News Archive

Irssi 1.0.0 Released

Posted on January 5th 2017

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

Read more... the Irssi Team.

Irssi 0.8.21 Released

Posted on January 5th 2017

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

Posted on September 22nd 2016

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

Posted on September 21st 2016

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.

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Irssi 0.8.19 Released

Posted on March 24th 2016

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.

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Irssi 0.8.18 Released

Posted on February 29th 2016

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!

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Irssi 0.8.18-beta2 Released

Posted on January 18th 2016

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.

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Irssi 0.8.18-beta1 Released

Posted on December 21st 2015

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.

Read more... the Irssi Team.