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1 -=[ Gaim ]=- The Pimpin' Penguin AIM Clone That's Good For The Soul!
3 0.53 (02/28/2002):
4 Rob: Well, we missed yesterday's release. That's Okay, I head a
5 nasty headache. You can all just deal. ;-)
8 Sean: Neat Goodies! Whee!! Oscar got a lot of great additions.
9 It can do Screen Name formatting, it can save and store your buddy
10 list on the server, it can do typing notifications in Direct
11 Connections, and yes, it can receive IM Images! Sending images will
12 be added in the next release. MSN and Yahoo! can do typing
13 notification too. Hooray!
16 0.52 (02/17/2002):
17 Rob: Well, after a long delay we're finally ready for another release.
18 I finally got settled into my new apartment, the new job is going
19 well, and I finally have internet connectivity again. You can expect
20 us to be back on our usually bi-monthly schedule. Enjoy these fixen,
21 as they resolve a few connectivity issues. :-)
23 Sean: It looks like things are back on track now. Eric left which is
24 sad. He's done so much for Gaim, and I know we're all thankful.
25 Thanks Eric! I'll be stepping in and do more development, but I can
26 never replace Eric. This release fixes a long-standing problem in
27 MSN. If you've gotten errors when trying to connect to MSN, you want
28 this release. If you've suddenly found yourself unable to connect to
29 Yahoo!, you want this release too. The "neat goodies" will be in the
30 next release ;)
32 Rob: Operation Evil does not exist! ;-)
35 0.51 (01/24/2002):
36 Rob: Well, here we go. I FINALLY got around to making a release
37 after over a month, Sorry for the delay, all. Things got really
38 hectic around the gaim house hold. This release isn't as complete
39 as I had hoped, but I promised to get something out. There's some
40 neat goodies in mind for the next release, right Sean? :-)
43 0.50 (12/13/2001):
44 Rob: I am tired. Tonight was weird. Bleh!!!!
46 Eric: I second that.
48 0.49 (11/29/2001):
49 Rob: *still mamboing*
51 Whew! That was a bad little mambo. I hope everyone had a nice
52 little Holiday, if you celebrate. If not, then I hope you had
53 a sucky weekend. :-D.
55 Oh, lots of cheese for everyone!! (Beware the duffle)
57 It's getting cloudy. I think it's going to storm somethin'
58 fierce. That's my southern talk. Do you like it?
60 Eric: I want to be like you.
62 Do the cha cha cha!
64 0.48 (11/18/2001):
65 Rob: Hi! It's 4:12am! I'm watching The Simpsons. :).
66 Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking! :) There's not
67 too much for me to say in this release. I'd just like to
68 thank Eric for his hard work. :)
70 Eric: Everybody mambo!
72 0.47 (11/01/2001):
73 Rob: Hi. Gaim v0.47 has been released, as you should already
74 know. I hope all of you had a nice little halloween. There are
75 quite a number of changes in this release. There are a few too
76 many to list here, so I will redirect you to ye olde ChangeLog.
78 Eric: Remember back in the day when TOC was the only protocol
79 Gaim could use? Remember the login window from back then? Back
80 before Gaim had perl or plugins or multiple connections or
81 10 different protocols. Things have changed so much since then.
82 Many more changes in this release as well. All good things.
83 Don't forget to talk to SmarterChild.
85 0.46 (10/18/2001):
86 Rob: Hey guys! The smores were great! I really enjoyed meeting
87 up with all of you guys and singing campfire songs. It was
88 really awesome. Thanks for the beer, too. Next time, it's on me.
90 This release has quite the number of bug fixes. I won't bother
91 going into detail here. Just ust it, love it, live it - SEGA!
93 Eric: Lots of fixes. Things compile well now. ICQ has stopped
94 crashing on PPC and Sparc. If you know someone who isn't using
95 Gaim because it was unstable, please get them to try this
96 version. It's much better, I promise.
98 0.45 (10/04/2001):
99 Eric: Well, it seems that the time has come for yet another
100 release. There are several yummy additions in this release, and
101 quite a few useful bugfixes as well. Unfortunately it seems that
102 Rob is currently unavailable; he joins us in spirit. He'll be
103 joining us later for a group sing-along and smores by the
104 campfire. But for now, you'll need to keep yourselves occupied
105 with 0.45. And remember, a happy hacker is a pimpin' penguin.
107 0.44 (09/20/2001):
108 Rob: Another release has come upon us. There were actually quite
109 a number of things in ye old ChangeLog for this release. I don't
110 feel like talking about them here, so you can read about them
111 in ... you guessed it .. the ChangeLog. Oh, and if you're
112 wondering about setting buddy icons, wait til 0.45 or
113 use CVS shortly after this release. ;-)
115 Eric: You should all be using CVS anyway. This has become the
116 slogan in our IRC room, #gaim on irc.openprojects.net. The IRC
117 plugin got lots of updates (mostly because I felt bad about using
118 X-Chat for IRC when gaim supposedly had an IRC plugin), so you
119 should load the plugin and join us. :)
121 0.43 (09/06/2001):
123 Rob: Well, I knew that the day would eventually come. I just didn't
124 expect it to be so soon. ;-). Yes, that's right, Eric and I finally
125 got sick of all of the pre releases. We didn't want to make this
126 release an official 0.11.0. We thought that it would cause a lot
127 of confusion. We didn't want to continue our trend of prereleases
128 either. So, since gaim was first released officially, there
129 have been 42 releases. This is number 43, hence the 0.43 version
130 number. We're going to stick with this trend from now on. :-).
132 Eric: We're also going to be starting a release early, release
133 often trend, that hopefully we'll stick to this time. Hopefully
134 we'll be putting out a new release every two weeks or so. You
135 should all be using CVS anyway :) And as always, don't forget to
136 report bugs! Anyway, since there's only been 9 days since the
137 last release not much has changed. A bug-fix release and a version
138 change mostly :)
140 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
141 Eric: This isn't a real release. Really. It's just a quick thing
142 because pre14 doesn't cut it for some people. Also not counting
143 the month break that I took it's been a month since the last
144 release, so it's about time. You should all be using CVS anyway.
145 Instructions are at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/cvs.shmtl. And
146 don't forget to report bugs! http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php3.
148 Rob: Hey guys. I've been rather inactive as well. It's a long
149 story, but essentially, my company layed off a bunch of people,
150 myself included, due to poor management. I've taken a new
151 job which required moving across the country. I'm finally back
152 online. Once I manage to actually get a desk at home I'll be
153 able to code with out infliciting intense pain upon my lower
154 back and neck. So, basically, we were inactive, but not dead.
156 Also, just to keep you all updated, the AOL battle is still
157 in progress. Our lawyers are still in negotiation with thiers.
158 We'll keep you updated with what happens.
160 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
161 Eric: Wee. Lots of fun things. BIG bug fix release. I did a lot of
162 stupid things in the last one, hehe. You all forgive me though,
163 right?
165 Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.
166 Remember that. It's a great Scott Adams quote.
168 Rob: I feel naughty. I should have released this a lot earlier
169 in the day. I have a problem though. I started cooking, invited
170 a couple friends over for dinner and then took a walk to a
171 24hr doughnut shop where I sat outside and talked about
172 random stuff. Oh well, at least it's still before the 18th.
174 Enjoy this release guys! :-)
177 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
178 Rob: \O. Howdy doodie! This release isn't coming too far behind
179 the previous release but hey, what can ya say, there were a couple
180 of good fixes in this one. Jabber & IRC can set / view the topics
181 of chat rooms now, napster doesnt crash on bad login names and
182 passwords, and the man page got a big update.
184 Well, that's about all, folks. Next release, I hope to try to get
185 group MSN chat support added as well as DCC support in the IRC
186 plugin.
188 Peace!
190 Eric: I apologize if any of you had to restart your X server because
191 of me. This release won't make you have to do that, I promise. There
192 were a couple other minor fixes with the buddy icon stuff, it still
193 has a way to go but at least it's better than it was before. Oh yeah,
194 and Oscar is able to sign on again.
196 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
197 Rob: Hi! O/. My girlfriend was visiting me so I've been busy being
198 unavailable online. Hooray.
200 There have been a lot of good changes in this release. Some improved
201 dialogs, some updates to IRC and MSN, as well as a nifty little thing
202 that Eric did that I'll let him tell you about.
204 Oh yeah, I also got food poisoned by bad eggs. Ugh!
206 Eric: Every protocol except TOC has been improved since the last
207 release. All of them except Zephyr and ICQ now use the same proxy
208 options, which you can set in the preferences. ICQ can use them if
209 you set it to Socks5 though.
211 There are a bunch of other good additions and fixes for each
212 protocol which you can read about in the ChangeLog. And, there's one
213 super cool feature that everyone seems to be asking for: Buddy Icons.
214 Right now you can only receive them and only in Oscar, but hey, they're
215 there.
217 So that's it. Have fun with it :)
219 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
220 Rob: I bought a big carton of juice today. It is now 50% empty.
221 A lot of the plugins got some new options and/or improvements. I
222 have a headache right now, though, so I won't say much. I'll let
223 Eric talk :)
225 Eric: I uh. I bought 72 cans of soda yesterday. It only cost $15
226 or so. I figure I'll be through it in less than two weeks. A
227 dollar a day on soda isn't so bad. For the fourth release in a row,
228 Oscar is fixed. Isn't that exciting. Judging from history I'd say
229 that it won't stay fixed long; but judging from what I know has
230 changed, we shouldn't have any more troubles.
232 Rob: --. .- .. -- / .. ... / --. .-. . .- - --..-- / --. .- .. -- /
233 .. ... / --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-
235 I don't have a headache anymore! Hooray! Eric got a good deal on those
236 drinks. I bought some bananas. They're very green. Oh, and I cooked
237 a steak last night. It was 16 oz. It was good.
239 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
240 Rob: EEP! It's Friday the 13th!!! I think I fixed a few buggies
241 in MSN and then added some new features to IRC. I have a headache
242 right now, though, so I won't talk much. I think I'm going to go
243 to sleep. Next release, I should have a good bit more done on
244 IRC and will have made Napster more stable. Have fun!!
246 Eric: There's a new protocol plugin, Zephyr. Don't use it! unless
247 you know what Zephyr is, and have zhm set up correctly. Also there
248 were a lot of other good bugfixes (like registering for Jabber
249 accounts!) and a few neat features. In this release, Oscar is also
250 working, but we'll see how long that lasts, eh?
252 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
253 Rob: Well, looks AOL was doing something naughty earlier this
254 morning. Thanks to a very nice guy named Adam Fritzler (you
255 all know him from libfaim) we're now back online. Thanks,
256 Adam. I'll buy you a drink sometime :-).
258 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
259 Eric: Oo wow :) So I guess the big news is that this release should
260 help you avoid the battle between Jabber and AOL. Most protocols
261 got a few good bugfixes; thanks to people who pointed them out :).
262 Hopefully for the next release I'll make it so you can register a
263 jabber.org account, and then you can support Jabber using Gaim.
264 I think (I *think*) Oscar blocking is working now. Haha, get it?
265 Oscar blocking? It took me a while to get it, too. But no, really,
266 I think that the permit/deny list in Oscar might be working.
268 Rob: MSN got some fixes and should be really stable now. It had
269 a little 100% CPU eating bug but that's taken care of now. Next
270 on my list of repairs is the napster plugin. It works -- sorta --
271 sometimes. Heh. As all of you probably know already, our Oscar
272 support was broken yesterday. There's a little battle going on
273 between AOL and Jabber and we caught a bullet during the crossfire.
274 I think I just won the award for the most cliches used in one
275 paragraph, as a matter of fact. ;-).
277 ** Good luck to the Jabber guys in getting this resolved **
280 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
281 Rob: Hey! I finally rewrote the MSN plugin. Sorry, I'm just
282 a lazy code whore sometimes, heheh. It pretty much has the same
283 functionality as before with the exception of instability. I
284 didn't really like that feature very much so I removed it. I hope
285 you guys don't mind too terribly much ;-).
287 Eric: In this week's installment of gaim you'll find a new Yahoo!
288 library and an option to have all conversations in one window,
289 in addition to numerous bug fixes and other improvements. Don't
290 forget to send us your feedback. If there's something you want
291 added, changed, or fixed, head over to our SourceForge page at
292 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ and tells us about it.
295 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
296 Eric: Yay! I get to go first!
298 The biggest change in this release is the TODO file. Lots of things
299 got added. There's going to be a lot of prereleases. Please help.
300 Other than that it's mostly just a lot of bugfixes. Oscar got a few
301 new features. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
302 and tell us what you'd like to see in gaim. We've gotten a lot of
303 great requests so far, thanks.
305 I think I like releasing every week.
307 Rob: I've been bad so Eric got to go first. The biggest change
308 In this release is the NEWS file. It's the only thing I contributed
309 to! heh, just kidding. This is a bug fix release, as Eric said.
310 Next release will contain my newly rewritten MSN plugin. You guys
311 should be happy with it :).
313 Oh yeah, TUCAN rocks :) Oh yeah, Eric rocks too.
316 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
317 Rob: Yeah, I promise this is the last pre-release :-D. That seems
318 to be a pretty common saying around here, huh? Well, I must first
319 appologize. The protocols that I was working on really should be
320 much more developed at this point -- they should be completed,
321 actually. Unfortunately, my real life job (yes, I have one hehe) got
322 a little too busy and ate up all of my free time. I promise that
323 things will get better now :).
325 Eric: I don't promise that this is the last pre-release. :) But
326 hopefully releases can start coming more often than once every two
327 months. I don't really have much else to say. It's been a slow
328 couple of months.
330 Rob: I promise to hack gaim again. Please don't hate me.
332 0.11.0-pre4:
333 Rob: HOORAY FOR DISNEYLAND!
335 Eric: One more prerelease. I'm actually starting to think these
336 prereleases are a good idea; a lot of people reported a lot of
337 bugs in pre3 and most of them are fixed now. Also, it helps with
338 the whole release early-release often philosophy.
340 The big news in this prerelease is two more protocols: Jabber and
341 Napster. Both of them don't have any of the features that make
342 these services cool, yet. You can't use the transports in Jabber
343 and you can't download file in Napster. But you will be able to,
344 soon :)
346 Rob and I are going on vacation starting today until after New
347 Year's, which is a lot of the reason we wanted to get this release
348 out; it's much improved over pre3. Happy Holidays everyone.
350 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
351 Rob: Well, I hadn't initially planned on an 0.11.0pre3 but it
352 looks like it was needed. That's not necessarially a bad thing,
353 mind you. It just means you get to see more goodies!
355 This release includes some other fun features. See the ChangeLog
356 for more information. Also found in this wonderful release is
357 an MSN plugin. For all of you who have been holding onto Windows
358 simply because you have friends on MSN Messenger that you don't want
359 to leave, this plugin is for you! :)
361 Guys, make sure you send us bug reports; preferably on the
362 SourceForge bug report forum at
363 http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/. This will allow both
364 Eric and I to handle the bugs and will prevent either one of us
365 from losing the bug reports that are sent via AIM :-)
367 Eric: Hey everybody, Rob and I really want to hear what you guys want
368 to see in gaim. Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim and
369 leave a message in the Open Discussion forum. We've gotten a lot of
370 good ideas so far (most of them didn't make it into this release,
371 unfortunately).
373 If any of you want to test out your mad coding skills, I can think of
374 a few projects that would be incredibly useful. Send me or Rob an IM
375 and we'll let you know how you can help. And don't forget to read the
376 HACKING file to see how gaim's put together.
378 This is hopefully going to be the last prerelease; now that all the
379 protocols that we're going to be doing for 0.11.0 are available it's
380 mostly just going to be hacking on them and getting them in usable
381 condition before the final release. Don't forget to send us bug
382 reports ;)
384 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
385 Rob: I messed up. Oh well, it's fixed.
387 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
388 Rob: Hey guys! Guess what!? Yup, you're correct! It's the pre1
389 release of 0.11.0. We have all sorts of goodies in this release!
390 Check out the ChangeLog file. As always if you find any bugs,
391 please report them on www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/
393 You may find several small bugs as this is still a prerelease.
395 You may want to note that my IRC plugin does not have full
396 functionality as of yet. All of the important / commands will be
397 added before the final release. Also, if someone could send me
398 some good buddylist pixmaps for the irc plugin then I'd much
399 appreciate it. Thanks to everyone who made this new release possible!
401 If you have any ideas, comments, or suggestions, please let us know
402 either by e-mail or via the source forge message board at the URL
403 above. :)
406 Eric: So what was Yay! For Gaim!? Yay was the codename for the
407 Yahoo plugin. The whole point of all of these changes was I wanted to
408 make a proof-of-concept plugin that would let Gaim sign into Yahoo. It
409 turned out to be pretty much impossible with the old code. So,
410 Rob and I hacked gaim so we could do just that. There's now a whole new
411 class of plugins, Protocol Plugins, that let users dynamically add new
412 protocols to Gaim. Just load the plugin, and create a new account that
413 uses that protocol, and you're set! Yay! (Oscar and TOC are both still
414 static. Gaim is, after all, primarily an AIM client.)
416 Lots of people have been very generous and contributed a lot of
417 time and effort to writing some really nice patches for gaim since
418 the last release. To all of you, a big thanks.
420 0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
421 Rob: I am dumb.
422 Eric: I am not dumb.
424 0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
425 Rob: What do you want me to say for yours?
426 Eric: What happened since the last release?
427 Rob: You got DSL.
428 Eric: Oh yeah, I'm more available now.
429 Rob: On a more serious note, this is just a quick release
430 to hold everyone over. Look for some very awesome things
431 coming in the next version. I can't say what, just yet,
432 but what I can say is, Yay! For Gaim!
434 0.10.1 (09/15/2000):
436 Rob: Hi Hi Hi! Yet another gaim release pushed out the door
437 for you guys. I hope you all enjoy it. There was a few minor
438 issues cleared up in this version as well as the repair of
439 OSCAR support. Hopefully we won't run into the same problem
440 as before. Oh well ;-). There's also a few small extra goodies
441 in here for you guys just check out the Change Log. I hope you all
442 enjoy and take care!
444 Eric: Wanna know what the Oscar problem was? You'll laugh. 2 bytes.
445 The fix was changing 0x07da to 0x0686. Anyway, aside from the fix
446 for that, there are a couple other good things. Beware of DSL nazis.
447 They won't give you service until 6 weeks after you order it. So um,
448 yeah.
450 0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
451 Rob: Well peoples, I know that it's been a while since our
452 last release. Here we go. Some brand spankin' new interfaces
453 for you guys to oogle at. I hope you all enjoy it. Hopefully
454 our next release won't take as long to finish up. Real life
455 kind of crept up on Eric and I and took up a lot of our times.
456 Life sucks that way sometimes. Anyways, we're back and all
457 is well. Thanks for hanging in there guys and we hope
458 you enjoy it!
460 Eric: LWE was so cool. Rob and I met up there, we had a blast. But I
461 only got to go for one day and Rob got to go for three. Lucky bastard.
462 It's been so long since the last release that I don't even remember
463 what's changed. But all of it is good :) Like Rob said, all kinds of
464 new UI stuff. I think there are some new features in there too. Now
465 I'm headed back to school so I'll have more time to hack gaim (isn't
466 that supposed to be the reverse?), just as soon as I get my internet
467 connection back >:-/ .
469 Rob: Oh yeah, some of our pixmaps may need a little work. We took
470 a lot of them from the Gnome Stock icons. If anyone could do some
471 custom ones that stay within the 24x24 boundary and keep the same
472 idea and feel as the gnome icons then we would be more than happy
473 to use them. Thanks much!! Viva la LWE.
476 0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
477 Rob: Well, guys, I hope you enjoy this version. I've done quite a bit
478 of work to the user interface. It's still not in the state that I
479 would like it to be, though. Over the next few versions you will
480 notice a few more interface changes as we try to bring a more
481 professional look to Gaim. As always, we will stay true to our
482 pimpin' penguin atittude.
484 Eric: While Rob's been busy making things pretty, I've been busy
485 making things work :). The chat and IM windows got merged, which
486 means that they both have the same features (notably, IM has /me
487 and chat has font/color dialogs and smileys). Also smileys should
488 work better in general now (thanks fflew).
490 Rob: By the way, what Eric is saying is that he's smart and I'm
491 not and that he does all of the work and I sit on my butt all
492 day and claim to do work. WOOO! Just kidding, brother :-P
495 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
496 Rob: PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
497 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
498 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
500 All of that nonsense aside, there are a few things that DIDN'T happen
501 in this version of gaim. The user interface changes will wait until
502 the 0.9.20 release. We've decided to turn 0.9.19 into a "new feature
503 and major bug fix" release. All/Most major bugs should be worked out
504 now. We're sorry about the problem of segfaulting when your buddylist
505 stored on the server was null. Oops! We won't let it happen again,
506 we promise.
508 Eric: Lots of good changes in this one, including locale support. Chat
509 had a lot of things done to it, but it's still not finished. The UI
510 didn't get the overhaul we were planning, but we wanted to get a few
511 bugfixes out.
513 Lemme say something about reporting bugs. Please do. Please try to give
514 as much information as you can. But regardless of how much information
515 you give, please be POLITE. If you tell us our software is crap then
516 we're probably not going to respond well.
518 Rob: Before I close up and say goodnight, I'd like to say that I
519 agree with Eric. Reporting problems and/or helpful criticism in
520 a polite manner always yields the best results. Peace all, and
521 happy hacking.
523 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
524 Rob: Talk about release early, release often - sheesh! We're going
525 insane. Ya know, I'm not too happy with the Gaim UI. I dont know
526 how the rest of you feel but it's time for a nice overhaul. In the
527 next few days I'll be sitting down with some of my friends and coming
528 up with an improved interface. I hope you all enjoy it. It'll
529 include better looking dialogs, icons, sounds (hopefully lol), etc.
531 And -- for your random silly message of the day --
533 "Beans and Franks, Beans and Franks, Wine And Beer, Have No Fear!
534 I can sing! I can dance! I have a penguin in my pants!"
536 - Rob Flynn after not having enough sleep.
538 Eric: I've had less sleep than Rob, I can guarantee you that. There's
539 actually a lot going on in this release, despite 2 releases 2 days ago.
540 Don't ask me how; I think the elves had something to do with it.
542 Oscar support is almost to the point where I'm considering removing
543 the 'experimental' label from configure. For those of you brave enough
544 to try it, I'd like feedback. (And if you happen to write a patch to
545 fix some of the stuff that would be really cool too.) Hopefully for the
546 next release, in addition to the cool new UI, Gaim/Faim will be able to
547 do nearly everything Gaim/TOC can do. (Big things coming in 0.9.19, I
548 can feel it....)
550 And just remember, you *can* have too many gummi candies. Especially if
551 you eat nearly a whole kilo of them. Believe me. I know. But the gummi
552 cherries are damn good.
554 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
555 Rob: I am an e-mail fiend!
556 (after receiving 60 emails within a 5 minute period about a problem
557 and responding to all of them immediately)
559 I am stupid.
561 Eric: Heh heh. 2 releases in one day. I'm impressed. Maybe one of these
562 times we'll actually get some of it right ;) Anyway, yeah. Just bug fixes in
563 this one.
565 Rob: Yeah, we wouldn't be ourselves if we released it once and got it right, would we? :-)
567 0.9.16:
568 Rob: Blah Blah Blah.
570 Eric: Looks like Rob didn't have much to say, so I'll write something
571 instead :)
573 There's a few good things in this release, the most important of them
574 being: Better proxy support, of course. Oh yeah, and you can sign on now,
575 so that's a good thing too. There's a few more good things going on in this
576 release, so check out the ChangeLog.
578 Play nicely, and we'll keep hacking away at it.
580 Rob: Go Watch `Road Trip'.
582 0.9.15:
583 Hey boy's and girls. There's not much to say here this time.
584 We're loving Southern California, the new job's going great. We just
585 got our company website up and the product development is going pretty
586 smooth. Life's pretty sweet now.
588 We've hacked up all kinds of goodies for you in 0.9.15. There's
589 some file transfer (receive) support for those of you who have been
590 wanting it for a while. There's some other misc. goodies tossed in as
591 well. Enjoy!! Oh yeah, we need a new website. Come up with a sweet
592 design and get in touch with me. The current site is at:
593 http://www.marko.net/gaim
595 Thanks much!
598 0.9.14:
599 Well, there's a few random hacks and fixes in here, along with
600 a little suprise. You guessed it, kiddos, support for plugins! Happy
601 hacking!
603 0.9.13:
604 Not much to say for this release. Bug fixes, That's all. Look
605 for the goodies I promised in 0.9.13 to appear in 0.9.14 which should be
606 released very soon now.
608 By the way, our CVS is now hosted over at source forge. Go check
609 it out at http://www.sourceforge.net. Please check there before submitting
610 any bug reports (You can read our CVS comments to see if we have fixed any
611 problems).
613 0.9.12:
614 Well guys, looks like we got some nifty things in this version.
615 TrueType Fonts are supported for those XFSTT buffs out there (or whatever
616 else you use). A crap load of those plaguing memory leaks have FINALLY been
617 fixed. My brother, Jeramey, and a new friend Peter Teichan helped stomp
618 those babies out. A rad guy by the name of Eric Warmenhoven has been
619 really sweet lately and has all but rewritten the Gnome Applet support :).
620 He submitted patch after patch. I finally got annoyed with him (just kidding bud)
621 and gave him CVS access. Look for Gnome Applet support in Gaim to start improving.
622 That's about all for now. I wanted to get this release out there. File Receive
623 support will be in 0.9.13 which is due out soon.
625 0.9.11:
626 Jeramey got a new Comfy Chair! Its very very comfy! Whee!
627 Jim also had a little hyper-drunken moment and started hacking away at
628 a new configuration format for Gaim. Looks like we're running .gaimrc
629 version 1 now. Gotta love it. I got bored and hacked in a couple font
630 properties that will, in time, contain more features. That's about it
631 for this version -- cept for that memory leak we fixed. Shush! We're
632 not plumbers! -- rob
634 ** Extra special update **
636 Well guys, it looks like we all stopped working on gaim, moved to California,
637 and took up a new job. Don't worry though, those beach bums out here havent
638 worn off on us yet. I've decided to pick up the Gaim torch myself and continue
639 development ont he prohect. Hopefully we wont have any more five month braks in
640 the project. Sorry about that, guys :)
642 0.9.10:
643 Umm. Dont ask. Silly memory leak. For those of you who
644 wondered, you were losing about 256 bytes every 25 seconds for each
645 person you have on your contact list. Make fun of us. Better yet ..
646 Send us beer. We'll do better :)
648 0.9.9:
649 Welp, All of you boys and girls who run Mandrake and have some
650 problems with Gaim working properly, please check out the FAQ file. It
651 contains a nice fix submitted by one of our users. I hope this works for
652 you guys!
653 Jim appears to have intoxicated himself. This is, as always, a
654 Good Thing (tm). His late-night adventure with the liquid-bread food group
655 lead to the birth of a nice little feature called `The Lag-O-Meter'. Dont
656 ask, just try it out :). It is pretty pointless if you have a super-fast
657 connection but if you are a modem user, like many of us are, then try it out.
658 There's also some idle preferences and some other little random
659 bug fixes. Check'em out yo :)
661 0.9.8:
662 Get Along Lil' Doggies. Heh. Looks like we have yet another new
663 version of gaim for you guys to play with. Be gentle now, it has a few
664 new fetures. The HTML widget is now more robust and we have *da da da*
665 HTTP proxy support.
666 Oh By The Way, Do not pay too much attention to what we are doing
667 with this release. We are all a little bit happy tonight. You must love
668 life. This is a special release of gaim. We will be releasing some wonderful
669 photographs soon .. or perhaps if we get the bloody webcam working then we
670 will take a couple of quick snapshots.
671 Looks like the Gaim developers convention (cool name huh) that we
672 had this weekend in Auburn, AL went wonderfully :). yum yum yum. Hahahah. Oh
673 by the way. Beware of insecure rednecks in the deli. Bad things.
674 In (non)related news, Jeramey could not successfully slaughter the
675 one pound hamburger that he ordered. (I think he could have done it but he
676 wasn't feeling very well at the time).
677 Oh Yes, New Logo Too :) You likes? Thanks, Naru!
678 Just a little side-note: it looks like we didnt make the release that
679 we had expected during the Gaim Convention. Maybe we partied too much? I am
680 not sure. I remember watching the sun rise before I went to bed, though.
681 Oh well. Here's your release! Enjoy!
682 By The Way, we have uploaded our party pictures to a website.
683 http://www.dorky.net/gaim/party/ They are nothing spectacular but I hope you
684 enjoy them! :).
686 0.9.7:
687 Well, boys and girls, it's that time again! Yup, time for the good
688 release fairy to come bless us with her infinite wisdom and divine presence.
689 Umm, yeah, something like that. Anyways, this release has several little
690 "bad" network fixes (as Jim likes to say) and a couple touch-ups to a few
691 other features. It also features preliminary oscar support. Thanks to Jim
692 and Adam ("the libfaim guy") hehe :) We have also corrected a problem with
693 gaim not wainting to correctly save your password if you have an underscore
694 in it. Thanks to w1za7d for pointing out the underscore problem. ' and \
695 have also been fixed in passwords. :o)
697 0.9.6:
698 Sorry about the little segfaulting bugs in the past release. Rob
699 is stupid. :). Anyways, they have been patched up and a couple new features
700 have been added. I hope you guys enjoy.
702 0.9.5:
703 Well we added a myriad of new features to this release. (A lot of
704 small buggie fixes too.) If you need a detailed list just check out the
705 ChangeLog. We now have a new webpage design and have added a FAQ to the
706 distribution. Before coming to us with any problems please take a quick
707 look through the FAQ to make sure we havent already covered your question.
708 Also, thanks to our beloved Web Monkey, FlynOrange, we have all
709 learned the true power of foam weapons, slinkies, and whoopie cushions. Hmm
710 gotta love those pranks, eh?
712 0.8.0:
713 Well, just starting the NEWS file. I'll try to remember what's new
714 from the last version. Hmmm. BIG code reorg. Import/export, buddy pounce
715 among the major new features. Autoconf script too, which is a big win.
716 Apologies to those who submitted patches which haven't made it in.. I
717 promise, the next version! This code reorg took up a lot of my time, and I
718 want to get it out there.