Without further ado, let's start:
-Version 0.13.0 (TBR)
-====================
+Version 0.14.0 (Unreleased)
+===========================
+
+NOTE: Database schema format change, no downgrade possible!
+
+* New baseline for minimum build requirements and dependencies: Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial Xerus"
+ - GCC 5 or Clang 3.4
+ - CMake 3.5
+ - Qt 5.5.0
+* New dependencies:
+ - Boost (v1.54 or later, build-time only)
+ - zlib (bundled miniz has been removed)
+* Remove support for building against Qt4/KDE4
+* Require SSL support in Qt
+* Support many more features of IRCv3
+* Support the HAProxy protocol
+* Provide a daemon providing Prometheus metrics
+* Deprecate local highlight settings (prefer synced ones instead)
+* Improve configuration of SASL PLAIN and EXTERNAL
+* Add button for strike-through format
+* Allow choosing the account to connect to via command-line option
+* Make database schema migration more robust
+* Make backlog fetch more efficient, allow for fetch-on-demand
+* Make syncing and other aspects of the core/client protocol more efficient
+* Make RPC implementation more efficient
+* Improve log output
+* Clean up and modernize large parts of the code base
+ - Replace the Qt 4 string-based connect syntax by function pointers
+ - Fix many clang-tidy findings
+ - Reformat ALL the code using clang-format instead of Uncrustify, with some style changes
+* Modernize build system
+* Support building shared libraries via the ENABLE_SHARED CMake option (defaults to on)
+* Introduce support for (and a small selection of) unit tests via the BUILD_TESTING CMake option
+* Use Github Actions as CI system, replacing Travis and Appveyor
+* Revamp bundle/DMG creation on macOS
+* Many smaller fixes
+* Improve documentation and UI help
+* Update translations
+
+Version 0.13.1 (2019-02-15)
+===========================
+
+* Fix backlog message fetching that was broken when using Qt4
+* Improve output to syslog
+* Make upgrading the database schema more robust in case of interruption
+* Fix alignment of buttons in the input widget
+* Fix bug where the nicklist would be hidden on first start
+* Allow configuring the listen addresses for the built-in identd (--ident-listen)
+* Honor core options even if it was just configured via environment variables
+* Fix syncing of auto reconnect retries in network settings
+* Update translations
+
+Version 0.13.0 (2018-11-17)
+===========================
NOTE: Database schema and settings format change, no downgrade possible!
NOTE²: Database migration may take a long time (hours for big databases),
and temporarily require double the disk space until migration is
complete!
-* Use Qt 5 by default (this will be the last release still supporting Qt4)
+* Use Qt 5 by default (this will be the last feature release still supporting Qt4)
* New branding (application icon)
* UI improvements
- Improve ChatView color settings
- Improve default sender colors, and make configurable by palette in QSS
+ - Fix font weight parsing and other issues in QSS
- Settings dialog improvements (tree width, changed state for several pages)
- Chat list filter/search
- Shortcuts for formatting options
- Make /list open the channel list dialog, including advanced search for channels
- Spell checking via Sonnet if KDE Frameworks integration is enabled
- Support $i:ident, $i:identd, and $i:account in aliases
+ - Use system locale for date/time formatting
- Many other UI improvements and polish (tooltips, tool bars, menus...)
* Completely revamp icon theme support
- Fix icon loading on many platforms (requires newer Qt)
- Use UTF-8 server encoding by default (instead of ISO-8859-1, changeable via network settings)
- Internal identd (may require port forwarding rules)
- Strict ident mode (always sends user name)
+ - Provide CTCP timestamps in ISO 8601 format
+ - AutoWho-related fixes, properly support away-notify (removes workaround for non-compliant servers)
+ - Command line debug options for showing raw IRC messages
* Security improvements
- Improved SSL certificate handling
- Add command line options for SSL certificate/key paths
- Use SHA-512 to store the core certificate digest
- Persist blowfish keys for encrypted channels
+ - Use CBC by default, like other clients (instead of ECB)
* Move functionality core side (useful for mobile clients)
- Handle buffer activity, highlights, ignore rules core-side
- Improved ignore rule support
- System proxy support for the client
- Allow disconnecting other clients via "Core Info" dialog (if supported by client)
- LDAP authentication backend for core users (--select-authenticator)
+* Regular expressions
+ - Unify regex handling (may affect old ignore rules, see release announcement for details)
+ - Cache many frequently used regexes to improve performance
* Database changes
- Use 64 bit timestamps to avoid the Y2038 problem, use millisecond precision
- Use 64 bit message IDs to support giant backlogs (requires 0.13+ core and client)
- Slightly reformat console output so it's better readable
* Settings versioning (allows upgrading from older versions, too)
* Multithread the monolithic client, to keep UI responsive even under load
+* Properly shutdown client and core on exit
+* Fix POSIX signal handling, support console events on Windows
* Build system improvements
+* Code fixes for issues found in static analysis
* Many smaller fixes and quality-of-life improvements
* Update inxi script to 3.0.18 (now requires Perl to be installed)
* Translation updates