Textual 5 release notes

These are the original Codeux release records; references to future plans, support and availability describe the release at the time.

Release Notes for Version 5.2.10

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.2.10 of the Textual IRC Client.

Security

Textual has been updated to version 4.1.1 of libotr to fix: “integer overflow bug that can cause a heap buffer overflow”

See https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/news.php for more information.

Release Notes for Version 5.2.9

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.2.9 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

• Added “cheers2,” “kira,” and “nonowa” emoticon to moti command. (Thanks mseymour)

• Added numeric 336 to list of recognized WHOIS responses.

Changes

• Changes to the Chat Filter Addon:

• • An empty Filter Match value is now considered valid if a Sender Match value is defined.

Fixes

• Fixed certain links not opening correctly.

• Fixed file transfers failing when using a manually configured IP address.

• Fixed messages remaining scrolled to the top when the user did not manually scroll to that position.

Release Notes for Version 5.2.8

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.2.8 of the Textual IRC Client.

Fixes

• Fixes a code injection vulnerability.

• Fixed the Highlight List window freezing when presenting a large number of highlights.

Technical

The hidden preference DisableSidebarTranslucency (a boolean) has been added which can be used to toggle the translucency of the server list and the user list when running OS X Yosemite or later.

Release Notes for Version 5.2.7

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.2.7 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

• Added “tableflip” emoticon to moti command. (Thanks jamierocks)

Changes

• Updated the Blowfish Encryption addon to include the latest version of LibreSSL.

• Mode parameters (the value of each mode if applicable) is now displayed in the titlebar of the main window.

• The server list and/or user list now remain hidden if they were in that state when the app was closed.

• The output of the memory command now includes a count of visible messages in all channels and queries.

  • The commands ison, mode, and who are no longer automatically performed when connected to Twitch.

Fixes

• Fixes a code injection vulnerability.

• Fixed the Textual Extras installer failing silently as a result of permission errors.

Chat Filter Addon Behavior Changes

The behavior of channel specific filters has changed. Selecting all channels managed by a specific server no longer changes the filter to be specific to that server. Instead, only the channels selected are actually treated as enabled. This prevents new channels from inheriting the filter when the user only wanted it to apply to the selected channels.

To apply a filter to an entire server, including new channels, enable the checkbox next to the server name.

Security Improvements

A checkbox has been added to the Network Socket section of Server Properties. This checkbox, which is labeled “Prefer Textual's list of cipher suites” and is enabled by default, instructs the app to use a specific set of cipher suites.

The cipher suites that are used can be broken up into two collections:

Modern

These cipher suites are top priority. They provide a great deal of trust.

Deprecated

These cipher suites are kept around for backwards compatibility. These cipher suites are considered obsolete and will eventually be removed from the app.

The following tables, which are sorted from highest priority to lowest priority, detail the cipher suites for each collection. For a complete breakdown of each cipher suite, see Mozilla's wiki.

Release Notes for Version 5.2.6

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.2.6 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

• Added “Caffeine” addon to the Textual Extras installer. More Information.

• Added April King (original website unavailable) to acknowledgements to thank them for contributing the “Equinox” style.

Changes

• Refactored the following commands to improve reliability: msg, me, notice.

• The Dock icon can now be configured to bounce repeatedly for individual notification types. (Thanks akrabat)

• The the total number of entries for “List of Bans,” “List of Ban Exceptions,” and “List of Invite Exceptions” is now displayed in the top right corner of their windows.

Release Notes for Version 5.2.5

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.2.5 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

• Added checkbox to Preferences ➜ Advanced ➜ Experimental Settings to enable a new, experimental nickname coloring system which creates a hue, saturation value, and lightness value for each nickname.

Release Notes for Version 5.2.4

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.2.4 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

• Added support for embedding content from Instagram.

Changes

• The San Francisco typeface is now used by the main input text field if you are using OS X El Capitan.

• Improved smoothness of text when the accessibility preference “Reduce Transparency” is enabled.

• Improved reliability of applying formatting to text in the Modify Topic window.

• Improved support for non-English speakers when performing tab completion.

• Tab completion can now be performed even when the main input text field is empty.

• The user list can now be navigated using arrow keys if it has keyboard focus.

• A warning is now presented if embedded content is enabled when the user is known to use Tor.

Release Notes for Version 5.2.3

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.2.3 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

• Added an advanced rule-based filter system that can be used to ignore specific content, or automatically perform one or more commands (including external scripts) based on the contents of a message. See the Introduction to the Chat Filter Addon knowledge base article for more information.

Changes

• Textual no longer stops trying to reconnect after one hundred (100) tries.

• Textual will now warn you about sending a very large message which may result in a ban due to flooding.

• Improved performance of user list when a channel contains several thousand users.

• The main window no longer appears transparent when fullscreen.

• When configured to connect through a proxy, the proxy is now relied on to perform DNS lookup.

Release Notes for Version 5.2.2

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.2.2 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

• Added support for embedding SVG images in chat.

• Added support for embedding content from pbs.twimg.com.

Changes

• Modified logic of the goto command to allow special characters such as number sign (#).

• When sending a private message, an “is away” message is now shown at most once every five (5) minutes.

Release Notes for Version 5.2.1

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.2.1 of the Textual IRC Client.

Changes

• The “Equinox” style now groups multiple messages by the same user.

• The main window will now reappear on the screen it was closed on as long as that screen is still available.

Release Notes for Version 5.2.0

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.2.0 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

• Added the mid-2015 Retina MacBook Pro to list of models for the sysinfo command.

Changes

• Renamed “Textual 5.app” to “Textual.app”

• Replaced the style “nox” with a much better version known as “Equinox”

• Improved VoiceOver support for disabled users.

• Improved drag & drop support in the server list.

• Improved the performance of the “Channel List” window.

• Improved reconnect during wake so that the first failed connect attempt does not stop retries.

• The “Highlight List”, “List of Bans,” “List of Ban Exceptions,” and “Lists of Invite Exceptions” tables are now sortable.

Release Notes for Version 5.1.4

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.1.4 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

• Added anonymous HTTP proxy support

• Added the proxy type “Tor Anonymity Network.” When selected, the SOCKS5 proxy hosted by the “Tor Browser” application is connected to, to allow you to more easily chat with others using Tor.

Changes

• The “Modify Topic” window can now be submitted using the return key.

• Improved accuracy and consistency of the model list used by the sysinfo command.

• Automatic Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) is no longer enabled by default.

• Modified list of bots excluded from the use of Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) to include services on Undernet.

• HTTP, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5 proxies now support client-side certificate authentication and certificate validation.

• Changed the default proxy type to “Automatic”

Technical

• Scripts can no longer be named: connect, die, error, info, kill, links, lusers, motd, names, oper, pass, ping, pong, rehash, restart, server, service, servlist, squery, squit, stats, time, trace, userhost, users, version, or whowas.

Release Notes for Version 5.1.3

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.1.3 of the Textual IRC Client.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) that may cause messages to get lost.

• Fixed highlight keywords marked as “Excluded” not being treated as such.

Release Notes for Version 5.1.2

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.1.2 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

• Added support for Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR)

Changes

• Includes redesigned icons for the Preferences window contributed by Reda Lemeden.

Release Notes for Version 5.1.1

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.1.1 of the Textual IRC Client.

Fixes

• Fixed a crash that would occur when performing certain commands.

• Fixed a crash that would occur when opening the Highlight List window.

• Fixed a problem that caused the Smiley Converter addon not to work correctly.

Release Notes for Version 5.1.0

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.1.0 of the Textual IRC Client.

Changes

• Brought back a more Mac-like Preferences window.

• A minimum window size is no longer enforced for the main window.

• Support for SSLv2 and SSLv3 has been disabled.

• The cipher suite used for a secured connection is now displayed in the server console.

• Increased the maximum width of embedded content from 5,000 pixels to 7,200 pixels to accommodate screenshots from the Retina 5k iMac.

Release Notes for Version 5.0.3

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.0.3 of the Textual IRC Client.

Changes

• Nicknames that contain a period character (.) are now recognized as valid.

• The following commands are no longer bundled with Textual: banhammer, ffuu, flip, loadavg, o_o, reverse, sealion, sfont, shell, slap, and spam.

Release Notes for Version 5.0.2

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.0.2 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

• The background color of unread badges for channels that contain a highlight can now be changed in Preferences.

Changes

• Moved the preference “Save the state of queries between restarts” to the General section of Preferences.

• Moved the preference “Wait for identification before joining channels” to the Identity section of Server Properties.

• The sidebars of the main window no longer appears as translucent when the window is not in the foreground.

• Resetting the badge colors for the user list to their default values will share the change using iCloud (if enabled).

Release Notes for Version 5.0.1

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.0.1 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

• Added the emoji-cheat-sheet.com library of emoticons to the Smiley Converter addon.

• Added the 2014 Retina 5k iMac and the updated Mac mini to list of models for the sysinfo command.

Changes

• Repositioned the View menu in the menu bar to match all other applications.

Release Notes for Version 5.0.0

There have been several updates since version 5.0.0 which include many exciting changes. See the Release Notes Archive section of the knowledge base for a complete list of changes.

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.0.0 of the Textual IRC Client.

Updated User Interface

Textual 5 sports a redesigned user interface for users of OS X Yosemite. The main window has a light and dark version which have been refined all the way down to the very last pixel.

Styles

Textual 5 replaces the dated styles Matrix, Lucidity, and Simplified Light Blue with four brand new, community created styles which do a great job of complimenting the aforementioned user interface changes.

Other Additions

• Added a new application icon contributed by Brandon Rodriguez.

• Added support for printing using Command P.

• Added several new emoticons to the moti command.

• Added preference to disable the user information popover updating while scrolling the user list.

• Added preference to prevent OS X from sleeping the network while a file transfer is in progress.

• Added support for the playback module of ZNC.

• Added now playing command for Hermes (Pandora client).

• Added keyboard shortcut Command Shift D to easily toggle the appearance of the main window.

Other Changes

• The Username field of the Identity section of Server Properties is now used for SASL identification.

• The preference to wait for NickServ identification before joining channels is now server specific.

• Selecting a channel will now dismiss notifications related to that channel in Notification Center.

• The method by which colors are picked for each user has been modified to try and eliminate collisions.

• Images are no longer displayed inline with chat when playing back messages from the previous session of Textual. The links for these images can be shift clicked to expand them.

• Automated conversion of text based emoticons to their individual emoji counterpart is now possible without installing a 3rd-party addon. This feature can be enabled in the Addons section of Preferences.

• Non-server notices can now be configured to create a new window if one does not already exist. See the Command Scope section of Preferences.