag and throttle metres now have tooltips that give you real
information (hover the pointer over them).
- Added workaround to show on-join ChanServ notices in the right tab.
- Tab scroll buttons are now side-by-side when in vertical mode.
- Automatically change key shortcut of "Marked Away" if the
translation already uses ALT-A for the Help menu (e.g _Aide in
French).
- Your nickname in the bottom-left corner now turns gray when you are
marked away, just like the userlist.
- Introduced a delay before joining channels, to allow for FreeNode's
short comings. If a umode +e is received it'll send auto-join
channels immediately.
- Plugin API: Added win_ptr to xchat_get_info.
- Non-irc (utility) tabs can now be detached aswell.
- Fixed behaviour problems of the userlist pane, which might be set
incorrectly if the window was resized while a server-tab is focued.
- Added a confirm-dialog when trying to close a server-tab with
children.
- Server list's edit window now gives you an option of a network
specific "Second choice" nickname.
- Auto detect RusNet and use /NICKSERV to identify instead of /MSG.
- Added /Ghost command.
- Fixed: The WHOIS away-line ignored irc_whois_front setting.
- Scroll-wheel now works while hovering over a tab (Lian Wan Situ).
- The input box right-click menu now has bold, underline and italic.
- Added xchat-remote for launching irc:// URLs in existing xchat
and other functions (Claessens Xavier).
- Better command-line parameter parsing via GOption.
- Tab completion order can now be in "last talk" order if you
/set completion_sort 1.
- "Channel Action" and "Channel Action Hilight" now have a 3rd
argument of "Mode char", just like normal message events. The last
talk time is also now updated on actions.
- Reworked the Character Chart window so you can find your char.
- Perl:
- fixed so that printf and commandf are exported
- print and printf can also be called as prnt and prntf, this is to
avoid clashing with the builtins.
- Deprioritized MODE/WHO to reduce join lag.
"pkgsrc" related changes:
- The text frontend "xchat-text" is currently not part of the package
because the build is broken (despite different claims in the
original release notes).
INSTALL/DEINSTALL script creation within pkgsrc.
If an INSTALL or DEINSTALL script is found in the package directory,
it is automatically used as a template for the pkginstall-generated
scripts. If instead, they should be used simply as the full scripts,
then the package Makefile should set INSTALL_SRC or DEINSTALL_SRC
explicitly, e.g.:
INSTALL_SRC= ${PKGDIR}/INSTALL
DEINSTALL_SRC= # emtpy
As part of the restructuring of the pkginstall framework internals,
we now *always* generate temporary INSTALL or DEINSTALL scripts. By
comparing these temporary scripts with minimal INSTALL/DEINSTALL
scripts formed from only the base templates, we determine whether or
not the INSTALL/DEINSTALL scripts are actually needed by the package
(see the generate-install-scripts target in bsd.pkginstall.mk).
In addition, more variables in the framework have been made private.
The *_EXTRA_TMPL variables have been renamed to *_TEMPLATE, which are
more sensible names given the very few exported variables in this
framework. The only public variables relating to the templates are:
INSTALL_SRC INSTALL_TEMPLATE
DEINSTALL_SRC DEINSTALL_TEMPLATE
HEADER_TEMPLATE
The packages in pkgsrc have been modified to reflect the changes in
the pkginstall framework.
