Release Notes for Version 5.2.7

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The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version 5.2.7 of the Textual IRC Client.

Additions

Changes

Fixes

Chat Filter Addon Behavior Changes

The behavior of channel specific filters has changed. Selecting all channels managed by a specific server no longer changes the filter to be specific to that server. Instead, only the channels selected are actually treated as enabled. This prevents new channels from inheriting the filter when the user only wanted it to apply to the selected channels.

Filters can still apply to an entire server by enabling the checkbox next to the name of the server when editing a filter.

Security Improvements

A checkbox has been added to the Network Socket section of Server Properties. This checkbox, which is labeled “Prefer Textual's list of cipher suites” and is enabled by default, instructs the app to use a specific set of cipher suites.

The cipher suites that are used can be broken up into two collections:

Modern
These cipher suites are top priority. They provide a great deal of trust.
Deprecated
These cipher suites are kept around for backwards compatibility. The cipher suites included in this collection are considered obsolete and will eventually be removed from the app altogether.

The following tables, which are sorted from highest priority to lowest priority, detail the cipher suites for each collection. For a complete breakdown of each cipher suite, see Mozilla's wiki.

Modern Collection
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256
TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
Deprecated Collection
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA

 
Last modified: August 23, 2017
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