This update provides both new features and bugfixes. Because some of the bugfixes fix crashes and config data loss situations, I'm calling this as a bugfix update.

Your backlog when you join a channel or pm someone (if you use that feature) will change color to a dark gray with this new release. I find this very hard to read, as my terminal background is black, so I changed the color setting to "default".

New major features in this release: add terminal "bracketed paste mode" add IRC "external" SASL mechanism improve parsing of IRC channel modes (do not send extra command "MODE" to server) follow symbolic links for configuration files (*.conf) new option weechat.look.prefix_same_nick (hide same prefix for multiple consecutive messages from same nick) add colors for backlog lines redirect IRC messages from clients to hide output (relay plugin, IRC protocol) add a connection timeout for child process in hook_connect fix display bugs and crashs with small windows fix truncated configuration files (zero-length) after system crash

New options: logger.color.backlog_line logger.color.backlog_end weechat.look.paste_bracketed weechat.look.paste_bracketed_timer_delay weechat.look.prefix_same_nick weechat.network.connection_timeout

Options changed: weechat.look.prefix_align_more (from boolean to string) weechat.look.prefix_buffer_align_more (from boolean to string)

New keys: meta2-200~ = "/input paste_start" (start of bracketed paste) meta2-201~ = "/input paste_stop" (end of bracketed paste)

Note: to add missing keys, you can use command /key missing