Version 0.11.1

New Features

Implemented a 2-D game engine and accompanying API with basic network support. Four games are included: Centipede, Snake, Conway's Game of Life, and Chess (online support only). The game module does not require additional libraries and is enabled by default build options. It can be disabled with the DISABLE_GAMES=1 build flag.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare race condition related to sound notifications
• When a window is closed, the previous window is selected instead of the Home window
• The /clear command now works in the Home window

Version 0.10.1

New Features

• Add ability to customize Toxic's colour scheme via config file

Bug fixes

• No longer announce when "ghost peers" exit a conference (this is caused by connection issues)
• Fix off-by-one error related to text scrolling
• Fix minor display bug with the A/V call info box
• Fix bug sometimes causing join announcement spam on conference join

Other changes

• Renamed some Makefile variables for consistency
• Added a build script for creating minimal static binaries

Version 0.10.0

New Features

• A complete UI overhaul (Before, After)
• Window no longer scrolls on output if the output is not already at the bottom of the window
• Show a small indicator in the bottom left of the window tab when output scrolling is paused
• Show join/part messages in conferences (this was removed in recent years but has now been re-implemented)

Bug fixes

• Fix bug causing notification counter in window tab to increment by 2 on certain events

Other changes

• Removed some unnecessary compile flags for ASAN builds (These flags are currently only necessary when compiling with -O3; the release build compiles with -O2)
• Updated some default settings and config example entries to reflect recent changes
• Attempt to handle nanosleep() errors

Version 0.9.1

New features

• Added a push-to-talk option for audio conferences (audio config setting: push_to_talk)
• Added config setting allowing audio input to be set to mono or stereo (audio config settings: chat_audio_channels and conference_audio_channels respectively)

Improvements

• Conferences now have persistent logs which behave identically to normal chat logs
• Implemented word wrapping
• The info bar showing active chats now minimizes the window tab name unless highlighted, allowing for many more windows to be open simultaneously without having them run off the screen
• Chat tabs in the bottom bar now show the number of unread messages

Bug fixes

• Fix bug that caused the window to occasionally not scroll down the correct number of lines on output
• Fix bug sometimes preventing typing status from being updated
• Fix bug causing glitchy sound notifications introduced in v0.9.0
• Fix bug causing an empty message to be sent when a message fails internally to convert from widechar to multibyte
• Fix bug causing tab complete to fail to complete a file/directory's line if there was only one item in the directory
• Fix bug causing empty chat log files to be created when logging is disabled

Other changes

• Added Makefile options for building with a release build (optimizations enabled and debug symbols disabled) and for building with LLVM Address Sanitizer (ENABLE_RELEASE=1 and ENABLE_ASAN=1 respectively)
• Removed seconds from the default timestamp format
• Removed code for an unfinished/stale X11 feature (Drag 'n drop) and refactored remaining X11 screen focus code

Version 0.9.0

New features

• Conference audio chats

Bug fixes

• Fix use after free bug on audio calls
• Fix bug causing file names for incoming file transfers to be truncated if they were too long
• Fix bug preventing failed inbound file transfers from being properly cleaned up in some instances
• No longer allow invalid Posix file names for inbound file transfers
• Fix race condition causing a null dereference in some instances related to desktop notifications
• Fix rare bug where toxic would send its avatar as a regular file transfer after a peer has a network hickup during the initial avatar file transfer

Other changes

• Audio implementation re-write
• Refactor and greatly speed up outbound message queue
• Greatly reduce stack memory allocations to ensure compatibility with musl's smaller default stack limit
• Switch to using c99 standard from gnu99
• Convert all variable length arrays to dynamic allocations (Toxic no longer uses VLA's for memory safety reasons)
• Remove legacy code for backwards compatible tox save files created >5 years ago
• Replaced deprecated usleep function with nanosleep
• Rename groupchats -> conferences
• Lots of misc. code cleanup and refactoring

Version 0.8.4

New features

• Add config option to set data file auto-save frequency
• Add option for toxcore logging
• Add ability to log to file
• Add option to disable LAN
• Add ability to skip words in input field via ctrl+left/right arrows

Bug fixes

• Fix bug preventing bell notifications from working when compiled without X11
• Fix auto-complete bugs
• Fix A/V bug sometimes preventing caller from being informed of call termination
• Fix A/V related build issues
• Fix segfault on starting video
• Fix groupchat peer scrolling bug
• Fix bug preventing saved conference titles from loading on startup

Other changes

• Change group peerlist scrolling key binding to ctrl+up/down arrows
• No longer allow using the /add command for friends in the block list
• Many misc. build fixes/improvements

Version 0.8.3

• Enclosing quotes are no longer required for multi-word command arguments or file paths
• Improved issues related to long message send delays in poor network conditions
• Allow for empty status messages
• Fixed tab-complete bug that added a forward slash to files with no file extension
• Fixed OSX build issues
• Various build/portability improvements
• Update/improve install instructions
• Numerous minor bug fixes and optimization improvements

Version 0.8.2

This release is primarily to support the updated Toxcore API as of Toxcore version 0.2.x

• Remove usage of deprecated Toxcore API functions
• Add support for persistent groups (scheduled for Toxcore version 0.2.1)
• Refactor groupchats in accordance with API changes (Regression: no longer have peer join/leave notifications)
• Fix autocomplete bug that was printing blank space instead of listing matches when using the /sendfile command
• Added a .travis file for future use
• Makefile fixes for compatibility with building Toxcore with cmake (note: Toxic will no longer compile if Toxcore is compiled with autotools which is considered deprecated)
• Fixed a bug causing a crash when calling certain friends

Version 0.8.1

• Added a new command /bitrate that allows one to change the audio bitrate
• Fixed compiling issues for *BSD systems
• The /status command now prints a message indicating the status has been changed
• Fix issue with redundant UI redrawing that would cause flickering on some systems
• The /lsdev command refreshes the device list in the event that the available devices have changed
• UI, formatting, and general bug fixes

Version 0.8.0

• Added python scripting interface (see documentation in apidoc directory)
• Added run option to show toxic/toxcore version and removed them from the interface
• Minor misc. fixes