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(Password security hack.) +- Fixed proxy support with libpurple. +- Some minor changes/fixes. + +Finished 7 Mar 2011 + +Version 3.0.1: +- Fixed some bugs that were found only after releasing 3.0, including + Jabber contacts never going offline, MSN login issues, compilation + issues on some non-Linux systems, a fairly big memory leak in the MSN + SOAP code, etc... +- Better handling of multiple control channels and set private=false. +- Using login.icq.com for ICQ logins again since AOL sold ICQ so it + doesn't live on the AIM servers anymore. +- Fixed ability to join password-protected Jabber rooms. +- Time out if logging into an account takes too long. +- Fixed NSS SSL module. +- Support for server-side Gadu-Gadu contact lists (via libpurple, there's + still no native gg support). +- Allow omitting password when using "account add", the password can be + entered using /OPER to prevent echoing to screen and logs. + +Finished 24 Nov 2010 + +Version 3.0: +- Important: This version drops backward compatibility with the file format + used for user settings in versions before 1.2. If you're upgrading from + very old BitlBee versions (like 1.0.x), you'll have to recreate your + BitlBee account - or use an 1.2.x BitlBee once to do the conversion. +- Rewrote the IRC core, which brings: + * Support for multiple (control) channels, so you can have one channel per + buddy group, per IM account/protocol, or for example a &offline with all + offline contacts. See "help channels" for information on how to use this. + * You can also leave and rejoin all channels. Being in &bitlbee is no + longer required. + * Now you can start groupchats by just joining a new channel and inviting + contacts. (The "chat with" command still works as well.) + * You can change your nickname, whenever you want. + * Root commands: + + To hopefully resolve confusion about the "account set" syntax, the + ordering was changed slightly: "account set acc/setting value" + becomes "account acc set setting value". Obviously the same order + should now be used for other account subcommands. + + Shortcuts: Instead of "account list" you can say "acc li". + * /whois shows idle/login times of your contacts when available. + * paste_buffer (previously known as buddy_sendbuffer) now works for chats + as well. + * The nick_source setting was replaced with a nick_format setting, which + looks more or less like a format string, and lets you tweak how nicknames + for contacts are generated in more detail. It also tries to convert non- + ASCII characters (i.e. accents) properly. + * A per-channel show_users setting lets you configure exactly which kinds + of contacts (online/away/offline) should show up in a channel and what + modes (none/voice/etc) they should have. Like show_offline, but together + with other new features it can for example create an &offline channel + with just offline contacts. + * If you connect (and identify) to a BitlBee server you're already + connected to, you can take over the existing session instead of starting + a new one. + * More correct validation of channel names: They can contain pretty much + any character, unlike nicknames. +- Support for using libpurple instead of BitlBee's built-in IM protocol + modules. This can be enabled by passing --purple=1 to the configure script. + * This adds support for many more IM protocols to BitlBee. + * And new functionality to existing protocols. + * This is and will always be optional and using it on public servers is + *not* recommended. It should be pretty stable, but costs more RAM/etc. + * Switching to libpurple should be pretty transparent. See "help purple" + for a list of supported protocols (works only in libpurple-enabled + binaries). +- Rewritten MSN module, implementing MSNP15 instead of the old MSNP8: + * MSNP8 support from MSN was getting pretty unreliable. There were issues + with remembering display names and adding contacts/auth requests (or + even contacts silently getting blocked!). This upgrade should fix all + of that. + * Support for sending offline messages. + * Support for setting and reading status messages. +- Integrated the bitlbee-otr branch in a mostly non-intrusive way. Since + this is not end-to-end it should *not* be enabled on public servers. + Distro packagers are requested to offer OTR as a separately installable + plugin. (Compile with --otr=plugin) Please do not enable it by default as + there is no easy way to disable OTR once the plugin is loaded/built in. +- Support for file transfers, in and out. /DCC SEND a file to a contact and + it becomes a file transfer, and incoming file transfers become /DCC SENDs + to you. Note that this is mostly useful when combined with libpurple, as + only the Jabber native protocol module currently supports file transfers. +- Updated Yahoo! module to be in sync again with libyahoo2. This mostly + fixes issues with authorization requests. +- Show if a contact is mobile or not. See "help set mobile_is_away". +- Easier handling of XMPP chatroom invitations. +- The chatroom mode of the Twitter module is now enabled by default, since + this was by far the most popular. To disable it, see "help set mode". +- Added some Twitter-specific commands that can only be used in the Twitter + window. Most important addition: Retweets. See "help set commands". +- Removed some ancient account/nick migration scripts and added one for + easier switching from Pidgin and other libpurple-based clients to BitlBee. +- Many bug fixes in both the core and IM modules, small feature enhancements + and other minor changes. + +Finished 22 Oct 2010 + +Version 1.2.8: +- Now always using the AIM-style authentication method for OSCAR connections, + even when connecting to ICQ. This solves login issues some people were + having. (If you have problems, try changing the old_icq_auth setting.) +- Twitter: + * Allow changing the Twitter API base URL so the module can also be used + for identi.ca or any other compatible network. + * Fetch the full list of Twitter contacts instead of slowly adding all + contacts as they post a message. + * Fixed message length counting. + * Allow following/unfollowing people using the usual add/remove commands. + * Better error reporting. +- Added a user_agent setting to the Jabber module to get around artificial + client restrictions. +- Allow nick changes (although only before register/identify). +- Some more minor bugfixes/etc. + +Finished 4 Jul 2010 + +Version 1.2.7: +- Fixed problems with MSN Messenger authentication. ("Could not parse + Passport server response") +- Fixed broken typing notifications when talking to GTalk contacts. +- Fixed an issue with non-anonymous Jabber chatrooms polluting the nick + namespace, sometimes generating odd warning messages. +- Restored ability to start groupchats on ICQ. +- Added show_offline setting that will also show offline contacts in the + control channel. +- OAuth support for Twitter: This means the module will keep working after + June (this also changes "via API" under your tweets into "via BitlBee"). + +Finished 15 May 2010 + +Version 1.2.6a: +- Fixed a typo that renders the Twitter groupchat mode unusable. A last- + minute change that came a few minutes late. + +Finished 19 Apr 2010 + +Version 1.2.6: +- Native (very basic) support for Twitter, implemented by Geert Mulders. + Currently supported are posting tweets, reading the ones of people you + follow, and sending (not yet receiving!) direct messages. +- Fixed format of status messages in /WHOIS to improve IRC client + compatibility. +- Show timestamps of offline messages/channel backlogs. +- Allow saving MSN display names locally since sometimes this stuff breaks + server-side. (Use the local_display_name per-account setting.) +- Suppress empty "Headline:" messages for certain new XMPP broadcast + messages. +- Better handling of XMPP contacts with multiple resources on-line. Default + behaviour now is to write to wherever the last message came from, or to + the bare JID (usually becomes a broadcast) if there wasn't any recent msg. +- Added a switchboard_keepalives setting which should solve some issues with + talking to offline MSN contacts. (Although full support for offline + messages is not ready yet!) +- The usual misc. bug fixes. + +Finished 19 Apr 2010 + +Version 1.2.5: +- Many bug fixes, including a fix for MSN login issues, Jabber login timing + issues, Yahoo! crashes at login time with huge contact lists, +- Avoid linking in a static version of libresolv now that glibc has all + relevant functions available in the dynamic version. +- Improved away state code and added the ability to set (non-away) status + messages using "set status" (also possible per account) and see them in + blist and /whois output. +- Added a post-1.2 equivalent of encode/decode to quickly encrypt/decrypt + passwords in a way that BitlBee can read them. +- Allow using the full name for generating nicknames, instead of just the + handle. This is especially useful when using the Facebook XMPP server. +- Auto reconnect is now enabled by default since all protocols can properly + detect cases where auto reconnect should be avoided (i.e. concurrent + logins). +- Changed the default resource_select setting which should reduce message + routing issues on Jabber (i.e. messages going someone's phone instead of + the main client). + +Finished 17 Mar 2010 + +Version 1.2.4: +- Most important change (and main reason for releasing now): Upgraded Yahoo! + module to a newer version to get it working again. +- join_chat command replaced with the much better chat command: + * Similar to how account replaced login/slist/logout. Add a chatroom once, + then just /join it like any other room. Also automatic joining at login + time is now possible. + * Note that the old way of starting groupchats (/join #nickname) is now + also deprecated, use "chat with" instead. + * See "help chat" and "help chat add" for more information. +- Rewrote bitlbee.conf parser to be less dumb. +- Fixed compatibility (hopefully) with AIM mobile messages, certain kinds + of Google Talk chatrooms. +- Fixed numerous stability/reliability bugs over the last year. + +Finished 17 Oct 2009 + +Version 1.2.3: +- Fixed one more flaw similar to the previous hijacking bug, caused by incon- + sistent handling of the USTATUS_IDENTIFIED state. All code touching these + variables was reviewed and should be correct now. + +Finished 7 Sep 2008 + +Version 1.2.2: +- Security bugfix: It was possible to hijack accounts (without gaining access + to the old account, it's simply an overwrite) +- Some more stability improvements. +- Fixed bug where people with non-lowercase nicks couldn't drop their account. +- Easier upgrades of non-forking daemon mode servers (using the DEAF + command). +- Can be cross-compiled for Win32 now! (No support for SSL yet though, which + makes it less useful for now.) +- Exponential backoff on auto-reconnect. +- Changing passwords gives less confusing feedback ("password is empty") now. + +Finished 26 Aug 2008 + +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. +- 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. + +Finished 24 Jun 2008 + +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.) +- Hopefully slightly clearer handling of buddy add requests. +- set buddy_sendbuffer_delay now also supports milisecond precision. +- Renamed #bitlbee to &bitlbee to avoid confusion with the channel on OFTC. +- Reviewed the xinetd file and installation instructions. +- HTML stripping is configurable again. +- Quit messages (at least on crashes) should appear again. +- Cleaned up some unnecessary code in the Jabber module, and implemented + handlers for headline messages (which allows you to use RSS-to-Jabber + gateways). +- Lowered the line splitting limit a bit to fix data loss issues. +- The $proto($handle) format used for messages specific to one IM-connection + now only include the ($handle) part when there's more than one $proto- + connection. +- Fix for a crash-bug on broken Jabber/SSL connections. +- Incoming typing notifications now also come in as CTCP TYPING messages, for + better consistency. Don't forget to update your scripts! +- AIM typing notifications are supported now. +- Jabber module only accepts ports 5220-5229 now, to prevent people from + abusing it as a port scanner. We aren't aware of any Jabber server that + runs on other ports than those. If you are, please warn us. +- Send flood protection can't be enabled anymore. It was disabled by default + for a good reason for some time already, but some package maintainers + turned it back on while it's way too unreliable and trigger-happy to be + used. +- Removed TODO file, the current to-do list is always in the on-line bug + tracking system. +- Fixed a potential DoS bug in input handling. + +Finished 4 Dec 2005 + +Version 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. + +Finished 3 Nov 2005 + +Version 0.93: +- " is now correctly converted to " instead of '. +- Code cleanup in OSCAR module. +- Some changes for better RFC-compliancy. +- It's now possible to specify an alternate Jabber server. +- bitlbee_save() now also checks the return value of fclose(), which might + solve more problems with lost account data. +- Fixed a file descriptor leak in bitlbee.c. +- Signedness fixes (mainly to keep GCC4 happy). +- Away messages are now sent correctly to most ICQ clients. +- BitlBee knows now which connection sends HTML, so it will strip HTML + automatically, "set html strip" is no longer necessary. Also, outgoing HTML + is escaped correctly. +- info-command works for AIM-connections too now. +- /notices to users will be sent as auto-away replies. +- Messages about a connection now also mention a handle, for people who have + multiple accounts in use of the same protocol. +- Examples are back in help.txt. + +Finished 31 Oct 2005 + +Version 0.92: +- Fixed some formatting issues with the help.txt XSL-sheet. +- Moved the polling of the IRC connections to glib instead of a separate + select(). +- Added ctags generation to the Makefiles. +- Sending a CTCP TYPING message to a user in your buddy list now sends a + typing notification to that person, if the protocol supports it. You + probably want to write/use a script for your IRC client to do this. +- A dash is no longer considered a lowercase underscore in nicknames. +- CTCP's to buddies no longer alter their private/non-private state. +- Clean shutdown (with saving settings) on SIGTERM. +- Fixed a crash on connecting to unreachable Jabber/SSL servers. +- On ICQ, offline messages are now requested after receiving the buddy + list. This should get rid of the "Message from unknown OSCAR handle" + messages on login. +- The linked list of buddies/nicks is now always sorted, which makes the + blist output a bit more useful. +- Fixed a crash on renaming NickServ. (There's no reason to do this, but + still crashing isn't really how BitlBee should tell you that. ;-) +- Now the message about the "new" ICQ server-side buddy lists is only + displayed when the server-side list is still empty. +- The Yahoo! markup language stripper is now less likely to strip things + that shouldn't be stripped. +- Working around a shortcoming in the Yahoo! cleanup code that didn't + cause any serious problems in previous versions, but got pretty nasty + (100% CPU time usage) now with everything in the glib main loop. +- 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. +- Fixed AIM screenname handling on ICQ connections. +- When blocking someone, the MSN module now closes the conversation you're + having with him/her (if any) so he/she can't continue talking to you + (for as long as the conversation lasts). +- Away messages are only sent when messaging someone outside the control + channel. (And now also when the user is offline instead of just away.) +- Moved charset conversion in serv_buddy_rename() to the right place so + bogus changes are always detected now. +- iso8859-1 is now the default charset because -15 caused some problems + and because -1 is enough for most people anyway. +- Fixed crashes on attempting to add a buddy (or do other things) on + connections that are still initializing. +- Added support for server-side notifies using the WATCH command. +- IRC_MAX_ARGS is dead, at least for IRC commands. +- Fixed a bug that made BitlBee crash on failing fresh MSN switchboard + connections. +- Fixed an invisibility bug in the MSN code that handled transfers to + other servers in the middle of a session. +- Newline stripping added to prevent newline-in-friendlyname attacks. + (Which allowed remote people to make BitlBee send raw custom IRC lines.) + +Finished 23 Feb 2005 + +Version 0.91: +- Full support for ICQ server-side contact lists! + NOTE: BitlBee now ignores your client-side contact list. If you want to + import your ICQ contact list, use the import_buddies command. +- Added the import_buddies command for upgrading purposes. +- Added support for OpenSSL. +- Fixed one major problem with the daemon mode by getting rid of the global + IRC structure. +- Documentation fixes. help.txt is now generated from XML. Also updated the + installation manual. +- Made the quickstart up-to-date. (By Elizabeth Krumbach) +- Some bitlbeed additions. (By Marcus Dennis) +- info-command support for Jabber, MSN, Yahoo! and a more verbose info-reply + for ICQ. (By Frank Thieme) +- Support for Jabber over SSL. +- nick_get() appends a _ on duplicates instead of chopping off the last + character. +- Got rid of an unused piece of code that caused crashes. + (oscar.c:gaim_parse_clientauto) +- When splitting long messages into 450-char chunks, BitlBee now tries not + to cut off in the middle of a line. +- Added a warning when the user specifies an unknown OSCAR server. +- Removed GLib 2.x dependency, BitlBee will work with GLib 1.x again. +- Improved strip_html(), now less likely to strip non-HTML things. +- An invalid account-command will now display an error message. +- Fixed a bug that caused crashes when /CTCP'ing a groupchat channel. +- Hopefully better Unicode/non-ASCII support for ICQ. +- Fixed MSN connection crash on non-ASCII characters in screenname. +- Added some missing charset conversion calls. (serv_got_crap, + serv_buddy_rename) +- "account off" without extra arguments now logs off all connections. +- Fixed a crash-bug on disconnecting Yahoo! connections before they're fully + connected. +- Fixed a bug in helpfile handling which sometimes caused crashes in daemon + mode. +- block and allow commands work with just a nick as an argument again. +- Working around a crash on some probably invalid Yahoo! packets. +- Fixed a possible double free() on shutdown in irc_free(). +- Talking to ICQ people on AIM and vice versa and talking to people with + @mac.com accounts now possible. +- Low ASCII chars are now stripped from away-messages so the Jabber module + won't barf on BitchX and lame-script away messages anymore. + +Finished 25 Sep 2004 + +Version 0.90a: +- Fixed the Yahoo! authentication code. + +Finished 28 Jun 2004 + +Version 0.90: +- A complete rewrite of the MSN module. This gives BitlBee the following + new features/improvements: + * You can now start groupchats with MSN people without having to send them + a bogus message first. + * People who are in your MSN block/allow list, but not in your contact + list, shouldn't show up in your BitlBee buddy lists anymore. + * Passport authentication shouldn't lock up the whole program for a couple + of seconds anymore. Additionally, it should also work behind proxies now. + * Better recognition of incoming file transfers; they're now recognized + when coming from non-English MS Messenger clients too. + * Fixed a problem with MSN passwords with non-alphanumeric characters. + * Mail notification support (also for Yahoo!)... + * Parsing of maintenance messages (ie "Server is going down in x minutes"). + * Hopefully more stability. +- Changes in the OSCAR module: + * Better reading of ICQ-away-states. + * Lots of cleanups. +- Yahoo! module: + * Fixed authentication on 64-bit machines. (Patch from Matt Rogers) + * Better stripping of markup tags. +- Lots of cleanup in all IM-modules. +- Added support for using libnss instead of libgnutls. +- Reverse hostname lookups work on IPv6 sockets too now. (And don't crash + the program anymore.) +- Fixed a little problem with identifying right after registering a nick. +- Restored complete proxy support and added a proxy setting to the conffile. +- BitlBee can now tell you when people in your buddy list change their + "friendly name". +- Instead of an account number, you can also specify the protocol name or + (part of) the username as an account identification with commands like + "account on", "add", etc. +- BitlBee remembers what connection a question (i.e. authorization request) + belongs to and cleans it up when the connection goes down; this fixes + (one of) the last known crash bugs. +- Plus some other changes in question management. (The query_order setting + is one of them. The default behaviour changed a bit, for more information + please read "help set query_order".) +- Also fixed a memory management bug in the question code which caused some + crashes. +- Optimized some nick handling functions and added a hash of all the users + to speed up user_find() a bit (especially good for people with large + buddy and notify lists). +- Lots of changes for the Win32 port (see http://jelmer.vernstok.nl/). +- Added the drop-command. +- Fixed small problem with versions of sed which don't support the + + "operator" (the BSD version, for example, even though the operator is + documented properly in the re_format manpage...). +- Added the default_target setting. +- Added a CenterICQ2BitlBee conversion script. +- Put back the evaluator for "set charset" (which got lost somewhere between + 0.84 and 0.85), so an incorrect charset will be rejected again. +- ISON now (A) gives one single reply and (B) also replies when none of the + persons asked for are on-line. +- Using GConv instead of iconv now. +- Incoming messages larger than 450 characters are now split into parts + before sending them to the user. +- Fixed a bug in irc_exec() which could crash the program when some commands + were called with too little arguments. +- Fixed a dumb NULL pointer dereference in the JOIN command. +- Added rate limiting to bitlbeed. (Against server hammering) +- Added handling of CTCP PINGs (yet another self-ping used by some IRC + clients...) +- Added bitlbee_tab_completion.pl. +- Removed the vCard handling code from Jabber because it's (A) not used and + (B) had a possible format string vulnerability. +- Got rid of strcpy() in account.c. (Thanks to NETRIC for reporting these two + problems.) +- ISO8859-15 is now the default charset. + +Finished 21 May 2004 + +Version 0.85a: +- Fixed an authentication problem with logging into some MSN accounts. +- Removed a non-critical warning message from the ICQ servers when logging + in with an empty contact list. +- Fixed reading the [defaults] section of bitlbee.conf. +- The last newline in outgoing messages when using the buddy_sendbuffer is + now removed correctly. +- Yahoo! colour/font tag stripping now actually works. +- Fixed compilation on *BSD and some Linux architectures. + +Finished 24 Mar 2004 + +Version 0.85: +- Users can specify alternate configuration files/directories at runtime + now. +- Rename now doesn't choke on name changes with only case changes anymore. +- Imported the daemon patch into the main source tree. The daemon mode is + still experimental, this just eases maintenance. This daemon patch brings + a lot of features, including (as the name says) a real daemon mode and + also buffering of the data sent to the user, and flood protection. +- Strips font and colour codes from Yahoo! messages. +- Support for groupchats on Yahoo! +- Fixed removing Yahoo! buddies from a different group than "Buddies". +- Jabber presence packets with error messages are interpreted correctly now. + (They used to be parsed as a signin.) +- bitlbee_save() checks return values from fprintf() and writes to tempfiles + first to make sure no old files get lost when there's a write error. +- ICQ buddies are added all at once instead of once at a time. This should + solve problems with huge buddy lists. +- Made the client pinging timings configurable. (Without requiring + recompilation) +- MSN and Yahoo flag the connection as "wants_to_die" when they're logged + off because of a concurrent login. This means reconnection will be disabled + on concurrent logins. +- BitlBee can now buffer the messages sent to someone before they're actually + sent, and wait for a specified number of seconds for more lines to be added + to the buffer before the message will really be sent. +- Renamed the reconnect_delay setting to auto_reconnect_delay. +- Unknown settings aren't saved anymore. + +Finished 13 Mar 2004 + +Version 0.84: +- Removed the libsoup dependency. +- Fixed AuthMode=Registered: It will now restore your accounts when + identifying. +- Fixed Yahoo! support. +- Fixed a little memory leak in user.c. +- Fixed a security bug in unused code in proxy.c, only people who use + the HTTP proxy support and an untrusted proxy might need this. We + haven't done an emergency release for this fix because proxy support + is disabled by default. +- Fixed some memory leaks in IM-code. + +Finished 13 Feb 2004 + +Version 0.83: +- Fixed a crash bug on connecting to unsupported accounts. +- Fixed a problem with connecting to MSN accounts with empty buddy + lists. +- Fixed another inifite-loop bug in nick_get() and added a piece + of code which detects the infinite loop and asks the user to send + a bug report. +- Fixed iconv-Solaris linking issues. +- Fixed all the problems with spaces in AIM screennames now, we hope. +- Fixed a buffer overflow in the nick handling code. Buffers are + overflowed with static data (nulls), so we don't think it's exploitable. +- Added server-client pinging, useful for remote servers. +- Added the hostname setting. +- Some bitlbeed changes. +- Added a little part to the on-line quickstart about the settings and + other help topics, this hopefully answers a lot of FAQ's. +- Fixed the signal handler to re-raise the signal after the handler quits. + This makes sure the default handler is called after our handler sends + the user a bye-message, so core dumps are created and the parent will + get more useful information back from wait(). +- Added support for ICQ URL messages. +- Fixed strip_html() behaviour on unknown &entities;. +- Fixed a possible problem with Yahoo! +- Fixed a problem with logging into more than one MSN account at once. + +Finished 31 Dec 2003 + +Version 0.82: +- Fixed a little bug in nick.c which could cause a complete hang for + some tricky buddylists. (Thanks to Geert Hauwaerts for helping with + fixing this bug) +- Fixed MSN support. (Lots of thanks to Wouter Paesen!) +- Removed the old login/logout commands. +- Added the qlist command. +- Fixed a buffer overflow in the nick checking code. (Thanks to Jon + Åslund for pointing us at this problem) +- Adds the add_private and add_channel options for set handle_unknown. +- Some documentation updates. +- Added two small utilities to encode/decode BitlCrypted files. + +Finished 31 Oct 2003 + +Version 0.81a: +- This version just fixes some small things we should've fixed before + releasing 0.81: +- Fixed a small bug in the auto-reconnect cleanup code. +- Fixed the Makefile: Now it doesn't just overwrite your etc files when + installing. +- Fixed the Makefile: $prefix/etc/bitlbee/ is the default etcdir now. +- Disabling MSN by default, now that it doesn't work. It'll be back on + as soon as we get the module working again. + +Finished 16 Oct 2003 + +Version 0.81: +- Added a configuration file. +- Added support for the PASS command to restrict access to the daemon to + only the people who know this password. +- Only allowing registered people to use the daemon is possible too. +- In case you, at some time, need to check the currently running BitlBee + version, just CTCP-VERSION someone in the channel. +- Added the auto_connect setting for people who don't want the program + to connect to IM-networks automatically. +- Extended the blist command. +- Applied the auto-reconnect patch from G-Lite. +- Applied the iconv patch from Yuri Pimenov. +- Imported the MSN-friendlyname patch from Wouter Paesen. +- Away-message aliasing code now just parses the beginning of the string, + not the whole string. This allows you to have a more descriptive away + message like "Busy - Fixing bugs in BitlBee" and all the IM connections + will have a busy-like away-state. +- Added some information about away states to the help system. +- MSN file transfers aren't silently ignored anymore. +- Integrated the Yahoo protocol fix from Cerulean Studios (Trillian). + (Thanks to Tony Perrie!) +- Made all protocol plugins optional. (Patch from Andrej Kacian/Ticho) + +Finished 15 Oct 2003 + +Version 0.80: +- Fixed a very stupid bug in the MSN away-state reading. +- nick_cmp() now actually works, RFC-compliant. +- Fixed and cleaned up the away-state handling, there were some very + weird things in the original Gaim code base which broke this completely + all the time. +- The daemon prevents you from using root/NickServ as your nick now, + previous versions crashed on that. +- At last ... GROUP CHAT SUPPORT! :-D +- People who are *not* away get mode +v in #bitlbee now, so you can see + in /names who's away and who's not. +- Crashing BitlBee by using the NICKSERV command without any arguments + is impossible now. +- Added some notes about Darwin/OSX portability. +- Separated connections from accounts. This means restoring a lost + connection can be done using a simple "account on <number>" command. + See "help account" for more information. + *** For now this won't cause problems when upgrading because the login + command still exists (as an alias for "account add"). This alias will + not stay forever, though. +- irc_process() now makes sure it reads the whole available buffer before + executing the commands. Previous versions were very bad at handling + long floods from non-floodprotected clients. The code is still not + perfect, but good enough for local links. +- Allow/Deny questions from msn.c now also mention your own screenname. + This is useful for people who run two (or even more) MSN accounts in + one BitlBee. +- Fixed a little bug in the helpfile-changed-check code. +- A little trick in "make install" makes sure the help function in running + sessions doesn't break while upgrading. +- Added a nifty (and editable) MOTD. +- Added IRIX to the compatibility list. +- Added support for Cygwin. +- Better HTML-stripping, it also handles &entities; correctly now. +- Fixed some problems to make it compile on Solaris. +- Added support for messages from Miranda/Mac ICQ. (Code port from Gaim 0.59) +- Fixed the crash problem when removing yahoo buddies. +- Added the handle_unknown setting. +- Did some editing on a few docs. +- Added a FAQ. +- Added the daemon-patch by Maurits Dijkstra which adds stand-alone daemon + support to BitlBee. +- Jabber now doesn't barf on high ASCII characters in away messages anymore. + (Thanks to Christian Häggström <chm@c00.info>) + +Finished 24 Jun 2003 + +Version 0.74a: +- The music-festivals-are-bad-for-your-mind release. +- This one actually contains the fix for the bug 0.74 claimed to have. + +Finished 11 Jun 2003 + +Version 0.74: +- Fixed a security leak, where using a / in the nickname causes the saved + settings and account information to be stored in undesirable places. + +Finished 10 Jun 2003 + +Version 0.73: +- Fixed the unable-to-remove-icq-users (actually users from any *local* + contact list) bug. +- Fixed away bug in aim protocol. +- Fixed the 'statistics' under the blist command output. +- Removed the commands from the XML documentation because they're 'on-line' + already. +- Added some signal handling; ignoring SIGPIPE should als get rid of some + crashes (for some weird reason this has to be done). Also, crashes because + of things like segfaults are a bit more verbose now. ;-) +- Changed the select() timeout in main(), this might improve some latencies. + (At leasts it speeds up signing on (especially for ICQ) a lot!) +- Made the own-QUIT messages more compliant, probably. +- Fixed some memory-bugs, thanks to valgrind. +- irc_write() now checks the write() return value, and tries to send the rest + of the string, if it could not write it completely the first time. +- Hostname lookups also work on NetBSD now. + (Thanks to David.Edmondson*sun*com (hi spambot)) +- At last, a new protocol. Welcome to ... YAHOO! +- Documentation and code cleanup. Somehow the helpfile documented register + and identify twice, now that's what I call over-documenting.. :-/ +- Added the rename command to the helpfile, somehow I forgot that one. +- Been a bit pedantic about compiler warnings. They're all dead now. +- Fixed a small Makefile problem which gave an error when a clean tree was + "made distclean" +- Fixed a (possible) memory leak in nogaim.c:proto_away() +- Fixed the way proto_away() calls proto_away_alias_find(), now it gives + the *whole* list of away states +- proto_away() doesn't give a NULL message anymore because AIM didn't like + that +- Got rid of the last goto in my code (without ruining the code) +- Created a more samba-like compiling process (without the complete command + lines, just a simple echo) +- "help set ops" works now too, without quoting the "set ops" +- Trying to log in with a protocol without a prpl (ICQ and TOC, for example) + made previous versions crash + +Finished 13 Apr 2003 + +Version 0.72: +- Updated the documentation. +- Improved the MSN friendlyname code. (Although it doesn't seem to be perfect + yet..) +- info-command added to get more information about ICQ users. +- blist-command added to get a complete buddy list. +- Fixed a bug which broke the AIM code when adding a screenname with a space + in it. +- Added the NS alias for the NICKSERV command (Tony Vroon). +- Fixed the USERHOST command implementation (Tony Vroon). +- /me from IM-networks is now converted to a CTCP ACTION correctly. +- Added an utils/ directory with some misc toys and handy things. +- Added a /notice to the on_typing event. Don't use it though, the /notice + flood will just be a big annoyance. ;-) +- Some people like root and themself to be ops, some don't. Now it's + configurable. (set ops) +- Now the umode stuff actually works. Next step: Use those modes... (How?) + +Finished 19 Dec 2002 + +Version 0.71: +- Fixed the help command output layout (alignment) +- Added a sample xinetd file +- Cleaned up, 0.70 released with a build-stamp and DEADJOE file (oops).. +- Messages can be sent like '<user>, <message>' in the control channel now, + instead of just '<user>: <message>' +- Added a debug setting boolean: Set it to true for some debugging crap + which used to be on by default.. +- Changed the /whois reply: In the server section you now see the + connection this user belongs to. +- Added some root/permission checks. +- configure script works correctly when the terminating / is forgotten for + a directory. +- Fixed format string bug in protocols/oscar/meta.c (Hmm, what's the use of + that file?) +- Added '#include "crypting.h"' to commands.c to get rid of stupid warnings +- Fixed crash-bug (SIGSEGV when adding an @-less contact to MSN/Jabber) +- Added to_char setting +- Fixed bug in set.c: It ignored the new value returned by the evaluator + :-( +- Removed protocol tag from 'hostname' in user hostmask because this info + is in /whois' server section now +- Added the GPL. Somehow 0.7 released without a COPYING file.. :-/ +- Enhanced the root_command() parser, you can 'quote' "arguments" now so + arguments can be strings with spaces +- Debugging versions have True as the default value for set debug +- NICKSERV is now an alternative for PRIVMSG root. This does not affect + functionality of current NICKSERV commands, but does allow people to just + do identify <pass> in channel. +- NICKSERV REGISTER now doesn't try to log you in (to check if the user + exists) but checks for the existence of the user-configuration files. +- NICKSERV SET password now works (as does set password in channel). This + makes changing your password possible. +- NICKSERV password now stored in irc_t. +- ./configure now only bugs you about possible problems with strip if it's + actually going to strip (wooohoooo! _sexy_ :) +- Fixed a load of warnings in oscar.c, irc.c, nick.c and set.c +- Split up root_command() into a version which eats raw strings and one + which eats split strings +- New help system: Help available for most (all?) commands, all read from + an external help-file. +- Changed the maximum message length in irc_usermsg() from IRC_MAX_LINE to + 1024 (for loooong help messages..). +- Only allow user to set supported umodes. +- Fixed a memory leak in crypting.c (Thanks to Erik Hensema.) +- Added a send_handler callback to user_t. Needed for the following entry: +- Added the NickServ user as a root-clone. +- Disabled tcpd by default because it's just a PITA for a lot of systems + and because you can use /usr/sbin/tcpd as well. +- The root user can be renamed now. + +Finished 16 Sep 2002 |