Changeset 85d7b85 for doc/CHANGES


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Timestamp:
2008-04-02T14:22:57Z (17 years ago)
Author:
Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@…>
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     1Version 1.2.1:
     2- Fixed proxy support.
     3- Fixed stalling issues while connecting to Jabber when using the OpenSSL
     4  module.
     5- Fixed problem with GLib and ForkDaemon where processes didn't die when
     6  the client disconnects.
     7- Fixed handling of "set charset none". (Which pretty much breaks the account
     8  completely in 1.2.)
     9- You can now automatically identify yourself to BitlBee by setting a server
     10  password in your IRC client.
     11- Compatible with all crazy kinds of line endings that clients can send.
     12
     13Finished ...
     14
     15Version 1.2:
     16- Added ForkDaemon mode next to the existing Daemon- and inetd modes. With
     17  ForkDaemon you can run BitlBee as a stand-alone daemon and every connection
     18  will run in its own process. No more need to configure inetd, and still you
     19  don't get the stability problems BitlBee unfortunately still has in ordinary
     20  (one-process) daemon mode.
     21- Added inter-process/connection communication. This made it possible to
     22  implement some IRC operator features like WALLOPs, KILL, DIE, REHASH and
     23  more.
     24- Added hooks for using libevent instead of GLib for event handling. This
     25  should improve scalability, although this won't really be useful yet because
     26  the one-process daemon mode is not reliable enough.
     27- BitlBee now makes the buddy quits when doing "account off" look like a
     28  netsplit. Modern IRC clients show this in a different, more compact way.
     29  (This can be disabled if your client doesn't support this.)
     30- GLib 1.x compatibility was dropped. BitlBee now requires GLib 2.4 or newer.
     31  This allows us to use more GLib features (like the XML parser). By now GLib
     32  1.x is so old that supporting it really isn't necessary anymore.
     33- Many, many, MANY little changes, improvements, fixes. Using non-blocking
     34  I/O as much as possible, replaced the Gaim (0.59, IOW heavily outdated)
     35  API, fixed lots of little bugs (including bugs that affected daemon mode
     36  stability). See the bzr logs for more information.
     37- One of the user-visible changes from the API change: You can finally see
     38  all away states/messages properly.
     39- Added units tests. Test coverage is very minimal for now.
     40- Better charset handling: Everything is just converted from/to UTF-8 right
     41  in the IRC core, and charset mismatches are detected (if possible) and the
     42  user is asked to resolve this before continuing. Also, UTF-8 is the default
     43  setting now, since that's how the world seems to work these days.
     44- One can now keep hashed passwords in bitlbee.conf instead of the cleartext
     45  version.
     46- Most important change: New file format for user data (accounts, nicks and
     47  settings). Migration to the new format should happen transparently,
     48  BitlBee will read the old files and once you quit/save it will save in the
     49  new format. It is recommended to delete the old files (BitlBee doesn't do
     50  this automatically, it will just ignore them) since they won't be used
     51  anymore (and since the old file format is a security risk). Some advantages
     52  of this file format switch:
     53  * Safer format, since the identify-password is now salted before generating
     54    a checksum. This way one can't use MD5 reverse lookup databases to crack
     55    passwords. Also, the IM-account passwords are encrypted using RC4 instead
     56    of the simple obfuscation scheme which BitlBee used so far.
     57  * Easier to extend than the previous format (at least the .nicks format was
     58    horribly limited).
     59  * Nicknames for buddies are now saved per-account instead of per-protocol.
     60    So far having one buddy on multiple accounts of the same protocol was a
     61    problem because the nicks generated for the two "instances" of this buddy
     62    were very unpredictable.
     63    NOTE: This also means that "account del" removes not just the account,
     64    BUT ALSO ALL NICKNAMES! If you're changing IM accounts and don't want to
     65    lose the nicknames, you can now use "account set" to change the username
     66    and password for the existing connection.
     67  * Per-account settings (see the new "account set" command).
     68- A brand new Jabber module. Besides the major code cleanup, it also has
     69  has these new features:
     70  * Pretty complete XMPP support: RFC3920, RFC3921 plus a number of XEPs
     71    including XEP45, XEP73 and XEP85. (See http://www.xmpp.org/ for what all
     72    these things mean exactly.) Privacy lists are not supported for obvious
     73    reasons.
     74  * This complete support also includes TLS and SASL support and SRV record
     75    lookup. This means that specifying a server tag for connections should
     76    (almost) never be necessary anymore, BitlBee can find the server and can
     77    automatically convert plaintext connections to TLS-encrypted ones.
     78  * XEP45: Jabber chatroom support!
     79  * XEP85 means typing notifications. The older XEP22 (still used by some
     80    clients including Gaim <2.0) is not supported.
     81  * Better handling of buddies who have more than one resource on-line. As
     82    long as one resource is on-line (and visible), BitlBee will show this.
     83    (The previous module didn't keep track of resources and sent an offline
     84    event as soon as any resource disappears.)
     85  * You can now set your resource priority.
     86  * The info command now gives away state/message information for all
     87    resources available for that buddy. (Of course this only works if the
     88    buddy is in your contact list.)
     89  * An XML console (add xmlconsole to your contact list or see "help set
     90    xmlconsole" if you want it permanently).
     91- The Yahoo! module now says it supports YMSG protocol version 12, which will
     92  hopefully keep the Yahoo module working after 2008-04-02 (when Yahoo! is
     93  dropping support for version 6.x of their client).
     94- MSN switchboard handling changes. Hopefully less messages will get lost now,
     95  although things are still not perfect.
     96
     97Finished 17 Mar 2008
     98
     99Version 1.0.4:
     100- Removed sethostent(), which causes problems for many people, especially on
     101  *BSD. This is basically the reason for this release.
     102- "allow" command actually displays the allow list, not the block list.
     103- Yahoo away state/msg fix.
     104- Don't display "Gender: Male" by default if nothing's filled in (OSCAR
     105  "info" command)
     106- Fixed account cleanup (possible infinite loop) in irc_free().
     107- Fixed configdir error message to not always display the compile-time
     108  setting.
     109
     110Finished 20 Aug 2007
     111
     112Version 1.0.3:
     113- Fixed ugliness in block/allow list commands (still not perfect though, the
     114  list is empty or not up-to-date for most protocols).
     115- OSCAR module doesn't send the ICQ web-aware flag anymore, which seems to
     116  get rid of a lot of ICQ spam.
     117- added show_got_added(), BitlBee asks you, after authorizing someone, if you
     118  want to add him/her to your list too.
     119- add -tmp, mainly convenient if you want to talk to people who are not in
     120  your list.
     121- Fixed ISON command, should work better with irssi now.
     122- Fixed compilation with tcc.
     123- Fixed xinetd-file.
     124- Misc. (crash)bug fixes, including one in the root command parsing that
     125  caused mysterious error messages sometimes.
     126
     127Finished 24 Jun 2006 (Happy 4th birthday, BitlBee!)
     128
     129Version 1.0.2:
     130- Pieces of code cleanup, fixes for possible problems in error checking.
     131- Fixed an auto-reconnect cleanup problem that caused crashes in daemon mode.
     132- /AWAY in daemon mode now doesn't set the away state for every connection
     133  anymore.
     134- Fixed a crash-bug on empty help subjects.
     135- Jabber now correctly sets the current away state when connecting.
     136- Added Invisible and Hidden to the away state alias list, invisible mode
     137  should be pretty usable now.
     138- Fixed handling of iconv(): It's now done for everything that goes between
     139  BitlBee and the IRC client, instead of doing it (almost) every time
     140  something goes to or come from the IM-modules. Should've thought about
     141  that before. :-)
     142- When cleaning up MSN switchboards with unsent msgs, it now also says which
     143  contact those messages were meant for.
     144- You can now use the block and allow commands to see your current block/
     145  allow list.
     146
     147Finished 1 Apr 2006
     148
     149Version 1.0.1:
     150- Support for AIM groupchats.
     151- Improved typing notification support for at least AIM.
     152- BitlBee sends a 005 reply when logging in, this informs modern IRC clients
     153  of some of BitlBee's capabilities. This might also solve problems some
     154  people were having with the new control channel name.
     155- MSN switchboards are now properly reset when talking to a person who is
     156  offline. This fixes problems with messages to MSN people that sometimes
     157  didn't arrive.
     158- Fixed one of the problems that made BitlBee show online Jabber people as
     159  offline.
     160- Fixed problems with commas in MSN passwords.
     161- Added some consts for read-only data, which should make the BitlBee per-
     162  process memory footprint a bit smaller.
     163- Other bits of code cleanup.
     164
     165Finished 14 Jan 2006
     166
    1167Version 1.0:
    2168- Removed some crashy debugging code.
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