1 v0.8.1 2002-02-17 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
3 * Expected bugfix release :) Worst thing was that I forgot always to
4 debug why /cat /dev/urandom crashed irssi. Well, found two ways
5 that could make it happen.
7 - Irssi was linked with -lcurses AND -lncurses
8 - Logging could have produced GLib errors with certain conditions
9 - A few compiler warnings fixes
11 v0.8.0 2002-02-17 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
13 * I really should make releases more often. Once in every two weeks
14 used to be nice. Maybe once in a month would be good now. There
15 was many reasons why this release took this long .. first being
16 addicted to books, then life stuff, then it took forever to figure
17 out that irssi was crashing under solaris (and not because of one
18 of the big changes I made while moving to IRC from solaris box).
20 And now.. well, after this release I'll start working more with
21 the yet another irssi rewrite :) The code is getting too ugly
22 again, and some things need rewriting to support some new features
23 more easily. It will take a while to get it all done, so I'll try
24 to keep updating this "stable" irssi as well.
26 There's too many changes since 0.7.98.3 (and .4 which was just
27 minor bugfix), about 6600 lines in ChangeLog. I'm not going to
28 read all that, so I'll just list the biggest changes that I can
31 This version was supposed to be called 0.7.99, but since there
32 were so many changes, and I originally though of putting 0.8.0
33 out long time ago, and 0.7.100 would look stupid, I guess it's
36 + /UPGRADE - upgrade irssi to new version on-the-fly without
37 disconnecting from server, so other people won't even notice you
38 quit from IRC. This ONLY executes the new binary, it does NOT
39 download/compile/whatever irssi.
40 + UTF-8 support with /SET term_type UTF-8, default is "8bit".
41 It's also automatically detected from system locale (if supported).
42 + Fully configurable statusbar. Yes. FULLY. Don't bother asking if
43 something could be done with it, it can, just ask how. Well,
44 there's a few things I didn't have time/energy to finish:
45 window-specific statusbar groups and support for multiple input
47 + Rewritten keyboard handling. No more the CTRL-X and ALT-x handling,
48 now you can create whatever keyboard combinations your terminal
50 + Rewritten text buffer (scrollback) handling.
51 + Irssi doesn't depend on curses anymore, so it can be installed
52 anywhere a working terminfo/termcap exists. This also allows us to
53 use all the possible colors terminal has (curses limits to 64), so
54 eg. %0 is now always black background, not the default terminal
57 Several systems have also terminfo/termcap database that doesn't
58 support colors, so I've added /SET term_force_colors option to
59 force ANSI-style colors. Note that eg. BitchX does this by default.
61 Getting rid of curses allows also one great thing for you people
62 copy&pasting long urls :) If a long word gets split to two lines,
63 doubleclicking the word selects it from both lines.
64 + Rewritten server event redirections. Before it was pretty easy to
65 mess up irssi's expectations of what server sends, and some things
66 might have stayd in the buffer forever. Especially notify lists
67 messed up /WHOIS requests for the notified people. Now all this
68 should be history and it's a lot easier for scripts to use the
70 + New ICB chat protocol plugin - very basic and doesn't support
71 nicklist, but works. :)
72 + --home and --config parameters to specify alternate ~/.irssi
73 directory or config file.
74 + Scripts can be unloaded separately with /SCRIPT UNLOAD. You can get
75 a list of runnning scripts with /SCRIPT.
76 + /SERVER PURGE [<target>] - purge the output buffer (for given
77 target). Useful for example if you accidentally paste 100 lines :)
78 The buffer is automatically purged if you get kicked from channel,
79 or if you /PART the channel and there's more than 10 lines in
82 v0.7.98.3 2001-03-17 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
84 * Highlighting changes: /HILIGHT -color, /SET hilight_color and
85 /SET hilight_act_color don't accept the numeric color value
86 anymore, the colors must be the %code format (see the beginning
87 of docs/formats.txt). The color can also have background and
88 underline/blinking set (%F%Y = blinking yellow)
90 * Statusbar rewrite: Statusbar should finally work well when
91 there's not enough space for it in screen. Least important items
92 start shrinking/disappearing before more important ones, activity
93 list should be always fully visible now.
95 /SET statusbar_xxx settings have been removed, everything is
96 configurable from theme now. Even the texts in the statusbar
97 items. See end of default.theme.
99 FULLY configurable statusbar with possibility to create your own
100 items and support for multiple lines will hopefully come soon.
102 + /WINDOW CLOSE [<first> [<last>] - you can close multiple
104 + Emphasis work with actions now
105 + If there's any unknown settings in your configuration file, irssi
106 asks at startup if they should be removed.
107 + All abstracts in theme files now default to same as in
108 default.theme, so you may override only those you want to change
109 leaving the rest commented out.
110 - Irssi crashed when specifying vhost to use (not always?)
111 - Fixed one nasty usage of already free'd memory. Hopefully solves
113 - Some perl fixes, Irssi::Nick and "massjoin" signal didn't work
114 properly which broke all auto-op scripts.
115 - If one server fails because of DNS error, don't stop reconnecting
117 - Updated default config to have max_query_chans=1 in undernet to
118 avoid those channel syncing problems.
119 - /SERVER didn't autojoin channels if it was used when you weren't
120 connected to any other servers
121 - /CONNECT -ircnet didn't load ircnet specific settings correctly
122 - /SET scroll_page_count - don't crash if /0 is given. Works now
123 properly if /0.xx is given.
124 - ^O did reset only colors, not underlines etc.
125 - Several fixes with handling blinking text
126 - Irssi crashed almost immediately with NetBSD/Alpha, fixed. Still
127 not sure if it was compiler bug or is my code just non-standard C.
128 - Reconnecting in IPv6 server shouldn't change to IPv4
129 - Irssi proxy didn't work properly with systems where irssi was
130 compiled with --enable-ipv6 but OS didn't support IPv6
132 v0.7.98.2 2001-03-04 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
134 + /LASTLOG: added -case option for case-sensitive matching.
135 -force option is now required to print lastlogs longer than
137 + /BANTYPE -> /SET ban_type. /BAN: -type option added to override
139 + /NAMES: -ops -halfops -voices -normal options added.
140 /NAMES without parameters now prints nicklist in active channel,
141 /NAMES ** shows all nicks in all channels.
142 + delete_next_word key implemented, patch by Tinuk
143 + /SET beep_when_window_active - works with /SET beep_msg_level,
144 should we beep when the msg is printed to active window. If msg
145 is printed to some other window it always beeps.
146 + /JOIN #channel and /QUERY nick won't anymore automatically move
147 channel/query to active window but send a notice to user how to
148 move it. This was confusing people who did it accidentally.
149 + /SET autostick_split_windows (default ON) - should we do
150 /WINDOW STICK ON to all new split windows and hidden windows that
151 are created inside it. This hopefully makes it easier to use split
153 - All IPv6 problems are hopefully fixed. Everything now keeps both
154 v4 and v6 addresses in memory and at connect() time it's decided
155 which one should be used.
156 - /IGNORE * level printed GLib error. /RELOADing printed some
157 unignore texts. Autoignores had some problems.
158 - Using /LAYOUT SAVE with split windows crashed irssi at startup
159 when it tried to restore them..
160 - /WINDOW SHOW command didn't work properly
161 - /LAST -clear crashed if window contained only lastlog lines.
162 Beeping after /LAST -clear also could have crashed.
163 - HILIGHT level didn't work with logs.
164 - /SET prompt - if $T (target) had %c or something in it, it
165 shouldn't be treated as color code. So color codes can now be
166 used in /SET prompt string itself, but in none of the $variables
168 - Generated help files had joined lines in chapter together but
169 didn't add spaces between lines.
170 - Statusbar could have gotten to endless loop when trying to give
171 more space to some item when there was no more available space.
172 - When /SET autoclose_windows is ON, don't destroy windows if they
173 have some level set (like /join -w + /part in status window)
174 - If GLIB was unpacked to irssi directory, make install tried to
176 - Always save theme to ~/.irssi/ no matter where it was read from.
177 - If /SET names_max_width was too low, irssi crashed
178 - /CONNECT -ircnet "" - even if someone does this don't make the
180 - /QUERYing #channel that was already /JOINed crashed irssi after
182 - /SET -clear printed GLib error when done to boolean settings
184 v0.7.98.1 2001-02-22 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
186 - fixed stupid remote crash with nick_match_msg()
188 v0.7.98 2001-02-22 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
190 * Theme files aren't fully compatible with old ones, there's a few
191 naming changes and some new items. Added lots of comments and help
192 to default.theme, so creating themes should be a bit easier now :)
194 * Perl scripts aren't compatible with old ones anymore. Biggest
195 change is that $object->values()->{xxx} calls are now just
196 $object->{xxx}, but there's a lot of other changes as well.
197 docs/perl.txt is now up to date so you may want to read it.
199 * Several settings have changed their names:
200 /SET beep_on_msg -> beep_msg_level
201 /SET activity_levels -> activity_msg_level
202 /SET hilight_levels -> activity_hilight_level
203 /SET noact_channels -> activity_hide_targets
205 + /SET prompt, /SET prompt_window - Specifies the text in prompt.
206 'prompt' is used when channel or query is active in window and
207 'prompt_window' is used with empty windows. You can also use
208 % color codes in prompt.
209 + /EXEC - rewrote it, has now all the same features as EPIC and a
210 few more, like "interactive shell in window" support. See
211 /HELP exec for information.
212 + /SAVEWINDOWS renamed to /LAYOUT SAVE. Added /LAYOUT RESET.
213 /LAYOUT SAVE now saves split windows and queries properly.
214 Windows that contain saved channels are never used for anything
215 else (ie. if the saved channel isn't joined, no other channels
216 can be joined to the window)
217 + /WINDOW SERVER: added -sticky and -unsticky options. If window
218 server is sticky, it will never be automatically changed, and it
219 cannot be changed to anything else without -unsticky option.
220 Should be useful for people who want status or msgs windows for
222 + /WINDOW STICK [ON|OFF|<ref#>] - stick window to specified split
223 window. After setting window to sticky non-sticky windows can't
224 replace the active sticky one. Each split window can have it's own
226 + /WINDOW LEFT, /WINDOW RIGHT - Go to previous/next window in the
227 current sticky window group, or if there's no sticky windows go to
228 previous/next non-sticky window. Alt-Left/Right keys default to
230 + /WINDOW NUMBER: -sticky option added. Closing windows before a
231 sticky window won't change refnum of the sticky window and windows
233 + /SET windows_auto_renumber - should window refnums be packed when
234 some window is destroyed in the middle
235 + /SET scroll_page_count - how many lines to scroll with pgup/pgdn.
236 either an absolute value, or if the count starts with '/', it's
237 calculated as lines_in_screen/count. The default is /2.
238 + /SET timestamp_format specifies the format to use with timestamps
239 in "man strftime" format.
240 + Emphasis (*word*, _word_) replacing works better now. It doesn't
241 try to change nicks or any non-words. This time people might want
242 to actually use it :)
243 + Nick completion logic changes, should work better now. Changed
244 meaning of /SET completion_keep_publics to be number of publics
245 to keep instead of time to keep them.
246 + /HILIGHT: Added -priority option (deciding which color should stay
247 in activity list), /SET hilight_level to specify the default level
248 for /HILIGHTs. -word option renamed to -full. Added new -word
249 option meaning to highlight only the found word in line. Removed
250 -nonick option but added -line which means pretty much the same.
251 -actcolor specifies what color to show in activity list, default
252 is the same as -color or if there's no -color it defaults to
253 /SET hilight_act_color. Colors can have background color set with
254 fg,bg. Works with activity list too, useful for example blinking.
255 + DCC rewrite. File names with spaces work properly, you can have
256 multiple dcc chats with same people (or more useful, same nick in
257 different ircnets), /DCC CHAT|GET|RESUME with no arguments accepts
258 the last request, notifies if dcc request was sent to channel,
259 warns about connecting to lowports, /SET dcc_autoget_lowports
260 specifies if autogetting should work with lowports, complains of
261 invalid DCC CTCPs instead of ignoring, /SET dcc_autoresume is like
262 dcc_autoget except resumes the files if possible.
263 + /NAMES can print columns with different widths now. You can change
264 the max. width with /SET names_max_width and /SET names_max_columns
265 settings. Default is max. 6 columns.
266 + /LASTLOG: Added options -file <filename> for writing lastlog to
267 file, -window <ref#|name> for specifying which window's lastlog to
268 print (output is always to active window) and -clear option to
269 remove all lastlog lines from window.
270 + /OPER [<nick> [<password>]] - syntax changed. If password isn't
272 + /FOREACH server|channel|query|window <command>
273 + /UNBAN <ref#> works. /BAN list shows reference numbers.
274 + /PERL <code> - runs perl code (like /PERL Irssi::print "hello")
275 + /CLEAR -all - clear all windows
276 + /KICKBAN and /KNOCKOUT accepts multiple nicks separated with commas
277 + /SET theme - says what theme was changed to, and complains if
278 theme wasn't found. Setting theme's name to "xxx.theme" now works,
279 too many people tried it with the .theme suffix :)
280 + /WHOIS without parameters in query does now same as
282 + IPv6 updates: /CONNECT, /SERVER, /SERVER ADD: added -4 and -6
283 options for specifying if we should connect to IPv4 or IPv6 address
284 of the server. If -host or /SET hostname is set, irssi determines
285 from it if it should use IPv4 or v6. If irssi still isn't sure of
286 it, it fallbacks to /SET resolve_prefer_ipv6
287 + Logs and rawlogs write to files through special "write buffer". By
288 default everything gets written immediately, but you can make it
289 wait until there's specified amount of data in buffer or write once
290 in a hour or so. Useful for people who want to keep hard disk at
291 sleep at nights but still want to log. /SET write_buffer_mins and
292 /SET write_buffer_kb specifies when to flush the buffer.
293 /FLUSHBUFFER flushes it immediately.
294 + LOTS of other smaller things that should make your life easier :)
295 - /SET dcc_autorename OFF didn't work before.
296 - Irssi compiled with IPv6 support didn't work properly with some
298 - Theme saving to home dir didn't work correctly if globaldir
299 already had the same theme.
300 - If log file locking failed, irssi always assumed it was locked
301 while it could have been because filesystem didn't support locking
302 or some other problem..
304 v0.7.97 2000-12-03 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
306 * Added templates for themes - this allowed separation of the
307 actual texts and styling/coloring. See default.theme file for
308 more information. You should remove your old ~/.irssi/default.theme
309 or at least merge it with the defaul.theme.
311 * If GLIB sources are found unpacked from some subdirectory, always
312 compile it and use it even if GLIB is already installed somewhere
315 + /SCROLLBACK REDRAW - redraw contents of current window according
316 to active formats, ie. changing theme updates the scrollback.
317 This requires /SET scrollback_save_formats ON.
318 + /SET log_theme <theme> - you can specify what theme to use for
319 writing texts to log file.
320 + /WAIT [-<server tag>] <milliseconds> - wait for <milliseconds>
321 before sending anything else to server
322 + /EXEC <command> - execute command and print it's output (stdout
323 only) to screen. (by Tinuk)
324 + Don't indent the next line when long word is split, this should
325 help a bit when copying long URLs.
326 + Remember who set the topic and when, display the info when using
328 + /SET emphasis - convert _underlined_ and *bold* words (and phrases)
329 to use real underlines/bolds. (by tommik)
330 + While waiting for more netsplits/netjoins, if anything else is
331 printed to screen, print the current netsplit/netjoin messages
333 + Print multiple identical mode changes in one line
334 (mode +o nick by nick1, nick2, nick3)
335 + /WINDOW ITEM GOTO <name> - sets <name> active in current window
336 + /WINDOW ITEM MOVE <window#>|<name> - moves window item to another
338 + /SET autocreate_windows - should we create new windows for new
339 window items or just place everything to one window
340 + /JOIN #already_joined_channel, /QUERY already_queried_nick - same
341 as /WINDOW ITEM MOVE <name>
342 + /SET activity_level, /SET hilight_level - specifies which message
343 levels should be treated as msg/hilight activity. (by tommik)
344 + DCC queries are now created automatically only if /SET
345 autocreate_query_level has DCCMSGS level
346 + If other side replies to our DCC CHAT request with DCC CHAT
347 request of their own (maybe we were inside firewall and other
348 side noticed it), connect to it immediately.
349 + Don't allow more than one identical DCC request, if more is
350 received just update the port of the previous request.
351 + Added KILL handling - user/server kills are now printed formatted.
352 + If server KILLs you, connect back (almost) immediately (don't wait
353 for the default 5 minutes)
354 + Nick completion now completes nicks from all channels in active
355 window, except when completing the first word in line only nicks
356 in active channel are completed.
357 + /SET show_nickmode_empty - when nick has no mode, should we
359 + /SET part_message - default message with /PART
360 + Added -current, -window and -level options to /ECHO
361 + Ctrl-T = transpose_characters
362 + Perl scripting supports now printformat(), ie. user can change
363 the text format with /FORMAT just like any other formats.
364 + Proxy plugin now supports multiple servers, blocks CTCPs from
365 clients behind it and if one client sends message to channel,
366 other clients + proxy itself also receives the message.
367 - Netsplit/netjoin printing fixes. Sometimes netsplits were hidden
368 completely and some netjoins were forgotten and printed as normal
370 - Lag checking broke sometimes when nick was changed
371 - Don't close non-autolog logs when leaving channel / closing query.
372 - Time formats didn't work in directory name of autologs.
373 - Sometimes join to channel didn't ever get synced.
374 - IPv6 support didn't work correctly with all non-Linux OSes.
375 - Lots of minor fixes and changes to make your life easier.
377 v0.7.96 2000-10-19 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
379 * new configure option: --disable-curses-windows. Use this if curses
380 always redraws the window when scrolling. This is a weird problem,
381 I'd like to know why it happens. :)
382 * Log settings are incompatible with previous versions. You'll need
383 to setup them again. Or the targets are actually the only ones
384 that irssi won't read correctly.
385 * Lots of moving and cleaning and rewriting stuff from irc to core
386 so adding other IRC-like protocols (but not IRC) would be easier.
387 This was mostly done to make SILC plugin work.
388 * Perl was split to Irssi and Irssi::Irc packages. You'll currently
389 need to use both of them with perl scripts ("use Irssi;
390 use Irssi::Irc;). This might not be needed in future :)
392 - /SET default_nick -> /SET nick
393 - /FORMAT own_me -> /FORMAT own_action
394 - /FORMAT own_dcc_me -> /FORMAT own_dcc_action
396 + Small tutorial to new irssi users - docs/startup-HOWTO.txt
397 + Proxy plugin works again, thanks to fuchs for fixing it :)
398 + You can now connect multiple times to same server and
399 reconnections will work correctly with them.
400 + Support for half-ops (+h)
401 + Actions will now show up in window activity with hilight or
402 message-color, not the text-color as before.
403 + Added tab-completion for /BIND's commands.
404 + Perl support is now built as runtime loadable module by default.
405 You can still build it statically with --enable-perl=static
407 + /SET completion_nicks_lowercase - when completing nicks always
408 write the nick with lowercase (uppercase letters are ugly ;)
409 + /BIND <key> /command works now directly instead of needing the
410 "command" id in the middle
411 + /connect + /server server/chatnet completion by tommik.
412 + Keyboard should never get stuck again when receiving huge amounts
413 of text from server that irssi doesn't handle fast enough.
414 - Hopefully fixed the problem when Irssi starts eating 100% CPU
415 - Fixes to make irssi work with other (older and newer) perl
417 - /MSG -servertag crashed irssi.
418 - /BAN could crash when showing bans
419 - log_day_change was never printed in logs
420 - /mode #channel -oooo... would deop the first 3, and then op the
422 - When pressing down key, the command line wasn't saved to history.
423 - Closing or moving window didn't update the window activity list.
424 - Autologging with same named channels in different networks works
427 v0.7.95 2000-08-13 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
430 - /LOG: Removed the -rotate option, it was pretty useless since
431 adding the % formats to file name already tells that the log
433 - WJOIN -> /JOIN -window and WQUERY -> /QUERY -window. Added
434 WJOIN and WQUERY aliases for them in default config..
435 + /SAVEWINDOWS saves the current layout of windows. It's
436 automatically reloaded at startup.
437 + Theme fixes: /RELOAD reloads them, /SET theme changes the default
438 theme, you can have window specific themes with /WINDOW THEME.
439 + Irssi uses now real curses windows, irssi should work now better
441 + Autologging supports log rotating now too, just add the wanted %
442 formats to /SET autolog_path
443 + /MSG nick completion now gives the nicks in right time order when
444 using multiple irc networks.
445 + /SET beep_on_msg now works with all message levels, including
447 + You can change the default line indentation with /SET indent
448 + /channel add -bots: You can now use @ or + before the nick mask to
449 indicate that bot should have either ops or voices/ops.
451 - Added namespaces, you don't have to worry about if someone
452 else also happens to be using event_privmsg function..
453 - You can unload scripts with /UNLOAD <name>.
454 - Running scripts that are already loaded, destroys the old
456 - Added Irssi::print_window() function to print text to current
458 - Don't autoclose window after part/unquery if there was still some
459 channels/queries left in window.
460 - Autologging fixes: Don't log WHOIS replies by default
461 (autolog_level = all -crap). And with /msg nick1,nick2 don't log
462 to file nick1,nick2.log but nick1.log and nick2.log separately.
463 It also failed if you hadn't created the base path for the logs,
464 now irssi creates the whole directory path.
466 v0.7.94 2000-07-24 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
468 * Help files! Use /HELP <command> to see them.
469 They're just very first beta versions so don't expect too much.
470 They were written by Markus Vuori <mm@vuori.net> with some help
471 from EPIC's help files :)
474 - /SET completion_disable_auto -> completion_auto
475 - Changed the names of /BIND commands to be epic-compatible.
476 Also added several new commands.
477 - If --prefix is used, add the default perl library directory to
479 + Implemented /WINDOW LAST for changing to last current window.
480 + Added DCCMSGS message level. Actions match now either MSGS or
481 PUBLIC level as well as the ACTIONS level always.
482 + SET print_active_channel - if you have multiple channels in same
483 window, should we always print the channel for each message
484 (<nick:#channel>) or only when the channel isn't active.
485 + Don't print nick changes and quit messages from same nick more
486 than once in the same window (if you had joined multiple channels
488 + /SET settings_autosave - If set ON, settings are automatically
489 saved when quitting and once per hour.
490 + Don't allow recursive aliases, ie. /alias echo echo hello does
491 print hello instead of going to infinite loop.
492 + Implemented /IGNORE -time <seconds>, patch by fuchs.
493 + /PERLFLUSH now cleans up the Perl interpreter properly (closes
494 all the files opened in perl scripts, etc)
495 - Awaylog didn't work right if you did /AWAY multiple times.
496 - /NOTIFY -idle sometimes printed the unidle-message even if the
497 nick really didn't stop idling. Fixed several other notify list
499 - Tab-msgcompletion didn't work right after you had used
501 - Fixed the long standing text buffer bug which could sometimes
502 crash irssi if you were unlucky.
503 - The channel key given in /JOIN should override the one given
505 - /RELOAD caused several bugs
507 v0.7.93 2000-07-09 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
509 + Implemented /BIND [<key> [<action> [<data>]]] command.
510 <key> can be CTRL-x, ALT-X or ALT-SHIFT-X
511 The most useful action is "command", give the command in <data>.
512 You can see the rest of the actions with typing /BIND without
513 any parameters. Some actions might have more than one word,
514 to use them type the action in "quotation marks".
515 + When netsplit is over, irssi prints "Netsplit over, joins: (nicks)"
516 and hides all the real JOIN messages.
517 + /^COMMAND hides the output of the command, it's not written to
518 log either. Good for sending passwords for example.
519 + If you're pasting text to channel and some of it starts with /,
520 Irssi will send the "/command" to channel if it doesn't exist
521 (instead of just printing "unknown command").
522 + --enable-perl[=libdir] to configure - you can specify what
523 directory to install the perl libraries.
524 + Implemented runtime loadable modules. /LOAD loads a module,
526 + You can change statusbar colors with /SET statusbar_xxx.
527 + Added -clear option to /SET.
528 + Tab-completion for /FORMAT.
529 + Ctrl-Y undeletes the last line deleted with Ctrl-U.
530 - Reconnecting to server had a few bugs
531 - /RELOADing configuration produced a few bugs
532 - Highlighting had several bugs
533 - Automatic command and option completions had some bugs
534 - -option tab-completion didn't work
536 v0.7.92 2000-06-30 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
540 /SERVER -add, -remove, -list -> /SERVER ADD, REMOVE, LIST
541 /SET window_close_on_part -> /SET autoclose_windows
542 /HILIGHT -nick -> /HILIGHT -mask (see below)
543 + Automatic completion of /commands. Automatic completion of
544 command -options. Complains about unknown -options.
545 + /MSG [-<server tag>] <nick> <msg> - you can specify what server
546 to send the message to.
547 + Rewrote tab-completion to be modular, it's REALLY easy to add
548 completion to whatever you want. It now handles:
549 - Command completion works better, subcommand completion works
550 - Command -option completion
551 - /MSG completion completes from all IRC servers, so if you had
552 message from ircnet and efnet, irssi will complete with
553 /MSG -ircnet nick1 -> /MSG -efnet nick2
554 - #channel completion works - it completes only channels you
555 have joined or have in setup
556 - File name completion with /DCC SEND (and other commands)
557 - /TOGGLE settings completion
558 - Completion for command parameters or subcommands work right
559 even if the command was typed as alias.
561 - -nick highlights only the nick, not the whole line. Works
562 only with public messages.
563 - -mask option matches the text for nick mask (it didn't even
565 - Window numbers in activity list are colored with hilight
567 - You can give real color names with -color option. All the
568 "normal" colors can be given, if you want bold colors, use
569 b+color name, like bgreen.
570 - /SET hilight_color specifies the default highlight color
571 - /SET hilight_only_nick specifies if we should highlight the
572 nick or the whole line if -nick or -nonick wasn't specified
574 + /LAST -away checks only lines that came after last time you
576 + You can specify command(s) to be sent automatically to server
577 after connected with /IRCNET -autosendcmd. Useful for sending
578 your password to NickServ.
579 + Added /SET reuse_unused_windows setting, default is OFF. Works
580 only when /SET autoclose_windows is ON. This specifies if new
581 windows should be joined to new window, or if existing empty
582 windows should be used.
583 + /SET lag_min_show -1 disables displaying lag entirely.
584 - /SCROLLBACK HOME, END and GOTO commands weren't working right.
585 - Closing active window that had channels/queries could crash
586 - Using \n with /SET expand_escapes ON didn't work right.
587 - Logging HILIGHT messages didn't work
588 - The "max. count" parameter in /LAST didn't work right.
590 v0.7.91 2000-06-14 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
592 + Ctrl-X changes IRC server in stats/msgs/empty windows.
593 + /JOIN -<server tag> #channel joins to channel in specified server.
594 + /WHOIS automatically sends a /WHOWAS query if nick wasn't in IRC.
595 + if some unknown /command had another / in it, like /usr/bin,
596 send it as normal message. good for copypasting paths :)
597 + If you're not allowed to connect to server (K-lined, no I-line),
598 Irssi won't try to reconnect back to the server.
599 + You can disable window activity notifies in specified channels
600 with /SET noact_channels #chan1 #chan2 .. The activity is
601 displayed if window had a message to you.
602 + Tab-completion works now with /commands and /set variables
603 + /SET close_window_on_part - should we close the window too when
605 + /SET autocreate_own_query ON - creates query window when you
606 send message with /MSG nick.
607 + /SET mail_counter specifies if we should show mail counter in
609 + /SET wall_format specifies the text that's sent with /WALL
610 + If you /SET expand_escapes ON and type \n or \t to text line, they
611 will be expanded to newline and tab.
612 + Ctrl-W deletes word in left
613 - Flood was detected wrong - /SET flood_timecheck's argument was
614 supposed to be seconds, not milliseconds.
615 - Unignoring autoignored nicks didn't work
616 - Logging wrote messages to log file twice
617 - /WINDOW MOVE <number> could put irssi to infinite loop
618 - ANSI blink code crashed irssi.
619 - Replying to DCC GET and CHAT requests didn't work
620 - /HILIGHT displayed levels twice, /HILIGHT -channels didn't work
621 - /SET ignore_signals wasn't read at startup..
623 v0.7.90 2000-06-04 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
625 * On the way to 0.8.0 .. Major rewriting/rearranging code. There's
626 some changes in behaviour because I'm trying to make Irssi
627 compatible with EPIC as much as possible (except the scripting,
628 perl should be enough?)
630 * DOCUMENTATION! See docs/manual.txt
632 This NEWS file contains only the biggest new features, you should
633 browse through the documentation to find the rest. Some of the
634 parameters of commands listed in this file aren't really up to
635 date since I got a bit bored writing them here too.. They are
636 correct in the manual.
638 * Irssi isn't anymore IRC specific client, you could easily take the
639 whole IRC part away and use some other chat protocol instead, or
640 use both at the same time. Currently however, only IRC protocol
641 is supported. See docs/design.txt for more information.
643 * libPropList isn't needed anymore - I'm using my own configuration
644 library. This is mostly because different proplists worked a bit
645 differently everywhere and several people had problems with it.
646 It's also yet another extra library that you needed to compile
647 Irssi. New configuration library has several advantages:
649 You can add comments to configuration file and they also stay
650 there when it's saved.
652 It's not nearly as vulnerable as proplist. If some error occurs,
653 instead of just not reading anything it will try to continue if
654 possible. Also the error messages are written to irssi's text
655 window instead of stdout.
657 It can be managed more easily than proplist - setting/getting the
658 configuration is a lot more easier.
660 * Coding style changes - I'm not using gint, gchar etc. anymore,
661 they're just extra pain when moving code to non-glib projects and
662 syntax hilighting doesn't work by default with most editors ;)
664 Indentation style was also changed to K&R because of some political
665 reasons ;) And I'm already starting to like it.. :) It forces me
666 to split code to different functions more often and the result is
667 that the code gets more readable.
669 And finally I'm also using `const' all over the place.
671 * Signal handlers changed - you don't anymore return value 0 if you
672 wish to stop signal. Instead use signal_stop() or
673 signal_stop_by_name().
675 + Flood protection when sending commands to server works now better.
676 It allows sending first 5 messages immediately, but after that
677 only one message is sent every 2.2 seconds.
679 This is the same flood protection that most IRC servers use, so
680 the only affect this protection has is that when sending a lot of
681 commands to server you won't get kicked out from server because of
684 This can be changed from settings `cmd_max_at_once' and
685 `cmd_queue_speed'. If you want to disable this for some reason, use
686 /SET cmd_queue_speed 0
687 + Split windows in text version, all the normal ircII /WINDOW
688 commands should work: new, kill, grow, shrink, balance, show, hide
689 + /EVAL <commands> - Expand all the special variables from string and
690 run it. Commands can be split with ; character. See
691 docs/special_vars.txt for more info.
692 + Aliases are parsed just like /EVAL - arguments are in $0..$9.
693 + Text formats are also parsed like /EVAL, arguments used to be in
694 $1..$9, now they're in $0..$8 so it messes up existing themes..
695 + /SET [key [value]] - no more the '=' character. Boolean values
696 also need to be changed with ON/OFF/TOGGLE values (not yes/no).
697 + /SAVE [<filename>] - saves the settings to file.
698 /REHASH [<filename>] - re-read the configuration file on the fly
699 + /TOGGLE <key> [ON/OFF] - same as /SET <key> TOGGLE
700 + /ALIAS [-]<alias> [<command>], /UNALIAS <alias>
701 Show, add or remove aliases. /ALIAS -alias = /UNALIAS alias
702 + /NOTIFY [-list] [-away] [-idle [minutes]] <mask> [ircnet [ircnet...]]
703 -away notifies about away-status changes
704 -idle notifies if idle time is first larger than `minutes'
705 (default is hour) and then it drops down.
706 -list lists the notify list entries with all their settings
709 /NOTIFY without any arguments displays if the people in notify
710 list are online or offline.
711 + /HILIGHT [-nick | -regexp | -word] [-color <color>]
712 [-level <level>] [-channels <channels>] <text>
713 -nick: match only for nick
714 -regexp: `text' is a regular expression
715 -word: `text' must match to full words
716 -color: print the reply with `color' - color can be a bold (^B),
717 underline (^_) etc. too
718 -level: match only for `level' messages, default is
719 publics,msgs,notices,actions
720 -channels: match only in `channels'
721 /DEHILIGHT <ref#> | <text>
722 + /LASTLOG [-] [-new] [-regexp | -word] [-<level> [...]]
723 [<pattern>] [<count> [<start>]]
724 -: don't print the "Lastlog:" and "End of Lastlog" messages.
725 -new: show only lines since last /LASTLOG
726 -regexp: `text' is a regular expression
727 -word: `text' must match to full words
728 -level: what levels to check, like -public -msgs (default is all)
729 <pattern>: text to search for, or all if empty
730 <count>: maximum number of lines to show
731 <start>: skip the last `start' lines
732 + /IGNORE [-regexp | -word] [-pattern <pattern>] [-except]
733 [-channels <channel>] <mask> <levels> <^levels>
734 -regexp: `pattern' is a regular expression
735 -word: `pattern' must match to full words
736 -pattern: <pattern> must match to the message's text
737 -except: *DON'T* ignore
738 -channels: ignore only in channels
739 <mask>: either a nick mask or list of channels
740 <levels>: list of levels to ignore
741 <^levels>: list of levels to NOT ignore
742 (/ignore -except nick notices = /ignore nick ^notices)
743 /UNIGNORE <ref#> | <mask>
745 The best match always wins, so you can have:
747 /IGNORE -except *!*@host.org CTCPS
748 + /LOG OPEN [-noopen] [-autoopen] [-targets <targets>] [-window]
749 [-rotate hour|day|month] <filename> [<levels>]
750 -noopen: create the entry to log list, but don't start logging
751 -autoopen: automatically open this log file at startup
752 -targets: log only in specified channels/nicks
753 -window: Log this window
754 -rotate: Reopen the log file every hour, day or month. This
755 makes only sense if you specify date/time formats
757 <filename>: File name where to log, it is parsed with strftime(),
758 so %d=day, etc. see "man strftime" for more info.
759 <levels>: Defaults to ALL
760 /LOG CLOSE <ref#> | <fname> - close log and remove from log list
761 /LOG START <ref#> | <fname> - start logging to file
762 /LOG STOP <ref#> | <fname> - stop logging to file
763 /LOG - display the log list
764 NOTE: Log files are locked after opened, so two irssi's can't
765 accidentally try to write to same log file.
766 + /WINDOW LOG ON|OFF|TOGGLE [<filename>]
767 Start/stop logging window, same as /LOG OPEN -window. If file name
768 isn't given, it defaults to ~/irc.log.<windowname> or
769 ~/irc.log.Window<ref#> if window doesn't have name.
770 /WINDOW LOGFILE <filename>
771 Creates the entry to log list, same as /LOG OPEN -window -noopen.
772 Also, if /WINDOW LOG ON is used it starts logging to this file.
773 + /SET AUTOLOG ON|OFF|TOGGLE
774 /SET AUTOLOG_LEVEL <level>
775 /SET AUTOLOG_PATH <path> - expandos can be used, $0 is the target.
776 Enables automatic logging, files are automatically created as
777 needed and after some time of inactivity, they are closed. If you
778 are using multiple servers, it makes sense to use the server tag
779 as part of the file name, for example ~/irclogs/$tag/$0.log (this
781 + /SET window_auto_change - if enabled, irssi will automatically
782 change to automatically created windows (like queries). It will
783 also clear your command line and put it to command history so that
784 you don't accidentally write anything to wrong window. You'll get
785 the command back by pressing up arrow.
786 + /SET show_quit_once - show quit message only once instead of in
787 all channel windows the nick was joined.
788 + Server reconnections work better. It will now automatically set
789 your previous user mode and away message (and rejoin the channels,
790 which it already did before) after reconnected. If you use /SERVER
791 to connect to different IRC network, none of this will be done.
792 + /CAT <filename> - prints the file to screen
793 + /SET query_auto_close <secs> - automatically close queries after
794 <secs> seconds. It won't close queries that have unread messages,
795 and it won't close queries in the active window.
797 v0.7.28 2000-03-11 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
799 + irssi-text: New improved "text widget". It takes less memory and
800 if you resize the terminal horizonally, the text automatically
801 changes to right size. Several other changes too:
803 /CLEAR only clears the screen, you can still scroll the window up.
804 /SCROLLBACK, or the default alias /SB:
805 /SB CLEAR - Clear screen, free all memory used by texts in window.
806 /SB HOME - Jump to start of the buffer
807 /SB END - Jump to end of the buffer
808 /SB GOTO [[-|+]line#|time] - Jump to specified line or timestamp.
810 -100 jumps back 100 lines, +100 jumps forward 100 lines, or
811 100 simply jumps to 100. line in scrollback.
813 Time is the format [dd.mm | -<days ago>] hh:mi[:ss]
816 /SB GOTO 15:00 - Jump to first text that came after 15:00 today
817 /SB GOTO -1 15:00 - First text after 15:00 yesterday
818 /SB GOTO 1.2 - First text in 1. February
819 /SB GOTO -100 - Jump back 100 lines
820 /SB GOTO +100 - Jump for
822 + After lost connection to server and reconnected or changed the
823 server manually with /SERVER, Irssi will rejoin back to the same
824 channels that you were in before disconnection. They will also be
825 placed to same windows they were, even if you were in same channel
827 + /SERVERS and disconnect dialog displays also servers that are
828 being currently connected and waiting reconnections. You can remove
829 them with /DISCONNECT <tag>.
830 + If you are in multiple irc servers and the active server of the
831 window isn't the same as where the message came from, the message
832 is prefixed with a [server tag].
833 + If you don't specify the path for Perl scripts, Irssi tries to
834 find them from ~/.irssi/scripts/ or /usr/lib/irssi/scripts/
835 directories. Irssi will also run automatically scripts in
836 ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/ at startup. Several other updates to
838 + Support for ircII translation tables, /set translation <file>
839 See /usr/share/ircII/translation/* (at least in Debian)
840 + /ACTION <target> <text> - Send action to target (like /ME), target
841 is either #channel, nick or =dcc_char_nick
842 + 5 CTRL-C's in a row quits irssi-text.
843 + %| in themes marks the line indentation position - works only in
845 + You can have several msgs/status windows, one for each server.
846 + Option: start GNOME panel applet at startup
847 + --without-gtk option for configure disables building GTK frontend
848 + /LAST -new shows only the texts that came after latest /LAST.
849 - Autojoining doesn't switch automatically to the joined channel's
851 - Several (Perl) compilation problems fixed.
852 - Text hilight color was dark grey, changed to white..
853 - /LAST doesn't display the texts found from previous /LAST blocks
854 - Fixed a few memory leaks
856 v0.7.27 2000-02-25 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
858 * Perl support - finally! Took only a year or so to imlement it ;)
859 Well, I could have done it ages ago but it wouldn't have had
860 all the flexibility it now has - you should be able to do almost
861 anything with perl scripts. See DOCS/PERL for some documentation
862 and examples/ directory for a couple of example scripts.
864 This is the very first version and I haven't even tested that all
865 functions work correctly! Any suggestions are welcome. I don't
866 really like the values() functions so if someone knows better ways
867 to do them I'd really like to hear.
869 BTW. I haven't had time to learn Perl well yet, so my scripts are
870 probably not the best examples.. :)
872 If for some reason you don't wish to use Perl, you can disble it
873 with giving --disable-perl to configure.
875 + /CYCLE [#channel] - parts/rejoins the channel
876 + Autojoining doesn't switch automatically to the joined channel's
878 + Server tag generation is a bit smarter now.
879 + irssi-text: Resizing terminal works now right even if your curses
880 don't have resizeterm() function.
881 - /NAMES crashed when done in a non-channel window
882 - irssi-text: Resizing terminal when irssi had some empty windows
884 - toggle_show_nickmode didn't actually do anything :) It was
887 v0.7.26 2000-02-19 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
889 - Space (and maybe other keys) didn't work when caps/numlock was on.
891 v0.7.25 2000-02-19 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
893 + /WQUERY - create query to current window
894 + Irssi doesn't close the window anymore when using /PART
895 + irssi-text also displays user's address in topic bar in queries.
896 + /NAMES list is now displayed sorted
897 + irssi-text: /WINDOW MOVE PREV|NEXT
898 - Topic bar sometimes displayed some other channel's topic if the
899 channel didn't have a topic.
900 - Irssi automatically changed to auto-created query windows..
901 - When using /WINDOW CLOSE it didn't change to different window
902 - Made fontset_load() optional - it broke some fonts..
903 - Using Ctrl-B (bold) didn't move the cursor
905 v0.7.24 2000-02-19 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> [stable]
908 + Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation translation, now with
909 the right pot file name :)
910 + Using fontset_load() instead of font_load(), helps with using
911 some fonts (by hashao@telebot.com)
912 + /TS - display topics of all channels you're joined
913 + Automatically change to the created window
914 + Option: Show op/voice status in channel messages before nick.
915 + irssi-text: Displays topic bar op the top of the screen -
916 /set toggle_show_topicbar = yes|no
917 + Recognize +a (anonymous) and +r (reop when opless) modes
918 + Don't allow any setup file changes or log writing if another irssi
920 + /whois without any arguments gives a whois of yourself
921 - Irc network list was still corrupted in channel dialog.
922 - /LIST dialog - users column is now sorted numerically
923 (10 shows after 9, not after 1)..
924 - Log setup dialog: Clear all button was over Client errors
926 - /LAST's output displayed some crap in log file.
927 - irssi-text should work better with other curses libraries than
929 - irssi-text should work better with non-black backgounds
930 - Fixed tab completion when completion char was comma
931 - Couple of configure bugs fixed
932 - Specifying source host (vhosts) didn't work.
933 - DCC resume had been broken quite a while
935 v0.7.23 2000-01-23 Timo Sirainen <cras@irccrew.org> [stable]
937 + channel's key (+k key) is displayed in irssi-text's statusbar if it
939 + Nick hilight detector is a bit smarter now, for example if your
940 nick happens to be "its", "it's blahblah" doesn't trigger it..
941 + colorless irssi-text (/set colors = no): activity list is split in
942 two, Act and Det lists. Det displays list of windows where there's
943 new messages for you.
944 - /LAST without any parameters crashed
945 - if queried nick was changed, GUI didn't notice it.
946 - config file was invalid in .22
947 - irssi text widget didn't work in .22
948 - dcc transfers always displayed 0.00kB/s in .22
950 v0.7.22 2000-01-16 Timo Sirainen <cras@irccrew.org> [stable]
952 + configure displays a summary of things to compile
953 + /set colors = yes|no, sets colors on/off in irssi-text
954 + /window goto active now finds first the window with the higest
955 activity (msgs to you -> msgs -> rest). Alt-A is also default key
957 + When connection is lost to server, irssi will remember the channels
958 in windows. After reconnected, (auto)joining to same channels will
959 join the channels to the old windows.
960 + Improved hilighting: You can specify what color to hilight the text
961 with, to channel field type the (mirc) color number, like
962 "4 #blah" hilights the text with red in channel #blah, both color
963 and channel(s) are optional. You can also hilight nicks' colors, to
964 text field type "NICK:nick!mask", like NICK:nick, or
965 NICK:*!*@*.blah.fi hilights people from blah.fi domain
966 - Modeless channels (+channel) didn't get synced ever..
967 - Some kB/s messages displayed wrong values when resuming DCC
968 transfers. Also, kB/s is now displayed with two decimals
969 - "Day changed to 00-10-2000" .. month was wrong. No Y2K bugs
971 - List of ircnets was displyed wrong in server dialog.
972 - Userhost replies didn't handle ircops right..
973 - Doesn't quit when receives SIGHUP - some window managers send it
974 when restarting itself (Afterstep)
975 - Specifying "source host IP" didn't work (vhosts).
976 - Using ctrl-b etc. didn't move the cursor forward..
977 - Don't try to compile GTK parts of plugins if we don't even want
979 - Doesn't crash when trying to create DCC dialog after being
980 disconnected from IRC server
981 - Modeless channels (+channel) didn't get synced ever..
982 - Some transparency fixes, it's a lot faster now when moving the
983 window, but it's still too slow when creating it, not sure why..
985 v0.7.21 1999-12-20 Timo Sirainen <cras@irccrew.org> [unstable]
987 + Irssi-text: Channel activities are displayed with different colors
989 + Keeps track of "wanted nick", ie. the nick you specified in the
990 setup or to /server or /nick. When reconnecting to server it always
991 tries the wanted nick before falling back to alternate nicks.
992 + IRC Network specific settings: nick, username, realname,
993 max. kicks/modes/msgs per command.
995 + Automatic logging when you're away. Set it on/off from settings/misc
996 + /connect and /server changes the server in the current window if
997 the window isn't channel or query.
998 + Wallop actions are displayed right
999 + Ctrl-N/P keys change to previous/next window
1000 + Polish translation updated
1001 + /channel next, /channel prev - changes to next/previous channel in
1002 the current window. Ctrl-X is by default bound to /channel next.
1003 - /WHO could crash irssi
1004 - /join !!channel crashed
1006 v0.7.20.1 1999-11-28 Timo Sirainen <cras@irccrew.org> [unstable]
1008 * I just started #irssi in irc.openprojects.net too.. It's still in
1009 IRCNet too, don't know yet if I'll keep both or drop the other one..
1011 + You can use %n as current nick with aliases
1012 - Closing a window with split windows open crashed
1013 - Channel widgets weren't being updated when joined to channel in
1015 - configure didn't check if we wanted to build MySQL plugin or not,
1016 now it's built only if you give --with-mysql to configure
1017 - Using the whois, ping, etc. buttons in queries crashed
1019 v0.7.20 1999-11-27 Timo Sirainen <cras@irccrew.org> [unstable]
1021 + Polish and finnish translations started
1023 + SQL plugin which doesn't do much, currently supports MySQL only.
1024 Meant to be used by other plugins.
1026 + Botnet to bot plugin - it should already be possible to create a
1027 big bot network with this (each bot having multiple clients +
1028 uplink). The functionality is limited only to BCAST message for
1029 now which sends a message to all bots. Read docs/botnet.txt for my
1032 - If plugins failed in initialization (plugin_init()), irssi could
1034 - Server settings (nick, realname, etc.) were saved to different
1035 place in configuration file than where they were read from..
1036 So, saving them didn't really work.
1037 - Plugin autoloading didn't work
1038 - When trying to show channel's window from panel and you weren't
1039 using helvetica font (itext's internal default), irssi crashed..
1040 - Irssi crashed if you didn't have menubar enabled and didn't
1042 - When invalid theme was found from global directory, irssi
1043 complained about it every time. Now the fixed theme is saved to
1044 ~/.irssi/ directory and used thereafter.
1045 - Deleting ircnets didn't work right
1047 v0.7.19 1999-11-20 Timo Sirainen <cras@irccrew.org> [unstable]
1049 * Text formats changed - they should be compatible with epic/bx now.
1050 See docs/FORMATS for more information
1052 + Internationalization support - finally. No languages yet though..
1054 + /window new split creates a new splitted window
1055 + Automatic text replaces, useful for things like :9 -> :) .. This
1056 is actually almost same as completions, except they are activated
1057 with different keys..
1058 + Nicklist popup menu is configurable
1059 + ~/.irssi/startup - add all commands here you want to run at startup
1060 + Much more levels for ignoring/logging/etc. See docs/COMMANDS for a
1062 + Ignoring joins, parts, etc. work, ignoring channels work
1063 + Automatically loading plugins at startup works in irssi-text and
1065 + Autoaccept dcc get/chat from given nick/address
1067 + Server/Links dialog, displays list of servers in tree view.
1068 Doubleclicking a hub asks the servers behind the hub (doesn't seem
1070 + /server +irc.server.net does the same as /connect irc.server.net
1071 + Nicklist is resizeable
1072 + Buttons for closing and moving window left/right
1073 + Query windows display nick's address in topic widget and the
1074 address isn't displayed in every msg in query windows.
1075 + It's possible to add bold/colors/etc to default quit message
1076 + MIRC colors are finally displayed with right colors
1077 + You can run multiple command in alias, separate them with &&.
1078 You can create a & character with \&
1079 + Hilighting changes: Your own /msgs won't trigger channel activity,
1080 received private messages get the "new text" color
1081 + /MODE accepts multiple modes at once and they're split automatically
1082 to 3 modes/command, like /MODE #chan +oooooo nick1,nick2,.. is
1083 split to two commands which are sent to server.
1084 + /KICK, /MSG, /NOTICE, /CTCP and /NCTCP are also automatically split
1085 into multiple real commands. /KICK can kick max. 4 nicks per
1086 command, privmsg/notice can send max. 3 nicks per command.
1087 + Option: Show timestamps in msgs.
1088 - Joining to channel from channels dialog that had password set
1090 - When scrolling, Irssi text widget sometimes left black spots in
1091 text area if some other window was overlaping it.
1092 - DCC resumes still didn't work
1093 - Fixed some memory leaks
1095 v0.7.18.1 1999-11-04 Timo Sirainen <cras@irccrew.org> [stable]
1097 - Window didn't scroll if you were using GtkText
1098 - Resuming DCC transfers could mess up the existing transfers with
1100 - Some PONGs were displayed on screen if you were enough lagged..
1101 - --help works now without gnome (gtk/text versions)
1102 - Sending data to irc server/dcc chats/proxy's clients/etc. won't
1103 block forever anymore - I once got it to happen with proxy..
1104 - Some fixes for channel limit/key widgets above nicklist
1105 - Speech plugin works now right with timestamps enabled
1106 - irssibot (gui-none) doesn't crash at startup anymore and it doesn't
1107 link with ui-common anymore. Also added a --load / -l command line
1108 option to specify what plugin to load at startup. Default = bot
1110 v0.7.18 1999-10-18 Timo Sirainen <cras@irccrew.org> [stable]
1112 * Finally a version I dare to call stable :) Just a bugfix release
1113 for 0.7.17 but it had only a few problems..
1115 * Status window is now off by default
1117 - Sound and speech plugins weren't working.
1118 - Proxy plugin shouldn't crash now while not connected to server
1119 - Using some menuitems crashed when using the popup menus instead of
1121 - Removed a Gdk-Critical warning when opening themes dialog without
1123 - When resuming DCC transfers the average transfer rate was incorrect
1124 - If you tried to connect to server while themes dialog was open,
1126 - Several problems fixed with changing background pixmaps
1127 - Fixes for building from different directory
1128 - Trying to save theme crashed..
1130 v0.7.17 1999-10-16 Timo Sirainen <cras@irccrew.org> [unstable]
1132 + Irssi text widget! (replaces zvt)
1133 - supports proportional fonts
1135 - background pixmaps (scaled, tiled, scrollable, shaded)
1137 + Proxy plugin - Unlike other irc proxies, this is more than just a
1138 simple proxy. You can connect to it from multiple clients at the
1139 same time, but each client will use the _same_ irc session, so you
1140 can keep one irc client open all the time in your home, one at
1141 work, one at wc, etc. All the clients get the same "normal"
1142 messages from server, but if you request a /whois or /who or some
1143 other commands, the reply will be sent to only the client that
1144 requested it. Check README how to use it.
1146 + Irssi is now much faster catching up things after joined to
1147 channel, it asks channels' MODE and WHO first, all with the same
1148 command (WHO #a,#b,#c), after them it asks the ban lists etc. less
1150 + Workaround for GTK themes eating X server's memory
1151 + Command line arguments:
1152 -c server [-p port] : connects to server at startup
1153 -! : don't autoconnect to any servers
1154 -n : specify nick to use (override setup)
1155 + Server lag displayed in statusbar, you can also set irssi to
1156 automatically disconnect from server if it is too lagged
1157 + Channel limit and key is displayed above nicklist
1158 + Number of ops and total number of nicks in channel is displayed
1159 + Nicklist background color can be changed
1160 + Each window can have it's own command history buffer
1161 + Try to let the server disconnect the socket (5 sec timeout) to make
1162 sure that quit message gets through.
1163 + Improved /gwhois dialog
1164 + Setup dialogs are resizeable
1165 + You can specify what port to use with DCC.
1166 - Channel dialog fixes: after editing channel, it was moved to the
1167 end of the list, opening multiple channels edit dialogs didn't
1169 - Reconnecting to server didn't work (always)
1170 - Giving multiple nicks for /gwhois messed up irssi
1172 v0.7.16 1999-09-13 Timo Sirainen <cras@irccrew.org> [unstable]
1174 + Started bot plugin, it has simple user management functions and
1175 auto-opping/voicing done (but it does it well :)
1176 + "channel synced" text doesn't trigger channel activity anymore
1177 + Rawlog displays where event was redirected
1178 + /wjoin - you can join multiple channels in same window
1179 + /window goto #channel - moves you to window with the
1180 channel, query or dcc chat
1181 + /window goto active - moves you to first window with activity
1182 + /list and /names complains if they're run without any arguments,
1184 + Giving -nogui parameter to /list and /who commands doesn't use the
1186 + All the dialogs that have clist widget: you can resize columns and
1187 sort the list by clicking the headers
1188 + /list and /who dialogs displays total number of items and the list
1190 + Autojoining to channels work with irssi-text too
1191 + /gwhois dialog has now refresh button, /gwhois is used when clicking
1192 whois from nicklist popup menu
1193 - Restoring saved window size didn't work very accurately, restoring
1194 position also had some problems..
1195 - Rawlog doesn't crash anymore if not connected to server
1196 - Notifylist and checking of who uses your nick uses WHOIS again,
1197 WHO didn't display user info unless s/he was -i or in same
1199 - You had to run /list a couple of times until it worked..
1200 - WHO was sent to people who joined channel to find out who they
1201 were, unfortunately it had a small bug and didn't work..
1202 - DCC didn't work with IPv6
1204 v0.7.15-3 1999-08-31 Timo Sirainen <cras@irccrew.org> [unstable]
1206 * _TOO_ many bugs in .15, mostly compilation problems, I really
1207 should test things better when I release them. This will be the
1208 last time, I swear :)
1210 + Rawlog window, /rawlog <file name> also saves it.
1211 + --without-imlib configure switch
1212 - After opened themes dialog, "(none)" window appeared, after opening
1214 - "day changed" message was displayed at startup
1215 - Addresses in DCC connections were displayed wrong
1216 - Didn't compile without gnome
1217 - The first .15 didn't compile without IPv6 support, -2 fixed it
1219 v0.7.15 1999-08-29 Timo Sirainen <cras@irccrew.org> [unstable]
1221 * Only week since last version, much better :) Lots of internal
1222 changes, hope they work right. No "weird crashes" found since last
1223 version, 0.8.0 can't be too far away :)
1225 CVS is also working again, no anonymous but I can give access if
1228 + IPv6 support - yet another thing irssi is one of the first to
1229 support ;) Give --enable-ipv6 switch to configure to compile it.
1230 Because of IPv6 addresses naming style (xxx:xxx:xxx..), /server
1231 server:port doesn't work anymore, you have to use /server
1232 server port instead.
1234 + Sound plugin updates, should work much better
1235 + Default config file is build into irssi, it's used if no other
1236 configuration file is found
1237 + Implemented "idle queue", list of commands which should be sent to
1238 server when there's nothing else to send.. Changed CTCPs to use
1240 + "massjoin" signal is sent when people join to channel, if many
1241 people join to channel quickly (netjoins), it waits for a while
1242 before everyone are joined and then sends the signal. This is used
1243 to update nicklist more quickly and some other internal stuff.
1244 + /msg <tab> completion: after you send msg to someone, the nick will
1245 go first in completion list.
1246 + Giving --with-servertest to configure now builds test irc server
1247 which you can use to try crash irc clients :)
1248 + /sv displays system name and revision and irssi's website url
1249 + You can give server password to /server as /server server port pass
1250 + /unban completion, eg. /unban *!*@*.de unbans *!*@hu232hu2.blah.de
1251 + /rmreconns removes all servers from reconnect list. I hate it when
1252 some server is down and irssi tries to reconnect it every 5 minutes
1253 and there was no way to cancel it..
1254 + Displays day change message in all windows if you're using
1256 + Realname is displayed in statusbar when mouse is moved over nick
1258 + /last displays the last buffer only from the current window
1259 + option: beep when you receive private message
1260 + Typing /dcc without any arguments is same as /dcc list
1261 + Some code rearranging, moved more code to ui-common from gui-xxx
1262 + IPv6 for /ban, it bans all the last 64k addresses .. not sure if
1263 it's THAT good idea but did it anyway.
1264 - DCC resume was broken.
1265 - If someone quit from one ircnet but stayed on another, the nick was
1266 removed from both ircnets' channels.
1267 - Irssi tried to find it's default config from
1268 $prefix/etc/irssi/irssi/config (one irssi too much :)
1269 - You couldn't use ~/ when saving window buffer
1270 - Trying to save window buffer twice crashed irssi
1271 - ZVT transparency couldn't be removed on the fly
1272 - Using find/new/close buttons in toolbar crashed
1273 - Doesn't complain anymore about "You're not channel operator" with
1274 some irc networks that don't understand e or I modes
1275 - /ban removed ident-character from username (~blah@ -> blah@) so bans
1277 - /knockout calculated the time left wrongly.
1278 - irssi added -I/usr/include to compile parameters which broke
1279 compiling with several platforms..
1280 - Irssibot notified about new development version when there was none
1281 - Some problems/crashes fixed with plugin support
1282 - --without-socks didn't do anything..
1283 - Password should first be sent to server first, not after nick/user.
1284 At least MUH (irc proxy) didn't like it.
1286 v0.7.14 1999-08-22 Timo Sirainen <cras@irccrew.org> [unstable]
1288 !!! My E-mail changed to cras@irccrew.org, don't use the old one
1291 * Hm.. Again a month since last version, 3 weeks should be max :)
1292 Hopefully this one will be bugfree, so I could finally release a
1293 "stable" version.. (somehow I think I'll end up with 0.7.14-2
1296 * Irssi uses now libPropList to read and save configuration file, so
1297 you need to have libPropList installed, it's also in different
1298 format so your old config file doesn't work anymore.
1300 Configuration file is located now in ~/.irssi/config file.
1301 Themes are also now stored in separate files in ~/.irssi/*.theme
1303 + Irssi can now notify you about new versions, you can also directly
1304 download them with DCC. (This will probably be changed to HTTP
1305 instead of using irssibot in IRC..)
1307 + User interface changes (settings, menus) as suggested by
1308 James M. Cape <jcape@jcinteractive.com>
1309 + You can use ctrl-b,c,g,v,- when setting realname
1310 + /version [server] - prints irssi version and irc server's version
1311 + /ver [nick/channel] - sends ctcp version to nick/channel
1312 + /sv [nick/channel] - sends irssi version text to nick/channel
1313 + Added widget depends to several places, changed several modal
1314 dialogs to use gui_widget_depends() instead
1315 + Added Socks5 initialization, maybe it works now?
1316 + You can specify what host address you want to use if you have many..
1317 + Away and kick reason dialog have history
1318 + irssi-text option: activity list can be sorted by window number
1319 You can change this with /set toggle_actlist_moves=yes/no
1320 + /msg <text><tab> completes now people in current channel too
1321 + You can set channel password in channel dialog
1322 + /SET [key [=value / [key [key..]] - /SET displays all settings,
1323 /set key key2 displays values of key and key2, /set key=value sets
1325 + DCC GET now gets all the files coming from user if file name isn't
1326 specified. DCC CLOSE also can close all dcc connections from user.
1327 + The whole usermode is now displayed in statusbar, it used to display
1328 only the modes it knew (+iwsr)
1329 + Ctrl-N and Ctrl-P go to next/previous window
1330 - When using zvt and joining to new channels, window size grew bigger
1331 - /msg <tab> completion was a bit buggy, if someone sent you multiple
1332 messages, you had to press tab multiple times until the nick changed
1334 - Defaut format for signon time in whois displayed nick instead of
1336 - Disconnecting server while it was still trying to connect hung irssi
1337 - If old configuration file wasn't found, irssi (could have?) crashed
1338 on startup .. Could this really happen?!? Why did nobody tell me??
1339 - irssi-text finally handles screen resizing right
1340 - Gnome panel applet works with "old" (like non-cvs now :) panels
1342 - If you left from channel before syncing was done, syncing stopped
1344 - Removing ban exceptions didn't update irssi's internal list
1345 - Rejecting dcc chat didn't work properly, when receiving reject
1346 get/send irssi didn't remove it from dcc lists
1347 - Save/find dialogs weren't working after being closed.
1348 - irssi-text complained about "Not enough parameters given" when
1349 pressing entry in empty line
1350 - Mirc colors weren't removed properly for logs and could have
1352 - Using /ban with mask (x!x@x) instead of nick crashed
1353 - gui_widget_depends() wasn't working properly - didn't harm much :)
1355 v0.7.13-2 1999-07-22 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1357 * Again, a small bugfix release
1359 + You can specify what string to send to IRC proxy after connected,
1360 this lets at least some proxies work with irssi.
1361 + Notifylist now displays which irc network nick joined/left (or if
1363 - After closing some window, the numbers in window tabs didn't get
1365 - /window next and prev didn't work properly
1366 - status/msgs windows got destroyed a while after joining to channel..
1367 or simply by doing "/mode (status)" command ..
1368 - We don't try to DCC SEND file via dcc chat if the other side is
1370 - Default setting or autodetection of mirc ctcps weren't working.
1371 - Actions from mirc users in dcc chat was displayed in double.
1373 v0.7.13 1999-07-21 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1375 * %p in text formats is changed to $, looks much cleaner :) Old
1376 formats in configuration files are automatically converted.
1378 * I got some documentation done! :) I wrote a list of all commands
1379 irssi knows with (very) short descriptions, see COMMANDS file
1381 + Hebrew support by Ronen Tzur <rtzur@shani.net> - see README-HEBREW
1382 + Users with gone-flag are displayed with different color in nicklist
1383 List is updated with USERHOST commands in small pieces every now and
1385 + Statusbar with some information in it ..
1386 + Away message is displayed differently in /whois and /msged people
1388 + /window goto <n>, /window prev, /window next
1389 + /window level [+/-]pub/msgs/...
1390 /window level msgs - creates messages window
1391 /window level all -msgs - creates status window
1392 + /bantype <normal/host/domain/custom>
1393 - Normal - *!user@*.domain.net
1394 - Host - *!*@host.domain.net
1395 - Domain - *!*@*.domain.net
1396 - Custom [nick] [user] [host] [domain]
1397 eg. /bantype custom nick domain - nick!*@*.domain.net
1398 eg. /bantype custom user host - *!user@host.domain.net
1399 + /version - just displays version number..
1400 + You can use different font in each channel
1401 + Alt-q..o changes channels to 11..19
1402 + Color configuration changes..
1403 + irssi-text : Reading manuals help ;) Text's backgound color isn't
1404 changed to black anymore so pixmaps etc. should show up nicely :)
1405 + /notify nick!mask@* [ircnets], /unnotify
1406 + When trying to connect to server, you can abort it with the
1407 cancel button in statusbar
1408 + First parameter of /disconnect is now * (current server) or
1410 + You can now use !channels with their short names (not always)
1411 + Right clicking nick in channel pops up nicklist menu
1412 + You can select multiple nicks from nicklist and execute the command
1414 + Panel applet supports panel size changes
1415 + Window tabs have numbers now
1416 + Ctrl-N changes to next window, Ctrl-P changes to previous window
1417 - Max. autoget size didn't work right, it got the file if the file was
1418 bigger than the max. size.. and it was compared as bytes, not kB's.
1419 - Panel applet should now work right
1420 - Hilight words feature was completely broken
1421 - DCC Chats were displayed twice in status dialog
1422 - Closing DCC chat still had a few problems
1423 - After trying to join to channel where you could get in (invite only,
1424 banned, etc.) the created channel window wasn't destroyed.
1425 - configure didn't check -lnsl right..
1426 - Channel settings weren't read in the correct order -> autojoining
1427 to channels created the windows in reverse order every time.
1428 - ZVT in GNOME CVS broke irssi.. Fixed.
1429 - Quit message wasn't displayed if there was some commands waiting
1430 for transmit - quit was added to transmit queue and connection
1432 - Matching irc masks (nick!host@address) was case-sensitive..
1434 v0.7.12 1999-07-06 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1436 * #irssi is now started in IRCnet
1438 * Release #2 :) The next day..
1439 + configure checks for -lnsl too
1440 + changed default font to fixed size so I wouldn't have to hear all
1441 the time how screen is messed up with zvt :)
1442 - background color couldn't be changed with zvt
1443 - irssi-text sometimes crashed at startup because of uninitialized
1445 - you had to use --without-gnome-panel even if you didn't build
1448 + Colorless theme, should be easy to start a new theme with using
1449 this. You need to copy the [theme:colorless] section to
1450 ~/.irssi.conf (or ~/.gnome/irssi whatever you happen to use..) from
1451 included irssi.conf to use this..
1452 + You can DCC send and get files via DCC chat (don't need to be
1453 connected to server), don't know if this works with any other client
1454 or if any other client has this ability.. BitchX didn't seem to
1456 + /WALL [#channel] message - Send notice to all ops in channel
1457 + /last [-pub -msgs etc..] <text> for text mode version
1458 + Text mode version statusbar: -- more --, away (zZzZ)
1459 + The "-!-" and "-!- Irssi:" texts and timestamp is now configurable
1460 + Channel windows aren't destroyed anymore after getting disconnected
1462 + Outgoing flood protection: all commands you send to server are are
1463 queued and sent every 2 seconds. (if queue is empty, the command is
1465 + Notify list popup dialogs are now optional
1466 + /unalias (you could already do this with /alias)
1467 + You can send Mirc style CTCPs now in DCC chat (preferences/dcc),
1468 also if mirc user first sends ctcp, it's automatically set to
1469 default for that dcc chat session.. You can also set it with
1470 /mircdcc [y|n] or select from menu.
1471 + Default color number in setup, this color is used if nothing else
1473 + Server reconnection - you can add several irc servers to setup with
1474 same ircnet and autoconnect set and irssi goes through that list
1475 every time server gets disconnected unintentionally.
1476 + irssi-text word splits the lines. also if it needs to split the line
1477 it leaves 10 empty spaces at the start of the next line.
1478 + --without-gnome-panel switch to configure
1479 - http://blah@a.b opened e-mail client instead of http client
1480 - I set the socket non-blocking AFTER connect(), argh! This caused
1481 irssi to hang when trying to dcc get from bogus IPs or something.
1482 - Background color wasn't read right
1483 - Log dialog had some bugs
1484 - Banning ip addresses didn't work right
1485 - Some DCC problems fixed..
1486 - Some irssi-text bugs fixed
1488 v0.7.11 1999-06-06 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1490 * Because of the color system changes, remove the [colors]
1491 section from irssi's configuration file or you will get some weird
1494 The colors are pretty much taken from BitchX, IMO it looks nice :)
1495 But somehow I think many of you don't like it, so I made theme
1496 selector. Just need to make a few default themes..
1498 + Color system changed, the old one looked pretty ugly especially in
1499 text mode version.. You can now have more than one color/line by
1500 adding %fg[,bg] codes to text formats.. fg and bg are the normal
1501 0-15 colors, in GUI version (without ZVT) you can use up to 99
1502 user specified colors.
1504 + Text mode version: Entry line editing is working great! Command line
1505 history works, scrollback buffer works, statusbar is working (again,
1506 copying bitchx..), reads configuration file .. This is starting to
1508 + ZVT working better: font can be changed, transparency and background
1509 pixmap can be changed on the fly, the ugly block cursor isn't
1510 displayed anymore and wordclicking (urls, etc.) works.
1511 + New GUI dialogs for /list, /who, /gwhois and when receiving invites
1513 + Channels dialog changed a bit. New "Quick join" dialog where you can
1514 specify server and channel to join
1515 + Mirc DCC resumes are working. By Trever Adams
1516 (trever_adams@bigfoot.com)
1517 + List of text strings to hilight
1518 + Notify dialog is created when someone in notify list joins irc.
1519 + Nick completion improvements, /msg nick<tab> works and in channels
1520 you can complete nicks anywhere in the entry.
1521 + Window save size/position dialog
1522 + DCC send added to popup menus
1523 + Removing lines from GtkText is really slow, so now they're removed
1524 with several lines at a time. (default is 20)
1525 + /window new [hidden] creates new window, /window server <server tag>
1526 changes server in current channel, useful in text mode version..
1527 + You can try to find memory leaks with giving --with-memdebug switch
1529 - Still some bugs with DCC SEND fixed..
1530 - DCC list dialog crashed if there were dcc chats open, it also caused
1531 some random crashes when running..
1532 - Maybe window size/position saving finally works right?
1533 - g_(s)list_remove_link() didn't work as I had always thought .. It
1534 moves the link into separate list and doesn't free memory used by
1535 it like I thought.. So, inserted a few g_list_free_1() calls.
1536 - When not using menubars, popup menu should have displayed all the
1537 items in it, it got broken in .10.
1538 - signal_add_after() didn't work right.. actually it had a wrong name
1539 too, changed to signal_add_first() and made it to run these events
1540 before the normal events. This makes ignoring work again.
1542 - Configuration file handling (GTK version) was still a bit buggy..
1543 - Lots of small bug fixes here and there..
1545 v0.7.10 1999-05-09 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1547 * ALL KNOWN CRASHES FIXED !! Weird, after changing the code with
1548 creating channels to empty windows, GtkText widget started working
1549 again, it used to crash after running the test ircserver for a
1550 while.. Maybe a few more versions and I'll release a "stable"
1551 labeled version again (08.0).
1553 + GNOME version can use ZVT widget to draw texts. This is a lot faster
1554 than GtkText and with it you can use nice non-scrolling backgrounds
1555 and transparency! However, you'll have to use the default colors
1556 with it for now and Window/Save Buffer or Find doesn't work in it.
1557 !!NOTE!! ZVT in gnome 1.0.9 is buggy, it sometimes crashes when
1558 destroying zvt widget (leaving channels). It should be fixed in next
1559 version (which doesn't currently exist..)
1560 + DCC transfer dialog, display list of all going dcc transfers, the
1561 old dialogs can also be created.
1562 + Channel specific background pixmaps, if you don't have Imlib you can
1563 use only .xpm images.
1564 + /ban and /unban changed, they accept multiple arguments and channel
1565 name may be specified as the first argument
1566 + dcc actions from mirc should work now
1567 - Text widget size is now saved instead of the window's size, should
1569 - Right clicking text widget created a popup menu, but select
1570 selection got broken after it
1571 - Some potential bugs fixed after got kicked from channel
1572 - Log dialog was buggy
1573 - If dcc chat was closed but the query window was still there, trying
1574 to chat again with the same nick created another query window but
1576 - C-C, C-B, etc. add the character at the end of the entry, not at the
1578 - Redirecting commands was a bit buggy, it always expected to receive
1579 the specified events. This worked with ISON command, but I forgot
1580 that WHOIS could also return "no such nick" events.. So, notifylist
1581 should now work right instead of sometimes printing whois results.
1582 - You couldn't use the normal control-? keys (c-left, c-right,
1584 - mirc colors were displayed with wrong colors
1585 - Changed all isspace(), isdigit() and isalnum() calls to cast their
1586 argument as (gint) to remove warnings when compiling with IRIX.
1587 - Speech plugin wasn't working again..
1588 - After changing text format from setup, you couldn't change any
1589 other lines without closing setup dialog first
1590 - Font couldn't be changed by editing the entry line
1591 - /knockout format changed, it's now /knockout [timeout] nick reason
1592 (so the reason can have number at the start of it..), it also used
1593 to crash when unbanning
1594 - DCC send fixed, fast send didn't work and without it it was eating
1596 - DCC sending files with spaces in their name didn't work (they're
1599 v0.7.9 1999-04-22 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1601 + Server/status dialog, displays list of all connected servers,
1602 channels, queries and dcc chats.
1603 + Host resolving is now done in a child processes. Hopefully works
1604 better than threads which aren't used anywhere anymore..
1605 + Window/Save window size and Save window position, next time the same
1606 window (status, msgs, channel, query) is opened the saved size
1607 and/or position will be used.
1608 + gui_widget_depends_data(), widget will be automatically destroyed
1609 if the specified signal is called with the specified argument. Used
1610 to destroy DCC request dialogs when they're closed manually, timed
1611 out or rejected at the other end..
1612 - Fixed lots of memory leaks which some might have caused crashes..
1613 src/memdebug.c has the debug functions I used ..
1614 - DCC CLOSE closed always the last dcc connection instead of the one
1615 that matched the parameters
1616 - Commented out all GUI_INPUT_EXCEPTIONs .. I don't even know when
1617 exceptions are sent and why (I thought that only when some error
1618 occured..), Linux doesn't seem to send them ever? IRIX however sends
1619 them all the time which made irssi eating all cpu.
1620 - Fixed compiling gui-text with systems that had only slang/slang.h
1621 - gui_widget_depends() had some bugs
1622 - adding irc networks by typing it's name when adding server didn't
1623 update the GUI of ircnets list.
1624 - If some plugins were already loaded, and loading new plugin failed
1625 and it called plugin_deinit(), the call (might have) called some
1626 other plugin's plugin_deinit() and crash.. Some updated to change
1627 all global plugin functions to plugin_name_* calls so they wouldn't
1628 call other modules functions..
1629 - If day changed when logging, the log file contained the day change
1630 lines before each line after that..
1631 - Channel labels were hilighted even when the channel was selected..
1633 v0.7.8 1999-04-12 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1635 * This version has lots of internal changes, I haven't tried them
1636 much so hopefully everything works right..
1638 + external plugin, reads commands from named pipe and executes them
1639 + sample plugin updated, creating new plugins should when based on
1641 + gui-none is built, it tries to run bot plugin which doesn't exist..
1642 + Moved the configuration code to the lowest level, made settings
1643 to be common with all guis.
1644 + /set command: /set [category[/key[=value]]] [all]
1645 + /alias, /ignore and /unignore commands work again
1646 + Nick completion finally working, and better than ever (unless it
1647 has bugs of course ;). It tries to be smart when completing, first
1648 it checks if someone with same letters had recently written message
1649 to you, then it checks for nicks that recently wrote messages and
1650 finally for the rest of the nicks in channel. Clicking tab more
1651 scans the list. Clicking tab in empty line completes to /msg <nick
1652 who sent you last message>. Before trying to complete nicks, tab
1653 completion checks if the word is in setup's completion list.
1654 + Wrote some functions to make possible handling events in different
1655 places depending where the command which created the event was sent.
1656 This is useful for example to notify list which needs to send ISON
1657 requests but user should still be able to use /ison command
1658 normally (this has always worked btw).
1659 + Notify list's notify event now displays user's host and real name
1660 (made with the previous functions which grabbed WHOIS). Notify list
1661 GUI also updated for this
1662 + You can use user/host masks with notify lists, wildcards are
1663 allowed. Nick must always be specified (could be fixed but everyone
1664 is invisible anyway so it would be useless). Examples:
1665 friend!*friend*@*, friend_!*friend*@*,
1666 another!*@*.blah.com, altnick!*@*.blah.com
1667 + "your nick is owned by blah (blah@blah.org)" when connected
1668 + Text formats page uses now GtkText widget, it displays colors too.
1669 It's not perfect but better than before...
1670 + There's now three different colors indicating what's happened in
1671 channel: red = some text was written there, bright red = public
1672 message, magenta = public message to you
1673 + Ignore checking is now done by stopping the entire signal so
1674 plugins etc. don't have to deal with them.
1675 + You can use user/host masks with ignores
1676 + Autoraise (in window menu) window when new message comes to channel
1677 + Channel settings: You can specify list of bots (masks) and command
1678 to send the first one found bot (nice for auto-opping ourself)
1679 - Changing user modes from menus didn't work. Moved the menu under
1681 - Speech plugin problems fixed.. It didn't compile without gnome
1682 libraries and with gnome libraries it didn't say anything because
1683 for some reason one line in sources was commented out..
1684 - IRC network things and server password didn't work because of stupid
1686 - Configuration file handling was a bit broken in GTK version
1687 - Rewrote menu handling in GTK version, it was crashing when trying
1690 v0.7.7 1999-04-05 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1692 + speech plugin :) This is currently made to work with festival
1693 (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/), it's not very usable
1694 but nice to play with :)
1695 + C-b (bold), C-c (color), C-g (bell), C-v (reverse), C-- (underline)
1696 keys work now but they don't display anything in entry line.
1697 + Beel character beeps are now optional
1698 + Fixes and new features for plugins. Each plugin has now it's own
1699 menu under plugin menu and "Unload" menuitem there by default.
1700 - GTK version didn't build .. again..
1701 - I broke DCC send in 0.7.5
1702 - SIGPIPE is ignored, maybe fixes some "crashes" when server
1703 connection is lost (I never got this btw.)
1704 - Using irssi with click to focus sent commands to window where mouse
1706 - Fixed some bugs when scrollback buffer got full (GTK's text widget
1707 seems to crash sometimes with small scrollback buffer and _lots_ of
1709 - Plugin dialog didn't show any plugins
1710 - Plugins are now created with automake things to make them portable
1711 for compilers/linkers that don't work with -shared switch. The
1712 disadvantage is that a lot of unnecessary files are created for
1713 each plugin (.a, .la, .so.0, .so.0.0, .so.0.0.0) while irssi uses
1714 only libplugin.so, could be fixed somehow but too difficult for me..
1715 - Joining to +k channel crashed
1717 v0.7.6 1999-03-29 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1719 * New default colors .. I think they're better, not the best possible
1720 but anyway, I'm not good with these :)
1721 + Text mode version working again with colors! :)
1722 + New settings/servers dialog, changed connect and channels dialogs.
1723 You can now automatically connect to multiple servers at startup.
1724 All this made by Kari Lavikka (tuner@bdb.fi)
1725 + Server password support
1727 + Right clicking the channel name in panel pops up channel menu
1728 + private ctcp and notice messages now show up in query windows if
1729 it exists for sender
1730 - Fixed logging a bit, you can now log stuff from nicks without
1731 having query window for them.
1732 - If time stamps were enabled, log files had time stamps twice in each
1734 - Color settings had some bugs
1735 - GNOME version crashed if ~/.irssi.conf didn't exist .. because I
1736 read the configuration file before gnome_init() which was necessary
1737 for "create gnome panel applet" option in setup -> removed it
1739 v0.7.5 1999-03-17 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1741 * Text mode version is broken and isn't built.
1742 * Configuration file has changed quite a lot, might be better if you
1743 would just erase the old one.. Server configuration is also going
1746 + Plugins are back! But unfortunately I can't get perl plugin to work.
1747 See TODO for more information.
1748 + I divided setup dialogs to separate windows and grouped the options
1749 to different frames so they actually make some sense now :) Also
1751 - Create GNOME panel applet
1752 - Lots of DCC options, the page looked so lonely that I had
1753 to put more options there :)
1754 - get: autorename file if it exists (currently this is
1756 - autoget: max. file size to get
1757 - fast send (don't wait for responses from the other
1758 side, just keep sending the data..)
1762 + Checks for slang/slang.h too ..
1763 + Text mode version doesn't have my name/nick hardcoded in it
1764 anymore :) Uses IRCNAME and IRCNICK environment variables.
1765 + Status window is now optional, when enabled it grabs all
1766 "status" messages there. This needed quite a lot of inner changes,
1768 + /nctcp - send ctcp reply
1769 + Window size is now saved when quitting and it's used when creating
1770 windows in next session
1771 - Fixed lots of GLib-CRITICAL messages when disconnected from server
1772 while it was still trying to find ip address.
1773 - Window/find should now scroll to right position and it doesn't
1774 corrupt the text widget with inserting new texts to found texts
1775 positions.. It's also case-insensitive now.
1776 - Fixed compile error when building without gnome panel..
1778 v0.7.4 1999-03-13 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1780 + Applet for GNOME panel working again
1781 + You don't have to specify --without-gnome anymore, configure checks
1782 this for you (finally)
1783 + Some widget packing changes and tooltips for channel mode buttons
1784 by Kari Lavikka <tuner@bdb.fi>
1785 + Window/find moves the scrollbar to position where you can
1786 actually see the found text (usually, find prev misses it
1788 - Disconnect button in disconnect dialog still wasn't working.
1789 - Channel mode buttons didn't change if channel wasn't focused
1790 - I added separators to menus in v0.7.3, but forgot to make GTK
1791 version work with them
1792 - Closing DCC chat crashed
1793 - Destroying window with WM now really destroys the window, no hide
1794 it like it used to..
1795 - Several fixes with window handling..
1797 v0.7.3 1999-03-11 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1799 * Text mode version is not called irssi-text so make install can
1800 install both of them without overwriting the other..
1801 + Window menu: find text, save window buffer, close window, new,
1802 new tabbed .. And lots of fixing code to make empty windows
1804 + After kicked from channel, the window isn't destroyed
1805 - While connecting to server and receiving "nick is temporarily
1806 unavailable" irssi didn't try different nick but got just stuck
1809 v0.7.2 1999-03-10 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1811 + GUI for logging, /log start, /log stop
1812 + You can drag file from GMC over to nick in nicklist to send the file
1814 + Nicklist changed to GtkCList, ops and voices are marked with
1815 pixmaps (stolen from X-Chat, someone want to do better ones?). Had
1816 to be done because adding drag'n'drop to GtkList was too slow..
1817 - Pretty bad bugs with GTK version fixed, using several dialogs'
1819 - WHOIS's idle line displayed seconds wrong. Maybe I finally got it
1820 fixed right this time.. :)
1821 - Unknown commands still didn't work. They were sent to server with
1822 the / character at start..
1824 v0.7.1 1999-03-08 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1826 * The 0.7.0 was actually quite stable, I thought it would crash all
1827 the time by itself and do some weird things :)
1828 * Hopefully now that GTK 1.2 is finished more people start using it
1829 and don't ask me to continue supporting GTK 1.0. So, this version
1830 requires GTK 1.1/1.2.
1832 + Started gui-text.. Should work somehow :) Prefers SLang but should
1833 work with curses also, except in X terminals I couldn't get colors
1835 + Logging, still lacks GUI.
1838 /log create <filename> [<+/->level ...] [#channel/nick [
1839 [<+/->level ...] ...]
1840 /log close <filename>
1843 Example: /log create mylog -all +msgs #linux +chan +public +notices
1844 (or simply #linux +all logs everything that appears in #linux
1847 You can use these levels, ALL is set by default:
1848 ALL, CRAP, PUBLIC, MSGS, NOTICES, WALLOPS, SNOTES, ACTIONS, DCC,
1849 CTCP, CLIENTNOTICES, CLIENTERRORS
1850 + Automatically create query window when received msg (option)
1851 + No more "WHO: unknown commmand"s, all unknown commands are sent to
1852 server just like they were written
1853 + Working again: msgs window, aliases, /kickban, /knockout
1854 + Changed quite a lot of GString's to g_strdup_printf
1855 + cleaned configure.in
1856 - Disconnect button in disconnect dialog didn't work.
1857 - Writing to DCC chat only sent the first word..
1858 - setting ircnet to server record was done without strdup()ing from
1859 setup server record, so after disconnecting preferences or
1860 reconnecting could have crashed.
1862 v0.7.0 1999-02-25 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1864 * Lots and lots and LOTS of rewriting code. Hope you like it :) At
1865 least I do, mostly. GUI still needs rewriting but.. well, it works
1868 The [unstable] tag in this version really means that IT IS UNSTABLE.
1869 See TODO for what features that 0.6.0 have are still missing.
1871 Because of the new great signaling system :) lots of things can be
1872 done easier. Now all the dialogs should be up to date, like channel
1873 mode dialog. When you receive ops, widgets come sensitive, when you
1874 lose your ops, the widgets become unsensitive.
1876 irssi source is now also divided in to separate directories:
1878 irc-base: this shouldn't change much, it has all basic functionality
1879 needed to create a working IRC client.
1881 irc-extra: all kinds of extra functionality: dcc, flood detection,
1882 ignore lists, (logging soon), notify lists and plugins.
1884 common-ui: here's all the functions that need to print some texts to
1887 gui-gnome: GTK/GNOME specific code
1889 These haven't been started yet:
1890 ui-none: make irssi work as a bot with plugins/scripts
1891 ui-text: text mode interface
1892 gui-kde, ...: I'm not going to do these, anyone?
1894 v0.6.0 1999-02-12 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1896 + Plugins! See plugins/* and src/plugin-commands.h for more
1898 + Small PERL plugin, anyone want to continue developing this?
1899 + Show menubar option
1900 - Some fixes and changes with clicking words.
1901 - Notify list didn't work if ircnet was specified.
1902 - socks5 needed -DSOCKS to work (but this is still untested..)
1904 v0.5.1 1999-02-10 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi>
1906 * A big bugfix release, hopefully no crashes anymore? :)
1907 * Removed intl directory, we don't have any i18n support yet so it's
1911 + Use --with-pthreads=no if they don't work right
1912 + socks4/5 support (untested), use --with-socks=no if you don't want
1914 - If you got kicked from channel irssi was in quite unstable state
1915 - Using channel mode buttons in the upper right corner crashed
1916 - Whois displayed idle time wrong
1917 - Adding first item to empty list (notify, completions, aliases,
1919 - It didn't actually compile without pthreads lib..
1920 - If any texts contained %s, %d, etc.. irssi tried to expand them
1921 - Solaris (and probably some others) need -D_REENTRANT flag to make
1922 threads work corretly.
1923 - gtk_container_add() should be used instead of
1924 gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() when handling clists..
1926 v0.5.0 1999-02-08 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi>
1928 + DCC CHAT, SEND, GET
1929 + pthread support, no more blocking server connections.
1931 + Getting more paranoid :) Added a lot of g_return_if_fail()s.
1932 Hopefully not in wrong places :) But these surely save some crashes
1934 + BUILD_DOCK, HAVE_GNOME, etc. defines are now placed in config.h
1935 instead of being in -D arguments for gcc.
1936 + Format strings are more flexible now, you can change the order of
1937 the parameters and you don't need to specify if the argument is
1938 supposed to be string or integer or .. Should be easy to use, %p1
1939 matches the first argument, %p2 the seconds, etc.
1941 - Changing topic from topic entry widget didn't work.
1942 - If window had only one channel, the channel widgets (topic, modes,
1943 etc) didn't show up.
1944 - Using popup menu from status window's channel lists crashed.
1945 - Channel menu didn't work
1947 v0.4.1 1999-02-04 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi>
1949 + Preferences: completion - if you type <tag> in entry field and
1950 press tab it gets completed, like setting homepage to http://blah
1951 and typing: home page is homepage<tab> -> home page is http://blah
1952 + Tab nick completion.
1953 + ':' nick completion also changed a bit.. If it fits to more than
1954 one nick it's completed in bash style. Like if there's mynick1 and
1955 mynik2, "my:" gets completed to "myni:"
1956 + glib 1.0.6 didn't have g_get_user_name(), g_get_real_name(),
1957 g_get_home_dir() and g_strncasecmp(), made them..
1958 - Using --no-applet crashed..
1959 - Using items in user modes menu crashed
1960 - Several small bugs fixed..
1962 v0.4.0 1999-02-01 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1964 + *Lots* of internal changes with window handling, fixed some memory
1965 leaks also while doing them. You can now have multiple real windows
1966 with tabbed subwindows in them. It's also possible to have multiple
1967 channels in one subwindow. Commands for handling these.. :
1968 - /join - Works like before, creates real or subwindow depending
1969 if "use tabbed windows" is set in setup.
1970 - /wjoin - Joins channel to current window
1971 - /hjoin - Creates new subwindow and joins there
1972 - /njoin - Creates new real window and join there
1973 + Changed URL max length from 20 to 200.. Didn't realize it was that
1975 + Shows the nick who sent wallop, you need to change the second
1976 line in format texts from "%s" to "%s: %s" to make this it work.
1977 Need to do some kind of autoupgrading for formats that change..
1978 + Found new functions from glib :)
1979 - g_getenv("HOME") -> g_get_home_dir()
1980 - getpw() -> g_get_user_name() and g_get_real_name()
1981 - strcasecmp() -> g_strcasecmp()
1982 - strncasecmp() -> g_strncasecmp()
1983 + GNOME version uses ~/.irssi.conf if it exists
1984 - Opping/deopping anyone made irssi think that you were opped/deopped
1985 - read_line() had some pretty bad bugs...
1987 v0.3.6 1999-01-29 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
1989 + irssi.spec to easily build .rpm
1991 - Alternative nick which is used when default nick is in use.
1992 - Create own window for msgs
1995 - Max lines to keep in command line history
1996 - Scrollback buffer size
1998 + Toolbar .. we need pixmaps .. Needs also window (channel/query)
2000 + Using horizontal panel works right now.
2001 + Alt-1..0 changes between windows
2002 - Private actions didn't show up in query windows where they should
2004 - Alias and ignores lists were mixed together and didn't work.
2005 - Setting max channels to display in panel to -1 (which is default..)
2006 displayed actually only one channel.. Also setting this to 0 works.
2007 - Topic didn't change when changing between windows in tabbed windows
2009 - When op received +v, @ was changed to + in nick list
2010 - Connect/disconnect/channels dialogs fixed so that they won't crash
2011 when clicking buttons with empty lists.
2013 v0.3.5 1999-01-26 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi>
2015 + Finished the channels dialog, you can automatically join to
2016 channels in specific irc networks.
2017 + Changed the look of connect and disconnect dialogs
2018 + servertest/ directory, just a test program to try if irssi crashes
2019 with _HEAVY_ network load (ie. if there's buffer overflows or some
2020 other weird bugs). It doesn't :)
2021 + Preferences: Maximum number of channels to display in panel
2022 - When leaving from channels, panel didn't redraw it's list correctly
2023 - Leaving channels in tabbed window mode crashed
2024 - Fixed crash if connection got lost
2026 v0.3.4 1999-01-24 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
2028 + Tabbed windows work a lot better
2030 + Preferences: default user mode
2031 - Connecting to more than one server crashed...
2032 - Nick list redrawing was broken
2033 - Dock applet wrote the texts to pixmap but didn't draw the pixmap
2034 into screen then properly..
2036 v0.3.3 1999-01-23 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
2038 + /ignore never - never autoignore nick
2039 + You can hide/show channel nick list from Channel menu, default
2040 state can be set from preferences.
2041 + Preferences: Strip styles from text, misc options
2042 + Launching URLs work!
2043 + More str[nnn] -> GString changes, should be no more potential
2045 + Started the tabbed windows, probably quite buggy and the
2046 window_create() code is getting REALLY ugly..
2047 - Servers didn't display QUIT message.. Couldn't think of any better
2048 way to fix this than not to disconnect the link but let the server
2050 - ANSI colors didn't work right
2052 v0.3.2 1999-01-22 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi> [unstable]
2054 + Dock applet, works at least with Enlightenment..
2055 - GTK version tried to move temp config file to real config file
2056 with rename() .. didn't work if /tmp and home were in different
2058 - Some servers sent a mode change before /names list, irssi didn't
2059 like that and crashed..
2060 - No more Gtk-Critical messages if irssi is run with --no-applet
2062 v0.3.1 1999-01-22 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi>
2064 * 4 days since last relase. too long :) I'm now starting to create
2065 "unstable" versions of irssi. They have the latest and greatest
2066 features while they might not build/work too well. Check
2067 http://www.sicom.fi/~ikioma/irssi-download.html, new versions will
2068 probably be released quite often.
2069 * GNOME version now builds without GNOME panel applet library
2070 * Works with GTK+ 1.0.6 now, maybe with older too.
2071 + Connect / disconnect dialogs, channel dialog also started
2072 + Server setup dialog changed some.
2073 + Status window has a list of channels, queries and (yet not
2074 implemented) DCC chats. Also the tiny panel window isn't displayed
2075 unless you're running irssi in panel..
2076 + Menu bar in all windows
2077 + Cleaned read_line() to use GStrings.
2078 + $(sysconfdir)/irssi.conf is copied to default user file if it isn't
2080 + If you get kicked from channel the channel window won't get
2082 - Query was in op submenu in nicklist's popup menu .. whops.
2083 - 0.3.0 broke server tag generation so using multiple servers didn't
2086 v0.3.0 1999-01-18 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi>
2088 * Config changes in GTK version, delete old .irssi.conf file (or
2089 change all "tag = values" to "tag=values")
2090 * Default set of servers and aliases can be found from irssi.conf,
2091 copy that to ~/.gnome/irssi (if build with GNOME) or ~/.irssi.conf
2092 (if build without GNOME).
2093 + servers page added to preferences. Without connect dialog this is
2094 quite useless though :) But if you set "connect to IRC server at
2095 startup" on, irssi connects you to first local server.
2097 - /ALIAS <alias> <command to execute>
2098 - alias page added to preferences
2099 - these codes are extracted in commands:
2101 %1, %2, %3 .. : word %
2102 &1, &2, &3 .. : word & + the rest of the text after it
2104 - typing extra / before /command (//command) ignores any aliases
2106 - /IGNORE <mask> <ignore level>
2107 - /UNIGNORE <mask> <ignore level>
2108 - ignore page added to preferences
2109 - ignore levels: ALL, CRAP, CHAN, PUBLIC, MSGS, NOTICES, WALLOPS,
2110 SNOTES, ACTIONS, DCC, CTCP, CLIENTNOTICES, CLIENTERRORS
2111 + autoignoring msg and ctcp flooders
2112 + options page added to preferences
2113 + invite lists (channel mode I)
2114 + !channels should work now
2115 + replaced quite a lot of g_new()'s with GStrings. fixed one buffer
2116 overflow with this also..
2117 + /AWAYALL - sends /away to all connected servers
2118 + /KNOCKOUT [secs] <nick> <reason> - kick+ban+delay (5min)+unban
2119 - nick completion was case-sensitive
2120 - again some minor bugs fixed and features added
2122 v0.2.1 1999-01-17 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi>
2124 + Preferences: color and font selection
2125 + gnome-stuff.c has some gnome_* compatible functions to get GTK+
2126 version work. They're pretty slow and dum and maybe even buggy so
2127 if you want better, just compile the gnome libs :)
2128 + Doubleclicking in topic sets the entry editable/uneditable
2129 - nick completion was buggy
2130 - some minor bugs and features fixed
2132 v0.2.0 1999-01-16 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi>
2134 + CTCP VERSION returns system name and revisions
2135 + msgs window has now autoraise set on as default
2136 + status window is used only when there's no window active..
2137 + Done server handing:
2138 /server = /disconnect + /connect
2139 /connect = connects to new server without disconnecting from
2141 /disconnect = disconnect from current server
2142 + msgs and status window have a server selector menu
2143 + clicking a server tag in msgs window changes server
2144 + channel information box
2145 + --no-panel command line switch so you can build with GNOME support
2146 but don't need to be running it in panel.
2147 - some automake fixes
2148 - If someone was kicked, the kicker was removed from nick list
2149 insted of the kicked..
2150 - Fixed some weird situtation where snapshot window wouldn't
2151 disappear from screen..
2153 v0.1.0 1999-01-14 Timo Sirainen <a@sicom.fi>