Without further ado, let's start:
-Version 0.13.0 (TBR)
-====================
+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),
* 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