Version 2.9 is available!

As usual, many new features and bug fixes, see ChangeLog for detail.

New major features in this release:

• add command "handshake" in weechat relay protocol and nonce to prevent replay attacks during authentication
• add command "completion" in weechat relay protocol
• add option relay.network.auth_timeout, add status "waiting_auth" in irc and weechat relay protocols
• add option "color_bg_inactive" in bars
• add bar items "buffer_nicklist_count_groups" and "buffer_nicklist_count_all"
• add key Alt+Enter to insert a newline, set default size for input bar to 0 (automatic)
• add a scalable WeeChat logo (SVG)
• add base 16/32/64 encoding/decoding in evaluation of expressions with "base_encode:base,xxx" and "base_decode:base,xxx"
• add case sensitive wildcard matching comparison operator ("==*" and "!!*") and case sensitive/insensitive include comparison operators ("==-", "!!-", "=-", "!-") in evaluation of expressions
• add keys Alt+Shift+B and Alt+Shift+N to toggle buflist/nicklist bars
• reload configuration files when the SIGHUP signal is received
• add API functions to complete words in command line
• evaluate option buflist.look.sort
• add support of "UTF8MAPPING" in IRC server
• display IRC "account" messages in buffers
• evaluate arguments when a trigger of type "command" is created
• enable again command "/guile eval"
• fix slow send of data to relay clients when SSL is enabled
• add CI with GitHub Actions
• run tests on plugins only if the plugins are enabled and compiled
• GnuTLS is now a required dependency
• disable build of JavaScript plugin by default, remove Debian package "weechat-javascript"
• many bugs fixed.

New options:

• irc.color.message_account
• irc.look.smart_filter_account
• relay.network.auth_timeout
• relay.network.nonce_size
• relay.network.password_hash_algo
• relay.network.password_hash_iterations
• weechat.bar.xxx.color_bg_inactive (one color per bar)

New keys:

• Alt+Enter: insert a newline
• Alt+Shift+B: toggle buflist
• Alt+Shift+N: toggle nicklist bar