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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/etc/ERC-NEWS b/etc/ERC-NEWS index f638d4717a1..d0d84d0a987 100644 --- a/etc/ERC-NEWS +++ b/etc/ERC-NEWS @@ -48,10 +48,9 @@ hell. For some, auth-source may provide a workaround in the form of nonstandard server passwords. See the "Connection" node in the manual under the subheading "Password". -If you require SASL immediately, please participate in ERC development -by volunteering to try (and give feedback on) edge features, one of -which is SASL. All known external offerings, past and present, are -valiant efforts whose use is nevertheless discouraged. +** Rudimentary SASL support has arrived. +A new module, 'erc-sasl', now ships with ERC 5.5. See the SASL +section in the manual for details. ** Username argument for entry-point commands. Commands 'erc' and 'erc-tls' now accept a ':user' keyword argument, @@ -125,6 +124,15 @@ The function 'erc-auto-query' was deemed too difficult to reason through and has thus been deprecated with no public replacement; it has also been removed from the client code path. +The function 'erc-open' now delays running 'erc-mode-hook' members +until most local session variables have been initialized (minus those +connection-related ones in erc-backend). 'erc-open' also no longer +calls 'erc-update-modules', although modules are still activated +in an identical fashion. + +Some groundwork has been laid for what may become a new breed of ERC +module, namely, "connection-local" (or simply "local") modules. + A few internal variables have been introduced that could just as well have been made public, possibly as user options. Likewise for some internal functions. As always, users needing such functionality |