1 0 2010-02-20T15:21:36+01:00 We organize a IRC meeting named *“Roadmap 2010”* to talk about goals of this new year, new features you want to see in Minbif, how to innovate, but also how to gain popularity, what kind of marketing we could to do around Minbif, etc. As Minbif lives thanks to his community, everybody can join us: <pre> Where: #minbif-roadmap on Freenode. When: on Thursday 4th March 2010 From: 08 pm UTC To: 10 pm UTC From: 12 pm UTC To: 02 am UTC </pre> You'll be able to help us to make Minbif better! 27 10

Help us to make Minbif better!

7 1 2010-02-11T14:16:56+01:00 You can now use the Facebook Chat from Minbif without any third-party plugin, and without all the bugs, since Facebook now provides "XMPP access":http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=110. To set it up, it is very simple: get your username and password from "here":http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php (click on "Pidgin"), and provide Minbif with: <pre> /map add jabber USERNAME@chat.facebook.com PASSWORD &fb -!require_tls </pre> The connection won't be encrypted, but if you use Facebook you already don't care much about privacy, don't you ? ;-) 26 10

1 0 2010-01-16T19:24:27+01:00 A new release of Minbif is today out. Mostly fixes, but also some new good features, like the PAM authentication, the aibility to change your nickname or the mood message, etc. ChangeLog: * PAM authentication. * /MAP CMD command to run a specific command on an account, which allow you to change nickname, mood messages, etc. * Support fields requests. * Display group name in IRC user realname. * The /MAP REGISTER command registers account on server before adding it. * Conf option to enable the purple conv logging. * /CMD command to send commands in a conversation * Display date before delayed messages if they hasn't been sent today. * Fix: daemonize correctly. * Fix: security issue when a global password is set on the minbif server, it creates the userdir before checking if the password is correct. * Fix: buddy's realnames wasn't updated in realtime. * Fix: the PONG reply wasn't RFC compliant. * Fix: crash in NAMES and TOPIC commands when giving an invalid chan name. * Fix: don't typing notice unless either bitlbee_send_typing or typing_notice is true. See "all tickets attached to this release.":/versions/show/25 25 10

Yet an other release

1 0 2009-11-30T11:51:28+01:00 A new minor version of libpurple is today out. It is a significant release for Minbif because it fixes a lot of bugs and crashes, one of which is a crash when you try to add a MSN buddy (see #140). I encourage you to upgade to this latest version. 23 10

A new release of libpurple is out.

1 0 2009-11-18T11:29:31+01:00 !/img/minbif_1.0.png! Today Minbif 1.0 is released! This final version is as stable as possible, and include the following features: * Minbif uses a library which abstracts all IM calls, and has several plugins to support more than 15 IM protocols (IRC included!); * Two modes: inetd and daemon fork; * Only IRC commands are used to control Minbif; * Certificates check; * Buddies are IRC users; * Each account has a status channel. You see in all connected buddies, and their status on it; * Add and remove buddies from list with /INVITE and /KICK commands; * Blocked users are bans on the account's status channel; * Display when a buddy is typing a message; * Can chat with someone who is not in your buddy list; * You can see buddies' icons (with libcaca) or download them; * DCC SEND an image to set your icon on IM networks; * Display extended information about buddies with /WII command; * Support away messages; * Can send and receive files, which are sent or received to/from your IRC client with DCC SEND; * Conversation channels are supported; * Auto-rejoin conversation channels at connection; * Display list of channels on an IM account with /LIST; * irssi scripts to increase your user experience of minbif; * CACAcam (webcam in ascii art). * CoinCoin plugin for libpurple. ChangeLog from previous rc2 release is: * Global proxy settings with the /ADMIN command. * Ability to set parameters when joining a conversation channel. * /STATS c: display all available parameters of a specific account. * Transliteration of buddies' IRC nicknames. * Handle mIRC format chars when sending a message. * gayattitude: new prpl-plugin. * coincoin: improvment. * accounts: fix auto-reconnection. * Fix: remove a status channel when there isn't any associated account. * Fix: fix crash when rehashing twice. * Fix: memory leaks. Now we're on the 1.1 road! 22 10

That's the final release

1 0 2009-10-28T17:15:52+01:00 This minor second release candiate adds mainly new little features to the *prpl-coincoin* plugin. Changelog: * Timestamps of delayed messages are bold formatted. * coincoin: fix bad-encoded xml files. * coincoin: display nickname of message sender before timestamps. About last feature, now when someone refers to a message with a timestamp, for example: <pre> 10:23:09 <blah> hey guys 10:28:43 <ho> 10:23:09 f0ck you </pre> The last message is replaced with: <pre> 10:28:43 <ho> blah: 10:23:09 f0ck you </pre> This increases readability. 21 10

New release with only some prpl-coincoin updates

1 0 2009-10-24T19:04:48+02:00 Less than two weeks of work, and a newer release of Minbif is available! Main change is ability to chat with channel members, and with other non-buddies guys (instead of receiving a notice). There is also a new libpurple plugin, some other minor features, and bugfixes, and code cleanup. Changelog: * Auto-rejoin channels when disconnect/reconnect to an IM account, or when restart minbif. * Channel users status changes are propagated to IRC user. * /TOPIC command to change the conversation channel topic. * Aibility to chat with a channel member. * When an unknown buddy tries to send a message, create a temporary IRC user to chat with him anyway. * /ADMIN log_level: change the log level. * can change ID and status channel of an account with /MAP EDIT. * /LIST <accid>: display list of channels for an account. * MSN protocol: use /JOIN #nickname:accid to create a group chat with a buddy. * prpl-coincoin: plugin to connect to a DaCode board. * Reorganization of CMakeLists.txt files. * Fix: Use libcaca 'irc' output for buddy icons. * Fix: Correctly send a ERR_NOSUCHCHANNEL reply when a channel can't be joined. * Fix: TYPING: send stale state to avoid the irssi's plugin to timeout. * Fix: crash when a notify field is NULL. Now there is a stabilisation period before the final 1.0 release, as soon as possible, I hope :) 19 10

Yes, the 1.0 is soon!

1 0 2009-10-23T12:52:05+02:00 I have really nothing to do, so today I did implemented a new libpurple plugin. It will interrest probably mainly frenches, because it is designed for mussels of the "linuxfr.org":http://linuxfr.org website. This plugin for libpurple and minbif is a DaCode board client, like wmcoincoin or so. To use it, read the [[CoinCoin]] documentation. 18 10

A new plugin designed for mussels.

1 0 2009-10-10T15:48:45+02:00 A little after the first *beta* release of Minbif, the second is today out. It wasn't planed, but the major new features urge me to release this. Firstly, the work about [[file transfers]] has continued and now files send is supported. User just needs to send a file with DCC to a buddy, and minbif gets it and send it to IM network. Unfortunatly, it needs to wait the DCC ends before begin to send it. A bonus track is, now as DCC SEND are supported, you can set your icon on every IM accounts with just DCC SEND the file to pseudo-user *buddyicon*. The second major feature is [[CACAcam]]. The last bugs have been fixed, and now you can see a buddy's webcam! It works only with libpurple2.6, and needs gstreamer. All frames are sent with DCC CHAT. An irssi script is available to display webcam frames in the buddy's query as you can see "here.":http://peerfuse.org/~rom1/cacacam_irssi.png Other new notable features are IPv6 support in daemon-fork mode, IRCop status to manage every minbif instances, or a tests system. Read the wiki documentation to know more about these new features. Changelog: * CACAcam works. * scripts/irssi/im_cacacam.pl: irssi script to display CACAcam in the buddy's query. * Files send supported (/DCC SEND). * Set accounts icon with /DCC SEND buddyicon. * Daemon-fork mode supports IPv6. * Display a MOTD at connection, or with the /MOTD command. * Parameter irc/buddy_icons_url to display an URL to download icon in /WHOIS. * /ADMIN away_idle (bool): enable/disable away when idling. * /SVSNICK: reject invalid nicks. * /MAP edit: edit an account. * /OPER: authenticate as an IRC operator. * /WALLOPS: oper command to send a wallops message to every launched minbif. * /DIE: kill every minbif instances. * /REHASH: reload configuration of every launched minbif. * Handle SIGHUP signal to reload configuration file. * IPC channel in daemon fork mode, to broadcast several commands. * Wrote tests system. * A buildbot is setup on http://buildbot.symlink.me * Fix: join MSN channels when invited (it's still buggous, but doesn't crash anymore). * Fix: memory leak with CACAImage. * Fix: crash when an alias is overrided by server. * Fix: iso-8859-15 charset crash. 17 10

Second beta of Minbif, the main new features are files send and CACAcam.

1 0 2009-09-28T19:50:27+02:00 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. 16 10

New release of the IRC instant messaging gateway.