Release 0.16.0

Author: jubalh

CHANGELOG

@@ -1,3 +1,31 @@
+0.16.0 (2026-02-23)
+===================
+
+5 people contributed to this release: @balejk, @mcalierno, @ritesh006, @sjaeckel and @jubalh.
+
+Thanks a lot to our sponsors:  Matthew Fennell, Martin Dosch and one anonymous sponsor.
+If you want to support us too: https://profanity-im.github.io/donate.html
+
+This release depends on libstrophe >= 0.12.3.
+
+Changes:
+- Add new command /changes (#2080)
+  With that command one can see the modifications of the runtime
+  configuration vs. the saved configuration.
+- Explain the different kinds of messages in the manpage (#2063)
+- Fix OTR detection (#1957, #2072)
+- Fix OMEMO startup (79ff9ba)
+- Fix overwriting new accounts when running multiple instances (#2080)
+- Fix reconnect when no account has been set up yet (#2080)
+- Don't publish keys if the server doesn't support pubsub (#2078, #2080)
+- Fix compilation on Apple silicon macs (#2075)
+- Handle SIGTERM and SIGHUP (#2082)
+- Cleanup (#2067, #2080)
+- Add cygwin CI (#2066)
+- Replace ACX_PTHREAD with AX_PTHREAD (#2062)
+- Add meson build system (#2086)
+  Mainly for testing purposes. Details will be announced in a later release.
+
 0.15.1 (2025-08-22)
 ===================
 

configure.ac

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])
-AC_INIT([profanity],[0.15.1],[jubalh@iodoru.org],[profanity],[https://profanity-im.github.io/])
+AC_INIT([profanity],[0.16.0],[jubalh@iodoru.org],[profanity],[https://profanity-im.github.io/])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/main.c])
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ AS_CASE([$target_os],
 
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects])
 
-PACKAGE_STATUS="development"
+PACKAGE_STATUS="release"
 
 ## Get git branch and revision if in development
 if test "x$PACKAGE_STATUS" = xdevelopment; then

docs/profanity-about.1

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+.TH man 1 "2026-02-23" "0.16.0" "Profanity XMPP client"
+
+.SH NAME
+/about
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Show version and license information.
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+/about
+
+.LP