Zoite Chat 2.19.1

ZoiteChat 2.19.0 is now available
HighLights
- Added Python 3.8 compatibility for older Windows releases.
- Added on-demand SASL password prompts, including renewed prompts after reconnecting.
- Corrected NickServ authentication to use the decrypted password for the active network.
- Made system theme matching the default and polished GTK3 theme integration.
- Applied more settings changes immediately, reducing the need to restart ZoiteChat.
- Added descriptive tooltips to the color picker choices and refined default text-event colors.
- Stabilized channel tree font handling across palette and theme updates.
- Corrected the chat scrollbar increment used by its arrow buttons.
- Improved Windows URL launching through the native shell.
- Restored expected minimize behavior when clicking ZoiteChat on the Windows taskbar.

Full Changelog: https://docs.zoitechat.org/en/latest/changelog.html

ZoiteChat 2.18.3 is now available
HighLights
- Added IRCv3 support for message tags, echo-message, typing notifications, and replies.

• Restored the accept-invalid-cert TLS bypass behavior.

• Replaced legacy IPv4 APIs and added support for OpenSSL 4 APIs.

• Snapshot Python hooks during plugin unload for safer plugin shutdown.

• Fixed Windows GtkStatusIcon tray menu popup behavior.

• Fixed self-echoed private messages routing to the target tab.

• Fixed the lag ping timeout window.

Full Changelog: https://docs.zoitechat.org/en/latest/changelog.html

ZoiteChat 2.18.0 is now available
This is the first stable GTK3 release of ZoiteChat, with a major upgrade to theming, UI consistency, and core client polish.
Highlights
- New GTK3 theme system and import improvements
- Better multi-line topic bar
- Tab close and reopen shortcuts (CTRL+W and CTRL+SHIFT+T)
- Improved plugin compatibility
- Client SSL certificate import/generate feature.
Fixes in this release:
- Added optional close buttons on tabs.
- Added Ctrl+W to close tabs and Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen recently closed tabs.
- Expanded theme import support with .hct support in colors.conf import.
- Added pevent import support from .hct theme files and improved import result messaging.
- Expanded palette and selection CSS styling for better theme consistency.
- Auto-sizes the topic bar to wrapped text for better multi-line topic handling.
- Refined command-character parsing when pasting path-like text.
- Tightened topic link detection and opening rules.
- Added Public Suffix List validation for host links to reduce bad link matches.
- Improved channel tree behavior by ignoring collapsed parent selections.
- Sanitized the Linux open environment for AppImage builds and added safer fallback handling.
- Labeled Windows installer runtimes with exact versions.
- Fixed the notification icon and corrected the Flatpak screenshot asset.
- Improved AppStream metainfo validation.
Full Changelog: https://docs.zoitechat.org/en/latest/changelog.html