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2.0.0 (Unreleased)
* xD: now using SHA-256 for client certificate fingerprints
* xD: implemented WALLOPS, choosing to make it target even non-operators
* xC: made it show WALLOPS messages, as PRIVMSG for the server buffer
* xC: all behaviour.* configuration options have been renamed to general.*,
with the exception of editor_command/editor, backlog_helper/pager,
and backlog_helper_strip_formatting/pager_strip_formatting
* xC: all attributes.* configuration options have been made abstract in
a subset of the git-config(1) format, and renamed to theme.*,
with the exception of attributes.reset, which has no replacement
* xC: replaced behaviour.save_on_quit with general.autosave
* xC: improved pager integration capabilities
* xC: unsolicited JOINs will no longer automatically activate the buffer
* xC: made Readline insert the longest common completion prefix first,
and prevented the possible-completions command from duplicating the prompt
* xC: normalized editline's history behaviour, making it a viable frontend
* xC: various bugfixes
* xC: added a relay interface, enabled through the general.relay_bind option
* Added a web frontend for xC called xP
* Added a Win32 frontend for xC called xW
* Added a Cocoa frontend for xC called xM
* Added a Go port of xD called xS
1.5.0 (2021-12-21) "The Show Must Go On"
* xC: made it possible to pass the cursor position to external editors,
in particular VIM and Emacs
* xC: started quoting text coming from bracketed pastes,
to minimize the risk of trying to execute filesystem paths as commands
* xC: fixed to work with post-2021-08-29 editline
* xC: extended editline's autocomplete to show all options
* utm-filter.lua: added Facebook's tracking parameter to the filter
1.4.0 (2021-10-06) "Call Me Scruffy Scruffington"
* xC: made message autosplitting respect text formatting
* xC: fixed displaying IRC colours above 16
* xC: offer IRCnet as an IRC network to connect to,
rather than the lunatic new Freenode
* xD: started bumping the soft limit on file descriptors to the hard one
1.3.0 (2021-08-07) "New World Order"
* xC: made nick autocompletion offer recent speakers first
* All binaries have been renamed to something even sillier,
and all references in the source tree have been redacted;
this represents a major incompatible change for all plugins;
configuration and program data have to be adjusted manually
1.2.0 (2021-07-08) "There Are Other Countries As Well"
* xC: added a /squery command for IRCnet
* xC: added trivial support for SASL EXTERNAL, enabled by adding "sasl"
to the respective server's "capabilities" list
* xC: now supporting IRCv3.2 capability negotiation, including CAP DEL
* xC: added support for IRCv3 chghost
* xC: /deop and /devoice without arguments will use the client's user
* xC: /set +=/-= now treats its argument as a string array
* xC: made "/help /command" work the same way as "/help command" does
* xC: /ban and /unban don't mangle extended bans anymore
* xC: joining new channels no longer switches to their buffer automatically
if the current input line isn't empty
* censor.lua: now stripping colours from censored messages;
their attributes are also configurable rather than always black on black
1.1.0 (2020-10-31) "What Do You Mean By 'This Isn't Germany'?"
* xC: made fancy-prompt.lua work with libedit
* xD: fixed a regression with an unspecified "bind_host"
* Miscellaneous minor improvements
1.0.0 (2020-10-29) "We're Finally There!"
* Coming with real manual pages instead of help2man-generated stubs
* xC: added support for more IRC colours and strike-through text (M-m x)
* xC: now tolerating all UTF-8 messages cut off by the server
* xC: disabled "behaviour.backlog_helper_strip_formatting" by default
since the relevant issue with ACS terminfo entries has been resolved
* xC: enabled word wrapping in the backlog by default
* xC: made the unread marker span the whole line, with a configurable
character; the previous behaviour can be obtained by setting it empty
* xC: fixed the prompt not showing back up after exiting a backlog helper
when an external event has provoked an attempt to change it
* xC: now watching fellow channel users' away status when the server
supports the away-notify capability; indicated by italicised nicknames
* xC: added a plugin to highlight prime numbers in incoming messages
* xD: make sure an unspecified "bind_host" binds to both IPv4 and IPv6
* xB: install plugins to /usr/share and look for them in XDG data dirs
* Miscellaneous little fixes
0.9.8 (2020-09-02) "Yep, Still Using It"
* xC: fixed a crash and prompt attribute output in libedit 20191231-3.1,
though users are officially discouraged from using this library
* xC: fixed Lua 5.4 build, so far the support is experimental
* Miscellaneous little fixes
0.9.7 (2018-10-21) "Business as Usual"
* xD: fix wildcard handling in WHOIS
* xD: properly handle STATS without parametetrs
* xD: abort earlier when an invalid mode character is detected while
processing channel MODE messages
* xD: do not send NICK notifications when the nickname doesn't really change
* xD: fix hostname string verification (only used for "server_name")
0.9.6 (2018-06-22) "I've Been Sitting Here All This Time"
* Code has been relicensed to 0BSD and moved to a private git hosting
* Fix LibreSSL compatibility
* xC: a second /disconnect cuts the connection by force
* xC: send a QUIT message to the IRC server on Ctrl-C
* xC: add a Slack plugin (even though the gateway's now defunct)
* xC: show an error message on log write failure
* xC: fix parsing of literal IPv6 addresses with port numbers
* xC: fix some error messages
* xC: workaround a Readline bug in the fancy-prompt.lua plugin
* xD: fix two memory leaks
* xD: improve error handling for incoming connections
* xD: disable TLS session reuse
0.9.5 (2016-12-30) "It's Time"
* Better support for the KILL command
* xC: export many more fields to the Lua API, add a prompt hook
* xC: show channel user count in the prompt
* xC: allow hiding join/part messages and other noise (Meta-Shift-H)
* xC: allow autojoining channels with keys
* xC: rejoin channels with keys on reconnect
* xC: make /query without arguments just open the buffer
* xC: add a censor plugin
* xC: die on configuration parse errors
* xC: request channel modes also on rejoin
* xC: don't show remembered channel modes on parted channels
* xC: fix highlight detection in colored text
* xC: fix CTCP handling for the real world and don't decode X-QUOTEs
* xC: add support for OpenSSL 1.1.0
0.9.4 (2016-04-28) "Oops"
* xC: fix crash on characters invalid in Windows-1252
* xC: add an auto-rejoin plugin
* xC: better date change messages with customizable formatting;
now also used in the backlog, so it looks closer to regular output
* xB: add a calc plugin providing a basic Scheme REPL
* xB: add a seen plugin
* xD, xB: use pledge(2) on OpenBSD
0.9.3 (2016-03-27) "Doesn't Even Suck"
* Use TLS Server Name Indication when connecting to servers
* xC: now we erase the screen before displaying buffers
* xC: implemented word wrapping in buffers
* xC: added autocomplete for /topic
* xC: Lua API was improved and extended
* xC: added a basic last.fm "now playing" plugin
* xC: backlog limit was made configurable
* xC: allow changing the list of IRC capabilities to use if available
* xC: optimize buffer memory usage
* xC: added logging of messages sent from /quote and plugins
* xC: M-! and M-a to go to the next buffer in order with a highlight
or new activity respectively
* xC: added --format for previewing things like MOTD files
* xC: added /buffer goto supporting case insensitive partial matches
* xD: add support for IRCv3.2 server-time
* xB: plugins now run in a dedicated data directory
* xB: added a factoids plugin
* Remote addresses are now resolved asynchronously
* Various bugfixes
0.9.2 (2015-12-31)
* xC: added rudimentary support for Lua scripting
* xC: added detection of pasting, so that it doesn't trigger other
keyboard shortcuts, such as for autocomplete
* xC: added auto-away capability
* xC: added an /oper command
* xC: libedit backend works again
* xC: added capability to edit the input line using VISUAL/EDITOR
* xC: added Meta-Tab to switch to the last used buffer
* xC: correctly respond to stopping and resuming (SIGTSTP)
* xC: fixed decoding of text formatting
* xC: unseen PMs now show up as highlights
* xC: various bugfixes
0.9.1 (2015-09-25)
* All "ssl" options have been renamed to "tls"
* The project now builds on OpenBSD
* Pulled in kqueue support
* xC: added backlog/scrollback functionality using less(1)
* xC: made showing the entire set of channel mode user prefixes optional
* xC: nicknames in /names are now ordered
* xC: nicknames now use the 256-color terminal palette if available
* xC: now we skip entries in the "addresses" list that can't be resolved
to an address, along with displaying a more helpful message
* xC: joins, parts, nick changes and quits don't count as new buffer
activity anymore
* xC: added Meta-H to open the full log file
* xC: various bugfixes and little improvements
0.9.0 (2015-07-23)
* Initial release