Irssi 1.0.2 Released

Posted on March 11^th 2017

Irssi 1.0.2 has been released. This release fixes a remote crash issue in Irssi 1.0 as well as a few bug fixes, the most notable a regression that broke incoming DCC file transfers. There are no new features. All Irssi 1.0 users should upgrade to this version. See the NEWS for details.

Furthermore, we need to emphasise that in Irssi 1.0 up to and including 1.0.2, GRegex is not UTF-8 compliant. Enabling UTF-8 in GRegex while receiving arbitrary messages (i.e. invalid UTF-8, as happens frequently on IRC) would lead to memory issues and crashes, therefore it is currently operating in byte mode. You can either choose to revert to your system provided regex engine using --disable-gregex at ./configure time and hope that it does whatever you need, or join the discussion on issue #636 for how to best solve this problem, or apply the patch from PR#653 if you need proper Unicode-aware regexen in /hilight and /ignore as an intermediate solution.

Read the security advisory.

This release can be downloaded from our releases page. Binary test packages for various Linux distributions are automatically generated by the openSUSE Build Service and are available for download in the irssi-test repository.

Please check with your distro whether they provide officially updated packages.

We currently do not have any alternate advice.

The Irssi Team.