Weechat v2.9 Release Notes
Release Date: 2020-07-18 // over 3 years ago-
🆕 New features
- core: add bar option "color_bg_inactive": color for window bars in inactive window (issue #732)
- 👍 core: add Alacritty title escape sequence support (issue #1517)
- core: display notify level for current buffer with command /buffer notify (issue #1505)
- core: count only visible nicks in bar item "buffer_nicklist_count", add bar items "buffer_nicklist_count_groups" and "buffer_nicklist_count_all" (issue #1506)
- 0️⃣ core: set default size for input bar to 0 (automatic) (issue #1498)
- 0️⃣ core: add default key Alt+Enter to insert a newline (issue #1498)
- core: add flag "input_multiline" in buffer (issue #984, issue #1063)
- core: add a scalable WeeChat logo (SVG) (issue #1454, issue #1456)
- core: add base 16/32/64 encoding/decoding in evaluation of expressions with "base_encode:base,xxx" and "base_decode:base,xxx"
- core: add case sensitive wildcard matching comparison operator (
==*and!!*) and case sensitive/insensitive include comparison operators (==-,!!-,=-,!-) in evaluation of expressions - 0️⃣ core: add default key Alt+Shift+N to toggle nicklist bar
- 🌲 core: add command line option "--stdout" in weechat-headless binary to log to stdout rather than ~/.weechat/weechat.log (issue #1475, issue #1477)
- 🔧 core: reload configuration files on SIGHUP (issue #1476)
- api: add pointer "_bar_window" in hashtable sent to hook focus callback (issue #1450)
- api: add info_hashtable "focus_info" (issue #1245, issue #1257)
- api: rename function hook_completion_get_string to completion_get_string and hook_completion_list_add to completion_list_add
- 🆕 api: add functions completion_new, completion_search and completion_free
- api: add hdata "completion_word"
- 0️⃣ buflist: add default key Alt+Shift+B to toggle buflist
- buflist: add options enable/disable/toggle in command /buflist
- buflist: evaluate option buflist.look.sort so that sort can be customized for each of the three buflist bar items (issue #1465)
- 👍 irc: add support of UTF8MAPPING (issue #1528)
- irc: display account messages in buffers (issue #1250)
- python: add WeeChat sharedir python directory to PYTHONPATH (issue #1537)
- 0️⃣ relay: increase default limits for IRC backlog options
- relay: add command "handshake" in weechat relay protocol and nonce to prevent replay attacks, add options relay.network.password_hash_algo, relay.network.password_hash_iterations, relay.network.nonce_size (issue #1474)
- relay: add command "completion" in weechat relay protocol to perform a completion on a string at a given position (issue #1484)
- relay: add option relay.network.auth_timeout
- ⚡️ relay: update default colors for client status
- relay: add status "waiting_auth" in irc and weechat protocols (issue #1358)
- trigger: evaluate arguments of command when the trigger is created (issue #1472)
🐛 Bug fixes
- core: fix command /window scroll_beyond_end when buffer has fewer lines than chat height (issue #1509)
- core: force buffer property "time_for_each_line" to 0 for buffers with free content (issue #1485)
- core: don't collapse consecutive newlines in lines displayed before the first buffer is created
- 🚚 core: don't remove consecutive newlines when pasting text (issue #1500)
- core: don't collapse consecutive newlines in bar content (issue #1500)
- 🏗 core: fix WEECHAT_SHAREDIR with CMake build (issue #1461)
- core: fix memory leak in calculation of expression on FreeBSD (issue #1469)
- core: fix resize of a bar when its size is 0 (automatic) (issue #1470)
- 🆓 api: fix use of pointer after free in function key_unbind
- api: replace plugin and buffer name by buffer pointer in argument "modifier_data" sent to weechat_print modifier callback (issue #42)
- buflist: add "window" pointer in bar item evaluation only if it's not NULL (if bar type is "window")
- exec: fix use of same task id for different tasks (issue #1491)
- fifo: fix errors when writing in the FIFO pipe (issue #713)
- guile: enable again /guile eval (issue #1514)
- 0️⃣ irc: use new default chantypes "#&" when the server does not send it
- irc: add support of optional server in info "irc_is_nick", fix check of nick using UTF8MAPPING isupport value (issue #1528)
- irc: fix add of ignore with flags in regex, display full ignore mask in list of ignores (issue #1518)
- 🚚 irc: do not remove spaces at the end of users messages received (issue #1513)
- irc: fix realname delimiter color in WHO/WHOX response (issue #1497)
- irc: reuse a buffer with wrong type "channel" when a private message is received (issue #869)
- python: fix crash when invalid UTF-8 string is in a WeeChat hashtable converted to a Python dict (issue #1463)
- relay: add missing field "notify_level" in message "_buffer_line_added" (issue #1529)
- relay: fix slow send of data to clients when SSL is enabled
- trigger: only return trigger's return code when condition evaluates to true (issue #592)
- trigger: fix truncated trigger command with commands /trigger input|output|recreate
- trigger: do not hide values of options with /set command in cmd_pass trigger
📚 Documentation
- ➕ add includes directory
- 🔀 merge 53 auto-generated files into 11 files
- 🛠 fix broken literal blocks in Japanese docs with Firefox (issue #1466)
✅ Tests
- 👷 core: add CI with GitHub Actions, move codecov.io upload to GitHub Actions
- 👕 core: switch to Ubuntu Bionic on Travis CI, use pylint3 to lint Python scripts
- ✅ core: run tests on plugins only if the plugins are enabled and compiled
- ✅ irc: add tests on IRC color and channel functions
🏗 Build
- 🏗 javascript: disable build by default and remove Debian packaging of JavaScript plugin (issue #360)
- core: make GnuTLS a required dependency
- 🏗 core: fix build with CMake 3.17.0
- 🏗 core: fix build with cygport on Cygwin
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