PISG/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

What changed in each release of pisg, newest first. This file is the short version; the complete history back to 2001 is in docs/Changelog, and the long release notes for 1.0a are in docs/RELEASE-NOTES-1.0.md.

Website: https://pisg.github.io/ · Help: #pisg on Undernet (irc.undernet.org) · Bugs: https://github.com/PISG/pisg/issues

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1.0a — 2026-09-21

The "Modern Look" release. The a is for alpha: everything below works, but it has not had a long run in the wild yet.

Nothing you have set up has to change: the same parsers, the same statistics, the same pisg.cfg. The default colour scheme is still default. The new sections are on by default — see Upgrading below if you want the old page exactly.

Added

• Guided setup: perl setup.pl finds logs already on the computer (eggdrop, ZNC, irssi, WeeChat, HexChat, mIRC, AdiIRC), asks a few questions, writes pisg.cfg, makes the first page, offers to run pisg on a schedule and lists free places to host the pages. It never overwrites an existing pisg.cfg. --dry-run shows what it would do.
• Four modern colour schemes — modern, midnight, amoled, terminal — generated from one stylesheet by layout/build-themes.py. modern follows the reader's light/dark setting. The eight classic schemes are unchanged.
• Seven new sections, all on by default:

| Section | Option | | --- | --- | | Channel overview | ShowOverview | | Who talks to whom (interactive map) | ShowRelations, RelationNicks, RelationMinWeight | | Closest pairs | ShowRelations | | Social roles | ShowRelations | | Time personalities | ShowTimePersonalities | | Who carries the channel | ShowConcentration | | Signature words | ShowSignatureWords |

• Section navigation (ShowNavBar): a menu down the left on wide screens, a slim bar on phones. Works without JavaScript.
• Landing page: site/index.html, one static file, reads the channels.json pisg writes next to its pages (ChannelIndex) and compares every channel. HomeLink adds an "All channels" button to each stats page.
• BadUrls: keep URLs out of the URL statistics, with * and ? wildcards.
• Several channels in one run: a channel that cannot be read is skipped with Skipped channel #name: reason and the others are still made.
• pisg.cfg.example lists every option with what it does; docs/pisg-doc.html is the whole manual as one page. docs/gen-example-config.py and docs/xml2html.py rebuild them.
• Optional tools in scripts/:
  • eggdrop-pisg.tcl — people set their own sex, picture and link and merge their nicks from IRC (!pisginfo, !pisgmerge, !pisgshow, !pisgdel …). Identified by services account; never overwrites a <user> line you wrote. Tests: eggdrop-pisg-test.tcl.
  • pisg-autoalias.py — merges nicks seen with the same authenticated host (*.users.undernet.org). Your own <user> lines always win.
  • adiirc2eggdrop.py — converts AdiIRC client logs to eggdrop or ZNC format so old history can join the stats. Never overwrites a file.
  • znc-setup.sh — lets pisg read a ZNC account's log folders; prints its plan first.
• English and French texts for everything new; other languages fall back to English.

Changed

• The project's home is #pisg on Undernet (irc.undernet.org), no longer freenode. Bugs and patches go to GitHub issues; the SourceForge list and tracker are read-only.
• Pages are responsive from 360 px phones to wide screens and use full UTF-8 with <set Charset="utf-8">.
• eggdrop-pisg.tcl: !pisgstats is open to everyone and no longer runs pisg inside the bot (!pisghelp pisgstats says so); the old timer is off by default.
• The version string is 1.0a (pages say Stats generated by pisg v1.0a).
• docs/Makefile builds the manual with docs/xml2html.py; make release packs setup.pl, CHANGELOG.md, the release notes and the new scripts, and no longer the removed gfx/ images.

Removed

• The canada colour scheme, which existed only during development, is not distributed.

Fixed

• A page is written to a temporary file and moved into place only when complete — an error can no longer leave a half-written page.
• pisg exits with status 1 on failure (it used to exit 0).
• A section that fails is skipped with a warning instead of stopping pisg.
• An error in one channel no longer leaks its nick aliases into the next.
• Long quotes are cut on a character boundary, so UTF-8 is no longer split in half.
• "Most used words" no longer lists punctuation or ASCII art.
• Social roles: the lone wolf is someone with fewer close contacts than most regulars, and never the connector (it used to name the busiest nick, who is usually connected to everyone).
• Tables share one left edge; column titles and "3 days ago" stay on one line.

Upgrading

1. Replace the program files. Your pisg.cfg keeps working.
2. For the old page exactly, set ShowOverview, ShowRelations, ShowTimePersonalities, ShowConcentration, ShowSignatureWords and ShowNavBar to 0.
3. For the new look: <set ColorScheme="modern"> (or midnight, amoled, terminal).
4. If a script or cron job treated any exit status as success, check it: failures now exit 1.
5. For the landing page, copy site/index.html next to your pages, run pisg once so channels.json exists, and add <set HomeLink="index.html">.

Requirements for pisg itself are unchanged (Perl). The optional tools need Python 3, Tcl 8.6 with an eggdrop, and JSON::PP (core Perl) for ChannelIndex.

Website

https://pisg.github.io/ was rebuilt for this release: the manual at /docs/, these notes at /changelog/, a full example stats page and landing page at /demo/, and a theme creator at /themes/ that builds a stylesheet from a palette — including the eight classic schemes converted to 1.0a palettes — and previews it on a complete page.

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0.80-preview2 — 2016-02-21

• Removed the need for separate .png files: the bar graphics are embedded in the page.
• Replaced SourceForge links with GitHub Pages.
• Greatly improved cache performance.

0.80-preview — 2016-02

• Simple checksums now used for validating the cache.
• Rounded corners and flatter graphics.

0.73 — 2012-01-18

Last release of the SourceForge era. Earlier releases, back to 2001: docs/Changelog.

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pisg was started in 2001 by Morten "mbrix" Brix Pedersen (https://sourceforge.net/projects/pisg/) and is free software under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.