SILC Plugin 1.0.1

The new version of the SILC Plugin is now available!  The source package
of the software is available from the following sources:

        http://silcnet.org/
        ftp://ftp.silcnet.org/

The SILC Plugin 1.0.1, has been released.  This release fixes several
minor bugs and inconveniences found since SILC Plugin 1.0 release.

When you are upgrading from a prior release to SILC Plugin 1.0.1, there
is one issues you have to take special care of:

The filename used to store the session data when /DETACH'ing has
changed. If you have detached from a SILC network with your old client
and want to resume the session with SILC Plugin 1.0.1, you first have to

	/SET session_filename session

After successfully resuming your session, you can revert the setting to
its default "session.$chatnet" again.

Besides this, the whole build process has been replaced by a new one.
There is no automake/autoconf ruleset anymore which will guide you
through the process of compiling the plugin but a detailed description
of what you have to do.

This has two reasons, first of all, this versions adds a perl module
Irssi::Silc which required large changes to the build process anyway.
The other reason is that the old method didn't work on NetBSD or Solaris
systems. This limitation is now overcome. I may eventually automate the
build process again, but actually, I'm quite happy with the way it's
done now.

Summary of Changes
------------------

o /NOTICE and /ACTION command now both take a mandatory target argument
  and an option -sign flag.  Both work in channels and queries, /IGNORE
  now correctly treats both.  default.theme has changed, please update
  your theme.  Closes #1.

o /SILCNET [ADD|REMOVE|LIST] command to manage different SILC networks.

o /SMSG and /MMSG now correctly open new query windows if wished.

o New settings session_filename defines the filename used to store
  session information generated by /DETACH.  A setting like
  session.$chatnet allows you to detach from different networks.

The full list of changes is available on the website and in CHANGES file
in the SILC Client source package.


Installation
------------

The source package is compiled and installed as instructed in the README
file found from the package.


Known Issues
------------

- Known Issues in SILC Client

  - It is possible that some times the user list is not printed or is
    printed as incomplete when joining to a channel.  This is due to a
    failure in the user resolvings and can happen for example when some
    user quits the network at the same time you join the channel.  In
    this case the failure of the resolving may leave the user list
    printing incomplete.

  - It is possible that some notifications, such as channel join,
    are not delivered to user interface due to same resolving reason as
    described above.

kind regards
-- jochen


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