Compatibility with Weechat 2.8 and older <ahref="#plaintext"ng-click="toggleAccordionByName('gettingStartedAccordion')"><iclass="glyphicon glyphicon-info-sign"></i></a>
<spanstyle="color: #888;display:block">WeeChat 2.9 is scheduled for release in July 2020, so you'll likely want to keep this enabled for now.</span>
<spanstyle="color: #888;display:block">WeeChat 2.9 was released in July 2020, so you can disable this if you're up to date.</span>
<h3><aname="plaintext"></a>Compatibility with WeeChat 2.8 and older</h3>
<p><strong>Required for WeeChat <= 2.8</strong></p>
<p>With WeeChat 2.9—scheduled for release in July 2020—relay client authentication was made more secure and resistant to brute forcing. Glowing Bear uses the most secure authentication method by default. However, to support older versions of WeeChat, this option allows Glowing Bear to still use the old authentication method, sending your password to WeeChat (in plain text if you are not using encryption!). Only enable this if you are using a WeeChat version before 2.9!</p>
<p>With WeeChat 2.9—released in July 2020—relay client authentication was made more secure and resistant to brute forcing. Glowing Bear uses the most secure authentication method by default. However, to support older versions of WeeChat, this option allows Glowing Bear to still use the old authentication method, sending your password to WeeChat (in plain text if you are not using encryption!). Only enable this if you are using a WeeChat version before 2.9!</p>
<p>By default, WeeChat 2.9 support several authentication methods. Of these, Glowing Bear only uses the most secure one, <code>pbkdf2+sha512</code>. You can check the list of enabled methods to ensure it is in there: