Changelog

All notable changes to Tilde. Generated from the commit history by git-cliff.

0.6.1 - 2026-11-08

Bug fixes

• pgp: Report the cancellation when it cut the input, even if gpg ended first

0.6.0 - 2026-11-08

Features

• scripting: Add the bar and sys modules for the bars of tt
• tui: Build the bars of tt from the functions of the scripts
• ui: Draw a bar line with pieces of colour and drop items when it is narrow
• tui: Show the bars of the scripts on the main screen
• scripting: Choose the colour theme from Lua with ui.theme
• tui: Show the keys that work in a bar at the bottom of the reader
• tt: Search the whole mail cache of the open account with g/

Bug fixes

• tests: Keep the bar tests free of the default bars file
• tui: Apply the review of the bars
• scripting: Apply the review of ui.theme
• scripting: Refuse a bar set from inside a bar function
• tui: Apply the review of the reader key bar
• tui: Keep Close in the reader bar on a narrow terminal
• tui: Show the shortest key in the hints and update the pages and the screenshots
• bars: Close the re-entry gaps and apply the small findings of the review of the bars
• bars: Keep the bars set while a reload runs
• bars: Apply the minor findings of the review
• screenshots: Wait for the clock with seconds in the top bar shot
• tt: Apply the findings of the review of the cache search
• screenshots: Never reach a server or the real runtime folder in the compose run
• tests: Make the link test of bars.lua independent of the umask
• tests: Mark the bars.lua link test as not for Windows

Refactoring

• mail: Carry Message-ID, References, In-Reply-To and Reply-To in MailMessage

Documentation

• Describe the bars that scripts set
• Add the screenshots of the reader, the top bar and a theme, and regenerate help.svg
• Apply the minor findings of the review of the screenshots
• Fix the pages that contradict the pictures and the program
• Say what a file with mistakes does and list the keys for writing and answering
• Say that the demo has no account and where the text of a new mail goes
• Add the pictures of the tree, a command message, the compose window, a key description and a narrow bar
• Apply the minor findings of the review of the new pictures

0.5.0 - 2026-11-07

Features

• tui: Add the scheduler and the loop of tilde-t
• tui: Add tilde-t with the main screen
• cli: Add tcli cache build
• cli: Add tcli read to show and save the attachments of a message, decrypted when it is OpenPGP
• tui: Dim the selection of the list without focus and bind the arrow keys
• cache: Index the bodies of a Maildir in batches with several tasks
• tui: Move the selection with the mouse wheel
• tui: Add the command line opened with a colon
• tui: Search the messages with a slash, n and N
• tui: Show the real accounts and the inbox
• release: Ship tilde-t as a single file, in the archives and in the Debian packages
• tui: Load colour themes from themes/*.toml
• ui: Add the TextView widget
• ui: Add the TreeView widget
• scripting: Bind ? to help.show in the default keybind.lua
• rules: Publish an event when a rule fires on a message that arrives
• tui: Show the folders of the accounts in the sidebar
• tui: Call the executable of the terminal interface tt
• cli: Add –config to tcli and tt to move the root directory
• tui: Open a message and read it in a reader window
• tui: Add help.show_keys, a window that lists the key bindings
• tui: Add –theme to pick the theme from the command line
• ui: Add KeyResolverText, a hint that shows the keys of a command
• tui: Run the editor of the user on a text in a private temporary file
• core: Write and read the file in which a mail is composed
• core: Make the template of a new mail, a reply and a reply to all
• tui: Write a new mail in the editor of the user and send it
• tui: Answer a message with r and R
• tui: Decrypt and verify OpenPGP messages in the reader

Bug fixes

• tui: Apply the review of the scheduler and the loop
• tui: Run only the actions queued at the start of a scheduler call
• tui: Apply the review of tilde-t
• cli: Apply the review of cache build
• pgp: Open the PGP/MIME message that Proton Bridge rebuilds as multipart/mixed
• pgp: Accept only real public keys beside a Proton Bridge ciphertext
• cli: Harden tcli read after the review
• tui: Apply the review of the focus colours
• cache: Apply the review of the batch indexing
• ui: Keep the bright selection under a window and keep a custom selected role
• ui: Find the focus that comes back to the content when a window is shown again
• tui: Leave the wheel mode on when tilde-t exits
• tui: Apply the review of the command line
• tui: Apply the review of the search
• tui: Apply the review of the real data
• release: Apply the review of the packaging
• release: Apply the minor findings of the review
• tui: Apply the review of the themes
• ui: Apply the review of the TextView
• ui: Apply the review of the TreeView
• rules: Apply the review of the rule applied event
• tui: Apply the review of the folders in the sidebar
• cli: Apply the review of the root directory option
• tui: Apply the review of the reader
• deb: Name the metapackage tilde-all
• deb: Say tilde-all on the home page of the site
• tui: Apply the review of the key help
• tests: Dispose the test classes that xunit 2 ignored
• tests: Dispose CachedImapTests and guard the integration project too
• tests: Apply the minor points of the review of the disposal fix
• tui: Apply the review of –theme
• tui: Apply the minor points of the review of –theme
• ui: Apply the minor points of the review of RowsView
• ui: Apply the review of KeyResolverText
• ui: Apply the minor points of the review of KeyResolverText
• tui: Apply the review of the external editor
• tui: Apply the minor points of the review of the external editor
• core: Apply the review of the compose file
• core: Apply the review of the compose templates
• core: Apply the minor points of the review of the compose templates
• tui: Apply the review of the compose command
• tui: Apply the minor points of the review of the compose command
• tui: Apply the review of the reply command
• tui: Apply the minor points of the review of the reply command
• tui: Apply the review of the reader with OpenPGP

Refactoring

• ui: Share the code of ListView and TreeView in RowsView

Documentation

• tui: Name the archives of tt as the build makes them
• Keep the name of the former program out of the changelog
• site: Add the website scaffold from Astro Starlight
• site: Keep the site free of references to its predecessor
• site: Apply the review of the website scaffold
• site: Check the length of the pages and report the stubs
• site: Apply the review of the site checks
• site: List every page of the site and add the stubs
• site: Apply the review of the page manifest
• site: Encode the brand tokens in the theme
• site: Add the chat sign and the social image
• site: Write the home page
• site: Apply the review of the brand and the home page
• site: Write the Start pages
• site: Keep the title of an aside when a page is imported
• site: Apply the review of the Start pages
• tui: Describe how the HTML of a message is shown
• site: Write the Use tt pages
• site: Write the Reference tables
• site: Describe help.show_keys in the Reference of tt
• site: Write the Scripts pages
• site: Write the Plugins pages
• site: Write the Contribute pages
• site: Let the guard pass words that hold the letters of the former program
• site: Say that the question mark opens the key help
• site: Write the tutorial of tt
• site: Write the Configure pages
• site: Write the tcli and the Keys and rules pages
• site: Say that the question mark opens the key help on the keys page
• site: Add the screenshot script and its page
• site: Apply the review of the screenshot script
• site: Make the pages agree with each other
• site: Show the screens of tt on the pages

0.4.0 - 2026-11-06

Features

• input: Add the key service with contexts, vim notation, counts and sequences
• scripting: Add the keys module
• scripting: Add the default keybind.lua
• ui: Add the widgets and the layout of the terminal interface
• ui: Draw the widgets into a buffer of cells
• ui: Load a screen from an XML file
• ui: Bind the widgets to the properties of a view model
• ui: Add the main view model and the commands of the lists
• ui: Run the commands of the keys that are pressed
• ui: Add the window widget
• ui: Add the status bar component
• ui: Add two-way bindings
• ui: Add the text box
• ui: Add the password box
• cli: Add tcli cache search
• cli: Add tcli plugins list
• ui: Add the scroll bar to the list
• tui: Add the ANSI terminal of tilde-t
• release: Sign SHA256SUMS with the release key

Bug fixes

• ui: Measure a text with a lone surrogate and let a text block be subclassed
• build: Pass the analyzers of a clean build with warnings as errors
• ui: Apply the review of the key router
• ui: Apply the review of the window widget
• ui: Apply the review of the status bar
• ui: Apply the review of the two-way bindings
• ui: Apply the review of the text box
• ui: Apply the review of the password box
• cli: Apply the review of cache search
• cli: Apply the review of plugins list
• ui: Apply the review of the scroll bar
• cache: Tell a failed search from an empty one
• cache: Apply the review of the search failure
• tui: Apply the review of the ANSI terminal
• release: Apply the review of the checksum signing

Refactoring

• host: Move the default plugins and the scripts folder out of the CLI host
• host: Apply the review of the host library
• input: Apply the review of the key service
• scripting: Apply the review of the keys module
• ui: Apply the review of the widgets and the layout
• ui: Apply the review of the cell rendering
• ui: Apply the review of the XML loader
• ui: Apply the review of the bindings
• ui: Apply the review of the main view model
• ui: Raise the status from the setter of the selected message
• ui: Simplify the properties of the widgets

0.3.0 - 2026-11-06

Features

• cli: Tcli watch writes one line for each event

Bug fixes

• cli: Watch listens before the accounts start and ends with 0 on Ctrl+C
• cli: The findings of the review of watch
• cli: CliApplication.RunAsync takes the cancellation token last

Refactoring

• cli: Pass the folder listing as a method group in cache rebuild

0.2.0 - 2026-11-05

Features

• pgp: Open signed and encrypted mail
• pgp: Sign and encrypt the mail I send
• cli: Tcli cache rebuild empties the mail cache and fills it again
• cache: Full text search over Maildir accounts
• cli: Tcli scripts loads init.lua and shows what the scripts did
• pgp: Inline PGP, reading and sending
• pgp: The keyring event for Lua and the docs of OpenPGP
• cli: Tcli cache rebuild indexes the body of every message
• cli: Tcli rules applies the mail rules, all or one by name
• pgp: A key for each mail account (gpg_key)

Bug fixes

• pgp: The findings of the review of the read path
• pgp: The findings of the review of the write path
• cli: The findings of the review of cache rebuild
• cache: The findings of the review of the Maildir search
• pgp: The findings of the review of inline PGP
• cli: The findings of the review of tcli scripts
• cli: The findings of the review of cache rebuild –bodies
• pgp: The findings of the review of the account key
• cache: Rebuild –bodies asks an IMAP server about the folder once for many messages
• cache: The findings of the review of the folder check of the indexer

0.1.0 - 2026-11-05

Features

• core: Add in-memory EventHubService and move contracts to Tilde.Abstraction
• abstraction: Add connection and mail contracts
• abstraction: Add chat contracts
• abstraction: Add middleware, search, cache, log and account contracts
• abstraction: Add mail events and account id on chat events
• core: Add middleware chain builder and debug logging
• core: Add ConfigService with typed sections and expanded values
• core: Add TildePaths.ResolveDirectory
• core: TildeBootstrap and internal plugins (#2)
• abstraction: Extend IMailStore and publish mail events
• maildir: Add the Maildir project, its settings and the file name parser
• maildir: Add the nested folder layout and the folder directory
• maildir: Read folders and messages with MaildirMailStore
• maildir: Write operations of MaildirMailStore
• maildir: Add the Maildir++ folder layout
• maildir: Publish arriving mail and connection state, and give the factory the account id
• maildir: Add the Maildir factory and plugin
• core: Add author and url to the plugin metadata
• maildir: Log the operations of the Maildir store
• imap: Add the IMAP project, its settings and the parts without a network
• imap: Connect to an IMAP server and publish the connection state
• imap: Read folders and messages
• imap: Flags, moving, copying, saving, expunge and folders
• imap: Announce arriving mail, and add the IMAP factory and plugin
• abstraction: List a window of the messages of a folder
• core: Add AccountService, which wraps every connection in the middleware chain
• abstraction: Extend MailDraft and build the message to send from it
• core: Publish MailMessageSentEvent from a middleware and put it in every transport chain
• smtp: Add the SMTP plugin on MailKit
• chat: Add presence to the chat contract
• core: Publish the events of every chat client on the hub
• xmpp: Add the XMPP plugin project and its settings
• xmpp: Map XMPP stanzas to chat events
• xmpp: Add the XMPP chat client, factory and plugin
• maildir: Keep a per-folder list of message files
• maildir: Recover from a failed file system watcher
• core: Write the logs to a file when logging.log_to_file is true
• core: Add the job scheduler
• irc: Add the IRC plugin project and its account settings
• irc: Read and write the lines of the IRC protocol
• irc: Turn IRC lines into chat events
• irc: Read lines with a size limit and wait for the answer of the server
• irc: Add the IRC chat client, factory and plugin
• chat: Add MarkReadAsync and ChatMessageReadEvent to the chat contract
• xmpp: Sync what is read or answered on my other devices
• core: Add WhoNeedsMeService, the list of what waits for me
• core: Port the timer wheel of Moongate
• core: Run the timers on a dedicated thread and keep a failing timer from stopping the others
• core: Start and stop the timer service with the bootstrap
• core: Add the command registry shared by C# and Lua
• irc: Accept read markers without sending any
• scripting: Add the Tilde.Scripting library with the Lua engine
• irc: Report renames and kicks, and bound what the mapper remembers
• irc: Count the relay prefix in the size of a message and skip a repeated join
• irc: Bound the queue of chat events
• irc: Space out the lines the client sends
• irc: Add the reconnect and channels settings
• irc: Connect again after a lost connection and put the account back
• scripting: Add the events module and the bridged hub events
• scripting: Add the commands module and the reload command
• scripting: Add the jobs and timers modules
• scripting: Write the editor definitions and document the library
• abstraction: Give MailFolder a validity token that IMAP fills with the UIDVALIDITY
• irc: Build the IRC client on IRCDotNet.Core
• cache: Add the Tilde.Cache library with the configuration, the size parser and the full-text query
• cache: Open the cache file encrypted and create its schema with linq2db
• cache: Store folders, headers and whole messages
• cache: Search the cache with full-text queries
• cache: Keep the cache under size_max by dropping the whole messages used least
• core: Let plugins decorate the store of an account
• cache: Decorate a mail store with the cache
• cache: Add the cache plugin, its configuration and the reset command
• cache: Search the mail of an account through IMailSearchService
• irc: Show who goes away, and send and read /me actions
• cache: The follow-ups of the reviews
• connections: Say which account a connection event belongs to, and report IMAP reconnects
• chat: Publish the messages I send and the errors a network gives back
• mail: Events for failed sends, folder counts of outside arrivals and an emptied cache
• chat: Events for kicks, renames, my own joins and leaves, invitations and topics
• xmpp: Events for corrections, retractions, receipts, chat states and subscription requests
• core: A service that tells which plugins are active
• accounts: Tell the application which part of an account could not be created
• cli: Add the Tilde.Cli project
• cli: Tcli skeleton and the accounts command
• mail: Tell what other clients do to the mailbox
• scripting: Lua events for the chat, account and outside-change events
• mbox: The scanner, the status flags and the settings of the mbox plugin
• mbox: The read only mbox mail store, its factory and its plugin
• cli: Tcli check and check –connect
• xmpp: Room message ids, moderation, mentions on corrections and nick changes in a room
• mail: Watch the other IMAP folders, and tell when a folder must be read again
• cli: Tcli send email
• chat: Messages say if they mention me and if they come from the history
• pgp: Find gpg, read the keyring and list the keys
• cli: Tcli send chat and tcli cache reset
• rules: The contract and the data of the rules engine
• rules: Matching, planning and running the mail rules
• rules: The rules service follows the new mail
• rules: The Lua module rules
• rules: Matching and running the chat rules
• rules: Chat rules from Lua
• rules: A Lua function as the action of a rule
• pgp: Import, export and delete keys
• config: Tell every wrong section, unknown key and unknown section, with its line
• Generate THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES from the NuGet packages
• pgp: Look up, receive and refresh keys
• Automatic versioning from Conventional Commits and tcli archives
• cli: Tcli prints a header with its version when it starts
• cli: Debian packages of tcli and a release workflow
• pgp: Sign, verify, encrypt and decrypt a MIME entity

Bug fixes

• core: Keep the events of a finished operation and specify the mail store contract
• maildir: Survive files renamed by other programs, never follow links and finish a delivered append
• maildir: Handle duplicates, renames inside new and a missing tmp, and make the watcher tests deterministic
• maildir: Check the arguments of MaildirPlugin.RegisterAsync
• imap: Never send the password in clear text with auto security
• imap: Do not repeat commands that change data, and close the races of connect and dispose
• imap: Follow UIDVALIDITY, keep what arrived during a reconnection and fix stale folders
• core: Do not block the start on a slow account, publish the accounts as a snapshot and keep expanded values out of messages
• smtp: Handle idle timeouts, cancellation and invalid drafts
• maildir: Stop the watcher for good and stop recovering forever
• maildir: Forget messages that left new and survive a folder deleted during recovery
• core: Keep the log folder private and bring the docs in line
• xmpp: Cancel a connect that hangs and keep room private messages private
• core: Publish a job failure without holding the worker
• irc: Log in with the account, send a text whole or not at all, refuse more joins
• Close the critical findings of the review of WhoNeedsMeService
• core: Do not spin before a timer is due and start the timer thread under the lock
• core: Publish the command event from another thread and clean the message better
• scripting: Let modules resolve the engine and start after a reload
• scripting: Never wait for the gate from inside a unit and keep the unit from leaking
• irc: Wait longer after a connection that drops at once and throttle every line
• scripting: Cancel a queued timer run, validate extreme intervals and write the definitions whole
• core: Keep the Tilde folder absolute when the config folder does not exist yet
• core: The root directory is ~/.config/tilde, not the old folder
• imap: A zero UIDVALIDITY means no token, and name the GreenMail delay
• irc: End a connect when the user disconnects, ignore CTCP, and keep the session of a second welcome
• cache: Keep whole messages that only moved, and the other findings of the review
• cache: The findings of the review of the cached store
• irc: Address review of away-notify and /me
• cache: The findings of the global review
• irc: Read /me on each line of a text
• cache: The findings of the review of the follow-ups
• cache: A cache file knows its account, and a crash while it is created no longer switches the cache off
• cache: The findings of the review of the owner and the creation
• imap: The findings of the review of the connection events
• chat: The findings of the review of the sent and error events
• mail: The findings of the review of the mail events
• chat: The findings of the review of the membership events
• xmpp: The findings of the review of the XMPP events
• core: The plugin service hands out read-only lists and the bootstrap refuses a second one
• cli: The findings of the review of the tcli skeleton
• mail: The findings of the review of the outside changes
• chat: Close the limits left by the first round of events
• mbox: The findings of the review of the mbox plugin
• mbox: The minor findings of the review of the mbox plugin
• cli: The findings of the review of tcli check
• xmpp: The findings of the review of the room ids and moderation
• imap: The findings of the review of the folder poller
• cli: The findings of the review of tcli send email
• pgp: The findings of the review of the key listing
• cli: The findings of the review of tcli send chat and cache reset
• rules: The findings of the review of the rules engine
• rules: The minor findings of the review of the rules engine
• rules: The findings of the review of the chat rules
• pgp: The findings of the review of the keyring management
• config: The findings of the review of the config diagnostics
• Use the genuine GPL-3.0 text in the license texts
• The findings of the review of the third-party notices
• pgp: The findings of the review of the key lookup
• cli: The findings of the review of the header
• cli: The findings of the review of the Debian packaging
• The findings of the review of the release automation
• pgp: The findings of the review of the PGP/MIME protector

Refactoring

• maildir: Give two lambdas of the store an explicit return type
• core: Move the MimeKit mapping into Tilde.Core
• core: Share the mail server settings, the security type and the certificate rule
• Move the protocol plugins from src to plugins
• cli: Pass the console method as the log and align the README tables

Documentation

• Document the configuration rules and the Abstraction boundary
• xmpp: Document the XMPP account settings and the chat event rule
• Add a short README and the mascot
• Mention the XMPP plugin in the README
• Mention the job scheduler in the README
• Mention the IRC plugin in the README
• cache: Document the cache
• cache: Say the encryption is optional, and the other findings of the review
• rules: The rules engine
• rules: Chat rules and the run action