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Doing Some Maintenance - Quassel 0.13.1

Sputnick 

Hi all, we’re back in 2019 with a maintenance release for the 0.13 cycle, Quassel 0.13.1. Besides a handful of fixes and improvements over the previous release, 0.13.1 fixes a particularly annoying issue with 0.13.0 on Qt4-based systems where backlog messages would not all be fetched. I’d like to thank Janne “justJanne” Koschinski and Shane “digitalcircuit” Synan in particular for finding the cause for this problem, as well as implementing and testing the fix! So if you happen to run Quasse...

It’s happening! - Quassel 0.13.0

Sputnick 

Hi all, 1312 days have gone by since the last feature release of Quassel IRC. At times, the project went almost dormant; then it was buzzing with activity again due to some very active contributors (digitalcircuit, justJanne, romibi, mamarley, just to name a few). And in the end, even I could not help myself and had to start coding again! As a result, we can finally unleash a new feature release on you. And what a release it is! We have a new branding and application icon, support the moder...

The Final Stretch - Quassel 0.13-rc2

Sputnick 

Hi all, the first release candidate for the impending 0.13 release uncovered some issues, the fixing of which required some more complex changes than we would have liked. Thus, we decided to roll a second release candidate. Most significant changes compared to rc1: Rework the init and shutdown sequence as well as signal handling to properly clean up everything on shutdown Rework the handling of regular expressions e.g. for ignore and highlight rules for more flexibility and better perform...

A Candidate Long in the Making - Quassel 0.13-rc1

Sputnick 

Hi all, more than three years since 0.12.0 was released, and over 500 commits on top of what went into the current stable branch, we’re finally in the last stretch of the next major feature release! Since so much work and changes went into this, this time we’ve decided to not only roll a release candidate, but also announce it publicly, so daring people can test things before final release. Some caveats upfront: Both the database schema and the config file formats have been updated since 0...

Two Years!? - Quassel 0.12.5

Sputnick 

Hi all, yes, it’s been exactly two years today since 0.12.4 was tagged… Even though development speed has picked up again recently (mostly thanks to some very active new and old contributors, and only to a small degree thanks to myself), and several hundred commits have gone into the main development branch since 0.12 was forked away, we’re still some weeks away from a new feature release. However, chaign_c has recently discovered two vulnerabilites in the 0.12.4 core, so a new maintenance ...