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diff --git a/doc/CHANGES b/doc/CHANGES index 7b95e8cb..93ad35e2 100644 --- a/doc/CHANGES +++ b/doc/CHANGES @@ -1,3 +1,169 @@ +Version 1.2.1: +- 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. + +Finished ... + +Version 1.2: +- Added ForkDaemon mode next to the existing Daemon- and inetd modes. With + ForkDaemon you can run BitlBee as a stand-alone daemon and every connection + will run in its own process. No more need to configure inetd, and still you + don't get the stability problems BitlBee unfortunately still has in ordinary + (one-process) daemon mode. +- Added inter-process/connection communication. This made it possible to + implement some IRC operator features like WALLOPs, KILL, DIE, REHASH and + more. +- Added hooks for using libevent instead of GLib for event handling. This + should improve scalability, although this won't really be useful yet because + the one-process daemon mode is not reliable enough. +- BitlBee now makes the buddy quits when doing "account off" look like a + netsplit. Modern IRC clients show this in a different, more compact way. + (This can be disabled if your client doesn't support this.) +- GLib 1.x compatibility was dropped. BitlBee now requires GLib 2.4 or newer. + This allows us to use more GLib features (like the XML parser). By now GLib + 1.x is so old that supporting it really isn't necessary anymore. +- Many, many, MANY little changes, improvements, fixes. Using non-blocking + I/O as much as possible, replaced the Gaim (0.59, IOW heavily outdated) + API, fixed lots of little bugs (including bugs that affected daemon mode + stability). See the bzr logs for more information. +- One of the user-visible changes from the API change: You can finally see + all away states/messages properly. +- Added units tests. Test coverage is very minimal for now. +- Better charset handling: Everything is just converted from/to UTF-8 right + in the IRC core, and charset mismatches are detected (if possible) and the + user is asked to resolve this before continuing. Also, UTF-8 is the default + setting now, since that's how the world seems to work these days. +- One can now keep hashed passwords in bitlbee.conf instead of the cleartext + version. +- Most important change: New file format for user data (accounts, nicks and + settings). Migration to the new format should happen transparently, + BitlBee will read the old files and once you quit/save it will save in the + new format. It is recommended to delete the old files (BitlBee doesn't do + this automatically, it will just ignore them) since they won't be used + anymore (and since the old file format is a security risk). Some advantages + of this file format switch: + * Safer format, since the identify-password is now salted before generating + a checksum. This way one can't use MD5 reverse lookup databases to crack + passwords. Also, the IM-account passwords are encrypted using RC4 instead + of the simple obfuscation scheme which BitlBee used so far. + * Easier to extend than the previous format (at least the .nicks format was + horribly limited). + * Nicknames for buddies are now saved per-account instead of per-protocol. + So far having one buddy on multiple accounts of the same protocol was a + problem because the nicks generated for the two "instances" of this buddy + were very unpredictable. + NOTE: This also means that "account del" removes not just the account, + BUT ALSO ALL NICKNAMES! If you're changing IM accounts and don't want to + lose the nicknames, you can now use "account set" to change the username + and password for the existing connection. + * Per-account settings (see the new "account set" command). +- A brand new Jabber module. Besides the major code cleanup, it also has + has these new features: + * Pretty complete XMPP support: RFC3920, RFC3921 plus a number of XEPs + including XEP45, XEP73 and XEP85. (See http://www.xmpp.org/ for what all + these things mean exactly.) Privacy lists are not supported for obvious + reasons. + * This complete support also includes TLS and SASL support and SRV record + lookup. This means that specifying a server tag for connections should + (almost) never be necessary anymore, BitlBee can find the server and can + automatically convert plaintext connections to TLS-encrypted ones. + * XEP45: Jabber chatroom support! + * XEP85 means typing notifications. The older XEP22 (still used by some + clients including Gaim <2.0) is not supported. + * Better handling of buddies who have more than one resource on-line. As + long as one resource is on-line (and visible), BitlBee will show this. + (The previous module didn't keep track of resources and sent an offline + event as soon as any resource disappears.) + * You can now set your resource priority. + * The info command now gives away state/message information for all + resources available for that buddy. (Of course this only works if the + buddy is in your contact list.) + * An XML console (add xmlconsole to your contact list or see "help set + xmlconsole" if you want it permanently). +- The Yahoo! module now says it supports YMSG protocol version 12, which will + hopefully keep the Yahoo module working after 2008-04-02 (when Yahoo! is + dropping support for version 6.x of their client). +- MSN switchboard handling changes. Hopefully less messages will get lost now, + although things are still not perfect. + +Finished 17 Mar 2008 + +Version 1.0.4: +- Removed sethostent(), which causes problems for many people, especially on + *BSD. This is basically the reason for this release. +- "allow" command actually displays the allow list, not the block list. +- Yahoo away state/msg fix. +- Don't display "Gender: Male" by default if nothing's filled in (OSCAR + "info" command) +- Fixed account cleanup (possible infinite loop) in irc_free(). +- Fixed configdir error message to not always display the compile-time + setting. + +Finished 20 Aug 2007 + +Version 1.0.3: +- Fixed ugliness in block/allow list commands (still not perfect though, the + list is empty or not up-to-date for most protocols). +- OSCAR module doesn't send the ICQ web-aware flag anymore, which seems to + get rid of a lot of ICQ spam. +- added show_got_added(), BitlBee asks you, after authorizing someone, if you + want to add him/her to your list too. +- add -tmp, mainly convenient if you want to talk to people who are not in + your list. +- Fixed ISON command, should work better with irssi now. +- Fixed compilation with tcc. +- Fixed xinetd-file. +- Misc. (crash)bug fixes, including one in the root command parsing that + caused mysterious error messages sometimes. + +Finished 24 Jun 2006 (Happy 4th birthday, BitlBee!) + +Version 1.0.2: +- Pieces of code cleanup, fixes for possible problems in error checking. +- Fixed an auto-reconnect cleanup problem that caused crashes in daemon mode. +- /AWAY in daemon mode now doesn't set the away state for every connection + anymore. +- Fixed a crash-bug on empty help subjects. +- Jabber now correctly sets the current away state when connecting. +- Added Invisible and Hidden to the away state alias list, invisible mode + should be pretty usable now. +- Fixed handling of iconv(): It's now done for everything that goes between + BitlBee and the IRC client, instead of doing it (almost) every time + something goes to or come from the IM-modules. Should've thought about + that before. :-) +- When cleaning up MSN switchboards with unsent msgs, it now also says which + contact those messages were meant for. +- You can now use the block and allow commands to see your current block/ + allow list. + +Finished 1 Apr 2006 + +Version 1.0.1: +- Support for AIM groupchats. +- Improved typing notification support for at least AIM. +- BitlBee sends a 005 reply when logging in, this informs modern IRC clients + of some of BitlBee's capabilities. This might also solve problems some + people were having with the new control channel name. +- MSN switchboards are now properly reset when talking to a person who is + offline. This fixes problems with messages to MSN people that sometimes + didn't arrive. +- Fixed one of the problems that made BitlBee show online Jabber people as + offline. +- Fixed problems with commas in MSN passwords. +- Added some consts for read-only data, which should make the BitlBee per- + process memory footprint a bit smaller. +- Other bits of code cleanup. + +Finished 14 Jan 2006 + Version 1.0: - Removed some crashy debugging code. - QUIT command now works before logging in. (Mainly an RFC-compliancy fix.) |