Irssi

SASL SCRAM-SHA support now in Irssi

2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

The development version of Irssi now has support for the SCRAM-SHA-256 and SCRAM-SHA-512 challenge-response SASL authentication. You can use this mechanism on libera.chat, alphachat.net, contempt.chat and maybe others. It is a mechanism where the server knows your password but you do not send the password itself to the server.

Thanks to Patrick Okraku for the contribution.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.4.5 Released

2023-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 1.4.5 has been released!

Includes the following fixes:

Fix for Perl scripts not working on Perl 5.37 or later
Workaround for Perl 5.38.0 breaking the program locale and rendering of some unicode characters
Document some workarounds for building with meson on Apple (see INSTALL)

If you are not affected by these issues, the update is not strictly necessary.

Download page

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.4.4 Released

2023-03-31T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 1.4.4 has been released!

Includes the following important fix:

do not crash Irssi when one line is printed as the result of another line being printed
also solve a memory leak while printing unformatted lines

Please update!

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.4.3 Released

2022-10-31T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 1.4.3 has been released!

Includes the following important fix:

do not freeze-crash Irssi when using Alt+arrows

Please update!

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.4.2 Released

2022-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 1.4.2 has been released! Our first bug-fix release in the 1.4 series.

Includes the following fixes:

default to joining #channels when no type is specified
crash when using /lastlog
missing lines when changing dynamic textbuffer contents
compile fixes with Meson 0.60
compile fixes with Perl 5.36

Please update!

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.4.1 Released

2022-06-12T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 1.4.1 has been released! There have been 596 commits since Irssi 1.2.0. All fixes of Irssi 1.2.3 are also included in Irssi 1.4.

This release wouldn't be possible without all the people: Alex Shafer, Andrej Kacian, Berker Peksag, Claes Nästén, Dan Collins, David Gall, Dennis Pentmeier, DFrostByte, Doug Freed, dx, ffrogman, Francis Mteo, Geert Hauwaerts, Guntbert Reiter, Heikki Orsila, Jacob V. Rasmussen, Jari Matilainen, Jessica Sophie Porter, Joseph Bisch, Lauri Tirkkonen, Marcus "Teschi" Prinz, Marius Gedminas, Mathis Beer, Michael Hansen, Mikael Magnusson, Mike Quin, Misty De Meo, Nia Alarie, Nutchanon Wetchasit, Pinguin1234, Rene Kita, Sergey Valentey, Shivaram Lingamneni, Thomas Stagner, Tom Wesley, Val Lorentz, Will Storey, Zero King

Special thanks to Jookia for finding a memory leak and to Jari Matilainen, qwerty and primalz for helping test the pre releases.

In other news, Ticho started to work on a Matrix plug-in for Irssi at https://codeberg.org/ticho/irssi-matrix/ -- maybe some more people can help out? It is likely that this effort might require additional fixes inside Irssi, too.

Irssi itself could benefit from more contributions as well :-)

Note. Irssi 1.4 will be the last series to support Autotools ./configure for building. Packagers are advised to test the meson build system.

This release can be downloaded from our releases page.

Major news in Irssi 1.4 coming from Irssi 1.2.3

There are some breaking changes mentioned below.

Note: botti no longer compiles; get in touch if you use it
Several IRCv3 features were added: extended-join (tracks account names on join), setname, account-notify, invite-notify, away-notify, chghost, (message-tags are received--and ignored), server-time

These features are hidden behind /SETs: show_extended_join, away_notify_public, show_account_notify, show_server_time
Accounts are tracked with WHOX on join
There is a script for using IRCv3 account-tag at https://anti.teamidiot.de/static/nei/*/Code/Irssi/account_expando.pl -- it should be able to completely replace old Freenode's identify-msg (using account-tag, WHOX, and extended-join)
TLS connections now default to certificate verification
The display system now renders formats on the fly. That means something will happen if you change the theme and do /SCROLLBACK REDRAW

It also means that some scripts such as nickcolor.pl are now broken. Apart from using nickcolor_expando.pl, trilkk also published a replacement script at https://github.com/trilkk/irssi-colored-nicks
/IGNORE ... NOHILIGHT can be used to ignore some hilights
Unignore time is shown in /IGNORE output

A memory leak in /IGNORE was found by Jookia. Fixing this seems to stop my Irssi from crashing after some time!

irc_op_public messages should now trigger hilights

However, you can also try the script https://anti.teamidiot.de/static/nei/*/Code/Irssi/no_opmsg.pl to get rid of this message type when you are frequently using +mz channels on Libera.Chat

New paste detection feature. Pastes from your clip-board can be automatically redirected to a pastebin site or edited in the input line instead. A sample script is on https://anti.teamidiot.de/static/nei/*/Code/Irssi/pastebin.pl
Server-side HELP (/quote help) has a new default alias: /SHELP in fresh configs and improved rendering. By Val Lorentz
The NAMES list is now hidden by default if there are more than 18 users on the channel

To revert to the previous behaviour
```
/SET show_names_on_join_limit -1
```

Scripts can use module formats using ...->format_create_dest(...)->printformat_module("module", "format", args...) -- no more CORE::GLOBAL::caller hacks
The Build System was ported to Meson
Some function names were corrected, module authors please take note.

New settings:
- account_max_chase
- actlist_prefer_window_name
- actlist_separator
- autoload_modules
- empty_kill_clears_cutbuffer
- glib_log_domains
- log_server_time
- paste_ignore_first_nl
- quit_on_hup
- scrollback_format
- scrollback_max_age
- starttls_sts
- timestamp_format_alt

See the NEWS for details.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.2.3 Released

2021-04-11T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 1.2.3 has been released! It contains a large number of fixes to increase overall stability. There are no new features. All Irssi 1.2 users should upgrade to this version. See the NEWS for details.

If you had previously applied the GLib patch this is now of course included. Thanks to Zero King and Sergey Valentey for finding and fixing memory issues. Credit to Oss-Fuzz for uncovering some more. Apple users on ARM may thank Misty De Méo for fixing some peculiarities. Further contributions by Lauri Tirkkonen and Nutchanon Wetchasit. Many thanks to the Irssi team as well for making this release possible.

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.

Work continues hard on Irssi 1.3 which you can test by compiling the master branch from Git and help by testing Pull Requests or contributing. However, there still remain some nuisances which we want addressed before feeling comfortable to promote it to stable release.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.2.2 Released

2019-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 1.2.2 has been released! It contains some critical updates which we hope you'll enjoy. There are no new features. All Irssi 1.2 users should upgrade to this version. See the NEWS for details.

For more information refer to the security advisory.

If you've had any issues with Irssi crashing right on start, hopefully this update will fix that.

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

We currently do not have any alternate advice.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.2.1 and 1.1.3 and 1.0.8 Released

2019-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 1.2.1 and 1.1.3 and 1.0.8 have been released! They contain some critical updates which we hope you'll enjoy. There are no new features. All Irssi users should upgrade to this version. See the NEWS for details.

For more information refer to the security advisory.

If you've had any issues with SASL login suddenly failing, hopefully this update will fix that.

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

We currently do not have any alternate advice.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.2.0 OTR Migration Path

2019-02-12T00:00:00+00:00

With the release of Irssi 1.2.0 we now bundle the OTR plug-in as part of the Irssi source code. During the import phase of the irssi-otr codebase we fixed a number of issues, but one of them caused us to break backwards compatibility for old irssi-otr users.

With the updated OTR implementation the secret keys of the user is no longer stored with an account name of $nickname@$server (for example: user@irc.libera.chat), but is rather stored with the network (or chatnet if you like) name from Irssi (for example: liberachat). This should remove the issue that some users have reported where if they connect to another server on a given network the OTR implementation generates new keys for you.

You can see your list of OTR keys in Irssi using /otr info.

Upgrade Path

This requires a bit of manual work, but if you look at your ~/.irssi/otr directory you should have 3 files:

otr.fp - containing the fingerprints of your OTR buddies.
otr.instag - containing the tags from OTR.
otr.key - containing your secret keys.

In otr.fp and otr.key you should manually open these files and modify the old strings to the new format. The otr.key file is the most important one since it contains the secret key material. The file contains an s-expression like structure where the account name key can be found in the (name name-goes-here) tuple. The otr.fp file contains a list of known fingerprints. Correct the account name from your preview keys there as well.

Irssi 1.2.0 Released

2019-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

Happy lunar new year from the Irssi Team!

Irssi 1.2.0 has been released. This release is the result of all the contributions Irssi received in the past year. Of course, it includes all the security fixes from Irssi 1.1.2.

23 users contributed to this release. In total 174 files changed with 9215 line insertions and 1602 line deletions. Thanks everyone!

Another thanks for those helping us test Irssi by running the Git version!

Some notable changes:

/statusbar has a whole new syntax
/1 /2 /3 ... removed from default config (available as new setting window_number_commands)
Private notices intended for channels are now displayed on the channel (new setting notice_channel_context)
The assumed width of characters can now be configured (new setting wcwidth_implementation)

Some interesting new features:

The "Off-the-record" module is now included in the Irssi source
Initial version of horizontal splits
Formatting support for the input line, for example to hilight wrong words with spell checker script

See the NEWS for details.

After installing the new release, you can use /upgrade to re-launch your Irssi binary, but don't forget to /save first. TLS connections will break and require manual /reconnect 1 and so on. To save and restore the window content, load the buf.pl script and make sure it is in autorun. Starting with Irssi 1.1.0, you can also save and restore your command history -- /script install savecmdhist and make sure it is in autorun as well.

We are committed to put security, stability and regression fixes on subsequent 1.2.x releases, as we have done for 1.1.

As usual, there remains a lot to be done. We are always looking for help, so you can check the bugs and see if you can fix some, or implement some of the enhancement requests.

By the way, test packages for the Git version are also available for download in the irssi-git repository, and an archive of the old stable version is available in irssi-oldtest.

Feel welcome to join our IRC channel, or discuss this news on Lobsters, Hacker News or Twitter.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.1.2 Released

2019-01-09T00:00:00+00:00

Happy New Year from the Irssi Team!

Irssi 1.1.2 has been released! This release fixes some stability issues in Irssi 1.1 as well as a few bug fixes. There are no new features. All Irssi 1.1 users should upgrade to this version. See the NEWS for details.

For more information refer to the security advisory.

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

We currently do not have any alternate advice.

In the meantime, the following interesting changes happened in the development version of Irssi:

Syntax for the the /STATUSBAR commands was improved (#858)
Private notices intended for channels are now displayed on the channel (new setting notice_channel_context) (#959)
The "Off-the-record" module was imported into the Irssi tree (#854, #589, #196)
Users can now choose between different implementations of wcwidth. This is used to calculate the width of emojis on your terminal screen (#917, #720)

These functions are now also available from Perl (#973):
```
string_width(str)
string_chars_for_width(str, width)
wcwidth(char)
```
Added a completion_keep_word setting (#979)
Allow hiding of lines through the /IGNORE system (#901, #900, #892, #890, #884, #937)
Add autolog_only_saved_channels setting, to autolog only channels that are in the config (#968)
Prevent config truncation when no space left. By dequis and Lukas Waymann (#922, #925, #910, #909, #906, #871, #817)
Time-out broken SSL connections (#866, #130)
Make default keybinds deletable (#859, #507)

Feel welcome to join our IRC channel for any questions.

The Irssi Team.

🎆 Irssi 1.1.1 and 1.0.7 Released 🎆

2018-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Happy Lunar New Year from the Irssi Team!

Irssi 1.1.1 and 1.0.7 have been released! They contain some critical updates which we hope you'll enjoy. There are no new features. All Irssi users should upgrade to this version. See the NEWS for details.

For more information refer to the security advisory.

One of bigger issues that was silent to us was a bug in OpenSSL that has been fixed six years ago. It causes Irssi to crash. None of the developers were using such old software. Unfortunately, Debian jessie and Ubuntu 14.04 still use OpenSSL from before that.

The other important bug was that netsplits would crash Irssi when getting disconnected. Sorry for this bug. It shows that the netsplit code is badly tested since it doesn't occur so frequently. We could really benefit from some unit tests here...

An odd issue was found in the configure script. Our development box has a version of autotools that was patched by the distribution to fix a minor syntax issue. Unfortunately, that patch broke the POSIX sh compatibility of the generated files! (The bug is only present in the 1.1.0 release tarballs.)

Another invisible issue was that the test suite would mysteriously fail on sufficiently old systems. Turns out the required TAP output is only present in GLib 2.40 and later (and of course not documented). Again, no-one on the team was using anything older...

A surprising issue was uncovered when using negative numbers to manipulate window sizes. Let's just say Irssi totally didn't expect you to do this. (It will crash your Irssi and possibly show odd display glitches.)

Irssi 1.0.7 also includes a patch for some /server add/modify commands that could crash Irssi. This was originally scheduled for 1.0.6 but forgotten! Oops.

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

We currently do not have any alternate advice.

In the meantime, the following interesting changes happened in the development version:

Sideways split support was added into Irssi (#697)
Ben Paxton backported code to colourise the input prompt, originally by Jonas Hurrelmann. This can be used for spell checking or nick colouring. (#764)
Manish Goregaokar contributed code that will add a colon behind all the tab-completed nicks (#822)
another take at the netsplit printing optimisations was merged (now with less crashes??) (#832)
the theme engine was added to Google's Oss-Fuzz and already uncovered several deficiencies
Niklas Luokkala added the binding that selects the previous completion during tab completion to Shift+Tab by default (#830)
Martin Staron contributed code that might fix storing of DCC GETs on Android phones or FAT partitions (#844)
CAP 3.2 capability negotiation is now supported (#775)

Feel welcome to join our IRC channel, or discuss this news on reddit or Twitter.

The Irssi Team.

PyIRCFuzz

2018-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

This blog post is a follow up to my first post on this blog about fuzzing Irssi. This time we will look at using pyircfuzz instead of afl-fuzz.

First we are going to get pyircfuzz itself and run it. Pyircfuzz acts as an IRC server, but it sends a variety of messages (not always well formed) to the IRC client(s) that are connected in an attempt to crash the client(s).

git clone https://github.com/josephbisch/pyircfuzz
cd pyircfuzz
python3 ircfuzz.py

Next we need to get Irssi and checkout 1.0.2, because we know it actually has bugs for us to find. Then, after we have built Irssi, we are going to run it and connect to the pyircfuzz instance on localhost and log the error output to a file.

git clone https://github.com/irssi/irssi
cd irssi
git checkout 1.0.2
ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0 ./autogen.sh CC=clang CFLAGS="-g -Og -fsanitize=address"
make
./src/fe-text/irssi -c localhost 2> asan.log

Here is a picture of what Irssi looks like at this point. It crashed so quickly (remember we are using an outdated version of Irssi) that I didn't have time to get a screenshot of the fuzzing in action.

Here is the AddressSanitizer output (from asan.log):

ASAN:DEADLYSIGNAL
=================================================================
==31221==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x0000000000d8 (pc 0x55c7bc8f46da bp 0x611000019540 sp 0x7ffd110925a0 T0)
==31221==The signal is caused by a READ memory access.
==31221==Hint: address points to the zero page.
    #0 0x55c7bc8f46d9 in dcc_request /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/fe-common/irc/dcc/fe-dcc-get.c:43:2
    #1 0x55c7bc9b760c in signal_emit_real /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/core/signals.c:242:3
    #2 0x55c7bc9b717c in signal_emit /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/core/signals.c:286:3
    #3 0x55c7bc978f39 in ctcp_msg_dcc_send /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/irc/dcc/dcc-get.c:525:2
    #4 0x55c7bc9b760c in signal_emit_real /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/core/signals.c:242:3
    #5 0x55c7bc9b717c in signal_emit /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/core/signals.c:286:3
    #6 0x55c7bc971658 in ctcp_msg_dcc /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/irc/dcc/dcc.c:371:7
    #7 0x55c7bc9b760c in signal_emit_real /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/core/signals.c:242:3
    #8 0x55c7bc9b717c in signal_emit /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/core/signals.c:286:3
    #9 0x55c7bc9714c8 in ctcp_msg /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/irc/dcc/dcc.c:339:2
    #10 0x55c7bc9b760c in signal_emit_real /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/core/signals.c:242:3
    #11 0x55c7bc9b717c in signal_emit /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/core/signals.c:286:3
    #12 0x55c7bc9693f4 in event_privmsg /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/irc/core/ctcp.c:287:3
    #13 0x55c7bc9b760c in signal_emit_real /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/core/signals.c:242:3
    #14 0x55c7bc9b717c in signal_emit /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/core/signals.c:286:3
    #15 0x55c7bc940cb6 in irc_server_event /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/irc/core/irc.c:308:7
    #16 0x55c7bc9b760c in signal_emit_real /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/core/signals.c:242:3
    #17 0x55c7bc9b7b76 in signal_emit_id /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/core/signals.c:304:3
    #18 0x55c7bc940f4e in irc_parse_incoming_line /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/irc/core/irc.c:362:3
    #19 0x55c7bc9b760c in signal_emit_real /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/core/signals.c:242:3
    #20 0x55c7bc9b7b76 in signal_emit_id /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/core/signals.c:304:3
    #21 0x55c7bc94121a in irc_parse_incoming /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/irc/core/irc.c:383:3
    #22 0x55c7bc997b33 in irssi_io_invoke /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/core/misc.c:55:3
    #23 0x7f82e17d80bd in g_main_context_dispatch (/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0+0x6b0bd)
    #24 0x7f82e17d9f68  (/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0+0x6cf68)
    #25 0x7f82e17d9fad in g_main_context_iteration (/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0+0x6cfad)
    #26 0x55c7bc8d8c30 in main /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/fe-text/irssi.c:321:3
    #27 0x7f82e06a3f69 in __libc_start_main (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x20f69)
    #28 0x55c7bc7af509 in _start (/home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/fe-text/irssi+0x103509)

AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info.
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV /home/joseph/irssi-blog-temp/irssi/src/fe-common/irc/dcc/fe-dcc-get.c:43:2 in dcc_request
==31221==ABORTING

In the pyircfuzz directory, there is an ircfuzz.log file. This is a list of all the IRC messages that the fuzzer sent to the IRC client leading up to the crash. So it should act as a reproducer. Make sure you rename it if you want to save it, because running pyircfuzz again will overwrite that file. I already know from the stacktrace that the crash happened in the DCC code. So I can do the following to filter out irrelevant lines from the reproducer:

grep -a "DCC" ircfuzz.log > ircfuzz-dcc.log

Pyircfuzz doesn't currently have a minimizer included, so you either have to figure out yourself what line(s) cause the crash or use a minimizer from another fuzzer like afl-tmin. But just greping for the lines with DCC in them already limits the number of lines to look through (at least in my case).

You can reproduce the crash by doing the following:

cat ircfuzz.log | nc -l -p 6667

Then in another terminal:

./src/fe-text/irssi -c localhost

You should see the AddressSanitizer output in the terminal you ran Irssi in if the bug is indeed reproducible.

Conclusion

I have found pyircfuzz to be an effective tool for fuzzing IRC clients. It has found bugs in Irssi that haven't been found other ways (such as with afl-fuzz or libfuzzer). Part of the reason is the ease of fuzzing the whole client without modification. That's not to say that afl-fuzz and libfuzzer aren't capable of finding these bugs if the proper fuzz targets are written, but it is just so easy to connect to the fuzzer as you would any other IRC server.

I hope you find pyircfuzz useful. As usual, we would like to hear about any bugs you find, whether by fuzzing or other methods. You can report non-security bugs via the Irssi GitHub repo. Security bugs can be reported to Irssi staff. Staff can be reached at staff@irssi.org.

Also, patches to improve pyircfuzz are welcome via the GitHub repo.

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Irssi 1.1.0 Released

2018-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Happy new year again from the Irssi Team!

Irssi 1.1.0 has been released. This release is the result of all the contributions Irssi received in the past year. Of course, it includes all the security fixes from Irssi 1.0.6.

Will Storey, Joseph Bisch, Edward Tomasz Napierala and Jari Matitainen contributed to this release and accepted our invitation to join the project, as well as external contributions from Robert Bisewski, Paul Townsend, Oscar Linderholm, Rodrigo Rebello, Stephen Oberholtzer, Paolo Martini, Martijn Dekker, Tim Konick, Hanno Böck, Tristan Pepin Michael Hansen, and Lasse Toimela. In total 151 files changed, with 6214 line insertions and 1062 line deletions. Thanks everyone!

We rushed in some last minute fixes into 1.1.0 so as they wouldn't have to sit on the queue until next year. We hope it doesn't affect stability of the release too much. Thanks for those helping us test by running the Git version!

Some notable changes:

/server does not connect to servers anymore, we recommend using /connect! You can also change servers using /server connect
/foreach now emits commands instead of sending text to the targets

Some interesting new features:

If you use the per window command history, global history can now be accessed with Ctrl+Arrows
History entries can now be deleted (e.g. to remove some secrets)
East-asian users will enjoy /set break_wide to make words wrap more naturally
On FreeBSD, Irssi now supports the Capsicum sandbox (experimental)
Lines with certain levels can be hidden from screen (not ignored), using /window hidelevel

Some new developments:

Fuzzing code has been added to the repository, which may help find certain kinds of bugs (and already has!)
Module authors can now use net_start_ssl for StartTLS (used e.g. by Quassel)
Irssi now has a folder for unit tests!

See the NEWS for details.

After installing the new release, you can use /upgrade to re-launch your Irssi binary, but don't forget to /save first. TLS connections will break and require manual /reconnect 1 and so on. To save and restore the window content, load the buf.pl script and make sure it is in autorun. Starting with Irssi 1.1.0, you can also save and restore your command history -- check this comment until someone comes up with a proper script.

We are committed to put security, stability and regression fixes on subsequent 1.1.x releases, as we have done for 1.0.

As usual, there remains a lot to be done. We are always looking for help, so you can check the bugs and see if you can fix some, or implement some of the enhancement requests. The initial version of horizontal splits has already landed in Git and thus should be included in Irssi 1.2.0.

By the way, test packages for the Git version are also available for download in the irssi-git repository, and an archive of the old stable version is available in irssi-oldtest.

We are also looking for packagers who want to take the challenge of adding compatible builds of irssi-{python,otr,xmpp,icb,quassel,fish,theme-indent,...} to either distributions or the openSUSE Build Service (has to support all our current targets there.)

Feel welcome to join our IRC channel, or discuss this news, on reddit.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.0.6 Released

2018-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

Happy new year from the Irssi Team!

Irssi 1.0.6 has been released. This release fixes a few security issues in Irssi as well as a few bugs. There are no new features. All Irssi users should upgrade to this version. See the NEWS for details.

Most issues have been identified using fuzzing, thanks to Joseph Bisch.

For more information refer to the security advisory.

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

We currently do not have any alternate advice.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.0.5 Released

2017-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 1.0.5 has been released. This release fixes a few security issues in Irssi as well as a few bugs. There are no new features. All Irssi users should upgrade to this version. See the NEWS for details.

Most issues have been identified using fuzzing, thanks to Hanno Böck and Joseph Bisch. We expect Joseph will be able to tell you more about his newest fuzzer at freenode.live on the weekend!

For more information refer to the security advisory.

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

We currently do not have any alternate advice.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.0.4 Released

2017-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 1.0.4 has been released. This release fixes two remote crash issues in Irssi as well as a few bugs, correcting a mistake that was introduced in 1.0.3 while parsing some time-related settings. There are no new features. All Irssi users should upgrade to this version. See the NEWS for details.

Our bug reporter Brian 'geeknik' Carpenter writes:

34 days after reading Fuzzing Irssi, my AFL instance was finally able to trigger a null pointer dereference in irssi 1.0.2. [...] Hopefully this one isn't fixed yet.

35 days after reading Fuzzing Irssi, my AFL instance triggered a heap-use-after-free in irssi 1.0.2. Compiled on Debian 8 x64 following the instructions and patches of the referenced article. (;

For more information refer to the security advisory.

Thanks, Brian!

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

We currently do not have any alternate advice.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.0.3 Released

2017-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 1.0.3 has been released. This release fixes two remote crash issue in Irssi as well as a few bug fixes, the most notable that TLS can now be disabled from within the text-UI. There are no new features. All Irssi users should upgrade to this version. See the NEWS for details.

Read the security advisory.

Please check with your distro whether they provide officially updated packages. Debian users can refer to the security tracker to follow the security status of their distro.

We currently do not have any alternate advice.

The Irssi Team.

Fuzzing Irssi

2017-05-12T00:00:00+00:00

Hello fellow Irssi users and people interested in learning about fuzzing,

There have been recent efforts within the Irssi and open source security communities to make Irssi more secure through the use of fuzzing. For example the security bugs revealed in the first Irssi security advisory of 2017 were found by fuzzing. In this blog post, we will cover an introduction to fuzzing, how to fuzz Irssi, and a look at a couple of actual bugs found in past versions of Irssi.

Intro to Fuzzing

At its most basic level, fuzzing can be thought of as generating random input and feeding it to a program. The program is monitored for crashes or assertion failures. Some of these crashes or assertion failures can be a result of bugs with security implications. An interesting use of assertions in conjunction with fuzz testing is testing protocols for correctness. If you have two libraries that are supposed to both implement the same protocol, you can repeatedly generate random data and feed that same data to corresponding functions in each library and assert that the results must be the same.

Fuzzing is typically done by some program that is responsible for generating the input and then calling the program that is being tested with that input. This is done repeatedly until there is a crash recorded, or some fuzzers will keep running and collect multiple crashes. While these fuzzers may be unaware of how the input affects program execution, there are other fuzzers that make use of something called instrumentation that allows the fuzzer to determine which inputs result in new program coverage. The idea is that there may be bugs that are present only in a certain part of the program and they would otherwise be hard to find if not for the fuzzer trying to find new coverage. Examples of fuzzers that make use of coverage are AFL and libfuzzer, though AFL also has a "dumb fuzzer" mode that behaves like a traditional fuzzer without instrumentation. Libfuzzer is actually a fuzzing library so it doesn't run your program repeatedly, but rather actually links into your code to form a "fuzz target" that will repeatedly call function(s) that you want to test. This is known as "in-process fuzzing".

Fuzzing Irssi

In this section we will look at a patch written by dx that allows for fuzzing of Irssi using AFL. It does so by moving the network communciation onto stdin and stdout. The fuzzer essentially acts as an IRC server that Irssi connects to and accepts data from. Once the fuzzer finishes sending data, Irssi will terminate to allow the fuzzer to start again with new data.

We will also look at a particular CVE found via this methodology, namely CVE-2017-5193.

Here is the patch that can be applied to your Irssi source tree in order to allow fuzzing of Irssi with AFL: patch.

The patch causes Irssi to "connect" to stdin. It also does some other stuff, like preventing the reading from and saving to of the user's config files, so that we start with a default Irssi config every program execution.

The following commands will clone a fresh copy of Irssi and apply the above patch (named fuzz.diff) to your copy of Irssi. Note that the patch doesn't apply to git master anymore, so you'll either need to correct the part in src/fe-text/irssi.c that fails to apply, or checkout any commit prior to 70f9db3cbdc0a3c6b622e64edbd504592f921892 before applying the patch. Note that this includes any Irssi release at the time of this writing (1.0.2 or earlier).

git clone https://github.com/irssi/irssi.git irssi-fuzz
cd irssi-fuzz
patch -p1 < fuzz.diff

The following commands will configure and build Irssi. If you already ran autogen.sh on your copy of the Irssi source, you can replace ./autogen.sh with ./configure.

CC=/path/to/afl/afl-clang-fast CXX=/path/to/afl/afl-clang-fast++ ./autogen.sh --disable-shared
make

Now the irssi binary is located at src/fe-text/irssi.

Run AFL using the following commands:

mkdir afl
cd afl
mkdir in
echo 'initial testcase' > in/initial
cp ../src/fe-fuzz/tokens.dict .
/path/to/afl/afl-fuzz -i in -o out -x tokens.dict -- ../src/fe-text/irssi

The in directory is the directory of initial inputs each containing some sequence of bytes that will be the initial inputs fed to the program being tested (Irssi in our case). The inputs are ideally meaningful to the program being tested or maybe were gathered from a previous fuzzing session using AFL or some other fuzzer. In this demonstration, I just have a single input with the string 'initial testcase\n'. The out directory is where the crashes and hangs and other interesting data will be stored. The tokens.dict file is a collection of meaningful tokens that will be utilized as part of the fuzzing process to find new code paths quicker. The dictionary tokens will be inserted into the input and also used to overwrite parts of the input. The -- separates the afl-fuzz commands from the binary we are fuzzing and the flags we will be giving it. Note that AFL also supports fuzzing a program that reads from a file passed as an argument. So if we instead modified Irssi to read from a file, we could instead have -- ./src/fe-text/irssi @@ and AFL would feed Irssi a file as argv[1]. But in this case there is no @@ as part of the command, so AFL feeds data to Irssi on stdin.

Now that you ran afl-fuzz, you will see the AFL UI appear in your terminal that will allow you to monitor the fuzzing progress. You should start to see the number of paths discovered (the second number from the top on the right side of the interface as of the time of writing this post) increasing. AFL should quickly display a message saying that it is odd, if no paths are found. In that case, you should check to see if the program you are fuzzing is actually reading data from stdin.

Here is an image showing the AFL UI that displays:

As you can see no crashes have been found so far during that fuzzing session. AFL has found a total of 3090 inputs that cause new paths to be taken and currently AFL is in the process of fuzzing the 2520th of those inputs, which is 81.55% of the way through the 3090 found so far. Of course that percentage can go down as new paths are discovered.

Here is an example of a crash discovered while fuzzing a contrived program. Notice the "odd, check syntax!" warning that is displayed. Normally that is an indication that something is wrong, but in this case the program is just a simple program that AFL can't find any additional paths through, hence the warning.

Now we can go to afl/out/crashes in our program's source tree and find crashes with filenames like out/crashes/id:000000,sig:06,src:000000,op:havoc,rep:32, indicating a unique id for the crash, the signal with which the program crashed, the previous input that this one is based on, and the operation performed on the previous input. You should then be able to then do the following to reproduce the crash and hopefully get some information about the crash: cat file | program, where file is the file in out/crashes/ and program is the program you were testing.

CVE-2017-5193

CVE-2017-5193 was a NULL pointer dereference in the nickcmp function that I found using AFL and the above patch. As you can see in the commit that fixed the issue, the fix is just a matter of ensuring nick is non-NULL. The exploit allowed the server to crash Irssi. Since the NULL pointer dereference results in a segfault, this kind of issue is detectable just with Irssi, the above patch, and AFL.

If you want to reproduce CVE-2017-5193, you will want to follow the above instructions and be prepared to wait many many hours. Also, you should make sure that you have built Irssi <= 0.8.20, since 0.8.21 fixes CVE-2017-5193. There are some things you can do to speed up fuzzing in the case of this particular demo, such as setting the initial testcase to be something close to the reproducer and using a limited dictionary that has just the tokens that are part of the reproducer. Here is how you may do so:

echo $'001\nprivmsg\nprivmsg 0 ' > in/initial
echo '"\x01ACTION"' > tokens.dict

I want to stress that we are using a limited dictionary and using this particular initial testcase in an attempt to re-discover a particular bug. It would normally not be beneficial to use a dictionary with a single token instead of a more comprehensive collection of tokens.

For those of you that don't want to wait or that want to ensure that what you've found is actually CVE-2017-5193, here is the minimized trigger:

echo $'001\nprivmsg\nprivmsg 0 :\x01ACTION ' | nc -l -p 6667

Since that command results in a server listening on port 6667 locally, you can just start a vulnerable instance of Irssi and then enter: /connect localhost to trigger the crash.

What can I do to help with fuzzing Irssi?...

...is a question you may be asking yourself after having read this post. I hope you learned something from this post either way, but we do have ways you can help if you are interested in doing so.

We could use more code coverage. Of course we can't find bugs in code that we're not able to reach. The above patch was written as a quick hack to get fuzzing of Irssi working and it may be possible to write a patch that results in better coverage. For example, the patch forces a default Irssi config instead of reading the config from the filesystem. So if a bug is only triggerable with a particular configuration or layout, it will be missed when fuzzing with the patch in its current state.

There are also other approaches to fuzzing besides using this patch with AFL. While it wasn't the subject of this blog post, we have a fuzzing frontend that is libfuzzer based. So that is something else you can take a look at improving. There may be another blog post soon that takes a look at the fuzzing frontend.

As always, #irssi on irc.libera.chat is a great place to discuss Irssi.

And we would like to hear about any bugs you find, whether by fuzzing or other methods. You can report non-security bugs via the Irssi GitHub repo. Security bugs can be reported to Irssi staff. Staff can be reached at staff@irssi.org.

hacker news discussion

Thanks to Softdroid for a Russian translation of this article.

Help us test horizontal/vertical splits

2017-05-06T00:00:00+00:00

It all started in 2005, when I asked in FS#310 whether vertical splits would be possible. By that, of course, I meant to split the windows horizontally in a line. At that time, the most popular version of Irssi had been 0.8.9 for several years.

Fast forward another ten years, Ido Rosen transferred (half of) this issue to the new GitHub issue tracker. He compared the situation to WeeChat, another popular text mode IRC client which does support this. Technically, that application is using the curses library for text mode user interfaces, which can handle most of the window drawing.

Irssi has its own screen drawing implementation. One advantage of that is that long links can be displayed as "single word" even when they wrap at the terminal border. Another one is support for arbitrary colour pairs, which is limited in curses. However, it also means more work for window handling.

In 2016, I coerced TheLemonMan into writing an initial draft of the horizontal window splitting code. Turns out it wasn't that much code after all! A good deal of the required work had already been done by Timo Sirainen (the original Irssi author) in 2001.

Any complicated window handling logic however did not exist. So after some vague promises in 2015, I picked up the ball again this year, and tied up the knots, making some compromises to keep the model simple and close to the original (arguably limiting the features somewhat in comparison with the competitors).

How to test

12 years from my initial report, I am now close to resolving half of my own request. The resulting code is currently in the development version of Irssi and waiting for you -- or anyone else interested in this feature -- to test it.

After compiling Irssi from git, your Irssi will understand new commands: /window new -right split - to make a new sideways split, /window show -right <number> - to show an existing window to the right, and /window grow/shrink/size/balance -right - to manipulate the size of your sideways split windows.

A short reminder how to use Irssi split windows.

Generally, you have the choice of generating "transient" split windows, which allow you to display any window not currently visible (or stuck) in another split window. The split window contents changes whenever you change to another window while this split window is active.

The second choice is to stick one or more (numbered) windows to a split window. This can be done with /window stick. When you switch to this window in the future, it will always appear in the corresponding split window. Remember, you can always check the sticky state of a split window by typing /window (without arguments).

To move between your split windows, use Alt+Up/Down (/window up/down).

If you are mostly working with sticky windows, then you can move sticky windows from one split window to another split window using /window move up/down/left/right -directional. If you try to move a transient split window, the split window will instead collapse!

One final tip, the default Irssi configuration makes it a bit hard to tell which split window is active. My personal favourite is this small configuration change:

/sbar modify -type window -position 0 -visible active prompt

that will move the input line into the active split window. Another choice would be to change the statusbar colour in your theme, by adding sb_window_inact_bg = "%6"; to the abstracts.

That said, there is still lots of things to do:

vertical status bars
and for those to work, multi line status bars
split window zoom/unzoom
split window swap/move/rotate
multiple layout store/restore
layout set code
support for more complex split window layouts

If any of that seems interesting to you, do not hesitate to contribute the code. We can also discuss any details if you feel unsure how to approach some things on IRC (#irssi on irc.libera.chat)

Happy window splitting!

Poll: Non-UTF-8 discontinuation

2017-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

Hello fellow Irssi users,

We are planning to remove 8-bit and Chinese support from Irssi.

Interaction with legacy IRC channels would still be provided through /recode, as it is currently.

However, Irssi would stop working on non-UTF-8 terminals (or at least appear heavily glitched)

If you have any helpful comments or concerns about this topic, please raise your voice either in the GitHub issue 671 or by writing an e-mail. We're especially interested to learn about people who are still using the 8-bit support and why you would not be able to move to Unicode.

Thank you for your support,

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.0.2 Released

2017-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

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.

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

We currently do not have any alternate advice.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.0.1 Released

2017-02-05T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 1.0.1 has been released. This release is our first bug fix release on the 1.0 branch. You won't see new features on 1.0. Most importantly, a mistake that broke tab completion of settings and aliases has been corrected, as well as a memory leak during SASL found by Joseph Bisch. All users of 1.0.0 should upgrade to this version. See the NEWS for details.

It is our hope that distros with long term stability can nevertheless follow our bug fix releases. Please check with your distro whether they provide officially updated packages.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 1.0.0 Released

2017-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 1.0.0 has been released. This release contains many improvements. Irssi 1.0.0 includes contributions by Lukas Mai, Xavier G, Kenny Root, Jari Matilainen, Todd A. Pratt, Manish Goregaokar, B. Thibault, Joseph Bisch, Will Storey, Lauri Tirkkonen, Lauri Nurmi, Tom Feist, Thomas Samson, Dennis Schagt, Mantas Mikulėnas and François Revol. In total, 132 files changed, 3434 lines were added and 3202 lines deleted and TheLemonMan officially joined the staff. Thanks everyone! See the NEWS for details.

This release also includes the security fixes from 0.8.21, which was published at the same time as 1.0.0. Please read the 0.8.21 release notes and the security advisory.

Some hi(gh)lights:

irssiproxy can now forward all tags through a single port. By Lukas Mai
the kill buffer now remembers consecutive kills. New bindings were added: yank_next_cutbuffer and append_next_kill. By Todd A. Pratt
autolog_ignore_targets and activity_hide_targets learn a new syntax tag/* and * to ignore whole networks or everything. By Jari Matilainen
hilight got a -matchcase flag to hilight case sensitively. By Thibault B
Display TLS connection information upon connect. You can disable this by setting tls_verbose_connect to FALSE
Certificate pinning for TLS certificates
/names and $[...] now uses utf8 string operations. By Xavier G.
New setting completion_nicks_match_case
/channel /server /network now support modify subcommand. By Jari Matilainen
New option sasl_disconnect_on_failure to disconnect when SASL log-in failed

Discuss this news on reddit, hacker news or lobsters

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.21 Released

2017-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.8.21 has been released. This release fixes four remote crash issues in older Irssi releases. There are no new features compared to 0.8.20. All users should upgrade to this version. See the NEWS for details.

This release can be downloaded from our releases page.

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

Read the security advisory.

We currently do not have any alternate advice.

The Irssi Team.

buf.pl update available

2016-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

An update to the buf.pl script has been released. This release fixes an information disclosure vulnerability. All users should upgrade to this version.

The updated buf.pl script can be found on scripts.irssi.org.

Read the security advisory.

Irssi 0.8.20 Released

2016-09-21T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.8.20 has been released. This release fixes two remote crash issues in Irssi 0.8.17 and later. There are no new features. All users should upgrade to this version. See the NEWS for details.

Read the security advisory.

Please check with your distro whether they provide officially updated packages. This is a possibly incomplete list of distros which have applied the hotfix to their stable versions instead of updating to 0.8.20:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial): 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.2 (USN-3086-1)
Debian 8 (jessie): 0.8.17-1+deb8u1 (DSA 3672-1)

Note that the version shown by irssi internally is kept the same, but they are safe to use anyway. The installed version can be verified with dpkg -l irssi in ubuntu and debian.

Those who cannot upgrade right now, but with Perl support enabled in their Irssi, can load this script and add it to ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun as a first aid to mitigating these issues.

Furthermore, we are always looking for testers of the development version. Binaries of the current git development version are automatically packaged in the irssi-git repository. The current development source code can be downloaded from GitHub. Some more information on the Contributing page. Report Issues and do not hesitate to send in Patches!

Remember to follow Irssi on Twitter, discuss this news on reddit or pop into #irssi on irc.libera.chat.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.19 Released

2016-03-24T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.8.19 has been released. This is purely a bugfix release addressing the worst regressions in the 0.8.18 release. There are no new features. All packagers are encouraged to package this version. See the NEWS for details.

Remember to check out Irssi's Facebook fan page, LinkedIn group, Twitter profile, discuss this news on reddit or pop into #irssi on irc.libera.chat.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.18 Released

2016-02-29T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.8.18 has been released. This release contains many new goodies including native CAP SASL support, "self messages" shown in the correct window, line splitting on spaces, bracketed paste markers support for better paste detection, nick hilighting everywhere in a message, a more robust Config parser, and as usual many fixes, see the NEWS for details. Thanks to everyone who made this possible!

This release can be downloaded from our releases page.

We are always looking for contributors so if you find any Issues report them, and if you can fix any of them do not hesitate to send in a Patch!

Remember to check out Irssi's Facebook fan page, LinkedIn group, Twitter profile or pop into #irssi on irc.libera.chat.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.18-beta2 Released

2016-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.8.18-beta2 has been released. Beta 2 has only a few minor changes compared to beta 1 and fixes one regression in /hilight reported from beta 1 testing. Thanks to everyone who helped test beta 1! See our Github repository for details.

New in this release (unchanged from beta 1). CAP SASL supported natively. ZNC "self messages" shown in the correct window. Line splitting now splits on space. Bracketed paste markers supported for better paste detection. Nick is hilighted everywhere in a message. Config parser is more robust. And as usual many fixes, see the NEWS for details.

This pre-release can be downloaded from our releases page.

Thanks to the Open Build Service testing packages for some distributions were prepared on ailin_nemui:irssi-test.

We are always looking for contributors so if you find any Issues report them, and if you can fix any of them do not hesitate to send in a Patch!

Remember to check out Irssi's Facebook fan page, LinkedIn group, Twitter profile or pop into #irssi on irc.libera.chat.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.18-beta1 Released

2015-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.8.18-beta1 has been released. This beta release awaits your testing and sports 2281 line insertions, and 1014 deletions, compared to 1965 insertions and 604 deletions that were on the road to our 0.8.17 release roughly one year ago. Our top contributor TheLemonMan changed 1937 lines and the up-runner dequis changed 805. There were also several contributions from the community, see AUTHORS for a list of names and our Github repository for details.

New in this release. CAP SASL supported natively. ZNC "self messages" shown in the correct window. Line splitting now splits on space. Bracketed paste markers supported for better paste detection. Nick is hilighted everywhere in a message. Config parser is more robust. And as usual many fixes, see the NEWS for details.

This pre-release can be downloaded from our releases page.

Thanks to the Open Build Service testing packages for some distributions were prepared on ailin_nemui:irssi-test.

We are always looking for contributors so if you find any Issues report them, and if you can fix any of them do not hesitate to send in a Patch!

Remember to check out Irssi's Facebook fan page, LinkedIn group, Twitter profile or pop into #irssi on irc.libera.chat.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi website now on Github Pages

2015-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

The Irssi site is now proudly hosted on github pages, many thanks to Nicolas Kuttler for the initial design and dx for the finishing.

You can now contribute to the website by sending in Github Pull Requests.

Remember to check out Irssi's Facebook fan page, LinkedIn group, Twitter profile or pop into #irssi on irc.libera.chat.

The Irssi Team.

The GNOME Foundation Needs Your Help

2014-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

The GNOME foundation trademark is under attack by well funded corporate interests.

As a fellow open source project with a vibrant and passionate user and contributor community, we feel strongly about this issue.

We will not stand by idly while corporate bullies are trying to water down the value and image of open-source projects and their communities, create confusion, and spread FUD.

To this end, our core contributors have donated 1,000 USD to the GNOME Foundation defense fund; we encourage you to do the same!

Remember to check out Irssi's Facebook fan page, LinkedIn group, Twitter profile or pop into #irssi on irc.libera.chat.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.17 Released

2014-10-11T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.8.17 has been released. This release contains many new goodies including documentation cleanup, 256 colour support, truecolour support and tons of other smaller enhancements. For a complete list of changes and bugfixes, since 0.8.16, please have a look at the ChangeLog.

The release can be downloaded from our download page.

Please report bugs at our Github issue tracker.

Remember to check out Irssi's Facebook fan page, LinkedIn group, Twitter profile or pop into #irssi on irc.libera.chat.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.17-rc2 Released

2014-08-31T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.8.17-rc2 has been released. The changes mostly include stabilisation fixes reported by you guys after the RC1 release. Check out the NEWS file for all changes and please report bugs back to us.

The release can be downloaded from our releases page.

Please continue reporting bugs at our issue tracker.

The Irssi project have also got an offical Twitter profile. Follow us at @IrssiProject.

Irssi 0.8.17-rc1 Released

2014-07-13T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.8.17-rc1 has been released. The changes includes bug fixes, documentation cleanup, 256 colour support, truecolour support and various other enhancements. Check out the NEWS file for all changes and please report bugs back to us.

The release can be downloaded from our releases page.

This is the first release candidate of Irssi after we moved to Github which means your feedback is much valued. Bugs can be reported via our issue tracker.

The Future of Irssi

2014-06-10T00:00:00+00:00

Hello,

Irssi hasn't been under active development for the last few years. We want to change that. To make it easier for new contributors to get involved and stick around, we moved to where most open source contributors are spending their time: the source is now maintained on Github.

Contribution Model

The repositories that are currently available at svn.irssi.org will, over a period of the next month, be migrated to our newly created Github organization. This means that no new commits will be made to our Subversion repositories and the Git repositories available on Github are from today the official way of getting the source code of Irssi. The primary Irssi client repository has already been migrated to Github and is available at github.com/irssi/irssi.

We will, starting today, expect contributors to fork the official Irssi repositories on Github, do their changes on a feature branch, and submit Github pull requests to us. The team will then review your changes and hopefully, together, we will be able to get your code into the official Irssi repository. This will make getting your contributions reviewed and merged smoother and it has the added benefit that your patches appears to be coming from you which in turn is helping to make the gap between being a core developer and a contributor close to non-existing.

Issue Tracking

This is one of the more controversial changes. Over time, you guys have submitted tons of bugs to our bug tracker at bugs.irssi.org only to see them rot.

We will, starting today, stop using bugs.irssi.org and use Github's issue tracker instead.

We have decided not to do any automated migration of the bugs.irssi.org database. We realize that if we migrate everything over to Github, 1:1, it will only end up rotting in two bug trackers rather than in just one.

We hope to see interested contributors help us checking which bugs that are still affecting Irssi and resubmit them to our Github issue tracker.

We will manually go over opened bugs that contains patches to ensure that no code is left behind in the old tracker.

The bug tracker will remain online as a reference, but we will redirect to Github for people interested in reporting bugs.

Scripts

Submitting scripts is historically something you guys have been good at.

The way submitting scripts is currently done is that you write an email to scripts@irssi.org and someone from our team will manually add the script to the website. We're well aware that we've lagged behind requests to add new scripts and update existing ones so we're hoping to improve that too.

From now on, new scripts must be submitted, in a pull request, to the irssi/scripts repository. The repository contains a description on how to contribute.

This will make it much easier for our contributors to both add and maintain their scripts in the repository. It will also make it a lot easier for us to review and get code into the repository.

Scriptassist Users

For users using scriptassist.pl, you can start using the new repository right away using:

/set scriptassist_script_sources http://ghscripts.irssi.org/scripts.dmp

Otherwise, you can wait a month and the website will be migrated and everything should be working as usual, without you having to touch anything.

Official IRC Channels

We are moving the official development and user support channel to #irssi on Libera.Chat. Historically, we have had our official development channel on IRCnet, a social channel on EFnet and a user support channel on Freenode, but we realize it makes more sense to keep everything together at Libera.Chat.

Closing Words

The changes to our contribution model will also affect people who are pulling from Subversion or scripts.irssi.org automatically.

Access to our Subversion repositories will be revoked and the move of scripts.irssi.org to the new Github site will happen on July 31st, 2014. Until then, neither of the two systems will be maintained and no new content will be published there.

Until the migration to Github is completed, you can find our official script repository at ghscripts.irssi.org. tomaw will continue being in charge of scripts and will happily review your pull requests on Github.

Feel free to reach out to anyone within the development team for questions, comments or ideas. We are hanging out in the #irssi channel on irc.libera.chat, EFnet and IRCnet. You can contact us using email at staff@irssi.org. You are also welcome to PM me directly for questions; I am ahf on most of the larger IRC networks.

On behalf of the Irssi development team,

Alex.

Irssi 0.8.16 Released

2014-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

The Irssi team is pleased to announce the 0.8.16 release of Irssi. It has been quite some time since our last release and there has been various feature enhancements and bugfixes added since then.

We hope to have Irssi 0.8.17 out in a much shorter time than it took to get 0.8.16 out and there may be some announcements on changes to how contributing to the project works in the future.

The release can be downloaded from our download page.

Remember to check out Irssi's Facebook fan page, Google+ Community and LinkedIn group as well.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.16-rc1 Released

2013-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.8.16-rc1 has been released. The changes are mostly bugfixes, experimental DANE support and other small enhancements. Check the NEWS file for all changes and please report bugs back to us.

The release can be downloaded from our download page.

Remember to check out Irssi's Facebook fan page, Google+ Community and LinkedIn group as well.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.15 on Windows: Testing Help Needed!

2010-12-26T00:00:00+00:00

The Irssi for Windows installer and portable packages are finally in the process of being updated for Irssi 0.8.15.

Before the new Windows binaries are released, we'd like some Windows users to test the 0.8.15 installer in order to prepare it for prime time. If you would like to help with the test effort, please read the testing notes that outline the testing details, then download the test installer.

The Irssi Team would also like to wish you a happy holidays and all the best for the New Year.

Introducing Stalker: Nickname History For Irssi

2010-10-07T00:00:00+00:00

Stalker is an Irssi plugin to correlate information on an IRC network and discover users' previously used nicknames. The concept is fairly straightforward: given a nickname identify previously used hostnames.

From those hostnames, extract all nicknames they have used. Repeat until you have identified all nicknames a user might have used.

The advantage of this method over the more traditional "given a hostname identify all nicknames it has used" is that you can identify nicknames across hostmask addresses.

Stalker can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/symkat/Stalker.

More information can be found on the authors blog.

Irssi 0.8.15 Released

2010-04-03T00:00:00+00:00

The Irssi team is pleased to announce the 0.8.15 release of Irssi. It has been quite some time since our last release and there has been various feature enhancements and bugfixes added since then.

This release fixes two security issues: The first being that Irssi didn't check hostname on SSL connections and the other being a hard to exploit remote crash bug.

For a complete listing of the changes and bugfixes since 0.8.14, please have a look at the ChangeLog.

Remember to check out Irssi's Facebook fan page and LinkedIn as well.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.15-rc1 Released

2010-03-21T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.8.15-rc1 has been released. The changes are mostly bugfixes, and small improvements, so it should be quite safe to upgrade. Check NEWS file for all changes!

It can be downloaded from our download page.

The Irssi Team.

How IRC Should Look

2009-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

It has been brought to our attention that we have done something completely wrong. This is what the upcoming Irssi release is going to look like:

The Irssi Team.

irssi 0.8.14 released

2009-07-28T00:00:00+00:00

Please welcome the 0.8.14 release of your favourite IRC-client, Irssi!

Check out the NEWS file for a summary of the changes since last release.

The release is available from our download page.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.13 Released

2009-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

It has been a while since we last released. First off, this is NOT an April Fool's joke! Irssi 0.8.13 is out and we ask that you check the NEWS file for changes!

It can be downloaded from our download page.

This release was brought to you by the Irssi Core Development teams tears, sweat and hard work and with invaluable contributions from our fabulous users. We'd also like to take this opportunity to welcome two new developers to the team; Alexander Færøy (ahf) and Tom Wesley (tomaw)

Alexander has been involved with Irssi for a while and joined the development team back in October 2008. He's also involved with the Exherbo project and he will be implementing some nifty new features for the next release! So keep your eyes peeled on the changelog and look out for his contributions!

Tom has also been around for some time, a long time Irssi user who over the years has dedicated much of his time to helping other users and easing the load on developers in the various #irssi support channels. He's recently agreed to take over the responsibility of maintaining the Scripts & Themes archives, so if you have updates, new scripts or themes and you would like them added to the site he's the person to talk to!

So, here's to Alex and Tom, two valuable contributors -- Welcome to the team!

If you want to get involved with Irssi, please get in touch with us! You can do so by having a chat with us in #irssi @ IRCnet or by starting work on some of the outstanding issues in the Irssi bug list! We don't bite, much! ;)

If you just love Irssi you might want to join our LinkedIn group or the Facebook fan page.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.13-rc1 Released

2009-03-18T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.8.13-rc1 has been released. The changes are mostly bugfixes, and small improvements, so it should be quite safe to upgrade. Check NEWS file for all changes!

It can be downloaded from our download page.

The Irssi Team.

Windows Installer

2008-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Joshua Dick and Sebastian Pipping have been putting our work into improving the Irssi experience for Windows users. We made an installer built on NSIS and an USB archive made to be put on an USB stick and allow carrying your personal Irssi instance with you.

Welcome page.

Both packages offer running Irssi in two modes: either through cmd (the default Windows command line) or puttycyg (a Putty-based command line) which mainly looks better than cmd.

Have fun with it and report any bugs!

Installer: /files/irssi_0_8_12_setup_2.exe.
USB archive: /files/irssi_0_8_12_usb_2.zip.
SVN repo: https://github.com/irssi-import/contrib-w32installer.

The Irssi Team.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

2008-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.8.12 Released

2007-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

Please welcome the new Irssi 0.8.12 release, check the NEWS file for all changes!

It can be downloaded from https://irssi.org/files/irssi-0.8.12.tar.gz.

This release was made possible with the help of the Irssi core team. We also welcome a new developer Jilles Tjoelker (jilles) who has joined the Irssi staff!

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.12-rc1 Released

2007-09-26T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.8.12-rc1 has been released. The changes are mostly bugfixes, and small improvements, so it should be quite safe to upgrade. Check the NEWS file for all changes!

It can be downloaded from https://irssi.org/files/irssi-0.8.12-rc1.tar.gz.

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.11 Released

2007-04-25T00:00:00+00:00

Please welcome the new Irssi 0.8.11 release, check the NEWS file for all changes!

It can be downloaded from https://irssi.org/files/irssi-0.8.11.tar.gz.

This release was made possible by the help of the Irssi core team. We also welcome a new developer Emanuele Giaquinta (exg) who has joined the Irssi staff!

With that, we release Irssi v0.8.11 into the wild and we hope you enjoy it as much as we have enjoyed working on it!

The Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.11-rc1 Released

2007-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.8.11-rc1 has been released. The changes are mostly bugfixes, and small improvements, so it should be quite safe to upgrade.

It can be downloaded from https://irssi.org/files/irssi-0.8.11-rc1.tar.gz.

The Irssi Team.

Apply for the Summer of Code

2006-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

Google has opened the registration process for students. Please sign yourself up for the Summer of Code.

The Irssi Team

Funny Irssi theme!

2006-04-24T00:00:00+00:00

Today when I opened my mail client I was surprised by a "new theme", I looked at it and saw a GTK2 Java development IDE which some interesting Irssi/IRC embedded into it.

I have to admit that this is the most funniest Irssi theme I've seen so far. It's amazing what people can do to reach their goals (or to hide their client @ work :p).

The c0ders theme has been added to the themes page. We will add the other submitted scripts and themes when we start working with Google's Summer of Code.

Hint by the author:

It comes in real handy at work, where not every should see on the first look that i'm actually chatting ;)

The Irssi Team

Irssi and the Summer of Code

2006-04-20T00:00:01+00:00

This year, the Irssi project is participating in Google's Summer of Code, which provides funding for students to work on open source projects over the summer. This page aims to provide some information for students interested in taking part and working on Irssi. It contains some project ideas to use as a basis for your proposal, information on the mentors with whom you will be working, and some tips on structuring your proposal.

Some Proposal Ideas

Console `GUI'

Add more gui-like abilities to the console irssi client. Add menus and/or dialogs to ease configuration, especially:

Managing networks and server lists, as well as ignore/hilight/notify settings.
Managing the banlists in channels.
Other important irssi settings -- nick/user/realname preferences, themes, etc.

Other ideas would be full xterm mouse support, as well as an interface for perl scripts to add menus, or actions to existing menus, as well as creating their own configuration windows.

Create a new GUI.

Write a complete GUI for irssi (using the common-ui layer, rather than just the core/protocol handling, so that the existing irssi commands will still function). An old, abandoned interface can be found in the `xirssi' directory in subversion for inspiration. This client should have graphical interfaces to all the basic actions and configuration settings without needing the user to use /commands.

Script bindings for Ruby, PHP, Python, and/or other languages.

Irssi already has extensive bindings for Perl scripts. This project would add bindings for other languages, including Ruby, PHP and/or Python, which would allow scripts written in those languages most of the capabilities currently afforded to Perl scripts. At the minimum, the ability to access information about windows, window items, and nicks, to bind signals, add commands, statusbar items, and settings, and to manage redirections, timeouts, and formats would be required.

Bug-hunt project

Despite the success of Irssi, many minor bugs have been reported, and it's time to fix them. We would like to close as many bugs as possible during the Summer of Code. Most of the bugs require a lot of research and input from the user community, so if you like R&D; and interacting with users, this project could be for you.

Update existing script archive

Irssi has a great collection of scripts which enhance the functionality of the client. However, some of these scripts are outdated and use different `styles'. The Irssi-Script project would update the entire script archive to conform to the new guidelines, combine scripts where it is desirable, and make sure that scripts use uniform settings, to make sure that every user can use the features they provide without undue hassle.

Web site improvements

The Irssi website is currently undergoing a redesign and revamp, and could benefit from some attention. Possible improvements would include:

Using some form of `miniature CMS' to manage the site content. Port the existing wiki, bug tracker, and shop into this framework.
Allow users to create accounts and log in, in order to comment on news items (possibly with staff approval for comments).
Add multiple language support, so that users can easily choose in which language they want to view the site.
Allow staff to submit and preview news via the site. Export news via an RSS feed.
Improve the script repository. Link scripts to user accounts, and give users an overview of their scripts, as well as the ability to submit new ones via the web interface, and manage their existing ones. Allow ratings and comments for scripts. Display information and documentation for each script, as submitted by its author. Allow staff to review new script submissions and approve/decline them.
Allow users to create a user profile, with links to their scripts in the script repository, their themes, homepage, etc. Possibly allow users to register an FTP account, and some limited amount of webspace on http://users.irssi.org/.
Allow staff to manage users and privileges from within the website, as well as email and DNS settings.
Integrate the mailing list management with the website, to allow subscribe and unsubscribe operations from the website.

Mentors

If you have a project idea not mentioned above, or would like to discuss one of the above projects before applying for it, please feel free to contact us or get in touch with one of the mentors directly as listed below.

Christel Dahlskjær
Geert Hauwaerts
Wouter Coekaerts

Proposal Guidelines

Students must write their proposal and submit it to Google before the application deadline. The following is a suggested outline for your proposal, adapted from the Perl foundation Open Source Proposal HOWTO, and the FreeBSD summer of code page:

Name
E-mail address
Project Title
Benefits to the Irssi community -- A good project should be useful to others as well as to the student working on it.
Deliverables -- List here what concrete improvements you expect to achieve.
Project Schedule -- How long will it take to see the improvements promised? When can you begin, and when finish?
Bio -- Explain who you are, and why you are the best candidate to implement the project in question.

Logo contest over

2006-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

We would like to thank everyone who submitted a logo, the competition is now closed and we will be announcing the winning logo momentarily.

The Irssi Team

Irssi v0.8.10a (Compile fix release)

2006-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Due to a bug in the Gentoo autoconf package we decided to release a new source-package generated on a Debian system.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the previously released version. Please bear in mind that this release does NOT include any new features or code-changes. It's just a re-packaged source.

If you have problems compiling Irssi due to autoconf or ./configure errors, please go to the download section and give the re-packaged source a shot.

The Irssi Team

Scripts not working in version 0.8.10

2005-12-22T00:00:00+00:00

We are aware that some of the scripts that can be found on our scripts page are not working in v0.8.10, however, the scripts are primarily made by users and not the irssi team and thus it has not been our priority to ensure that all scripts are working / updated to work before releasing a new version. You are however welcome to submit updated/fixed scripts to us and we will add them to our script repository after testing. Keep in mind that if you are modifying someone else's code we ask that you leave a comment informing what has been changed and who the script was originally written by; you all know the drill! Scripts can as usual be submitted to scripts.irssi.org.

As a side note, we have received a few submissions with ideas for new logos, some of which are rather good! Thanks to those who have submitted. Keep sending us your artwork and we will make a decision soon-ish on what to use! The address to use for logo submissions remains the same.

If you have any feedback about what you would like to see on the webpage, anything in particular you would like more of etc etc please let us know! You can get our attention by e-mailing staff.

We hope you have all enjoyed the new release and we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The Irssi Team

Irssi 0.8.10 Released

2005-12-11T00:00:00+00:00

This is the moment we have all been waiting for...

It is our pleasure to finally be able to release the latest stable version of Irssi v0.8.10. This would be where we'd say "cue drumroll" and the percussionist would start playing, however our drummer is chatting. So we shall instead start by introducing the Developers that have been working on this release! It is our pleasure to extend thanks to the following people:


Original code:
Timo Sirainen	cras/tss	Original author
The Irssi Core Team:
Geert Hauwaerts	Geert	Lead Project Oversight
Wouter Coekaerts	coekie	Lead Core Developer
Valentin Batz	senneth	Core Developer
Jochen Eisinger	c0ffee	Core Developer
Marcus Rückert	darix	Packaging and distribution
Christel Dahlskjaer	christel	Site content

Since Irssi v0.8.9 we have made a lot of changes, lets take a look at the top new and exciting features. Feel free to check our NEWS file for a summary of the changes.

What's new in this release?

Recode support
Isupport (005 numeric)
Passive DCC support.
Many memleak fixes.
Network specific ignoring.
Updated internal error handling.
Complete 64bit support.
Revised default aliases.
Updated paste detection and settings.
Tons of bugfixes.
Other changes

With that, we release Irssi v0.8.10 into the wild and we hope you enjoy it as much as we have enjoyed working on it!

bugs.irssi.org

2004-03-23T21:26:53+00:00

Irssi has had a bug reporting system for a while now, thanks Geert. It's now the preferred way to report bugs. You could go and fix some of the reported bugs too :)

msn.irssi.org down

2003-12-20T05:30:41+00:00

Bitlbee had a bit too many bugs, so msn.irssi.org is down at least until it stabilizes.

0.8.9 released

2003-12-11T01:30:51+00:00

Most importantly fixes a remote crash with non-x86 architectures or with people running certain scripts (nicklist.pl, tab_stop.pl most importantly). Thanks to Rico Gloeckner for finding out and Wouter Coekaerts for debugging.

Download

Changes

Upgrading from older versions

0.8.8 released

2003-11-23T14:59:40+00:00

New features include paste detection to allow easily pasting eg. TABs and to avoid accidentally copy&pasting 20 lines to some channel (both can be disabled of course), SSL certificate support by Joel Eriksson, DCC SERVER support by Mark Trumbull, support for DCCing files larger than 2GB, better DCC transfer statistics, and lots of smaller things.

(0.8.8 was released just an hour after 0.8.7 to fix a few backwards compatibility issues)

msn.irssi.org update

2003-10-19T21:50:07+00:00

Changed port 6669 into 6667
Support the new MSN protocol.

For the new users:

/IRCNET ADD BitlBee
/SERVER ADD -ircnet BitlBee msn.irssi.org
/CONNECT BitlBee

Once connected to bitlbee type:

account add msn user@mail password
account on 0

Irssi for Mac OS X / Cocoa

2003-07-05T20:40:05+00:00

Andrew de los Reyes is writing Cocoa frontend for irssi. See screenshot and home page.

KDE flash applet

2003-04-14T18:30:53+00:00

You can get a visual notification in KDE panel for newly arrived IRC messages using FlashApplet.

Rewrite/redesign

2003-01-21T11:00:13+00:00

There's some talk in irssi-dev mailing list about my plans for irssi rewrite. Take a look and comment if you're interested :)

Fixing broken scripts with GC

2002-12-23T09:04:27+00:00

Scripts can crash irssi too easily, fixing that properly would require major changes. But while I was again getting annoyed at those crashes, without any easy way to figure out why and where the heap corruption happened, I started thinking and figured out that the corrupted accesses happen only through one function, when accessing perl object's _irssi pointer. So, if we only could check that address to be valid.. And then I remembered GCs could easily do that.

So, get yourself a Boehm's GC (apt-get install libgc6-dev), GLIB2 and CVS irssi. Make sure configure says that GC is enabled, then /SET perl_memory_check_level can be used to control how well irssi checks for valid memory references. Default is 1 which should prevent at least some crashes, 2 is more slower (it runs GC before each check) but notices most invalid references. Whenever error occurs, you'll get a nice error message about accessing free'd memory, with a line number to script and everything.

irssi-de mailing list

2002-12-17T09:57:45+00:00

There's a new mailing list now for German irssi users. See mailing lists page for more information.

0.8.6 released

2002-11-19T12:25:04+00:00

Finally out. Lots of changes and fixes, including support for SSL servers (by vjt), DCC send queues (by Heikki Orsila) and better support for IRCNet !channels. This version also fixes the crash at startup with some newer distributions (eg. RedHat 8) using Perl 5.8.

CVS server problems

2002-11-11T06:08:35+00:00

Too many people have asked this, so here's the answer for everyone:

Because of some bug in CVS 1.11.2 server, if you connect with older clients and use -z option, it hangs at the end. Everything is transferred, but it just gets stuck there. So your options are: a) ignore and just hit Ctrl-C, b) upgrade to CVS 1.11.2, c) don't use -z option, d) try to get CVS authors to fix it - this is not a new problem.

0.8.6 out soon

2002-10-16T00:41:21+00:00

Try the CVS snapshots now and see if you have problems with them. 0.8.6 will be released in a few days if I don't hear about any problems. And yes, 0.8.6 fixes the crash at startup with Perl 5.8 (yes, that's why 0.8.5 crashes with RedHat 8).

Download

Changes

Upgrading from older versions

Slowly getting back from irssi vacation

2002-07-29T07:52:28+00:00

For the past two months I've been pretty unresponsive about anything related to irssi, still 37 unread/answered mails in my inbox.. Anyway, now that my new, great and secure IMAP server is beginning to be usable, I'll try to get back to coding irssi and reading #irssi channels more actively :) Most likely I'll just continue with irssi's rewrite, as the 0.8 sources look quite horrible after getting used to seeing the new imapd code (temporary memory pools especially).

0.8.5 released

2002-06-19T20:09:26+00:00

Yet another remote crash found. I'm getting tired of this. There's a few good things in irssi's code, and I'm still quite sure there's no (write) buffer overflows, but most of it is getting a big mess. I think the next thing I will do is rewrite the whole crap. Though imapd comes first - I need to do something else than irssi for a while.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure this is the last remote crash that can be found from 0.8.x, there's only few potential places and I've looked most of them through already.

Also, this release is the same as 0.8.4 with only the crash fixed, I didn't trust enough the current CVS code to release it as 0.8.5.

0.8.4a released

2002-05-30T20:33:22+00:00

This is just the original 0.8.4 package. The 'a' was added after version number in the package file just to make sure it's not confused with the backdoored version.

irssi.org cracked → irssi's configure backdoored for past two months

2002-05-25T15:51:14+00:00

Read all about it. The binary isn't backdoored, but you might have run it while installing irssi.

To prevent this from happening in future, the files are now signed with my GPG key. Get the key from here: </files/tss.asc>, or search for tss@iki.fi from pgp net. The actual signatures can be found from download page, right next to the file link. Only irssi-0.8.4a.tar.* are signed for now, I'll do the rest later once I'm sure they aren't backdoored.

OK, after switching the files a few times, the latest ones are now renamed as 0.8.4a. This is the original tarball that was released.

cvs.irssi.org is down also temporarily - the CVS mirrors work though. Mirrors in general aren't updated until their DNS caches picks up the new main.irssi.org IP (1d timeout I think).

ICQ plugin

2002-05-09T13:39:32+00:00

Finally available, written by Chistian Häggström. Get it from plugins page.

xirssi screenshots

2002-05-05T02:49:19+00:00

Here's some preliminary screenshots for people :) More features will come, and sometimes after GTK 2.0.3 release (which is required unless you want to see tons of warnings and possibly crashing) I'll see if it's ready to be released along with 0.8.5 irssi. Of course, you can already get it from CVS.

UPDATE: xirssi is quite crashy with GTK+ 2.0.2, if you really wish to use it before GTK+ 2.0.3 is released, you could patch it yourself: </files/ext/gtktextlayout.patch>, or install patched debian package: </files/ext/libgtk2.0-0_2.0.2-4_i386.deb>.

xirssi updates

2002-04-27T02:20:00+00:00

I think it's getting into usable state now. You can get it from CVS. Currently supported features: multiple windows, tabs and split windows. Supports and uses all the same keyboard bindings as irssi-text. Moving mouse over nick (in text window or nicklist) shows it's info in statusbar, right-clicking nick brings popup menu. That's pretty much it for now - there's no IRC-specific code so SILC plugin should work with it as well.

GTK+ irssi?

2002-04-10T08:08:09+00:00

Just did a small GUI to irssi with GTK+ 2.0 - it's very basic but as you can see, it's working :) Took about 3 hours to code it, but most of the time was spent learning GTK 2 .. It's new text widget seems great, except it's giving me glib-criticals all the time and I'm not sure of the best way to change text colors/style with it. If I'm still interested of it once I get some sleep, it'll probably be released with 0.8.5 irssi. UPDATE: yes, the screenshot has been updated a few times already :)

IRC+ overview doc

2002-04-03T03:56:31+00:00

Wrote a small overview of how irc+ networks would work (with pictures! :). It's a bit different from the previous design. See the projects page. Both positive and negative feedback appreciated :) Especially if you have ideas how exactly to implement things (especially crypto and routing).

New site design

2002-03-19T22:08:54+00:00

Got a pretty logo from Zenmasta today and while trying to add it here, I thought I'd finally rewrite the whole site. This should be at least easier for new people since it's not filled with links. So far received some positive and some negative feedback, but all new site designs seem to do that ;)

New .hu, .no and IPv6 mirrors

2002-03-14T08:15:30+00:00

Thanks to Tamas Pasztor and Kay Bærulfsen. UPDATE: CVS is also mirrored in cvs.hu.irssi.org, refreshed every 5 mins. UPDATE2: DawS made our first IPv6 mirror too.

0.8.4 released

2002-03-13T06:43:09+00:00

There you go, hopefully the last one for a while :) And reminder again: Use /UPGRADE, but don't understand wrong what it does - /HELP upgrade helps :)

0.8.3 released

2002-03-13T03:41:42+00:00

There was few nasty bugs in 0.8.2 so had to try again :) This fixes those perl errors and IPv6 connection problems. UPDATE: wait.. Still some stupid errors :) 0.8.4 will be out soon.

0.8.2 released

2002-03-11T18:57:40+00:00

Lots of bugfixes with a few new features. Oh, and remember to use the new /UPGRADE command - no need to quit+restart :)

IRC+ design :)

2002-03-06T03:50:16+00:00

My yet another IRC killer idea - this might actually work. Read it here.

New scripts page

2002-03-05T21:43:17+00:00

Finally I don't need to update scripts myself anymore :) Started mirroring Darix's scripts.irssi.de site, you should send your scripts to him from now on. See the scripts page for more information.

SILC plugin working again

2002-02-18T22:40:21+00:00

c0ffee got the SILC plugin working again, go test it: http://www.penguin-breeder.org/irssi/silc-plugin-0.8.1-0.7.3.tar.gz. Requires compiled SILC sources.

0.8.1 released :)

2002-02-17T17:53:07+00:00

With two annoying remote crash fixes I forgot to fix before. So yes, upgrade highly recommended :) UPDATE: if you're upgrading from 0.7.98.x irssi, read the upgrade information.

0.8.0 released

2002-02-17T12:54:00+00:00

Finally. Download, read changes and upgrade information. I decided to call it 0.8.0 instead of 0.7.99 after all :)

0.7.99 feature complete

2002-02-16T00:36:10+00:00

Fixed the last important nasty bugs, added /STATUSBAR command, added support for UTF-8.. That's pretty much it, I think. Only some documentation updates and 0.7.99 is released then. So, treat the current CVS snapshot as 0.7.99 beta and go test if there's still some problems with it.

Here's the tarballs: </files/snapshots/> and here's the upgrade info.

0.7.99 out soon (I hope)

2002-02-02T04:34:52+00:00

Now that I finally found the bug that had been crashing my irssi, 0.7.99 will be soon out. It was solaris-specific (as in, not at least linux :) actually, but I had been doing some major changes to irssi while moving to IRC from solaris box, so I didn't see the connection. Luckily I found and fixed several other bugs that had been crashing irssi as well.

Anyway, unless I see my irssi crash before next weekend, 0.7.99 will be out then. Now's a good time to go grab latest development snapshot and see if there's any bugs left. I'd at least need to create some /STATUSBAR command so users don't need to edit the config file manually..

Irssi's new features

2002-01-25T05:07:14+00:00

I've been rewriting irssi for some time now. It's not a full rewrite but rather I'll just change things bit by bit and eventually it will have quite a lot of things changed. A few things that will change are getting rid of GLib, getting rid of the excessive dynamic memory allocations and in general making code prettier :)

I've also been thinking that now would be the time to think of the bigger changes as well. First thing I just thought of was making themes a lot more powerful than before - this would require internal scripting but maybe it's not THAT bad to have it.. Anyway, read all about here. If you have been thinking of some great new feature, now's the time to tell me about it :)

K&R irssi :)

2002-01-05T00:33:32+00:00

Just spent a few hours checking if irssi's sources could be ported to K&R easily. After finding proto, it was quite easy, but required some modifications. glib.h especially needed manual changes. Anyway, if you're interested in trying it, get the sources here: </files/misc/irssi-kr-20020104.tar.gz>. I compiled it succesfully with HP-UX 11.0's cc, there's a hpux-build script included which you probably want to look at even without HP-UX.

Mirrors again

2001-12-29T17:45:47+00:00

Added Hungary mirror by Peter Barabas, and another US mirror with CVS mirroring by Linuxpowered, Inc.

I've also changed irssi.org to be round robin as well, since everything is now mirrored.

Finnish CVS mirror

2001-12-09T21:42:10+00:00

We've changed the web mirroring to use rsync now, which makes it easier to mirror CVS as well. Read the mirrors page if you want to set up a mirror.

So, cvs.fi.irssi.org is now updated once in 10 minutes so it should be pretty up-to-date.

Development news

2001-12-03T18:23:20+00:00

Even while there hasn't been any releases for a while, the CVS is still pretty active, and I've been trying to get 0.7.99 out. Currently there's just a few problems - I'd need to make a /STATUSBAR command to configure it and I'm not really sure how it could be done best.

The other more important problem is that I seem to have broken something in the last few weeks, since I've recently seen several strange crashes that must be because of memory corruption somewhere. Hopefully I'll find the cause of this soon and can release .99 then.

After .99 I'll begin some major changes including getting rid of glib (or optional perhaps), using memory pools and to stop using so many dynamic memory allocations (while still not using fixed size buffers, I've some ideas about this).

French mirror

2001-12-03T18:21:23+00:00

Provided by Ulrich Massamba.

Cygwin binary with perl support

2001-12-03T18:07:59+00:00

You can now get Cygwin binaries: </files/snapshots/cygwin/> with perl scripting support. I also added README.cygwin file to CVS to describe how to compile it yourself.

#irssi back again :)

2001-11-27T20:46:11+00:00

OK, that didn't take long, thanks to Dyzio.

#irssi moved to #irssi2

2001-11-27T17:36:35+00:00

After half year of "everyone gets ops" policy in #irssi, someone stupid enough finally brought botnet there and took it over. Use #irssi2 until #irssi is free. All glory to SnakeXP@x.x.x.x / x.x.x.y, etc. of mirkforce or something. Here's the log: </files/irssi_takeover.txt> for those who want to look at it.

0.7.98.4 released

2001-08-31T20:21:43+00:00

So, the first remote crash was found (isn't exploitable). Go upgrade to 0.7.98.4, or try the CVS version which should mostly work better than .98.4. Thanks for Snakeladder/OPN #irssi for noticing :)

UPDATE: 0.7.98.4 is pretty much the same as 0.7.98.3, except fixes this remote crash (well, and contains one small fix too). So those of you who user CVS, or nightly CVS snaphots should just cvs update / get new nightly CVS snapshot. 0.7.99 will be released when I have time to fix those few nasty bugs in it..

UK irssi.org mirror

2001-08-23T12:46:18+00:00

Yet another mirror (yes, the more the better :) - provided by Jonathan McDowell.

German irssi.org mirror

2001-08-12T18:18:32+00:00

There's now german irssi.org mirror provided by Elmar K. Bins.

Nightly .deb CVS snapshot CHANGES

2001-08-12T17:40:15+00:00

Nightly .debs for HPPA and sparc architectures are now created by nk. I had to make some changes to make non-i386 arch work so you'll need to update your sources.list to:

  deb https://irssi.org/debian unstable ./
  deb-src https://irssi.org/debian/ sources/

BTW. The nightly snapshot generation was broken for the last few days but should work again.

Nightly slackware packages

2001-08-09T15:29:32+00:00

Nightly slackware packages of irssi's CVS snapshots can now be downloaded from here: </files/snapshots/slackware/>.

BTW. 0.7.99 should be ready very soon now..

Nightly .deb CVS snapshots

2001-07-26T00:28:09+00:00

For all you debian users:

  echo "deb https://irssi.org/debian/ unstable/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
  echo "deb-src https://irssi.org/debian/ unstable/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
  apt-get update
  apt-get install irssi-text

Debian testing (woody) users can replace the unstable text with testing. If you wish to provide non-i386 .debs, contact me. Potato snapshots will come after I get my 386 ready for it :) And add those / chars at the end of debian/ and unstable/ - they're required.

You can also download them directly from here.

Polish Mirrors

2001-05-14T19:29:06+00:00

There's two hosts now in pl.irssi.org, thanks jx and s- :) The second one has CVS mirrored in pl.cvs.irssi.org, see CVS page for more information if you wish to use it. (the other pl www mirror has some problems currently, hopefully will be fixed soon - yes, it's fixed now)

More CVS mirrors would be nice, contact me if you'd wish to provide one.

Windows version :)

2001-03-29T02:13:24+00:00

Looks like irssi compiled pretty easily with cygwin - there's a windows binary now available in download page. It's been tested with Windows 2000, don't know of others. Remember to get Cygwin too if you don't have it.

.98.3 bugs

2001-03-26T08:21:30+00:00

Still some nasty bugs left in .98 series. Themes cannot have highascii characters (green.theme is broken) and themes must have "replaces = { };" block specified. Guess I'll fix these and several others and release .98.4 :) It may take a while though, in the mean time you can go download one of the daily development versions which are working again (the box in right).

0.7.98.3 out

2001-03-18T15:41:02+00:00

Mostly just bugfixes, but statusbar was pretty much rewritten and it should finally work properly. See the upgrade info.

CVS moved

2001-03-10T18:07:43+00:00

Now in same computer as the rest of the irssi.org. New CVSROOT is :pserver:anonymous@cvs.irssi.org:/home/cvs. Easiest way to change the existing CVS tree is to update the CVS/Root files, run this in irssi's root directory:

echo ":pserver:anonymous@cvs.irssi.org:/home/cvs" > CVS/Root
find . -name 'Root' -exec cp -f CVS/Root {} \;

UPDATE: Sorry, anoncvs seems to be broken now, hopefully fixed soon :) UPDATE: Fixed now :)

0.7.98.2 out

2001-03-04T18:44:38+00:00

This is mostly a bugfix release, but there's a lot of bugs fixed :) There's some new features too, like /NAMES can now have -ops -voices etc. options and some changes in how split windows work.

startup HOWTO updated

2001-03-04T09:42:59+00:00

Wrote lots of new text to startup HOWTO and made HTML version of it. A few parts of it apply only to the current CVS version, but I'm planning on releasing 0.7.98.2 with lots of bugfixes today.

Projects page

2001-03-03T02:00:39+00:00

Created projects page for my side projects. Currently there's some peer to peer network design ideas that I wrote down :) Latest project news titles show also in the lowest box in right bar.

New irssi.org

2001-02-27T17:09:42+00:00

Learned CSS and did irssi.org fully with it without any horrible tables or other netscape kludges this time. Netscape has its own specific page done with tables. There's Lynx specific page too. I've tried this page with Mozilla .8, Konqueror, Netscape, Lynx, Links, w3m and IE 5.0. Bug reports, suggestions, general complains, etc. all welcome :)

Upgrading help

2001-02-24T00:27:01+00:00

People upgrading from 0.7.97 to .98 will probably want to read the upgrade guide.

Irssi 0.7.98.1 out ;)

2001-02-23T13:42:12+00:00

Sorry, just found a bug from .98 that could crash irssi. If you already downloaded 0.7.98, you can get patch for it here. Apply it with patch -p1 < irssi-0.7.98.1.patch in irssi directory.

Irssi 0.7.98 final out

2001-02-23T10:04:27+00:00

Hope it works. Since .98 beta there's been mostly just some compiling fixes.

Irssi 0.7.98 BETA out

2001-02-22T11:07:25+00:00

Today's CVS snapshot: </files/snapshots/irssi-20010222.tar.gz> can be considered as 0.7.98 beta. The final .98 is out probably later today or tomorrow, so please try the beta soon and tell me if there's any problems with it so I can fix them for the final release. UPDATE: (13:12) /HILIGHT had some problems, fixed and repackaged new irssi.

CVS addons

2001-01-22T22:42:51+00:00

There's now some CVS addons in addons page. I'll add more there as soon as they get translated. Help is welcome :) One thing that's CVS-only is colorswap.pl, screen shot here: </scripts/colorswap.pl.gif> :)

Nightly CVS snapshots

2001-01-15T23:34:17+00:00

Nightly CVS snapshots are now available here. They're automatically built every night around 04:00 UTC. Note that they currently break some backwards compatibility at least with scripts and themes (but then again, .98 most probably will also..).

Me secure. Will bet you $300 for it. 0.7.97.2 out

2000-12-18T22:51:44+00:00

I don't usually give away money, hopefully not this time either ;) I really think irssi doesn't have any security related problems. Instead of just telling myself that, here's a challenge for everyone to try find them and win some money with it. See the security challenge page for more information. Who knows if this could be even used as publicity stunt to get more users and coders for irssi ;)

Also I did a quick audit of my own and released Irssi 0.7.97.2. It contains fixes for a few potential security bugs which shouldn't practically happen ever: joining to #../../../somefile with autologging on, a few format bugs found (argh! luckily only when printing nicks in /names list and % is invalid nick char). Also the highascii control characters aren't printed as-is to screen so those screen messing problems are fixed now.

0.7.97.1 out

2000-12-04T06:13:11+00:00

Continuing the bugfix release tradition.. ;) Updates are: own dcc messages were printed to status window, crashes fixed with linux/powerpc (probably could have happened with some other non-gcc/non-x86 platforms), tab completion in query was buggy: if there was no other completion choices, word was replaced with queried nick's name. Also includes updated Brazilian Portuguese translation. Either get the full tarball or apply the patch: </files/irssi-0.7.97.1.patch> (patch -p0 irssi-0.7.97.1.patch)

0.7.97 released

2000-12-03T09:57:51+00:00

It's out with the new great theme templates. You can already find a green theme in addons page.

Vote

2000-11-30T00:58:06+00:00

Votes are nice, vote (in the box left below) :)

CVS moved

2000-11-25T18:41:25+00:00

Well, it actually did about a week ago, but I was too lazy to announce it before cvs.irssi.org domain was moved too :) Check the CVS page for the new address (directory changed).

About page rewritten

2000-11-17T03:38:56+00:00

It had been saying for too long that Irssi is a GTK/GNOME client.. So now it contains all the great new features of the current Irssi and an explanation why there's no GTK client anymore. Show this page to everyone who wants to know more about Irssi ;)

Mirror in Poland

2000-11-11T16:18:30+00:00

We now have the first irssi.org mirror in http://irssi.lubin.eu.org/. I'll try to make www.pl.irssi.org work soon too. irssi.org is now in CVS (irssi.org module), if anyone else wants to mirror it then go ahead and send me note about it and I'll add it to mirrors list. The size is about 1M + 20M of old irssi tarballs which you don't necessarily need if you just can get rid of them ;) .cvsignore might help.

WAP plugin

2000-11-07T14:44:41+00:00

Just coded a plugin for irssi that allows you to read/write messages to channels with a WAP cell phone :) iMode phones might work too, since Irssi can output either WML or simple HTML. Currently the support is pretty limited but it's kind of working ;) screenshot (had to use that blueprint phone, 7110 complained about the form being too big, grr)

SILC plugin v0.2

2000-11-01T22:50:48+00:00

Upgraded SILC plugin to work with latest SILC release. /PART works now ;) as well as channel modes.

Mailing list archives up

2000-10-28T22:15:49+00:00

Now that we finally have archives, I think i'll start using the mailing lists more :) So now's the time to subscribe (or unsubscribe) them.

BTW. the new theme templates code is in CVS now, maybe more themes will come as a result soon :)

First addon :)

2000-10-27T05:22:52+00:00

Just added the first script to addons page. I think it shows pretty well how powerful and easy to use irssi's scripting actually is :)

irssi.org moved

2000-10-25T18:52:57+00:00

Now in a new computer, irssi.org will be forwarded here until the DNS is updated..

Irssi 0.7.96-2 released

2000-10-22T19:02:40+00:00

The usual bugfix release :) Here's a patch: </files/irssi-0.7.96-2.patch> (patch -p0 irssi-0.7.96-2.patch). Fixes the glib warning that happens sometimes with autologging, not reading keyboard bindings from config file and a few smaller things.

Irssi 0.7.96 released

2000-10-19T22:55:31+00:00

Finally. I also released first public SILC plugin.

New text formatting templates

2000-10-12T04:10:13+00:00

I'm planning on replacing the current text formats with separating the actual texts and coloring. The new formats will look better and are easier to change. Here is an example of the new default theme, comments are welcome :) And thanks to suo for the idea/design.

Down for too long..

2000-10-07T00:44:51+00:00

Sorry about irssi.org's downtime, there was some network problems but they should be gone now. I also did some site updates as you probably see :) Mostly just new php scripts, content is still the same old. Hopefully that will change too. All suggestions welcome. And btw. this site is now fully XHTML :)

Perl support

2000-10-02T11:56:59+00:00

It's working again after many months :) New Irssi release isn't far away now :) Perl support is multiprotocol friendly now too - there's Irssi package for common Irssi stuff and Irssi::Irc package for IRC specific stuff. I think I'll need to update documentation too and fix the example scripts..

SILC

2000-10-02T10:56:59+00:00

Screenshot :) - not that pretty yet but we'll get there :)

SILC support is working great :) If you want to try, go get latest SILC version from http://www.silcnet.org/. You might want to use CVS version so you don't always have to patch the silc sources when I change something :) Build the SILC, update irssi's CVS tree and go to silc directory, run autogen.sh and do the rest as the README file says.

2000-09-19 05:28

2000-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

Hmh, again too much time has passed without much work being done. I guess the yet another reorganizing of code for adding of SILC support easier didn't do good for me. The code is mostly good but with a couple of ugly kludges. Perl support has also been broken for many weeks in CVS .. if I only could fix it I could release new version.

But then some good news - I just spent 2 hours of writing documentation for irssi newbies (guess I finally got tired of explaining the same basic things for each new Irssi user). Get the Startup-HOWTO here.

2000-08-23 01:45

2000-08-23T00:00:00+00:00

Grr. We too have a remote crash bug. No, not a buffer overflow, we don't have them ;) And not the %s bug, but just some special case. It's not possible to make it run any arbitrary code, it can only crash irssi. This affects all 0.7.9x versions. You can get the patch here: </files/crashfix.patch> or get the whole 0.7.95-3 tarball. Updated .debs and .rpms would be nice to have soon :) UPDATE: .deb is now updated (version 0.7.95-2).

2000-08-13 17:49

2000-08-13T00:00:00+00:00

Released 0.7.95. And .95-2, the only difference is that there's updated help files.

2000-08-04 03:14

2000-08-04T00:00:00+00:00

GTK Irssi code is in CVS now, seems to work surprisingly well :) Nearly all GUI stuff of .28 work again except setup. I'll probably take another screenshot soon :) UPDATE: Here's ther shot :)

2000-08-03 14:37

2000-08-03T00:00:00+00:00

GTK Irssi is almost working again, after 3 hours of coding, I think about 50% of it's functionality is workin again with 0.7.94. Here's a screenshot :)

I'll also be at Assembly'2k if someone wants to see me for some reason :)

2000-07-26 21:21

2000-07-26T00:00:00+00:00

Released 0.7.94, there's finally some help files (by Lite). Some bugfixes, some small new features, nothing really big. I've been playing a lot with SILC (new IRC-like protocol with cryptography).

2000-07-09 19:07

2000-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

Released 0.7.93.

2000-07-02 00:48

2000-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

Another bad bug found - Irssi crashes after midnight .. 0.7.92-3 fixes this. Patch is available again: </files/irssi-0.7.92-3.patch>, use patch -p0 < irssi-0.7.92-3.patch to apply it.

2000-07-01 03:41

2000-07-01T03:41:00+00:00

Released 0.7.92-2 :) Only one nasty bug fixed. Only a few people downloaded the .92 so I didn't bother to change version number in the package itself.. The patch is also available.: </files/irssi-0.7.92-2.patch>

2000-07-01 01:13

2000-07-01T01:13:00+00:00

Released 0.7.92 - rewritten tab-completion with lots of new stuff you can complete. Improved also highlighting features.

Irssi's CVS is also changing soon to cvs.irssi.org. Hopefully working this weekend :)

2000-06-21 23:08

2000-06-21T00:00:00+00:00

Wrote some ideas about how to create distributed chat network.

2000-06-14 23:42

2000-06-14T00:00:00+00:00

Released 0.7.91 - a few new features and some bugfixes since .90. Nothing really big.

2000-06-05 01:17

2000-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

GTK Irssi might not be dead after all :) I got a really minimal version compiled, here's a proof :)

2000-06-04 19:06

2000-06-04T00:00:00+00:00

Finally - 0.7.90 released. This version doesn't have GTK version, and there's probably some bugs and lots of things to do, but it should work pretty well. There's also a (incomplete) manual which you should look at, it's in docs/manual.txt.

2000-06-01 21:11

2000-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

I don't think I will release a working GTK/GNOME version of Irssi 0.8, unless someone wants to help me with it. It hasn't been working for one or two months now since the big rewrite. It's mostly just the windowing system that needs to be rewritten, and I just don't have the interest to make it work again.. However, I'm considering of starting KDE version.

Yesterday was the last day at my old job.

2000-05-30 01:28

2000-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

We have now irssi.org registered, thanks to Carl Drinkwater who registered it just after two days of using irssi ;)

2000-05-26 23:23

2000-05-26T23:23:00+00:00

Yes, the internet works. /me very very happy :) ..have to get a web cam.. or two, actually..

2000-05-26 13:56

2000-05-26T13:56:00+00:00

FINALLY - I got internet to home :) Took only 2 weeks actually, even while they told it would take 3-4 months. It's a cable modem, hopefully works well where I live .. will see, it should work today/tomorrow. I was pretty desperate at some times actually :) I almost took a normal 56k modem but phone lines cost too much here, about 1/3 of what ADSL would cost. But ADSL and the rest had mostly 2 months of delivery time.. And the "free" internet that I was supposed to get .. well, don't know, those people are too busy, maybe I will still get it.

And irssi - there's a few big things that need to be done (dcc chat) and lots of smaller things until I could get some release out. Maybe it will speed up now that I can IRC from home too :) I have also been doing botnet for irssi, will try to replace those eggdrops with it some day :)

2000-04-27 13:56

2000-04-27T00:00:00+00:00

The changelog is now available (or has been since yesterday), and it's also in CVS if anyone wants to try. I've heard that it works even while there are some problems. Need to do a bit more coding until I release it.

2000-04-25 10:26

2000-04-25T00:00:00+00:00

It's amazing how much you can do when there's no IRC you spend your time on. For example, you could code an IRC client 4 days in a row interrupted only by some sleep, 10 hours of x-files and few other tv shows :)

So, I would have put the changelog here, but I forgot the disk to home :( I'll put it here tomorrow. There are LOTS of new really advanced features that I don't think many clients have (for example regexp support in several places, a lot better logging and notifylist notifies of away and idle changes). And there's a lot of EPIC-compatibility, I did it in as many places I could (and had time to), except where I could do better and break the epic syntax because of it. I'm not sure about it's scripting and /ON command, maybe.. as a separate module.

I also quit my job today, an hour ago :) New place will be at springtoys, as a game developer. That's a great place to work for, even while I'm not very enthusiastic about games.

2000-04-20 18:23

2000-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

So .. Still no internet at home, but I will most probably get it, hopefully soon :) I've been working on irssi's rewrite so I'll try to release pre-0.8.0 soon.

2000-03-31 14:36

2000-03-31T00:00:00+00:00

I'll be moving to new apartment this weekend.. I don't have internet connection there yet and I don't know when I will get one .. since I'm trying to get one for free, will see next week if it happens :) Anyway, this probably means that I won't be updating irssi until I have internet at home..

2000-03-20 00:03

2000-03-20T00:00:00+00:00

Yet another bug that affected new Irssi users, the default config file was broken.. Get a new one here: </files/config> and place it to irssi's source dir and recompile. Version 0.7.28-3 tarball also fixes this.

I've also been cleaning up irssi's sources a lot and merging i2k's code to it. I'll try to release a new clean version next weekend :)

2000-03-12 18:18

2000-03-12T18:18:00+00:00

And another bug, you couldn't build GTK version without GNOME. Here's a small patch: </files/irssi-0.7.28-2.diff> to fix both of the problems. The version 0.7.28-2 tarball also has these problems fixed.

2000-03-12 12:19

2000-03-12T12:19:00+00:00

First small bug found, timestamps are printed only once in a second by default (if they are enabled, of course), use /set timestamp_timeout = -1 to fix this.

2000-03-11 20:12

2000-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

Released 0.7.28. Lots of changes for irssi-text and a lot better support for multiple servers.

2000-03-06 00:47

2000-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

Had to take a new screenshot, the last one was 4 months old.

2000-02-25 19:10

2000-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

Released 0.7.27 with extremely flexible Perl scripting support. See here for a few example scripts (these come with irssi too).

2000-02-21 16:35

2000-02-21T16:35:00+00:00

Just some advertising: #irssi is now open in ircnet, openprojects network and efnet. So just join there and you can give me (cras) any suggestions, complains, etc.

And I don't think I'll continue with i2k anyway ;) Too much work, much easier to do small fixes one at a time to Irssi but still go towards i2k's functionality (or what I thought it would be :).

And my "Would Like To do" list for Irssi is now: Finish Perl support, rewrite irssi text widget with one that takes as little memory as possible but still is faster than ever and ability to have pics among text. Replace notebook widget's tabs with something prettier, do split windows to irssi-text and finally make a KDE version :)

2000-02-21 01:35

2000-02-21T01:35:00+00:00

Just though to mention, next irssi will have Perl support. There's already some preliminary work in CVS. And I'm not very good with all those C <-> Perl stuffs (or Perl even..) so any help would be nice :) Anyway, here's a sample.pl that already works:

 
use Irssi;

sub myfunc {
        # $data = all arguments to /SAY, $server = current window's server
        my ($data, $server) = @_;

        $server->irc_send_cmd("PRIVMSG mynick :$data");
        return 1; # stops the /SAY from going to server
}
 
Irssi::signal_add("command say", "myfunc");

2000-02-19 19:00

2000-02-19T19:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.7.26 released. This one will be the final, I promise ;) There's only one bugfix, space didn't work with GTK version if numlock/capslock was on. You can also get the diff to 0.7.25 here: </files/irssi-0.7.26.diff>. Apply it with cd .../irssi-0.7.25/src/gui-gnome; patch < irssi-0.7.26.diff

2000-02-19 16:41

2000-02-19T16:41:00+00:00

Irssi 0.7.25 released. .24 had a pretty bad bug/feature with displaying highbit characters with some fonts. Anyway, it has some new features also. Prettier /NAMES list, /WQUERY and several irssi-text user interface changes.

2000-02-19 00:58

2000-02-19T00:58:00+00:00

Irssi 0.7.24 released.

2000-02-04 21:21

2000-02-04T00:00:00+00:00

i2k (which I believe will become "irssi 0.9.0" anyway) is working a bit better now :) Pretty complicated thing, might need a bit rethinking :) Anyway, grab the 0.01 sources here: </files/i2k-0.01.tar.bz2>. Still not usable for "normal use", /MSG is the only command implemented so far ;)

2000-01-23 22:51

2000-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

0.7.23 released, no bad bugs left?

2000-01-22 23:26

2000-01-22T00:00:00+00:00

And another bad bug, irssi text widget is buggy in 0.7.22, it doesn't display any text in window .. You can set it off from preferences -> look #2. I'll release .23 soon to fix this and a couple other bugs.

2000-01-20 22:32

2000-01-20T00:00:00+00:00

Finally, I got i2k somehow doing something ;) I also though that I'd release the version 0.0 sources: </files/i2k.tar.bz2>. It's only a _really_ simple client, don't bother downloading it unless you're interested in it's sources or something.

2000-01-19 14:00

2000-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

Again. There was still a bug in the config file. Get new one here: </files/config>. There's also a couple more bugs that need to be fixed, so I'll probably release .23 soon.

2000-01-18 00:29

2000-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

As usual, a small nasty bug was left to 0.7.22.. Default configuration file is invalid, you can fix it by adding comma at the end of the line 6 of file 'config' in irssi's main directory and recompiling/installing. Or if you're lazy, you can get the new config here: </files/config>. I also fixed it in the source tar.

2000-01-16 21:19

2000-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

Too many suggested features, too many bugs, i2k coming out too slowly, I wanted some features too .. So, I released irssi 0.7.22, check the changelog for list of new features/fixes.

1999-12-28 15:36

1999-12-28T00:00:00+00:00

I don't think I'll be updating irssi for a while (except maybe bugfixes..). I'm actually pretty much got bored of doing it. However, I'm sure the i2k will come some day :) Maybe soon (Q1 of '00 even? :) and probably with different name. I'll put updates about it here.

Plans about i2k .. well, I'm going to concentrate more into the text version of it .. maybe we'll finally get ircii killer? :) ircii sources are IMHO pretty horrible so it shouldn't be too hard job ;) I thought about making it as epic much compatible as possible, maybe even be able to run epic scripts. And I'll do the scripting (epic, perl, python, ..) support as plugins, so if you don't need epic (or whatever) scripting support, you just don't load the plugin. Only minor drawback of this would be that everyone will create scripts with different languages and soon you would need to load all of the plugins anyway... Anyway, the goal is to make it faster, eat less memory, have a lot more understandable sources and be a lot easier to write expansions without needing to add lots of bloat to the main binary (like bitchx) than ircii (based clients).

After I get this done I'll start thinking of GTK/GNOME/KDE (probably not plain QT :) frontends.

1999-09-27 21:33

1999-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

Updated GtkIText. Selecting fonts and background works now. Also took a screenshot, it's in screenshots page. I'm having some problems with doing the transparency support, please help :)

1999-09-23 21:21

1999-09-23T00:00:00+00:00

First version of GtkIText is now in CVS. Summary of it's features:

Proportional fonts
It's fast - or at least I don't know how to make it any more faster
When text is split to next line, it leaves some space before the text. The amount of space will be the space used by nick in future.
It will have graphics support :)

Currently you can't select/copy text from it and /clear doesn't work either. You also can't select font or background..

1999-09-21 00:11

1999-09-21T00:00:00+00:00

Hm.. Spent a week for coding new text widget for irssi. It finally works, but the code is really horrible ;) And then I even noticed that it couldn't handle bold fonts and it was a bit slow too, so .. I'll start it all over again :) But now at least I know how to code gtk widgets. At least somehow. And I really need to rewrite only one function so it should be a day or two now that I've designed it well in my head :) Anyway, it will support proportional fonts, graphics, etc. nice things and should be really fast :) I'm quite busy at work also, hopefully I get this itext widget to cvs this week :)

BTW, I've got zero bugreports about irssi 0.7.16!!

1999-09-13 21:30

1999-09-13T21:30:00+00:00

First icon for irssi, pretty weird but better than nothing I guess ;) Made by tonic

1999-09-13 18:30

1999-09-13T18:30:00+00:00

0.7.16 released. I did compile this with and without gnome and ipv6, it's also been running quite a while without crashes so I think this could finally be the "stable" irssi? :)

1999-09-04 14:46

1999-09-04T00:00:00+00:00

Finally we have anonymous CVS from Polish Linux Distribution's CVS, check cvs page for more information.

1999-08-31 20:46

1999-08-31T20:46:00+00:00

Released 0.7.15-3, which will finally fix all those bugs .15 and .15-2 sufferend. I've learned my lesson, never release software without testing it first well enough even how much you want to release it immediately :)

.15-3 has also a rawlog window which you can use to check what's going on in server connection. Also great for debugging.

I also released .15-2 -> .15-3 patch: </files/irssi.diff.bz2>. To apply it go to irssi's directory and run
cat ~/irssi.diff.bz2 | bunzip2 | patch -p1

If you applied any older patches, answer no to questions about applying reverted patches..

1999-08-31 13:13

1999-08-31T13:13:00+00:00

And yet another problem when compiling without gnome .. Here's the diff: </files/irssi-patch.diff>. Check for download page for more information.

1999-08-30 14:32

1999-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

Right .. I compiled and tested 0.7.15 with gnome and IPv6, I compiled it without IPv6, didn't try it (I thought I did :), didn't compile without gnome. And of course there was bugs in them. So, here's 0.7.15-2 where you can actually connect to server and compile without gnome.

1999-08-29 22:06

1999-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

0.7.15 released, it has lots of internal changes and IPv6 support :)

1999-08-25 12:57

1999-08-25T00:00:00+00:00

Still no crashes, but several other problems. I'll fix them and release .15 so that I'll get a stable 0.8.0 out sometimes :) But right now I'm pretty busy at work (doing 10-12 hours/day or so..). Will try to fix all the things next weekend.

1999-08-23 19:05

1999-08-23T00:00:00+00:00

So far so good, no crashes reported yet :) There's now SuSE version also available in download page. Hm.. Maybe I should drop my diary (which I haven't written anything for a month anyway) and try to update this news page a bit more often. And move the old news somewhere else..

1999-08-22 21:10

1999-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

Released 0.7.14 .. hopefully works :) opefully works :)

1999-08-18 21:23

1999-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

Just released irssi 0.7.14 alpha-3. I've removed my horribly slow configuration file routines (well, gnome version was still fast..) and replaced them with libPropList. This means that configuration file format is completely different now, and I had to change quite a lot of code to make it work.. So, could try if this alpha versions works properly so I could release the final 0.7.14? :)

Get the irssi alpha here, and libPropList from download page (..or apt-get install libproplist0-dev).

1999-08-14 17:41

1999-08-14T00:00:00+00:00

Development irssi versions are now available here.

1999-08-03 22:55

1999-08-03T00:00:00+00:00

Xlife's computer got upgraded to K6-2 450, no more slowups when loading web pages :)

1999-08-01 20:48

1999-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

My E-Mail address changed, the old one will stop working soon. So send all your new emails to cras@irccrew.org.

1999-07-31 15:47

1999-07-31T00:00:00+00:00

SuSE RPM of irssi 0.7.13-2 is now available in download page.

Just noticed how slow irssi's web pages were .. took 30-60 seconds to load a page. It's a problem with our mysql hit database getting too large and one of my selects took pretty long :) Changed it, but it still takes 10-20 seconds to load, it will hopefully be fixed pretty soon.

1999-07-22 19:24

1999-07-22T19:24:00+00:00

Here comes the usual bugfix release, 0.7.13-2 ;) Made a patch: </files/irssi-0.7.13-2.diff> for it this time too.

1999-07-22 00:11

1999-07-22T00:11:00+00:00

Released 0.7.13.

1999-07-11 13:35

1999-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

Removed download counters. Made a new screenshot.

1999-07-07 21:08

1999-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

Released v0.7.12-2 :) Just a few bugfixes..

configure checks for -lnsl too
changed default font to fixed size so I wouldn't have to hear all the time how screen is messed up with zvt :)
background color couldn't be changed with zvt
irssi-text sometimes crashed at startup because of uninitialized variable..
you had to use --without-gnome-panel even if you didn't build with gnome

1999-07-06 19:40

1999-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

Released v0.7.12 .. made hit counter for it too :)

1999-07-03 15:51

1999-07-03T00:00:00+00:00

Yesterday started #irssi in IRCnet.

1999-06-17 18:18

1999-06-17T00:00:00+00:00

Made a nice screenshot of irssi-text :)

1999-06-10 23:40

1999-06-10T00:00:00+00:00

After moving irssi's pages here I made hit counters .. I always thought irssi's pages would take 5-10 or so hits / day .. Big surprise :) 126 hits yesterday of which 51 were from different IPs and 226 today of which 82 were different.. Need to get download counters done before I release 0.7.12 :)

1999-06-07 16:23

1999-06-07T16:23:00+00:00

Moved irssi's web pages here and modified them a bit too.. Colors are taken from slashdot, looks nice :)

1999-06-07 11:41

1999-06-07T11:41:00+00:00

I hate coding in several places :) Home, work and in my friends computer .. All of them had different irssi versions, I've been diffing them together every now and then but still forgotten to diff some. Today fixed the same two bugs for the third time ..

Anyway, irssi 0.7.11-2 released :) Those two small text mode version fixes and configure script bug fix.

1999-06-06 23:15

1999-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.7.11 released. Almost a month since last version.. But this has lots and lots of buf fixes and new great stuff and more is coming soon.

1999-05-09 20:45

1999-05-09T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.7.10 released. Lots of bugs fixed. ZVT support for displaying texts, a lot faster than GTK's text widget. New DCC transfer dialog, and some other new things.

1999-04-22 20:36

1999-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.7.9 released. Lots of bugs fixed, processes are used for nonblocking host resolving instead of threads and there's a new status dialog.

1999-04-12 20:21

1999-04-12T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.7.8 released with some bug fixes, new plugin for sending command to irssi via named pipe, nick completion is finally working and lots of internal changes and more..

1999-04-07 09:14

1999-04-07T00:00:00+00:00

Irssi 0.7.7 released. Lots of bugfixes and text to speech plugin.

1999-03-30 21:44

1999-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

Spent today working with these new web pages. Not so pretty but better than they used to be..