v4.4.3

v4.4.3 - 2024-04-01

The Lounge finally gains the ability to automatically clean up sqlite databases.
Note that cleaning existing, large databases can take a significant amount of time
and running a database VACUUM will use up ~2x the current DB disc space for a short period.

If you enable the storagePolicy, stop the running instance and run thelounge storage clean.
This will force a full cleanup once, rather than doing so incrementally and will release all the
disc space back to the OS.

As usual, we follow the Node.js release schedule, so the minimum Node.js version required is now 18.

Many thanks to all the contributors to this release, be that documentation, code or maintaining the packages.
Your help is greatly appreciated!

For more details, see the full changelog

Added

• Sign in: use v-model (c5326e8 by @brunnre8)
• Add comments explaining behavior when echo-message is not available (43a2b39 by @brunnre8)
• Fix semver for prerelease versions #4744 (8aa5e33 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: add migrations support and introduce primary key (2ef8b37 by @brunnre8)
• test/link: use helper for url creation (c6b1913 by @brunnre8)
• test/storage: use helper for url creation (79fae26 by @brunnre8)
• Respect bind setting for all outgoing requests (3af4ad1 by @brunnre8)
• bump emoji-regex to latest (ed0a47f by @brunnre8)
• use shebang for generate-emoji script (1a1153a by @brunnre8)
• Respect bind setting for all outgoing requests (2878f87 by @brunnre8)
• store: use return type over a type cast (#4770 by @brunnre8)
• don't crash on rDNS failure (8c54cd5 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: fix typo fetch_rollbacks (884a92c by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: don't modify global array during tests (ec75ff0 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: return new version in downgrade() (d1561f8 by @brunnre8)
• cli: don't fail if stderr is not in json format (97f553e by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: use variadic function for serialize_run (60ddf17 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: accept db connection string (aec8d0b by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: implement deleteMessages (14d9ff2 by @brunnre8)
• introduce storage cleaner (74aff7e by @brunnre8)
• cleaner: expose cli task to do cleaning + vacuum (21b1152 by @brunnre8)
• wire up storage cleaner upon server start (b0ca8e5 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: add msg type index to speed up cleaner (edb1226 by @brunnre8)
• add storage cleaner (7f0b721 by @brunnre8)
• scripts: fix generate-config-doc, handle usage errors (#4807 by @flotwig)
• router: don't use next() in router guards (#4783 by @brunnre8)
• linkify: Add web+ schema support (ae6bae6 by @SoniEx2)
• linkify: simplify noscheme detection logic (dd24cb1 by @brunnre8)
• Add shortcut to navigate between channels with undread msgs (daabb76 by @Nachtalb)
• Remove husky, add githooks-install (#4826 by @brunnre8)
• Testing setup (#4825 by @brunnre8)
• Remove Node.js 16 from package.json and testing matrix (113e9bd by @MaxLeiter)
• server: remove version from CTCP response (45563d9 by @flotwig)

Documentation

On the website repository:

• Merge branch 'localInstall' (8c0d5a5 by @brunnre8)
• docs: update docker image to point to the new ghcr.io repository (5d7c993 by @brunnre8)
• Add "Hide all chat messages containing a link in a specific channel" … (993cf8b by @zDEFz)
• ctcp: remove stale link to code (#273) (379c34d by @brunnre8)
• docs: sync config.js.md (add prefetchTimeout, update ldap) (#275) (51dfc80 by @flotwig)
• Removing #thelounge-scandinavia due to inactivity (#278) (403cc6a by @fnutt)
• Nodejs documentation link update (#277) (06e4725 by @xfisbest)
• Add installation instructions for Gentoo (#276) (52be432 by @rahilarious)

Dependency updates

• chore(deps): update dependency webpack-hot-middleware to v2.25.4 (06f1387 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @vue/test-utils to v2.4.0 (303f53f by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency postcss to v8.4.26 (54ff563 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @types/linkify-it to v3.0.3 (2985727 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @types/bcryptjs to v2.4.4 (48301b1 by @renovate[bot])
• build(deps): bump word-wrap from 1.2.3 to 1.2.5 ([08413c7](08413c7...

v4.4.2

v4.4.2 - 2024-04-01

The Lounge finally gains the ability to automatically clean up sqlite databases.
Note that cleaning existing, large databases can take a significant amount of time
and running a database VACUUM will use up ~2x the current DB disc space for a short period.

If you enable the storagePolicy, stop the running instance and run thelounge storage clean.
This will force a full cleanup once, rather than doing so incrementally and will release all the
disc space back to the OS.

As usual, we follow the Node.js release schedule, so the minimum Node.js version required is now 18.

Many thanks to all the contributors to this release, be that documentation, code or maintaining the packages.
Your help is greatly appreciated!

For more details, see the full changelog

Added

• Sign in: use v-model (c5326e8 by @brunnre8)
• Add comments explaining behavior when echo-message is not available (43a2b39 by @brunnre8)
• Fix semver for prerelease versions #4744 (8aa5e33 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: add migrations support and introduce primary key (2ef8b37 by @brunnre8)
• test/link: use helper for url creation (c6b1913 by @brunnre8)
• test/storage: use helper for url creation (79fae26 by @brunnre8)
• Respect bind setting for all outgoing requests (3af4ad1 by @brunnre8)
• bump emoji-regex to latest (ed0a47f by @brunnre8)
• use shebang for generate-emoji script (1a1153a by @brunnre8)
• Respect bind setting for all outgoing requests (2878f87 by @brunnre8)
• store: use return type over a type cast (#4770 by @brunnre8)
• don't crash on rDNS failure (8c54cd5 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: fix typo fetch_rollbacks (884a92c by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: don't modify global array during tests (ec75ff0 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: return new version in downgrade() (d1561f8 by @brunnre8)
• cli: don't fail if stderr is not in json format (97f553e by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: use variadic function for serialize_run (60ddf17 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: accept db connection string (aec8d0b by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: implement deleteMessages (14d9ff2 by @brunnre8)
• introduce storage cleaner (74aff7e by @brunnre8)
• cleaner: expose cli task to do cleaning + vacuum (21b1152 by @brunnre8)
• wire up storage cleaner upon server start (b0ca8e5 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: add msg type index to speed up cleaner (edb1226 by @brunnre8)
• add storage cleaner (7f0b721 by @brunnre8)
• scripts: fix generate-config-doc, handle usage errors (#4807 by @flotwig)
• router: don't use next() in router guards (#4783 by @brunnre8)
• linkify: Add web+ schema support (ae6bae6 by @SoniEx2)
• linkify: simplify noscheme detection logic (dd24cb1 by @brunnre8)
• Add shortcut to navigate between channels with undread msgs (daabb76 by @Nachtalb)
• Remove husky, add githooks-install (#4826 by @brunnre8)
• Testing setup (#4825 by @brunnre8)
• Remove Node.js 16 from package.json and testing matrix (113e9bd by @MaxLeiter)
• server: remove version from CTCP response (45563d9 by @flotwig)

Documentation

On the website repository:

• Merge branch 'localInstall' (8c0d5a5 by @brunnre8)
• docs: update docker image to point to the new ghcr.io repository (5d7c993 by @brunnre8)
• Add "Hide all chat messages containing a link in a specific channel" … (993cf8b by @zDEFz)
• ctcp: remove stale link to code (#273) (379c34d by @brunnre8)
• docs: sync config.js.md (add prefetchTimeout, update ldap) (#275) (51dfc80 by @flotwig)
• Removing #thelounge-scandinavia due to inactivity (#278) (403cc6a by @fnutt)
• Nodejs documentation link update (#277) (06e4725 by @xfisbest)
• Add installation instructions for Gentoo (#276) (52be432 by @rahilarious)

Dependency updates

• chore(deps): update dependency webpack-hot-middleware to v2.25.4 (06f1387 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @vue/test-utils to v2.4.0 (303f53f by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency postcss to v8.4.26 (54ff563 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @types/linkify-it to v3.0.3 (2985727 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @types/bcryptjs to v2.4.4 (48301b1 by @renovate[bot])
• build(deps): bump word-wrap from 1.2.3 to 1.2.5 ([08413c7](08413c7...

v4.4.2-rc.1

The Lounge finally gains the ability to automatically clean up sqlite databases.
Note that cleaning existing, large databases can take a significant amount of time
and running a database VACUUM will use up ~2x the current DB disc space for a short period.
If you enable the storagePolicy, stop the running instance and run thelounge storage clean.
This will force a full cleanup once, rather than doing so incrementally and will release all the
disc space back to the OS.

As usual, we follow the Node.js release schedule, so the minimum Node.js version required is now 18.

See the full changelog

This is a release candidate (RC) for v4.4.2 to ensure maximum stability for public release.
Bugs may be fixed, but no further features will be added until the next stable version.

Please refer to the commit list given above for a complete list of changes, or wait for the stable release to get a thoroughly prepared change log entry.

As with all pre-releases, this version requires explicit use of the next tag to be installed:

yarn global add thelounge@next

v4.4.1

v4.4.1 - 2023-06-13

Small bug fix release that addresses the bugs reported since v4.4.0

• fixes the image preview buttons disappearing.
• Restores the ability to change the password via the user interface.

Following the Node.js maintenance schedule, The Lounge now needs at least Node.js 16 to run.

For more details, see the full changelog and milestone.

v4.4.1-rc.2

v4.4.1-rc.2 - 2023-05-27 [Pre-release]

Restore the ability to change the password via the user interface.

See the full changelog

This is a release candidate (RC) for v4.4.1 to ensure maximum stability for public release.
Bugs may be fixed, but no further features will be added until the next stable version.

Please refer to the commit list given above for a complete list of changes, or wait for the stable release to get a thoroughly prepared change log entry.

v4.4.1-rc.1

v4.4.1-rc.1 [Pre-release]

Small bug fix release that addresses the image preview buttons disappearing.

Following the Node.js maintenance schedule, The Lounge now needs at least Node.js 16 to run.

See the full changelog

This is a release candidate (RC) for v4.4.1 to ensure maximum stability for public release.
Bugs may be fixed, but no further features will be added until the next stable version.

Please refer to the commit list given above for a complete list of changes, or wait for the stable release to get a thoroughly prepared change log entry.

As with all pre-releases, this version requires explicit use of the next tag to be installed:

yarn global add thelounge@next

v4.4.0

v4.4.0 - 2023-04-22

For more details, see the full changelog and milestone.

This is mostly a developer focused release. Max, Eric and others rewrote the whole thing in TypeScript / Vue 3,
which should make it much easier to add features and find bugs in the future. So huge kudos from the rest of the team!

Additionally, there's the obvious grab bag of fixes, dependency updates and improvements.
Settings are now grouped and easier to navigate for new users.

Following the Node.js maintenance schedule, The Lounge now needs at least Node.js 14 to run.

A big thanks to everyone who contributed in any way to this release, your help is much appreciated.

Considering that a bunch of our dependencies had security issues assigned to them, all users are advised to update to the new version.

Packagers: Considering the switch to TypeScript, the server build now emits to the dist/ folder.
You might need to adapt your build scripts.

Added

• Add prefetchTimeout (aa7db1e by @brunnre8)

Changed

• Refactor settings to their own tabs and routes (#4489 by @MaxLeiter)
• allow away and back to be collapsed (#4669 by @brunnre8)
• Kill TL when ident can't start up (#4512) (37d7de7 by @brunnre8)
• enable znc/playback even without message storage (c8115e2 by @brunnre8)
• Remove node 12, add node 18. Bump minimum node version 14 (#4552) (9dbb6e5 by @xPaw)
• linkPreviews: Enforce TLS validity (621fa92 by @brunnre8)
• Use nick as a realname fallback (30e9f45 by @brunnre8)
• Plugins: include pre-releases in compatibility lookup (#4506) (e4840b4 by @brunnre8)
• install: expand ~ for local paths (e221e70 by @brunnre8)

Fixed

• Fix the alignment of the header buttons (#4539 by @ronilaukkarinen)
• Fix user commands not working (#4594 by @xPaw)
• Don't crash on oidentd socket race condition (#4695 by @maxpoulin64)
• cli: don't error if the user folder doesn't exist (#4508) (8153198 by @brunnre8)
• Fix user file permissions on create (#4507) (d7bba32 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: Escape '%' and '_' in search queries. (#4487) (20ed3e6 by @progval)
• set 'video/quicktime' to 'video/mp4' (#4495) (57b1e51 by @xnaas)
• Preserve client certificate (c9c8cad by @brunnre8)
• Remove uploading event listeners on ChatInput unmount (#4600) (80f65c5 by @MaxLeiter)
• Potentially fix saving new networks (#4599) (d72d869 by @MaxLeiter)
• Fix regex escape for prefix patterns (d6e1af0 by @brunnre8)
• Fix ctcp request message (#4603) (c8cd405 by @brunnre8)
• connect: Trim white space from user input fields (#4623) (0fa2035 by @brunnre8)
• Search: Clear earlier searches when a new one is executed (83e11b0 by @brunnre8)
• Fix previous-source calculation (#4656) (073a38e by @brunnre8)
• Fix sidebar swipe flicker after letting go (502780c by @xPaw)
• search: ignore searchResults if it isn't the active query (0ebc3a5 by @brunnre8)
• fix motd display to match settings ([#4726])(#4726) by @SpaceLenore)

Documentation

• Fix misleading LDAP filiter in default config (f785acb by @goodspeed34)
• Use correct option name (filter instead of ldapFilter) in config.js c… (4af5fc6 by @murph)
• Add password param to /join docs (8b1a4f7 by @aab12345)
• install: Document file: prefix in cli help (31739b8 by @brunnre8)

On the website repository:

• Link directly to themes on npm (#261) (410f5d0 by @jeremiah-rs)
• Don't use yarn link for source installs (#262 by @brunnre8)
• Add Insecure Warning CSS (#264) (95efa48 by @aab12345)
• Add custom nick colors section to custom css guide (#265) (63847c3 by @xnaas)
• Fix Apache configuration syntax (41cb84e by @lucaswerkmeister)
• Be more explicit about needing Yarn 1 (Classic) (#268) (1eff267 by @SyntaxColoring)
• Don't mention npm command for installation (7e936c2 by @SyntaxColoring)
• Update reverse-proxies.md (afc7e29 by @PeGaSuS-Coder)

Internals

• Decouple server (#4686 by @brunnre8)
• Tests/server: Tear down test fixtures in the order they were setup (#4715 by @progval)
• Refactor config out of Helper (#4558) (d4cc2dd by @brunnre8)
• Convert configs to cjs, move babel to own file, combine webpack confi… (c205b89 by @nemchik)
• Fix yarn dev (#4574) (2e3d9a6 by @nemchik)
• TypeScript and Vue 3 (#4559) (dd05ee3 by @MaxLeiter)
• Added client type checking to webpack (#4619) ([117c5fa](117c5fa3fdbd2787bc1df521627b7...

v4.4.0-rc.1

v4.4.0-rc.1 - 2023-04-22

For more details, see the full changelog and milestone.

This is mostly a developer focused release. Max, Eric and others rewrote the whole thing in TypeScript / Vue 3,
which should make it much easier to add features and find bugs in the future. So huge kudos from the rest of the team!

Additionally, there's the obvious grab bag of fixes, dependency updates and improvements.
Settings are now grouped and easier to navigate for new users.

Following the Node.js maintenance schedule, The Lounge now needs at least Node.js 14 to run.

A big thanks to everyone who contributed in any way to this release, your help is much appreciated.

Considering that a bunch of our dependencies had security issues assigned to them, all users are advised to update to the new version.

Packagers: Considering the switch to TypeScript, the server build now emits to the dist/ folder.
You might need to adapt your build scripts.

Added

• Add prefetchTimeout (aa7db1e by @brunnre8)

Changed

• Refactor settings to their own tabs and routes (#4489 by @MaxLeiter)
• allow away and back to be collapsed (#4669 by @brunnre8)
• Kill TL when ident can't start up (#4512) (37d7de7 by @brunnre8)
• enable znc/playback even without message storage (c8115e2 by @brunnre8)
• Remove node 12, add node 18. Bump minimum node version 14 (#4552) (9dbb6e5 by @xPaw)
• linkPreviews: Enforce TLS validity (621fa92 by @brunnre8)
• Use nick as a realname fallback (30e9f45 by @brunnre8)
• Plugins: include pre-releases in compatibility lookup (#4506) (e4840b4 by @brunnre8)
• install: expand ~ for local paths (e221e70 by @brunnre8)

Fixed

• Fix the alignment of the header buttons (#4539 by @ronilaukkarinen)
• Fix user commands not working (#4594 by @xPaw)
• Don't crash on oidentd socket race condition (#4695 by @maxpoulin64)
• cli: don't error if the user folder doesn't exist (#4508) (8153198 by @brunnre8)
• Fix user file permissions on create (#4507) (d7bba32 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: Escape '%' and '_' in search queries. (#4487) (20ed3e6 by @progval)
• set 'video/quicktime' to 'video/mp4' (#4495) (57b1e51 by @xnaas)
• Preserve client certificate (c9c8cad by @brunnre8)
• Remove uploading event listeners on ChatInput unmount (#4600) (80f65c5 by @MaxLeiter)
• Potentially fix saving new networks (#4599) (d72d869 by @MaxLeiter)
• Fix regex escape for prefix patterns (d6e1af0 by @brunnre8)
• Fix ctcp request message (#4603) (c8cd405 by @brunnre8)
• connect: Trim white space from user input fields (#4623) (0fa2035 by @brunnre8)
• Search: Clear earlier searches when a new one is executed (83e11b0 by @brunnre8)
• Fix previous-source calculation (#4656) (073a38e by @brunnre8)
• Fix sidebar swipe flicker after letting go (502780c by @xPaw)
• search: ignore searchResults if it isn't the active query (0ebc3a5 by @brunnre8)
• fix motd display to match settings ([#4726])(#4726) by @SpaceLenore)

Documentation

• Fix misleading LDAP filiter in default config (f785acb by @goodspeed34)
• Use correct option name (filter instead of ldapFilter) in config.js c… (4af5fc6 by @murph)
• Add password param to /join docs (8b1a4f7 by @aab12345)
• install: Document file: prefix in cli help (31739b8 by @brunnre8)

On the website repository:

• Link directly to themes on npm (#261) (410f5d0 by @jeremiah-rs)
• Don't use yarn link for source installs (#262 by @brunnre8)
• Add Insecure Warning CSS (#264) (95efa48 by @aab12345)
• Add custom nick colors section to custom css guide (#265) (63847c3 by @xnaas)
• Fix Apache configuration syntax (41cb84e by @lucaswerkmeister)
• Be more explicit about needing Yarn 1 (Classic) (#268) (1eff267 by @SyntaxColoring)
• Don't mention npm command for installation (7e936c2 by @SyntaxColoring)
• Update reverse-proxies.md (afc7e29 by @PeGaSuS-Coder)

Internals

• Decouple server (#4686 by @brunnre8)
• Tests/server: Tear down test fixtures in the order they were setup (#4715 by @progval)
• Refactor config out of Helper (#4558) (d4cc2dd by @brunnre8)
• Convert configs to cjs, move babel to own file, combine webpack confi… (c205b89 by @nemchik)
• Fix yarn dev (#4574) (2e3d9a6 by @nemchik)
• TypeScript and Vue 3 (#4559) (dd05ee3 by @MaxLeiter)
• Added client type checking to webpack (#4619) ([117c5fa](117c5fa3fdbd2787bc1...

v4.4.0-pre.2

Hot fix release that reverts some bad commits that lead to channel loss.

v4.4.0-pre.1

See the full changelog

This is a pre-release for v4.4.0 to offer latest changes without having to wait for a stable release.
At this stage, features may still be added or modified until the first release candidate for this version gets released.

This is mostly a developer focused release. Max, Eric and others rewrote the whole thing in typescript / vue3,
which should make it much easier to add features and find bugs in the future. So huge kudos from the rest of the team!

Besides that, there's the obvious grab bag of fixes, dependency updates and improvements.

Please refer to the commit list given above for a complete list of changes, or wait for the stable release to get a thoroughly prepared change log entry.

As with all pre-releases, this version requires explicit use of the next tag to be installed:

yarn global add thelounge@next