Change Log

2019-05-13 Version 1.0.0rc4

• Added:

  • New dependency libsecret
  • Add password storage support
  • Add command line options “–no-auto”, used to require Srain not to automatically connect to servers
  • Add russian translation, thanks to @tim77
  • Allow user send slash(/) prefixed message

• Removed:

  • Drop all password fields in configuration file

• Changed:

  • Enable CSD(Client-Side Decoration) by default
  • Update chinese translation

2019-04-14 Version 1.0.0rc3

Note

TODO.

2019-01-24 Version 1.0.0rc2

Note

TODO.

2018-09-10 Version 1.0.0rc1

Note

TODO.

2018-02-28 Version 0.06.4

• Changed:

  • Change default application ID to im.srain.Srain

• Added:

  • CTCP support, including request & response CLIENTINFO, FINGER, PING, SOURCE, TIME, VERSION, USERINFO messages. DCC message is not yet supported. Use command /ctcp for sending a CTCP request

  • Login method support, you can specify it by configuration file option server.login_method:

    • sasl_plain: SASL PLAIN authentication support, will use server.user.username as identity, and use server.user.passwd as password

  • Added documentation Support Tables used to show Srain’s features, inspried by https://ircv3.net/software/clients.html

  • Added a semantic version parser, not yet used

  • Added appdata file which requier by application store, thanks to @cpba

  • openSUSE package is available, please refer to openSUSE for details, thanks to @alois

  • Flatpak package is available, please refer to Fedora for details, thanks to @cpba

• Improved:

  • Fixed a logical error in IRC message parser: all parameters are equal whether matched by <middle> or <trailing>, thanks to @DanielOaks
  • Improved connection state control, you can smoothly disconnect/quit from server even it is unresponsive
  • Fixed truncated message output by /server list subcommand
  • Fixed crash at g_type_check_instance() under GLib 2.54.3+
  • Fixed: Do not free a SrianServerBuffer which has non-empty buffer
  • Ensure the QUIT message can be sent before application shutdown
  • Removed entry from desktop file, thanks to @TingPing
  • Fixed grammer of join message, thanks to @raindev
  • Re-enable CI for Srain:

2017-12-22 Version 0.06.3

• Changed:
  • Configurable file option tls_not_verify in irc block in server block is renamed to tls_noverify, old option name is still supported
  • Command option tls-not-verify for /server and /connect is renamed to tls-noverify, old option name is still supported
• Added:
  • Connect popover supports connect to predefined server
  • Join popover supports channel search
• Improved:
  • Modified margin and padding of some widgets
  • Improved the style of unread message counter
  • Fixed markup parse error of decorator
  • Fixed crashing while connecting from connect popover
  • Fixed use after free while removing user
  • Improved the performance and extensibility of user list
  • Improved compatibility with older versions of GTK(> 3.16)
  • Refactor the code of chat panel, helpful for the next development

2017-09-12 Version 0.06.2

• Added:
  • mIRC color support, can be disabled via setting render_mirc_color option in chat block in server block to false
• Improved:
  • Better error reporting while operating the UI
  • IRC URL can be opened directly within the application
  • Text in input entry, connection panel and join panel will not be cleared while operation is not successful
  • Fixed: in some cases, nickname registration will case infinity loop
  • Decorator and filter now can process xml message
  • Imporved the handling of channel topic

2017-08-18 Version 0.06.1

• Added:
  • Added GPL copyright statements
  • RPL_CHANNEL_URL (328) message support
  • Command line options support, type srain -h for help message
  • Support for Creating server and joining channel from IRC URL
  • New dependency libsoup
  • Add reconnect timer: if connection fails, Srain will wait for 5 seconds then try to connect again. If it still fails, waiting time will increase by 5 second
• Improved:
  • Fixed the crash when QUIT
  • Fixed: avoid sending empty password
  • More empty parameters checks
  • Imporve server connection status control

2017-07-29 Version 0.06

• Changed:
  • The third time of refactor ;-)
  • New command parser, for the syntax, refer to Syntax.
  • Changed the format of Chat log
  • The /relay & /unrelay command doesn’t support custom delimiter, this function will be implemented as python plugin in the future
  • Use reStructuredText for document instead of Markdown
• Added:
  • Message filter: mechanism for filtering message
  • Message Decorator: mechanism for changing message
  • Install script for Gentoo, thanks to @rtlanceroad !
  • New command /rignore & /unrignore for ignore message using regular expression, thanks to @zwindl !
  • Config file support
  • Configurable log module, more convenient for developing and reporting issue
  • New Return value type, for more friendly error reporting
  • New command /server for IRC servers management
  • Srain home page is available at: https://srain.im
  • Srain help documentation is available at: https://doc.srain.im
• Removed:
  • Remove libircclient dependence
• Improved:
  • Improve reconnection stuff: auto reconnect when ping time out
  • More accurate message mention
  • Display preview image in correct size
  • Any number of image links in message can be previewed
  • HTTP(and some other protocols) link, domain name, email address and IRC channel name in topic and messages can be rendered as hyper link
  • The sent message can be merged to last sent message
  • Fixed some bugs

2016-09-19 Version 0.05.1

• Create missing directory: $XDG_CACHE_HOME/srain/avatars

2016-08-27 Version 0.05

• Changed:
  • Port to libircclient
    • SSL connection support
    • Server password support
    • Channel password support
• Added:
  • Convenience GtkPopover for connecting and joining
  • Nick popmenu
  • Translations: zh_CN
  • Forward message
  • Chat log
  • Colorful user list icon
  • Mentioned highlight
  • Desktop notification
• Improved:
  • More friendly User interface
  • Stronger {upload,avatar} plugin
  • Fixed a lot of bugs

Note

0.05 is the first stable release of Srain, enjoy~

2016-04-30 Version 0.03

• New interface between UI and IRC module
• Multi-server support
• Channel name is not case sensitive now
• /quit command will close all SrainChan of a server
• Fix GTK-Warning when close a SrainCHan

Note

0.03 is a pre-release, some functions are no completed yet. it also has some undetected bugs.

2016-04-13 Version 0.02

• Bugs fixed
• Port to GTK+-3.20

Note

0.02 is a pre-release, some functions are no completed yet. it also has some undetected bugs.

2016-04-07 Version 0.01

• Implement basic functions of a IRC client
• Themes: Silver Rain (light)
• Simple python plugin support:
  • Auto upload image to pastebin (img.vim-cn.org)
  • Get github avatar according nickname
  • NB: plugin will separated from this repo in the future
• Image preview from URL
• Relay bot message transfrom
• Nick auto completion
• Combine message from same person

Note

0.01 is a pre-release, some functions are no completed yet. it also has some undetected bugs.