NEWS.md

New in 2.13

• Verification with NSM now ensures that gnutls-verify-error is disabled to detect expired certificates.
• The lui-irc-colors module now supports strikethrough/monospace text.
• The circe-color-nicks module now highlights nicks in query buffers as well.
• The minimum supported Emacs version has been bumped to 25.1.
• Emacs Lisp identifiers in Lui buttons now allow colons
• Password values in the network options are validated for the expected type to prevent a common configuration mistake
• Several byte-compiler warnings have been fixed

New in 2.12

• circe-color-nicks is now significantly faster. This is noticable when performing ZNC playbacks.
• lui-track-bar supports lui-track-bar-use-fringe-p to use a fringe indicator instead of a full line to mark the last read position in a buffer.
• The lui-track-bar functionality has been moved to lui-track to allow selecting different types of last read position marks. The old variables have been marked as obsolete to guide users to the new ones.
• Old XEmacs-compatibility code has been removed.
• TLS handling is now significantly more robust and fast if the gnutls-boot-parameters function is available (provided by Emacs 26.1 and newer).
• The ptpb.pw service in lui-autopaste has been replaced with sprunge.us as it's no longer available.
• The behavior of tracking-max-mode-line-entries has been adjusted to not display any buffers when set to zero.
• /gquit now unconditionally sends /quit and inhibits auto-reconnect.
• Several byte-compiler deprecation warnings have been fixed.
• Tracking can be sped up by customizing tracking-shorten-modes.
• circe-display-images no longer requires ImageMagick support.
• Certificate errors are now handled by NSM if available.
• SASL EXTERNAL and TLS client certificates are now supported.
• The minimum supported Emacs version has been bumped to 24.5.
• All mentions of Freenode have been changed to Libera.Chat.
• The display of the buffer name can now be customized, tracking has been updated to shorten superfluous tails as a result of that.
• Channel and/or network name are now mentioned when killing a chat/server buffer.
• The Hackint network has been added to the default network list.
• The repository has changed to an organization due to a maintainer change.
• CI has been migrated from Travis to GitHub CI.
• All failing CI tests have been fixed.
• Networks now support an option to enable logging per network.
• The list of valid characters for log paths has been adjusted to avoid Windows-specific illegal file name characters.

New in 2.11

• Several warnings about missing defcustom types have been fixed.

New in 2.10

• The /stats command has been added.

New in 2.9

• Minor nick coloring corrections

New in 2.7

• circe-highlight-all-nicks is obsolete. Use circe-color-nicksinstead.
• Emacs 24.3 is not supported anymore.
• Circe can now optionally display images inline. Use enable-circe-display-images for this feature.
• You can now limit the number of elements in the mode line. See enable-circe-display-images. You can also sort buffers with faces first, to see highlights first, by setting enable-circe-display-images.
• And lots of bugfixes.

New in 2.6

• No new features, but some bug fixes.

New in 2.5

• Update the openssl invocation to current versions of openssl. For some reason, they just remove a command line argument.
• Some other bug fixes.

New in 2.4

• circe-server-killed-confirmation now can kill every buffer even without asking (thanks to Rudi Grinberg)
• lui has been improved to know about past messages to facilitate editing and deletion of old messages, primarily for protocols like Slack (thanks to Tom Willemse)
• Lots of bug fixes

New in 2.3

• Circe (Lui) now has a track bar. Use (enable-lui-track-bar) to get a bar where you stopped reading when you did hide a buffer.
• Buffers are now by default limited to 100k, as large buffers cause unreasonable slowdown in Emacs.
• Autopaste now defaults to ix.io and also knows about ptpb.pw.
• A number of faces have been updated to be nicer to the eye.
• Improve compatibility with the Slack IRC gateway.
• Lots of bug fixes.

New in 2.2

• Server configuration now accepts the :reduce-lurker-spam keyword to set that variable.
• Lui now supports inline markup with *bold* and similar. Customize lui-formatting-list for this.
• lui-add-input is a new function to tell lui about new input that did not originate from lui itself. It is added to the history.
• Circe now adds the argument to /query to the chat history of a query buffer.
• The new variables lui-time-stamp-time and lui-time-stamp-zone allow programmers to customize the time zone for time stamps in lui.
• And lots of bug fixes.

New in 2.1

• New option: circe-inhibit-nick-highlight-function – this allows you to disable nick highlighting in some messages.
• New extension: circe-new-day-notifier.el – show date changes in chat buffers. (Thanks to Pásztor János!)
• Improve Bitlbee support by adding a default port (6667) and disabling lagmon if it is used.
• Improved buttonizing of various references, like PEP links or Emacs debbugs references.
• Fix a bug that would confuse Emacs with lots of nil faces
• Lots of other bug fixes.

New in 2.0

• Circe has had its IRC backend completely rewritten. It is now a separate library, irc.el, and much more powerful. Alas, this means a lot of existing configuration code will break.
• Because of this, Circe now fully supports SASL authentication, extended joins, and a few other modern IRC capabilities.
• XKCD references, CVE numbers and github issues are now buttonized.
• All IRC buffers change to the home directory by default.
• Circe now uses buttercup for tests and Travis-CI for continuous integration tests.
• A number of options were removed to focus on sensible defaults. Re-check your configuration.
• Nick colors are now pre-computed to make them more appropriate for the current display and more distinct from each other.
• A lot of format strings have been added. Check the circe-format customization group.