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1.2.0 (2021-07-08) "There Are Other Countries As Well"
* degesch: added a /squery command for IRCnet
* degesch: added trivial support for SASL EXTERNAL, enabled by adding "sasl"
to the respective server's "capabilities" list
* degesch: now supporting IRCv3.2 capability negotiation, including CAP DEL
* degesch: added support for IRCv3 chghost
* degesch: /deop and /devoice without arguments will use the client's user
* degesch: /set +=/-= now treats its argument as a string array
* degesch: made "/help /command" work the same way as "/help command" does
* degesch: /ban and /unban don't mangle extended bans anymore
* degesch: joining new channels no longer switches to their buffer
automatically open them if the input buffer 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'?"
* degesch: made fancy-prompt.lua work with libedit
* kike: 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
* degesch: added support for more IRC colours and strike-through text (M-m x)
* degesch: now tolerating all UTF-8 messages cut off by the server
* degesch: disabled "behaviour.backlog_helper_strip_formatting" by default
since the relevant issue with ACS terminfo entries has been resolved
* degesch: enabled word wrapping in the backlog by default
* degesch: made the unread marker span the whole line, with a configurable
character; the previous behaviour can be obtained by setting it empty
* degesch: fixed the prompt not showing back up after exiting a backlog helper
when an external event has provoked an attempt to change it
* degesch: now watching fellow channel users' away status when the server
supports the away-notify capability; indicated by italicised nicknames
* degesch: added a plugin to highlight prime numbers in incoming messages
* kike: make sure an unspecified "bind_host" binds to both IPv4 and IPv6
* ZyklonB: 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"
* degesch: fixed a crash and prompt attribute output in libedit 20191231-3.1,
though users are officially discouraged from using this library
* degesch: fixed Lua 5.4 build, so far the support is experimental
* Miscellaneous little fixes
0.9.7 (2018-10-21) "Business as Usual"
* kike: fix wildcard handling in WHOIS
* kike: properly handle STATS without parametetrs
* kike: abort earlier when an invalid mode character is detected while
processing channel MODE messages
* kike: do not send NICK notifications when the nickname doesn't really change
* kike: 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
* degesch: a second /disconnect cuts the connection by force
* degesch: send a QUIT message to the IRC server on Ctrl-C
* degesch: add a Slack plugin (even though the gateway's now defunct)
* degesch: show an error message on log write failure
* degesch: fix parsing of literal IPv6 addresses with port numbers
* degesch: fix some error messages
* degesch: workaround a Readline bug in the fancy-prompt.lua plugin
* kike: fix two memory leaks
* kike: improve error handling for incoming connections
* kike: disable TLS session reuse
0.9.5 (2016-12-30) "It's Time"
* Better support for the KILL command
* degesch: export many more fields to the Lua API, add a prompt hook
* degesch: show channel user count in the prompt
* degesch: allow hiding join/part messages and other noise (Meta-Shift-H)
* degesch: allow autojoining channels with keys
* degesch: rejoin channels with keys on reconnect
* degesch: make /query without arguments just open the buffer
* degesch: add a censor plugin
* degesch: die on configuration parse errors
* degesch: request channel modes also on rejoin
* degesch: don't show remembered channel modes on parted channels
* degesch: fix highlight detection in colored text
* degesch: fix CTCP handling for the real world and don't decode X-QUOTEs
* degesch: add support for OpenSSL 1.1.0
0.9.4 (2016-04-28) "Oops"
* degesch: fix crash on characters invalid in Windows-1252
* degesch: add an auto-rejoin plugin
* degesch: better date change messages with customizable formatting;
now also used in the backlog, so it looks closer to regular output
* ZyklonB: add a calc plugin providing a basic Scheme REPL
* ZyklonB: add a seen plugin
* kike, ZyklonB: use pledge(2) on OpenBSD
0.9.3 (2016-03-27) "Doesn't Even Suck"
* Use TLS Server Name Indication when connecting to servers
* degesch: now we erase the screen before displaying buffers
* degesch: implemented word wrapping in buffers
* degesch: added autocomplete for /topic
* degesch: Lua API was improved and extended
* degesch: added a basic last.fm "now playing" plugin
* degesch: backlog limit was made configurable
* degesch: allow changing the list of IRC capabilities to use if available
* degesch: optimize buffer memory usage
* degesch: added logging of messages sent from /quote and plugins
* degesch: M-! and M-a to go to the next buffer in order with
a highlight or new activity respectively
* degesch: added --format for previewing things like MOTD files
* degesch: added /buffer goto supporting case insensitive partial matches
* kike: add support for IRCv3.2 server-time
* ZyklonB: plugins now run in a dedicated data directory
* ZyklonB: added a factoids plugin
* Remote addresses are now resolved asynchronously
* Various bugfixes
0.9.2 (2015-12-31)
* degesch: added rudimentary support for Lua scripting
* degesch: added detection of pasting, so that it doesn't trigger other
keyboard shortcuts, such as for autocomplete
* degesch: added auto-away capability
* degesch: added an /oper command
* degesch: libedit backend works again
* degesch: added capability to edit the input line using VISUAL/EDITOR
* degesch: added Meta-Tab to switch to the last used buffer
* degesch: correctly respond to stopping and resuming (SIGTSTP)
* degesch: fixed decoding of text formatting
* degesch: unseen PMs now show up as highlights
* degesch: 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
* degesch: added backlog/scrollback functionality using less(1)
* degesch: made showing the entire set of channel mode user prefixes optional
* degesch: nicknames in /names are now ordered
* degesch: nicknames now use the 256-color terminal palette if available
* degesch: now we skip entries in the "addresses" list that can't be resolved
to an address, along with displaying a more helpful message
* degesch: joins, parts, nick changes and quits don't count as new buffer
activity anymore
* degesch: added Meta-H to open the full log file
* degesch: various bugfixes and little improvements
0.9.0 (2015-07-23)
* Initial release