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diff --git a/doc/CHANGES b/doc/CHANGES new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c135535d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/CHANGES @@ -0,0 +1,514 @@ +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 |