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
as i did the two latest updates, take maintainership
The changelog for 0.99:
- Fixed memory initialization bug in OSCAR module that caused crashes on
closing the connection.
- Most likely fixed the bug that caused BitlBee to use 100% CPU time in
some situations.
- Outgoing MSN typing notifications are now understood correctly by the
orignal MS Mac/Windows clients (again).
- Added "account add $protocol" to the documentation, got rid of a lot
of over-markup (i.e. overuse of bold-tags), reviewed some other parts.
- Small changes to help.xsl to fix small flaws in the help.txt formatting.
- Messaging yourself now doesn't make irssi or mIRC crash anymore.
backslashes anymore. A single backslash is enough. Changed the
definition in all affected packages. For those that are not caught, an
additional check is placed into bsd.pkginstall.mk.
file's sole purpose was to provide a dependency on pkg-config and set
some environment variables. Instead, turn pkg-config into a "tool"
in the tools framework, where the pkg-config wrapper automatically
adds PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to the environment before invoking the real
pkg-config.
For all package Makefiles that included pkg-config/buildlink3.mk, remove
that inclusion and replace it with USE_TOOLS+=pkg-config.
Main changelog entries are:
Security:
- Fixed a bug in http_encode that might have caused buffer overflows
(although not likely to be exploitable) when trying to encode strings
with non-ASCII characters.
- Newline stripping added to prevent newline-in-friendlyname attacks.
(Which allowed remote people to make BitlBee send raw custom IRC lines.)
Bugs:
- Many crashes
- Yahoo! cleanup code to avoid 100% CPU time usage
- fixes for ICQ and MSN
approved by wiz@
