WeeChat News

if you upgraded with /upgrade in WeeChat, you should /disconnect and then /reconnect on each server, to display properly channel/user modes

if you’re using plugins, you should remove some old plugins libraries in WeeChat system library directory (commonly /usr/local/lib/weechat/plugins): remove lib* files (like libperl.*, libpython.*, ..) and keep only new libraries (perl.*, python.*, ..)

please close all DCC chat buffers before using /upgrade command, otherwise you may experience problems with DCC chats.

some changes in script API: now timer handlers functions takes exactly 0 (zero) argument (in version 0.1.8, two arguments were mandatory but not used: server and args)

it is recommended for users of version 0.1.7 (or any older), to replace values in setup file (~/.weechat/weechat.rc) :

after installing 0.1.8 (or with /upgrade), issue both commands (if you didn’t redefined these keys (alt-home/end): /key unbind meta-meta2-1 _{/key unbind meta-meta2-4} then launch again WeeChat (or issue /upgrade). Alt-home/end were used for nicklist scroll, they’re now replaced by Alt-F11/F12.

Ruby script plugin has been added but is experimental in this release. You’re warned!

"/away" command was changed to be RFC 2812 compliant. Now argument is required to set away, and no argument means remove away ("back"). Setting "irc_default_msg_away" has been removed.

incompatibility with some old scripts: now all handlers have to return a code for completion, and to do some actions about message to ignore (please look at documentation for detail)

on OpenBSD, the new option "plugins_extension" should be set to ".so.0.0" since the plugins names are ending by ".so.0.0" and not ".so"

with new and full UTF-8 support, the option "look_charset_internal" should be set to blank for most cases. Forces it only if your locale is not properly detected by WeeChat (you can set "UTF-8" or "ISO-8859-15" for example, depending on your locale). WeeChat is looking for "UTF-8" in your locale name at startup.