WeeChat Release Notes

options weechat.look.prefix_align_more and weechat.look.prefix_buffer_align_more have been converted from type boolean to string:

option weechat.look.paste_max_lines can now be used with value 0 to detect paste with one line (only if terminal "bracketed paste mode" is enabled when option weechat.look.paste_bracketed is on); so now the value -1 is used to disable paste detection: if your value was 0, you should set it to -1:

rmodifier "nickserv" has a new default regex which includes option "release" for command "/msg nickserv". If you never added/changed rmodifiers, you can just reset all rmodifiers (command: /rmodifier default -yes). If you added/changed some rmodifiers, do it manually with these two commannds:

option scroll_unread has been moved from command /input to /window, therefore default command of key alt-u has been updated. To bind key with new default value:

extended regex is used in filters and irc ignore, so some chars that needed escape in past do not need any more (for example [0-9]\+ becomes [0-9]+), filters and ignore have to be manually fixed

option weechat.look.highlight_regex becomes case insensitive by default, to make it case sensitive, use "(?-i)" at beginning of string, for example: "(?-i)FlashCode|flashy"

option weechat.history.max_lines has been renamed to weechat.history.max_buffer_lines_number

option weechat.plugin.extension now supports list of extensions, and new default value is ".so,.dll" (with this value, weechat.conf is compatible with Cygwin)

bold is not used any more for basic colors (used only if terminal has less than 16 colors), a new option has been added to force bold if needed: weechat.look.color_basic_force_bold

option weechat.look.hline_char has been renamed to weechat.look.separator_horizontal

if you have some colors defined in section "palette" with version 0.3.4, you should remove all colors defined, and add new aliases (it’s not needed any more to add colors before using them)

colors for nick prefixes (char for op, voice, ..) are defined in a single option irc.color.nick_prefixes, therefore following options will be lost: irc.color.nick_prefix_op, irc.color.nick_prefix_halfop, irc.color.nick_prefix_voice, irc.color.nick_prefix_user

count of messages have been added to hotlist by default, if you want to come back to old behaviour, do that:

when you are away, all buffers are now added to hotlist by default (even if they are displayed in a window), if you want to come back to old behaviour, do that:

new keys were added, use command /key missing to add them or /key listdiff to see differences between your current keys and WeeChat default keys

if you are using /upgrade from a previous release:

some IRC options have been renamed, before upgrading to this version, note value for old options, and set them again with new name:

if you are using /upgrade from a previous release, then you must reconnect to IRC servers in order to use new command /wallchops.

option irc.network.lag_min_show is now in milliseconds, you should set new value: your current value multiplied by 1000 (new default value is 500).

new charset plugin:

new keys for topic scroll:

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 redefine these keys (alt-home/end):

Keys 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"). Option 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.