Preferences and config saving:

• Overhauled preferences/config saving: fully staged and transactional, debounced with flush on close, write failures now surfaced.

GTK theme and UI:

• Overhauled GTK theme handling: live preview, correct colour reset persistence, proper file:// import paths, consistent menubar CSS.
• Fixed GTK entry scroll artifact in the input box.
• Split topic/mode rows in channel bar, tighten spacing, persist userlist column widths.
• Preserve saved right-pane size on first layout.
• Fixed sounds prefs section.
• Fixed chanview tree layout and header alignment; tighten topic URL hit-testing.

Tray:

• Hardened tray menu lifetime; fixed stale pointer crash on menu destruction.
• Fixed AppIndicator tray init for Wayland/source builds; skip redundant X11 tray probe for AppIndicator builds.

Build and packaging:

• Dropped realpath() in favour of GLib-only absolute path build.
• Made About dialog links explicit; added GPL licence URL.
• Added licence headers to new source files.
• Windows installer: fixed VC++ redist URL, added non-plugin download fallback, switched to registry-based runtime detection.
• Made libayatana-appindicator a required dep in PKGBUILD.
• Cleaned up Meson libperl detection.

Version metadata update:

• Bumped release version references to 2.18.0~pre5 across build and packaging files.

UI fixes, topic bar improvements, and selection styling updates:

• Fixed a regression where Ctrl+A could incorrectly mark you away instead of selecting all text.
• Fixed a crash when toggling the GUI with F9 or the menu toggle action.
• Fixed sidebar collapse behavior on fresh installs.
• Added multiline topic bar support with clickable URLs.
• Improved GTK selection styling so text selection is shown visually in the topic bar and chat input box.

GTK3 theming, UI, and platform improvements:

• Added a major GTK3 theming overhaul with improved theme importing, inheritance, rollback safety, and caching.
• Merged theme settings into Appearance and added a new Advanced section.
• Added a full color editor and improved widget, chat text, userlist, and tab color handling.
• Added colors.conf import support and improved compatibility with older themes.
• Improved chat background image handling and switched to a native file picker.
• Bundled more built-in icons, including OK/Cancel, and improved emoji fallback support.
• Embedded the app SVG icon and improved headerbar icon handling.
• Fixed KDE Wayland alert flashing.
• Fixed tray hide/restore labels so tray state stays in sync with the real window state.
• Fixed several GTK3 styling issues, warning spam, and imported CSS cleanup problems.
• Removed menubar icons and simplified Away menu behavior.
• Improved Flatpak behavior on KDE and enabled Python/Perl plugin support.
• Manual addons now persist properly by being copied into the user addon directory.
• Updated the bundled server list and added a checker script for server list maintenance.

Compatibility and UI improvements:

• Added HexChat plugin compatibility improvements.
• Fixed the user info right-click menu so it updates properly.
• Added support for emoji characters in alert highlights.
• Removed remaining unused GTK2 code paths.

Packaging and GTK3 improvements:

• Switched Debian package builds to GTK 3.
• Added split-package install manifests for Debian outputs.
• Fixed unassigned Debian package files (man page and MIME XML).
• Updated Debian CI artifact upload handling for GitHub Actions v4.
• Improved GTK3 channel/user list font consistency when applying theme updates.

Fixes and minor features:

• STS handling now persists server policies, enforces upgrades more consistently, and falls back to current ports when needed.
• Windows build workflow updated (MSYS2 setup changes) and OpenSSL trust store handling tightened for safer TLS connections.
• Reduced GLib coupling in multiple Windows subsystems (spellcheck, history, sysinfo) plus small stability fixes.

Fixes and minor features:

• SNI extension handling: RFC 6066-compliant validation (ASCII-only hostnames; skips IP literals) before setting SNI on SSL connections.
• Logs an SSL message when an invalid SNI host name is skipped to aid troubleshooting.
• Theme support integrated into Preferences; removed the standalone Theme Manager application.
• Added colour emoji support and an emoji selector menu.
• Updated bundled Python to v3.14.2.
• Fixed newline issues affecting syncing of Windows/Linux server list files.

Known issues:

• Opening a theme file (.zct or .hct) spawns a new ZoiteChat instance during import; import succeeds but leaves an extra window open.
• Colour emojis render in all builds except Windows (GTK2 limitation/issue on Windows).

This is a release with small fixes:

• Changes to Auto Replace. Will make matches in almost any scenario, Pasted, typed, beginning, end or middle of words/scentences etc.

This is a release with small improvements and fixes:

• First implementation of dark mode.

This is a minor release with small improvements and fixes:

• Start of Zoitechat code base. Forked from Hexchat.
• Fixed flatpak python plugin causing freezing.

This is a minor release with small improvements and fixes:

• Add support for SCRAM SASL mechanisms
• Add option to hide nick from window title
• Change SERVER command to default to TLS, adding an "-insecure" argument
• Increase max server password length to 1024
• Fix detecting some URLS causing a crash

This is a minor release with mostly bug-fixes:

• Add `-NOOVERRIDE` flag to the `GUI COLOR` command
• Add `-q` (quiet) flag to the `EXECWRITE` command
• Rename installed icon to match app-id (Fixes notification icon)
• Fix escaping already escaped URLs when opening them
• Fix Python scripts not being opened as UTF-8
• Fix `TIMER` command supporting decimals regardless of locale

This is a feature release:

• Add support for IRCv3 SETNAME, invite-notify, account-tag, standard replies, and UTF8ONLY
• Add support for strikethrough formatting
• Fix text clipping issues by respecting font line height
• Fix URLs not being escaped when opened
• Fix possible hang when showing notifications
• Print ChanServ notices in the front tab by default
• Update network list
• python: Rewrite plugin improving memory usage and compatibility
• fishlim: Add support for CBC and other improvements

This is a bug-fix release:

• Fix various incorrect parsing of IRC messages relating to trailing parameters
• Fix SASL negotiation combined with multi-line cap
• Fix input box theming with Yaru theme
• python: Work around Python 3.7 regression causing crash on unload
• sysinfo: Add support for /etc/os-release
• sysinfo: Ignore irrelevant mounts when calculating storage size

This is a minor release:

• Remove shift+click to close tab binding
• Always unminimize when opening from tray
• Fix some translations containing invalid text events
• Fix sending server passwords starting with ":"

This is a very minor bug-fix release:

• Fix performance regression

This is largely a bug fix release though it has some large behind the scenes changes:

• Rename data files to use *net.zoite.Zoitechat* name
• Add option (irc_reconnect_rejoin) to disable auto-rejoin on reconnect
• Add ability to set custom tray icon separate of app icon
• Fix Enchant 2.0+ support
• Fix input box theming with Adwaita-dark
• Fix custom sounds not respecting omit if away option
• Fix detecting if a tray doesn't exist on x11
• Fix cutting off ctcp text after ending \01
• Fix /ignore not accepting full hosts
• Fix characters getting cut off when their width changes
• Fix various possible crashes
• Change preference window to be scroll-able
• Remove ctrl+w binding by default
• doat: Fix channels with / in them
• fishlim: Fix key exchange
• fishlim: Fix building against LibreSSL
• sysinfo: Fix pci.ids file not being found on some distros
• sysinfo: Make libpci optional
• lua: Avoid loading the same script multiple times
• Update translations

This is another bug fix release:

• Fix issue with timers causing ping timeouts
• Fix building against OpenSSL 1.1
• Fix /exec output printing invalid utf8
• Replace doat plugin with an internal command
• Change how tab colors interact with plugins
• Enable filtering the beep character by default

This is a minor bug fix release just cleaning up a few issues:

• Fix crash with bad translations
• Add new mhop command
• Change ping timeout to 60 by default