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version 0.9.9.12 released: 31 Oct 2009

removed apparent openssl chunk size limit
win32 compile fixes (WIN32 –> _WIN32)
defined DLL_EXPORT in Code::Blocks project file
SChannel::decrypt(): defer cleanup in error case
SChannel: support over-sized TLS fragments

version 0.9.9.11 released: 22 Oct 2009

fixed potential crash in SOCKS5BytestreamManager

version 0.9.9.10 released: 19 Oct 2009

fixed potential crash in Rostermanager::fill() (when reusing the RosterManager)
fixed gnutls check in configure.ac (using pkg-config)

version 0.9.9.9 released: 23 Sep 2009

fixed SChannel on NT4
fixed configure.ac tests for FreeBSD
preliminary workaround for connection problems when using recent OpenSSL + gtalk
accept DLL_EXPORT

version 0.9.9.8 released: 16 Aug 2009

support tls zlib compresion with openssl (wrong magic number used)
fixed setting client cert/key in gnutls
properly exported InstantMUCRoom and UniqueMUCRoom (GLOOX_API)
added MUCRoom::setRoomConfig()

version 0.9.9.7 released: 07 Mar 2009

#define GLOOX_IMPORTS for the examples, fixes compilation in MinGW
removed use of deprecated ns_get16()
allow destruction of a MUC room if not currently in the room

version 0.9.9.6 released: 28 Feb 2009

prevent crashes when closing a MUCRoom
compile fix for gcc 4.4, fixes debian bug 505333
MacOS compile fix
fixed a potential crash when the server sends no ‘version’ attribute in the opening stream

version 0.9.9.5 released: 22 Mar 2008

added Parser::reset()
added Client::login()
fixed detection of res_query (Gentoo bug #212316)

version 0.9.9.4 released: 05 Mar 2008

MUCRoom: don’t leak a MessageSession on presence error
compile fix for gcc 4.3 (thanks to Cyril Brulebois)

version 0.9.9.3 released: 18 Jan 2008

MUCRoom: properly recover after nick name conflict
TLSSChannel: properly recover after disconnect

version 0.9.9.2 released: 17 Jan 2008

fix for gcc 4.3 compile fix

version 0.9.9.1 released: 16 Jan 2008

gcc 4.3 compile fix

version 0.9.9 released: 16 Jan 2008

MUCRoom: fixed finding the ‘delayed delivery’ stamp
MUCRoom: fixed adding of chat history to rooms
Client: fixed TLSRequired policy
RosterManager: fixed (removed) ‘from’ attribute for subscription stanzas
call removeIDHandler() from more places
VCard: work around MIME-like photo/logo formatting
TLSOpenSSL: provide date_from/date_to in certinfo

version 0.9.8 released: 07 Dec 2007

InbandBytestreamManager: marked as deprecated
InbandBytestreamManager: fixed ID tracking
MessageSession: added setThreadID()
better overall MinGW support

version 0.9.7 released: 13 Nov 2007

InbandBytestreamManager: marked as deprecated
InbandBytestreamManager: fixed ID tracking
MessageSession: added setThreadID()
better overall MinGW support

version 0.9.6.1 released: 25 Oct 2007

win32 build fix

version 0.9.6 released: 25 Oct 2007

fixed position of GLOOX_DEPRECATED macro in tag.h
ClientBase: added private copy & assignment ctors
SOCKS5Bytestream: recognize established connections (when using local streamhost)
SOCKS5BytestreamServer: avoid a crash when a connection is closed prematurely
SIProfileFTHandler, SIHandler, SOCKS5BytestreamHandler: pass SID to handle*Error() functions
CompressionZlib: made thread-safe
ConnectionTCPBase: avoid multi-threading issue in recv()/disconnect()/cleanup()
TLSSChannel: fixed off-by-one error

version 0.9.5 released: 27 Sep 2007
general changes and additions:

do not allow store()’ing of empty PrivacyList (aka removeList)
do not return on error in PrivacyManager::handleIqID()
JID: added operator bool()
Tag: added operator bool()
DelayedDelivery: added setReason()
skip zlib tests if zlib is not available

deprecated functions:

JID::fullJID(), use ctor
JID::empty(), use operator bool()
Tag::empty(), use operator bool()
XDelayedDelivery::XDelayedDelivery( JID, string, string ), the spec is deprecated, use DelayedDelivery
DelayedDelivery::setBody(), typo, use setReason()

version 0.9.4.1 released: 15 Aug 2007

ClientBase: fix TLS wrapper instantiation

version 0.9.4 released: 14 Aug 2007

ChatStateHandler: make sure to never send the same chat state twice in a row
Tag: make ctors explicit
ClientBase: added setTls( TLSPolicy ) to allow enforcing of TLS
ClientBase: deprecated setTls( bool )
conform to XEP-0170 (Recommended Order of Stream Feature Negotiation)
ConnectionTCPBase: avoid race condition in cleanup()
ConnectionTCPBase: reset byte counters on disconnect
DataFormBase: added addField( DataFormFieldType, … )
DataFormField: added addOption( string, string )
MUCRoom: fix potential crash in dtor
SHA: fix potential crash in hex()
MUCRoom: fix detection of nick changes
UniqueMUCRoom: fix creation of unique room names
XPath: support expressions like /abc[@foo=’bar’]/def[@bar=’foo’]
MessageFilter: enabled writing of custom MessageFilters
ChatStateFilter: made members protected
MessageSession: added resetResource()
Search: made members protected
DNS: re-use server port if setsockopt() is available
XPath: accept any characters in string literals
Tag: deprecated relax() and escape()

version 0.9.3 released: 18 Jul 2007

SOCKS5BytestreamManager: include error child in IQ of type error
allow a default value to be set for data form fields of type FieldTypeListSingle (thanks to Roelof Naude)
DelayedDelivery: fixed SE type
Registration: fixed error handling
Parser: disallow “, ‘ and > again for full XMPP compliance
XPath: accept @ in string literals

version 0.9.2 released: 23 Jun 2007

Parser: accept ‘ and > in attribute values and cdata (reverted in 0.9.3)
Parser: log parse errors
SIManager, SIProfileFT: return requested stream’s id (SID)
SIProfileFTHandler: new argument: stream’s ID (SID)

version 0.9.1 released: 20 Jun 2007

MessageSession: fix potential crash when ClientBase deletes MessageSessions in its dtor
DNS: increase verbosity if no SRV record found
ClientBase: avoid double call of onDisconnect() under rare circumstances
ClientBase: reply with ‘service-unavailable’ to unhandled IQs
documentation updates and fixes
ClientBase: avoid disconnect loop if TLS failed
Client: added Session Creation event

version 0.9 released: 17 Jun 2007

rewrote XML parser (no dependency on iksemel anymore)
XEP-0045 (Multi-User Chat)
XEP-0065 (SOCKS5 Bytestreams)
XEP-0095 (Stream Initiation)
XEP-0096 (File Transfer)
added StanzaExtensions: XEP-0027 (Current Jabber OpenPGP Usage) abstraction, XEP-0066 (Out of Band Data) abstraction, XEP-0091 (Delayed Delivery) abstraction, XEP-0153 (vCard-Based Avatars) abstraction, XEP-0203 (Delayed Delivery) abstraction
SOCKS5 proxy support (RFC 1928), incl. username/password auth (RFC 1929)
HTTP proxy support, incl. Basic auth support
Tag: basic XPath support
fixed/finished native TLS support on win32 (thanks to Tobias Markmann)
added msec timeout to recv()
Client: fetch roster immediately after requesting roster:delimiter
Registration: allow registration with services
implement dataforms as list of pointers to DataformFields
ClientBase: cleaner Stanza deleting
Adhoc: full Adhoc support
Disco::getDiscoItems() and ::getDiscoInfo() take JIDs instead of std::strings
Tag: added virtual void addChild( const Tag *child )
DataForm: added ::type()
RosterManager: take JIDs in un/subscribe()/add()
RosterListener: announce JIDs, not std::strings
DataFormBase: added addField() to add a single field
DNS: SRV record resolving on win32 (thanks to Marc Rousseau)
Client: removed setInitialPriority() and setAutoPresence() in favour of setPresence()
support for SASL authorization id != authentication id
Disco: added removeFeature()
Tag: added setAttributes()
merged patch by Marc Rousseau to distiguish between incoming and outgoing Tags/Stanzas
moved several structs and enums into gloox namespace (mostly from *Handlers)
move Resource into gloox namespace (from RosterItem)
MessageEventFilter: fixed a bug where error messages triggered events
MessageEventFilter: honor feature-not-implemented error
Connection: included server name in dns error message (–> ‘server.tld: connection refused’)
ClientBase: onDisconnect() gets called if the connection got refused or DNS error occurred
statistics interface (connection/compression/encryption statistics and status, etc)
Tag: added ‘TagList findChildren( std::string& )’
Disco: lifted limit of one DiscoNodeHandler per Node
Parser: install parser.h
Tag: added operator== & operator!=
ClientBase: added setCompression( bool ) to switch stream compression on/off
renamed Stanza::show() –> Stanza::presence()
RosterListener: moved Roster to gloox namespace
RosterListener: new handleRosterPresence() replaces itemUn/Available() and presenceUpdated()
RosterListener: added handleSelfPresence()
RosterListener: added ‘handle’ prefix to function names
MessageHandler: handleMessage() takes optional MessageSession arg
DiscoNodeHandler: added DiscoNodeItem to properly represent a disco#item
ClientBase: removed setAutoMessageSession() in favor of registerMessageSessionHandler()
PrivacyItem: renamed enum members from ALL_UPPER_CASE to MixedCase
PrivateXMLHandler: renamed enum members from ALL_UPPER_CASE to MixedCase
MessageSession: added filtering by message type
AdhocHandler: added ‘handleAdhoc’ prefix
Adhoc: handle Disco errors
removed unmaintained Dev-C++ project (in favor of Code::Blocks project)
ClientBase: added whitespacePing()
DNS: cleanup
TagHandler: now receives Tag, not Stanza
Parser: cleanup, now uses TagHandler
ClientBase: added removeIDHandler() to cancel trackID() operations
added DataFormField( const std::string&, const std::string&, const std::string&, DataFormFieldType );
ClientBase: added setSASLMechanisms()
revamped and modularized the entire connection backend
Adhoc: added JID to Adhoc item (thanks to Roelof Naude)
MUCRoom: fixed memleak (thanks to Roelof Naude)
ClientBase: added registerPresenceHandler( const JID& jid, PresenceHandler *ph )
MUCRoomParticipant: added ‘status’ member to hold the presence’s status message
ClientBase/MessageSession: conform to XEP-0201
ClientBase: don’t delete a MessageSession manually, use ClientBase::disposeMessageSession()
MessageSession: don’t delete a MessageFilter manually, use MessageSession::disposeMessageFilter()
JID: added fullJID() & bareJID(), returning JID objects
Stanza: added setThread()
MUCRoomParticipant: added status member
VCardManager: allow cancellation of VCard operations
ConnectionListener/Client/Component: added stream events/onStreamEvent()
ClientBase: removed fileDescriptor(). Use ConnectionTCP instead.
Search::search(): Dataform *form –> const DataForm& form
Registration: fixed createAccount( const DataForm& form ) to do something useful
ported to Win CE/Mobile (experimental). see README.wince
ClientBase::setServer: update’s Connection(Base)’s server as well
VCard: const *List& *() –> *List& *() to allow modification
Disco: minor spec compliance fixes
Adhoc: minor spec compliance fixes
Tag: added ctors to easily create a single attribute
ConnectionTCP: protected send() and recv() with simple Mutexes
GCC 4.3 compile fixes
OpenSSL: check cert dates
Parser: don’t throw parse error on incoming
SIProfileFT: fixed ranged file transfers
Disco: more spec compliance fixes
DataFormField: added addValue()
Stanza: removed clone(), use: new Stanza( Tag* ); Tag::clone() is not affected
RosterManager: added cancel()
RosterManager: split unsubscribe() into unsubscribe() + remove()
Client: added presence(), status()
RosterListener: added handleRosterError()
PrivacyListHandler: handle unknown errors
TLSOpenSSL: don’t throw handshake errors if the connection was closed by the server
allow manual deletion of MessageSessions again (thanks to Martin Milata) (reverted in 0.9.1)

version 0.8.9 released: 08 Aug 2007

Registration: fixed error handling

version 0.8.8 released: 24 Apr 2007

ClientBase/Client/NonSaslAuth: made re-connect-safe
MessageEventFilter: fixed sending of MessageEventCancel
MessageEventFilter: fixed handling of IDs
ChatStateFilter: fixed hypothetical revival of chat states
Connection: fixed timeout conversion
Connection: fixed ‘valid from’ and ‘valid to’ with gnutls
compile fix for gcc 4.3 (thanks to Martin Michlmayr)
Registration: fixed createAccount( const DataForm& form ) to do something useful

version 0.8.7 released: 06 Mar 2007

ClientBase: allow cancellation of ID tracking
VCardManager: allow cancellation of VCard operations
ClientBase: avoid onDisconnect() being called twice

version 0.8.6 released: 14 Dec 2006

Tag: proper escaping of names/attributes/cdata (thanks to Marc Rousseau)
VCardManager: call handleVCard if VCard is empty
ClientBase: some disconnect fixes (thanks to Marc Rousseau)
Adhoc: de-registration of commands

version 0.8.5 released: 10 Nov 2006

RosterManager: keep Roster up-to-date even if no RosterListener is registered
ClientBase: only log stanzas if actually sent
ClientBase: more correct return value on disconnect

version 0.8.4 released: 18 Sep 2006

compile fix for Mac OS X (thanks to Geoff Schmidt)

version 0.8.3 released: 14 Sep 2006

ClientBase: added whitespace ping()
VCard: fixed typo (vcard –> vCard)

version 0.8.2 released: 11 Sep 2006

find dn_skipname on Mac OS X (thanks to Geoff Schmidt)
look for libgnutls-config in specified path, if given
fixed compilation on SkyOS
maybe-fixed resolver on HPUX
experimental native TLS support on win32

version 0.8.1 released: 28 Jul 2006

async inbandbytestreams ack
fixed memory leak in RosterItem
RosterManager: don’t sync self contact to server
PrivacyManager: give a privacy list a proper name (thanks to Chris Bond)
InBandBytestreams: ack closing with correct ID
DataForm: fixed few minor field handling bugs
Client: allow lazy username provisioning

version 0.8 released: 08 Apr 2006

added an extensible message session abstraction
added automatic MessageSession creation facilities upon incoming messages
XEP-0022 (Message Events)
XEP-0047 (In-Band Bytestreams)
XEP-0054 (vcard-temp)
XEP-0085 (Chat State Notifications)
‘ported’ to Linux on Arm (Intel XScale on gumstix in this case)
RosterManager: returning true from RosterListener::unsubscriptionRequest() makes the RosterManager no longer remove the item from the roster. It is unsubscribed from only. Use unsubscribe( jid, msg, true ) to remove it manually.
RosterListener: renamed itemChanged() –> presenceUpdated()
RosterListener: added nonrosterPresenceReceived()
revamped logging system, introducing per-ClientBase log instance
Tag: renamed addAttrib() –> addAttribute()
renamed enum members from ALL_UPPER_CASE to MixedCase
RosterItem & RosterListener: more const & return values and parameters
RosterItem: support for multiple resources, introducing RosterItem::Resource
Stanza: added int priority()
SASL EXTERNAL and support for client key/cert
RosterManager: added RosterItem* getRosterItem( const JID& jid )
added extern “C” const char* gloox_version()
Tag: made findChild(…) return 0 instead of new Tag (reverted change from 0.7.6)
Tag: added addAttribute( const std::string, int )
revamped MessageSession to accept external MessageFilters
Disco: added const StringList& features()
allow for immediate re-connect() after disconnect()
fixed compilation with gcc 4.1
semi-fixed missing onDisconnect() call if file descriptor has been fetched and stream error occured

version 0.7.6.1 released: 10 Feb 2006

fixed OpenSSL check on MinGW

version 0.7.6 released: 07 Feb 2006

fixed alignment issues on ARM
more const’ness where possible (thanks to Marc Rousseau)
configure checks for res_querydomain et.al.
doc updates
Tag: added findChild( name, attr, value )
Tag: made findChild(…) return new Tag instead of 0
DataForm (XEP-0004) awareness for Registration class
workaround for iksemel’s base64 bug, SASL Plain with GTalk and SASL Digest-MD5 with Wildfire now possible
XMPP version requirement relaxed for Components
added __declspec( dllimport ) on win32 (thanks to Low Weng Liong)
fixed OpenSSL lib dependency on MinGW (thanks to Low Weng Liong)
‘ported’ to Syllable

version 0.7.5 released: 05 Jan 2006

fixed a crash occuring if no DNS servers could be reached
added virtual destructors to *Handlers
fixed ” bug
various documentation updates

version 0.7.4 released: 15 Dec 2005

RosterListener: add asynchronous subscription request notification
LastActivity: Fix bug were stanza was not sent
NonSaslAuth: don’t confuse auth failure reason
Connection: return correct disconnect reason if non-SASL auth fails in non-blocking connect mode
RosterManager: handle ‘early presence’ correctly
when using OpenSSL: imply: no cert == invalid cert
RosterItem: added statusMsg()

version 0.7.3 released: 10 Dec 2005

added optional OpenSSL support

version 0.7.2 released: 06 Dec 2005

RosterManager: fixed a problem with servers not supporting private XML storage

version 0.7.1 released: 24 Nov 2005

ported to NetBSD 2.1
RosterManager: use the group’s name, not ‘group’ (thanks to Maciej Paszta)
RosterManager: update/set an item’s name
include config.h.win in distribution
Stanza: allow presence broadcasting in createPresenceStanza()
Client: allow registration with server which supports SASL ANONYMOUS
Client: init m_jid::server for registration

version 0.7 released: 02 Nov 2005

XEP-0004 (Data Forms) (complete, experimental)
XEP-0013 (Flexible Offline Message Retrieval) (complete)
XEP-0083 (Nested Roster Groups) (complete)
XEP-0138 (Stream Compression) (complete, experimental)
removed pkg-config dependency (in check for iksemel)
fixed pkg-config file (all libs)
RosterItem: added status(); made setStatus() take a PresenceStatus
RosterManager: added self-contact (optional; hard-wired in Client for now)
Disco: no need to register the handler to receive query results (still necessary for ‘set’s)
PrivateXML: no need to register the handler to store or receive private XML
added IQ error handling in PrivateXML class
port to Win32; SRV lookups do not work. See README.win32 for more information.
some MacOS X #include fixes
added Tag::clone() and Stanza::clone()
added static functions to Stanza to create common packet types (IQ, Message, Presence, Subscription)
gloox-config script
call onDisconnect() in non-blocking connect() mode
added debug notice about remote server not being XMPP compliant
added an API docs notice about unsupported legacy SSL connections to port 5223
fixed a presence related bug in Stanza, where presence always was reported as ‘available’ (thanks to Luis Cidoncha)
made code ISO C++ compliant (-pedantic et al.)
various API doc fixes
many more virtuals in the handler interfaces instead of empty functions
export raw file descriptor
got rid of libm(ath) dependency (by using ostringstream)
always use pre-increment instead of post-increment in for-loops
export classes on w32
let configure check for libresolv
don’t use resolver functions on SkyOS for now
made ClientBase::streamErrorAppCondition() const
added ClientBase::removeConnectionListener()
added namespace checking for SASL success

version 0.6.3 released: 15 Oct 2005

fixed #includes for MacOS

version 0.6.2 released: 23 Sep 2005

added a pkg-config file

version 0.6.1 released: 22 Sep 2005

fixed Makefile.ams for make distcheck
removed unused iksemel types and includes
made void ClientBase::send( const std::string& ) private
made void ClientBase::send( Tag* ) virtual
Tag constructor: parent must know about its new child
avoid non-constant array sizes in getID() et al.

version 0.6 released: 02 Sep 2005

support for SASL Anonymous mechanism
XEP-0012 (Last Activity) (experimental)
full XMPP Core compliance
almost full XMPP IM compliance
various bugfixes and corrections

version 0.5 released: 28 Aug 2005

xml:lang for initial stream
xml:lang support for subject, body and status of message and presence stanzas, respectively
added ability to specify a server to connect to which is different from the JID’s domain part
XMPP version check
recognition of all stream errors as defined in RFC 3920, including xml:lang of the text element
recognition of all SASL/Non-SASL error conditions as defined in RFC 3920 and XEP-0078
added a LogHandler for external (non-tty) logging (thanks to Konstantin Klyagin)
re-introduction of non-blocking connect (thanks to Konstantin Klyagin)
recognition of all stanza errors as defined in RFC 3920, including xml:lang of the text element
only include non-empty attributes
prefer child elements over cdata when returning a tag’s xml, prevents empty log if whitespace was sent
correctly detect availability presence
take autoPresence etc. into account when doing non-SASL auth
in the XEP-0092 (Software Version) implementation: OS support; create a valid ‘result’ type of packet
ability to force non-SASL auth even if not announced

version 0.4 released: 25 Aug 2005

fixed some memory leaks
renamed classes: JClient -> Client, JComponent -> Component
got rid of the Iksemelmm wrapper classes
added native Tag and Stanza classes
added a (dummy) Parser class which currently only converts from Iksemel types to gloox native types
natively handle connection (send & recv), incl. TLS/SSL
added tag filter
fixed roster management (somehow everything but the jid in the initial roster was ignored)
process resource binding response
process session creation response
added forgotten ‘autojoin’ attribute to bookmark storage
got rid of the thread
TLS/SSL certificate verification
changed license to GNU GPL

version 0.3.2 released: 09 Aug 2005

fixed namespace bugs
fixed fallback port handling

version 0.3.1 released: 09 Aug 2005

fixed a bug related to bare JID in JClient constructor

version 0.3 released: 08 Aug 2005

wrapped everything into the ‘gloox’ namespace
revision of XEP-0030 (Service Discovery) implementation
revision of XEP-0050 (Ad-hoc Commands) implementation
revision of XEP-0049 (Private XML Storage) implementation
XEP-0048 (Bookmark Storage)
XEP-0145 (Annotations)
XEP-0078 (Non-SASL Authentication)
XEP-0114 (Jabber Component Protocol)
SRV lookups
roster management
privacy lists

version 0.2 released: 11 Jul 2005

prepping of JIDs
XEP-0077 (In-Band Registration)
headers are installed (no guarantee for API stability, though)

version 0.1 released 04 May 2005

initial public release
XEP-0030 (Service Discovery)
XEP-0049 (Private XML Storage)
XEP-0050 (Ad-hoc Commands)
XEP-0092 (Software Version)