1 Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
3 version 2.10.4 (05/06/2012):
5 * Support building against Farstream in addition to Farsight.
6 (Olivier Crete) (#14936)
9 * Disable periodic WHO timer. IRC channel user lists will no
10 longer automatically display away status, but libpurple will be
11 much kinder to the network.
12 * Print unknown numerics to channel windows if we can associate
13 them. Thanks to Marien Zwart. (#15090)
16 * Fix a possible crash when receiving messages with certain characters
17 or character encodings. Thanks to Fabian Yamaguchi for reporting
21 * Fix a possible crash when receiving a series of specially crafted
22 file transfer requests. Thanks to José Valentín Gutiérrez for
23 reporting this! (CVE-2012-2214)
25 Windows-Specific Changes:
26 * Words added to spell check dictionaries are saved across restarts of
29 version 2.10.3 (03/26/2012):
31 * Fix buddies not going offline. (#14997)
33 version 2.10.2 (03/14/2012):
35 * Fix compilation when using binutils 2.22 and new GDK pixbuf. (#14799)
36 * Fix compilation of the MXit protocol plugin with GLib 2.31. (#14773)
39 * Add support for the GNOME3 Network dialog. (#13882)
40 * Fix rare crash. (#14392)
41 * Add support for the GNOME3 Default Application dialog for configuring
45 * Support new connection states and signals for NetworkManager 0.9+.
46 (Dan Williams) (#13859)
49 * Fix a possible crash when receiving an unexpected message
50 from the server. (Thijs Alkemade) (#14983)
51 * Allow signing on with usernames containing periods and
53 * Allow adding buddies containing periods and underscores. (#13500)
54 * Don't try to format ICQ usernames entered as email addresses.
55 Gets rid of an "Unable to format username" error at login. (#13883)
58 * Fix possible crashes caused by not validating incoming messages as
59 UTF-8. (Thijs Alkemade) (#14884)
60 * Support new protocol version MSNP18. (#14753)
61 * Fix messages to offline contacts. (#14302)
63 Windows-Specific Changes:
64 * Fix the installer downloading of spell-checking dictionaries (#14612)
65 * Fix compilation of the Bonjour protocol plugin. (#14802)
68 * The autoaccept plugin will no longer reset the preference for unknown
69 buddies to "Auto Reject" in certain cases. (#14964)
71 version 2.10.1 (12/06/2011):
73 * Fix compilation on OpenBSD.
76 * Fix remotely-triggerable crashes by validating strings in a few
77 messages related to buddy list management. Thanks to Evgeny Boger
78 for reporting this! (#14682)
81 * IPv6 fixes (Linus Lüssing)
84 * Fix problems linking against GnuTLS. (#14544)
87 * Fix a memory leak when admitting UTF-8 text with a non-UTF-8 primary
91 * Fix crashes and memory leaks when receiving malformed voice
92 and video requests. Thanks to Thijs Alkemade for reporting this!
95 * Separate "username" and "server" when adding new Sametime accounts.
97 * Fix compilation in Visual C++. (#14608)
100 * Fix CVE-2011-3594, by UTF-8 validating incoming messages before
101 passing them to glib or libpurple. Identified by Diego Bauche
102 Madero from IOActive. (#14636)
105 * Fetch buddy icons in some cases where we previously weren't. (#13050)
107 Windows-Specific Changes:
110 version 2.10.0 (08/18/2011):
112 * Make the max size of incoming smileys a pref instead of hardcoding it.
113 (Quentin Brandon) (#5231)
114 * Added a plugin information dialog to show information for plugins
115 that aren't otherwise visible in the plugins dialog.
116 * Fix building with GTK+ earlier than 2.14.0 (GTK+ 2.10 is still the
117 minimum supported) (#14261)
120 * Fix a potential crash in the Log Reader plugin when reading QIP logs.
121 * Fix a large number of strcpy() and strcat() invocations to use
122 strlcpy() and strlcat(), etc., forestalling an entire class of
123 string buffer overrun bugs.
124 (The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Dan Auerbach, Chris Palmer,
126 * Change some filename manipulations in filectl.c to use MAXPATHLEN
127 instead of arbitrary length constants. (The Electronic Frontier
128 Foundation, Dan Auerbach, Chris Palmer, Jacob Appelbaum)
129 * Fix endianness-related crash in NTLM authentication (Jon Goldberg)
133 * Fixed searching for buddies in public directory. (Tomasz Wasilczyk)
135 * Better status message handling. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#14314)
136 * Merged two buddy blocking methods. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#5303)
137 * Fix building of the bundled libgadu library with older versions
138 of GnuTLS. (patch plucked from upstream) (#14365)
141 * Fix crash selecting Tools->Set Mood when you're online with an
142 ICQ account that is configured as an AIM account. (#14437)
145 * Fix a crash when remote users have certain characters in their
146 nicknames. (Discovered by Djego Ibanez) (#14341)
147 * Fix the handling of formatting following mIRC ^O (#14436)
148 * Fix crash when NAMES is empty. (James McLaughlin) (#14518)
151 * Fix incorrect handling of HTTP 100 responses when using the HTTP
152 connection method. This can lead to a crash. (Discovered by Marius
154 * Fix seemingly random crashing. (#14307)
155 * Fix a crash when the account is disconnected at the time we are doing a
156 SB request. (Hanzz, ported by shlomif) (#12431)
159 * Do not generate malformed XML ("</>") when setting an empty mood.
161 * Fix the /join <room> behavior. (Broken when adding support for
162 <room>@<server>) (#14205)
165 * Fix coming out of idle while in an unavailable state
166 * Fix logging into Yahoo! JAPAN. (#14259)
168 Windows-Specific Changes:
169 * Open an explorer.exe window at the location of the file when clicking
170 on a file link instead of executing the file, because executing a file
171 can be potentially dangerous. (Discovered by James Burton of
172 Insomnia Security) (Fixed by Eion Robb)
174 version 2.9.0 (06/23/2011):
176 * Fix a potential remote denial-of-service bug related to displaying
178 * Significantly improved performance of larger IRC channels (regression
179 introduced in 2.8.0).
180 * Fix Conversation->Add on AIM and MSN.
181 * Entries in the chat user list are sorted properly again. This was
182 inadvertenly broken in 2.8.0.
185 * Fix logging in to ICQ.
188 * media: Actually use the specified TCP port from the TURN configuration to
189 create a TCP relay candidate.
192 * Fix crashes on some non-mainstream OSes when attempting to
193 printf("%s", NULL). (Clemens Huebner) (#14297)
196 * The Evolution Integration plugin compiles again.
198 version 2.8.0 (06/07/2011):
200 * Implement simple silence suppression for voice calls, preventing
201 wasted bandwidth for silent periods during a call. (Jakub Adam)
203 * Added the DigiCert High Assurance CA-3 intermediate CA, needed for
204 validation of the Facebook XMPP interface's certificate.
205 * Removed the QQ protocol plugin. It hasn't worked in a long time and
206 isn't being maintained, therefore we no longer want it.
209 * Duplicate code cleanup. (Gabriel Schulhof) (#10599)
210 * Voice/Video call window adapts correctly to adding or removing
211 streams on the fly. (Jakub Adam) (half of #13535)
212 * Don't cancel an ongoing call when rejecting the addition of a
213 stream to the existing call. (Jakub Adam) (#13537)
214 * Pidgin plugins can now override tab completion and detect clicks on
215 usernames in the chat userlist. (kawaii.neko) (#12599)
216 * Fix the tooltip being destroyed when it is full of information and
217 cover the mouse (dliang) (#10510)
220 * media: Allow obtaining active local and remote candidates. (Jakub
222 * media: Allow getting/setting video capabilities. (Jakub Adam) (half
224 * Simple Silence Suppression is optional per-account. (Jakub Adam)
226 * Fix purple-url-handler being unable to find an account.
227 * media: Allow adding/removing streams on the fly. (Jakub Adam)
229 * Support new connection states in NetworkManager 0.9. (Dan Williams)
231 * When removing a buddy, delete the pounces associated with it.
232 (Kartik Mohta) (#1131)
233 * media: Allow libpurple and plugins to set SDES properties for RTP
234 conferences. (Jakub Adam) (#12981)
235 * proxy: Add new "Tor/Privacy" proxy type that can be used to
236 restrict operations that could leak potentially sensitive data
237 (e.g. DNS queries). (#11110, #13928)
238 * media: Add support for using TCP relaying with TURN (will only work with
239 libnice 0.1.0 and later).
242 * Fix setting icons with dimensions greater than 64x64 pixels by scaling
243 them down to at most 64x64. (#12874, #13165)
246 * Allow showing your status only to buddies. (Mateusz Piękos) (#13358)
247 * Updated internal libgadu to version 1.10.1. (Robert Matusewicz,
248 Krzysztof Klinikowski) (#13525)
249 * Updated internal libgadu to version 1.11.0. (Tomasz Wasilczyk)
251 * Suppress blank messages that happen when receiving inline
252 images. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#13554)
253 * Fix sending inline images to remote users, don't crash when
254 trying to send large (> 256kB) images. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#13580)
255 * Support typing notifications. (Jan Zachorowski, Tomasz Wasilczyk,
256 Krzysztof Klinikowski) (#13362, #13590)
257 * Require libgadu 1.11.0 to avoid using internal libgadu.
258 * Optional SSL connection support for GNUTLS users (not on Windows
259 yet!). (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#13613, #13894)
260 * Don't count received messages or statuses when determining whether
261 to send a keepalive packet. (Jan Zachorowski) (#13699)
262 * Fix a crash when receiving images on Windows or an incorrect
263 timestamp in the log when receiving images on Linux. (Tomasz
265 * Support XML events, resulting in immediate update of other users'
266 buddy icons. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#13739)
267 * Accept poorly formatted URLs from other third-party clients in
268 the same manner as the official client. (Tomasz Wasilczyk)
272 * Fix setting icons with dimensions greater than 64x64 pixels by scaling
273 them down to at most 64x64. (#12874, #13165)
274 * Fix unsetting your mood when "None" is selected. (Dustin Gathmann)
276 * Ignore Daylight Saving Time when performing calculations related to
277 birthdays. (Dustin Gathmann) (#13533)
278 * It is now possible to specify multiple encodings on the Advanced
279 tab of an ICQ account's settings by using a comma-delimited list.
280 (Dmitry Utkin) (#13496)
283 * Add "authserv" service command. (tomos) (#13337)
286 * Fix a hard-to-exploit crash in the MSN protocol when using the
287 HTTP connection method (Reported by Marius Wachtler).
290 * Support for an Invite Message when adding a buddy.
291 * Fixed bug in splitting-up of messages that contain a lot of links.
292 * Fixed crash caused by timer not being disabled on disconnect.
293 (introduced in 2.7.11)
294 * Clearing of the conversation window now works.
295 * When receiving an invite you can display the sender's profile
296 information, avatar image, invite message.
297 * The Change PIN option was moved into separate action.
298 * New profile attributes added and shown.
299 * Update to protocol v6.3.
300 * Added the ability to view and invite your Suggested Friends,
301 and to search for contacts.
302 * Also display the Status Message of offline contacts in their
306 * Remember the previously entered user directory when searching.
307 (Keith Moyer) (#12451)
308 * Correctly handle a buddy's unsetting his/her vCard-based avatar.
309 (Matthew W.S. Bell) (#13370)
310 * Squash one more situation that resulted in duplicate entries in
311 the roster (this one where the server reports the buddy as being
312 in the same (empty) group. (Reported by Danny Mayer)
315 * The Voice/Video Settings plugin now includes the ability to test
316 microphone settings. (Jakub Adam) (#13182)
317 * Fix a crash when handling some saved settings in the Voice/Video
318 Settings plugin. (Pat Erley) (13290, #13774)
320 Windows-Specific Changes:
321 * Fix building libpurple with Visual C++ .NET 2005. This was
322 accidentally broken in 2.7.11. (Florian Quèze)
323 * Build internal libgadu using packed structs, fixing several
324 long-standing Gadu-Gadu issues. (#11958, #6297)
326 version 2.7.11 (03/10/2011):
328 * Our bundled libgadu should now build on HP-UX.
329 * Fix some instances of file transfers never completing. (Cristi Posoiu)
333 * Sort by Status no longer causes buddies to move around when you
335 * Fix embedding in the system tray on older GTK+ releases (such as on
336 CentOS 5.5 and older Fedora).
337 * No longer require libstartup-notification for startup notification
338 support. GTK+ has included support for years, so use it instead. (David
342 * Fix a bug where some buddies from your buddy list might not show up.
343 Affected non-English ICQ users the most. (#13386)
344 * Send keepalives for all types of network connections. Will hopefully
345 make chat rooms more reliable. (#1449)
348 * Fix bug that prevented added buddies to your buddy list in certain
349 circumstances. (#13298)
352 * MXit plugin and reported client version now follow the libpurple
354 * Don't try to request profile information for non-user contacts.
355 * Allow Re-Invite for contacts in Deleted or Rejected state.
356 * Ensure we don't send packets too fast to the MXit server and trigger
357 its flood-detection mechanism. Also increased the internal packet queue
361 * Fix building on platforms with an older glib (inadvertantly broken in
363 * Don't treat the on-join status storms as 'new arrivals'. (Thijs
365 * Extend the /join command to support room JIDs, enabling you to join
366 a room on any server. (Solarius, Matěj Cepl, Tirtha 'wyuka'
368 * Add support for receiving a limited amount of history when joining a
369 room (not currently supported by Pidgin and Finch). (Thijs Alkemade)
373 * Fix CVE-2011-1091, denials of service caused by NULL pointer
374 dereferences due to improper handling of malformed YMSG packets. Thanks
375 to Marius Wachtler for reporting this and reviewing the fix!
377 version 2.7.10 (02/06/2011):
379 * Force video sources to all have the same capabilities. This reduces the
380 number of times video must be scaled down, saving CPU time. (Jakub Adam)
382 * Starting multiple video calls and ending one no longer causes the other
383 calls to stop sending audio and video. (Jakub Adam) (#12758, #13237)
384 * Perl bindings now respect LDFLAGS. (Peter Volkov, Markos Chandras)
386 * Added AddTrust External Root CA. (#11554)
387 * Resolve some issues validating X.509 certificates signed off the CAcert
388 Class 3 intermediate cert when using the GnuTLS SSL/TLS plugin.
391 * Don't drop whole messages when text is colored. (Jan Zachorowski)
395 * Don't show two windows when using "Get Info" on a buddy. (Gabriel Burt;
396 Novell, Inc.) (#13108)
399 * Don't send ISON messages longer than 512 bytes. (Jeffrey Honig) (#9692)
402 * Stop sending audio when placing a call on hold. (Jakub Adam) (#13032)
403 * Stop translating gpointers to ints in the dbus API. This removes
404 functions from the dbus API. (The openSUSE Project) (#12507)
405 * Fix D-Bus introspection calls that omit the interface parameter. (Tom
407 * Fixed bugs in purple_str_to_time() that caused the most recent 'make
408 check' failures. (Nader Morshed) (#13131)
409 * Correct an issue that caused some UIs other than Pidgin or Finch to
410 leave a buddy in the "is typing" state. (Jan Kaluza)
411 * Fix potential information disclosure issues in the Cipher code. (Julia
415 * Support using the Page Up and Page Down keys on the numeric keypad in
416 the conversation window. (Ryan Flegel) (#13127)
417 * Fix a few memory leaks. (Nader Morshed) (#13162)
418 * Support rendering strikethrough when received as in-line CSS. (#13168)
419 * Editable comboboxes are now more friendly to some GTK+ themes. (Hugo
420 Pereira Da Costa) (#13164).
423 * The Voice/Video Settings plugin no longer resets selected devices to
424 defaults. (Jakub Adam) (#13044)
425 * The Voice/Video Settings plugin no longer crashes when a stored device
426 name is not found in the list of available devices. (Jakub Adam)
428 * The Autoaccept plugin now allows disabling filename escaping. (Rok
429 Mandeljc) (half of #11459)
430 * The Autoaccept plugin now allows choosing Reject/Ask/Accept for
431 non-buddies. (Rok Mandeljc) (half of #11459)
434 * QQ2008 is now the default protocol version. (Michael Terry) (#11635)
437 * Don't crash when receiving an unexpected/invalid jingle transport type.
438 (Nikita Kozlov) (#13136)
439 * Handle Connection: Close headers for BOSH, when the server does not
440 terminate the connection itself. (#13008)
441 * Improved parsing for DIGEST-MD5, which should resolve issues
442 connecting to some jabberd2 servers. This corrects an issue parsing
443 one-character or empty elements. (Noa Resare) (#a14514)
446 * Fix a crash when an account disconnects before a p2p session is
447 completely set up. (Jan Kaluza) (#12432)
449 version 2.7.9 (12/26/2010):
451 * Fix CVE-2010-4528, a crash when receiving short packets related to
454 version 2.7.8 (12/19/2010):
456 * Fix the exceptions in purple-remote on Python 2.6+. (Ari Pollak)
460 * When a conversation has reached the maximum limit on the number
461 of smileys, display the text representation of the smiley properly
462 when it contains HTML-escapable characters (e.g. "<3" was previously
463 displayed as "<3").
464 * Drop dependency on GdkGC and use Cairo instead.
465 * New UI hack to assist in first-time setup of Facebook accounts with
466 icon from Jakub Szypulka.
467 * Don't hide the buddy list if there is no notification area in which
468 to put the icon. (#12129)
471 * Fix multipart parsing when '=' is included in the boundary for
472 purple_mime_document_parse. (Jakub Adam) (#11598)
475 * Buddies who unset their status message will now be correctly shown
476 without a message in your buddy list. (#12988)
479 * Updated our bundled libgadu and minimum requirement for external
480 libgadu to 1.9.0. (#12789)
483 * Stop showing ourselves in the list of endpoints that can be
485 * Allow full-size display names, by not escaping (most) non-English
487 * Fix receiving messages from users on Yahoo and other federated
489 * Correctly remove old endpoints from the list when they sign out.
490 * Add option to disable connections from multiple locations. (#13017)
491 * Correctly update your own display name in the buddy list. (#13064)
492 * Correctly show ourselves as offline in the buddy list when going
494 * Correctly update your own icon in the buddy list. (#12973)
495 * Remove struct packing for better portability. (#12856)
498 * Terminate Jingle sessions with unsupported content types. (#13048)
500 version 2.7.7 (11/23/2010):
502 * Allow multiple CA certificates to share the same Distinguished Name
503 (DN). Partially fixes remaining MSN issues from #12906.
504 * The GNUTLS SSL plugin now discards any certificate (and all subsequent
505 certificates) in a chain if it did not sign the previous certificate.
506 Partially fixes remaining MSN issues from #12906.
507 * Open requests related to a file transfer are now closed when the request
508 is cancelled locally. (#11666)
511 * AIM should now connect if "Use clientLogin" is turned off and the
512 "Server" field is set to anything other than "login.oscar.aol.com" or
513 "slogin.oscar.aol.com". (#12948)
514 * Fix a crash on connection loss. (#5927)
516 version 2.7.6 (11/21/2010):
518 * Included Microsoft Internet Authority 2010 and Microsoft Secure Server
519 Authority 2010 intermediate CA certificates to our bundle. This fixes
520 the "Unable to validate certificate" error for omega.contacts.msn.com.
524 * Avoid a use-after-free race condition in the media code (when
525 there's an error reported by GStreamer). (#12806, Jakub Adam)
528 * SSL option has been changed to a tri-state menu with choices for
529 "Don't Use Encryption", "Use Encryption if Available", and "Require
531 * Fix some possible clientLogin URL issues introduced in version 2.7.5.
532 * Don't show a "<URL>: Ok" connection error when using clientLogin.
533 * Cleaned up some debug output for improved readability.
536 * Added support for MSNP16, including Multiple Points of Presence (MPOP)
537 which allows multiple simultaneous sign-ins. (#8247)
538 * Added extended capabilities support (none implemented).
539 * Merged the work done on the Google SoC (major rewrite of SLP code)
540 * Reworked the data transfer architecture.
541 (http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/SlpArchitecture)
542 * Lots of little changes.
543 * Don't process zero-length DC messages. (#12660)
544 * Fixed a bunch of memory leaks.
545 * Prevent a use-after-free condition.
548 * Avoid a double-free in the Google Relay (V/V) code.
549 * Avoid double error message when failing a file transfer. (#12757)
550 * Password-related information is printed out for SASL authentication
551 when the PURPLE_UNSAFE_DEBUG environment variable is set.
552 * Authentication mechanisms can now be added by UI's or other plugins
553 with some work. This is outside the API/ABI rules! (#12715)
554 * Fixed a few printf("%s", NULL) crashes for broken OSes.
556 Windows-Specific Changes:
557 * Build the Pidgin Theme Editor plugin (finally).
558 * Untarring (for themes) now works for non-ASCII destination paths.
560 version 2.7.5 (10/31/2010):
562 * Added Verisign Class 3 Public CA - G2 root CA.
565 * Properly differentiate between bn and bn_IN in the Translation
569 * Display the "Authorize buddy?" minidialog when the requestor has an
570 empty nickname. (#12810)
571 * New ICQ accounts default to proper ICQ servers. Old accounts using one
572 of the old default servers will be silently migrated to use the proper
574 * ICQ accounts using clientLogin now use the correct ICQ servers. This is
575 separate from the server settings mentioned above.
576 * '<' should no longer cause ICQ status messages to be truncated in some
577 locations. (#11964, #12593)
578 * Fix sending messages to chat rooms. (#12768)
581 * Don't crash when attempting to log into a Bonjour account and init
584 Windows-Specific Changes:
585 * Quote the path stored in the registry when the "run at startup" option
586 in the Windows Pidgin Options plugin is used. (#12781)
588 version 2.7.4 (10/20/2010):
590 * Fix search path for Tk when compiling on Debian Squeeze. (#12465)
591 * purple-remote now expects and produces UTF-8. (Guillaume Brunerie)
593 * Add Deutsche Telekom, Thawte Primary, and Go Daddy Class 2 root CAs
594 (#12667, #12668, and #12594)
595 * Fix CVE-2010-3711 by properly validating return values from the
596 purple_base64_decode() function before using them.
597 * Fix two local crash bugs by properly validating return values from the
598 purple_base16_decode() function before using them.
601 * Fall back to an ordinary request if a UI does not support showing a
602 request with an icon. Fixes receiving MSN file transfer requests
603 including a thumbnail in Finch. (#12561)
604 * Fix an invalid memory access when removing UPnP mappings that could
605 cause sporadic crashes, most notably when MSN Direct Connections are
607 * Add a sentence to the certificate warning for expired certificates
608 suggesting the user check their computer's date and time. (#12654)
611 * Add support for the Gadu-Gadu protocol in the gevolution plugin to
612 provide Evolution integration with contacts with GG IDs. (#10709)
613 * Remap the "Set User Mood" shortcut to Control-D, which does not
614 conflict with the previous shortcut for Get Buddy Info on the
616 * Add a plugin action menu (under Tools) for the Voice and Video
618 * Use GRegex for the debug window where available. This brings regex
619 filtering to the debug window on Windows. (Eion Robb) (#12601)
620 * Add Google Chrome to the list of possible browsers on non-Windows
622 * Add Chromium to the list of possible browsers on non-Windows systems.
623 * The "Manual" browser option is now stored as a string. It is no
624 longer necessary to specify a full path to the browser command.
625 (Rodrigo Tobar Carrizo) (#12024)
626 * The Send To menu can now be used if the active account in the
627 conversation becomes disabled or inactive. (Keith Moyer) (#12471)
628 * xdg-open is now the default browser for new users on non-Windows
629 platforms. (Stanislav Brabec) (#12505)
630 * The "Authorize buddy?" mini-dialog now shows the nickname of
631 the buddy requesting authorization as well as the icon of
632 the IM protocol he is using. (#5038)
635 * Add support for drop-down account options (like the SILC cipher
636 and HMAC options or the QQ protocol version).
639 * Unify the connection security-related settings into one dropdown.
640 * Fix a crash when multiple accounts are simultaneously performing
641 SASL authentication when built with Cyrus SASL support. (thanks
642 to Jan Kaluza) (#11560)
643 * Restore the ability to connect to XMPP servers that do not offer
645 * Added support for using Google's relay servers when making voice and
646 video calls to Google clients.
647 * Fix detecting file transfer proxies advertised by the server.
648 * Advertise support for Google Talk's JID Domain Discovery extension
649 in all cases again (changed in 2.7.0), not just when the domain
650 is "gmail.com" or "googlemail.com" (it's also needed for Google
651 Talk used for accounts on arbitrary domains not using Google Apps
652 for Your Domain). (#a14153)
653 * Improved handling of adding oneself to your buddy list when using
654 Non-SASL (legacy) authentication. (#12499)
655 * Generate a connection error instead of just stalling when the
656 _xmppconnect TXT record returns results, but none of them result
657 in a valid BOSH URI. (#a14367, #12744)
660 * Add support for managing Visible/Invisible lists. (#10967)
661 * Fix a problem with receiving HTML messages from
662 QIP/Miranda/Trillian. (#12044)
663 * Hopefully fixed all encoding-related problems, both
664 for sending and receiving messages. (#10833 and the like)
665 * Fix a problem with receiving messages from pyicqt. (#12284)
666 * Don't set a custom status text when going Invisible to avoid
667 being detected as Invisible. (#10633)
670 * Stop doing unnecessary lookups of certain alias information. This
671 solves deadlocks when a given Yahoo account has a ridiculously large
672 (>500 buddies) list and may improve login speed for those on slow
673 connections. (#12532)
674 * Fix sending SMS messages. The lookup host changed on us. (Thanks to
676 * Improvements for some file transfer scenarios, but not all.
679 * Bonjour support now requires Apple Bonjour Print Services version
680 2.0.0 or newer (http://support.apple.com/kb/dl999).
683 * Fall back to an ordinary request if a UI does not support showing a
684 request with an icon. Fixes receiving MSN file transfer requests
685 including a thumbnail in Finch.
688 * Add support for the Gadu-Gadu protocol in the gevolution plugin to
689 provide Evolution integration with contacts with GG IDs. (#10709)
690 * Remap the "Set User Mood" shortcut to Control-D, which does not
691 conflict with the previous shortcut for Get Buddy Info on the
693 * Add a plugin action menu (under Tools) for the Voice and Video
697 * Add support for drop-down account options (like the SILC cipher
698 and HMAC options or the QQ protocol version).
701 * Unify the connection security-related settings into one dropdown.
702 * Fix a crash when multiple accounts are simultaneously performing
703 SASL authentication when built with Cyrus SASL support. (thanks
704 to Jan Kaluza) (#11560)
705 * Restore the ability to connect to XMPP servers that do not offer
707 * Added support for using Google's relay servers when making voice and
708 video calls to Google clients.
711 * Stop doing unnecessary lookups of certain alias information. This
712 solves deadlocks when a given Yahoo account has a ridiculously large
713 (>500 buddies) list and may improve login speed for those on slow
714 connections. (#12532)
716 version 2.7.3 (08/10/2010):
718 * Use silent build rules for automake >1.11. You can enable verbose
719 builds with the --disable-silent-rules configure option, or using
723 * Fix the TURN server settings (broken in 2.7.0).
726 * Re-focus the input area after clicking the attention toolbar button.
727 * Re-arrange media window to make it more netbook-friendly.
730 * Rebindable 'suggest-next-page' and 'suggest-prev-page' actions for
731 textboxes (GntEntry) to scroll through list of suggestions.
732 * Rebindable 'dropdown' action for comboboxes (GntComboBox) to show the
733 dropdown list of options.
736 * Fix non-ASCII arguments to /mode et al. (thanks to Max Ulidtko)
739 * Support for web-based buddy icons, used when a buddy logs in to the
740 messenger on the Live website.
741 * Fix file transfers with some clients that don't support direct
742 connections (e.g., papyon, telepathy-butterfly, etc.) (#12150)
745 * Fix filename for the Shocked emoticon. (#12364)
746 * Implement the new naming conventions where possible. (MXitId, etc)
747 * Display a message in the Groupchat window when you invite somebody.
748 * Birthday field in profile cannot be edited when server says it is
750 * If a buddy is offline, show in their profile when last they were online.
751 * Handle pushed profile update packets (ie, when changing your avatar via
753 * If a buddy is offline and we see from their profile that they have
754 updated their avatar, request the new avatar image from the server.
755 * Fix a possible crash if a link is clicked while disconnected.
756 * Unescape any escaped characters in a chatroom nickname.
757 * Add the new MXit moods and emoticons.
758 * MXit emoticons added to the small emoticon theme.
761 * Allow connecting to servers that only advertise GSSAPI and expect
762 a fallback to legacy IQ authentication (broken in 2.7.0).
763 * Fix a crash when receiving custom emoticons that don't adhere to
765 * When initiating a file transfer, don't show resources that are certain
766 to not support file transfers in the resource selection dialog.
767 * Fix connecting to servers using BOSH and authenticating with
768 DIGEST-MD5 when libpurple was built with Cyrus SASL support.
771 * Renamed "Use account proxy for SSL connections" to "Use account proxy
772 for HTTP and HTTPS requests" and tied the option to HTTP requests too.
773 * Properly detect HTTP proxy server use when the HTTP proxy is the
774 global proxy server, an account-level non-HTTP proxy server is
775 configured, and the "Use account proxy for HTTP and HTTPS requests"
776 account option is turned off. This fixes connecting for some HTTP
778 * Fall back to connecting to scsa.msg.yahoo.com (not configurable) if
779 the HTTP-based connect server lookup fails. This does not work for
780 Yahoo JAPAN accounts.
781 * Fix file transfers that get stuck with "Waiting for transfer to
784 version 2.7.2 (07/21/2010):
786 * Fix a crash bug related to X-Status messages that can be triggered by
787 remote users. This is CVE-2010-2528.
788 * Fix a rare crash bug caused by certain incoming SMS messages
789 (discovered by Jan Kaluza--thanks Jan!).
790 * Change HTML sent from ICQ accounts so that official ICQ clients
791 hopefully display it correctly.
794 * Fix a crash related to fast buddy icon transfers.
796 version 2.7.1 (05/29/2010):
798 * Build fixes on OpenSolaris. (Brian Lu)
799 * Add configure option --enable-trayicon-compat which installs tray
800 icons into directories that are compatible with older versions of
801 hicolor-icon-theme (0.9).
804 * Restore the tray icon's blinking functionality.
805 * Fix a crash setting moods when an account is disconnected.
808 * Fix a crash on disconnect.
811 * Fix bug that caused HTML to be displayed in incoming messages.
814 * Fix unnecessary bandwidth consumption for buddy icon requests when
815 buddies have capital letters in their passport addresses.
816 * Support for direct connections, enabling faster file transfers,
817 smiley and buddy icon loading. (Gábor Szuromi)
820 * Allow connecting to servers that advertise EXTERNAL (broken in
824 * Replace the MXit-specific mood management with the new standard Moods
826 * Add the standard MXit emoticons.
827 * Improve the handling of users being kicked from MultiMX rooms.
828 * MXit doesn't allow you to see your buddy's Email Address or Title,
829 so remove those two fields from the "Buddy Information" page.
830 * Show buddy's Registration Country in their profile.
831 * Increment protocol version to v6.0
832 * If an invite you sent was rejected with a reason, display that
833 message in the buddy tooltip.
834 * CAPTCHA value is a required field during account activation.
835 (Resolves issue on Maemo)
836 * When your avatar image is changed, don't forget the user's profile
839 Windows-Specific Changes:
840 * Fix a regression introduced in 2.7.0 that caused Window Flashing not
843 version 2.7.0 (05/12/2010):
845 * Changed GTK+ minimum version requirement to 2.10.0.
846 * Changed GLib minimum version requirement to 2.12.0.
847 * Using the --disable-nls argument to configure now works properly.
848 You will no longer be forced to have intltool to configure and build.
849 * Fix two related crashes in the GnuTLS and NSS plugins when they
850 suffer internal errors immediately upon attempting to establish
852 * Fix NSS to work when reinitialized after being used. (Thanks to
853 Ludovico Cavedon for the testcase)
854 * Added support for PURPLE_GNUTLS_PRIORITIES environment variable.
855 This can be used to specify GnuTLS priorities on a per-host basis.
856 The format is "host=priority;host2=priority;...". The default
857 priority can be overridden by using "*" as the host. See the
858 GnuTLS manual for documentation on the format of the priority
860 * Fix autoconf detection of Python. (Brad Smith)
861 * Fix a crash when a Windows proxy (from IE) does not have a port.
865 * Moved the "Debugging Information" section of the About box to a
866 "Build Information" dialog accessible on the Help menu.
867 * Moved the Developer and Crazy Patch Writer information from the About
868 box to a "Developer Information" dialog accessible on the Help menu.
869 * Moved the Translator information from the About box to a "Translator
870 Information" dialog accessible on the Help menu.
871 * Use GtkStatusIcon for the docklet, providing better integration in
873 * Added UI for sending attentions (buzz, nudge) on supporting protocols.
874 * Make the search dialog unobtrusive in the conversation window (by
875 making it look and behave like the search dialog in Firefox)
876 * The Recent Log Activity sort method for the Buddy List now
877 distinguishes between no activity and a small amount of activity
878 in the distant past. (Greg McNew)
879 * Added a menu set mood globally for all mood-supporting accounts
880 (currently XMPP and ICQ).
881 * Default binding of Ctrl+Shift+v to 'Paste as Plain Text' in
882 conversation windows. This can be changed in .gtkrc-2.0. For example,
883 Ctrl+v can be bound to 'Paste as Plain Text' by default.
884 * Plugins can now handle markup in buddy names by attaching to the
885 "drawing-buddy" signal. (Daniele Ricci, Andrea Piccinelli)
886 * Be more accommodating when scaling down large images for use as
888 * The 'Message Timestamp Formats' plugin allows changing the timestamp
889 format from the timestamps' context menu in conversation log.
890 * The 'Message Timestamp Formats' plugin allows forcing 12-hour
891 timestamps. (Jonathan Maltz)
892 * Fix pastes from Chrome (rich-text pastes and probably URLs
893 having garbage appended to them).
894 * Show file transfer thumbnails for images on supporting protocols
895 (currently only supported on MSN).
898 * Added support for IPv6. (Thanks to T_X for testing)
901 * Updated our bundled libgadu to 1.9.0-rc2 (many thanks to Krzysztof
902 Klinikowski for the work and testing put in here!)
903 * Minimum requirement for external libgadu is now also 1.9.0-rc2.
906 * X-Status (Custom ICQ status icon) support. Since most of the icons
907 available reflect moods, this is labeled "Set Mood" on the
908 Accounts->ICQ Account menu. (Andrew Ivanov, Tomáš Kebert,
909 Yuriy Yevgrafov, and trac users bob007, salieff, and nops)
910 * Allow setting and displaying icons between 1x1 and 100x100 pixels for
911 ICQ. Previously only icons between 48x48 and 52x64 were allowed.
912 * When using the clientLogin authentication method, prompt for a
913 password on reconnect when "Remember Password" is not checked and
914 authentication fails due to an incorrect password. (This is the same
915 behavior as the legacy authentication method)
916 * Support sending and receiving HTML-formatted messages for ICQ.
917 * Use the proper URL for "View web profile" link for ICQ buddies.
921 * Support for version 9 of the MSN protocol has been removed. This
922 version is no longer supported on the servers.
923 * Support file transfer thumbnails (previews) for images.
924 * Fix CVE-2010-1624 (custom emoticon remote crash).
927 * Direct messages to a specific resource only upon receipt of a message
928 with content (as opposed to a typing notification, etc). (Thanks to
930 * Present a better error message when authentication fails while trying
931 to connect to Facebook. (David Reiss, Facebook)
932 * When sending data using in-band-bytestreams, interpret the block-size
933 attribute as the size of the BASE64-encoded representation of the
935 * Validate the hash on incoming BoB data objects (for custom smileys
936 etc.), cache based per JID when the CID is not a valid hash (as
937 specified by the BoB XEP).
938 * Send whitespace keepalives if we haven't sent data in a while (2
939 minutes). This fixes an issue with Openfire disconnecting a
940 libpurple-baesd client that has just been quiet for about 6
942 * Only support Google Talk's JID Domain Discovery extension
943 (allowing a user to log in with "@gmail.com" or "@googlemail.com"
944 interchangeably) for those two domains. This change was made
945 due to interoperability issues with some BOSH Connection Managers
946 and namespaced attributes.
949 * Attempt to better handle transparent proxies interfering with
951 * Fix handling of P2P packets, thus fixing the loss of some messages.
952 * Retrieve the pager server address from Yahoo!'s servers directly.
953 * Removed the "Pager server" account option, as it is no longer needed.
954 * The authentication code is now less order-sensitive with the
955 components of the server's response.
956 * The authentication process now acts more like the official client.
959 * New action 'history-search', with default binding ctrl+r, to search
960 the entered string in the input history.
962 Windows-Specific Changes
963 * Updated GTK+ to 2.16.6
964 * Private GTK+ Runtime now used (GTK+ Installer no longer supported)
965 * Minimum required GTK+ version increased to 2.14.7
966 * Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows ME
967 (Millennium Edition), and Windows NT 4.0 longer supported due to GTK+
968 requirements changes.
969 * Crash Report files (pidgin.RPT) are now generated in the ~/.purple
970 directory instead of the installation directory.
971 * NSS SSL Library upgraded to 3.12.5 (thanks to Berke Viktor)
972 * GtkSpell upgraded to 2.0.16, changing the spellchecking backend to
973 enchant. This means that myspell and hunspell (OpenOffice)
974 dictionaries can be used (previous versions' aspell dictionaries
977 version 2.6.6 (02/18/2010):
979 * Fix 'make check' on OS X. (David Fang)
980 * Fix a quirk in purple_markup_html_to_xhtml that caused some messages
981 to be improperly converted to XHTML.
982 * Set "controlling-mode" correctly when initializing a media session.
983 Fixes receiving voice calls from Psi.
984 * When looking up DNS records, use the type of record returned by the
985 server (instead of the type we asked for) to determine how to process
987 * Fix an issue with parsing XML attributes that contain "<br>".
988 See ChangeLog.API for more details.
991 * Correctly disable all missing dependencies when using the
992 --disable-missing-dependencies option. (Gabriel Schulhof)
995 * Fix display of avatars after a server-side change. (Krzysztof
999 * Allow setting and displaying icons between 1x1 and 100x100 pixels.
1000 Previously only icons between 48x48 and 50x50 were allowed.
1003 * Fix CVE-2010-0277, a possible remote crash when parsing an incoming
1004 SLP message. (Discovered by Fabian Yamaguchi)
1005 * File transfer requests will no longer cause a crash if you delete the
1006 file before the other side accepts.
1007 * Received files will no longer hold an extra lock after completion,
1008 meaning they can be moved or deleted without complaints from your OS.
1009 * Buddies who sign in from a second location will no longer cause an
1010 unnecessary chat window to open.
1011 * Support setting an animated GIF as a buddy icon.
1012 * Numerous code cleanups and memory savings.
1015 * Fix a leak and crash when retrieving buddy icons.
1018 * Less likely to send messages to a contact's idle/inactive resource.
1019 Previously, if a message was received from a specific resource,
1020 responses would be sent to that resource until either it went offline
1021 or a message is received from another resource. Now, messages are
1022 sent to the bare JID upon receipt of any presence change from the
1024 * Added support for the SCRAM-SHA-1 SASL mechanism. This is only
1025 available when built without Cyrus SASL support.
1026 * When getting info on a domain-only (server) JID, show uptime
1027 (when given by the result of the "last query") and don't show status
1029 * Fix getting info on your own JID.
1030 * Wrap XHTML messages in <p>, as described in XEP-0071, for
1031 compatibility with some clients.
1032 * Don't do an SRV lookup for a STUN server associated with the account
1033 if one is already set globally in prefs.
1034 * Don't send custom smileys larger than the recommended maximum object
1035 size specified in the BoB XEP. This prevents a client from being
1036 disconnected by servers that dislike overly-large stanzas.
1037 * Fix receiving messages without markup over an Openfire BOSH
1038 connection (forcibly put the stanzas in the jabber:client namespace).
1039 * The default value for the file transfer proxies is automatically
1040 updated when an account connects, if it is still the old (broken)
1041 default (from 'proxy.jabber.org' to 'proxy.eu.jabber.org').
1042 * Fix an issue where libpurple created duplicate buddies if the roster
1043 contains a buddy in two groups that differ only by case
1044 (e.g. "XMPP" and "xmpp") (or not at all).
1047 * Don't send <span> and </span> tags. (Fartash Faghri)
1048 * Support PingBox. PingBoxes will appear as pbx/PingBoxName. (Kartik
1052 * Fix CVE-2010-0423, a denial of service attack due to the parsing
1053 of large numbers of smileys. (Discovered by Antti Hayrynen)
1054 * Correctly size conversation and status box entries when the
1055 interior-focus style property is diabled. (Gabriel Schulhof)
1056 * Correctly handle a multiline text field being required in a
1057 request form. (Thanks to Florian Zeitz for finding this problem)
1058 * Search friends by email-addresses in the buddy list. (Luoh Ren-Shan)
1059 * Allow dropping an image on Custom Smiley window to add a new one.
1060 * Prompt for confirmation when clearing a whiteboard (doodle) session.
1062 * Use the "hand" cursor when hovering over usernames in chat history to
1063 indicate that the username is an actionable item.
1064 * Double-clicking usernames in chat history will open an IM with that
1066 * Put an icon on the "Filter" button in the debug window.
1067 * Don't treat "/messages/like/this " as commands.
1068 * Explicitly mark user interaction when inserting smilies from the
1069 toolbar so "Undo" correctly removes these smilies.
1070 * Clicking "New" or "Saved" in the status selector menu while typing a
1071 status message no longer keeps the status entry area stuck in "typing"
1073 * Show tooltips for ellipsized conversation tabs. On older systems,
1074 tooltips will show for all tabs.
1075 * The File Transfers and Debug Window windows are no longer created as
1076 dialogs. These windows should now have minimize buttons in many
1077 environments in which they were previously missing
1078 (including Windows).
1079 * Smiley themes with Windows line endings no longer cause theme
1080 descriptions not to be displayed in the theme selector.
1083 * Fix CVE-2010-0420, a possible remote crash when handling chat room
1085 * Rebindable 'move-first' and 'move-last' actions for tree widgets. So
1086 it is possible to jump to the first or last entry in the buddy list
1087 (and other such lists) by pressing home or end key (defaults)
1090 version 2.6.5 (01/08/2010):
1092 * TLS certificates are actually stored to the local cache once again
1093 (accepting a name mismatch on a certificate should now be remembered)
1096 * Build-time fixes for Solaris. (Paul Townsend)
1099 * Messages from some mobile clients are no longer displayed as
1100 Chinese characters (broken in 2.6.4)
1103 * Fix an issue allowing a remote user to download arbitrary files from
1104 a libpurple client. (CVE-2010-0013)
1107 * Do not crash when attempting to register for a new account on Windows.
1108 * Fix file transfer with clients that do not support Entity Capabilities
1111 version 2.6.4 (11/29/2009):
1113 * Actually emit the hold signal for media calls.
1114 * Fix building the GnuTLS plugin with older versions of GnuTLS.
1115 * Fix DNS TXT query resolution.
1116 * Don't send Proxy-Authorization headers to HTTP proxy servers until
1117 we've received a "407 Proxy Authentication Required" response from
1118 the server. (thecrux)
1119 * Added "MXit" protocol plugin, supported and maintained by the MXit
1120 folks themselves (MXit Lifestyle (Pty) Ltd.)
1123 * New 'plugins' sub-command to 'debug' command (i.e. '/debug plugins')
1124 to announce the list of loaded plugins (in both Finch and Pidgin).
1125 * Always rejoin open chats after an account reconnects.
1128 * Better rate limit calculations and other improvements. (Aman Gupta)
1129 * More detailed error messages when messages fail to send. (Aman Gupta)
1130 * The simultaneous login account option is respected when using
1131 the clientLogin authentication method.
1132 * Fix offline message retrieval (broken in 2.6.3)
1133 * Fix handling of markup on some messages (broken in 2.6.2)
1134 * Fix SSL when clientLogin is enabled.
1135 * Fix sending and receiving Unicode characters in a Direct IM
1138 * Don't forget display names for buddies.
1139 * Fix a random crash that might occur when idle.
1140 * Fix more FQY 240 connection errors.
1141 * Fix a crash that could occur when adding a buddy.
1142 * Fix an occasional crash when sending message to an offline user.
1143 * Fix a random crash that might occur when idle.
1144 * Fix a crash when logging in with some long non-ASCII passwords.
1146 * Cache our own friendly name as the server no longer does that for
1147 us. Users of older versions may need to re-set their friendly name
1148 as it has probably been reset.
1151 * Users connecting to Google Talk now have an "Initiate Chat" context
1152 menu option for their buddies. (Eion Robb)
1153 * Fix a crash when attempting to validate an invalid JID.
1154 * Resolve an issue when connecting to iChat Server when no resource
1156 * Try to automatically find a STUN server by using an SRV lookup on the
1157 account's domain, and use that for voice and video if found and the
1158 user didn't set one manually in prefs.
1159 * Fix a crash when adding a buddy without an '@'.
1160 * Don't show the option to send a file to a buddy if we know for certain
1161 they don't support any file transfer method supported by libpurple.
1162 * Keep the avatar on the server if one is not set locally.
1165 * Fix sending /buzz.
1166 * Fix blocking behavior for federated (MSN/OCS/Sametime) service users.
1168 * Add support for adding OCS and Sametime buddies. OCS users are added
1169 as "ocs/user@domain.tld" and Sametime users are added as
1170 "ibm/sametime_id". (Jason Cohen)
1173 * The TinyURL plugin now creates shorter URLs for long non-conversation
1174 URLs, e.g. URLs to open Inbox in Yahoo/MSN protocols, or the Yahoo
1175 Captcha when joining chat rooms.
1176 * Fix displaying umlauts etc. in non-utf8 locale (fix in libgnt).
1179 * The userlist in a multiuser chat can be styled via gtkrc by using the
1180 widget name "pidgin_conv_userlist". (Heiko Schmitt)
1181 * Add a hold button to the media window.
1182 * Fix a bug where the conversation backlog stops scrolling in a very
1184 * In the Conversation "Send To" menu, offline buddies appear grayed
1185 out (but are still selectable). Previously, only offline buddies on
1186 accounts that do not support offline messaging appeared grayed out.
1188 Pidgin Preference and Preference Window Changes:
1189 * Removed the "Use font from theme" and "Conversation Font" preferences
1190 for everyone except Windows users. The font can be controlled from
1191 the Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin.
1192 * Tabs in the Preferences window are now on the left side.
1193 * The Browser tab is now visible for GNOME users.
1194 * Added a Proxy tab shown no matter what environment Pidgin runs in.
1195 * The Browser and Proxy tabs show appropriate GNOME-specific messages
1196 and allow launching the correct applications to change the relevant
1197 GNOME preferences if found. These were previously together on the
1199 * Moved the port range spin buttons on the Network tab to be beside the
1200 checkbox that enables/disables them.
1201 * Reorganized preferences on the Status/Idle tab to have one less
1203 * Reorganized preferences on the Sounds tab to have one less "section."
1204 * Renamed Smiley Themes tab to Themes.
1205 * Moved Buddy List Theme and Status Icon Theme selectors from Interface
1207 * Moved Sound Theme selector from Sounds tab to Themes tab.
1208 * Changed the Smiley Theme selector to be consistent with the other
1210 * Rearranged tabs such that Interface is first and all remaining tabs
1211 are alphabetized in English.
1213 version 2.6.3 (10/16/2009):
1215 * Fix a crash when performing DNS queries on Unixes that use the
1216 blocking DNS lookups. (Brian Lu)
1219 * Fix a crash when some clients send contacts in a format we don't
1221 * Fix blocking and other privacy lists. (Thanks to AOL)
1223 version 2.6.2 (09/05/2009):
1225 * Fix --disable-avahi to actually disable it in configure, as opposed
1226 to just making the warning non-fatal.
1227 * Fix using GNOME proxy settings properly. (Erik van Pienbroek)
1230 * Fix parsing of invalid TOPIC messages. (CVE-2009-2703)
1233 * Sending custom smileys in chats is now supported.
1234 * Ink messages are now saved when using the HTML logger.
1235 * Fix a crash when receiving some handwritten messages.
1236 * Fix a crash when receiving certain SLP invite messages.
1237 * Chats with multiple people should no longer spontaneously
1241 * Prompt the user before cancelling a presence subscription.
1242 * Escape status messages that have HTML entities in the Get Info dialog.
1243 * Fix connecting to XMPP domains with no SRV records from Pidgin on
1245 * Fix typing notifications with Pidgin 2.5.9 or earlier.
1246 * Fix connecting using BOSH and legacy authentication (XEP-0078).
1247 * Adding buddies of the form "romeo@montague.net/Resource" are handled
1248 properly. In addition, it is no longer possible to add buddies of
1249 the form "room@conference.example.net/User", where
1250 room@conference.example.net is a MUC.
1251 * Don't crash when receiving "smileyfied" XHTML-IM from clients that
1252 don't support bits of binary (ie. when getting an empty <data/> in
1254 * Fix bug where SSL/TLS was not required even though the
1255 "require SSL/TLS" preference checked when connecting to servers
1256 that use the older iq-based authentication. (CVE-2009-3026)
1258 Yahoo!/Yahoo! JAPAN:
1259 * Accounts now have "Use account proxy for SSL connections" option.
1260 This option force-overrides the account specific proxy settings for
1261 SSL connections only and instead uses the global proxy configuration.
1264 * Properly detect libpanel on OpenBSD. (Brad Smith)
1265 * Remove IO watches in gnt_quit. (Tomasz Mon)
1268 * Fix the auto-personize functionality in the Buddy List.
1269 * Set the window icon for the media window to an icon corresponding to
1270 the type of call (headphone or webcam).
1271 * Customized sound files are no longer reset whenever opening the
1273 * The buddy list should now immediately refresh upon changing the icon
1276 version 2.6.1 (08/18/2009):
1277 * Fix a crash when some users send you a link in a Yahoo IM
1278 * Fix compilation with GTK+ < 2.6.0
1279 * Fix compilation on Windows
1281 version 2.6.0 (08/18/2009):
1283 * Theme support in libpurple thanks to Justin Rodriguez's summer of code
1284 project, with some minor additions and cleanups from Paul Aurich.
1285 * Voice & Video framework in libpurple, thanks to Mike Ruprecht's summer
1286 of code project in 2008.
1287 * It should no longer be possible to end up with duplicates of buddies
1288 in a group on the buddy list.
1289 * Removed the unmaintained and unneeded toc protocol plugin.
1290 * Fixed NTLM authentication on big-endian systems.
1291 * Various memory cleanups when unloading libpurple. (Nick Hebner and
1293 * Report idle time 'From last message sent' should work properly.
1294 * Better handling of corrupt certificates in the TLS Peers cache.
1295 * More efficient buddy list and conversation search functions.
1296 (Jan Kaluza and Aman Gupta)
1297 * Install scalable versions of the main Pidgin icon, the protocol icons,
1298 the dialog icons, and the Buddy List emblems.
1299 * Build properly on Hurd. (Marc Dequènes)
1300 * Various memory leaks fixed as reported by Josh Mueller.
1301 * Properly handle an IRC buddy appearing in multiple groups.
1302 * Escape HTML entities in usernames when written with the HTML logger.
1303 * Do not display MySpace status changes as incoming IMs. (Mark Doliner
1304 and Justin Williams)
1307 * DNS servers are re-read when DNS queries fail in case the system has
1308 moved to a new network and the old servers are not accessible.
1309 * DNS SRV records with equal priority are sorted with respect to their
1310 weight as specified in RFC 2782. (Vijay Raghunathan)
1311 * Don't do IPv6 address lookups if the computer does not have an IPv6
1313 * Fix a leak when the UI provides its own DNS resolving UI op.
1315 * Don't fork a DNS resolver process to resolve IP addresses.
1317 * Internationalized Domain Names are supported when libpurple is
1318 compiled against the GNU IDN library.
1320 Environment Variables:
1321 * GnuTLS logging (disabled by default) can be controlled through the
1322 PURPLE_GNUTLS_DEBUG environment variable, which is an integer between
1323 0 and 9 (higher is more verbose). Higher values may reveal sensitive
1325 * PURPLE_VERBOSE_DEBUG environment variable. Currently, this is an "on"
1326 or "off" variable. Set it to any value to turn it on and unset it to
1327 turn it off. This will optionally be used to only show less useful
1328 debug information on an as-needed basis.
1329 * PURPLE_LEAKCHECK_HELP environment variable. Currently, this is an
1330 "on" or "off" variable. Set it to any value to turn it on and unset
1331 it to turn it off. This will be used to perform various actions
1332 that are useful when running libpurple inside of Valgrind or similar
1333 programs. Currently, it keeps plugins in memory, allowing Valgrind
1334 to perform symbol resolution of leak traces at shutdown.
1337 * Preliminary support for a new authentication scheme called
1339 * Fixed a bug where your away message sometimes would not get set when
1341 * Make sure links in your away messages show up as links to other
1343 * For ICQ, Never change the privacy setting specified by the user.
1346 * Accounts can specify a server to which to connect.
1347 (Krzysztof "kreez" Tobola)
1348 * Correctly show tooltip status for contacts with status messages.
1349 (Krzysztof "kkszysiu" Klinikowski)
1350 * Support for fetching buddy icons. (Krzysztof "kkszysiu" Klinikowski)
1351 * Support connection progress steps in Gadu-Gadu. (Krzysztof "kkszysiu"
1355 * Add support for receiving handwritten (ink) messages on MSN. (Chris
1356 Stafford, Gal Topper, and Elliott Sales de Andrade)
1357 * Add support for receiving audio clips on MSN. (Chris Stafford, Gal
1358 Topper, and Elliott Sales de Andrade)
1359 * Show the invite message for buddies that requested authorization
1361 * Support sending an invite message to buddies when requesting
1362 authorization from them on MSN.
1363 * Timeout switchboard connections after 60 seconds (msn-pecan devs).
1366 * Voice & Video support with Jingle (XEP-0166, 0167, 0176, & 0177),
1367 voice support with GTalk and voice and video support with the GMail
1368 web client. (Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht)
1369 * Added a Service Discovery Browser plugin for Pidgin.
1371 * Support for in-band bytestreams for file transfers (XEP-0047). (Marcus
1373 * Support for sending and receiving attentions (equivalent to "buzz"
1374 and "nudge") using the command /buzz. (XEP-0224)
1375 * Support for connecting using BOSH. (Tobias Markmann)
1376 * A buddy's local time is displayed in the Get Info dialog if the remote
1378 * The set_chat_topic function can unset the chat topic.
1379 * The Ad-Hoc commands associated with our server are now always shown at
1381 * Support showing and reporting idle times in the buddy list. (XEP-0256)
1382 * Support most recent version of User Avatar. (XEP-0084 v1.1)
1383 * Updated Entity Capabilities support. (Tobias Markmann)
1384 * Better support for receiving remote users' nicknames.
1385 * /affiliate and /role will now list the room members with the specified
1386 affiliation/role if possible. (Andrei Mozzhuhin)
1387 * Put section breaks between resources in "Get Info" to improve
1389 * Silently remove invalid XML 1.0 entities (e.g. ASCII control
1390 characters) from sent messages.
1391 * XHTML markup is only included in outgoing messages when the message
1392 contains formatting.
1393 * Show when the user was last logged in when doing "Get Info" on an
1394 offline buddy, provided the server supports it.
1395 * Support custom smileys in MUCs (only when all participants support the
1396 "Bits of Binary" extension, and a maximum of 10 participants are in
1397 the chat to avoid getting too many fetch requests).
1398 * Fix an issue with Jabber (pre-XMPP) servers and the user's preference
1399 to require SSL not being respected.
1400 * Fix an issue where Cyrus SASL DIGEST MD5 authentication might fail if
1401 the username, password, or realm (the JID domain) contain non-ASCII
1403 * Show emblem for mobile, handheld, and web clients and bots (if the
1404 other client supports it).
1405 * Google Talk mail notifications should now work for people for whom
1406 they inexplicably did not. (Thanks to yukam for determining the
1408 * New XMPP and Google Talk accounts require SSL by default.
1409 * Display kicks (and the reasons given) in chat rooms when an occupant
1411 * Fix issues with case-sensitivity of XMPP roster and case-insensitive
1413 * For contacts who advertise Entity Capabilities, only send rich text
1414 markup if they support it.
1415 * Removed support for obsoleted XEP-0022 (Message Events) and XEP-0091
1416 (Legacy Entity Time).
1417 * When the GNU IDN library (libidn) is available, it is used for
1418 normalization of Jabber IDs. When unavailable, internal routines are
1419 used (as in previous versions).
1420 * Topics that contain '<' followed by a non-whitespace character can now
1423 Yahoo!/Yahoo! JAPAN:
1424 * P2P file transfers. (Sulabh Mahajan)
1425 * Sending text messages (address to +<countrycode><phone number>).
1427 * Addition of MSN buddies to Yahoo accounts by adding them as
1428 'msn/buddy@somedomain.com' is now supported. (Sulabh Mahajan)
1429 * Further fixes for buddy pictures, aliases, etc.
1430 * Yahoo! and Yahoo! JAPAN are now two separate protocol plugins that share
1431 common protocol code. You can now have the same account on both
1432 networks. Accounts should be seamlessly migrated to the new
1434 * Ability to set personal details for an account and for buddies in the
1438 * Added -f command line option to tell Pidgin to ignore NetworkManager
1439 and assume it has a valid network connection.
1440 * Allow plugins to specify custom link types to the GtkIMHtml widget.
1441 * The status message input box at the bottom of the buddy list expands
1442 correctly when starting a new line of text.
1443 * Pressing the Enter key in the message entry box of the New Status
1444 dialog and various other dialogs now causes the cursor to move to
1446 * Created a unified Buddy Pounce notification window for all pounces
1447 where "Pop up a notification" is selected, which avoids having a
1448 new dialog box every time a pounce is triggered. (Jorge Villaseñor)
1449 * The New Account dialog is now broken into three tabs. Proxy
1450 configuration has been moved from the Advanced tab to the new tab.
1451 * Dragging a buddy onto a chat pops up a chat-invitation dialog.
1453 * The nicks of the persons who leave the chatroom are italicized in the
1454 chat's conversation history. The nicks are un-italicized when they
1456 * Always set unseen-count and unseen-state on conversations.
1458 * Fix a bug in 'Conversation Colors' plugin for RTL messages.
1459 * Pressing the Left and Right arrow keys in the buddy list will expand and
1460 collapse buddy groups or contacts. (Peter Ruibal)
1461 * Support saving animated custom smileys as animated images or animated
1462 custom smileys. (Andrea Piccinelli)
1463 * Support for keyboard navigation on the status icon. (Li Yuan)
1464 * IMG tags without 'id' attributes are turned into links to the image URL.
1466 * Draw the user's buddy icon at the bottom of the Buddy List with rounded
1467 corners for visual consistency with the actual icons in the Buddy List.
1469 * When file transfers are complete, the received file name written to the
1470 conversation window is now linked to the file.
1471 * Fix a crash when closing a conversation tab that has unread messages
1472 when the Message Notification plugin is loaded.
1473 * Fix a crash when closing the New Mail dialog if an account with new
1474 mail was previously disconnected while the dialog was open.
1475 * Fix incorrect unread message counts for the new mail notifications.
1476 * Do not lose unread messages with a hidden conversation window when
1477 new IM conversations are hidden and "Close IMs immediately when the tab
1478 is closed" is unset.
1481 * The hardware cursor is updated correctly. This will be useful
1482 especially for users of braille terminals, screen readers etc.
1483 * Added a TinyURL plugin, which aids copying longer URLs.
1484 * Fixed UTF-8 compatibility problems which could cause exits or other
1485 unrequested behaviour.
1487 Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control Plugin:
1488 * Removed mouse cursor color preferences.
1489 * Added "Typing Notification Color" preference.
1490 * Added "Disable Typing Notification Text" preference.
1491 * Preferences have been reorganized into three tabs for Colors, Fonts, and
1492 Miscellaneous categories.
1494 version 2.5.9 (08/18/2009):
1495 * Fix a crash via a specially crafted MSN message (CVE-2009-2694,
1496 thanks to Core Security Technologies for discovering this and
1497 notifying us privately before announcing it).
1498 * Fix a crash in Bonjour, MSN, and XMPP when trying to transfer files with
1501 version 2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
1503 * Fix misparsing a web message as an SMS message. (Yuriy Kaminskiy)
1506 * Increase NS command history size to prevent crashes on buddy lists that
1507 have a lot of buddies on other networks like Yahoo!.
1510 * Accounts with empty buddy lists are now properly marked as connected.
1511 * Fix receiving messages from users of MySpace's web IM client.
1514 * Fixed phantom online buddies. They should now properly disappear when
1516 * Fixed the crashes some users were seeing with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com in
1518 * Fixed compiling on systems with glib 2.4.x or older.
1519 * Fixed an issue with file transfers. This may not resolve all issues,
1520 but it should resolve at least some of the most common ones.
1521 * The pager server will automatically update to scsa.msg.yahoo.com if the
1522 user empties the field or if it is scs.msg.yahoo.com. This should ease
1523 the pain of transition to the new login method.
1526 * Fix an incompatibility betweeen Prosody and libpurple clients.
1528 version 2.5.7 (06/20/2009):
1529 * Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should
1530 fix a number of login problems that have recently cropped up. (Sulabh
1531 Mahajan, Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht)
1532 * Only display the AIM "Unable to Retrieve Buddy List" message once per
1533 connection. (Rob Taft)
1534 * Blocking MSN users not on your buddy list no longer disconnects you.
1535 * When performing operations on MSN, assume users are on the MSN/Passport
1536 network if we don't get network ID's for them.
1538 version 2.5.6 (05/19/2009):
1540 * Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second
1541 boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
1542 * Fix various crashes on exit.
1543 * Make XML parsing more resilient to interactions with other libraries.
1544 This, along with the fix for libxml2 bug 564217, fixes the crashes
1545 on connect in XMPP with recent gst-plugins-bad (see #8830 for details).
1546 * Many security related fixes.
1549 * Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of
1551 * Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying
1555 * Fix a race condition causing occasional Pidgin crashes.
1556 * Fix some errors about the friendly name changing too fast caused
1557 by MSN/Yahoo integration buddies.
1560 * Less likely to pop up a new conversation window in disregard of
1561 the "Hide new IM conversations" preference.
1564 * Fix a crash when sending very long messages.
1565 * Fix a bug where UTF-8 status messages get garbled when going idle.
1567 version 2.5.5 (03/01/2009):
1569 * Fix a crash when removing an account with an unknown protocol id.
1570 * Beta support for SSL connections for AIM and ICQ accounts. To
1571 enable, check the "Use SSL" option from the Advanced tab when
1572 editing your AIM or ICQ account. (Paul Aurich)
1573 * Fix a memory leak in SILC. (Luke Petre)
1574 * Fix some string handling in the SIMPLE prpl, which fixes some buddy name
1575 handling and other issues. (Paul Aurich, Marcus Sundberg)
1576 * Implement support for resolving DNS via the SOCKS4 proxy (SOCKS4a).
1579 * Fix retrieval of status messages from users of ICQ 6.x, Miranda, and
1580 other libpurple clients. (Daniel Ljungborg)
1581 * Change client ID to match ICQ Basic 14.34.3096. This fixes publishing
1582 of buddy icons and available messages.
1583 * Properly publish status messages for statuses other than Available.
1584 ICQ 6.x users can now see these status messages. (Daniel Ljungborg)
1585 * Fix receipt of messages from the mobile client Slick. (David Jedelsky)
1588 * Fix transfer of buddy icons, custom smileys, and files from the
1589 latest Windows Live Messenger 9 official client. (Thomas
1591 * Large (multi-part) messages are now correctly re-combined.
1592 * Federated/Yahoo! buddies should now stop creating sync issues at
1593 every signin. You may need to remove duplicates in the Address
1594 Book. See the FAQ for more information. Thanks to Jason Lingohr
1595 for lots of debugging and testing.
1596 * Messages from Yahoo! buddies are no longer silently dropped.
1597 * We now save and use the CacheKey for ABCH SOAP requests.
1598 * Don't try to parse Personal Status Messages or Current Media if they
1600 * Convert from ISO-8859-1 encoding to UTF-8 when no charset is specified
1601 on incoming messages. This should fix some issues with messages from
1603 * Force sending the font "Segoe UI" if outgoing formatting doesn't specify
1605 * Queue callbacks when token updates are in progress to prevent two token
1606 update attempts from trampling each other.
1607 * Fixed a crash on Windows when removing a buddy's alias.
1608 * Update the Address Book when buddies' friendly names change. This
1609 prevents seeing an outdated alias or not seeing an alias at all for
1610 buddies who are offline when you sign in.
1611 * Update tokens for FindMembership and ABFindAll SOAP requests.
1612 * We no longer try to send empty messages. This could happen when a
1613 message contained only formatting and that formatting was not supported
1615 * Buddies on both the Allow and Block list are now automatically
1616 removed from the Allow list. Users with this problem will now no
1617 longer receive an ADL 241 error. The problematic buddy should now
1618 appear on the buddy list and can be removed or unblocked as desired.
1621 * Resources using __HOSTNAME__ substitution will now grab only the short
1622 hostname instead of the FQDN on systems which put the FQDN in the
1623 hostname. (Matěj Cepl)
1624 * No longer send a 'to' attribute on an outgoing stanza when we haven't
1625 received one. This fixes a registration bug as described in ticket
1629 * Tooltip windows now appear below the mouse cursor. (Kosta Arvanitis)
1630 * Tooltip windows now disappear on keypress events. (Kosta Arvanitis)
1631 * Tooltip windows no longer linger when scrolling the buddy list. (Kosta
1635 * Allow rebinding keys to change the focused widget (details in the
1636 man-page, look for GntBox::binding)
1638 version 2.5.4 (01/12/2009):
1640 * Fix a connection timeout with empty Gadu-Gady buddy lists. (Martin
1642 * Don't ignore namespace information when parsing XMPP data. (Michal
1644 * Fix a crash that occurred when retrieving certain Offline Messages
1646 * Extended purple-url-handler to handle "gtalk" URI's. (Paul Aurich)
1647 * Fix the hang on exit in Network Location Awareness for Windows XP
1648 and Windows Vista. (Paul Aurich)
1651 * Change Contact Server to temporarily fix connection problems.
1652 (Thanks to Youness Alaoui)
1655 * Support for XEP-0191 blocking. (Vijay Raghunathan)
1656 * Don't put SASL PLAIN or IQ Auth passwords in debug logs. (Paul Aurich)
1657 * Fix removal of avatars (both PEP and vCard), we weren't removing
1658 them correctly before. (Paul Aurich)
1661 * Fix a crash in the Add Account dialog when changing protocols under
1662 certain circumstances.
1665 * Redirect stderr outputs to the debug window.
1666 * Fix rebinding actions with the arrow-keys and tab.
1668 version 2.5.3 (12/20/2008):
1670 * The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer prints duplicate
1671 notifications when the same buddy is in multiple groups. (Florian
1673 * The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer turns JID's, MSN
1674 Passport ID's, etc. into links. (Florian Quèze)
1675 * purple-remote now has a "getstatusmessage" command to retrieve
1676 the text of the current status message.
1677 * Various fixes to the nullprpl. (Paul Aurich)
1678 * Fix a crash when accessing the roomlist for an account that's not
1679 connected. (Paul Aurich)
1680 * Fix a crash in purple_accounts_delete that happens when this
1681 function is called before the buddy list is initialized.
1683 * Fix use of av_len in perl bindings to fix some off-by-one bugs
1685 * On ICQ, advertise the ICQ 6 typing capability. This should fix
1686 the reports of typing notifications not working with third-party
1687 clients. (Jaromír Karmazín)
1688 * Many QQ fixes and improvements, including the ability to connect
1689 using QQ2008 protocol and sending/receiving of long messages.
1690 The recommended version to use is still QQ2005.
1691 * Fix a crash with DNS SRV lookups. (Florian Quèze)
1692 * Fix a crash caused by authorization requests. (Florian Quèze)
1695 * Add support for IM images. (Tomasz Sałaciński, Adam Strzelecki)
1696 * Gadu-Gadu now checks that UID's are valid. (Adam Strzelecki)
1697 * Gadu-Gadu now does proper charset translations where needed. (Adam
1701 * Fix an error with offline messages by shipping the *new*
1702 "Microsoft Secure Server Authority" and the "Microsoft Internet
1703 Authority" certificates. These are now always installed even when
1704 using --with-system-ssl-certs because most systems don't ship
1705 those intermediate certificates.
1706 * The Games and Office media can now be set and displayed (in
1707 addition to the previous Music media). The Media status text now
1708 shows the album, if possible.
1709 * Messages sent from a mobile device while you were offline are now
1711 * Server transfers after you've been connected for a long time
1712 should now be handled correctly.
1713 * Many improvements to handling of "federated" buddies, such as those
1714 on the Yahoo network.
1715 * Several known crashes have been resolved.
1716 * Many other fixes and code cleanup.
1719 * Respect your privacy settings set using the official MySpace client.
1720 * Add support for blocking buddies.
1721 * Fix a bug where buddies didn't appear in their correct groups the
1722 first time you sign into your account.
1723 * Properly disconnect and sign out of the service when logging off.
1724 * Support for foreground and background font colors in outgoing IMs.
1725 * Support for background font colors in incoming IMs.
1726 * Many other fixes and code cleanup.
1729 * Fix insanely long idle times for Sametime 7.5 buddies by assuming
1730 0 idle time if the idle timestamp is in the future. (Laurent
1732 * Fix a crash that can occur on login. (Raiko Nitzsche)
1735 * Fix a crash when a malformed message is received.
1736 * Don't allow connecting accounts if no server name has been
1737 specified. (Florian Quèze)
1740 * Fix the namespace URL we look for in PEP reply stanzas to match
1741 the URL used in the 'get' requests (Paul Aurich)
1742 * Resources can be set to the local machine's hostname by using
1743 __HOSTNAME__ as the resource string. (Jonathan Sailor)
1744 * Resources can now be left blank, causing the server to generate a
1745 resource for us where supported. (Jonathan Sailor)
1746 * Resources now default to no value, but "Home" is used if the
1747 server refuses to provide a resource.
1748 * Quit trying to get user info for MUC's. (Paul Aurich)
1749 * Send "client-accepts-full-bind-result" attribute during SASL
1750 login. This will fix Google Talk login failures if the user
1751 configures the wrong domain for his/her account.
1752 * Support new <metadata/> element to indicate no XEP-0084 User
1753 Avatar. (Paul Aurich)
1754 * Fix SHA1 avatar checksum errors that occur when one of the bytes
1755 in a checksum begins with 0. (Paul Aurich)
1756 * Fix a problem with duplicate buddies. (Paul Aurich)
1759 * Corrected maximum message lengths for Yahoo!
1760 * Fix file transfers with older Yahoo protocol versions.
1763 * Enable auto-reply, to emulate 'zaway.' (Toby Schaffer)
1764 * Fix a crash when an account is configured to use tzc but tzc is
1765 not installed or the configured tzc command is invalid. (Michael
1767 * Fix a 10 second delay waiting on tzc if it is not installed or the
1768 configured command is invalid. (Michael Terry)
1771 * On GTK+ 2.14 and higher, we're using the gtk-tooltip-delay setting
1772 instead of our own (hidden) tooltip_delay pref. If you had
1773 previously changed that pref, add a line like this to
1774 ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0 (where 500 is the timeout (in ms) you want):
1775 gtk-tooltip-timeout = 500
1776 To completely disable tooltips (e.g. if you had an old
1777 tooltip_delay of zero), add this to ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0:
1778 gtk-enable-tooltips = 0
1779 * Moved the release notification dialog to a mini-dialog in the
1780 buddylist. (Casey Ho)
1781 * Fix a crash when closing an authorization minidialog with the X
1782 then immediately going offline. (Paul Aurich)
1783 * Fix a crash cleaning up custom smileys when Pidgin is closed.
1784 * Fix adding a custom smiley using the context menu in a conversation
1785 if no custom smilies have previously been added using the smiley
1787 * Improved support for some message formatting in conversations.
1788 * Allow focusing the conversation history or userlist with F6.
1789 * Fixed the Send Button plugin to avoid duplicate buttons in a single
1791 * Double-clicking a saved status will now activate it and close the
1792 saved status manager, rather than edit the status.
1795 * Allow binding meta+arrow keys for actions.
1796 * Added default meta+erase binding for delete previous word.
1797 * Added "Show When Offline" to buddy menus, so a plugin is no longer
1800 version 2.5.2 (10/19/2008):
1802 * Fixed a crash on removing a custom buddy icon on a buddy.
1803 * Fixed a crash caused by certain self-signed SSL certificates.
1804 * Enable a number of strong ciphers which were previously disabled
1805 when using NSS. (Thanks to Marcus Trautwig.)
1808 * The status selector now saves your message when changing status.
1809 * Fix a case where a conversation window could close unexpectedly.
1810 * A mute sounds option has been added to the preferences window to
1811 help with discoverability. CTRL+S is no longer bound to mute.
1812 * Added ability to change the color of visited links (using the theme
1813 control plugin, or setting the color in ~/.gtkrc-2.0)
1814 * Fix a crash occuring when a custom smiley is deleted and re-added and
1815 used in an open conversation after being re-added.
1818 * A new 'Nested Grouping' option in the 'Grouping' plugin. Group
1819 hierarchies are defined by the '/' character in the group names.
1820 * A bug was fixed where some key-bindings wouldn't work with some TERMs
1821 (e.g. xterm-color, screen-linux etc.)
1824 * Operations (such as moving to a new group) on contacts that were added
1825 in the same session should now complete correctly, and not cause
1826 synchronization errors at next login.
1827 * Minor fixes to login process during a server transfer.
1828 * Restored the "Has You" feature to the MSN protocol tooltips.
1829 * ADL 205/214/etc errors should no longer prevent login.
1832 * Sending and receiving custom smileys using the specification in
1833 XEP-0231 (bits of binary) and XHTML-IM
1836 * Only send a Ping once every hour. This prevents the account from
1837 being disconnected from the server periodically.
1839 version 2.5.1 (08/30/2008):
1841 * In the Join/Part plugin, add the ability to apply the rules to
1842 buddies. By default, joins and parts for buddies are still shown.
1843 * Support SOCKS proxies specified in GNOME or Windows proxy settings.
1844 * Fix some possible crashes in MSNP15.
1845 * Enable a default SSL trust relationship for MSN servers.
1846 * Avoid disconnecting from XMPP servers on parse errors that are
1848 * Include some perl files that were mistakenly omitted in 2.5.0.
1851 * Prevent use of custom smilies without "shortcuts."
1852 * Fix a crash that could appear with AIM buddy tooltips.
1855 * General refresh of many icons in the interface.
1856 * Many cleanups to artwork source are now included in the distribution.
1857 * A new "throbber" animation has been added to indicate when accounts
1860 version 2.5.0 (08/18/2008):
1862 * Ability to create custom smileys (currently only the MSN protocol
1863 utilizes the feature). (Thanks to Mauro Sérgio Ferreira Brasil,
1864 Marcus Lundblad, Jorge Villaseñor and other contributors)
1865 * Add a configure option, --with-system-ssl-certs to allow packagers
1866 to specify a system-wide SSL CA certificates directory. When set,
1867 we don't install our SSL CA certs, so it's important that the
1868 libpurple package depend on the CA certificates.
1869 * Add SSL Certificates support to the NSS SSL plugin. (Thanks to Lou
1873 * Fix a bug that caused the UI to not refresh and caused the client
1874 to use 99% CPU when an XMPP account lost its connection to the
1876 * Possibly fix a bug where some clients could get into a state
1877 where they moved a buddy back and forth between two groups in
1881 * /ctcp command (Vladislav Guberinić)
1882 * Allow for auto-detection of incoming UTF-8 formatted text on
1883 accounts which are configured to use some other encoding.
1886 * Update MSN support to protocol 15 (Elliott Sales de Andrade, Jorge
1887 Villaseñor, Mike Ruprecht, Carlos Silva, Ma Yuan, Daniel Ljungborg
1889 * Personal messages are now supported. They are treated as status
1891 * Offline IM is now supported.
1892 * Aliasing is now supported server-side.
1893 * Buddies are now emblemed. Bots and web clients should now be
1895 * Update smiley set for non-faces.
1896 * Failing to update a buddy icon when the buddy has gone offline no
1898 * Custom smileys received in a chat no longer go to a new window.
1899 * Processing is no longer completely frozen after the servers block a
1900 message because it contains (what they consider) inappropriate text.
1903 * Custom buddy icons can now be added to and removed from buddy list
1904 entries via the buddy list entry right-click menu.
1905 * Resize large incoming custom smileys to a maximum of 96px on either
1907 * Offer to add new buddies into the same contact as existing buddies
1908 in the same group if the alias given is the same.
1909 * Minor smiley style update.
1912 * Group and Chat buddy list entries can now be given custom buddy
1916 * Added "Invite..." menu to chats.
1917 * Added "View All Logs" menu in the buddylist to display a list of all IM
1919 * Added '/msgcolor' command to change colors of different classes of
1920 messages in a conversation. See '/help msgcolor' for details.
1921 * Added tab-completion for commands in conversation windows.
1923 version 2.4.3 (07/01/2008):
1925 * Yahoo! Japan now uses UTF-8, matching the behavior of official clients
1926 and restoring compatibility with the web messenger (Yusuke Odate)
1927 * Setting your buddy icon once again works for Yahoo! accounts.
1928 * Fixes in the Yahoo! protocol to prevent a double free, crashes on
1929 aliases, and alias functionality
1930 * Fix crashes in the bonjour protocol
1931 * Always use UTF-8 for Yahoo! (#5973)
1932 * Fix a crash when the given jabber id is invalid.
1933 * Make the IRC "unknown message" debugging messages UTF-8 safe.
1934 * Fix connecting to ICQ
1935 * Fix a memleak when handling jabber xforms.
1938 * Include the send button plugin in the win32 build
1939 * Various memory leak fixes
1941 version 2.4.2 (05/17/2008):
1942 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.4.2
1944 * In MySpaceIM, messages from spambots are discarded (Justin Williams)
1945 * Strip mIRC formatting codes from quit and part messages.
1946 * IRC now displays ban lists in-channel for joined channels.
1947 * Fixed a bug where the list of loaded plugins would get removed when
1948 switching between different operating systems.
1949 * Fix reception of IRC PART without a part message on Undernet
1950 (fixes a problem with litter in the channel user list).
1951 * IRC no longer crashes on /list on servers which erroneously omit
1953 * Update the NetworkManager support to use D-Bus directly, instead of
1954 libnm-glib. Hopefully it's stable now. It will now compile by
1955 default if you have D-Bus support and NetworkManager.h. (Elliott
1957 * MSN buddy list synchronization is now more forgiving, only asking
1958 about buddies who have disappeared completely from the server list
1959 and not those that have simply moved groups.
1960 * IRC will now try to append 1-9 to your nick if it is in use, instead
1961 of substituting the last character with 1-9 where possible.
1962 * Bonjour buddies will be saved persistently if they're moved out of
1963 the "Bonjour" group. (Eion Robb)
1966 * The typing notification in the conversation history can be disabled or
1967 customized (font, color etc.) in .gtkrc-2.0.
1968 * Added a plugin (not installed by default) which adds a Send button
1969 back to the conversation window. People without physical keyboards
1970 have a hard time with the lack of the button.
1971 * Clicking on the buddyicon in the conversation window toggles the
1972 size of the icon between small and large.
1973 * The settings of a chat (e.g. Handle in an XMPP chat, or Exchange in
1974 an AIM chat) can be edited from its context menu in the buddy list.
1975 * Add a "Present conversation window" preference to the Message
1976 Notification plugin; the "Raise conversation window" option does not
1977 unminimize windows or draw attention to them when they are on other
1978 workspaces--the "Present" option should.
1979 * Add a preference to set Escape as the keyboard shortcut for closing
1980 the conversation window.
1981 * Add an option in the context menu to disable smileys in the selected
1982 text in the conversation history/log viewer. This should help people
1983 who regularly paste code in conversations.
1984 * Add a preference to choose the minimum size of the text input area in
1986 * Moved the "Local alias" field in the Modify Account dialog to be below
1987 the "User Options" heading on the "Basic" tab.
1988 * Number of room occupants is now shown in chat tooltips where possible
1991 * The configure script now dies on more absent dependencies. The
1992 --disable-xxx arguments to configure can be used to bypass unneeded
1993 dependencies. This will also cause the configure script to die if an
1994 --enable-xxx option is used and the dependencies it requires are
1996 * The Evolution integration plugin must now be explicitly enabled. Use
1997 the --enable-gevolution argument to configure to enable it.
1998 * The Contact Availability Prediction plugin must now be explicitly
1999 enabled. Use the --enable-cap argument to configure to enable it.
2002 * New default binding ctrl+x to open context menus.
2003 * Menu triggers and other bindings will no longer conflict.
2004 * Middle click pastes the internal clipboard (when mouse support is
2007 version 2.4.1 (03/31/2008):
2008 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.4.1
2011 * Treat AIM Unicode messages as UTF-16 rather than UCS-2; this
2012 should have no functional effect, other than continued support
2013 on systems which have dropped UCS-2 conversions.
2014 * Add support for setting buddy icons on Gadu-Gadu (Tomasz Salacinski)
2015 * Fix a crash when clearing the buddy icon for an account on XMPP
2016 * Fix a crash during login for some ICQ accounts
2017 * Prefer more available resources on XMPP when priorities are equal
2018 * Fix incorrectly marking some Yahoo! contacts as blocked
2019 * Improved handling of UTF-8 group names on ICQ (beret)
2020 * Fix a crash when starting if you have a Zephyr account
2021 * Increase XMPP ping timeout to 120 seconds, to prevent poor network
2022 connections from timing out unnecessarily.
2023 * Don't crash on XMPP forms with empty default values.
2024 * Fix issues with CHAP authentication for SOCKS5 proxies.
2027 * Remove a workaround for older versions gstreamer that was causing
2028 crashes on some non-Linux systems such as HPUX
2029 * Fix some cases of the conversation input entry area being 1 pixel high
2030 * Fix for displaying channel & buddy names in conversation window when
2031 they have '&' in them
2032 * Some memory leak fixes, especially in the Text Replacement plugin
2033 * Rectangular but non-square buddy icons have rounded corners in the buddy
2037 * Fix compiling with Glib older than 2.6
2038 * Ensure existing conversations selected from the 'Send IM' dialog are
2040 * Move the tooltip on the left of the buddylist if there's not enough room
2041 on the right to show it.
2043 version 2.4.0 (02/29/2008):
2044 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.4.0
2047 * Added support for offline messages for AIM accounts (thanks to
2049 * Fixed various problems with loss of status messages when going
2050 or returning from idle on MySpaceIM.
2051 * Eliminated unmaintained Howl backend implementation for the
2052 Bonjour protocol. Avahi (or Apple's Bonjour runtime on win32) is
2053 now required to use Bonjour.
2054 * Partial support for viewing ICQ status notes (Collin from
2056 * Support for /notice on IRC.
2057 * Support for Yahoo! Messenger 7.0+ file transfer method (Thanumalayan S.)
2058 * Support for retrieving full names and addresses from the address book
2059 on Yahoo! Japan (Yusuke Odate)
2060 * The AIM/ICQ server-side preference for "allow others to see me
2061 as idle" is no longer unconditionally set to "yes" even when
2062 your libpurple preference is "no."
2063 * Fix SSL certificate checks for renewed certificates
2064 * Fix the ability to set vCard buddy icons on Google Talk/XMPP
2065 * D-Bus fixes on 64bit
2066 * Fixed retrieval of buddy icons and setting of server-side aliases on
2067 Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan when using an HTTP proxy server (Gideon N.
2069 * Fixed an MSN bug that would leave you appearing offline when transferred
2073 * Added the ability to theme conversation name colors (red and blue)
2074 through your GTK+ theme, and exposed those theme settings to the
2075 Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin (Dustin Howett)
2076 * Fixed having multiple alias edit areas in the infopane (Elliott Sales
2078 * Save the conversation "Enable Logging" option per-contact (Moos
2080 * Typing notifications are now shown in the conversation area
2083 * Color is used in the buddylist to indicate status, and the conversation
2084 window to indicate various message attributes. Look at the sample gntrc
2085 file in the man page for details.
2086 * The default keybinding for dump-screen is now M-D and uses a file
2087 request dialog. M-d will properly delete-forward-word, and M-f has been
2088 fixed to imitate readline's behavior.
2089 * New bindings alt+tab and alt+shift+tab to help navigating between the
2090 higlighted windows (details on the man page).
2091 * Recently signed on (or off) buddies blink in the buddy list.
2092 * New action 'Room List' in the action list can be used to get the list of
2093 available chat rooms for an online account.
2094 * The 'Grouping' plugin can be used for alternate grouping in the
2095 buddylist. The current options are 'Group Online/Offline' and 'No
2097 * Added a log viewer
2098 * Added the ability to block/unblock buddies - see the buddy context menu
2099 and the menu for the buddy list.
2100 * Fixed a bug preventing finch working on x86_64
2102 version 2.3.1 (12/7/2007):
2103 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.3.1
2104 NOTE: Due to the way this release was made, it is possible that
2105 bugs marked as fixed in 2.3.1 will not be fixed until the
2108 * Fixed a number of MSN bugs introduced in 2.3.0, resolving problems
2109 connecting to MSN and random local display name changes
2110 * Going idle on MySpaceIM will no longer clear your status and message.
2111 * Idle MySpaceIM buddies should now appear online at login.
2112 * Fixed crashes in XMPP when discovering a client's capabilities
2113 * Don't set the current tune title if it's NULL (XMPP/Google Talk)
2114 * Don't allow buddies to be manually added to Bonjour
2115 * Don't advertise IPv6 on Bonjour because we don't support it
2116 * Compile fixes for FreeBSD and Solaris
2117 * Update QQ client version so some accounts can connect again
2118 * Do not allow ISON requests to stack in IRC, preventing flooding IRC
2119 servers when temporary network outages are restored
2120 * Plug several leaks in the perl plugin loader
2121 * Prevent autoaccept plugin overwriting existing files
2123 version 2.3.0 (11/24/2007):
2124 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.3.0
2125 NOTE: Some bugs marked fixed in 2.2.1, 2.2.2 or 2.2.3 may not
2126 have been fixed until this release (2.3.0).
2129 * Real usernames are now shown in the system log.
2130 * We now honor a PURPLE_DISABLE_DEPRECATED define to allow plugins to
2131 catch deprecated functions earlier rather than later.
2132 * Thanks to a patch from Intel, the Bonjour prpl now supports file
2133 transfers using XEP-0096 and XEP-0065. This should enable file
2134 transfers between libpurple clients and Gajim clients, but will not
2135 work with iChat or Adium as they use a different file transfer
2137 * XMPP password changes that return errors no longer cause the saved
2138 password to be changed.
2139 * XMPP file transfer support has been enhanced to support sending
2140 files through a proxy when the server supports discovering a
2141 a bytestream proxy. This should make file transfers much more
2142 reliable. The next release will add support for manually specifying
2143 a proxy when the server doesn't advertise one.
2146 * If a plugin says it can't be unloaded, we now display an error and
2147 remove the plugin from the list of saved plugins so it won't load
2148 at the next startup. Previously, we were ignoring this case, which
2149 could lead to crashes.
2150 * Mark dialog windows as transient for appropriate parent windows to
2151 help window managers do the right thing (Gabriel Schulhof)
2152 * Connection errors are now reported in mini-dialogs inside the buddy
2153 list, rather than as buttons in the buddy list and with dialog
2154 boxes. If several accounts are disabled when you sign on elsewhere,
2155 you can now re-enable them all with a single click.
2156 * Added tooltips to the Room List window to show full topics
2157 * Added buttons in preferences to access GNOME network and browser
2158 preferences configuration dialogs when running under GNOME
2159 * If you alias a buddy to an alias that is already present within
2160 a particular group, we now offer to merge the buddies into the
2162 * A music emblem is now displayed in the buddy list for a buddy if we
2163 know she is listening to some soothing music.
2164 * Added a 'Move to' menu in buddy list context menu for moving buddies
2165 to other groups as an alternative to dragging.
2166 * Group headings are now marked via an underline instead of a
2167 different color background.
2168 * It is now possible to mark a chat on your buddy list as "Persistent"
2169 so you do not leave the chat when the window or tab is closed.
2170 * The auto-join option for chats is now listed in the "Add Chat"
2171 dialog along with the new persistence option.
2172 * Closing an IM no longer immediately closes your conversation. It
2173 will now remain active for a short time so that if the conversation
2174 resumes, the history will be retained. A preference has been added
2175 to toggle this behavior.
2176 * The "Smiley" menu has been moved to the top-level of the toolbar.
2177 * Pidgin's display is now saved with the command line for session
2178 restoration. (David Mohr)
2179 * ICQ Birthday notifications are shown as buddy list emblems.
2180 * Plugin actions are now available from the docklet context menu
2181 in addition to the Tool menu of the buddy list.
2182 * The manual page has been heavily rewritten to bring it in line
2183 with current functionality.
2186 * If a plugin says it can't be unloaded, we now display an error and
2187 remove the plugin from the list of saved plugins so it won't load
2188 at the next startup. Previously, we were ignoring this case, which
2189 could lead to crashes.
2190 * It's possible to bind key-strokes to specific menuitems in the windows.
2191 Read the 'Menus' section in the man-page for details.
2192 * 'transpose-chars' operation for the entry boxes. The default key-binding
2194 * 'yank' operation for the entry boxes. The default binding is ctrl+y.
2196 version 2.2.2 (10/23/2007):
2197 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.2.2
2198 NOTE: Due to the way this release was made, it is possible that
2199 bugs marked as fixed in 2.2.1 or 2.2.2 will not be fixed
2200 until the next release.
2202 * Various bug and memory leak fixes
2203 * Look for a default prefs.xml in the CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA directory
2204 (e.g. c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\
2205 Application Data\purple\prefs.xml) on Windows, similarly to
2206 how this is done on other platforms.
2208 version 2.2.1 (09/29/2007):
2209 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.2.1
2210 NOTE: Due to the backporting that happened for the actual
2211 release, it is possible bugs marked as fixed in 2.2.1
2212 will not be fixed until 2.2.2.
2215 * A few build issues on Solaris were fixed.
2216 * Cancelling the password prompt for an account will no longer leave
2217 it in an ambiguous state. (It will be disabled.)
2218 * Fixed an erroneous size display for MSN file transfers. (galt)
2219 * Fixed multiple memory leaks, particularly in XMPP and MySpace
2221 * Fixed remembering proxy preferences and status scores
2222 * Gmail notifications are better tracked
2225 * Fixed keyboard tab reordering to move tabs one step instead of two.
2226 * You should no longer lose proxy settings when Pidgin is restarted.
2227 * Fixed detection of X11 when compiling
2230 * Pressing 'Insert' in the buddylist will bring up the 'Add Buddy'
2233 version 2.2.0 (09/13/2007):
2234 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.2.0
2237 * New protocol plugin: MySpaceIM (Jeff Connelly, Google Summer of
2239 * XMPP enhancements. See
2240 http://www.adiumx.com/blog/2007/07/soc-xmpp-update.php (Andreas
2241 Monitzer, Google Summer of Code for Adium)
2242 * Certificate management. libpurple will validate certificates on
2243 SSL-encrypted protocols (William Ehlhardt, Google Summer of Code)
2244 * Some adjustments were made to fix sending messages when using
2245 the MSN HTTP method. (Laszlo Pandy)
2246 * Yahoo! Chat is fixed.
2247 * Some AIM file transfer issues between Pidgin and other clients
2248 have been fixed. (Kyryll A Mirnenko)
2249 * Properly restore idle status and time for AIM and ICQ accounts
2250 when they reconnect after being disconnected.
2253 * Insert Horizontal Rules and Strikethrough text from toolbar.
2254 * Option to show protocol icons in the buddy list, from the
2255 Buddies > Show menu. (Justin Heiner)
2256 * Ability to build with native, non-X11 GTK+ on OSX. (Anders
2258 * Remember the 'Enable Sounds' setting for a conversation.
2259 * Right-clicking the empty space in the formatting toolbar
2260 allows you to toggle back to the old "ungrouped" version.
2261 * Protocols supporting account registration via Pidgin now show
2262 a descriptive checkbox instead of a vague "Register" button.
2263 * Fixed a bug where a tab would be shown on single conversations
2264 when tabs were disabled.
2267 * Per-conversation mute and logging options (accessible from the menu).
2269 version 2.1.1 (08/20/2007):
2271 * Added an account action to open your inbox in the yahoo prpl.
2272 * Added support for Unicode status messages in Yahoo.
2273 * Server-stored aliases for Yahoo. (John Moody)
2274 * Fixed support for Yahoo! doodling.
2275 * Limited support for MSN Messenger contacts
2278 * Bonjour plugin uses native Avahi instead of Howl
2279 * Bonjour plugin supports Buddy Icons
2282 * Only report conversation close when 'send typing notifications'
2283 preference is turned on (Bob Rossi)
2286 * Show current outgoing conversation formatting on the font label on
2288 * Slim new redesign of conversation tabs to maximize number of
2289 conversations that can fit in a window
2290 * Tab bar is not visible when only one conversation is open. You can
2291 drag and drop conversations from the infopane.
2292 * Moved "Reset Formatting" toolbar button to Font menu.
2293 * Double click on the infopane to alias buddies and set topics
2298 * Sound support (Eric Polino)
2300 version 2.1.0 (07/28/2007):
2302 * Core changes to allow UIs to use second-granularity for scheduling.
2303 Pidgin and Finch, which use the glib event loop, were changed to use
2304 g_timeout_add_seconds() on glib >= 2.14 when possible. This allows
2305 glib to better group our longer timers to increase power efficiency.
2306 (Arjan van de Ven with Intel Corporation)
2307 * No longer linkifies screennames containing @ signs in join/part
2308 notifications in chats
2309 * With the HTML logger, images in conversations are now saved.
2310 NOTE: Saved images are not yet displayed when loading logs.
2311 * Added support for QIP logs to the Log Reader plugin (Michael Shkutkov)
2314 * Ensure only one copy of Pidgin is running with a given configuration
2315 directory. The net effect of this is that trying to start Pidgin a
2316 second time will raise the buddy list. (Gabriel Schulhof)
2317 * Undo capability in the conversation window
2318 * The formatting toolbar has been reorganized to be more concise.
2319 * A new status area has been added to the top of conversations to
2320 provide additional detail about the buddy, including buddy icon,
2321 protocol and status message.
2322 * Show idle times in the buddy list as days, hours, seconds
2325 * There's support for workspaces now (details in the manpage)
2326 * There's a new custom window manager, Irssi
2327 * Some improvements for tab-completion, tooltip and the password entries
2328 * Some bugs regarding search results fixed
2329 * A new DBus-script to create a docklet for finch
2330 * Support for showing empty groups in the buddy list (Eric Polino)
2332 version 2.0.2 (06/14/2007):
2334 * Added a custom conversation font option to preferences
2335 * Fixed smiley ordering in the insert smiley popup to be more intuitive
2336 * Conversation->More menu items work for Chats as well as Buddies,
2337 including those not on your buddy list
2338 * newline plugin should work better with conversation colors plugin now
2339 * Get Info on users now provides immediate feedback that something is
2341 * Aliasing a buddy will not be interrupted by other buddy list activity
2342 * Using the -l option to log in to a specific account works better
2345 * Moving an ICQ buddy from one group to another no longer
2346 re-requests authorization from that person (Rene Hausleitner)
2347 * Added nullprpl, an example protocol plugin (Ryan Barrett)
2348 * Fixed SOCKS5 bug which caused Jabber file receiving to fail
2349 * Remove MSN's random "Authorization Failed" dialogs
2350 * Fix MSN to correctly detect incorrect passwords and disable the account
2351 * Get User Info on MSN is now more reliable & accurate
2352 * Updated SILC protocol to support SILC Toolkit 1.1 (Pekka Riikonen)
2353 * Fix for some QQ authentication problems
2354 * Fix for building on FreeBSD
2355 * Prevent "Logged in:" times for AIM buddies being ridiculously high
2356 * Updates and fixes to Bonjour support
2357 * Improve ICQ encoding support for some non-latin languages
2360 * Auto account reconnecting
2362 version 2.0.1 (05/24/2007):
2363 * Buddy list update speedups when buddy icons are not being
2364 displayed. (Scott Wolchok)
2365 * Fix icons on docklet change status menu to match the status selector
2366 * Custom smileys on MSN can be saved by right-clicking on them
2367 * Fix a crash deleting a buddy that is in the Buddy List more than once
2368 * Compile fixes for Solaris
2369 * Fix GTalk formatting when there's a space before/after a */_
2370 * Fix Log viewer crash when the filename is not in the expected format
2371 * Get User Info now provides immediate feedback, and is updated when the
2372 user information is available
2373 * Make the choose buddy icon dialog correctly list the current directory
2374 * Fix for buddy icons disappearing
2375 * Timestamps are always on in debug output (-d) and Debug Window now
2376 * Don't escape html entities in Yahoo! system messages
2377 * Fix for the choose buddy icon dialog resizing strangely as files are selected
2378 * Receives notifications when XMPP buddies send "leaving chat"
2380 * Fix the typing animation so it doesn't stop animating once a conversation
2381 has gone from typing -> not typing -> typing
2382 * Fix error messages when joing XMPP chats
2383 * Identify the account when warning about plaintext auth over an
2385 * Fix XMPP SASL authentication error when using Cyrus and a connect server
2386 * Fix changing tab locations to update properly
2387 * Turning off "Show formatting on incoming messages" now ignores
2388 formatting in <span> tags too
2389 * File transfer progress for transfers on MSN is now correctly displayed
2390 * You can set/change alias of buddies/chats by double-clicking on the
2391 conversation tabs (Ma Xuan)
2392 * Fix IRC connection bug with dircproxy (xjoe)
2393 * Ctrl+[shift]+tab focuses the next most active tab (William Thompson)
2394 * Fix Open Hotmail Inbox for MSN to work more reliably
2395 * Add a Google Talk item to the protocol list, to help users who think
2396 we don't support Google Talk. The item acts just like "XMPP".
2397 * Remember if the X server supports XScreenSaver, to avoid waking it
2398 every 5 seconds. (Arjan van de Ven with Intel Corporation)
2399 * Change our idle checking to poll only as necessary and raise the
2400 unidle timeout from 5 seconds to 60 when using XScreenSaver. This
2401 and the XScreenSaver change will reduce Pidgin's effect on power
2402 consumption when running with NO_HZ. (Arjan van de Ven with Intel
2404 * Conversation -> Save As will now use aliases.
2405 * ALSA added as a possible sound method
2406 * Google Talk accounts will not import buddies from your Gmail address
2410 * Userlist in chat windows, which can be turned on or off using
2412 * Menus in the conversation windows
2413 * Improved tab completion support
2414 * Ctrl+c prompts with a dialog before exiting
2415 * Filter string in the debug window
2416 * Notify when you leave a chat
2417 * Work around an ncurses bug which appears when half of a multi-cell
2418 character is covered by an upper-level window
2419 * New plugins are shown in bold text in the plugin dialog
2420 * Nicer HTML screendumps
2422 version 2.0.0 (5/3/2007):
2423 * The project has new names - libpurple for the core, Pidgin for the
2424 GTK+ UI and Finch for the ncurses based console UI (AOL LLC)
2427 * With the Core/UI split complete, it is now possible to build
2428 libpurple without any UIs, creating a library upon which other
2429 UIs may be constructed
2430 * A new ncurses-based console UI called Finch is now available
2431 (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury, Google Summer of Code)
2432 * Reorganized the source tree to split apart the code for the UI
2433 changes and libpurple targets
2434 * libxml2 is now required. We switched from gmarkup to libxml2 for
2435 more correct XML parsing.
2438 * The code dealing with buddy and account status, away messages,
2439 away states, online/offline, etc has been completely rewritten.
2440 Huge thanks to Christian Hammond, Dave West, Daniel Atallah and
2441 Sadrul Habib Chowdhury.
2442 * Your status can now be set from inside the buddy list using the
2443 selector at the bottom of the window.
2444 * To see messages when a buddy signs on or off, goes away, or
2445 becomes idle, load the "Buddy State Notification" plugin
2448 * Performance when manipulating and displaying the buddy list has
2449 been significantly improved (Aaron Sheldon, Google Summer of Code)
2450 * Buddy icons are now shown in tooltips (Felipe Contreras)
2451 * Tooltips now contain additional information about a "Person" that
2452 contains multiple online buddies
2453 * Added a "Last Seen" field to buddy tooltips
2454 * Contacts will auto-expand when buddies are dragged around
2455 * If Pidgin is exited with the buddy list hidden in the docklet, it
2456 will remain hidden when Pidgin is started again (Scott Shedden)
2457 * Improved buddy list searching with CTRL+F
2458 * Ability to set a buddy icon for all of your accounts at once via
2459 the buddy list (You can still set per-account icons via the
2461 * The space wasted by the group expanders has been eliminated and
2462 the expander setting in .gtkrc-2.0 is no longer needed
2463 * Authorization requests don't popup new dialogs anymore. They are
2464 displayed at the bottom of the buddy list instead.
2465 * New mail notifications don't popup new dialogs anymore. They are
2466 displayed at the top of the buddy list instead.
2468 Conversations and Chats:
2469 * Timestamps honor the locale. To use the traditional style,
2470 enable the "Message Timestamp Formats" plugin. The plugin
2471 also provides options to show dates in timestamps.
2472 * Messages from buddies in the same "Person" will automatically
2473 use the same conversation window.
2474 * The "Send As" menu has been replaced with a more appropriate
2475 "Send To" menu based on "Persons" on your buddy list
2476 * Message formatting persists between messages (Igor Belyi)
2477 * Full message background colors are now supported
2478 * Smooth scrolling when receiving a new message
2479 * Screenname colors in chats now chosen intelligently
2480 * Conversation buffer scrollback limited to avoid large memory
2481 usage in active conversations
2482 * Control-Shift-Tab will reverse cycle through the conversation tabs
2484 * Many problems related to having an IM conversation and a chat open
2485 with the same name are fixed (Andrew Hart)
2486 * Warning dialog when closing a window with unread IM messages
2487 * In chats right-click on names in the conversation window to
2488 IM/Send File/Get info/ignore the user
2489 * Added tab management options to the tab right-click menu (Sadrul
2491 * Brand new message queueing system. Sounds are played when a
2492 message is queued rather than when the message is dequeued
2494 * Ability to find the last message from a user in a chat (Levi Bard
2495 and Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
2496 * Formatting is preserved across messages
2497 (There are known issues with pasting formatted text. Either use
2498 "Paste as Plain Text", hit Ctrl-R after pasting, or use the Clear
2499 Formatting button on the toolbar.)
2500 * Performance while joining large chat rooms has been significantly
2501 improved (Aaron Sheldon, Google Summer of Code)
2502 * Bi-Directional text support improvements for GtkIMHtml (Shlomi Loubaton)
2505 * Beautiful new default sounds (Brad Turcotte)
2506 * Use GStreamer for playing sounds, instead of libao
2507 * A volume control in the preferences (Casey Harkins)
2510 * Log viewer aggregates logs from the same "Person"
2511 * When opening the log viewer, show the most recent log by default
2513 * Logs are now saved with the current timezone, which is displayed
2515 * Text logs are linkified, so URLs are clickable
2516 * The old logger now caches file offsets, so opening the log viewer
2517 for buddies with old logs should be much faster now if you have large
2518 log files (except the first time for a log, when the cache is built)
2521 * Plugins are now accessed through a separate dialog from the Tools
2522 menu of the Buddy List
2523 * Newly installed plugins can now be activated without restarting
2524 Pidgin (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
2525 * Overhauled the system tray/docklet plugin (Casey Harkins)
2526 * Text Replacement Plugin rewritten, works in real time and far more
2527 intuitively (Benjamin Kahn)
2528 * Entries in the text replacement plugin are now sorted
2530 * The text replacement plugin allows non-whole-word replacement rules
2532 * The text replacement plugin offers both case sensitive matching and
2533 automatic case handling
2534 * I'dle Ma'ker plugin now has an easier method to unidle accounts, a
2535 way to idle all accounts at once, and a way to unidle all accounts
2536 idled via the plugin (John Bailey, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
2537 * The Evolution Integration plugin now supports Groupwise contacts
2538 * Mono plugin loader (Eoin Coffey)
2539 * Perl plugin loader has been rewritten (John Kelm, Google Summer
2541 * New music messaging plugin (Christian Muise, Google Summer of Code)
2542 * gaim-remote has been superceded by new DBUS bindings within libpurple
2543 (Piotr Zielinski, Google Summer of Code)
2544 * The purple-url-handler program has been added to provide a way to
2545 automatically launch IM links via Pidgin or Finch.
2546 * The functionality of the auto-reconnect plugin has been
2547 moved into the core, and the plugin itself has been removed.
2548 * 'Highlight when nick said' option added to Message Notification
2550 * The system tray icon is now properly transparent (Dan Winship)
2551 * New Log Reader plugin that can read and display logs from Adium,
2552 MSN Messenger, and Trillian in the log viewer
2553 * New Contact Availability plugin that attempts to predict the
2554 times when people in your buddylist will most likely respond
2555 to you, based on times in the past when they have responded
2556 (Geoffrey Foster, Google Summer of Code)
2557 * A few new plugins: Autoaccept, Autoreply, Buddy Notes, New Line,
2558 Offline Message Emulation, Conversation Colors and Markerline
2561 * Custom smiley receiving support (Irving Cordova & Francesco Fracassi)
2562 * Added support for sending (with the /nudge command) and receiving
2563 "nudges" (Julien Cegarra, Martin Bayard)
2564 * Added an account action to open your Hotmail inbox from MSN
2565 * Bi-directional text is correctly handled now (Shlomi Loubaton)
2568 * Stealth Settings have been implemented
2569 * Doodle is now supported (Andrew Dieffenbach, Google Summer of Code)
2570 * Buddies' requests to add you to their lists now prompt for
2572 * Account option to ignore chat and conference invitations (Peter
2574 * Added a /list command to bring up the room list (Peter Lawler)
2577 * ICQ file transfer support with newer ICQ clients (Jonathan Clark,
2578 Google Summer of Code)
2579 * Many overall improvements to AIM and ICQ file transfers (Jonathan
2580 Clark, Google Summer of Code)
2581 * Support for pausing and resuming AIM and ICQ file transfers
2583 * Ability to set ICQ "require authorization" and "web aware"
2584 setting (Ettore Simone)
2585 * ICQ encoding fix for offline buddies (Ilya Konstantinov)
2588 * SSL support for IRC connections (Daniel Atallah)
2589 * Show an error message when temporarily unable to join an IRC
2590 channel or change your nick
2591 * Added /nickserv, /memoserv, /chanserv and /operserv
2592 commands (Joao Luís Marques Pinto)
2593 * Added CTCP VERSION via /version (Andrej Krivulčík)
2594 * Added /whowas command (achris)
2597 * Support for SRV lookups
2598 * Support for buddy icons
2599 * Jabber User Directory searching
2602 * Whiteboard support (Pekka Riikonen)
2603 * Sending/receiving images in IMs (Pekka Riikonen)
2604 * Cipher and HMAC selection support (Pekka Riikonen)
2605 * Buddy Icon support (Pekka Riikonen)
2607 Other Protocol Changes:
2608 * Bonjour (Rendezvous) protocol support (Juanjo Molinero Horno, Google
2610 * Updated Gadu-Gadu protocol support (Bartosz Oler, Google Summer of
2611 Code). This requires the libgadu library. See
2612 http://pidgin.im/faq.php#libgadu for more information.
2613 * SIP/SIMPLE support (Thomas Butter, Google Summer of Code)
2614 * Sametime protocol support
2615 Requires the meanwhile library: http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net
2616 * QQ protocol support (Mark Huetsch, Google Summer of Code, and the
2617 developers of the OpenQ project)
2618 * Removed the Napster and TOC protocols plugins
2620 Other Noteworthy Changes:
2621 * NAT traversal support via UPnP (Adam J. Warrington, Google Summer of
2623 * NAT traversal support via NAT-PMP (Evan Schoenberg and R. Tyler Ballance)
2624 * The modify account dialog now contains two tabs, which should display
2625 better at lower resolutions (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
2626 * New "find buddy" results dialog (Alex Converse)
2627 * People using input methods can now use Enter again
2628 * Mouse-over hyperlink coloring is now themeable
2629 * Buddy Pounces now have a proper management window. (Kevin Stange)
2630 * Buddy icons maintain aspect ratio when resized
2631 * The last used directory is remembered for opening or saving files and
2633 * Add an SVG version of our desktop icon, pidgin.svg (John Oyler)
2634 * If a given protocol doesn't support privacy, we now handle blocking
2635 in the core. (Jean-Yves Lefort)
2636 * Smiley themes can now include spaces in the smiley definitions.
2637 The spaces (and now backslashes) must be backslash-escaped.
2638 (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
2639 * New e-mail notices are now grouped into one dialog.
2640 (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury, Chris Stafford)
2641 * "Open" in the File Transfer window integrates with GNOME, KDE, and
2642 Windows and falls back to the browser in other environments.
2643 * On Mac OS X, the keyboard/mouse idle time pref now uses system idle
2644 time instead of X11 idle time (Michael Culbertson)
2645 * Autocomplete in the buddy pounce dialog (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
2646 * Non-blocking socket I/O is used in most protocol plugins
2647 * All-new icons all over the place (Hylke Bons)
2650 * Preferences have been substantially reorganized and cleaned up
2651 * Smiley theme descriptions are now shown correctly for the highlighted
2652 smiley theme (Levi Bard)
2653 * All Buddy List preferences have been moved to the Buddies menu of
2654 the buddy list window.
2655 * Proxy settings will be taken from Gnome if it is running. These may
2656 still be overridden on a per-account basis.
2657 * Removed "Dim idle buddies;" behavior is now always enabled
2658 * Removed keyboard shortcut preferences for ctrl-B/I/U; enabled by
2659 default, but won't interfere with bindings set by the GTK theme
2660 * Removed keyboard shortcuts preferences for ctrl-# to insert a smiley;
2661 behavior removed from Pidgin
2662 * Removed "Enter" vs. "Ctrl-Enter" to send; "Enter" sends by default,
2663 but it is now possible to change this binding in your GTK theme
2664 * Removed "Show multi-colored screennames in chats;" behavior is now
2665 always enabled and screenname colors automatically adjust themselves
2666 to compensate for background color.
2667 * Removed "Raise Buddy List Window on Events" and the related behavior
2668 * Removed "Display remote nicknames if no alias is set"
2669 * Removed "Show idle times" and "Show warning levels" on the buddy
2670 list; behavior is now always enabled
2671 * Removed "Auto-expand contacts;" contacts expand only when dragging
2672 buddies around the buddy list
2673 * Removed conversation and buddy list buttons and related preferences
2674 * Removed "Raise conversation window" preferences; moved feature to
2676 * Removed "Show alias in tabs/titles;" behavior is now always enabled
2677 * Removed "Show formatting toolbars;" the setting in conversations'
2678 "Options" menu now affects the global preference
2679 * Removed "Show timestamps;" behavior is now enabled, but is overridden
2680 by the timestamp plugin
2681 * Removed all protocol options pages
2682 * Removed "Escape closes windows;" default key binding is now Ctrl-W
2683 * Removed "Log when buddies sign on/sign off/become idle/become
2684 un-idle/go away/come back" and "Log your own actions;" all of these
2685 will be logged when the system log is enabled
2686 * Removed the separate ignore formatting preferences; behavior has been
2687 consolidated into a single preference
2689 version 1.5.0 (8/11/2005):
2690 * Ability to set IRC quit message (Lalo Martins)
2691 * OSCAR file transfers now work for 2 users behind the same NAT
2693 * Yahoo! buddy requests to add you to their buddy list now prompt for
2695 * Added a /clear command for conversations/chats
2696 * Fixed ICQ encoding for messages with offline ICQ users
2697 (Ilya Konstantinov, SF Bug #1179452)
2698 * Default Yahoo! chat roomlist locale to 'us'
2700 version 1.4.0 (7/7/2005):
2701 * Fix system log start times for some protocols
2702 * SILC compiles with newer SILC toolkit versions (Pekka Riikonen)
2703 * Fixed a bug where buddy icon cache files were left in the icon
2704 cache directory after they were no longer in use.
2705 * Attempt to detect the file type of a buddy icon when saving.
2706 * Additional Yahoo! boot protection (Peter Lawler)
2707 * A few Yahoo! memory leaks plugged (Peter Lawler)
2708 * Fixed handling of the new Yahoo! profile page. (Joshua Honeycutt,
2710 * Fixed localized Yahoo! room lists. Please refer to the Yahoo!
2711 section of the Gaim FAQ for details. (Peter Lawler)
2712 * Enabled sending files to ICQ users using ICQ 5.02 and newer
2715 version 1.3.1 (6/9/2005):
2716 * The file transfer details section now also displays the full path to
2717 the local file sent/received.
2718 * Yahoo! has the following new "/" commands: /join, /buzz
2719 * Fix Yahoo! privacy bug
2720 * Fix Jabber Get Info crash on busted servers
2721 * Updated our gaim.desktop file, thanks to all our terrific translators
2722 for sending in translations of the changes
2723 * Improvements to how Gaim handles new message notification
2724 * Fix Jabber registration on XMPP servers (including jabber.org)
2726 version 1.3.0 (5/10/2005):
2727 * Removed parts of the font selection dialog that were not respected
2728 * Fix being invited to a multi user chat on MSN
2729 * Multiple SILC accounts should work now (Pekka Riikonen)
2730 * Fix times on jabber chat backlogs
2731 * Fix gevolution plugin to compile with e-d-s 1.0 or 1.2
2732 * Fix gevolution plugin to remember buddy name when someone added you
2733 and you then add them
2734 * Formatting in jabber chats works
2735 * Fix to prevent MSN disconnecting if you change status while connecting
2736 * Fixes for two remotely exploitable crash bugs. See
2737 http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/ for more information.
2738 * Change to correctly handle adding jabber buddies on ejabberd servers
2740 version 1.2.1 (4/3/2005):
2741 * URL escaping now works with UTF-8 text. This may break some old log
2743 * Revert to XOR auth for ICQ as the md5 is not fully functional
2744 * Fix bug with going away while in a jabber chat
2745 * MSN bug fixes (Felipe Contreras)
2746 * Escape things properly in IRC
2747 * Docklet fixes: fix the "1 pixel-wide icon" bug, fix problems with Gaim
2748 crashing when the tray manager dies, and work correctly with multi-headed
2749 displays where the tray isn't on the primary screen (Robert McQueen)
2751 version 1.2.0 (3/17/2005):
2752 * Yahoo file receiving and buddy icon receiving work again.
2753 * Limit animated buddy icon frame rates to 10 frames per second
2755 * Fix a bug where portions of your account configuration would
2756 fail to be read correctly if you set a proxy user name or
2757 password containing invalid XML characters such as < and >
2759 * Yahoo! privacy improvements (Bleeter)
2760 * Fix receiving Jabber formatting (broken in 1.1.3)
2762 version 1.1.4 (2/24/2005):
2763 * Fixed a bug where Yahoo! would lose messages (and any other packet
2765 * Correctly show the time when incoming Gadu-Gadu messages were sent
2766 (Carl-Daniel Hailfinger)
2767 * Fixed crashes with glib 2.6
2768 * Fixed MSN crash when conversations time out after the conversation
2770 * Fixed an html parsing bug, CAN-2005-0208
2772 version 1.1.3 (2/17/2005):
2773 * CHAP authentication support for SOCKS5 proxies (Malcolm Smith)
2774 * ICQ offline messages are sent using your specified character
2775 set instead of Unicode (Magnus Hult)
2776 * MSN HTTP method works with proxies using authentication (Bastien Durel)
2777 * Really fix the bug where buddies show as logged in for 49 thousand days
2778 * Buddy pounces containing '&' are saved correctly
2779 * Improved MSN error handling when the servers are unavailable
2780 * More MSN bug fixes
2782 * Fix "Find" in the log viewer so that it finds in all logs
2783 * Smileys not appearing at the end of lines has been fixed
2784 * Closing conversation windows no longer cancels active file transfers on
2785 MSN (Felipe Contreras)
2787 version 1.1.2 (1/20/2005):
2788 * MSN 'HTTP Method' fixed (Felipe Contreras)
2789 * Better handling of MSN's Individuals group and buddy status updates
2791 * Fix a crash inviting MSN user to a chat when they're already there
2792 * AIM SecurID login support
2793 * Fix configuration of Jabber chat rooms on some servers
2794 * More MSN bug fixes (Felipe Contreras)
2795 * Fix queue messages to Docklet when not globally away (Robert McQueen)
2797 * The Autopackage now builds both the mozilla-nss and the gnutls
2798 ssl plugins, and requires at least one of those libraries.
2800 version 1.1.1 (12/28/2004):
2801 * Allow SILC authentication via public key if your key is password
2802 protected (Michele Baldessari)
2803 * More MSN bug fixes (Felipe Contreras)
2804 * Drag-and-drop to conversation window file transfers work again
2805 * Disable the delete button on pounces that aren't saved yet anyway
2808 version 1.1.0 (12/02/2004):
2810 * Binary relocable. Gaim will find its files even if it's installed
2811 in a location other than the --prefix it was ./configured with.
2812 Pass --disable-binreloc to ./configure to disable.
2813 * IRC now has fallback encodings, and tries harder to display
2814 something useful during an encoding error.
2815 * New MSN protocol icon (Felipe Contreras)
2818 * Fix some leaks (Miah Gregory, Felipe Contreras)
2819 * Fix crashes when removing buddies in certain situations (Andrew Hart)
2820 * Eliminate MSN switchboard errors (Felipe Contreras)
2821 * Fix MSN buddy icon synchronization (Felipe Contreras)
2822 * Correctly display file transfer dialogs for filenames containing &, < or >
2823 * Correctly display MSN authorization dialogs for friendly names containing
2825 * Properly align the right-click docklet menu with the docklet icon in
2827 * Fix a crash if the MSN buddy list is not available
2828 * Fix a bug in the request api (Gary Kramlich)
2830 version 1.0.3 (11/11/2004):
2832 * Jabber authentication fixes (Michael Plump)
2833 * Yahoo buddy idle reporting is more accurate (Evan Schoenberg)
2834 * "Allow All" privacy setting works on Yahoo (Peter Lawler)
2835 * Fix a crash when dragging a buddy to the conversation entry area
2836 * Fix a crash removing chats from the buddy list
2837 * Correctly display buddy pounces for aliases with &, < or > in them
2838 * Correctly follow the per-conversation logging option
2840 version 1.0.2 (10/19/2004):
2842 * MSN file transfers work on big endian machines (Jean-Francois Roy and
2844 * Fixed the MSN signon crash with Miranda users in the buddy list
2845 * Fixed sending messages to MSN Web Messenger users (Damien Ayers)
2846 * Fixed some memory leaks in the MSN plugin (Evan Schoenberg)
2847 * Fixed a crash viewing certain MSN user profiles (Evan Schoenberg)
2848 * Fixed a crash sending a file on MSN when the file is unreadable
2849 * Fixed a crash deleting accounts (Andrew Hart)
2850 * Fixed a crash inviting to chats (Andrew Hart)
2851 * Fixed a bug in Yahoo privacy handling (Peter Lawler)
2852 * Fixed a crash trying to join a chat from the docklet when not signed in
2853 to a chat-capable account (Daniel Atallah)
2855 version 1.0.1 (10/07/2004):
2857 * Use the GNOME default browser when opening links if you're running GNOME
2859 * Added support for multiple addressbooks in the gevolution plugin
2863 * Send-As menu duplicates less work (Dave West)
2864 * Can now see your own MSN buddy icon (Felipe Contreras)
2865 * Jabber roomlist fetches work again
2866 * Close buttons on tabs in existing conversations correctly reflect the
2867 "show close buttons on tabs" preference (Nathan Fredrickson)
2868 * Fix to make the get_signon(buddy) perl plugin function work (Gregory C.
2870 * Fixed crashes when reloading the gevolution plugin (Henry Jen)
2871 * Fixed some memory leaks in the gevolution plugin.
2872 * Wrap at character boundaries if there is not enough space for a full word
2873 * 64 bit compile warning fixes
2875 version 1.0.0 (09/17/2004):
2877 * Drag-and-drop buddy support for the Invite dialog (Stu Tomlinson)
2878 * Drag-and-drop buddy support for the Pounce dialog (Stu Tomlinson)
2879 * View Chat log available from the interface (Daniel Atallah)
2880 * Ability to receive offline messages in character encodings
2881 other than ASCII (thanks to Nick Sukharev)
2882 * File transfer status messages printed to conversation
2884 * Display file transfer messages when someone sends you a file
2885 over AIM (Dave West)
2886 * Handle MSN buddy lists more sanely (Felipe Contreras)
2887 * Zephyr can use tzc to run from behind a firewall (Arun A Tharuvai)
2890 * Work around window manager stupidity with new dialog windows (Dave West)
2891 * Compile with gtk 2.5.x (Gary Kramlich)
2892 * Escape invalid characters in log names (Daniel Atallah)
2893 * Fix for clicking add in an msn chat with 2 or more people in your buddy
2894 list (Daniel Atallah)
2896 version 0.82.1 (08/27/2004):
2898 * Fix a crash when changing the preference for how to display buttons
2899 on conversation windows
2900 * Remove a stray printf() when beginning new conversations and logging
2903 version 0.82 (08/26/2004):
2905 * Ability to set available messages for AIM
2906 (Tools->Account Actions->Set Available Message...)
2907 * Ability to specify a custom character set for messages sent to ICQ
2908 users and messages received from ICQ users
2909 * Ability to edit your current away message (Rhett Robinson)
2910 * Topics in the conversation window (not the topic field at the
2911 top) with URLs will now appear as links (Stu Tomlinson)
2912 * File transfers appear in the file transfer window when they
2913 are initiated rather than when they begin transferring (Dave West)
2914 * Instead of toggling slash commands on/off, you can now toggle
2915 passing through unknown slash commands on/off.
2918 * Joining a Jabber chat no longer causes a crash (Stu Tomlinson)
2919 * Selecting a buddy icon for a brand new account no longer
2921 * Better file transfer error messages (Dave West)
2922 * Remotely canceled file transfers in MSN are now noticed, so that we
2923 don't accidentally cancel the file transfer and crash Gaim
2925 * Protocols that don't support joining chat rooms by name no longer
2926 allow chat rooms to be added to the buddy list (Felipe Contreras)
2927 * Delayed messages and system messages no longer cause
2928 sound events to be triggered (Nathan Fredrickson)
2929 * The chat invite button has a correct label (Stu Tomlinson)
2930 * The system log should leak fewer file descriptors (Ka-Hing Cheung)
2931 * Buddy list tooltips display in more appropriate positions when
2932 using multiple monitors (Dave West)
2933 * Better parsing of URLs containing special characters
2934 * All users are shown when joining a Yahoo! conference (Bleeter Yaluser)
2935 * You now leave all Yahoo! conferences when you log out of Yahoo!
2936 * Buddy Icon updating bug fixed (Felipe Contreras)
2938 version 0.81 (08/05/2004):
2940 * The autorecon plugin will somewhat remember state information(Yosef
2942 * Visual display of ops/voice/halfops/so on in Chats (Stu Tomlinson)
2943 * Tab completion of slash commands in Chats (Stu Tomlinson)
2944 * gaim-remote can now manipulate status (István Váradi)
2945 * The text messages of Yahoo Audibles are now displayed, although
2946 the audio and graphics are not.
2947 * Yahoo! away messages can be 255 characters long now
2950 * Gadu-Gadu should connect again (Andrew Wellington)
2951 * Novell fixes (Mike Stoddard of Novell):
2952 * Fixed reconnect crash
2953 * Fixed duplicate root folder bug
2954 * Fixed bug with folder ordering (on a first time login
2955 folders were being added in reverse order).
2956 * Use ISO date format for the system log (Eduardo Pérez)
2957 * Long buddy lists with irc should cause flooding disconnects less
2959 * Better smiley substitution
2960 * Fix a crash related to auto-expanding contacts at the bottom of
2962 * Fix a crash on Solaris when changing or viewing information for
2963 your AIM account (Format Screen Name, Change Email Address, etc.)
2964 * HTML in OSCAR buddy comments is now escaped (and not rendered)
2965 * Fix a crash when dragging a screen name to a conversation window
2966 for that screen name
2967 * User-requested new conversation windows are now always given focus
2968 * Pasting HTML into Gaim from certain sources no longer results in
2969 the spaces between some words being removed
2970 * The alias of a contact is now displayed in more places when the
2971 alias of a buddy is not set
2972 * .gaimrc is no longer imported
2973 * Prevent a crash if you sign off and try to dequeue messages from
2974 the away dialog (Kevin Stange)
2975 * Prevent a possible crash if gaim_gtkconv_write_conv is called
2976 with who as NULL (Kevin Stange)
2977 * Prevent (null) or an empty string from being logged as the sender's
2978 name if the sender no longer has an alias because the account is
2979 signed off (Kevin Stange)
2980 * The auto-reconnect plugin will no longer attempt to reconnect an
2981 MSN account if you were disconnected because you signed on from
2982 another location (Stu Tomlinson)
2983 * On Solaris, chatting in IRC using the UTF-8 charset no longer gives
2984 a "conversion failed" error for every message (Arvind Samptur)
2985 * ICQ offline messages should have the correct timestamp (Dave West)
2987 version 0.80 (07/15/2004):
2989 * Ability to send files from the conversation window (Daniel Atallah)
2990 * Drag a file into the buddy list or a conversation to send it to that
2992 * Yet more new commands and features for SILC (Stu Tomlinson)
2993 * Gaim uses the new file chooser when compiled for GTK+ 2.4
2995 * Support for the Epiphany web browser (Leonardo Serra)
2996 * Status messages in Gadu-Gadu (Andrew (proton) Wellington)
2997 * Parentheses are now displayed around the title and tabs of
2998 conversations from offline accounts or parted chats.
2999 * Zephyr typing notification (Arun A Tharuvai)
3000 * Account dialog's columns are resizable (Eduardo Pérez)
3003 * The firefox browser option now works with firefox 0.9
3004 * Buddy icons in conversations no longer depend on the
3006 * Fix for the bug where some buddies seemed logged in 4
3007 thousand some odd days (Alan Ford)
3009 version 0.79 (06/24/2004):
3011 * Display name changes are now shown in the conversation windows.
3013 * Get Info on Yahoo! now works for nonenglish profiles.
3015 * General "Get Info" improvements on Yahoo! and MSN (Ambrose Li)
3016 * Yahoo! Japan support. Click More Options and check Yahoo Japan
3017 in the account editor, to use your Yahoo! Japan account
3018 * Gtk themes can now theme the Gaim buddy list independently of
3019 other things (Stu Tomlinson)
3020 * Show timestamps now has a per-conversation option in addition
3021 to the global one, bringing it in line with the other conver-
3022 sation options (Stu Tomlinson)
3023 * Added MSN buddy icons (Felipe Contreras)
3024 * Added MSN file transfer (Felipe Contreras)
3025 * MSN's idle state now actually sets a buddy idle
3026 * Buddy pounce defaults are now more sane, and apply to the state the
3027 buddy is currently in. For example, if the buddy is idle, set
3028 "Return from idle" by default. The last action(s) used are the
3029 defaults for the next pounce
3030 * Yahoo buddy icon support
3031 * Selected buddy icons will automatically convert to the appropriate
3032 format for the protocol. (GTK 2.2 and higher only)
3033 * Dragging an image file into the Modify Account dialog will set that
3035 * Development headers for compiling third-party plugins are now
3036 installed. (Stu Tomlinson)
3037 * Headers for gaim-remote now reside in gaim/ instead of
3039 * Basic YCHT support, which allows joining Yahoo! Chats when
3040 logged in using the web messenger method
3043 * Fixed Yahoo! authentication problems. (Cerulean Studios)
3044 * Non-looping animated icons no longer cause Gaim to freeze
3045 * Flashing windows should work again for unix in window managers that
3046 support the URGENT hint (Etan Reisner)
3047 * Better handling of character sets in RTF for Novell (Mike Stoddard of
3049 * Contact list sync problems in Novell fixed (Mike Stoddard of Novell)
3050 * Fixed a crash in SILC that sometimes happened when resolving
3051 the buddy list (Pekka Riikonen)
3052 * Parallel compiles of the perl plugin should work better
3054 * The disconnected UI op was called twice on connection errors. Now
3055 it is only called once. (Evan Schoenberg)
3056 * Dragging into conversation windows works better
3057 * Protocol-specific settings for accounts were being removed whenever
3058 the account was modified. Now they're only removed when the protocol
3059 type changes, as it should be.
3060 * Zephyr bug fixes and memory leak plugs (Arun A Tharuvai)
3061 * Rewrite of MSN buddylist support, which fixed a known syncronization
3062 bug and some others (Felipe Contreras)
3064 version 0.78 (05/30/2004):
3066 * Support for the SILC protocol (http://www.silcnet.org/)
3068 * Option to suppress disconnect notification when using
3069 the autoreconnect plugin (Christopher (siege) O'Brien)
3070 * Added support for dragging buddies from the buddy list into the
3071 Add Buddy Pounce dialog
3072 * Pounce notification now includes time (Mike Lundy)
3073 * The history plugin now shows history for chats in addition to IMs
3074 * Menu item to view conversation logs (Tom Samstag)
3075 * Conversation and chat sizes automatically saved (Stu Tomlinson)
3076 * Added support for Novell privacy settings (Mike Stoddard of Novell)
3077 * Added ability to initiate multi-user conferences (chats) in Novell
3078 (Mike Stoddard of Novell)
3079 * Find and Save buttons on the debug window (Stu Tomlinson)
3080 * Plugin Actions menu (Christopher (siege) O'Brien)
3081 * Plugins can now add entries to the right-click menu of a group or chat
3082 (Stu Tomlinson and Christopher (siege) O'Brien)
3083 * Hyperlink colors are now themeable via your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file
3086 * Compiles again with gcc 2.96 (Ignacio J. Elia)
3087 * Gtk2.0 compatibility fixes (Tim Ringenbach)
3088 * Many documentation updates (Jonathan Champ, Gary Kramlich,
3089 Stu Tomlinson, and Kevin Stange)
3090 * Yahoo works on 64 bit machines (Gary Kramlich)
3091 * Zephyr works on 64 bit machines (Arun A Tharuvai)
3092 * Novell 64bit fixes, better error messages, and buddy list sync fixes
3093 (Mike Stoddard of Novell)
3094 * Novell protocol works on big endian machines (Novell)
3095 * Massive rewrite of MSN support, which should fix a number of issues
3096 and make errors easier to interpret (Felipe Contreras)
3097 * Fixed a privacy-related bug in MSN that affected blocking/permitting,
3098 which was due to case-sensitive string comparisons (Gudmundur
3100 * Fixed an MSN HTTP method bug where MSN would queue data indefinitely.
3102 * All known MSN formatting bugs were fixed.
3103 * Overly long messages and paging cell phones in MSN no longer cause
3104 disconnects (Felipe Contreras)
3105 * Several bug fixes for MSN's MSNSLP and MSNObject support (Finlay
3107 * ALT-F works correctly in the System Log Viewer (Stu Tomlinson)
3108 * New tabs should scroll correctly again (Tim Ringenbach)
3109 * Dialogs opened from a conversation window are now closed when
3110 the conversation window is closed, preventing a crash (Kevin Stange)
3111 * Copy/paste encoding fixes (Joe Marcus Clarke)
3112 * IRC disconnect crash fix (Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha)
3113 * Ampersands in links should work correctly (Tim Ringenbach)
3114 * DirectIM and IM Image support for AIM are greatly improved
3116 * Gadu-Gadu updates (Andrew Wellington)
3117 * Print Gadu-Gadu messages to the debug window instead of the console
3118 * Updated and standardized blist signals (Gary Kramlich)
3119 * Made the recieve-*-msg signals match the sending ones (Stu Tomlinson)
3120 * The idle time for the buddy-idle and buddy-unidle signals should
3124 * Added "Conversation placement - By conversation count"
3125 * Added a "none" smiley theme to replace the "Show graphical
3127 * Replace default formatting preferences with a dialog to set a
3128 default formatting in a WYSIWYG manner.
3129 * Removed "Show logins in window," default to yes
3130 * Removed "Send URLs as links," default to yes (in protocols that
3132 * Removed "Show URLs as links," default to yes
3133 * Removed New window height & width and Entry field height for Chats &
3134 IMs, sizes are now saved automatically
3135 * Removed "Tab-complete nicks" default to yes
3136 * Removed "Old-style tab completion", no longer supported
3137 * Removed "Sending message removes away status", default to no
3138 * Removed "Show numbers in groups", default to yes
3139 * Removed "Icons on tabs", default to yes
3140 * Removed "Sounds when you log in", default to no
3141 * Removed "Seconds before resending autoresponse", default to 600
3143 * Removed "Send autoresponse in active conversations", default to no
3144 * Removed "Show people joining in window", default to yes
3145 * Removed "Show people leaving in window", default to yes
3147 version 0.77 (04/22/2004):
3149 * The System Log returns (Ka-Hing Cheung)
3150 * Added a conversation-drag-ended signal (Etan Reisner)
3151 * Reorganized and cleaned up the MSN protocol plugin (Felipe Contreras)
3152 * Added the -c option to specify location of the .gaim directory,
3153 removed the outdated -f option that no longer had any effect (Daniel
3155 * Novell GroupWise protocol support added (Novell)
3156 * WYSIWYG improvements (Tim Ringenbach)
3157 * WYSIWYG editing for user info (Jon Oberheide)
3158 * Rich-text copy and paste
3159 * Plugins can now add menu items to the buddy context menu
3160 (Christopher O'Brien)
3161 * Plugins can now add preferences (Gary Kramlich)
3162 * The TOC protocol is no longer built by default. The plugin is not
3163 being properly tested and is no longer officially supported.
3164 * Bumped up the plugin API version number, and added version numbers
3165 for loader plugins and protocol plugins. Authors will want to
3166 update their plugins, and possibly use GAIM_PLUGIN_API_VERSION,
3167 GAIM_PRPL_API_VERSION, and GAIM_LOADER_API_VERSION constants.
3168 * Zephyr error reporting works (Arun A. Tharuvai)
3169 * Zephyr deals with non-utf8 characters (Arun A. Tharuvai)
3172 * Formatting in the Log viewer is fixed (Kevin Stange)
3173 * Save Conversation works again (Kevin Stange)
3174 * The Clear button in privacy works (Robert Mibus)
3175 * MSN error reporting works again (Stu Tomlinson)
3176 * MSN e-mail notifications should no longer cause Gaim to crash
3178 * Fixed an infinite loop bug that would sometimes cause MSN to lock
3179 up (Nickolai Zeldovich)
3180 * All away messages should now show up in tooltips
3181 * Removing zephyr buddies no longer crashes (Arun A. Tharuvai)
3183 version 0.76 (04/01/2004):
3185 * WYSIWYG text input (with much help from Gary Kramlich and Kevin
3187 * Ability to be invisible on AIM
3188 * Chatroom list support (Tim Ringenbach)
3189 * Added auto-completion for screen names to the New Instant Message and
3190 Get User Info dialogs.
3191 * Non-ascii character support in AIM chats (Uli Luckas and Marco Ziech)
3192 * Vastly improved browser opening, with tab support! (Nathan
3194 * Added support for connecting to MSN using the port 80 method.
3195 * Support for Mozilla Firefox (Chris Friesen and Nathan Fredrickson)
3196 * Added protocol-specific preferences (Gary Kramlich)
3197 * Local IP address information can be changed in Preferences
3199 * Improved local IP address detection (Tim Ringenbach)
3200 * Offline accounts in account drop-down lists are now greyed (Etan
3202 * Improved accessibility support for screen readers and other
3203 accessibility tools (Marc Mulcahy)
3204 * Improved accessibility in conversation windows (Nathan Fredrickson)
3205 * Keyboard access to context menus via Shift+F10 (Marc Mulcahy)
3206 * Core/UI split event loop code. (Scott Lamb)
3207 * Added improvements to the multi-field request code, including
3208 required fields and account fields.
3209 * Moved more dialogs to the request API for interface consistency
3210 (Send Message, Get User Info, and Insert Link dialogs)
3211 * Jabber file transfer
3212 * IRC file transfer (Tim Ringenbach)
3213 * Added a hidden preference for disabling buddy list tooltips or
3214 changing the pop-up delay in prefs.xml.
3215 * Moved translation news to po/ChangeLog
3218 * Changes in AIM/ICQ server-side buddy lists take
3219 precedence over the local buddy list
3220 * Significant work on the Zephyr plugin (Arun A. Tharuvai)
3221 * You can now use :/ as a smiley safely (Nathan Owens)
3222 * Various buffer overflow fixes (Stefan Esser)
3223 * Tabs now stay green when they are supposed to (Etan Reisner)
3224 * Fixed a bug where only the first user in a chat room list was removed
3225 sometimes when trying to remove a group of users (Tim Ringenbach)
3226 * Clearing an AIM buddy icon actually removes it from the server,
3227 icons changes in the account editor do not take effect if the
3228 cancel button is used (Stu Tomlinson)
3229 * Improved chat parting logic (Tim Ringenbach)
3230 * Yet Another IRC channel user duplication bugfix (Tim Ringenbach)
3231 * Deleting an account while modifying it will no longer crash gaim.
3232 * Only one account preference window will now appear per account when
3234 * Aliases are now shown alongside the screen name in the message
3235 queue window. (Kevin Stange).
3236 * TCL Plugin API changed
3237 * The mobile icon on MSN users is now removed when the person disables
3238 mobile paging (Stu Tomlinson)
3239 * Removing invalid buddies in MSN with a space in their name no longer
3240 causes a disconnect (Stu Tomlinson)
3241 * Multiple MSN chats should now work (Robert Mibus)
3242 * Added new MSN error codes and fixed an incorrect one (Stu Tomlinson)
3243 * Incoming colors are now processed correctly in MSN.
3244 * Conversation placement by account now works correctly with both
3245 chats and IMs, and takes the Combine Chats and IMs option into
3247 * Minor tweaks to the list box in the multi-field request dialogs
3248 so they work without a label and scrollbar (Pekka Riikonen)
3249 * Hitting enter in a multi-field request dialog when a textfield has
3250 the focus no longer ignores the changed text in the textfield
3252 * The Disconnect dialog no longer raises and gains focus each time
3253 a disconnected account is added (Ka-Hing Cheung)
3254 * Gadu-Gadu might actually connect again (Ignacy Gawedzki)
3255 * Buddy pounces for an account are removed when the account is
3256 deleted (Gary Kramlich)
3257 * Various bug and memory leak fixes (Gary Kramlich)
3258 * Assorted SSL crashfixes
3259 * --enable-debug no longer breaks compilation when using gtk 2.4,
3260 which also broke garnome.
3261 * Tooltips shouldn't crash now (Daniel Atallah)
3263 version 0.75 (01/09/2004):
3264 * New Yahoo! auth method
3265 * Yahoo! file transfer (Tim Ringenbach)
3266 * Yahoo! chat joining fixes (Tim Ringenbach)
3267 * Persons can auto-expand when hovering your mouse over it
3268 * Improved i18n support for MSN email notification (Felipe Contreras)
3269 * Jabber SASL PLAIN support
3270 * Improved Jabber MUC (Chat) support
3271 * Fixed an MSN login bug some people likely experienced (Felipe
3273 * Touch-up various dialogs to follow the Gnome Human Interface
3274 Guidelines more closely (Steven Garrity, Nathan Fredrickson, and
3276 * Works better with all-black gtk themes (Etan Reisner)
3277 * Mozilla Firebird support (Chris (darth_sebulba04))
3279 version 0.74 (11/25/2003):
3280 * Sort-by-size log sorting fix
3281 * Log directory umask fix for users of gaim-remote
3282 * Fix Jabber room creation on MUC servers.
3284 version 0.73 (11/21/2003):
3285 * New Logging format and code:
3286 * fixes i18n issues with logs
3287 * compatible with old logs
3288 * hopefully fixes segfault in viewing logs
3289 * New disconnected account dialog (Thanks, Daniel Atallah)
3290 * Fixes several Jabber bugs
3291 * Fixes the bug where some dialogs would crash when spell checking was
3292 enabled. Closes #827930.
3293 * Fixed unblocking of users in MSN (Robert Mibus)
3294 * Fixes outgoing mobile pages on MSN.
3295 * The border on the close buttons on inactive tabs are no longer shown,
3296 thanks to a fix used by Galeon.
3297 * Compatible with autoconf 2.58.
3298 * Cleaned up gtkspell-related code (Robert McQueen)
3299 * Changed the parameters for the received-chat-msg signal.
3300 * Added a Release Notification plugin
3302 version 0.72 (10/31/2003):
3303 * Added a search feature to conversations.
3304 * Added an option to remove the formatting toolbar, both globally and
3305 on a per-window basis (Nathan Fredrickson)
3306 * Added a drop shadow to the buddy list tooltip
3307 * Smileys are copyable
3308 * Fixed the ICQ login crash
3309 * Fixed a crash in the Add Chat dialog when selecting an
3310 account that doesn't support chats. Closes bug #821606.
3311 * Fixed a bug where new MSN accounts without buddies added wouldn't
3313 * Fixed a crash when deleting an account that has IMs or chats open.
3315 * Smileys have background colors
3316 * If SSL is not enabled, MSN will load, but error on connect.
3317 * Disable Jabber SASL auth until the standard stabilizes
3319 version 0.71 (10/09/2003):
3320 * The right-click menu for e-mail links now presents a "Copy E-Mail
3322 * Fix sort by idle to behave as it did pre-contact support (David
3324 * Display AIM away messages in the tooltip for buddies when
3326 * Support for Buddy Comments for AIM and ICQ buddies
3327 * Window icons are now set as buddy icons or status icons
3328 * Get User Info in MSN and Yahoo now return an error indicating that
3329 the information doesn't exist if the profile is empty (parts by
3331 * Added startup notification support for window managers that support it
3332 * The protocol icon for an account in the accounts window will now
3333 "pulse" when signing the account on.
3334 * Zephyr formatting fixes (Arun A. Tharuvai)
3335 * Zephyr can connect to chats (Karsten Huneycutt)
3336 * SSL support can now be provided by third party plugins.
3337 * Multiple copies of gaim installed at different locations no
3338 longer attempt to load the same, possibly incompatible plugins
3340 * Implemented another new Yahoo! authentication method
3341 * Fixed a bug displaying Chinese MSN messages (Ambrose C. LI).
3342 * Additional fixes and checks for the perl build process (Sean Burke).
3343 * Massive core/UI splitting.
3344 * Re-write of Jabber protocol plugin
3345 * Conversation API changes.
3346 * Some plugins must be updated due to code variable changes,
3347 function name changes, and change of behavior for certain
3350 version 0.70 (09/28/2003):
3351 * Implemented Yahoo's new authentication method (Cerulean Studios)
3352 * Protocol plugins that have plugin dependencies now load correctly.
3353 * Perl installs where it's told to a bit more correctly.
3354 * Robert "Robot101" McQueen cleaned and core/UI split IM
3357 version 0.69 (09/24/2003):
3358 * Added Contact (aka Person, aka Meta-Contact, aka Buddy Merging, etc)
3360 * Added MSN 6 smileys.
3361 * Added animated smiley support (Ka-Hing Cheung)
3362 * Added SSL support, compatible with GNUTLS and Mozilla NSS.
3364 * Added support for gettext 0.12.x.
3365 * Updated MSN support to the MSN Protocol version 9.
3366 * Jabber now supports SSL
3367 * Yahoo now shows people using the java chat client (Tim Ringenbach)
3368 * Yahoo chat and conference (Tim Ringenbach)
3369 * Yahoo ignore support (Jesse Farmer (farmerje))
3370 * Yahoo idle times displayed, long buddy lists work, sms users,
3371 and other improvements (Tim Ringenbach)
3372 * The accounts window now shows offline accounts as greyed out, and
3373 online accounts as colored.
3374 * Fixed the text replacement plugin.
3375 * Fixed all known signal problems in perl.
3376 * The right-click menu for conversation tabs now shows the tab icon
3377 and status, if tab icons are enabled. (Jesse Farmer)
3379 version 0.68 (09/01/2003):
3380 * Removed the old event system and replaced it with a much better
3382 * Added plugin dependency support.
3383 * Rewrote the Perl plugin. All old scripts will break, but it offers
3384 a much better API for new scripts.
3385 * Yahoo color support (Tim Ringenbach (marv_sf))
3386 * Yahoo and MSN get info support (Nathan Poznick)
3387 * Fixed Jabber registrations.
3388 * Fixed a problem where pouncing two users with the same name
3389 appeared in the same conversation window, and other related
3390 problems. (Robot101)
3391 * Corrected problems with proxy preferences.
3392 * Mailchk.c and simple.c compile again (Paul A (darkrain))
3394 version 0.67 (08/14/2003):
3395 * Brought back the message notification plugin (Brian Tarricone)
3396 You'll need to reconfigure your settings for this plugin
3397 * IRC protocol plugin rewritten (Ethan Blanton)
3398 * New IRC protocol icon (Nuno Donato)
3399 * Protocol and status icons now optionally appear on tabs.
3401 * Various dialog rewrites (Jabber vCard, Add Group, Alias Chat,
3402 Rename Group, Privacy)
3403 * Shows "hiptop" icon for AIM buddies using hiptop
3404 devices (Robey Pointer)
3405 * Privacy core/UI split.
3406 * Conversation placement by group now applies to chats in the buddy
3408 * Events in a conversation (user logged in, logged out, window closed,
3409 etc.) now grey the tab.
3410 * Various bug fixes (larne from irc, Tim Ringenbach, Bjoern
3411 Voigt, Paul A (darkrain))
3413 version 0.66 (07/18/2003):
3414 * Freebsd compile fix (Matthew Luckie)
3415 * .spec file improvements (Ethan Blanton)
3416 * Added a gaim-remote man page (Robert McQueen)
3417 * The Remote Control plugin no longer adds duplicate groups to your
3419 * Servers and ports are now imported correctly in MSN.
3420 * Core/UI split the core initialization and shutdown.
3421 * MSN messages with newlines are now sent correctly to MSN clients.
3422 * Fix some sound initialization stuff
3423 * Fix saving and import of default away message
3425 version 0.65 (07/16/2003):
3426 * Massive internal core/ui splitting
3427 * New account dialog
3428 * Preferences moved to ~/.gaim/prefs.xml
3429 * Account information moved to ~/.gaim/accounts.xml
3430 * Pounces moved to ~/.gaim/pounces.xml
3431 * Added protocol icons to various drop-down boxes
3432 * New Send IM buddy icon merged from Ximian Desktop 2
3433 * Fixed "Sort by Status" crash
3434 * Fixed the MSN signon crash
3435 * Fixed the MSN add buddy crash
3436 * Fixed the MSN empty buddy list bug
3437 * Fixed all known MSN chat bugs
3438 * Fixed HTTP redirect handling in smiley retrieval. This fixes the
3439 problems with some smiley themes.
3440 * Chats in MSN can now be initiated by right-clicking a buddy and
3441 choosing Initiate Chat.
3442 * MSN Alerts and incoming MSN pages no longer pop up several error
3444 * Ability to view iChat "Available" messages for AIM
3445 * Stores your buddy icon on the server for AIM
3446 * Support for non-ascii characters with Yahoo! Messenger
3447 * Focus returns to the input box when you click elsewhere, like it used
3449 * New typing notification icons from Ximian
3451 version 0.64 (05/29/2003):
3452 * Buddy list sorting in buddy list preferences.
3453 * Improved debug window with timestamps and pause buttons.
3454 * New core/ui split notification and request APIs.
3455 * New mail notification dialog.
3456 * Several bug fixes in MSN.
3457 * Conversation window buddy icon bugs were fixed.
3459 version 0.63 (05/16/2003):
3460 * A rewrite of the plugin API. Plugin authors will need to change their
3461 code based off the changes found in other plugins.
3462 * Perl script support is now provided in the perl plugin.
3463 * Debugging is core/ui split, and has a new API with support for
3464 debug levels and categories.
3465 * Support for adding chats to your buddy list.
3466 * MSN protocol plugin was rewritten, has experimental buddy icon
3467 support, and MSN Mobile support.
3468 * Buddy list speed enhancements (Thanks Ethan Blanton).
3469 * Napster protocol updates (Thanks Auke Kok).
3471 version 0.62 (04/23/2003):
3472 * Keyboard shortcuts in the buddy list work again (Thanks Joe
3474 * Support for Jabber XHTML messages
3475 * Ability to re-request authorization from ICQ and Jabber users by right
3476 clicking on them in your buddy list.
3477 * Improved Zephyr internationalization.
3478 * Bug causing 'Hide on Send' windows to be lost forever fixed.
3479 * Iconified windows are now raised properly.
3480 * Dates printed for old/offline messages.
3481 * Some assorted crash bugs fixed.
3483 version 0.61 (04/07/2003):
3484 * Split the buddy pounce core and UI, and rewrote the UI for it.
3485 * Removed folder icons and excess space from the buddy list (Thanks
3487 * Fixed a bug involving dragging buddies and groups
3488 * Re-implemented the logout icons.
3489 * New icons for "away" and "aol" (Thanks, Moses Lei)
3491 version 0.60 (04/04/2003):
3493 * Auto-loading protocol plugins.
3494 * Plugins dialog and perl script menu merged into preferences.
3495 * Don't auto-login if an existing Gaim session is already
3497 * Moved "privacy preferences" to Tools menu.
3498 * -n, --loginwin option to disable autologins.
3499 * Added support for gettext 0.11.x.
3500 * Added support for automake 1.6.
3501 * aim:// URI's supported with gaim-remote command.
3502 * Quit Gaim remotely with gaim-remote. (Thanks, John Silvestri)
3503 * Added rudimentary support for X11R6 session management. (Thanks,
3505 * Conversation backend and UI are now separated. (Thanks,
3507 * Asynchronous, non-blocking, DNS function (Thanks, Nicolas
3509 * As a side effect of the above: IPv6 support. Tested only with IRC
3510 (you can receive ipv6 chat requests from irssi!).
3513 * Tray icon plugin--replaces the old GNOME applet. You'll need
3514 the panel Notification Area applet (aka system-tray-applet)
3515 for GNOME 2, or the Kicker for KDE 3.1. (Thanks, Robert
3516 McQueen, Nicolás Lichtmaier, Kristian Rietveld, Ari Pollak &
3518 * Added GAIM::remove_event_handler and made set_info short
3519 circuitable in perl. (Thanks, Ryan McCabe)
3520 * event_del_conversation for plugins. (Thanks, Bill Tompkins)
3521 * Notify.c plugin rewritten; check its configure dialog. (Thanks,
3523 * Buddy Ticker made a plugin.
3524 * Idle Maker added to source.
3525 * Fortune profile added to source.
3528 * TOC no longer compiles statically by default--use OSCAR.
3529 * ICQ plugin no longer gets built--use OSCAR.
3530 * Server-stored buddy lists for ICQ with full support for
3531 authorization (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3532 * File send/receive support for Aim over Oscar (Thanks, William T.
3533 Mahan and Mark Doliner)
3534 * Non-direct connect typing notification for AIM over OSCAR.
3535 (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3536 * Allow only people in buddy list privacy option added for AIM.
3537 * Full ICQ info reading support. (Thanks, Vincas Ciziunas)
3538 * Support for synchronizing group renames on server. Group
3539 rename server synchronization for AIM. Server-side
3540 synchronization for moving individual AIM buddy to new
3541 group improved. (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3542 * Ability to add screenname@mac.com people to AIM buddy lists.
3543 (Thanks, Graham Booker)
3544 * Ability to change ICQ password. (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3545 * Option to have AIM notify you if you have
3546 unread mail. (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3547 * Parse URL messages, Contact Sending and Pager Messages
3548 in ICQ. (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3549 * use snprintf instead of sprintf. (Thanks, William T. Mahan)
3550 * Fixed crashbug on empty rvous requests. (Thanks Brandon Scott
3551 (Xeon) for pointing this out, and Matt Pandina for the patch)
3552 * Nice Oscar changes--mostly internal. (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3555 * Added more IRC slash commands -- /W, /VERSION, /MODE, /CTCP stuff,
3556 -- and other cool IRC enhancments. (Thanks, Jonas Birmé)
3557 * IRC's /topic with no argument displays the current topic (Thanks,
3559 * DCC File Receive support for IRC.
3560 * Optional password on IRC accounts. (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
3561 * Added half-op support.
3564 * Jabber invisibility and permanently cancel sending on-
3565 line status to Jabber buddies.
3566 * Jabber roster updated on group renames.
3567 * Fixed a possible segfault when signing off Jabber. (Thanks,
3569 * Improved typing notification support for Jabber and
3570 Yahoo! (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
3571 * File receive support for Jabber. (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
3574 * MSN users are notified when the other party closes the conversation
3575 window. (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
3576 * File receive support for MSN. (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
3578 Internationalization:
3579 * Now using libiconv for better i18n support (Thanks, Junichi
3581 * Lots of i18n fixes (Thanks Matt Wilson, Ethan Blanton, A Lee)
3582 * Correct i18n handling for many parts of AIM/ICQ, including
3583 instant messages, away messages, and profiles (Thanks,
3585 * Improved MSN internationalization (Thanks, A Lee)
3588 * Optionally uniquely colorize nicks in chats
3589 * Add / Remove buddy menu item added to the chat users list
3590 (Thanks, Jonas Birmé)
3591 * View log button in conversation toolbar (Thanks, Etan Reisner)
3592 * Option to log IMs and Chats seperately. (Thanks, Etan
3594 * Removed Ctrl-C binding for color
3595 * Fix first message in tab not displaying bug (Thanks, Etan Reisner)
3596 * Changed some default options
3597 * Updated desktop and window icons (Thanks, Robert McQueen)
3598 * Switch the .desktop file to the new KDE/GNOME common vfolder
3599 format (Thanks, Robert McQueen)
3600 * Removed all deprecated GTK calls. Now 100% GTK 2. (Thanks Nathan
3601 Walp, Christian Hammond, Ari Pollak, Ethan Blanton, Robert McQueen)
3602 * Read proxy environment variables. (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
3603 * Fixed security vulnerability with manual browser option (Thanks,
3605 * Can get info for ICQ and Jabber users from the "Edit
3606 Buddies" tab (Thanks, Brian Bernas)
3607 * Code cleanups and fixes (Thanks, Federico Mena Quintero and
3609 * Word-wrapping on mail notification text (Thanks, Andrew Molloy)
3610 * Generic File Transfer PRPL interface (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
3611 * Better supression of auto-responses (Thanks, Joshua Blanton)
3612 * Drag-and-drop tabs in conversations, and multiple windows with tabs
3613 in each (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
3615 version 0.59.9 (03/01/2003):
3616 * Updated zh_TW.po file (Thanks breeze833)
3617 * Fix an oscar bug that caused some messages from
3618 AOL 8.0 to be dropped (Thanks Mark Doliner)
3619 * Changed "openprojects" to "freenode" in irc.c
3620 * Fixed charset conversion on systems which use a BOM for UCS-4
3621 (Thanks, Alfredo Pen~a, Ethan Blanton)
3622 * Fixed a typo in the man page (Thanks Eric S. Raymond)
3624 version 0.59.8 (01/06/2003):
3625 * Ripped out all gtk2 support (Thanks Nathan Walp).
3626 * Fixed smiley related segfault (Thanks Robert McQueen)
3627 * Yahoo! can connect again
3629 version 0.59.7 (12/21/2002):
3630 * Yahoo i18n fix (Thanks Ethan Blanton).
3631 * Fixed a bug in escaping saved passwords (Thanks
3633 * Fixed an overflow bug in perl script autoloading
3634 (Thanks David Kaelbling)
3635 * Some build fixes for those using stricter compilers,
3636 notably MIPSpro (Thanks David Kaelbling)
3637 * Fixed a bad argument to accept() calls (Thanks David
3639 * Fixed crashbug on empty rvous requests (Thanks Brandon Scott (Xeon))
3640 for being the first to point this out.
3642 version 0.59.6 (11/07/2002):
3643 * Fixed a segfault introduced in 0.59.5 when gtk
3644 fails to read the ~/.gtkrc or reads it but fails
3645 to create a style from it.
3646 * Jabber conference timestamps are no longer gigantic
3648 version 0.59.5 (10/14/2002):
3649 * Fixed a Yahoo! segfault (Thanks, Craig Metz)
3651 version 0.59.4 (10/06/2002):
3652 * Removed color keybinnding altogether.
3653 * Added a horizontal scrollbar to Edit page of
3654 buddy list. (Thanks, David Fallon)
3655 * Various bug fixes ((Thanks to (in no particular order)
3656 Ethan Blanton, Mark Doliner, Luke Schierer)
3657 * i18n fixes (thanks, A Lee)
3659 version 0.59.3 (09/14/2002):
3660 * Reversed patch that accidentally caused Yahoo
3661 not to connect--for implementation reasons
3662 * Changed "color" binding to Ctrl-K.
3663 * Unaliaising a person in the "Online" tab will show up
3664 in the "Edit" tab as well (Thanks, Jason Willis)
3665 * Internationalization fixes, esp. with UTF-8 locales
3666 (Thanks Matt Wilson and Ethan Blanton)
3668 version 0.59.2 (09/09/2002):
3669 * Japanese translation updated (Thanks, Junichi Uekawa)
3670 * Won't crash when you set your MSN Friendly name to an
3672 * Default manual browser command changed to reflect the
3674 * Fixed the non-manual browser settings which were broke in
3675 0.59.1 (Thanks, Chris Blizzard)
3676 * Improved MSN internationalization (Thanks A Lee)
3677 * Smiley lookup will search for longest match for smilies
3678 like :-(( (Thanks Eric Melski)
3679 * When an IM image is clicked, don't open the browser (Thanks
3681 * Prevent a possible crash in unhide_buddy_list() (Thanks Ari
3683 * Fixed a compilation problem on systems without iconv.
3684 * GtkIMHtml can be set to render font sizes as point size
3685 or AIMish relative sizes -- no more huge Yahoo fonts. (Thanks
3687 * Fixed a bug with regard to Jabber resources (Thanks Nathan
3689 * Fixed a possible segfault when signing off Jabber (Thanks
3691 * Word-wrapping on mail notification text (Thanks, Andrew Molloy)
3692 * Strip trailing and leading spaces from MSN/Yahoo names (Thanks,
3695 version 0.59.1 (08/25/2002):
3696 * Created a gtk1-stable branch for GTK+ 1.2 bugfix releases.
3697 Development will continue in our main branch in GTK+ 2 only.
3698 * Fixed a security bug in the manual browser setting (Thanks
3700 * Now using libiconv for better i18n support (Thanks Junichi
3702 * Will work with Perl 5.8 (thanks, Timothy Lee and Dan
3704 * Fix for HTTP proxies (thanks, Ethan Blanton)
3705 * Read proxy environment variables. (thanks, Christian Hammond)
3706 * Use the pretty gaim.png for our menu entry.
3707 * Added support for gettext 0.11.x.
3709 version 0.59 (06/24/2002):
3710 * Squashed a bug in buddy right-click menu handling
3711 that crashed Gaim. In the process: found and
3712 eliminated some memory leaks.
3713 * Fixed a significant applet leak
3714 * Can now change Jabber password on server (Thanks,
3716 * Certain types of Jabber presence errors no longer
3717 falsely show a buddy on-line. Instead now a "broken
3718 light-bulb" icon is shown and the error status is
3719 available via "Get Away Msg" (Thanks and a tip o'
3720 the hat to Christian Hammond for the graphic)
3721 * Conversation struct has pointer to toolbar (thanks Brent
3722 Priddy and Paul Miller)
3723 * Zephyr fixes (thanks, Arun A. Tharuvai)
3724 * Aliases in buddy ticker
3725 * Perl scripts can play Gaim sounds (thanks Andrew Rodland)
3726 * Internal sounds can be played by commands (thanks Lex Spoon)
3727 * Auto-login item in applet menu (thanks Chris Boyle)
3728 * Fixed MSN "Unkown Error Code", "Already there", and
3729 "Already in opposite list" errors
3730 * Changed "Play sound" button to "Mute" button
3731 * You can now have "reserved" chars in IM and proxy passwords
3732 * Jabber now has typing notification (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
3733 * Improved support for Jabber resources (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
3734 * Fixed problem with Gaim crashing on non-ASCII Jabber buddy
3735 aliases (Jabber "name" attribute) chars (Thanks, Ho-seok Lee)
3736 * Plugged memory leaks in Jabber plug-in
3737 * Fixed problem with Jabber away status not being propagated to
3738 conference rooms for jabberd (server) v1.4.2 and above
3739 * Chat room buddy lists are now sorted independent of case
3740 * Added capability for protocol-specific edit buddy menu entries
3741 * Can now remove a Jabber buddy roster item from the server
3743 * Gaim can now handle messages from Mac ICQ and Miranda ICQ
3744 (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3745 * Added Mozilla to browser options and changed KFM to
3747 * Can now set the server and port for MSN and Napster
3748 * MSN Internationalization (Thanks Felipe Contreras and
3749 countless, countless others)
3750 * E-mail addresses are no longer truncated when there is a '.' at
3753 version 0.58 (05/13/2002):
3754 * Better applet transparency
3755 * Option to raise buddy list on signons/signoffs
3756 * Formatting of incoming MSN messages
3757 * Get Info from menu multiple-account-aware (thanks
3759 * Hide and unhide functions for the filectl plugin.
3760 (Thanks, Ari Pollak)
3761 * Added helpful stuff to the Help menu.
3762 * Self-aliasing from the account editor.
3763 * Better selection in GtkIMHtml (Thanks Ben Miller)
3764 * A warning when your OSCAR buddy list is too long
3765 (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3766 * ICQ status messages in OSCAR (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3767 * Play sound when your name is said in a chat
3768 * Approval dialog for Jabber when somebody wants to
3769 subscribe to user's presence. Also gives user the
3770 opportunity to add that buddy if not already on the
3772 * Jabber "Change buddy group" roster synchronization now
3773 works again. (This was unknowingly broken when the
3774 "out-sourced" Jabber libs were upgraded in 0.56)
3775 * Invalid Jabber I.D.'s no longer crash Gaim. User now
3776 notified with pop-up's.
3777 * Jabber Buddy sign-on time support, added in 0.57,
3778 removed until and unless and inconsistency can be
3779 resolved. (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
3780 * Bug-fix for potential buffer overflow in Jabber
3781 plugin. (Thanks, rwscott)
3782 * Tempfiles used for secure MSN/HotMail login (added in
3783 0.57) are now themselves created securely.
3784 * Secure MSN logins (added in 0.57) no longer blow up
3786 * Timezone support improved.
3788 version 0.57 (04/25/2002):
3789 * New authorization method for Yahoo!
3790 * Jabber will tell you when your buddies signed on (Thanks
3792 * Jabber improvements (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
3793 * More keyboard shortcuts
3794 * event_chat_recv takes char**'s, and event_im_recv takes
3795 a *guint32 for flags
3796 * Secure hotmail login for MSN (thanks for the tips,
3799 version 0.56 (04/11/2002):
3800 * Shell-like send history binded to Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down
3801 * libjabber upgraded to most recent stable version
3802 * Buddylist looks a little better
3803 * Fixed MSN privacy settings
3804 * Group deletion fix (Thanks Mark Doliner)
3805 * Alias/Group syncronization for Jabber (Thanks JSeymour)
3806 * Fixed broken signal handling in gdm-started GNOME sessions
3807 (Thanks Jim Seymour, Vann, Robert McQueen)
3808 * Oscar group syncronization (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3809 * ICQ Authorization via Oscar (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3811 version 0.55 (03/29/2002):
3812 * Jabber improvements (Thanks Jim Seymour)
3813 * Various sound cleanups (Thanks Robert McQueen)
3814 * Login process shown in single window (Thanks Michael
3816 * Can reorder your accounts in the account editor (Thanks
3818 * Shows "mobile" icon for Oscar buddies using mobile
3819 devices (Thanks Mark Doliner)
3820 * Fixed bug in MSN smilies that crashed PPC (and other?) platforms
3821 * HTTP Proxy settings now HTTP compliant (Thanks Robert McQueen)
3822 * Speling corections (Thanks Tero Kuusela)
3823 * Oscar list icon fixes (Thanks Mark Doliner)
3824 * Oscar idle times work again (Thanks Mark Doliner)
3825 * Protocol icons on Edit Buddies tab (Thanks Christian Hammond)
3827 version 0.54 (03/14/2002):
3828 * Compiles without GdkPixbuf again
3829 * GtkIMHtml will refresh when you set a new GTK+ theme
3830 * Improved Yahoo! typing notification (thanks Brian Macke)
3831 * Prompt to authorize MSN buddies who added you while you
3832 were offline (Thanks Jason Willis)
3833 * Option to globally disable Buddy Icon animation (Thanks
3836 * Yahoo! will tell you when your buddies are playing Yahoo!
3837 games and give you the ability to join them
3838 * Yahoo! can receive offline messages
3839 * IRC can do DCC chat.
3840 * IRC will convert HTML formatting to mIRC formatting.
3841 * Buddylist tab placement option (Thanks Jason Willis)
3842 * Protocol specific smiley faces
3845 version 0.53 (02/28/2002):
3846 * Minor bug fixes re: queued away messages
3847 * Better buddy icon transparency (for real this time ;-))
3848 * Ability to change formatting of Oscar screen name
3849 * Better selection in HTML widget (Thanks BMiller)
3850 * New icons for ICQ (Thanks Kevin Miller)
3851 * Editable buddy pounces (Thanks Jason Willis)
3852 * Server side buddy lists in Oscar (Thanks Mark Doliner :-))
3853 * Fix for the chatlist plugin
3854 * Typing Notification (AIM Direct Connect, Yahoo, MSN)
3855 * IM Images (Receive Only)
3856 * Prettier GtkImHtml selection
3857 * Better buddy icon transparency (for real this time ;-) )
3859 version 0.52 (02/17/2002):
3860 * Better buddy icon transparency (thanks SeanEgan)
3861 * Fixed a little bug with connecting via proxy (thanks
3862 for reminding me of this, Manish Singh)
3863 * Yahoo! Messenger works again
3865 * Can register a new user with a Jabber Server (JSeymour)
3866 * Can now set Jabber vCards (JSeymour)
3867 * Jabber vCards are now shown in their entirety (JSeymour)
3868 * Various jabber bug fixes/enhancements (JSeymour)
3870 version 0.51 (01/24/2002):
3871 * Arrow buttons in log viewer and some other dialogs
3872 work (thanks Ben Miller)
3873 * Option to only send auto-response while idle (thanks
3875 * Control time between sending auto-responses (thanks
3877 * Should be able to sign on to Oscar using Mac OS X
3878 (thanks Fingolfin, Vincas Ciziunas, et al.)
3880 version 0.50 (12/14/2001):
3881 * Able to import GnomeICU contact lists
3882 * Galeon as browser option (Thanks Rob McQueen)
3883 * IRC /list, /invite (Thanks Sean Egan)
3884 * Option to have IMs and Chats tabbed in same window
3885 * Finally put the lagmeter plugin out of its misery and
3886 removed it. (/me dances on its grave.)
3888 version 0.49 (11/29/2001):
3889 * Can compile against GTK+ 2.0 (version 1.3.10/1.3.11)
3890 * Confirm before removing buddies
3891 * Yahoo updates (thanks Brian Macke)
3893 * Zephyr updates (thanks Arun A Tharuvai)
3894 * Gadu-Gadu updates (thanks Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
3895 * Option to show aliases in conversation tabs
3896 * Option to hide windows after sending messages
3897 * licq2gaim.pl conversion script (thanks Arturo Cisneros, Jr.)
3899 version 0.48 (11/18/2001):
3900 * Right-click on links to open/copy URL
3902 * Oscar can send/receive offline messages in ICQ. Since the "real"
3903 ICQ protocol isn't working too well it's recommended that you
3906 version 0.47 (11/01/2001):
3907 * Better font loading (pays attention to charset now)
3908 (thanks Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
3909 * Better recoding in Gadu-Gadu (thanks Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
3910 * Open Mail button for when you get new mail (Yahoo and MSN)
3911 * New buddy pounce option: Popup Notification
3912 * When adding a buddy, the groups list now updates when you switch
3914 * When creating a new buddy pounce, gaim now automagically
3915 selects "on away" or "on idle", if the user is away
3917 * Add Opera to the available browsers (thanks Brian Enigma)
3918 * Improved log viewer (thanks to Ben Miller)
3919 * When you are queueing away messages, double clicking on
3920 a buddy's name will cause the messages for that name to be
3922 * You can choose which sound player you use at run-time
3924 * When someone adds you to their buddy list, it asks if you want
3925 to add them as well (Yahoo, ICQ, and MSN) (thanks Nathan Walp)
3926 * Option to grey idle buddies (thanks Nathan Walp)
3927 * MSN Privacy Options
3928 * In MSN you can set a person's alias to their "friendly name" by
3929 right-click on their name while they're online.
3931 * The usual bug fixes and memory leak plugs
3933 version 0.46 (10/18/2001):
3934 * New applet icons (courtesy David Raeman)
3935 * ICQ works on big-endian platforms, e.g. sparc and ppc
3936 (thanks to Nathan Walp and Ben Miller)
3937 * Better applet icon drawing (thanks to Ari Pollak)
3938 * An extraordinary number of bug fixes
3939 * Ability to stop animation on buddy icons, restart animation,
3940 hide certain buddy icons, and save people's buddy icons, all
3941 through a right-click menu
3942 * Event handlers in perl passed arguments as elements of
3943 an array rather than all concatenated as a string, making
3944 perl much easier to use (thanks Dennis Lambe Jr.)
3945 * Can pass an argument to timeout_handlers in perl
3946 (thanks Artem Litvinovich)
3947 * Redesigned Modify Account window (thanks Sean Egan)
3948 * Add buddy dialog now lets you select which protocol
3950 * Pressing 'signon' on the first screen for accounts that
3951 do not require passwords no longer incorrectly displays
3954 version 0.45 (10/04/2001):
3955 * New plugin event: event_chat_send_invite
3956 * Major updates to the perl system (reread PERL-HOWTO and
3958 * Major updates to event_chat_* events for plugins (reread
3960 * Some GtkIMHtml improvements
3962 * Nick Highlighting in chat
3963 * Tab-completion for nicks in chat (thanks to Sean Egan)
3964 * Large internal reworkings
3965 * New Protocol: Gadu-Gadu, written by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
3966 * Can choose buddy icon to send (for Oscar)
3968 version 0.44 (09/20/2001):
3969 * More sane scaling of buddy icons (intelligently scale to
3970 either 48x48 or 50x50 depending on icon)
3971 * Have you ever had it happen where you cancel a login and
3972 Gaim starts using all the available processing power? I
3974 * Temporarily removed Jabber user registration, which wasn't
3976 * Added a spiffy Help button
3977 * Wrote a plugin for all those people who miss having the
3978 chat rooms in their buddy lists (chatlist.so)
3980 * Added drop down selection to chat invitation
3981 * Improved the look of the chat invitation dialog
3982 * Improved the look of the proxy preferences
3983 * event_im_recv and event_im_display_rcvd passed whether
3984 the message received was auto-response (see SIGNALS)
3985 * IRC fixes (largly copied from X-Chat)
3986 * Internal change to how preferences are stored
3988 * Option to hide buddy icons
3990 version 0.43 (09/06/2001):
3991 * Can change friendly name in MSN again
3993 * Auto-reconnect plugin has exponential timeout (i.e. it
3994 tries after 8 seconds, then 16, then 32, etc. up to 17
3996 * Removed file transfer things from Napster. It didn't work
3997 well anyway. It'll be back eventually. (Does anyone even
3998 use napster anymore?)
4000 version 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
4002 * Fixed a little segfault when images are links
4003 * Redid the about box again.
4004 * Fixed a nice little bug with the manual browser command
4005 * Oscar Unicode fix (Thanks John Matthews)
4006 * Can select which protocols are compiled statically
4007 (e.g.: ./configure --with-static-prpls=oscar,jabber)
4008 * New plugin events: event_im_displayed_sent and
4009 event_im_displayed_rcvd. Use these to change messages after
4010 they're displayed (e.g. encrypt sent messages, or send
4011 auto-responses and have them display locally properly)
4012 * Can use Arts for sound (thanks Tom Dyas)
4014 version 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
4015 * Fixed a segfault with Oscar's account confirmation
4018 * Some HTML widget changes
4019 * Can specify hosts/ports for Yahoo (thanks Jeremy Brooks)
4020 * Many many bugfixes
4022 version 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
4023 * Can view/set chat topic in Jabber (thanks faceprint)
4024 * The napster plugin no longer segfaults on invalid names
4026 * HTML is properly stripped from away messages in protocols that
4027 do not use HTML. (thanks, faceprint)
4028 * Can view/set chat topic in IRC
4029 * MSN properly escapes outgoing messages
4030 * Much needed updates to the gaim man page (thanks, Sean Egan)
4032 version 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
4033 * Fixed a funny bug with auto responses when queued messages
4035 * Redesigned the Font Options preference page
4036 * Improved Jabber chat support (it whispers now, too)
4037 * Zephyr can do Subscriptions now (thanks to nsanch)
4038 * Auto-recon plugin got reworked
4040 * Some new pixmaps (Thanks, DennisR).
4041 * Fixed a segfault in IRC (Thanks Sean Egan)
4042 * MSN can now change your 'friendly name' (Thanks for the
4043 packet logs, aechols)
4044 * More IRC improvements [colors, etc] (Thanks Sean Egan)
4045 * Improved proxy options
4046 * Fixed a small issue with HTML not being stripped from
4047 log files properly (Thanks, faceprint and David Stoddard)
4048 * Can turn on/off Yahoo! Mail announcements
4049 * Can force messages through the server for ICQ (use this if
4050 you have problems sending)
4051 * Can receive buddy icons in Oscar (requires gdk_pixbuf,
4052 which GNOME depends on. If you --disable-pixbuf, it will
4054 * Redesigned plugins dialog (thanks Mike Heffner)
4056 version 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
4057 * Zephyr updates and additions, thanks Neil Sanchala (nsanch)
4058 * Jabber can send/accept chat invites (due to mid)
4059 * MSN has the option to notify you of new hotmail
4061 * Fixed a problem with ADD requests in MSN
4062 * Fixed a small memory leak with MSN
4063 * Moved MSN's spammy debug output into debug_printf's
4064 * Can rename groups/buddies in the Edit Buddies pane
4065 (thanks Neil Sanchala)
4066 * Some perl updates (thanks to Sean Egan)
4067 * IRC got the following slash commands:
4068 op, deop, voice, devoice, mode, raw, quote, and kick (thanks
4070 * MSN Properly handles URL decoding of 'friendly' names
4071 * Redesigned Preferences pages (design by DennisR)
4072 * Can select where tabs are for tabbed IM/Chat windows
4073 * Option to queue away messages while away
4074 * Jabber got good updates (from faceprint)
4075 * Oh yes, and Oscar works, yet again. (gee... that's what, 4
4076 releases that have "fixed" it now?)
4078 version 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
4079 * Many, many bug fixes
4080 * Can choose to not send away auto-response (thanks phzzzt)
4081 * Uh... Oscar works? For now?
4082 * IRC Plugin can do whois (right click and info)
4083 * IRC Plugin got away message support
4084 * Gaim blist to WinAIM blt perl script (courtesy Andy Harrison)
4085 * Sound on buddy pounce (Thanks Andrew Echols)
4086 * Can view all group chats in one tabbed window (same keybindings
4087 as for tabbed normal conversations)
4088 * More Protocol plugins:
4089 Zephyr (plugins/zephyr) (DON'T USE THIS unless you know
4090 what it is and why you'd want to use it)
4092 version 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
4093 * Can register Jabber accounts (load the Jabber plugin and click
4094 Register on the login window)
4095 * GtkIMHtml handles themes (no background pixmaps though) (thanks
4097 * URLS Linkify properly in Buddy chats
4098 * Jabber compiles better on Solaris?
4099 * Gaim works with Oscar Again (Huge thanks to Adam Fritzler of
4102 version 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
4103 * Fixed a problem with MSN not detecting signoffs and buddy updates.
4104 * Implemented away options in MSN
4105 * Alt-[1-9] to go to [1-9]th pane in tabbed convo window
4106 * Jabber fixes, Oscar fixes (!), Yahoo fixes, TOC fixes
4107 * Can use Alt to access menu, and Ctl-char for certain actions
4109 * Oscar blocking works (?)
4110 * MSN can see status of other users
4112 version 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
4113 * Can build RPMs as non-root
4114 * New yahoo library (can use HTTP proxy)
4115 * Command-line arg to specify config file (thanks Jason Boerner)
4116 * Can view all conversations in one tabbed window (Control-[ and
4117 Control-] move left and right respectively; Control-Tab moves
4118 to the next unread, or the next tab if there are no unread tabs)
4119 * Tooltips on links work again
4120 * Can log system notices: signons/signoffs, awayness and idleness
4121 (thanks Andrew Echols)
4125 version 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
4126 * Fixed bug with NAS support
4127 * Napster plugin is included again
4128 (Thanks for pointing out that it was missing,
4130 * Oscar can: search by email, request confirmation, change password
4133 * Faster HTML parsing/rendering
4135 version 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
4137 * ICQ Alias problem fixed
4138 * Negative times fixed
4139 * Cannot create blank away messages/messages with blank titles
4140 * Can right-click Edit Buddies list to alias/add pounce/etc.
4141 * Ability to independently set accounts as away
4142 * Can use all away states for ICQ, Yahoo (N/A, Be Right Back, etc.)
4143 * Fixed hanging trees
4144 * Can close windows by hitting 'Esc' (optional)
4145 * Better HTML Widget
4146 * Can toggle timestamps by hitting F2 (optional)
4147 * Rewritten file transfer for TOC
4149 * Log Viewer (courtesy BMiller)
4150 * Can save conversation history
4151 * Napster can kinda sorta download files sometimes :)
4152 * You can activate IDs in Yahoo
4153 * ICQ upgraded to use icqlib 1.1.5
4155 version 0.11.0-pre4:
4156 * ICQ upgraded to use icqlib 1.1.0
4157 * An enormous amount of bug fixes
4158 * Even More Protocol Plugins:
4159 Jabber (plugins/jabber)
4160 Napster (plugins/napster.c)
4161 * Fixed a segfault with 'Ignore new conversations while away'
4163 version 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
4164 * Away messages arranged alphabetically (Thanks Justin)
4165 * More GUI adjustments
4166 * Can optionally run command to play sound files
4167 * Icons for ICQ plugin (blatently stolen from GnomeICU)
4168 * Icons for Yahoo plugin (not-so-blatently stolen from GTKYahoo)
4169 * Optionally display warning level next to name in buddy list
4170 * Optionally ignore fonts on incoming messages
4171 * Command-line option to automatically set yourself as
4172 away upon signon (thanks bmiller)
4173 * Buddy list backups now stored in ~/.gaim/SN.protocol.blist (gaim will
4174 move the old file for you). Needed for when you have the same name on
4175 two different protocols. (Oscar and TOC share the same file.)
4176 * More Protocol plugins:
4179 version 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
4180 * Fixed a segfault with a bad util.c
4182 version 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
4183 * Multiple connections
4188 * Logs now stored to ~/.gaim/logs rather than ~/.gaim/SN/
4189 * User configurable sounds
4190 * Scroll bar now functions properly in chat room user lists
4191 * X-Idle support added (thanks bmiller and bryner)
4192 * small change in the way away messages are displayed
4193 (Thanks Ryan C. Gordon)
4194 * Plugin system uses GModule now (improves portability, adds features)
4195 (Requires recompile and probably modifications of most plugins)
4196 * Perl got updates (reread plugins/PERL-HOWTO)
4197 * Spell checker now uses gtkspell
4198 * Auto-Away (thanks, yet again, to bmiller ;)
4199 * More buddy pounce options
4200 * Various GUI improvements
4202 version 0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
4203 * Segfault when viewing user info fixed
4204 * libdb problem fixed
4206 version 0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
4207 * A few fixes to the URL parser.
4208 * Better placement of smiley dialog
4209 * Improved log file readibility
4210 * Code cleanups (thanks kylev)
4211 * Fixed problem when closing away message box (thanks bmiller)
4212 * sprintf() problem on some systems
4213 * Various small bug fixes
4215 version 0.10.1 (09/15/2000):
4216 * Better chatroom logging
4217 * Oscar works again. Pay no attention to Slashdot.
4218 * gtkhtml handles background colours better.
4219 * A third conversation window display preference.
4220 * Better support for things like Sawfish
4222 version 0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
4223 * New Smiley Faces and Pixmaps added.
4224 * Smiley faces now properly wrap in the conversation windows.
4226 * Fixed 0-byte file segfault.
4227 * Borderless buttons (for that cool pop-up look)
4228 * Fixed some resizing bugs
4229 * Added Ctrl+{B/I/U/S} hotkeys to conversation windows.
4230 * Added Ctrl+(number) hotkeys to insert smileys in conversation windows.
4231 * Support for %n, %d, and %t in away messages. Thanks bmiller!
4233 * Redesigned preferences dialog
4234 * Redesigned conversation dialog
4235 * Removed the Lag-O-Meter (Lag-O-Meter is now a plugin)
4236 * SOCKS 4/5 proxy works
4237 * Buddy Pounces are now saved in .gaimrc
4238 * Buddy Chats are now saved in .gaimrc
4239 * Ability to merge gaim, aim2, aim4 buddylists. Thanks again bmiller!
4240 * ICQ-style aliases. This lets you change the name you see your buddy
4241 as. For example, if your buddy's SN is 'CouldntGetMyName', you can
4242 alias him as 'Loser'.
4243 * Compile with GNOME bits if available
4244 * Added GNOME Url Handler as an available web-browser
4245 * Added the S html tag.
4246 * Optionally Ignore TiK's Automated Messages
4247 * Option to beep instead of play sound
4248 * New icons for panel (depends on some GNOME pixmaps)
4249 * Perl scripting. See plugins/PERL-HOWTO for how to write perl scripts.
4250 All .pl files in ~/.gaim are autoloaded when gaim starts.
4251 * HTML widget is faster, more stable
4253 version 0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
4254 * More plugin events, more plugin features
4255 * Run-time OSCAR support
4256 * Added buddy list ticker (See prefs/Appearance). Clicking on a
4257 name will cause a new or previous IM window to display for
4259 * "You are sending messages too quickly" error is now fixed
4260 when you have a large buddylist.
4261 * Fixed the LC_ALL compile problem on Solaris boxes
4262 * Fixed PPC and ARM compile problem with oscar.c
4263 * Smileys work better, and don't cause font attributes to drop
4264 * Dialog windows are now prettier
4265 * /me in IM window; font/color dialogs and smileys in chat window
4267 version 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
4268 * Graphical Smiley Faces
4269 * Applet got a bit of a makeover (inside & out)
4270 * Compile-time options affect Preferences dialog
4271 * Whispering in chat works (does anyone even use this?)
4272 * HTML-tag buttons in chat
4273 * Chat got all kinds of new features (like IRC-sytle /me)
4274 * Chat in oscar works much better
4276 * Fixed the segfault when your server-side config is null
4277 * Many many bugfixes
4279 version 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
4280 * Logging in works better for oscar
4281 * Double error bug when sending message to an offline user is
4283 * Pressing enter once again sends a message in buddy chatrooms (oops)
4284 * More fixes for the change on the AOL sign-on process.
4285 * Fixed bug where Gaim sometimes doesn't find a font to use.
4286 * Per-conversation font and color dialogs (thanks fflewddur)
4287 * Chat in oscar works (somewhat)
4288 * Even more fixes for the sign-on process, and now you don't flash when
4289 setting permit/deny lists.
4291 version 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
4292 * Automagic feature to check for new versions has been removed
4293 * Infinite loop bug fixed
4295 version 0.9.16 (05/31/2000):
4296 * Paned buddy chat window (Thanks Syd)
4297 * Buddy lists (and changes) are cached to ~/.gaim/<sn>.blist
4298 where <sn> is your screen name. If for some reason, you log
4299 into the AOL server and the buddy list comes back empty, we
4300 check for a cache file, and, if we find one, read it in. This
4301 essentially implements recovery from a server crash at AOL
4302 (AOL does not back up machines that contain TOC-based buddy
4303 lists, unfortunately). (Thanks Syd)
4304 * Font selection dialog
4305 * Small changes to the Oscar/libfaim stuff (see libfaim/README.gaim)
4306 * SOCKS 4 proxy support
4307 * Better proxy support overall (you can get people's info now! :) )
4308 * Two-way file transfer (you can get and send files, but you still
4309 can't initiate either)
4310 * Fixed font problem with Misconfigured X-Servers. Thanks Decklin!
4311 * Fixed the No Configuration problem that came about today (5/31)
4313 version 0.9.15 (05/06/2000):
4314 * Plugin support enabled by default (oops)
4315 * Some plugins built/installed by default
4316 * Option to automagically check for new releases
4317 * Ability to receive files (one-way file transfer)
4318 * In-line spell checker (thanks to Torrey Searle of the
4319 Everybuddy Devel team for this one)
4321 version 0.9.14 (04/24/2000):
4322 * Numerous Fixes by G. Sumner Hayes (buffer over flow patches,
4324 * Paned Conversation Windows (Thanks Syd)
4325 * Raise Window On Message Received, Fixed (Thanks Syd)
4326 * When multiple screen names, Gaim now correctly remembers the name
4328 * FONT sizes now work correctly.
4329 * PLUGIN SUPPORT!! (Lots of cool goodies here)
4330 * Fixed another leak or two
4331 * Added ability to change your screenname password
4334 version 0.9.13 (03/27/2000):
4335 * Dialog Box Segfault Fixed (When You Click A Toggle Then Cancel)
4336 * Double Log-Out Message Fixed
4337 * GNOME compile error fixed
4338 * Away Message Problem Fixed
4339 * Fixed URL Right Click Menus
4340 * Conversation Loggin now shows Full Date and Time
4341 * Internal Change to Buddy List
4343 version 0.9.12 (03/25/2000):
4344 * Segfault fix for PPC/Alpha/etc machines with log(0)
4345 Thanks to Todd Cohen for this one.
4346 * Small internal change to the way prefs work
4347 * GNOME Applet support works better
4348 (thanks to Eric Warmenhoven for the patch)
4349 * Support for displaying true type fonts
4350 * Lag-O-Meter does not send lag-test if not selected
4351 * Fixed problem with saving away messages which contain spaces
4353 * Various GNOME Applet Enhancements (thanks AGAIN to
4354 Eric. Someone needs to stop this boy :-) )
4355 * A lot of random, obscure bugs fixed
4356 * All of the major and I believe all of the minor memory leaks are
4358 (Thanks to Peter Teichman, Larry Ewing, Jeramey Crawford, and me)
4360 version 0.9.11 (03/22/2000):
4361 * <STRIKE>Strike Tag Support</STRIKE> :-)
4362 * Another memory leak fix
4363 * New .gaimrc format
4364 * Better support for multiple screen names
4366 * Saving of buddylist window position
4367 * Fixed a problem with Gaim and the Netscape-branded version
4369 * New Sound Properties
4370 * More General Properties
4371 * Bigger Text-Entry field (Thanks to CrazyDavy for this one)
4372 * Various Random Bug fixes
4374 version 0.9.10 (11/03/1999):
4375 * Fixed a nasty memory leak. No more 40M Gaim processes. LOL
4376 * IDLE Times are displayed in a neater fashion.
4378 version 0.9.9 (10/31/1999):
4379 * A little selection bug has been squished
4380 * Small memory leak fixed
4381 * Small network fix (problem with HTTP Proxy fixed?)
4382 * Proxy stuff should work now :)
4383 * Widget table support, dir info looks nicer
4384 * Info box looks nicer (thanks to Decklin Foster)
4385 * Client now 'corrects' time values from the server for accurate
4387 * Lag-O-Meter (ala Drunken Jim)
4390 version 0.9.8 (10/04/1999):
4391 * HTTP Proxy Support (No SOCKS yet)
4392 * HTML Widget more robust
4393 * Graphical Debug Window
4394 * Buddylist bug fixed
4395 * Some logging fixes and improvements
4396 * configurable host/port selection
4397 * Clickable Links in buddy chat
4399 * Display Signon/Signoff messages in conversation windows
4400 * Option to strip HTML from logged messages
4401 * GNOME cleanups (It might work now haha)
4402 * When viewing user info, URLS are converted to clickable links
4405 version 0.9.7 (08/08/1999):
4406 * Preliminary Oscar Support
4407 * Fixed bad network bug
4408 * Fixed some bad text rendering bugs in the HTML widget
4409 * log all conversation names are now normalized.
4410 * Fixed another bad network bug :)
4411 * Multiple browser support, some Netscape buggies fixed.
4412 * Permit/Deny preferences moved to 'Permit' pane on buddylist.
4413 * Fixed problem with _, ', and \ in passwords
4415 version 0.9.6 (08/01/1999):
4416 * Fixed 'log all conversation' segfault
4418 * Removed Xmu dependancies.
4419 * Restructured network code
4420 * ESD detection more robust.
4421 * Sound fallbacks are MUCH more robust!
4423 version 0.9.5 (07/25/1999):
4424 * Fixed About Box SegFault
4425 * Autologin Works with Applet
4426 * Option to Show Buddy List after Signon with Applet
4427 * 2048 character messages
4428 * Away-Detection (shows a different icon on the buddy list)
4429 * Fixed Segfault with messages > allowed size
4430 * Added option to log all conversations
4431 * Changed g_new to g_new0
4432 * Buddy List: Right Click Menus
4433 * Find Buddy By Email
4434 * Find Buddy By Info
4435 * New HTML widget (Underline/Links/HRs)
4436 * Updated Toolbar with 'Underline' Icon
4437 * More Buddy Pounce Options
4438 * Option to auto-change urls into clickable links (Under Prefs)
4439 * Better Buddy Chat functionality
4441 * Registration Information (Let Us Know Who You Are)
4442 * Buddy Chat Prefs (Update Chatroom Lists)
4444 * FAQ added to the distribution
4445 * Sound problem with some systems fixed
4447 * Autostart of Netscape on URL Click
4448 * DnD Rearranging of Groups
4449 * Better Netscape Functionality
4450 * Right Click `URL' Menus
4451 * DnD Rearranging of Buddies
4452 * Script to convert win95 buddylist to gaim buddylist
4453 * Added `Link/URL' button to conversation window
4454 * ESD is now autodetected
4455 * Not too important but we GNU-ified the source tree :)
4457 version 0.8.0 (04/31/1999):
4461 * Pixmaps for buttons
4462 * Buddylist import/export
4464 * Conversation Logging
4465 * Coloured Text Selection
4466 * Updated Preferences
4470 * `Blocking' on conversation window
4471 * Add/Remove buddy from conversation window
4472 * Scroll-Wheel Mice work in Conversation Window
4473 * Fixed WindowMaker Appicon
4474 * version Number in About Box
4475 * Gaim Slogan in about box :)
4476 * Created Changelog File :)