Zinc

2007.10.31 - 1.1.7 is released. This release is just a simple fix to resolve the crash problem with 1.1.6. See the ChangeLog for list of changes.

2007.10.31 - 1.1.6 is released. This release is to suppress bogus messages caused by misbehaving Yahoo! chat servers. Also there are couple other minor changes to default configuration values. See the ChangeLog for list of changes.

2007.09.14 - 1.1.5 is released. Yahoo! changed the way captcha url is being sent to the client. This release adapts to that. Other minor change is to make /openurl command to open the last url in the url list. This should further make opening captcha url easier. See the ChangeLog for list of changes.

2007.08.30 - 1.1.4 is released. Yahoo! has just recently implemented a captcha system to thwart bots and that creates some problems for console chat client like Zinc. When you launch Zinc now, it will show a long url that you have open a brower to solve those deranged crooked letters. 1.1.4 eases bit of the pain by putting that long captcha url into it's internal url list. If your browser has been set up correctly, you can launch that captcha url by using /openurl 1 command. You may not know about this Zinc feature but Zinc parses urls in comments and puts them in a list for you. You can see this list by /url command. You can also save a particular url from the list by issuing /saveurl # command and the url will be appended to ~/.zinc/url file.

Currently 1.2pre1 is broken due to the recent Yahoo! chat server changes. 1.2pre2 will correct this problem very soon.

2007.03.25 - 1.2pre1 is released. This is an early development release. Please report any problem you experience to zincdev@gmail.com.

2007.01.29 - 1.1.3 is released. This release addresses a recent invasion of bots plaguing Yahoo! chat rooms lately. It does not automatically ignore all bots but only the onces that are having a bad impact recently.

2006.12.14 - 1.1.2 is released. This release is to once again fix the problem where comments from third party clients not showing up. Big thanks goes to Craig Schroeder for submitting the patch.

2006.10.9 - 1.1.1 is released. This release is to fix the problem with comments where Yahelite clients not showing up.

2006.7.4 - There has been an upsurge of annoying bots lately. Here are some regex to make them disappear.

wget -q -O - http://larvalstage.com/zinc/files/20060704_regex.ignore.comment >> ~/.zinc/regex.ignore.comment

wget -q -O - http://larvalstage.com/zinc/files/20060704_regex.ignore.name >> ~/.zinc/regex.ignore.name

2006.5.13 - Yahoo! chat servers went down around 10am EST this morning and it's been down for about eight hours as of this writing. It's not certain whether this is just some unexpected server troubles or protocol change yet. I'll keep you updated on what's happening as more information comes in. UPDATE (2006.5.13 11:33pm): It appears all is well now. Yahoo! chat servers are back online.

2006.4.28 - It appears Yahoo! has shut down all YCHT servers and therefore that protocol will no longer work in Zinc. Also YMSG servers seems to be having some issues seemingly since this YCHT phase out.

2006.1.10 - 1.1 final is released. 1.1rc3 was re-released as 1.1 without any code change. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this release. If you have any ideas for what Zinc 2.0 should be, feel free to submit your suggestions to zincdev@gmail.com.

2006.1.5 - 1.1rc3 is released. Hopefully this is the last development release before 1.1 final. See the ChangeLog for list of changes.

2005.7.27 - It looks like flooders are back once again. You can type the following in your shell to get rid of 595 bots instantly.

wget -q -O - http://larvalstage.com/zinc/files/ignore-20050727 >> ~/.zinc/ignore

2005.7.5 - 1.1rc2 is released. This is a minor release very close to 1.1 final. Zinc now runs on Sun Solaris 10. See the ChangeLog for list of changes.

2005.5.29 - 1.1rc1 is released. This is a minor release with some bug fixes, refinements here and there. See the ChangeLog for list of changes.

2005.4.11 - 1.1pre10 is released. This release contains couple bug fixes, better chat logging path, and some error condition handling. See the ChangeLog for list of changes.

2005.3.31 - 1.1pre9 is released. This release has whole bunch of bug fixes as well as some new features. One important to note to this release is that Zinc now works well in NetBSD 2.0. See the ChangeLog for list of changes. UPDATE (2004.4.2): It appears a silly bug crept in on 1.1pre9 release. ignore-im-spammer parameter in ~/.zinc/zincrc works backwards. Y turns off the feature and N turns on the feature. That feature should have been off by default but it got turned on by default mistakenly.

2005.3.22 - Congratulations! carameldelite18 gave birth to a healthy 8 lb. 0.6 oz. baby girl on March 18, 2005 11:49am. Yay!

2005.1.19 - 1.1pre8 is released. This release has some new features as well as some visual changes to Zinc. See the ChangeLog for list of changes.