Version reference tables

OTRgate - the transition between 3.2, 3.2.1 and 3.2.2

Obsolete

This was a big deal around 2014-2015 but it's over now. It's kept for historical reasons.

Just ignore this and use the version and be happy.

Since the switch to libotr4 overlapped with the fixes for twitter (which is the main reason 3.2.1 was released), and additionally debian released their own version with a name that's suspiciously similar to 3.2.1, here's a table that documents all the relevant versions to both OTR and Twitter support.

Releases only

Date

bzr

Release

libotr

Twitter?

Stable?

Notes

Where to get

2013-01-06

965

3.2 1

3

No

Yes

The original 3.2 release. Old but stable.

bzr, Release .tar.gz

2013-11-27

999

3.2.12

3

Yes

Yes

Official 3.2.1 release

bzr, Release .tar.gz

2013-12-19

1004

3.2.1+otr4-1

4

Yes

No

Release for debian jessie/sid and ubuntu trusty only - UNSTABLE!

bzr, ubuntu

2014-07-05

1024

3.2.2

4

Yes

Yes

Official 3.2.2 release

bzr, .deb repo (or APT), .tar.gz

Original extended version of the table

Date

bzr

Release

libotr

Twitter?

Stable?

Notes

Where to get

2013-01-06

965

3.2 1

3

No

Yes

The original 3.2 release. Old but stable.

bzr, Release .tar.gz

2013-06-16

991

--

3

Yes

Yes

Earliest dev build with most twitter fixes

bzr

2013-07-13

997

--

3

Yes

Yes

Latest dev build with libotr3 support available from the APT repo

bzr, .deb repo, .tar.gz

2013-10-14

998

--

3

Yes

Yes

Minor bug fix that doesn't have any .deb builds in the repo

bzr, .tar.gz

2013-11-27

999

3.2.12

3

Yes

Yes

Official 3.2.1 release

bzr, Release .tar.gz

2013-12-05

1000

--

3

Yes

Yes

Minor fix for the displayed version

bzr

2013-12-05

1001

--

4

Yes

No

Switch to libotr4. Several bugs introduced.

bzr

2013-12-19

1004

3.2.1+otr4-1

4

Yes

No

Release for debian jessie/sid and ubuntu trusty only - UNSTABLE!

bzr, ubuntu

2014-01-20

1006

--

4

Yes

No

Fix attempt, unsuccessful.

bzr

2014-01-20

1007

--

4

Yes

Mostly

OTR fixes by pesco! Works flawlessly most of the time.

bzr, .deb repo, .tar.gz

2014-02-13

1011

--

4

Yes

Yes

Two more OTR bugfixes, including a segfault on /me

bzr, .deb repo, .tar.gz

2014-07-05

1024

3.2.2

4

Yes

Yes

Official 3.2.2 release

bzr, .deb repo (or APT), .tar.gz

  1. Also known as 3.2-1 or 3.2-1.1 (1 2)

  2. This release might not display the correct version when you do /ctcp root version (3 4)

The bzr builds before the 3.2.1 release show their version number in the format 3.2+20130714+devel+997-1. In the case of bzr997, it has almost all the features of the 3.2.1 release (except the bugfix from 998), so the "3.2" part of the version number might be misleading, but what matters is the "997" part.

"What should I use?"

libotr version needed

Recommended BitlBee version

libotr 3.x

3.2.1

libotr 4.x

3.2.2

Doesn't matter

3.2.2

OTR

And here's another table for the apparent nonsense of the OTR versions.

Library

Protocol

Allowed protocol policy

.so name (ABI version)

Debian package

Supported bitlbee releases

Supported bitlbee bzr

Stability

libotr 3.2.1

v2

v1, v2

libotr.so.2.2.1

libotr2(-dev)

3.0 ... 3.2.1

<=1000

Stable

libotr 4.0.0

v3

v2, v3

libotr.so.5.0.0

libotr5(-dev)

3.2.2

>=1001

Stable since r1011

The stability column refers to the current bitlbee support, which might crash in some situations before 1011.

BitlBee Wiki: VersionReference (last edited 2016-05-07 23:30:18 by dx)