Convos version 0.99_33 is out with bugfixes

Version 0.99_33 has been released with a bunch of updates. Run the install command to get the latest version!

IRC servers with credentials

A Convos user reported in that username/password was not handled correctly when you click "Save". The existing logic at the time was very complicated and therefor also very buggy. The idea was that the password submitted on web should not be sent back to the web interface, because of security concerns. This logic is now changed, since we think there's no issue sending the password over the web as long as you protect your Convos installation with HTTPS.

And you do protect Convos with HTTPS, right..?

Online/offline state for private dialogs

Version 0.99_31 was released with a new method to detect if the user in a private dialog is online or not: Convos now uses the ISON command instead of WHOIS. This change was introduced since ISON is a much lighter command to run, and simply answers the question we want to know: Is this user online? The problem with "ISON" is that the returned data looks like this:

:hybrid8.debian.local 303 test21362 :
:hybrid8.debian.local 303 test21362 :superman

The first reply is for an offline user, while the second is for a user that is online. This looks quite sane, but it does not seem like the IRC server returns the ISON reply in the same order as it is sent, so it's hard to track if the offline response was for "superman" or some other nick, before you have received all the replies. This logic is now improved in version 0.99_33 and seems to work as expected.

I wonder if I have misunderstood something. Please contact me, if you have any information regarding this.

Active user tracking

Users in a channel has improved "active" tracking, which means that Convos will track users who was active as well as currently active users. This helps the autocomplete to order the nick list by last seen in the dialog. Pressing "tab" will now autocomplete the last user who said anything in the dialog, which makes sense since it's probably the person you want to reply to.

As a sidenote: The autocomplete has a better matcher for emojis, so you don't need to remember the emoji name exactly by name.

Enjoy!

Hope you enjoy these changes! Like to see your favorite chat feature implemented? Then get involved. Need some help? Ask us in #convos on irc.libera.chat.