kirc

Added

• PRIVMSG command alias for sending messages directly to channels or nicknames
• Multi-channel join command line argument option
• Highlighting for PART messages and NICK change (https://github.com/mcpcpc/kirc/issues/38)
• Add SASL EXTERNAL support (https://github.com/mcpcpc/kirc/issues/37)

Changed

• Default nickname column with from 10 to 20 (mostly for aesthetics)
• Default channel from #kirc to NULL (as to not force a user to choose anything upon connection)

Added

• Add PLAIN SASL support
• POSIX compliant Makefile

Changed

• Simplified command structure
• Default nick column width from "10" to "20"

Fixed

• Issue with stdin being non-blocking
• Issue with -w and -W not behaving as expected

Added

• Improved error handling for connection initialization

Changed

• No longer forces IPv4

Fixed

• User input no longer clobbered by received messages

Added

• Improved error handling via errno
  reporting
• -h argument to print basic usage information

Removed

• Xlib dependency from Makefile

Fixed

• Reduced CPU load by replacing multi-process fork() with a single-process and poll()
• Reduced system call usage

Added

• New /n and /x commands (see README.md for more usage)
• -x argument to pass addition commands to server at startup
• [channel] message prefix for messages received from channels not related to initial connection channel

Removed

• Whitespace character at the beginning of each new line

Changed

• /n command to /M
• Converted README to Markdown format (also renamed from README to README.md)

Fixed

• Typecasts in printw() function and elsewhere

Added

• Channel messages can now be sent without a leader or command character

Changed

• Replaced : leader character with / to make commands more natural

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where the first character of a message could not be deleted

Changed

• For direct private messages, the senders nickname color will now be inverted
• Convert instances of sscanf() in parser function to strtok()

Fixed

• Issue with nicks not printing correctly on messages >200 characters length (see https://github.com/mcpcpc/kirc/issues/5)
• Sack smashing error occurring during issuing commands (see https://github.com/mcpcpc/kirc/issues/4)

Fixed

• Missing parsed text from initial connection
• Reduce total allocated IRC stream buffer size and RAM
• -v` default behavior

Added

• -o argument for irc stream logging

Added

• Argument options for username (-u) and real name (-r)

Changed

• Word wrapping changed from character wrap to tokenized greedy algorithm
• Increased user input buffer size from CMAX (default: 80 characters) to the full buffer, BUFF width (default: 510 characters)

Fixed

• stty VERASE flag now restored to default setting (which is typically unset by default)

Initial release.