WeeChat Release Notes

conditions in bars have changed, and now an expression is evaluated. If you have a value with many conditions in a bar, like: nicklist,active, you must now use an expression like: ${nicklist} && ${active} (see the chapter about bars in the WeeChat User’s guide).

IPv6 is now used by default to connect to IRC servers, with fallback to IPv4. The option irc.server_default.ipv6 is now "on" by default. If IPv6 is not enabled or fails, IPv4 will be used. The "ipv6" option in server is now used to disable IPv6 and force IPv4 (if option is turned "off").

relay is now listening by default on an IPv6 socket (new option relay.network.ipv6, on by default), so connections with IPv4 will have IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses, like: "::ffff:127.0.0.1" (for "127.0.0.1"); check that value of option relay.network.allowed_ips supports this mapping, or disable IPv6 in relay if you don’t plan to use it at all:

options moved from core (weechat.conf) to irc plugin (irc.conf):

new bar item has been added: buffer_modes and irc option irc.look.item_channel_modes has been removed; to display irc channel modes in status bar (after channel name), you have to manually add the new item buffer_modes (this is now used by default in status bar items), default value for status bar items becomes:

changes in options for command /aspell:

an horizontal separator has been added between split windows, and two options have been added to toggle separators (both are enabled by default):

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

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 behavior, 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 behavior, 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.look.show_away_once has been renamed to irc.look.display_pv_away_once

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).

it is NOT POSSIBLE to use command /upgrade from a version 0.2.x to 0.3.x; you have to quit your old WeeChat, then run new version.

new configuration files (*.conf) are not compatible with old files (*.rc).

name of options is similar to old versions, but there is now one configuration file by plugin, and one file for WeeChat core; there is no automatic conversion for your old options to new configuration files, so you’ll have to setup again your IRC servers and all other options.

plugin API has been rewritten and is not compatible with previous versions; accordingly, scripts and plugins must have been designed for version 0.3.x to be loaded into WeeChat.

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.