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1 Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
3 Our development blog is available at: http://planet.pidgin.im
5 2.8.0 (06/07/2011):
6 Paul: I fixed a few things in this release, and committed some
7 patches, but am being vague because I can't remember any specifics.
8 Hopefully you enjoy this, and happy May!
10 John: Wow, this release has taken forever. But there are a crapload
11 of patches that have been committed this time around, a lot of them by
12 me. The infamous MSN bugs are still outstanding, but otherwise this
13 release has brought some excellent progress. Oh, and we dropped the
14 hasn't-quite-worked-in-ages QQ plugin, too. Enjoy!
16 Jorge: I managed to get one patch applied! Wii for end of semester!
18 2.7.11 (03/10/2011):
19 John: Yet another release. This time around we finally fixed that
20 annoying MSN buddy adding problem and a security issue in Yahoo. You
21 know the drill--upgrade already!
23 2.7.10 (02/06/2011):
24 John: It's release time again. This release contains a bunch of stuff
25 committed from Trac. This is another "thank a patch writer" release.
26 Unfortunately, no one has fixed our wonderful MSN issues yet. There is
27 a tiny security fix in this release, as well.
29 2.7.9 (12/26/2010):
30 John: Just a quick release for a security fix here. Elliott has not
31 yet had a chance to work on the MSN breakage that's been present in
32 the last couple releases, but we hope he can do it before 2.7.10!
34 2.7.8 (12/19/2010):
35 Elliott: OK, so I know a few things broke with the last release, and
36 it's too bad we had to rush it for that silly certificate thing that
37 the MSN people can't configure properly. I've certainly done a lot of
38 small fixes this time, but it's too bad we haven't been able to get the
39 transfers with the official client fixed yet. I promise it'll be in
40 the next release (barring any quick security issues).
42 John: So, it's been about a month since we last released. Again, we've
43 assembled a bugfix release for your enjoyment. While a few commonly
44 reported bugs remain, particularly in MSN, we're working on it for the
45 next release. In the meantime, Merry Christmas and enjoy!
47 2.7.7 (11/23/2010):
48 John: Well, this time around, we should finally have the certificate
49 issue really and fully fixed for all of you MSN users. Also, we have
50 a few AIM-related fixes in this release, most notably the fix for the
51 new "SSL Handshake Failure" message some of you got after upgrading.
52 That one was an oversight on our part. Enjoy the fixes!
54 2.7.6 (11/21/2010):
55 Jorge: In this release I have merged two branches where I have spent
56 most of my time in the last months, the MSNP16 and SLP-rewrite. I
57 hope you all will enjoy the hability to be connected on multiple
58 instances at the same time. I also hope that the SLP rewrite
59 fix a lot of old bugs that we have in the tracker. I am really
60 happy with this rewrite because there was untoched code from almost
61 5 years ago. I hope you like this release!
63 John: In this release, we give you some new features and a bunch of
64 bug fixes. This includes shipping intermediate certificates to fix
65 certificate validation for MSN's servers. Upgrade and enjoy!
67 2.7.5 (10/31/2010):
68 John: A bugfix release for all of you! This time we fixed a bunch of
69 bugs ranging from annoying regressions to long-standing bugs we didn't
70 realize until now were bugs. Enjoy!
72 2.7.4 (10/20/2010):
73 John: This release came at this particular time due to some security
74 issues Daniel discovered for us when investigating a bug. There are
75 a ton of other changes, including some partial Yahoo file transfer
76 fixes and a bunch of other little things. Enjoy!
78 2.7.3 (08/10/2010):
79 Mark: Lots of little incremental[1] bug fixes and enhancements in this
80 release.
82 [1] No whales were harmed[2] during the creation of this release.
83 [2] Probably.
85 John: Finally got some fixes out there for you Yahoo users behind some
86 particularly annoying firewalls and proxies, among other fixes. Enjoy!
88 2.7.2 (07/21/2010):
89 Mark: We discovered a security issue in Pidgin 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 and
90 decided to release a patched version quickly. This release contains
91 the fix for that crash, and a few other minor fixes.
93 2.7.1 (05/29/2010):
94 Elliott: Hey, I'm first! How did that happen?! Maybe because of the
95 interesting changes in this release. Sure there were quite a few bug
96 fixes, but I know what you've all been waiting for is the direct
97 connections in MSN. Trust me, it's really really fast!!
99 John: Whoa, short turnaround for us. This is just 17 days after our
100 previous release! This fixes a number of bugs that you've all been
101 reporting a ton of duplicate tickets about and even gives you the new
102 direct connection file transfer support for MSN. Enjoy!
104 Marcus: Quite a bit quicker to get this release out, compared with the
105 previous one :). Fixes a number of bugs, and I'm sure the MSN direct
106 connections will please many users. Enjoy!
108 2.7.0 (05/12/2010):
109 John: We FINALLY got the ICQ X-Status stuff merged in! And a few other
110 patches that have been sitting on Trac forever. Couple that with some
111 new features and we have an excellent release for all of you!
113 Marcus: Finally time for a new release, seems like it took
114 quite a while this time. But then again, there are some new features
115 in there, like file transfer preview (thumbnails) support (only on MSN
116 so far), plus a lot of bug fixes. Enjoy!
118 Paul: Yay, a new release! I don't think I added very much useful to
119 this release, other than fixing a paste bug from Chrome (no weird
120 characters appended to the end of your URI). Enjoy!
122 Jorge: This is my first NEWS! I'm not sure I added something nice
123 to this release. I know it took a lot of time to bring this one
124 out, however I'm really excited by this release. I hope everyone
125 likes the new features this release brings.
127 Elliott: This release took so long, I had to go check the ChangeLog
128 just to see what happened. I doubt many people will notice, but we
129 dropped support for many old things, like GTK+<2.10 and MSNP9. In more
130 exciting news, we have file transfer previews on MSN, and support for
131 setting moods on ICQ and XMPP (which has been waiting forever.)
133 2.6.6 (02/18/2010):
134 Mark: This release includes some great little changes and fixes a few
135 security-related bugs. See the ChangeLog for details.
137 2.6.5 (01/08/2010):
138 Paul: This release fixes a pretty serious bug in the MSN code, so we're
139 releasing this build a little earlier than planned with only major
140 bugs fixed. See the ChangeLog for details. Enjoy!
142 2.6.4 (11/29/2009):
143 John: It's release time again. Lots of bug fixes this time around, as
144 well as a new protocol plugin developed and maintained by the MXit folks
145 folks. Elliott and I also did a ton of work on the Preferences window,
146 which will now hopefully fit on most people's small screens. Enjoy!
148 Elliott: This release has been in the works for so long, I don't really
149 remember doing any work on it. But I do know the MSN servers gave us a
150 little bit of trouble this time around, forgetting people's friendly
151 names. Nothing too problematic, just a touch annoying. Also, we've got
152 a nice new Preferences dialog. You can thank John for that mostly, with
153 a couple of tweaks by me.
155 Sadrul: A lot of little fixes for a lot of things! Among them, a fix
156 for a long standing issue with displaying unicode in non-utf8 locale in
157 finch. We also have a new prpl for MXit. This release is very very cool
158 altogether. Enjoy!
160 2.6.3 (10/16/2009):
161 Mark: Someone reported a fairly serious bug in our AIM/ICQ code
162 so we're releasing a special "severe bug fix only" build. See the
163 ChangeLog for details. Enjoy!
165 2.6.2 (09/05/2009):
166 Mark: Woo boy it's been a busy two weeks. There was a lot of new code
167 in 2.6.0, and with new code comes new bugs. The cadre of relentless
168 developers responsible for Pidgin have been hard at work, and I believe
169 they have fixed all the major bugs that cropped up. My thanks to all
170 those names listed as Current Developers in Pidgin's 'About' window.
172 Elliott: Well now, just as Mark said, there was a lot of new stuff that
173 probably came up with tons of bugs. So I can't say I wrote anything
174 super-awesome, but I definitely fixed quite a few of those itty-bitty
175 why-didn't-this-work-this-way sort of bugs.
177 2.6.1 (08/18/2009):
178 Mark: There were a lot of changes in 2.6.0, and so a few major bugs
179 crept in. This is a very minor release to fix those bugs. Sorry for
180 the inconvenience!
182 2.6.0 (08/18/2009):
183 John: Wow, four straight releases that I'm the first to NEWS on. This
184 is getting kinda scary! I'm beginning to wonder who else actually does
185 anything around here! (Just kidding, of course.) LOTS of new features
186 and a crapton of bugfixes this release. There should pretty much be
187 something for everybody. A great example of this is the ton of Yahoo
188 changes that have happened thanks to our SoC student from 2008, Sulabh
189 Mahajan. Among his massive improvements are the ability to add MSN
190 buddies by adding them as "msn/user@domain.tld" and peer-to-peer file
191 transfers. Of course, history shows we can't please everyine, so I'm
192 sure I'll see a complaint or five thousand in trac. Enjoy, though!
194 Marcus: This is my first news! It's been quite a few microreleases this
195 time, but now we're finally at 2.6.0. I suppose the most anticipated
196 new feature in this release is the voice and video support, thanks to
197 Mike's heroic work. I've managed to slip in a few features too, like
198 in-band bytestream file transfers as a fallback on XMPP and idle time
199 reporting on XMPP. Enjoy!
201 Paul: This is my first news, too! This release has definitely been a
202 long time coming; hopefully it won't disappoint since we've closed over
203 200 tickets. Among other things, Tobias Markmann's GSoC project from
204 last year was merged, which means we now support BOSH (XMPP connections
205 over HTTP), and Andrei Mozzhuhin contributed an XMPP Service Discovery
206 Browser. Also, thanks to Bernmeister for poking (at least) several
207 hundred old tickets!
209 Mike: Ditto. This is my first news as well. I have a feeling this is
210 getting repetitive at this point, but voice and video support is
211 finally here! Thanks to the rest of the Pidgin team, Farsight 2, and
212 GStreamer developers for making this possible! (I finally finished my
213 Summer of Code project :D)
215 Elliott: Hey, this is my firs... Wait, no it isn't. Now I feel left
216 out. So have you heard about this voice and video thing?
217 Unfortunately, not quite ready for all protocols, but it's getting
218 there. MSN gained support for receiving voice clips at least, and
219 finally we have Ink receiving capabilities too. Thanks to the guys
220 who wrote the original patch. And finally, MSN no longer has over a
221 100 tickets open!
223 2.5.9 (08/18/2009):
224 John: This release is just a crash fix release to address a security
225 issue reported to us by CORE and a couple crashes Elliott found.
227 2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
228 John: This release is another somewhat rushed bugfix release to fix
229 a number of bugs that have come up since we released Pidgin 2.5.7.
230 Hopefully anything I broke there is fixed now, or at least made to be
231 less broken. Enjoy!
233 2.5.7 (06/20/2009):
234 John: This release is really just a rushed fix for the broken Yahoo
235 protocol plugin. I spent way more time on this release than I care
236 to admit, so I hope that time is well spent and this fixes the issues
237 people have been having.
239 2.5.6 (05/19/2009):
240 Ka-Hing: Many much bugfixes. Hooray. (Paul told me to say that)
241 Oh, no one has met Paul yet? He's awesome, he backported my fixes
242 to the release branch so I didn't have to checkout a
243 workspace... except I just did to NEWS to tell you all about
244 that. Oh and I actually did do something for this release, none of
245 which is user visible though. This basically applies to the rest
246 of the release as well, nothing exciting, but you definitely want
247 it.
249 Daniel: This should fix a number of annoying issues that some users
250 have encountered. We also would like to thank Veracode
251 (http://www.veracode.com) who performed a code analysis and found some
252 bugs that were addressed in this release.
254 Elliott: I feel like I'm repeating myself, but there are some more MSN
255 fixes that should make things better behaved at login as well, and
256 maybe you'll stop getting some of those annoying errors (though not all
257 are fixed yet). Some other bugfixes, plus the craziness that is the
258 libxml "structured error handler" make up the rest of this release.
260 2.5.5 (03/01/2009):
261 John: Well, yet another release with bug fixing and patches. Hopefully
262 one of the fixed bugs is one that irritated you. Also, thank Dimmuxx
263 for spending far too much time working on ICQ this release.
265 Elliott: Lots and lots of MSN bugfixes again (I hope they're fixed, at
266 least). I think we finally have OCS/Yahoo!/federated buddies working
267 now. And there should be some workarounds for some server things that
268 may or may not have been our fault (like buddies on Allow+Block) which
269 should make general usage a bit smoother.
271 2.5.4 (01/12/2009):
272 John: Well, we fixed a few bugs for you this time around, I applied
273 a few patches, and we've dealt with what feels like a TON of tickets
274 about two very common issues. Feels like time for a release to me.
276 Etan: My first NEWS in quite a while and I don't have much to say. I
277 haven't been too active lately and I'm hoping that won't be the case
278 going forward. I managed to get in a few perl fixes and some UI
279 language tweaks this release. My plan is to work on some of the
280 issues pointed out by mpt (during his expert review of pidgin a little
281 while back) in the near future.
283 2.5.3 (12/18/2008):
284 Mark: It's been about two months and woo-boy have we been fixing
285 bugs. Enjoy!
287 Kevin: I didn't do much of anything this release, but Mark and
288 John must be commended for their tireless efforts to fix bugs
289 and approve patches, especially in areas of Pidgin that have
290 not usually received much attention. Lots of changes have
291 been made, so definitely check the ChangeLog to see what's new.
293 John: It feels like it's been an age or two since we last released,
294 and I think it's well worth the wait. Mark has sunk more time into
295 MSN and MySpace IM this release than any sane person should be
296 allowed to, and I've sunk more time into patches than I care to
297 admit. By my count, our ChangeLog has 58 bullet points(!) and we've
298 closed 85 tickets specifically for this release. Enjoy!
300 Ka-Hing: Bring your XMPP server to 2008 some time in 2009 would be
301 nice, DreamHost!
303 Elliott: Well, I can't blame the server for this release taking so long
304 but that's just how it worked out. A few interesting MSN changes this
305 time. Hopefully, federated & Yahoo! buddies will work for you, but I'm
306 not yet certain it's ready. Mark made so many fixes, I'm not even sure
307 I recognize everything anymore, but hopefully that'll make things less
308 crashy for you.
310 2.5.2 (10/19/2008):
311 Ethan: After a bit of a struggle with our services, which put
312 this release off for an unfortunate length of time, we're
313 ready for another bugfix release for your bug-free(er?)
314 messaging pleasure.
316 Sadrul: Despite our best efforts, this release got delayed by a
317 couple of weeks. But here it is! It is mostly a bug fix release, with
318 a couple of important fixes, e.g. fix for the Yahoo! disconnect
319 problem. Also, welcome our newest Crazy Patch Writer, Marcus Lundblad,
320 who, among various other fixes, has implemented custom smileys for the
321 XMPP protocol, included in this release. Enjoy!
323 Stu: I guess this is the time of year for server migrations, and
324 I've just about had enough of them. Fortunately Pidgin is still fun,
325 and this release should be superb.
327 John: Although our services were down for quite some time, we didn't
328 lose any data, except perhaps some mail that would have failed to make
329 it to us. Overall, the only major effect it had was to delay this
330 release far longer than we expected. Hopefully the bugfixes make you
331 happy!
333 Elliott: This release took a while, but that was due to an unfortunate
334 server snafu. I didn't have much to do with it, but hopefully the new
335 servers will help us out a bit. Anyway, mostly bug-fixes this time.
336 Nothing spectacular, unless you happen to suffer from one of those bugs.
337 Oh, and don't forget, the "Has you" tooltip is back!
339 2.5.1 (08/30/2008):
340 Kevin: This release is mainly a bug-fix release. It solves a few
341 known crashes and updates some of our artwork. Google's Summer of
342 code recently finished up. Some of our students are still working
343 on their branches and none have been merged into released code yet.
344 Look for some of those results to show up in Pidgin releases over the
345 coming months.
347 Elliott: I'm just commenting so Kevin wouldn't be the only one in NEWS
348 and no-one else seems to want to. Anyway, there's a couple MSN login
349 fixes, so try it out. The contact list problems might still be around,
350 but you can probably find a workaround in trac. And there's a tooltip
351 fix for our AIM friends, not that I had anything to do with it (except
352 closing many many duplicate tickets).
354 2.5.0 (08/17/2008):
355 Daniel: Lots of good stuff in this release. Lots of people have worked
356 very hard on the updated MSN protocol, and it's finally time to bring
357 it to the world! There are myriad bugfixes, including some important
358 ones so you should be sure to update.
360 Hylke: Finally MSNP15 support. To celebrate this I refreshed a lot of
361 the smilies used in the protocol and added the long awaited indispensable
362 bunny icon. I think this is one of those releases that will make a lot
363 of users happy, especially MSN users.
365 Elliott: Oh look, my first NEWS! Well anyway, with that new MSNP15
366 support, this release is set up to be a huge success and a total flop
367 all at the same time. Here's hoping it's the "huge success" one for you.
368 Those icon changes that Hylke made, while minor, really make things look
369 a little cleaner, I think. Oh yea, did I mention that MSNP15 stuff?
371 Mark: Speaking of MSNP15, we'd like to welcome Elliott Sales de Andrade
372 as a full fledged developer! He took the last few strides mushing the
373 new MSN code into shape. Then he decided that wasn't enough and started
374 doing other great stuff.
376 Ka-Hing: "Reject"ing a certificate after your account is signed off is
377 not recommended. Deleting the file after you start sending it is also
378 discouraged.
380 2.4.3 (07/01/2008):
381 Richard: This release includes important bug fixes. I'm just cutting
382 the release. Thank you to the real heroes who did the fixing!
384 2.4.2 (5/17/2008):
385 Sadrul: We added some usability changes in this release, including the
386 typing notification, buddyicon and input area size in the conversation
387 windows, escape to close conversation windows etc. These changes should
388 make pidgin more usable and more fun for Everyone! *wink*
390 Stu: I fixed some memory leaks, but nothing like as many as Daniel did.
391 MSN buddy list synchronization should be significantly less painful now,
392 and opening MSN inboxes might work better too. SILC passphrase changes
393 and support for passphrase-less keys has been improved also.
395 2.4.1 (3/31/2008):
396 Stu: We fixed some bugs, this release should be 110% better than 2.4.0
398 John: Well, I didn't really do much this release except muck about with
399 the configure script. Blame me if it worked in 2.4.0 but doesn't now.
401 Will: We seem to be falling into a nice pattern of releasing on the last
402 day of a month. Hypothetical AIX users might be pleased to learn that
403 Pidgin might actually run for them now!
405 2.4.0 (2/29/2008):
406 John: While this release took what seems like forever to get out the
407 door, I think it's well worth the wait, especially for Yahoo! users.
408 This release serves up some fixes for long standing bugs and adds
409 file transfer for transfers with newer Yahoo! clients (finally!). As
410 is standard with code I committed, where it works great thank the
411 patch writer, and where it's broken, feel free to yell at me. Enjoy!
413 Sadrul: Finch is more colourful and blinky in this release! There's
414 now a log viewer, which is very useful, and also the ability to
415 block/unblock buddies. It's now also possible to find chat rooms on
416 many services, e.g. XMPP, IRC, Yahoo! etc. Happy Leap Day!
418 Ka-Hing: I think all I've done for this release is committing some
419 patches written by other people.
421 Stu: Finally, 2.4.0 lands. I didn't do all that much except complain
422 about things I didn't like or just revert Sean's changes. I'm quite
423 pleased with how well it's turned out in the end.
424 Happy Birthday Fred, you must be nearly 10 now ;-)
426 2.3.1 (12/7/2007):
427 Stu: I'm sorry for the MSN problems and the plugin crashes in 2.3.0.
428 Hopefully this will redeem us. This fixes a number of bugs. I'm a
429 bit late but I'd like to welcome John to the team. Enjoy!
431 Luke: I've done absolutely nothing in the last 2 weeks, except watch
432 others commit bug and, more, leak fixes. People should be noticing
433 remarkably fewer memory leaks now than 2 or more releases ago.
435 Kevin: I'm not quite sure what happened to our MySpaceIM Summer of
436 Code student, but I fixed a few MySpace bugs with idle and status.
437 I will try to fix some of the other more significant bugs, after I
438 figure out the protocol, especially including grouping issues.
440 2.3.0 (11/20/2007):
441 Luke: While this does not have the new MSN code, rest assured that
442 we are working on it and that it is nearing release. This contains
443 a significant number of fixes, including some that were marked as
444 fixed for earlier releases. Happy Thanksgiving!
446 John: This is my first NEWS entry! So, this time around we have an
447 updated man page (the old one hadn't been really updated since
448 before the GTK+ 2.0 migration!), lots of bug fixes, and some new
449 features for you all. Enjoy!
451 2.2.2 (10/23/2007):
452 Luke: Because the main branch of pidgin development is still not
453 ready for public consumption, I have taken some time to try to
454 pull the many bug fixes that have happened since then into a
455 separate branch. This release is the result of that effort.
457 2.2.1 (9/28/2007):
458 Richard: We have some new code in the pipeline, but it's not quite
459 ready for a general release. Instead, this is basically a bug fix
460 release.
462 Luke: Unfortunately the necessity of this bug fix release means
463 some of the tickets that have been closed as part of the 2.2.1
464 milestone are not actually fixed yet. We have grabbed as many
465 of the changes as we could while avoiding those that are as
466 yet unstable though, and this should still be a marked
467 improvement over 2.2.0. We have spent a lot of time since the
468 last release looking at the tickets that have been submitted
469 and many of them have been closed.
471 Stu: I haven't NEWS'd in a while. I haven't actually done much for
472 too long also, maybe I'll find some time soon. This release is
473 basically what 2.2.0 should have been - it actually compiles this
474 time.
476 2.2.0 (9/13/2007):
477 Sean: 2.2.0 contains the results of several major Google Summer
478 of Code branches bringing some new, extraordinary features. We
479 have a new protocol, MySpaceIM, a bunch of new features for an
480 existing protocol, XMPP, and nifty new certificate management
481 to make sure your IM server is who it says it is.
483 Ka-Hing: A number of you noticed crashes when dragging windows
484 around when certain options are enabled. Well, that was my fault,
485 and Sadrul fixed it. So Props to him and poos to me. I haven't
486 done much for this release, but the next one should contain
487 something that I helped work on. Hint: students are cheap slave
488 coders!
490 Kevin: I haven't really been coding much in Pidgin, and this
491 release is no exception, but I will be working on getting our
492 wonderful web site to be a little more functional by next
493 release. I promise!
495 2.1.1 (8/20/2007):
496 Sean: Continuing our schedule of frequent releases, Pidgin 2.1.1
497 is out. In it, we've addressed a lot of UI issues from our
498 experimental new changes introduced in 2.1.0, and gave a lot of
499 attention to Yahoo! and Bonjour. Thanks to everyone who
500 contributed.
502 Luke: We have reworked some parts of the conversation windows in
503 response to user comments. We did not quite reach 100 tickets
504 closed this release, so a fair few will role over again. Still,
505 we are slowly but surely working our way through the reported bugs.
506 Many thanks to everyone who has helped with tracking down the
507 various issues, testing fixes, and getting patches in.
509 Tim: Sean finally got me to fix some of the buddy list bugs with
510 Yahoo! when in version 15 mode. So now we have some Yahoo! to
511 MSN support, which is kind of nice. Looks like some others have
512 been contributing to Yahoo! while I've been AWOL, so many thanks
513 to them.
515 2.1.0 (7/28/2007):
516 Sean: This release took a bit longer than 3 weeks, but boy is it
517 worth it! We're beginning to experiment with new UI concepts and
518 this release features a largely re-designed conversation window.
519 We've closed 150 tickets for this release; much thanks go to all
520 the developers, translators, and testers who made this possible.
522 Ka-Hing: Sean said no one else NEWS'ed, so I figure I should.
524 2.0.2 (6/14/2007):
525 Sean: Another big maintenance release. Again, about 100 tickets were
526 resolved in this release, and they keep coming in. Lots of bug fixes,
527 some minor icon adjustements, hopefully we addressed some ICQ
528 internationalization issues, and support for Bonjour on Windows!
529 Our next release will be 2.1.0, and will come with some great new
530 features.
532 Stu: I think we're gradually getting the hang of this 3 week thing
533 again. This release includes yet more bug fixes. I'd also like to
534 specifically thank Pekka Riikonen for the patch to enable using SILC
535 Toolkit 1.1 with Pidgin/libpurple that is included in this release.
537 2.0.1 (5/24/2007):
538 Sean: 2.0.1! Three weeks later, as scheduled! It is so nice to have
539 regular, frequent, releases again! This is a bugfix release; We have
540 fixed over 100 issues reported to us at http://developer.pidgin.im.
541 Thanks to everyone for their great work, and look for the next release
542 in another three weeks!
544 Stu: Lots'o'fixes in this. I don't know how you users find so many
545 things for us to fix. 24 hours in a day (sadly). 24 is divisible by the
546 sum of its digits and by their product. It is the smallest composite
547 number, the product of whose divisors is a cube.
549 Luke: I requested that we have a bug fix release, and so we have!
550 Many, though unfortunately not all, of the reports that have been
551 submitted to us since 2.0.0 have been fixed now, and so you should
552 all have a much more stable experience with this release. I also
553 want to thank the many users who have resubmitted their reports
554 as we close out the old Source Forge bug tracker. If all goes well,
555 your report will get the attention it deserves as we continue to
556 work on Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple.
558 Nathan: A ton of fixes have gone into this release. The feedback
559 we've gotten on 2.0.0 has been incredible. Hopefully we've resolved
560 most of the critical issues with 2.0.1. If we haven't, I'm sure
561 our wonderful users will let us hear about it. I seem to be
562 forgetting something...oh, right, I haven't promised any cool new
563 features in the next release! So, I promise at least one cool new
564 feature in the next release...you just might have to adjust your
565 definition of 'cool' to get it.
567 Etan: Perl plugins now have access to almost all of the savedstatus
568 API functions. I also removed a couple of the preferences from the
569 Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin which should help many of the people
570 for whom the configuration dialog size was a problem. The removed
571 preferences no longer had the effects they were added to have anyway.
573 2.0.0 (5/3/2007):
574 Sean: 2.0.0! It's real exciting to finally release Pidgin 2.0.0! I'm
575 really proud of all the work we've all done. I'm pumped. And, while
576 I could go on about all the amazing thing that have been added since
577 1.5.0, what I'm really excited about is getting back to a regular,
578 rapid, release cycle of active, open development, unhindered by legal
579 quandries. Huge thanks to everyone involved.
581 Luke: We have finally managed to get 2.0.0 out the door, after nearly
582 but not quite 2 years of effort and fustration. No one regrets more
583 than I that we were unable to make any of betas 3-6 the actual release.
584 But at long last, it is out, and life can return to a more normal
585 state. There were many tough calls to be made in the last 2 years.
586 Not everyone has agreed with the resulting decisions, that is un-
587 fortunate, but unavoidable. Suffice it to say that despite what
588 some users appear to think, a ton of thought, argument, discussion,
589 and experimentation has gone into this release. This release
590 builds on many years of experience, both as developers writing the
591 code, users using it, and in supporting other users. I hope that
592 those who download and install this will give it a fair shot, and
593 attempt to avoid knee-jerk reactions.
595 Evan: One small step for bird, one giant leap for birdkind... except
596 this is hardly one small step. A lot more has changed from Gaim 1.5.0
597 than just the name. Pidgin has a *very* attractive new look, a whole
598 new member of the family (Finch, formerly gaim-console) has been born,
599 and libpurple has come into its own as a solid, full-featured library
600 powering the greatest IM clients around. Bugs were fixed and
601 features were added by the hundreds (thousands?) since the last
602 major release, all while improving performance and resisting feature
603 creep. As Luke said, a ton of thought and effort has gone into
604 Pidgin 2.0.0; I'm proud to have played a part.
606 Stu: We did it! finally, we have 2.0.0. It's been a long time coming,
607 but there's a great deal of goodness here. When I say a long time, I'm
608 not kidding - it's been 972 days since we branched off "oldstatus"
609 (aka 1.x). The early Greeks were uncertain as to whether 2 was a
610 number at all (or if we'd ever make this release) - it has a beginning
611 and an end but no middle (much like our unfortunately quiet development
612 period). 2 is the first prime number and the only even prime. 2 is also
613 the first deficient number (oh well). There are only 10 types of people
614 in the world - those who like our new names and those who do not.
615 Enjoy!
617 Richard: I'm very glad that we've finally gotten 2.0.0 released and
618 I look forward to returning to a more normal development schedule.
619 Again, a big thanks to everyone who helped in any way to get things
620 where they are today. Congratulations everyone!
622 Sadrul: My first NEWS, and on what an occasion! Pidgin 2.0.0 is finally
623 released!! And it's *really* very good!!! Give your soul a break ...
624 Use Pidgin!
626 Daniel: There has been a fair amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth
627 due to the delays in getting this beast out. I'm really happy that it
628 is done. I'm also very happy with what we're releasing - I think it is
629 far more stable, packed with useful features and, dare I say, prettier
630 than any previous release.
632 2.0.0beta7 (4/29/2007):
633 Sean: Beta 7. The final beta. A few major changes from beta6. For
634 starters, we have some new names. That's pretty cool. We have a new
635 logo, to go along with it. And a lot of great icons! As Nathan mentions
636 below, we're totally back in the open now, having a signed agreement
637 from AOL that puts us in the clear. We all really regret having to go
638 completely dark for so long. Anyway, unlike betas1-6, which were of
639 normal release quality, this one is actually beta quality. There are
640 a few significant known issues, and a lot of changes that need a lot
641 of real-world testing. So, if you'd like to help us out, give it a
642 whirl, and let us know if you run into any major issues.
644 Nathan: So, the secret is out now. We renamed to Pidgin. I'd just
645 like to apologize to everyone we've had to keep in the dark for the
646 last however-many months. I know it looked like development slowed
647 to a crawl, but in reality we've been working pretty hard to get
648 2.0.0 out the door, without getting into any legal trouble. I
649 realize that if we were some big corporation, we'd be getting flamed
650 about this secrecy for months. Please try to remember that we're
651 just a bunch of geeks who were scared of legal stuff (well, at least
652 I was. Scared, that is). The bottom line is that we're out in the
653 open again, and fully plan to stay that way. We're also opening up
654 the mail archives from the secretive past few months. You can scan
655 through them if you want, or I can summarize. "Are the lawyers done
656 yet? No. Now? No. How about now? No." All lawyer jokes aside,
657 I'm grateful to our legal team for crossing all the 't's and dotting
658 all the lowercase 'j's to get us the deal we got. Anyways, thanks
659 for your patience, and on to 2.0.1!
661 Gary: Well my silence, and our silence has ended. Finally the name
662 change is over and done with and we can go back to a normal dev
663 cycle. Now if I can just get myself back onto a normal dev cycle,
664 but that's another story all together.
666 Ethan: Not to be too "me-too", but I have to say that I'm really
667 excited about the project's new name and identity, and glad to be
668 out of the legal mess. We're pushing beta 7 with all of the
669 branding and organizational changes that have been going on for
670 the last few months, so there are likely to be some snags --
671 please help us out by trying beta 7, searching for any bugs you
672 find in the bug tracker at http://developer.pidgin.im/, and
673 documenting them if they are unknown or you can provide new
674 information. Help us make 2.0.0 final a release to be remembered
675 (in a good way)! I'd like to give huge thanks to all of the
676 developers, our steadfast supporters, the crazy patch writers, and
677 everyone else who has made this transition to Pidgin possible, and
678 the improvements that go along with it. I'd like to extend a
679 special thanks to Sean, for leading us through the legal issues
680 and taking care of all of the paperwork and overhead that no one
681 wants to deal with.
683 2.0.0beta6 (1/17/2007):
684 Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be
685 the final beta release before 2.0.0. This has a bunch of cool UI
686 changes, some Google Talk features, a bunch new plugins, and other
687 goodness.
689 Nathan: Beta6 rocks. That is all.
691 Gary: Long time no news. My silence will end soon ;)
693 Evan: My first news! I knocked out a nice collection of crashes,
694 thanks in part to my ever-patient Adium beta testers. Gaim 2.0.0
695 is going to be delicious. :)
697 2.0.0beta5 (11/9/2006):
698 Sean: Another release in our endless stream in betas. This one's
699 pretty awesome; and it fixes major bugs introduced in previous
700 ones.
702 2.0.0beta4 (10/17/2006)
703 Sean: Still beta. Maybe the next one should be a gamma.. :)
705 Daniel: I'm super chuffed to announce that this will work with newer
706 (i.e. >= 2.8.0) versions of GTK+ on Windows.
708 Luke: Several significant changes in this one, including no longer
709 using libao for sound! There are no doubt bugs here, but hopefully
710 nothing major.
712 Nathan: I don't have much to say, but yay for another beta!
714 Etan: I did a bunch of perl work for this beta again, there is now
715 some support for perl scripts to call functions in the gtk ui, it
716 still needs work.
718 2.0.0beta3 (03/25/2006):
719 Mark: Yeah, I know, another beta. Don't worry, we'll get this
720 puppy out the door eventually.
722 2.0.0beta2 (01/24/2006):
723 Mark: So this is the new year, and I don't feel any different, but
724 Gaim is getting better. We hope this will be our last beta before
725 we release the final version of 2.0.0. As before, please shower us
726 in feedback!
728 Richard: I'm proud to say a lot of bugs have been squashed in this
729 version. If you filed a bug against beta1, please test to see if
730 it's fixed now and update your bug report accordingly (by either
731 closing it or setting the version to 2.0.0beta2). I'm also looking
732 for someone who uses Gaim on MacOS X to test a patch for me before
733 I can commit it. See http://gaim.sf.net/contactinfo.php for my
734 contact information.
736 Etan: So I did a bunch of work on the perl plugin since beta1, so
737 anyone who uses perl plugins would do well to expect some things to
738 need updating (I'm not certain everything works yet, so please send me
739 any reports of things that don't). Most of the work was correcting
740 some namespace issues, but I also improved the support for perl
741 plugins having plugin_pref frames, and plugin actions. Multiple perl
742 plugins can now have plugin_pref frames at the same time, and every
743 perl plugin can have multiple plugin actions now. Like Mark said
744 above, let us know how this beta works out.
746 2.0.0beta1 (12/17/2005):
747 Sean: I think Nathan sums everything up really well below. There's still
748 a bunch we want to add (and remove) before the official release, but we
749 really want to start getting feedback about what's good and what's not.
750 So, please, be vocal about this beta!
752 Nathan: 15 months since we branched oldstatus, and started working on
753 the behemoth that is 2.0.0. In that time, we've added a couple new
754 protocols, we had a few crazy patch writers become developers, and
755 had a few more people step up to be crazy patch writers. Sean wrote
756 a book, and we arbitrarily decided to make a version 1.0.0, and a
757 new versioning scheme. We got new artwork, and added almost 200 lines
758 to the ChangeLog. We've watched 2 major GTK+ releases, and added all
759 kinds of features using them. OK, I've wasted enough bits here. This
760 beta rocks, but it is a beta. Treat it as such, and enjoy!
762 Gary: Finally we have a beta. There are a lot of new goodies, including
763 quite a few summer of code projects that couldn't get added into the
764 oldstatus branch because API changes. We also have a new mono plugin
765 loader for even more plugin fun.
767 Richard: Thanks to all who wrote patches (big or small) for this beta.
769 Tim: Well here it is, the first beta. There's a lot of cool things in
770 here, but not all of them are finished or debugged. But then that's
771 why it's called a beta. Conversations are now contact-aware, and
772 there's a new status selector. There's smooth scrolling on incoming
773 messages as well. Our Crazy Patch Writers have been doing a good
774 job too, it seems like we're never lacking some patches in the
775 tracker to review.
777 Etan: I know I'm not going to be able to think of all the things I should
778 talk about here so I'll just go with the stuff I remember. Adding buddies
779 on ejabberd jabber servers should work more correctly now (it's possible
780 adding buddies on other servers is a bit broken currently I'm still
781 looking into it). There are still other jabber issues I'm looking into
782 with handling of buddies.
783 In other topics, I finally brought my Accounts menu into gaim, though the
784 current example of it isn't exactly what I had in mind, anyone with any
785 suggestions/comments/etc about it please speak up.
786 Other than the stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting to mention this beta should
787 be awesome as gaim 2.0.0 is going to be awesome. Have fun with it.
789 Luke: pretty much everything important has been said, so this is going to
790 be rather repetative. This is a beta folks, so it will have bugs. It
791 will crash unexpectedly. Perhaps even frequently. Use it at your peril.
792 But do use it (though you might want to back up ~/.gaim first), and let us
793 know what needs to be fixed.
795 Mark: Yay.
797 Stu: Wow!
799 Siege: Sametime accounts created with gaim-meanwhile should merge over
800 for use in the beta just fine. Some of the familiar settings regarding
801 the buddy list are gone, so I recommend backing up your Sametime blist
802 before getting down and crazy. Have fun, and happy early Decemberween!
804 Daniel: Enjoy! In the hopes that this prevents someone pain... do not use
805 Glib/GTK+ 2.8.x with Wingaim - it will not work. We're looking into the
806 problem and hope to have it resolved before the final release.
807 "Happy Holidays!"
809 1.5.0 (8/11/2005):
810 Mark: No super crazy major changes here. Just the usual bug
811 fixes and some pretty important security updates.
813 Stu: Buy Sean's book. He obviously needs the money. Other than that
814 we fixed some bugs with this release (I don't think we did much else).
815 SoC students are doing lots of cool stuff which we'll hopefully be
816 able to bring you in a future release.
818 Nathan: I've continued my streak of doing nothing useful lately.
819 However, I've now got a brand-spanking-new DSL line, so I might
820 actually get to contribute soon. One way or another I'd like
821 to get HEAD into a more useable state in the next month or two.
822 Also, like Stu said, buy Sean's book. I've been reading and
823 fixing it for the last umpteen months, so you had better enjoy
824 it.
826 1.4.0 (7/7/2005):
827 Mark: The last month or four we've promoted a bunch of the Gaim
828 Crazy Patch Writers to developers, so there is now an even larger
829 team of brilliant and amazingly sexy committers working around
830 the globe for your instant messaging pleasure. Also, we have
831 what I believe to be our first contribution from a Summer of Code
832 student in this release: Jonathan Clark enabled the sending of
833 files to certain ICQ users. Support is still a bit rough, but
834 he'll be working on it throughout the summer.
836 Luke: Exciting times this summer as our Summer of Code interns
837 start their projects. This is mostly a bug fix release, with the
838 ICQ file transfer that Mark mentioned and some buddy icon work
839 being the only real new code. Hence the extra week delay. A
840 big thanks to our translators who keep churning out updates even
841 when we give them short notice as well. Enjoy!
843 1.3.1 (6/9/2005):
844 Sean: It's been a while since I've done one of these. Welcome to
845 Gaim 1.3.1, "New Hyde Park." This is, again, another bugfix release
846 but it comes with two keen announcements. First, I'd like to welcome
847 Christopher O'Brien to the Gaim team. He has integrated his work on
848 the Meanwhile project into Gaim, ensuring that Gaim 2.0.0 will include
849 Sametime support. Also, we're participating in Google's Summer of
850 Code, which you all should check out at
851 http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/
853 1.3.0 (5/10/2005):
854 Luke: This release fixes SILC for multiple accounts. HOWEVER, you
855 may lose your buddy list (for SILC only) upgrading. This is
856 rather unavoidable as the previous code did not keep track of
857 which account each buddy belonged to.
859 Stu: I'm glad we're finally getting this out, if fixes a number of bugs
860 ranging from minor to not so minor. I'd also like to welcome Gary to
861 the team - he's done a great job with Guifications, I'm sure he'll do
862 good stuff here too.
864 Gary: Well I got pretty much nothing done for this release. Although I
865 do have quite a few things in the works that will come to fruition when
866 I find some more free time.
868 1.2.1 (4/3/2005):
869 Luke: Several important fixes this time around. Big thanks to
870 Robert McQueen, Stu, Nathan, Ethan, and everyone else who has helped
871 with this effort. Maybe next time we can get a decent chance to fix the
872 problems *before* they go public to have a normal release process.
874 Nathan: Jabber got some updates this release (finally). I've got
875 more planned, but simply haven't had the time to anything about it.
877 1.2.0 (3/17/2005):
878 Luke: Happy St. Patrick's Day all. Sean scheduled a release for
879 today, we'll see if we can pull it off. :-) This release
880 features somewhat more than just bug fixes, some improvements
881 have been made to the conversation API which may affect plugin
882 developers. Yahoo users should also thank Tim and Bleeter for
883 their efforts.
885 Etan: I'm going to NEWS since I actually did something this time.
886 Jabber will allow you to unsubscribe to someone's presence
887 without logging out and in again, this does break seeing yourself
888 on your buddy list, but hopefully we'll fix that again for the
889 next release.
891 Stu: Happy St. Guinness^wPatrick's day.
893 1.1.4 (2/24/2005):
894 Sean: Another bug fix release. A big thanks to Rob McQueen, Ari
895 Pollak, Don Seiler, and Warren Togami: some packagers who helped
896 debug a nasty glib 2.6 problem. Also thanks to our own Stu who
897 found and destroyed an MSN crash and an HTML parsing error
899 Luke: Early release to handle the MSN and HTML crashes, as well
900 as the glib crash. Maybe that makes up for having had a 4 week
901 period before the last release. This one should be the nice
902 stable release we meant 1.1.3 to be. Enjoy!
904 Stu: I cleaned up the whitespace in this NEWS, it was bugging me.
906 1.1.3 (2/17/2005):
907 Luke: Yet another bug fix release, many thanks to everyone who has
908 helped to make gaim more stable!
910 Stu: I fixed too many Yahoo HTTP proxy bugs, I should just go and
911 write some core HTTP support that works better. A good all round
912 bug fix release otherwise.
914 1.1.2 (1/20/2005):
915 Luke: Another Bug fix release. This one featuring a fix to the HTTP
916 Method for MSN users and other MSN fixes. A big thanks to Stu and
917 Felipe Contreras for those. Stu also spent a long time in valgrind
918 and so this brings you a Gaim release with fewer memory leaks. This
919 release is on time primarily because I want to see the MSN fixes
920 make it into Debian and Fedora before freezes. Expect further bug
921 fix only releases to come at longer intervals, at Mark's request.
923 Daniel: This is my first NEWS! (YaY) I didn't really do too much for
924 this release. There are a few bugfixes, mostly wingaim stuff. Oh, and
925 I like the new XP System Tray icons.
927 Sean: I'm down here today. I haven't really been paying too much
928 attention to these boring bugfix releases, but I'd like to thank
929 David and welcome him to the team. I'd also like to thank Steven
930 and Nathan from Silverorange who redid the webpage.
932 Tim: Another bug fix release. I didn't really fix any bugs, so
933 I didn't exactly do much for this one. The autopackage will now
934 work with mozilla-nss, if anyone has that, and not gnutls11. (It
935 works with either gnutls11 or mozilla-nss, but not gnutls10)
936 I started working on Gaim-vv again though, and I merged someone's
937 custom msn smiley patch into the 2.0.0 tree, so expect good things
938 whenever that's released (no, don't try it now, you won't like it).
939 Oh and welcome to the team Daniel. Of course, he was already on my
940 Gaim-vv team.
942 Stu: Welcome Daniel! you've done some good stuff already. Felipe did some
943 good work on MSN yet again, so you can all use the HTTP method now. I
944 didn't do all that much, other than let valgrind tell me what to fix, and
945 a couple of easy bug fixes from the bug tracker. Hopefully Ethan will get
946 well soon, so he can get back to merging patches and fixing things.
948 Nathan: I think I made some Jabber fixes, at least one of which is
949 ChangeLog'd. I will continue to make empty promises about new features,
950 especially for 2.0.0. Until then, welcome Daniel!
952 1.1.1 (12/28/2004):
953 Luke: This bug fix release features msn improvements, drag and drop
954 improvements, and some translation stuff. Thanks for everone who has
955 helped with it, and hopefully we can get 2.0.0 out soon. On a side
956 note, i'm still looking for someone to look at the perl plugin loader.
958 1.1.0 (12/02/2004):
959 Luke: Another in our series of bug fix releases, with a slight twist.
960 Everyone thank Ethan for implementing a fall back encoding for IRC,
961 it has been much requested and should make a number of users very
962 happy. See the ChangeLog for details on other fixes.
964 Stu: Much thanks to Miah Gregory and Felipe Contreras, a bunch of
965 memory leaks have been fixed. Felipe also fixed a good number of
966 other MSN bugs. I didn't do much except apply these guys fixes. It's
967 good to see fixes from Gary coming in again too ;-). I like the
968 docklet adjustments Christian made. Btw, we have a new MSN protocol
969 icon, and I think you'll love it.
971 Tim: I made Gaim binary relocatable this release, so Gaim can find
972 itself if it gets lost, and I'm going to try to make autopackages
973 for this release, if the autopackage guys release their new version
974 soon like they're talking. I also "fixed" a scrolling bug, by
975 realizing it was all Gentoo's fault. The IRC encoding thing Ethan
976 did is pretty nice, no more encoding error messages!
978 Ethan: Rumor has it that I did some work this release, but it's just
979 that, a rumor. I think Luke started it. I did lay the hammer down
980 on bogus word wrapping in the NEWS, so you can thank me for that.
981 Keep your powder dry.
983 1.0.3 (11/11/2004):
984 Luke: Not much to see here, some bug fixes that you all will enjoy as
985 the semester draws to a close and everyone still in school gets bogged
986 down with projects, papers, and exams. Enjoy! Oh, and if you are interested
987 in the perl or gadu-gadu functionality, please step up to help write
988 patches, as both of these code blocks are currently unmaintained.
990 Tim: I fixed a couple bugs this time. In other news, Kim wants to get
991 a pet cockatiel or two.
993 Nathan: I was gonna put a new feature in this release, but decided
994 not to because I found a bug in it today, and I'm tired. Also, I haven't
995 consulted the powers-that-be about putting new features into oldstatus.
997 Stu: I'm writing this at 11:11:11pm on 11/11. Eleven. It's 3 really. Or B.
998 It's the 5th smallest prime number. Himalia is the 11th moon of Jupiter.
999 Hendecagon. There are 1011 players on a football team. XI. 16 hours. Eleven
1000 is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English. This
1001 entry is my 11th lie for today.
1003 1.0.2 (10/19/2004):
1004 Stu: I'm new around here. I tried to reduce the number of bugs in the bug
1005 tracker, but it turns out that the only way to achieve that is to actually
1006 _fix_ the bugs. So I fixed a couple, and then sneaked some patches out of
1007 the patch tracker to fix some others. Sadly the bug tracker was not
1008 significantly affected, maybe if I learn C I'll be able to make more of an
1009 impact.
1011 Luke: Don't let Stu fool you, he has done a marvelous job on this release,
1012 and deserves a lot of credit for it. And a number of those bug fixes are
1013 critical ones that he discovered and fixed himself. So go update. Now.
1015 Nathan: On the other hand, Nathan has done nothing for this release. Why
1016 do we keep him around again?
1018 Tim: So, I'm married now, and in Huntsville. I don't remember if I did
1019 anything for this release or not, probably not. Bleeter has been more
1020 active lately though, perhaps we'll see lots of cool things from him
1021 soon.
1023 Sean: I'm down here with the "didn't do anything" guys.
1025 1.0.1 (10/07/2004):
1026 Congratulations to Tim & Kim on their wedding!
1028 Sean: So, if you're playing along at home, you're aware that
1029 incrementing the micro version number means that the API has
1030 not changed at all. Although that itself is insignificant to
1031 most everyone but plugin developers, but users won't find too
1032 many significant changes. Consult ChangeLog. We're currently
1033 branched for some major changes, so expect a really great 2.0.0
1034 sometime relatively soon.
1036 Luke: Nothing much to see here, some bug fixes. Most of the work
1037 is going towards the 2.0.0 release. We aren't quite sure when
1038 that will be, and will keep the bug fix releases coming untill
1039 all is ready.
1041 Christian: I would call this a ground-breaking release, but it isn't.
1042 It seems like a good one, though. I dunno. I've been too busy at VMware,
1043 unfortunately, but have some work that's just waiting to be finished up
1044 for Gaim. Gaim 2.0.0 is going to rock. Gaim 3.0.0 will rock more.
1045 Do you see a pattern? Thanks go out to Henry Jen for fixing up parts of
1046 the gevolution plugin to support multiple addressbooks, and to all our
1047 moms, for believing in us. Or something.
1049 Nathan: I got a new computer. It's fast. And has twice the bits!
1051 1.0.0 (09/17/2004):
1052 Nathan: Hah! Bet you weren't expecting this! OK, if you were
1053 paying any attention to the flame^H^H^H^H^Hthread on gaim-devel,
1054 you might have been expecting this. But here it is, 1.0.0. Our
1055 new versioning scheme has slightly more meaning than the older
1056 one (expecially for plugin authors), but our 1.0(.0) release is
1057 just as meaningless as we could have hoped. Enjoy!
1059 Luke: We've changed our pattern for version numbers with this
1060 release, we are no longer simply counting versions. This release
1061 then marks, not something traditionally "1.0" but the current
1062 version of the api. When backwards compatability with that breaks
1063 you'll see 2.0, more details in the faq. As a side note, if you
1064 are reading this and are good with proxy code or with perl's XS C
1065 bindings, please get in touch with me, my contact info is on the
1066 website. Gaim could use your help.
1068 Mark: I love a circus.
1070 0.82 (08/25/2004):
1071 Rob: Woah, where did I come from?
1073 Mark: Lately I've been doing a lot more code maintenance/patch
1074 accepting/bug fixing type of work. And I think that's a really
1075 good thing. I feel like Gaim is becoming more stable. It
1076 seems like we're lacking fewer features. It makes me warm.
1077 Quick Robin! To the traverse wall!
1079 Nathan: Well, it looks like we stuck to the schedule again. Had
1080 we taken our dear sweet time, I might have had a chance to do
1081 something cool for this release, but instead I stuck to the minor
1082 stuff. <insert empty promises for the cool stuff i'll code for
1083 next time here>
1085 Tim: Lately I've been doing a lot more patch accepting, and a
1086 lot less actual coding. Unfortunately it has more to do with my
1087 laziness than Gaim's progress. Like Nathan, I'm going to blame
1088 our on time release schedule. But that didn't stop our Crazy
1089 Patch Writers, or cpw's as grim now calls them, from writing
1090 some good patches. So, instead of promising to code something
1091 cool for next release, I'm going to promise that the cpw's will
1092 code cool things for next release, and I might apply some of them.
1094 Luke: I've been doing what I always do, committing patches, some
1095 better than others, and bugging other people to code stuff. Oh
1096 and closing some bugs. Thanks to Dave West for joining the cpws
1097 in helping to handle triage. This is mostly a bug fix release,
1098 so PLEASE upgrade to it before submitting new bugs.
1100 Kevin: Herman's been away, so Daniel Atallah and myself were given
1101 the task of preparing 0.82's Windows packages. After some feverish
1102 plotting, we decided to update GTK and Daniel prepped an update to
1103 libpng to address recent security advisories. Besides plotting and
1104 a little bit of testing, this NEWS is all I really did. Oh, I also
1105 rerefixed the transparency plugin... again! Our beloved Hermanator
1106 should be back next time around, for 0.83.
1108 0.81 (08/05/2004):
1109 Sean: Three weeks again! Sticking to schedules is awesome! Just
1110 like Gaim v0.81. This is what we in the industry call a "bugfix
1111 release." We closed over TWO HUNDRED bugs since 0.80. That's
1112 awesome. Thanks to everyone who helped report, triage, fix, and
1113 test.
1115 Christian: Yay for three weeks working so well. Boo for me not
1116 doing much of anything this release, aside from a small memory
1117 leak fix. I'm starting a new job and leaving my current one, so
1118 when the dust settles and my schedule is a bit better, the very
1119 cool status rewrite will be finished up. Especially now that I have
1120 some help! I'd like to second Sean's thanks to all the people who
1121 helped with this bug fix release. Gaim should be a bit more stable
1122 for a lot of you. For those experiencing MSN problems still, we'll
1123 get that nailed for you soon, promise.
1125 Mark: I was going to point out that we closed an insane amount of
1126 bugs for this release, but Sean already did that. I feel like
1127 we've had some really talented new contributors contributing
1128 recently. I won't say names... but watch your backs. Or something.
1130 Nathan: I did next to nothing for this release. I am however
1131 settled in to my new job, and in a couple days, I should be settled
1132 into my new domicile. If the DSL gods are in a good mood, I'll
1133 have a connection there shortly, and can start being useful again.
1135 0.80 (07/15/2004):
1136 Sean: Three weeks! Hooray for timeliness! I didn't do much here
1137 but drag-and-droppable file transfers. Drag something into a
1138 conversation window, and it will be sent. Kinda neat.
1140 Mark: We have a small ant problem here. I can't help but think
1141 I somehow brought this upon myself.
1143 Tim: I don't really have any news, but at least I don't have an
1144 ant problem either. You might think I've been hard at work on
1145 Gaim-vv, but I haven't, I've just been lazy. I plan on doing
1146 some cool things "soon" though, both with Gaim and Gaim-vv.
1147 Bleeter sent me some nice dumps I need to implement yet.
1149 Luke: We have a nice timely release, with a Changelog that seems
1150 small, but remember, this is summer, and people have lives. SILC
1151 and Zephyr are making good progress from our Crazy Patch Writters,
1152 and everyone begging to send files to people not on their buddy
1153 list will be happy. good stuff. No, the msn buddy icon scalling
1154 problem isn't fixed yet, maybe next release
1156 0.79 (06/24/2004):
1157 Sean: We've moved to a three-week release cycle which we'll
1158 hopefully be able to keep up more realistically than a two-week
1159 cycle. Yahoo! went and broke last night, but it's fixed now thanks
1160 to a quick fix sent in by Cerulean Studios this morning. Reports say
1161 they'll continue to try to break us, though, so don't be surprised
1162 if your Yahoo cuts out again.
1164 Luke: I was really distracted this cycle, I want to thank my co-
1165 developers and our crazy patch writers for keeping things going.
1166 We have a fairly long changelog for you this release, including some
1167 nice bug fixes and some much-requested new features, the ChangeLog
1168 has all the details there of course. Enjoy!
1170 Christian: Great release! MSN buddy icons and file transfer. A big round
1171 of applause to Felipe! Too bad about the Yahoo thing, but.. eep! I have
1172 to go! Movie with the girls and Farmer's Market.
1174 Tim: This release brings us /commands in the core, which hopefully
1175 works better, and Yahoo! buddy icons. Thanks to all the people I
1176 bugged for packet captures, like Simguy, Bleeter, and odl. Yahoo!
1177 broke again, so I did a little last minute work on the web
1178 messenger stuff, but then Cerulean Studios was cool and fixed the
1179 problem already, so all that code's disabled. I also finally added
1180 the Yahoo! Japan support, for those of you with Yahoo! Japan
1181 accounts.
1183 Mark: I fixed that icon animation thing that caused Gaim to lock-up.
1184 I also stepped on something at the beach and I think there might be
1185 a little rock or something in my foot now.
1187 Nathan: I've been really busy, what with having a new job and all.
1188 I didn't think I had done anything, but apparently I fixed some
1189 Jabber stuff, and some IPv6 stuff. I must have been sleepcoding
1190 or something, because I haven't had time for such things. Ah well,
1191 enjoy this release. We'll see what I can get to in the next 3 weeks.
1193 0.78 (05/30/2004):
1194 Luke: A very long time, once again, since the last release. I think
1195 its mostly worth it. A few of you will still have trouble with msn
1196 but we've worked out a number of bugs even there. Thanks to heroic
1197 efforts on the part of Mark, we closed 400 some odd reports this
1198 month. We are also welcoming Tim to the project, a very active
1199 crazy patch writer who has brought massive improvements to WYSIWYG
1200 and direct im this release. Again, it still won't work for every
1201 one, but it will work for more people than it used to. Most
1202 noticably, this release brings a LARGE simplicfication of the
1203 preferences available. Please don't complain if your favorite
1204 preference is no longer there. Take some time to think about
1205 how and if it could be useful to a majority of people who use
1206 Gaim in ways nothing like you. You'll find that the answer will
1207 usually be that the preference isn't all that important.
1209 Tim: I continued with the other crazy patch writers in fixing those
1210 WYSIWYG bugs. Then they went and made me a developer. Which is cool.
1211 They told me I could commit WYSIWYG and Yahoo! changes. So I went
1212 and fixed IM Image and Direct Connect in AIM for some reason. I also
1213 added some new Yahoo! smileys at least. Also you change your link
1214 color in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file now. I might work on some of those
1215 new Yahoo! features for next release, like buddy icons. But don't
1216 count on it. Thanks to everyone who congratulated me. And thanks
1217 to all our Crazy Patch Writers, who now expect me to apply all their
1218 Crazy Patches.
1220 Christian: First of all, congrats to Tim! He's our latest Gaim
1221 developer, and we're all glad to have him on board. He's been a
1222 valuable contributor for awhile now. Thanks again to Felipe Contreras
1223 for all his MSN work this release. He has some exciting stuff that
1224 we'll be seeing in 0.79. And last, but not least, thanks to all our
1225 crazy and not-so-crazy patch writers. There's been a lot done this
1226 release. I've been taking a small break, first due to school and now
1227 work, but I'll be coming back strong in the next couple of releases. In
1228 the meantime, enjoy.
1230 Gary: Congrats to Tim, no more competing for most ChangeLog entries.
1231 This means you _should_ be winning every release. Anyways, I didn't
1232 finish nearly as much as I wanted to for this release but all of that
1233 and then some should appear in 0.79.
1235 Sean: I'll write my entry down here tonight. Removing preferences
1236 was my big crusade this week, and the team did a great job at it,
1237 but I still have a nagging feeling that our preferences are still
1238 overwhelming. Everyone's been doing a real great job; it's entirely
1239 my fault we keep failing to meet our three-week schedule. Send your
1240 complaints this way.
1242 Nathan: I really didn't do much thanks to exams, and graduation, and all
1243 of that fun stuff. For next release, I'll have all new excuses, like my
1244 new job, or maybe something I haven't even thought of yet. Oh yeah, and
1245 a big warm welcome to Tim!
1247 0.77 (04/22/2004):
1248 Sean: We're back to a somewhat regular release cycle now. Hooray!
1249 WYSIWYG is much improved in this release, and you can now copy and
1250 paste rich text to and from Gaim and other applications (see: Mozilla,
1251 Evolution OpenOffice). Also, Novell has released their first release
1252 of their GroupWise plugin, included in this release. Good stuff all
1253 around.
1255 Luke: Only a week "late" this time around, much nicer than the delay
1256 before the last release. Anyway, this release sees a HUGE number of
1257 improvements to the WYSIWYG support, much thanks to all involved. If
1258 you weren't impressed before, you should be now! This release also
1259 sees the end of our TOC support, no one has been working on this in
1260 some time and its causing problems. DON'T USE IT!. Also plugin
1261 authors will want to take note of the fact that the plugin api version
1262 changed. A nice solid release for you all :-)
1264 Ethan: Once again I thought about doing some things and committed
1265 things that other people did. This development model is awesome. I
1266 helped Mark refactor some stuff and our collective code ownership
1267 helped us utilize a coherent system metaphor during our pair program-
1268 ming sessions. It was extremely extreme. Look for some hard crypto
1269 lovin' from yet another crazy contributor in the near future...
1271 Ka-Hing: I actually did something for this release... or rather, the
1272 previous release, but LSchiere2 didn't commit that until this release.
1273 So blame him. System logging is back, so you can log people's signon/
1274 off/away/idle-ness again. There may be bugs with it, I don't know, not
1275 like I use it. I will try to work on something that I will actually use
1276 for the next release.
1278 Etan: Looking for someone to pair program with.
1280 Christian: A round of applause to our crazy patch writers! Their
1281 contributions this release is impressive. WYSIWYG has come a long way
1282 since 0.76 thanks to them. Also, thanks to Felipe Contreras for his
1283 MSN contributions. We should see some good stuff going into there soon.
1284 I myself didn't do a huge amount, aside from breaking everybody's
1285 plugins, although I have some work going on in the background that will
1286 hopefully make it into release soon.
1288 0.76 (04/01/2004):
1289 Sean: Yeah, it's been a long time since the last release, and despite
1290 what others may tell you, we were just really lazy. This is pretty
1291 much just 0.75 again, but, like, someone changed the "Info" icon and
1292 I think, like, the Chinese translation may have been updated. We did
1293 nothing interesting on it at all. Others may tell you "we haven't just
1294 been lazy," or "you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat
1295 stuf in this one." They lie. All of them.
1297 Luke: Okay, normally I wait for Sean to go first, but he said to commit.
1298 Its been a few months since the last release, but we haven't just been
1299 lazy. A very long ChangeLog for you all. Most notably of course is the
1300 addition of WYSIWYG input for chats and conversations. Many thanks to
1301 DAYS of long work by Sean, Gary Kramlich, Kevin Stange, Tim Ringenbach,
1302 and Stu Tomlinson for their efforts writting, fixing, and testing
1303 this. Without the dedicated support of our crazy patch writters, this
1304 release would have taken yet longer. Sean also has yahoo working again,
1305 with some assistance from our friends over at Trillian, you may all
1306 officially rejoice. We also have a large number of bug fixes, closing
1307 more than 200 bug reports this month alone.
1309 Christian: It's been a long time between the last release, but I think
1310 you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat stuff in this one.
1311 So many bug fixes and new features. It's enough to drive a wombat mad!
1312 The new WYSIWYG input is cool stuff. You'll either love it or hate it,
1313 I guess. I'm working on some stuff that some of you are going to love,
1314 but I'm not promising it for a few more versions. It's a secret!
1316 Mark: Our crazy patch writers rock. Gary Kramlich, Tim Ringenbach,
1317 Kevin Stange, and Stu Tomlinson did an amazing job of tying up
1318 loose ends and helping get this release out the door. Thanks guys!
1320 Rob: My birthday is in a few days. I like cool stuff. Buy me something
1321 grand!!
1323 Tim: Luke said write a NEWS, so I thought I would. There's a room
1324 list dialog now. And Nathan and I doubled the number of protocols that
1325 can transfer files. After that I got lazy/busy and let Gary, Kevin,
1326 and Stu fix all the bugs.
1328 Nathan: Rob happens to share a birthday with my sister. So far she's
1329 been very vague about what she wants. She's not an easy person to shop
1330 for. As for things you probably care more about, this release has so
1331 much in it that I've forgotten about most of it. The stupidest of the
1332 bugs from 0.75 are fixed. Jabber has a first pass at file transfer
1333 support (no proxy support yet). SOCKS 5 proxy support may have gotten
1334 a little better as a side-effect. Twinkies and penguin points to all
1335 of the crazy patch writers, who did more than their fair share this
1336 release.
1338 Ethan: My birthday was yesterday, and not on the same day as Rob
1339 and Nathan's sister. And I don't mean that Rob and Nathan have the
1340 same sister. For this release, I thought about making IRC better, I
1341 thought about making Tcl better, and I committed patches from several
1342 others who actually did these things. And probably some other
1343 things, too. Let's hear it for crazy patch writers, and for the open
1344 source philosophy that lets them get so CRAZY.
1346 0.75 (01/09/2004):
1347 Rob: Woah, what's this? Me? Making a NEWS post!? Say it ain't so!
1348 That's right, kiddos, I'm finally coming out of my reclusiveness.
1349 I had a pretty shitty few months, and also just needed a break from
1350 things. But, I'm back, and that's good. Right? Yes. And now,
1351 a little word from Eric Warmenhoven.. :P
1353 Eric: Ah, Rob and Eric. Just like the good ol' days. Now, if
1354 you'll excuse me, I have to go make some commits with Led Zeppelin
1355 lyrics as my commit logs. heh. What do you mean, I look a lot
1356 like Sean Egan? I'm... oh fine, you got me. It's really just Sean
1357 in an Eric Warmenhoven costume.
1359 So, Yahoo! works again, and that's good. And 0.76 is going to have
1360 something _very_ neat.
1362 Nathan: You're running out of excuses to not use Jabber. Our chat
1363 support is now bar-some, quickly approaching bar-none! Everything
1364 else in Jabber got neat improvements too. I'll leave it up to you
1365 to figure out what they were.
1367 <boilerplate promises for cool features in $version++>
1369 Christian: I've been a bit absent this release, due to life stuff
1370 and working on some other projects. Some MSN goodies are going to be
1371 available in an upcoming version, and I have some neat Gaim-related
1372 stuff I'm working on that will hopefully see the light of day. I'd
1373 like to say good job to the other developers. Good release. (Of course,
1374 every time I say that, something breaks horribly right after we
1375 release it.)
1377 Luke: Okay, so Sean rocks and got Yahoo working again in 12 minutes.
1378 Unfortunately, he took out the chat support in doing so. So use
1379 conferences for now if you use yahoo. Users begging for file
1380 transfer support should thank Tim 'marv' Ringenbach for Yahoo ft,
1381 and everyone should be happy to note that 0.75 leaks far less than
1382 0.74. Also, a lot of other bug fixes happened that escape my notice
1383 right now.
1385 Ethan: I just want to say that now logging really doesn't eat
1386 memory 'till the cows come home. We don't think.
1388 I would like to thank each and every one of these people, and
1389 I think you should, too:
1391 Paul A, Daniel Atallah, Patrick Aussems, Brian Bernas,
1392 Jonas Birmé, Ethan Blanton (hi Mom), Joshua Blanton, Herman
1393 Bloggs, Jason Boerner, Graham Booker, Craig Boston, Chris
1394 Boyle, Jeremy Brooks, Sean Burke, Cerulean Studios LLC,
1395 Ka-Hing Cheung, Arturo Cisneros Jr., Vincas Ciziunas, Joe
1396 Clarke, Todd Cohen, Felipe Contreras, Jeramey Crawford, Mark
1397 Doliner, Nuno Donato, Jim Duchek, Tom Dyas, Andrew Echols,
1398 Sean Egan, Brian Enigma, Stefan Esser, Larry Ewing, Jesse
1399 Farmer, Gavan Fantom, Rob Flynn, Nathan Fredrickson, Free
1400 Software Foundation, Decklin Foster, Adam Fritzler, Michael
1401 Golden, Ryan C. Gordon, Christian Hammond, Andy Harrison, G.
1402 Sumner Hayes, Mike Heffner, Iain Holmes, Karsten Huneycutt,
1403 Akuke Kok, Tero Kuusela, Dennis Lambe Jr., Ho-seok Lee, Moses
1404 Lei, Ambrose C. Li, Nicolas Lichtmaier, Artem Litvinovich, Syd
1405 Logan, Matthew Luckie, Brian Macke, Paolo Maggi, Willian T.
1406 Mahan, John Matthews, Ryan McCabe, Robert McQueen, Robert
1407 Mibus, Benjamin Miller, Kevin Miller, Paul Miller, Arkadiusz
1408 Miskiewicz, Andrew Molloy, Matt Pandina, Ricardo Fernandez
1409 Pascual, Havoc Pennington, Ari Pollak, Robey Pointer, Nathan
1410 Poznick, Brent Priddy, Federicco Mena Quintero, David Raeman,
1411 Etan Reisner, Kristian Rietveld, Tim Ringenbach, Andrew
1412 Rodland, Neil Sanchala, Carsten Schaar, Luke Schierer, Torrey
1413 Searle, Jim Seymour, John Silvestri, David Smock, Mark
1414 Spencer, Lex Spoon, Kevin Stange, David Stoddard, Stu
1415 Tomlinson, Brian Tarricone, Peter Teichman, Arun A. Tharuvai,
1416 Philip Tellis, Bill Tompkins, Tom Tromey, Junichi Uekawa,
1417 Bjoern Voigt, Nathan Walp, Eric Warmenhoven, Jason Willis,
1418 Matt Wilson, Ximian, Jaroen Zwartepoorte.
1420 Thanks, all.
1422 0.74 (11/25/2003):
1423 Sean: Christian and Nathan were wrong.
1425 Ethan: I don't know how solid or good this release will be, but
1426 hopefully it's better than 0.73! Not that 0.73 didn't rock or
1427 anything, but for those users bit by its peculiar little bugs
1428 it wasn't as nice as this will be.
1430 Nathan: Jabber got some good tweaks, and logging doesn't eat
1431 memory until the cows come home. Which is good, because they
1432 said they'll be out until late.
1434 Luke: Always nice when directories get created correctly ;-)
1436 0.73 (11/21/2003):
1437 Nathan: This should be a really solid release. I fixed most if not
1438 all of the idiotic Jabber bugs from 0.72, and re-enabled the SASL
1439 login stuff, now that it is finalized in the XMPP drafts. Oh, and
1440 we now have a release notification plugin, so you can find out when
1441 the latest and greatest version of Gaim is out without breaking that
1442 reload button in your browser. There's other fun new stuff, but I
1443 forget what it is.
1445 Christian: This is a good release, as Nathan said. For all those who
1446 hated all the disconnect dialogs, we now have a {dis,re}connect{ed,}
1447 dialog that replaces all of them and shows every account that became
1448 disconnected. Also, there were some MSN fixes thrown in, such as
1449 the problem with unblocking users. My personal favorite, since it's
1450 really been bugging me for awhile, is the bug with the border on the
1451 close buttons is fixed. Oh yes, and let's not forget the new logging.
1452 It simply rocks. This is a pretty stable release, so get it. 0.74 is
1453 going to have some niceties that people have been waiting for.
1455 0.72 (10/30/2003):
1456 Sean: I think I'll go as the Gaim logo guy for Halloween. That
1457 would be a cool costume.
1459 Luke: We've had a record month for number of bugs submitted (395 as
1460 of now) this month, but the total number of bugs open has grown by
1461 less than 20, so while it might be fustrating for those of you out
1462 there who think your bug report is being ignored, know that we are
1463 doing our best to look at them all :-). This release fixes a goodly
1464 number of bugs including the troubles with signing on icq (thanks
1465 to Mark). Enjoy!
1467 Christian: Last release brought forward a lot of bug reports, such
1468 as the ICQ bug, and also trouble with installing SSL. I can't count
1469 how many people were confused as to why their MSN plugin wasn't
1470 loading. Now, it'll load regardless, and when you try to connect,
1471 it'll give you an error dialog saying to install SSL (if you don't
1472 have it installed, of course). I didn't do a whole lot this release,
1473 but that'll change with the next. There are some fun things coming.
1475 Ethan: In complete defiance of history, I did something this
1476 release. It had to do with IRC. If I type here for long
1477 enough, I'm sure I'll remember what it was... Oh yeah, all of
1478 you paranoid people can hide your local username by changing
1479 your IRC account settings. I also want to note that we are
1480 aware that building Gaim is Harder than it Should Be on
1481 Solaris, and I am seeking solutions to some of the issues
1482 there. Everyone remember to give some love to the developers
1483 who actually did something of note this release (i.e. not me)!
1485 Nathan: Jabber got a ton better this release, as I fixed most of the
1486 bugs introduced in the last release. Registration works again, and
1487 the next person to break it is going to suffer. I also fixed a
1488 handfull of other little things that I can't remember. This should
1489 be a good release.
1491 0.71 (10/09/2003):
1492 Rob: It's been a while since I've commited some news. I've had a
1493 very hectic few weeks/months. Thing are finally coming together
1494 again for me. This release features much copying and pasting. Yeah.
1496 Sean: I can't wait for everything to be core/ui split!
1498 Christian: This is a good release, and I don't think people will have
1499 too many problems. There are a lot of little nice feature additions,
1500 and much progress has been made on the core/UI split. We should be done
1501 in a couple of releases, assuming we can get the remaining two or three
1502 parts core/UI-split. Oh, and plugin authors are going to hate me again,
1503 as a lot of code (specifically, the conversations code and utility
1504 functions) changed names. This is a Good Thing (TM), as always, but may
1505 require modifications to some plugins. Not all, fortunately, but some
1506 :) Many SSL problems were fixed, though we still have some to go. If
1507 you don't have SSL, you now need it for MSN. MSN won't even load without
1508 it. Starting October 15th, the old protocol won't be supported
1509 anymore, so there's no reason to support the old one anymore.
1511 Herman: I bet some plugin authors have resorted to making voodoo dolls
1512 of Christian. Nothing new for Win Gaim users other than a fix for
1513 missing aim buddy icons, and removal of gtk-wimp (until it matures).
1515 Mark: People are going to make a voodoo doll of me and shower it with
1516 kisses and chocolate women: When an AIM user is away, you can now view
1517 the person's away message in their tooltip. This is very similar to
1518 what iChat does, only our tooltip will wrap lines rather than displaying
1519 off your screen :-)
1521 Nathan: Chocolate women are cool, but I'm a bigger fan of the real kind.
1522 I re-wrote the Jabber support from scratch, so now there's at least one
1523 person who knows what's going on with it. I got lost in the old code,
1524 even in the parts I wrote. It now supports the SASL login stuff from
1525 the XMPP protocol specs, and will automagically upgrade the conncetion
1526 to SSL if it's supported. If anything doesn't work like it did before,
1527 it's probably better, and you should be thankful for it.
1529 Ethan: I'm sure I'll be showered with all kinds of wonderful things,
1530 but I doubt it's because I did anything. The reason being that I
1531 really don't think I did anything. I meant to do some gaim_
1532 prepension and documentation for IRC and Tcl, and handle IRC errors
1533 more responsibly, but I've been meaning to do that for months.
1534 Except the Tcl part, the Tcl plugin hasn't even existed for months.
1535 I figure if I write enough NEWS no one will notice I didn't do
1536 anything during the release cycle. Oh, I did close some bugs. I
1537 didn't fix them, mind you, I just closed them. With abandon.
1538 Don't tell Luke.
1540 Luke: Mmmm, I probly did even less than Ethan, except I closed rather
1541 more bugs for other reasons. Lots of you submitting duplicate bugs.
1542 This should be a pretty good release. We still have a couple crashes
1543 in ssl stuff, but we fixed a number of the bugs in the tracker, and
1544 the code cleaning helps alot as well. Enjoy!
1546 0.70 (9/28/2003):
1547 Sean: Yahoo! works (for now). That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1548 Huge thanks to our dear friends over at Cerulean Studios, creators of
1549 Trillian, for helping us out.
1551 Nathan: This release also works out most of the kinks in the new
1552 contact support. The Jabber goodies I promised will have to wait
1553 for now.
1555 Christian: I didn't really do anything except fix a couple of issues
1556 loading protocol plugins that had plugin dependencies and getting perl
1557 to install where we tell it to. I had hoped that 0.70 would include
1558 a finished libgaim, but Yahoo kind of wrecked that dream. We'll see it
1559 within the next few releases. Life has been busy in a good way :)
1561 0.69 (9/24/2003):
1562 Sean: MSN and Yahoo! work. That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1564 Herman: Win Gaim has been around for more than a year now.. Time Flies.
1566 Nathan: {{Meta,}{Contact,Buddy},Person} support for all! Also, SSL
1567 support for Jabber makes its debut. More Jabber goodies next release.
1569 Christian: It's a good release. The main highlight really is
1570 Nathan's Contact support, which is just beautiful. My buddy list
1571 shrunk considerably. As Sean stated, MSN and Yahoo! work. MSN
1572 does not support the new MSN buddy icons and stuff, unfortunately,
1573 but we'll see about 0.70. There were a whole bunch of Perl fixes,
1574 so hopefully there will be less complaints directed to my code in
1575 that area ;) Among other new additions of mine are SSL support
1576 (both Mozilla NSS and GNUTLS), Plugin IPC (letting plugins talk to
1577 each other), and some visual niceties in the Accounts window.
1578 Ka-Hing Cheung put in animated smileys, which should please many.
1579 Yeah, good release. Just you wait until 0.70 though.
1581 Robot101: Hi mom. My patch isn't in this release. Watch for the next
1582 one.
1584 Mark: Metacontact support, yeah. Right click on a dude and
1585 select "Expand."
1587 Ethan: God bless the USA.
1589 0.68 (09/01/2003):
1590 Rob: Wow. I am so incredibly tired.
1592 Sean: School starts tomorrow! How fun! I'll have more time to hack
1593 gaim (isn't that supposed to be the reverse?)*
1595 *Some NEWS recycled from v0.10.0
1597 Nathan: I didn't do much for this release, except make Jabber
1598 registration work, and put in a slight tweak to make Gaim work a
1599 little better with jabberd2. Next release you'll all see what I've
1600 been spending my time on, but for now enjoy the fruits of everyone
1601 else's labor.
1603 Mark: I've been really busy with other stuff, but I've spent my
1604 Gaim-time on working towards a more formal translation process.
1605 Hopefully this will result in Gaim shipping with more complete
1606 translation files. Also, all our awesome translators are mentioned
1607 in the about window now.
1609 Christian: I've been really busy with this stuff. Gaim got a new
1610 signal architecture, which is just really cool. The old events system
1611 is gone. Now you connect a signal from a handle (which can be
1612 a plugin or whatever) to a function, and plugins can register their
1613 own functions, and other neat things. Oh yeah, and perl was rewritten.
1614 There's a new HOWTO in the Doxygen docs (make docs), but no API
1615 reference yet. Developers, look at the plugins/perl/common/*.xs files
1616 for now. I also wrote plugin dependencies, which will be more useful
1617 down the road. Gaim v0.69 is going to have the new MSN plugin that
1618 works with the latest MSN protocol. Please be patient for that, as
1619 we're getting a lot of MSN questions we answer over and over.
1621 Luke: Wow, I actually did something for this release besides commit
1622 translations! Well, sorta. I got permission to commit some patches
1623 so gaim now has color support for yahoo, and you can fetch some
1624 basic info on yahoo and msn users. Yay for people submitting patches!
1626 0.67 (08/14/2003):
1628 Rob: I live in Georgia. I don't care about blackouts. We only
1629 have to deal with floods and tornadoes.
1631 Sean: Fortunately me for me, I live in the only place in New York
1632 that still has power tonight! New features in 0.6@%f)*2.{\
1633 NO CARRIER
1635 Christian: I guess Sean couldn't be here to tell you about all the
1636 great new things. New stuff was done! It's simply amazing. Yeah. So,
1637 new IRC protocol plugin, tab text is greyed on events (like "So and
1638 so has signed off!"), protocol icons on tabs (thanks to Etan Reisner),
1639 some dialog rewrites.. Great stuff. Gaim's looking more teh perrty.
1640 My big "wow" thing is that the core and UI were split enough for me
1641 to remove the remaining UI code and make a patch, and libgaim was born,
1642 for experimental purposes. However, using it, I was able to make the
1643 second UI ever for Gaim - Gaim for Qtopia (Zaurus and iPaq PDAs).
1644 This is viewable at http://qpe-gaim.sf.net/ (shameless plug?). More
1645 UIs to come I hope! :) Exciting time in Gaim.
1647 0.66 (07/18/2003):
1648 Rob: Oops!!!! This reminds me of other silly things that we've
1649 done. I agree with what Herman is going to say. ;-)
1651 Sean: Man, 0.65 was so super lame and boring. But 0.66? WOW!
1652 This is the most incredible thing EVER. We've done tons of work
1653 since 0.65, and I'm really proud of what we came out with. Thanks
1654 to everyone who helped!
1656 Christian: Wow, I can't even begin to describe how long we've worked
1657 on this one. Monstrous release. Best ever! You won't even recognize
1658 it. If you've had account import problems, delete your accounts.xml
1659 and upgrade to 0.66. Just, wow.
1661 Herman: This is to make up for slipping off the two week release cycle.
1663 Luke: Okay, people, yes we did test 0.65 for bugs, but hey, some things
1664 slip through. This release makes up for that. This should fix the bugs
1665 0.65 introduced, at least the ones that most of you would otherwise hit.
1667 Nathan: We are so smart. S-M-R-T...I mean S-M-A-R-T.
1669 0.65 (07/16/2003):
1670 Rob: Wooo! We're finally ready for 0.65. Are you guys excited? I
1671 haven't worked on anything in this release, either. I've been
1672 working offline on a MacOSX UI. No, you're not allowed to ask
1673 me when it will be ready. If you ask me then I won't answer
1674 you. You've been warned! :-D
1676 Sean: Although I tend to go right here in the two slot in NEWS,
1677 we don't always commit in this order. This is the third time I've
1678 rewritten this because the jerks below me keep commiting while I'm
1679 writing causing mass conflictination. Grrr. Stupid jerks. Anyway,
1680 this is Gaim 0.65. Like other Gaim releases, this allows you to
1681 converse with people far away over the "Internet." That's about it.
1682 It's really not that interesting. In fact, I wouldn't even bother
1683 reading the other people's NEWS. It's all boring. There's some
1684 crap about forest fires and fangs and claws. It's really boring.
1685 Great, now Luke just committed NEWS causing more conflictination.
1686 I wouldn't bother reading his either. Oh, and I don't want to thank
1687 Megan (Cae) or Kevin (SimGuy). They're stupid jerks too. Grrr...
1689 Mark: I actually did stuff for this release. Go me. I probably
1690 shouldn't speak for all of us, but I'm going to anyway: We feel that
1691 this release is one of Gaim's best. It should be relatively bug
1692 free, and the code is cleaner than ever, thanks to lots of work by
1693 Christian and Nathan. We had some help from a few civilians
1694 finding and fixing bugs. Thanks to Megan (Cae), Ka-Hing Cheung
1695 (javabsp), and Kevin Stange (SimGuy) for their work. Man, I was just
1696 looking at Sean's NEWS entry for 0.64--that's talent. Also, stay
1697 in school. Just say no. Only you can prevent forest fires.
1699 Christian: This has been a great release. faceprint rocks, as he got
1700 things moving in the core/UI split by redoing preferences, which forced
1701 us to think about how things would be split. We now have XML
1702 preferences, accounts, pounces, and away messages. No more .gaimrc
1703 ugliness. The accounts and connection code now have new core/UI split
1704 APIs, and there is very little to do before our split is ready to be
1705 used. Rob and I are working off an experimental tarball of what will
1706 eventually be libgaim. He's working on a MacOS X UI (don't ask him
1707 about it, he'll ignore you) and I'm doing a Qtopia UI (you can ask
1708 about that, it's usable!). We added a new protocol, Trepia.
1709 Information about it can be found at http://www.trepia.com/. It's not
1710 complete, so don't send in bug reports about it not finding people in
1711 your local area, please. Oh, and lots of MSN bugs were fixed.
1712 Practically all the known ones. I feared 0.65 would be unstable due to
1713 our rewrites, I believe this is going to be one of the most stable
1714 releases we've had in awhile (knock on wood), thanks to Megan (Cae),
1715 who has done an amazing job at locating, categorizing and documenting
1716 the various bugs she has run into, and kevin (SimGuy). Stay tuned for
1717 upcoming releases. Neat things are coming, but if it has fangs and
1718 claws, curl into a ball. Or yell at it. I can't remember which is
1719 correct.
1721 Luke: Wow! Finally releasing 0.65! Christian, Nathan, and Mark have
1722 worked really hard for this release, all the credit goes to them.
1723 The new preferences are awesome, and there are more bugs fixed for
1724 this release than in the last 3 or 4 releases. Your MSN should work
1725 reliably again, your preferences saved, your accounts resort, the
1726 list goes on and on. A couple preferences, most notably your buddy
1727 list sorting preference won't be imported, but almost all of them
1728 will be and its probly a good idea for you to take a second look
1729 through preferences again anyway, alot of you are starting to
1730 forget that things are optional again. :-)
1732 Nathan: I think I did something for this release a while ago. I've
1733 got a mailbox full of commit emails, and some have my name on them,
1734 so I must have done something, right? Probably some minor jabber stuff,
1735 and lots of crazy bugfixes. It was a team effort, I'd like to thank the
1736 academy, our producer Rob Flynn, and of course all the fans. You rock.
1738 Herman: I was told to write something.. so here it goes. Windows users
1739 will be happy to know that they can now rearrange their Buddy Lists.
1740 I finally got stuck into GTK+ code and fixed the bug in question (this
1741 release will include a patched version of GTK+ 2.2.1). I integrated
1742 the WinGaim systray code into the docklet plugin bringing those nice
1743 docklet features (i.e. Message queuing) to WinGaim. Another major
1744 WinGaim change of note is that debug versions of all dlls can now be
1745 built, providing useful backtraces not only for gaim.dll but for the
1746 plugins as well.
1748 0.64 (05/29/2003):
1749 Rob: I didn't do anything this release either. We're under a crunch
1750 week at work. Friday is the end of the crunch. Hooray!! Thanks for
1751 all of your hard work, guys :).
1753 Sean: Unlike every other time we say, "the next release will be loaded
1754 with cool new features, this time, we really mean it. In fact, they're
1755 already in CVS (don't use CVS). The only obvious new feature for 0.64
1756 is buddy list sorting. This has been much requested and can be set in
1757 the buddy list preferences. You can sort by name, by status, and even
1758 by log file size--putting people you talk to most at the top. Plugins
1759 can even easily add their own sorting methods. It's all very cool. I
1760 want to thank Luke and Ka-Hing for their initial work on it. And yes,
1761 I did make my entire NEWS entry justified on purpose.
1763 Christian: I have a few new goodies in 0.64, but they're mostly
1764 back-end stuff that people like us care about. The things that most
1765 of you will like the most is that almost all of the reported MSN
1766 bugs were fixed. Users with an empty contact list can now login again.
1767 The friendly name bug is gone. E-mail notifications work again. Yay!
1768 We have some big changes in store for 0.65. Careful if you use CVS...
1769 Things will break. :)
1771 Mark: I never really have anything important to add. I'd just like to
1772 thank Jack Daniels for his exquisite bug reports. And whiskey.
1774 Nathan: I don't think I did anything for this release. I'm a bum.
1776 0.63 (05/16/2003)
1777 Rob: Wow, so, what can I say? I've been rather AWOL for the past few
1778 releases. However, that's okay. Work has been pretty friggin hec-
1779 tic, so, that's my excuse. Work is finally going to be slowing down
1780 some. I plan to be doing more Gaim work. That makes me happy. That
1781 makes you happy. That makes us all happy. Now, I just need to
1782 finish rebuilding my car's engine. Engine rebuilds put the FU in
1783 fun!
1785 Sean: Yay! School is finally over. I have to give tons of cherry-
1786 flavored props to everyone whose been helping out while I stayed away
1787 from Gaim to keep myself from failing again, especially Christian and
1788 Nathan.
1790 Luke: Okay, this is NOT a bug fix release, at least for those of you
1791 who use MSN. Christian put in a TON of effort rewritting the MSN prpl,
1792 mega props to him on this release. In other news, we have alot of bugs
1793 fixed, and a goodly number of the translations are more up to date
1794 than they were in earlier releases. There are some other significant
1795 changes, but they are mostly backend stuff, yay for core/ui splits ;-)
1797 Christian: As Sean and Luke said, I did a tiny bit of work in this
1798 release. The MSN prpl was rewritten, and should now work better. It's
1799 compatible with the MSNP7 protocol that MSN v4.x uses. Unfortunately,
1800 MSNP9 is being worked on. Bah. Also, it has MSN Mobile support, so you
1801 can register your MSN account with http://mobile.msn.com/ and people
1802 can page your mobile device. You can also page other MSN Mobile users.
1803 Groups are now stored on server. Oh, and due to the nature of MSNP7,
1804 conversations are timed out after 5 minutes, so you'll unfortunately
1805 see a message indicating that. Sorry! I wrote experimental support
1806 for my own implementation of MSN buddy icons. You can set them in your
1807 account settings much like with AIM, and when you talk to other gaim
1808 users, they'll get your buddy icon. This will last for a few releases,
1809 until the buddy icon implementation in the upcoming MSNP9 protocol is
1810 figured out, and we have support for that. That'll be a couple months
1811 away at least. Also, we have a rewrite of the plugin interface, so
1812 rewrite your plugins! Things are going to get very cool from it. The
1813 debug API was core/UI split, and some enhancements were made to the
1814 debug window. I think that's all from me. It's been a fun release.
1815 Stay tuned, I have some great things coming up!
1817 Nathan: It seems like 0.62 was forever and a day ago. I had to look
1818 at the ChangeLog to remember what I did. Apparently I made it so you
1819 can put chats in your buddy list. And then I tweaked a bunch of stuff
1820 and fixed a bunch of crashes. Then exams came, and then I went home
1821 for a week and left my laptop's power cable here at school, so I didn't
1822 get anything done. Jabber will get all sorts of fun new stuff for
1823 the next release. Really. ;-)
1825 0.62 (04/23/2003):
1826 Sean: This is just another standard bi-weekly Gaim release. Nothing
1827 really interesting, but it has some good bugfixes. Personally, I've
1828 been a bit removed from Gaim development lately what with school getting
1829 tough and stuff, but the rest of the guys have really been doing great
1830 work without me. Thanks, guys.
1832 Christian: I can't remember what I did here.. Think I'll take a quick
1833 look at the ChangeLog.... Okay, guess I was useless. That's okay,
1834 though, because I have some really cool stuff going into 0.63. Plugin
1835 authors will hate me for it. A rewrite of the plugins interface! This is
1836 actually a Good Thing (TM). Anyhow, upgrade to this release, and tell
1837 your friends. 33 Gaim users can't be wrong!
1839 Luke: I didn't do much here besides the odd translation patch and a
1840 couple bug fix patches. This is primarily a bug fix release, and much
1841 needed at that. Didn't get a chance to write sorting code, work has been
1842 busy. Hopeefully it will happen for 0.63.
1844 Mark: Gaim is coming along quite beautimously. I'm going to eat
1845 my Pop-tarts now.
1847 Nathan: oh dot sixty two. There are a lot of bugs fixed in this
1848 release, and one major new feature. Our Jabber plugin now supports
1849 XHTML-IM. In plain english, this means that you can now format your
1850 jabber messages, and other people will see the formatting. GtkIMHTML
1851 still needs some work to get it to parse valid XHTML-IM better, but that
1852 will come in time. That time would come sooner if my CS prof accepted
1853 "I was hacking on Gaim" as a valid excuse for an extension ;-)
1855 0.61 (04/07/2003):
1856 Rob: Nathan commited his news first. However, I'm cooler so I'm putting
1857 my entry above his. Yeah, so, there were some DnD issues with 0.60. I
1858 blame it on the rain. It was falling, falling. I blame it on the
1859 faucet. It drips all night.
1861 Sean: I committed my news after Rob. I'm cooler than Nathan (by far)
1862 but not as cool as Rob. So I go here. Actually, I didn't do anything
1863 since 0.60 other than commit some other peoples patches. The one from
1864 Dave Camp is cool. How 'bout this snow? Isn't that crazy? Oh, and
1865 thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday.
1867 Nathan: You want frequent releases? You got 'em ;-) Chip wrote some
1868 cool new pounce stuff, and things shouldn't get weird when you drag
1869 groups and buddies around. It's bad enough having 1 of some of my
1870 buddies on my list, I definitely don't need duplicates. Being that I
1871 have class in the morning, I'll just raise my juice glass for this one.
1873 Christian: I'm not as cool as Rob, Sean, or Nathan, so I go down here.
1874 Well, among some of the fixes is my new buddy pounce code! This adds new
1875 buddy pounce types, core/ui splitifies the code, and makes the dialog
1876 box spiffy. Yay frequent releases! Erm, I can't think of anything else
1877 cool to say here. Have fun, everyone!
1879 Luke: Okay, i'm probly the least cool, so I'll go last. I committed a
1880 few patches from other people here, nothing earth shattering though. The
1881 biggest thing in this release is the group re-ordering bug fix, having
1882 that fixed will make for fewwer questions. Get used to using releases
1883 people, we want to use cvs for actual development :-).
1885 Mark: I didn't want to write any news without actually having done
1886 anything, so I fixed a meaningless compile warning. Boo-yeah.
1888 Sean: Luke can't spell "fewer". How un-cool is that?
1890 0.60 (04/04/2003):
1891 Rob: Wow. So, it has been a really long time since we started the
1892 gtk2 fork. It's finally ready for public consumption. Sean is about
1893 to go out and buy a case of beer. My roommate is downstairs right
1894 now pouring me a shot of his choice. Everyone, raise your beers if
1895 you've got them. It's been a cool almost 10-months of development.
1896 I hope you all enjoy. Drink'em if you got'em!
1898 Sean: I'm writing this 3 minutes before my 21st birthday. Nobody can
1899 believe we're finally ready to relase 0.60. Many thanks to everyone
1900 who helped out; I'm convinced that Gaim 0.60 is the best IM client to
1901 date (only to be bested by 0.61). There's WAY too much stuff to mention.
1902 Even the ChangeLog is somewhat incomplete. Yay, I'm 21 now! Everyone
1903 enjoy! :)
1905 Nathan: Happy birthday Sean! Rob decided to let me start cleaning up
1906 after everyone, so here I am. "sexy" is the only word that can be used
1907 to describe 0.60. Prepare to be shocked and amazed. /me raises his
1908 (shot) glass ;-)
1910 Christian: Geeeeeze this took a long time. Worth it though! Personally,
1911 I thought we'd all just give up on releases altogether and tell
1912 everybody just to grab CVS. I'm pretty happy with this release. I was
1913 able to contribute quite a bit to it. Makes me feel proud to be a gaim
1914 developer! I'm really looking forward to the future releases. I have
1915 some neat stuff planned. Yay, I'm still 19! Mmmm, Sierra Mist. Make me a
1916 sammich!
1918 Mark: Whoops, I started drinking a little earlier than I was supposed
1919 to. I guess I missed the memo. Hmm, I ate at a restaurant somewhere,
1920 I think it was at Snowshoe, and the menu had "sammiches" on it. It was
1921 pretty sweet. I'd like to give a shout out to all the Gaim
1922 devizelopers for rizocking the hizzy the past few months. Word.
1925 0.59 (06/24/2002):
1926 Rob: I guess Sean is busy at home or something and Jim is asleep.
1927 I'm very tired but it's time for a release. Enjoy. :)
1928 SORRY FOR THE DELAY. :(
1930 Sean: It's been a long time since our last release, and for no
1931 good reason either. Rob and I just haven't been able to get together
1932 to do it. But now we have. Aside from some Jabber changes and some
1933 crucial MSN fixes, most of this release's changes are transparent,
1934 but none-the-less important. Well get some better changes when my
1935 computer works again, you have my word*
1937 *My word is worthless.
1940 0.58 (05/13/2002):
1941 Rob: Yeah, so, my computer has been bad which is why the release
1942 didn't go out on time. Oh well. I would like to welcome
1943 Jim Seymour aboard the development team. He's going to be taking
1944 over the work on our Jabber code as well as doing various other
1945 nit picking. He likes to pick nits, nats, and umm, knots, I think.
1947 Sean: This release has a long ChangeLog. Higlights include an
1948 important security fix for MSN and a few nice new features.
1949 Not *much* cooler than 0.57--but we're making progress ;)
1951 Jim: Hmmm... Rob said I have to say *something*, so here it is:
1952 Rob's a mango.
1954 0.57 (04/25/2002):
1955 Rob: Not too much in this release, as Sean said below. (This is
1956 what happens when the bottom person goes first.) New translation,
1957 a few fixes, secure msn hotmail logins, blah blah blah. As Sean
1958 said, the next release will be cooler. If only you could read
1959 our minds ;-).
1961 Sean: Nothing too special here, but a critical Yahoo fix that
1962 ensures Yahoo! will work when they discontinue the old protocol
1963 all the other 3rd party clients are using. Next release will be
1964 cooler, I promise.
1966 0.56 (04/11/2002):
1967 Rob: Well, what do you know. I have another headache. I always have
1968 these damned headaches. I got pissed off with the way GtkTree looks.
1969 I wanted to move to using GtkCTree. I think they're pretty.
1970 Unfortunately, GtkCTree sucks. After a little digging through
1971 the code, I managed to molest GtkTree into looking like
1972 GtkCTree. Thanks to everyone that helped track down that one
1973 annoying style problem.
1975 Sean: Hello. This is another minor release while Rob and I finish
1976 up on some bigger projects. We're reworking a lot of the UI to make
1977 it easier to use, nicer looking, and more compatible with gtk2.
1978 I've also been trying to bring the Yahoo plugin up to date, so it
1979 will work for Indian users and avoid a potential problem in the near
1980 future.
1982 0.55 (03/29/2002):
1983 Rob: 0.55 is here. I've been away for a few days on business. Sean
1984 has been on Spring Break. Therefore, this release is mostly a patch
1985 release. It does fix some bugs and makes a few thing slightly cooler,
1986 so it's better in that aspect, I suppose. Enjoy.
1988 Sean: This is mostly a bugfix release. I'm on Spring Break, not
1989 doing any coding at all. But lots of people sent in great patches
1990 anyway. Thanks guys!
1992 0.54 (03/14/2002):
1993 Rob: Well, here we are. 0.54. We got a lot of fun things in this
1994 release. Better working SSI, Image sending, protocol specific
1995 smiley faces, and a whole lot of triscuits. *gobble*
1997 Sean: We fixed a lot of bugs in this one, and probably introduced
1998 a bunch too. ;) We were both really busy, and did all the coding
1999 late at night when we were tired, so if something isn't working,
2000 it's probably just tired code. Enjoy the triscuits!
2002 0.53 (02/28/2002):
2003 Rob: Well, we missed yesterday's release. That's Okay, I head a
2004 nasty headache. You can all just deal. ;-)
2007 Sean: Neat Goodies! Whee!! Oscar got a lot of great additions.
2008 It can do Screen Name formatting, it can save and store your buddy
2009 list on the server, it can do typing notifications in Direct
2010 Connections, and yes, it can receive IM Images! Sending images will
2011 be added in the next release. MSN and Yahoo! can do typing
2012 notification too. Hooray!
2015 0.52 (02/17/2002):
2016 Rob: Well, after a long delay we're finally ready for another release.
2017 I finally got settled into my new apartment, the new job is going
2018 well, and I finally have internet connectivity again. You can expect
2019 us to be back on our usually bi-monthly schedule. Enjoy these fixen,
2020 as they resolve a few connectivity issues. :-)
2022 Sean: It looks like things are back on track now. Eric left which is
2023 sad. He's done so much for Gaim, and I know we're all thankful.
2024 Thanks Eric! I'll be stepping in and do more development, but I can
2025 never replace Eric. This release fixes a long-standing problem in
2026 MSN. If you've gotten errors when trying to connect to MSN, you want
2027 this release. If you've suddenly found yourself unable to connect to
2028 Yahoo!, you want this release too. The "neat goodies" will be in the
2029 next release ;)
2031 Rob: Operation Evil does not exist! ;-)
2034 0.51 (01/24/2002):
2035 Rob: Well, here we go. I FINALLY got around to making a release
2036 after over a month, Sorry for the delay, all. Things got really
2037 hectic around the gaim house hold. This release isn't as complete
2038 as I had hoped, but I promised to get something out. There's some
2039 neat goodies in mind for the next release, right Sean? :-)
2042 0.50 (12/13/2001):
2043 Rob: I am tired. Tonight was weird. Bleh!!!!
2045 Eric: I second that.
2047 0.49 (11/29/2001):
2048 Rob: *still mamboing*
2050 Whew! That was a bad little mambo. I hope everyone had a nice
2051 little Holiday, if you celebrate. If not, then I hope you had
2052 a sucky weekend. :-D.
2054 Oh, lots of cheese for everyone!! (Beware the duffle)
2056 It's getting cloudy. I think it's going to storm somethin'
2057 fierce. That's my southern talk. Do you like it?
2059 Eric: I want to be like you.
2061 Do the cha cha cha!
2063 0.48 (11/18/2001):
2064 Rob: Hi! It's 4:12am! I'm watching The Simpsons. :).
2065 Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking! :) There's not
2066 too much for me to say in this release. I'd just like to
2067 thank Eric for his hard work. :)
2069 Eric: Everybody mambo!
2071 0.47 (11/01/2001):
2072 Rob: Hi. Gaim v0.47 has been released, as you should already
2073 know. I hope all of you had a nice little halloween. There are
2074 quite a number of changes in this release. There are a few too
2075 many to list here, so I will redirect you to ye olde ChangeLog.
2077 Eric: Remember back in the day when TOC was the only protocol
2078 Gaim could use? Remember the login window from back then? Back
2079 before Gaim had perl or plugins or multiple connections or
2080 10 different protocols. Things have changed so much since then.
2081 Many more changes in this release as well. All good things.
2082 Don't forget to talk to SmarterChild.
2084 0.46 (10/18/2001):
2085 Rob: Hey guys! The smores were great! I really enjoyed meeting
2086 up with all of you guys and singing campfire songs. It was
2087 really awesome. Thanks for the beer, too. Next time, it's on me.
2089 This release has quite the number of bug fixes. I won't bother
2090 going into detail here. Just ust it, love it, live it - SEGA!
2092 Eric: Lots of fixes. Things compile well now. ICQ has stopped
2093 crashing on PPC and Sparc. If you know someone who isn't using
2094 Gaim because it was unstable, please get them to try this
2095 version. It's much better, I promise.
2097 0.45 (10/04/2001):
2098 Eric: Well, it seems that the time has come for yet another
2099 release. There are several yummy additions in this release, and
2100 quite a few useful bugfixes as well. Unfortunately it seems that
2101 Rob is currently unavailable; he joins us in spirit. He'll be
2102 joining us later for a group sing-along and smores by the
2103 campfire. But for now, you'll need to keep yourselves occupied
2104 with 0.45. And remember, a happy hacker is a pimpin' penguin.
2106 0.44 (09/20/2001):
2107 Rob: Another release has come upon us. There were actually quite
2108 a number of things in ye old ChangeLog for this release. I don't
2109 feel like talking about them here, so you can read about them
2110 in ... you guessed it .. the ChangeLog. Oh, and if you're
2111 wondering about setting buddy icons, wait til 0.45 or
2112 use CVS shortly after this release. ;-)
2114 Eric: You should all be using CVS anyway. This has become the
2115 slogan in our IRC room, #gaim on irc.openprojects.net. The IRC
2116 plugin got lots of updates (mostly because I felt bad about using
2117 X-Chat for IRC when gaim supposedly had an IRC plugin), so you
2118 should load the plugin and join us. :)
2120 0.43 (09/06/2001):
2122 Rob: Well, I knew that the day would eventually come. I just didn't
2123 expect it to be so soon. ;-). Yes, that's right, Eric and I finally
2124 got sick of all of the pre releases. We didn't want to make this
2125 release an official 0.11.0. We thought that it would cause a lot
2126 of confusion. We didn't want to continue our trend of prereleases
2127 either. So, since gaim was first released officially, there
2128 have been 42 releases. This is number 43, hence the 0.43 version
2129 number. We're going to stick with this trend from now on. :-).
2131 Eric: We're also going to be starting a release early, release
2132 often trend, that hopefully we'll stick to this time. Hopefully
2133 we'll be putting out a new release every two weeks or so. You
2134 should all be using CVS anyway :) And as always, don't forget to
2135 report bugs! Anyway, since there's only been 9 days since the
2136 last release not much has changed. A bug-fix release and a version
2137 change mostly :)
2139 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
2140 Eric: This isn't a real release. Really. It's just a quick thing
2141 because pre14 doesn't cut it for some people. Also not counting
2142 the month break that I took it's been a month since the last
2143 release, so it's about time. You should all be using CVS anyway.
2144 Instructions are at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/cvs.shmtl. And
2145 don't forget to report bugs! http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php3.
2147 Rob: Hey guys. I've been rather inactive as well. It's a long
2148 story, but essentially, my company layed off a bunch of people,
2149 myself included, due to poor management. I've taken a new
2150 job which required moving across the country. I'm finally back
2151 online. Once I manage to actually get a desk at home I'll be
2152 able to code with out infliciting intense pain upon my lower
2153 back and neck. So, basically, we were inactive, but not dead.
2155 Also, just to keep you all updated, the AOL battle is still
2156 in progress. Our lawyers are still in negotiation with thiers.
2157 We'll keep you updated with what happens.
2159 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
2160 Eric: Wee. Lots of fun things. BIG bug fix release. I did a lot of
2161 stupid things in the last one, hehe. You all forgive me though,
2162 right?
2164 Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.
2165 Remember that. It's a great Scott Adams quote.
2167 Rob: I feel naughty. I should have released this a lot earlier
2168 in the day. I have a problem though. I started cooking, invited
2169 a couple friends over for dinner and then took a walk to a
2170 24hr doughnut shop where I sat outside and talked about
2171 random stuff. Oh well, at least it's still before the 18th.
2173 Enjoy this release guys! :-)
2176 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
2177 Rob: \O. Howdy doodie! This release isn't coming too far behind
2178 the previous release but hey, what can ya say, there were a couple
2179 of good fixes in this one. Jabber & IRC can set / view the topics
2180 of chat rooms now, napster doesnt crash on bad login names and
2181 passwords, and the man page got a big update.
2183 Well, that's about all, folks. Next release, I hope to try to get
2184 group MSN chat support added as well as DCC support in the IRC
2185 plugin.
2187 Peace!
2189 Eric: I apologize if any of you had to restart your X server because
2190 of me. This release won't make you have to do that, I promise. There
2191 were a couple other minor fixes with the buddy icon stuff, it still
2192 has a way to go but at least it's better than it was before. Oh yeah,
2193 and Oscar is able to sign on again.
2195 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
2196 Rob: Hi! O/. My girlfriend was visiting me so I've been busy being
2197 unavailable online. Hooray.
2199 There have been a lot of good changes in this release. Some improved
2200 dialogs, some updates to IRC and MSN, as well as a nifty little thing
2201 that Eric did that I'll let him tell you about.
2203 Oh yeah, I also got food poisoned by bad eggs. Ugh!
2205 Eric: Every protocol except TOC has been improved since the last
2206 release. All of them except Zephyr and ICQ now use the same proxy
2207 options, which you can set in the preferences. ICQ can use them if
2208 you set it to Socks5 though.
2210 There are a bunch of other good additions and fixes for each
2211 protocol which you can read about in the ChangeLog. And, there's one
2212 super cool feature that everyone seems to be asking for: Buddy Icons.
2213 Right now you can only receive them and only in Oscar, but hey, they're
2214 there.
2216 So that's it. Have fun with it :)
2218 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
2219 Rob: I bought a big carton of juice today. It is now 50% empty.
2220 A lot of the plugins got some new options and/or improvements. I
2221 have a headache right now, though, so I won't say much. I'll let
2222 Eric talk :)
2224 Eric: I uh. I bought 72 cans of soda yesterday. It only cost $15
2225 or so. I figure I'll be through it in less than two weeks. A
2226 dollar a day on soda isn't so bad. For the fourth release in a row,
2227 Oscar is fixed. Isn't that exciting. Judging from history I'd say
2228 that it won't stay fixed long; but judging from what I know has
2229 changed, we shouldn't have any more troubles.
2231 Rob: --. .- .. -- / .. ... / --. .-. . .- - --..-- / --. .- .. -- /
2232 .. ... / --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-
2234 I don't have a headache anymore! Hooray! Eric got a good deal on those
2235 drinks. I bought some bananas. They're very green. Oh, and I cooked
2236 a steak last night. It was 16 oz. It was good.
2238 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
2239 Rob: EEP! It's Friday the 13th!!! I think I fixed a few buggies
2240 in MSN and then added some new features to IRC. I have a headache
2241 right now, though, so I won't talk much. I think I'm going to go
2242 to sleep. Next release, I should have a good bit more done on
2243 IRC and will have made Napster more stable. Have fun!!
2245 Eric: There's a new protocol plugin, Zephyr. Don't use it! unless
2246 you know what Zephyr is, and have zhm set up correctly. Also there
2247 were a lot of other good bugfixes (like registering for Jabber
2248 accounts!) and a few neat features. In this release, Oscar is also
2249 working, but we'll see how long that lasts, eh?
2251 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
2252 Rob: Well, looks AOL was doing something naughty earlier this
2253 morning. Thanks to a very nice guy named Adam Fritzler (you
2254 all know him from libfaim) we're now back online. Thanks,
2255 Adam. I'll buy you a drink sometime :-).
2257 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
2258 Eric: Oo wow :) So I guess the big news is that this release should
2259 help you avoid the battle between Jabber and AOL. Most protocols
2260 got a few good bugfixes; thanks to people who pointed them out :).
2261 Hopefully for the next release I'll make it so you can register a
2262 jabber.org account, and then you can support Jabber using Gaim.
2263 I think (I *think*) Oscar blocking is working now. Haha, get it?
2264 Oscar blocking? It took me a while to get it, too. But no, really,
2265 I think that the permit/deny list in Oscar might be working.
2267 Rob: MSN got some fixes and should be really stable now. It had
2268 a little 100% CPU eating bug but that's taken care of now. Next
2269 on my list of repairs is the napster plugin. It works -- sorta --
2270 sometimes. Heh. As all of you probably know already, our Oscar
2271 support was broken yesterday. There's a little battle going on
2272 between AOL and Jabber and we caught a bullet during the crossfire.
2273 I think I just won the award for the most cliches used in one
2274 paragraph, as a matter of fact. ;-).
2276 ** Good luck to the Jabber guys in getting this resolved **
2279 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
2280 Rob: Hey! I finally rewrote the MSN plugin. Sorry, I'm just
2281 a lazy code whore sometimes, heheh. It pretty much has the same
2282 functionality as before with the exception of instability. I
2283 didn't really like that feature very much so I removed it. I hope
2284 you guys don't mind too terribly much ;-).
2286 Eric: In this week's installment of gaim you'll find a new Yahoo!
2287 library and an option to have all conversations in one window,
2288 in addition to numerous bug fixes and other improvements. Don't
2289 forget to send us your feedback. If there's something you want
2290 added, changed, or fixed, head over to our SourceForge page at
2291 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ and tells us about it.
2294 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
2295 Eric: Yay! I get to go first!
2297 The biggest change in this release is the TODO file. Lots of things
2298 got added. There's going to be a lot of prereleases. Please help.
2299 Other than that it's mostly just a lot of bugfixes. Oscar got a few
2300 new features. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
2301 and tell us what you'd like to see in gaim. We've gotten a lot of
2302 great requests so far, thanks.
2304 I think I like releasing every week.
2306 Rob: I've been bad so Eric got to go first. The biggest change
2307 In this release is the NEWS file. It's the only thing I contributed
2308 to! heh, just kidding. This is a bug fix release, as Eric said.
2309 Next release will contain my newly rewritten MSN plugin. You guys
2310 should be happy with it :).
2312 Oh yeah, TUCAN rocks :) Oh yeah, Eric rocks too.
2315 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
2316 Rob: Yeah, I promise this is the last pre-release :-D. That seems
2317 to be a pretty common saying around here, huh? Well, I must first
2318 appologize. The protocols that I was working on really should be
2319 much more developed at this point -- they should be completed,
2320 actually. Unfortunately, my real life job (yes, I have one hehe) got
2321 a little too busy and ate up all of my free time. I promise that
2322 things will get better now :).
2324 Eric: I don't promise that this is the last pre-release. :) But
2325 hopefully releases can start coming more often than once every two
2326 months. I don't really have much else to say. It's been a slow
2327 couple of months.
2329 Rob: I promise to hack gaim again. Please don't hate me.
2331 0.11.0-pre4:
2332 Rob: HOORAY FOR DISNEYLAND!
2334 Eric: One more prerelease. I'm actually starting to think these
2335 prereleases are a good idea; a lot of people reported a lot of
2336 bugs in pre3 and most of them are fixed now. Also, it helps with
2337 the whole release early-release often philosophy.
2339 The big news in this prerelease is two more protocols: Jabber and
2340 Napster. Both of them don't have any of the features that make
2341 these services cool, yet. You can't use the transports in Jabber
2342 and you can't download file in Napster. But you will be able to,
2343 soon :)
2345 Rob and I are going on vacation starting today until after New
2346 Year's, which is a lot of the reason we wanted to get this release
2347 out; it's much improved over pre3. Happy Holidays everyone.
2349 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
2350 Rob: Well, I hadn't initially planned on an 0.11.0pre3 but it
2351 looks like it was needed. That's not necessarially a bad thing,
2352 mind you. It just means you get to see more goodies!
2354 This release includes some other fun features. See the ChangeLog
2355 for more information. Also found in this wonderful release is
2356 an MSN plugin. For all of you who have been holding onto Windows
2357 simply because you have friends on MSN Messenger that you don't want
2358 to leave, this plugin is for you! :)
2360 Guys, make sure you send us bug reports; preferably on the
2361 SourceForge bug report forum at
2362 http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/. This will allow both
2363 Eric and I to handle the bugs and will prevent either one of us
2364 from losing the bug reports that are sent via AIM :-)
2366 Eric: Hey everybody, Rob and I really want to hear what you guys want
2367 to see in gaim. Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim and
2368 leave a message in the Open Discussion forum. We've gotten a lot of
2369 good ideas so far (most of them didn't make it into this release,
2370 unfortunately).
2372 If any of you want to test out your mad coding skills, I can think of
2373 a few projects that would be incredibly useful. Send me or Rob an IM
2374 and we'll let you know how you can help. And don't forget to read the
2375 HACKING file to see how gaim's put together.
2377 This is hopefully going to be the last prerelease; now that all the
2378 protocols that we're going to be doing for 0.11.0 are available it's
2379 mostly just going to be hacking on them and getting them in usable
2380 condition before the final release. Don't forget to send us bug
2381 reports ;)
2383 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
2384 Rob: I messed up. Oh well, it's fixed.
2386 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
2387 Rob: Hey guys! Guess what!? Yup, you're correct! It's the pre1
2388 release of 0.11.0. We have all sorts of goodies in this release!
2389 Check out the ChangeLog file. As always if you find any bugs,
2390 please report them on www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/
2392 You may find several small bugs as this is still a prerelease.
2394 You may want to note that my IRC plugin does not have full
2395 functionality as of yet. All of the important / commands will be
2396 added before the final release. Also, if someone could send me
2397 some good buddylist pixmaps for the irc plugin then I'd much
2398 appreciate it. Thanks to everyone who made this new release possible!
2400 If you have any ideas, comments, or suggestions, please let us know
2401 either by e-mail or via the source forge message board at the URL
2402 above. :)
2405 Eric: So what was Yay! For Gaim!? Yay was the codename for the
2406 Yahoo plugin. The whole point of all of these changes was I wanted to
2407 make a proof-of-concept plugin that would let Gaim sign into Yahoo. It
2408 turned out to be pretty much impossible with the old code. So,
2409 Rob and I hacked gaim so we could do just that. There's now a whole new
2410 class of plugins, Protocol Plugins, that let users dynamically add new
2411 protocols to Gaim. Just load the plugin, and create a new account that
2412 uses that protocol, and you're set! Yay! (Oscar and TOC are both still
2413 static. Gaim is, after all, primarily an AIM client.)
2415 Lots of people have been very generous and contributed a lot of
2416 time and effort to writing some really nice patches for gaim since
2417 the last release. To all of you, a big thanks.
2419 0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
2420 Rob: I am dumb.
2421 Eric: I am not dumb.
2423 0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
2424 Rob: What do you want me to say for yours?
2425 Eric: What happened since the last release?
2426 Rob: You got DSL.
2427 Eric: Oh yeah, I'm more available now.
2428 Rob: On a more serious note, this is just a quick release
2429 to hold everyone over. Look for some very awesome things
2430 coming in the next version. I can't say what, just yet,
2431 but what I can say is, Yay! For Gaim!
2433 0.10.1 (09/15/2000):
2435 Rob: Hi Hi Hi! Yet another gaim release pushed out the door
2436 for you guys. I hope you all enjoy it. There was a few minor
2437 issues cleared up in this version as well as the repair of
2438 OSCAR support. Hopefully we won't run into the same problem
2439 as before. Oh well ;-). There's also a few small extra goodies
2440 in here for you guys just check out the Change Log. I hope you all
2441 enjoy and take care!
2443 Eric: Wanna know what the Oscar problem was? You'll laugh. 2 bytes.
2444 The fix was changing 0x07da to 0x0686. Anyway, aside from the fix
2445 for that, there are a couple other good things. Beware of DSL nazis.
2446 They won't give you service until 6 weeks after you order it. So um,
2447 yeah.
2449 0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
2450 Rob: Well peoples, I know that it's been a while since our
2451 last release. Here we go. Some brand spankin' new interfaces
2452 for you guys to oogle at. I hope you all enjoy it. Hopefully
2453 our next release won't take as long to finish up. Real life
2454 kind of crept up on Eric and I and took up a lot of our times.
2455 Life sucks that way sometimes. Anyways, we're back and all
2456 is well. Thanks for hanging in there guys and we hope
2457 you enjoy it!
2459 Eric: LWE was so cool. Rob and I met up there, we had a blast. But I
2460 only got to go for one day and Rob got to go for three. Lucky bastard.
2461 It's been so long since the last release that I don't even remember
2462 what's changed. But all of it is good :) Like Rob said, all kinds of
2463 new UI stuff. I think there are some new features in there too. Now
2464 I'm headed back to school so I'll have more time to hack gaim (isn't
2465 that supposed to be the reverse?), just as soon as I get my internet
2466 connection back >:-/ .
2468 Rob: Oh yeah, some of our pixmaps may need a little work. We took
2469 a lot of them from the Gnome Stock icons. If anyone could do some
2470 custom ones that stay within the 24x24 boundary and keep the same
2471 idea and feel as the gnome icons then we would be more than happy
2472 to use them. Thanks much!! Viva la LWE.
2475 0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
2476 Rob: Well, guys, I hope you enjoy this version. I've done quite a bit
2477 of work to the user interface. It's still not in the state that I
2478 would like it to be, though. Over the next few versions you will
2479 notice a few more interface changes as we try to bring a more
2480 professional look to Gaim. As always, we will stay true to our
2481 pimpin' penguin atittude.
2483 Eric: While Rob's been busy making things pretty, I've been busy
2484 making things work :). The chat and IM windows got merged, which
2485 means that they both have the same features (notably, IM has /me
2486 and chat has font/color dialogs and smileys). Also smileys should
2487 work better in general now (thanks fflew).
2489 Rob: By the way, what Eric is saying is that he's smart and I'm
2490 not and that he does all of the work and I sit on my butt all
2491 day and claim to do work. WOOO! Just kidding, brother :-P
2494 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
2495 Rob: PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2496 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2497 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2499 All of that nonsense aside, there are a few things that DIDN'T happen
2500 in this version of gaim. The user interface changes will wait until
2501 the 0.9.20 release. We've decided to turn 0.9.19 into a "new feature
2502 and major bug fix" release. All/Most major bugs should be worked out
2503 now. We're sorry about the problem of segfaulting when your buddylist
2504 stored on the server was null. Oops! We won't let it happen again,
2505 we promise.
2507 Eric: Lots of good changes in this one, including locale support. Chat
2508 had a lot of things done to it, but it's still not finished. The UI
2509 didn't get the overhaul we were planning, but we wanted to get a few
2510 bugfixes out.
2512 Lemme say something about reporting bugs. Please do. Please try to give
2513 as much information as you can. But regardless of how much information
2514 you give, please be POLITE. If you tell us our software is crap then
2515 we're probably not going to respond well.
2517 Rob: Before I close up and say goodnight, I'd like to say that I
2518 agree with Eric. Reporting problems and/or helpful criticism in
2519 a polite manner always yields the best results. Peace all, and
2520 happy hacking.
2522 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
2523 Rob: Talk about release early, release often - sheesh! We're going
2524 insane. Ya know, I'm not too happy with the Gaim UI. I dont know
2525 how the rest of you feel but it's time for a nice overhaul. In the
2526 next few days I'll be sitting down with some of my friends and coming
2527 up with an improved interface. I hope you all enjoy it. It'll
2528 include better looking dialogs, icons, sounds (hopefully lol), etc.
2530 And -- for your random silly message of the day --
2532 "Beans and Franks, Beans and Franks, Wine And Beer, Have No Fear!
2533 I can sing! I can dance! I have a penguin in my pants!"
2535 - Rob Flynn after not having enough sleep.
2537 Eric: I've had less sleep than Rob, I can guarantee you that. There's
2538 actually a lot going on in this release, despite 2 releases 2 days ago.
2539 Don't ask me how; I think the elves had something to do with it.
2541 Oscar support is almost to the point where I'm considering removing
2542 the 'experimental' label from configure. For those of you brave enough
2543 to try it, I'd like feedback. (And if you happen to write a patch to
2544 fix some of the stuff that would be really cool too.) Hopefully for the
2545 next release, in addition to the cool new UI, Gaim/Faim will be able to
2546 do nearly everything Gaim/TOC can do. (Big things coming in 0.9.19, I
2547 can feel it....)
2549 And just remember, you *can* have too many gummi candies. Especially if
2550 you eat nearly a whole kilo of them. Believe me. I know. But the gummi
2551 cherries are damn good.
2553 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
2554 Rob: I am an e-mail fiend!
2555 (after receiving 60 emails within a 5 minute period about a problem
2556 and responding to all of them immediately)
2558 I am stupid.
2560 Eric: Heh heh. 2 releases in one day. I'm impressed. Maybe one of these
2561 times we'll actually get some of it right ;) Anyway, yeah. Just bug fixes in
2562 this one.
2564 Rob: Yeah, we wouldn't be ourselves if we released it once and got it
2565 right, would we? :-)
2567 0.9.16:
2568 Rob: Blah Blah Blah.
2570 Eric: Looks like Rob didn't have much to say, so I'll write something
2571 instead :)
2573 There's a few good things in this release, the most important of them
2574 being: Better proxy support, of course. Oh yeah, and you can sign on now,
2575 so that's a good thing too. There's a few more good things going on in this
2576 release, so check out the ChangeLog.
2578 Play nicely, and we'll keep hacking away at it.
2580 Rob: Go Watch `Road Trip'.
2582 0.9.15:
2583 Hey boy's and girls. There's not much to say here this time.
2584 We're loving Southern California, the new job's going great. We just
2585 got our company website up and the product development is going pretty
2586 smooth. Life's pretty sweet now.
2588 We've hacked up all kinds of goodies for you in 0.9.15. There's
2589 some file transfer (receive) support for those of you who have been
2590 wanting it for a while. There's some other misc. goodies tossed in as
2591 well. Enjoy!! Oh yeah, we need a new website. Come up with a sweet
2592 design and get in touch with me. The current site is at:
2593 http://www.marko.net/gaim
2595 Thanks much!
2598 0.9.14:
2599 Well, there's a few random hacks and fixes in here, along with
2600 a little suprise. You guessed it, kiddos, support for plugins! Happy
2601 hacking!
2603 0.9.13:
2604 Not much to say for this release. Bug fixes, That's all. Look
2605 for the goodies I promised in 0.9.13 to appear in 0.9.14 which should be
2606 released very soon now.
2608 By the way, our CVS is now hosted over at source forge. Go check
2609 it out at http://www.sourceforge.net. Please check there before submitting
2610 any bug reports (You can read our CVS comments to see if we have fixed any
2611 problems).
2613 0.9.12:
2614 Well guys, looks like we got some nifty things in this version.
2615 TrueType Fonts are supported for those XFSTT buffs out there (or whatever
2616 else you use). A crap load of those plaguing memory leaks have FINALLY been
2617 fixed. My brother, Jeramey, and a new friend Peter Teichan helped stomp
2618 those babies out. A rad guy by the name of Eric Warmenhoven has been
2619 really sweet lately and has all but rewritten the Gnome Applet support :).
2620 He submitted patch after patch. I finally got annoyed with him (just kidding bud)
2621 and gave him CVS access. Look for Gnome Applet support in Gaim to start improving.
2622 That's about all for now. I wanted to get this release out there. File Receive
2623 support will be in 0.9.13 which is due out soon.
2625 0.9.11:
2626 Jeramey got a new Comfy Chair! Its very very comfy! Whee!
2627 Jim also had a little hyper-drunken moment and started hacking away at
2628 a new configuration format for Gaim. Looks like we're running .gaimrc
2629 version 1 now. Gotta love it. I got bored and hacked in a couple font
2630 properties that will, in time, contain more features. That's about it
2631 for this version -- cept for that memory leak we fixed. Shush! We're
2632 not plumbers! -- rob
2634 ** Extra special update **
2636 Well guys, it looks like we all stopped working on gaim, moved to California,
2637 and took up a new job. Don't worry though, those beach bums out here havent
2638 worn off on us yet. I've decided to pick up the Gaim torch myself and continue
2639 development ont he prohect. Hopefully we wont have any more five month braks in
2640 the project. Sorry about that, guys :)
2642 0.9.10:
2643 Umm. Dont ask. Silly memory leak. For those of you who
2644 wondered, you were losing about 256 bytes every 25 seconds for each
2645 person you have on your contact list. Make fun of us. Better yet ..
2646 Send us beer. We'll do better :)
2648 0.9.9:
2649 Welp, All of you boys and girls who run Mandrake and have some
2650 problems with Gaim working properly, please check out the FAQ file. It
2651 contains a nice fix submitted by one of our users. I hope this works for
2652 you guys!
2653 Jim appears to have intoxicated himself. This is, as always, a
2654 Good Thing (tm). His late-night adventure with the liquid-bread food group
2655 lead to the birth of a nice little feature called `The Lag-O-Meter'. Dont
2656 ask, just try it out :). It is pretty pointless if you have a super-fast
2657 connection but if you are a modem user, like many of us are, then try it out.
2658 There's also some idle preferences and some other little random
2659 bug fixes. Check'em out yo :)
2661 0.9.8:
2662 Get Along Lil' Doggies. Heh. Looks like we have yet another new
2663 version of gaim for you guys to play with. Be gentle now, it has a few
2664 new fetures. The HTML widget is now more robust and we have *da da da*
2665 HTTP proxy support.
2666 Oh By The Way, Do not pay too much attention to what we are doing
2667 with this release. We are all a little bit happy tonight. You must love
2668 life. This is a special release of gaim. We will be releasing some wonderful
2669 photographs soon .. or perhaps if we get the bloody webcam working then we
2670 will take a couple of quick snapshots.
2671 Looks like the Gaim developers convention (cool name huh) that we
2672 had this weekend in Auburn, AL went wonderfully :). yum yum yum. Hahahah. Oh
2673 by the way. Beware of insecure rednecks in the deli. Bad things.
2674 In (non)related news, Jeramey could not successfully slaughter the
2675 one pound hamburger that he ordered. (I think he could have done it but he
2676 wasn't feeling very well at the time).
2677 Oh Yes, New Logo Too :) You likes? Thanks, Naru!
2678 Just a little side-note: it looks like we didnt make the release that
2679 we had expected during the Gaim Convention. Maybe we partied too much? I am
2680 not sure. I remember watching the sun rise before I went to bed, though.
2681 Oh well. Here's your release! Enjoy!
2682 By The Way, we have uploaded our party pictures to a website.
2683 http://www.dorky.net/gaim/party/ They are nothing spectacular but I hope you
2684 enjoy them! :).
2686 0.9.7:
2687 Well, boys and girls, it's that time again! Yup, time for the good
2688 release fairy to come bless us with her infinite wisdom and divine presence.
2689 Umm, yeah, something like that. Anyways, this release has several little
2690 "bad" network fixes (as Jim likes to say) and a couple touch-ups to a few
2691 other features. It also features preliminary oscar support. Thanks to Jim
2692 and Adam ("the libfaim guy") hehe :) We have also corrected a problem with
2693 gaim not wainting to correctly save your password if you have an underscore
2694 in it. Thanks to w1za7d for pointing out the underscore problem. ' and \
2695 have also been fixed in passwords. :o)
2697 0.9.6:
2698 Sorry about the little segfaulting bugs in the past release. Rob
2699 is stupid. :). Anyways, they have been patched up and a couple new features
2700 have been added. I hope you guys enjoy.
2702 0.9.5:
2703 Well we added a myriad of new features to this release. (A lot of
2704 small buggie fixes too.) If you need a detailed list just check out the
2705 ChangeLog. We now have a new webpage design and have added a FAQ to the
2706 distribution. Before coming to us with any problems please take a quick
2707 look through the FAQ to make sure we havent already covered your question.
2708 Also, thanks to our beloved Web Monkey, FlynOrange, we have all
2709 learned the true power of foam weapons, slinkies, and whoopie cushions. Hmm
2710 gotta love those pranks, eh?
2712 0.8.0:
2713 Well, just starting the NEWS file. I'll try to remember what's new
2714 from the last version. Hmmm. BIG code reorg. Import/export, buddy pounce
2715 among the major new features. Autoconf script too, which is a big win.
2716 Apologies to those who submitted patches which haven't made it in.. I
2717 promise, the next version! This code reorg took up a lot of my time, and I
2718 want to get it out there.