Hi!

I’ve continued working on my IRC suite this month. Two of our extensions have been accepted in IRCv3: read-marker synchronizes read markers between multiple devices belonging to the same user, and channel-context adds a machine-readable tag to indicate the context of a message. Some other server and client developers have already implemented them!

soju has gained a few quality-of-life features. Thanks to gildarts, there is a new channel update -detached flag to attach or detach a channel, a new contrib/migrate-db script to migrate the database between backends, users can now delete their own account, and the user password hashes are upgraded when logging in. Additionally, read markers are broadcast using Web Push (to dismiss notifications when a message is read on another client), users can now set a default nickname to use for all networks, and the logic to regain the configured nick should work on servers missing MONITOR support (so I should no longer be stuck with “emersion_” on OFTC).

Goguma now supports irc:// URLs, so it should be easier to click on these links in various project pages. If the user hasn’t joined the target channel or network yet, a confirmation dialog will be displayed. In the network settings page, a new button opens a UI to authenticate on the IRC network. A ton of other minor fixes and improvements have been pushed as well.

I’ve released gamja 1.0 beta 6. This new version adds a settings dialog with options to customize how timestamps and chat events (join, part, and so on) are displayed.

In Wayland news, new Wayland and wayland-protocols releases have been shipped. The Wayland release includes an axis_value120 event for high-resolution wheel scrolling, the wayland-protocols releases includes the single-pixel-buffer and the xdg-shell wm_capabilities event I’ve talked about last month. I’ve posted a new color-representation protocol extension to improve YUV buffer presentation.

Now for the mixed bag of miscellaneous updates. mako 1.7 has been released, it includes support for multiple modes, which should make it possible to e.g. create a light/dark mode and do-not-disturb mode without conflicts. kimchi now supports live reloading its configuration file (previously a restart was necessary). dalligi now mirrors sr.ht build logs on GitLab (as seen for instance in this wlroots pipeline). Last but not least, [hut] has gained better webhook support thanks to Thorben Günther, and a more complete export functionality thanks to Drew DeVault.

That’s all for this month! No NPotM this time, sadly. See you!