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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 2.7.8 (??/??/????):
7 2.7.7 (11/23/2010):
8 John: Well, this time around, we should finally have the certificate
9 issue really and fully fixed for all of you MSN users. Also, we have
10 a few AIM-related fixes in this release, most notably the fix for the
11 new "SSL Handshake Failure" message some of you got after upgrading.
12 That one was an oversight on our part. Enjoy the fixes!
14 2.7.6 (11/21/2010):
15 Jorge: In this release I have merged two branches where I have spent
16 most of my time in the last months, the MSNP16 and SLP-rewrite. I
17 hope you all will enjoy the hability to be connected on multiple
18 instances at the same time. I also hope that the SLP rewrite
19 fix a lot of old bugs that we have in the tracker. I am really
20 happy with this rewrite because there was untoched code from almost
21 5 years ago. I hope you like this release!
23 John: In this release, we give you some new features and a bunch of
24 bug fixes. This includes shipping intermediate certificates to fix
25 certificate validation for MSN's servers. Upgrade and enjoy!
27 2.7.5 (10/31/2010):
28 John: A bugfix release for all of you! This time we fixed a bunch of
29 bugs ranging from annoying regressions to long-standing bugs we didn't
30 realize until now were bugs. Enjoy!
32 2.7.4 (10/20/2010):
33 John: This release came at this particular time due to some security
34 issues Daniel discovered for us when investigating a bug. There are
35 a ton of other changes, including some partial Yahoo file transfer
36 fixes and a bunch of other little things. Enjoy!
38 2.7.3 (08/10/2010):
39 Mark: Lots of little incremental[1] bug fixes and enhancements in this
40 release.
42 [1] No whales were harmed[2] during the creation of this release.
43 [2] Probably.
45 John: Finally got some fixes out there for you Yahoo users behind some
46 particularly annoying firewalls and proxies, among other fixes. Enjoy!
48 2.7.2 (07/21/2010):
49 Mark: We discovered a security issue in Pidgin 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 and
50 decided to release a patched version quickly. This release contains
51 the fix for that crash, and a few other minor fixes.
53 2.7.1 (05/29/2010):
54 Elliott: Hey, I'm first! How did that happen?! Maybe because of the
55 interesting changes in this release. Sure there were quite a few bug
56 fixes, but I know what you've all been waiting for is the direct
57 connections in MSN. Trust me, it's really really fast!!
59 John: Whoa, short turnaround for us. This is just 17 days after our
60 previous release! This fixes a number of bugs that you've all been
61 reporting a ton of duplicate tickets about and even gives you the new
62 direct connection file transfer support for MSN. Enjoy!
64 Marcus: Quite a bit quicker to get this release out, compared with the
65 previous one :). Fixes a number of bugs, and I'm sure the MSN direct
66 connections will please many users. Enjoy!
68 2.7.0 (05/12/2010):
69 John: We FINALLY got the ICQ X-Status stuff merged in! And a few other
70 patches that have been sitting on Trac forever. Couple that with some
71 new features and we have an excellent release for all of you!
73 Marcus: Finally time for a new release, seems like it took
74 quite a while this time. But then again, there are some new features
75 in there, like file transfer preview (thumbnails) support (only on MSN
76 so far), plus a lot of bug fixes. Enjoy!
78 Paul: Yay, a new release! I don't think I added very much useful to
79 this release, other than fixing a paste bug from Chrome (no weird
80 characters appended to the end of your URI). Enjoy!
82 Jorge: This is my first NEWS! I'm not sure I added something nice
83 to this release. I know it took a lot of time to bring this one
84 out, however I'm really excited by this release. I hope everyone
85 likes the new features this release brings.
87 Elliott: This release took so long, I had to go check the ChangeLog
88 just to see what happened. I doubt many people will notice, but we
89 dropped support for many old things, like GTK+<2.10 and MSNP9. In more
90 exciting news, we have file transfer previews on MSN, and support for
91 setting moods on ICQ and XMPP (which has been waiting forever.)
93 2.6.6 (02/18/2010):
94 Mark: This release includes some great little changes and fixes a few
95 security-related bugs. See the ChangeLog for details.
97 2.6.5 (01/08/2010):
98 Paul: This release fixes a pretty serious bug in the MSN code, so we're
99 releasing this build a little earlier than planned with only major
100 bugs fixed. See the ChangeLog for details. Enjoy!
102 2.6.4 (11/29/2009):
103 John: It's release time again. Lots of bug fixes this time around, as
104 well as a new protocol plugin developed and maintained by the MXit folks
105 folks. Elliott and I also did a ton of work on the Preferences window,
106 which will now hopefully fit on most people's small screens. Enjoy!
108 Elliott: This release has been in the works for so long, I don't really
109 remember doing any work on it. But I do know the MSN servers gave us a
110 little bit of trouble this time around, forgetting people's friendly
111 names. Nothing too problematic, just a touch annoying. Also, we've got
112 a nice new Preferences dialog. You can thank John for that mostly, with
113 a couple of tweaks by me.
115 Sadrul: A lot of little fixes for a lot of things! Among them, a fix
116 for a long standing issue with displaying unicode in non-utf8 locale in
117 finch. We also have a new prpl for MXit. This release is very very cool
118 altogether. Enjoy!
120 2.6.3 (10/16/2009):
121 Mark: Someone reported a fairly serious bug in our AIM/ICQ code
122 so we're releasing a special "severe bug fix only" build. See the
123 ChangeLog for details. Enjoy!
125 2.6.2 (09/05/2009):
126 Mark: Woo boy it's been a busy two weeks. There was a lot of new code
127 in 2.6.0, and with new code comes new bugs. The cadre of relentless
128 developers responsible for Pidgin have been hard at work, and I believe
129 they have fixed all the major bugs that cropped up. My thanks to all
130 those names listed as Current Developers in Pidgin's 'About' window.
132 Elliott: Well now, just as Mark said, there was a lot of new stuff that
133 probably came up with tons of bugs. So I can't say I wrote anything
134 super-awesome, but I definitely fixed quite a few of those itty-bitty
135 why-didn't-this-work-this-way sort of bugs.
137 2.6.1 (08/18/2009):
138 Mark: There were a lot of changes in 2.6.0, and so a few major bugs
139 crept in. This is a very minor release to fix those bugs. Sorry for
140 the inconvenience!
142 2.6.0 (08/18/2009):
143 John: Wow, four straight releases that I'm the first to NEWS on. This
144 is getting kinda scary! I'm beginning to wonder who else actually does
145 anything around here! (Just kidding, of course.) LOTS of new features
146 and a crapton of bugfixes this release. There should pretty much be
147 something for everybody. A great example of this is the ton of Yahoo
148 changes that have happened thanks to our SoC student from 2008, Sulabh
149 Mahajan. Among his massive improvements are the ability to add MSN
150 buddies by adding them as "msn/user@domain.tld" and peer-to-peer file
151 transfers. Of course, history shows we can't please everyine, so I'm
152 sure I'll see a complaint or five thousand in trac. Enjoy, though!
154 Marcus: This is my first news! It's been quite a few microreleases this
155 time, but now we're finally at 2.6.0. I suppose the most anticipated
156 new feature in this release is the voice and video support, thanks to
157 Mike's heroic work. I've managed to slip in a few features too, like
158 in-band bytestream file transfers as a fallback on XMPP and idle time
159 reporting on XMPP. Enjoy!
161 Paul: This is my first news, too! This release has definitely been a
162 long time coming; hopefully it won't disappoint since we've closed over
163 200 tickets. Among other things, Tobias Markmann's GSoC project from
164 last year was merged, which means we now support BOSH (XMPP connections
165 over HTTP), and Andrei Mozzhuhin contributed an XMPP Service Discovery
166 Browser. Also, thanks to Bernmeister for poking (at least) several
167 hundred old tickets!
169 Mike: Ditto. This is my first news as well. I have a feeling this is
170 getting repetitive at this point, but voice and video support is
171 finally here! Thanks to the rest of the Pidgin team, Farsight 2, and
172 GStreamer developers for making this possible! (I finally finished my
173 Summer of Code project :D)
175 Elliott: Hey, this is my firs... Wait, no it isn't. Now I feel left
176 out. So have you heard about this voice and video thing?
177 Unfortunately, not quite ready for all protocols, but it's getting
178 there. MSN gained support for receiving voice clips at least, and
179 finally we have Ink receiving capabilities too. Thanks to the guys
180 who wrote the original patch. And finally, MSN no longer has over a
181 100 tickets open!
183 2.5.9 (08/18/2009):
184 John: This release is just a crash fix release to address a security
185 issue reported to us by CORE and a couple crashes Elliott found.
187 2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
188 John: This release is another somewhat rushed bugfix release to fix
189 a number of bugs that have come up since we released Pidgin 2.5.7.
190 Hopefully anything I broke there is fixed now, or at least made to be
191 less broken. Enjoy!
193 2.5.7 (06/20/2009):
194 John: This release is really just a rushed fix for the broken Yahoo
195 protocol plugin. I spent way more time on this release than I care
196 to admit, so I hope that time is well spent and this fixes the issues
197 people have been having.
199 2.5.6 (05/19/2009):
200 Ka-Hing: Many much bugfixes. Hooray. (Paul told me to say that)
201 Oh, no one has met Paul yet? He's awesome, he backported my fixes
202 to the release branch so I didn't have to checkout a
203 workspace... except I just did to NEWS to tell you all about
204 that. Oh and I actually did do something for this release, none of
205 which is user visible though. This basically applies to the rest
206 of the release as well, nothing exciting, but you definitely want
207 it.
209 Daniel: This should fix a number of annoying issues that some users
210 have encountered. We also would like to thank Veracode
211 (http://www.veracode.com) who performed a code analysis and found some
212 bugs that were addressed in this release.
214 Elliott: I feel like I'm repeating myself, but there are some more MSN
215 fixes that should make things better behaved at login as well, and
216 maybe you'll stop getting some of those annoying errors (though not all
217 are fixed yet). Some other bugfixes, plus the craziness that is the
218 libxml "structured error handler" make up the rest of this release.
220 2.5.5 (03/01/2009):
221 John: Well, yet another release with bug fixing and patches. Hopefully
222 one of the fixed bugs is one that irritated you. Also, thank Dimmuxx
223 for spending far too much time working on ICQ this release.
225 Elliott: Lots and lots of MSN bugfixes again (I hope they're fixed, at
226 least). I think we finally have OCS/Yahoo!/federated buddies working
227 now. And there should be some workarounds for some server things that
228 may or may not have been our fault (like buddies on Allow+Block) which
229 should make general usage a bit smoother.
231 2.5.4 (01/12/2009):
232 John: Well, we fixed a few bugs for you this time around, I applied
233 a few patches, and we've dealt with what feels like a TON of tickets
234 about two very common issues. Feels like time for a release to me.
236 Etan: My first NEWS in quite a while and I don't have much to say. I
237 haven't been too active lately and I'm hoping that won't be the case
238 going forward. I managed to get in a few perl fixes and some UI
239 language tweaks this release. My plan is to work on some of the
240 issues pointed out by mpt (during his expert review of pidgin a little
241 while back) in the near future.
243 2.5.3 (12/18/2008):
244 Mark: It's been about two months and woo-boy have we been fixing
245 bugs. Enjoy!
247 Kevin: I didn't do much of anything this release, but Mark and
248 John must be commended for their tireless efforts to fix bugs
249 and approve patches, especially in areas of Pidgin that have
250 not usually received much attention. Lots of changes have
251 been made, so definitely check the ChangeLog to see what's new.
253 John: It feels like it's been an age or two since we last released,
254 and I think it's well worth the wait. Mark has sunk more time into
255 MSN and MySpace IM this release than any sane person should be
256 allowed to, and I've sunk more time into patches than I care to
257 admit. By my count, our ChangeLog has 58 bullet points(!) and we've
258 closed 85 tickets specifically for this release. Enjoy!
260 Ka-Hing: Bring your XMPP server to 2008 some time in 2009 would be
261 nice, DreamHost!
263 Elliott: Well, I can't blame the server for this release taking so long
264 but that's just how it worked out. A few interesting MSN changes this
265 time. Hopefully, federated & Yahoo! buddies will work for you, but I'm
266 not yet certain it's ready. Mark made so many fixes, I'm not even sure
267 I recognize everything anymore, but hopefully that'll make things less
268 crashy for you.
270 2.5.2 (10/19/2008):
271 Ethan: After a bit of a struggle with our services, which put
272 this release off for an unfortunate length of time, we're
273 ready for another bugfix release for your bug-free(er?)
274 messaging pleasure.
276 Sadrul: Despite our best efforts, this release got delayed by a
277 couple of weeks. But here it is! It is mostly a bug fix release, with
278 a couple of important fixes, e.g. fix for the Yahoo! disconnect
279 problem. Also, welcome our newest Crazy Patch Writer, Marcus Lundblad,
280 who, among various other fixes, has implemented custom smileys for the
281 XMPP protocol, included in this release. Enjoy!
283 Stu: I guess this is the time of year for server migrations, and
284 I've just about had enough of them. Fortunately Pidgin is still fun,
285 and this release should be superb.
287 John: Although our services were down for quite some time, we didn't
288 lose any data, except perhaps some mail that would have failed to make
289 it to us. Overall, the only major effect it had was to delay this
290 release far longer than we expected. Hopefully the bugfixes make you
291 happy!
293 Elliott: This release took a while, but that was due to an unfortunate
294 server snafu. I didn't have much to do with it, but hopefully the new
295 servers will help us out a bit. Anyway, mostly bug-fixes this time.
296 Nothing spectacular, unless you happen to suffer from one of those bugs.
297 Oh, and don't forget, the "Has you" tooltip is back!
299 2.5.1 (08/30/2008):
300 Kevin: This release is mainly a bug-fix release. It solves a few
301 known crashes and updates some of our artwork. Google's Summer of
302 code recently finished up. Some of our students are still working
303 on their branches and none have been merged into released code yet.
304 Look for some of those results to show up in Pidgin releases over the
305 coming months.
307 Elliott: I'm just commenting so Kevin wouldn't be the only one in NEWS
308 and no-one else seems to want to. Anyway, there's a couple MSN login
309 fixes, so try it out. The contact list problems might still be around,
310 but you can probably find a workaround in trac. And there's a tooltip
311 fix for our AIM friends, not that I had anything to do with it (except
312 closing many many duplicate tickets).
314 2.5.0 (08/17/2008):
315 Daniel: Lots of good stuff in this release. Lots of people have worked
316 very hard on the updated MSN protocol, and it's finally time to bring
317 it to the world! There are myriad bugfixes, including some important
318 ones so you should be sure to update.
320 Hylke: Finally MSNP15 support. To celebrate this I refreshed a lot of
321 the smilies used in the protocol and added the long awaited indispensable
322 bunny icon. I think this is one of those releases that will make a lot
323 of users happy, especially MSN users.
325 Elliott: Oh look, my first NEWS! Well anyway, with that new MSNP15
326 support, this release is set up to be a huge success and a total flop
327 all at the same time. Here's hoping it's the "huge success" one for you.
328 Those icon changes that Hylke made, while minor, really make things look
329 a little cleaner, I think. Oh yea, did I mention that MSNP15 stuff?
331 Mark: Speaking of MSNP15, we'd like to welcome Elliott Sales de Andrade
332 as a full fledged developer! He took the last few strides mushing the
333 new MSN code into shape. Then he decided that wasn't enough and started
334 doing other great stuff.
336 Ka-Hing: "Reject"ing a certificate after your account is signed off is
337 not recommended. Deleting the file after you start sending it is also
338 discouraged.
340 2.4.3 (07/01/2008):
341 Richard: This release includes important bug fixes. I'm just cutting
342 the release. Thank you to the real heroes who did the fixing!
344 2.4.2 (5/17/2008):
345 Sadrul: We added some usability changes in this release, including the
346 typing notification, buddyicon and input area size in the conversation
347 windows, escape to close conversation windows etc. These changes should
348 make pidgin more usable and more fun for Everyone! *wink*
350 Stu: I fixed some memory leaks, but nothing like as many as Daniel did.
351 MSN buddy list synchronization should be significantly less painful now,
352 and opening MSN inboxes might work better too. SILC passphrase changes
353 and support for passphrase-less keys has been improved also.
355 2.4.1 (3/31/2008):
356 Stu: We fixed some bugs, this release should be 110% better than 2.4.0
358 John: Well, I didn't really do much this release except muck about with
359 the configure script. Blame me if it worked in 2.4.0 but doesn't now.
361 Will: We seem to be falling into a nice pattern of releasing on the last
362 day of a month. Hypothetical AIX users might be pleased to learn that
363 Pidgin might actually run for them now!
365 2.4.0 (2/29/2008):
366 John: While this release took what seems like forever to get out the
367 door, I think it's well worth the wait, especially for Yahoo! users.
368 This release serves up some fixes for long standing bugs and adds
369 file transfer for transfers with newer Yahoo! clients (finally!). As
370 is standard with code I committed, where it works great thank the
371 patch writer, and where it's broken, feel free to yell at me. Enjoy!
373 Sadrul: Finch is more colourful and blinky in this release! There's
374 now a log viewer, which is very useful, and also the ability to
375 block/unblock buddies. It's now also possible to find chat rooms on
376 many services, e.g. XMPP, IRC, Yahoo! etc. Happy Leap Day!
378 Ka-Hing: I think all I've done for this release is committing some
379 patches written by other people.
381 Stu: Finally, 2.4.0 lands. I didn't do all that much except complain
382 about things I didn't like or just revert Sean's changes. I'm quite
383 pleased with how well it's turned out in the end.
384 Happy Birthday Fred, you must be nearly 10 now ;-)
386 2.3.1 (12/7/2007):
387 Stu: I'm sorry for the MSN problems and the plugin crashes in 2.3.0.
388 Hopefully this will redeem us. This fixes a number of bugs. I'm a
389 bit late but I'd like to welcome John to the team. Enjoy!
391 Luke: I've done absolutely nothing in the last 2 weeks, except watch
392 others commit bug and, more, leak fixes. People should be noticing
393 remarkably fewer memory leaks now than 2 or more releases ago.
395 Kevin: I'm not quite sure what happened to our MySpaceIM Summer of
396 Code student, but I fixed a few MySpace bugs with idle and status.
397 I will try to fix some of the other more significant bugs, after I
398 figure out the protocol, especially including grouping issues.
400 2.3.0 (11/20/2007):
401 Luke: While this does not have the new MSN code, rest assured that
402 we are working on it and that it is nearing release. This contains
403 a significant number of fixes, including some that were marked as
404 fixed for earlier releases. Happy Thanksgiving!
406 John: This is my first NEWS entry! So, this time around we have an
407 updated man page (the old one hadn't been really updated since
408 before the GTK+ 2.0 migration!), lots of bug fixes, and some new
409 features for you all. Enjoy!
411 2.2.2 (10/23/2007):
412 Luke: Because the main branch of pidgin development is still not
413 ready for public consumption, I have taken some time to try to
414 pull the many bug fixes that have happened since then into a
415 separate branch. This release is the result of that effort.
417 2.2.1 (9/28/2007):
418 Richard: We have some new code in the pipeline, but it's not quite
419 ready for a general release. Instead, this is basically a bug fix
420 release.
422 Luke: Unfortunately the necessity of this bug fix release means
423 some of the tickets that have been closed as part of the 2.2.1
424 milestone are not actually fixed yet. We have grabbed as many
425 of the changes as we could while avoiding those that are as
426 yet unstable though, and this should still be a marked
427 improvement over 2.2.0. We have spent a lot of time since the
428 last release looking at the tickets that have been submitted
429 and many of them have been closed.
431 Stu: I haven't NEWS'd in a while. I haven't actually done much for
432 too long also, maybe I'll find some time soon. This release is
433 basically what 2.2.0 should have been - it actually compiles this
434 time.
436 2.2.0 (9/13/2007):
437 Sean: 2.2.0 contains the results of several major Google Summer
438 of Code branches bringing some new, extraordinary features. We
439 have a new protocol, MySpaceIM, a bunch of new features for an
440 existing protocol, XMPP, and nifty new certificate management
441 to make sure your IM server is who it says it is.
443 Ka-Hing: A number of you noticed crashes when dragging windows
444 around when certain options are enabled. Well, that was my fault,
445 and Sadrul fixed it. So Props to him and poos to me. I haven't
446 done much for this release, but the next one should contain
447 something that I helped work on. Hint: students are cheap slave
448 coders!
450 Kevin: I haven't really been coding much in Pidgin, and this
451 release is no exception, but I will be working on getting our
452 wonderful web site to be a little more functional by next
453 release. I promise!
455 2.1.1 (8/20/2007):
456 Sean: Continuing our schedule of frequent releases, Pidgin 2.1.1
457 is out. In it, we've addressed a lot of UI issues from our
458 experimental new changes introduced in 2.1.0, and gave a lot of
459 attention to Yahoo! and Bonjour. Thanks to everyone who
460 contributed.
462 Luke: We have reworked some parts of the conversation windows in
463 response to user comments. We did not quite reach 100 tickets
464 closed this release, so a fair few will role over again. Still,
465 we are slowly but surely working our way through the reported bugs.
466 Many thanks to everyone who has helped with tracking down the
467 various issues, testing fixes, and getting patches in.
469 Tim: Sean finally got me to fix some of the buddy list bugs with
470 Yahoo! when in version 15 mode. So now we have some Yahoo! to
471 MSN support, which is kind of nice. Looks like some others have
472 been contributing to Yahoo! while I've been AWOL, so many thanks
473 to them.
475 2.1.0 (7/28/2007):
476 Sean: This release took a bit longer than 3 weeks, but boy is it
477 worth it! We're beginning to experiment with new UI concepts and
478 this release features a largely re-designed conversation window.
479 We've closed 150 tickets for this release; much thanks go to all
480 the developers, translators, and testers who made this possible.
482 Ka-Hing: Sean said no one else NEWS'ed, so I figure I should.
484 2.0.2 (6/14/2007):
485 Sean: Another big maintenance release. Again, about 100 tickets were
486 resolved in this release, and they keep coming in. Lots of bug fixes,
487 some minor icon adjustements, hopefully we addressed some ICQ
488 internationalization issues, and support for Bonjour on Windows!
489 Our next release will be 2.1.0, and will come with some great new
490 features.
492 Stu: I think we're gradually getting the hang of this 3 week thing
493 again. This release includes yet more bug fixes. I'd also like to
494 specifically thank Pekka Riikonen for the patch to enable using SILC
495 Toolkit 1.1 with Pidgin/libpurple that is included in this release.
497 2.0.1 (5/24/2007):
498 Sean: 2.0.1! Three weeks later, as scheduled! It is so nice to have
499 regular, frequent, releases again! This is a bugfix release; We have
500 fixed over 100 issues reported to us at http://developer.pidgin.im.
501 Thanks to everyone for their great work, and look for the next release
502 in another three weeks!
504 Stu: Lots'o'fixes in this. I don't know how you users find so many
505 things for us to fix. 24 hours in a day (sadly). 24 is divisible by the
506 sum of its digits and by their product. It is the smallest composite
507 number, the product of whose divisors is a cube.
509 Luke: I requested that we have a bug fix release, and so we have!
510 Many, though unfortunately not all, of the reports that have been
511 submitted to us since 2.0.0 have been fixed now, and so you should
512 all have a much more stable experience with this release. I also
513 want to thank the many users who have resubmitted their reports
514 as we close out the old Source Forge bug tracker. If all goes well,
515 your report will get the attention it deserves as we continue to
516 work on Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple.
518 Nathan: A ton of fixes have gone into this release. The feedback
519 we've gotten on 2.0.0 has been incredible. Hopefully we've resolved
520 most of the critical issues with 2.0.1. If we haven't, I'm sure
521 our wonderful users will let us hear about it. I seem to be
522 forgetting something...oh, right, I haven't promised any cool new
523 features in the next release! So, I promise at least one cool new
524 feature in the next release...you just might have to adjust your
525 definition of 'cool' to get it.
527 Etan: Perl plugins now have access to almost all of the savedstatus
528 API functions. I also removed a couple of the preferences from the
529 Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin which should help many of the people
530 for whom the configuration dialog size was a problem. The removed
531 preferences no longer had the effects they were added to have anyway.
533 2.0.0 (5/3/2007):
534 Sean: 2.0.0! It's real exciting to finally release Pidgin 2.0.0! I'm
535 really proud of all the work we've all done. I'm pumped. And, while
536 I could go on about all the amazing thing that have been added since
537 1.5.0, what I'm really excited about is getting back to a regular,
538 rapid, release cycle of active, open development, unhindered by legal
539 quandries. Huge thanks to everyone involved.
541 Luke: We have finally managed to get 2.0.0 out the door, after nearly
542 but not quite 2 years of effort and fustration. No one regrets more
543 than I that we were unable to make any of betas 3-6 the actual release.
544 But at long last, it is out, and life can return to a more normal
545 state. There were many tough calls to be made in the last 2 years.
546 Not everyone has agreed with the resulting decisions, that is un-
547 fortunate, but unavoidable. Suffice it to say that despite what
548 some users appear to think, a ton of thought, argument, discussion,
549 and experimentation has gone into this release. This release
550 builds on many years of experience, both as developers writing the
551 code, users using it, and in supporting other users. I hope that
552 those who download and install this will give it a fair shot, and
553 attempt to avoid knee-jerk reactions.
555 Evan: One small step for bird, one giant leap for birdkind... except
556 this is hardly one small step. A lot more has changed from Gaim 1.5.0
557 than just the name. Pidgin has a *very* attractive new look, a whole
558 new member of the family (Finch, formerly gaim-console) has been born,
559 and libpurple has come into its own as a solid, full-featured library
560 powering the greatest IM clients around. Bugs were fixed and
561 features were added by the hundreds (thousands?) since the last
562 major release, all while improving performance and resisting feature
563 creep. As Luke said, a ton of thought and effort has gone into
564 Pidgin 2.0.0; I'm proud to have played a part.
566 Stu: We did it! finally, we have 2.0.0. It's been a long time coming,
567 but there's a great deal of goodness here. When I say a long time, I'm
568 not kidding - it's been 972 days since we branched off "oldstatus"
569 (aka 1.x). The early Greeks were uncertain as to whether 2 was a
570 number at all (or if we'd ever make this release) - it has a beginning
571 and an end but no middle (much like our unfortunately quiet development
572 period). 2 is the first prime number and the only even prime. 2 is also
573 the first deficient number (oh well). There are only 10 types of people
574 in the world - those who like our new names and those who do not.
575 Enjoy!
577 Richard: I'm very glad that we've finally gotten 2.0.0 released and
578 I look forward to returning to a more normal development schedule.
579 Again, a big thanks to everyone who helped in any way to get things
580 where they are today. Congratulations everyone!
582 Sadrul: My first NEWS, and on what an occasion! Pidgin 2.0.0 is finally
583 released!! And it's *really* very good!!! Give your soul a break ...
584 Use Pidgin!
586 Daniel: There has been a fair amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth
587 due to the delays in getting this beast out. I'm really happy that it
588 is done. I'm also very happy with what we're releasing - I think it is
589 far more stable, packed with useful features and, dare I say, prettier
590 than any previous release.
592 2.0.0beta7 (4/29/2007):
593 Sean: Beta 7. The final beta. A few major changes from beta6. For
594 starters, we have some new names. That's pretty cool. We have a new
595 logo, to go along with it. And a lot of great icons! As Nathan mentions
596 below, we're totally back in the open now, having a signed agreement
597 from AOL that puts us in the clear. We all really regret having to go
598 completely dark for so long. Anyway, unlike betas1-6, which were of
599 normal release quality, this one is actually beta quality. There are
600 a few significant known issues, and a lot of changes that need a lot
601 of real-world testing. So, if you'd like to help us out, give it a
602 whirl, and let us know if you run into any major issues.
604 Nathan: So, the secret is out now. We renamed to Pidgin. I'd just
605 like to apologize to everyone we've had to keep in the dark for the
606 last however-many months. I know it looked like development slowed
607 to a crawl, but in reality we've been working pretty hard to get
608 2.0.0 out the door, without getting into any legal trouble. I
609 realize that if we were some big corporation, we'd be getting flamed
610 about this secrecy for months. Please try to remember that we're
611 just a bunch of geeks who were scared of legal stuff (well, at least
612 I was. Scared, that is). The bottom line is that we're out in the
613 open again, and fully plan to stay that way. We're also opening up
614 the mail archives from the secretive past few months. You can scan
615 through them if you want, or I can summarize. "Are the lawyers done
616 yet? No. Now? No. How about now? No." All lawyer jokes aside,
617 I'm grateful to our legal team for crossing all the 't's and dotting
618 all the lowercase 'j's to get us the deal we got. Anyways, thanks
619 for your patience, and on to 2.0.1!
621 Gary: Well my silence, and our silence has ended. Finally the name
622 change is over and done with and we can go back to a normal dev
623 cycle. Now if I can just get myself back onto a normal dev cycle,
624 but that's another story all together.
626 Ethan: Not to be too "me-too", but I have to say that I'm really
627 excited about the project's new name and identity, and glad to be
628 out of the legal mess. We're pushing beta 7 with all of the
629 branding and organizational changes that have been going on for
630 the last few months, so there are likely to be some snags --
631 please help us out by trying beta 7, searching for any bugs you
632 find in the bug tracker at http://developer.pidgin.im/, and
633 documenting them if they are unknown or you can provide new
634 information. Help us make 2.0.0 final a release to be remembered
635 (in a good way)! I'd like to give huge thanks to all of the
636 developers, our steadfast supporters, the crazy patch writers, and
637 everyone else who has made this transition to Pidgin possible, and
638 the improvements that go along with it. I'd like to extend a
639 special thanks to Sean, for leading us through the legal issues
640 and taking care of all of the paperwork and overhead that no one
641 wants to deal with.
643 2.0.0beta6 (1/17/2007):
644 Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be
645 the final beta release before 2.0.0. This has a bunch of cool UI
646 changes, some Google Talk features, a bunch new plugins, and other
647 goodness.
649 Nathan: Beta6 rocks. That is all.
651 Gary: Long time no news. My silence will end soon ;)
653 Evan: My first news! I knocked out a nice collection of crashes,
654 thanks in part to my ever-patient Adium beta testers. Gaim 2.0.0
655 is going to be delicious. :)
657 2.0.0beta5 (11/9/2006):
658 Sean: Another release in our endless stream in betas. This one's
659 pretty awesome; and it fixes major bugs introduced in previous
660 ones.
662 2.0.0beta4 (10/17/2006)
663 Sean: Still beta. Maybe the next one should be a gamma.. :)
665 Daniel: I'm super chuffed to announce that this will work with newer
666 (i.e. >= 2.8.0) versions of GTK+ on Windows.
668 Luke: Several significant changes in this one, including no longer
669 using libao for sound! There are no doubt bugs here, but hopefully
670 nothing major.
672 Nathan: I don't have much to say, but yay for another beta!
674 Etan: I did a bunch of perl work for this beta again, there is now
675 some support for perl scripts to call functions in the gtk ui, it
676 still needs work.
678 2.0.0beta3 (03/25/2006):
679 Mark: Yeah, I know, another beta. Don't worry, we'll get this
680 puppy out the door eventually.
682 2.0.0beta2 (01/24/2006):
683 Mark: So this is the new year, and I don't feel any different, but
684 Gaim is getting better. We hope this will be our last beta before
685 we release the final version of 2.0.0. As before, please shower us
686 in feedback!
688 Richard: I'm proud to say a lot of bugs have been squashed in this
689 version. If you filed a bug against beta1, please test to see if
690 it's fixed now and update your bug report accordingly (by either
691 closing it or setting the version to 2.0.0beta2). I'm also looking
692 for someone who uses Gaim on MacOS X to test a patch for me before
693 I can commit it. See http://gaim.sf.net/contactinfo.php for my
694 contact information.
696 Etan: So I did a bunch of work on the perl plugin since beta1, so
697 anyone who uses perl plugins would do well to expect some things to
698 need updating (I'm not certain everything works yet, so please send me
699 any reports of things that don't). Most of the work was correcting
700 some namespace issues, but I also improved the support for perl
701 plugins having plugin_pref frames, and plugin actions. Multiple perl
702 plugins can now have plugin_pref frames at the same time, and every
703 perl plugin can have multiple plugin actions now. Like Mark said
704 above, let us know how this beta works out.
706 2.0.0beta1 (12/17/2005):
707 Sean: I think Nathan sums everything up really well below. There's still
708 a bunch we want to add (and remove) before the official release, but we
709 really want to start getting feedback about what's good and what's not.
710 So, please, be vocal about this beta!
712 Nathan: 15 months since we branched oldstatus, and started working on
713 the behemoth that is 2.0.0. In that time, we've added a couple new
714 protocols, we had a few crazy patch writers become developers, and
715 had a few more people step up to be crazy patch writers. Sean wrote
716 a book, and we arbitrarily decided to make a version 1.0.0, and a
717 new versioning scheme. We got new artwork, and added almost 200 lines
718 to the ChangeLog. We've watched 2 major GTK+ releases, and added all
719 kinds of features using them. OK, I've wasted enough bits here. This
720 beta rocks, but it is a beta. Treat it as such, and enjoy!
722 Gary: Finally we have a beta. There are a lot of new goodies, including
723 quite a few summer of code projects that couldn't get added into the
724 oldstatus branch because API changes. We also have a new mono plugin
725 loader for even more plugin fun.
727 Richard: Thanks to all who wrote patches (big or small) for this beta.
729 Tim: Well here it is, the first beta. There's a lot of cool things in
730 here, but not all of them are finished or debugged. But then that's
731 why it's called a beta. Conversations are now contact-aware, and
732 there's a new status selector. There's smooth scrolling on incoming
733 messages as well. Our Crazy Patch Writers have been doing a good
734 job too, it seems like we're never lacking some patches in the
735 tracker to review.
737 Etan: I know I'm not going to be able to think of all the things I should
738 talk about here so I'll just go with the stuff I remember. Adding buddies
739 on ejabberd jabber servers should work more correctly now (it's possible
740 adding buddies on other servers is a bit broken currently I'm still
741 looking into it). There are still other jabber issues I'm looking into
742 with handling of buddies.
743 In other topics, I finally brought my Accounts menu into gaim, though the
744 current example of it isn't exactly what I had in mind, anyone with any
745 suggestions/comments/etc about it please speak up.
746 Other than the stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting to mention this beta should
747 be awesome as gaim 2.0.0 is going to be awesome. Have fun with it.
749 Luke: pretty much everything important has been said, so this is going to
750 be rather repetative. This is a beta folks, so it will have bugs. It
751 will crash unexpectedly. Perhaps even frequently. Use it at your peril.
752 But do use it (though you might want to back up ~/.gaim first), and let us
753 know what needs to be fixed.
755 Mark: Yay.
757 Stu: Wow!
759 Siege: Sametime accounts created with gaim-meanwhile should merge over
760 for use in the beta just fine. Some of the familiar settings regarding
761 the buddy list are gone, so I recommend backing up your Sametime blist
762 before getting down and crazy. Have fun, and happy early Decemberween!
764 Daniel: Enjoy! In the hopes that this prevents someone pain... do not use
765 Glib/GTK+ 2.8.x with Wingaim - it will not work. We're looking into the
766 problem and hope to have it resolved before the final release.
767 "Happy Holidays!"
769 1.5.0 (8/11/2005):
770 Mark: No super crazy major changes here. Just the usual bug
771 fixes and some pretty important security updates.
773 Stu: Buy Sean's book. He obviously needs the money. Other than that
774 we fixed some bugs with this release (I don't think we did much else).
775 SoC students are doing lots of cool stuff which we'll hopefully be
776 able to bring you in a future release.
778 Nathan: I've continued my streak of doing nothing useful lately.
779 However, I've now got a brand-spanking-new DSL line, so I might
780 actually get to contribute soon. One way or another I'd like
781 to get HEAD into a more useable state in the next month or two.
782 Also, like Stu said, buy Sean's book. I've been reading and
783 fixing it for the last umpteen months, so you had better enjoy
784 it.
786 1.4.0 (7/7/2005):
787 Mark: The last month or four we've promoted a bunch of the Gaim
788 Crazy Patch Writers to developers, so there is now an even larger
789 team of brilliant and amazingly sexy committers working around
790 the globe for your instant messaging pleasure. Also, we have
791 what I believe to be our first contribution from a Summer of Code
792 student in this release: Jonathan Clark enabled the sending of
793 files to certain ICQ users. Support is still a bit rough, but
794 he'll be working on it throughout the summer.
796 Luke: Exciting times this summer as our Summer of Code interns
797 start their projects. This is mostly a bug fix release, with the
798 ICQ file transfer that Mark mentioned and some buddy icon work
799 being the only real new code. Hence the extra week delay. A
800 big thanks to our translators who keep churning out updates even
801 when we give them short notice as well. Enjoy!
803 1.3.1 (6/9/2005):
804 Sean: It's been a while since I've done one of these. Welcome to
805 Gaim 1.3.1, "New Hyde Park." This is, again, another bugfix release
806 but it comes with two keen announcements. First, I'd like to welcome
807 Christopher O'Brien to the Gaim team. He has integrated his work on
808 the Meanwhile project into Gaim, ensuring that Gaim 2.0.0 will include
809 Sametime support. Also, we're participating in Google's Summer of
810 Code, which you all should check out at
811 http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/
813 1.3.0 (5/10/2005):
814 Luke: This release fixes SILC for multiple accounts. HOWEVER, you
815 may lose your buddy list (for SILC only) upgrading. This is
816 rather unavoidable as the previous code did not keep track of
817 which account each buddy belonged to.
819 Stu: I'm glad we're finally getting this out, if fixes a number of bugs
820 ranging from minor to not so minor. I'd also like to welcome Gary to
821 the team - he's done a great job with Guifications, I'm sure he'll do
822 good stuff here too.
824 Gary: Well I got pretty much nothing done for this release. Although I
825 do have quite a few things in the works that will come to fruition when
826 I find some more free time.
828 1.2.1 (4/3/2005):
829 Luke: Several important fixes this time around. Big thanks to
830 Robert McQueen, Stu, Nathan, Ethan, and everyone else who has helped
831 with this effort. Maybe next time we can get a decent chance to fix the
832 problems *before* they go public to have a normal release process.
834 Nathan: Jabber got some updates this release (finally). I've got
835 more planned, but simply haven't had the time to anything about it.
837 1.2.0 (3/17/2005):
838 Luke: Happy St. Patrick's Day all. Sean scheduled a release for
839 today, we'll see if we can pull it off. :-) This release
840 features somewhat more than just bug fixes, some improvements
841 have been made to the conversation API which may affect plugin
842 developers. Yahoo users should also thank Tim and Bleeter for
843 their efforts.
845 Etan: I'm going to NEWS since I actually did something this time.
846 Jabber will allow you to unsubscribe to someone's presence
847 without logging out and in again, this does break seeing yourself
848 on your buddy list, but hopefully we'll fix that again for the
849 next release.
851 Stu: Happy St. Guinness^wPatrick's day.
853 1.1.4 (2/24/2005):
854 Sean: Another bug fix release. A big thanks to Rob McQueen, Ari
855 Pollak, Don Seiler, and Warren Togami: some packagers who helped
856 debug a nasty glib 2.6 problem. Also thanks to our own Stu who
857 found and destroyed an MSN crash and an HTML parsing error
859 Luke: Early release to handle the MSN and HTML crashes, as well
860 as the glib crash. Maybe that makes up for having had a 4 week
861 period before the last release. This one should be the nice
862 stable release we meant 1.1.3 to be. Enjoy!
864 Stu: I cleaned up the whitespace in this NEWS, it was bugging me.
866 1.1.3 (2/17/2005):
867 Luke: Yet another bug fix release, many thanks to everyone who has
868 helped to make gaim more stable!
870 Stu: I fixed too many Yahoo HTTP proxy bugs, I should just go and
871 write some core HTTP support that works better. A good all round
872 bug fix release otherwise.
874 1.1.2 (1/20/2005):
875 Luke: Another Bug fix release. This one featuring a fix to the HTTP
876 Method for MSN users and other MSN fixes. A big thanks to Stu and
877 Felipe Contreras for those. Stu also spent a long time in valgrind
878 and so this brings you a Gaim release with fewer memory leaks. This
879 release is on time primarily because I want to see the MSN fixes
880 make it into Debian and Fedora before freezes. Expect further bug
881 fix only releases to come at longer intervals, at Mark's request.
883 Daniel: This is my first NEWS! (YaY) I didn't really do too much for
884 this release. There are a few bugfixes, mostly wingaim stuff. Oh, and
885 I like the new XP System Tray icons.
887 Sean: I'm down here today. I haven't really been paying too much
888 attention to these boring bugfix releases, but I'd like to thank
889 David and welcome him to the team. I'd also like to thank Steven
890 and Nathan from Silverorange who redid the webpage.
892 Tim: Another bug fix release. I didn't really fix any bugs, so
893 I didn't exactly do much for this one. The autopackage will now
894 work with mozilla-nss, if anyone has that, and not gnutls11. (It
895 works with either gnutls11 or mozilla-nss, but not gnutls10)
896 I started working on Gaim-vv again though, and I merged someone's
897 custom msn smiley patch into the 2.0.0 tree, so expect good things
898 whenever that's released (no, don't try it now, you won't like it).
899 Oh and welcome to the team Daniel. Of course, he was already on my
900 Gaim-vv team.
902 Stu: Welcome Daniel! you've done some good stuff already. Felipe did some
903 good work on MSN yet again, so you can all use the HTTP method now. I
904 didn't do all that much, other than let valgrind tell me what to fix, and
905 a couple of easy bug fixes from the bug tracker. Hopefully Ethan will get
906 well soon, so he can get back to merging patches and fixing things.
908 Nathan: I think I made some Jabber fixes, at least one of which is
909 ChangeLog'd. I will continue to make empty promises about new features,
910 especially for 2.0.0. Until then, welcome Daniel!
912 1.1.1 (12/28/2004):
913 Luke: This bug fix release features msn improvements, drag and drop
914 improvements, and some translation stuff. Thanks for everone who has
915 helped with it, and hopefully we can get 2.0.0 out soon. On a side
916 note, i'm still looking for someone to look at the perl plugin loader.
918 1.1.0 (12/02/2004):
919 Luke: Another in our series of bug fix releases, with a slight twist.
920 Everyone thank Ethan for implementing a fall back encoding for IRC,
921 it has been much requested and should make a number of users very
922 happy. See the ChangeLog for details on other fixes.
924 Stu: Much thanks to Miah Gregory and Felipe Contreras, a bunch of
925 memory leaks have been fixed. Felipe also fixed a good number of
926 other MSN bugs. I didn't do much except apply these guys fixes. It's
927 good to see fixes from Gary coming in again too ;-). I like the
928 docklet adjustments Christian made. Btw, we have a new MSN protocol
929 icon, and I think you'll love it.
931 Tim: I made Gaim binary relocatable this release, so Gaim can find
932 itself if it gets lost, and I'm going to try to make autopackages
933 for this release, if the autopackage guys release their new version
934 soon like they're talking. I also "fixed" a scrolling bug, by
935 realizing it was all Gentoo's fault. The IRC encoding thing Ethan
936 did is pretty nice, no more encoding error messages!
938 Ethan: Rumor has it that I did some work this release, but it's just
939 that, a rumor. I think Luke started it. I did lay the hammer down
940 on bogus word wrapping in the NEWS, so you can thank me for that.
941 Keep your powder dry.
943 1.0.3 (11/11/2004):
944 Luke: Not much to see here, some bug fixes that you all will enjoy as
945 the semester draws to a close and everyone still in school gets bogged
946 down with projects, papers, and exams. Enjoy! Oh, and if you are interested
947 in the perl or gadu-gadu functionality, please step up to help write
948 patches, as both of these code blocks are currently unmaintained.
950 Tim: I fixed a couple bugs this time. In other news, Kim wants to get
951 a pet cockatiel or two.
953 Nathan: I was gonna put a new feature in this release, but decided
954 not to because I found a bug in it today, and I'm tired. Also, I haven't
955 consulted the powers-that-be about putting new features into oldstatus.
957 Stu: I'm writing this at 11:11:11pm on 11/11. Eleven. It's 3 really. Or B.
958 It's the 5th smallest prime number. Himalia is the 11th moon of Jupiter.
959 Hendecagon. There are 1011 players on a football team. XI. 16 hours. Eleven
960 is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English. This
961 entry is my 11th lie for today.
963 1.0.2 (10/19/2004):
964 Stu: I'm new around here. I tried to reduce the number of bugs in the bug
965 tracker, but it turns out that the only way to achieve that is to actually
966 _fix_ the bugs. So I fixed a couple, and then sneaked some patches out of
967 the patch tracker to fix some others. Sadly the bug tracker was not
968 significantly affected, maybe if I learn C I'll be able to make more of an
969 impact.
971 Luke: Don't let Stu fool you, he has done a marvelous job on this release,
972 and deserves a lot of credit for it. And a number of those bug fixes are
973 critical ones that he discovered and fixed himself. So go update. Now.
975 Nathan: On the other hand, Nathan has done nothing for this release. Why
976 do we keep him around again?
978 Tim: So, I'm married now, and in Huntsville. I don't remember if I did
979 anything for this release or not, probably not. Bleeter has been more
980 active lately though, perhaps we'll see lots of cool things from him
981 soon.
983 Sean: I'm down here with the "didn't do anything" guys.
985 1.0.1 (10/07/2004):
986 Congratulations to Tim & Kim on their wedding!
988 Sean: So, if you're playing along at home, you're aware that
989 incrementing the micro version number means that the API has
990 not changed at all. Although that itself is insignificant to
991 most everyone but plugin developers, but users won't find too
992 many significant changes. Consult ChangeLog. We're currently
993 branched for some major changes, so expect a really great 2.0.0
994 sometime relatively soon.
996 Luke: Nothing much to see here, some bug fixes. Most of the work
997 is going towards the 2.0.0 release. We aren't quite sure when
998 that will be, and will keep the bug fix releases coming untill
999 all is ready.
1001 Christian: I would call this a ground-breaking release, but it isn't.
1002 It seems like a good one, though. I dunno. I've been too busy at VMware,
1003 unfortunately, but have some work that's just waiting to be finished up
1004 for Gaim. Gaim 2.0.0 is going to rock. Gaim 3.0.0 will rock more.
1005 Do you see a pattern? Thanks go out to Henry Jen for fixing up parts of
1006 the gevolution plugin to support multiple addressbooks, and to all our
1007 moms, for believing in us. Or something.
1009 Nathan: I got a new computer. It's fast. And has twice the bits!
1011 1.0.0 (09/17/2004):
1012 Nathan: Hah! Bet you weren't expecting this! OK, if you were
1013 paying any attention to the flame^H^H^H^H^Hthread on gaim-devel,
1014 you might have been expecting this. But here it is, 1.0.0. Our
1015 new versioning scheme has slightly more meaning than the older
1016 one (expecially for plugin authors), but our 1.0(.0) release is
1017 just as meaningless as we could have hoped. Enjoy!
1019 Luke: We've changed our pattern for version numbers with this
1020 release, we are no longer simply counting versions. This release
1021 then marks, not something traditionally "1.0" but the current
1022 version of the api. When backwards compatability with that breaks
1023 you'll see 2.0, more details in the faq. As a side note, if you
1024 are reading this and are good with proxy code or with perl's XS C
1025 bindings, please get in touch with me, my contact info is on the
1026 website. Gaim could use your help.
1028 Mark: I love a circus.
1030 0.82 (08/25/2004):
1031 Rob: Woah, where did I come from?
1033 Mark: Lately I've been doing a lot more code maintenance/patch
1034 accepting/bug fixing type of work. And I think that's a really
1035 good thing. I feel like Gaim is becoming more stable. It
1036 seems like we're lacking fewer features. It makes me warm.
1037 Quick Robin! To the traverse wall!
1039 Nathan: Well, it looks like we stuck to the schedule again. Had
1040 we taken our dear sweet time, I might have had a chance to do
1041 something cool for this release, but instead I stuck to the minor
1042 stuff. <insert empty promises for the cool stuff i'll code for
1043 next time here>
1045 Tim: Lately I've been doing a lot more patch accepting, and a
1046 lot less actual coding. Unfortunately it has more to do with my
1047 laziness than Gaim's progress. Like Nathan, I'm going to blame
1048 our on time release schedule. But that didn't stop our Crazy
1049 Patch Writers, or cpw's as grim now calls them, from writing
1050 some good patches. So, instead of promising to code something
1051 cool for next release, I'm going to promise that the cpw's will
1052 code cool things for next release, and I might apply some of them.
1054 Luke: I've been doing what I always do, committing patches, some
1055 better than others, and bugging other people to code stuff. Oh
1056 and closing some bugs. Thanks to Dave West for joining the cpws
1057 in helping to handle triage. This is mostly a bug fix release,
1058 so PLEASE upgrade to it before submitting new bugs.
1060 Kevin: Herman's been away, so Daniel Atallah and myself were given
1061 the task of preparing 0.82's Windows packages. After some feverish
1062 plotting, we decided to update GTK and Daniel prepped an update to
1063 libpng to address recent security advisories. Besides plotting and
1064 a little bit of testing, this NEWS is all I really did. Oh, I also
1065 rerefixed the transparency plugin... again! Our beloved Hermanator
1066 should be back next time around, for 0.83.
1068 0.81 (08/05/2004):
1069 Sean: Three weeks again! Sticking to schedules is awesome! Just
1070 like Gaim v0.81. This is what we in the industry call a "bugfix
1071 release." We closed over TWO HUNDRED bugs since 0.80. That's
1072 awesome. Thanks to everyone who helped report, triage, fix, and
1073 test.
1075 Christian: Yay for three weeks working so well. Boo for me not
1076 doing much of anything this release, aside from a small memory
1077 leak fix. I'm starting a new job and leaving my current one, so
1078 when the dust settles and my schedule is a bit better, the very
1079 cool status rewrite will be finished up. Especially now that I have
1080 some help! I'd like to second Sean's thanks to all the people who
1081 helped with this bug fix release. Gaim should be a bit more stable
1082 for a lot of you. For those experiencing MSN problems still, we'll
1083 get that nailed for you soon, promise.
1085 Mark: I was going to point out that we closed an insane amount of
1086 bugs for this release, but Sean already did that. I feel like
1087 we've had some really talented new contributors contributing
1088 recently. I won't say names... but watch your backs. Or something.
1090 Nathan: I did next to nothing for this release. I am however
1091 settled in to my new job, and in a couple days, I should be settled
1092 into my new domicile. If the DSL gods are in a good mood, I'll
1093 have a connection there shortly, and can start being useful again.
1095 0.80 (07/15/2004):
1096 Sean: Three weeks! Hooray for timeliness! I didn't do much here
1097 but drag-and-droppable file transfers. Drag something into a
1098 conversation window, and it will be sent. Kinda neat.
1100 Mark: We have a small ant problem here. I can't help but think
1101 I somehow brought this upon myself.
1103 Tim: I don't really have any news, but at least I don't have an
1104 ant problem either. You might think I've been hard at work on
1105 Gaim-vv, but I haven't, I've just been lazy. I plan on doing
1106 some cool things "soon" though, both with Gaim and Gaim-vv.
1107 Bleeter sent me some nice dumps I need to implement yet.
1109 Luke: We have a nice timely release, with a Changelog that seems
1110 small, but remember, this is summer, and people have lives. SILC
1111 and Zephyr are making good progress from our Crazy Patch Writters,
1112 and everyone begging to send files to people not on their buddy
1113 list will be happy. good stuff. No, the msn buddy icon scalling
1114 problem isn't fixed yet, maybe next release
1116 0.79 (06/24/2004):
1117 Sean: We've moved to a three-week release cycle which we'll
1118 hopefully be able to keep up more realistically than a two-week
1119 cycle. Yahoo! went and broke last night, but it's fixed now thanks
1120 to a quick fix sent in by Cerulean Studios this morning. Reports say
1121 they'll continue to try to break us, though, so don't be surprised
1122 if your Yahoo cuts out again.
1124 Luke: I was really distracted this cycle, I want to thank my co-
1125 developers and our crazy patch writers for keeping things going.
1126 We have a fairly long changelog for you this release, including some
1127 nice bug fixes and some much-requested new features, the ChangeLog
1128 has all the details there of course. Enjoy!
1130 Christian: Great release! MSN buddy icons and file transfer. A big round
1131 of applause to Felipe! Too bad about the Yahoo thing, but.. eep! I have
1132 to go! Movie with the girls and Farmer's Market.
1134 Tim: This release brings us /commands in the core, which hopefully
1135 works better, and Yahoo! buddy icons. Thanks to all the people I
1136 bugged for packet captures, like Simguy, Bleeter, and odl. Yahoo!
1137 broke again, so I did a little last minute work on the web
1138 messenger stuff, but then Cerulean Studios was cool and fixed the
1139 problem already, so all that code's disabled. I also finally added
1140 the Yahoo! Japan support, for those of you with Yahoo! Japan
1141 accounts.
1143 Mark: I fixed that icon animation thing that caused Gaim to lock-up.
1144 I also stepped on something at the beach and I think there might be
1145 a little rock or something in my foot now.
1147 Nathan: I've been really busy, what with having a new job and all.
1148 I didn't think I had done anything, but apparently I fixed some
1149 Jabber stuff, and some IPv6 stuff. I must have been sleepcoding
1150 or something, because I haven't had time for such things. Ah well,
1151 enjoy this release. We'll see what I can get to in the next 3 weeks.
1153 0.78 (05/30/2004):
1154 Luke: A very long time, once again, since the last release. I think
1155 its mostly worth it. A few of you will still have trouble with msn
1156 but we've worked out a number of bugs even there. Thanks to heroic
1157 efforts on the part of Mark, we closed 400 some odd reports this
1158 month. We are also welcoming Tim to the project, a very active
1159 crazy patch writer who has brought massive improvements to WYSIWYG
1160 and direct im this release. Again, it still won't work for every
1161 one, but it will work for more people than it used to. Most
1162 noticably, this release brings a LARGE simplicfication of the
1163 preferences available. Please don't complain if your favorite
1164 preference is no longer there. Take some time to think about
1165 how and if it could be useful to a majority of people who use
1166 Gaim in ways nothing like you. You'll find that the answer will
1167 usually be that the preference isn't all that important.
1169 Tim: I continued with the other crazy patch writers in fixing those
1170 WYSIWYG bugs. Then they went and made me a developer. Which is cool.
1171 They told me I could commit WYSIWYG and Yahoo! changes. So I went
1172 and fixed IM Image and Direct Connect in AIM for some reason. I also
1173 added some new Yahoo! smileys at least. Also you change your link
1174 color in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file now. I might work on some of those
1175 new Yahoo! features for next release, like buddy icons. But don't
1176 count on it. Thanks to everyone who congratulated me. And thanks
1177 to all our Crazy Patch Writers, who now expect me to apply all their
1178 Crazy Patches.
1180 Christian: First of all, congrats to Tim! He's our latest Gaim
1181 developer, and we're all glad to have him on board. He's been a
1182 valuable contributor for awhile now. Thanks again to Felipe Contreras
1183 for all his MSN work this release. He has some exciting stuff that
1184 we'll be seeing in 0.79. And last, but not least, thanks to all our
1185 crazy and not-so-crazy patch writers. There's been a lot done this
1186 release. I've been taking a small break, first due to school and now
1187 work, but I'll be coming back strong in the next couple of releases. In
1188 the meantime, enjoy.
1190 Gary: Congrats to Tim, no more competing for most ChangeLog entries.
1191 This means you _should_ be winning every release. Anyways, I didn't
1192 finish nearly as much as I wanted to for this release but all of that
1193 and then some should appear in 0.79.
1195 Sean: I'll write my entry down here tonight. Removing preferences
1196 was my big crusade this week, and the team did a great job at it,
1197 but I still have a nagging feeling that our preferences are still
1198 overwhelming. Everyone's been doing a real great job; it's entirely
1199 my fault we keep failing to meet our three-week schedule. Send your
1200 complaints this way.
1202 Nathan: I really didn't do much thanks to exams, and graduation, and all
1203 of that fun stuff. For next release, I'll have all new excuses, like my
1204 new job, or maybe something I haven't even thought of yet. Oh yeah, and
1205 a big warm welcome to Tim!
1207 0.77 (04/22/2004):
1208 Sean: We're back to a somewhat regular release cycle now. Hooray!
1209 WYSIWYG is much improved in this release, and you can now copy and
1210 paste rich text to and from Gaim and other applications (see: Mozilla,
1211 Evolution OpenOffice). Also, Novell has released their first release
1212 of their GroupWise plugin, included in this release. Good stuff all
1213 around.
1215 Luke: Only a week "late" this time around, much nicer than the delay
1216 before the last release. Anyway, this release sees a HUGE number of
1217 improvements to the WYSIWYG support, much thanks to all involved. If
1218 you weren't impressed before, you should be now! This release also
1219 sees the end of our TOC support, no one has been working on this in
1220 some time and its causing problems. DON'T USE IT!. Also plugin
1221 authors will want to take note of the fact that the plugin api version
1222 changed. A nice solid release for you all :-)
1224 Ethan: Once again I thought about doing some things and committed
1225 things that other people did. This development model is awesome. I
1226 helped Mark refactor some stuff and our collective code ownership
1227 helped us utilize a coherent system metaphor during our pair program-
1228 ming sessions. It was extremely extreme. Look for some hard crypto
1229 lovin' from yet another crazy contributor in the near future...
1231 Ka-Hing: I actually did something for this release... or rather, the
1232 previous release, but LSchiere2 didn't commit that until this release.
1233 So blame him. System logging is back, so you can log people's signon/
1234 off/away/idle-ness again. There may be bugs with it, I don't know, not
1235 like I use it. I will try to work on something that I will actually use
1236 for the next release.
1238 Etan: Looking for someone to pair program with.
1240 Christian: A round of applause to our crazy patch writers! Their
1241 contributions this release is impressive. WYSIWYG has come a long way
1242 since 0.76 thanks to them. Also, thanks to Felipe Contreras for his
1243 MSN contributions. We should see some good stuff going into there soon.
1244 I myself didn't do a huge amount, aside from breaking everybody's
1245 plugins, although I have some work going on in the background that will
1246 hopefully make it into release soon.
1248 0.76 (04/01/2004):
1249 Sean: Yeah, it's been a long time since the last release, and despite
1250 what others may tell you, we were just really lazy. This is pretty
1251 much just 0.75 again, but, like, someone changed the "Info" icon and
1252 I think, like, the Chinese translation may have been updated. We did
1253 nothing interesting on it at all. Others may tell you "we haven't just
1254 been lazy," or "you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat
1255 stuf in this one." They lie. All of them.
1257 Luke: Okay, normally I wait for Sean to go first, but he said to commit.
1258 Its been a few months since the last release, but we haven't just been
1259 lazy. A very long ChangeLog for you all. Most notably of course is the
1260 addition of WYSIWYG input for chats and conversations. Many thanks to
1261 DAYS of long work by Sean, Gary Kramlich, Kevin Stange, Tim Ringenbach,
1262 and Stu Tomlinson for their efforts writting, fixing, and testing
1263 this. Without the dedicated support of our crazy patch writters, this
1264 release would have taken yet longer. Sean also has yahoo working again,
1265 with some assistance from our friends over at Trillian, you may all
1266 officially rejoice. We also have a large number of bug fixes, closing
1267 more than 200 bug reports this month alone.
1269 Christian: It's been a long time between the last release, but I think
1270 you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat stuff in this one.
1271 So many bug fixes and new features. It's enough to drive a wombat mad!
1272 The new WYSIWYG input is cool stuff. You'll either love it or hate it,
1273 I guess. I'm working on some stuff that some of you are going to love,
1274 but I'm not promising it for a few more versions. It's a secret!
1276 Mark: Our crazy patch writers rock. Gary Kramlich, Tim Ringenbach,
1277 Kevin Stange, and Stu Tomlinson did an amazing job of tying up
1278 loose ends and helping get this release out the door. Thanks guys!
1280 Rob: My birthday is in a few days. I like cool stuff. Buy me something
1281 grand!!
1283 Tim: Luke said write a NEWS, so I thought I would. There's a room
1284 list dialog now. And Nathan and I doubled the number of protocols that
1285 can transfer files. After that I got lazy/busy and let Gary, Kevin,
1286 and Stu fix all the bugs.
1288 Nathan: Rob happens to share a birthday with my sister. So far she's
1289 been very vague about what she wants. She's not an easy person to shop
1290 for. As for things you probably care more about, this release has so
1291 much in it that I've forgotten about most of it. The stupidest of the
1292 bugs from 0.75 are fixed. Jabber has a first pass at file transfer
1293 support (no proxy support yet). SOCKS 5 proxy support may have gotten
1294 a little better as a side-effect. Twinkies and penguin points to all
1295 of the crazy patch writers, who did more than their fair share this
1296 release.
1298 Ethan: My birthday was yesterday, and not on the same day as Rob
1299 and Nathan's sister. And I don't mean that Rob and Nathan have the
1300 same sister. For this release, I thought about making IRC better, I
1301 thought about making Tcl better, and I committed patches from several
1302 others who actually did these things. And probably some other
1303 things, too. Let's hear it for crazy patch writers, and for the open
1304 source philosophy that lets them get so CRAZY.
1306 0.75 (01/09/2004):
1307 Rob: Woah, what's this? Me? Making a NEWS post!? Say it ain't so!
1308 That's right, kiddos, I'm finally coming out of my reclusiveness.
1309 I had a pretty shitty few months, and also just needed a break from
1310 things. But, I'm back, and that's good. Right? Yes. And now,
1311 a little word from Eric Warmenhoven.. :P
1313 Eric: Ah, Rob and Eric. Just like the good ol' days. Now, if
1314 you'll excuse me, I have to go make some commits with Led Zeppelin
1315 lyrics as my commit logs. heh. What do you mean, I look a lot
1316 like Sean Egan? I'm... oh fine, you got me. It's really just Sean
1317 in an Eric Warmenhoven costume.
1319 So, Yahoo! works again, and that's good. And 0.76 is going to have
1320 something _very_ neat.
1322 Nathan: You're running out of excuses to not use Jabber. Our chat
1323 support is now bar-some, quickly approaching bar-none! Everything
1324 else in Jabber got neat improvements too. I'll leave it up to you
1325 to figure out what they were.
1327 <boilerplate promises for cool features in $version++>
1329 Christian: I've been a bit absent this release, due to life stuff
1330 and working on some other projects. Some MSN goodies are going to be
1331 available in an upcoming version, and I have some neat Gaim-related
1332 stuff I'm working on that will hopefully see the light of day. I'd
1333 like to say good job to the other developers. Good release. (Of course,
1334 every time I say that, something breaks horribly right after we
1335 release it.)
1337 Luke: Okay, so Sean rocks and got Yahoo working again in 12 minutes.
1338 Unfortunately, he took out the chat support in doing so. So use
1339 conferences for now if you use yahoo. Users begging for file
1340 transfer support should thank Tim 'marv' Ringenbach for Yahoo ft,
1341 and everyone should be happy to note that 0.75 leaks far less than
1342 0.74. Also, a lot of other bug fixes happened that escape my notice
1343 right now.
1345 Ethan: I just want to say that now logging really doesn't eat
1346 memory 'till the cows come home. We don't think.
1348 I would like to thank each and every one of these people, and
1349 I think you should, too:
1351 Paul A, Daniel Atallah, Patrick Aussems, Brian Bernas,
1352 Jonas Birmé, Ethan Blanton (hi Mom), Joshua Blanton, Herman
1353 Bloggs, Jason Boerner, Graham Booker, Craig Boston, Chris
1354 Boyle, Jeremy Brooks, Sean Burke, Cerulean Studios LLC,
1355 Ka-Hing Cheung, Arturo Cisneros Jr., Vincas Ciziunas, Joe
1356 Clarke, Todd Cohen, Felipe Contreras, Jeramey Crawford, Mark
1357 Doliner, Nuno Donato, Jim Duchek, Tom Dyas, Andrew Echols,
1358 Sean Egan, Brian Enigma, Stefan Esser, Larry Ewing, Jesse
1359 Farmer, Gavan Fantom, Rob Flynn, Nathan Fredrickson, Free
1360 Software Foundation, Decklin Foster, Adam Fritzler, Michael
1361 Golden, Ryan C. Gordon, Christian Hammond, Andy Harrison, G.
1362 Sumner Hayes, Mike Heffner, Iain Holmes, Karsten Huneycutt,
1363 Akuke Kok, Tero Kuusela, Dennis Lambe Jr., Ho-seok Lee, Moses
1364 Lei, Ambrose C. Li, Nicolas Lichtmaier, Artem Litvinovich, Syd
1365 Logan, Matthew Luckie, Brian Macke, Paolo Maggi, Willian T.
1366 Mahan, John Matthews, Ryan McCabe, Robert McQueen, Robert
1367 Mibus, Benjamin Miller, Kevin Miller, Paul Miller, Arkadiusz
1368 Miskiewicz, Andrew Molloy, Matt Pandina, Ricardo Fernandez
1369 Pascual, Havoc Pennington, Ari Pollak, Robey Pointer, Nathan
1370 Poznick, Brent Priddy, Federicco Mena Quintero, David Raeman,
1371 Etan Reisner, Kristian Rietveld, Tim Ringenbach, Andrew
1372 Rodland, Neil Sanchala, Carsten Schaar, Luke Schierer, Torrey
1373 Searle, Jim Seymour, John Silvestri, David Smock, Mark
1374 Spencer, Lex Spoon, Kevin Stange, David Stoddard, Stu
1375 Tomlinson, Brian Tarricone, Peter Teichman, Arun A. Tharuvai,
1376 Philip Tellis, Bill Tompkins, Tom Tromey, Junichi Uekawa,
1377 Bjoern Voigt, Nathan Walp, Eric Warmenhoven, Jason Willis,
1378 Matt Wilson, Ximian, Jaroen Zwartepoorte.
1380 Thanks, all.
1382 0.74 (11/25/2003):
1383 Sean: Christian and Nathan were wrong.
1385 Ethan: I don't know how solid or good this release will be, but
1386 hopefully it's better than 0.73! Not that 0.73 didn't rock or
1387 anything, but for those users bit by its peculiar little bugs
1388 it wasn't as nice as this will be.
1390 Nathan: Jabber got some good tweaks, and logging doesn't eat
1391 memory until the cows come home. Which is good, because they
1392 said they'll be out until late.
1394 Luke: Always nice when directories get created correctly ;-)
1396 0.73 (11/21/2003):
1397 Nathan: This should be a really solid release. I fixed most if not
1398 all of the idiotic Jabber bugs from 0.72, and re-enabled the SASL
1399 login stuff, now that it is finalized in the XMPP drafts. Oh, and
1400 we now have a release notification plugin, so you can find out when
1401 the latest and greatest version of Gaim is out without breaking that
1402 reload button in your browser. There's other fun new stuff, but I
1403 forget what it is.
1405 Christian: This is a good release, as Nathan said. For all those who
1406 hated all the disconnect dialogs, we now have a {dis,re}connect{ed,}
1407 dialog that replaces all of them and shows every account that became
1408 disconnected. Also, there were some MSN fixes thrown in, such as
1409 the problem with unblocking users. My personal favorite, since it's
1410 really been bugging me for awhile, is the bug with the border on the
1411 close buttons is fixed. Oh yes, and let's not forget the new logging.
1412 It simply rocks. This is a pretty stable release, so get it. 0.74 is
1413 going to have some niceties that people have been waiting for.
1415 0.72 (10/30/2003):
1416 Sean: I think I'll go as the Gaim logo guy for Halloween. That
1417 would be a cool costume.
1419 Luke: We've had a record month for number of bugs submitted (395 as
1420 of now) this month, but the total number of bugs open has grown by
1421 less than 20, so while it might be fustrating for those of you out
1422 there who think your bug report is being ignored, know that we are
1423 doing our best to look at them all :-). This release fixes a goodly
1424 number of bugs including the troubles with signing on icq (thanks
1425 to Mark). Enjoy!
1427 Christian: Last release brought forward a lot of bug reports, such
1428 as the ICQ bug, and also trouble with installing SSL. I can't count
1429 how many people were confused as to why their MSN plugin wasn't
1430 loading. Now, it'll load regardless, and when you try to connect,
1431 it'll give you an error dialog saying to install SSL (if you don't
1432 have it installed, of course). I didn't do a whole lot this release,
1433 but that'll change with the next. There are some fun things coming.
1435 Ethan: In complete defiance of history, I did something this
1436 release. It had to do with IRC. If I type here for long
1437 enough, I'm sure I'll remember what it was... Oh yeah, all of
1438 you paranoid people can hide your local username by changing
1439 your IRC account settings. I also want to note that we are
1440 aware that building Gaim is Harder than it Should Be on
1441 Solaris, and I am seeking solutions to some of the issues
1442 there. Everyone remember to give some love to the developers
1443 who actually did something of note this release (i.e. not me)!
1445 Nathan: Jabber got a ton better this release, as I fixed most of the
1446 bugs introduced in the last release. Registration works again, and
1447 the next person to break it is going to suffer. I also fixed a
1448 handfull of other little things that I can't remember. This should
1449 be a good release.
1451 0.71 (10/09/2003):
1452 Rob: It's been a while since I've commited some news. I've had a
1453 very hectic few weeks/months. Thing are finally coming together
1454 again for me. This release features much copying and pasting. Yeah.
1456 Sean: I can't wait for everything to be core/ui split!
1458 Christian: This is a good release, and I don't think people will have
1459 too many problems. There are a lot of little nice feature additions,
1460 and much progress has been made on the core/UI split. We should be done
1461 in a couple of releases, assuming we can get the remaining two or three
1462 parts core/UI-split. Oh, and plugin authors are going to hate me again,
1463 as a lot of code (specifically, the conversations code and utility
1464 functions) changed names. This is a Good Thing (TM), as always, but may
1465 require modifications to some plugins. Not all, fortunately, but some
1466 :) Many SSL problems were fixed, though we still have some to go. If
1467 you don't have SSL, you now need it for MSN. MSN won't even load without
1468 it. Starting October 15th, the old protocol won't be supported
1469 anymore, so there's no reason to support the old one anymore.
1471 Herman: I bet some plugin authors have resorted to making voodoo dolls
1472 of Christian. Nothing new for Win Gaim users other than a fix for
1473 missing aim buddy icons, and removal of gtk-wimp (until it matures).
1475 Mark: People are going to make a voodoo doll of me and shower it with
1476 kisses and chocolate women: When an AIM user is away, you can now view
1477 the person's away message in their tooltip. This is very similar to
1478 what iChat does, only our tooltip will wrap lines rather than displaying
1479 off your screen :-)
1481 Nathan: Chocolate women are cool, but I'm a bigger fan of the real kind.
1482 I re-wrote the Jabber support from scratch, so now there's at least one
1483 person who knows what's going on with it. I got lost in the old code,
1484 even in the parts I wrote. It now supports the SASL login stuff from
1485 the XMPP protocol specs, and will automagically upgrade the conncetion
1486 to SSL if it's supported. If anything doesn't work like it did before,
1487 it's probably better, and you should be thankful for it.
1489 Ethan: I'm sure I'll be showered with all kinds of wonderful things,
1490 but I doubt it's because I did anything. The reason being that I
1491 really don't think I did anything. I meant to do some gaim_
1492 prepension and documentation for IRC and Tcl, and handle IRC errors
1493 more responsibly, but I've been meaning to do that for months.
1494 Except the Tcl part, the Tcl plugin hasn't even existed for months.
1495 I figure if I write enough NEWS no one will notice I didn't do
1496 anything during the release cycle. Oh, I did close some bugs. I
1497 didn't fix them, mind you, I just closed them. With abandon.
1498 Don't tell Luke.
1500 Luke: Mmmm, I probly did even less than Ethan, except I closed rather
1501 more bugs for other reasons. Lots of you submitting duplicate bugs.
1502 This should be a pretty good release. We still have a couple crashes
1503 in ssl stuff, but we fixed a number of the bugs in the tracker, and
1504 the code cleaning helps alot as well. Enjoy!
1506 0.70 (9/28/2003):
1507 Sean: Yahoo! works (for now). That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1508 Huge thanks to our dear friends over at Cerulean Studios, creators of
1509 Trillian, for helping us out.
1511 Nathan: This release also works out most of the kinks in the new
1512 contact support. The Jabber goodies I promised will have to wait
1513 for now.
1515 Christian: I didn't really do anything except fix a couple of issues
1516 loading protocol plugins that had plugin dependencies and getting perl
1517 to install where we tell it to. I had hoped that 0.70 would include
1518 a finished libgaim, but Yahoo kind of wrecked that dream. We'll see it
1519 within the next few releases. Life has been busy in a good way :)
1521 0.69 (9/24/2003):
1522 Sean: MSN and Yahoo! work. That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1524 Herman: Win Gaim has been around for more than a year now.. Time Flies.
1526 Nathan: {{Meta,}{Contact,Buddy},Person} support for all! Also, SSL
1527 support for Jabber makes its debut. More Jabber goodies next release.
1529 Christian: It's a good release. The main highlight really is
1530 Nathan's Contact support, which is just beautiful. My buddy list
1531 shrunk considerably. As Sean stated, MSN and Yahoo! work. MSN
1532 does not support the new MSN buddy icons and stuff, unfortunately,
1533 but we'll see about 0.70. There were a whole bunch of Perl fixes,
1534 so hopefully there will be less complaints directed to my code in
1535 that area ;) Among other new additions of mine are SSL support
1536 (both Mozilla NSS and GNUTLS), Plugin IPC (letting plugins talk to
1537 each other), and some visual niceties in the Accounts window.
1538 Ka-Hing Cheung put in animated smileys, which should please many.
1539 Yeah, good release. Just you wait until 0.70 though.
1541 Robot101: Hi mom. My patch isn't in this release. Watch for the next
1542 one.
1544 Mark: Metacontact support, yeah. Right click on a dude and
1545 select "Expand."
1547 Ethan: God bless the USA.
1549 0.68 (09/01/2003):
1550 Rob: Wow. I am so incredibly tired.
1552 Sean: School starts tomorrow! How fun! I'll have more time to hack
1553 gaim (isn't that supposed to be the reverse?)*
1555 *Some NEWS recycled from v0.10.0
1557 Nathan: I didn't do much for this release, except make Jabber
1558 registration work, and put in a slight tweak to make Gaim work a
1559 little better with jabberd2. Next release you'll all see what I've
1560 been spending my time on, but for now enjoy the fruits of everyone
1561 else's labor.
1563 Mark: I've been really busy with other stuff, but I've spent my
1564 Gaim-time on working towards a more formal translation process.
1565 Hopefully this will result in Gaim shipping with more complete
1566 translation files. Also, all our awesome translators are mentioned
1567 in the about window now.
1569 Christian: I've been really busy with this stuff. Gaim got a new
1570 signal architecture, which is just really cool. The old events system
1571 is gone. Now you connect a signal from a handle (which can be
1572 a plugin or whatever) to a function, and plugins can register their
1573 own functions, and other neat things. Oh yeah, and perl was rewritten.
1574 There's a new HOWTO in the Doxygen docs (make docs), but no API
1575 reference yet. Developers, look at the plugins/perl/common/*.xs files
1576 for now. I also wrote plugin dependencies, which will be more useful
1577 down the road. Gaim v0.69 is going to have the new MSN plugin that
1578 works with the latest MSN protocol. Please be patient for that, as
1579 we're getting a lot of MSN questions we answer over and over.
1581 Luke: Wow, I actually did something for this release besides commit
1582 translations! Well, sorta. I got permission to commit some patches
1583 so gaim now has color support for yahoo, and you can fetch some
1584 basic info on yahoo and msn users. Yay for people submitting patches!
1586 0.67 (08/14/2003):
1588 Rob: I live in Georgia. I don't care about blackouts. We only
1589 have to deal with floods and tornadoes.
1591 Sean: Fortunately me for me, I live in the only place in New York
1592 that still has power tonight! New features in 0.6@%f)*2.{\
1593 NO CARRIER
1595 Christian: I guess Sean couldn't be here to tell you about all the
1596 great new things. New stuff was done! It's simply amazing. Yeah. So,
1597 new IRC protocol plugin, tab text is greyed on events (like "So and
1598 so has signed off!"), protocol icons on tabs (thanks to Etan Reisner),
1599 some dialog rewrites.. Great stuff. Gaim's looking more teh perrty.
1600 My big "wow" thing is that the core and UI were split enough for me
1601 to remove the remaining UI code and make a patch, and libgaim was born,
1602 for experimental purposes. However, using it, I was able to make the
1603 second UI ever for Gaim - Gaim for Qtopia (Zaurus and iPaq PDAs).
1604 This is viewable at http://qpe-gaim.sf.net/ (shameless plug?). More
1605 UIs to come I hope! :) Exciting time in Gaim.
1607 0.66 (07/18/2003):
1608 Rob: Oops!!!! This reminds me of other silly things that we've
1609 done. I agree with what Herman is going to say. ;-)
1611 Sean: Man, 0.65 was so super lame and boring. But 0.66? WOW!
1612 This is the most incredible thing EVER. We've done tons of work
1613 since 0.65, and I'm really proud of what we came out with. Thanks
1614 to everyone who helped!
1616 Christian: Wow, I can't even begin to describe how long we've worked
1617 on this one. Monstrous release. Best ever! You won't even recognize
1618 it. If you've had account import problems, delete your accounts.xml
1619 and upgrade to 0.66. Just, wow.
1621 Herman: This is to make up for slipping off the two week release cycle.
1623 Luke: Okay, people, yes we did test 0.65 for bugs, but hey, some things
1624 slip through. This release makes up for that. This should fix the bugs
1625 0.65 introduced, at least the ones that most of you would otherwise hit.
1627 Nathan: We are so smart. S-M-R-T...I mean S-M-A-R-T.
1629 0.65 (07/16/2003):
1630 Rob: Wooo! We're finally ready for 0.65. Are you guys excited? I
1631 haven't worked on anything in this release, either. I've been
1632 working offline on a MacOSX UI. No, you're not allowed to ask
1633 me when it will be ready. If you ask me then I won't answer
1634 you. You've been warned! :-D
1636 Sean: Although I tend to go right here in the two slot in NEWS,
1637 we don't always commit in this order. This is the third time I've
1638 rewritten this because the jerks below me keep commiting while I'm
1639 writing causing mass conflictination. Grrr. Stupid jerks. Anyway,
1640 this is Gaim 0.65. Like other Gaim releases, this allows you to
1641 converse with people far away over the "Internet." That's about it.
1642 It's really not that interesting. In fact, I wouldn't even bother
1643 reading the other people's NEWS. It's all boring. There's some
1644 crap about forest fires and fangs and claws. It's really boring.
1645 Great, now Luke just committed NEWS causing more conflictination.
1646 I wouldn't bother reading his either. Oh, and I don't want to thank
1647 Megan (Cae) or Kevin (SimGuy). They're stupid jerks too. Grrr...
1649 Mark: I actually did stuff for this release. Go me. I probably
1650 shouldn't speak for all of us, but I'm going to anyway: We feel that
1651 this release is one of Gaim's best. It should be relatively bug
1652 free, and the code is cleaner than ever, thanks to lots of work by
1653 Christian and Nathan. We had some help from a few civilians
1654 finding and fixing bugs. Thanks to Megan (Cae), Ka-Hing Cheung
1655 (javabsp), and Kevin Stange (SimGuy) for their work. Man, I was just
1656 looking at Sean's NEWS entry for 0.64--that's talent. Also, stay
1657 in school. Just say no. Only you can prevent forest fires.
1659 Christian: This has been a great release. faceprint rocks, as he got
1660 things moving in the core/UI split by redoing preferences, which forced
1661 us to think about how things would be split. We now have XML
1662 preferences, accounts, pounces, and away messages. No more .gaimrc
1663 ugliness. The accounts and connection code now have new core/UI split
1664 APIs, and there is very little to do before our split is ready to be
1665 used. Rob and I are working off an experimental tarball of what will
1666 eventually be libgaim. He's working on a MacOS X UI (don't ask him
1667 about it, he'll ignore you) and I'm doing a Qtopia UI (you can ask
1668 about that, it's usable!). We added a new protocol, Trepia.
1669 Information about it can be found at http://www.trepia.com/. It's not
1670 complete, so don't send in bug reports about it not finding people in
1671 your local area, please. Oh, and lots of MSN bugs were fixed.
1672 Practically all the known ones. I feared 0.65 would be unstable due to
1673 our rewrites, I believe this is going to be one of the most stable
1674 releases we've had in awhile (knock on wood), thanks to Megan (Cae),
1675 who has done an amazing job at locating, categorizing and documenting
1676 the various bugs she has run into, and kevin (SimGuy). Stay tuned for
1677 upcoming releases. Neat things are coming, but if it has fangs and
1678 claws, curl into a ball. Or yell at it. I can't remember which is
1679 correct.
1681 Luke: Wow! Finally releasing 0.65! Christian, Nathan, and Mark have
1682 worked really hard for this release, all the credit goes to them.
1683 The new preferences are awesome, and there are more bugs fixed for
1684 this release than in the last 3 or 4 releases. Your MSN should work
1685 reliably again, your preferences saved, your accounts resort, the
1686 list goes on and on. A couple preferences, most notably your buddy
1687 list sorting preference won't be imported, but almost all of them
1688 will be and its probly a good idea for you to take a second look
1689 through preferences again anyway, alot of you are starting to
1690 forget that things are optional again. :-)
1692 Nathan: I think I did something for this release a while ago. I've
1693 got a mailbox full of commit emails, and some have my name on them,
1694 so I must have done something, right? Probably some minor jabber stuff,
1695 and lots of crazy bugfixes. It was a team effort, I'd like to thank the
1696 academy, our producer Rob Flynn, and of course all the fans. You rock.
1698 Herman: I was told to write something.. so here it goes. Windows users
1699 will be happy to know that they can now rearrange their Buddy Lists.
1700 I finally got stuck into GTK+ code and fixed the bug in question (this
1701 release will include a patched version of GTK+ 2.2.1). I integrated
1702 the WinGaim systray code into the docklet plugin bringing those nice
1703 docklet features (i.e. Message queuing) to WinGaim. Another major
1704 WinGaim change of note is that debug versions of all dlls can now be
1705 built, providing useful backtraces not only for gaim.dll but for the
1706 plugins as well.
1708 0.64 (05/29/2003):
1709 Rob: I didn't do anything this release either. We're under a crunch
1710 week at work. Friday is the end of the crunch. Hooray!! Thanks for
1711 all of your hard work, guys :).
1713 Sean: Unlike every other time we say, "the next release will be loaded
1714 with cool new features, this time, we really mean it. In fact, they're
1715 already in CVS (don't use CVS). The only obvious new feature for 0.64
1716 is buddy list sorting. This has been much requested and can be set in
1717 the buddy list preferences. You can sort by name, by status, and even
1718 by log file size--putting people you talk to most at the top. Plugins
1719 can even easily add their own sorting methods. It's all very cool. I
1720 want to thank Luke and Ka-Hing for their initial work on it. And yes,
1721 I did make my entire NEWS entry justified on purpose.
1723 Christian: I have a few new goodies in 0.64, but they're mostly
1724 back-end stuff that people like us care about. The things that most
1725 of you will like the most is that almost all of the reported MSN
1726 bugs were fixed. Users with an empty contact list can now login again.
1727 The friendly name bug is gone. E-mail notifications work again. Yay!
1728 We have some big changes in store for 0.65. Careful if you use CVS...
1729 Things will break. :)
1731 Mark: I never really have anything important to add. I'd just like to
1732 thank Jack Daniels for his exquisite bug reports. And whiskey.
1734 Nathan: I don't think I did anything for this release. I'm a bum.
1736 0.63 (05/16/2003)
1737 Rob: Wow, so, what can I say? I've been rather AWOL for the past few
1738 releases. However, that's okay. Work has been pretty friggin hec-
1739 tic, so, that's my excuse. Work is finally going to be slowing down
1740 some. I plan to be doing more Gaim work. That makes me happy. That
1741 makes you happy. That makes us all happy. Now, I just need to
1742 finish rebuilding my car's engine. Engine rebuilds put the FU in
1743 fun!
1745 Sean: Yay! School is finally over. I have to give tons of cherry-
1746 flavored props to everyone whose been helping out while I stayed away
1747 from Gaim to keep myself from failing again, especially Christian and
1748 Nathan.
1750 Luke: Okay, this is NOT a bug fix release, at least for those of you
1751 who use MSN. Christian put in a TON of effort rewritting the MSN prpl,
1752 mega props to him on this release. In other news, we have alot of bugs
1753 fixed, and a goodly number of the translations are more up to date
1754 than they were in earlier releases. There are some other significant
1755 changes, but they are mostly backend stuff, yay for core/ui splits ;-)
1757 Christian: As Sean and Luke said, I did a tiny bit of work in this
1758 release. The MSN prpl was rewritten, and should now work better. It's
1759 compatible with the MSNP7 protocol that MSN v4.x uses. Unfortunately,
1760 MSNP9 is being worked on. Bah. Also, it has MSN Mobile support, so you
1761 can register your MSN account with http://mobile.msn.com/ and people
1762 can page your mobile device. You can also page other MSN Mobile users.
1763 Groups are now stored on server. Oh, and due to the nature of MSNP7,
1764 conversations are timed out after 5 minutes, so you'll unfortunately
1765 see a message indicating that. Sorry! I wrote experimental support
1766 for my own implementation of MSN buddy icons. You can set them in your
1767 account settings much like with AIM, and when you talk to other gaim
1768 users, they'll get your buddy icon. This will last for a few releases,
1769 until the buddy icon implementation in the upcoming MSNP9 protocol is
1770 figured out, and we have support for that. That'll be a couple months
1771 away at least. Also, we have a rewrite of the plugin interface, so
1772 rewrite your plugins! Things are going to get very cool from it. The
1773 debug API was core/UI split, and some enhancements were made to the
1774 debug window. I think that's all from me. It's been a fun release.
1775 Stay tuned, I have some great things coming up!
1777 Nathan: It seems like 0.62 was forever and a day ago. I had to look
1778 at the ChangeLog to remember what I did. Apparently I made it so you
1779 can put chats in your buddy list. And then I tweaked a bunch of stuff
1780 and fixed a bunch of crashes. Then exams came, and then I went home
1781 for a week and left my laptop's power cable here at school, so I didn't
1782 get anything done. Jabber will get all sorts of fun new stuff for
1783 the next release. Really. ;-)
1785 0.62 (04/23/2003):
1786 Sean: This is just another standard bi-weekly Gaim release. Nothing
1787 really interesting, but it has some good bugfixes. Personally, I've
1788 been a bit removed from Gaim development lately what with school getting
1789 tough and stuff, but the rest of the guys have really been doing great
1790 work without me. Thanks, guys.
1792 Christian: I can't remember what I did here.. Think I'll take a quick
1793 look at the ChangeLog.... Okay, guess I was useless. That's okay,
1794 though, because I have some really cool stuff going into 0.63. Plugin
1795 authors will hate me for it. A rewrite of the plugins interface! This is
1796 actually a Good Thing (TM). Anyhow, upgrade to this release, and tell
1797 your friends. 33 Gaim users can't be wrong!
1799 Luke: I didn't do much here besides the odd translation patch and a
1800 couple bug fix patches. This is primarily a bug fix release, and much
1801 needed at that. Didn't get a chance to write sorting code, work has been
1802 busy. Hopeefully it will happen for 0.63.
1804 Mark: Gaim is coming along quite beautimously. I'm going to eat
1805 my Pop-tarts now.
1807 Nathan: oh dot sixty two. There are a lot of bugs fixed in this
1808 release, and one major new feature. Our Jabber plugin now supports
1809 XHTML-IM. In plain english, this means that you can now format your
1810 jabber messages, and other people will see the formatting. GtkIMHTML
1811 still needs some work to get it to parse valid XHTML-IM better, but that
1812 will come in time. That time would come sooner if my CS prof accepted
1813 "I was hacking on Gaim" as a valid excuse for an extension ;-)
1815 0.61 (04/07/2003):
1816 Rob: Nathan commited his news first. However, I'm cooler so I'm putting
1817 my entry above his. Yeah, so, there were some DnD issues with 0.60. I
1818 blame it on the rain. It was falling, falling. I blame it on the
1819 faucet. It drips all night.
1821 Sean: I committed my news after Rob. I'm cooler than Nathan (by far)
1822 but not as cool as Rob. So I go here. Actually, I didn't do anything
1823 since 0.60 other than commit some other peoples patches. The one from
1824 Dave Camp is cool. How 'bout this snow? Isn't that crazy? Oh, and
1825 thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday.
1827 Nathan: You want frequent releases? You got 'em ;-) Chip wrote some
1828 cool new pounce stuff, and things shouldn't get weird when you drag
1829 groups and buddies around. It's bad enough having 1 of some of my
1830 buddies on my list, I definitely don't need duplicates. Being that I
1831 have class in the morning, I'll just raise my juice glass for this one.
1833 Christian: I'm not as cool as Rob, Sean, or Nathan, so I go down here.
1834 Well, among some of the fixes is my new buddy pounce code! This adds new
1835 buddy pounce types, core/ui splitifies the code, and makes the dialog
1836 box spiffy. Yay frequent releases! Erm, I can't think of anything else
1837 cool to say here. Have fun, everyone!
1839 Luke: Okay, i'm probly the least cool, so I'll go last. I committed a
1840 few patches from other people here, nothing earth shattering though. The
1841 biggest thing in this release is the group re-ordering bug fix, having
1842 that fixed will make for fewwer questions. Get used to using releases
1843 people, we want to use cvs for actual development :-).
1845 Mark: I didn't want to write any news without actually having done
1846 anything, so I fixed a meaningless compile warning. Boo-yeah.
1848 Sean: Luke can't spell "fewer". How un-cool is that?
1850 0.60 (04/04/2003):
1851 Rob: Wow. So, it has been a really long time since we started the
1852 gtk2 fork. It's finally ready for public consumption. Sean is about
1853 to go out and buy a case of beer. My roommate is downstairs right
1854 now pouring me a shot of his choice. Everyone, raise your beers if
1855 you've got them. It's been a cool almost 10-months of development.
1856 I hope you all enjoy. Drink'em if you got'em!
1858 Sean: I'm writing this 3 minutes before my 21st birthday. Nobody can
1859 believe we're finally ready to relase 0.60. Many thanks to everyone
1860 who helped out; I'm convinced that Gaim 0.60 is the best IM client to
1861 date (only to be bested by 0.61). There's WAY too much stuff to mention.
1862 Even the ChangeLog is somewhat incomplete. Yay, I'm 21 now! Everyone
1863 enjoy! :)
1865 Nathan: Happy birthday Sean! Rob decided to let me start cleaning up
1866 after everyone, so here I am. "sexy" is the only word that can be used
1867 to describe 0.60. Prepare to be shocked and amazed. /me raises his
1868 (shot) glass ;-)
1870 Christian: Geeeeeze this took a long time. Worth it though! Personally,
1871 I thought we'd all just give up on releases altogether and tell
1872 everybody just to grab CVS. I'm pretty happy with this release. I was
1873 able to contribute quite a bit to it. Makes me feel proud to be a gaim
1874 developer! I'm really looking forward to the future releases. I have
1875 some neat stuff planned. Yay, I'm still 19! Mmmm, Sierra Mist. Make me a
1876 sammich!
1878 Mark: Whoops, I started drinking a little earlier than I was supposed
1879 to. I guess I missed the memo. Hmm, I ate at a restaurant somewhere,
1880 I think it was at Snowshoe, and the menu had "sammiches" on it. It was
1881 pretty sweet. I'd like to give a shout out to all the Gaim
1882 devizelopers for rizocking the hizzy the past few months. Word.
1885 0.59 (06/24/2002):
1886 Rob: I guess Sean is busy at home or something and Jim is asleep.
1887 I'm very tired but it's time for a release. Enjoy. :)
1888 SORRY FOR THE DELAY. :(
1890 Sean: It's been a long time since our last release, and for no
1891 good reason either. Rob and I just haven't been able to get together
1892 to do it. But now we have. Aside from some Jabber changes and some
1893 crucial MSN fixes, most of this release's changes are transparent,
1894 but none-the-less important. Well get some better changes when my
1895 computer works again, you have my word*
1897 *My word is worthless.
1900 0.58 (05/13/2002):
1901 Rob: Yeah, so, my computer has been bad which is why the release
1902 didn't go out on time. Oh well. I would like to welcome
1903 Jim Seymour aboard the development team. He's going to be taking
1904 over the work on our Jabber code as well as doing various other
1905 nit picking. He likes to pick nits, nats, and umm, knots, I think.
1907 Sean: This release has a long ChangeLog. Higlights include an
1908 important security fix for MSN and a few nice new features.
1909 Not *much* cooler than 0.57--but we're making progress ;)
1911 Jim: Hmmm... Rob said I have to say *something*, so here it is:
1912 Rob's a mango.
1914 0.57 (04/25/2002):
1915 Rob: Not too much in this release, as Sean said below. (This is
1916 what happens when the bottom person goes first.) New translation,
1917 a few fixes, secure msn hotmail logins, blah blah blah. As Sean
1918 said, the next release will be cooler. If only you could read
1919 our minds ;-).
1921 Sean: Nothing too special here, but a critical Yahoo fix that
1922 ensures Yahoo! will work when they discontinue the old protocol
1923 all the other 3rd party clients are using. Next release will be
1924 cooler, I promise.
1926 0.56 (04/11/2002):
1927 Rob: Well, what do you know. I have another headache. I always have
1928 these damned headaches. I got pissed off with the way GtkTree looks.
1929 I wanted to move to using GtkCTree. I think they're pretty.
1930 Unfortunately, GtkCTree sucks. After a little digging through
1931 the code, I managed to molest GtkTree into looking like
1932 GtkCTree. Thanks to everyone that helped track down that one
1933 annoying style problem.
1935 Sean: Hello. This is another minor release while Rob and I finish
1936 up on some bigger projects. We're reworking a lot of the UI to make
1937 it easier to use, nicer looking, and more compatible with gtk2.
1938 I've also been trying to bring the Yahoo plugin up to date, so it
1939 will work for Indian users and avoid a potential problem in the near
1940 future.
1942 0.55 (03/29/2002):
1943 Rob: 0.55 is here. I've been away for a few days on business. Sean
1944 has been on Spring Break. Therefore, this release is mostly a patch
1945 release. It does fix some bugs and makes a few thing slightly cooler,
1946 so it's better in that aspect, I suppose. Enjoy.
1948 Sean: This is mostly a bugfix release. I'm on Spring Break, not
1949 doing any coding at all. But lots of people sent in great patches
1950 anyway. Thanks guys!
1952 0.54 (03/14/2002):
1953 Rob: Well, here we are. 0.54. We got a lot of fun things in this
1954 release. Better working SSI, Image sending, protocol specific
1955 smiley faces, and a whole lot of triscuits. *gobble*
1957 Sean: We fixed a lot of bugs in this one, and probably introduced
1958 a bunch too. ;) We were both really busy, and did all the coding
1959 late at night when we were tired, so if something isn't working,
1960 it's probably just tired code. Enjoy the triscuits!
1962 0.53 (02/28/2002):
1963 Rob: Well, we missed yesterday's release. That's Okay, I head a
1964 nasty headache. You can all just deal. ;-)
1967 Sean: Neat Goodies! Whee!! Oscar got a lot of great additions.
1968 It can do Screen Name formatting, it can save and store your buddy
1969 list on the server, it can do typing notifications in Direct
1970 Connections, and yes, it can receive IM Images! Sending images will
1971 be added in the next release. MSN and Yahoo! can do typing
1972 notification too. Hooray!
1975 0.52 (02/17/2002):
1976 Rob: Well, after a long delay we're finally ready for another release.
1977 I finally got settled into my new apartment, the new job is going
1978 well, and I finally have internet connectivity again. You can expect
1979 us to be back on our usually bi-monthly schedule. Enjoy these fixen,
1980 as they resolve a few connectivity issues. :-)
1982 Sean: It looks like things are back on track now. Eric left which is
1983 sad. He's done so much for Gaim, and I know we're all thankful.
1984 Thanks Eric! I'll be stepping in and do more development, but I can
1985 never replace Eric. This release fixes a long-standing problem in
1986 MSN. If you've gotten errors when trying to connect to MSN, you want
1987 this release. If you've suddenly found yourself unable to connect to
1988 Yahoo!, you want this release too. The "neat goodies" will be in the
1989 next release ;)
1991 Rob: Operation Evil does not exist! ;-)
1994 0.51 (01/24/2002):
1995 Rob: Well, here we go. I FINALLY got around to making a release
1996 after over a month, Sorry for the delay, all. Things got really
1997 hectic around the gaim house hold. This release isn't as complete
1998 as I had hoped, but I promised to get something out. There's some
1999 neat goodies in mind for the next release, right Sean? :-)
2002 0.50 (12/13/2001):
2003 Rob: I am tired. Tonight was weird. Bleh!!!!
2005 Eric: I second that.
2007 0.49 (11/29/2001):
2008 Rob: *still mamboing*
2010 Whew! That was a bad little mambo. I hope everyone had a nice
2011 little Holiday, if you celebrate. If not, then I hope you had
2012 a sucky weekend. :-D.
2014 Oh, lots of cheese for everyone!! (Beware the duffle)
2016 It's getting cloudy. I think it's going to storm somethin'
2017 fierce. That's my southern talk. Do you like it?
2019 Eric: I want to be like you.
2021 Do the cha cha cha!
2023 0.48 (11/18/2001):
2024 Rob: Hi! It's 4:12am! I'm watching The Simpsons. :).
2025 Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking! :) There's not
2026 too much for me to say in this release. I'd just like to
2027 thank Eric for his hard work. :)
2029 Eric: Everybody mambo!
2031 0.47 (11/01/2001):
2032 Rob: Hi. Gaim v0.47 has been released, as you should already
2033 know. I hope all of you had a nice little halloween. There are
2034 quite a number of changes in this release. There are a few too
2035 many to list here, so I will redirect you to ye olde ChangeLog.
2037 Eric: Remember back in the day when TOC was the only protocol
2038 Gaim could use? Remember the login window from back then? Back
2039 before Gaim had perl or plugins or multiple connections or
2040 10 different protocols. Things have changed so much since then.
2041 Many more changes in this release as well. All good things.
2042 Don't forget to talk to SmarterChild.
2044 0.46 (10/18/2001):
2045 Rob: Hey guys! The smores were great! I really enjoyed meeting
2046 up with all of you guys and singing campfire songs. It was
2047 really awesome. Thanks for the beer, too. Next time, it's on me.
2049 This release has quite the number of bug fixes. I won't bother
2050 going into detail here. Just ust it, love it, live it - SEGA!
2052 Eric: Lots of fixes. Things compile well now. ICQ has stopped
2053 crashing on PPC and Sparc. If you know someone who isn't using
2054 Gaim because it was unstable, please get them to try this
2055 version. It's much better, I promise.
2057 0.45 (10/04/2001):
2058 Eric: Well, it seems that the time has come for yet another
2059 release. There are several yummy additions in this release, and
2060 quite a few useful bugfixes as well. Unfortunately it seems that
2061 Rob is currently unavailable; he joins us in spirit. He'll be
2062 joining us later for a group sing-along and smores by the
2063 campfire. But for now, you'll need to keep yourselves occupied
2064 with 0.45. And remember, a happy hacker is a pimpin' penguin.
2066 0.44 (09/20/2001):
2067 Rob: Another release has come upon us. There were actually quite
2068 a number of things in ye old ChangeLog for this release. I don't
2069 feel like talking about them here, so you can read about them
2070 in ... you guessed it .. the ChangeLog. Oh, and if you're
2071 wondering about setting buddy icons, wait til 0.45 or
2072 use CVS shortly after this release. ;-)
2074 Eric: You should all be using CVS anyway. This has become the
2075 slogan in our IRC room, #gaim on irc.openprojects.net. The IRC
2076 plugin got lots of updates (mostly because I felt bad about using
2077 X-Chat for IRC when gaim supposedly had an IRC plugin), so you
2078 should load the plugin and join us. :)
2080 0.43 (09/06/2001):
2082 Rob: Well, I knew that the day would eventually come. I just didn't
2083 expect it to be so soon. ;-). Yes, that's right, Eric and I finally
2084 got sick of all of the pre releases. We didn't want to make this
2085 release an official 0.11.0. We thought that it would cause a lot
2086 of confusion. We didn't want to continue our trend of prereleases
2087 either. So, since gaim was first released officially, there
2088 have been 42 releases. This is number 43, hence the 0.43 version
2089 number. We're going to stick with this trend from now on. :-).
2091 Eric: We're also going to be starting a release early, release
2092 often trend, that hopefully we'll stick to this time. Hopefully
2093 we'll be putting out a new release every two weeks or so. You
2094 should all be using CVS anyway :) And as always, don't forget to
2095 report bugs! Anyway, since there's only been 9 days since the
2096 last release not much has changed. A bug-fix release and a version
2097 change mostly :)
2099 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
2100 Eric: This isn't a real release. Really. It's just a quick thing
2101 because pre14 doesn't cut it for some people. Also not counting
2102 the month break that I took it's been a month since the last
2103 release, so it's about time. You should all be using CVS anyway.
2104 Instructions are at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/cvs.shmtl. And
2105 don't forget to report bugs! http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php3.
2107 Rob: Hey guys. I've been rather inactive as well. It's a long
2108 story, but essentially, my company layed off a bunch of people,
2109 myself included, due to poor management. I've taken a new
2110 job which required moving across the country. I'm finally back
2111 online. Once I manage to actually get a desk at home I'll be
2112 able to code with out infliciting intense pain upon my lower
2113 back and neck. So, basically, we were inactive, but not dead.
2115 Also, just to keep you all updated, the AOL battle is still
2116 in progress. Our lawyers are still in negotiation with thiers.
2117 We'll keep you updated with what happens.
2119 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
2120 Eric: Wee. Lots of fun things. BIG bug fix release. I did a lot of
2121 stupid things in the last one, hehe. You all forgive me though,
2122 right?
2124 Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.
2125 Remember that. It's a great Scott Adams quote.
2127 Rob: I feel naughty. I should have released this a lot earlier
2128 in the day. I have a problem though. I started cooking, invited
2129 a couple friends over for dinner and then took a walk to a
2130 24hr doughnut shop where I sat outside and talked about
2131 random stuff. Oh well, at least it's still before the 18th.
2133 Enjoy this release guys! :-)
2136 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
2137 Rob: \O. Howdy doodie! This release isn't coming too far behind
2138 the previous release but hey, what can ya say, there were a couple
2139 of good fixes in this one. Jabber & IRC can set / view the topics
2140 of chat rooms now, napster doesnt crash on bad login names and
2141 passwords, and the man page got a big update.
2143 Well, that's about all, folks. Next release, I hope to try to get
2144 group MSN chat support added as well as DCC support in the IRC
2145 plugin.
2147 Peace!
2149 Eric: I apologize if any of you had to restart your X server because
2150 of me. This release won't make you have to do that, I promise. There
2151 were a couple other minor fixes with the buddy icon stuff, it still
2152 has a way to go but at least it's better than it was before. Oh yeah,
2153 and Oscar is able to sign on again.
2155 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
2156 Rob: Hi! O/. My girlfriend was visiting me so I've been busy being
2157 unavailable online. Hooray.
2159 There have been a lot of good changes in this release. Some improved
2160 dialogs, some updates to IRC and MSN, as well as a nifty little thing
2161 that Eric did that I'll let him tell you about.
2163 Oh yeah, I also got food poisoned by bad eggs. Ugh!
2165 Eric: Every protocol except TOC has been improved since the last
2166 release. All of them except Zephyr and ICQ now use the same proxy
2167 options, which you can set in the preferences. ICQ can use them if
2168 you set it to Socks5 though.
2170 There are a bunch of other good additions and fixes for each
2171 protocol which you can read about in the ChangeLog. And, there's one
2172 super cool feature that everyone seems to be asking for: Buddy Icons.
2173 Right now you can only receive them and only in Oscar, but hey, they're
2174 there.
2176 So that's it. Have fun with it :)
2178 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
2179 Rob: I bought a big carton of juice today. It is now 50% empty.
2180 A lot of the plugins got some new options and/or improvements. I
2181 have a headache right now, though, so I won't say much. I'll let
2182 Eric talk :)
2184 Eric: I uh. I bought 72 cans of soda yesterday. It only cost $15
2185 or so. I figure I'll be through it in less than two weeks. A
2186 dollar a day on soda isn't so bad. For the fourth release in a row,
2187 Oscar is fixed. Isn't that exciting. Judging from history I'd say
2188 that it won't stay fixed long; but judging from what I know has
2189 changed, we shouldn't have any more troubles.
2191 Rob: --. .- .. -- / .. ... / --. .-. . .- - --..-- / --. .- .. -- /
2192 .. ... / --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-
2194 I don't have a headache anymore! Hooray! Eric got a good deal on those
2195 drinks. I bought some bananas. They're very green. Oh, and I cooked
2196 a steak last night. It was 16 oz. It was good.
2198 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
2199 Rob: EEP! It's Friday the 13th!!! I think I fixed a few buggies
2200 in MSN and then added some new features to IRC. I have a headache
2201 right now, though, so I won't talk much. I think I'm going to go
2202 to sleep. Next release, I should have a good bit more done on
2203 IRC and will have made Napster more stable. Have fun!!
2205 Eric: There's a new protocol plugin, Zephyr. Don't use it! unless
2206 you know what Zephyr is, and have zhm set up correctly. Also there
2207 were a lot of other good bugfixes (like registering for Jabber
2208 accounts!) and a few neat features. In this release, Oscar is also
2209 working, but we'll see how long that lasts, eh?
2211 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
2212 Rob: Well, looks AOL was doing something naughty earlier this
2213 morning. Thanks to a very nice guy named Adam Fritzler (you
2214 all know him from libfaim) we're now back online. Thanks,
2215 Adam. I'll buy you a drink sometime :-).
2217 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
2218 Eric: Oo wow :) So I guess the big news is that this release should
2219 help you avoid the battle between Jabber and AOL. Most protocols
2220 got a few good bugfixes; thanks to people who pointed them out :).
2221 Hopefully for the next release I'll make it so you can register a
2222 jabber.org account, and then you can support Jabber using Gaim.
2223 I think (I *think*) Oscar blocking is working now. Haha, get it?
2224 Oscar blocking? It took me a while to get it, too. But no, really,
2225 I think that the permit/deny list in Oscar might be working.
2227 Rob: MSN got some fixes and should be really stable now. It had
2228 a little 100% CPU eating bug but that's taken care of now. Next
2229 on my list of repairs is the napster plugin. It works -- sorta --
2230 sometimes. Heh. As all of you probably know already, our Oscar
2231 support was broken yesterday. There's a little battle going on
2232 between AOL and Jabber and we caught a bullet during the crossfire.
2233 I think I just won the award for the most cliches used in one
2234 paragraph, as a matter of fact. ;-).
2236 ** Good luck to the Jabber guys in getting this resolved **
2239 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
2240 Rob: Hey! I finally rewrote the MSN plugin. Sorry, I'm just
2241 a lazy code whore sometimes, heheh. It pretty much has the same
2242 functionality as before with the exception of instability. I
2243 didn't really like that feature very much so I removed it. I hope
2244 you guys don't mind too terribly much ;-).
2246 Eric: In this week's installment of gaim you'll find a new Yahoo!
2247 library and an option to have all conversations in one window,
2248 in addition to numerous bug fixes and other improvements. Don't
2249 forget to send us your feedback. If there's something you want
2250 added, changed, or fixed, head over to our SourceForge page at
2251 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ and tells us about it.
2254 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
2255 Eric: Yay! I get to go first!
2257 The biggest change in this release is the TODO file. Lots of things
2258 got added. There's going to be a lot of prereleases. Please help.
2259 Other than that it's mostly just a lot of bugfixes. Oscar got a few
2260 new features. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
2261 and tell us what you'd like to see in gaim. We've gotten a lot of
2262 great requests so far, thanks.
2264 I think I like releasing every week.
2266 Rob: I've been bad so Eric got to go first. The biggest change
2267 In this release is the NEWS file. It's the only thing I contributed
2268 to! heh, just kidding. This is a bug fix release, as Eric said.
2269 Next release will contain my newly rewritten MSN plugin. You guys
2270 should be happy with it :).
2272 Oh yeah, TUCAN rocks :) Oh yeah, Eric rocks too.
2275 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
2276 Rob: Yeah, I promise this is the last pre-release :-D. That seems
2277 to be a pretty common saying around here, huh? Well, I must first
2278 appologize. The protocols that I was working on really should be
2279 much more developed at this point -- they should be completed,
2280 actually. Unfortunately, my real life job (yes, I have one hehe) got
2281 a little too busy and ate up all of my free time. I promise that
2282 things will get better now :).
2284 Eric: I don't promise that this is the last pre-release. :) But
2285 hopefully releases can start coming more often than once every two
2286 months. I don't really have much else to say. It's been a slow
2287 couple of months.
2289 Rob: I promise to hack gaim again. Please don't hate me.
2291 0.11.0-pre4:
2292 Rob: HOORAY FOR DISNEYLAND!
2294 Eric: One more prerelease. I'm actually starting to think these
2295 prereleases are a good idea; a lot of people reported a lot of
2296 bugs in pre3 and most of them are fixed now. Also, it helps with
2297 the whole release early-release often philosophy.
2299 The big news in this prerelease is two more protocols: Jabber and
2300 Napster. Both of them don't have any of the features that make
2301 these services cool, yet. You can't use the transports in Jabber
2302 and you can't download file in Napster. But you will be able to,
2303 soon :)
2305 Rob and I are going on vacation starting today until after New
2306 Year's, which is a lot of the reason we wanted to get this release
2307 out; it's much improved over pre3. Happy Holidays everyone.
2309 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
2310 Rob: Well, I hadn't initially planned on an 0.11.0pre3 but it
2311 looks like it was needed. That's not necessarially a bad thing,
2312 mind you. It just means you get to see more goodies!
2314 This release includes some other fun features. See the ChangeLog
2315 for more information. Also found in this wonderful release is
2316 an MSN plugin. For all of you who have been holding onto Windows
2317 simply because you have friends on MSN Messenger that you don't want
2318 to leave, this plugin is for you! :)
2320 Guys, make sure you send us bug reports; preferably on the
2321 SourceForge bug report forum at
2322 http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/. This will allow both
2323 Eric and I to handle the bugs and will prevent either one of us
2324 from losing the bug reports that are sent via AIM :-)
2326 Eric: Hey everybody, Rob and I really want to hear what you guys want
2327 to see in gaim. Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim and
2328 leave a message in the Open Discussion forum. We've gotten a lot of
2329 good ideas so far (most of them didn't make it into this release,
2330 unfortunately).
2332 If any of you want to test out your mad coding skills, I can think of
2333 a few projects that would be incredibly useful. Send me or Rob an IM
2334 and we'll let you know how you can help. And don't forget to read the
2335 HACKING file to see how gaim's put together.
2337 This is hopefully going to be the last prerelease; now that all the
2338 protocols that we're going to be doing for 0.11.0 are available it's
2339 mostly just going to be hacking on them and getting them in usable
2340 condition before the final release. Don't forget to send us bug
2341 reports ;)
2343 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
2344 Rob: I messed up. Oh well, it's fixed.
2346 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
2347 Rob: Hey guys! Guess what!? Yup, you're correct! It's the pre1
2348 release of 0.11.0. We have all sorts of goodies in this release!
2349 Check out the ChangeLog file. As always if you find any bugs,
2350 please report them on www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/
2352 You may find several small bugs as this is still a prerelease.
2354 You may want to note that my IRC plugin does not have full
2355 functionality as of yet. All of the important / commands will be
2356 added before the final release. Also, if someone could send me
2357 some good buddylist pixmaps for the irc plugin then I'd much
2358 appreciate it. Thanks to everyone who made this new release possible!
2360 If you have any ideas, comments, or suggestions, please let us know
2361 either by e-mail or via the source forge message board at the URL
2362 above. :)
2365 Eric: So what was Yay! For Gaim!? Yay was the codename for the
2366 Yahoo plugin. The whole point of all of these changes was I wanted to
2367 make a proof-of-concept plugin that would let Gaim sign into Yahoo. It
2368 turned out to be pretty much impossible with the old code. So,
2369 Rob and I hacked gaim so we could do just that. There's now a whole new
2370 class of plugins, Protocol Plugins, that let users dynamically add new
2371 protocols to Gaim. Just load the plugin, and create a new account that
2372 uses that protocol, and you're set! Yay! (Oscar and TOC are both still
2373 static. Gaim is, after all, primarily an AIM client.)
2375 Lots of people have been very generous and contributed a lot of
2376 time and effort to writing some really nice patches for gaim since
2377 the last release. To all of you, a big thanks.
2379 0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
2380 Rob: I am dumb.
2381 Eric: I am not dumb.
2383 0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
2384 Rob: What do you want me to say for yours?
2385 Eric: What happened since the last release?
2386 Rob: You got DSL.
2387 Eric: Oh yeah, I'm more available now.
2388 Rob: On a more serious note, this is just a quick release
2389 to hold everyone over. Look for some very awesome things
2390 coming in the next version. I can't say what, just yet,
2391 but what I can say is, Yay! For Gaim!
2393 0.10.1 (09/15/2000):
2395 Rob: Hi Hi Hi! Yet another gaim release pushed out the door
2396 for you guys. I hope you all enjoy it. There was a few minor
2397 issues cleared up in this version as well as the repair of
2398 OSCAR support. Hopefully we won't run into the same problem
2399 as before. Oh well ;-). There's also a few small extra goodies
2400 in here for you guys just check out the Change Log. I hope you all
2401 enjoy and take care!
2403 Eric: Wanna know what the Oscar problem was? You'll laugh. 2 bytes.
2404 The fix was changing 0x07da to 0x0686. Anyway, aside from the fix
2405 for that, there are a couple other good things. Beware of DSL nazis.
2406 They won't give you service until 6 weeks after you order it. So um,
2407 yeah.
2409 0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
2410 Rob: Well peoples, I know that it's been a while since our
2411 last release. Here we go. Some brand spankin' new interfaces
2412 for you guys to oogle at. I hope you all enjoy it. Hopefully
2413 our next release won't take as long to finish up. Real life
2414 kind of crept up on Eric and I and took up a lot of our times.
2415 Life sucks that way sometimes. Anyways, we're back and all
2416 is well. Thanks for hanging in there guys and we hope
2417 you enjoy it!
2419 Eric: LWE was so cool. Rob and I met up there, we had a blast. But I
2420 only got to go for one day and Rob got to go for three. Lucky bastard.
2421 It's been so long since the last release that I don't even remember
2422 what's changed. But all of it is good :) Like Rob said, all kinds of
2423 new UI stuff. I think there are some new features in there too. Now
2424 I'm headed back to school so I'll have more time to hack gaim (isn't
2425 that supposed to be the reverse?), just as soon as I get my internet
2426 connection back >:-/ .
2428 Rob: Oh yeah, some of our pixmaps may need a little work. We took
2429 a lot of them from the Gnome Stock icons. If anyone could do some
2430 custom ones that stay within the 24x24 boundary and keep the same
2431 idea and feel as the gnome icons then we would be more than happy
2432 to use them. Thanks much!! Viva la LWE.
2435 0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
2436 Rob: Well, guys, I hope you enjoy this version. I've done quite a bit
2437 of work to the user interface. It's still not in the state that I
2438 would like it to be, though. Over the next few versions you will
2439 notice a few more interface changes as we try to bring a more
2440 professional look to Gaim. As always, we will stay true to our
2441 pimpin' penguin atittude.
2443 Eric: While Rob's been busy making things pretty, I've been busy
2444 making things work :). The chat and IM windows got merged, which
2445 means that they both have the same features (notably, IM has /me
2446 and chat has font/color dialogs and smileys). Also smileys should
2447 work better in general now (thanks fflew).
2449 Rob: By the way, what Eric is saying is that he's smart and I'm
2450 not and that he does all of the work and I sit on my butt all
2451 day and claim to do work. WOOO! Just kidding, brother :-P
2454 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
2455 Rob: PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2456 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2457 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2459 All of that nonsense aside, there are a few things that DIDN'T happen
2460 in this version of gaim. The user interface changes will wait until
2461 the 0.9.20 release. We've decided to turn 0.9.19 into a "new feature
2462 and major bug fix" release. All/Most major bugs should be worked out
2463 now. We're sorry about the problem of segfaulting when your buddylist
2464 stored on the server was null. Oops! We won't let it happen again,
2465 we promise.
2467 Eric: Lots of good changes in this one, including locale support. Chat
2468 had a lot of things done to it, but it's still not finished. The UI
2469 didn't get the overhaul we were planning, but we wanted to get a few
2470 bugfixes out.
2472 Lemme say something about reporting bugs. Please do. Please try to give
2473 as much information as you can. But regardless of how much information
2474 you give, please be POLITE. If you tell us our software is crap then
2475 we're probably not going to respond well.
2477 Rob: Before I close up and say goodnight, I'd like to say that I
2478 agree with Eric. Reporting problems and/or helpful criticism in
2479 a polite manner always yields the best results. Peace all, and
2480 happy hacking.
2482 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
2483 Rob: Talk about release early, release often - sheesh! We're going
2484 insane. Ya know, I'm not too happy with the Gaim UI. I dont know
2485 how the rest of you feel but it's time for a nice overhaul. In the
2486 next few days I'll be sitting down with some of my friends and coming
2487 up with an improved interface. I hope you all enjoy it. It'll
2488 include better looking dialogs, icons, sounds (hopefully lol), etc.
2490 And -- for your random silly message of the day --
2492 "Beans and Franks, Beans and Franks, Wine And Beer, Have No Fear!
2493 I can sing! I can dance! I have a penguin in my pants!"
2495 - Rob Flynn after not having enough sleep.
2497 Eric: I've had less sleep than Rob, I can guarantee you that. There's
2498 actually a lot going on in this release, despite 2 releases 2 days ago.
2499 Don't ask me how; I think the elves had something to do with it.
2501 Oscar support is almost to the point where I'm considering removing
2502 the 'experimental' label from configure. For those of you brave enough
2503 to try it, I'd like feedback. (And if you happen to write a patch to
2504 fix some of the stuff that would be really cool too.) Hopefully for the
2505 next release, in addition to the cool new UI, Gaim/Faim will be able to
2506 do nearly everything Gaim/TOC can do. (Big things coming in 0.9.19, I
2507 can feel it....)
2509 And just remember, you *can* have too many gummi candies. Especially if
2510 you eat nearly a whole kilo of them. Believe me. I know. But the gummi
2511 cherries are damn good.
2513 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
2514 Rob: I am an e-mail fiend!
2515 (after receiving 60 emails within a 5 minute period about a problem
2516 and responding to all of them immediately)
2518 I am stupid.
2520 Eric: Heh heh. 2 releases in one day. I'm impressed. Maybe one of these
2521 times we'll actually get some of it right ;) Anyway, yeah. Just bug fixes in
2522 this one.
2524 Rob: Yeah, we wouldn't be ourselves if we released it once and got it
2525 right, would we? :-)
2527 0.9.16:
2528 Rob: Blah Blah Blah.
2530 Eric: Looks like Rob didn't have much to say, so I'll write something
2531 instead :)
2533 There's a few good things in this release, the most important of them
2534 being: Better proxy support, of course. Oh yeah, and you can sign on now,
2535 so that's a good thing too. There's a few more good things going on in this
2536 release, so check out the ChangeLog.
2538 Play nicely, and we'll keep hacking away at it.
2540 Rob: Go Watch `Road Trip'.
2542 0.9.15:
2543 Hey boy's and girls. There's not much to say here this time.
2544 We're loving Southern California, the new job's going great. We just
2545 got our company website up and the product development is going pretty
2546 smooth. Life's pretty sweet now.
2548 We've hacked up all kinds of goodies for you in 0.9.15. There's
2549 some file transfer (receive) support for those of you who have been
2550 wanting it for a while. There's some other misc. goodies tossed in as
2551 well. Enjoy!! Oh yeah, we need a new website. Come up with a sweet
2552 design and get in touch with me. The current site is at:
2553 http://www.marko.net/gaim
2555 Thanks much!
2558 0.9.14:
2559 Well, there's a few random hacks and fixes in here, along with
2560 a little suprise. You guessed it, kiddos, support for plugins! Happy
2561 hacking!
2563 0.9.13:
2564 Not much to say for this release. Bug fixes, That's all. Look
2565 for the goodies I promised in 0.9.13 to appear in 0.9.14 which should be
2566 released very soon now.
2568 By the way, our CVS is now hosted over at source forge. Go check
2569 it out at http://www.sourceforge.net. Please check there before submitting
2570 any bug reports (You can read our CVS comments to see if we have fixed any
2571 problems).
2573 0.9.12:
2574 Well guys, looks like we got some nifty things in this version.
2575 TrueType Fonts are supported for those XFSTT buffs out there (or whatever
2576 else you use). A crap load of those plaguing memory leaks have FINALLY been
2577 fixed. My brother, Jeramey, and a new friend Peter Teichan helped stomp
2578 those babies out. A rad guy by the name of Eric Warmenhoven has been
2579 really sweet lately and has all but rewritten the Gnome Applet support :).
2580 He submitted patch after patch. I finally got annoyed with him (just kidding bud)
2581 and gave him CVS access. Look for Gnome Applet support in Gaim to start improving.
2582 That's about all for now. I wanted to get this release out there. File Receive
2583 support will be in 0.9.13 which is due out soon.
2585 0.9.11:
2586 Jeramey got a new Comfy Chair! Its very very comfy! Whee!
2587 Jim also had a little hyper-drunken moment and started hacking away at
2588 a new configuration format for Gaim. Looks like we're running .gaimrc
2589 version 1 now. Gotta love it. I got bored and hacked in a couple font
2590 properties that will, in time, contain more features. That's about it
2591 for this version -- cept for that memory leak we fixed. Shush! We're
2592 not plumbers! -- rob
2594 ** Extra special update **
2596 Well guys, it looks like we all stopped working on gaim, moved to California,
2597 and took up a new job. Don't worry though, those beach bums out here havent
2598 worn off on us yet. I've decided to pick up the Gaim torch myself and continue
2599 development ont he prohect. Hopefully we wont have any more five month braks in
2600 the project. Sorry about that, guys :)
2602 0.9.10:
2603 Umm. Dont ask. Silly memory leak. For those of you who
2604 wondered, you were losing about 256 bytes every 25 seconds for each
2605 person you have on your contact list. Make fun of us. Better yet ..
2606 Send us beer. We'll do better :)
2608 0.9.9:
2609 Welp, All of you boys and girls who run Mandrake and have some
2610 problems with Gaim working properly, please check out the FAQ file. It
2611 contains a nice fix submitted by one of our users. I hope this works for
2612 you guys!
2613 Jim appears to have intoxicated himself. This is, as always, a
2614 Good Thing (tm). His late-night adventure with the liquid-bread food group
2615 lead to the birth of a nice little feature called `The Lag-O-Meter'. Dont
2616 ask, just try it out :). It is pretty pointless if you have a super-fast
2617 connection but if you are a modem user, like many of us are, then try it out.
2618 There's also some idle preferences and some other little random
2619 bug fixes. Check'em out yo :)
2621 0.9.8:
2622 Get Along Lil' Doggies. Heh. Looks like we have yet another new
2623 version of gaim for you guys to play with. Be gentle now, it has a few
2624 new fetures. The HTML widget is now more robust and we have *da da da*
2625 HTTP proxy support.
2626 Oh By The Way, Do not pay too much attention to what we are doing
2627 with this release. We are all a little bit happy tonight. You must love
2628 life. This is a special release of gaim. We will be releasing some wonderful
2629 photographs soon .. or perhaps if we get the bloody webcam working then we
2630 will take a couple of quick snapshots.
2631 Looks like the Gaim developers convention (cool name huh) that we
2632 had this weekend in Auburn, AL went wonderfully :). yum yum yum. Hahahah. Oh
2633 by the way. Beware of insecure rednecks in the deli. Bad things.
2634 In (non)related news, Jeramey could not successfully slaughter the
2635 one pound hamburger that he ordered. (I think he could have done it but he
2636 wasn't feeling very well at the time).
2637 Oh Yes, New Logo Too :) You likes? Thanks, Naru!
2638 Just a little side-note: it looks like we didnt make the release that
2639 we had expected during the Gaim Convention. Maybe we partied too much? I am
2640 not sure. I remember watching the sun rise before I went to bed, though.
2641 Oh well. Here's your release! Enjoy!
2642 By The Way, we have uploaded our party pictures to a website.
2643 http://www.dorky.net/gaim/party/ They are nothing spectacular but I hope you
2644 enjoy them! :).
2646 0.9.7:
2647 Well, boys and girls, it's that time again! Yup, time for the good
2648 release fairy to come bless us with her infinite wisdom and divine presence.
2649 Umm, yeah, something like that. Anyways, this release has several little
2650 "bad" network fixes (as Jim likes to say) and a couple touch-ups to a few
2651 other features. It also features preliminary oscar support. Thanks to Jim
2652 and Adam ("the libfaim guy") hehe :) We have also corrected a problem with
2653 gaim not wainting to correctly save your password if you have an underscore
2654 in it. Thanks to w1za7d for pointing out the underscore problem. ' and \
2655 have also been fixed in passwords. :o)
2657 0.9.6:
2658 Sorry about the little segfaulting bugs in the past release. Rob
2659 is stupid. :). Anyways, they have been patched up and a couple new features
2660 have been added. I hope you guys enjoy.
2662 0.9.5:
2663 Well we added a myriad of new features to this release. (A lot of
2664 small buggie fixes too.) If you need a detailed list just check out the
2665 ChangeLog. We now have a new webpage design and have added a FAQ to the
2666 distribution. Before coming to us with any problems please take a quick
2667 look through the FAQ to make sure we havent already covered your question.
2668 Also, thanks to our beloved Web Monkey, FlynOrange, we have all
2669 learned the true power of foam weapons, slinkies, and whoopie cushions. Hmm
2670 gotta love those pranks, eh?
2672 0.8.0:
2673 Well, just starting the NEWS file. I'll try to remember what's new
2674 from the last version. Hmmm. BIG code reorg. Import/export, buddy pounce
2675 among the major new features. Autoconf script too, which is a big win.
2676 Apologies to those who submitted patches which haven't made it in.. I
2677 promise, the next version! This code reorg took up a lot of my time, and I
2678 want to get it out there.