X-Git-Url: https://git.quassel-irc.org/?p=quassel.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=ee90b1517a40f96fdfe5f46ba6bcb178154732e4;hp=fa9b13f3c686fa546cea3b5de4376beef161f338;hb=3128dab675247b8505937b0bc22b4e2ad2dd61ff;hpb=2f6178fc5770ea25c48bca16610cd677e3092818 diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index fa9b13f3..ee90b151 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -6,16 +6,485 @@ contains end-user visible, mostly major new features. It does not contain (most) bugfixes, nor is it guaranteed to be complete or up-to-date at all. Also, it does start at 0.3.0 only, since this was the first version widely available. -Please have a look at for a +Please have a look at for a list of closed bug/feature reports (which still does not cover bugs we have fixed but which were never reported, of course), and for a full list of -changes, the git history at is your friend. +changes, the git history at is your friend. Without further ado, let's start: +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) +* 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 + - Sender colors by default (and optionally for ACTION messages) + - Add context menu option in ChatView for enabling the menubar + - Optionally hide brackets around sender/timestamp + - 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) + - Fix tray icons with StatusNotifier + - Allow selecting a fallback for incomplete system icon themes + - Ship Quassel-specific icons + - Add Breeze and Breeze Dark icon themes, use Breeze by default +* Notification improvements + - New configuration options for tray icon notification + - Use Plasma notification sounds by default (rather than KDE4's) + - QtMultimedia notification backend (deprecates Phonon support with Qt 5) +* IRC-related improvements + - Support for many IRCv3 features, improved capability negotiation + - Improve handling of user modes + - Store sender prefixes (@+v...) in database, and optionally show in UI + - Add support for ZNC self-messages + - Support twitch.tv's membership capability + - Support rendering of extended mIRC colors, hex colors, reverse and strikethrough + - Make IRC rate limits configurable + - 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 + - Core-side (synced) highlight rules (in addition to local highlight rules) +* Core/client connection + - Extended core/client feature negotiation, including diagnostic output + - 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) + - Store real names and avatar URLs in database (for now, only used by Quasseldroid) + - Improve database performance + - Make database upgrades more robust +* Containerization improvements + - Store core settings in database + - Allow configuring the core via environment variables +* Logging improvements + - Allow to configure the log level also for (monolithic or not) client + - Make debug log window more useful + - Catch early log messages + - 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 + +Version 0.12.5 (2018-04-24) +=========================== + +* Make "/ " use the rest of the message as a literal +* Use commit date instead of build date to support reproducible builds +* Support Qt 5.6 through Qt 5.10 +* Automated OSX builds (via Travis) +* Update deployment and CI settings for OSX and Windows +* Better HIDPI support with recent Qt 5 versions +* Snapcraft packaging support +* Inxi version bump +* Prioritization of PING/PONG messages to prevent timeouts +* Improved touch screen support (scrolling etc.) +* WebEngine support for URL previews (deprecates WebKit support with Qt 5) +* Disable WebKit by default due to it being unmaintained and a security risk +* Strip format codes when checking for highlights +* Properly disconnect from networks when shutting down +* Reload SSL certificates on signal SIGHUP +* Add AppData metadata for quassel and quasselclient +* Allow channel buffer merges +* Improve dock and tray handling on OSX +* Split user messages on newlines, as per the RFC +* Join channels on double-click in platforms other than OSX and Windows +* Support Elliptic Curve keys for client<->core connections on Qt 5.5+ +* Add sanity checks for QDataStream deserialization (e.g. for size) +* Prevent clients from trying to login to an unconfigured core, avoiding a crash +* Various bugfixes +* Some code cleanups +* Translation updates + +Version 0.12.4 (2016-04-24) +=========================== + +* Handle STATUSMSG messages (recently abused for query spam) +* Link previews are enabled again in Windows builds +* Fix core crash caused by clients sending invalid handshake data +* Fix session management with Qt 5 +* Fix connection issues with non-compliant ircds +* Translation updates + +Version 0.12.3 (2016-02-09) +=========================== + +* Fix activity filters when selecting buffers in custom ChatViews +* Fix default shortcuts when integrated with KDE Frameworks +* Introduce support for Appveyor CI (automated Windows builds) +* Support SnoreNotify 0.7 +* Various cleanups and performance improvements +* Various build system fixes +* Channel keys are again remembered between syncs +* Support for Qt 5.5 +* Network (re)connection fixes +* Fix possible message loss when running multiple core users on a psql database +* Command line option for specifying SSL certificates and keys +* Many smaller fixes + +Version 0.12.2 (2015-04-23) +=========================== + +* Fix PostgreSQL not re-initializing after reconnect (raising CVE-2013-4422 from the dead) +* Remove warning on startup due to a change in Kdelibs4ConfigMigrator + +Version 0.12.1 (2015-04-21) +=========================== + +* Emergency fix for behavior change in Qt5's psql driver regarding timezones + +Version 0.12.0 (2015-04-15) +=========================== + +* Full support for KDE Frameworks +* Properly split messages with multi-byte encodings and/or encryption +* Improve core password hashing algorithm + NOTE: This upgrades the database schema, so no downgrades are possible! +* Remote password change +* Core connection improvements +* Build system improvements +* PostgreSQL connection improvements +* Improve Qt 5 support +* Qt 4.8+ or Qt 5.2+ now required +* Several tweaks and fixes +* Translation updates + +Version 0.11.0 (2014-09-23) +=========================== + +* New build requirements: + - C++11 capable compiler (gcc 4.7+, clang 3.3+, MSVC 2013+) + - cmake 2.8.9+ +* Full support for Qt 5.2+ in addition to Qt 4.6+ +* Completely revamp the build system, making use of "new" CMake features + +Version 0.10.1 (2014-09-23) +=========================== + +* Fix buffer hotlist sorting +* Split CTCP messages if they're too long +* Make database problems more obvious +* Fix backlog loading for QuasselDroid +* Properly save the toolbar state on Mac OSX +* Fix a crash with KDE's network detection +* Various other fixes + +Version 0.10.0 (2014-03-25) +=========================== + +* Refactor lots of the protocol and connection code +* Introduce connection probing for reliably negotiating protocol features +* Introduce the new DataStream protocol with streaming compression +* Option for forcing the core to only accept SSL connections +* Support for the Snore notification backend +* Allow searching the web for selected text +* Connection-related fixes +* Allow for hiding inactive networks +* Enable line wrap in the input field +* Show backlog messages in the Chat Monitor +* Remove SSL protocol selection, always use auto-negotiation for best results +* Highlight rules are now case-insensitive by default +* New and updated translations +* Bump inxi version (for /sysinfo) +* Use the raster rendering engine by default on OSX (should improve performance) + +Version 0.9.3 (2014-03-25) +========================== + +* Notification fixes +* Improve reliability of SSL connections +* Save toolbar state properly on Mac +* Prevent user interaction with the web preview +* Fix fullscreen mode +* Fix spurious crash caused by shaky ircd connections +* Fix adding an unneeded colon to custom commands +* Avoid Qt's DNS cache to properly handle round-robin DNS records + +Version 0.9.2 (2013-11-26) +========================== + +* Don't crash if /topic contains newlines +* Fix SSL-related issues +* Fix Phonon notifications not playing sound +* Pingout if connection drops during SASL auth phase +* Prevent messages from being sent to status buffers +* Make sure manipulated/buggy clients cannot access backlog of other core users +* Fix context menu issues + +Version 0.9.1 (2013-10-11) +========================== + +* Fix security issue with Qt 4.8.5 and PostgreSQL +* Phonon notifications for Mac OS X +* Convert tabs in messages into 8 spaces +* Silence superfluous QCA warnings +* Various key- and encryption-related fixes +* Ignore formatting in clickables +* Enable warnings when compiling with Clang +* Updated translations +* Various other small fixes and improvements + +Version 0.9.0 (2013-04-16) +========================== + +* Halfop support +* Channel-specific highlights +* Support for intermediate CA certificates +* Support the DockManager interface +* OSX Notification Center support +* DH1080 key exchange +* SASL EXTERNAL support +* Improvements for Retina displays on OSX +* Supporting to start minimized to tray +* Rudimentary support for Qt5 (obsolete again because upstream changed too much) +* Refactor of SignalProxy, network and protocol code +* First pieces of the coming protocol abstraction +* Build system improvements +* Various bugfixes +* New and updated translations +* Reformatted ALL the source code + +Version 0.8.0 (2012-03-20) +========================== + +* Make tab completion key configurable +* Syslog support for the core +* Make the core more robust against random invalid input +* oidentd support +* Build system improvements +* Many new and updated translations +* Various bugfixes + +Version 0.7.4 (2012-03-20) +-------------------------- + +* Improve keyboard navigation +* Bump Oxygen icons +* Conform with icon naming spec +* Remove JS support from webpreview +* Fix support for Qt 4.8 +* Several bugfixes and cleanups + +Version 0.7.3 (2011-09-08) +-------------------------- + +* Fix a core crash + +Version 0.7.2 (2011-03-24) +-------------------------- + +* PostgreSQL improvements +* Various bugfixes + +Version 0.7.1 (2010-09-21) +-------------------------- + +* Critical fixes for CTCP and connection handshake + +Version 0.7.0 (2010-09-14) +========================== + +* Improved DE integration, support for dbusmenu +* Bump Qt dependency: we need Qt 4.6 for client and monolithic now +* Fullscreen mode (F11) +* CTCP CLIENTINFO support +* Shortcuts for navigation between chats (Alt+Left/Right/Up/Down) +* Add blowfish encryption (/setkey and /delkey; needs QCA2) +* Shortcut editing for all platforms (!KDE) +* Improved handling of invites +* New tray icon for highlights +* Global away +* Emacs-style keybindings for the input line +* Improved markerline behavior + - Allow manual setting (Ctrl+R) + - Provide shortcut for jumping to the markerline (Ctrl+K) +* New languages: el, gl, ja +* Many bugfixes + +Version 0.6.1 (2010-04-16) +-------------------------- + +* Critical bugfixes + +Version 0.6.0 (2010-04-14) +========================== + +* New languages: en_GB, es, nl, oc, pt, pt_BR, sq, sv, uk, zh_CN +* Updated existing languages +* Restore last selected buffer on restart +* Optional per-chat history +* SASL authentication support (e.g. supported by Freenode) +* Allow inputting formatted (colored/bold/...) text in the inputline +* Support the StatusNotifierItem DBus spec + - Replace old-style tray icon where supported (currently KDE >= 4.4) + - Integrate freedesktop notifications support (libnotify or knotify) +* Systemtray refactoring + - Replace animation by blinking icon + - Properly handle notifications and mainwindow toggle +* Improved URL detection +* Sender column is now clickable (double click opens query) +* Improved notification handling +* ChatView performance improvements +* Many buildsystem fixes + - Improved handling of icons + - Updated cmake macros + - Support building with MinGW + - Support KDE on non-X11 platforms + - Better handling of SSL libraries +* Solid network state detection support (with KDE) +* Settingspage refactoring +* Improved handling of SSL certificates +* Completely reworked the client/core connection + - New settingspage for managing core accounts + - Streamlined login/sync process + - Configurable timeout + - Automatic reconnect to core +* Send unknown commands to server +* New stylesheets +* Use gettext for translations + +Version 0.5.2 (2010-01-18) +-------------------------- + +* CTCP ignore +* Buildsystem fixes + +Version 0.5.1 (2009-11-21) +-------------------------- + +* Many Bugfixes +* Updated translations +* Fix issues with Qt >= 4.6 + +Version 0.5.0 (2009-10-14) +========================== + +* Tons of bugfixes +* Many translation updates +* Use DrKonqi/Apport to provide backtraces in case of a crash +* Support for Ayatana's Message Indicator (libindicate; *buntu specific feature for now) +* Fix wordwrap issues +* Improved notification behavior (highlighted channels can now be cycled) +* Improved icon packaging (don't install them if KDE is available and current enough) +* Menubar can now be hidden (Ctrl+M to toggle) +* Ignore list support +* Vast performance improvements in the handling of synced objects + - Core startup/shutdown now almost instant + - Joining/leaving large channels much more efficient +* Netsplit detection +* New topic widget dynamically resizes to show all of the topic +* Usability tweaks + - Reworked configuration dialogs + - Renamed "Buffer" to "Chat" throughout in all user-visible strings +* Introduce stylesheet-based (QSS) styling for ChatView and the whole application +* Allow configuration of ping timeouts and auto-WHO +* Make toolbars configurable in KDE +* Alt+A shortcut for jumping to cycle through active buffers +* Properly remember the mainwindow state on shutdown/restart +* Multiline input support +* Improved systray notifications +* Lazy backlog fetching for hidden buffers +* Improved flood control +* Spell check support (requires KDE integration) +* /exec support for executing external scripts/programs +* CLI interface for managing core users with quasselcore rather than a script +* Improved ping timeout detection +* PostgreSQL database backend support +* Smart nickname completion (most recently active) + +Version 0.4.3 (2009-08-26) +-------------------------- + +* Bugfixes and translation updates + +Version 0.4.2 (2009-05-20) +-------------------------- + +* Bugfixes and translation updates + +Version 0.4.1 (2009-03-18) +-------------------------- + +* Bugfixes and translation updates + +Version 0.4.0 (2009-02-17) +========================== + +* Buffer view font can now be changed +* Colored nicknames +* Wizard for setting up identity and networks on first run +* Paste protection warns if you try to paste many lines +* Use login name and real name for default identity +* Add toolbar to main window +* Away log window showing highlighted messages while you're away +* Settings dialog streamlining +* Animated system tray icon +* Shiny new Oxygen icons all over the place, including our new app icon +* Build system improvements +* Put all config and data files in one location and make that configurable +* Allow presetting networks and a list of channels to join on first start +* Change and improve CLI argument handling +* All buffer views are now customizable +* Streamlined monolithic client +* Many usability improvements +* Method for easily hiding and unhiding buffers in buffer views +* Renaming and merging of query buffers +* Improved SSL certificate handling +* Optional support for KDE4 + - KNotify support + - KDE icon and color theme support + - Editable shortcuts +* Core now supports a proxy for connections to IRC +* Core supports SSL certs and keys for IRC connections +* Chat Monitor configuration dialog +* Audio notifications +* Clickable channel names in ChatView +* Context menus in ChatView and BufferViews +* Respect the separate clipboards (Ctrl+C / X11 selection) on X11 +* Improved mouse handling: + - Double/triple click selections + - Drag'n'Drop Version 0.3.1 (2008-11-20) -================================ +-------------------------- * Nick changes and day change messages can now be hidden * Web previews and status icons can be disabled