An IRC to other chat networks gateway


Ported by DJBase - http://www.djbase.de

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Version 0.85a:
- Fixed an authentication problem with logging into some MSN accounts.
- Removed a non-critical warning message from the ICQ servers when logging
  in with an empty contact list.
- Fixed reading the [defaults] section of bitlbee.conf.
- The last newline in outgoing messages when using the buddy_sendbuffer is
  now removed correctly.
- Yahoo! colour/font tag stripping now actually works.
- Fixed compilation on *BSD and some Linux architectures.

Finished 24 Mar 2004

Version 0.85:
- Users can specify alternate configuration files/directories at runtime
  now.
- Rename now doesn't choke on name changes with only case changes anymore.
- Imported the daemon patch into the main source tree. The daemon mode is
  still experimental, this just eases maintenance. This daemon patch brings
  a lot of features, including (as the name says) a real daemon mode and
  also buffering of the data sent to the user, and flood protection.
- Strips font and colour codes from Yahoo! messages.
- Support for groupchats on Yahoo!
- Fixed removing Yahoo! buddies from a different group than "Buddies".
- Jabber presence packets with error messages are interpreted correctly now.
  (They used to be parsed as a signin.)
- bitlbee_save() checks return values from fprintf() and writes to tempfiles
  first to make sure no old files get lost when there's a write error.
- ICQ buddies are added all at once instead of once at a time. This should
  solve problems with huge buddy lists.
- Made the client pinging timings configurable. (Without requiring
  recompilation)
- MSN and Yahoo flag the connection as "wants_to_die" when they're logged
  off because of a concurrent login. This means reconnection will be disabled
  on concurrent logins.
- BitlBee can now buffer the messages sent to someone before they're actually
  sent, and wait for a specified number of seconds for more lines to be added
  to the buffer before the message will really be sent.
- Renamed the reconnect_delay setting to auto_reconnect_delay.
- Unknown settings aren't saved anymore.

Finished 13 Mar 2004

Version 0.84:
- Removed the libsoup dependency.
- Fixed AuthMode=Registered: It will now restore your accounts when
  identifying.
- Fixed Yahoo! support.
- Fixed a little memory leak in user.c.
- Fixed a security bug in unused code in proxy.c, only people who use
  the HTTP proxy support and an untrusted proxy might need this. We
  haven't done an emergency release for this fix because proxy support
  is disabled by default.
- Fixed some memory leaks in IM-code.

Finished 13 Feb 2004

Version 0.83:
- Fixed a crash bug on connecting to unsupported accounts.
- Fixed a problem with connecting to MSN accounts with empty buddy
  lists.
- Fixed another inifite-loop bug in nick_get() and added a piece
  of code which detects the infinite loop and asks the user to send
  a bug report.
- Fixed iconv-Solaris linking issues.
- Fixed all the problems with spaces in AIM screennames now, we hope.
- Fixed a buffer overflow in the nick handling code. Buffers are
  overflowed with static data (nulls), so we don't think it's exploitable.
- Added server-client pinging, useful for remote servers.
- Added the hostname setting.
- Some bitlbeed changes.
- Added a little part to the on-line quickstart about the settings and
  other help topics, this hopefully answers a lot of FAQ's.
- Fixed the signal handler to re-raise the signal after the handler quits.
  This makes sure the default handler is called after our handler sends
  the user a bye-message, so core dumps are created and the parent will
  get more useful information back from wait().
- Added support for ICQ URL messages.
- Fixed strip_html() behaviour on unknown &entities;.
- Fixed a possible problem with Yahoo!
- Fixed a problem with logging into more than one MSN account at once.

Finished 31 Dec 2003

Version 0.82:
- Fixed a little bug in nick.c which could cause a complete hang for
  some tricky buddylists. (Thanks to Geert Hauwaerts for helping with
  fixing this bug)
- Fixed MSN support. (Lots of thanks to Wouter Paesen!)
- Removed the old login/logout commands.
- Added the qlist command.
- Fixed a buffer overflow in the nick checking code. (Thanks to Jon
  Åslund for pointing us at this problem)
- Adds the add_private and add_channel options for set handle_unknown.
- Some documentation updates.
- Added two small utilities to encode/decode BitlCrypted files.

Finished 31 Oct 2003

Version 0.81a:
- This version just fixes some small things we should've fixed before
  releasing 0.81:
- Fixed a small bug in the auto-reconnect cleanup code.
- Fixed the Makefile: Now it doesn't just overwrite your etc files when
  installing.
- Fixed the Makefile: $prefix/etc/bitlbee/ is the default etcdir now.
- Disabling MSN by default, now that it doesn't work. It'll be back on
  as soon as we get the module working again.

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