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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 2.7.10 (??/??/????):
7 2.7.9 (12/26/2010):
8 John: Just a quick release for a security fix here. Elliott has not
9 yet had a chance to work on the MSN breakage that's been present in
10 the last couple releases, but we hope he can do it before 2.7.10!
12 2.7.8 (12/19/2010):
13 Elliott: OK, so I know a few things broke with the last release, and
14 it's too bad we had to rush it for that silly certificate thing that
15 the MSN people can't configure properly. I've certainly done a lot of
16 small fixes this time, but it's too bad we haven't been able to get the
17 transfers with the official client fixed yet. I promise it'll be in
18 the next release (barring any quick security issues).
20 John: So, it's been about a month since we last released. Again, we've
21 assembled a bugfix release for your enjoyment. While a few commonly
22 reported bugs remain, particularly in MSN, we're working on it for the
23 next release. In the meantime, Merry Christmas and enjoy!
25 2.7.7 (11/23/2010):
26 John: Well, this time around, we should finally have the certificate
27 issue really and fully fixed for all of you MSN users. Also, we have
28 a few AIM-related fixes in this release, most notably the fix for the
29 new "SSL Handshake Failure" message some of you got after upgrading.
30 That one was an oversight on our part. Enjoy the fixes!
32 2.7.6 (11/21/2010):
33 Jorge: In this release I have merged two branches where I have spent
34 most of my time in the last months, the MSNP16 and SLP-rewrite. I
35 hope you all will enjoy the hability to be connected on multiple
36 instances at the same time. I also hope that the SLP rewrite
37 fix a lot of old bugs that we have in the tracker. I am really
38 happy with this rewrite because there was untoched code from almost
39 5 years ago. I hope you like this release!
41 John: In this release, we give you some new features and a bunch of
42 bug fixes. This includes shipping intermediate certificates to fix
43 certificate validation for MSN's servers. Upgrade and enjoy!
45 2.7.5 (10/31/2010):
46 John: A bugfix release for all of you! This time we fixed a bunch of
47 bugs ranging from annoying regressions to long-standing bugs we didn't
48 realize until now were bugs. Enjoy!
50 2.7.4 (10/20/2010):
51 John: This release came at this particular time due to some security
52 issues Daniel discovered for us when investigating a bug. There are
53 a ton of other changes, including some partial Yahoo file transfer
54 fixes and a bunch of other little things. Enjoy!
56 2.7.3 (08/10/2010):
57 Mark: Lots of little incremental[1] bug fixes and enhancements in this
58 release.
60 [1] No whales were harmed[2] during the creation of this release.
61 [2] Probably.
63 John: Finally got some fixes out there for you Yahoo users behind some
64 particularly annoying firewalls and proxies, among other fixes. Enjoy!
66 2.7.2 (07/21/2010):
67 Mark: We discovered a security issue in Pidgin 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 and
68 decided to release a patched version quickly. This release contains
69 the fix for that crash, and a few other minor fixes.
71 2.7.1 (05/29/2010):
72 Elliott: Hey, I'm first! How did that happen?! Maybe because of the
73 interesting changes in this release. Sure there were quite a few bug
74 fixes, but I know what you've all been waiting for is the direct
75 connections in MSN. Trust me, it's really really fast!!
77 John: Whoa, short turnaround for us. This is just 17 days after our
78 previous release! This fixes a number of bugs that you've all been
79 reporting a ton of duplicate tickets about and even gives you the new
80 direct connection file transfer support for MSN. Enjoy!
82 Marcus: Quite a bit quicker to get this release out, compared with the
83 previous one :). Fixes a number of bugs, and I'm sure the MSN direct
84 connections will please many users. Enjoy!
86 2.7.0 (05/12/2010):
87 John: We FINALLY got the ICQ X-Status stuff merged in! And a few other
88 patches that have been sitting on Trac forever. Couple that with some
89 new features and we have an excellent release for all of you!
91 Marcus: Finally time for a new release, seems like it took
92 quite a while this time. But then again, there are some new features
93 in there, like file transfer preview (thumbnails) support (only on MSN
94 so far), plus a lot of bug fixes. Enjoy!
96 Paul: Yay, a new release! I don't think I added very much useful to
97 this release, other than fixing a paste bug from Chrome (no weird
98 characters appended to the end of your URI). Enjoy!
100 Jorge: This is my first NEWS! I'm not sure I added something nice
101 to this release. I know it took a lot of time to bring this one
102 out, however I'm really excited by this release. I hope everyone
103 likes the new features this release brings.
105 Elliott: This release took so long, I had to go check the ChangeLog
106 just to see what happened. I doubt many people will notice, but we
107 dropped support for many old things, like GTK+<2.10 and MSNP9. In more
108 exciting news, we have file transfer previews on MSN, and support for
109 setting moods on ICQ and XMPP (which has been waiting forever.)
111 2.6.6 (02/18/2010):
112 Mark: This release includes some great little changes and fixes a few
113 security-related bugs. See the ChangeLog for details.
115 2.6.5 (01/08/2010):
116 Paul: This release fixes a pretty serious bug in the MSN code, so we're
117 releasing this build a little earlier than planned with only major
118 bugs fixed. See the ChangeLog for details. Enjoy!
120 2.6.4 (11/29/2009):
121 John: It's release time again. Lots of bug fixes this time around, as
122 well as a new protocol plugin developed and maintained by the MXit folks
123 folks. Elliott and I also did a ton of work on the Preferences window,
124 which will now hopefully fit on most people's small screens. Enjoy!
126 Elliott: This release has been in the works for so long, I don't really
127 remember doing any work on it. But I do know the MSN servers gave us a
128 little bit of trouble this time around, forgetting people's friendly
129 names. Nothing too problematic, just a touch annoying. Also, we've got
130 a nice new Preferences dialog. You can thank John for that mostly, with
131 a couple of tweaks by me.
133 Sadrul: A lot of little fixes for a lot of things! Among them, a fix
134 for a long standing issue with displaying unicode in non-utf8 locale in
135 finch. We also have a new prpl for MXit. This release is very very cool
136 altogether. Enjoy!
138 2.6.3 (10/16/2009):
139 Mark: Someone reported a fairly serious bug in our AIM/ICQ code
140 so we're releasing a special "severe bug fix only" build. See the
141 ChangeLog for details. Enjoy!
143 2.6.2 (09/05/2009):
144 Mark: Woo boy it's been a busy two weeks. There was a lot of new code
145 in 2.6.0, and with new code comes new bugs. The cadre of relentless
146 developers responsible for Pidgin have been hard at work, and I believe
147 they have fixed all the major bugs that cropped up. My thanks to all
148 those names listed as Current Developers in Pidgin's 'About' window.
150 Elliott: Well now, just as Mark said, there was a lot of new stuff that
151 probably came up with tons of bugs. So I can't say I wrote anything
152 super-awesome, but I definitely fixed quite a few of those itty-bitty
153 why-didn't-this-work-this-way sort of bugs.
155 2.6.1 (08/18/2009):
156 Mark: There were a lot of changes in 2.6.0, and so a few major bugs
157 crept in. This is a very minor release to fix those bugs. Sorry for
158 the inconvenience!
160 2.6.0 (08/18/2009):
161 John: Wow, four straight releases that I'm the first to NEWS on. This
162 is getting kinda scary! I'm beginning to wonder who else actually does
163 anything around here! (Just kidding, of course.) LOTS of new features
164 and a crapton of bugfixes this release. There should pretty much be
165 something for everybody. A great example of this is the ton of Yahoo
166 changes that have happened thanks to our SoC student from 2008, Sulabh
167 Mahajan. Among his massive improvements are the ability to add MSN
168 buddies by adding them as "msn/user@domain.tld" and peer-to-peer file
169 transfers. Of course, history shows we can't please everyine, so I'm
170 sure I'll see a complaint or five thousand in trac. Enjoy, though!
172 Marcus: This is my first news! It's been quite a few microreleases this
173 time, but now we're finally at 2.6.0. I suppose the most anticipated
174 new feature in this release is the voice and video support, thanks to
175 Mike's heroic work. I've managed to slip in a few features too, like
176 in-band bytestream file transfers as a fallback on XMPP and idle time
177 reporting on XMPP. Enjoy!
179 Paul: This is my first news, too! This release has definitely been a
180 long time coming; hopefully it won't disappoint since we've closed over
181 200 tickets. Among other things, Tobias Markmann's GSoC project from
182 last year was merged, which means we now support BOSH (XMPP connections
183 over HTTP), and Andrei Mozzhuhin contributed an XMPP Service Discovery
184 Browser. Also, thanks to Bernmeister for poking (at least) several
185 hundred old tickets!
187 Mike: Ditto. This is my first news as well. I have a feeling this is
188 getting repetitive at this point, but voice and video support is
189 finally here! Thanks to the rest of the Pidgin team, Farsight 2, and
190 GStreamer developers for making this possible! (I finally finished my
191 Summer of Code project :D)
193 Elliott: Hey, this is my firs... Wait, no it isn't. Now I feel left
194 out. So have you heard about this voice and video thing?
195 Unfortunately, not quite ready for all protocols, but it's getting
196 there. MSN gained support for receiving voice clips at least, and
197 finally we have Ink receiving capabilities too. Thanks to the guys
198 who wrote the original patch. And finally, MSN no longer has over a
199 100 tickets open!
201 2.5.9 (08/18/2009):
202 John: This release is just a crash fix release to address a security
203 issue reported to us by CORE and a couple crashes Elliott found.
205 2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
206 John: This release is another somewhat rushed bugfix release to fix
207 a number of bugs that have come up since we released Pidgin 2.5.7.
208 Hopefully anything I broke there is fixed now, or at least made to be
209 less broken. Enjoy!
211 2.5.7 (06/20/2009):
212 John: This release is really just a rushed fix for the broken Yahoo
213 protocol plugin. I spent way more time on this release than I care
214 to admit, so I hope that time is well spent and this fixes the issues
215 people have been having.
217 2.5.6 (05/19/2009):
218 Ka-Hing: Many much bugfixes. Hooray. (Paul told me to say that)
219 Oh, no one has met Paul yet? He's awesome, he backported my fixes
220 to the release branch so I didn't have to checkout a
221 workspace... except I just did to NEWS to tell you all about
222 that. Oh and I actually did do something for this release, none of
223 which is user visible though. This basically applies to the rest
224 of the release as well, nothing exciting, but you definitely want
225 it.
227 Daniel: This should fix a number of annoying issues that some users
228 have encountered. We also would like to thank Veracode
229 (http://www.veracode.com) who performed a code analysis and found some
230 bugs that were addressed in this release.
232 Elliott: I feel like I'm repeating myself, but there are some more MSN
233 fixes that should make things better behaved at login as well, and
234 maybe you'll stop getting some of those annoying errors (though not all
235 are fixed yet). Some other bugfixes, plus the craziness that is the
236 libxml "structured error handler" make up the rest of this release.
238 2.5.5 (03/01/2009):
239 John: Well, yet another release with bug fixing and patches. Hopefully
240 one of the fixed bugs is one that irritated you. Also, thank Dimmuxx
241 for spending far too much time working on ICQ this release.
243 Elliott: Lots and lots of MSN bugfixes again (I hope they're fixed, at
244 least). I think we finally have OCS/Yahoo!/federated buddies working
245 now. And there should be some workarounds for some server things that
246 may or may not have been our fault (like buddies on Allow+Block) which
247 should make general usage a bit smoother.
249 2.5.4 (01/12/2009):
250 John: Well, we fixed a few bugs for you this time around, I applied
251 a few patches, and we've dealt with what feels like a TON of tickets
252 about two very common issues. Feels like time for a release to me.
254 Etan: My first NEWS in quite a while and I don't have much to say. I
255 haven't been too active lately and I'm hoping that won't be the case
256 going forward. I managed to get in a few perl fixes and some UI
257 language tweaks this release. My plan is to work on some of the
258 issues pointed out by mpt (during his expert review of pidgin a little
259 while back) in the near future.
261 2.5.3 (12/18/2008):
262 Mark: It's been about two months and woo-boy have we been fixing
263 bugs. Enjoy!
265 Kevin: I didn't do much of anything this release, but Mark and
266 John must be commended for their tireless efforts to fix bugs
267 and approve patches, especially in areas of Pidgin that have
268 not usually received much attention. Lots of changes have
269 been made, so definitely check the ChangeLog to see what's new.
271 John: It feels like it's been an age or two since we last released,
272 and I think it's well worth the wait. Mark has sunk more time into
273 MSN and MySpace IM this release than any sane person should be
274 allowed to, and I've sunk more time into patches than I care to
275 admit. By my count, our ChangeLog has 58 bullet points(!) and we've
276 closed 85 tickets specifically for this release. Enjoy!
278 Ka-Hing: Bring your XMPP server to 2008 some time in 2009 would be
279 nice, DreamHost!
281 Elliott: Well, I can't blame the server for this release taking so long
282 but that's just how it worked out. A few interesting MSN changes this
283 time. Hopefully, federated & Yahoo! buddies will work for you, but I'm
284 not yet certain it's ready. Mark made so many fixes, I'm not even sure
285 I recognize everything anymore, but hopefully that'll make things less
286 crashy for you.
288 2.5.2 (10/19/2008):
289 Ethan: After a bit of a struggle with our services, which put
290 this release off for an unfortunate length of time, we're
291 ready for another bugfix release for your bug-free(er?)
292 messaging pleasure.
294 Sadrul: Despite our best efforts, this release got delayed by a
295 couple of weeks. But here it is! It is mostly a bug fix release, with
296 a couple of important fixes, e.g. fix for the Yahoo! disconnect
297 problem. Also, welcome our newest Crazy Patch Writer, Marcus Lundblad,
298 who, among various other fixes, has implemented custom smileys for the
299 XMPP protocol, included in this release. Enjoy!
301 Stu: I guess this is the time of year for server migrations, and
302 I've just about had enough of them. Fortunately Pidgin is still fun,
303 and this release should be superb.
305 John: Although our services were down for quite some time, we didn't
306 lose any data, except perhaps some mail that would have failed to make
307 it to us. Overall, the only major effect it had was to delay this
308 release far longer than we expected. Hopefully the bugfixes make you
309 happy!
311 Elliott: This release took a while, but that was due to an unfortunate
312 server snafu. I didn't have much to do with it, but hopefully the new
313 servers will help us out a bit. Anyway, mostly bug-fixes this time.
314 Nothing spectacular, unless you happen to suffer from one of those bugs.
315 Oh, and don't forget, the "Has you" tooltip is back!
317 2.5.1 (08/30/2008):
318 Kevin: This release is mainly a bug-fix release. It solves a few
319 known crashes and updates some of our artwork. Google's Summer of
320 code recently finished up. Some of our students are still working
321 on their branches and none have been merged into released code yet.
322 Look for some of those results to show up in Pidgin releases over the
323 coming months.
325 Elliott: I'm just commenting so Kevin wouldn't be the only one in NEWS
326 and no-one else seems to want to. Anyway, there's a couple MSN login
327 fixes, so try it out. The contact list problems might still be around,
328 but you can probably find a workaround in trac. And there's a tooltip
329 fix for our AIM friends, not that I had anything to do with it (except
330 closing many many duplicate tickets).
332 2.5.0 (08/17/2008):
333 Daniel: Lots of good stuff in this release. Lots of people have worked
334 very hard on the updated MSN protocol, and it's finally time to bring
335 it to the world! There are myriad bugfixes, including some important
336 ones so you should be sure to update.
338 Hylke: Finally MSNP15 support. To celebrate this I refreshed a lot of
339 the smilies used in the protocol and added the long awaited indispensable
340 bunny icon. I think this is one of those releases that will make a lot
341 of users happy, especially MSN users.
343 Elliott: Oh look, my first NEWS! Well anyway, with that new MSNP15
344 support, this release is set up to be a huge success and a total flop
345 all at the same time. Here's hoping it's the "huge success" one for you.
346 Those icon changes that Hylke made, while minor, really make things look
347 a little cleaner, I think. Oh yea, did I mention that MSNP15 stuff?
349 Mark: Speaking of MSNP15, we'd like to welcome Elliott Sales de Andrade
350 as a full fledged developer! He took the last few strides mushing the
351 new MSN code into shape. Then he decided that wasn't enough and started
352 doing other great stuff.
354 Ka-Hing: "Reject"ing a certificate after your account is signed off is
355 not recommended. Deleting the file after you start sending it is also
356 discouraged.
358 2.4.3 (07/01/2008):
359 Richard: This release includes important bug fixes. I'm just cutting
360 the release. Thank you to the real heroes who did the fixing!
362 2.4.2 (5/17/2008):
363 Sadrul: We added some usability changes in this release, including the
364 typing notification, buddyicon and input area size in the conversation
365 windows, escape to close conversation windows etc. These changes should
366 make pidgin more usable and more fun for Everyone! *wink*
368 Stu: I fixed some memory leaks, but nothing like as many as Daniel did.
369 MSN buddy list synchronization should be significantly less painful now,
370 and opening MSN inboxes might work better too. SILC passphrase changes
371 and support for passphrase-less keys has been improved also.
373 2.4.1 (3/31/2008):
374 Stu: We fixed some bugs, this release should be 110% better than 2.4.0
376 John: Well, I didn't really do much this release except muck about with
377 the configure script. Blame me if it worked in 2.4.0 but doesn't now.
379 Will: We seem to be falling into a nice pattern of releasing on the last
380 day of a month. Hypothetical AIX users might be pleased to learn that
381 Pidgin might actually run for them now!
383 2.4.0 (2/29/2008):
384 John: While this release took what seems like forever to get out the
385 door, I think it's well worth the wait, especially for Yahoo! users.
386 This release serves up some fixes for long standing bugs and adds
387 file transfer for transfers with newer Yahoo! clients (finally!). As
388 is standard with code I committed, where it works great thank the
389 patch writer, and where it's broken, feel free to yell at me. Enjoy!
391 Sadrul: Finch is more colourful and blinky in this release! There's
392 now a log viewer, which is very useful, and also the ability to
393 block/unblock buddies. It's now also possible to find chat rooms on
394 many services, e.g. XMPP, IRC, Yahoo! etc. Happy Leap Day!
396 Ka-Hing: I think all I've done for this release is committing some
397 patches written by other people.
399 Stu: Finally, 2.4.0 lands. I didn't do all that much except complain
400 about things I didn't like or just revert Sean's changes. I'm quite
401 pleased with how well it's turned out in the end.
402 Happy Birthday Fred, you must be nearly 10 now ;-)
404 2.3.1 (12/7/2007):
405 Stu: I'm sorry for the MSN problems and the plugin crashes in 2.3.0.
406 Hopefully this will redeem us. This fixes a number of bugs. I'm a
407 bit late but I'd like to welcome John to the team. Enjoy!
409 Luke: I've done absolutely nothing in the last 2 weeks, except watch
410 others commit bug and, more, leak fixes. People should be noticing
411 remarkably fewer memory leaks now than 2 or more releases ago.
413 Kevin: I'm not quite sure what happened to our MySpaceIM Summer of
414 Code student, but I fixed a few MySpace bugs with idle and status.
415 I will try to fix some of the other more significant bugs, after I
416 figure out the protocol, especially including grouping issues.
418 2.3.0 (11/20/2007):
419 Luke: While this does not have the new MSN code, rest assured that
420 we are working on it and that it is nearing release. This contains
421 a significant number of fixes, including some that were marked as
422 fixed for earlier releases. Happy Thanksgiving!
424 John: This is my first NEWS entry! So, this time around we have an
425 updated man page (the old one hadn't been really updated since
426 before the GTK+ 2.0 migration!), lots of bug fixes, and some new
427 features for you all. Enjoy!
429 2.2.2 (10/23/2007):
430 Luke: Because the main branch of pidgin development is still not
431 ready for public consumption, I have taken some time to try to
432 pull the many bug fixes that have happened since then into a
433 separate branch. This release is the result of that effort.
435 2.2.1 (9/28/2007):
436 Richard: We have some new code in the pipeline, but it's not quite
437 ready for a general release. Instead, this is basically a bug fix
438 release.
440 Luke: Unfortunately the necessity of this bug fix release means
441 some of the tickets that have been closed as part of the 2.2.1
442 milestone are not actually fixed yet. We have grabbed as many
443 of the changes as we could while avoiding those that are as
444 yet unstable though, and this should still be a marked
445 improvement over 2.2.0. We have spent a lot of time since the
446 last release looking at the tickets that have been submitted
447 and many of them have been closed.
449 Stu: I haven't NEWS'd in a while. I haven't actually done much for
450 too long also, maybe I'll find some time soon. This release is
451 basically what 2.2.0 should have been - it actually compiles this
452 time.
454 2.2.0 (9/13/2007):
455 Sean: 2.2.0 contains the results of several major Google Summer
456 of Code branches bringing some new, extraordinary features. We
457 have a new protocol, MySpaceIM, a bunch of new features for an
458 existing protocol, XMPP, and nifty new certificate management
459 to make sure your IM server is who it says it is.
461 Ka-Hing: A number of you noticed crashes when dragging windows
462 around when certain options are enabled. Well, that was my fault,
463 and Sadrul fixed it. So Props to him and poos to me. I haven't
464 done much for this release, but the next one should contain
465 something that I helped work on. Hint: students are cheap slave
466 coders!
468 Kevin: I haven't really been coding much in Pidgin, and this
469 release is no exception, but I will be working on getting our
470 wonderful web site to be a little more functional by next
471 release. I promise!
473 2.1.1 (8/20/2007):
474 Sean: Continuing our schedule of frequent releases, Pidgin 2.1.1
475 is out. In it, we've addressed a lot of UI issues from our
476 experimental new changes introduced in 2.1.0, and gave a lot of
477 attention to Yahoo! and Bonjour. Thanks to everyone who
478 contributed.
480 Luke: We have reworked some parts of the conversation windows in
481 response to user comments. We did not quite reach 100 tickets
482 closed this release, so a fair few will role over again. Still,
483 we are slowly but surely working our way through the reported bugs.
484 Many thanks to everyone who has helped with tracking down the
485 various issues, testing fixes, and getting patches in.
487 Tim: Sean finally got me to fix some of the buddy list bugs with
488 Yahoo! when in version 15 mode. So now we have some Yahoo! to
489 MSN support, which is kind of nice. Looks like some others have
490 been contributing to Yahoo! while I've been AWOL, so many thanks
491 to them.
493 2.1.0 (7/28/2007):
494 Sean: This release took a bit longer than 3 weeks, but boy is it
495 worth it! We're beginning to experiment with new UI concepts and
496 this release features a largely re-designed conversation window.
497 We've closed 150 tickets for this release; much thanks go to all
498 the developers, translators, and testers who made this possible.
500 Ka-Hing: Sean said no one else NEWS'ed, so I figure I should.
502 2.0.2 (6/14/2007):
503 Sean: Another big maintenance release. Again, about 100 tickets were
504 resolved in this release, and they keep coming in. Lots of bug fixes,
505 some minor icon adjustements, hopefully we addressed some ICQ
506 internationalization issues, and support for Bonjour on Windows!
507 Our next release will be 2.1.0, and will come with some great new
508 features.
510 Stu: I think we're gradually getting the hang of this 3 week thing
511 again. This release includes yet more bug fixes. I'd also like to
512 specifically thank Pekka Riikonen for the patch to enable using SILC
513 Toolkit 1.1 with Pidgin/libpurple that is included in this release.
515 2.0.1 (5/24/2007):
516 Sean: 2.0.1! Three weeks later, as scheduled! It is so nice to have
517 regular, frequent, releases again! This is a bugfix release; We have
518 fixed over 100 issues reported to us at http://developer.pidgin.im.
519 Thanks to everyone for their great work, and look for the next release
520 in another three weeks!
522 Stu: Lots'o'fixes in this. I don't know how you users find so many
523 things for us to fix. 24 hours in a day (sadly). 24 is divisible by the
524 sum of its digits and by their product. It is the smallest composite
525 number, the product of whose divisors is a cube.
527 Luke: I requested that we have a bug fix release, and so we have!
528 Many, though unfortunately not all, of the reports that have been
529 submitted to us since 2.0.0 have been fixed now, and so you should
530 all have a much more stable experience with this release. I also
531 want to thank the many users who have resubmitted their reports
532 as we close out the old Source Forge bug tracker. If all goes well,
533 your report will get the attention it deserves as we continue to
534 work on Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple.
536 Nathan: A ton of fixes have gone into this release. The feedback
537 we've gotten on 2.0.0 has been incredible. Hopefully we've resolved
538 most of the critical issues with 2.0.1. If we haven't, I'm sure
539 our wonderful users will let us hear about it. I seem to be
540 forgetting something...oh, right, I haven't promised any cool new
541 features in the next release! So, I promise at least one cool new
542 feature in the next release...you just might have to adjust your
543 definition of 'cool' to get it.
545 Etan: Perl plugins now have access to almost all of the savedstatus
546 API functions. I also removed a couple of the preferences from the
547 Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin which should help many of the people
548 for whom the configuration dialog size was a problem. The removed
549 preferences no longer had the effects they were added to have anyway.
551 2.0.0 (5/3/2007):
552 Sean: 2.0.0! It's real exciting to finally release Pidgin 2.0.0! I'm
553 really proud of all the work we've all done. I'm pumped. And, while
554 I could go on about all the amazing thing that have been added since
555 1.5.0, what I'm really excited about is getting back to a regular,
556 rapid, release cycle of active, open development, unhindered by legal
557 quandries. Huge thanks to everyone involved.
559 Luke: We have finally managed to get 2.0.0 out the door, after nearly
560 but not quite 2 years of effort and fustration. No one regrets more
561 than I that we were unable to make any of betas 3-6 the actual release.
562 But at long last, it is out, and life can return to a more normal
563 state. There were many tough calls to be made in the last 2 years.
564 Not everyone has agreed with the resulting decisions, that is un-
565 fortunate, but unavoidable. Suffice it to say that despite what
566 some users appear to think, a ton of thought, argument, discussion,
567 and experimentation has gone into this release. This release
568 builds on many years of experience, both as developers writing the
569 code, users using it, and in supporting other users. I hope that
570 those who download and install this will give it a fair shot, and
571 attempt to avoid knee-jerk reactions.
573 Evan: One small step for bird, one giant leap for birdkind... except
574 this is hardly one small step. A lot more has changed from Gaim 1.5.0
575 than just the name. Pidgin has a *very* attractive new look, a whole
576 new member of the family (Finch, formerly gaim-console) has been born,
577 and libpurple has come into its own as a solid, full-featured library
578 powering the greatest IM clients around. Bugs were fixed and
579 features were added by the hundreds (thousands?) since the last
580 major release, all while improving performance and resisting feature
581 creep. As Luke said, a ton of thought and effort has gone into
582 Pidgin 2.0.0; I'm proud to have played a part.
584 Stu: We did it! finally, we have 2.0.0. It's been a long time coming,
585 but there's a great deal of goodness here. When I say a long time, I'm
586 not kidding - it's been 972 days since we branched off "oldstatus"
587 (aka 1.x). The early Greeks were uncertain as to whether 2 was a
588 number at all (or if we'd ever make this release) - it has a beginning
589 and an end but no middle (much like our unfortunately quiet development
590 period). 2 is the first prime number and the only even prime. 2 is also
591 the first deficient number (oh well). There are only 10 types of people
592 in the world - those who like our new names and those who do not.
593 Enjoy!
595 Richard: I'm very glad that we've finally gotten 2.0.0 released and
596 I look forward to returning to a more normal development schedule.
597 Again, a big thanks to everyone who helped in any way to get things
598 where they are today. Congratulations everyone!
600 Sadrul: My first NEWS, and on what an occasion! Pidgin 2.0.0 is finally
601 released!! And it's *really* very good!!! Give your soul a break ...
602 Use Pidgin!
604 Daniel: There has been a fair amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth
605 due to the delays in getting this beast out. I'm really happy that it
606 is done. I'm also very happy with what we're releasing - I think it is
607 far more stable, packed with useful features and, dare I say, prettier
608 than any previous release.
610 2.0.0beta7 (4/29/2007):
611 Sean: Beta 7. The final beta. A few major changes from beta6. For
612 starters, we have some new names. That's pretty cool. We have a new
613 logo, to go along with it. And a lot of great icons! As Nathan mentions
614 below, we're totally back in the open now, having a signed agreement
615 from AOL that puts us in the clear. We all really regret having to go
616 completely dark for so long. Anyway, unlike betas1-6, which were of
617 normal release quality, this one is actually beta quality. There are
618 a few significant known issues, and a lot of changes that need a lot
619 of real-world testing. So, if you'd like to help us out, give it a
620 whirl, and let us know if you run into any major issues.
622 Nathan: So, the secret is out now. We renamed to Pidgin. I'd just
623 like to apologize to everyone we've had to keep in the dark for the
624 last however-many months. I know it looked like development slowed
625 to a crawl, but in reality we've been working pretty hard to get
626 2.0.0 out the door, without getting into any legal trouble. I
627 realize that if we were some big corporation, we'd be getting flamed
628 about this secrecy for months. Please try to remember that we're
629 just a bunch of geeks who were scared of legal stuff (well, at least
630 I was. Scared, that is). The bottom line is that we're out in the
631 open again, and fully plan to stay that way. We're also opening up
632 the mail archives from the secretive past few months. You can scan
633 through them if you want, or I can summarize. "Are the lawyers done
634 yet? No. Now? No. How about now? No." All lawyer jokes aside,
635 I'm grateful to our legal team for crossing all the 't's and dotting
636 all the lowercase 'j's to get us the deal we got. Anyways, thanks
637 for your patience, and on to 2.0.1!
639 Gary: Well my silence, and our silence has ended. Finally the name
640 change is over and done with and we can go back to a normal dev
641 cycle. Now if I can just get myself back onto a normal dev cycle,
642 but that's another story all together.
644 Ethan: Not to be too "me-too", but I have to say that I'm really
645 excited about the project's new name and identity, and glad to be
646 out of the legal mess. We're pushing beta 7 with all of the
647 branding and organizational changes that have been going on for
648 the last few months, so there are likely to be some snags --
649 please help us out by trying beta 7, searching for any bugs you
650 find in the bug tracker at http://developer.pidgin.im/, and
651 documenting them if they are unknown or you can provide new
652 information. Help us make 2.0.0 final a release to be remembered
653 (in a good way)! I'd like to give huge thanks to all of the
654 developers, our steadfast supporters, the crazy patch writers, and
655 everyone else who has made this transition to Pidgin possible, and
656 the improvements that go along with it. I'd like to extend a
657 special thanks to Sean, for leading us through the legal issues
658 and taking care of all of the paperwork and overhead that no one
659 wants to deal with.
661 2.0.0beta6 (1/17/2007):
662 Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be
663 the final beta release before 2.0.0. This has a bunch of cool UI
664 changes, some Google Talk features, a bunch new plugins, and other
665 goodness.
667 Nathan: Beta6 rocks. That is all.
669 Gary: Long time no news. My silence will end soon ;)
671 Evan: My first news! I knocked out a nice collection of crashes,
672 thanks in part to my ever-patient Adium beta testers. Gaim 2.0.0
673 is going to be delicious. :)
675 2.0.0beta5 (11/9/2006):
676 Sean: Another release in our endless stream in betas. This one's
677 pretty awesome; and it fixes major bugs introduced in previous
678 ones.
680 2.0.0beta4 (10/17/2006)
681 Sean: Still beta. Maybe the next one should be a gamma.. :)
683 Daniel: I'm super chuffed to announce that this will work with newer
684 (i.e. >= 2.8.0) versions of GTK+ on Windows.
686 Luke: Several significant changes in this one, including no longer
687 using libao for sound! There are no doubt bugs here, but hopefully
688 nothing major.
690 Nathan: I don't have much to say, but yay for another beta!
692 Etan: I did a bunch of perl work for this beta again, there is now
693 some support for perl scripts to call functions in the gtk ui, it
694 still needs work.
696 2.0.0beta3 (03/25/2006):
697 Mark: Yeah, I know, another beta. Don't worry, we'll get this
698 puppy out the door eventually.
700 2.0.0beta2 (01/24/2006):
701 Mark: So this is the new year, and I don't feel any different, but
702 Gaim is getting better. We hope this will be our last beta before
703 we release the final version of 2.0.0. As before, please shower us
704 in feedback!
706 Richard: I'm proud to say a lot of bugs have been squashed in this
707 version. If you filed a bug against beta1, please test to see if
708 it's fixed now and update your bug report accordingly (by either
709 closing it or setting the version to 2.0.0beta2). I'm also looking
710 for someone who uses Gaim on MacOS X to test a patch for me before
711 I can commit it. See http://gaim.sf.net/contactinfo.php for my
712 contact information.
714 Etan: So I did a bunch of work on the perl plugin since beta1, so
715 anyone who uses perl plugins would do well to expect some things to
716 need updating (I'm not certain everything works yet, so please send me
717 any reports of things that don't). Most of the work was correcting
718 some namespace issues, but I also improved the support for perl
719 plugins having plugin_pref frames, and plugin actions. Multiple perl
720 plugins can now have plugin_pref frames at the same time, and every
721 perl plugin can have multiple plugin actions now. Like Mark said
722 above, let us know how this beta works out.
724 2.0.0beta1 (12/17/2005):
725 Sean: I think Nathan sums everything up really well below. There's still
726 a bunch we want to add (and remove) before the official release, but we
727 really want to start getting feedback about what's good and what's not.
728 So, please, be vocal about this beta!
730 Nathan: 15 months since we branched oldstatus, and started working on
731 the behemoth that is 2.0.0. In that time, we've added a couple new
732 protocols, we had a few crazy patch writers become developers, and
733 had a few more people step up to be crazy patch writers. Sean wrote
734 a book, and we arbitrarily decided to make a version 1.0.0, and a
735 new versioning scheme. We got new artwork, and added almost 200 lines
736 to the ChangeLog. We've watched 2 major GTK+ releases, and added all
737 kinds of features using them. OK, I've wasted enough bits here. This
738 beta rocks, but it is a beta. Treat it as such, and enjoy!
740 Gary: Finally we have a beta. There are a lot of new goodies, including
741 quite a few summer of code projects that couldn't get added into the
742 oldstatus branch because API changes. We also have a new mono plugin
743 loader for even more plugin fun.
745 Richard: Thanks to all who wrote patches (big or small) for this beta.
747 Tim: Well here it is, the first beta. There's a lot of cool things in
748 here, but not all of them are finished or debugged. But then that's
749 why it's called a beta. Conversations are now contact-aware, and
750 there's a new status selector. There's smooth scrolling on incoming
751 messages as well. Our Crazy Patch Writers have been doing a good
752 job too, it seems like we're never lacking some patches in the
753 tracker to review.
755 Etan: I know I'm not going to be able to think of all the things I should
756 talk about here so I'll just go with the stuff I remember. Adding buddies
757 on ejabberd jabber servers should work more correctly now (it's possible
758 adding buddies on other servers is a bit broken currently I'm still
759 looking into it). There are still other jabber issues I'm looking into
760 with handling of buddies.
761 In other topics, I finally brought my Accounts menu into gaim, though the
762 current example of it isn't exactly what I had in mind, anyone with any
763 suggestions/comments/etc about it please speak up.
764 Other than the stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting to mention this beta should
765 be awesome as gaim 2.0.0 is going to be awesome. Have fun with it.
767 Luke: pretty much everything important has been said, so this is going to
768 be rather repetative. This is a beta folks, so it will have bugs. It
769 will crash unexpectedly. Perhaps even frequently. Use it at your peril.
770 But do use it (though you might want to back up ~/.gaim first), and let us
771 know what needs to be fixed.
773 Mark: Yay.
775 Stu: Wow!
777 Siege: Sametime accounts created with gaim-meanwhile should merge over
778 for use in the beta just fine. Some of the familiar settings regarding
779 the buddy list are gone, so I recommend backing up your Sametime blist
780 before getting down and crazy. Have fun, and happy early Decemberween!
782 Daniel: Enjoy! In the hopes that this prevents someone pain... do not use
783 Glib/GTK+ 2.8.x with Wingaim - it will not work. We're looking into the
784 problem and hope to have it resolved before the final release.
785 "Happy Holidays!"
787 1.5.0 (8/11/2005):
788 Mark: No super crazy major changes here. Just the usual bug
789 fixes and some pretty important security updates.
791 Stu: Buy Sean's book. He obviously needs the money. Other than that
792 we fixed some bugs with this release (I don't think we did much else).
793 SoC students are doing lots of cool stuff which we'll hopefully be
794 able to bring you in a future release.
796 Nathan: I've continued my streak of doing nothing useful lately.
797 However, I've now got a brand-spanking-new DSL line, so I might
798 actually get to contribute soon. One way or another I'd like
799 to get HEAD into a more useable state in the next month or two.
800 Also, like Stu said, buy Sean's book. I've been reading and
801 fixing it for the last umpteen months, so you had better enjoy
802 it.
804 1.4.0 (7/7/2005):
805 Mark: The last month or four we've promoted a bunch of the Gaim
806 Crazy Patch Writers to developers, so there is now an even larger
807 team of brilliant and amazingly sexy committers working around
808 the globe for your instant messaging pleasure. Also, we have
809 what I believe to be our first contribution from a Summer of Code
810 student in this release: Jonathan Clark enabled the sending of
811 files to certain ICQ users. Support is still a bit rough, but
812 he'll be working on it throughout the summer.
814 Luke: Exciting times this summer as our Summer of Code interns
815 start their projects. This is mostly a bug fix release, with the
816 ICQ file transfer that Mark mentioned and some buddy icon work
817 being the only real new code. Hence the extra week delay. A
818 big thanks to our translators who keep churning out updates even
819 when we give them short notice as well. Enjoy!
821 1.3.1 (6/9/2005):
822 Sean: It's been a while since I've done one of these. Welcome to
823 Gaim 1.3.1, "New Hyde Park." This is, again, another bugfix release
824 but it comes with two keen announcements. First, I'd like to welcome
825 Christopher O'Brien to the Gaim team. He has integrated his work on
826 the Meanwhile project into Gaim, ensuring that Gaim 2.0.0 will include
827 Sametime support. Also, we're participating in Google's Summer of
828 Code, which you all should check out at
829 http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/
831 1.3.0 (5/10/2005):
832 Luke: This release fixes SILC for multiple accounts. HOWEVER, you
833 may lose your buddy list (for SILC only) upgrading. This is
834 rather unavoidable as the previous code did not keep track of
835 which account each buddy belonged to.
837 Stu: I'm glad we're finally getting this out, if fixes a number of bugs
838 ranging from minor to not so minor. I'd also like to welcome Gary to
839 the team - he's done a great job with Guifications, I'm sure he'll do
840 good stuff here too.
842 Gary: Well I got pretty much nothing done for this release. Although I
843 do have quite a few things in the works that will come to fruition when
844 I find some more free time.
846 1.2.1 (4/3/2005):
847 Luke: Several important fixes this time around. Big thanks to
848 Robert McQueen, Stu, Nathan, Ethan, and everyone else who has helped
849 with this effort. Maybe next time we can get a decent chance to fix the
850 problems *before* they go public to have a normal release process.
852 Nathan: Jabber got some updates this release (finally). I've got
853 more planned, but simply haven't had the time to anything about it.
855 1.2.0 (3/17/2005):
856 Luke: Happy St. Patrick's Day all. Sean scheduled a release for
857 today, we'll see if we can pull it off. :-) This release
858 features somewhat more than just bug fixes, some improvements
859 have been made to the conversation API which may affect plugin
860 developers. Yahoo users should also thank Tim and Bleeter for
861 their efforts.
863 Etan: I'm going to NEWS since I actually did something this time.
864 Jabber will allow you to unsubscribe to someone's presence
865 without logging out and in again, this does break seeing yourself
866 on your buddy list, but hopefully we'll fix that again for the
867 next release.
869 Stu: Happy St. Guinness^wPatrick's day.
871 1.1.4 (2/24/2005):
872 Sean: Another bug fix release. A big thanks to Rob McQueen, Ari
873 Pollak, Don Seiler, and Warren Togami: some packagers who helped
874 debug a nasty glib 2.6 problem. Also thanks to our own Stu who
875 found and destroyed an MSN crash and an HTML parsing error
877 Luke: Early release to handle the MSN and HTML crashes, as well
878 as the glib crash. Maybe that makes up for having had a 4 week
879 period before the last release. This one should be the nice
880 stable release we meant 1.1.3 to be. Enjoy!
882 Stu: I cleaned up the whitespace in this NEWS, it was bugging me.
884 1.1.3 (2/17/2005):
885 Luke: Yet another bug fix release, many thanks to everyone who has
886 helped to make gaim more stable!
888 Stu: I fixed too many Yahoo HTTP proxy bugs, I should just go and
889 write some core HTTP support that works better. A good all round
890 bug fix release otherwise.
892 1.1.2 (1/20/2005):
893 Luke: Another Bug fix release. This one featuring a fix to the HTTP
894 Method for MSN users and other MSN fixes. A big thanks to Stu and
895 Felipe Contreras for those. Stu also spent a long time in valgrind
896 and so this brings you a Gaim release with fewer memory leaks. This
897 release is on time primarily because I want to see the MSN fixes
898 make it into Debian and Fedora before freezes. Expect further bug
899 fix only releases to come at longer intervals, at Mark's request.
901 Daniel: This is my first NEWS! (YaY) I didn't really do too much for
902 this release. There are a few bugfixes, mostly wingaim stuff. Oh, and
903 I like the new XP System Tray icons.
905 Sean: I'm down here today. I haven't really been paying too much
906 attention to these boring bugfix releases, but I'd like to thank
907 David and welcome him to the team. I'd also like to thank Steven
908 and Nathan from Silverorange who redid the webpage.
910 Tim: Another bug fix release. I didn't really fix any bugs, so
911 I didn't exactly do much for this one. The autopackage will now
912 work with mozilla-nss, if anyone has that, and not gnutls11. (It
913 works with either gnutls11 or mozilla-nss, but not gnutls10)
914 I started working on Gaim-vv again though, and I merged someone's
915 custom msn smiley patch into the 2.0.0 tree, so expect good things
916 whenever that's released (no, don't try it now, you won't like it).
917 Oh and welcome to the team Daniel. Of course, he was already on my
918 Gaim-vv team.
920 Stu: Welcome Daniel! you've done some good stuff already. Felipe did some
921 good work on MSN yet again, so you can all use the HTTP method now. I
922 didn't do all that much, other than let valgrind tell me what to fix, and
923 a couple of easy bug fixes from the bug tracker. Hopefully Ethan will get
924 well soon, so he can get back to merging patches and fixing things.
926 Nathan: I think I made some Jabber fixes, at least one of which is
927 ChangeLog'd. I will continue to make empty promises about new features,
928 especially for 2.0.0. Until then, welcome Daniel!
930 1.1.1 (12/28/2004):
931 Luke: This bug fix release features msn improvements, drag and drop
932 improvements, and some translation stuff. Thanks for everone who has
933 helped with it, and hopefully we can get 2.0.0 out soon. On a side
934 note, i'm still looking for someone to look at the perl plugin loader.
936 1.1.0 (12/02/2004):
937 Luke: Another in our series of bug fix releases, with a slight twist.
938 Everyone thank Ethan for implementing a fall back encoding for IRC,
939 it has been much requested and should make a number of users very
940 happy. See the ChangeLog for details on other fixes.
942 Stu: Much thanks to Miah Gregory and Felipe Contreras, a bunch of
943 memory leaks have been fixed. Felipe also fixed a good number of
944 other MSN bugs. I didn't do much except apply these guys fixes. It's
945 good to see fixes from Gary coming in again too ;-). I like the
946 docklet adjustments Christian made. Btw, we have a new MSN protocol
947 icon, and I think you'll love it.
949 Tim: I made Gaim binary relocatable this release, so Gaim can find
950 itself if it gets lost, and I'm going to try to make autopackages
951 for this release, if the autopackage guys release their new version
952 soon like they're talking. I also "fixed" a scrolling bug, by
953 realizing it was all Gentoo's fault. The IRC encoding thing Ethan
954 did is pretty nice, no more encoding error messages!
956 Ethan: Rumor has it that I did some work this release, but it's just
957 that, a rumor. I think Luke started it. I did lay the hammer down
958 on bogus word wrapping in the NEWS, so you can thank me for that.
959 Keep your powder dry.
961 1.0.3 (11/11/2004):
962 Luke: Not much to see here, some bug fixes that you all will enjoy as
963 the semester draws to a close and everyone still in school gets bogged
964 down with projects, papers, and exams. Enjoy! Oh, and if you are interested
965 in the perl or gadu-gadu functionality, please step up to help write
966 patches, as both of these code blocks are currently unmaintained.
968 Tim: I fixed a couple bugs this time. In other news, Kim wants to get
969 a pet cockatiel or two.
971 Nathan: I was gonna put a new feature in this release, but decided
972 not to because I found a bug in it today, and I'm tired. Also, I haven't
973 consulted the powers-that-be about putting new features into oldstatus.
975 Stu: I'm writing this at 11:11:11pm on 11/11. Eleven. It's 3 really. Or B.
976 It's the 5th smallest prime number. Himalia is the 11th moon of Jupiter.
977 Hendecagon. There are 1011 players on a football team. XI. 16 hours. Eleven
978 is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English. This
979 entry is my 11th lie for today.
981 1.0.2 (10/19/2004):
982 Stu: I'm new around here. I tried to reduce the number of bugs in the bug
983 tracker, but it turns out that the only way to achieve that is to actually
984 _fix_ the bugs. So I fixed a couple, and then sneaked some patches out of
985 the patch tracker to fix some others. Sadly the bug tracker was not
986 significantly affected, maybe if I learn C I'll be able to make more of an
987 impact.
989 Luke: Don't let Stu fool you, he has done a marvelous job on this release,
990 and deserves a lot of credit for it. And a number of those bug fixes are
991 critical ones that he discovered and fixed himself. So go update. Now.
993 Nathan: On the other hand, Nathan has done nothing for this release. Why
994 do we keep him around again?
996 Tim: So, I'm married now, and in Huntsville. I don't remember if I did
997 anything for this release or not, probably not. Bleeter has been more
998 active lately though, perhaps we'll see lots of cool things from him
999 soon.
1001 Sean: I'm down here with the "didn't do anything" guys.
1003 1.0.1 (10/07/2004):
1004 Congratulations to Tim & Kim on their wedding!
1006 Sean: So, if you're playing along at home, you're aware that
1007 incrementing the micro version number means that the API has
1008 not changed at all. Although that itself is insignificant to
1009 most everyone but plugin developers, but users won't find too
1010 many significant changes. Consult ChangeLog. We're currently
1011 branched for some major changes, so expect a really great 2.0.0
1012 sometime relatively soon.
1014 Luke: Nothing much to see here, some bug fixes. Most of the work
1015 is going towards the 2.0.0 release. We aren't quite sure when
1016 that will be, and will keep the bug fix releases coming untill
1017 all is ready.
1019 Christian: I would call this a ground-breaking release, but it isn't.
1020 It seems like a good one, though. I dunno. I've been too busy at VMware,
1021 unfortunately, but have some work that's just waiting to be finished up
1022 for Gaim. Gaim 2.0.0 is going to rock. Gaim 3.0.0 will rock more.
1023 Do you see a pattern? Thanks go out to Henry Jen for fixing up parts of
1024 the gevolution plugin to support multiple addressbooks, and to all our
1025 moms, for believing in us. Or something.
1027 Nathan: I got a new computer. It's fast. And has twice the bits!
1029 1.0.0 (09/17/2004):
1030 Nathan: Hah! Bet you weren't expecting this! OK, if you were
1031 paying any attention to the flame^H^H^H^H^Hthread on gaim-devel,
1032 you might have been expecting this. But here it is, 1.0.0. Our
1033 new versioning scheme has slightly more meaning than the older
1034 one (expecially for plugin authors), but our 1.0(.0) release is
1035 just as meaningless as we could have hoped. Enjoy!
1037 Luke: We've changed our pattern for version numbers with this
1038 release, we are no longer simply counting versions. This release
1039 then marks, not something traditionally "1.0" but the current
1040 version of the api. When backwards compatability with that breaks
1041 you'll see 2.0, more details in the faq. As a side note, if you
1042 are reading this and are good with proxy code or with perl's XS C
1043 bindings, please get in touch with me, my contact info is on the
1044 website. Gaim could use your help.
1046 Mark: I love a circus.
1048 0.82 (08/25/2004):
1049 Rob: Woah, where did I come from?
1051 Mark: Lately I've been doing a lot more code maintenance/patch
1052 accepting/bug fixing type of work. And I think that's a really
1053 good thing. I feel like Gaim is becoming more stable. It
1054 seems like we're lacking fewer features. It makes me warm.
1055 Quick Robin! To the traverse wall!
1057 Nathan: Well, it looks like we stuck to the schedule again. Had
1058 we taken our dear sweet time, I might have had a chance to do
1059 something cool for this release, but instead I stuck to the minor
1060 stuff. <insert empty promises for the cool stuff i'll code for
1061 next time here>
1063 Tim: Lately I've been doing a lot more patch accepting, and a
1064 lot less actual coding. Unfortunately it has more to do with my
1065 laziness than Gaim's progress. Like Nathan, I'm going to blame
1066 our on time release schedule. But that didn't stop our Crazy
1067 Patch Writers, or cpw's as grim now calls them, from writing
1068 some good patches. So, instead of promising to code something
1069 cool for next release, I'm going to promise that the cpw's will
1070 code cool things for next release, and I might apply some of them.
1072 Luke: I've been doing what I always do, committing patches, some
1073 better than others, and bugging other people to code stuff. Oh
1074 and closing some bugs. Thanks to Dave West for joining the cpws
1075 in helping to handle triage. This is mostly a bug fix release,
1076 so PLEASE upgrade to it before submitting new bugs.
1078 Kevin: Herman's been away, so Daniel Atallah and myself were given
1079 the task of preparing 0.82's Windows packages. After some feverish
1080 plotting, we decided to update GTK and Daniel prepped an update to
1081 libpng to address recent security advisories. Besides plotting and
1082 a little bit of testing, this NEWS is all I really did. Oh, I also
1083 rerefixed the transparency plugin... again! Our beloved Hermanator
1084 should be back next time around, for 0.83.
1086 0.81 (08/05/2004):
1087 Sean: Three weeks again! Sticking to schedules is awesome! Just
1088 like Gaim v0.81. This is what we in the industry call a "bugfix
1089 release." We closed over TWO HUNDRED bugs since 0.80. That's
1090 awesome. Thanks to everyone who helped report, triage, fix, and
1091 test.
1093 Christian: Yay for three weeks working so well. Boo for me not
1094 doing much of anything this release, aside from a small memory
1095 leak fix. I'm starting a new job and leaving my current one, so
1096 when the dust settles and my schedule is a bit better, the very
1097 cool status rewrite will be finished up. Especially now that I have
1098 some help! I'd like to second Sean's thanks to all the people who
1099 helped with this bug fix release. Gaim should be a bit more stable
1100 for a lot of you. For those experiencing MSN problems still, we'll
1101 get that nailed for you soon, promise.
1103 Mark: I was going to point out that we closed an insane amount of
1104 bugs for this release, but Sean already did that. I feel like
1105 we've had some really talented new contributors contributing
1106 recently. I won't say names... but watch your backs. Or something.
1108 Nathan: I did next to nothing for this release. I am however
1109 settled in to my new job, and in a couple days, I should be settled
1110 into my new domicile. If the DSL gods are in a good mood, I'll
1111 have a connection there shortly, and can start being useful again.
1113 0.80 (07/15/2004):
1114 Sean: Three weeks! Hooray for timeliness! I didn't do much here
1115 but drag-and-droppable file transfers. Drag something into a
1116 conversation window, and it will be sent. Kinda neat.
1118 Mark: We have a small ant problem here. I can't help but think
1119 I somehow brought this upon myself.
1121 Tim: I don't really have any news, but at least I don't have an
1122 ant problem either. You might think I've been hard at work on
1123 Gaim-vv, but I haven't, I've just been lazy. I plan on doing
1124 some cool things "soon" though, both with Gaim and Gaim-vv.
1125 Bleeter sent me some nice dumps I need to implement yet.
1127 Luke: We have a nice timely release, with a Changelog that seems
1128 small, but remember, this is summer, and people have lives. SILC
1129 and Zephyr are making good progress from our Crazy Patch Writters,
1130 and everyone begging to send files to people not on their buddy
1131 list will be happy. good stuff. No, the msn buddy icon scalling
1132 problem isn't fixed yet, maybe next release
1134 0.79 (06/24/2004):
1135 Sean: We've moved to a three-week release cycle which we'll
1136 hopefully be able to keep up more realistically than a two-week
1137 cycle. Yahoo! went and broke last night, but it's fixed now thanks
1138 to a quick fix sent in by Cerulean Studios this morning. Reports say
1139 they'll continue to try to break us, though, so don't be surprised
1140 if your Yahoo cuts out again.
1142 Luke: I was really distracted this cycle, I want to thank my co-
1143 developers and our crazy patch writers for keeping things going.
1144 We have a fairly long changelog for you this release, including some
1145 nice bug fixes and some much-requested new features, the ChangeLog
1146 has all the details there of course. Enjoy!
1148 Christian: Great release! MSN buddy icons and file transfer. A big round
1149 of applause to Felipe! Too bad about the Yahoo thing, but.. eep! I have
1150 to go! Movie with the girls and Farmer's Market.
1152 Tim: This release brings us /commands in the core, which hopefully
1153 works better, and Yahoo! buddy icons. Thanks to all the people I
1154 bugged for packet captures, like Simguy, Bleeter, and odl. Yahoo!
1155 broke again, so I did a little last minute work on the web
1156 messenger stuff, but then Cerulean Studios was cool and fixed the
1157 problem already, so all that code's disabled. I also finally added
1158 the Yahoo! Japan support, for those of you with Yahoo! Japan
1159 accounts.
1161 Mark: I fixed that icon animation thing that caused Gaim to lock-up.
1162 I also stepped on something at the beach and I think there might be
1163 a little rock or something in my foot now.
1165 Nathan: I've been really busy, what with having a new job and all.
1166 I didn't think I had done anything, but apparently I fixed some
1167 Jabber stuff, and some IPv6 stuff. I must have been sleepcoding
1168 or something, because I haven't had time for such things. Ah well,
1169 enjoy this release. We'll see what I can get to in the next 3 weeks.
1171 0.78 (05/30/2004):
1172 Luke: A very long time, once again, since the last release. I think
1173 its mostly worth it. A few of you will still have trouble with msn
1174 but we've worked out a number of bugs even there. Thanks to heroic
1175 efforts on the part of Mark, we closed 400 some odd reports this
1176 month. We are also welcoming Tim to the project, a very active
1177 crazy patch writer who has brought massive improvements to WYSIWYG
1178 and direct im this release. Again, it still won't work for every
1179 one, but it will work for more people than it used to. Most
1180 noticably, this release brings a LARGE simplicfication of the
1181 preferences available. Please don't complain if your favorite
1182 preference is no longer there. Take some time to think about
1183 how and if it could be useful to a majority of people who use
1184 Gaim in ways nothing like you. You'll find that the answer will
1185 usually be that the preference isn't all that important.
1187 Tim: I continued with the other crazy patch writers in fixing those
1188 WYSIWYG bugs. Then they went and made me a developer. Which is cool.
1189 They told me I could commit WYSIWYG and Yahoo! changes. So I went
1190 and fixed IM Image and Direct Connect in AIM for some reason. I also
1191 added some new Yahoo! smileys at least. Also you change your link
1192 color in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file now. I might work on some of those
1193 new Yahoo! features for next release, like buddy icons. But don't
1194 count on it. Thanks to everyone who congratulated me. And thanks
1195 to all our Crazy Patch Writers, who now expect me to apply all their
1196 Crazy Patches.
1198 Christian: First of all, congrats to Tim! He's our latest Gaim
1199 developer, and we're all glad to have him on board. He's been a
1200 valuable contributor for awhile now. Thanks again to Felipe Contreras
1201 for all his MSN work this release. He has some exciting stuff that
1202 we'll be seeing in 0.79. And last, but not least, thanks to all our
1203 crazy and not-so-crazy patch writers. There's been a lot done this
1204 release. I've been taking a small break, first due to school and now
1205 work, but I'll be coming back strong in the next couple of releases. In
1206 the meantime, enjoy.
1208 Gary: Congrats to Tim, no more competing for most ChangeLog entries.
1209 This means you _should_ be winning every release. Anyways, I didn't
1210 finish nearly as much as I wanted to for this release but all of that
1211 and then some should appear in 0.79.
1213 Sean: I'll write my entry down here tonight. Removing preferences
1214 was my big crusade this week, and the team did a great job at it,
1215 but I still have a nagging feeling that our preferences are still
1216 overwhelming. Everyone's been doing a real great job; it's entirely
1217 my fault we keep failing to meet our three-week schedule. Send your
1218 complaints this way.
1220 Nathan: I really didn't do much thanks to exams, and graduation, and all
1221 of that fun stuff. For next release, I'll have all new excuses, like my
1222 new job, or maybe something I haven't even thought of yet. Oh yeah, and
1223 a big warm welcome to Tim!
1225 0.77 (04/22/2004):
1226 Sean: We're back to a somewhat regular release cycle now. Hooray!
1227 WYSIWYG is much improved in this release, and you can now copy and
1228 paste rich text to and from Gaim and other applications (see: Mozilla,
1229 Evolution OpenOffice). Also, Novell has released their first release
1230 of their GroupWise plugin, included in this release. Good stuff all
1231 around.
1233 Luke: Only a week "late" this time around, much nicer than the delay
1234 before the last release. Anyway, this release sees a HUGE number of
1235 improvements to the WYSIWYG support, much thanks to all involved. If
1236 you weren't impressed before, you should be now! This release also
1237 sees the end of our TOC support, no one has been working on this in
1238 some time and its causing problems. DON'T USE IT!. Also plugin
1239 authors will want to take note of the fact that the plugin api version
1240 changed. A nice solid release for you all :-)
1242 Ethan: Once again I thought about doing some things and committed
1243 things that other people did. This development model is awesome. I
1244 helped Mark refactor some stuff and our collective code ownership
1245 helped us utilize a coherent system metaphor during our pair program-
1246 ming sessions. It was extremely extreme. Look for some hard crypto
1247 lovin' from yet another crazy contributor in the near future...
1249 Ka-Hing: I actually did something for this release... or rather, the
1250 previous release, but LSchiere2 didn't commit that until this release.
1251 So blame him. System logging is back, so you can log people's signon/
1252 off/away/idle-ness again. There may be bugs with it, I don't know, not
1253 like I use it. I will try to work on something that I will actually use
1254 for the next release.
1256 Etan: Looking for someone to pair program with.
1258 Christian: A round of applause to our crazy patch writers! Their
1259 contributions this release is impressive. WYSIWYG has come a long way
1260 since 0.76 thanks to them. Also, thanks to Felipe Contreras for his
1261 MSN contributions. We should see some good stuff going into there soon.
1262 I myself didn't do a huge amount, aside from breaking everybody's
1263 plugins, although I have some work going on in the background that will
1264 hopefully make it into release soon.
1266 0.76 (04/01/2004):
1267 Sean: Yeah, it's been a long time since the last release, and despite
1268 what others may tell you, we were just really lazy. This is pretty
1269 much just 0.75 again, but, like, someone changed the "Info" icon and
1270 I think, like, the Chinese translation may have been updated. We did
1271 nothing interesting on it at all. Others may tell you "we haven't just
1272 been lazy," or "you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat
1273 stuf in this one." They lie. All of them.
1275 Luke: Okay, normally I wait for Sean to go first, but he said to commit.
1276 Its been a few months since the last release, but we haven't just been
1277 lazy. A very long ChangeLog for you all. Most notably of course is the
1278 addition of WYSIWYG input for chats and conversations. Many thanks to
1279 DAYS of long work by Sean, Gary Kramlich, Kevin Stange, Tim Ringenbach,
1280 and Stu Tomlinson for their efforts writting, fixing, and testing
1281 this. Without the dedicated support of our crazy patch writters, this
1282 release would have taken yet longer. Sean also has yahoo working again,
1283 with some assistance from our friends over at Trillian, you may all
1284 officially rejoice. We also have a large number of bug fixes, closing
1285 more than 200 bug reports this month alone.
1287 Christian: It's been a long time between the last release, but I think
1288 you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat stuff in this one.
1289 So many bug fixes and new features. It's enough to drive a wombat mad!
1290 The new WYSIWYG input is cool stuff. You'll either love it or hate it,
1291 I guess. I'm working on some stuff that some of you are going to love,
1292 but I'm not promising it for a few more versions. It's a secret!
1294 Mark: Our crazy patch writers rock. Gary Kramlich, Tim Ringenbach,
1295 Kevin Stange, and Stu Tomlinson did an amazing job of tying up
1296 loose ends and helping get this release out the door. Thanks guys!
1298 Rob: My birthday is in a few days. I like cool stuff. Buy me something
1299 grand!!
1301 Tim: Luke said write a NEWS, so I thought I would. There's a room
1302 list dialog now. And Nathan and I doubled the number of protocols that
1303 can transfer files. After that I got lazy/busy and let Gary, Kevin,
1304 and Stu fix all the bugs.
1306 Nathan: Rob happens to share a birthday with my sister. So far she's
1307 been very vague about what she wants. She's not an easy person to shop
1308 for. As for things you probably care more about, this release has so
1309 much in it that I've forgotten about most of it. The stupidest of the
1310 bugs from 0.75 are fixed. Jabber has a first pass at file transfer
1311 support (no proxy support yet). SOCKS 5 proxy support may have gotten
1312 a little better as a side-effect. Twinkies and penguin points to all
1313 of the crazy patch writers, who did more than their fair share this
1314 release.
1316 Ethan: My birthday was yesterday, and not on the same day as Rob
1317 and Nathan's sister. And I don't mean that Rob and Nathan have the
1318 same sister. For this release, I thought about making IRC better, I
1319 thought about making Tcl better, and I committed patches from several
1320 others who actually did these things. And probably some other
1321 things, too. Let's hear it for crazy patch writers, and for the open
1322 source philosophy that lets them get so CRAZY.
1324 0.75 (01/09/2004):
1325 Rob: Woah, what's this? Me? Making a NEWS post!? Say it ain't so!
1326 That's right, kiddos, I'm finally coming out of my reclusiveness.
1327 I had a pretty shitty few months, and also just needed a break from
1328 things. But, I'm back, and that's good. Right? Yes. And now,
1329 a little word from Eric Warmenhoven.. :P
1331 Eric: Ah, Rob and Eric. Just like the good ol' days. Now, if
1332 you'll excuse me, I have to go make some commits with Led Zeppelin
1333 lyrics as my commit logs. heh. What do you mean, I look a lot
1334 like Sean Egan? I'm... oh fine, you got me. It's really just Sean
1335 in an Eric Warmenhoven costume.
1337 So, Yahoo! works again, and that's good. And 0.76 is going to have
1338 something _very_ neat.
1340 Nathan: You're running out of excuses to not use Jabber. Our chat
1341 support is now bar-some, quickly approaching bar-none! Everything
1342 else in Jabber got neat improvements too. I'll leave it up to you
1343 to figure out what they were.
1345 <boilerplate promises for cool features in $version++>
1347 Christian: I've been a bit absent this release, due to life stuff
1348 and working on some other projects. Some MSN goodies are going to be
1349 available in an upcoming version, and I have some neat Gaim-related
1350 stuff I'm working on that will hopefully see the light of day. I'd
1351 like to say good job to the other developers. Good release. (Of course,
1352 every time I say that, something breaks horribly right after we
1353 release it.)
1355 Luke: Okay, so Sean rocks and got Yahoo working again in 12 minutes.
1356 Unfortunately, he took out the chat support in doing so. So use
1357 conferences for now if you use yahoo. Users begging for file
1358 transfer support should thank Tim 'marv' Ringenbach for Yahoo ft,
1359 and everyone should be happy to note that 0.75 leaks far less than
1360 0.74. Also, a lot of other bug fixes happened that escape my notice
1361 right now.
1363 Ethan: I just want to say that now logging really doesn't eat
1364 memory 'till the cows come home. We don't think.
1366 I would like to thank each and every one of these people, and
1367 I think you should, too:
1369 Paul A, Daniel Atallah, Patrick Aussems, Brian Bernas,
1370 Jonas Birmé, Ethan Blanton (hi Mom), Joshua Blanton, Herman
1371 Bloggs, Jason Boerner, Graham Booker, Craig Boston, Chris
1372 Boyle, Jeremy Brooks, Sean Burke, Cerulean Studios LLC,
1373 Ka-Hing Cheung, Arturo Cisneros Jr., Vincas Ciziunas, Joe
1374 Clarke, Todd Cohen, Felipe Contreras, Jeramey Crawford, Mark
1375 Doliner, Nuno Donato, Jim Duchek, Tom Dyas, Andrew Echols,
1376 Sean Egan, Brian Enigma, Stefan Esser, Larry Ewing, Jesse
1377 Farmer, Gavan Fantom, Rob Flynn, Nathan Fredrickson, Free
1378 Software Foundation, Decklin Foster, Adam Fritzler, Michael
1379 Golden, Ryan C. Gordon, Christian Hammond, Andy Harrison, G.
1380 Sumner Hayes, Mike Heffner, Iain Holmes, Karsten Huneycutt,
1381 Akuke Kok, Tero Kuusela, Dennis Lambe Jr., Ho-seok Lee, Moses
1382 Lei, Ambrose C. Li, Nicolas Lichtmaier, Artem Litvinovich, Syd
1383 Logan, Matthew Luckie, Brian Macke, Paolo Maggi, Willian T.
1384 Mahan, John Matthews, Ryan McCabe, Robert McQueen, Robert
1385 Mibus, Benjamin Miller, Kevin Miller, Paul Miller, Arkadiusz
1386 Miskiewicz, Andrew Molloy, Matt Pandina, Ricardo Fernandez
1387 Pascual, Havoc Pennington, Ari Pollak, Robey Pointer, Nathan
1388 Poznick, Brent Priddy, Federicco Mena Quintero, David Raeman,
1389 Etan Reisner, Kristian Rietveld, Tim Ringenbach, Andrew
1390 Rodland, Neil Sanchala, Carsten Schaar, Luke Schierer, Torrey
1391 Searle, Jim Seymour, John Silvestri, David Smock, Mark
1392 Spencer, Lex Spoon, Kevin Stange, David Stoddard, Stu
1393 Tomlinson, Brian Tarricone, Peter Teichman, Arun A. Tharuvai,
1394 Philip Tellis, Bill Tompkins, Tom Tromey, Junichi Uekawa,
1395 Bjoern Voigt, Nathan Walp, Eric Warmenhoven, Jason Willis,
1396 Matt Wilson, Ximian, Jaroen Zwartepoorte.
1398 Thanks, all.
1400 0.74 (11/25/2003):
1401 Sean: Christian and Nathan were wrong.
1403 Ethan: I don't know how solid or good this release will be, but
1404 hopefully it's better than 0.73! Not that 0.73 didn't rock or
1405 anything, but for those users bit by its peculiar little bugs
1406 it wasn't as nice as this will be.
1408 Nathan: Jabber got some good tweaks, and logging doesn't eat
1409 memory until the cows come home. Which is good, because they
1410 said they'll be out until late.
1412 Luke: Always nice when directories get created correctly ;-)
1414 0.73 (11/21/2003):
1415 Nathan: This should be a really solid release. I fixed most if not
1416 all of the idiotic Jabber bugs from 0.72, and re-enabled the SASL
1417 login stuff, now that it is finalized in the XMPP drafts. Oh, and
1418 we now have a release notification plugin, so you can find out when
1419 the latest and greatest version of Gaim is out without breaking that
1420 reload button in your browser. There's other fun new stuff, but I
1421 forget what it is.
1423 Christian: This is a good release, as Nathan said. For all those who
1424 hated all the disconnect dialogs, we now have a {dis,re}connect{ed,}
1425 dialog that replaces all of them and shows every account that became
1426 disconnected. Also, there were some MSN fixes thrown in, such as
1427 the problem with unblocking users. My personal favorite, since it's
1428 really been bugging me for awhile, is the bug with the border on the
1429 close buttons is fixed. Oh yes, and let's not forget the new logging.
1430 It simply rocks. This is a pretty stable release, so get it. 0.74 is
1431 going to have some niceties that people have been waiting for.
1433 0.72 (10/30/2003):
1434 Sean: I think I'll go as the Gaim logo guy for Halloween. That
1435 would be a cool costume.
1437 Luke: We've had a record month for number of bugs submitted (395 as
1438 of now) this month, but the total number of bugs open has grown by
1439 less than 20, so while it might be fustrating for those of you out
1440 there who think your bug report is being ignored, know that we are
1441 doing our best to look at them all :-). This release fixes a goodly
1442 number of bugs including the troubles with signing on icq (thanks
1443 to Mark). Enjoy!
1445 Christian: Last release brought forward a lot of bug reports, such
1446 as the ICQ bug, and also trouble with installing SSL. I can't count
1447 how many people were confused as to why their MSN plugin wasn't
1448 loading. Now, it'll load regardless, and when you try to connect,
1449 it'll give you an error dialog saying to install SSL (if you don't
1450 have it installed, of course). I didn't do a whole lot this release,
1451 but that'll change with the next. There are some fun things coming.
1453 Ethan: In complete defiance of history, I did something this
1454 release. It had to do with IRC. If I type here for long
1455 enough, I'm sure I'll remember what it was... Oh yeah, all of
1456 you paranoid people can hide your local username by changing
1457 your IRC account settings. I also want to note that we are
1458 aware that building Gaim is Harder than it Should Be on
1459 Solaris, and I am seeking solutions to some of the issues
1460 there. Everyone remember to give some love to the developers
1461 who actually did something of note this release (i.e. not me)!
1463 Nathan: Jabber got a ton better this release, as I fixed most of the
1464 bugs introduced in the last release. Registration works again, and
1465 the next person to break it is going to suffer. I also fixed a
1466 handfull of other little things that I can't remember. This should
1467 be a good release.
1469 0.71 (10/09/2003):
1470 Rob: It's been a while since I've commited some news. I've had a
1471 very hectic few weeks/months. Thing are finally coming together
1472 again for me. This release features much copying and pasting. Yeah.
1474 Sean: I can't wait for everything to be core/ui split!
1476 Christian: This is a good release, and I don't think people will have
1477 too many problems. There are a lot of little nice feature additions,
1478 and much progress has been made on the core/UI split. We should be done
1479 in a couple of releases, assuming we can get the remaining two or three
1480 parts core/UI-split. Oh, and plugin authors are going to hate me again,
1481 as a lot of code (specifically, the conversations code and utility
1482 functions) changed names. This is a Good Thing (TM), as always, but may
1483 require modifications to some plugins. Not all, fortunately, but some
1484 :) Many SSL problems were fixed, though we still have some to go. If
1485 you don't have SSL, you now need it for MSN. MSN won't even load without
1486 it. Starting October 15th, the old protocol won't be supported
1487 anymore, so there's no reason to support the old one anymore.
1489 Herman: I bet some plugin authors have resorted to making voodoo dolls
1490 of Christian. Nothing new for Win Gaim users other than a fix for
1491 missing aim buddy icons, and removal of gtk-wimp (until it matures).
1493 Mark: People are going to make a voodoo doll of me and shower it with
1494 kisses and chocolate women: When an AIM user is away, you can now view
1495 the person's away message in their tooltip. This is very similar to
1496 what iChat does, only our tooltip will wrap lines rather than displaying
1497 off your screen :-)
1499 Nathan: Chocolate women are cool, but I'm a bigger fan of the real kind.
1500 I re-wrote the Jabber support from scratch, so now there's at least one
1501 person who knows what's going on with it. I got lost in the old code,
1502 even in the parts I wrote. It now supports the SASL login stuff from
1503 the XMPP protocol specs, and will automagically upgrade the conncetion
1504 to SSL if it's supported. If anything doesn't work like it did before,
1505 it's probably better, and you should be thankful for it.
1507 Ethan: I'm sure I'll be showered with all kinds of wonderful things,
1508 but I doubt it's because I did anything. The reason being that I
1509 really don't think I did anything. I meant to do some gaim_
1510 prepension and documentation for IRC and Tcl, and handle IRC errors
1511 more responsibly, but I've been meaning to do that for months.
1512 Except the Tcl part, the Tcl plugin hasn't even existed for months.
1513 I figure if I write enough NEWS no one will notice I didn't do
1514 anything during the release cycle. Oh, I did close some bugs. I
1515 didn't fix them, mind you, I just closed them. With abandon.
1516 Don't tell Luke.
1518 Luke: Mmmm, I probly did even less than Ethan, except I closed rather
1519 more bugs for other reasons. Lots of you submitting duplicate bugs.
1520 This should be a pretty good release. We still have a couple crashes
1521 in ssl stuff, but we fixed a number of the bugs in the tracker, and
1522 the code cleaning helps alot as well. Enjoy!
1524 0.70 (9/28/2003):
1525 Sean: Yahoo! works (for now). That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1526 Huge thanks to our dear friends over at Cerulean Studios, creators of
1527 Trillian, for helping us out.
1529 Nathan: This release also works out most of the kinks in the new
1530 contact support. The Jabber goodies I promised will have to wait
1531 for now.
1533 Christian: I didn't really do anything except fix a couple of issues
1534 loading protocol plugins that had plugin dependencies and getting perl
1535 to install where we tell it to. I had hoped that 0.70 would include
1536 a finished libgaim, but Yahoo kind of wrecked that dream. We'll see it
1537 within the next few releases. Life has been busy in a good way :)
1539 0.69 (9/24/2003):
1540 Sean: MSN and Yahoo! work. That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1542 Herman: Win Gaim has been around for more than a year now.. Time Flies.
1544 Nathan: {{Meta,}{Contact,Buddy},Person} support for all! Also, SSL
1545 support for Jabber makes its debut. More Jabber goodies next release.
1547 Christian: It's a good release. The main highlight really is
1548 Nathan's Contact support, which is just beautiful. My buddy list
1549 shrunk considerably. As Sean stated, MSN and Yahoo! work. MSN
1550 does not support the new MSN buddy icons and stuff, unfortunately,
1551 but we'll see about 0.70. There were a whole bunch of Perl fixes,
1552 so hopefully there will be less complaints directed to my code in
1553 that area ;) Among other new additions of mine are SSL support
1554 (both Mozilla NSS and GNUTLS), Plugin IPC (letting plugins talk to
1555 each other), and some visual niceties in the Accounts window.
1556 Ka-Hing Cheung put in animated smileys, which should please many.
1557 Yeah, good release. Just you wait until 0.70 though.
1559 Robot101: Hi mom. My patch isn't in this release. Watch for the next
1560 one.
1562 Mark: Metacontact support, yeah. Right click on a dude and
1563 select "Expand."
1565 Ethan: God bless the USA.
1567 0.68 (09/01/2003):
1568 Rob: Wow. I am so incredibly tired.
1570 Sean: School starts tomorrow! How fun! I'll have more time to hack
1571 gaim (isn't that supposed to be the reverse?)*
1573 *Some NEWS recycled from v0.10.0
1575 Nathan: I didn't do much for this release, except make Jabber
1576 registration work, and put in a slight tweak to make Gaim work a
1577 little better with jabberd2. Next release you'll all see what I've
1578 been spending my time on, but for now enjoy the fruits of everyone
1579 else's labor.
1581 Mark: I've been really busy with other stuff, but I've spent my
1582 Gaim-time on working towards a more formal translation process.
1583 Hopefully this will result in Gaim shipping with more complete
1584 translation files. Also, all our awesome translators are mentioned
1585 in the about window now.
1587 Christian: I've been really busy with this stuff. Gaim got a new
1588 signal architecture, which is just really cool. The old events system
1589 is gone. Now you connect a signal from a handle (which can be
1590 a plugin or whatever) to a function, and plugins can register their
1591 own functions, and other neat things. Oh yeah, and perl was rewritten.
1592 There's a new HOWTO in the Doxygen docs (make docs), but no API
1593 reference yet. Developers, look at the plugins/perl/common/*.xs files
1594 for now. I also wrote plugin dependencies, which will be more useful
1595 down the road. Gaim v0.69 is going to have the new MSN plugin that
1596 works with the latest MSN protocol. Please be patient for that, as
1597 we're getting a lot of MSN questions we answer over and over.
1599 Luke: Wow, I actually did something for this release besides commit
1600 translations! Well, sorta. I got permission to commit some patches
1601 so gaim now has color support for yahoo, and you can fetch some
1602 basic info on yahoo and msn users. Yay for people submitting patches!
1604 0.67 (08/14/2003):
1606 Rob: I live in Georgia. I don't care about blackouts. We only
1607 have to deal with floods and tornadoes.
1609 Sean: Fortunately me for me, I live in the only place in New York
1610 that still has power tonight! New features in 0.6@%f)*2.{\
1611 NO CARRIER
1613 Christian: I guess Sean couldn't be here to tell you about all the
1614 great new things. New stuff was done! It's simply amazing. Yeah. So,
1615 new IRC protocol plugin, tab text is greyed on events (like "So and
1616 so has signed off!"), protocol icons on tabs (thanks to Etan Reisner),
1617 some dialog rewrites.. Great stuff. Gaim's looking more teh perrty.
1618 My big "wow" thing is that the core and UI were split enough for me
1619 to remove the remaining UI code and make a patch, and libgaim was born,
1620 for experimental purposes. However, using it, I was able to make the
1621 second UI ever for Gaim - Gaim for Qtopia (Zaurus and iPaq PDAs).
1622 This is viewable at http://qpe-gaim.sf.net/ (shameless plug?). More
1623 UIs to come I hope! :) Exciting time in Gaim.
1625 0.66 (07/18/2003):
1626 Rob: Oops!!!! This reminds me of other silly things that we've
1627 done. I agree with what Herman is going to say. ;-)
1629 Sean: Man, 0.65 was so super lame and boring. But 0.66? WOW!
1630 This is the most incredible thing EVER. We've done tons of work
1631 since 0.65, and I'm really proud of what we came out with. Thanks
1632 to everyone who helped!
1634 Christian: Wow, I can't even begin to describe how long we've worked
1635 on this one. Monstrous release. Best ever! You won't even recognize
1636 it. If you've had account import problems, delete your accounts.xml
1637 and upgrade to 0.66. Just, wow.
1639 Herman: This is to make up for slipping off the two week release cycle.
1641 Luke: Okay, people, yes we did test 0.65 for bugs, but hey, some things
1642 slip through. This release makes up for that. This should fix the bugs
1643 0.65 introduced, at least the ones that most of you would otherwise hit.
1645 Nathan: We are so smart. S-M-R-T...I mean S-M-A-R-T.
1647 0.65 (07/16/2003):
1648 Rob: Wooo! We're finally ready for 0.65. Are you guys excited? I
1649 haven't worked on anything in this release, either. I've been
1650 working offline on a MacOSX UI. No, you're not allowed to ask
1651 me when it will be ready. If you ask me then I won't answer
1652 you. You've been warned! :-D
1654 Sean: Although I tend to go right here in the two slot in NEWS,
1655 we don't always commit in this order. This is the third time I've
1656 rewritten this because the jerks below me keep commiting while I'm
1657 writing causing mass conflictination. Grrr. Stupid jerks. Anyway,
1658 this is Gaim 0.65. Like other Gaim releases, this allows you to
1659 converse with people far away over the "Internet." That's about it.
1660 It's really not that interesting. In fact, I wouldn't even bother
1661 reading the other people's NEWS. It's all boring. There's some
1662 crap about forest fires and fangs and claws. It's really boring.
1663 Great, now Luke just committed NEWS causing more conflictination.
1664 I wouldn't bother reading his either. Oh, and I don't want to thank
1665 Megan (Cae) or Kevin (SimGuy). They're stupid jerks too. Grrr...
1667 Mark: I actually did stuff for this release. Go me. I probably
1668 shouldn't speak for all of us, but I'm going to anyway: We feel that
1669 this release is one of Gaim's best. It should be relatively bug
1670 free, and the code is cleaner than ever, thanks to lots of work by
1671 Christian and Nathan. We had some help from a few civilians
1672 finding and fixing bugs. Thanks to Megan (Cae), Ka-Hing Cheung
1673 (javabsp), and Kevin Stange (SimGuy) for their work. Man, I was just
1674 looking at Sean's NEWS entry for 0.64--that's talent. Also, stay
1675 in school. Just say no. Only you can prevent forest fires.
1677 Christian: This has been a great release. faceprint rocks, as he got
1678 things moving in the core/UI split by redoing preferences, which forced
1679 us to think about how things would be split. We now have XML
1680 preferences, accounts, pounces, and away messages. No more .gaimrc
1681 ugliness. The accounts and connection code now have new core/UI split
1682 APIs, and there is very little to do before our split is ready to be
1683 used. Rob and I are working off an experimental tarball of what will
1684 eventually be libgaim. He's working on a MacOS X UI (don't ask him
1685 about it, he'll ignore you) and I'm doing a Qtopia UI (you can ask
1686 about that, it's usable!). We added a new protocol, Trepia.
1687 Information about it can be found at http://www.trepia.com/. It's not
1688 complete, so don't send in bug reports about it not finding people in
1689 your local area, please. Oh, and lots of MSN bugs were fixed.
1690 Practically all the known ones. I feared 0.65 would be unstable due to
1691 our rewrites, I believe this is going to be one of the most stable
1692 releases we've had in awhile (knock on wood), thanks to Megan (Cae),
1693 who has done an amazing job at locating, categorizing and documenting
1694 the various bugs she has run into, and kevin (SimGuy). Stay tuned for
1695 upcoming releases. Neat things are coming, but if it has fangs and
1696 claws, curl into a ball. Or yell at it. I can't remember which is
1697 correct.
1699 Luke: Wow! Finally releasing 0.65! Christian, Nathan, and Mark have
1700 worked really hard for this release, all the credit goes to them.
1701 The new preferences are awesome, and there are more bugs fixed for
1702 this release than in the last 3 or 4 releases. Your MSN should work
1703 reliably again, your preferences saved, your accounts resort, the
1704 list goes on and on. A couple preferences, most notably your buddy
1705 list sorting preference won't be imported, but almost all of them
1706 will be and its probly a good idea for you to take a second look
1707 through preferences again anyway, alot of you are starting to
1708 forget that things are optional again. :-)
1710 Nathan: I think I did something for this release a while ago. I've
1711 got a mailbox full of commit emails, and some have my name on them,
1712 so I must have done something, right? Probably some minor jabber stuff,
1713 and lots of crazy bugfixes. It was a team effort, I'd like to thank the
1714 academy, our producer Rob Flynn, and of course all the fans. You rock.
1716 Herman: I was told to write something.. so here it goes. Windows users
1717 will be happy to know that they can now rearrange their Buddy Lists.
1718 I finally got stuck into GTK+ code and fixed the bug in question (this
1719 release will include a patched version of GTK+ 2.2.1). I integrated
1720 the WinGaim systray code into the docklet plugin bringing those nice
1721 docklet features (i.e. Message queuing) to WinGaim. Another major
1722 WinGaim change of note is that debug versions of all dlls can now be
1723 built, providing useful backtraces not only for gaim.dll but for the
1724 plugins as well.
1726 0.64 (05/29/2003):
1727 Rob: I didn't do anything this release either. We're under a crunch
1728 week at work. Friday is the end of the crunch. Hooray!! Thanks for
1729 all of your hard work, guys :).
1731 Sean: Unlike every other time we say, "the next release will be loaded
1732 with cool new features, this time, we really mean it. In fact, they're
1733 already in CVS (don't use CVS). The only obvious new feature for 0.64
1734 is buddy list sorting. This has been much requested and can be set in
1735 the buddy list preferences. You can sort by name, by status, and even
1736 by log file size--putting people you talk to most at the top. Plugins
1737 can even easily add their own sorting methods. It's all very cool. I
1738 want to thank Luke and Ka-Hing for their initial work on it. And yes,
1739 I did make my entire NEWS entry justified on purpose.
1741 Christian: I have a few new goodies in 0.64, but they're mostly
1742 back-end stuff that people like us care about. The things that most
1743 of you will like the most is that almost all of the reported MSN
1744 bugs were fixed. Users with an empty contact list can now login again.
1745 The friendly name bug is gone. E-mail notifications work again. Yay!
1746 We have some big changes in store for 0.65. Careful if you use CVS...
1747 Things will break. :)
1749 Mark: I never really have anything important to add. I'd just like to
1750 thank Jack Daniels for his exquisite bug reports. And whiskey.
1752 Nathan: I don't think I did anything for this release. I'm a bum.
1754 0.63 (05/16/2003)
1755 Rob: Wow, so, what can I say? I've been rather AWOL for the past few
1756 releases. However, that's okay. Work has been pretty friggin hec-
1757 tic, so, that's my excuse. Work is finally going to be slowing down
1758 some. I plan to be doing more Gaim work. That makes me happy. That
1759 makes you happy. That makes us all happy. Now, I just need to
1760 finish rebuilding my car's engine. Engine rebuilds put the FU in
1761 fun!
1763 Sean: Yay! School is finally over. I have to give tons of cherry-
1764 flavored props to everyone whose been helping out while I stayed away
1765 from Gaim to keep myself from failing again, especially Christian and
1766 Nathan.
1768 Luke: Okay, this is NOT a bug fix release, at least for those of you
1769 who use MSN. Christian put in a TON of effort rewritting the MSN prpl,
1770 mega props to him on this release. In other news, we have alot of bugs
1771 fixed, and a goodly number of the translations are more up to date
1772 than they were in earlier releases. There are some other significant
1773 changes, but they are mostly backend stuff, yay for core/ui splits ;-)
1775 Christian: As Sean and Luke said, I did a tiny bit of work in this
1776 release. The MSN prpl was rewritten, and should now work better. It's
1777 compatible with the MSNP7 protocol that MSN v4.x uses. Unfortunately,
1778 MSNP9 is being worked on. Bah. Also, it has MSN Mobile support, so you
1779 can register your MSN account with http://mobile.msn.com/ and people
1780 can page your mobile device. You can also page other MSN Mobile users.
1781 Groups are now stored on server. Oh, and due to the nature of MSNP7,
1782 conversations are timed out after 5 minutes, so you'll unfortunately
1783 see a message indicating that. Sorry! I wrote experimental support
1784 for my own implementation of MSN buddy icons. You can set them in your
1785 account settings much like with AIM, and when you talk to other gaim
1786 users, they'll get your buddy icon. This will last for a few releases,
1787 until the buddy icon implementation in the upcoming MSNP9 protocol is
1788 figured out, and we have support for that. That'll be a couple months
1789 away at least. Also, we have a rewrite of the plugin interface, so
1790 rewrite your plugins! Things are going to get very cool from it. The
1791 debug API was core/UI split, and some enhancements were made to the
1792 debug window. I think that's all from me. It's been a fun release.
1793 Stay tuned, I have some great things coming up!
1795 Nathan: It seems like 0.62 was forever and a day ago. I had to look
1796 at the ChangeLog to remember what I did. Apparently I made it so you
1797 can put chats in your buddy list. And then I tweaked a bunch of stuff
1798 and fixed a bunch of crashes. Then exams came, and then I went home
1799 for a week and left my laptop's power cable here at school, so I didn't
1800 get anything done. Jabber will get all sorts of fun new stuff for
1801 the next release. Really. ;-)
1803 0.62 (04/23/2003):
1804 Sean: This is just another standard bi-weekly Gaim release. Nothing
1805 really interesting, but it has some good bugfixes. Personally, I've
1806 been a bit removed from Gaim development lately what with school getting
1807 tough and stuff, but the rest of the guys have really been doing great
1808 work without me. Thanks, guys.
1810 Christian: I can't remember what I did here.. Think I'll take a quick
1811 look at the ChangeLog.... Okay, guess I was useless. That's okay,
1812 though, because I have some really cool stuff going into 0.63. Plugin
1813 authors will hate me for it. A rewrite of the plugins interface! This is
1814 actually a Good Thing (TM). Anyhow, upgrade to this release, and tell
1815 your friends. 33 Gaim users can't be wrong!
1817 Luke: I didn't do much here besides the odd translation patch and a
1818 couple bug fix patches. This is primarily a bug fix release, and much
1819 needed at that. Didn't get a chance to write sorting code, work has been
1820 busy. Hopeefully it will happen for 0.63.
1822 Mark: Gaim is coming along quite beautimously. I'm going to eat
1823 my Pop-tarts now.
1825 Nathan: oh dot sixty two. There are a lot of bugs fixed in this
1826 release, and one major new feature. Our Jabber plugin now supports
1827 XHTML-IM. In plain english, this means that you can now format your
1828 jabber messages, and other people will see the formatting. GtkIMHTML
1829 still needs some work to get it to parse valid XHTML-IM better, but that
1830 will come in time. That time would come sooner if my CS prof accepted
1831 "I was hacking on Gaim" as a valid excuse for an extension ;-)
1833 0.61 (04/07/2003):
1834 Rob: Nathan commited his news first. However, I'm cooler so I'm putting
1835 my entry above his. Yeah, so, there were some DnD issues with 0.60. I
1836 blame it on the rain. It was falling, falling. I blame it on the
1837 faucet. It drips all night.
1839 Sean: I committed my news after Rob. I'm cooler than Nathan (by far)
1840 but not as cool as Rob. So I go here. Actually, I didn't do anything
1841 since 0.60 other than commit some other peoples patches. The one from
1842 Dave Camp is cool. How 'bout this snow? Isn't that crazy? Oh, and
1843 thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday.
1845 Nathan: You want frequent releases? You got 'em ;-) Chip wrote some
1846 cool new pounce stuff, and things shouldn't get weird when you drag
1847 groups and buddies around. It's bad enough having 1 of some of my
1848 buddies on my list, I definitely don't need duplicates. Being that I
1849 have class in the morning, I'll just raise my juice glass for this one.
1851 Christian: I'm not as cool as Rob, Sean, or Nathan, so I go down here.
1852 Well, among some of the fixes is my new buddy pounce code! This adds new
1853 buddy pounce types, core/ui splitifies the code, and makes the dialog
1854 box spiffy. Yay frequent releases! Erm, I can't think of anything else
1855 cool to say here. Have fun, everyone!
1857 Luke: Okay, i'm probly the least cool, so I'll go last. I committed a
1858 few patches from other people here, nothing earth shattering though. The
1859 biggest thing in this release is the group re-ordering bug fix, having
1860 that fixed will make for fewwer questions. Get used to using releases
1861 people, we want to use cvs for actual development :-).
1863 Mark: I didn't want to write any news without actually having done
1864 anything, so I fixed a meaningless compile warning. Boo-yeah.
1866 Sean: Luke can't spell "fewer". How un-cool is that?
1868 0.60 (04/04/2003):
1869 Rob: Wow. So, it has been a really long time since we started the
1870 gtk2 fork. It's finally ready for public consumption. Sean is about
1871 to go out and buy a case of beer. My roommate is downstairs right
1872 now pouring me a shot of his choice. Everyone, raise your beers if
1873 you've got them. It's been a cool almost 10-months of development.
1874 I hope you all enjoy. Drink'em if you got'em!
1876 Sean: I'm writing this 3 minutes before my 21st birthday. Nobody can
1877 believe we're finally ready to relase 0.60. Many thanks to everyone
1878 who helped out; I'm convinced that Gaim 0.60 is the best IM client to
1879 date (only to be bested by 0.61). There's WAY too much stuff to mention.
1880 Even the ChangeLog is somewhat incomplete. Yay, I'm 21 now! Everyone
1881 enjoy! :)
1883 Nathan: Happy birthday Sean! Rob decided to let me start cleaning up
1884 after everyone, so here I am. "sexy" is the only word that can be used
1885 to describe 0.60. Prepare to be shocked and amazed. /me raises his
1886 (shot) glass ;-)
1888 Christian: Geeeeeze this took a long time. Worth it though! Personally,
1889 I thought we'd all just give up on releases altogether and tell
1890 everybody just to grab CVS. I'm pretty happy with this release. I was
1891 able to contribute quite a bit to it. Makes me feel proud to be a gaim
1892 developer! I'm really looking forward to the future releases. I have
1893 some neat stuff planned. Yay, I'm still 19! Mmmm, Sierra Mist. Make me a
1894 sammich!
1896 Mark: Whoops, I started drinking a little earlier than I was supposed
1897 to. I guess I missed the memo. Hmm, I ate at a restaurant somewhere,
1898 I think it was at Snowshoe, and the menu had "sammiches" on it. It was
1899 pretty sweet. I'd like to give a shout out to all the Gaim
1900 devizelopers for rizocking the hizzy the past few months. Word.
1903 0.59 (06/24/2002):
1904 Rob: I guess Sean is busy at home or something and Jim is asleep.
1905 I'm very tired but it's time for a release. Enjoy. :)
1906 SORRY FOR THE DELAY. :(
1908 Sean: It's been a long time since our last release, and for no
1909 good reason either. Rob and I just haven't been able to get together
1910 to do it. But now we have. Aside from some Jabber changes and some
1911 crucial MSN fixes, most of this release's changes are transparent,
1912 but none-the-less important. Well get some better changes when my
1913 computer works again, you have my word*
1915 *My word is worthless.
1918 0.58 (05/13/2002):
1919 Rob: Yeah, so, my computer has been bad which is why the release
1920 didn't go out on time. Oh well. I would like to welcome
1921 Jim Seymour aboard the development team. He's going to be taking
1922 over the work on our Jabber code as well as doing various other
1923 nit picking. He likes to pick nits, nats, and umm, knots, I think.
1925 Sean: This release has a long ChangeLog. Higlights include an
1926 important security fix for MSN and a few nice new features.
1927 Not *much* cooler than 0.57--but we're making progress ;)
1929 Jim: Hmmm... Rob said I have to say *something*, so here it is:
1930 Rob's a mango.
1932 0.57 (04/25/2002):
1933 Rob: Not too much in this release, as Sean said below. (This is
1934 what happens when the bottom person goes first.) New translation,
1935 a few fixes, secure msn hotmail logins, blah blah blah. As Sean
1936 said, the next release will be cooler. If only you could read
1937 our minds ;-).
1939 Sean: Nothing too special here, but a critical Yahoo fix that
1940 ensures Yahoo! will work when they discontinue the old protocol
1941 all the other 3rd party clients are using. Next release will be
1942 cooler, I promise.
1944 0.56 (04/11/2002):
1945 Rob: Well, what do you know. I have another headache. I always have
1946 these damned headaches. I got pissed off with the way GtkTree looks.
1947 I wanted to move to using GtkCTree. I think they're pretty.
1948 Unfortunately, GtkCTree sucks. After a little digging through
1949 the code, I managed to molest GtkTree into looking like
1950 GtkCTree. Thanks to everyone that helped track down that one
1951 annoying style problem.
1953 Sean: Hello. This is another minor release while Rob and I finish
1954 up on some bigger projects. We're reworking a lot of the UI to make
1955 it easier to use, nicer looking, and more compatible with gtk2.
1956 I've also been trying to bring the Yahoo plugin up to date, so it
1957 will work for Indian users and avoid a potential problem in the near
1958 future.
1960 0.55 (03/29/2002):
1961 Rob: 0.55 is here. I've been away for a few days on business. Sean
1962 has been on Spring Break. Therefore, this release is mostly a patch
1963 release. It does fix some bugs and makes a few thing slightly cooler,
1964 so it's better in that aspect, I suppose. Enjoy.
1966 Sean: This is mostly a bugfix release. I'm on Spring Break, not
1967 doing any coding at all. But lots of people sent in great patches
1968 anyway. Thanks guys!
1970 0.54 (03/14/2002):
1971 Rob: Well, here we are. 0.54. We got a lot of fun things in this
1972 release. Better working SSI, Image sending, protocol specific
1973 smiley faces, and a whole lot of triscuits. *gobble*
1975 Sean: We fixed a lot of bugs in this one, and probably introduced
1976 a bunch too. ;) We were both really busy, and did all the coding
1977 late at night when we were tired, so if something isn't working,
1978 it's probably just tired code. Enjoy the triscuits!
1980 0.53 (02/28/2002):
1981 Rob: Well, we missed yesterday's release. That's Okay, I head a
1982 nasty headache. You can all just deal. ;-)
1985 Sean: Neat Goodies! Whee!! Oscar got a lot of great additions.
1986 It can do Screen Name formatting, it can save and store your buddy
1987 list on the server, it can do typing notifications in Direct
1988 Connections, and yes, it can receive IM Images! Sending images will
1989 be added in the next release. MSN and Yahoo! can do typing
1990 notification too. Hooray!
1993 0.52 (02/17/2002):
1994 Rob: Well, after a long delay we're finally ready for another release.
1995 I finally got settled into my new apartment, the new job is going
1996 well, and I finally have internet connectivity again. You can expect
1997 us to be back on our usually bi-monthly schedule. Enjoy these fixen,
1998 as they resolve a few connectivity issues. :-)
2000 Sean: It looks like things are back on track now. Eric left which is
2001 sad. He's done so much for Gaim, and I know we're all thankful.
2002 Thanks Eric! I'll be stepping in and do more development, but I can
2003 never replace Eric. This release fixes a long-standing problem in
2004 MSN. If you've gotten errors when trying to connect to MSN, you want
2005 this release. If you've suddenly found yourself unable to connect to
2006 Yahoo!, you want this release too. The "neat goodies" will be in the
2007 next release ;)
2009 Rob: Operation Evil does not exist! ;-)
2012 0.51 (01/24/2002):
2013 Rob: Well, here we go. I FINALLY got around to making a release
2014 after over a month, Sorry for the delay, all. Things got really
2015 hectic around the gaim house hold. This release isn't as complete
2016 as I had hoped, but I promised to get something out. There's some
2017 neat goodies in mind for the next release, right Sean? :-)
2020 0.50 (12/13/2001):
2021 Rob: I am tired. Tonight was weird. Bleh!!!!
2023 Eric: I second that.
2025 0.49 (11/29/2001):
2026 Rob: *still mamboing*
2028 Whew! That was a bad little mambo. I hope everyone had a nice
2029 little Holiday, if you celebrate. If not, then I hope you had
2030 a sucky weekend. :-D.
2032 Oh, lots of cheese for everyone!! (Beware the duffle)
2034 It's getting cloudy. I think it's going to storm somethin'
2035 fierce. That's my southern talk. Do you like it?
2037 Eric: I want to be like you.
2039 Do the cha cha cha!
2041 0.48 (11/18/2001):
2042 Rob: Hi! It's 4:12am! I'm watching The Simpsons. :).
2043 Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking! :) There's not
2044 too much for me to say in this release. I'd just like to
2045 thank Eric for his hard work. :)
2047 Eric: Everybody mambo!
2049 0.47 (11/01/2001):
2050 Rob: Hi. Gaim v0.47 has been released, as you should already
2051 know. I hope all of you had a nice little halloween. There are
2052 quite a number of changes in this release. There are a few too
2053 many to list here, so I will redirect you to ye olde ChangeLog.
2055 Eric: Remember back in the day when TOC was the only protocol
2056 Gaim could use? Remember the login window from back then? Back
2057 before Gaim had perl or plugins or multiple connections or
2058 10 different protocols. Things have changed so much since then.
2059 Many more changes in this release as well. All good things.
2060 Don't forget to talk to SmarterChild.
2062 0.46 (10/18/2001):
2063 Rob: Hey guys! The smores were great! I really enjoyed meeting
2064 up with all of you guys and singing campfire songs. It was
2065 really awesome. Thanks for the beer, too. Next time, it's on me.
2067 This release has quite the number of bug fixes. I won't bother
2068 going into detail here. Just ust it, love it, live it - SEGA!
2070 Eric: Lots of fixes. Things compile well now. ICQ has stopped
2071 crashing on PPC and Sparc. If you know someone who isn't using
2072 Gaim because it was unstable, please get them to try this
2073 version. It's much better, I promise.
2075 0.45 (10/04/2001):
2076 Eric: Well, it seems that the time has come for yet another
2077 release. There are several yummy additions in this release, and
2078 quite a few useful bugfixes as well. Unfortunately it seems that
2079 Rob is currently unavailable; he joins us in spirit. He'll be
2080 joining us later for a group sing-along and smores by the
2081 campfire. But for now, you'll need to keep yourselves occupied
2082 with 0.45. And remember, a happy hacker is a pimpin' penguin.
2084 0.44 (09/20/2001):
2085 Rob: Another release has come upon us. There were actually quite
2086 a number of things in ye old ChangeLog for this release. I don't
2087 feel like talking about them here, so you can read about them
2088 in ... you guessed it .. the ChangeLog. Oh, and if you're
2089 wondering about setting buddy icons, wait til 0.45 or
2090 use CVS shortly after this release. ;-)
2092 Eric: You should all be using CVS anyway. This has become the
2093 slogan in our IRC room, #gaim on irc.openprojects.net. The IRC
2094 plugin got lots of updates (mostly because I felt bad about using
2095 X-Chat for IRC when gaim supposedly had an IRC plugin), so you
2096 should load the plugin and join us. :)
2098 0.43 (09/06/2001):
2100 Rob: Well, I knew that the day would eventually come. I just didn't
2101 expect it to be so soon. ;-). Yes, that's right, Eric and I finally
2102 got sick of all of the pre releases. We didn't want to make this
2103 release an official 0.11.0. We thought that it would cause a lot
2104 of confusion. We didn't want to continue our trend of prereleases
2105 either. So, since gaim was first released officially, there
2106 have been 42 releases. This is number 43, hence the 0.43 version
2107 number. We're going to stick with this trend from now on. :-).
2109 Eric: We're also going to be starting a release early, release
2110 often trend, that hopefully we'll stick to this time. Hopefully
2111 we'll be putting out a new release every two weeks or so. You
2112 should all be using CVS anyway :) And as always, don't forget to
2113 report bugs! Anyway, since there's only been 9 days since the
2114 last release not much has changed. A bug-fix release and a version
2115 change mostly :)
2117 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
2118 Eric: This isn't a real release. Really. It's just a quick thing
2119 because pre14 doesn't cut it for some people. Also not counting
2120 the month break that I took it's been a month since the last
2121 release, so it's about time. You should all be using CVS anyway.
2122 Instructions are at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/cvs.shmtl. And
2123 don't forget to report bugs! http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php3.
2125 Rob: Hey guys. I've been rather inactive as well. It's a long
2126 story, but essentially, my company layed off a bunch of people,
2127 myself included, due to poor management. I've taken a new
2128 job which required moving across the country. I'm finally back
2129 online. Once I manage to actually get a desk at home I'll be
2130 able to code with out infliciting intense pain upon my lower
2131 back and neck. So, basically, we were inactive, but not dead.
2133 Also, just to keep you all updated, the AOL battle is still
2134 in progress. Our lawyers are still in negotiation with thiers.
2135 We'll keep you updated with what happens.
2137 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
2138 Eric: Wee. Lots of fun things. BIG bug fix release. I did a lot of
2139 stupid things in the last one, hehe. You all forgive me though,
2140 right?
2142 Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.
2143 Remember that. It's a great Scott Adams quote.
2145 Rob: I feel naughty. I should have released this a lot earlier
2146 in the day. I have a problem though. I started cooking, invited
2147 a couple friends over for dinner and then took a walk to a
2148 24hr doughnut shop where I sat outside and talked about
2149 random stuff. Oh well, at least it's still before the 18th.
2151 Enjoy this release guys! :-)
2154 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
2155 Rob: \O. Howdy doodie! This release isn't coming too far behind
2156 the previous release but hey, what can ya say, there were a couple
2157 of good fixes in this one. Jabber & IRC can set / view the topics
2158 of chat rooms now, napster doesnt crash on bad login names and
2159 passwords, and the man page got a big update.
2161 Well, that's about all, folks. Next release, I hope to try to get
2162 group MSN chat support added as well as DCC support in the IRC
2163 plugin.
2165 Peace!
2167 Eric: I apologize if any of you had to restart your X server because
2168 of me. This release won't make you have to do that, I promise. There
2169 were a couple other minor fixes with the buddy icon stuff, it still
2170 has a way to go but at least it's better than it was before. Oh yeah,
2171 and Oscar is able to sign on again.
2173 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
2174 Rob: Hi! O/. My girlfriend was visiting me so I've been busy being
2175 unavailable online. Hooray.
2177 There have been a lot of good changes in this release. Some improved
2178 dialogs, some updates to IRC and MSN, as well as a nifty little thing
2179 that Eric did that I'll let him tell you about.
2181 Oh yeah, I also got food poisoned by bad eggs. Ugh!
2183 Eric: Every protocol except TOC has been improved since the last
2184 release. All of them except Zephyr and ICQ now use the same proxy
2185 options, which you can set in the preferences. ICQ can use them if
2186 you set it to Socks5 though.
2188 There are a bunch of other good additions and fixes for each
2189 protocol which you can read about in the ChangeLog. And, there's one
2190 super cool feature that everyone seems to be asking for: Buddy Icons.
2191 Right now you can only receive them and only in Oscar, but hey, they're
2192 there.
2194 So that's it. Have fun with it :)
2196 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
2197 Rob: I bought a big carton of juice today. It is now 50% empty.
2198 A lot of the plugins got some new options and/or improvements. I
2199 have a headache right now, though, so I won't say much. I'll let
2200 Eric talk :)
2202 Eric: I uh. I bought 72 cans of soda yesterday. It only cost $15
2203 or so. I figure I'll be through it in less than two weeks. A
2204 dollar a day on soda isn't so bad. For the fourth release in a row,
2205 Oscar is fixed. Isn't that exciting. Judging from history I'd say
2206 that it won't stay fixed long; but judging from what I know has
2207 changed, we shouldn't have any more troubles.
2209 Rob: --. .- .. -- / .. ... / --. .-. . .- - --..-- / --. .- .. -- /
2210 .. ... / --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-
2212 I don't have a headache anymore! Hooray! Eric got a good deal on those
2213 drinks. I bought some bananas. They're very green. Oh, and I cooked
2214 a steak last night. It was 16 oz. It was good.
2216 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
2217 Rob: EEP! It's Friday the 13th!!! I think I fixed a few buggies
2218 in MSN and then added some new features to IRC. I have a headache
2219 right now, though, so I won't talk much. I think I'm going to go
2220 to sleep. Next release, I should have a good bit more done on
2221 IRC and will have made Napster more stable. Have fun!!
2223 Eric: There's a new protocol plugin, Zephyr. Don't use it! unless
2224 you know what Zephyr is, and have zhm set up correctly. Also there
2225 were a lot of other good bugfixes (like registering for Jabber
2226 accounts!) and a few neat features. In this release, Oscar is also
2227 working, but we'll see how long that lasts, eh?
2229 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
2230 Rob: Well, looks AOL was doing something naughty earlier this
2231 morning. Thanks to a very nice guy named Adam Fritzler (you
2232 all know him from libfaim) we're now back online. Thanks,
2233 Adam. I'll buy you a drink sometime :-).
2235 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
2236 Eric: Oo wow :) So I guess the big news is that this release should
2237 help you avoid the battle between Jabber and AOL. Most protocols
2238 got a few good bugfixes; thanks to people who pointed them out :).
2239 Hopefully for the next release I'll make it so you can register a
2240 jabber.org account, and then you can support Jabber using Gaim.
2241 I think (I *think*) Oscar blocking is working now. Haha, get it?
2242 Oscar blocking? It took me a while to get it, too. But no, really,
2243 I think that the permit/deny list in Oscar might be working.
2245 Rob: MSN got some fixes and should be really stable now. It had
2246 a little 100% CPU eating bug but that's taken care of now. Next
2247 on my list of repairs is the napster plugin. It works -- sorta --
2248 sometimes. Heh. As all of you probably know already, our Oscar
2249 support was broken yesterday. There's a little battle going on
2250 between AOL and Jabber and we caught a bullet during the crossfire.
2251 I think I just won the award for the most cliches used in one
2252 paragraph, as a matter of fact. ;-).
2254 ** Good luck to the Jabber guys in getting this resolved **
2257 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
2258 Rob: Hey! I finally rewrote the MSN plugin. Sorry, I'm just
2259 a lazy code whore sometimes, heheh. It pretty much has the same
2260 functionality as before with the exception of instability. I
2261 didn't really like that feature very much so I removed it. I hope
2262 you guys don't mind too terribly much ;-).
2264 Eric: In this week's installment of gaim you'll find a new Yahoo!
2265 library and an option to have all conversations in one window,
2266 in addition to numerous bug fixes and other improvements. Don't
2267 forget to send us your feedback. If there's something you want
2268 added, changed, or fixed, head over to our SourceForge page at
2269 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ and tells us about it.
2272 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
2273 Eric: Yay! I get to go first!
2275 The biggest change in this release is the TODO file. Lots of things
2276 got added. There's going to be a lot of prereleases. Please help.
2277 Other than that it's mostly just a lot of bugfixes. Oscar got a few
2278 new features. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
2279 and tell us what you'd like to see in gaim. We've gotten a lot of
2280 great requests so far, thanks.
2282 I think I like releasing every week.
2284 Rob: I've been bad so Eric got to go first. The biggest change
2285 In this release is the NEWS file. It's the only thing I contributed
2286 to! heh, just kidding. This is a bug fix release, as Eric said.
2287 Next release will contain my newly rewritten MSN plugin. You guys
2288 should be happy with it :).
2290 Oh yeah, TUCAN rocks :) Oh yeah, Eric rocks too.
2293 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
2294 Rob: Yeah, I promise this is the last pre-release :-D. That seems
2295 to be a pretty common saying around here, huh? Well, I must first
2296 appologize. The protocols that I was working on really should be
2297 much more developed at this point -- they should be completed,
2298 actually. Unfortunately, my real life job (yes, I have one hehe) got
2299 a little too busy and ate up all of my free time. I promise that
2300 things will get better now :).
2302 Eric: I don't promise that this is the last pre-release. :) But
2303 hopefully releases can start coming more often than once every two
2304 months. I don't really have much else to say. It's been a slow
2305 couple of months.
2307 Rob: I promise to hack gaim again. Please don't hate me.
2309 0.11.0-pre4:
2310 Rob: HOORAY FOR DISNEYLAND!
2312 Eric: One more prerelease. I'm actually starting to think these
2313 prereleases are a good idea; a lot of people reported a lot of
2314 bugs in pre3 and most of them are fixed now. Also, it helps with
2315 the whole release early-release often philosophy.
2317 The big news in this prerelease is two more protocols: Jabber and
2318 Napster. Both of them don't have any of the features that make
2319 these services cool, yet. You can't use the transports in Jabber
2320 and you can't download file in Napster. But you will be able to,
2321 soon :)
2323 Rob and I are going on vacation starting today until after New
2324 Year's, which is a lot of the reason we wanted to get this release
2325 out; it's much improved over pre3. Happy Holidays everyone.
2327 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
2328 Rob: Well, I hadn't initially planned on an 0.11.0pre3 but it
2329 looks like it was needed. That's not necessarially a bad thing,
2330 mind you. It just means you get to see more goodies!
2332 This release includes some other fun features. See the ChangeLog
2333 for more information. Also found in this wonderful release is
2334 an MSN plugin. For all of you who have been holding onto Windows
2335 simply because you have friends on MSN Messenger that you don't want
2336 to leave, this plugin is for you! :)
2338 Guys, make sure you send us bug reports; preferably on the
2339 SourceForge bug report forum at
2340 http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/. This will allow both
2341 Eric and I to handle the bugs and will prevent either one of us
2342 from losing the bug reports that are sent via AIM :-)
2344 Eric: Hey everybody, Rob and I really want to hear what you guys want
2345 to see in gaim. Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim and
2346 leave a message in the Open Discussion forum. We've gotten a lot of
2347 good ideas so far (most of them didn't make it into this release,
2348 unfortunately).
2350 If any of you want to test out your mad coding skills, I can think of
2351 a few projects that would be incredibly useful. Send me or Rob an IM
2352 and we'll let you know how you can help. And don't forget to read the
2353 HACKING file to see how gaim's put together.
2355 This is hopefully going to be the last prerelease; now that all the
2356 protocols that we're going to be doing for 0.11.0 are available it's
2357 mostly just going to be hacking on them and getting them in usable
2358 condition before the final release. Don't forget to send us bug
2359 reports ;)
2361 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
2362 Rob: I messed up. Oh well, it's fixed.
2364 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
2365 Rob: Hey guys! Guess what!? Yup, you're correct! It's the pre1
2366 release of 0.11.0. We have all sorts of goodies in this release!
2367 Check out the ChangeLog file. As always if you find any bugs,
2368 please report them on www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/
2370 You may find several small bugs as this is still a prerelease.
2372 You may want to note that my IRC plugin does not have full
2373 functionality as of yet. All of the important / commands will be
2374 added before the final release. Also, if someone could send me
2375 some good buddylist pixmaps for the irc plugin then I'd much
2376 appreciate it. Thanks to everyone who made this new release possible!
2378 If you have any ideas, comments, or suggestions, please let us know
2379 either by e-mail or via the source forge message board at the URL
2380 above. :)
2383 Eric: So what was Yay! For Gaim!? Yay was the codename for the
2384 Yahoo plugin. The whole point of all of these changes was I wanted to
2385 make a proof-of-concept plugin that would let Gaim sign into Yahoo. It
2386 turned out to be pretty much impossible with the old code. So,
2387 Rob and I hacked gaim so we could do just that. There's now a whole new
2388 class of plugins, Protocol Plugins, that let users dynamically add new
2389 protocols to Gaim. Just load the plugin, and create a new account that
2390 uses that protocol, and you're set! Yay! (Oscar and TOC are both still
2391 static. Gaim is, after all, primarily an AIM client.)
2393 Lots of people have been very generous and contributed a lot of
2394 time and effort to writing some really nice patches for gaim since
2395 the last release. To all of you, a big thanks.
2397 0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
2398 Rob: I am dumb.
2399 Eric: I am not dumb.
2401 0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
2402 Rob: What do you want me to say for yours?
2403 Eric: What happened since the last release?
2404 Rob: You got DSL.
2405 Eric: Oh yeah, I'm more available now.
2406 Rob: On a more serious note, this is just a quick release
2407 to hold everyone over. Look for some very awesome things
2408 coming in the next version. I can't say what, just yet,
2409 but what I can say is, Yay! For Gaim!
2411 0.10.1 (09/15/2000):
2413 Rob: Hi Hi Hi! Yet another gaim release pushed out the door
2414 for you guys. I hope you all enjoy it. There was a few minor
2415 issues cleared up in this version as well as the repair of
2416 OSCAR support. Hopefully we won't run into the same problem
2417 as before. Oh well ;-). There's also a few small extra goodies
2418 in here for you guys just check out the Change Log. I hope you all
2419 enjoy and take care!
2421 Eric: Wanna know what the Oscar problem was? You'll laugh. 2 bytes.
2422 The fix was changing 0x07da to 0x0686. Anyway, aside from the fix
2423 for that, there are a couple other good things. Beware of DSL nazis.
2424 They won't give you service until 6 weeks after you order it. So um,
2425 yeah.
2427 0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
2428 Rob: Well peoples, I know that it's been a while since our
2429 last release. Here we go. Some brand spankin' new interfaces
2430 for you guys to oogle at. I hope you all enjoy it. Hopefully
2431 our next release won't take as long to finish up. Real life
2432 kind of crept up on Eric and I and took up a lot of our times.
2433 Life sucks that way sometimes. Anyways, we're back and all
2434 is well. Thanks for hanging in there guys and we hope
2435 you enjoy it!
2437 Eric: LWE was so cool. Rob and I met up there, we had a blast. But I
2438 only got to go for one day and Rob got to go for three. Lucky bastard.
2439 It's been so long since the last release that I don't even remember
2440 what's changed. But all of it is good :) Like Rob said, all kinds of
2441 new UI stuff. I think there are some new features in there too. Now
2442 I'm headed back to school so I'll have more time to hack gaim (isn't
2443 that supposed to be the reverse?), just as soon as I get my internet
2444 connection back >:-/ .
2446 Rob: Oh yeah, some of our pixmaps may need a little work. We took
2447 a lot of them from the Gnome Stock icons. If anyone could do some
2448 custom ones that stay within the 24x24 boundary and keep the same
2449 idea and feel as the gnome icons then we would be more than happy
2450 to use them. Thanks much!! Viva la LWE.
2453 0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
2454 Rob: Well, guys, I hope you enjoy this version. I've done quite a bit
2455 of work to the user interface. It's still not in the state that I
2456 would like it to be, though. Over the next few versions you will
2457 notice a few more interface changes as we try to bring a more
2458 professional look to Gaim. As always, we will stay true to our
2459 pimpin' penguin atittude.
2461 Eric: While Rob's been busy making things pretty, I've been busy
2462 making things work :). The chat and IM windows got merged, which
2463 means that they both have the same features (notably, IM has /me
2464 and chat has font/color dialogs and smileys). Also smileys should
2465 work better in general now (thanks fflew).
2467 Rob: By the way, what Eric is saying is that he's smart and I'm
2468 not and that he does all of the work and I sit on my butt all
2469 day and claim to do work. WOOO! Just kidding, brother :-P
2472 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
2473 Rob: PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2474 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2475 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2477 All of that nonsense aside, there are a few things that DIDN'T happen
2478 in this version of gaim. The user interface changes will wait until
2479 the 0.9.20 release. We've decided to turn 0.9.19 into a "new feature
2480 and major bug fix" release. All/Most major bugs should be worked out
2481 now. We're sorry about the problem of segfaulting when your buddylist
2482 stored on the server was null. Oops! We won't let it happen again,
2483 we promise.
2485 Eric: Lots of good changes in this one, including locale support. Chat
2486 had a lot of things done to it, but it's still not finished. The UI
2487 didn't get the overhaul we were planning, but we wanted to get a few
2488 bugfixes out.
2490 Lemme say something about reporting bugs. Please do. Please try to give
2491 as much information as you can. But regardless of how much information
2492 you give, please be POLITE. If you tell us our software is crap then
2493 we're probably not going to respond well.
2495 Rob: Before I close up and say goodnight, I'd like to say that I
2496 agree with Eric. Reporting problems and/or helpful criticism in
2497 a polite manner always yields the best results. Peace all, and
2498 happy hacking.
2500 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
2501 Rob: Talk about release early, release often - sheesh! We're going
2502 insane. Ya know, I'm not too happy with the Gaim UI. I dont know
2503 how the rest of you feel but it's time for a nice overhaul. In the
2504 next few days I'll be sitting down with some of my friends and coming
2505 up with an improved interface. I hope you all enjoy it. It'll
2506 include better looking dialogs, icons, sounds (hopefully lol), etc.
2508 And -- for your random silly message of the day --
2510 "Beans and Franks, Beans and Franks, Wine And Beer, Have No Fear!
2511 I can sing! I can dance! I have a penguin in my pants!"
2513 - Rob Flynn after not having enough sleep.
2515 Eric: I've had less sleep than Rob, I can guarantee you that. There's
2516 actually a lot going on in this release, despite 2 releases 2 days ago.
2517 Don't ask me how; I think the elves had something to do with it.
2519 Oscar support is almost to the point where I'm considering removing
2520 the 'experimental' label from configure. For those of you brave enough
2521 to try it, I'd like feedback. (And if you happen to write a patch to
2522 fix some of the stuff that would be really cool too.) Hopefully for the
2523 next release, in addition to the cool new UI, Gaim/Faim will be able to
2524 do nearly everything Gaim/TOC can do. (Big things coming in 0.9.19, I
2525 can feel it....)
2527 And just remember, you *can* have too many gummi candies. Especially if
2528 you eat nearly a whole kilo of them. Believe me. I know. But the gummi
2529 cherries are damn good.
2531 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
2532 Rob: I am an e-mail fiend!
2533 (after receiving 60 emails within a 5 minute period about a problem
2534 and responding to all of them immediately)
2536 I am stupid.
2538 Eric: Heh heh. 2 releases in one day. I'm impressed. Maybe one of these
2539 times we'll actually get some of it right ;) Anyway, yeah. Just bug fixes in
2540 this one.
2542 Rob: Yeah, we wouldn't be ourselves if we released it once and got it
2543 right, would we? :-)
2545 0.9.16:
2546 Rob: Blah Blah Blah.
2548 Eric: Looks like Rob didn't have much to say, so I'll write something
2549 instead :)
2551 There's a few good things in this release, the most important of them
2552 being: Better proxy support, of course. Oh yeah, and you can sign on now,
2553 so that's a good thing too. There's a few more good things going on in this
2554 release, so check out the ChangeLog.
2556 Play nicely, and we'll keep hacking away at it.
2558 Rob: Go Watch `Road Trip'.
2560 0.9.15:
2561 Hey boy's and girls. There's not much to say here this time.
2562 We're loving Southern California, the new job's going great. We just
2563 got our company website up and the product development is going pretty
2564 smooth. Life's pretty sweet now.
2566 We've hacked up all kinds of goodies for you in 0.9.15. There's
2567 some file transfer (receive) support for those of you who have been
2568 wanting it for a while. There's some other misc. goodies tossed in as
2569 well. Enjoy!! Oh yeah, we need a new website. Come up with a sweet
2570 design and get in touch with me. The current site is at:
2571 http://www.marko.net/gaim
2573 Thanks much!
2576 0.9.14:
2577 Well, there's a few random hacks and fixes in here, along with
2578 a little suprise. You guessed it, kiddos, support for plugins! Happy
2579 hacking!
2581 0.9.13:
2582 Not much to say for this release. Bug fixes, That's all. Look
2583 for the goodies I promised in 0.9.13 to appear in 0.9.14 which should be
2584 released very soon now.
2586 By the way, our CVS is now hosted over at source forge. Go check
2587 it out at http://www.sourceforge.net. Please check there before submitting
2588 any bug reports (You can read our CVS comments to see if we have fixed any
2589 problems).
2591 0.9.12:
2592 Well guys, looks like we got some nifty things in this version.
2593 TrueType Fonts are supported for those XFSTT buffs out there (or whatever
2594 else you use). A crap load of those plaguing memory leaks have FINALLY been
2595 fixed. My brother, Jeramey, and a new friend Peter Teichan helped stomp
2596 those babies out. A rad guy by the name of Eric Warmenhoven has been
2597 really sweet lately and has all but rewritten the Gnome Applet support :).
2598 He submitted patch after patch. I finally got annoyed with him (just kidding bud)
2599 and gave him CVS access. Look for Gnome Applet support in Gaim to start improving.
2600 That's about all for now. I wanted to get this release out there. File Receive
2601 support will be in 0.9.13 which is due out soon.
2603 0.9.11:
2604 Jeramey got a new Comfy Chair! Its very very comfy! Whee!
2605 Jim also had a little hyper-drunken moment and started hacking away at
2606 a new configuration format for Gaim. Looks like we're running .gaimrc
2607 version 1 now. Gotta love it. I got bored and hacked in a couple font
2608 properties that will, in time, contain more features. That's about it
2609 for this version -- cept for that memory leak we fixed. Shush! We're
2610 not plumbers! -- rob
2612 ** Extra special update **
2614 Well guys, it looks like we all stopped working on gaim, moved to California,
2615 and took up a new job. Don't worry though, those beach bums out here havent
2616 worn off on us yet. I've decided to pick up the Gaim torch myself and continue
2617 development ont he prohect. Hopefully we wont have any more five month braks in
2618 the project. Sorry about that, guys :)
2620 0.9.10:
2621 Umm. Dont ask. Silly memory leak. For those of you who
2622 wondered, you were losing about 256 bytes every 25 seconds for each
2623 person you have on your contact list. Make fun of us. Better yet ..
2624 Send us beer. We'll do better :)
2626 0.9.9:
2627 Welp, All of you boys and girls who run Mandrake and have some
2628 problems with Gaim working properly, please check out the FAQ file. It
2629 contains a nice fix submitted by one of our users. I hope this works for
2630 you guys!
2631 Jim appears to have intoxicated himself. This is, as always, a
2632 Good Thing (tm). His late-night adventure with the liquid-bread food group
2633 lead to the birth of a nice little feature called `The Lag-O-Meter'. Dont
2634 ask, just try it out :). It is pretty pointless if you have a super-fast
2635 connection but if you are a modem user, like many of us are, then try it out.
2636 There's also some idle preferences and some other little random
2637 bug fixes. Check'em out yo :)
2639 0.9.8:
2640 Get Along Lil' Doggies. Heh. Looks like we have yet another new
2641 version of gaim for you guys to play with. Be gentle now, it has a few
2642 new fetures. The HTML widget is now more robust and we have *da da da*
2643 HTTP proxy support.
2644 Oh By The Way, Do not pay too much attention to what we are doing
2645 with this release. We are all a little bit happy tonight. You must love
2646 life. This is a special release of gaim. We will be releasing some wonderful
2647 photographs soon .. or perhaps if we get the bloody webcam working then we
2648 will take a couple of quick snapshots.
2649 Looks like the Gaim developers convention (cool name huh) that we
2650 had this weekend in Auburn, AL went wonderfully :). yum yum yum. Hahahah. Oh
2651 by the way. Beware of insecure rednecks in the deli. Bad things.
2652 In (non)related news, Jeramey could not successfully slaughter the
2653 one pound hamburger that he ordered. (I think he could have done it but he
2654 wasn't feeling very well at the time).
2655 Oh Yes, New Logo Too :) You likes? Thanks, Naru!
2656 Just a little side-note: it looks like we didnt make the release that
2657 we had expected during the Gaim Convention. Maybe we partied too much? I am
2658 not sure. I remember watching the sun rise before I went to bed, though.
2659 Oh well. Here's your release! Enjoy!
2660 By The Way, we have uploaded our party pictures to a website.
2661 http://www.dorky.net/gaim/party/ They are nothing spectacular but I hope you
2662 enjoy them! :).
2664 0.9.7:
2665 Well, boys and girls, it's that time again! Yup, time for the good
2666 release fairy to come bless us with her infinite wisdom and divine presence.
2667 Umm, yeah, something like that. Anyways, this release has several little
2668 "bad" network fixes (as Jim likes to say) and a couple touch-ups to a few
2669 other features. It also features preliminary oscar support. Thanks to Jim
2670 and Adam ("the libfaim guy") hehe :) We have also corrected a problem with
2671 gaim not wainting to correctly save your password if you have an underscore
2672 in it. Thanks to w1za7d for pointing out the underscore problem. ' and \
2673 have also been fixed in passwords. :o)
2675 0.9.6:
2676 Sorry about the little segfaulting bugs in the past release. Rob
2677 is stupid. :). Anyways, they have been patched up and a couple new features
2678 have been added. I hope you guys enjoy.
2680 0.9.5:
2681 Well we added a myriad of new features to this release. (A lot of
2682 small buggie fixes too.) If you need a detailed list just check out the
2683 ChangeLog. We now have a new webpage design and have added a FAQ to the
2684 distribution. Before coming to us with any problems please take a quick
2685 look through the FAQ to make sure we havent already covered your question.
2686 Also, thanks to our beloved Web Monkey, FlynOrange, we have all
2687 learned the true power of foam weapons, slinkies, and whoopie cushions. Hmm
2688 gotta love those pranks, eh?
2690 0.8.0:
2691 Well, just starting the NEWS file. I'll try to remember what's new
2692 from the last version. Hmmm. BIG code reorg. Import/export, buddy pounce
2693 among the major new features. Autoconf script too, which is a big win.
2694 Apologies to those who submitted patches which haven't made it in.. I
2695 promise, the next version! This code reorg took up a lot of my time, and I
2696 want to get it out there.