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 by @antoniomika)
• don't call search on a disabled msg provider (bea4545 by @brunnre8)
• extract migrations (f04a066 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: error if sqlite isn't enabled but search() is called (cebc6d0 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: move export to bottom of the file (f6b2921 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: fix docstring (e62b169 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: add run helper function (89ee537 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: create serialize_fetchall helper function (cc3302e by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: use serialize_fetchall in getMessages (ee8223c by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: use serialize_fetchall in search (5e1cbe3 by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: add serialize_get (bbe81bb by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: convert migrations to async (f068fd4 by @brunnre8)
• messageStorage: convert to async (d62dd3e by @brunnre8)
• SearchResults: remove computed search prop (6b617f8 by @brunnre8)
• SearchResults: Fix search progess upon search (dca2024 by @brunnre8)
• SearchResults: remove dead code (#4639) (53f6041 by @brunnre8)
• SearchQuery: offset is always a number (8095d9e by @brunnre8)
• Search: fix off by one offset error (51c9ce0 by @brunnre8)
• keybinds: Fix invalid return (0765d20 by @brunnre8)
• server: the http{,s} server can't be null (1597c2c by @brunnre8)
• make getClientConfiguration type safe (fd14b4a by @brunnre8)
• remove VueApp from router (dfb4217 by @brunnre8)
• search: fix order of result merging (8204c34 by @brunnre8)
• store: addMessageSearchResults shouldn't accept null (982816f by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: synchronize enable() internally (2d4143b by @brunnre8)
• messagestorage: remove implementation details from interface (661d5cb by @brunnre8)
• textStorage: rip out client instance (52b8a2a by @brunnre8)
• sqlite: Remove client from sqlitestorage (958a948 by @brunnre8)
• Fix uploader mount/unmount lifecycle (2ce374f by @maxpoulin64)
• Fix git commit not being available in dist build (2f04150 by @xPaw)
• network: add getLobby accessor (fade6a8 by @brunnre8)
• pluginCommand: type it and guard against bad input (4023323 by @brunnre8)
• packaging: Use an include list in package.json (efd24fd by @brunnre8)
• Fix incorrect typing of dehydrated networks and channels (76098d7 @progval)
• Client: move socket connection out of the constructor (a049a01 @progval)
• Fix test wording (d58fb84 @progval)
• Remove override of UserConfig (320075e @progval)
• Fix sqlite query invocation in test (845daba by @brunnre8)
• Fix config typing and make Client easier to test (eb509f7 by @brunnre8)
• server/client: refactor command input (4e954b9 by @brunnre8)
• Clean up command input code (e8b6434 by @brunnre8)
• Inline logger into changelog script (#4717 by @brunnre8)
• Fix load of channels from user config (0c7cc85 Val Lorentz)
• style: Put user colors into the smallest possible scope (f55f772 by @brunnre8)
• Fix Morning theme nick colors (#4690 by @maxpoulin64)
• Publish to npm with provenance ([#4724])(#4724) by @xPaw)

Dependency updates

Aka the boring bits... It's the last section too, so feel free to gloss over it

• fix(deps): update dependency got to v11.8.5 [security] (#4596 by @renovate)
• sqlite3 (#4541)
• chore(deps): update dependency sqlite3 to v5.0.6 (da02350 by @renovate-bot)
• chore(deps): update dependency @textcomplete/core to v0.1.11 (#4555) (99c48db by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update babel monorepo (#4554) (38f1352 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency mocha to v9.2.2 (#4581) (194b85b by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency sqlite3 to v5.0.8 (#4564) (ddcee53 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @textcomplete/textarea to v0.1.12 (e972165 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @types/content-disposition to v0.5.5 (740618c by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @textcomplete/core to v0.1.12 (0cb4791 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency sqlite3 to v5.0.10 (520646a by @renovate[bot])
• fix(deps): update dependency file-type to v16.5.4 [security] (0495761 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): lock file maintenance (57ed37c by @renovate[bot])
• Revert "chore(deps): update dependency @textcomplete/core to v0.1.12" (3240997 by @brunnre8)
• chore(deps): update dependency sqlite3 to v5.1.2 (5a803cc by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @vue/test-utils to v2.2.1 (cb17f8d by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency postcss to v8.4.18 (5a4a39b by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency chai to v4.3.7 (0ad033f by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @types/is-utf8 to v0.2.1 (b5ea7cc by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @types/lodash to v4.14.188 (dfe288e by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @types/chai to v4.3.4 (19307d0 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency postcss to v8.4.19 (2218841 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @types/lodash to v4.14.191 (d61ab7e by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency sqlite3 to v5.1.4 (c854d27 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @types/ws to v8.5.4 (502fb7a by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @vue/test-utils to v2.2.7 (6b23b87 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency sinon to v13.0.2 (90d17ca by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency vue-loader to v17.0.1 (2f8dc01 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency webpack-dev-middleware to v5.3.3 (4742a07 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @vue/test-utils to v2.3.1 (50e8d2a by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency postcss to v8.4.21 (8e249d4 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency sqlite3 to v5.1.5 [security] (bc4c308 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency webpack to v5.76.0 [security] (a67cee1 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency sqlite3 to v5.1.6 (34a01c2 by @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency @types/mousetrap to v1.6.11 (5037383 by @renovate[bot])
• Autocomplete: update to @textcomplete package and close on blur (#4493) (bdd6e71 by @MaxLeiter)
• Update sqlite3 to 5.0.3 (7db0d46 by @xPaw)
• Merge sqlite3 upgrade to v5.0.6 (abf8906 by @brunnre8)
• bump socket.io to 4.5.2 (d4bbd91 by @brunnre8)
• bump socket.io-client to 4.5.0 (4c7337b by @brunnre8)
• Bump engine.io from 6.2.0 to 6.2.1 (f8eb0eb by @dependabot[bot])
• Bump loader-utils from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4 (8924545 by @dependabot[bot])
• Bump loader-utils from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4 (21c8b0d by @brunnre8)
• update dependency @types/mousetrap to v1.6.11 (7ee4b80 by @brunnre8)
• update dependency @types/lodash to v4.14.191 (c67df36 by @brunnre8)
• caniuse-lite: update db (efd3b64 by @brunnre8)
• build(deps): bump json5 from 2.2.1 to 2.2.3 (ce3ad56 by @dependabot[bot])
• fix(deps): update dependency ua-parser-js to v1.0.33 [security] (bde5c3d by @renovate[bot])
• build(deps): bump http-cache-semantics from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 (7304acd by @dependabot[bot])
• update dependency postcss to v8.4.21 (95e5630 by @brunnre8)
• update dependency sinon to v13.0.2 (0183d89 by @brunnre8)
• update dependency vue-loader to v17.0.1 (eddcbcc by @brunnre8)
• update dependency webpack-dev-middleware to v5.3.3 (4831c20 by @brunnre8)
• update dependency webpack to v5.76.0 (6b00ccf by @brunnre8)