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1 Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
3 Our development blog is available at: http://planet.pidgin.im
5 2.6.6 (02/18/2010):
6 Mark: This release includes some great little changes and fixes a few
7 security-related bugs. See the ChangeLog for details.
9 2.6.5 (01/08/2010):
10 Paul: This release fixes a pretty serious bug in the MSN code, so we're
11 releasing this build a little earlier than planned with only major
12 bugs fixed. See the ChangeLog for details. Enjoy!
14 2.6.4 (11/29/2009):
15 John: It's release time again. Lots of bug fixes this time around, as
16 well as a new protocol plugin developed and maintained by the MXit folks
17 folks. Elliott and I also did a ton of work on the Preferences window,
18 which will now hopefully fit on most people's small screens. Enjoy!
20 Elliott: This release has been in the works for so long, I don't really
21 remember doing any work on it. But I do know the MSN servers gave us a
22 little bit of trouble this time around, forgetting people's friendly
23 names. Nothing too problematic, just a touch annoying. Also, we've got
24 a nice new Preferences dialog. You can thank John for that mostly, with
25 a couple of tweaks by me.
27 Sadrul: A lot of little fixes for a lot of things! Among them, a fix
28 for a long standing issue with displaying unicode in non-utf8 locale in
29 finch. We also have a new prpl for MXit. This release is very very cool
30 altogether. Enjoy!
32 2.6.3 (10/16/2009):
33 Mark: Someone reported a fairly serious bug in our AIM/ICQ code
34 so we're releasing a special "severe bug fix only" build. See the
35 ChangeLog for details. Enjoy!
37 2.6.2 (09/05/2009):
38 Mark: Woo boy it's been a busy two weeks. There was a lot of new code
39 in 2.6.0, and with new code comes new bugs. The cadre of relentless
40 developers responsible for Pidgin have been hard at work, and I believe
41 they have fixed all the major bugs that cropped up. My thanks to all
42 those names listed as Current Developers in Pidgin's 'About' window.
44 Elliott: Well now, just as Mark said, there was a lot of new stuff that
45 probably came up with tons of bugs. So I can't say I wrote anything
46 super-awesome, but I definitely fixed quite a few of those itty-bitty
47 why-didn't-this-work-this-way sort of bugs.
49 2.6.1 (08/18/2009):
50 Mark: There were a lot of changes in 2.6.0, and so a few major bugs
51 crept in. This is a very minor release to fix those bugs. Sorry for
52 the inconvenience!
54 2.6.0 (08/18/2009):
55 John: Wow, four straight releases that I'm the first to NEWS on. This
56 is getting kinda scary! I'm beginning to wonder who else actually does
57 anything around here! (Just kidding, of course.) LOTS of new features
58 and a crapton of bugfixes this release. There should pretty much be
59 something for everybody. A great example of this is the ton of Yahoo
60 changes that have happened thanks to our SoC student from 2008, Sulabh
61 Mahajan. Among his massive improvements are the ability to add MSN
62 buddies by adding them as "msn/user@domain.tld" and peer-to-peer file
63 transfers. Of course, history shows we can't please everyine, so I'm
64 sure I'll see a complaint or five thousand in trac. Enjoy, though!
66 Marcus: This is my first news! It's been quite a few microreleases this
67 time, but now we're finally at 2.6.0. I suppose the most anticipated
68 new feature in this release is the voice and video support, thanks to
69 Mike's heroic work. I've managed to slip in a few features too, like
70 in-band bytestream file transfers as a fallback on XMPP and idle time
71 reporting on XMPP. Enjoy!
73 Paul: This is my first news, too! This release has definitely been a
74 long time coming; hopefully it won't disappoint since we've closed over
75 200 tickets. Among other things, Tobias Markmann's GSoC project from
76 last year was merged, which means we now support BOSH (XMPP connections
77 over HTTP), and Andrei Mozzhuhin contributed an XMPP Service Discovery
78 Browser. Also, thanks to Bernmeister for poking (at least) several
79 hundred old tickets!
81 Mike: Ditto. This is my first news as well. I have a feeling this is
82 getting repetitive at this point, but voice and video support is
83 finally here! Thanks to the rest of the Pidgin team, Farsight 2, and
84 GStreamer developers for making this possible! (I finally finished my
85 Summer of Code project :D)
87 Elliott: Hey, this is my firs... Wait, no it isn't. Now I feel left
88 out. So have you heard about this voice and video thing?
89 Unfortunately, not quite ready for all protocols, but it's getting
90 there. MSN gained support for receiving voice clips at least, and
91 finally we have Ink receiving capabilities too. Thanks to the guys
92 who wrote the original patch. And finally, MSN no longer has over a
93 100 tickets open!
95 2.5.9 (08/18/2009):
96 John: This release is just a crash fix release to address a security
97 issue reported to us by CORE and a couple crashes Elliott found.
99 2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
100 John: This release is another somewhat rushed bugfix release to fix
101 a number of bugs that have come up since we released Pidgin 2.5.7.
102 Hopefully anything I broke there is fixed now, or at least made to be
103 less broken. Enjoy!
105 2.5.7 (06/20/2009):
106 John: This release is really just a rushed fix for the broken Yahoo
107 protocol plugin. I spent way more time on this release than I care
108 to admit, so I hope that time is well spent and this fixes the issues
109 people have been having.
111 2.5.6 (05/19/2009):
112 Ka-Hing: Many much bugfixes. Hooray. (Paul told me to say that)
113 Oh, no one has met Paul yet? He's awesome, he backported my fixes
114 to the release branch so I didn't have to checkout a
115 workspace... except I just did to NEWS to tell you all about
116 that. Oh and I actually did do something for this release, none of
117 which is user visible though. This basically applies to the rest
118 of the release as well, nothing exciting, but you definitely want
119 it.
121 Daniel: This should fix a number of annoying issues that some users
122 have encountered. We also would like to thank Veracode
123 (http://www.veracode.com) who performed a code analysis and found some
124 bugs that were addressed in this release.
126 Elliott: I feel like I'm repeating myself, but there are some more MSN
127 fixes that should make things better behaved at login as well, and
128 maybe you'll stop getting some of those annoying errors (though not all
129 are fixed yet). Some other bugfixes, plus the craziness that is the
130 libxml "structured error handler" make up the rest of this release.
132 2.5.5 (03/01/2009):
133 John: Well, yet another release with bug fixing and patches. Hopefully
134 one of the fixed bugs is one that irritated you. Also, thank Dimmuxx
135 for spending far too much time working on ICQ this release.
137 Elliott: Lots and lots of MSN bugfixes again (I hope they're fixed, at
138 least). I think we finally have OCS/Yahoo!/federated buddies working
139 now. And there should be some workarounds for some server things that
140 may or may not have been our fault (like buddies on Allow+Block) which
141 should make general usage a bit smoother.
143 2.5.4 (01/12/2009):
144 John: Well, we fixed a few bugs for you this time around, I applied
145 a few patches, and we've dealt with what feels like a TON of tickets
146 about two very common issues. Feels like time for a release to me.
148 Etan: My first NEWS in quite a while and I don't have much to say. I
149 haven't been too active lately and I'm hoping that won't be the case
150 going forward. I managed to get in a few perl fixes and some UI
151 language tweaks this release. My plan is to work on some of the
152 issues pointed out by mpt (during his expert review of pidgin a little
153 while back) in the near future.
155 2.5.3 (12/18/2008):
156 Mark: It's been about two months and woo-boy have we been fixing
157 bugs. Enjoy!
159 Kevin: I didn't do much of anything this release, but Mark and
160 John must be commended for their tireless efforts to fix bugs
161 and approve patches, especially in areas of Pidgin that have
162 not usually received much attention. Lots of changes have
163 been made, so definitely check the ChangeLog to see what's new.
165 John: It feels like it's been an age or two since we last released,
166 and I think it's well worth the wait. Mark has sunk more time into
167 MSN and MySpace IM this release than any sane person should be
168 allowed to, and I've sunk more time into patches than I care to
169 admit. By my count, our ChangeLog has 58 bullet points(!) and we've
170 closed 85 tickets specifically for this release. Enjoy!
172 Ka-Hing: Bring your XMPP server to 2008 some time in 2009 would be
173 nice, DreamHost!
175 Elliott: Well, I can't blame the server for this release taking so long
176 but that's just how it worked out. A few interesting MSN changes this
177 time. Hopefully, federated & Yahoo! buddies will work for you, but I'm
178 not yet certain it's ready. Mark made so many fixes, I'm not even sure
179 I recognize everything anymore, but hopefully that'll make things less
180 crashy for you.
182 2.5.2 (10/19/2008):
183 Ethan: After a bit of a struggle with our services, which put
184 this release off for an unfortunate length of time, we're
185 ready for another bugfix release for your bug-free(er?)
186 messaging pleasure.
188 Sadrul: Despite our best efforts, this release got delayed by a
189 couple of weeks. But here it is! It is mostly a bug fix release, with
190 a couple of important fixes, e.g. fix for the Yahoo! disconnect
191 problem. Also, welcome our newest Crazy Patch Writer, Marcus Lundblad,
192 who, among various other fixes, has implemented custom smileys for the
193 XMPP protocol, included in this release. Enjoy!
195 Stu: I guess this is the time of year for server migrations, and
196 I've just about had enough of them. Fortunately Pidgin is still fun,
197 and this release should be superb.
199 John: Although our services were down for quite some time, we didn't
200 lose any data, except perhaps some mail that would have failed to make
201 it to us. Overall, the only major effect it had was to delay this
202 release far longer than we expected. Hopefully the bugfixes make you
203 happy!
205 Elliott: This release took a while, but that was due to an unfortunate
206 server snafu. I didn't have much to do with it, but hopefully the new
207 servers will help us out a bit. Anyway, mostly bug-fixes this time.
208 Nothing spectacular, unless you happen to suffer from one of those bugs.
209 Oh, and don't forget, the "Has you" tooltip is back!
211 2.5.1 (08/30/2008):
212 Kevin: This release is mainly a bug-fix release. It solves a few
213 known crashes and updates some of our artwork. Google's Summer of
214 code recently finished up. Some of our students are still working
215 on their branches and none have been merged into released code yet.
216 Look for some of those results to show up in Pidgin releases over the
217 coming months.
219 Elliott: I'm just commenting so Kevin wouldn't be the only one in NEWS
220 and no-one else seems to want to. Anyway, there's a couple MSN login
221 fixes, so try it out. The contact list problems might still be around,
222 but you can probably find a workaround in trac. And there's a tooltip
223 fix for our AIM friends, not that I had anything to do with it (except
224 closing many many duplicate tickets).
226 2.5.0 (08/17/2008):
227 Daniel: Lots of good stuff in this release. Lots of people have worked
228 very hard on the updated MSN protocol, and it's finally time to bring
229 it to the world! There are myriad bugfixes, including some important
230 ones so you should be sure to update.
232 Hylke: Finally MSNP15 support. To celebrate this I refreshed a lot of
233 the smilies used in the protocol and added the long awaited indispensable
234 bunny icon. I think this is one of those releases that will make a lot
235 of users happy, especially MSN users.
237 Elliott: Oh look, my first NEWS! Well anyway, with that new MSNP15
238 support, this release is set up to be a huge success and a total flop
239 all at the same time. Here's hoping it's the "huge success" one for you.
240 Those icon changes that Hylke made, while minor, really make things look
241 a little cleaner, I think. Oh yea, did I mention that MSNP15 stuff?
243 Mark: Speaking of MSNP15, we'd like to welcome Elliott Sales de Andrade
244 as a full fledged developer! He took the last few strides mushing the
245 new MSN code into shape. Then he decided that wasn't enough and started
246 doing other great stuff.
248 Ka-Hing: "Reject"ing a certificate after your account is signed off is
249 not recommended. Deleting the file after you start sending it is also
250 discouraged.
252 2.4.3 (07/01/2008):
253 Richard: This release includes important bug fixes. I'm just cutting
254 the release. Thank you to the real heroes who did the fixing!
256 2.4.2 (5/17/2008):
257 Sadrul: We added some usability changes in this release, including the
258 typing notification, buddyicon and input area size in the conversation
259 windows, escape to close conversation windows etc. These changes should
260 make pidgin more usable and more fun for Everyone! *wink*
262 Stu: I fixed some memory leaks, but nothing like as many as Daniel did.
263 MSN buddy list synchronization should be significantly less painful now,
264 and opening MSN inboxes might work better too. SILC passphrase changes
265 and support for passphrase-less keys has been improved also.
267 2.4.1 (3/31/2008):
268 Stu: We fixed some bugs, this release should be 110% better than 2.4.0
270 John: Well, I didn't really do much this release except muck about with
271 the configure script. Blame me if it worked in 2.4.0 but doesn't now.
273 Will: We seem to be falling into a nice pattern of releasing on the last
274 day of a month. Hypothetical AIX users might be pleased to learn that
275 Pidgin might actually run for them now!
277 2.4.0 (2/29/2008):
278 John: While this release took what seems like forever to get out the
279 door, I think it's well worth the wait, especially for Yahoo! users.
280 This release serves up some fixes for long standing bugs and adds
281 file transfer for transfers with newer Yahoo! clients (finally!). As
282 is standard with code I committed, where it works great thank the
283 patch writer, and where it's broken, feel free to yell at me. Enjoy!
285 Sadrul: Finch is more colourful and blinky in this release! There's
286 now a log viewer, which is very useful, and also the ability to
287 block/unblock buddies. It's now also possible to find chat rooms on
288 many services, e.g. XMPP, IRC, Yahoo! etc. Happy Leap Day!
290 Ka-Hing: I think all I've done for this release is committing some
291 patches written by other people.
293 Stu: Finally, 2.4.0 lands. I didn't do all that much except complain
294 about things I didn't like or just revert Sean's changes. I'm quite
295 pleased with how well it's turned out in the end.
296 Happy Birthday Fred, you must be nearly 10 now ;-)
298 2.3.1 (12/7/2007):
299 Stu: I'm sorry for the MSN problems and the plugin crashes in 2.3.0.
300 Hopefully this will redeem us. This fixes a number of bugs. I'm a
301 bit late but I'd like to welcome John to the team. Enjoy!
303 Luke: I've done absolutely nothing in the last 2 weeks, except watch
304 others commit bug and, more, leak fixes. People should be noticing
305 remarkably fewer memory leaks now than 2 or more releases ago.
307 Kevin: I'm not quite sure what happened to our MySpaceIM Summer of
308 Code student, but I fixed a few MySpace bugs with idle and status.
309 I will try to fix some of the other more significant bugs, after I
310 figure out the protocol, especially including grouping issues.
312 2.3.0 (11/20/2007):
313 Luke: While this does not have the new MSN code, rest assured that
314 we are working on it and that it is nearing release. This contains
315 a significant number of fixes, including some that were marked as
316 fixed for earlier releases. Happy Thanksgiving!
318 John: This is my first NEWS entry! So, this time around we have an
319 updated man page (the old one hadn't been really updated since
320 before the GTK+ 2.0 migration!), lots of bug fixes, and some new
321 features for you all. Enjoy!
323 2.2.2 (10/23/2007):
324 Luke: Because the main branch of pidgin development is still not
325 ready for public consumption, I have taken some time to try to
326 pull the many bug fixes that have happened since then into a
327 separate branch. This release is the result of that effort.
329 2.2.1 (9/28/2007):
330 Richard: We have some new code in the pipeline, but it's not quite
331 ready for a general release. Instead, this is basically a bug fix
332 release.
334 Luke: Unfortunately the necessity of this bug fix release means
335 some of the tickets that have been closed as part of the 2.2.1
336 milestone are not actually fixed yet. We have grabbed as many
337 of the changes as we could while avoiding those that are as
338 yet unstable though, and this should still be a marked
339 improvement over 2.2.0. We have spent a lot of time since the
340 last release looking at the tickets that have been submitted
341 and many of them have been closed.
343 Stu: I haven't NEWS'd in a while. I haven't actually done much for
344 too long also, maybe I'll find some time soon. This release is
345 basically what 2.2.0 should have been - it actually compiles this
346 time.
348 2.2.0 (9/13/2007):
349 Sean: 2.2.0 contains the results of several major Google Summer
350 of Code branches bringing some new, extraordinary features. We
351 have a new protocol, MySpaceIM, a bunch of new features for an
352 existing protocol, XMPP, and nifty new certificate management
353 to make sure your IM server is who it says it is.
355 Ka-Hing: A number of you noticed crashes when dragging windows
356 around when certain options are enabled. Well, that was my fault,
357 and Sadrul fixed it. So Props to him and poos to me. I haven't
358 done much for this release, but the next one should contain
359 something that I helped work on. Hint: students are cheap slave
360 coders!
362 Kevin: I haven't really been coding much in Pidgin, and this
363 release is no exception, but I will be working on getting our
364 wonderful web site to be a little more functional by next
365 release. I promise!
367 2.1.1 (8/20/2007):
368 Sean: Continuing our schedule of frequent releases, Pidgin 2.1.1
369 is out. In it, we've addressed a lot of UI issues from our
370 experimental new changes introduced in 2.1.0, and gave a lot of
371 attention to Yahoo! and Bonjour. Thanks to everyone who
372 contributed.
374 Luke: We have reworked some parts of the conversation windows in
375 response to user comments. We did not quite reach 100 tickets
376 closed this release, so a fair few will role over again. Still,
377 we are slowly but surely working our way through the reported bugs.
378 Many thanks to everyone who has helped with tracking down the
379 various issues, testing fixes, and getting patches in.
381 Tim: Sean finally got me to fix some of the buddy list bugs with
382 Yahoo! when in version 15 mode. So now we have some Yahoo! to
383 MSN support, which is kind of nice. Looks like some others have
384 been contributing to Yahoo! while I've been AWOL, so many thanks
385 to them.
387 2.1.0 (7/28/2007):
388 Sean: This release took a bit longer than 3 weeks, but boy is it
389 worth it! We're beginning to experiment with new UI concepts and
390 this release features a largely re-designed conversation window.
391 We've closed 150 tickets for this release; much thanks go to all
392 the developers, translators, and testers who made this possible.
394 Ka-Hing: Sean said no one else NEWS'ed, so I figure I should.
396 2.0.2 (6/14/2007):
397 Sean: Another big maintenance release. Again, about 100 tickets were
398 resolved in this release, and they keep coming in. Lots of bug fixes,
399 some minor icon adjustements, hopefully we addressed some ICQ
400 internationalization issues, and support for Bonjour on Windows!
401 Our next release will be 2.1.0, and will come with some great new
402 features.
404 Stu: I think we're gradually getting the hang of this 3 week thing
405 again. This release includes yet more bug fixes. I'd also like to
406 specifically thank Pekka Riikonen for the patch to enable using SILC
407 Toolkit 1.1 with Pidgin/libpurple that is included in this release.
409 2.0.1 (5/24/2007):
410 Sean: 2.0.1! Three weeks later, as scheduled! It is so nice to have
411 regular, frequent, releases again! This is a bugfix release; We have
412 fixed over 100 issues reported to us at http://developer.pidgin.im.
413 Thanks to everyone for their great work, and look for the next release
414 in another three weeks!
416 Stu: Lots'o'fixes in this. I don't know how you users find so many
417 things for us to fix. 24 hours in a day (sadly). 24 is divisible by the
418 sum of its digits and by their product. It is the smallest composite
419 number, the product of whose divisors is a cube.
421 Luke: I requested that we have a bug fix release, and so we have!
422 Many, though unfortunately not all, of the reports that have been
423 submitted to us since 2.0.0 have been fixed now, and so you should
424 all have a much more stable experience with this release. I also
425 want to thank the many users who have resubmitted their reports
426 as we close out the old Source Forge bug tracker. If all goes well,
427 your report will get the attention it deserves as we continue to
428 work on Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple.
430 Nathan: A ton of fixes have gone into this release. The feedback
431 we've gotten on 2.0.0 has been incredible. Hopefully we've resolved
432 most of the critical issues with 2.0.1. If we haven't, I'm sure
433 our wonderful users will let us hear about it. I seem to be
434 forgetting something...oh, right, I haven't promised any cool new
435 features in the next release! So, I promise at least one cool new
436 feature in the next release...you just might have to adjust your
437 definition of 'cool' to get it.
439 Etan: Perl plugins now have access to almost all of the savedstatus
440 API functions. I also removed a couple of the preferences from the
441 Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin which should help many of the people
442 for whom the configuration dialog size was a problem. The removed
443 preferences no longer had the effects they were added to have anyway.
445 2.0.0 (5/3/2007):
446 Sean: 2.0.0! It's real exciting to finally release Pidgin 2.0.0! I'm
447 really proud of all the work we've all done. I'm pumped. And, while
448 I could go on about all the amazing thing that have been added since
449 1.5.0, what I'm really excited about is getting back to a regular,
450 rapid, release cycle of active, open development, unhindered by legal
451 quandries. Huge thanks to everyone involved.
453 Luke: We have finally managed to get 2.0.0 out the door, after nearly
454 but not quite 2 years of effort and fustration. No one regrets more
455 than I that we were unable to make any of betas 3-6 the actual release.
456 But at long last, it is out, and life can return to a more normal
457 state. There were many tough calls to be made in the last 2 years.
458 Not everyone has agreed with the resulting decisions, that is un-
459 fortunate, but unavoidable. Suffice it to say that despite what
460 some users appear to think, a ton of thought, argument, discussion,
461 and experimentation has gone into this release. This release
462 builds on many years of experience, both as developers writing the
463 code, users using it, and in supporting other users. I hope that
464 those who download and install this will give it a fair shot, and
465 attempt to avoid knee-jerk reactions.
467 Evan: One small step for bird, one giant leap for birdkind... except
468 this is hardly one small step. A lot more has changed from Gaim 1.5.0
469 than just the name. Pidgin has a *very* attractive new look, a whole
470 new member of the family (Finch, formerly gaim-console) has been born,
471 and libpurple has come into its own as a solid, full-featured library
472 powering the greatest IM clients around. Bugs were fixed and
473 features were added by the hundreds (thousands?) since the last
474 major release, all while improving performance and resisting feature
475 creep. As Luke said, a ton of thought and effort has gone into
476 Pidgin 2.0.0; I'm proud to have played a part.
478 Stu: We did it! finally, we have 2.0.0. It's been a long time coming,
479 but there's a great deal of goodness here. When I say a long time, I'm
480 not kidding - it's been 972 days since we branched off "oldstatus"
481 (aka 1.x). The early Greeks were uncertain as to whether 2 was a
482 number at all (or if we'd ever make this release) - it has a beginning
483 and an end but no middle (much like our unfortunately quiet development
484 period). 2 is the first prime number and the only even prime. 2 is also
485 the first deficient number (oh well). There are only 10 types of people
486 in the world - those who like our new names and those who do not.
487 Enjoy!
489 Richard: I'm very glad that we've finally gotten 2.0.0 released and
490 I look forward to returning to a more normal development schedule.
491 Again, a big thanks to everyone who helped in any way to get things
492 where they are today. Congratulations everyone!
494 Sadrul: My first NEWS, and on what an occasion! Pidgin 2.0.0 is finally
495 released!! And it's *really* very good!!! Give your soul a break ...
496 Use Pidgin!
498 Daniel: There has been a fair amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth
499 due to the delays in getting this beast out. I'm really happy that it
500 is done. I'm also very happy with what we're releasing - I think it is
501 far more stable, packed with useful features and, dare I say, prettier
502 than any previous release.
504 2.0.0beta7 (4/29/2007):
505 Sean: Beta 7. The final beta. A few major changes from beta6. For
506 starters, we have some new names. That's pretty cool. We have a new
507 logo, to go along with it. And a lot of great icons! As Nathan mentions
508 below, we're totally back in the open now, having a signed agreement
509 from AOL that puts us in the clear. We all really regret having to go
510 completely dark for so long. Anyway, unlike betas1-6, which were of
511 normal release quality, this one is actually beta quality. There are
512 a few significant known issues, and a lot of changes that need a lot
513 of real-world testing. So, if you'd like to help us out, give it a
514 whirl, and let us know if you run into any major issues.
516 Nathan: So, the secret is out now. We renamed to Pidgin. I'd just
517 like to apologize to everyone we've had to keep in the dark for the
518 last however-many months. I know it looked like development slowed
519 to a crawl, but in reality we've been working pretty hard to get
520 2.0.0 out the door, without getting into any legal trouble. I
521 realize that if we were some big corporation, we'd be getting flamed
522 about this secrecy for months. Please try to remember that we're
523 just a bunch of geeks who were scared of legal stuff (well, at least
524 I was. Scared, that is). The bottom line is that we're out in the
525 open again, and fully plan to stay that way. We're also opening up
526 the mail archives from the secretive past few months. You can scan
527 through them if you want, or I can summarize. "Are the lawyers done
528 yet? No. Now? No. How about now? No." All lawyer jokes aside,
529 I'm grateful to our legal team for crossing all the 't's and dotting
530 all the lowercase 'j's to get us the deal we got. Anyways, thanks
531 for your patience, and on to 2.0.1!
533 Gary: Well my silence, and our silence has ended. Finally the name
534 change is over and done with and we can go back to a normal dev
535 cycle. Now if I can just get myself back onto a normal dev cycle,
536 but that's another story all together.
538 Ethan: Not to be too "me-too", but I have to say that I'm really
539 excited about the project's new name and identity, and glad to be
540 out of the legal mess. We're pushing beta 7 with all of the
541 branding and organizational changes that have been going on for
542 the last few months, so there are likely to be some snags --
543 please help us out by trying beta 7, searching for any bugs you
544 find in the bug tracker at http://developer.pidgin.im/, and
545 documenting them if they are unknown or you can provide new
546 information. Help us make 2.0.0 final a release to be remembered
547 (in a good way)! I'd like to give huge thanks to all of the
548 developers, our steadfast supporters, the crazy patch writers, and
549 everyone else who has made this transition to Pidgin possible, and
550 the improvements that go along with it. I'd like to extend a
551 special thanks to Sean, for leading us through the legal issues
552 and taking care of all of the paperwork and overhead that no one
553 wants to deal with.
555 2.0.0beta6 (1/17/2007):
556 Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be
557 the final beta release before 2.0.0. This has a bunch of cool UI
558 changes, some Google Talk features, a bunch new plugins, and other
559 goodness.
561 Nathan: Beta6 rocks. That is all.
563 Gary: Long time no news. My silence will end soon ;)
565 Evan: My first news! I knocked out a nice collection of crashes,
566 thanks in part to my ever-patient Adium beta testers. Gaim 2.0.0
567 is going to be delicious. :)
569 2.0.0beta5 (11/9/2006):
570 Sean: Another release in our endless stream in betas. This one's
571 pretty awesome; and it fixes major bugs introduced in previous
572 ones.
574 2.0.0beta4 (10/17/2006)
575 Sean: Still beta. Maybe the next one should be a gamma.. :)
577 Daniel: I'm super chuffed to announce that this will work with newer
578 (i.e. >= 2.8.0) versions of GTK+ on Windows.
580 Luke: Several significant changes in this one, including no longer
581 using libao for sound! There are no doubt bugs here, but hopefully
582 nothing major.
584 Nathan: I don't have much to say, but yay for another beta!
586 Etan: I did a bunch of perl work for this beta again, there is now
587 some support for perl scripts to call functions in the gtk ui, it
588 still needs work.
590 2.0.0beta3 (03/25/2006):
591 Mark: Yeah, I know, another beta. Don't worry, we'll get this
592 puppy out the door eventually.
594 2.0.0beta2 (01/24/2006):
595 Mark: So this is the new year, and I don't feel any different, but
596 Gaim is getting better. We hope this will be our last beta before
597 we release the final version of 2.0.0. As before, please shower us
598 in feedback!
600 Richard: I'm proud to say a lot of bugs have been squashed in this
601 version. If you filed a bug against beta1, please test to see if
602 it's fixed now and update your bug report accordingly (by either
603 closing it or setting the version to 2.0.0beta2). I'm also looking
604 for someone who uses Gaim on MacOS X to test a patch for me before
605 I can commit it. See http://gaim.sf.net/contactinfo.php for my
606 contact information.
608 Etan: So I did a bunch of work on the perl plugin since beta1, so
609 anyone who uses perl plugins would do well to expect some things to
610 need updating (I'm not certain everything works yet, so please send me
611 any reports of things that don't). Most of the work was correcting
612 some namespace issues, but I also improved the support for perl
613 plugins having plugin_pref frames, and plugin actions. Multiple perl
614 plugins can now have plugin_pref frames at the same time, and every
615 perl plugin can have multiple plugin actions now. Like Mark said
616 above, let us know how this beta works out.
618 2.0.0beta1 (12/17/2005):
619 Sean: I think Nathan sums everything up really well below. There's still
620 a bunch we want to add (and remove) before the official release, but we
621 really want to start getting feedback about what's good and what's not.
622 So, please, be vocal about this beta!
624 Nathan: 15 months since we branched oldstatus, and started working on
625 the behemoth that is 2.0.0. In that time, we've added a couple new
626 protocols, we had a few crazy patch writers become developers, and
627 had a few more people step up to be crazy patch writers. Sean wrote
628 a book, and we arbitrarily decided to make a version 1.0.0, and a
629 new versioning scheme. We got new artwork, and added almost 200 lines
630 to the ChangeLog. We've watched 2 major GTK+ releases, and added all
631 kinds of features using them. OK, I've wasted enough bits here. This
632 beta rocks, but it is a beta. Treat it as such, and enjoy!
634 Gary: Finally we have a beta. There are a lot of new goodies, including
635 quite a few summer of code projects that couldn't get added into the
636 oldstatus branch because API changes. We also have a new mono plugin
637 loader for even more plugin fun.
639 Richard: Thanks to all who wrote patches (big or small) for this beta.
641 Tim: Well here it is, the first beta. There's a lot of cool things in
642 here, but not all of them are finished or debugged. But then that's
643 why it's called a beta. Conversations are now contact-aware, and
644 there's a new status selector. There's smooth scrolling on incoming
645 messages as well. Our Crazy Patch Writers have been doing a good
646 job too, it seems like we're never lacking some patches in the
647 tracker to review.
649 Etan: I know I'm not going to be able to think of all the things I should
650 talk about here so I'll just go with the stuff I remember. Adding buddies
651 on ejabberd jabber servers should work more correctly now (it's possible
652 adding buddies on other servers is a bit broken currently I'm still
653 looking into it). There are still other jabber issues I'm looking into
654 with handling of buddies.
655 In other topics, I finally brought my Accounts menu into gaim, though the
656 current example of it isn't exactly what I had in mind, anyone with any
657 suggestions/comments/etc about it please speak up.
658 Other than the stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting to mention this beta should
659 be awesome as gaim 2.0.0 is going to be awesome. Have fun with it.
661 Luke: pretty much everything important has been said, so this is going to
662 be rather repetative. This is a beta folks, so it will have bugs. It
663 will crash unexpectedly. Perhaps even frequently. Use it at your peril.
664 But do use it (though you might want to back up ~/.gaim first), and let us
665 know what needs to be fixed.
667 Mark: Yay.
669 Stu: Wow!
671 Siege: Sametime accounts created with gaim-meanwhile should merge over
672 for use in the beta just fine. Some of the familiar settings regarding
673 the buddy list are gone, so I recommend backing up your Sametime blist
674 before getting down and crazy. Have fun, and happy early Decemberween!
676 Daniel: Enjoy! In the hopes that this prevents someone pain... do not use
677 Glib/GTK+ 2.8.x with Wingaim - it will not work. We're looking into the
678 problem and hope to have it resolved before the final release.
679 "Happy Holidays!"
681 1.5.0 (8/11/2005):
682 Mark: No super crazy major changes here. Just the usual bug
683 fixes and some pretty important security updates.
685 Stu: Buy Sean's book. He obviously needs the money. Other than that
686 we fixed some bugs with this release (I don't think we did much else).
687 SoC students are doing lots of cool stuff which we'll hopefully be
688 able to bring you in a future release.
690 Nathan: I've continued my streak of doing nothing useful lately.
691 However, I've now got a brand-spanking-new DSL line, so I might
692 actually get to contribute soon. One way or another I'd like
693 to get HEAD into a more useable state in the next month or two.
694 Also, like Stu said, buy Sean's book. I've been reading and
695 fixing it for the last umpteen months, so you had better enjoy
696 it.
698 1.4.0 (7/7/2005):
699 Mark: The last month or four we've promoted a bunch of the Gaim
700 Crazy Patch Writers to developers, so there is now an even larger
701 team of brilliant and amazingly sexy committers working around
702 the globe for your instant messaging pleasure. Also, we have
703 what I believe to be our first contribution from a Summer of Code
704 student in this release: Jonathan Clark enabled the sending of
705 files to certain ICQ users. Support is still a bit rough, but
706 he'll be working on it throughout the summer.
708 Luke: Exciting times this summer as our Summer of Code interns
709 start their projects. This is mostly a bug fix release, with the
710 ICQ file transfer that Mark mentioned and some buddy icon work
711 being the only real new code. Hence the extra week delay. A
712 big thanks to our translators who keep churning out updates even
713 when we give them short notice as well. Enjoy!
715 1.3.1 (6/9/2005):
716 Sean: It's been a while since I've done one of these. Welcome to
717 Gaim 1.3.1, "New Hyde Park." This is, again, another bugfix release
718 but it comes with two keen announcements. First, I'd like to welcome
719 Christopher O'Brien to the Gaim team. He has integrated his work on
720 the Meanwhile project into Gaim, ensuring that Gaim 2.0.0 will include
721 Sametime support. Also, we're participating in Google's Summer of
722 Code, which you all should check out at
723 http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/
725 1.3.0 (5/10/2005):
726 Luke: This release fixes SILC for multiple accounts. HOWEVER, you
727 may lose your buddy list (for SILC only) upgrading. This is
728 rather unavoidable as the previous code did not keep track of
729 which account each buddy belonged to.
731 Stu: I'm glad we're finally getting this out, if fixes a number of bugs
732 ranging from minor to not so minor. I'd also like to welcome Gary to
733 the team - he's done a great job with Guifications, I'm sure he'll do
734 good stuff here too.
736 Gary: Well I got pretty much nothing done for this release. Although I
737 do have quite a few things in the works that will come to fruition when
738 I find some more free time.
740 1.2.1 (4/3/2005):
741 Luke: Several important fixes this time around. Big thanks to
742 Robert McQueen, Stu, Nathan, Ethan, and everyone else who has helped
743 with this effort. Maybe next time we can get a decent chance to fix the
744 problems *before* they go public to have a normal release process.
746 Nathan: Jabber got some updates this release (finally). I've got
747 more planned, but simply haven't had the time to anything about it.
749 1.2.0 (3/17/2005):
750 Luke: Happy St. Patrick's Day all. Sean scheduled a release for
751 today, we'll see if we can pull it off. :-) This release
752 features somewhat more than just bug fixes, some improvements
753 have been made to the conversation API which may affect plugin
754 developers. Yahoo users should also thank Tim and Bleeter for
755 their efforts.
757 Etan: I'm going to NEWS since I actually did something this time.
758 Jabber will allow you to unsubscribe to someone's presence
759 without logging out and in again, this does break seeing yourself
760 on your buddy list, but hopefully we'll fix that again for the
761 next release.
763 Stu: Happy St. Guinness^wPatrick's day.
765 1.1.4 (2/24/2005):
766 Sean: Another bug fix release. A big thanks to Rob McQueen, Ari
767 Pollak, Don Seiler, and Warren Togami: some packagers who helped
768 debug a nasty glib 2.6 problem. Also thanks to our own Stu who
769 found and destroyed an MSN crash and an HTML parsing error
771 Luke: Early release to handle the MSN and HTML crashes, as well
772 as the glib crash. Maybe that makes up for having had a 4 week
773 period before the last release. This one should be the nice
774 stable release we meant 1.1.3 to be. Enjoy!
776 Stu: I cleaned up the whitespace in this NEWS, it was bugging me.
778 1.1.3 (2/17/2005):
779 Luke: Yet another bug fix release, many thanks to everyone who has
780 helped to make gaim more stable!
782 Stu: I fixed too many Yahoo HTTP proxy bugs, I should just go and
783 write some core HTTP support that works better. A good all round
784 bug fix release otherwise.
786 1.1.2 (1/20/2005):
787 Luke: Another Bug fix release. This one featuring a fix to the HTTP
788 Method for MSN users and other MSN fixes. A big thanks to Stu and
789 Felipe Contreras for those. Stu also spent a long time in valgrind
790 and so this brings you a Gaim release with fewer memory leaks. This
791 release is on time primarily because I want to see the MSN fixes
792 make it into Debian and Fedora before freezes. Expect further bug
793 fix only releases to come at longer intervals, at Mark's request.
795 Daniel: This is my first NEWS! (YaY) I didn't really do too much for
796 this release. There are a few bugfixes, mostly wingaim stuff. Oh, and
797 I like the new XP System Tray icons.
799 Sean: I'm down here today. I haven't really been paying too much
800 attention to these boring bugfix releases, but I'd like to thank
801 David and welcome him to the team. I'd also like to thank Steven
802 and Nathan from Silverorange who redid the webpage.
804 Tim: Another bug fix release. I didn't really fix any bugs, so
805 I didn't exactly do much for this one. The autopackage will now
806 work with mozilla-nss, if anyone has that, and not gnutls11. (It
807 works with either gnutls11 or mozilla-nss, but not gnutls10)
808 I started working on Gaim-vv again though, and I merged someone's
809 custom msn smiley patch into the 2.0.0 tree, so expect good things
810 whenever that's released (no, don't try it now, you won't like it).
811 Oh and welcome to the team Daniel. Of course, he was already on my
812 Gaim-vv team.
814 Stu: Welcome Daniel! you've done some good stuff already. Felipe did some
815 good work on MSN yet again, so you can all use the HTTP method now. I
816 didn't do all that much, other than let valgrind tell me what to fix, and
817 a couple of easy bug fixes from the bug tracker. Hopefully Ethan will get
818 well soon, so he can get back to merging patches and fixing things.
820 Nathan: I think I made some Jabber fixes, at least one of which is
821 ChangeLog'd. I will continue to make empty promises about new features,
822 especially for 2.0.0. Until then, welcome Daniel!
824 1.1.1 (12/28/2004):
825 Luke: This bug fix release features msn improvements, drag and drop
826 improvements, and some translation stuff. Thanks for everone who has
827 helped with it, and hopefully we can get 2.0.0 out soon. On a side
828 note, i'm still looking for someone to look at the perl plugin loader.
830 1.1.0 (12/02/2004):
831 Luke: Another in our series of bug fix releases, with a slight twist.
832 Everyone thank Ethan for implementing a fall back encoding for IRC,
833 it has been much requested and should make a number of users very
834 happy. See the ChangeLog for details on other fixes.
836 Stu: Much thanks to Miah Gregory and Felipe Contreras, a bunch of
837 memory leaks have been fixed. Felipe also fixed a good number of
838 other MSN bugs. I didn't do much except apply these guys fixes. It's
839 good to see fixes from Gary coming in again too ;-). I like the
840 docklet adjustments Christian made. Btw, we have a new MSN protocol
841 icon, and I think you'll love it.
843 Tim: I made Gaim binary relocatable this release, so Gaim can find
844 itself if it gets lost, and I'm going to try to make autopackages
845 for this release, if the autopackage guys release their new version
846 soon like they're talking. I also "fixed" a scrolling bug, by
847 realizing it was all Gentoo's fault. The IRC encoding thing Ethan
848 did is pretty nice, no more encoding error messages!
850 Ethan: Rumor has it that I did some work this release, but it's just
851 that, a rumor. I think Luke started it. I did lay the hammer down
852 on bogus word wrapping in the NEWS, so you can thank me for that.
853 Keep your powder dry.
855 1.0.3 (11/11/2004):
856 Luke: Not much to see here, some bug fixes that you all will enjoy as
857 the semester draws to a close and everyone still in school gets bogged
858 down with projects, papers, and exams. Enjoy! Oh, and if you are interested
859 in the perl or gadu-gadu functionality, please step up to help write
860 patches, as both of these code blocks are currently unmaintained.
862 Tim: I fixed a couple bugs this time. In other news, Kim wants to get
863 a pet cockatiel or two.
865 Nathan: I was gonna put a new feature in this release, but decided
866 not to because I found a bug in it today, and I'm tired. Also, I haven't
867 consulted the powers-that-be about putting new features into oldstatus.
869 Stu: I'm writing this at 11:11:11pm on 11/11. Eleven. It's 3 really. Or B.
870 It's the 5th smallest prime number. Himalia is the 11th moon of Jupiter.
871 Hendecagon. There are 1011 players on a football team. XI. 16 hours. Eleven
872 is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English. This
873 entry is my 11th lie for today.
875 1.0.2 (10/19/2004):
876 Stu: I'm new around here. I tried to reduce the number of bugs in the bug
877 tracker, but it turns out that the only way to achieve that is to actually
878 _fix_ the bugs. So I fixed a couple, and then sneaked some patches out of
879 the patch tracker to fix some others. Sadly the bug tracker was not
880 significantly affected, maybe if I learn C I'll be able to make more of an
881 impact.
883 Luke: Don't let Stu fool you, he has done a marvelous job on this release,
884 and deserves a lot of credit for it. And a number of those bug fixes are
885 critical ones that he discovered and fixed himself. So go update. Now.
887 Nathan: On the other hand, Nathan has done nothing for this release. Why
888 do we keep him around again?
890 Tim: So, I'm married now, and in Huntsville. I don't remember if I did
891 anything for this release or not, probably not. Bleeter has been more
892 active lately though, perhaps we'll see lots of cool things from him
893 soon.
895 Sean: I'm down here with the "didn't do anything" guys.
897 1.0.1 (10/07/2004):
898 Congratulations to Tim & Kim on their wedding!
900 Sean: So, if you're playing along at home, you're aware that
901 incrementing the micro version number means that the API has
902 not changed at all. Although that itself is insignificant to
903 most everyone but plugin developers, but users won't find too
904 many significant changes. Consult ChangeLog. We're currently
905 branched for some major changes, so expect a really great 2.0.0
906 sometime relatively soon.
908 Luke: Nothing much to see here, some bug fixes. Most of the work
909 is going towards the 2.0.0 release. We aren't quite sure when
910 that will be, and will keep the bug fix releases coming untill
911 all is ready.
913 Christian: I would call this a ground-breaking release, but it isn't.
914 It seems like a good one, though. I dunno. I've been too busy at VMware,
915 unfortunately, but have some work that's just waiting to be finished up
916 for Gaim. Gaim 2.0.0 is going to rock. Gaim 3.0.0 will rock more.
917 Do you see a pattern? Thanks go out to Henry Jen for fixing up parts of
918 the gevolution plugin to support multiple addressbooks, and to all our
919 moms, for believing in us. Or something.
921 Nathan: I got a new computer. It's fast. And has twice the bits!
923 1.0.0 (09/17/2004):
924 Nathan: Hah! Bet you weren't expecting this! OK, if you were
925 paying any attention to the flame^H^H^H^H^Hthread on gaim-devel,
926 you might have been expecting this. But here it is, 1.0.0. Our
927 new versioning scheme has slightly more meaning than the older
928 one (expecially for plugin authors), but our 1.0(.0) release is
929 just as meaningless as we could have hoped. Enjoy!
931 Luke: We've changed our pattern for version numbers with this
932 release, we are no longer simply counting versions. This release
933 then marks, not something traditionally "1.0" but the current
934 version of the api. When backwards compatability with that breaks
935 you'll see 2.0, more details in the faq. As a side note, if you
936 are reading this and are good with proxy code or with perl's XS C
937 bindings, please get in touch with me, my contact info is on the
938 website. Gaim could use your help.
940 Mark: I love a circus.
942 0.82 (08/25/2004):
943 Rob: Woah, where did I come from?
945 Mark: Lately I've been doing a lot more code maintenance/patch
946 accepting/bug fixing type of work. And I think that's a really
947 good thing. I feel like Gaim is becoming more stable. It
948 seems like we're lacking fewer features. It makes me warm.
949 Quick Robin! To the traverse wall!
951 Nathan: Well, it looks like we stuck to the schedule again. Had
952 we taken our dear sweet time, I might have had a chance to do
953 something cool for this release, but instead I stuck to the minor
954 stuff. <insert empty promises for the cool stuff i'll code for
955 next time here>
957 Tim: Lately I've been doing a lot more patch accepting, and a
958 lot less actual coding. Unfortunately it has more to do with my
959 laziness than Gaim's progress. Like Nathan, I'm going to blame
960 our on time release schedule. But that didn't stop our Crazy
961 Patch Writers, or cpw's as grim now calls them, from writing
962 some good patches. So, instead of promising to code something
963 cool for next release, I'm going to promise that the cpw's will
964 code cool things for next release, and I might apply some of them.
966 Luke: I've been doing what I always do, committing patches, some
967 better than others, and bugging other people to code stuff. Oh
968 and closing some bugs. Thanks to Dave West for joining the cpws
969 in helping to handle triage. This is mostly a bug fix release,
970 so PLEASE upgrade to it before submitting new bugs.
972 Kevin: Herman's been away, so Daniel Atallah and myself were given
973 the task of preparing 0.82's Windows packages. After some feverish
974 plotting, we decided to update GTK and Daniel prepped an update to
975 libpng to address recent security advisories. Besides plotting and
976 a little bit of testing, this NEWS is all I really did. Oh, I also
977 rerefixed the transparency plugin... again! Our beloved Hermanator
978 should be back next time around, for 0.83.
980 0.81 (08/05/2004):
981 Sean: Three weeks again! Sticking to schedules is awesome! Just
982 like Gaim v0.81. This is what we in the industry call a "bugfix
983 release." We closed over TWO HUNDRED bugs since 0.80. That's
984 awesome. Thanks to everyone who helped report, triage, fix, and
985 test.
987 Christian: Yay for three weeks working so well. Boo for me not
988 doing much of anything this release, aside from a small memory
989 leak fix. I'm starting a new job and leaving my current one, so
990 when the dust settles and my schedule is a bit better, the very
991 cool status rewrite will be finished up. Especially now that I have
992 some help! I'd like to second Sean's thanks to all the people who
993 helped with this bug fix release. Gaim should be a bit more stable
994 for a lot of you. For those experiencing MSN problems still, we'll
995 get that nailed for you soon, promise.
997 Mark: I was going to point out that we closed an insane amount of
998 bugs for this release, but Sean already did that. I feel like
999 we've had some really talented new contributors contributing
1000 recently. I won't say names... but watch your backs. Or something.
1002 Nathan: I did next to nothing for this release. I am however
1003 settled in to my new job, and in a couple days, I should be settled
1004 into my new domicile. If the DSL gods are in a good mood, I'll
1005 have a connection there shortly, and can start being useful again.
1007 0.80 (07/15/2004):
1008 Sean: Three weeks! Hooray for timeliness! I didn't do much here
1009 but drag-and-droppable file transfers. Drag something into a
1010 conversation window, and it will be sent. Kinda neat.
1012 Mark: We have a small ant problem here. I can't help but think
1013 I somehow brought this upon myself.
1015 Tim: I don't really have any news, but at least I don't have an
1016 ant problem either. You might think I've been hard at work on
1017 Gaim-vv, but I haven't, I've just been lazy. I plan on doing
1018 some cool things "soon" though, both with Gaim and Gaim-vv.
1019 Bleeter sent me some nice dumps I need to implement yet.
1021 Luke: We have a nice timely release, with a Changelog that seems
1022 small, but remember, this is summer, and people have lives. SILC
1023 and Zephyr are making good progress from our Crazy Patch Writters,
1024 and everyone begging to send files to people not on their buddy
1025 list will be happy. good stuff. No, the msn buddy icon scalling
1026 problem isn't fixed yet, maybe next release
1028 0.79 (06/24/2004):
1029 Sean: We've moved to a three-week release cycle which we'll
1030 hopefully be able to keep up more realistically than a two-week
1031 cycle. Yahoo! went and broke last night, but it's fixed now thanks
1032 to a quick fix sent in by Cerulean Studios this morning. Reports say
1033 they'll continue to try to break us, though, so don't be surprised
1034 if your Yahoo cuts out again.
1036 Luke: I was really distracted this cycle, I want to thank my co-
1037 developers and our crazy patch writers for keeping things going.
1038 We have a fairly long changelog for you this release, including some
1039 nice bug fixes and some much-requested new features, the ChangeLog
1040 has all the details there of course. Enjoy!
1042 Christian: Great release! MSN buddy icons and file transfer. A big round
1043 of applause to Felipe! Too bad about the Yahoo thing, but.. eep! I have
1044 to go! Movie with the girls and Farmer's Market.
1046 Tim: This release brings us /commands in the core, which hopefully
1047 works better, and Yahoo! buddy icons. Thanks to all the people I
1048 bugged for packet captures, like Simguy, Bleeter, and odl. Yahoo!
1049 broke again, so I did a little last minute work on the web
1050 messenger stuff, but then Cerulean Studios was cool and fixed the
1051 problem already, so all that code's disabled. I also finally added
1052 the Yahoo! Japan support, for those of you with Yahoo! Japan
1053 accounts.
1055 Mark: I fixed that icon animation thing that caused Gaim to lock-up.
1056 I also stepped on something at the beach and I think there might be
1057 a little rock or something in my foot now.
1059 Nathan: I've been really busy, what with having a new job and all.
1060 I didn't think I had done anything, but apparently I fixed some
1061 Jabber stuff, and some IPv6 stuff. I must have been sleepcoding
1062 or something, because I haven't had time for such things. Ah well,
1063 enjoy this release. We'll see what I can get to in the next 3 weeks.
1065 0.78 (05/30/2004):
1066 Luke: A very long time, once again, since the last release. I think
1067 its mostly worth it. A few of you will still have trouble with msn
1068 but we've worked out a number of bugs even there. Thanks to heroic
1069 efforts on the part of Mark, we closed 400 some odd reports this
1070 month. We are also welcoming Tim to the project, a very active
1071 crazy patch writer who has brought massive improvements to WYSIWYG
1072 and direct im this release. Again, it still won't work for every
1073 one, but it will work for more people than it used to. Most
1074 noticably, this release brings a LARGE simplicfication of the
1075 preferences available. Please don't complain if your favorite
1076 preference is no longer there. Take some time to think about
1077 how and if it could be useful to a majority of people who use
1078 Gaim in ways nothing like you. You'll find that the answer will
1079 usually be that the preference isn't all that important.
1081 Tim: I continued with the other crazy patch writers in fixing those
1082 WYSIWYG bugs. Then they went and made me a developer. Which is cool.
1083 They told me I could commit WYSIWYG and Yahoo! changes. So I went
1084 and fixed IM Image and Direct Connect in AIM for some reason. I also
1085 added some new Yahoo! smileys at least. Also you change your link
1086 color in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file now. I might work on some of those
1087 new Yahoo! features for next release, like buddy icons. But don't
1088 count on it. Thanks to everyone who congratulated me. And thanks
1089 to all our Crazy Patch Writers, who now expect me to apply all their
1090 Crazy Patches.
1092 Christian: First of all, congrats to Tim! He's our latest Gaim
1093 developer, and we're all glad to have him on board. He's been a
1094 valuable contributor for awhile now. Thanks again to Felipe Contreras
1095 for all his MSN work this release. He has some exciting stuff that
1096 we'll be seeing in 0.79. And last, but not least, thanks to all our
1097 crazy and not-so-crazy patch writers. There's been a lot done this
1098 release. I've been taking a small break, first due to school and now
1099 work, but I'll be coming back strong in the next couple of releases. In
1100 the meantime, enjoy.
1102 Gary: Congrats to Tim, no more competing for most ChangeLog entries.
1103 This means you _should_ be winning every release. Anyways, I didn't
1104 finish nearly as much as I wanted to for this release but all of that
1105 and then some should appear in 0.79.
1107 Sean: I'll write my entry down here tonight. Removing preferences
1108 was my big crusade this week, and the team did a great job at it,
1109 but I still have a nagging feeling that our preferences are still
1110 overwhelming. Everyone's been doing a real great job; it's entirely
1111 my fault we keep failing to meet our three-week schedule. Send your
1112 complaints this way.
1114 Nathan: I really didn't do much thanks to exams, and graduation, and all
1115 of that fun stuff. For next release, I'll have all new excuses, like my
1116 new job, or maybe something I haven't even thought of yet. Oh yeah, and
1117 a big warm welcome to Tim!
1119 0.77 (04/22/2004):
1120 Sean: We're back to a somewhat regular release cycle now. Hooray!
1121 WYSIWYG is much improved in this release, and you can now copy and
1122 paste rich text to and from Gaim and other applications (see: Mozilla,
1123 Evolution OpenOffice). Also, Novell has released their first release
1124 of their GroupWise plugin, included in this release. Good stuff all
1125 around.
1127 Luke: Only a week "late" this time around, much nicer than the delay
1128 before the last release. Anyway, this release sees a HUGE number of
1129 improvements to the WYSIWYG support, much thanks to all involved. If
1130 you weren't impressed before, you should be now! This release also
1131 sees the end of our TOC support, no one has been working on this in
1132 some time and its causing problems. DON'T USE IT!. Also plugin
1133 authors will want to take note of the fact that the plugin api version
1134 changed. A nice solid release for you all :-)
1136 Ethan: Once again I thought about doing some things and committed
1137 things that other people did. This development model is awesome. I
1138 helped Mark refactor some stuff and our collective code ownership
1139 helped us utilize a coherent system metaphor during our pair program-
1140 ming sessions. It was extremely extreme. Look for some hard crypto
1141 lovin' from yet another crazy contributor in the near future...
1143 Ka-Hing: I actually did something for this release... or rather, the
1144 previous release, but LSchiere2 didn't commit that until this release.
1145 So blame him. System logging is back, so you can log people's signon/
1146 off/away/idle-ness again. There may be bugs with it, I don't know, not
1147 like I use it. I will try to work on something that I will actually use
1148 for the next release.
1150 Etan: Looking for someone to pair program with.
1152 Christian: A round of applause to our crazy patch writers! Their
1153 contributions this release is impressive. WYSIWYG has come a long way
1154 since 0.76 thanks to them. Also, thanks to Felipe Contreras for his
1155 MSN contributions. We should see some good stuff going into there soon.
1156 I myself didn't do a huge amount, aside from breaking everybody's
1157 plugins, although I have some work going on in the background that will
1158 hopefully make it into release soon.
1160 0.76 (04/01/2004):
1161 Sean: Yeah, it's been a long time since the last release, and despite
1162 what others may tell you, we were just really lazy. This is pretty
1163 much just 0.75 again, but, like, someone changed the "Info" icon and
1164 I think, like, the Chinese translation may have been updated. We did
1165 nothing interesting on it at all. Others may tell you "we haven't just
1166 been lazy," or "you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat
1167 stuf in this one." They lie. All of them.
1169 Luke: Okay, normally I wait for Sean to go first, but he said to commit.
1170 Its been a few months since the last release, but we haven't just been
1171 lazy. A very long ChangeLog for you all. Most notably of course is the
1172 addition of WYSIWYG input for chats and conversations. Many thanks to
1173 DAYS of long work by Sean, Gary Kramlich, Kevin Stange, Tim Ringenbach,
1174 and Stu Tomlinson for their efforts writting, fixing, and testing
1175 this. Without the dedicated support of our crazy patch writters, this
1176 release would have taken yet longer. Sean also has yahoo working again,
1177 with some assistance from our friends over at Trillian, you may all
1178 officially rejoice. We also have a large number of bug fixes, closing
1179 more than 200 bug reports this month alone.
1181 Christian: It's been a long time between the last release, but I think
1182 you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat stuff in this one.
1183 So many bug fixes and new features. It's enough to drive a wombat mad!
1184 The new WYSIWYG input is cool stuff. You'll either love it or hate it,
1185 I guess. I'm working on some stuff that some of you are going to love,
1186 but I'm not promising it for a few more versions. It's a secret!
1188 Mark: Our crazy patch writers rock. Gary Kramlich, Tim Ringenbach,
1189 Kevin Stange, and Stu Tomlinson did an amazing job of tying up
1190 loose ends and helping get this release out the door. Thanks guys!
1192 Rob: My birthday is in a few days. I like cool stuff. Buy me something
1193 grand!!
1195 Tim: Luke said write a NEWS, so I thought I would. There's a room
1196 list dialog now. And Nathan and I doubled the number of protocols that
1197 can transfer files. After that I got lazy/busy and let Gary, Kevin,
1198 and Stu fix all the bugs.
1200 Nathan: Rob happens to share a birthday with my sister. So far she's
1201 been very vague about what she wants. She's not an easy person to shop
1202 for. As for things you probably care more about, this release has so
1203 much in it that I've forgotten about most of it. The stupidest of the
1204 bugs from 0.75 are fixed. Jabber has a first pass at file transfer
1205 support (no proxy support yet). SOCKS 5 proxy support may have gotten
1206 a little better as a side-effect. Twinkies and penguin points to all
1207 of the crazy patch writers, who did more than their fair share this
1208 release.
1210 Ethan: My birthday was yesterday, and not on the same day as Rob
1211 and Nathan's sister. And I don't mean that Rob and Nathan have the
1212 same sister. For this release, I thought about making IRC better, I
1213 thought about making Tcl better, and I committed patches from several
1214 others who actually did these things. And probably some other
1215 things, too. Let's hear it for crazy patch writers, and for the open
1216 source philosophy that lets them get so CRAZY.
1218 0.75 (01/09/2004):
1219 Rob: Woah, what's this? Me? Making a NEWS post!? Say it ain't so!
1220 That's right, kiddos, I'm finally coming out of my reclusiveness.
1221 I had a pretty shitty few months, and also just needed a break from
1222 things. But, I'm back, and that's good. Right? Yes. And now,
1223 a little word from Eric Warmenhoven.. :P
1225 Eric: Ah, Rob and Eric. Just like the good ol' days. Now, if
1226 you'll excuse me, I have to go make some commits with Led Zeppelin
1227 lyrics as my commit logs. heh. What do you mean, I look a lot
1228 like Sean Egan? I'm... oh fine, you got me. It's really just Sean
1229 in an Eric Warmenhoven costume.
1231 So, Yahoo! works again, and that's good. And 0.76 is going to have
1232 something _very_ neat.
1234 Nathan: You're running out of excuses to not use Jabber. Our chat
1235 support is now bar-some, quickly approaching bar-none! Everything
1236 else in Jabber got neat improvements too. I'll leave it up to you
1237 to figure out what they were.
1239 <boilerplate promises for cool features in $version++>
1241 Christian: I've been a bit absent this release, due to life stuff
1242 and working on some other projects. Some MSN goodies are going to be
1243 available in an upcoming version, and I have some neat Gaim-related
1244 stuff I'm working on that will hopefully see the light of day. I'd
1245 like to say good job to the other developers. Good release. (Of course,
1246 every time I say that, something breaks horribly right after we
1247 release it.)
1249 Luke: Okay, so Sean rocks and got Yahoo working again in 12 minutes.
1250 Unfortunately, he took out the chat support in doing so. So use
1251 conferences for now if you use yahoo. Users begging for file
1252 transfer support should thank Tim 'marv' Ringenbach for Yahoo ft,
1253 and everyone should be happy to note that 0.75 leaks far less than
1254 0.74. Also, a lot of other bug fixes happened that escape my notice
1255 right now.
1257 Ethan: I just want to say that now logging really doesn't eat
1258 memory 'till the cows come home. We don't think.
1260 I would like to thank each and every one of these people, and
1261 I think you should, too:
1263 Paul A, Daniel Atallah, Patrick Aussems, Brian Bernas,
1264 Jonas Birmé, Ethan Blanton (hi Mom), Joshua Blanton, Herman
1265 Bloggs, Jason Boerner, Graham Booker, Craig Boston, Chris
1266 Boyle, Jeremy Brooks, Sean Burke, Cerulean Studios LLC,
1267 Ka-Hing Cheung, Arturo Cisneros Jr., Vincas Ciziunas, Joe
1268 Clarke, Todd Cohen, Felipe Contreras, Jeramey Crawford, Mark
1269 Doliner, Nuno Donato, Jim Duchek, Tom Dyas, Andrew Echols,
1270 Sean Egan, Brian Enigma, Stefan Esser, Larry Ewing, Jesse
1271 Farmer, Gavan Fantom, Rob Flynn, Nathan Fredrickson, Free
1272 Software Foundation, Decklin Foster, Adam Fritzler, Michael
1273 Golden, Ryan C. Gordon, Christian Hammond, Andy Harrison, G.
1274 Sumner Hayes, Mike Heffner, Iain Holmes, Karsten Huneycutt,
1275 Akuke Kok, Tero Kuusela, Dennis Lambe Jr., Ho-seok Lee, Moses
1276 Lei, Ambrose C. Li, Nicolas Lichtmaier, Artem Litvinovich, Syd
1277 Logan, Matthew Luckie, Brian Macke, Paolo Maggi, Willian T.
1278 Mahan, John Matthews, Ryan McCabe, Robert McQueen, Robert
1279 Mibus, Benjamin Miller, Kevin Miller, Paul Miller, Arkadiusz
1280 Miskiewicz, Andrew Molloy, Matt Pandina, Ricardo Fernandez
1281 Pascual, Havoc Pennington, Ari Pollak, Robey Pointer, Nathan
1282 Poznick, Brent Priddy, Federicco Mena Quintero, David Raeman,
1283 Etan Reisner, Kristian Rietveld, Tim Ringenbach, Andrew
1284 Rodland, Neil Sanchala, Carsten Schaar, Luke Schierer, Torrey
1285 Searle, Jim Seymour, John Silvestri, David Smock, Mark
1286 Spencer, Lex Spoon, Kevin Stange, David Stoddard, Stu
1287 Tomlinson, Brian Tarricone, Peter Teichman, Arun A. Tharuvai,
1288 Philip Tellis, Bill Tompkins, Tom Tromey, Junichi Uekawa,
1289 Bjoern Voigt, Nathan Walp, Eric Warmenhoven, Jason Willis,
1290 Matt Wilson, Ximian, Jaroen Zwartepoorte.
1292 Thanks, all.
1294 0.74 (11/25/2003):
1295 Sean: Christian and Nathan were wrong.
1297 Ethan: I don't know how solid or good this release will be, but
1298 hopefully it's better than 0.73! Not that 0.73 didn't rock or
1299 anything, but for those users bit by its peculiar little bugs
1300 it wasn't as nice as this will be.
1302 Nathan: Jabber got some good tweaks, and logging doesn't eat
1303 memory until the cows come home. Which is good, because they
1304 said they'll be out until late.
1306 Luke: Always nice when directories get created correctly ;-)
1308 0.73 (11/21/2003):
1309 Nathan: This should be a really solid release. I fixed most if not
1310 all of the idiotic Jabber bugs from 0.72, and re-enabled the SASL
1311 login stuff, now that it is finalized in the XMPP drafts. Oh, and
1312 we now have a release notification plugin, so you can find out when
1313 the latest and greatest version of Gaim is out without breaking that
1314 reload button in your browser. There's other fun new stuff, but I
1315 forget what it is.
1317 Christian: This is a good release, as Nathan said. For all those who
1318 hated all the disconnect dialogs, we now have a {dis,re}connect{ed,}
1319 dialog that replaces all of them and shows every account that became
1320 disconnected. Also, there were some MSN fixes thrown in, such as
1321 the problem with unblocking users. My personal favorite, since it's
1322 really been bugging me for awhile, is the bug with the border on the
1323 close buttons is fixed. Oh yes, and let's not forget the new logging.
1324 It simply rocks. This is a pretty stable release, so get it. 0.74 is
1325 going to have some niceties that people have been waiting for.
1327 0.72 (10/30/2003):
1328 Sean: I think I'll go as the Gaim logo guy for Halloween. That
1329 would be a cool costume.
1331 Luke: We've had a record month for number of bugs submitted (395 as
1332 of now) this month, but the total number of bugs open has grown by
1333 less than 20, so while it might be fustrating for those of you out
1334 there who think your bug report is being ignored, know that we are
1335 doing our best to look at them all :-). This release fixes a goodly
1336 number of bugs including the troubles with signing on icq (thanks
1337 to Mark). Enjoy!
1339 Christian: Last release brought forward a lot of bug reports, such
1340 as the ICQ bug, and also trouble with installing SSL. I can't count
1341 how many people were confused as to why their MSN plugin wasn't
1342 loading. Now, it'll load regardless, and when you try to connect,
1343 it'll give you an error dialog saying to install SSL (if you don't
1344 have it installed, of course). I didn't do a whole lot this release,
1345 but that'll change with the next. There are some fun things coming.
1347 Ethan: In complete defiance of history, I did something this
1348 release. It had to do with IRC. If I type here for long
1349 enough, I'm sure I'll remember what it was... Oh yeah, all of
1350 you paranoid people can hide your local username by changing
1351 your IRC account settings. I also want to note that we are
1352 aware that building Gaim is Harder than it Should Be on
1353 Solaris, and I am seeking solutions to some of the issues
1354 there. Everyone remember to give some love to the developers
1355 who actually did something of note this release (i.e. not me)!
1357 Nathan: Jabber got a ton better this release, as I fixed most of the
1358 bugs introduced in the last release. Registration works again, and
1359 the next person to break it is going to suffer. I also fixed a
1360 handfull of other little things that I can't remember. This should
1361 be a good release.
1363 0.71 (10/09/2003):
1364 Rob: It's been a while since I've commited some news. I've had a
1365 very hectic few weeks/months. Thing are finally coming together
1366 again for me. This release features much copying and pasting. Yeah.
1368 Sean: I can't wait for everything to be core/ui split!
1370 Christian: This is a good release, and I don't think people will have
1371 too many problems. There are a lot of little nice feature additions,
1372 and much progress has been made on the core/UI split. We should be done
1373 in a couple of releases, assuming we can get the remaining two or three
1374 parts core/UI-split. Oh, and plugin authors are going to hate me again,
1375 as a lot of code (specifically, the conversations code and utility
1376 functions) changed names. This is a Good Thing (TM), as always, but may
1377 require modifications to some plugins. Not all, fortunately, but some
1378 :) Many SSL problems were fixed, though we still have some to go. If
1379 you don't have SSL, you now need it for MSN. MSN won't even load without
1380 it. Starting October 15th, the old protocol won't be supported
1381 anymore, so there's no reason to support the old one anymore.
1383 Herman: I bet some plugin authors have resorted to making voodoo dolls
1384 of Christian. Nothing new for Win Gaim users other than a fix for
1385 missing aim buddy icons, and removal of gtk-wimp (until it matures).
1387 Mark: People are going to make a voodoo doll of me and shower it with
1388 kisses and chocolate women: When an AIM user is away, you can now view
1389 the person's away message in their tooltip. This is very similar to
1390 what iChat does, only our tooltip will wrap lines rather than displaying
1391 off your screen :-)
1393 Nathan: Chocolate women are cool, but I'm a bigger fan of the real kind.
1394 I re-wrote the Jabber support from scratch, so now there's at least one
1395 person who knows what's going on with it. I got lost in the old code,
1396 even in the parts I wrote. It now supports the SASL login stuff from
1397 the XMPP protocol specs, and will automagically upgrade the conncetion
1398 to SSL if it's supported. If anything doesn't work like it did before,
1399 it's probably better, and you should be thankful for it.
1401 Ethan: I'm sure I'll be showered with all kinds of wonderful things,
1402 but I doubt it's because I did anything. The reason being that I
1403 really don't think I did anything. I meant to do some gaim_
1404 prepension and documentation for IRC and Tcl, and handle IRC errors
1405 more responsibly, but I've been meaning to do that for months.
1406 Except the Tcl part, the Tcl plugin hasn't even existed for months.
1407 I figure if I write enough NEWS no one will notice I didn't do
1408 anything during the release cycle. Oh, I did close some bugs. I
1409 didn't fix them, mind you, I just closed them. With abandon.
1410 Don't tell Luke.
1412 Luke: Mmmm, I probly did even less than Ethan, except I closed rather
1413 more bugs for other reasons. Lots of you submitting duplicate bugs.
1414 This should be a pretty good release. We still have a couple crashes
1415 in ssl stuff, but we fixed a number of the bugs in the tracker, and
1416 the code cleaning helps alot as well. Enjoy!
1418 0.70 (9/28/2003):
1419 Sean: Yahoo! works (for now). That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1420 Huge thanks to our dear friends over at Cerulean Studios, creators of
1421 Trillian, for helping us out.
1423 Nathan: This release also works out most of the kinks in the new
1424 contact support. The Jabber goodies I promised will have to wait
1425 for now.
1427 Christian: I didn't really do anything except fix a couple of issues
1428 loading protocol plugins that had plugin dependencies and getting perl
1429 to install where we tell it to. I had hoped that 0.70 would include
1430 a finished libgaim, but Yahoo kind of wrecked that dream. We'll see it
1431 within the next few releases. Life has been busy in a good way :)
1433 0.69 (9/24/2003):
1434 Sean: MSN and Yahoo! work. That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1436 Herman: Win Gaim has been around for more than a year now.. Time Flies.
1438 Nathan: {{Meta,}{Contact,Buddy},Person} support for all! Also, SSL
1439 support for Jabber makes its debut. More Jabber goodies next release.
1441 Christian: It's a good release. The main highlight really is
1442 Nathan's Contact support, which is just beautiful. My buddy list
1443 shrunk considerably. As Sean stated, MSN and Yahoo! work. MSN
1444 does not support the new MSN buddy icons and stuff, unfortunately,
1445 but we'll see about 0.70. There were a whole bunch of Perl fixes,
1446 so hopefully there will be less complaints directed to my code in
1447 that area ;) Among other new additions of mine are SSL support
1448 (both Mozilla NSS and GNUTLS), Plugin IPC (letting plugins talk to
1449 each other), and some visual niceties in the Accounts window.
1450 Ka-Hing Cheung put in animated smileys, which should please many.
1451 Yeah, good release. Just you wait until 0.70 though.
1453 Robot101: Hi mom. My patch isn't in this release. Watch for the next
1454 one.
1456 Mark: Metacontact support, yeah. Right click on a dude and
1457 select "Expand."
1459 Ethan: God bless the USA.
1461 0.68 (09/01/2003):
1462 Rob: Wow. I am so incredibly tired.
1464 Sean: School starts tomorrow! How fun! I'll have more time to hack
1465 gaim (isn't that supposed to be the reverse?)*
1467 *Some NEWS recycled from v0.10.0
1469 Nathan: I didn't do much for this release, except make Jabber
1470 registration work, and put in a slight tweak to make Gaim work a
1471 little better with jabberd2. Next release you'll all see what I've
1472 been spending my time on, but for now enjoy the fruits of everyone
1473 else's labor.
1475 Mark: I've been really busy with other stuff, but I've spent my
1476 Gaim-time on working towards a more formal translation process.
1477 Hopefully this will result in Gaim shipping with more complete
1478 translation files. Also, all our awesome translators are mentioned
1479 in the about window now.
1481 Christian: I've been really busy with this stuff. Gaim got a new
1482 signal architecture, which is just really cool. The old events system
1483 is gone. Now you connect a signal from a handle (which can be
1484 a plugin or whatever) to a function, and plugins can register their
1485 own functions, and other neat things. Oh yeah, and perl was rewritten.
1486 There's a new HOWTO in the Doxygen docs (make docs), but no API
1487 reference yet. Developers, look at the plugins/perl/common/*.xs files
1488 for now. I also wrote plugin dependencies, which will be more useful
1489 down the road. Gaim v0.69 is going to have the new MSN plugin that
1490 works with the latest MSN protocol. Please be patient for that, as
1491 we're getting a lot of MSN questions we answer over and over.
1493 Luke: Wow, I actually did something for this release besides commit
1494 translations! Well, sorta. I got permission to commit some patches
1495 so gaim now has color support for yahoo, and you can fetch some
1496 basic info on yahoo and msn users. Yay for people submitting patches!
1498 0.67 (08/14/2003):
1500 Rob: I live in Georgia. I don't care about blackouts. We only
1501 have to deal with floods and tornadoes.
1503 Sean: Fortunately me for me, I live in the only place in New York
1504 that still has power tonight! New features in 0.6@%f)*2.{\
1505 NO CARRIER
1507 Christian: I guess Sean couldn't be here to tell you about all the
1508 great new things. New stuff was done! It's simply amazing. Yeah. So,
1509 new IRC protocol plugin, tab text is greyed on events (like "So and
1510 so has signed off!"), protocol icons on tabs (thanks to Etan Reisner),
1511 some dialog rewrites.. Great stuff. Gaim's looking more teh perrty.
1512 My big "wow" thing is that the core and UI were split enough for me
1513 to remove the remaining UI code and make a patch, and libgaim was born,
1514 for experimental purposes. However, using it, I was able to make the
1515 second UI ever for Gaim - Gaim for Qtopia (Zaurus and iPaq PDAs).
1516 This is viewable at http://qpe-gaim.sf.net/ (shameless plug?). More
1517 UIs to come I hope! :) Exciting time in Gaim.
1519 0.66 (07/18/2003):
1520 Rob: Oops!!!! This reminds me of other silly things that we've
1521 done. I agree with what Herman is going to say. ;-)
1523 Sean: Man, 0.65 was so super lame and boring. But 0.66? WOW!
1524 This is the most incredible thing EVER. We've done tons of work
1525 since 0.65, and I'm really proud of what we came out with. Thanks
1526 to everyone who helped!
1528 Christian: Wow, I can't even begin to describe how long we've worked
1529 on this one. Monstrous release. Best ever! You won't even recognize
1530 it. If you've had account import problems, delete your accounts.xml
1531 and upgrade to 0.66. Just, wow.
1533 Herman: This is to make up for slipping off the two week release cycle.
1535 Luke: Okay, people, yes we did test 0.65 for bugs, but hey, some things
1536 slip through. This release makes up for that. This should fix the bugs
1537 0.65 introduced, at least the ones that most of you would otherwise hit.
1539 Nathan: We are so smart. S-M-R-T...I mean S-M-A-R-T.
1541 0.65 (07/16/2003):
1542 Rob: Wooo! We're finally ready for 0.65. Are you guys excited? I
1543 haven't worked on anything in this release, either. I've been
1544 working offline on a MacOSX UI. No, you're not allowed to ask
1545 me when it will be ready. If you ask me then I won't answer
1546 you. You've been warned! :-D
1548 Sean: Although I tend to go right here in the two slot in NEWS,
1549 we don't always commit in this order. This is the third time I've
1550 rewritten this because the jerks below me keep commiting while I'm
1551 writing causing mass conflictination. Grrr. Stupid jerks. Anyway,
1552 this is Gaim 0.65. Like other Gaim releases, this allows you to
1553 converse with people far away over the "Internet." That's about it.
1554 It's really not that interesting. In fact, I wouldn't even bother
1555 reading the other people's NEWS. It's all boring. There's some
1556 crap about forest fires and fangs and claws. It's really boring.
1557 Great, now Luke just committed NEWS causing more conflictination.
1558 I wouldn't bother reading his either. Oh, and I don't want to thank
1559 Megan (Cae) or Kevin (SimGuy). They're stupid jerks too. Grrr...
1561 Mark: I actually did stuff for this release. Go me. I probably
1562 shouldn't speak for all of us, but I'm going to anyway: We feel that
1563 this release is one of Gaim's best. It should be relatively bug
1564 free, and the code is cleaner than ever, thanks to lots of work by
1565 Christian and Nathan. We had some help from a few civilians
1566 finding and fixing bugs. Thanks to Megan (Cae), Ka-Hing Cheung
1567 (javabsp), and Kevin Stange (SimGuy) for their work. Man, I was just
1568 looking at Sean's NEWS entry for 0.64--that's talent. Also, stay
1569 in school. Just say no. Only you can prevent forest fires.
1571 Christian: This has been a great release. faceprint rocks, as he got
1572 things moving in the core/UI split by redoing preferences, which forced
1573 us to think about how things would be split. We now have XML
1574 preferences, accounts, pounces, and away messages. No more .gaimrc
1575 ugliness. The accounts and connection code now have new core/UI split
1576 APIs, and there is very little to do before our split is ready to be
1577 used. Rob and I are working off an experimental tarball of what will
1578 eventually be libgaim. He's working on a MacOS X UI (don't ask him
1579 about it, he'll ignore you) and I'm doing a Qtopia UI (you can ask
1580 about that, it's usable!). We added a new protocol, Trepia.
1581 Information about it can be found at http://www.trepia.com/. It's not
1582 complete, so don't send in bug reports about it not finding people in
1583 your local area, please. Oh, and lots of MSN bugs were fixed.
1584 Practically all the known ones. I feared 0.65 would be unstable due to
1585 our rewrites, I believe this is going to be one of the most stable
1586 releases we've had in awhile (knock on wood), thanks to Megan (Cae),
1587 who has done an amazing job at locating, categorizing and documenting
1588 the various bugs she has run into, and kevin (SimGuy). Stay tuned for
1589 upcoming releases. Neat things are coming, but if it has fangs and
1590 claws, curl into a ball. Or yell at it. I can't remember which is
1591 correct.
1593 Luke: Wow! Finally releasing 0.65! Christian, Nathan, and Mark have
1594 worked really hard for this release, all the credit goes to them.
1595 The new preferences are awesome, and there are more bugs fixed for
1596 this release than in the last 3 or 4 releases. Your MSN should work
1597 reliably again, your preferences saved, your accounts resort, the
1598 list goes on and on. A couple preferences, most notably your buddy
1599 list sorting preference won't be imported, but almost all of them
1600 will be and its probly a good idea for you to take a second look
1601 through preferences again anyway, alot of you are starting to
1602 forget that things are optional again. :-)
1604 Nathan: I think I did something for this release a while ago. I've
1605 got a mailbox full of commit emails, and some have my name on them,
1606 so I must have done something, right? Probably some minor jabber stuff,
1607 and lots of crazy bugfixes. It was a team effort, I'd like to thank the
1608 academy, our producer Rob Flynn, and of course all the fans. You rock.
1610 Herman: I was told to write something.. so here it goes. Windows users
1611 will be happy to know that they can now rearrange their Buddy Lists.
1612 I finally got stuck into GTK+ code and fixed the bug in question (this
1613 release will include a patched version of GTK+ 2.2.1). I integrated
1614 the WinGaim systray code into the docklet plugin bringing those nice
1615 docklet features (i.e. Message queuing) to WinGaim. Another major
1616 WinGaim change of note is that debug versions of all dlls can now be
1617 built, providing useful backtraces not only for gaim.dll but for the
1618 plugins as well.
1620 0.64 (05/29/2003):
1621 Rob: I didn't do anything this release either. We're under a crunch
1622 week at work. Friday is the end of the crunch. Hooray!! Thanks for
1623 all of your hard work, guys :).
1625 Sean: Unlike every other time we say, "the next release will be loaded
1626 with cool new features, this time, we really mean it. In fact, they're
1627 already in CVS (don't use CVS). The only obvious new feature for 0.64
1628 is buddy list sorting. This has been much requested and can be set in
1629 the buddy list preferences. You can sort by name, by status, and even
1630 by log file size--putting people you talk to most at the top. Plugins
1631 can even easily add their own sorting methods. It's all very cool. I
1632 want to thank Luke and Ka-Hing for their initial work on it. And yes,
1633 I did make my entire NEWS entry justified on purpose.
1635 Christian: I have a few new goodies in 0.64, but they're mostly
1636 back-end stuff that people like us care about. The things that most
1637 of you will like the most is that almost all of the reported MSN
1638 bugs were fixed. Users with an empty contact list can now login again.
1639 The friendly name bug is gone. E-mail notifications work again. Yay!
1640 We have some big changes in store for 0.65. Careful if you use CVS...
1641 Things will break. :)
1643 Mark: I never really have anything important to add. I'd just like to
1644 thank Jack Daniels for his exquisite bug reports. And whiskey.
1646 Nathan: I don't think I did anything for this release. I'm a bum.
1648 0.63 (05/16/2003)
1649 Rob: Wow, so, what can I say? I've been rather AWOL for the past few
1650 releases. However, that's okay. Work has been pretty friggin hec-
1651 tic, so, that's my excuse. Work is finally going to be slowing down
1652 some. I plan to be doing more Gaim work. That makes me happy. That
1653 makes you happy. That makes us all happy. Now, I just need to
1654 finish rebuilding my car's engine. Engine rebuilds put the FU in
1655 fun!
1657 Sean: Yay! School is finally over. I have to give tons of cherry-
1658 flavored props to everyone whose been helping out while I stayed away
1659 from Gaim to keep myself from failing again, especially Christian and
1660 Nathan.
1662 Luke: Okay, this is NOT a bug fix release, at least for those of you
1663 who use MSN. Christian put in a TON of effort rewritting the MSN prpl,
1664 mega props to him on this release. In other news, we have alot of bugs
1665 fixed, and a goodly number of the translations are more up to date
1666 than they were in earlier releases. There are some other significant
1667 changes, but they are mostly backend stuff, yay for core/ui splits ;-)
1669 Christian: As Sean and Luke said, I did a tiny bit of work in this
1670 release. The MSN prpl was rewritten, and should now work better. It's
1671 compatible with the MSNP7 protocol that MSN v4.x uses. Unfortunately,
1672 MSNP9 is being worked on. Bah. Also, it has MSN Mobile support, so you
1673 can register your MSN account with http://mobile.msn.com/ and people
1674 can page your mobile device. You can also page other MSN Mobile users.
1675 Groups are now stored on server. Oh, and due to the nature of MSNP7,
1676 conversations are timed out after 5 minutes, so you'll unfortunately
1677 see a message indicating that. Sorry! I wrote experimental support
1678 for my own implementation of MSN buddy icons. You can set them in your
1679 account settings much like with AIM, and when you talk to other gaim
1680 users, they'll get your buddy icon. This will last for a few releases,
1681 until the buddy icon implementation in the upcoming MSNP9 protocol is
1682 figured out, and we have support for that. That'll be a couple months
1683 away at least. Also, we have a rewrite of the plugin interface, so
1684 rewrite your plugins! Things are going to get very cool from it. The
1685 debug API was core/UI split, and some enhancements were made to the
1686 debug window. I think that's all from me. It's been a fun release.
1687 Stay tuned, I have some great things coming up!
1689 Nathan: It seems like 0.62 was forever and a day ago. I had to look
1690 at the ChangeLog to remember what I did. Apparently I made it so you
1691 can put chats in your buddy list. And then I tweaked a bunch of stuff
1692 and fixed a bunch of crashes. Then exams came, and then I went home
1693 for a week and left my laptop's power cable here at school, so I didn't
1694 get anything done. Jabber will get all sorts of fun new stuff for
1695 the next release. Really. ;-)
1697 0.62 (04/23/2003):
1698 Sean: This is just another standard bi-weekly Gaim release. Nothing
1699 really interesting, but it has some good bugfixes. Personally, I've
1700 been a bit removed from Gaim development lately what with school getting
1701 tough and stuff, but the rest of the guys have really been doing great
1702 work without me. Thanks, guys.
1704 Christian: I can't remember what I did here.. Think I'll take a quick
1705 look at the ChangeLog.... Okay, guess I was useless. That's okay,
1706 though, because I have some really cool stuff going into 0.63. Plugin
1707 authors will hate me for it. A rewrite of the plugins interface! This is
1708 actually a Good Thing (TM). Anyhow, upgrade to this release, and tell
1709 your friends. 33 Gaim users can't be wrong!
1711 Luke: I didn't do much here besides the odd translation patch and a
1712 couple bug fix patches. This is primarily a bug fix release, and much
1713 needed at that. Didn't get a chance to write sorting code, work has been
1714 busy. Hopeefully it will happen for 0.63.
1716 Mark: Gaim is coming along quite beautimously. I'm going to eat
1717 my Pop-tarts now.
1719 Nathan: oh dot sixty two. There are a lot of bugs fixed in this
1720 release, and one major new feature. Our Jabber plugin now supports
1721 XHTML-IM. In plain english, this means that you can now format your
1722 jabber messages, and other people will see the formatting. GtkIMHTML
1723 still needs some work to get it to parse valid XHTML-IM better, but that
1724 will come in time. That time would come sooner if my CS prof accepted
1725 "I was hacking on Gaim" as a valid excuse for an extension ;-)
1727 0.61 (04/07/2003):
1728 Rob: Nathan commited his news first. However, I'm cooler so I'm putting
1729 my entry above his. Yeah, so, there were some DnD issues with 0.60. I
1730 blame it on the rain. It was falling, falling. I blame it on the
1731 faucet. It drips all night.
1733 Sean: I committed my news after Rob. I'm cooler than Nathan (by far)
1734 but not as cool as Rob. So I go here. Actually, I didn't do anything
1735 since 0.60 other than commit some other peoples patches. The one from
1736 Dave Camp is cool. How 'bout this snow? Isn't that crazy? Oh, and
1737 thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday.
1739 Nathan: You want frequent releases? You got 'em ;-) Chip wrote some
1740 cool new pounce stuff, and things shouldn't get weird when you drag
1741 groups and buddies around. It's bad enough having 1 of some of my
1742 buddies on my list, I definitely don't need duplicates. Being that I
1743 have class in the morning, I'll just raise my juice glass for this one.
1745 Christian: I'm not as cool as Rob, Sean, or Nathan, so I go down here.
1746 Well, among some of the fixes is my new buddy pounce code! This adds new
1747 buddy pounce types, core/ui splitifies the code, and makes the dialog
1748 box spiffy. Yay frequent releases! Erm, I can't think of anything else
1749 cool to say here. Have fun, everyone!
1751 Luke: Okay, i'm probly the least cool, so I'll go last. I committed a
1752 few patches from other people here, nothing earth shattering though. The
1753 biggest thing in this release is the group re-ordering bug fix, having
1754 that fixed will make for fewwer questions. Get used to using releases
1755 people, we want to use cvs for actual development :-).
1757 Mark: I didn't want to write any news without actually having done
1758 anything, so I fixed a meaningless compile warning. Boo-yeah.
1760 Sean: Luke can't spell "fewer". How un-cool is that?
1762 0.60 (04/04/2003):
1763 Rob: Wow. So, it has been a really long time since we started the
1764 gtk2 fork. It's finally ready for public consumption. Sean is about
1765 to go out and buy a case of beer. My roommate is downstairs right
1766 now pouring me a shot of his choice. Everyone, raise your beers if
1767 you've got them. It's been a cool almost 10-months of development.
1768 I hope you all enjoy. Drink'em if you got'em!
1770 Sean: I'm writing this 3 minutes before my 21st birthday. Nobody can
1771 believe we're finally ready to relase 0.60. Many thanks to everyone
1772 who helped out; I'm convinced that Gaim 0.60 is the best IM client to
1773 date (only to be bested by 0.61). There's WAY too much stuff to mention.
1774 Even the ChangeLog is somewhat incomplete. Yay, I'm 21 now! Everyone
1775 enjoy! :)
1777 Nathan: Happy birthday Sean! Rob decided to let me start cleaning up
1778 after everyone, so here I am. "sexy" is the only word that can be used
1779 to describe 0.60. Prepare to be shocked and amazed. /me raises his
1780 (shot) glass ;-)
1782 Christian: Geeeeeze this took a long time. Worth it though! Personally,
1783 I thought we'd all just give up on releases altogether and tell
1784 everybody just to grab CVS. I'm pretty happy with this release. I was
1785 able to contribute quite a bit to it. Makes me feel proud to be a gaim
1786 developer! I'm really looking forward to the future releases. I have
1787 some neat stuff planned. Yay, I'm still 19! Mmmm, Sierra Mist. Make me a
1788 sammich!
1790 Mark: Whoops, I started drinking a little earlier than I was supposed
1791 to. I guess I missed the memo. Hmm, I ate at a restaurant somewhere,
1792 I think it was at Snowshoe, and the menu had "sammiches" on it. It was
1793 pretty sweet. I'd like to give a shout out to all the Gaim
1794 devizelopers for rizocking the hizzy the past few months. Word.
1797 0.59 (06/24/2002):
1798 Rob: I guess Sean is busy at home or something and Jim is asleep.
1799 I'm very tired but it's time for a release. Enjoy. :)
1800 SORRY FOR THE DELAY. :(
1802 Sean: It's been a long time since our last release, and for no
1803 good reason either. Rob and I just haven't been able to get together
1804 to do it. But now we have. Aside from some Jabber changes and some
1805 crucial MSN fixes, most of this release's changes are transparent,
1806 but none-the-less important. Well get some better changes when my
1807 computer works again, you have my word*
1809 *My word is worthless.
1812 0.58 (05/13/2002):
1813 Rob: Yeah, so, my computer has been bad which is why the release
1814 didn't go out on time. Oh well. I would like to welcome
1815 Jim Seymour aboard the development team. He's going to be taking
1816 over the work on our Jabber code as well as doing various other
1817 nit picking. He likes to pick nits, nats, and umm, knots, I think.
1819 Sean: This release has a long ChangeLog. Higlights include an
1820 important security fix for MSN and a few nice new features.
1821 Not *much* cooler than 0.57--but we're making progress ;)
1823 Jim: Hmmm... Rob said I have to say *something*, so here it is:
1824 Rob's a mango.
1826 0.57 (04/25/2002):
1827 Rob: Not too much in this release, as Sean said below. (This is
1828 what happens when the bottom person goes first.) New translation,
1829 a few fixes, secure msn hotmail logins, blah blah blah. As Sean
1830 said, the next release will be cooler. If only you could read
1831 our minds ;-).
1833 Sean: Nothing too special here, but a critical Yahoo fix that
1834 ensures Yahoo! will work when they discontinue the old protocol
1835 all the other 3rd party clients are using. Next release will be
1836 cooler, I promise.
1838 0.56 (04/11/2002):
1839 Rob: Well, what do you know. I have another headache. I always have
1840 these damned headaches. I got pissed off with the way GtkTree looks.
1841 I wanted to move to using GtkCTree. I think they're pretty.
1842 Unfortunately, GtkCTree sucks. After a little digging through
1843 the code, I managed to molest GtkTree into looking like
1844 GtkCTree. Thanks to everyone that helped track down that one
1845 annoying style problem.
1847 Sean: Hello. This is another minor release while Rob and I finish
1848 up on some bigger projects. We're reworking a lot of the UI to make
1849 it easier to use, nicer looking, and more compatible with gtk2.
1850 I've also been trying to bring the Yahoo plugin up to date, so it
1851 will work for Indian users and avoid a potential problem in the near
1852 future.
1854 0.55 (03/29/2002):
1855 Rob: 0.55 is here. I've been away for a few days on business. Sean
1856 has been on Spring Break. Therefore, this release is mostly a patch
1857 release. It does fix some bugs and makes a few thing slightly cooler,
1858 so it's better in that aspect, I suppose. Enjoy.
1860 Sean: This is mostly a bugfix release. I'm on Spring Break, not
1861 doing any coding at all. But lots of people sent in great patches
1862 anyway. Thanks guys!
1864 0.54 (03/14/2002):
1865 Rob: Well, here we are. 0.54. We got a lot of fun things in this
1866 release. Better working SSI, Image sending, protocol specific
1867 smiley faces, and a whole lot of triscuits. *gobble*
1869 Sean: We fixed a lot of bugs in this one, and probably introduced
1870 a bunch too. ;) We were both really busy, and did all the coding
1871 late at night when we were tired, so if something isn't working,
1872 it's probably just tired code. Enjoy the triscuits!
1874 0.53 (02/28/2002):
1875 Rob: Well, we missed yesterday's release. That's Okay, I head a
1876 nasty headache. You can all just deal. ;-)
1879 Sean: Neat Goodies! Whee!! Oscar got a lot of great additions.
1880 It can do Screen Name formatting, it can save and store your buddy
1881 list on the server, it can do typing notifications in Direct
1882 Connections, and yes, it can receive IM Images! Sending images will
1883 be added in the next release. MSN and Yahoo! can do typing
1884 notification too. Hooray!
1887 0.52 (02/17/2002):
1888 Rob: Well, after a long delay we're finally ready for another release.
1889 I finally got settled into my new apartment, the new job is going
1890 well, and I finally have internet connectivity again. You can expect
1891 us to be back on our usually bi-monthly schedule. Enjoy these fixen,
1892 as they resolve a few connectivity issues. :-)
1894 Sean: It looks like things are back on track now. Eric left which is
1895 sad. He's done so much for Gaim, and I know we're all thankful.
1896 Thanks Eric! I'll be stepping in and do more development, but I can
1897 never replace Eric. This release fixes a long-standing problem in
1898 MSN. If you've gotten errors when trying to connect to MSN, you want
1899 this release. If you've suddenly found yourself unable to connect to
1900 Yahoo!, you want this release too. The "neat goodies" will be in the
1901 next release ;)
1903 Rob: Operation Evil does not exist! ;-)
1906 0.51 (01/24/2002):
1907 Rob: Well, here we go. I FINALLY got around to making a release
1908 after over a month, Sorry for the delay, all. Things got really
1909 hectic around the gaim house hold. This release isn't as complete
1910 as I had hoped, but I promised to get something out. There's some
1911 neat goodies in mind for the next release, right Sean? :-)
1914 0.50 (12/13/2001):
1915 Rob: I am tired. Tonight was weird. Bleh!!!!
1917 Eric: I second that.
1919 0.49 (11/29/2001):
1920 Rob: *still mamboing*
1922 Whew! That was a bad little mambo. I hope everyone had a nice
1923 little Holiday, if you celebrate. If not, then I hope you had
1924 a sucky weekend. :-D.
1926 Oh, lots of cheese for everyone!! (Beware the duffle)
1928 It's getting cloudy. I think it's going to storm somethin'
1929 fierce. That's my southern talk. Do you like it?
1931 Eric: I want to be like you.
1933 Do the cha cha cha!
1935 0.48 (11/18/2001):
1936 Rob: Hi! It's 4:12am! I'm watching The Simpsons. :).
1937 Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking! :) There's not
1938 too much for me to say in this release. I'd just like to
1939 thank Eric for his hard work. :)
1941 Eric: Everybody mambo!
1943 0.47 (11/01/2001):
1944 Rob: Hi. Gaim v0.47 has been released, as you should already
1945 know. I hope all of you had a nice little halloween. There are
1946 quite a number of changes in this release. There are a few too
1947 many to list here, so I will redirect you to ye olde ChangeLog.
1949 Eric: Remember back in the day when TOC was the only protocol
1950 Gaim could use? Remember the login window from back then? Back
1951 before Gaim had perl or plugins or multiple connections or
1952 10 different protocols. Things have changed so much since then.
1953 Many more changes in this release as well. All good things.
1954 Don't forget to talk to SmarterChild.
1956 0.46 (10/18/2001):
1957 Rob: Hey guys! The smores were great! I really enjoyed meeting
1958 up with all of you guys and singing campfire songs. It was
1959 really awesome. Thanks for the beer, too. Next time, it's on me.
1961 This release has quite the number of bug fixes. I won't bother
1962 going into detail here. Just ust it, love it, live it - SEGA!
1964 Eric: Lots of fixes. Things compile well now. ICQ has stopped
1965 crashing on PPC and Sparc. If you know someone who isn't using
1966 Gaim because it was unstable, please get them to try this
1967 version. It's much better, I promise.
1969 0.45 (10/04/2001):
1970 Eric: Well, it seems that the time has come for yet another
1971 release. There are several yummy additions in this release, and
1972 quite a few useful bugfixes as well. Unfortunately it seems that
1973 Rob is currently unavailable; he joins us in spirit. He'll be
1974 joining us later for a group sing-along and smores by the
1975 campfire. But for now, you'll need to keep yourselves occupied
1976 with 0.45. And remember, a happy hacker is a pimpin' penguin.
1978 0.44 (09/20/2001):
1979 Rob: Another release has come upon us. There were actually quite
1980 a number of things in ye old ChangeLog for this release. I don't
1981 feel like talking about them here, so you can read about them
1982 in ... you guessed it .. the ChangeLog. Oh, and if you're
1983 wondering about setting buddy icons, wait til 0.45 or
1984 use CVS shortly after this release. ;-)
1986 Eric: You should all be using CVS anyway. This has become the
1987 slogan in our IRC room, #gaim on irc.openprojects.net. The IRC
1988 plugin got lots of updates (mostly because I felt bad about using
1989 X-Chat for IRC when gaim supposedly had an IRC plugin), so you
1990 should load the plugin and join us. :)
1992 0.43 (09/06/2001):
1994 Rob: Well, I knew that the day would eventually come. I just didn't
1995 expect it to be so soon. ;-). Yes, that's right, Eric and I finally
1996 got sick of all of the pre releases. We didn't want to make this
1997 release an official 0.11.0. We thought that it would cause a lot
1998 of confusion. We didn't want to continue our trend of prereleases
1999 either. So, since gaim was first released officially, there
2000 have been 42 releases. This is number 43, hence the 0.43 version
2001 number. We're going to stick with this trend from now on. :-).
2003 Eric: We're also going to be starting a release early, release
2004 often trend, that hopefully we'll stick to this time. Hopefully
2005 we'll be putting out a new release every two weeks or so. You
2006 should all be using CVS anyway :) And as always, don't forget to
2007 report bugs! Anyway, since there's only been 9 days since the
2008 last release not much has changed. A bug-fix release and a version
2009 change mostly :)
2011 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
2012 Eric: This isn't a real release. Really. It's just a quick thing
2013 because pre14 doesn't cut it for some people. Also not counting
2014 the month break that I took it's been a month since the last
2015 release, so it's about time. You should all be using CVS anyway.
2016 Instructions are at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/cvs.shmtl. And
2017 don't forget to report bugs! http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php3.
2019 Rob: Hey guys. I've been rather inactive as well. It's a long
2020 story, but essentially, my company layed off a bunch of people,
2021 myself included, due to poor management. I've taken a new
2022 job which required moving across the country. I'm finally back
2023 online. Once I manage to actually get a desk at home I'll be
2024 able to code with out infliciting intense pain upon my lower
2025 back and neck. So, basically, we were inactive, but not dead.
2027 Also, just to keep you all updated, the AOL battle is still
2028 in progress. Our lawyers are still in negotiation with thiers.
2029 We'll keep you updated with what happens.
2031 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
2032 Eric: Wee. Lots of fun things. BIG bug fix release. I did a lot of
2033 stupid things in the last one, hehe. You all forgive me though,
2034 right?
2036 Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.
2037 Remember that. It's a great Scott Adams quote.
2039 Rob: I feel naughty. I should have released this a lot earlier
2040 in the day. I have a problem though. I started cooking, invited
2041 a couple friends over for dinner and then took a walk to a
2042 24hr doughnut shop where I sat outside and talked about
2043 random stuff. Oh well, at least it's still before the 18th.
2045 Enjoy this release guys! :-)
2048 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
2049 Rob: \O. Howdy doodie! This release isn't coming too far behind
2050 the previous release but hey, what can ya say, there were a couple
2051 of good fixes in this one. Jabber & IRC can set / view the topics
2052 of chat rooms now, napster doesnt crash on bad login names and
2053 passwords, and the man page got a big update.
2055 Well, that's about all, folks. Next release, I hope to try to get
2056 group MSN chat support added as well as DCC support in the IRC
2057 plugin.
2059 Peace!
2061 Eric: I apologize if any of you had to restart your X server because
2062 of me. This release won't make you have to do that, I promise. There
2063 were a couple other minor fixes with the buddy icon stuff, it still
2064 has a way to go but at least it's better than it was before. Oh yeah,
2065 and Oscar is able to sign on again.
2067 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
2068 Rob: Hi! O/. My girlfriend was visiting me so I've been busy being
2069 unavailable online. Hooray.
2071 There have been a lot of good changes in this release. Some improved
2072 dialogs, some updates to IRC and MSN, as well as a nifty little thing
2073 that Eric did that I'll let him tell you about.
2075 Oh yeah, I also got food poisoned by bad eggs. Ugh!
2077 Eric: Every protocol except TOC has been improved since the last
2078 release. All of them except Zephyr and ICQ now use the same proxy
2079 options, which you can set in the preferences. ICQ can use them if
2080 you set it to Socks5 though.
2082 There are a bunch of other good additions and fixes for each
2083 protocol which you can read about in the ChangeLog. And, there's one
2084 super cool feature that everyone seems to be asking for: Buddy Icons.
2085 Right now you can only receive them and only in Oscar, but hey, they're
2086 there.
2088 So that's it. Have fun with it :)
2090 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
2091 Rob: I bought a big carton of juice today. It is now 50% empty.
2092 A lot of the plugins got some new options and/or improvements. I
2093 have a headache right now, though, so I won't say much. I'll let
2094 Eric talk :)
2096 Eric: I uh. I bought 72 cans of soda yesterday. It only cost $15
2097 or so. I figure I'll be through it in less than two weeks. A
2098 dollar a day on soda isn't so bad. For the fourth release in a row,
2099 Oscar is fixed. Isn't that exciting. Judging from history I'd say
2100 that it won't stay fixed long; but judging from what I know has
2101 changed, we shouldn't have any more troubles.
2103 Rob: --. .- .. -- / .. ... / --. .-. . .- - --..-- / --. .- .. -- /
2104 .. ... / --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-
2106 I don't have a headache anymore! Hooray! Eric got a good deal on those
2107 drinks. I bought some bananas. They're very green. Oh, and I cooked
2108 a steak last night. It was 16 oz. It was good.
2110 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
2111 Rob: EEP! It's Friday the 13th!!! I think I fixed a few buggies
2112 in MSN and then added some new features to IRC. I have a headache
2113 right now, though, so I won't talk much. I think I'm going to go
2114 to sleep. Next release, I should have a good bit more done on
2115 IRC and will have made Napster more stable. Have fun!!
2117 Eric: There's a new protocol plugin, Zephyr. Don't use it! unless
2118 you know what Zephyr is, and have zhm set up correctly. Also there
2119 were a lot of other good bugfixes (like registering for Jabber
2120 accounts!) and a few neat features. In this release, Oscar is also
2121 working, but we'll see how long that lasts, eh?
2123 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
2124 Rob: Well, looks AOL was doing something naughty earlier this
2125 morning. Thanks to a very nice guy named Adam Fritzler (you
2126 all know him from libfaim) we're now back online. Thanks,
2127 Adam. I'll buy you a drink sometime :-).
2129 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
2130 Eric: Oo wow :) So I guess the big news is that this release should
2131 help you avoid the battle between Jabber and AOL. Most protocols
2132 got a few good bugfixes; thanks to people who pointed them out :).
2133 Hopefully for the next release I'll make it so you can register a
2134 jabber.org account, and then you can support Jabber using Gaim.
2135 I think (I *think*) Oscar blocking is working now. Haha, get it?
2136 Oscar blocking? It took me a while to get it, too. But no, really,
2137 I think that the permit/deny list in Oscar might be working.
2139 Rob: MSN got some fixes and should be really stable now. It had
2140 a little 100% CPU eating bug but that's taken care of now. Next
2141 on my list of repairs is the napster plugin. It works -- sorta --
2142 sometimes. Heh. As all of you probably know already, our Oscar
2143 support was broken yesterday. There's a little battle going on
2144 between AOL and Jabber and we caught a bullet during the crossfire.
2145 I think I just won the award for the most cliches used in one
2146 paragraph, as a matter of fact. ;-).
2148 ** Good luck to the Jabber guys in getting this resolved **
2151 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
2152 Rob: Hey! I finally rewrote the MSN plugin. Sorry, I'm just
2153 a lazy code whore sometimes, heheh. It pretty much has the same
2154 functionality as before with the exception of instability. I
2155 didn't really like that feature very much so I removed it. I hope
2156 you guys don't mind too terribly much ;-).
2158 Eric: In this week's installment of gaim you'll find a new Yahoo!
2159 library and an option to have all conversations in one window,
2160 in addition to numerous bug fixes and other improvements. Don't
2161 forget to send us your feedback. If there's something you want
2162 added, changed, or fixed, head over to our SourceForge page at
2163 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ and tells us about it.
2166 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
2167 Eric: Yay! I get to go first!
2169 The biggest change in this release is the TODO file. Lots of things
2170 got added. There's going to be a lot of prereleases. Please help.
2171 Other than that it's mostly just a lot of bugfixes. Oscar got a few
2172 new features. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
2173 and tell us what you'd like to see in gaim. We've gotten a lot of
2174 great requests so far, thanks.
2176 I think I like releasing every week.
2178 Rob: I've been bad so Eric got to go first. The biggest change
2179 In this release is the NEWS file. It's the only thing I contributed
2180 to! heh, just kidding. This is a bug fix release, as Eric said.
2181 Next release will contain my newly rewritten MSN plugin. You guys
2182 should be happy with it :).
2184 Oh yeah, TUCAN rocks :) Oh yeah, Eric rocks too.
2187 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
2188 Rob: Yeah, I promise this is the last pre-release :-D. That seems
2189 to be a pretty common saying around here, huh? Well, I must first
2190 appologize. The protocols that I was working on really should be
2191 much more developed at this point -- they should be completed,
2192 actually. Unfortunately, my real life job (yes, I have one hehe) got
2193 a little too busy and ate up all of my free time. I promise that
2194 things will get better now :).
2196 Eric: I don't promise that this is the last pre-release. :) But
2197 hopefully releases can start coming more often than once every two
2198 months. I don't really have much else to say. It's been a slow
2199 couple of months.
2201 Rob: I promise to hack gaim again. Please don't hate me.
2203 0.11.0-pre4:
2204 Rob: HOORAY FOR DISNEYLAND!
2206 Eric: One more prerelease. I'm actually starting to think these
2207 prereleases are a good idea; a lot of people reported a lot of
2208 bugs in pre3 and most of them are fixed now. Also, it helps with
2209 the whole release early-release often philosophy.
2211 The big news in this prerelease is two more protocols: Jabber and
2212 Napster. Both of them don't have any of the features that make
2213 these services cool, yet. You can't use the transports in Jabber
2214 and you can't download file in Napster. But you will be able to,
2215 soon :)
2217 Rob and I are going on vacation starting today until after New
2218 Year's, which is a lot of the reason we wanted to get this release
2219 out; it's much improved over pre3. Happy Holidays everyone.
2221 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
2222 Rob: Well, I hadn't initially planned on an 0.11.0pre3 but it
2223 looks like it was needed. That's not necessarially a bad thing,
2224 mind you. It just means you get to see more goodies!
2226 This release includes some other fun features. See the ChangeLog
2227 for more information. Also found in this wonderful release is
2228 an MSN plugin. For all of you who have been holding onto Windows
2229 simply because you have friends on MSN Messenger that you don't want
2230 to leave, this plugin is for you! :)
2232 Guys, make sure you send us bug reports; preferably on the
2233 SourceForge bug report forum at
2234 http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/. This will allow both
2235 Eric and I to handle the bugs and will prevent either one of us
2236 from losing the bug reports that are sent via AIM :-)
2238 Eric: Hey everybody, Rob and I really want to hear what you guys want
2239 to see in gaim. Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim and
2240 leave a message in the Open Discussion forum. We've gotten a lot of
2241 good ideas so far (most of them didn't make it into this release,
2242 unfortunately).
2244 If any of you want to test out your mad coding skills, I can think of
2245 a few projects that would be incredibly useful. Send me or Rob an IM
2246 and we'll let you know how you can help. And don't forget to read the
2247 HACKING file to see how gaim's put together.
2249 This is hopefully going to be the last prerelease; now that all the
2250 protocols that we're going to be doing for 0.11.0 are available it's
2251 mostly just going to be hacking on them and getting them in usable
2252 condition before the final release. Don't forget to send us bug
2253 reports ;)
2255 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
2256 Rob: I messed up. Oh well, it's fixed.
2258 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
2259 Rob: Hey guys! Guess what!? Yup, you're correct! It's the pre1
2260 release of 0.11.0. We have all sorts of goodies in this release!
2261 Check out the ChangeLog file. As always if you find any bugs,
2262 please report them on www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/
2264 You may find several small bugs as this is still a prerelease.
2266 You may want to note that my IRC plugin does not have full
2267 functionality as of yet. All of the important / commands will be
2268 added before the final release. Also, if someone could send me
2269 some good buddylist pixmaps for the irc plugin then I'd much
2270 appreciate it. Thanks to everyone who made this new release possible!
2272 If you have any ideas, comments, or suggestions, please let us know
2273 either by e-mail or via the source forge message board at the URL
2274 above. :)
2277 Eric: So what was Yay! For Gaim!? Yay was the codename for the
2278 Yahoo plugin. The whole point of all of these changes was I wanted to
2279 make a proof-of-concept plugin that would let Gaim sign into Yahoo. It
2280 turned out to be pretty much impossible with the old code. So,
2281 Rob and I hacked gaim so we could do just that. There's now a whole new
2282 class of plugins, Protocol Plugins, that let users dynamically add new
2283 protocols to Gaim. Just load the plugin, and create a new account that
2284 uses that protocol, and you're set! Yay! (Oscar and TOC are both still
2285 static. Gaim is, after all, primarily an AIM client.)
2287 Lots of people have been very generous and contributed a lot of
2288 time and effort to writing some really nice patches for gaim since
2289 the last release. To all of you, a big thanks.
2291 0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
2292 Rob: I am dumb.
2293 Eric: I am not dumb.
2295 0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
2296 Rob: What do you want me to say for yours?
2297 Eric: What happened since the last release?
2298 Rob: You got DSL.
2299 Eric: Oh yeah, I'm more available now.
2300 Rob: On a more serious note, this is just a quick release
2301 to hold everyone over. Look for some very awesome things
2302 coming in the next version. I can't say what, just yet,
2303 but what I can say is, Yay! For Gaim!
2305 0.10.1 (09/15/2000):
2307 Rob: Hi Hi Hi! Yet another gaim release pushed out the door
2308 for you guys. I hope you all enjoy it. There was a few minor
2309 issues cleared up in this version as well as the repair of
2310 OSCAR support. Hopefully we won't run into the same problem
2311 as before. Oh well ;-). There's also a few small extra goodies
2312 in here for you guys just check out the Change Log. I hope you all
2313 enjoy and take care!
2315 Eric: Wanna know what the Oscar problem was? You'll laugh. 2 bytes.
2316 The fix was changing 0x07da to 0x0686. Anyway, aside from the fix
2317 for that, there are a couple other good things. Beware of DSL nazis.
2318 They won't give you service until 6 weeks after you order it. So um,
2319 yeah.
2321 0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
2322 Rob: Well peoples, I know that it's been a while since our
2323 last release. Here we go. Some brand spankin' new interfaces
2324 for you guys to oogle at. I hope you all enjoy it. Hopefully
2325 our next release won't take as long to finish up. Real life
2326 kind of crept up on Eric and I and took up a lot of our times.
2327 Life sucks that way sometimes. Anyways, we're back and all
2328 is well. Thanks for hanging in there guys and we hope
2329 you enjoy it!
2331 Eric: LWE was so cool. Rob and I met up there, we had a blast. But I
2332 only got to go for one day and Rob got to go for three. Lucky bastard.
2333 It's been so long since the last release that I don't even remember
2334 what's changed. But all of it is good :) Like Rob said, all kinds of
2335 new UI stuff. I think there are some new features in there too. Now
2336 I'm headed back to school so I'll have more time to hack gaim (isn't
2337 that supposed to be the reverse?), just as soon as I get my internet
2338 connection back >:-/ .
2340 Rob: Oh yeah, some of our pixmaps may need a little work. We took
2341 a lot of them from the Gnome Stock icons. If anyone could do some
2342 custom ones that stay within the 24x24 boundary and keep the same
2343 idea and feel as the gnome icons then we would be more than happy
2344 to use them. Thanks much!! Viva la LWE.
2347 0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
2348 Rob: Well, guys, I hope you enjoy this version. I've done quite a bit
2349 of work to the user interface. It's still not in the state that I
2350 would like it to be, though. Over the next few versions you will
2351 notice a few more interface changes as we try to bring a more
2352 professional look to Gaim. As always, we will stay true to our
2353 pimpin' penguin atittude.
2355 Eric: While Rob's been busy making things pretty, I've been busy
2356 making things work :). The chat and IM windows got merged, which
2357 means that they both have the same features (notably, IM has /me
2358 and chat has font/color dialogs and smileys). Also smileys should
2359 work better in general now (thanks fflew).
2361 Rob: By the way, what Eric is saying is that he's smart and I'm
2362 not and that he does all of the work and I sit on my butt all
2363 day and claim to do work. WOOO! Just kidding, brother :-P
2366 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
2367 Rob: PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2368 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2369 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2371 All of that nonsense aside, there are a few things that DIDN'T happen
2372 in this version of gaim. The user interface changes will wait until
2373 the 0.9.20 release. We've decided to turn 0.9.19 into a "new feature
2374 and major bug fix" release. All/Most major bugs should be worked out
2375 now. We're sorry about the problem of segfaulting when your buddylist
2376 stored on the server was null. Oops! We won't let it happen again,
2377 we promise.
2379 Eric: Lots of good changes in this one, including locale support. Chat
2380 had a lot of things done to it, but it's still not finished. The UI
2381 didn't get the overhaul we were planning, but we wanted to get a few
2382 bugfixes out.
2384 Lemme say something about reporting bugs. Please do. Please try to give
2385 as much information as you can. But regardless of how much information
2386 you give, please be POLITE. If you tell us our software is crap then
2387 we're probably not going to respond well.
2389 Rob: Before I close up and say goodnight, I'd like to say that I
2390 agree with Eric. Reporting problems and/or helpful criticism in
2391 a polite manner always yields the best results. Peace all, and
2392 happy hacking.
2394 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
2395 Rob: Talk about release early, release often - sheesh! We're going
2396 insane. Ya know, I'm not too happy with the Gaim UI. I dont know
2397 how the rest of you feel but it's time for a nice overhaul. In the
2398 next few days I'll be sitting down with some of my friends and coming
2399 up with an improved interface. I hope you all enjoy it. It'll
2400 include better looking dialogs, icons, sounds (hopefully lol), etc.
2402 And -- for your random silly message of the day --
2404 "Beans and Franks, Beans and Franks, Wine And Beer, Have No Fear!
2405 I can sing! I can dance! I have a penguin in my pants!"
2407 - Rob Flynn after not having enough sleep.
2409 Eric: I've had less sleep than Rob, I can guarantee you that. There's
2410 actually a lot going on in this release, despite 2 releases 2 days ago.
2411 Don't ask me how; I think the elves had something to do with it.
2413 Oscar support is almost to the point where I'm considering removing
2414 the 'experimental' label from configure. For those of you brave enough
2415 to try it, I'd like feedback. (And if you happen to write a patch to
2416 fix some of the stuff that would be really cool too.) Hopefully for the
2417 next release, in addition to the cool new UI, Gaim/Faim will be able to
2418 do nearly everything Gaim/TOC can do. (Big things coming in 0.9.19, I
2419 can feel it....)
2421 And just remember, you *can* have too many gummi candies. Especially if
2422 you eat nearly a whole kilo of them. Believe me. I know. But the gummi
2423 cherries are damn good.
2425 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
2426 Rob: I am an e-mail fiend!
2427 (after receiving 60 emails within a 5 minute period about a problem
2428 and responding to all of them immediately)
2430 I am stupid.
2432 Eric: Heh heh. 2 releases in one day. I'm impressed. Maybe one of these
2433 times we'll actually get some of it right ;) Anyway, yeah. Just bug fixes in
2434 this one.
2436 Rob: Yeah, we wouldn't be ourselves if we released it once and got it
2437 right, would we? :-)
2439 0.9.16:
2440 Rob: Blah Blah Blah.
2442 Eric: Looks like Rob didn't have much to say, so I'll write something
2443 instead :)
2445 There's a few good things in this release, the most important of them
2446 being: Better proxy support, of course. Oh yeah, and you can sign on now,
2447 so that's a good thing too. There's a few more good things going on in this
2448 release, so check out the ChangeLog.
2450 Play nicely, and we'll keep hacking away at it.
2452 Rob: Go Watch `Road Trip'.
2454 0.9.15:
2455 Hey boy's and girls. There's not much to say here this time.
2456 We're loving Southern California, the new job's going great. We just
2457 got our company website up and the product development is going pretty
2458 smooth. Life's pretty sweet now.
2460 We've hacked up all kinds of goodies for you in 0.9.15. There's
2461 some file transfer (receive) support for those of you who have been
2462 wanting it for a while. There's some other misc. goodies tossed in as
2463 well. Enjoy!! Oh yeah, we need a new website. Come up with a sweet
2464 design and get in touch with me. The current site is at:
2465 http://www.marko.net/gaim
2467 Thanks much!
2470 0.9.14:
2471 Well, there's a few random hacks and fixes in here, along with
2472 a little suprise. You guessed it, kiddos, support for plugins! Happy
2473 hacking!
2475 0.9.13:
2476 Not much to say for this release. Bug fixes, That's all. Look
2477 for the goodies I promised in 0.9.13 to appear in 0.9.14 which should be
2478 released very soon now.
2480 By the way, our CVS is now hosted over at source forge. Go check
2481 it out at http://www.sourceforge.net. Please check there before submitting
2482 any bug reports (You can read our CVS comments to see if we have fixed any
2483 problems).
2485 0.9.12:
2486 Well guys, looks like we got some nifty things in this version.
2487 TrueType Fonts are supported for those XFSTT buffs out there (or whatever
2488 else you use). A crap load of those plaguing memory leaks have FINALLY been
2489 fixed. My brother, Jeramey, and a new friend Peter Teichan helped stomp
2490 those babies out. A rad guy by the name of Eric Warmenhoven has been
2491 really sweet lately and has all but rewritten the Gnome Applet support :).
2492 He submitted patch after patch. I finally got annoyed with him (just kidding bud)
2493 and gave him CVS access. Look for Gnome Applet support in Gaim to start improving.
2494 That's about all for now. I wanted to get this release out there. File Receive
2495 support will be in 0.9.13 which is due out soon.
2497 0.9.11:
2498 Jeramey got a new Comfy Chair! Its very very comfy! Whee!
2499 Jim also had a little hyper-drunken moment and started hacking away at
2500 a new configuration format for Gaim. Looks like we're running .gaimrc
2501 version 1 now. Gotta love it. I got bored and hacked in a couple font
2502 properties that will, in time, contain more features. That's about it
2503 for this version -- cept for that memory leak we fixed. Shush! We're
2504 not plumbers! -- rob
2506 ** Extra special update **
2508 Well guys, it looks like we all stopped working on gaim, moved to California,
2509 and took up a new job. Don't worry though, those beach bums out here havent
2510 worn off on us yet. I've decided to pick up the Gaim torch myself and continue
2511 development ont he prohect. Hopefully we wont have any more five month braks in
2512 the project. Sorry about that, guys :)
2514 0.9.10:
2515 Umm. Dont ask. Silly memory leak. For those of you who
2516 wondered, you were losing about 256 bytes every 25 seconds for each
2517 person you have on your contact list. Make fun of us. Better yet ..
2518 Send us beer. We'll do better :)
2520 0.9.9:
2521 Welp, All of you boys and girls who run Mandrake and have some
2522 problems with Gaim working properly, please check out the FAQ file. It
2523 contains a nice fix submitted by one of our users. I hope this works for
2524 you guys!
2525 Jim appears to have intoxicated himself. This is, as always, a
2526 Good Thing (tm). His late-night adventure with the liquid-bread food group
2527 lead to the birth of a nice little feature called `The Lag-O-Meter'. Dont
2528 ask, just try it out :). It is pretty pointless if you have a super-fast
2529 connection but if you are a modem user, like many of us are, then try it out.
2530 There's also some idle preferences and some other little random
2531 bug fixes. Check'em out yo :)
2533 0.9.8:
2534 Get Along Lil' Doggies. Heh. Looks like we have yet another new
2535 version of gaim for you guys to play with. Be gentle now, it has a few
2536 new fetures. The HTML widget is now more robust and we have *da da da*
2537 HTTP proxy support.
2538 Oh By The Way, Do not pay too much attention to what we are doing
2539 with this release. We are all a little bit happy tonight. You must love
2540 life. This is a special release of gaim. We will be releasing some wonderful
2541 photographs soon .. or perhaps if we get the bloody webcam working then we
2542 will take a couple of quick snapshots.
2543 Looks like the Gaim developers convention (cool name huh) that we
2544 had this weekend in Auburn, AL went wonderfully :). yum yum yum. Hahahah. Oh
2545 by the way. Beware of insecure rednecks in the deli. Bad things.
2546 In (non)related news, Jeramey could not successfully slaughter the
2547 one pound hamburger that he ordered. (I think he could have done it but he
2548 wasn't feeling very well at the time).
2549 Oh Yes, New Logo Too :) You likes? Thanks, Naru!
2550 Just a little side-note: it looks like we didnt make the release that
2551 we had expected during the Gaim Convention. Maybe we partied too much? I am
2552 not sure. I remember watching the sun rise before I went to bed, though.
2553 Oh well. Here's your release! Enjoy!
2554 By The Way, we have uploaded our party pictures to a website.
2555 http://www.dorky.net/gaim/party/ They are nothing spectacular but I hope you
2556 enjoy them! :).
2558 0.9.7:
2559 Well, boys and girls, it's that time again! Yup, time for the good
2560 release fairy to come bless us with her infinite wisdom and divine presence.
2561 Umm, yeah, something like that. Anyways, this release has several little
2562 "bad" network fixes (as Jim likes to say) and a couple touch-ups to a few
2563 other features. It also features preliminary oscar support. Thanks to Jim
2564 and Adam ("the libfaim guy") hehe :) We have also corrected a problem with
2565 gaim not wainting to correctly save your password if you have an underscore
2566 in it. Thanks to w1za7d for pointing out the underscore problem. ' and \
2567 have also been fixed in passwords. :o)
2569 0.9.6:
2570 Sorry about the little segfaulting bugs in the past release. Rob
2571 is stupid. :). Anyways, they have been patched up and a couple new features
2572 have been added. I hope you guys enjoy.
2574 0.9.5:
2575 Well we added a myriad of new features to this release. (A lot of
2576 small buggie fixes too.) If you need a detailed list just check out the
2577 ChangeLog. We now have a new webpage design and have added a FAQ to the
2578 distribution. Before coming to us with any problems please take a quick
2579 look through the FAQ to make sure we havent already covered your question.
2580 Also, thanks to our beloved Web Monkey, FlynOrange, we have all
2581 learned the true power of foam weapons, slinkies, and whoopie cushions. Hmm
2582 gotta love those pranks, eh?
2584 0.8.0:
2585 Well, just starting the NEWS file. I'll try to remember what's new
2586 from the last version. Hmmm. BIG code reorg. Import/export, buddy pounce
2587 among the major new features. Autoconf script too, which is a big win.
2588 Apologies to those who submitted patches which haven't made it in.. I
2589 promise, the next version! This code reorg took up a lot of my time, and I
2590 want to get it out there.