matterbridge/changelog.md

v1.6.0

New features

• sshchat: New protocol support added (https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat)
• general: Allow specifying maximum download size of media using MediaDownloadSize (slack,telegram,matrix)
• api: Add (simple, one listener) long-polling support (api). Closes #307
• telegram: Add support for forwarded messages. Closes #313
• telegram: Add support for Audio/Voice files (telegram). Closes #314
• irc: Add RejoinDelay option. Delay to rejoin after channel kick (irc). Closes #322

Bugfix

• telegram: Also use HTML in edited messages (telegram). Closes #315
• matrix: Fix panic (matrix). Closes #316

v1.5.1

Bugfix

• irc: Fix irc ACTION regression (irc). Closes #306
• irc: Split on UTF-8 for MessageSplit (irc). Closes #308

v1.5.0

New features

• general: remote mediaserver support. See MediaServerDownload and MediaServerUpload in matterbridge.toml.sample more information on https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/wiki/Mediaserver-setup-%5Badvanced%5D
• general: Add support for ReplaceNicks using regexp to replace nicks. Closes #269 (see matterbridge.toml.sample)
• general: Add support for ReplaceMessages using regexp to replace messages. #269 (see matterbridge.toml.sample)
• irc: Add MessageSplit option to split messages on MessageLength (irc). Closes #281
• matrix: Add support for uploading images/video (matrix). Closes #302
• matrix: Add support for uploaded images/video (matrix)

Bugfix

• telegram: Add webp extension to stickers if necessary (telegram)
• mattermost: Break when re-login fails (mattermost)

v1.4.1

Bugfix

• telegram: fix issue with uploading for images/documents/stickers
• slack: remove double messages sent to other bridges when uploading files
• irc: Fix strict user handling of girc (irc). Closes #298

v1.4.0

Breaking changes

• general: [general] settings don't override the specific bridge settings

New features

• irc: Replace sorcix/irc and go-ircevent with girc, this should be give better reconnects
• steam: Add support for bridging to individual steam chats. (steam) (#294)
• telegram: Download files from telegram and reupload to supported bridges (telegram). #278
• slack: Add support to upload files to slack, from bridges with private urls like slack/mattermost/telegram. (slack)
• discord: Add support to upload files to discord, from bridges with private urls like slack/mattermost/telegram. (discord)
• general: Add systemd service file (#291)
• general: Add support for DEBUG=1 envvar to enable debug. Closes #283
• general: Add StripNick option, only allow alphanumerical nicks. Closes #285

Bugfix

• gitter: Use room.URI instead of room.Name. (gitter) (#293)
• slack: Allow slack messages with variables (eg. @here) to be formatted correctly. (slack) (#288)
• slack: Resolve slack channel to human-readable name. (slack) (#282)
• slack: Use DisplayName instead of deprecated username (slack). Closes #276
• slack: Allowed Slack bridge to extract simpler link format. (#287)
• irc: Strip irc colors correct, strip also ctrl chars (irc)

v1.3.1

New features

• Support mattermost 4.3.0 and every other 4.x as api4 should be stable (mattermost)

Bugfix

• Use bot username if specified (slack). Closes #273

v1.3.0

New features

• Relay slack_attachments from mattermost to slack (slack). Closes #260
• Add support for quoting previous message when replying (telegram). #237
• Add support for Quakenet auth (irc). Closes #263
• Download files (max size 1MB) from slack and reupload to mattermost (slack/mattermost). Closes #255

Enhancements

• Backoff for 60 seconds when reconnecting too fast (irc) #267
• Use override username if specified (mattermost). #260

Bugfix

• Try to not forward slack unfurls. Closes #266

v1.2.0

Breaking changes

• If you're running a discord bridge, update to this release before 16 october otherwise it will stop working. (see https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/reference)

New features

• general: Add delete support. (actually delete the messages on bridges that support it) (mattermost,discord,gitter,slack,telegram)

Bugfix

• Do not break messages on newline (slack). Closes #258
• Update telegram library
• Update discord library (supports v6 API now). Old API is deprecated on 16 October

v1.1.2

New features

• general: also build darwin binaries
• mattermost: add support for mattermost 4.2.x

Bugfix

• mattermost: Send images when text is empty regression. (mattermost). Closes #254
• slack: also send the first messsage after connect. #252

v1.1.1

Bugfix

• mattermost: fix public links

v1.1.0

New features

• general: Add better editing support. (actually edit the messages on bridges that support it) (mattermost,discord,gitter,slack,telegram)
• mattermost: use API v4 (removes support for mattermost < 3.8)
• mattermost: add support for personal access tokens (since mattermost 4.1) Use Token="yourtoken" in mattermost config See https://docs.mattermost.com/developer/personal-access-tokens.html for more info
• matrix: Relay notices (matrix). Closes #243
• irc: Add a charset option. Closes #247

Bugfix

• slack: Handle leave/join events (slack). Closes #246
• slack: Replace mentions from other bridges. (slack). Closes #233
• gitter: remove ZWSP after messages

v1.0.1

New features

• mattermost: add support for mattermost 4.1.x
• discord: allow a webhookURL per channel #239

v1.0.0

New features

• general: Add action support for slack,mattermost,irc,gitter,matrix,xmpp,discord. #199
• discord: Shows the username instead of the server nickname #234

v1.0.0-rc1

New features

• general: Add action support for slack,mattermost,irc,gitter,matrix,xmpp,discord. #199

Bugfix

• general: Handle same account in multiple gateways better
• mattermost: ignore edited messages with reactions
• mattermost: Fix double posting of edited messages by using lru cache
• irc: update vendor

v0.16.3

Bugfix

• general: Fix in/out logic. Closes #224
• general: Fix message modification
• slack: Disable message from other bots when using webhooks (slack)
• mattermost: Return better error messages on mattermost connect

v0.16.2

New features

• general: binary builds against latest commit are now available on https://bintray.com/42wim/nightly/Matterbridge/_latestVersion

Bugfix

• slack: fix loop introduced by relaying message of other bots #219
• slack: Suppress parent message when child message is received #218
• mattermost: fix regression when using webhookurl and webhookbindaddress #221

v0.16.1

New features

• slack: also relay messages of other bots #213
• mattermost: show also links if public links have not been enabled.

Bugfix

• mattermost, slack: fix connecting logic #216

v0.16.0

Breaking Changes

• URL,UseAPI,BindAddress is deprecated. Your config has to be updated.
  • URL => WebhookURL
  • BindAddress => WebhookBindAddress
  • UseAPI => removed This change allows you to specify a WebhookURL and a token (slack,discord), so that messages will be sent with the webhook, but received via the token (API) If you have not specified WebhookURL and WebhookBindAddress the API (login or token) will be used automatically. (no need for UseAPI)

New features

• mattermost: add support for mattermost 4.0
• steam: New protocol support added (http://store.steampowered.com/)
• discord: Support for embedded messages (sent by other bots) Shows title, description and URL of embedded messages (sent by other bots) To enable add ShowEmbeds=true to your discord config
• discord: WebhookURL posting support added (thanks @saury07) #204 Discord API does not allow to change the name of the user posting, but webhooks does.

Changes

• general: all :emoji: will be converted to unicode, providing consistent emojis across all bridges
• telegram: Add UseInsecureURL option for telegram (default false) WARNING! If enabled this will relay GIF/stickers/documents and other attachments as URLs Those URLs will contain your bot-token. This may not be what you want. For now there is no secure way to relay GIF/stickers/documents without seeing your token.

Bugfix

• irc: detect charset and try to convert it to utf-8 before sending it to other bridges. #209 #210
• slack: Remove label from URLs (slack). #205
• slack: Relay <>& correctly to other bridges #215
• steam: Fix channel id bug in steam (channels are off by 0x18000000000000)
• general: various improvements
• general: samechannelgateway now relays messages correct again #207

v0.16.0-rc2

Breaking Changes

• URL,UseAPI,BindAddress is deprecated. Your config has to be updated.
  • URL => WebhookURL
  • BindAddress => WebhookBindAddress
  • UseAPI => removed This change allows you to specify a WebhookURL and a token (slack,discord), so that messages will be sent with the webhook, but received via the token (API) If you have not specified WebhookURL and WebhookBindAddress the API (login or token) will be used automatically. (no need for UseAPI)

Bugfix since rc1

• steam: Fix channel id bug in steam (channels are off by 0x18000000000000)
• telegram: Add UseInsecureURL option for telegram (default false) WARNING! If enabled this will relay GIF/stickers/documents and other attachments as URLs Those URLs will contain your bot-token. This may not be what you want. For now there is no secure way to relay GIF/stickers/documents without seeing your token.
• irc: detect charset and try to convert it to utf-8 before sending it to other bridges. #209 #210
• general: various improvements

v0.16.0-rc1

Breaking Changes

• URL,UseAPI,BindAddress is deprecated. Your config has to be updated.
  • URL => WebhookURL
  • BindAddress => WebhookBindAddress
  • UseAPI => removed This change allows you to specify a WebhookURL and a token (slack,discord), so that messages will be sent with the webhook, but received via the token (API) If you have not specified WebhookURL and WebhookBindAddress the API (login or token) will be used automatically. (no need for UseAPI)

New features

• steam: New protocol support added (http://store.steampowered.com/)
• discord: WebhookURL posting support added (thanks @saury07) #204 Discord API does not allow to change the name of the user posting, but webhooks does.

Bugfix

• general: samechannelgateway now relays messages correct again #207
• slack: Remove label from URLs (slack). #205

v0.15.0

New features

• general: add option IgnoreMessages for all protocols (see mattebridge.toml.sample) Messages matching these regexp will be ignored and not sent to other bridges e.g. IgnoreMessages="^~~ badword"
• telegram: add support for sticker/video/photo/document #184

Changes

• api: add userid to each message #200

Bugfix

• discord: fix crash in memberupdate #198
• mattermost: Fix incorrect behaviour of EditDisable (mattermost). Fixes #197
• irc: Do not relay join/part of ourselves (irc). Closes #190
• irc: make reconnections more robust. #153
• gitter: update library, fixes possible crash

v0.14.0

New features

• api: add token authentication
• mattermost: add support for mattermost 3.10.0

Changes

• api: gateway name is added in JSON messages
• api: lowercase JSON keys
• api: channel name isn't needed in config #195

Bugfix

• discord: Add hashtag to channelname (when translating from id) (discord)
• mattermost: Fix a panic. #186
• mattermost: use teamid cache if possible. Fixes a panic
• api: post valid json. #185
• api: allow reuse of api in different gateways. #189
• general: Fix utf-8 issues for {NOPINGNICK}. #193

v0.13.0

New features

• irc: Limit message length. MessageLength=400 Maximum length of message sent to irc server. If it exceeds will be add to the message.
• irc: Add NOPINGNICK option. The string "{NOPINGNICK}" (case sensitive) will be replaced by the actual nick / username, but with a ZWSP inside the nick, so the irc user with the same nick won't get pinged.
  See https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/issues/175 for more information

Bugfix

• slack: Fix sending to different channels on same account (slack). Closes #177
• telegram: Fix incorrect usernames being sent. Closes #181

v0.12.1

New features

• telegram: Add UseFirstName option (telegram). Closes #144
• matrix: Add NoHomeServerSuffix. Option to disable homeserver on username (matrix). Closes #160.

Bugfix

• xmpp: Add Compatibility for Cisco Jabber (xmpp) (#166)
• irc: Fix JoinChannel argument to use IRC channel key (#172)
• discord: Fix possible crash on nil (discord)
• discord: Replace long ids in channel metions (discord). Fixes #174

v0.12.0

Changes

• general: edited messages are now being sent by default on discord/mattermost/telegram/slack. See "New Features"

New features

• general: add support for edited messages. Add new keyword EditDisable (false/true), default false. Which means by default edited messages will be sent to other bridges. Add new keyword EditSuffix , default "". You can change this eg to "(edited)", this will be appended to every edit message.
• mattermost: support mattermost v3.9.x
• general: Add support for HTTP{S}_PROXY env variables (#162)
• discord: Strip custom emoji metadata (discord). Closes #148

Bugfix

• slack: Ignore error on private channel join (slack) Fixes #150
• mattermost: fix crash on reconnects when server is down. Closes #163
• irc: Relay messages starting with ! (irc). Closes #164

v0.11.0

New features

• general: reusing the same account on multiple gateways now also reuses the connection. This is particuarly useful for irc. See #87
• general: the Name is now REQUIRED and needs to be UNIQUE for each gateway configuration
• telegram: Support edited messages (telegram). See #141
• mattermost: Add support for showing/hiding join/leave messages from mattermost. Closes #147
• mattermost: Reconnect on session removal/timeout (mattermost)
• mattermost: Support mattermost v3.8.x
• irc: Rejoin channel when kicked (irc).

Bugfix

• mattermost: Remove space after nick (mattermost). Closes #142
• mattermost: Modify iconurl correctly (mattermost).
• irc: Fix join/leave regression (irc)

v0.10.3

Bugfix

• slack: Allow bot tokens for now without warning (slack). Closes #140 (fixes user_is_bot message on channel join)

v0.10.2

New features

• general: gops agent added. Allows for more debugging. See #134
• general: toml inline table support added for config file

Bugfix

• all: vendored libs updated

Changes

• general: add more informative messages on startup

v0.10.1

Bugfix

• gitter: Fix sending messages on new channel join.

v0.10.0

New features

• matrix: New protocol support added (https://matrix.org)
• mattermost: works with mattermost release v3.7.0
• discord: Replace role ids in mentions to role names (discord). Closes #133

Bugfix

• mattermost: Add ReadTimeout to close lingering connections (mattermost). See #125
• gitter: Join rooms not already joined by the bot (gitter). See #135
• general: Fail when bridge is unable to join a channel (general)

Changes

• telegram: Do not use HTML parsemode by default. Set MessageFormat="HTML" to use it. Closes #126

v0.9.3

New features

• API: rest interface to read / post messages (see API section in matterbridge.toml.sample)

Bugfix

• slack: fix receiving messages from private channels #118
• slack: fix echo when using webhooks #119
• mattermost: reconnecting should work better now
• irc: keeps reconnecting (every 60 seconds) now after ping timeout/disconnects.

v0.9.2

New features

• slack: support private channels #118

Bugfix

• general: make ignorenicks work again #115
• telegram: fix receiving from channels and groups #112
• telegram: use html for username
• telegram: use unknown as username when username is not visible.
• irc: update vendor (fixes some crashes) #117
• xmpp: fix tls by setting ServerName #114

v0.9.1

New features

• Rocket.Chat: New protocol support added (https://rocket.chat)
• irc: add channel key support #27 (see matterbrige.toml.sample for example)
• xmpp: add SkipTLSVerify #106

Bugfix

• general: Exit when a bridge fails to start
• mattermost: Check errors only on first connect. Keep retrying after first connection succeeds. #95
• telegram: fix missing username #102
• slack: do not use API functions in webhook (slack) #110

v0.9.0

New features

• Telegram: New protocol support added (https://telegram.org)
• Hipchat: Add sample config to connect to hipchat via xmpp
• discord: add "Bot " tag to discord tokens automatically
• slack: Add support for dynamic Iconurl #43
• general: Add gateway.inout config option for bidirectional bridges #85
• general: Add [general] section so that RemoteNickFormat can be set globally

Bugfix

• general: when using samechannelgateway NickFormat get doubled by the NICK #77
• general: fix ShowJoinPart for messages from irc bridge #72
• gitter: fix high cpu usage #89
• irc: fix !users command #78
• xmpp: fix keepalive
• xmpp: do not relay delayed/empty messages
• slack: Replace id-mentions to usernames #86
• mattermost: fix public links not working (API changes)

v0.8.1

Bugfix

• general: when using samechannelgateway NickFormat get doubled by the NICK #77
• irc: fix !users command #78

v0.8.0

Release because of breaking mattermost API changes

New features

• Supports mattermost v3.5.0

v0.7.1

Bugfix

• general: when using samechannelgateway NickFormat get doubled by the NICK #77
• irc: fix !users command #78

v0.7.0

Breaking config changes from 0.6 to 0.7

Matterbridge now uses TOML configuration (https://github.com/toml-lang/toml) See matterbridge.toml.sample for an example

New features

General

• Allow for bridging the same type of bridge, which means you can eg bridge between multiple mattermosts.
• The bridge is now actually a gateway which has support multiple in and out bridges. (and supports multiple gateways).
• Discord support added. See matterbridge.toml.sample for more information.
• Samechannelgateway support added, easier configuration for 1:1 mapping of protocols with same channel names. #35
• Support for override from environment variables. #50
• Better debugging output.
• discord: New protocol support added. (http://www.discordapp.com)
• mattermost: Support attachments.
• irc: Strip colors. #33
• irc: Anti-flooding support. #40
• irc: Forward channel notices.

Bugfix

• irc: Split newlines. #37
• irc: Only respond to nick related notices from nickserv.
• irc: Ignore queries send to the bot.
• irc: Ignore messages from ourself.
• irc: Only output the "users on irc information" when asked with "!users".
• irc: Actually wait until connection is complete before saying it is.
• mattermost: Fix mattermost channel joins.
• mattermost: Drop messages not from our team.
• slack: Do not panic on non-existing channels.
• general: Exit when a bridge fails to start.

v0.6.1

New features

• Slack support added. See matterbridge.conf.sample for more information

Bugfix

• Fix 100% CPU bug on incorrect closed connections

v0.6.0-beta2

New features

• Gitter support added. See matterbridge.conf.sample for more information

v0.6.0-beta1

Breaking changes from 0.5 to 0.6

commandline

• -plus switch deprecated. Use Plus=true or Plus in [general] section

IRC section

• Enabled added (default false)
  Add Enabled=true or Enabled to the [IRC] section if you want to enable the IRC bridge

Mattermost section

• Enabled added (default false)
  Add Enabled=true or Enabled to the [mattermost] section if you want to enable the mattermost bridge

General section

• Use Plus=true or Plus in [general] section to enable the API version of matterbridge

New features

• Matterbridge now bridges between any specified protocol (not only mattermost anymore)
• XMPP support added. See matterbridge.conf.sample for more information
• RemoteNickFormat {BRIDGE} variable added
  You can now add the originating bridge to RemoteNickFormat
  eg RemoteNickFormat="[{BRIDGE}] <{NICK}> "

v0.5.0

Breaking changes from 0.4 to 0.5 for matterbridge (webhooks version)

IRC section

Server

Port removed, added to server

server="irc.freenode.net"
port=6667

changed to

server="irc.freenode.net:6667"

Channel

Removed see Channels section below

UseSlackCircumfix=true

Removed, can be done by using RemoteNickFormat="<{NICK}> "

Mattermost section

BindAddress

Port removed, added to BindAddress

BindAddress="0.0.0.0"
port=9999

changed to

BindAddress="0.0.0.0:9999"

Token

Removed

Channels section

[Token "outgoingwebhooktoken1"] 
IRCChannel="#off-topic"
MMChannel="off-topic"

changed to

[Channel "channelnameofchoice"] 
IRC="#off-topic"
Mattermost="off-topic"