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1 Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
3 Our development blog is available at: http://planet.pidgin.im
5 2.7.11 (??/??/????):
7 2.7.10 (02/06/2011):
8 John: It's release time again. This release contains a bunch of stuff
9 committed from Trac. This is another "thank a patch writer" release.
10 Unfortunately, no one has fixed our wonderful MSN issues yet. There is
11 a tiny security fix in this release, as well.
13 2.7.9 (12/26/2010):
14 John: Just a quick release for a security fix here. Elliott has not
15 yet had a chance to work on the MSN breakage that's been present in
16 the last couple releases, but we hope he can do it before 2.7.10!
18 2.7.8 (12/19/2010):
19 Elliott: OK, so I know a few things broke with the last release, and
20 it's too bad we had to rush it for that silly certificate thing that
21 the MSN people can't configure properly. I've certainly done a lot of
22 small fixes this time, but it's too bad we haven't been able to get the
23 transfers with the official client fixed yet. I promise it'll be in
24 the next release (barring any quick security issues).
26 John: So, it's been about a month since we last released. Again, we've
27 assembled a bugfix release for your enjoyment. While a few commonly
28 reported bugs remain, particularly in MSN, we're working on it for the
29 next release. In the meantime, Merry Christmas and enjoy!
31 2.7.7 (11/23/2010):
32 John: Well, this time around, we should finally have the certificate
33 issue really and fully fixed for all of you MSN users. Also, we have
34 a few AIM-related fixes in this release, most notably the fix for the
35 new "SSL Handshake Failure" message some of you got after upgrading.
36 That one was an oversight on our part. Enjoy the fixes!
38 2.7.6 (11/21/2010):
39 Jorge: In this release I have merged two branches where I have spent
40 most of my time in the last months, the MSNP16 and SLP-rewrite. I
41 hope you all will enjoy the hability to be connected on multiple
42 instances at the same time. I also hope that the SLP rewrite
43 fix a lot of old bugs that we have in the tracker. I am really
44 happy with this rewrite because there was untoched code from almost
45 5 years ago. I hope you like this release!
47 John: In this release, we give you some new features and a bunch of
48 bug fixes. This includes shipping intermediate certificates to fix
49 certificate validation for MSN's servers. Upgrade and enjoy!
51 2.7.5 (10/31/2010):
52 John: A bugfix release for all of you! This time we fixed a bunch of
53 bugs ranging from annoying regressions to long-standing bugs we didn't
54 realize until now were bugs. Enjoy!
56 2.7.4 (10/20/2010):
57 John: This release came at this particular time due to some security
58 issues Daniel discovered for us when investigating a bug. There are
59 a ton of other changes, including some partial Yahoo file transfer
60 fixes and a bunch of other little things. Enjoy!
62 2.7.3 (08/10/2010):
63 Mark: Lots of little incremental[1] bug fixes and enhancements in this
64 release.
66 [1] No whales were harmed[2] during the creation of this release.
67 [2] Probably.
69 John: Finally got some fixes out there for you Yahoo users behind some
70 particularly annoying firewalls and proxies, among other fixes. Enjoy!
72 2.7.2 (07/21/2010):
73 Mark: We discovered a security issue in Pidgin 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 and
74 decided to release a patched version quickly. This release contains
75 the fix for that crash, and a few other minor fixes.
77 2.7.1 (05/29/2010):
78 Elliott: Hey, I'm first! How did that happen?! Maybe because of the
79 interesting changes in this release. Sure there were quite a few bug
80 fixes, but I know what you've all been waiting for is the direct
81 connections in MSN. Trust me, it's really really fast!!
83 John: Whoa, short turnaround for us. This is just 17 days after our
84 previous release! This fixes a number of bugs that you've all been
85 reporting a ton of duplicate tickets about and even gives you the new
86 direct connection file transfer support for MSN. Enjoy!
88 Marcus: Quite a bit quicker to get this release out, compared with the
89 previous one :). Fixes a number of bugs, and I'm sure the MSN direct
90 connections will please many users. Enjoy!
92 2.7.0 (05/12/2010):
93 John: We FINALLY got the ICQ X-Status stuff merged in! And a few other
94 patches that have been sitting on Trac forever. Couple that with some
95 new features and we have an excellent release for all of you!
97 Marcus: Finally time for a new release, seems like it took
98 quite a while this time. But then again, there are some new features
99 in there, like file transfer preview (thumbnails) support (only on MSN
100 so far), plus a lot of bug fixes. Enjoy!
102 Paul: Yay, a new release! I don't think I added very much useful to
103 this release, other than fixing a paste bug from Chrome (no weird
104 characters appended to the end of your URI). Enjoy!
106 Jorge: This is my first NEWS! I'm not sure I added something nice
107 to this release. I know it took a lot of time to bring this one
108 out, however I'm really excited by this release. I hope everyone
109 likes the new features this release brings.
111 Elliott: This release took so long, I had to go check the ChangeLog
112 just to see what happened. I doubt many people will notice, but we
113 dropped support for many old things, like GTK+<2.10 and MSNP9. In more
114 exciting news, we have file transfer previews on MSN, and support for
115 setting moods on ICQ and XMPP (which has been waiting forever.)
117 2.6.6 (02/18/2010):
118 Mark: This release includes some great little changes and fixes a few
119 security-related bugs. See the ChangeLog for details.
121 2.6.5 (01/08/2010):
122 Paul: This release fixes a pretty serious bug in the MSN code, so we're
123 releasing this build a little earlier than planned with only major
124 bugs fixed. See the ChangeLog for details. Enjoy!
126 2.6.4 (11/29/2009):
127 John: It's release time again. Lots of bug fixes this time around, as
128 well as a new protocol plugin developed and maintained by the MXit folks
129 folks. Elliott and I also did a ton of work on the Preferences window,
130 which will now hopefully fit on most people's small screens. Enjoy!
132 Elliott: This release has been in the works for so long, I don't really
133 remember doing any work on it. But I do know the MSN servers gave us a
134 little bit of trouble this time around, forgetting people's friendly
135 names. Nothing too problematic, just a touch annoying. Also, we've got
136 a nice new Preferences dialog. You can thank John for that mostly, with
137 a couple of tweaks by me.
139 Sadrul: A lot of little fixes for a lot of things! Among them, a fix
140 for a long standing issue with displaying unicode in non-utf8 locale in
141 finch. We also have a new prpl for MXit. This release is very very cool
142 altogether. Enjoy!
144 2.6.3 (10/16/2009):
145 Mark: Someone reported a fairly serious bug in our AIM/ICQ code
146 so we're releasing a special "severe bug fix only" build. See the
147 ChangeLog for details. Enjoy!
149 2.6.2 (09/05/2009):
150 Mark: Woo boy it's been a busy two weeks. There was a lot of new code
151 in 2.6.0, and with new code comes new bugs. The cadre of relentless
152 developers responsible for Pidgin have been hard at work, and I believe
153 they have fixed all the major bugs that cropped up. My thanks to all
154 those names listed as Current Developers in Pidgin's 'About' window.
156 Elliott: Well now, just as Mark said, there was a lot of new stuff that
157 probably came up with tons of bugs. So I can't say I wrote anything
158 super-awesome, but I definitely fixed quite a few of those itty-bitty
159 why-didn't-this-work-this-way sort of bugs.
161 2.6.1 (08/18/2009):
162 Mark: There were a lot of changes in 2.6.0, and so a few major bugs
163 crept in. This is a very minor release to fix those bugs. Sorry for
164 the inconvenience!
166 2.6.0 (08/18/2009):
167 John: Wow, four straight releases that I'm the first to NEWS on. This
168 is getting kinda scary! I'm beginning to wonder who else actually does
169 anything around here! (Just kidding, of course.) LOTS of new features
170 and a crapton of bugfixes this release. There should pretty much be
171 something for everybody. A great example of this is the ton of Yahoo
172 changes that have happened thanks to our SoC student from 2008, Sulabh
173 Mahajan. Among his massive improvements are the ability to add MSN
174 buddies by adding them as "msn/user@domain.tld" and peer-to-peer file
175 transfers. Of course, history shows we can't please everyine, so I'm
176 sure I'll see a complaint or five thousand in trac. Enjoy, though!
178 Marcus: This is my first news! It's been quite a few microreleases this
179 time, but now we're finally at 2.6.0. I suppose the most anticipated
180 new feature in this release is the voice and video support, thanks to
181 Mike's heroic work. I've managed to slip in a few features too, like
182 in-band bytestream file transfers as a fallback on XMPP and idle time
183 reporting on XMPP. Enjoy!
185 Paul: This is my first news, too! This release has definitely been a
186 long time coming; hopefully it won't disappoint since we've closed over
187 200 tickets. Among other things, Tobias Markmann's GSoC project from
188 last year was merged, which means we now support BOSH (XMPP connections
189 over HTTP), and Andrei Mozzhuhin contributed an XMPP Service Discovery
190 Browser. Also, thanks to Bernmeister for poking (at least) several
191 hundred old tickets!
193 Mike: Ditto. This is my first news as well. I have a feeling this is
194 getting repetitive at this point, but voice and video support is
195 finally here! Thanks to the rest of the Pidgin team, Farsight 2, and
196 GStreamer developers for making this possible! (I finally finished my
197 Summer of Code project :D)
199 Elliott: Hey, this is my firs... Wait, no it isn't. Now I feel left
200 out. So have you heard about this voice and video thing?
201 Unfortunately, not quite ready for all protocols, but it's getting
202 there. MSN gained support for receiving voice clips at least, and
203 finally we have Ink receiving capabilities too. Thanks to the guys
204 who wrote the original patch. And finally, MSN no longer has over a
205 100 tickets open!
207 2.5.9 (08/18/2009):
208 John: This release is just a crash fix release to address a security
209 issue reported to us by CORE and a couple crashes Elliott found.
211 2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
212 John: This release is another somewhat rushed bugfix release to fix
213 a number of bugs that have come up since we released Pidgin 2.5.7.
214 Hopefully anything I broke there is fixed now, or at least made to be
215 less broken. Enjoy!
217 2.5.7 (06/20/2009):
218 John: This release is really just a rushed fix for the broken Yahoo
219 protocol plugin. I spent way more time on this release than I care
220 to admit, so I hope that time is well spent and this fixes the issues
221 people have been having.
223 2.5.6 (05/19/2009):
224 Ka-Hing: Many much bugfixes. Hooray. (Paul told me to say that)
225 Oh, no one has met Paul yet? He's awesome, he backported my fixes
226 to the release branch so I didn't have to checkout a
227 workspace... except I just did to NEWS to tell you all about
228 that. Oh and I actually did do something for this release, none of
229 which is user visible though. This basically applies to the rest
230 of the release as well, nothing exciting, but you definitely want
231 it.
233 Daniel: This should fix a number of annoying issues that some users
234 have encountered. We also would like to thank Veracode
235 (http://www.veracode.com) who performed a code analysis and found some
236 bugs that were addressed in this release.
238 Elliott: I feel like I'm repeating myself, but there are some more MSN
239 fixes that should make things better behaved at login as well, and
240 maybe you'll stop getting some of those annoying errors (though not all
241 are fixed yet). Some other bugfixes, plus the craziness that is the
242 libxml "structured error handler" make up the rest of this release.
244 2.5.5 (03/01/2009):
245 John: Well, yet another release with bug fixing and patches. Hopefully
246 one of the fixed bugs is one that irritated you. Also, thank Dimmuxx
247 for spending far too much time working on ICQ this release.
249 Elliott: Lots and lots of MSN bugfixes again (I hope they're fixed, at
250 least). I think we finally have OCS/Yahoo!/federated buddies working
251 now. And there should be some workarounds for some server things that
252 may or may not have been our fault (like buddies on Allow+Block) which
253 should make general usage a bit smoother.
255 2.5.4 (01/12/2009):
256 John: Well, we fixed a few bugs for you this time around, I applied
257 a few patches, and we've dealt with what feels like a TON of tickets
258 about two very common issues. Feels like time for a release to me.
260 Etan: My first NEWS in quite a while and I don't have much to say. I
261 haven't been too active lately and I'm hoping that won't be the case
262 going forward. I managed to get in a few perl fixes and some UI
263 language tweaks this release. My plan is to work on some of the
264 issues pointed out by mpt (during his expert review of pidgin a little
265 while back) in the near future.
267 2.5.3 (12/18/2008):
268 Mark: It's been about two months and woo-boy have we been fixing
269 bugs. Enjoy!
271 Kevin: I didn't do much of anything this release, but Mark and
272 John must be commended for their tireless efforts to fix bugs
273 and approve patches, especially in areas of Pidgin that have
274 not usually received much attention. Lots of changes have
275 been made, so definitely check the ChangeLog to see what's new.
277 John: It feels like it's been an age or two since we last released,
278 and I think it's well worth the wait. Mark has sunk more time into
279 MSN and MySpace IM this release than any sane person should be
280 allowed to, and I've sunk more time into patches than I care to
281 admit. By my count, our ChangeLog has 58 bullet points(!) and we've
282 closed 85 tickets specifically for this release. Enjoy!
284 Ka-Hing: Bring your XMPP server to 2008 some time in 2009 would be
285 nice, DreamHost!
287 Elliott: Well, I can't blame the server for this release taking so long
288 but that's just how it worked out. A few interesting MSN changes this
289 time. Hopefully, federated & Yahoo! buddies will work for you, but I'm
290 not yet certain it's ready. Mark made so many fixes, I'm not even sure
291 I recognize everything anymore, but hopefully that'll make things less
292 crashy for you.
294 2.5.2 (10/19/2008):
295 Ethan: After a bit of a struggle with our services, which put
296 this release off for an unfortunate length of time, we're
297 ready for another bugfix release for your bug-free(er?)
298 messaging pleasure.
300 Sadrul: Despite our best efforts, this release got delayed by a
301 couple of weeks. But here it is! It is mostly a bug fix release, with
302 a couple of important fixes, e.g. fix for the Yahoo! disconnect
303 problem. Also, welcome our newest Crazy Patch Writer, Marcus Lundblad,
304 who, among various other fixes, has implemented custom smileys for the
305 XMPP protocol, included in this release. Enjoy!
307 Stu: I guess this is the time of year for server migrations, and
308 I've just about had enough of them. Fortunately Pidgin is still fun,
309 and this release should be superb.
311 John: Although our services were down for quite some time, we didn't
312 lose any data, except perhaps some mail that would have failed to make
313 it to us. Overall, the only major effect it had was to delay this
314 release far longer than we expected. Hopefully the bugfixes make you
315 happy!
317 Elliott: This release took a while, but that was due to an unfortunate
318 server snafu. I didn't have much to do with it, but hopefully the new
319 servers will help us out a bit. Anyway, mostly bug-fixes this time.
320 Nothing spectacular, unless you happen to suffer from one of those bugs.
321 Oh, and don't forget, the "Has you" tooltip is back!
323 2.5.1 (08/30/2008):
324 Kevin: This release is mainly a bug-fix release. It solves a few
325 known crashes and updates some of our artwork. Google's Summer of
326 code recently finished up. Some of our students are still working
327 on their branches and none have been merged into released code yet.
328 Look for some of those results to show up in Pidgin releases over the
329 coming months.
331 Elliott: I'm just commenting so Kevin wouldn't be the only one in NEWS
332 and no-one else seems to want to. Anyway, there's a couple MSN login
333 fixes, so try it out. The contact list problems might still be around,
334 but you can probably find a workaround in trac. And there's a tooltip
335 fix for our AIM friends, not that I had anything to do with it (except
336 closing many many duplicate tickets).
338 2.5.0 (08/17/2008):
339 Daniel: Lots of good stuff in this release. Lots of people have worked
340 very hard on the updated MSN protocol, and it's finally time to bring
341 it to the world! There are myriad bugfixes, including some important
342 ones so you should be sure to update.
344 Hylke: Finally MSNP15 support. To celebrate this I refreshed a lot of
345 the smilies used in the protocol and added the long awaited indispensable
346 bunny icon. I think this is one of those releases that will make a lot
347 of users happy, especially MSN users.
349 Elliott: Oh look, my first NEWS! Well anyway, with that new MSNP15
350 support, this release is set up to be a huge success and a total flop
351 all at the same time. Here's hoping it's the "huge success" one for you.
352 Those icon changes that Hylke made, while minor, really make things look
353 a little cleaner, I think. Oh yea, did I mention that MSNP15 stuff?
355 Mark: Speaking of MSNP15, we'd like to welcome Elliott Sales de Andrade
356 as a full fledged developer! He took the last few strides mushing the
357 new MSN code into shape. Then he decided that wasn't enough and started
358 doing other great stuff.
360 Ka-Hing: "Reject"ing a certificate after your account is signed off is
361 not recommended. Deleting the file after you start sending it is also
362 discouraged.
364 2.4.3 (07/01/2008):
365 Richard: This release includes important bug fixes. I'm just cutting
366 the release. Thank you to the real heroes who did the fixing!
368 2.4.2 (5/17/2008):
369 Sadrul: We added some usability changes in this release, including the
370 typing notification, buddyicon and input area size in the conversation
371 windows, escape to close conversation windows etc. These changes should
372 make pidgin more usable and more fun for Everyone! *wink*
374 Stu: I fixed some memory leaks, but nothing like as many as Daniel did.
375 MSN buddy list synchronization should be significantly less painful now,
376 and opening MSN inboxes might work better too. SILC passphrase changes
377 and support for passphrase-less keys has been improved also.
379 2.4.1 (3/31/2008):
380 Stu: We fixed some bugs, this release should be 110% better than 2.4.0
382 John: Well, I didn't really do much this release except muck about with
383 the configure script. Blame me if it worked in 2.4.0 but doesn't now.
385 Will: We seem to be falling into a nice pattern of releasing on the last
386 day of a month. Hypothetical AIX users might be pleased to learn that
387 Pidgin might actually run for them now!
389 2.4.0 (2/29/2008):
390 John: While this release took what seems like forever to get out the
391 door, I think it's well worth the wait, especially for Yahoo! users.
392 This release serves up some fixes for long standing bugs and adds
393 file transfer for transfers with newer Yahoo! clients (finally!). As
394 is standard with code I committed, where it works great thank the
395 patch writer, and where it's broken, feel free to yell at me. Enjoy!
397 Sadrul: Finch is more colourful and blinky in this release! There's
398 now a log viewer, which is very useful, and also the ability to
399 block/unblock buddies. It's now also possible to find chat rooms on
400 many services, e.g. XMPP, IRC, Yahoo! etc. Happy Leap Day!
402 Ka-Hing: I think all I've done for this release is committing some
403 patches written by other people.
405 Stu: Finally, 2.4.0 lands. I didn't do all that much except complain
406 about things I didn't like or just revert Sean's changes. I'm quite
407 pleased with how well it's turned out in the end.
408 Happy Birthday Fred, you must be nearly 10 now ;-)
410 2.3.1 (12/7/2007):
411 Stu: I'm sorry for the MSN problems and the plugin crashes in 2.3.0.
412 Hopefully this will redeem us. This fixes a number of bugs. I'm a
413 bit late but I'd like to welcome John to the team. Enjoy!
415 Luke: I've done absolutely nothing in the last 2 weeks, except watch
416 others commit bug and, more, leak fixes. People should be noticing
417 remarkably fewer memory leaks now than 2 or more releases ago.
419 Kevin: I'm not quite sure what happened to our MySpaceIM Summer of
420 Code student, but I fixed a few MySpace bugs with idle and status.
421 I will try to fix some of the other more significant bugs, after I
422 figure out the protocol, especially including grouping issues.
424 2.3.0 (11/20/2007):
425 Luke: While this does not have the new MSN code, rest assured that
426 we are working on it and that it is nearing release. This contains
427 a significant number of fixes, including some that were marked as
428 fixed for earlier releases. Happy Thanksgiving!
430 John: This is my first NEWS entry! So, this time around we have an
431 updated man page (the old one hadn't been really updated since
432 before the GTK+ 2.0 migration!), lots of bug fixes, and some new
433 features for you all. Enjoy!
435 2.2.2 (10/23/2007):
436 Luke: Because the main branch of pidgin development is still not
437 ready for public consumption, I have taken some time to try to
438 pull the many bug fixes that have happened since then into a
439 separate branch. This release is the result of that effort.
441 2.2.1 (9/28/2007):
442 Richard: We have some new code in the pipeline, but it's not quite
443 ready for a general release. Instead, this is basically a bug fix
444 release.
446 Luke: Unfortunately the necessity of this bug fix release means
447 some of the tickets that have been closed as part of the 2.2.1
448 milestone are not actually fixed yet. We have grabbed as many
449 of the changes as we could while avoiding those that are as
450 yet unstable though, and this should still be a marked
451 improvement over 2.2.0. We have spent a lot of time since the
452 last release looking at the tickets that have been submitted
453 and many of them have been closed.
455 Stu: I haven't NEWS'd in a while. I haven't actually done much for
456 too long also, maybe I'll find some time soon. This release is
457 basically what 2.2.0 should have been - it actually compiles this
458 time.
460 2.2.0 (9/13/2007):
461 Sean: 2.2.0 contains the results of several major Google Summer
462 of Code branches bringing some new, extraordinary features. We
463 have a new protocol, MySpaceIM, a bunch of new features for an
464 existing protocol, XMPP, and nifty new certificate management
465 to make sure your IM server is who it says it is.
467 Ka-Hing: A number of you noticed crashes when dragging windows
468 around when certain options are enabled. Well, that was my fault,
469 and Sadrul fixed it. So Props to him and poos to me. I haven't
470 done much for this release, but the next one should contain
471 something that I helped work on. Hint: students are cheap slave
472 coders!
474 Kevin: I haven't really been coding much in Pidgin, and this
475 release is no exception, but I will be working on getting our
476 wonderful web site to be a little more functional by next
477 release. I promise!
479 2.1.1 (8/20/2007):
480 Sean: Continuing our schedule of frequent releases, Pidgin 2.1.1
481 is out. In it, we've addressed a lot of UI issues from our
482 experimental new changes introduced in 2.1.0, and gave a lot of
483 attention to Yahoo! and Bonjour. Thanks to everyone who
484 contributed.
486 Luke: We have reworked some parts of the conversation windows in
487 response to user comments. We did not quite reach 100 tickets
488 closed this release, so a fair few will role over again. Still,
489 we are slowly but surely working our way through the reported bugs.
490 Many thanks to everyone who has helped with tracking down the
491 various issues, testing fixes, and getting patches in.
493 Tim: Sean finally got me to fix some of the buddy list bugs with
494 Yahoo! when in version 15 mode. So now we have some Yahoo! to
495 MSN support, which is kind of nice. Looks like some others have
496 been contributing to Yahoo! while I've been AWOL, so many thanks
497 to them.
499 2.1.0 (7/28/2007):
500 Sean: This release took a bit longer than 3 weeks, but boy is it
501 worth it! We're beginning to experiment with new UI concepts and
502 this release features a largely re-designed conversation window.
503 We've closed 150 tickets for this release; much thanks go to all
504 the developers, translators, and testers who made this possible.
506 Ka-Hing: Sean said no one else NEWS'ed, so I figure I should.
508 2.0.2 (6/14/2007):
509 Sean: Another big maintenance release. Again, about 100 tickets were
510 resolved in this release, and they keep coming in. Lots of bug fixes,
511 some minor icon adjustements, hopefully we addressed some ICQ
512 internationalization issues, and support for Bonjour on Windows!
513 Our next release will be 2.1.0, and will come with some great new
514 features.
516 Stu: I think we're gradually getting the hang of this 3 week thing
517 again. This release includes yet more bug fixes. I'd also like to
518 specifically thank Pekka Riikonen for the patch to enable using SILC
519 Toolkit 1.1 with Pidgin/libpurple that is included in this release.
521 2.0.1 (5/24/2007):
522 Sean: 2.0.1! Three weeks later, as scheduled! It is so nice to have
523 regular, frequent, releases again! This is a bugfix release; We have
524 fixed over 100 issues reported to us at http://developer.pidgin.im.
525 Thanks to everyone for their great work, and look for the next release
526 in another three weeks!
528 Stu: Lots'o'fixes in this. I don't know how you users find so many
529 things for us to fix. 24 hours in a day (sadly). 24 is divisible by the
530 sum of its digits and by their product. It is the smallest composite
531 number, the product of whose divisors is a cube.
533 Luke: I requested that we have a bug fix release, and so we have!
534 Many, though unfortunately not all, of the reports that have been
535 submitted to us since 2.0.0 have been fixed now, and so you should
536 all have a much more stable experience with this release. I also
537 want to thank the many users who have resubmitted their reports
538 as we close out the old Source Forge bug tracker. If all goes well,
539 your report will get the attention it deserves as we continue to
540 work on Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple.
542 Nathan: A ton of fixes have gone into this release. The feedback
543 we've gotten on 2.0.0 has been incredible. Hopefully we've resolved
544 most of the critical issues with 2.0.1. If we haven't, I'm sure
545 our wonderful users will let us hear about it. I seem to be
546 forgetting something...oh, right, I haven't promised any cool new
547 features in the next release! So, I promise at least one cool new
548 feature in the next release...you just might have to adjust your
549 definition of 'cool' to get it.
551 Etan: Perl plugins now have access to almost all of the savedstatus
552 API functions. I also removed a couple of the preferences from the
553 Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin which should help many of the people
554 for whom the configuration dialog size was a problem. The removed
555 preferences no longer had the effects they were added to have anyway.
557 2.0.0 (5/3/2007):
558 Sean: 2.0.0! It's real exciting to finally release Pidgin 2.0.0! I'm
559 really proud of all the work we've all done. I'm pumped. And, while
560 I could go on about all the amazing thing that have been added since
561 1.5.0, what I'm really excited about is getting back to a regular,
562 rapid, release cycle of active, open development, unhindered by legal
563 quandries. Huge thanks to everyone involved.
565 Luke: We have finally managed to get 2.0.0 out the door, after nearly
566 but not quite 2 years of effort and fustration. No one regrets more
567 than I that we were unable to make any of betas 3-6 the actual release.
568 But at long last, it is out, and life can return to a more normal
569 state. There were many tough calls to be made in the last 2 years.
570 Not everyone has agreed with the resulting decisions, that is un-
571 fortunate, but unavoidable. Suffice it to say that despite what
572 some users appear to think, a ton of thought, argument, discussion,
573 and experimentation has gone into this release. This release
574 builds on many years of experience, both as developers writing the
575 code, users using it, and in supporting other users. I hope that
576 those who download and install this will give it a fair shot, and
577 attempt to avoid knee-jerk reactions.
579 Evan: One small step for bird, one giant leap for birdkind... except
580 this is hardly one small step. A lot more has changed from Gaim 1.5.0
581 than just the name. Pidgin has a *very* attractive new look, a whole
582 new member of the family (Finch, formerly gaim-console) has been born,
583 and libpurple has come into its own as a solid, full-featured library
584 powering the greatest IM clients around. Bugs were fixed and
585 features were added by the hundreds (thousands?) since the last
586 major release, all while improving performance and resisting feature
587 creep. As Luke said, a ton of thought and effort has gone into
588 Pidgin 2.0.0; I'm proud to have played a part.
590 Stu: We did it! finally, we have 2.0.0. It's been a long time coming,
591 but there's a great deal of goodness here. When I say a long time, I'm
592 not kidding - it's been 972 days since we branched off "oldstatus"
593 (aka 1.x). The early Greeks were uncertain as to whether 2 was a
594 number at all (or if we'd ever make this release) - it has a beginning
595 and an end but no middle (much like our unfortunately quiet development
596 period). 2 is the first prime number and the only even prime. 2 is also
597 the first deficient number (oh well). There are only 10 types of people
598 in the world - those who like our new names and those who do not.
599 Enjoy!
601 Richard: I'm very glad that we've finally gotten 2.0.0 released and
602 I look forward to returning to a more normal development schedule.
603 Again, a big thanks to everyone who helped in any way to get things
604 where they are today. Congratulations everyone!
606 Sadrul: My first NEWS, and on what an occasion! Pidgin 2.0.0 is finally
607 released!! And it's *really* very good!!! Give your soul a break ...
608 Use Pidgin!
610 Daniel: There has been a fair amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth
611 due to the delays in getting this beast out. I'm really happy that it
612 is done. I'm also very happy with what we're releasing - I think it is
613 far more stable, packed with useful features and, dare I say, prettier
614 than any previous release.
616 2.0.0beta7 (4/29/2007):
617 Sean: Beta 7. The final beta. A few major changes from beta6. For
618 starters, we have some new names. That's pretty cool. We have a new
619 logo, to go along with it. And a lot of great icons! As Nathan mentions
620 below, we're totally back in the open now, having a signed agreement
621 from AOL that puts us in the clear. We all really regret having to go
622 completely dark for so long. Anyway, unlike betas1-6, which were of
623 normal release quality, this one is actually beta quality. There are
624 a few significant known issues, and a lot of changes that need a lot
625 of real-world testing. So, if you'd like to help us out, give it a
626 whirl, and let us know if you run into any major issues.
628 Nathan: So, the secret is out now. We renamed to Pidgin. I'd just
629 like to apologize to everyone we've had to keep in the dark for the
630 last however-many months. I know it looked like development slowed
631 to a crawl, but in reality we've been working pretty hard to get
632 2.0.0 out the door, without getting into any legal trouble. I
633 realize that if we were some big corporation, we'd be getting flamed
634 about this secrecy for months. Please try to remember that we're
635 just a bunch of geeks who were scared of legal stuff (well, at least
636 I was. Scared, that is). The bottom line is that we're out in the
637 open again, and fully plan to stay that way. We're also opening up
638 the mail archives from the secretive past few months. You can scan
639 through them if you want, or I can summarize. "Are the lawyers done
640 yet? No. Now? No. How about now? No." All lawyer jokes aside,
641 I'm grateful to our legal team for crossing all the 't's and dotting
642 all the lowercase 'j's to get us the deal we got. Anyways, thanks
643 for your patience, and on to 2.0.1!
645 Gary: Well my silence, and our silence has ended. Finally the name
646 change is over and done with and we can go back to a normal dev
647 cycle. Now if I can just get myself back onto a normal dev cycle,
648 but that's another story all together.
650 Ethan: Not to be too "me-too", but I have to say that I'm really
651 excited about the project's new name and identity, and glad to be
652 out of the legal mess. We're pushing beta 7 with all of the
653 branding and organizational changes that have been going on for
654 the last few months, so there are likely to be some snags --
655 please help us out by trying beta 7, searching for any bugs you
656 find in the bug tracker at http://developer.pidgin.im/, and
657 documenting them if they are unknown or you can provide new
658 information. Help us make 2.0.0 final a release to be remembered
659 (in a good way)! I'd like to give huge thanks to all of the
660 developers, our steadfast supporters, the crazy patch writers, and
661 everyone else who has made this transition to Pidgin possible, and
662 the improvements that go along with it. I'd like to extend a
663 special thanks to Sean, for leading us through the legal issues
664 and taking care of all of the paperwork and overhead that no one
665 wants to deal with.
667 2.0.0beta6 (1/17/2007):
668 Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be
669 the final beta release before 2.0.0. This has a bunch of cool UI
670 changes, some Google Talk features, a bunch new plugins, and other
671 goodness.
673 Nathan: Beta6 rocks. That is all.
675 Gary: Long time no news. My silence will end soon ;)
677 Evan: My first news! I knocked out a nice collection of crashes,
678 thanks in part to my ever-patient Adium beta testers. Gaim 2.0.0
679 is going to be delicious. :)
681 2.0.0beta5 (11/9/2006):
682 Sean: Another release in our endless stream in betas. This one's
683 pretty awesome; and it fixes major bugs introduced in previous
684 ones.
686 2.0.0beta4 (10/17/2006)
687 Sean: Still beta. Maybe the next one should be a gamma.. :)
689 Daniel: I'm super chuffed to announce that this will work with newer
690 (i.e. >= 2.8.0) versions of GTK+ on Windows.
692 Luke: Several significant changes in this one, including no longer
693 using libao for sound! There are no doubt bugs here, but hopefully
694 nothing major.
696 Nathan: I don't have much to say, but yay for another beta!
698 Etan: I did a bunch of perl work for this beta again, there is now
699 some support for perl scripts to call functions in the gtk ui, it
700 still needs work.
702 2.0.0beta3 (03/25/2006):
703 Mark: Yeah, I know, another beta. Don't worry, we'll get this
704 puppy out the door eventually.
706 2.0.0beta2 (01/24/2006):
707 Mark: So this is the new year, and I don't feel any different, but
708 Gaim is getting better. We hope this will be our last beta before
709 we release the final version of 2.0.0. As before, please shower us
710 in feedback!
712 Richard: I'm proud to say a lot of bugs have been squashed in this
713 version. If you filed a bug against beta1, please test to see if
714 it's fixed now and update your bug report accordingly (by either
715 closing it or setting the version to 2.0.0beta2). I'm also looking
716 for someone who uses Gaim on MacOS X to test a patch for me before
717 I can commit it. See http://gaim.sf.net/contactinfo.php for my
718 contact information.
720 Etan: So I did a bunch of work on the perl plugin since beta1, so
721 anyone who uses perl plugins would do well to expect some things to
722 need updating (I'm not certain everything works yet, so please send me
723 any reports of things that don't). Most of the work was correcting
724 some namespace issues, but I also improved the support for perl
725 plugins having plugin_pref frames, and plugin actions. Multiple perl
726 plugins can now have plugin_pref frames at the same time, and every
727 perl plugin can have multiple plugin actions now. Like Mark said
728 above, let us know how this beta works out.
730 2.0.0beta1 (12/17/2005):
731 Sean: I think Nathan sums everything up really well below. There's still
732 a bunch we want to add (and remove) before the official release, but we
733 really want to start getting feedback about what's good and what's not.
734 So, please, be vocal about this beta!
736 Nathan: 15 months since we branched oldstatus, and started working on
737 the behemoth that is 2.0.0. In that time, we've added a couple new
738 protocols, we had a few crazy patch writers become developers, and
739 had a few more people step up to be crazy patch writers. Sean wrote
740 a book, and we arbitrarily decided to make a version 1.0.0, and a
741 new versioning scheme. We got new artwork, and added almost 200 lines
742 to the ChangeLog. We've watched 2 major GTK+ releases, and added all
743 kinds of features using them. OK, I've wasted enough bits here. This
744 beta rocks, but it is a beta. Treat it as such, and enjoy!
746 Gary: Finally we have a beta. There are a lot of new goodies, including
747 quite a few summer of code projects that couldn't get added into the
748 oldstatus branch because API changes. We also have a new mono plugin
749 loader for even more plugin fun.
751 Richard: Thanks to all who wrote patches (big or small) for this beta.
753 Tim: Well here it is, the first beta. There's a lot of cool things in
754 here, but not all of them are finished or debugged. But then that's
755 why it's called a beta. Conversations are now contact-aware, and
756 there's a new status selector. There's smooth scrolling on incoming
757 messages as well. Our Crazy Patch Writers have been doing a good
758 job too, it seems like we're never lacking some patches in the
759 tracker to review.
761 Etan: I know I'm not going to be able to think of all the things I should
762 talk about here so I'll just go with the stuff I remember. Adding buddies
763 on ejabberd jabber servers should work more correctly now (it's possible
764 adding buddies on other servers is a bit broken currently I'm still
765 looking into it). There are still other jabber issues I'm looking into
766 with handling of buddies.
767 In other topics, I finally brought my Accounts menu into gaim, though the
768 current example of it isn't exactly what I had in mind, anyone with any
769 suggestions/comments/etc about it please speak up.
770 Other than the stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting to mention this beta should
771 be awesome as gaim 2.0.0 is going to be awesome. Have fun with it.
773 Luke: pretty much everything important has been said, so this is going to
774 be rather repetative. This is a beta folks, so it will have bugs. It
775 will crash unexpectedly. Perhaps even frequently. Use it at your peril.
776 But do use it (though you might want to back up ~/.gaim first), and let us
777 know what needs to be fixed.
779 Mark: Yay.
781 Stu: Wow!
783 Siege: Sametime accounts created with gaim-meanwhile should merge over
784 for use in the beta just fine. Some of the familiar settings regarding
785 the buddy list are gone, so I recommend backing up your Sametime blist
786 before getting down and crazy. Have fun, and happy early Decemberween!
788 Daniel: Enjoy! In the hopes that this prevents someone pain... do not use
789 Glib/GTK+ 2.8.x with Wingaim - it will not work. We're looking into the
790 problem and hope to have it resolved before the final release.
791 "Happy Holidays!"
793 1.5.0 (8/11/2005):
794 Mark: No super crazy major changes here. Just the usual bug
795 fixes and some pretty important security updates.
797 Stu: Buy Sean's book. He obviously needs the money. Other than that
798 we fixed some bugs with this release (I don't think we did much else).
799 SoC students are doing lots of cool stuff which we'll hopefully be
800 able to bring you in a future release.
802 Nathan: I've continued my streak of doing nothing useful lately.
803 However, I've now got a brand-spanking-new DSL line, so I might
804 actually get to contribute soon. One way or another I'd like
805 to get HEAD into a more useable state in the next month or two.
806 Also, like Stu said, buy Sean's book. I've been reading and
807 fixing it for the last umpteen months, so you had better enjoy
808 it.
810 1.4.0 (7/7/2005):
811 Mark: The last month or four we've promoted a bunch of the Gaim
812 Crazy Patch Writers to developers, so there is now an even larger
813 team of brilliant and amazingly sexy committers working around
814 the globe for your instant messaging pleasure. Also, we have
815 what I believe to be our first contribution from a Summer of Code
816 student in this release: Jonathan Clark enabled the sending of
817 files to certain ICQ users. Support is still a bit rough, but
818 he'll be working on it throughout the summer.
820 Luke: Exciting times this summer as our Summer of Code interns
821 start their projects. This is mostly a bug fix release, with the
822 ICQ file transfer that Mark mentioned and some buddy icon work
823 being the only real new code. Hence the extra week delay. A
824 big thanks to our translators who keep churning out updates even
825 when we give them short notice as well. Enjoy!
827 1.3.1 (6/9/2005):
828 Sean: It's been a while since I've done one of these. Welcome to
829 Gaim 1.3.1, "New Hyde Park." This is, again, another bugfix release
830 but it comes with two keen announcements. First, I'd like to welcome
831 Christopher O'Brien to the Gaim team. He has integrated his work on
832 the Meanwhile project into Gaim, ensuring that Gaim 2.0.0 will include
833 Sametime support. Also, we're participating in Google's Summer of
834 Code, which you all should check out at
835 http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/
837 1.3.0 (5/10/2005):
838 Luke: This release fixes SILC for multiple accounts. HOWEVER, you
839 may lose your buddy list (for SILC only) upgrading. This is
840 rather unavoidable as the previous code did not keep track of
841 which account each buddy belonged to.
843 Stu: I'm glad we're finally getting this out, if fixes a number of bugs
844 ranging from minor to not so minor. I'd also like to welcome Gary to
845 the team - he's done a great job with Guifications, I'm sure he'll do
846 good stuff here too.
848 Gary: Well I got pretty much nothing done for this release. Although I
849 do have quite a few things in the works that will come to fruition when
850 I find some more free time.
852 1.2.1 (4/3/2005):
853 Luke: Several important fixes this time around. Big thanks to
854 Robert McQueen, Stu, Nathan, Ethan, and everyone else who has helped
855 with this effort. Maybe next time we can get a decent chance to fix the
856 problems *before* they go public to have a normal release process.
858 Nathan: Jabber got some updates this release (finally). I've got
859 more planned, but simply haven't had the time to anything about it.
861 1.2.0 (3/17/2005):
862 Luke: Happy St. Patrick's Day all. Sean scheduled a release for
863 today, we'll see if we can pull it off. :-) This release
864 features somewhat more than just bug fixes, some improvements
865 have been made to the conversation API which may affect plugin
866 developers. Yahoo users should also thank Tim and Bleeter for
867 their efforts.
869 Etan: I'm going to NEWS since I actually did something this time.
870 Jabber will allow you to unsubscribe to someone's presence
871 without logging out and in again, this does break seeing yourself
872 on your buddy list, but hopefully we'll fix that again for the
873 next release.
875 Stu: Happy St. Guinness^wPatrick's day.
877 1.1.4 (2/24/2005):
878 Sean: Another bug fix release. A big thanks to Rob McQueen, Ari
879 Pollak, Don Seiler, and Warren Togami: some packagers who helped
880 debug a nasty glib 2.6 problem. Also thanks to our own Stu who
881 found and destroyed an MSN crash and an HTML parsing error
883 Luke: Early release to handle the MSN and HTML crashes, as well
884 as the glib crash. Maybe that makes up for having had a 4 week
885 period before the last release. This one should be the nice
886 stable release we meant 1.1.3 to be. Enjoy!
888 Stu: I cleaned up the whitespace in this NEWS, it was bugging me.
890 1.1.3 (2/17/2005):
891 Luke: Yet another bug fix release, many thanks to everyone who has
892 helped to make gaim more stable!
894 Stu: I fixed too many Yahoo HTTP proxy bugs, I should just go and
895 write some core HTTP support that works better. A good all round
896 bug fix release otherwise.
898 1.1.2 (1/20/2005):
899 Luke: Another Bug fix release. This one featuring a fix to the HTTP
900 Method for MSN users and other MSN fixes. A big thanks to Stu and
901 Felipe Contreras for those. Stu also spent a long time in valgrind
902 and so this brings you a Gaim release with fewer memory leaks. This
903 release is on time primarily because I want to see the MSN fixes
904 make it into Debian and Fedora before freezes. Expect further bug
905 fix only releases to come at longer intervals, at Mark's request.
907 Daniel: This is my first NEWS! (YaY) I didn't really do too much for
908 this release. There are a few bugfixes, mostly wingaim stuff. Oh, and
909 I like the new XP System Tray icons.
911 Sean: I'm down here today. I haven't really been paying too much
912 attention to these boring bugfix releases, but I'd like to thank
913 David and welcome him to the team. I'd also like to thank Steven
914 and Nathan from Silverorange who redid the webpage.
916 Tim: Another bug fix release. I didn't really fix any bugs, so
917 I didn't exactly do much for this one. The autopackage will now
918 work with mozilla-nss, if anyone has that, and not gnutls11. (It
919 works with either gnutls11 or mozilla-nss, but not gnutls10)
920 I started working on Gaim-vv again though, and I merged someone's
921 custom msn smiley patch into the 2.0.0 tree, so expect good things
922 whenever that's released (no, don't try it now, you won't like it).
923 Oh and welcome to the team Daniel. Of course, he was already on my
924 Gaim-vv team.
926 Stu: Welcome Daniel! you've done some good stuff already. Felipe did some
927 good work on MSN yet again, so you can all use the HTTP method now. I
928 didn't do all that much, other than let valgrind tell me what to fix, and
929 a couple of easy bug fixes from the bug tracker. Hopefully Ethan will get
930 well soon, so he can get back to merging patches and fixing things.
932 Nathan: I think I made some Jabber fixes, at least one of which is
933 ChangeLog'd. I will continue to make empty promises about new features,
934 especially for 2.0.0. Until then, welcome Daniel!
936 1.1.1 (12/28/2004):
937 Luke: This bug fix release features msn improvements, drag and drop
938 improvements, and some translation stuff. Thanks for everone who has
939 helped with it, and hopefully we can get 2.0.0 out soon. On a side
940 note, i'm still looking for someone to look at the perl plugin loader.
942 1.1.0 (12/02/2004):
943 Luke: Another in our series of bug fix releases, with a slight twist.
944 Everyone thank Ethan for implementing a fall back encoding for IRC,
945 it has been much requested and should make a number of users very
946 happy. See the ChangeLog for details on other fixes.
948 Stu: Much thanks to Miah Gregory and Felipe Contreras, a bunch of
949 memory leaks have been fixed. Felipe also fixed a good number of
950 other MSN bugs. I didn't do much except apply these guys fixes. It's
951 good to see fixes from Gary coming in again too ;-). I like the
952 docklet adjustments Christian made. Btw, we have a new MSN protocol
953 icon, and I think you'll love it.
955 Tim: I made Gaim binary relocatable this release, so Gaim can find
956 itself if it gets lost, and I'm going to try to make autopackages
957 for this release, if the autopackage guys release their new version
958 soon like they're talking. I also "fixed" a scrolling bug, by
959 realizing it was all Gentoo's fault. The IRC encoding thing Ethan
960 did is pretty nice, no more encoding error messages!
962 Ethan: Rumor has it that I did some work this release, but it's just
963 that, a rumor. I think Luke started it. I did lay the hammer down
964 on bogus word wrapping in the NEWS, so you can thank me for that.
965 Keep your powder dry.
967 1.0.3 (11/11/2004):
968 Luke: Not much to see here, some bug fixes that you all will enjoy as
969 the semester draws to a close and everyone still in school gets bogged
970 down with projects, papers, and exams. Enjoy! Oh, and if you are interested
971 in the perl or gadu-gadu functionality, please step up to help write
972 patches, as both of these code blocks are currently unmaintained.
974 Tim: I fixed a couple bugs this time. In other news, Kim wants to get
975 a pet cockatiel or two.
977 Nathan: I was gonna put a new feature in this release, but decided
978 not to because I found a bug in it today, and I'm tired. Also, I haven't
979 consulted the powers-that-be about putting new features into oldstatus.
981 Stu: I'm writing this at 11:11:11pm on 11/11. Eleven. It's 3 really. Or B.
982 It's the 5th smallest prime number. Himalia is the 11th moon of Jupiter.
983 Hendecagon. There are 1011 players on a football team. XI. 16 hours. Eleven
984 is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English. This
985 entry is my 11th lie for today.
987 1.0.2 (10/19/2004):
988 Stu: I'm new around here. I tried to reduce the number of bugs in the bug
989 tracker, but it turns out that the only way to achieve that is to actually
990 _fix_ the bugs. So I fixed a couple, and then sneaked some patches out of
991 the patch tracker to fix some others. Sadly the bug tracker was not
992 significantly affected, maybe if I learn C I'll be able to make more of an
993 impact.
995 Luke: Don't let Stu fool you, he has done a marvelous job on this release,
996 and deserves a lot of credit for it. And a number of those bug fixes are
997 critical ones that he discovered and fixed himself. So go update. Now.
999 Nathan: On the other hand, Nathan has done nothing for this release. Why
1000 do we keep him around again?
1002 Tim: So, I'm married now, and in Huntsville. I don't remember if I did
1003 anything for this release or not, probably not. Bleeter has been more
1004 active lately though, perhaps we'll see lots of cool things from him
1005 soon.
1007 Sean: I'm down here with the "didn't do anything" guys.
1009 1.0.1 (10/07/2004):
1010 Congratulations to Tim & Kim on their wedding!
1012 Sean: So, if you're playing along at home, you're aware that
1013 incrementing the micro version number means that the API has
1014 not changed at all. Although that itself is insignificant to
1015 most everyone but plugin developers, but users won't find too
1016 many significant changes. Consult ChangeLog. We're currently
1017 branched for some major changes, so expect a really great 2.0.0
1018 sometime relatively soon.
1020 Luke: Nothing much to see here, some bug fixes. Most of the work
1021 is going towards the 2.0.0 release. We aren't quite sure when
1022 that will be, and will keep the bug fix releases coming untill
1023 all is ready.
1025 Christian: I would call this a ground-breaking release, but it isn't.
1026 It seems like a good one, though. I dunno. I've been too busy at VMware,
1027 unfortunately, but have some work that's just waiting to be finished up
1028 for Gaim. Gaim 2.0.0 is going to rock. Gaim 3.0.0 will rock more.
1029 Do you see a pattern? Thanks go out to Henry Jen for fixing up parts of
1030 the gevolution plugin to support multiple addressbooks, and to all our
1031 moms, for believing in us. Or something.
1033 Nathan: I got a new computer. It's fast. And has twice the bits!
1035 1.0.0 (09/17/2004):
1036 Nathan: Hah! Bet you weren't expecting this! OK, if you were
1037 paying any attention to the flame^H^H^H^H^Hthread on gaim-devel,
1038 you might have been expecting this. But here it is, 1.0.0. Our
1039 new versioning scheme has slightly more meaning than the older
1040 one (expecially for plugin authors), but our 1.0(.0) release is
1041 just as meaningless as we could have hoped. Enjoy!
1043 Luke: We've changed our pattern for version numbers with this
1044 release, we are no longer simply counting versions. This release
1045 then marks, not something traditionally "1.0" but the current
1046 version of the api. When backwards compatability with that breaks
1047 you'll see 2.0, more details in the faq. As a side note, if you
1048 are reading this and are good with proxy code or with perl's XS C
1049 bindings, please get in touch with me, my contact info is on the
1050 website. Gaim could use your help.
1052 Mark: I love a circus.
1054 0.82 (08/25/2004):
1055 Rob: Woah, where did I come from?
1057 Mark: Lately I've been doing a lot more code maintenance/patch
1058 accepting/bug fixing type of work. And I think that's a really
1059 good thing. I feel like Gaim is becoming more stable. It
1060 seems like we're lacking fewer features. It makes me warm.
1061 Quick Robin! To the traverse wall!
1063 Nathan: Well, it looks like we stuck to the schedule again. Had
1064 we taken our dear sweet time, I might have had a chance to do
1065 something cool for this release, but instead I stuck to the minor
1066 stuff. <insert empty promises for the cool stuff i'll code for
1067 next time here>
1069 Tim: Lately I've been doing a lot more patch accepting, and a
1070 lot less actual coding. Unfortunately it has more to do with my
1071 laziness than Gaim's progress. Like Nathan, I'm going to blame
1072 our on time release schedule. But that didn't stop our Crazy
1073 Patch Writers, or cpw's as grim now calls them, from writing
1074 some good patches. So, instead of promising to code something
1075 cool for next release, I'm going to promise that the cpw's will
1076 code cool things for next release, and I might apply some of them.
1078 Luke: I've been doing what I always do, committing patches, some
1079 better than others, and bugging other people to code stuff. Oh
1080 and closing some bugs. Thanks to Dave West for joining the cpws
1081 in helping to handle triage. This is mostly a bug fix release,
1082 so PLEASE upgrade to it before submitting new bugs.
1084 Kevin: Herman's been away, so Daniel Atallah and myself were given
1085 the task of preparing 0.82's Windows packages. After some feverish
1086 plotting, we decided to update GTK and Daniel prepped an update to
1087 libpng to address recent security advisories. Besides plotting and
1088 a little bit of testing, this NEWS is all I really did. Oh, I also
1089 rerefixed the transparency plugin... again! Our beloved Hermanator
1090 should be back next time around, for 0.83.
1092 0.81 (08/05/2004):
1093 Sean: Three weeks again! Sticking to schedules is awesome! Just
1094 like Gaim v0.81. This is what we in the industry call a "bugfix
1095 release." We closed over TWO HUNDRED bugs since 0.80. That's
1096 awesome. Thanks to everyone who helped report, triage, fix, and
1097 test.
1099 Christian: Yay for three weeks working so well. Boo for me not
1100 doing much of anything this release, aside from a small memory
1101 leak fix. I'm starting a new job and leaving my current one, so
1102 when the dust settles and my schedule is a bit better, the very
1103 cool status rewrite will be finished up. Especially now that I have
1104 some help! I'd like to second Sean's thanks to all the people who
1105 helped with this bug fix release. Gaim should be a bit more stable
1106 for a lot of you. For those experiencing MSN problems still, we'll
1107 get that nailed for you soon, promise.
1109 Mark: I was going to point out that we closed an insane amount of
1110 bugs for this release, but Sean already did that. I feel like
1111 we've had some really talented new contributors contributing
1112 recently. I won't say names... but watch your backs. Or something.
1114 Nathan: I did next to nothing for this release. I am however
1115 settled in to my new job, and in a couple days, I should be settled
1116 into my new domicile. If the DSL gods are in a good mood, I'll
1117 have a connection there shortly, and can start being useful again.
1119 0.80 (07/15/2004):
1120 Sean: Three weeks! Hooray for timeliness! I didn't do much here
1121 but drag-and-droppable file transfers. Drag something into a
1122 conversation window, and it will be sent. Kinda neat.
1124 Mark: We have a small ant problem here. I can't help but think
1125 I somehow brought this upon myself.
1127 Tim: I don't really have any news, but at least I don't have an
1128 ant problem either. You might think I've been hard at work on
1129 Gaim-vv, but I haven't, I've just been lazy. I plan on doing
1130 some cool things "soon" though, both with Gaim and Gaim-vv.
1131 Bleeter sent me some nice dumps I need to implement yet.
1133 Luke: We have a nice timely release, with a Changelog that seems
1134 small, but remember, this is summer, and people have lives. SILC
1135 and Zephyr are making good progress from our Crazy Patch Writters,
1136 and everyone begging to send files to people not on their buddy
1137 list will be happy. good stuff. No, the msn buddy icon scalling
1138 problem isn't fixed yet, maybe next release
1140 0.79 (06/24/2004):
1141 Sean: We've moved to a three-week release cycle which we'll
1142 hopefully be able to keep up more realistically than a two-week
1143 cycle. Yahoo! went and broke last night, but it's fixed now thanks
1144 to a quick fix sent in by Cerulean Studios this morning. Reports say
1145 they'll continue to try to break us, though, so don't be surprised
1146 if your Yahoo cuts out again.
1148 Luke: I was really distracted this cycle, I want to thank my co-
1149 developers and our crazy patch writers for keeping things going.
1150 We have a fairly long changelog for you this release, including some
1151 nice bug fixes and some much-requested new features, the ChangeLog
1152 has all the details there of course. Enjoy!
1154 Christian: Great release! MSN buddy icons and file transfer. A big round
1155 of applause to Felipe! Too bad about the Yahoo thing, but.. eep! I have
1156 to go! Movie with the girls and Farmer's Market.
1158 Tim: This release brings us /commands in the core, which hopefully
1159 works better, and Yahoo! buddy icons. Thanks to all the people I
1160 bugged for packet captures, like Simguy, Bleeter, and odl. Yahoo!
1161 broke again, so I did a little last minute work on the web
1162 messenger stuff, but then Cerulean Studios was cool and fixed the
1163 problem already, so all that code's disabled. I also finally added
1164 the Yahoo! Japan support, for those of you with Yahoo! Japan
1165 accounts.
1167 Mark: I fixed that icon animation thing that caused Gaim to lock-up.
1168 I also stepped on something at the beach and I think there might be
1169 a little rock or something in my foot now.
1171 Nathan: I've been really busy, what with having a new job and all.
1172 I didn't think I had done anything, but apparently I fixed some
1173 Jabber stuff, and some IPv6 stuff. I must have been sleepcoding
1174 or something, because I haven't had time for such things. Ah well,
1175 enjoy this release. We'll see what I can get to in the next 3 weeks.
1177 0.78 (05/30/2004):
1178 Luke: A very long time, once again, since the last release. I think
1179 its mostly worth it. A few of you will still have trouble with msn
1180 but we've worked out a number of bugs even there. Thanks to heroic
1181 efforts on the part of Mark, we closed 400 some odd reports this
1182 month. We are also welcoming Tim to the project, a very active
1183 crazy patch writer who has brought massive improvements to WYSIWYG
1184 and direct im this release. Again, it still won't work for every
1185 one, but it will work for more people than it used to. Most
1186 noticably, this release brings a LARGE simplicfication of the
1187 preferences available. Please don't complain if your favorite
1188 preference is no longer there. Take some time to think about
1189 how and if it could be useful to a majority of people who use
1190 Gaim in ways nothing like you. You'll find that the answer will
1191 usually be that the preference isn't all that important.
1193 Tim: I continued with the other crazy patch writers in fixing those
1194 WYSIWYG bugs. Then they went and made me a developer. Which is cool.
1195 They told me I could commit WYSIWYG and Yahoo! changes. So I went
1196 and fixed IM Image and Direct Connect in AIM for some reason. I also
1197 added some new Yahoo! smileys at least. Also you change your link
1198 color in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file now. I might work on some of those
1199 new Yahoo! features for next release, like buddy icons. But don't
1200 count on it. Thanks to everyone who congratulated me. And thanks
1201 to all our Crazy Patch Writers, who now expect me to apply all their
1202 Crazy Patches.
1204 Christian: First of all, congrats to Tim! He's our latest Gaim
1205 developer, and we're all glad to have him on board. He's been a
1206 valuable contributor for awhile now. Thanks again to Felipe Contreras
1207 for all his MSN work this release. He has some exciting stuff that
1208 we'll be seeing in 0.79. And last, but not least, thanks to all our
1209 crazy and not-so-crazy patch writers. There's been a lot done this
1210 release. I've been taking a small break, first due to school and now
1211 work, but I'll be coming back strong in the next couple of releases. In
1212 the meantime, enjoy.
1214 Gary: Congrats to Tim, no more competing for most ChangeLog entries.
1215 This means you _should_ be winning every release. Anyways, I didn't
1216 finish nearly as much as I wanted to for this release but all of that
1217 and then some should appear in 0.79.
1219 Sean: I'll write my entry down here tonight. Removing preferences
1220 was my big crusade this week, and the team did a great job at it,
1221 but I still have a nagging feeling that our preferences are still
1222 overwhelming. Everyone's been doing a real great job; it's entirely
1223 my fault we keep failing to meet our three-week schedule. Send your
1224 complaints this way.
1226 Nathan: I really didn't do much thanks to exams, and graduation, and all
1227 of that fun stuff. For next release, I'll have all new excuses, like my
1228 new job, or maybe something I haven't even thought of yet. Oh yeah, and
1229 a big warm welcome to Tim!
1231 0.77 (04/22/2004):
1232 Sean: We're back to a somewhat regular release cycle now. Hooray!
1233 WYSIWYG is much improved in this release, and you can now copy and
1234 paste rich text to and from Gaim and other applications (see: Mozilla,
1235 Evolution OpenOffice). Also, Novell has released their first release
1236 of their GroupWise plugin, included in this release. Good stuff all
1237 around.
1239 Luke: Only a week "late" this time around, much nicer than the delay
1240 before the last release. Anyway, this release sees a HUGE number of
1241 improvements to the WYSIWYG support, much thanks to all involved. If
1242 you weren't impressed before, you should be now! This release also
1243 sees the end of our TOC support, no one has been working on this in
1244 some time and its causing problems. DON'T USE IT!. Also plugin
1245 authors will want to take note of the fact that the plugin api version
1246 changed. A nice solid release for you all :-)
1248 Ethan: Once again I thought about doing some things and committed
1249 things that other people did. This development model is awesome. I
1250 helped Mark refactor some stuff and our collective code ownership
1251 helped us utilize a coherent system metaphor during our pair program-
1252 ming sessions. It was extremely extreme. Look for some hard crypto
1253 lovin' from yet another crazy contributor in the near future...
1255 Ka-Hing: I actually did something for this release... or rather, the
1256 previous release, but LSchiere2 didn't commit that until this release.
1257 So blame him. System logging is back, so you can log people's signon/
1258 off/away/idle-ness again. There may be bugs with it, I don't know, not
1259 like I use it. I will try to work on something that I will actually use
1260 for the next release.
1262 Etan: Looking for someone to pair program with.
1264 Christian: A round of applause to our crazy patch writers! Their
1265 contributions this release is impressive. WYSIWYG has come a long way
1266 since 0.76 thanks to them. Also, thanks to Felipe Contreras for his
1267 MSN contributions. We should see some good stuff going into there soon.
1268 I myself didn't do a huge amount, aside from breaking everybody's
1269 plugins, although I have some work going on in the background that will
1270 hopefully make it into release soon.
1272 0.76 (04/01/2004):
1273 Sean: Yeah, it's been a long time since the last release, and despite
1274 what others may tell you, we were just really lazy. This is pretty
1275 much just 0.75 again, but, like, someone changed the "Info" icon and
1276 I think, like, the Chinese translation may have been updated. We did
1277 nothing interesting on it at all. Others may tell you "we haven't just
1278 been lazy," or "you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat
1279 stuf in this one." They lie. All of them.
1281 Luke: Okay, normally I wait for Sean to go first, but he said to commit.
1282 Its been a few months since the last release, but we haven't just been
1283 lazy. A very long ChangeLog for you all. Most notably of course is the
1284 addition of WYSIWYG input for chats and conversations. Many thanks to
1285 DAYS of long work by Sean, Gary Kramlich, Kevin Stange, Tim Ringenbach,
1286 and Stu Tomlinson for their efforts writting, fixing, and testing
1287 this. Without the dedicated support of our crazy patch writters, this
1288 release would have taken yet longer. Sean also has yahoo working again,
1289 with some assistance from our friends over at Trillian, you may all
1290 officially rejoice. We also have a large number of bug fixes, closing
1291 more than 200 bug reports this month alone.
1293 Christian: It's been a long time between the last release, but I think
1294 you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat stuff in this one.
1295 So many bug fixes and new features. It's enough to drive a wombat mad!
1296 The new WYSIWYG input is cool stuff. You'll either love it or hate it,
1297 I guess. I'm working on some stuff that some of you are going to love,
1298 but I'm not promising it for a few more versions. It's a secret!
1300 Mark: Our crazy patch writers rock. Gary Kramlich, Tim Ringenbach,
1301 Kevin Stange, and Stu Tomlinson did an amazing job of tying up
1302 loose ends and helping get this release out the door. Thanks guys!
1304 Rob: My birthday is in a few days. I like cool stuff. Buy me something
1305 grand!!
1307 Tim: Luke said write a NEWS, so I thought I would. There's a room
1308 list dialog now. And Nathan and I doubled the number of protocols that
1309 can transfer files. After that I got lazy/busy and let Gary, Kevin,
1310 and Stu fix all the bugs.
1312 Nathan: Rob happens to share a birthday with my sister. So far she's
1313 been very vague about what she wants. She's not an easy person to shop
1314 for. As for things you probably care more about, this release has so
1315 much in it that I've forgotten about most of it. The stupidest of the
1316 bugs from 0.75 are fixed. Jabber has a first pass at file transfer
1317 support (no proxy support yet). SOCKS 5 proxy support may have gotten
1318 a little better as a side-effect. Twinkies and penguin points to all
1319 of the crazy patch writers, who did more than their fair share this
1320 release.
1322 Ethan: My birthday was yesterday, and not on the same day as Rob
1323 and Nathan's sister. And I don't mean that Rob and Nathan have the
1324 same sister. For this release, I thought about making IRC better, I
1325 thought about making Tcl better, and I committed patches from several
1326 others who actually did these things. And probably some other
1327 things, too. Let's hear it for crazy patch writers, and for the open
1328 source philosophy that lets them get so CRAZY.
1330 0.75 (01/09/2004):
1331 Rob: Woah, what's this? Me? Making a NEWS post!? Say it ain't so!
1332 That's right, kiddos, I'm finally coming out of my reclusiveness.
1333 I had a pretty shitty few months, and also just needed a break from
1334 things. But, I'm back, and that's good. Right? Yes. And now,
1335 a little word from Eric Warmenhoven.. :P
1337 Eric: Ah, Rob and Eric. Just like the good ol' days. Now, if
1338 you'll excuse me, I have to go make some commits with Led Zeppelin
1339 lyrics as my commit logs. heh. What do you mean, I look a lot
1340 like Sean Egan? I'm... oh fine, you got me. It's really just Sean
1341 in an Eric Warmenhoven costume.
1343 So, Yahoo! works again, and that's good. And 0.76 is going to have
1344 something _very_ neat.
1346 Nathan: You're running out of excuses to not use Jabber. Our chat
1347 support is now bar-some, quickly approaching bar-none! Everything
1348 else in Jabber got neat improvements too. I'll leave it up to you
1349 to figure out what they were.
1351 <boilerplate promises for cool features in $version++>
1353 Christian: I've been a bit absent this release, due to life stuff
1354 and working on some other projects. Some MSN goodies are going to be
1355 available in an upcoming version, and I have some neat Gaim-related
1356 stuff I'm working on that will hopefully see the light of day. I'd
1357 like to say good job to the other developers. Good release. (Of course,
1358 every time I say that, something breaks horribly right after we
1359 release it.)
1361 Luke: Okay, so Sean rocks and got Yahoo working again in 12 minutes.
1362 Unfortunately, he took out the chat support in doing so. So use
1363 conferences for now if you use yahoo. Users begging for file
1364 transfer support should thank Tim 'marv' Ringenbach for Yahoo ft,
1365 and everyone should be happy to note that 0.75 leaks far less than
1366 0.74. Also, a lot of other bug fixes happened that escape my notice
1367 right now.
1369 Ethan: I just want to say that now logging really doesn't eat
1370 memory 'till the cows come home. We don't think.
1372 I would like to thank each and every one of these people, and
1373 I think you should, too:
1375 Paul A, Daniel Atallah, Patrick Aussems, Brian Bernas,
1376 Jonas Birmé, Ethan Blanton (hi Mom), Joshua Blanton, Herman
1377 Bloggs, Jason Boerner, Graham Booker, Craig Boston, Chris
1378 Boyle, Jeremy Brooks, Sean Burke, Cerulean Studios LLC,
1379 Ka-Hing Cheung, Arturo Cisneros Jr., Vincas Ciziunas, Joe
1380 Clarke, Todd Cohen, Felipe Contreras, Jeramey Crawford, Mark
1381 Doliner, Nuno Donato, Jim Duchek, Tom Dyas, Andrew Echols,
1382 Sean Egan, Brian Enigma, Stefan Esser, Larry Ewing, Jesse
1383 Farmer, Gavan Fantom, Rob Flynn, Nathan Fredrickson, Free
1384 Software Foundation, Decklin Foster, Adam Fritzler, Michael
1385 Golden, Ryan C. Gordon, Christian Hammond, Andy Harrison, G.
1386 Sumner Hayes, Mike Heffner, Iain Holmes, Karsten Huneycutt,
1387 Akuke Kok, Tero Kuusela, Dennis Lambe Jr., Ho-seok Lee, Moses
1388 Lei, Ambrose C. Li, Nicolas Lichtmaier, Artem Litvinovich, Syd
1389 Logan, Matthew Luckie, Brian Macke, Paolo Maggi, Willian T.
1390 Mahan, John Matthews, Ryan McCabe, Robert McQueen, Robert
1391 Mibus, Benjamin Miller, Kevin Miller, Paul Miller, Arkadiusz
1392 Miskiewicz, Andrew Molloy, Matt Pandina, Ricardo Fernandez
1393 Pascual, Havoc Pennington, Ari Pollak, Robey Pointer, Nathan
1394 Poznick, Brent Priddy, Federicco Mena Quintero, David Raeman,
1395 Etan Reisner, Kristian Rietveld, Tim Ringenbach, Andrew
1396 Rodland, Neil Sanchala, Carsten Schaar, Luke Schierer, Torrey
1397 Searle, Jim Seymour, John Silvestri, David Smock, Mark
1398 Spencer, Lex Spoon, Kevin Stange, David Stoddard, Stu
1399 Tomlinson, Brian Tarricone, Peter Teichman, Arun A. Tharuvai,
1400 Philip Tellis, Bill Tompkins, Tom Tromey, Junichi Uekawa,
1401 Bjoern Voigt, Nathan Walp, Eric Warmenhoven, Jason Willis,
1402 Matt Wilson, Ximian, Jaroen Zwartepoorte.
1404 Thanks, all.
1406 0.74 (11/25/2003):
1407 Sean: Christian and Nathan were wrong.
1409 Ethan: I don't know how solid or good this release will be, but
1410 hopefully it's better than 0.73! Not that 0.73 didn't rock or
1411 anything, but for those users bit by its peculiar little bugs
1412 it wasn't as nice as this will be.
1414 Nathan: Jabber got some good tweaks, and logging doesn't eat
1415 memory until the cows come home. Which is good, because they
1416 said they'll be out until late.
1418 Luke: Always nice when directories get created correctly ;-)
1420 0.73 (11/21/2003):
1421 Nathan: This should be a really solid release. I fixed most if not
1422 all of the idiotic Jabber bugs from 0.72, and re-enabled the SASL
1423 login stuff, now that it is finalized in the XMPP drafts. Oh, and
1424 we now have a release notification plugin, so you can find out when
1425 the latest and greatest version of Gaim is out without breaking that
1426 reload button in your browser. There's other fun new stuff, but I
1427 forget what it is.
1429 Christian: This is a good release, as Nathan said. For all those who
1430 hated all the disconnect dialogs, we now have a {dis,re}connect{ed,}
1431 dialog that replaces all of them and shows every account that became
1432 disconnected. Also, there were some MSN fixes thrown in, such as
1433 the problem with unblocking users. My personal favorite, since it's
1434 really been bugging me for awhile, is the bug with the border on the
1435 close buttons is fixed. Oh yes, and let's not forget the new logging.
1436 It simply rocks. This is a pretty stable release, so get it. 0.74 is
1437 going to have some niceties that people have been waiting for.
1439 0.72 (10/30/2003):
1440 Sean: I think I'll go as the Gaim logo guy for Halloween. That
1441 would be a cool costume.
1443 Luke: We've had a record month for number of bugs submitted (395 as
1444 of now) this month, but the total number of bugs open has grown by
1445 less than 20, so while it might be fustrating for those of you out
1446 there who think your bug report is being ignored, know that we are
1447 doing our best to look at them all :-). This release fixes a goodly
1448 number of bugs including the troubles with signing on icq (thanks
1449 to Mark). Enjoy!
1451 Christian: Last release brought forward a lot of bug reports, such
1452 as the ICQ bug, and also trouble with installing SSL. I can't count
1453 how many people were confused as to why their MSN plugin wasn't
1454 loading. Now, it'll load regardless, and when you try to connect,
1455 it'll give you an error dialog saying to install SSL (if you don't
1456 have it installed, of course). I didn't do a whole lot this release,
1457 but that'll change with the next. There are some fun things coming.
1459 Ethan: In complete defiance of history, I did something this
1460 release. It had to do with IRC. If I type here for long
1461 enough, I'm sure I'll remember what it was... Oh yeah, all of
1462 you paranoid people can hide your local username by changing
1463 your IRC account settings. I also want to note that we are
1464 aware that building Gaim is Harder than it Should Be on
1465 Solaris, and I am seeking solutions to some of the issues
1466 there. Everyone remember to give some love to the developers
1467 who actually did something of note this release (i.e. not me)!
1469 Nathan: Jabber got a ton better this release, as I fixed most of the
1470 bugs introduced in the last release. Registration works again, and
1471 the next person to break it is going to suffer. I also fixed a
1472 handfull of other little things that I can't remember. This should
1473 be a good release.
1475 0.71 (10/09/2003):
1476 Rob: It's been a while since I've commited some news. I've had a
1477 very hectic few weeks/months. Thing are finally coming together
1478 again for me. This release features much copying and pasting. Yeah.
1480 Sean: I can't wait for everything to be core/ui split!
1482 Christian: This is a good release, and I don't think people will have
1483 too many problems. There are a lot of little nice feature additions,
1484 and much progress has been made on the core/UI split. We should be done
1485 in a couple of releases, assuming we can get the remaining two or three
1486 parts core/UI-split. Oh, and plugin authors are going to hate me again,
1487 as a lot of code (specifically, the conversations code and utility
1488 functions) changed names. This is a Good Thing (TM), as always, but may
1489 require modifications to some plugins. Not all, fortunately, but some
1490 :) Many SSL problems were fixed, though we still have some to go. If
1491 you don't have SSL, you now need it for MSN. MSN won't even load without
1492 it. Starting October 15th, the old protocol won't be supported
1493 anymore, so there's no reason to support the old one anymore.
1495 Herman: I bet some plugin authors have resorted to making voodoo dolls
1496 of Christian. Nothing new for Win Gaim users other than a fix for
1497 missing aim buddy icons, and removal of gtk-wimp (until it matures).
1499 Mark: People are going to make a voodoo doll of me and shower it with
1500 kisses and chocolate women: When an AIM user is away, you can now view
1501 the person's away message in their tooltip. This is very similar to
1502 what iChat does, only our tooltip will wrap lines rather than displaying
1503 off your screen :-)
1505 Nathan: Chocolate women are cool, but I'm a bigger fan of the real kind.
1506 I re-wrote the Jabber support from scratch, so now there's at least one
1507 person who knows what's going on with it. I got lost in the old code,
1508 even in the parts I wrote. It now supports the SASL login stuff from
1509 the XMPP protocol specs, and will automagically upgrade the conncetion
1510 to SSL if it's supported. If anything doesn't work like it did before,
1511 it's probably better, and you should be thankful for it.
1513 Ethan: I'm sure I'll be showered with all kinds of wonderful things,
1514 but I doubt it's because I did anything. The reason being that I
1515 really don't think I did anything. I meant to do some gaim_
1516 prepension and documentation for IRC and Tcl, and handle IRC errors
1517 more responsibly, but I've been meaning to do that for months.
1518 Except the Tcl part, the Tcl plugin hasn't even existed for months.
1519 I figure if I write enough NEWS no one will notice I didn't do
1520 anything during the release cycle. Oh, I did close some bugs. I
1521 didn't fix them, mind you, I just closed them. With abandon.
1522 Don't tell Luke.
1524 Luke: Mmmm, I probly did even less than Ethan, except I closed rather
1525 more bugs for other reasons. Lots of you submitting duplicate bugs.
1526 This should be a pretty good release. We still have a couple crashes
1527 in ssl stuff, but we fixed a number of the bugs in the tracker, and
1528 the code cleaning helps alot as well. Enjoy!
1530 0.70 (9/28/2003):
1531 Sean: Yahoo! works (for now). That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1532 Huge thanks to our dear friends over at Cerulean Studios, creators of
1533 Trillian, for helping us out.
1535 Nathan: This release also works out most of the kinks in the new
1536 contact support. The Jabber goodies I promised will have to wait
1537 for now.
1539 Christian: I didn't really do anything except fix a couple of issues
1540 loading protocol plugins that had plugin dependencies and getting perl
1541 to install where we tell it to. I had hoped that 0.70 would include
1542 a finished libgaim, but Yahoo kind of wrecked that dream. We'll see it
1543 within the next few releases. Life has been busy in a good way :)
1545 0.69 (9/24/2003):
1546 Sean: MSN and Yahoo! work. That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1548 Herman: Win Gaim has been around for more than a year now.. Time Flies.
1550 Nathan: {{Meta,}{Contact,Buddy},Person} support for all! Also, SSL
1551 support for Jabber makes its debut. More Jabber goodies next release.
1553 Christian: It's a good release. The main highlight really is
1554 Nathan's Contact support, which is just beautiful. My buddy list
1555 shrunk considerably. As Sean stated, MSN and Yahoo! work. MSN
1556 does not support the new MSN buddy icons and stuff, unfortunately,
1557 but we'll see about 0.70. There were a whole bunch of Perl fixes,
1558 so hopefully there will be less complaints directed to my code in
1559 that area ;) Among other new additions of mine are SSL support
1560 (both Mozilla NSS and GNUTLS), Plugin IPC (letting plugins talk to
1561 each other), and some visual niceties in the Accounts window.
1562 Ka-Hing Cheung put in animated smileys, which should please many.
1563 Yeah, good release. Just you wait until 0.70 though.
1565 Robot101: Hi mom. My patch isn't in this release. Watch for the next
1566 one.
1568 Mark: Metacontact support, yeah. Right click on a dude and
1569 select "Expand."
1571 Ethan: God bless the USA.
1573 0.68 (09/01/2003):
1574 Rob: Wow. I am so incredibly tired.
1576 Sean: School starts tomorrow! How fun! I'll have more time to hack
1577 gaim (isn't that supposed to be the reverse?)*
1579 *Some NEWS recycled from v0.10.0
1581 Nathan: I didn't do much for this release, except make Jabber
1582 registration work, and put in a slight tweak to make Gaim work a
1583 little better with jabberd2. Next release you'll all see what I've
1584 been spending my time on, but for now enjoy the fruits of everyone
1585 else's labor.
1587 Mark: I've been really busy with other stuff, but I've spent my
1588 Gaim-time on working towards a more formal translation process.
1589 Hopefully this will result in Gaim shipping with more complete
1590 translation files. Also, all our awesome translators are mentioned
1591 in the about window now.
1593 Christian: I've been really busy with this stuff. Gaim got a new
1594 signal architecture, which is just really cool. The old events system
1595 is gone. Now you connect a signal from a handle (which can be
1596 a plugin or whatever) to a function, and plugins can register their
1597 own functions, and other neat things. Oh yeah, and perl was rewritten.
1598 There's a new HOWTO in the Doxygen docs (make docs), but no API
1599 reference yet. Developers, look at the plugins/perl/common/*.xs files
1600 for now. I also wrote plugin dependencies, which will be more useful
1601 down the road. Gaim v0.69 is going to have the new MSN plugin that
1602 works with the latest MSN protocol. Please be patient for that, as
1603 we're getting a lot of MSN questions we answer over and over.
1605 Luke: Wow, I actually did something for this release besides commit
1606 translations! Well, sorta. I got permission to commit some patches
1607 so gaim now has color support for yahoo, and you can fetch some
1608 basic info on yahoo and msn users. Yay for people submitting patches!
1610 0.67 (08/14/2003):
1612 Rob: I live in Georgia. I don't care about blackouts. We only
1613 have to deal with floods and tornadoes.
1615 Sean: Fortunately me for me, I live in the only place in New York
1616 that still has power tonight! New features in 0.6@%f)*2.{\
1617 NO CARRIER
1619 Christian: I guess Sean couldn't be here to tell you about all the
1620 great new things. New stuff was done! It's simply amazing. Yeah. So,
1621 new IRC protocol plugin, tab text is greyed on events (like "So and
1622 so has signed off!"), protocol icons on tabs (thanks to Etan Reisner),
1623 some dialog rewrites.. Great stuff. Gaim's looking more teh perrty.
1624 My big "wow" thing is that the core and UI were split enough for me
1625 to remove the remaining UI code and make a patch, and libgaim was born,
1626 for experimental purposes. However, using it, I was able to make the
1627 second UI ever for Gaim - Gaim for Qtopia (Zaurus and iPaq PDAs).
1628 This is viewable at http://qpe-gaim.sf.net/ (shameless plug?). More
1629 UIs to come I hope! :) Exciting time in Gaim.
1631 0.66 (07/18/2003):
1632 Rob: Oops!!!! This reminds me of other silly things that we've
1633 done. I agree with what Herman is going to say. ;-)
1635 Sean: Man, 0.65 was so super lame and boring. But 0.66? WOW!
1636 This is the most incredible thing EVER. We've done tons of work
1637 since 0.65, and I'm really proud of what we came out with. Thanks
1638 to everyone who helped!
1640 Christian: Wow, I can't even begin to describe how long we've worked
1641 on this one. Monstrous release. Best ever! You won't even recognize
1642 it. If you've had account import problems, delete your accounts.xml
1643 and upgrade to 0.66. Just, wow.
1645 Herman: This is to make up for slipping off the two week release cycle.
1647 Luke: Okay, people, yes we did test 0.65 for bugs, but hey, some things
1648 slip through. This release makes up for that. This should fix the bugs
1649 0.65 introduced, at least the ones that most of you would otherwise hit.
1651 Nathan: We are so smart. S-M-R-T...I mean S-M-A-R-T.
1653 0.65 (07/16/2003):
1654 Rob: Wooo! We're finally ready for 0.65. Are you guys excited? I
1655 haven't worked on anything in this release, either. I've been
1656 working offline on a MacOSX UI. No, you're not allowed to ask
1657 me when it will be ready. If you ask me then I won't answer
1658 you. You've been warned! :-D
1660 Sean: Although I tend to go right here in the two slot in NEWS,
1661 we don't always commit in this order. This is the third time I've
1662 rewritten this because the jerks below me keep commiting while I'm
1663 writing causing mass conflictination. Grrr. Stupid jerks. Anyway,
1664 this is Gaim 0.65. Like other Gaim releases, this allows you to
1665 converse with people far away over the "Internet." That's about it.
1666 It's really not that interesting. In fact, I wouldn't even bother
1667 reading the other people's NEWS. It's all boring. There's some
1668 crap about forest fires and fangs and claws. It's really boring.
1669 Great, now Luke just committed NEWS causing more conflictination.
1670 I wouldn't bother reading his either. Oh, and I don't want to thank
1671 Megan (Cae) or Kevin (SimGuy). They're stupid jerks too. Grrr...
1673 Mark: I actually did stuff for this release. Go me. I probably
1674 shouldn't speak for all of us, but I'm going to anyway: We feel that
1675 this release is one of Gaim's best. It should be relatively bug
1676 free, and the code is cleaner than ever, thanks to lots of work by
1677 Christian and Nathan. We had some help from a few civilians
1678 finding and fixing bugs. Thanks to Megan (Cae), Ka-Hing Cheung
1679 (javabsp), and Kevin Stange (SimGuy) for their work. Man, I was just
1680 looking at Sean's NEWS entry for 0.64--that's talent. Also, stay
1681 in school. Just say no. Only you can prevent forest fires.
1683 Christian: This has been a great release. faceprint rocks, as he got
1684 things moving in the core/UI split by redoing preferences, which forced
1685 us to think about how things would be split. We now have XML
1686 preferences, accounts, pounces, and away messages. No more .gaimrc
1687 ugliness. The accounts and connection code now have new core/UI split
1688 APIs, and there is very little to do before our split is ready to be
1689 used. Rob and I are working off an experimental tarball of what will
1690 eventually be libgaim. He's working on a MacOS X UI (don't ask him
1691 about it, he'll ignore you) and I'm doing a Qtopia UI (you can ask
1692 about that, it's usable!). We added a new protocol, Trepia.
1693 Information about it can be found at http://www.trepia.com/. It's not
1694 complete, so don't send in bug reports about it not finding people in
1695 your local area, please. Oh, and lots of MSN bugs were fixed.
1696 Practically all the known ones. I feared 0.65 would be unstable due to
1697 our rewrites, I believe this is going to be one of the most stable
1698 releases we've had in awhile (knock on wood), thanks to Megan (Cae),
1699 who has done an amazing job at locating, categorizing and documenting
1700 the various bugs she has run into, and kevin (SimGuy). Stay tuned for
1701 upcoming releases. Neat things are coming, but if it has fangs and
1702 claws, curl into a ball. Or yell at it. I can't remember which is
1703 correct.
1705 Luke: Wow! Finally releasing 0.65! Christian, Nathan, and Mark have
1706 worked really hard for this release, all the credit goes to them.
1707 The new preferences are awesome, and there are more bugs fixed for
1708 this release than in the last 3 or 4 releases. Your MSN should work
1709 reliably again, your preferences saved, your accounts resort, the
1710 list goes on and on. A couple preferences, most notably your buddy
1711 list sorting preference won't be imported, but almost all of them
1712 will be and its probly a good idea for you to take a second look
1713 through preferences again anyway, alot of you are starting to
1714 forget that things are optional again. :-)
1716 Nathan: I think I did something for this release a while ago. I've
1717 got a mailbox full of commit emails, and some have my name on them,
1718 so I must have done something, right? Probably some minor jabber stuff,
1719 and lots of crazy bugfixes. It was a team effort, I'd like to thank the
1720 academy, our producer Rob Flynn, and of course all the fans. You rock.
1722 Herman: I was told to write something.. so here it goes. Windows users
1723 will be happy to know that they can now rearrange their Buddy Lists.
1724 I finally got stuck into GTK+ code and fixed the bug in question (this
1725 release will include a patched version of GTK+ 2.2.1). I integrated
1726 the WinGaim systray code into the docklet plugin bringing those nice
1727 docklet features (i.e. Message queuing) to WinGaim. Another major
1728 WinGaim change of note is that debug versions of all dlls can now be
1729 built, providing useful backtraces not only for gaim.dll but for the
1730 plugins as well.
1732 0.64 (05/29/2003):
1733 Rob: I didn't do anything this release either. We're under a crunch
1734 week at work. Friday is the end of the crunch. Hooray!! Thanks for
1735 all of your hard work, guys :).
1737 Sean: Unlike every other time we say, "the next release will be loaded
1738 with cool new features, this time, we really mean it. In fact, they're
1739 already in CVS (don't use CVS). The only obvious new feature for 0.64
1740 is buddy list sorting. This has been much requested and can be set in
1741 the buddy list preferences. You can sort by name, by status, and even
1742 by log file size--putting people you talk to most at the top. Plugins
1743 can even easily add their own sorting methods. It's all very cool. I
1744 want to thank Luke and Ka-Hing for their initial work on it. And yes,
1745 I did make my entire NEWS entry justified on purpose.
1747 Christian: I have a few new goodies in 0.64, but they're mostly
1748 back-end stuff that people like us care about. The things that most
1749 of you will like the most is that almost all of the reported MSN
1750 bugs were fixed. Users with an empty contact list can now login again.
1751 The friendly name bug is gone. E-mail notifications work again. Yay!
1752 We have some big changes in store for 0.65. Careful if you use CVS...
1753 Things will break. :)
1755 Mark: I never really have anything important to add. I'd just like to
1756 thank Jack Daniels for his exquisite bug reports. And whiskey.
1758 Nathan: I don't think I did anything for this release. I'm a bum.
1760 0.63 (05/16/2003)
1761 Rob: Wow, so, what can I say? I've been rather AWOL for the past few
1762 releases. However, that's okay. Work has been pretty friggin hec-
1763 tic, so, that's my excuse. Work is finally going to be slowing down
1764 some. I plan to be doing more Gaim work. That makes me happy. That
1765 makes you happy. That makes us all happy. Now, I just need to
1766 finish rebuilding my car's engine. Engine rebuilds put the FU in
1767 fun!
1769 Sean: Yay! School is finally over. I have to give tons of cherry-
1770 flavored props to everyone whose been helping out while I stayed away
1771 from Gaim to keep myself from failing again, especially Christian and
1772 Nathan.
1774 Luke: Okay, this is NOT a bug fix release, at least for those of you
1775 who use MSN. Christian put in a TON of effort rewritting the MSN prpl,
1776 mega props to him on this release. In other news, we have alot of bugs
1777 fixed, and a goodly number of the translations are more up to date
1778 than they were in earlier releases. There are some other significant
1779 changes, but they are mostly backend stuff, yay for core/ui splits ;-)
1781 Christian: As Sean and Luke said, I did a tiny bit of work in this
1782 release. The MSN prpl was rewritten, and should now work better. It's
1783 compatible with the MSNP7 protocol that MSN v4.x uses. Unfortunately,
1784 MSNP9 is being worked on. Bah. Also, it has MSN Mobile support, so you
1785 can register your MSN account with http://mobile.msn.com/ and people
1786 can page your mobile device. You can also page other MSN Mobile users.
1787 Groups are now stored on server. Oh, and due to the nature of MSNP7,
1788 conversations are timed out after 5 minutes, so you'll unfortunately
1789 see a message indicating that. Sorry! I wrote experimental support
1790 for my own implementation of MSN buddy icons. You can set them in your
1791 account settings much like with AIM, and when you talk to other gaim
1792 users, they'll get your buddy icon. This will last for a few releases,
1793 until the buddy icon implementation in the upcoming MSNP9 protocol is
1794 figured out, and we have support for that. That'll be a couple months
1795 away at least. Also, we have a rewrite of the plugin interface, so
1796 rewrite your plugins! Things are going to get very cool from it. The
1797 debug API was core/UI split, and some enhancements were made to the
1798 debug window. I think that's all from me. It's been a fun release.
1799 Stay tuned, I have some great things coming up!
1801 Nathan: It seems like 0.62 was forever and a day ago. I had to look
1802 at the ChangeLog to remember what I did. Apparently I made it so you
1803 can put chats in your buddy list. And then I tweaked a bunch of stuff
1804 and fixed a bunch of crashes. Then exams came, and then I went home
1805 for a week and left my laptop's power cable here at school, so I didn't
1806 get anything done. Jabber will get all sorts of fun new stuff for
1807 the next release. Really. ;-)
1809 0.62 (04/23/2003):
1810 Sean: This is just another standard bi-weekly Gaim release. Nothing
1811 really interesting, but it has some good bugfixes. Personally, I've
1812 been a bit removed from Gaim development lately what with school getting
1813 tough and stuff, but the rest of the guys have really been doing great
1814 work without me. Thanks, guys.
1816 Christian: I can't remember what I did here.. Think I'll take a quick
1817 look at the ChangeLog.... Okay, guess I was useless. That's okay,
1818 though, because I have some really cool stuff going into 0.63. Plugin
1819 authors will hate me for it. A rewrite of the plugins interface! This is
1820 actually a Good Thing (TM). Anyhow, upgrade to this release, and tell
1821 your friends. 33 Gaim users can't be wrong!
1823 Luke: I didn't do much here besides the odd translation patch and a
1824 couple bug fix patches. This is primarily a bug fix release, and much
1825 needed at that. Didn't get a chance to write sorting code, work has been
1826 busy. Hopeefully it will happen for 0.63.
1828 Mark: Gaim is coming along quite beautimously. I'm going to eat
1829 my Pop-tarts now.
1831 Nathan: oh dot sixty two. There are a lot of bugs fixed in this
1832 release, and one major new feature. Our Jabber plugin now supports
1833 XHTML-IM. In plain english, this means that you can now format your
1834 jabber messages, and other people will see the formatting. GtkIMHTML
1835 still needs some work to get it to parse valid XHTML-IM better, but that
1836 will come in time. That time would come sooner if my CS prof accepted
1837 "I was hacking on Gaim" as a valid excuse for an extension ;-)
1839 0.61 (04/07/2003):
1840 Rob: Nathan commited his news first. However, I'm cooler so I'm putting
1841 my entry above his. Yeah, so, there were some DnD issues with 0.60. I
1842 blame it on the rain. It was falling, falling. I blame it on the
1843 faucet. It drips all night.
1845 Sean: I committed my news after Rob. I'm cooler than Nathan (by far)
1846 but not as cool as Rob. So I go here. Actually, I didn't do anything
1847 since 0.60 other than commit some other peoples patches. The one from
1848 Dave Camp is cool. How 'bout this snow? Isn't that crazy? Oh, and
1849 thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday.
1851 Nathan: You want frequent releases? You got 'em ;-) Chip wrote some
1852 cool new pounce stuff, and things shouldn't get weird when you drag
1853 groups and buddies around. It's bad enough having 1 of some of my
1854 buddies on my list, I definitely don't need duplicates. Being that I
1855 have class in the morning, I'll just raise my juice glass for this one.
1857 Christian: I'm not as cool as Rob, Sean, or Nathan, so I go down here.
1858 Well, among some of the fixes is my new buddy pounce code! This adds new
1859 buddy pounce types, core/ui splitifies the code, and makes the dialog
1860 box spiffy. Yay frequent releases! Erm, I can't think of anything else
1861 cool to say here. Have fun, everyone!
1863 Luke: Okay, i'm probly the least cool, so I'll go last. I committed a
1864 few patches from other people here, nothing earth shattering though. The
1865 biggest thing in this release is the group re-ordering bug fix, having
1866 that fixed will make for fewwer questions. Get used to using releases
1867 people, we want to use cvs for actual development :-).
1869 Mark: I didn't want to write any news without actually having done
1870 anything, so I fixed a meaningless compile warning. Boo-yeah.
1872 Sean: Luke can't spell "fewer". How un-cool is that?
1874 0.60 (04/04/2003):
1875 Rob: Wow. So, it has been a really long time since we started the
1876 gtk2 fork. It's finally ready for public consumption. Sean is about
1877 to go out and buy a case of beer. My roommate is downstairs right
1878 now pouring me a shot of his choice. Everyone, raise your beers if
1879 you've got them. It's been a cool almost 10-months of development.
1880 I hope you all enjoy. Drink'em if you got'em!
1882 Sean: I'm writing this 3 minutes before my 21st birthday. Nobody can
1883 believe we're finally ready to relase 0.60. Many thanks to everyone
1884 who helped out; I'm convinced that Gaim 0.60 is the best IM client to
1885 date (only to be bested by 0.61). There's WAY too much stuff to mention.
1886 Even the ChangeLog is somewhat incomplete. Yay, I'm 21 now! Everyone
1887 enjoy! :)
1889 Nathan: Happy birthday Sean! Rob decided to let me start cleaning up
1890 after everyone, so here I am. "sexy" is the only word that can be used
1891 to describe 0.60. Prepare to be shocked and amazed. /me raises his
1892 (shot) glass ;-)
1894 Christian: Geeeeeze this took a long time. Worth it though! Personally,
1895 I thought we'd all just give up on releases altogether and tell
1896 everybody just to grab CVS. I'm pretty happy with this release. I was
1897 able to contribute quite a bit to it. Makes me feel proud to be a gaim
1898 developer! I'm really looking forward to the future releases. I have
1899 some neat stuff planned. Yay, I'm still 19! Mmmm, Sierra Mist. Make me a
1900 sammich!
1902 Mark: Whoops, I started drinking a little earlier than I was supposed
1903 to. I guess I missed the memo. Hmm, I ate at a restaurant somewhere,
1904 I think it was at Snowshoe, and the menu had "sammiches" on it. It was
1905 pretty sweet. I'd like to give a shout out to all the Gaim
1906 devizelopers for rizocking the hizzy the past few months. Word.
1909 0.59 (06/24/2002):
1910 Rob: I guess Sean is busy at home or something and Jim is asleep.
1911 I'm very tired but it's time for a release. Enjoy. :)
1912 SORRY FOR THE DELAY. :(
1914 Sean: It's been a long time since our last release, and for no
1915 good reason either. Rob and I just haven't been able to get together
1916 to do it. But now we have. Aside from some Jabber changes and some
1917 crucial MSN fixes, most of this release's changes are transparent,
1918 but none-the-less important. Well get some better changes when my
1919 computer works again, you have my word*
1921 *My word is worthless.
1924 0.58 (05/13/2002):
1925 Rob: Yeah, so, my computer has been bad which is why the release
1926 didn't go out on time. Oh well. I would like to welcome
1927 Jim Seymour aboard the development team. He's going to be taking
1928 over the work on our Jabber code as well as doing various other
1929 nit picking. He likes to pick nits, nats, and umm, knots, I think.
1931 Sean: This release has a long ChangeLog. Higlights include an
1932 important security fix for MSN and a few nice new features.
1933 Not *much* cooler than 0.57--but we're making progress ;)
1935 Jim: Hmmm... Rob said I have to say *something*, so here it is:
1936 Rob's a mango.
1938 0.57 (04/25/2002):
1939 Rob: Not too much in this release, as Sean said below. (This is
1940 what happens when the bottom person goes first.) New translation,
1941 a few fixes, secure msn hotmail logins, blah blah blah. As Sean
1942 said, the next release will be cooler. If only you could read
1943 our minds ;-).
1945 Sean: Nothing too special here, but a critical Yahoo fix that
1946 ensures Yahoo! will work when they discontinue the old protocol
1947 all the other 3rd party clients are using. Next release will be
1948 cooler, I promise.
1950 0.56 (04/11/2002):
1951 Rob: Well, what do you know. I have another headache. I always have
1952 these damned headaches. I got pissed off with the way GtkTree looks.
1953 I wanted to move to using GtkCTree. I think they're pretty.
1954 Unfortunately, GtkCTree sucks. After a little digging through
1955 the code, I managed to molest GtkTree into looking like
1956 GtkCTree. Thanks to everyone that helped track down that one
1957 annoying style problem.
1959 Sean: Hello. This is another minor release while Rob and I finish
1960 up on some bigger projects. We're reworking a lot of the UI to make
1961 it easier to use, nicer looking, and more compatible with gtk2.
1962 I've also been trying to bring the Yahoo plugin up to date, so it
1963 will work for Indian users and avoid a potential problem in the near
1964 future.
1966 0.55 (03/29/2002):
1967 Rob: 0.55 is here. I've been away for a few days on business. Sean
1968 has been on Spring Break. Therefore, this release is mostly a patch
1969 release. It does fix some bugs and makes a few thing slightly cooler,
1970 so it's better in that aspect, I suppose. Enjoy.
1972 Sean: This is mostly a bugfix release. I'm on Spring Break, not
1973 doing any coding at all. But lots of people sent in great patches
1974 anyway. Thanks guys!
1976 0.54 (03/14/2002):
1977 Rob: Well, here we are. 0.54. We got a lot of fun things in this
1978 release. Better working SSI, Image sending, protocol specific
1979 smiley faces, and a whole lot of triscuits. *gobble*
1981 Sean: We fixed a lot of bugs in this one, and probably introduced
1982 a bunch too. ;) We were both really busy, and did all the coding
1983 late at night when we were tired, so if something isn't working,
1984 it's probably just tired code. Enjoy the triscuits!
1986 0.53 (02/28/2002):
1987 Rob: Well, we missed yesterday's release. That's Okay, I head a
1988 nasty headache. You can all just deal. ;-)
1991 Sean: Neat Goodies! Whee!! Oscar got a lot of great additions.
1992 It can do Screen Name formatting, it can save and store your buddy
1993 list on the server, it can do typing notifications in Direct
1994 Connections, and yes, it can receive IM Images! Sending images will
1995 be added in the next release. MSN and Yahoo! can do typing
1996 notification too. Hooray!
1999 0.52 (02/17/2002):
2000 Rob: Well, after a long delay we're finally ready for another release.
2001 I finally got settled into my new apartment, the new job is going
2002 well, and I finally have internet connectivity again. You can expect
2003 us to be back on our usually bi-monthly schedule. Enjoy these fixen,
2004 as they resolve a few connectivity issues. :-)
2006 Sean: It looks like things are back on track now. Eric left which is
2007 sad. He's done so much for Gaim, and I know we're all thankful.
2008 Thanks Eric! I'll be stepping in and do more development, but I can
2009 never replace Eric. This release fixes a long-standing problem in
2010 MSN. If you've gotten errors when trying to connect to MSN, you want
2011 this release. If you've suddenly found yourself unable to connect to
2012 Yahoo!, you want this release too. The "neat goodies" will be in the
2013 next release ;)
2015 Rob: Operation Evil does not exist! ;-)
2018 0.51 (01/24/2002):
2019 Rob: Well, here we go. I FINALLY got around to making a release
2020 after over a month, Sorry for the delay, all. Things got really
2021 hectic around the gaim house hold. This release isn't as complete
2022 as I had hoped, but I promised to get something out. There's some
2023 neat goodies in mind for the next release, right Sean? :-)
2026 0.50 (12/13/2001):
2027 Rob: I am tired. Tonight was weird. Bleh!!!!
2029 Eric: I second that.
2031 0.49 (11/29/2001):
2032 Rob: *still mamboing*
2034 Whew! That was a bad little mambo. I hope everyone had a nice
2035 little Holiday, if you celebrate. If not, then I hope you had
2036 a sucky weekend. :-D.
2038 Oh, lots of cheese for everyone!! (Beware the duffle)
2040 It's getting cloudy. I think it's going to storm somethin'
2041 fierce. That's my southern talk. Do you like it?
2043 Eric: I want to be like you.
2045 Do the cha cha cha!
2047 0.48 (11/18/2001):
2048 Rob: Hi! It's 4:12am! I'm watching The Simpsons. :).
2049 Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking! :) There's not
2050 too much for me to say in this release. I'd just like to
2051 thank Eric for his hard work. :)
2053 Eric: Everybody mambo!
2055 0.47 (11/01/2001):
2056 Rob: Hi. Gaim v0.47 has been released, as you should already
2057 know. I hope all of you had a nice little halloween. There are
2058 quite a number of changes in this release. There are a few too
2059 many to list here, so I will redirect you to ye olde ChangeLog.
2061 Eric: Remember back in the day when TOC was the only protocol
2062 Gaim could use? Remember the login window from back then? Back
2063 before Gaim had perl or plugins or multiple connections or
2064 10 different protocols. Things have changed so much since then.
2065 Many more changes in this release as well. All good things.
2066 Don't forget to talk to SmarterChild.
2068 0.46 (10/18/2001):
2069 Rob: Hey guys! The smores were great! I really enjoyed meeting
2070 up with all of you guys and singing campfire songs. It was
2071 really awesome. Thanks for the beer, too. Next time, it's on me.
2073 This release has quite the number of bug fixes. I won't bother
2074 going into detail here. Just ust it, love it, live it - SEGA!
2076 Eric: Lots of fixes. Things compile well now. ICQ has stopped
2077 crashing on PPC and Sparc. If you know someone who isn't using
2078 Gaim because it was unstable, please get them to try this
2079 version. It's much better, I promise.
2081 0.45 (10/04/2001):
2082 Eric: Well, it seems that the time has come for yet another
2083 release. There are several yummy additions in this release, and
2084 quite a few useful bugfixes as well. Unfortunately it seems that
2085 Rob is currently unavailable; he joins us in spirit. He'll be
2086 joining us later for a group sing-along and smores by the
2087 campfire. But for now, you'll need to keep yourselves occupied
2088 with 0.45. And remember, a happy hacker is a pimpin' penguin.
2090 0.44 (09/20/2001):
2091 Rob: Another release has come upon us. There were actually quite
2092 a number of things in ye old ChangeLog for this release. I don't
2093 feel like talking about them here, so you can read about them
2094 in ... you guessed it .. the ChangeLog. Oh, and if you're
2095 wondering about setting buddy icons, wait til 0.45 or
2096 use CVS shortly after this release. ;-)
2098 Eric: You should all be using CVS anyway. This has become the
2099 slogan in our IRC room, #gaim on irc.openprojects.net. The IRC
2100 plugin got lots of updates (mostly because I felt bad about using
2101 X-Chat for IRC when gaim supposedly had an IRC plugin), so you
2102 should load the plugin and join us. :)
2104 0.43 (09/06/2001):
2106 Rob: Well, I knew that the day would eventually come. I just didn't
2107 expect it to be so soon. ;-). Yes, that's right, Eric and I finally
2108 got sick of all of the pre releases. We didn't want to make this
2109 release an official 0.11.0. We thought that it would cause a lot
2110 of confusion. We didn't want to continue our trend of prereleases
2111 either. So, since gaim was first released officially, there
2112 have been 42 releases. This is number 43, hence the 0.43 version
2113 number. We're going to stick with this trend from now on. :-).
2115 Eric: We're also going to be starting a release early, release
2116 often trend, that hopefully we'll stick to this time. Hopefully
2117 we'll be putting out a new release every two weeks or so. You
2118 should all be using CVS anyway :) And as always, don't forget to
2119 report bugs! Anyway, since there's only been 9 days since the
2120 last release not much has changed. A bug-fix release and a version
2121 change mostly :)
2123 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
2124 Eric: This isn't a real release. Really. It's just a quick thing
2125 because pre14 doesn't cut it for some people. Also not counting
2126 the month break that I took it's been a month since the last
2127 release, so it's about time. You should all be using CVS anyway.
2128 Instructions are at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/cvs.shmtl. And
2129 don't forget to report bugs! http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php3.
2131 Rob: Hey guys. I've been rather inactive as well. It's a long
2132 story, but essentially, my company layed off a bunch of people,
2133 myself included, due to poor management. I've taken a new
2134 job which required moving across the country. I'm finally back
2135 online. Once I manage to actually get a desk at home I'll be
2136 able to code with out infliciting intense pain upon my lower
2137 back and neck. So, basically, we were inactive, but not dead.
2139 Also, just to keep you all updated, the AOL battle is still
2140 in progress. Our lawyers are still in negotiation with thiers.
2141 We'll keep you updated with what happens.
2143 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
2144 Eric: Wee. Lots of fun things. BIG bug fix release. I did a lot of
2145 stupid things in the last one, hehe. You all forgive me though,
2146 right?
2148 Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.
2149 Remember that. It's a great Scott Adams quote.
2151 Rob: I feel naughty. I should have released this a lot earlier
2152 in the day. I have a problem though. I started cooking, invited
2153 a couple friends over for dinner and then took a walk to a
2154 24hr doughnut shop where I sat outside and talked about
2155 random stuff. Oh well, at least it's still before the 18th.
2157 Enjoy this release guys! :-)
2160 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
2161 Rob: \O. Howdy doodie! This release isn't coming too far behind
2162 the previous release but hey, what can ya say, there were a couple
2163 of good fixes in this one. Jabber & IRC can set / view the topics
2164 of chat rooms now, napster doesnt crash on bad login names and
2165 passwords, and the man page got a big update.
2167 Well, that's about all, folks. Next release, I hope to try to get
2168 group MSN chat support added as well as DCC support in the IRC
2169 plugin.
2171 Peace!
2173 Eric: I apologize if any of you had to restart your X server because
2174 of me. This release won't make you have to do that, I promise. There
2175 were a couple other minor fixes with the buddy icon stuff, it still
2176 has a way to go but at least it's better than it was before. Oh yeah,
2177 and Oscar is able to sign on again.
2179 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
2180 Rob: Hi! O/. My girlfriend was visiting me so I've been busy being
2181 unavailable online. Hooray.
2183 There have been a lot of good changes in this release. Some improved
2184 dialogs, some updates to IRC and MSN, as well as a nifty little thing
2185 that Eric did that I'll let him tell you about.
2187 Oh yeah, I also got food poisoned by bad eggs. Ugh!
2189 Eric: Every protocol except TOC has been improved since the last
2190 release. All of them except Zephyr and ICQ now use the same proxy
2191 options, which you can set in the preferences. ICQ can use them if
2192 you set it to Socks5 though.
2194 There are a bunch of other good additions and fixes for each
2195 protocol which you can read about in the ChangeLog. And, there's one
2196 super cool feature that everyone seems to be asking for: Buddy Icons.
2197 Right now you can only receive them and only in Oscar, but hey, they're
2198 there.
2200 So that's it. Have fun with it :)
2202 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
2203 Rob: I bought a big carton of juice today. It is now 50% empty.
2204 A lot of the plugins got some new options and/or improvements. I
2205 have a headache right now, though, so I won't say much. I'll let
2206 Eric talk :)
2208 Eric: I uh. I bought 72 cans of soda yesterday. It only cost $15
2209 or so. I figure I'll be through it in less than two weeks. A
2210 dollar a day on soda isn't so bad. For the fourth release in a row,
2211 Oscar is fixed. Isn't that exciting. Judging from history I'd say
2212 that it won't stay fixed long; but judging from what I know has
2213 changed, we shouldn't have any more troubles.
2215 Rob: --. .- .. -- / .. ... / --. .-. . .- - --..-- / --. .- .. -- /
2216 .. ... / --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-
2218 I don't have a headache anymore! Hooray! Eric got a good deal on those
2219 drinks. I bought some bananas. They're very green. Oh, and I cooked
2220 a steak last night. It was 16 oz. It was good.
2222 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
2223 Rob: EEP! It's Friday the 13th!!! I think I fixed a few buggies
2224 in MSN and then added some new features to IRC. I have a headache
2225 right now, though, so I won't talk much. I think I'm going to go
2226 to sleep. Next release, I should have a good bit more done on
2227 IRC and will have made Napster more stable. Have fun!!
2229 Eric: There's a new protocol plugin, Zephyr. Don't use it! unless
2230 you know what Zephyr is, and have zhm set up correctly. Also there
2231 were a lot of other good bugfixes (like registering for Jabber
2232 accounts!) and a few neat features. In this release, Oscar is also
2233 working, but we'll see how long that lasts, eh?
2235 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
2236 Rob: Well, looks AOL was doing something naughty earlier this
2237 morning. Thanks to a very nice guy named Adam Fritzler (you
2238 all know him from libfaim) we're now back online. Thanks,
2239 Adam. I'll buy you a drink sometime :-).
2241 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
2242 Eric: Oo wow :) So I guess the big news is that this release should
2243 help you avoid the battle between Jabber and AOL. Most protocols
2244 got a few good bugfixes; thanks to people who pointed them out :).
2245 Hopefully for the next release I'll make it so you can register a
2246 jabber.org account, and then you can support Jabber using Gaim.
2247 I think (I *think*) Oscar blocking is working now. Haha, get it?
2248 Oscar blocking? It took me a while to get it, too. But no, really,
2249 I think that the permit/deny list in Oscar might be working.
2251 Rob: MSN got some fixes and should be really stable now. It had
2252 a little 100% CPU eating bug but that's taken care of now. Next
2253 on my list of repairs is the napster plugin. It works -- sorta --
2254 sometimes. Heh. As all of you probably know already, our Oscar
2255 support was broken yesterday. There's a little battle going on
2256 between AOL and Jabber and we caught a bullet during the crossfire.
2257 I think I just won the award for the most cliches used in one
2258 paragraph, as a matter of fact. ;-).
2260 ** Good luck to the Jabber guys in getting this resolved **
2263 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
2264 Rob: Hey! I finally rewrote the MSN plugin. Sorry, I'm just
2265 a lazy code whore sometimes, heheh. It pretty much has the same
2266 functionality as before with the exception of instability. I
2267 didn't really like that feature very much so I removed it. I hope
2268 you guys don't mind too terribly much ;-).
2270 Eric: In this week's installment of gaim you'll find a new Yahoo!
2271 library and an option to have all conversations in one window,
2272 in addition to numerous bug fixes and other improvements. Don't
2273 forget to send us your feedback. If there's something you want
2274 added, changed, or fixed, head over to our SourceForge page at
2275 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ and tells us about it.
2278 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
2279 Eric: Yay! I get to go first!
2281 The biggest change in this release is the TODO file. Lots of things
2282 got added. There's going to be a lot of prereleases. Please help.
2283 Other than that it's mostly just a lot of bugfixes. Oscar got a few
2284 new features. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
2285 and tell us what you'd like to see in gaim. We've gotten a lot of
2286 great requests so far, thanks.
2288 I think I like releasing every week.
2290 Rob: I've been bad so Eric got to go first. The biggest change
2291 In this release is the NEWS file. It's the only thing I contributed
2292 to! heh, just kidding. This is a bug fix release, as Eric said.
2293 Next release will contain my newly rewritten MSN plugin. You guys
2294 should be happy with it :).
2296 Oh yeah, TUCAN rocks :) Oh yeah, Eric rocks too.
2299 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
2300 Rob: Yeah, I promise this is the last pre-release :-D. That seems
2301 to be a pretty common saying around here, huh? Well, I must first
2302 appologize. The protocols that I was working on really should be
2303 much more developed at this point -- they should be completed,
2304 actually. Unfortunately, my real life job (yes, I have one hehe) got
2305 a little too busy and ate up all of my free time. I promise that
2306 things will get better now :).
2308 Eric: I don't promise that this is the last pre-release. :) But
2309 hopefully releases can start coming more often than once every two
2310 months. I don't really have much else to say. It's been a slow
2311 couple of months.
2313 Rob: I promise to hack gaim again. Please don't hate me.
2315 0.11.0-pre4:
2316 Rob: HOORAY FOR DISNEYLAND!
2318 Eric: One more prerelease. I'm actually starting to think these
2319 prereleases are a good idea; a lot of people reported a lot of
2320 bugs in pre3 and most of them are fixed now. Also, it helps with
2321 the whole release early-release often philosophy.
2323 The big news in this prerelease is two more protocols: Jabber and
2324 Napster. Both of them don't have any of the features that make
2325 these services cool, yet. You can't use the transports in Jabber
2326 and you can't download file in Napster. But you will be able to,
2327 soon :)
2329 Rob and I are going on vacation starting today until after New
2330 Year's, which is a lot of the reason we wanted to get this release
2331 out; it's much improved over pre3. Happy Holidays everyone.
2333 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
2334 Rob: Well, I hadn't initially planned on an 0.11.0pre3 but it
2335 looks like it was needed. That's not necessarially a bad thing,
2336 mind you. It just means you get to see more goodies!
2338 This release includes some other fun features. See the ChangeLog
2339 for more information. Also found in this wonderful release is
2340 an MSN plugin. For all of you who have been holding onto Windows
2341 simply because you have friends on MSN Messenger that you don't want
2342 to leave, this plugin is for you! :)
2344 Guys, make sure you send us bug reports; preferably on the
2345 SourceForge bug report forum at
2346 http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/. This will allow both
2347 Eric and I to handle the bugs and will prevent either one of us
2348 from losing the bug reports that are sent via AIM :-)
2350 Eric: Hey everybody, Rob and I really want to hear what you guys want
2351 to see in gaim. Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim and
2352 leave a message in the Open Discussion forum. We've gotten a lot of
2353 good ideas so far (most of them didn't make it into this release,
2354 unfortunately).
2356 If any of you want to test out your mad coding skills, I can think of
2357 a few projects that would be incredibly useful. Send me or Rob an IM
2358 and we'll let you know how you can help. And don't forget to read the
2359 HACKING file to see how gaim's put together.
2361 This is hopefully going to be the last prerelease; now that all the
2362 protocols that we're going to be doing for 0.11.0 are available it's
2363 mostly just going to be hacking on them and getting them in usable
2364 condition before the final release. Don't forget to send us bug
2365 reports ;)
2367 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
2368 Rob: I messed up. Oh well, it's fixed.
2370 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
2371 Rob: Hey guys! Guess what!? Yup, you're correct! It's the pre1
2372 release of 0.11.0. We have all sorts of goodies in this release!
2373 Check out the ChangeLog file. As always if you find any bugs,
2374 please report them on www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/
2376 You may find several small bugs as this is still a prerelease.
2378 You may want to note that my IRC plugin does not have full
2379 functionality as of yet. All of the important / commands will be
2380 added before the final release. Also, if someone could send me
2381 some good buddylist pixmaps for the irc plugin then I'd much
2382 appreciate it. Thanks to everyone who made this new release possible!
2384 If you have any ideas, comments, or suggestions, please let us know
2385 either by e-mail or via the source forge message board at the URL
2386 above. :)
2389 Eric: So what was Yay! For Gaim!? Yay was the codename for the
2390 Yahoo plugin. The whole point of all of these changes was I wanted to
2391 make a proof-of-concept plugin that would let Gaim sign into Yahoo. It
2392 turned out to be pretty much impossible with the old code. So,
2393 Rob and I hacked gaim so we could do just that. There's now a whole new
2394 class of plugins, Protocol Plugins, that let users dynamically add new
2395 protocols to Gaim. Just load the plugin, and create a new account that
2396 uses that protocol, and you're set! Yay! (Oscar and TOC are both still
2397 static. Gaim is, after all, primarily an AIM client.)
2399 Lots of people have been very generous and contributed a lot of
2400 time and effort to writing some really nice patches for gaim since
2401 the last release. To all of you, a big thanks.
2403 0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
2404 Rob: I am dumb.
2405 Eric: I am not dumb.
2407 0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
2408 Rob: What do you want me to say for yours?
2409 Eric: What happened since the last release?
2410 Rob: You got DSL.
2411 Eric: Oh yeah, I'm more available now.
2412 Rob: On a more serious note, this is just a quick release
2413 to hold everyone over. Look for some very awesome things
2414 coming in the next version. I can't say what, just yet,
2415 but what I can say is, Yay! For Gaim!
2417 0.10.1 (09/15/2000):
2419 Rob: Hi Hi Hi! Yet another gaim release pushed out the door
2420 for you guys. I hope you all enjoy it. There was a few minor
2421 issues cleared up in this version as well as the repair of
2422 OSCAR support. Hopefully we won't run into the same problem
2423 as before. Oh well ;-). There's also a few small extra goodies
2424 in here for you guys just check out the Change Log. I hope you all
2425 enjoy and take care!
2427 Eric: Wanna know what the Oscar problem was? You'll laugh. 2 bytes.
2428 The fix was changing 0x07da to 0x0686. Anyway, aside from the fix
2429 for that, there are a couple other good things. Beware of DSL nazis.
2430 They won't give you service until 6 weeks after you order it. So um,
2431 yeah.
2433 0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
2434 Rob: Well peoples, I know that it's been a while since our
2435 last release. Here we go. Some brand spankin' new interfaces
2436 for you guys to oogle at. I hope you all enjoy it. Hopefully
2437 our next release won't take as long to finish up. Real life
2438 kind of crept up on Eric and I and took up a lot of our times.
2439 Life sucks that way sometimes. Anyways, we're back and all
2440 is well. Thanks for hanging in there guys and we hope
2441 you enjoy it!
2443 Eric: LWE was so cool. Rob and I met up there, we had a blast. But I
2444 only got to go for one day and Rob got to go for three. Lucky bastard.
2445 It's been so long since the last release that I don't even remember
2446 what's changed. But all of it is good :) Like Rob said, all kinds of
2447 new UI stuff. I think there are some new features in there too. Now
2448 I'm headed back to school so I'll have more time to hack gaim (isn't
2449 that supposed to be the reverse?), just as soon as I get my internet
2450 connection back >:-/ .
2452 Rob: Oh yeah, some of our pixmaps may need a little work. We took
2453 a lot of them from the Gnome Stock icons. If anyone could do some
2454 custom ones that stay within the 24x24 boundary and keep the same
2455 idea and feel as the gnome icons then we would be more than happy
2456 to use them. Thanks much!! Viva la LWE.
2459 0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
2460 Rob: Well, guys, I hope you enjoy this version. I've done quite a bit
2461 of work to the user interface. It's still not in the state that I
2462 would like it to be, though. Over the next few versions you will
2463 notice a few more interface changes as we try to bring a more
2464 professional look to Gaim. As always, we will stay true to our
2465 pimpin' penguin atittude.
2467 Eric: While Rob's been busy making things pretty, I've been busy
2468 making things work :). The chat and IM windows got merged, which
2469 means that they both have the same features (notably, IM has /me
2470 and chat has font/color dialogs and smileys). Also smileys should
2471 work better in general now (thanks fflew).
2473 Rob: By the way, what Eric is saying is that he's smart and I'm
2474 not and that he does all of the work and I sit on my butt all
2475 day and claim to do work. WOOO! Just kidding, brother :-P
2478 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
2479 Rob: PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2480 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2481 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2483 All of that nonsense aside, there are a few things that DIDN'T happen
2484 in this version of gaim. The user interface changes will wait until
2485 the 0.9.20 release. We've decided to turn 0.9.19 into a "new feature
2486 and major bug fix" release. All/Most major bugs should be worked out
2487 now. We're sorry about the problem of segfaulting when your buddylist
2488 stored on the server was null. Oops! We won't let it happen again,
2489 we promise.
2491 Eric: Lots of good changes in this one, including locale support. Chat
2492 had a lot of things done to it, but it's still not finished. The UI
2493 didn't get the overhaul we were planning, but we wanted to get a few
2494 bugfixes out.
2496 Lemme say something about reporting bugs. Please do. Please try to give
2497 as much information as you can. But regardless of how much information
2498 you give, please be POLITE. If you tell us our software is crap then
2499 we're probably not going to respond well.
2501 Rob: Before I close up and say goodnight, I'd like to say that I
2502 agree with Eric. Reporting problems and/or helpful criticism in
2503 a polite manner always yields the best results. Peace all, and
2504 happy hacking.
2506 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
2507 Rob: Talk about release early, release often - sheesh! We're going
2508 insane. Ya know, I'm not too happy with the Gaim UI. I dont know
2509 how the rest of you feel but it's time for a nice overhaul. In the
2510 next few days I'll be sitting down with some of my friends and coming
2511 up with an improved interface. I hope you all enjoy it. It'll
2512 include better looking dialogs, icons, sounds (hopefully lol), etc.
2514 And -- for your random silly message of the day --
2516 "Beans and Franks, Beans and Franks, Wine And Beer, Have No Fear!
2517 I can sing! I can dance! I have a penguin in my pants!"
2519 - Rob Flynn after not having enough sleep.
2521 Eric: I've had less sleep than Rob, I can guarantee you that. There's
2522 actually a lot going on in this release, despite 2 releases 2 days ago.
2523 Don't ask me how; I think the elves had something to do with it.
2525 Oscar support is almost to the point where I'm considering removing
2526 the 'experimental' label from configure. For those of you brave enough
2527 to try it, I'd like feedback. (And if you happen to write a patch to
2528 fix some of the stuff that would be really cool too.) Hopefully for the
2529 next release, in addition to the cool new UI, Gaim/Faim will be able to
2530 do nearly everything Gaim/TOC can do. (Big things coming in 0.9.19, I
2531 can feel it....)
2533 And just remember, you *can* have too many gummi candies. Especially if
2534 you eat nearly a whole kilo of them. Believe me. I know. But the gummi
2535 cherries are damn good.
2537 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
2538 Rob: I am an e-mail fiend!
2539 (after receiving 60 emails within a 5 minute period about a problem
2540 and responding to all of them immediately)
2542 I am stupid.
2544 Eric: Heh heh. 2 releases in one day. I'm impressed. Maybe one of these
2545 times we'll actually get some of it right ;) Anyway, yeah. Just bug fixes in
2546 this one.
2548 Rob: Yeah, we wouldn't be ourselves if we released it once and got it
2549 right, would we? :-)
2551 0.9.16:
2552 Rob: Blah Blah Blah.
2554 Eric: Looks like Rob didn't have much to say, so I'll write something
2555 instead :)
2557 There's a few good things in this release, the most important of them
2558 being: Better proxy support, of course. Oh yeah, and you can sign on now,
2559 so that's a good thing too. There's a few more good things going on in this
2560 release, so check out the ChangeLog.
2562 Play nicely, and we'll keep hacking away at it.
2564 Rob: Go Watch `Road Trip'.
2566 0.9.15:
2567 Hey boy's and girls. There's not much to say here this time.
2568 We're loving Southern California, the new job's going great. We just
2569 got our company website up and the product development is going pretty
2570 smooth. Life's pretty sweet now.
2572 We've hacked up all kinds of goodies for you in 0.9.15. There's
2573 some file transfer (receive) support for those of you who have been
2574 wanting it for a while. There's some other misc. goodies tossed in as
2575 well. Enjoy!! Oh yeah, we need a new website. Come up with a sweet
2576 design and get in touch with me. The current site is at:
2577 http://www.marko.net/gaim
2579 Thanks much!
2582 0.9.14:
2583 Well, there's a few random hacks and fixes in here, along with
2584 a little suprise. You guessed it, kiddos, support for plugins! Happy
2585 hacking!
2587 0.9.13:
2588 Not much to say for this release. Bug fixes, That's all. Look
2589 for the goodies I promised in 0.9.13 to appear in 0.9.14 which should be
2590 released very soon now.
2592 By the way, our CVS is now hosted over at source forge. Go check
2593 it out at http://www.sourceforge.net. Please check there before submitting
2594 any bug reports (You can read our CVS comments to see if we have fixed any
2595 problems).
2597 0.9.12:
2598 Well guys, looks like we got some nifty things in this version.
2599 TrueType Fonts are supported for those XFSTT buffs out there (or whatever
2600 else you use). A crap load of those plaguing memory leaks have FINALLY been
2601 fixed. My brother, Jeramey, and a new friend Peter Teichan helped stomp
2602 those babies out. A rad guy by the name of Eric Warmenhoven has been
2603 really sweet lately and has all but rewritten the Gnome Applet support :).
2604 He submitted patch after patch. I finally got annoyed with him (just kidding bud)
2605 and gave him CVS access. Look for Gnome Applet support in Gaim to start improving.
2606 That's about all for now. I wanted to get this release out there. File Receive
2607 support will be in 0.9.13 which is due out soon.
2609 0.9.11:
2610 Jeramey got a new Comfy Chair! Its very very comfy! Whee!
2611 Jim also had a little hyper-drunken moment and started hacking away at
2612 a new configuration format for Gaim. Looks like we're running .gaimrc
2613 version 1 now. Gotta love it. I got bored and hacked in a couple font
2614 properties that will, in time, contain more features. That's about it
2615 for this version -- cept for that memory leak we fixed. Shush! We're
2616 not plumbers! -- rob
2618 ** Extra special update **
2620 Well guys, it looks like we all stopped working on gaim, moved to California,
2621 and took up a new job. Don't worry though, those beach bums out here havent
2622 worn off on us yet. I've decided to pick up the Gaim torch myself and continue
2623 development ont he prohect. Hopefully we wont have any more five month braks in
2624 the project. Sorry about that, guys :)
2626 0.9.10:
2627 Umm. Dont ask. Silly memory leak. For those of you who
2628 wondered, you were losing about 256 bytes every 25 seconds for each
2629 person you have on your contact list. Make fun of us. Better yet ..
2630 Send us beer. We'll do better :)
2632 0.9.9:
2633 Welp, All of you boys and girls who run Mandrake and have some
2634 problems with Gaim working properly, please check out the FAQ file. It
2635 contains a nice fix submitted by one of our users. I hope this works for
2636 you guys!
2637 Jim appears to have intoxicated himself. This is, as always, a
2638 Good Thing (tm). His late-night adventure with the liquid-bread food group
2639 lead to the birth of a nice little feature called `The Lag-O-Meter'. Dont
2640 ask, just try it out :). It is pretty pointless if you have a super-fast
2641 connection but if you are a modem user, like many of us are, then try it out.
2642 There's also some idle preferences and some other little random
2643 bug fixes. Check'em out yo :)
2645 0.9.8:
2646 Get Along Lil' Doggies. Heh. Looks like we have yet another new
2647 version of gaim for you guys to play with. Be gentle now, it has a few
2648 new fetures. The HTML widget is now more robust and we have *da da da*
2649 HTTP proxy support.
2650 Oh By The Way, Do not pay too much attention to what we are doing
2651 with this release. We are all a little bit happy tonight. You must love
2652 life. This is a special release of gaim. We will be releasing some wonderful
2653 photographs soon .. or perhaps if we get the bloody webcam working then we
2654 will take a couple of quick snapshots.
2655 Looks like the Gaim developers convention (cool name huh) that we
2656 had this weekend in Auburn, AL went wonderfully :). yum yum yum. Hahahah. Oh
2657 by the way. Beware of insecure rednecks in the deli. Bad things.
2658 In (non)related news, Jeramey could not successfully slaughter the
2659 one pound hamburger that he ordered. (I think he could have done it but he
2660 wasn't feeling very well at the time).
2661 Oh Yes, New Logo Too :) You likes? Thanks, Naru!
2662 Just a little side-note: it looks like we didnt make the release that
2663 we had expected during the Gaim Convention. Maybe we partied too much? I am
2664 not sure. I remember watching the sun rise before I went to bed, though.
2665 Oh well. Here's your release! Enjoy!
2666 By The Way, we have uploaded our party pictures to a website.
2667 http://www.dorky.net/gaim/party/ They are nothing spectacular but I hope you
2668 enjoy them! :).
2670 0.9.7:
2671 Well, boys and girls, it's that time again! Yup, time for the good
2672 release fairy to come bless us with her infinite wisdom and divine presence.
2673 Umm, yeah, something like that. Anyways, this release has several little
2674 "bad" network fixes (as Jim likes to say) and a couple touch-ups to a few
2675 other features. It also features preliminary oscar support. Thanks to Jim
2676 and Adam ("the libfaim guy") hehe :) We have also corrected a problem with
2677 gaim not wainting to correctly save your password if you have an underscore
2678 in it. Thanks to w1za7d for pointing out the underscore problem. ' and \
2679 have also been fixed in passwords. :o)
2681 0.9.6:
2682 Sorry about the little segfaulting bugs in the past release. Rob
2683 is stupid. :). Anyways, they have been patched up and a couple new features
2684 have been added. I hope you guys enjoy.
2686 0.9.5:
2687 Well we added a myriad of new features to this release. (A lot of
2688 small buggie fixes too.) If you need a detailed list just check out the
2689 ChangeLog. We now have a new webpage design and have added a FAQ to the
2690 distribution. Before coming to us with any problems please take a quick
2691 look through the FAQ to make sure we havent already covered your question.
2692 Also, thanks to our beloved Web Monkey, FlynOrange, we have all
2693 learned the true power of foam weapons, slinkies, and whoopie cushions. Hmm
2694 gotta love those pranks, eh?
2696 0.8.0:
2697 Well, just starting the NEWS file. I'll try to remember what's new
2698 from the last version. Hmmm. BIG code reorg. Import/export, buddy pounce
2699 among the major new features. Autoconf script too, which is a big win.
2700 Apologies to those who submitted patches which haven't made it in.. I
2701 promise, the next version! This code reorg took up a lot of my time, and I
2702 want to get it out there.