Minbif

A new release of Minbif, the IRC instant messaging gateway, is out today.

This releases introduces mainly the file transfers feature, several bugfixes and minors (or not) enhancements.

ChangeLog:

• Daemon fork mode.
• Ability to protect the minbif server with a password.
• File transfers support for reception.
• Buggy implementation of CACAcam (do not use it!).
• /SVSNICK command to change a buddy's nickname.
• /WHO can match on a server name or an account name.
• /NAMES command.
• /MAP ADD without any channel name will use the default &minbif channel.
• /AWAY command.
• '/STATS a' to display every available away status.
• /WHOIS displays the fully away message.
• /WII displays a larger icon and several information about buddy.
• /ADMIN command to display and change some minbif account parameters.
• Correctly handle the /ME command.
• Can leave status channels.
• Display notify messages.
• Auto-reconnect when disconnected by server.
• Auto-rejoin remote channels when reconnecting to minbif.
• Display remote channel topics.
• Display remote channel history at join (if supported by protocol).
• libpurple error messages are logged with the PURPLE loglevel.
• Handle SIGTERM.
• Support CTCP TYPING.
• Imported some bitlbee's irssi scripts and changed them to support minbif.
• Added a manpage.
• Fix: crash at remote channel member leave.
• Fix: crash when a remote channel member changes his nickname.
• Fix: hilight message are not displayed.
• Fix: correctly handle when a user tries to add me in his buddy list.

Thanks to Marc Dequènes and Sebastien Delafond for Debian packaging.