BitlBee 3.6

IRC/Core

• Add server-time IRCv3 capability
• Add PROXY command for haproxy/stunnel
• Large performance improvements for large contact lists
• Many UX/documentation improvements
• Added built-in crash handler that writes to /var/lib/bitlbee/crash.log
• Try to join long spaceless lines in paste_buffer without a newline. The main use case for this is pasting long URLs and not breaking them
• Fix status message being set to null accidentally
• Fix handling utf8 nick renames when loading configs
• Fix SSL's SNI with hostnames starting with a digit
• Show correct nick when rename -del is used

Twitter

• Disable the stream setting by default. Filter streams still work.
• Update default character limit to 280 chars
• Fix quote tweet url display.

Jabber

• Try to join anyway after "Already present in chat"
• Fix chat joins when ext_jid is provided for your own user. Seen with Biboumi (a gateway from XMPP to IRC)
• Handle always_use_nicks more gracefully to reduce nick change noise

OTR

• Don't block attempts to connect/smp/smpq to "offline" users

Removed dead protocols

• msn: Use the skypeweb purple plugin instead.
• skype (the dbus based thing): ditto.
• yahoo: It's so dead even the replacement protocol died.
• oscar: AIM is dead, for ICQ use the icyque purple plugin instead.

For plugin devs

• Add datadir to pkgconfig file and config.h
• Add "bitlbee-set-account-password" purple signal (for hangouts)
• Support libpurple 2.12.0's PURPLE_MESSAGE_REMOTE_SEND for groupchat self-messages (for slack)

Packaging/distro specific stuff

• bitlbee@.service now sends stderr to syslog instead of the socket
• debian: only enable bitlbee.service, not bitlbee.socket too
• cygwin: portability fixes for plugins
• Support OpenSSL 1.1 built without backwards compat