What's new in Dirt 1.0.0 Alpha 28
Apr 11, 2013
- Added password protection (for shared computers). The password can be defined either as text or as a SHA-1 or MD5 hash. See "dirt.ini" and the "Configuring Dirt" chapter in the manual.
- Added rudimentary SOCKS v5 firewall support for passworded connections. It will listen on port 10588 by default.
- Added decryption of logged messages by psyBNC through /playprivatelog.
- Fixed a serious bug with /sendkey (to send channel keys) that would send the key in plain text in some cases.
- Fixed the bug on unix-like systems where dirt.ini and dirt.key would be duplicated to the working directory (very rare except with the --user and --group options).
- Several minor bug fixes and alchemical refinements.
New in Dirt 1.0.0 Alpha 27 (Mar 18, 2013)
- Added channel topic encryption/decryption. Decryption is automatic
- Use the "/dirt topic" command when you want to set an encrypted topic on a
- channel
- It is now compilable and fully working on x64 architectures
- Added --user=X and --group=X parameters to the unix version (for use in
- shell scripts running as root:root)
- The configuration file (dirt.ini) will not ever be overwritten by Dirt
- anymore. But it is still generated if it doesn't already exist and upgraded
- by the Windows installer (using the old one as a reference)
- All changes in dirt.ini will be recognized on "/dirt load"
- The executable is now dirtirc[.exe]. The program is still titled "Dirt"
- this is to separate it from other programs with the same name
- Improved the help system quite a bit
- Added wildcard matching for /keys, /showkey and /showkeytext (you can list
- known channel keys with /keys #* for example)
- A whole lot of bug fixes, optimizations and improvements here and there
New in Dirt 1.0.0 Alpha 26 (Feb 21, 2013)
- Restored the classic systray icons on Windows (due to a general preference in qualitative and quantative studies, involving almost two test subjects, and to help out people with colour blindness or greyscale display devices).
- Changed the message prefixes that are used by default (for better contrast against most backgrounds).
New in Dirt 1.0.0 Alpha 25 (Feb 21, 2013)
- Changed the way that the info messages are sent to the client to make it work with some (buggy) mIRC theme systems.
- As always, a bunch of minor optimizations, clarifications and cosmetical touches have been made.
New in Dirt 1.0.0 Alpha 24 (Feb 21, 2013)
- Changed the location of the ini/key files on Windows, they are now located under "%APPDATA%\Dirt".
- Old ini/key files will be imported automatically when starting Dirt, with a message telling the user of the new location.
- Fixed a bug that would overwrite dirt.ini with defaults in some cases.
New in Dirt 1.0.0 Alpha 23 (Feb 21, 2013)
- Fixed a major bug with /sendkey (not security-related however).
New in Dirt 1.0.0 Alpha 22 (Feb 21, 2013)
- Added full support for nick and channel aliases. Check the /addalias and /removealias commands. All commands will accept either the original name or an alias when specifying a nick or channel name.
- Very long outgoing text (currently that's anything longer than 256 characters when unencrypted) will now be split into several messages when using FiSH encryption. This means that you can send messages of almost) any length without risking that the IRC server cuts them off. Improved the support for dircproxy time stamps when reading encrypted message logs (dates are supported now).