Smuxi Changelog

What's new in Smuxi 0.11

Oct 15, 2014

User Interface Enhancements:
The chat list can be shrunken. This is especially handy with XMPP/Jabber and long group chat identifiers.
The highlight counter is now a separate column. This enhances the vertical alignment with other highlights and guarantees to be visible even if the chat name was truncated.
Multi Identity Support:
Smuxi cares for user feedback. Multi identity support was the most voted feature and thus it has been implemented! Now you can please your schizo^Wdesire to use different nicks, users and real names depending on the server. Simply edit the server in preferences and change the details.
Message Patterns:
Everybody knows text can be boring because it is all just text. Nothing can sidetrack you except reading that bare text. Text often has recurring patterns from which something useful and interactive can be created. For example, someone writes:
Hey meebey, do you know RFC2812?
RFCs are a recurring pattern with a distinct number behind it and are real references to something in the internet (collection of protocol specifications).
So I would usually fire up a browser tab, copy/paste or type RFC2812 into my favorite search engine and click the first hit. Then I'd reply to the question afterwards. But with Smuxi's message patters, it turns RFC2812 into a link on which you can simply click to launch the relevant document.
Wow this is very cool, but isn't this already happening with http URLs and email addresses? Exactly! Why shouldn't more information be used to create useful things from it? Smuxi message patterns allow you to define text patterns that are transformed into clickable links. This can be used for RFCs, CVEs, bug report numbers (#XXX), git commit hashes and much more. Make good use of your creativity!
By default Smuxi comes with built-in message patterns for:
URLs
heuristic URLs (not starting with http:// etc)
email addresses
RFCs
CVEs
Debian Security Advisories (DSA)
Many popular bug trackers (GNU, GCC, kernel, Launchpad, freedesktop, GNOME, KDE, Xfce, Debian, Redhat, Novell, Xamarin, openSUSE, Mozilla, Samba, SourceForge, CPAN, boost, Claws and Smuxi)
If you know more general patterns useful for others, please submit them.
For a full list of built-in message patterns or how to add your own patterns, head over to the message pattern documentation.
Hooks Enhancements:
A bug was fixed that prevented hooks from issuing more than one command
New hook points:
engine/session/on-group-chat-person-added
engine/session/on-group-chat-person-removed
engine/session/on-group-chat-person-updated
New hook variables:
CMD
CMD_PARAMETER
CMD_CHARACTER
PROTOCOL_MANAGER_PRESENCE_STATUS: Unknown, Offline, Online, Away
Twitter Enhancements:
As of 14 Jan 2014, Twitter disallows unencrypted HTTP requests which broke Smuxi's Twitter support. Smuxi is now making exclusively encrypted requests (HTTPS) and thus works with Twitter again.
JabbR (Beta) Enhancements:
Messages now raise Smuxi hooks
The Validate certificate setting is now correctly honored.
Updated Translations:
Smuxi should now be in your language, including:
Initial complete Dutch (Jeroen Baten)

New in Smuxi 0.10 (Jan 10, 2014)

GNOME Frontend Enhancements:
Tabs replaced with chat list. The list is grouped by server and sorted alphabetically. Private (person to person) chats are sorted after public (group) chats.
Man pages included for smuxi-frontend-gnome (Calvin Buckley)
/window command now cycles through tabs with same name (Oliver Schneider)
The Windows installer was switched to GTK# 2.12.22 which is more stable than the previous used 2.12.20 version.
Adding and editing remote engines works now correctly on Windows and OS X.
Text Frontend Enhancements:
Messages no longer sometimes get sent multiple times
Rare crashes with scrolling were fixed
Man pages included for smuxi-frontend-stfl (Calvin Buckley)
Smuxi Hooks / Scripts / Plugins Support:
After years of waiting we are more than happy to finally announce the added scripting support in Smuxi! You are probably thinking right now "so which scripting language is it?! C#? VB.NET? JavaScript? Perl? Python? Ruby? Maybe even PHP?" and here comes the best part: ALL OF THEM AND MORE! More? What else there would be... well, if you really want you can write Smuxi hooks in C, C++ or even assemble.
IRC Enhancements:
mIRC color reset control codes no longer eat characters
Codepage WINDOWS 1251 is now available as encoding needed for Cyrillic support. (GH-81, #474)
XMPP (Beta) Enhancements:
Pretty chat states: you can now see if your chat peer is composing a message with a pretty design (Oliver Schneider / George Karavasilev)
Find Group Chats support for chat rooms on own server (Oliver Schneider)
Resource collisions are no longer happening if resource was not overridden. (Oliver Schneider)
Multi user chats (MUC) are automatically rejoined after a reconnect.
When "Use Encryption" is enabled, Smuxi will now force SSL/TLS. If that fails it will no longer silently downgrade to unencrypted. If you can suddenly no longer connect, check if "Use Encryption" is correctly configured for that server (as not all XMPP servers support SSL/TLS).
Annoying FeatureNotImplemented messages are no longer visible.
Added translations.
Twitter Enhancements:
/retweet command and /reply command. Both commands need a short id as parameter so Smuxi knows which tweet you want to retweet or reply to. The short ids are shown in brackets like [42] before each tweet. Example of how a reply to tweet with short id 42 could look like: /reply 42 thanks, Smuxi is awesome!
/search command
/timeline command (Andrés G. Aragoneses)
/follow and /unfollow command
On Connect Commands are now executed (Andrés G. Aragoneses)
Twitter context menu (Andrés G. Aragoneses)
JabbR (Beta) Enhancements:
Message History: Opening chats will now load and show the previous messages from the JabbR server.
Added automatic and manual reconnect support.
Added translations.
Campfire (Beta) Enhancements:
Fixed an issue that can lead to a DoS behavior when the session becomes invalid. (Carlos Martín Nieto)
Server Enhancements:
The server will now cleanly shutdown on SIGINT and SIGTERM signals. (Christopher James Halse Rogers)
Man pages included for smuxi-server (Calvin Buckley)
Updated Translations:
Initial partial Persian (Behrooz Amoozad)
Initial partial Telugu (Praveen Illa)
French (Clément Bourgeois)
Czech (Ondřej Hošek)
Chinese Simp (Dean Lee)
Swedish (Martin Bagge)
Danish (Joe Hansen)
German (Bianca Mix)
Spanish (Matías Bellone)
Partial Turkish (Umut Albayrak)
Partial Finnish (Kalle Kaitala)
Partial Portuguese (Brazil) (Leonardo Pires Felix)

New in Smuxi 0.8.11 (Jul 26, 2013)

Enhanced User Interface:
UI overhaul: Massively revamped menus and toolbars as designed by Georgi
Karavasilev (me4oslav).
[Quick replies][771]: You can now query people by clicking on their nickname.
[Join bar follows the current network][780], ctrl+x switches the network.
The /exec command is now supported, so now you can execute commands right
from Smuxi. ([/exec -c][276], [/exec -o][277])
Size matters: The entry grows and shrinks automatically or [manually][831],
and the topic bar changes size too. Say goodbye to pointless scrollbars!
(Oliver Schneider)
Little things: New tab completion cycling (Ondřej Hošek), reconnect menu
entry in a server tab context menu, [search from the person list][567],
better support for Emacs key bindings in GTK+ (Carlos), better Messaging Menu
support for newer Ubuntu versions. No more hanging gnome-shell for a few
seconds when a notification is shown.
The Windows and Mac OS X package now ship an Faenza icon theme by default.
Mac OS X Enhancements:
Massive OS X improvements were brought into this release.
IRC URL handler: Clicking on irc:// links can bring up Smuxi.
Behaviour: Smuxi has Macintosh menus (including global menu) and behaviour.
Shortcuts: Smuxi has fully functional keyboard shortcuts on Mac.
Font: Uses Menlo and fallbacks to Monaco font by default.
Inspired by changes described [here](https://live.gnome.org/Smuxi/Porting/Mac).
Kudos to Jonathan Pryor and Michael Lutonsky for OS X guidance and testing!
[smuxi-server launch script][828] is now included in the Mac package.
Text Frontend Enhancements:
Color: The navigation bar displays color for highlights, messages and events
just like the GNOME frontend does.
The Basics: Nickname completion, window closing, config management through a
new /config command, and better Xterm detection support are all in here.
More stable :-)
Campfire Support (Beta):
IRC, Twitter and XMPP weren't sufficient to Carlos Martín Nieto, so he added
Campfire, a completely new protocol to Smuxi.
The Campfire engine supports:
Automatically opens active rooms on connect.
List and search of available rooms using the Find Group Chat dialog.
/join command: opens rooms
/topic command: changes topic of a room
/upload command: retrieves uploads
XMPP (Beta) Enhacenments:
There are massive XMPP enhancements. Thanks to Oliver Schneider (ker), we now
have:
Contact list
/contact command
/roster command
Configurable priorities (away and available) with /priority command
Highlight support (Mirco Bauer)
IRC Enhacenments:
Optimized for laptops by reducing the CPU wakeup/s drastically which saves
Updated Translations:
Smuxi should now be in your language, including:
French (Clément Bourgeois)
German (Bianca Mix)
Chinese Simp (Dean Lee)
Danish (Joe Hansen)
Swedish (Jimmie Elvenmark)
Finnish (partial) (Kalle Kaitala)
Build system:
Travis CI: It's easy to know what broke the build as commits will be built
as soon as they get pushed.
Better Visual Studio support: msbuild-preprocess.ps1 (Will Johansson)
Fixed configure failure on Slackware/Frugalware
Behind the Scenes:
[Various memory leak fixes][667]
Switched Windows builds to GTK# 2.12.20 and .NET 4.5
Upgraded Twitterizer library to 2.4.1
Upgraded Newtonsoft.Json library to 4.5.8
Contributors:#
Contributors to this release are the following people:
Mirco Bauer (298 commits)
Oliver Schneider (32 commits)
Carlos Martín Nieto (16 commits)
Will Johansson (4 commits)
Clément Bourgeois (3 commits, translations)
Ondřej Hošek (2 commits)
Calvin B (1 commit)
George Karavasilev (artwork)
Kalle Kaitala (translations)
Joe Hansen (translations)
Jimmie Elvenmark (translations)
Dean Lee (translations)
Bianca Mix (translations)

New in Smuxi 0.8.10.1 (Aug 27, 2012)

Integrated Spell Checking:
Everyone knows the "how do you spell that word again?" situation and either you don't care and send a possible typo or you go checking a dictionary which is kind of annoying. The good news is: with this release you no longer need to do that, as Smuxi includes automatic spell checking while you type messages. The bad news is that this feature is currently limited to Linux builds, and thus OSX and Windows build do not ship with it. The installers need to be extended and I haven't found pre-compiled OSX nor Windows binaries for the GTK+ spell checking library.
Favicons for Server Tabs:
Distinguishing server tabs can be difficult, especially if you have plenty of them. All server tabs have the same icon so you need to search for the right name. I wondered why this issue doesn't happen so easily with a web browser which usually also has lots of tabs open. Besides the page name there is the favicon right in front. So why can't Smuxi make use of that simple but effective technology? Well, now it does! You connect to a known network, and Smuxi will download and show the favicon of the website. It just works and does everything in the background for you.
Quick Join Bar:
One thing that makes IRC really difficult for new comers is the important IRC concept that channels are network specific. So what happens is people try to find / join the channel they are looking for but on the wrong network. They have to connect to the right server/network and then switch to the right tab, before they can join the channel (using the /join command or join dialog). The developers of Smuxi had a brainstorming session and came up with something that should be easy enough for anyone to use and finally solves the issue: the quick join bar. You know which channel you want to join and which network, you enter the channel name, select the network from the list and hit the "Join Chat" button and you are done. Now Smuxi will do just the right thing for you and connects to that network if needed, joins the channel if needed, or switches to the channel if you are already there!
Indention of multi-line messages:
Messages on IRC and also Twitter are often longer than a single line in Smuxi can show, thus it has to be split into a second line or more. The issue here is that the continuation line looks cluttered because it doesn't align with the first line. Here you can see an example for this issue.
Enhanced Text Frontend:
The text frontend which is still in alpha state has received the following enhancements: new /exit command, new /help command, regular and xterm window title, and, several fixed crashes.
Enhanced Commands:
The /network command by default shows now all connected and also available networks.

New in Smuxi 0.8.9 (Jan 6, 2012)

[#22]: /issues/show/22 "#22: IPv6 support"
[#38]: /issues/show/38 "#38: send notices from users to channels and querys where useful"
[#216]: /issues/show/216 "#216: Consolas font for Windows"
[#494]: /issues/show/494 "#494: Notices shouldn't open a query"
[#429]: /issues/show/429 "#429: Using database for logging"
[#472]: /issues/show/472 "#472: Theme sensitive application icon"
[#205]: /issues/show/205 "#205: NetworkManager Support"
[#574]: /issues/show/574 "#574: Smuxi crashes with \"0 is not a valid notification ID\""
[#590]: /issues/show/590 "#590: Twitter timestamp always wrong"
[#619]: /issues/show/619 "#619: Maximizing on Windows"
[#655]: /issues/show/655 "#655: Find group chat not working correctly on freenode"
[#504]: /issues/show/504 "#504: PPA with daily snapshots"
[#548]: /issues/show/548 "#548: Support for SAFELIST (RPL_ISUPPORT)"
[#551]: /issues/show/551 "#551: Set PATH before starting Smuxi on Windows"
[#554]: /issues/show/554 "#554: Hide Chanserv and Nickserv messages"
[#591]: /issues/show/554 "#554: Low Bandwidth Mode"
[#597]: /issues/show/597 "#597: Sync config cache when connecting to smuxi-server"
[#600]: /issues/show/600 "#600: smuxi-server should not need to perform a version check"
[#616]: /issues/show/616 "#616: Engine-less nickname completion"
[#624]: /issues/show/624 "#624: Count and show still pending chats which need to be synchronized"
[#644]: /issues/show/644 "#644: New Twitter API key with Direct Messages permission"
[#647]: /issues/show/647 "#647: Shutdown sequence for persistent message buffers"
[#653]: /issues/show/653 "#653: SSH key authorization support"
[#659]: /issues/show/659 "#659: Imitate mIRC channel window change (with CTRL+TAB)"
[#505]: /issues/show/505 "#505: Move on to the next/previous window when pressing ctrl+n and p respectively."
[#623]: /issues/show/623 "#623: Smuxi no longer shows Direct Messages of Twitter"
[#464]: /issues/show/464 "#464: Twitter pin command should be more forgiving"
[#649]: /issues/show/649 "#649: Verify Twitter OAuth tokens, invalidate and re-request when needed"
[#638]: /issues/show/638 "#638: Crash dialog closes without user interaction"
[#507]: /issues/show/507 "#507: Crash on startup when no Notification Daemon is running"
[#512]: /issues/show/512 "#512: Smuxi crashes when spamming the notification daemon"
[#518]: /issues/show/518 "#518: Crash when closing multiple chats using ctrl+w"
[#523]: /issues/show/523 "#523: Crash when executing /window close on Smuxi tab"
[#532]: /issues/show/532 "#532: Crashed on Ubuntu 10.04"
[#533]: /issues/show/533 "#533: Crash at startup (notification related)"
[#573]: /issues/show/573 "#573: Use of number in network name make the server crash"
[#610]: /issues/show/610 "#610: Crash with /network switch freenode"
[#630]: /issues/show/630 "#630: Crash on highlight"
[#304]: /issues/show/304 "#304: Startup Crash on OpenSUSE: GLib.GException: Unrecognized image file format"
[#462]: /issues/show/462 "#462: Keybinds doesn't work when hiding menubar"
[#536]: /issues/show/536 "#536: /list command should open the Find Group Chat dialog"
[#549]: /issues/show/549 "#549: Cannot configure/connect to an IRC server with SSL on a port other than 6697 via GUI"

New in Smuxi 0.8 (Sep 6, 2010)

New in Smuxi 0.7.2.2 (Jul 28, 2010)

New in Smuxi 0.7.2.1 (Jul 25, 2010)

New in Smuxi 0.7.1 (Feb 1, 2010)

New in Smuxi 0.7 (Jan 14, 2010)

New features:
Feature #228: Twitter integration
Feature #20: more colors for message types
Feature #259: Split too long IRC messages into smaller messages
Feature #25: Pass unknown commands to protocol manager as fallback.
Feature #29: show away-msg only once per query (David Paleino)
Feature #46: nickname completion on private chat (David Paleino)
Feature #71: Add popup menu to links in the chat/channel window
Feature #146: Please add right-click menu to queries (Clément Bourgeois)
Feature #147: Please add CTCP to on-nick right-click menu (Clément Bourgeois)
Feature #225: Use colors with good contrast for tab label
Feature #235: Smuxi Server Manager (Clément Bourgeois)
Feature #236: Process "On Connect Commands" for Quick Connect
Feature #242: Entry Command Queue
Feature #243: SSH tunnel setup needs to check the local forwarding port
Feature #248: stray SSH tunnel checker
Feature #256: Show unknown IRC replies to the user
Feature #258: Optimize SSH on difficult networks
Feature #269: Show CTCP replies on query tabs (Clément Bourgeois)
Feature #270: Find Group Chat should show colored IRC topics (David Paleino)
Feature #273: Support context-menu key in user list
Feature #274: Make URLs copyable with a context menu
Bugfixes:
Bug #149: Highlights are not always remembered
Bug #183: Leaking FrontendManager threads
Bug #198: Missing dictionary on WIndows
Bug #211: /names command takes ages on big channels
Bug #223: Many beeps when connecting to a smuxi-server on Windows
Bug #224: "Find Group Chat" might block forever
Bug #232: Client throws unhandled exceptions upon network connection loss (Windows)
Bug #233: Switching between tabs is not instantaneous on slow connections to remote servers
Bug #234: crash on open
Bug #240: excess flood caused by joining many channels at once
Bug #241: Marking topic text (grab-focus kicks in)
Bug #244: Transition remote -> remote fails with connection refused on localhost:7689/SessionManager
Bug #245: Status bar too short short for german language
Bug #246: two remote engines with the same name
Bug #247: Highlight is triggered by self-written messages
Bug #249: /reconnect crashes after failed connect attempt
Bug #250: default IRCnet server entry is wrong
Bug #251: /join is sometimes not doing anything at all
Bug #252: not showing failed attempts when joining a channel
Bug #253: &chans have wrong tab colors
Bug #260: /server command throws exception
Bug #261: Closing a channel tab shows ErrorNotOnChannel
Bug #262: Remote engine connection check might block the GUI
Bug #263: Find group chat should use wildcard by default (David Paleino)
Bug #268: configure.ac error, Twitter engine is controlled by "engine-msnp" macro... (David Paleino)
Bug #281: Race condition in PangoTools.ToMarkup (David Paleino)
Bug #283: GroupChatView.cs missing _Logger protection
Bug #285: Almost all IRC commands might suffer from a race condition
Big thanks goes to the reviewers of the english messages strings done on debian-l10n-english @ lists.debian.org:
Justin B Rye
Esko Arajärvi
New translations:
Czech translation (Michal Simunek)
Swedish translation (Martin Bagge)
Argentinian translation (Damian Kleiman)
Updated translations:
German translation (Bianca Mix)
French translation (Clément Bourgeois)
Italian translation (Vincenzo Campanella)
British English translation (Ryan Smith-Evans)

New in Smuxi 0.6.4.1 (Oct 15, 2009)

New in Smuxi 0.6.3 (Jan 2, 2009)

New features:
Full tray icon support. (trac#55 and trac#137)
Configurable line wrapping. (trac#5)
Events such as join/part/quit now use a different color in the tab label. (trac#66)
When connecting to a smuxi-server previous highlights will not be highlighted again. (trac#97)
Messages can now be sent to all chats by using the /amsg, /anotice and /ame commands. (trac#109)
The find group chats feature now indicates an active search by using a busy mouse cursor symbol. (trac#115)
Passwords are now hidden by default but can be shown by using a "show password" button. (trac#116)
Nicknames can now be listed by using the /names command. (trac#120)
Bugfxes:
Find group chat dialog will no longer freeze the interface when the IRC server (e.g. OFTC) uses non-RFC compliant reply codes. (trac#104)
/notice #somechannel will no longer crash. (trac#108)
A private notice will no longer trigger a highlight. (trac#45)
URLs can now be clicked while a nickname is selected on the userlist. (trac#112)
Server no longer crashes when a frontend doesn't cleanly disconnect. (trac#117)
Quitting smuxi using the window close button (X) will now store the last used window size and position. (trac#121)
Validation now requires a nickname be set in the preferences. (trac#123)
URL matching is now case-insensitive. (trac#131)
/quit command will no longer reconnect. (trac#139)
Username and password are now correctly used in the quick connect dialog. (trac#141)
When disconnecting from a server, all chats will now be closed. (trac#144)
New translations:
French translation contributed by Clement BOURGEOIS (trac#113)
Italian translation contributed by David Paleino
Spanish translation contributed by Juan Miguel Carrero
As you can see, we have applied lots of love to this release face-smile-big.png Now head to the download page and enjoy this great new version!
There are now also packages available for openSUSE (thanks to Andrew Jorgensen) and Ubuntu (thanks to Stefan Ebner). The download page contains explanations how to install those.