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1 -=[ Gaim ]=- The Pimpin' Penguin IM Client That's Good For The Soul!
3 0.63 (05/16/2003)
4 Rob: Wow, so, what can I say? I've been rather AWOL for the past few
5 releases. However, that's okay. Work has been pretty friggin hec-
6 tic, so, that's my excuse. Work is finally going to be slowing down
7 some. I plan to be doing more Gaim work. That makes me happy. That
8 makes you happy. That makes us all happy. Now, I just need to
9 finish rebuilding my car's engine. Engine rebuilds put the FU in
10 fun!
12 Sean: Yay! School is finally over. I have to give tons of cherry-
13 flavored props to everyone whose been helping out while I stayed away
14 from Gaim to keep myself from failing again, especially Christian and
15 Nathan.
17 Luke: Okay, this is NOT a bug fix release, at least for those of you
18 who use MSN. Christian put in a TON of effort rewritting the MSN prpl,
19 mega props to him on this release. In other news, we have alot of bugs
20 fixed, and a goodly number of the translations are more up to date
21 than they were in earlier releases. There are some other significant
22 changes, but they are mostly backend stuff, yay for core/ui splits ;-)
24 Christian: As Sean and Luke said, I did a tiny bit of work in this
25 release. The MSN prpl was rewritten, and should now work better. It's
26 compatible with the MSNP7 protocol that MSN v4.x uses. Unfortunately,
27 MSNP9 is being worked on. Bah. Also, it has MSN Mobile support, so you
28 can register your MSN account with http://mobile.msn.com/ and people
29 can page your mobile device. You can also page other MSN Mobile users.
30 Groups are now stored on server. Oh, and due to the nature of MSNP7,
31 conversations are timed out after 5 minutes, so you'll unfortunately
32 see a message indicating that. Sorry! I wrote experimental support
33 for my own implementation of MSN buddy icons. You can set them in your
34 account settings much like with AIM, and when you talk to other gaim
35 users, they'll get your buddy icon. This will last for a few releases,
36 until the buddy icon implementation in the upcoming MSNP9 protocol is
37 figured out, and we have support for that. That'll be a couple months
38 away at least. Also, we have a rewrite of the plugin interface, so
39 rewrite your plugins! Things are going to get very cool from it. The
40 debug API was core/UI split, and some enhancements were made to the
41 debug window. I think that's all from me. It's been a fun release.
42 Stay tuned, I have some great things coming up!
44 Nathan: It seems like 0.62 was forever and a day ago. I had to look
45 at the ChangeLog to remember what I did. Apparently I made it so you
46 can put chats in your buddy list. And then I tweaked a bunch of stuff
47 and fixed a bunch of crashes. Then exams came, and then I went home
48 for a week and left my laptop's power cable here at school, so I didn't
49 get anything done. Jabber will get all sorts of fun new stuff for
50 the next release. Really. ;-)
52 0.62 (04/23/2003):
53 Sean: This is just another standard bi-weekly Gaim release. Nothing
54 really interesting, but it has some good bugfixes. Personally, I've
55 been a bit removed from Gaim development lately what with school getting
56 tough and stuff, but the rest of the guys have really been doing great
57 work without me. Thanks, guys.
59 Christian: I can't remember what I did here.. Think I'll take a quick
60 look at the ChangeLog.... Okay, guess I was useless. That's okay, though,
61 because I have some really cool stuff going into 0.63. Plugin authors
62 will hate me for it. A rewrite of the plugins interface! This is actually
63 a Good Thing (TM). Anyhow, upgrade to this release, and tell your friends.
64 33 Gaim users can't be wrong!
66 Luke: I didn't do much here besides the odd translation patch and a couple
67 bug fix patches. This is primarily a bug fix release, and much needed at
68 that. Didn't get a chance to write sorting code, work has been busy.
69 Hopeefully it will happen for 0.63.
71 Mark: Gaim is coming along quite beautimously. I'm going to eat
72 my Pop-tarts now.
74 Nathan: oh dot sixty two. There are a lot of bugs fixed in this release,
75 and one major new feature. Our Jabber plugin now supports XHTML-IM. In
76 plain english, this means that you can now format your jabber messages,
77 and other people will see the formatting. GtkIMHTML still needs some
78 work to get it to parse valid XHTML-IM better, but that will come in time.
79 That time would come sooner if my CS prof accepted "I was hacking on Gaim"
80 as a valid excuse for an extension ;-)
82 0.61 (04/07/2003):
83 Rob: Nathan commited his news first. However, I'm cooler so I'm putting
84 my entry above his. Yeah, so, there were some DnD issues with 0.60. I
85 blame it on the rain. It was falling, falling. I blame it on the
86 faucet. It drips all night.
88 Sean: I committed my news after Rob. I'm cooler than Nathan (by far) but
89 not as cool as Rob. So I go here. Actually, I didn't do anything since
90 0.60 other than commit some other peoples patches. The one from Dave Camp
91 is cool. How 'bout this snow? Isn't that crazy? Oh, and thanks to
92 everyone who wished me a happy birthday.
94 Nathan: You want frequent releases? You got 'em ;-) Chip wrote some
95 cool new pounce stuff, and things shouldn't get weird when you drag
96 groups and buddies around. It's bad enough having 1 of some of my
97 buddies on my list, I definitely don't need duplicates. Being that I
98 have class in the morning, I'll just raise my juice glass for this one.
100 Christian: I'm not as cool as Rob, Sean, or Nathan, so I go down here.
101 Well, among some of the fixes is my new buddy pounce code! This adds new
102 buddy pounce types, core/ui splitifies the code, and makes the dialog
103 box spiffy. Yay frequent releases! Erm, I can't think of anything else
104 cool to say here. Have fun, everyone!
106 Luke: Okay, i'm probly the least cool, so I'll go last. I committed a few
107 patches from other people here, nothing earth shattering though. The biggest
108 thing in this release is the group re-ordering bug fix, having that fixed
109 will make for fewwer questions. Get used to using releases people, we want
110 to use cvs for actual development :-).
112 Mark: I didn't want to write any news without actually having done
113 anything, so I fixed a meaningless compile warning. Boo-yeah.
115 Sean: Luke can't spell "fewer". How un-cool is that?
117 0.60 (04/04/2003):
118 Rob: Wow. So, it has been a really long time since we started the
119 gtk2 fork. It's finally ready for public consumption. Sean is about
120 to go out and buy a case of beer. My roommate is downstairs right
121 now pouring me a shot of his choice. Everyone, raise your beers if
122 you've got them. It's been a cool almost 10-months of development.
123 I hope you all enjoy. Drink'em if you got'em!
125 Sean: I'm writing this 3 minutes before my 21st birthday. Nobody can
126 believe we're finally ready to relase 0.60. Many thanks to everyone
127 who helped out; I'm convinced that Gaim 0.60 is the best IM client to
128 date (only to be bested by 0.61). There's WAY too much stuff to mention.
129 Even the ChangeLog is somewhat incomplete. Yay, I'm 21 now! Everyone
130 enjoy! :)
132 Nathan: Happy birthday Sean! Rob decided to let me start cleaning up
133 after everyone, so here I am. "sexy" is the only word that can be used
134 to describe 0.60. Prepare to be shocked and amazed. /me raises his
135 (shot) glass ;-)
137 Christian: Geeeeeze this took a long time. Worth it though! Personally, I
138 thought we'd all just give up on releases altogether and tell everybody
139 just to grab CVS. I'm pretty happy with this release. I was able to
140 contribute quite a bit to it. Makes me feel proud to be a gaim developer!
141 I'm really looking forward to the future releases. I have some neat stuff
142 planned. Yay, I'm still 19! Mmmm, Sierra Mist. Make me a sammich!
144 Mark: Whoops, I started drinking a little earlier than I was supposed
145 to. I guess I missed the memo. Hmm, I ate at a restaurant somewhere,
146 I think it was at Snowshoe, and the menu had "sammiches" on it. It was
147 pretty sweet. I'd like to give a shout out to all the Gaim
148 devizelopers for rizocking the hizzy the past few months. Word.
151 0.59 (06/24/2002):
152 Rob: I guess Sean is busy at home or something and Jim is asleep.
153 I'm very tired but it's time for a release. Enjoy. :)
154 SORRY FOR THE DELAY. :(
156 Sean: It's been a long time since our last release, and for no
157 good reason either. Rob and I just haven't been able to get together
158 to do it. But now we have. Aside from some Jabber changes and some
159 crucial MSN fixes, most of this release's changes are transparent,
160 but none-the-less important. Well get some better changes when my
161 computer works again, you have my word*
163 *My word is worthless.
166 0.58 (05/13/2002):
167 Rob: Yeah, so, my computer has been bad which is why the release
168 didn't go out on time. Oh well. I would like to welcome
169 Jim Seymour aboard the development team. He's going to be taking
170 over the work on our Jabber code as well as doing various other
171 nit picking. He likes to pick nits, nats, and umm, knots, I think.
173 Sean: This release has a long ChangeLog. Higlights include an
174 important security fix for MSN and a few nice new features.
175 Not *much* cooler than 0.57--but we're making progress ;)
177 Jim: Hmmm... Rob said I have to say *something*, so here it is:
178 Rob's a mango.
180 0.57 (04/25/2002):
181 Rob: Not too much in this release, as Sean said below. (This is
182 what happens when the bottom person goes first.) New translation,
183 a few fixes, secure msn hotmail logins, blah blah blah. As Sean
184 said, the next release will be cooler. If only you could read
185 our minds ;-).
187 Sean: Nothing too special here, but a critical Yahoo fix that
188 ensures Yahoo! will work when they discontinue the old protocol
189 all the other 3rd party clients are using. Next release will be
190 cooler, I promise.
192 0.56 (04/11/2002):
193 Rob: Well, what do you know. I have another headache. I always have
194 these damned headaches. I got pissed off with the way GtkTree looks.
195 I wanted to move to using GtkCTree. I think they're pretty.
196 Unfortunately, GtkCTree sucks. After a little digging through
197 the code, I managed to molest GtkTree into looking like
198 GtkCTree. Thanks to everyone that helped track down that one
199 annoying style problem.
201 Sean: Hello. This is another minor release while Rob and I finish
202 up on some bigger projects. We're reworking a lot of the UI to make
203 it easier to use, nicer looking, and more compatible with gtk2.
204 I've also been trying to bring the Yahoo plugin up to date, so it
205 will work for Indian users and avoid a potential problem in the near
206 future.
208 0.55 (03/29/2002):
209 Rob: 0.55 is here. I've been away for a few days on business. Sean
210 has been on Spring Break. Therefore, this release is mostly a patch
211 release. It does fix some bugs and makes a few thing slightly cooler,
212 so it's better in that aspect, I suppose. Enjoy.
214 Sean: This is mostly a bugfix release. I'm on Spring Break, not
215 doing any coding at all. But lots of people sent in great patches
216 anyway. Thanks guys!
218 0.54 (03/14/2002):
219 Rob: Well, here we are. 0.54. We got a lot of fun things in this
220 release. Better working SSI, Image sending, protocol specific
221 smiley faces, and a whole lot of triscuits. *gobble*
223 Sean: We fixed a lot of bugs in this one, and probably introduced
224 a bunch too. ;) We were both really busy, and did all the coding
225 late at night when we were tired, so if something isn't working,
226 it's probably just tired code. Enjoy the triscuits!
228 0.53 (02/28/2002):
229 Rob: Well, we missed yesterday's release. That's Okay, I head a
230 nasty headache. You can all just deal. ;-)
233 Sean: Neat Goodies! Whee!! Oscar got a lot of great additions.
234 It can do Screen Name formatting, it can save and store your buddy
235 list on the server, it can do typing notifications in Direct
236 Connections, and yes, it can receive IM Images! Sending images will
237 be added in the next release. MSN and Yahoo! can do typing
238 notification too. Hooray!
241 0.52 (02/17/2002):
242 Rob: Well, after a long delay we're finally ready for another release.
243 I finally got settled into my new apartment, the new job is going
244 well, and I finally have internet connectivity again. You can expect
245 us to be back on our usually bi-monthly schedule. Enjoy these fixen,
246 as they resolve a few connectivity issues. :-)
248 Sean: It looks like things are back on track now. Eric left which is
249 sad. He's done so much for Gaim, and I know we're all thankful.
250 Thanks Eric! I'll be stepping in and do more development, but I can
251 never replace Eric. This release fixes a long-standing problem in
252 MSN. If you've gotten errors when trying to connect to MSN, you want
253 this release. If you've suddenly found yourself unable to connect to
254 Yahoo!, you want this release too. The "neat goodies" will be in the
255 next release ;)
257 Rob: Operation Evil does not exist! ;-)
260 0.51 (01/24/2002):
261 Rob: Well, here we go. I FINALLY got around to making a release
262 after over a month, Sorry for the delay, all. Things got really
263 hectic around the gaim house hold. This release isn't as complete
264 as I had hoped, but I promised to get something out. There's some
265 neat goodies in mind for the next release, right Sean? :-)
268 0.50 (12/13/2001):
269 Rob: I am tired. Tonight was weird. Bleh!!!!
271 Eric: I second that.
273 0.49 (11/29/2001):
274 Rob: *still mamboing*
276 Whew! That was a bad little mambo. I hope everyone had a nice
277 little Holiday, if you celebrate. If not, then I hope you had
278 a sucky weekend. :-D.
280 Oh, lots of cheese for everyone!! (Beware the duffle)
282 It's getting cloudy. I think it's going to storm somethin'
283 fierce. That's my southern talk. Do you like it?
285 Eric: I want to be like you.
287 Do the cha cha cha!
289 0.48 (11/18/2001):
290 Rob: Hi! It's 4:12am! I'm watching The Simpsons. :).
291 Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking! :) There's not
292 too much for me to say in this release. I'd just like to
293 thank Eric for his hard work. :)
295 Eric: Everybody mambo!
297 0.47 (11/01/2001):
298 Rob: Hi. Gaim v0.47 has been released, as you should already
299 know. I hope all of you had a nice little halloween. There are
300 quite a number of changes in this release. There are a few too
301 many to list here, so I will redirect you to ye olde ChangeLog.
303 Eric: Remember back in the day when TOC was the only protocol
304 Gaim could use? Remember the login window from back then? Back
305 before Gaim had perl or plugins or multiple connections or
306 10 different protocols. Things have changed so much since then.
307 Many more changes in this release as well. All good things.
308 Don't forget to talk to SmarterChild.
310 0.46 (10/18/2001):
311 Rob: Hey guys! The smores were great! I really enjoyed meeting
312 up with all of you guys and singing campfire songs. It was
313 really awesome. Thanks for the beer, too. Next time, it's on me.
315 This release has quite the number of bug fixes. I won't bother
316 going into detail here. Just ust it, love it, live it - SEGA!
318 Eric: Lots of fixes. Things compile well now. ICQ has stopped
319 crashing on PPC and Sparc. If you know someone who isn't using
320 Gaim because it was unstable, please get them to try this
321 version. It's much better, I promise.
323 0.45 (10/04/2001):
324 Eric: Well, it seems that the time has come for yet another
325 release. There are several yummy additions in this release, and
326 quite a few useful bugfixes as well. Unfortunately it seems that
327 Rob is currently unavailable; he joins us in spirit. He'll be
328 joining us later for a group sing-along and smores by the
329 campfire. But for now, you'll need to keep yourselves occupied
330 with 0.45. And remember, a happy hacker is a pimpin' penguin.
332 0.44 (09/20/2001):
333 Rob: Another release has come upon us. There were actually quite
334 a number of things in ye old ChangeLog for this release. I don't
335 feel like talking about them here, so you can read about them
336 in ... you guessed it .. the ChangeLog. Oh, and if you're
337 wondering about setting buddy icons, wait til 0.45 or
338 use CVS shortly after this release. ;-)
340 Eric: You should all be using CVS anyway. This has become the
341 slogan in our IRC room, #gaim on irc.openprojects.net. The IRC
342 plugin got lots of updates (mostly because I felt bad about using
343 X-Chat for IRC when gaim supposedly had an IRC plugin), so you
344 should load the plugin and join us. :)
346 0.43 (09/06/2001):
348 Rob: Well, I knew that the day would eventually come. I just didn't
349 expect it to be so soon. ;-). Yes, that's right, Eric and I finally
350 got sick of all of the pre releases. We didn't want to make this
351 release an official 0.11.0. We thought that it would cause a lot
352 of confusion. We didn't want to continue our trend of prereleases
353 either. So, since gaim was first released officially, there
354 have been 42 releases. This is number 43, hence the 0.43 version
355 number. We're going to stick with this trend from now on. :-).
357 Eric: We're also going to be starting a release early, release
358 often trend, that hopefully we'll stick to this time. Hopefully
359 we'll be putting out a new release every two weeks or so. You
360 should all be using CVS anyway :) And as always, don't forget to
361 report bugs! Anyway, since there's only been 9 days since the
362 last release not much has changed. A bug-fix release and a version
363 change mostly :)
365 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
366 Eric: This isn't a real release. Really. It's just a quick thing
367 because pre14 doesn't cut it for some people. Also not counting
368 the month break that I took it's been a month since the last
369 release, so it's about time. You should all be using CVS anyway.
370 Instructions are at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/cvs.shmtl. And
371 don't forget to report bugs! http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php3.
373 Rob: Hey guys. I've been rather inactive as well. It's a long
374 story, but essentially, my company layed off a bunch of people,
375 myself included, due to poor management. I've taken a new
376 job which required moving across the country. I'm finally back
377 online. Once I manage to actually get a desk at home I'll be
378 able to code with out infliciting intense pain upon my lower
379 back and neck. So, basically, we were inactive, but not dead.
381 Also, just to keep you all updated, the AOL battle is still
382 in progress. Our lawyers are still in negotiation with thiers.
383 We'll keep you updated with what happens.
385 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
386 Eric: Wee. Lots of fun things. BIG bug fix release. I did a lot of
387 stupid things in the last one, hehe. You all forgive me though,
388 right?
390 Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.
391 Remember that. It's a great Scott Adams quote.
393 Rob: I feel naughty. I should have released this a lot earlier
394 in the day. I have a problem though. I started cooking, invited
395 a couple friends over for dinner and then took a walk to a
396 24hr doughnut shop where I sat outside and talked about
397 random stuff. Oh well, at least it's still before the 18th.
399 Enjoy this release guys! :-)
402 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
403 Rob: \O. Howdy doodie! This release isn't coming too far behind
404 the previous release but hey, what can ya say, there were a couple
405 of good fixes in this one. Jabber & IRC can set / view the topics
406 of chat rooms now, napster doesnt crash on bad login names and
407 passwords, and the man page got a big update.
409 Well, that's about all, folks. Next release, I hope to try to get
410 group MSN chat support added as well as DCC support in the IRC
411 plugin.
413 Peace!
415 Eric: I apologize if any of you had to restart your X server because
416 of me. This release won't make you have to do that, I promise. There
417 were a couple other minor fixes with the buddy icon stuff, it still
418 has a way to go but at least it's better than it was before. Oh yeah,
419 and Oscar is able to sign on again.
421 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
422 Rob: Hi! O/. My girlfriend was visiting me so I've been busy being
423 unavailable online. Hooray.
425 There have been a lot of good changes in this release. Some improved
426 dialogs, some updates to IRC and MSN, as well as a nifty little thing
427 that Eric did that I'll let him tell you about.
429 Oh yeah, I also got food poisoned by bad eggs. Ugh!
431 Eric: Every protocol except TOC has been improved since the last
432 release. All of them except Zephyr and ICQ now use the same proxy
433 options, which you can set in the preferences. ICQ can use them if
434 you set it to Socks5 though.
436 There are a bunch of other good additions and fixes for each
437 protocol which you can read about in the ChangeLog. And, there's one
438 super cool feature that everyone seems to be asking for: Buddy Icons.
439 Right now you can only receive them and only in Oscar, but hey, they're
440 there.
442 So that's it. Have fun with it :)
444 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
445 Rob: I bought a big carton of juice today. It is now 50% empty.
446 A lot of the plugins got some new options and/or improvements. I
447 have a headache right now, though, so I won't say much. I'll let
448 Eric talk :)
450 Eric: I uh. I bought 72 cans of soda yesterday. It only cost $15
451 or so. I figure I'll be through it in less than two weeks. A
452 dollar a day on soda isn't so bad. For the fourth release in a row,
453 Oscar is fixed. Isn't that exciting. Judging from history I'd say
454 that it won't stay fixed long; but judging from what I know has
455 changed, we shouldn't have any more troubles.
457 Rob: --. .- .. -- / .. ... / --. .-. . .- - --..-- / --. .- .. -- /
458 .. ... / --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-
460 I don't have a headache anymore! Hooray! Eric got a good deal on those
461 drinks. I bought some bananas. They're very green. Oh, and I cooked
462 a steak last night. It was 16 oz. It was good.
464 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
465 Rob: EEP! It's Friday the 13th!!! I think I fixed a few buggies
466 in MSN and then added some new features to IRC. I have a headache
467 right now, though, so I won't talk much. I think I'm going to go
468 to sleep. Next release, I should have a good bit more done on
469 IRC and will have made Napster more stable. Have fun!!
471 Eric: There's a new protocol plugin, Zephyr. Don't use it! unless
472 you know what Zephyr is, and have zhm set up correctly. Also there
473 were a lot of other good bugfixes (like registering for Jabber
474 accounts!) and a few neat features. In this release, Oscar is also
475 working, but we'll see how long that lasts, eh?
477 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
478 Rob: Well, looks AOL was doing something naughty earlier this
479 morning. Thanks to a very nice guy named Adam Fritzler (you
480 all know him from libfaim) we're now back online. Thanks,
481 Adam. I'll buy you a drink sometime :-).
483 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
484 Eric: Oo wow :) So I guess the big news is that this release should
485 help you avoid the battle between Jabber and AOL. Most protocols
486 got a few good bugfixes; thanks to people who pointed them out :).
487 Hopefully for the next release I'll make it so you can register a
488 jabber.org account, and then you can support Jabber using Gaim.
489 I think (I *think*) Oscar blocking is working now. Haha, get it?
490 Oscar blocking? It took me a while to get it, too. But no, really,
491 I think that the permit/deny list in Oscar might be working.
493 Rob: MSN got some fixes and should be really stable now. It had
494 a little 100% CPU eating bug but that's taken care of now. Next
495 on my list of repairs is the napster plugin. It works -- sorta --
496 sometimes. Heh. As all of you probably know already, our Oscar
497 support was broken yesterday. There's a little battle going on
498 between AOL and Jabber and we caught a bullet during the crossfire.
499 I think I just won the award for the most cliches used in one
500 paragraph, as a matter of fact. ;-).
502 ** Good luck to the Jabber guys in getting this resolved **
505 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
506 Rob: Hey! I finally rewrote the MSN plugin. Sorry, I'm just
507 a lazy code whore sometimes, heheh. It pretty much has the same
508 functionality as before with the exception of instability. I
509 didn't really like that feature very much so I removed it. I hope
510 you guys don't mind too terribly much ;-).
512 Eric: In this week's installment of gaim you'll find a new Yahoo!
513 library and an option to have all conversations in one window,
514 in addition to numerous bug fixes and other improvements. Don't
515 forget to send us your feedback. If there's something you want
516 added, changed, or fixed, head over to our SourceForge page at
517 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ and tells us about it.
520 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
521 Eric: Yay! I get to go first!
523 The biggest change in this release is the TODO file. Lots of things
524 got added. There's going to be a lot of prereleases. Please help.
525 Other than that it's mostly just a lot of bugfixes. Oscar got a few
526 new features. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
527 and tell us what you'd like to see in gaim. We've gotten a lot of
528 great requests so far, thanks.
530 I think I like releasing every week.
532 Rob: I've been bad so Eric got to go first. The biggest change
533 In this release is the NEWS file. It's the only thing I contributed
534 to! heh, just kidding. This is a bug fix release, as Eric said.
535 Next release will contain my newly rewritten MSN plugin. You guys
536 should be happy with it :).
538 Oh yeah, TUCAN rocks :) Oh yeah, Eric rocks too.
541 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
542 Rob: Yeah, I promise this is the last pre-release :-D. That seems
543 to be a pretty common saying around here, huh? Well, I must first
544 appologize. The protocols that I was working on really should be
545 much more developed at this point -- they should be completed,
546 actually. Unfortunately, my real life job (yes, I have one hehe) got
547 a little too busy and ate up all of my free time. I promise that
548 things will get better now :).
550 Eric: I don't promise that this is the last pre-release. :) But
551 hopefully releases can start coming more often than once every two
552 months. I don't really have much else to say. It's been a slow
553 couple of months.
555 Rob: I promise to hack gaim again. Please don't hate me.
557 0.11.0-pre4:
558 Rob: HOORAY FOR DISNEYLAND!
560 Eric: One more prerelease. I'm actually starting to think these
561 prereleases are a good idea; a lot of people reported a lot of
562 bugs in pre3 and most of them are fixed now. Also, it helps with
563 the whole release early-release often philosophy.
565 The big news in this prerelease is two more protocols: Jabber and
566 Napster. Both of them don't have any of the features that make
567 these services cool, yet. You can't use the transports in Jabber
568 and you can't download file in Napster. But you will be able to,
569 soon :)
571 Rob and I are going on vacation starting today until after New
572 Year's, which is a lot of the reason we wanted to get this release
573 out; it's much improved over pre3. Happy Holidays everyone.
575 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
576 Rob: Well, I hadn't initially planned on an 0.11.0pre3 but it
577 looks like it was needed. That's not necessarially a bad thing,
578 mind you. It just means you get to see more goodies!
580 This release includes some other fun features. See the ChangeLog
581 for more information. Also found in this wonderful release is
582 an MSN plugin. For all of you who have been holding onto Windows
583 simply because you have friends on MSN Messenger that you don't want
584 to leave, this plugin is for you! :)
586 Guys, make sure you send us bug reports; preferably on the
587 SourceForge bug report forum at
588 http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/. This will allow both
589 Eric and I to handle the bugs and will prevent either one of us
590 from losing the bug reports that are sent via AIM :-)
592 Eric: Hey everybody, Rob and I really want to hear what you guys want
593 to see in gaim. Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim and
594 leave a message in the Open Discussion forum. We've gotten a lot of
595 good ideas so far (most of them didn't make it into this release,
596 unfortunately).
598 If any of you want to test out your mad coding skills, I can think of
599 a few projects that would be incredibly useful. Send me or Rob an IM
600 and we'll let you know how you can help. And don't forget to read the
601 HACKING file to see how gaim's put together.
603 This is hopefully going to be the last prerelease; now that all the
604 protocols that we're going to be doing for 0.11.0 are available it's
605 mostly just going to be hacking on them and getting them in usable
606 condition before the final release. Don't forget to send us bug
607 reports ;)
609 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
610 Rob: I messed up. Oh well, it's fixed.
612 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
613 Rob: Hey guys! Guess what!? Yup, you're correct! It's the pre1
614 release of 0.11.0. We have all sorts of goodies in this release!
615 Check out the ChangeLog file. As always if you find any bugs,
616 please report them on www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/
618 You may find several small bugs as this is still a prerelease.
620 You may want to note that my IRC plugin does not have full
621 functionality as of yet. All of the important / commands will be
622 added before the final release. Also, if someone could send me
623 some good buddylist pixmaps for the irc plugin then I'd much
624 appreciate it. Thanks to everyone who made this new release possible!
626 If you have any ideas, comments, or suggestions, please let us know
627 either by e-mail or via the source forge message board at the URL
628 above. :)
631 Eric: So what was Yay! For Gaim!? Yay was the codename for the
632 Yahoo plugin. The whole point of all of these changes was I wanted to
633 make a proof-of-concept plugin that would let Gaim sign into Yahoo. It
634 turned out to be pretty much impossible with the old code. So,
635 Rob and I hacked gaim so we could do just that. There's now a whole new
636 class of plugins, Protocol Plugins, that let users dynamically add new
637 protocols to Gaim. Just load the plugin, and create a new account that
638 uses that protocol, and you're set! Yay! (Oscar and TOC are both still
639 static. Gaim is, after all, primarily an AIM client.)
641 Lots of people have been very generous and contributed a lot of
642 time and effort to writing some really nice patches for gaim since
643 the last release. To all of you, a big thanks.
645 0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
646 Rob: I am dumb.
647 Eric: I am not dumb.
649 0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
650 Rob: What do you want me to say for yours?
651 Eric: What happened since the last release?
652 Rob: You got DSL.
653 Eric: Oh yeah, I'm more available now.
654 Rob: On a more serious note, this is just a quick release
655 to hold everyone over. Look for some very awesome things
656 coming in the next version. I can't say what, just yet,
657 but what I can say is, Yay! For Gaim!
659 0.10.1 (09/15/2000):
661 Rob: Hi Hi Hi! Yet another gaim release pushed out the door
662 for you guys. I hope you all enjoy it. There was a few minor
663 issues cleared up in this version as well as the repair of
664 OSCAR support. Hopefully we won't run into the same problem
665 as before. Oh well ;-). There's also a few small extra goodies
666 in here for you guys just check out the Change Log. I hope you all
667 enjoy and take care!
669 Eric: Wanna know what the Oscar problem was? You'll laugh. 2 bytes.
670 The fix was changing 0x07da to 0x0686. Anyway, aside from the fix
671 for that, there are a couple other good things. Beware of DSL nazis.
672 They won't give you service until 6 weeks after you order it. So um,
673 yeah.
675 0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
676 Rob: Well peoples, I know that it's been a while since our
677 last release. Here we go. Some brand spankin' new interfaces
678 for you guys to oogle at. I hope you all enjoy it. Hopefully
679 our next release won't take as long to finish up. Real life
680 kind of crept up on Eric and I and took up a lot of our times.
681 Life sucks that way sometimes. Anyways, we're back and all
682 is well. Thanks for hanging in there guys and we hope
683 you enjoy it!
685 Eric: LWE was so cool. Rob and I met up there, we had a blast. But I
686 only got to go for one day and Rob got to go for three. Lucky bastard.
687 It's been so long since the last release that I don't even remember
688 what's changed. But all of it is good :) Like Rob said, all kinds of
689 new UI stuff. I think there are some new features in there too. Now
690 I'm headed back to school so I'll have more time to hack gaim (isn't
691 that supposed to be the reverse?), just as soon as I get my internet
692 connection back >:-/ .
694 Rob: Oh yeah, some of our pixmaps may need a little work. We took
695 a lot of them from the Gnome Stock icons. If anyone could do some
696 custom ones that stay within the 24x24 boundary and keep the same
697 idea and feel as the gnome icons then we would be more than happy
698 to use them. Thanks much!! Viva la LWE.
701 0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
702 Rob: Well, guys, I hope you enjoy this version. I've done quite a bit
703 of work to the user interface. It's still not in the state that I
704 would like it to be, though. Over the next few versions you will
705 notice a few more interface changes as we try to bring a more
706 professional look to Gaim. As always, we will stay true to our
707 pimpin' penguin atittude.
709 Eric: While Rob's been busy making things pretty, I've been busy
710 making things work :). The chat and IM windows got merged, which
711 means that they both have the same features (notably, IM has /me
712 and chat has font/color dialogs and smileys). Also smileys should
713 work better in general now (thanks fflew).
715 Rob: By the way, what Eric is saying is that he's smart and I'm
716 not and that he does all of the work and I sit on my butt all
717 day and claim to do work. WOOO! Just kidding, brother :-P
720 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
721 Rob: PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
722 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
723 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
725 All of that nonsense aside, there are a few things that DIDN'T happen
726 in this version of gaim. The user interface changes will wait until
727 the 0.9.20 release. We've decided to turn 0.9.19 into a "new feature
728 and major bug fix" release. All/Most major bugs should be worked out
729 now. We're sorry about the problem of segfaulting when your buddylist
730 stored on the server was null. Oops! We won't let it happen again,
731 we promise.
733 Eric: Lots of good changes in this one, including locale support. Chat
734 had a lot of things done to it, but it's still not finished. The UI
735 didn't get the overhaul we were planning, but we wanted to get a few
736 bugfixes out.
738 Lemme say something about reporting bugs. Please do. Please try to give
739 as much information as you can. But regardless of how much information
740 you give, please be POLITE. If you tell us our software is crap then
741 we're probably not going to respond well.
743 Rob: Before I close up and say goodnight, I'd like to say that I
744 agree with Eric. Reporting problems and/or helpful criticism in
745 a polite manner always yields the best results. Peace all, and
746 happy hacking.
748 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
749 Rob: Talk about release early, release often - sheesh! We're going
750 insane. Ya know, I'm not too happy with the Gaim UI. I dont know
751 how the rest of you feel but it's time for a nice overhaul. In the
752 next few days I'll be sitting down with some of my friends and coming
753 up with an improved interface. I hope you all enjoy it. It'll
754 include better looking dialogs, icons, sounds (hopefully lol), etc.
756 And -- for your random silly message of the day --
758 "Beans and Franks, Beans and Franks, Wine And Beer, Have No Fear!
759 I can sing! I can dance! I have a penguin in my pants!"
761 - Rob Flynn after not having enough sleep.
763 Eric: I've had less sleep than Rob, I can guarantee you that. There's
764 actually a lot going on in this release, despite 2 releases 2 days ago.
765 Don't ask me how; I think the elves had something to do with it.
767 Oscar support is almost to the point where I'm considering removing
768 the 'experimental' label from configure. For those of you brave enough
769 to try it, I'd like feedback. (And if you happen to write a patch to
770 fix some of the stuff that would be really cool too.) Hopefully for the
771 next release, in addition to the cool new UI, Gaim/Faim will be able to
772 do nearly everything Gaim/TOC can do. (Big things coming in 0.9.19, I
773 can feel it....)
775 And just remember, you *can* have too many gummi candies. Especially if
776 you eat nearly a whole kilo of them. Believe me. I know. But the gummi
777 cherries are damn good.
779 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
780 Rob: I am an e-mail fiend!
781 (after receiving 60 emails within a 5 minute period about a problem
782 and responding to all of them immediately)
784 I am stupid.
786 Eric: Heh heh. 2 releases in one day. I'm impressed. Maybe one of these
787 times we'll actually get some of it right ;) Anyway, yeah. Just bug fixes in
788 this one.
790 Rob: Yeah, we wouldn't be ourselves if we released it once and got it right, would we? :-)
792 0.9.16:
793 Rob: Blah Blah Blah.
795 Eric: Looks like Rob didn't have much to say, so I'll write something
796 instead :)
798 There's a few good things in this release, the most important of them
799 being: Better proxy support, of course. Oh yeah, and you can sign on now,
800 so that's a good thing too. There's a few more good things going on in this
801 release, so check out the ChangeLog.
803 Play nicely, and we'll keep hacking away at it.
805 Rob: Go Watch `Road Trip'.
807 0.9.15:
808 Hey boy's and girls. There's not much to say here this time.
809 We're loving Southern California, the new job's going great. We just
810 got our company website up and the product development is going pretty
811 smooth. Life's pretty sweet now.
813 We've hacked up all kinds of goodies for you in 0.9.15. There's
814 some file transfer (receive) support for those of you who have been
815 wanting it for a while. There's some other misc. goodies tossed in as
816 well. Enjoy!! Oh yeah, we need a new website. Come up with a sweet
817 design and get in touch with me. The current site is at:
818 http://www.marko.net/gaim
820 Thanks much!
823 0.9.14:
824 Well, there's a few random hacks and fixes in here, along with
825 a little suprise. You guessed it, kiddos, support for plugins! Happy
826 hacking!
828 0.9.13:
829 Not much to say for this release. Bug fixes, That's all. Look
830 for the goodies I promised in 0.9.13 to appear in 0.9.14 which should be
831 released very soon now.
833 By the way, our CVS is now hosted over at source forge. Go check
834 it out at http://www.sourceforge.net. Please check there before submitting
835 any bug reports (You can read our CVS comments to see if we have fixed any
836 problems).
838 0.9.12:
839 Well guys, looks like we got some nifty things in this version.
840 TrueType Fonts are supported for those XFSTT buffs out there (or whatever
841 else you use). A crap load of those plaguing memory leaks have FINALLY been
842 fixed. My brother, Jeramey, and a new friend Peter Teichan helped stomp
843 those babies out. A rad guy by the name of Eric Warmenhoven has been
844 really sweet lately and has all but rewritten the Gnome Applet support :).
845 He submitted patch after patch. I finally got annoyed with him (just kidding bud)
846 and gave him CVS access. Look for Gnome Applet support in Gaim to start improving.
847 That's about all for now. I wanted to get this release out there. File Receive
848 support will be in 0.9.13 which is due out soon.
850 0.9.11:
851 Jeramey got a new Comfy Chair! Its very very comfy! Whee!
852 Jim also had a little hyper-drunken moment and started hacking away at
853 a new configuration format for Gaim. Looks like we're running .gaimrc
854 version 1 now. Gotta love it. I got bored and hacked in a couple font
855 properties that will, in time, contain more features. That's about it
856 for this version -- cept for that memory leak we fixed. Shush! We're
857 not plumbers! -- rob
859 ** Extra special update **
861 Well guys, it looks like we all stopped working on gaim, moved to California,
862 and took up a new job. Don't worry though, those beach bums out here havent
863 worn off on us yet. I've decided to pick up the Gaim torch myself and continue
864 development ont he prohect. Hopefully we wont have any more five month braks in
865 the project. Sorry about that, guys :)
867 0.9.10:
868 Umm. Dont ask. Silly memory leak. For those of you who
869 wondered, you were losing about 256 bytes every 25 seconds for each
870 person you have on your contact list. Make fun of us. Better yet ..
871 Send us beer. We'll do better :)
873 0.9.9:
874 Welp, All of you boys and girls who run Mandrake and have some
875 problems with Gaim working properly, please check out the FAQ file. It
876 contains a nice fix submitted by one of our users. I hope this works for
877 you guys!
878 Jim appears to have intoxicated himself. This is, as always, a
879 Good Thing (tm). His late-night adventure with the liquid-bread food group
880 lead to the birth of a nice little feature called `The Lag-O-Meter'. Dont
881 ask, just try it out :). It is pretty pointless if you have a super-fast
882 connection but if you are a modem user, like many of us are, then try it out.
883 There's also some idle preferences and some other little random
884 bug fixes. Check'em out yo :)
886 0.9.8:
887 Get Along Lil' Doggies. Heh. Looks like we have yet another new
888 version of gaim for you guys to play with. Be gentle now, it has a few
889 new fetures. The HTML widget is now more robust and we have *da da da*
890 HTTP proxy support.
891 Oh By The Way, Do not pay too much attention to what we are doing
892 with this release. We are all a little bit happy tonight. You must love
893 life. This is a special release of gaim. We will be releasing some wonderful
894 photographs soon .. or perhaps if we get the bloody webcam working then we
895 will take a couple of quick snapshots.
896 Looks like the Gaim developers convention (cool name huh) that we
897 had this weekend in Auburn, AL went wonderfully :). yum yum yum. Hahahah. Oh
898 by the way. Beware of insecure rednecks in the deli. Bad things.
899 In (non)related news, Jeramey could not successfully slaughter the
900 one pound hamburger that he ordered. (I think he could have done it but he
901 wasn't feeling very well at the time).
902 Oh Yes, New Logo Too :) You likes? Thanks, Naru!
903 Just a little side-note: it looks like we didnt make the release that
904 we had expected during the Gaim Convention. Maybe we partied too much? I am
905 not sure. I remember watching the sun rise before I went to bed, though.
906 Oh well. Here's your release! Enjoy!
907 By The Way, we have uploaded our party pictures to a website.
908 http://www.dorky.net/gaim/party/ They are nothing spectacular but I hope you
909 enjoy them! :).
911 0.9.7:
912 Well, boys and girls, it's that time again! Yup, time for the good
913 release fairy to come bless us with her infinite wisdom and divine presence.
914 Umm, yeah, something like that. Anyways, this release has several little
915 "bad" network fixes (as Jim likes to say) and a couple touch-ups to a few
916 other features. It also features preliminary oscar support. Thanks to Jim
917 and Adam ("the libfaim guy") hehe :) We have also corrected a problem with
918 gaim not wainting to correctly save your password if you have an underscore
919 in it. Thanks to w1za7d for pointing out the underscore problem. ' and \
920 have also been fixed in passwords. :o)
922 0.9.6:
923 Sorry about the little segfaulting bugs in the past release. Rob
924 is stupid. :). Anyways, they have been patched up and a couple new features
925 have been added. I hope you guys enjoy.
927 0.9.5:
928 Well we added a myriad of new features to this release. (A lot of
929 small buggie fixes too.) If you need a detailed list just check out the
930 ChangeLog. We now have a new webpage design and have added a FAQ to the
931 distribution. Before coming to us with any problems please take a quick
932 look through the FAQ to make sure we havent already covered your question.
933 Also, thanks to our beloved Web Monkey, FlynOrange, we have all
934 learned the true power of foam weapons, slinkies, and whoopie cushions. Hmm
935 gotta love those pranks, eh?
937 0.8.0:
938 Well, just starting the NEWS file. I'll try to remember what's new
939 from the last version. Hmmm. BIG code reorg. Import/export, buddy pounce
940 among the major new features. Autoconf script too, which is a big win.
941 Apologies to those who submitted patches which haven't made it in.. I
942 promise, the next version! This code reorg took up a lot of my time, and I
943 want to get it out there.