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1 -=[ Gaim ]=- The Pimpin' Penguin IM Client That's Good For The Soul!
3 0.59 (06/24/2002):
4 Rob: I guess Sean is busy at home or something and Jim is asleep.
5 I'm very tired but it's time for a release. Enjoy. :)
6 SORRY FOR THE DELAY. :(
8 Sean: It's been a long time since our last release, and for no
9 good reason either. Rob and I just haven't been able to get together
10 to do it. But now we have. Aside from some Jabber changes and some
11 crucial MSN fixes, most of this release's changes are transparent,
12 but none-the-less important. Well get some better changes when my
13 computer works again, you have my word*
15 *My word is worthless.
18 0.58 (05/13/2002):
19 Rob: Yeah, so, my computer has been bad which is why the release
20 didn't go out on time. Oh well. I would like to welcome
21 Jim Seymour aboard the development team. He's going to be taking
22 over the work on our Jabber code as well as doing various other
23 nit picking. He likes to pick nits, nats, and umm, knots, I think.
25 Sean: This release has a long ChangeLog. Higlights include an
26 important security fix for MSN and a few nice new features.
27 Not *much* cooler than 0.57--but we're making progress ;)
29 Jim: Hmmm... Rob said I have to say *something*, so here it is:
30 Rob's a mango.
32 0.57 (04/25/2002):
33 Rob: Not too much in this release, as Sean said below. (This is
34 what happens when the bottom person goes first.) New translation,
35 a few fixes, secure msn hotmail logins, blah blah blah. As Sean
36 said, the next release will be cooler. If only you could read
37 our minds ;-).
39 Sean: Nothing too special here, but a critical Yahoo fix that
40 ensures Yahoo! will work when they discontinue the old protocol
41 all the other 3rd party clients are using. Next release will be
42 cooler, I promise.
44 0.56 (04/11/2002):
45 Rob: Well, what do you know. I have another headache. I always have
46 these damned headaches. I got pissed off with the way GtkTree looks.
47 I wanted to move to using GtkCTree. I think they're pretty.
48 Unfortunately, GtkCTree sucks. After a little digging through
49 the code, I managed to molest GtkTree into looking like
50 GtkCTree. Thanks to everyone that helped track down that one
51 annoying style problem.
53 Sean: Hello. This is another minor release while Rob and I finish
54 up on some bigger projects. We're reworking a lot of the UI to make
55 it easier to use, nicer looking, and more compatible with gtk2.
56 I've also been trying to bring the Yahoo plugin up to date, so it
57 will work for Indian users and avoid a potential problem in the near
58 future.
60 0.55 (03/29/2002):
61 Rob: 0.55 is here. I've been away for a few days on business. Sean
62 has been on Spring Break. Therefore, this release is mostly a patch
63 release. It does fix some bugs and makes a few thing slightly cooler,
64 so it's better in that aspect, I suppose. Enjoy.
66 Sean: This is mostly a bugfix release. I'm on Spring Break, not
67 doing any coding at all. But lots of people sent in great patches
68 anyway. Thanks guys!
70 0.54 (03/14/2002):
71 Rob: Well, here we are. 0.54. We got a lot of fun things in this
72 release. Better working SSI, Image sending, protocol specific
73 smiley faces, and a whole lot of triscuits. *gobble*
75 Sean: We fixed a lot of bugs in this one, and probably introduced
76 a bunch too. ;) We were both really busy, and did all the coding
77 late at night when we were tired, so if something isn't working,
78 it's probably just tired code. Enjoy the triscuits!
80 0.53 (02/28/2002):
81 Rob: Well, we missed yesterday's release. That's Okay, I head a
82 nasty headache. You can all just deal. ;-)
85 Sean: Neat Goodies! Whee!! Oscar got a lot of great additions.
86 It can do Screen Name formatting, it can save and store your buddy
87 list on the server, it can do typing notifications in Direct
88 Connections, and yes, it can receive IM Images! Sending images will
89 be added in the next release. MSN and Yahoo! can do typing
90 notification too. Hooray!
93 0.52 (02/17/2002):
94 Rob: Well, after a long delay we're finally ready for another release.
95 I finally got settled into my new apartment, the new job is going
96 well, and I finally have internet connectivity again. You can expect
97 us to be back on our usually bi-monthly schedule. Enjoy these fixen,
98 as they resolve a few connectivity issues. :-)
100 Sean: It looks like things are back on track now. Eric left which is
101 sad. He's done so much for Gaim, and I know we're all thankful.
102 Thanks Eric! I'll be stepping in and do more development, but I can
103 never replace Eric. This release fixes a long-standing problem in
104 MSN. If you've gotten errors when trying to connect to MSN, you want
105 this release. If you've suddenly found yourself unable to connect to
106 Yahoo!, you want this release too. The "neat goodies" will be in the
107 next release ;)
109 Rob: Operation Evil does not exist! ;-)
112 0.51 (01/24/2002):
113 Rob: Well, here we go. I FINALLY got around to making a release
114 after over a month, Sorry for the delay, all. Things got really
115 hectic around the gaim house hold. This release isn't as complete
116 as I had hoped, but I promised to get something out. There's some
117 neat goodies in mind for the next release, right Sean? :-)
120 0.50 (12/13/2001):
121 Rob: I am tired. Tonight was weird. Bleh!!!!
123 Eric: I second that.
125 0.49 (11/29/2001):
126 Rob: *still mamboing*
128 Whew! That was a bad little mambo. I hope everyone had a nice
129 little Holiday, if you celebrate. If not, then I hope you had
130 a sucky weekend. :-D.
132 Oh, lots of cheese for everyone!! (Beware the duffle)
134 It's getting cloudy. I think it's going to storm somethin'
135 fierce. That's my southern talk. Do you like it?
137 Eric: I want to be like you.
139 Do the cha cha cha!
141 0.48 (11/18/2001):
142 Rob: Hi! It's 4:12am! I'm watching The Simpsons. :).
143 Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking! :) There's not
144 too much for me to say in this release. I'd just like to
145 thank Eric for his hard work. :)
147 Eric: Everybody mambo!
149 0.47 (11/01/2001):
150 Rob: Hi. Gaim v0.47 has been released, as you should already
151 know. I hope all of you had a nice little halloween. There are
152 quite a number of changes in this release. There are a few too
153 many to list here, so I will redirect you to ye olde ChangeLog.
155 Eric: Remember back in the day when TOC was the only protocol
156 Gaim could use? Remember the login window from back then? Back
157 before Gaim had perl or plugins or multiple connections or
158 10 different protocols. Things have changed so much since then.
159 Many more changes in this release as well. All good things.
160 Don't forget to talk to SmarterChild.
162 0.46 (10/18/2001):
163 Rob: Hey guys! The smores were great! I really enjoyed meeting
164 up with all of you guys and singing campfire songs. It was
165 really awesome. Thanks for the beer, too. Next time, it's on me.
167 This release has quite the number of bug fixes. I won't bother
168 going into detail here. Just ust it, love it, live it - SEGA!
170 Eric: Lots of fixes. Things compile well now. ICQ has stopped
171 crashing on PPC and Sparc. If you know someone who isn't using
172 Gaim because it was unstable, please get them to try this
173 version. It's much better, I promise.
175 0.45 (10/04/2001):
176 Eric: Well, it seems that the time has come for yet another
177 release. There are several yummy additions in this release, and
178 quite a few useful bugfixes as well. Unfortunately it seems that
179 Rob is currently unavailable; he joins us in spirit. He'll be
180 joining us later for a group sing-along and smores by the
181 campfire. But for now, you'll need to keep yourselves occupied
182 with 0.45. And remember, a happy hacker is a pimpin' penguin.
184 0.44 (09/20/2001):
185 Rob: Another release has come upon us. There were actually quite
186 a number of things in ye old ChangeLog for this release. I don't
187 feel like talking about them here, so you can read about them
188 in ... you guessed it .. the ChangeLog. Oh, and if you're
189 wondering about setting buddy icons, wait til 0.45 or
190 use CVS shortly after this release. ;-)
192 Eric: You should all be using CVS anyway. This has become the
193 slogan in our IRC room, #gaim on irc.openprojects.net. The IRC
194 plugin got lots of updates (mostly because I felt bad about using
195 X-Chat for IRC when gaim supposedly had an IRC plugin), so you
196 should load the plugin and join us. :)
198 0.43 (09/06/2001):
200 Rob: Well, I knew that the day would eventually come. I just didn't
201 expect it to be so soon. ;-). Yes, that's right, Eric and I finally
202 got sick of all of the pre releases. We didn't want to make this
203 release an official 0.11.0. We thought that it would cause a lot
204 of confusion. We didn't want to continue our trend of prereleases
205 either. So, since gaim was first released officially, there
206 have been 42 releases. This is number 43, hence the 0.43 version
207 number. We're going to stick with this trend from now on. :-).
209 Eric: We're also going to be starting a release early, release
210 often trend, that hopefully we'll stick to this time. Hopefully
211 we'll be putting out a new release every two weeks or so. You
212 should all be using CVS anyway :) And as always, don't forget to
213 report bugs! Anyway, since there's only been 9 days since the
214 last release not much has changed. A bug-fix release and a version
215 change mostly :)
217 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
218 Eric: This isn't a real release. Really. It's just a quick thing
219 because pre14 doesn't cut it for some people. Also not counting
220 the month break that I took it's been a month since the last
221 release, so it's about time. You should all be using CVS anyway.
222 Instructions are at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/cvs.shmtl. And
223 don't forget to report bugs! http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php3.
225 Rob: Hey guys. I've been rather inactive as well. It's a long
226 story, but essentially, my company layed off a bunch of people,
227 myself included, due to poor management. I've taken a new
228 job which required moving across the country. I'm finally back
229 online. Once I manage to actually get a desk at home I'll be
230 able to code with out infliciting intense pain upon my lower
231 back and neck. So, basically, we were inactive, but not dead.
233 Also, just to keep you all updated, the AOL battle is still
234 in progress. Our lawyers are still in negotiation with thiers.
235 We'll keep you updated with what happens.
237 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
238 Eric: Wee. Lots of fun things. BIG bug fix release. I did a lot of
239 stupid things in the last one, hehe. You all forgive me though,
240 right?
242 Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.
243 Remember that. It's a great Scott Adams quote.
245 Rob: I feel naughty. I should have released this a lot earlier
246 in the day. I have a problem though. I started cooking, invited
247 a couple friends over for dinner and then took a walk to a
248 24hr doughnut shop where I sat outside and talked about
249 random stuff. Oh well, at least it's still before the 18th.
251 Enjoy this release guys! :-)
254 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
255 Rob: \O. Howdy doodie! This release isn't coming too far behind
256 the previous release but hey, what can ya say, there were a couple
257 of good fixes in this one. Jabber & IRC can set / view the topics
258 of chat rooms now, napster doesnt crash on bad login names and
259 passwords, and the man page got a big update.
261 Well, that's about all, folks. Next release, I hope to try to get
262 group MSN chat support added as well as DCC support in the IRC
263 plugin.
265 Peace!
267 Eric: I apologize if any of you had to restart your X server because
268 of me. This release won't make you have to do that, I promise. There
269 were a couple other minor fixes with the buddy icon stuff, it still
270 has a way to go but at least it's better than it was before. Oh yeah,
271 and Oscar is able to sign on again.
273 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
274 Rob: Hi! O/. My girlfriend was visiting me so I've been busy being
275 unavailable online. Hooray.
277 There have been a lot of good changes in this release. Some improved
278 dialogs, some updates to IRC and MSN, as well as a nifty little thing
279 that Eric did that I'll let him tell you about.
281 Oh yeah, I also got food poisoned by bad eggs. Ugh!
283 Eric: Every protocol except TOC has been improved since the last
284 release. All of them except Zephyr and ICQ now use the same proxy
285 options, which you can set in the preferences. ICQ can use them if
286 you set it to Socks5 though.
288 There are a bunch of other good additions and fixes for each
289 protocol which you can read about in the ChangeLog. And, there's one
290 super cool feature that everyone seems to be asking for: Buddy Icons.
291 Right now you can only receive them and only in Oscar, but hey, they're
292 there.
294 So that's it. Have fun with it :)
296 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
297 Rob: I bought a big carton of juice today. It is now 50% empty.
298 A lot of the plugins got some new options and/or improvements. I
299 have a headache right now, though, so I won't say much. I'll let
300 Eric talk :)
302 Eric: I uh. I bought 72 cans of soda yesterday. It only cost $15
303 or so. I figure I'll be through it in less than two weeks. A
304 dollar a day on soda isn't so bad. For the fourth release in a row,
305 Oscar is fixed. Isn't that exciting. Judging from history I'd say
306 that it won't stay fixed long; but judging from what I know has
307 changed, we shouldn't have any more troubles.
309 Rob: --. .- .. -- / .. ... / --. .-. . .- - --..-- / --. .- .. -- /
310 .. ... / --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-
312 I don't have a headache anymore! Hooray! Eric got a good deal on those
313 drinks. I bought some bananas. They're very green. Oh, and I cooked
314 a steak last night. It was 16 oz. It was good.
316 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
317 Rob: EEP! It's Friday the 13th!!! I think I fixed a few buggies
318 in MSN and then added some new features to IRC. I have a headache
319 right now, though, so I won't talk much. I think I'm going to go
320 to sleep. Next release, I should have a good bit more done on
321 IRC and will have made Napster more stable. Have fun!!
323 Eric: There's a new protocol plugin, Zephyr. Don't use it! unless
324 you know what Zephyr is, and have zhm set up correctly. Also there
325 were a lot of other good bugfixes (like registering for Jabber
326 accounts!) and a few neat features. In this release, Oscar is also
327 working, but we'll see how long that lasts, eh?
329 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
330 Rob: Well, looks AOL was doing something naughty earlier this
331 morning. Thanks to a very nice guy named Adam Fritzler (you
332 all know him from libfaim) we're now back online. Thanks,
333 Adam. I'll buy you a drink sometime :-).
335 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
336 Eric: Oo wow :) So I guess the big news is that this release should
337 help you avoid the battle between Jabber and AOL. Most protocols
338 got a few good bugfixes; thanks to people who pointed them out :).
339 Hopefully for the next release I'll make it so you can register a
340 jabber.org account, and then you can support Jabber using Gaim.
341 I think (I *think*) Oscar blocking is working now. Haha, get it?
342 Oscar blocking? It took me a while to get it, too. But no, really,
343 I think that the permit/deny list in Oscar might be working.
345 Rob: MSN got some fixes and should be really stable now. It had
346 a little 100% CPU eating bug but that's taken care of now. Next
347 on my list of repairs is the napster plugin. It works -- sorta --
348 sometimes. Heh. As all of you probably know already, our Oscar
349 support was broken yesterday. There's a little battle going on
350 between AOL and Jabber and we caught a bullet during the crossfire.
351 I think I just won the award for the most cliches used in one
352 paragraph, as a matter of fact. ;-).
354 ** Good luck to the Jabber guys in getting this resolved **
357 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
358 Rob: Hey! I finally rewrote the MSN plugin. Sorry, I'm just
359 a lazy code whore sometimes, heheh. It pretty much has the same
360 functionality as before with the exception of instability. I
361 didn't really like that feature very much so I removed it. I hope
362 you guys don't mind too terribly much ;-).
364 Eric: In this week's installment of gaim you'll find a new Yahoo!
365 library and an option to have all conversations in one window,
366 in addition to numerous bug fixes and other improvements. Don't
367 forget to send us your feedback. If there's something you want
368 added, changed, or fixed, head over to our SourceForge page at
369 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ and tells us about it.
372 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
373 Eric: Yay! I get to go first!
375 The biggest change in this release is the TODO file. Lots of things
376 got added. There's going to be a lot of prereleases. Please help.
377 Other than that it's mostly just a lot of bugfixes. Oscar got a few
378 new features. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
379 and tell us what you'd like to see in gaim. We've gotten a lot of
380 great requests so far, thanks.
382 I think I like releasing every week.
384 Rob: I've been bad so Eric got to go first. The biggest change
385 In this release is the NEWS file. It's the only thing I contributed
386 to! heh, just kidding. This is a bug fix release, as Eric said.
387 Next release will contain my newly rewritten MSN plugin. You guys
388 should be happy with it :).
390 Oh yeah, TUCAN rocks :) Oh yeah, Eric rocks too.
393 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
394 Rob: Yeah, I promise this is the last pre-release :-D. That seems
395 to be a pretty common saying around here, huh? Well, I must first
396 appologize. The protocols that I was working on really should be
397 much more developed at this point -- they should be completed,
398 actually. Unfortunately, my real life job (yes, I have one hehe) got
399 a little too busy and ate up all of my free time. I promise that
400 things will get better now :).
402 Eric: I don't promise that this is the last pre-release. :) But
403 hopefully releases can start coming more often than once every two
404 months. I don't really have much else to say. It's been a slow
405 couple of months.
407 Rob: I promise to hack gaim again. Please don't hate me.
409 0.11.0-pre4:
410 Rob: HOORAY FOR DISNEYLAND!
412 Eric: One more prerelease. I'm actually starting to think these
413 prereleases are a good idea; a lot of people reported a lot of
414 bugs in pre3 and most of them are fixed now. Also, it helps with
415 the whole release early-release often philosophy.
417 The big news in this prerelease is two more protocols: Jabber and
418 Napster. Both of them don't have any of the features that make
419 these services cool, yet. You can't use the transports in Jabber
420 and you can't download file in Napster. But you will be able to,
421 soon :)
423 Rob and I are going on vacation starting today until after New
424 Year's, which is a lot of the reason we wanted to get this release
425 out; it's much improved over pre3. Happy Holidays everyone.
427 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
428 Rob: Well, I hadn't initially planned on an 0.11.0pre3 but it
429 looks like it was needed. That's not necessarially a bad thing,
430 mind you. It just means you get to see more goodies!
432 This release includes some other fun features. See the ChangeLog
433 for more information. Also found in this wonderful release is
434 an MSN plugin. For all of you who have been holding onto Windows
435 simply because you have friends on MSN Messenger that you don't want
436 to leave, this plugin is for you! :)
438 Guys, make sure you send us bug reports; preferably on the
439 SourceForge bug report forum at
440 http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/. This will allow both
441 Eric and I to handle the bugs and will prevent either one of us
442 from losing the bug reports that are sent via AIM :-)
444 Eric: Hey everybody, Rob and I really want to hear what you guys want
445 to see in gaim. Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim and
446 leave a message in the Open Discussion forum. We've gotten a lot of
447 good ideas so far (most of them didn't make it into this release,
448 unfortunately).
450 If any of you want to test out your mad coding skills, I can think of
451 a few projects that would be incredibly useful. Send me or Rob an IM
452 and we'll let you know how you can help. And don't forget to read the
453 HACKING file to see how gaim's put together.
455 This is hopefully going to be the last prerelease; now that all the
456 protocols that we're going to be doing for 0.11.0 are available it's
457 mostly just going to be hacking on them and getting them in usable
458 condition before the final release. Don't forget to send us bug
459 reports ;)
461 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
462 Rob: I messed up. Oh well, it's fixed.
464 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
465 Rob: Hey guys! Guess what!? Yup, you're correct! It's the pre1
466 release of 0.11.0. We have all sorts of goodies in this release!
467 Check out the ChangeLog file. As always if you find any bugs,
468 please report them on www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/
470 You may find several small bugs as this is still a prerelease.
472 You may want to note that my IRC plugin does not have full
473 functionality as of yet. All of the important / commands will be
474 added before the final release. Also, if someone could send me
475 some good buddylist pixmaps for the irc plugin then I'd much
476 appreciate it. Thanks to everyone who made this new release possible!
478 If you have any ideas, comments, or suggestions, please let us know
479 either by e-mail or via the source forge message board at the URL
480 above. :)
483 Eric: So what was Yay! For Gaim!? Yay was the codename for the
484 Yahoo plugin. The whole point of all of these changes was I wanted to
485 make a proof-of-concept plugin that would let Gaim sign into Yahoo. It
486 turned out to be pretty much impossible with the old code. So,
487 Rob and I hacked gaim so we could do just that. There's now a whole new
488 class of plugins, Protocol Plugins, that let users dynamically add new
489 protocols to Gaim. Just load the plugin, and create a new account that
490 uses that protocol, and you're set! Yay! (Oscar and TOC are both still
491 static. Gaim is, after all, primarily an AIM client.)
493 Lots of people have been very generous and contributed a lot of
494 time and effort to writing some really nice patches for gaim since
495 the last release. To all of you, a big thanks.
497 0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
498 Rob: I am dumb.
499 Eric: I am not dumb.
501 0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
502 Rob: What do you want me to say for yours?
503 Eric: What happened since the last release?
504 Rob: You got DSL.
505 Eric: Oh yeah, I'm more available now.
506 Rob: On a more serious note, this is just a quick release
507 to hold everyone over. Look for some very awesome things
508 coming in the next version. I can't say what, just yet,
509 but what I can say is, Yay! For Gaim!
511 0.10.1 (09/15/2000):
513 Rob: Hi Hi Hi! Yet another gaim release pushed out the door
514 for you guys. I hope you all enjoy it. There was a few minor
515 issues cleared up in this version as well as the repair of
516 OSCAR support. Hopefully we won't run into the same problem
517 as before. Oh well ;-). There's also a few small extra goodies
518 in here for you guys just check out the Change Log. I hope you all
519 enjoy and take care!
521 Eric: Wanna know what the Oscar problem was? You'll laugh. 2 bytes.
522 The fix was changing 0x07da to 0x0686. Anyway, aside from the fix
523 for that, there are a couple other good things. Beware of DSL nazis.
524 They won't give you service until 6 weeks after you order it. So um,
525 yeah.
527 0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
528 Rob: Well peoples, I know that it's been a while since our
529 last release. Here we go. Some brand spankin' new interfaces
530 for you guys to oogle at. I hope you all enjoy it. Hopefully
531 our next release won't take as long to finish up. Real life
532 kind of crept up on Eric and I and took up a lot of our times.
533 Life sucks that way sometimes. Anyways, we're back and all
534 is well. Thanks for hanging in there guys and we hope
535 you enjoy it!
537 Eric: LWE was so cool. Rob and I met up there, we had a blast. But I
538 only got to go for one day and Rob got to go for three. Lucky bastard.
539 It's been so long since the last release that I don't even remember
540 what's changed. But all of it is good :) Like Rob said, all kinds of
541 new UI stuff. I think there are some new features in there too. Now
542 I'm headed back to school so I'll have more time to hack gaim (isn't
543 that supposed to be the reverse?), just as soon as I get my internet
544 connection back >:-/ .
546 Rob: Oh yeah, some of our pixmaps may need a little work. We took
547 a lot of them from the Gnome Stock icons. If anyone could do some
548 custom ones that stay within the 24x24 boundary and keep the same
549 idea and feel as the gnome icons then we would be more than happy
550 to use them. Thanks much!! Viva la LWE.
553 0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
554 Rob: Well, guys, I hope you enjoy this version. I've done quite a bit
555 of work to the user interface. It's still not in the state that I
556 would like it to be, though. Over the next few versions you will
557 notice a few more interface changes as we try to bring a more
558 professional look to Gaim. As always, we will stay true to our
559 pimpin' penguin atittude.
561 Eric: While Rob's been busy making things pretty, I've been busy
562 making things work :). The chat and IM windows got merged, which
563 means that they both have the same features (notably, IM has /me
564 and chat has font/color dialogs and smileys). Also smileys should
565 work better in general now (thanks fflew).
567 Rob: By the way, what Eric is saying is that he's smart and I'm
568 not and that he does all of the work and I sit on my butt all
569 day and claim to do work. WOOO! Just kidding, brother :-P
572 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
573 Rob: PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
574 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
575 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
577 All of that nonsense aside, there are a few things that DIDN'T happen
578 in this version of gaim. The user interface changes will wait until
579 the 0.9.20 release. We've decided to turn 0.9.19 into a "new feature
580 and major bug fix" release. All/Most major bugs should be worked out
581 now. We're sorry about the problem of segfaulting when your buddylist
582 stored on the server was null. Oops! We won't let it happen again,
583 we promise.
585 Eric: Lots of good changes in this one, including locale support. Chat
586 had a lot of things done to it, but it's still not finished. The UI
587 didn't get the overhaul we were planning, but we wanted to get a few
588 bugfixes out.
590 Lemme say something about reporting bugs. Please do. Please try to give
591 as much information as you can. But regardless of how much information
592 you give, please be POLITE. If you tell us our software is crap then
593 we're probably not going to respond well.
595 Rob: Before I close up and say goodnight, I'd like to say that I
596 agree with Eric. Reporting problems and/or helpful criticism in
597 a polite manner always yields the best results. Peace all, and
598 happy hacking.
600 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
601 Rob: Talk about release early, release often - sheesh! We're going
602 insane. Ya know, I'm not too happy with the Gaim UI. I dont know
603 how the rest of you feel but it's time for a nice overhaul. In the
604 next few days I'll be sitting down with some of my friends and coming
605 up with an improved interface. I hope you all enjoy it. It'll
606 include better looking dialogs, icons, sounds (hopefully lol), etc.
608 And -- for your random silly message of the day --
610 "Beans and Franks, Beans and Franks, Wine And Beer, Have No Fear!
611 I can sing! I can dance! I have a penguin in my pants!"
613 - Rob Flynn after not having enough sleep.
615 Eric: I've had less sleep than Rob, I can guarantee you that. There's
616 actually a lot going on in this release, despite 2 releases 2 days ago.
617 Don't ask me how; I think the elves had something to do with it.
619 Oscar support is almost to the point where I'm considering removing
620 the 'experimental' label from configure. For those of you brave enough
621 to try it, I'd like feedback. (And if you happen to write a patch to
622 fix some of the stuff that would be really cool too.) Hopefully for the
623 next release, in addition to the cool new UI, Gaim/Faim will be able to
624 do nearly everything Gaim/TOC can do. (Big things coming in 0.9.19, I
625 can feel it....)
627 And just remember, you *can* have too many gummi candies. Especially if
628 you eat nearly a whole kilo of them. Believe me. I know. But the gummi
629 cherries are damn good.
631 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
632 Rob: I am an e-mail fiend!
633 (after receiving 60 emails within a 5 minute period about a problem
634 and responding to all of them immediately)
636 I am stupid.
638 Eric: Heh heh. 2 releases in one day. I'm impressed. Maybe one of these
639 times we'll actually get some of it right ;) Anyway, yeah. Just bug fixes in
640 this one.
642 Rob: Yeah, we wouldn't be ourselves if we released it once and got it right, would we? :-)
644 0.9.16:
645 Rob: Blah Blah Blah.
647 Eric: Looks like Rob didn't have much to say, so I'll write something
648 instead :)
650 There's a few good things in this release, the most important of them
651 being: Better proxy support, of course. Oh yeah, and you can sign on now,
652 so that's a good thing too. There's a few more good things going on in this
653 release, so check out the ChangeLog.
655 Play nicely, and we'll keep hacking away at it.
657 Rob: Go Watch `Road Trip'.
659 0.9.15:
660 Hey boy's and girls. There's not much to say here this time.
661 We're loving Southern California, the new job's going great. We just
662 got our company website up and the product development is going pretty
663 smooth. Life's pretty sweet now.
665 We've hacked up all kinds of goodies for you in 0.9.15. There's
666 some file transfer (receive) support for those of you who have been
667 wanting it for a while. There's some other misc. goodies tossed in as
668 well. Enjoy!! Oh yeah, we need a new website. Come up with a sweet
669 design and get in touch with me. The current site is at:
670 http://www.marko.net/gaim
672 Thanks much!
675 0.9.14:
676 Well, there's a few random hacks and fixes in here, along with
677 a little suprise. You guessed it, kiddos, support for plugins! Happy
678 hacking!
680 0.9.13:
681 Not much to say for this release. Bug fixes, That's all. Look
682 for the goodies I promised in 0.9.13 to appear in 0.9.14 which should be
683 released very soon now.
685 By the way, our CVS is now hosted over at source forge. Go check
686 it out at http://www.sourceforge.net. Please check there before submitting
687 any bug reports (You can read our CVS comments to see if we have fixed any
688 problems).
690 0.9.12:
691 Well guys, looks like we got some nifty things in this version.
692 TrueType Fonts are supported for those XFSTT buffs out there (or whatever
693 else you use). A crap load of those plaguing memory leaks have FINALLY been
694 fixed. My brother, Jeramey, and a new friend Peter Teichan helped stomp
695 those babies out. A rad guy by the name of Eric Warmenhoven has been
696 really sweet lately and has all but rewritten the Gnome Applet support :).
697 He submitted patch after patch. I finally got annoyed with him (just kidding bud)
698 and gave him CVS access. Look for Gnome Applet support in Gaim to start improving.
699 That's about all for now. I wanted to get this release out there. File Receive
700 support will be in 0.9.13 which is due out soon.
702 0.9.11:
703 Jeramey got a new Comfy Chair! Its very very comfy! Whee!
704 Jim also had a little hyper-drunken moment and started hacking away at
705 a new configuration format for Gaim. Looks like we're running .gaimrc
706 version 1 now. Gotta love it. I got bored and hacked in a couple font
707 properties that will, in time, contain more features. That's about it
708 for this version -- cept for that memory leak we fixed. Shush! We're
709 not plumbers! -- rob
711 ** Extra special update **
713 Well guys, it looks like we all stopped working on gaim, moved to California,
714 and took up a new job. Don't worry though, those beach bums out here havent
715 worn off on us yet. I've decided to pick up the Gaim torch myself and continue
716 development ont he prohect. Hopefully we wont have any more five month braks in
717 the project. Sorry about that, guys :)
719 0.9.10:
720 Umm. Dont ask. Silly memory leak. For those of you who
721 wondered, you were losing about 256 bytes every 25 seconds for each
722 person you have on your contact list. Make fun of us. Better yet ..
723 Send us beer. We'll do better :)
725 0.9.9:
726 Welp, All of you boys and girls who run Mandrake and have some
727 problems with Gaim working properly, please check out the FAQ file. It
728 contains a nice fix submitted by one of our users. I hope this works for
729 you guys!
730 Jim appears to have intoxicated himself. This is, as always, a
731 Good Thing (tm). His late-night adventure with the liquid-bread food group
732 lead to the birth of a nice little feature called `The Lag-O-Meter'. Dont
733 ask, just try it out :). It is pretty pointless if you have a super-fast
734 connection but if you are a modem user, like many of us are, then try it out.
735 There's also some idle preferences and some other little random
736 bug fixes. Check'em out yo :)
738 0.9.8:
739 Get Along Lil' Doggies. Heh. Looks like we have yet another new
740 version of gaim for you guys to play with. Be gentle now, it has a few
741 new fetures. The HTML widget is now more robust and we have *da da da*
742 HTTP proxy support.
743 Oh By The Way, Do not pay too much attention to what we are doing
744 with this release. We are all a little bit happy tonight. You must love
745 life. This is a special release of gaim. We will be releasing some wonderful
746 photographs soon .. or perhaps if we get the bloody webcam working then we
747 will take a couple of quick snapshots.
748 Looks like the Gaim developers convention (cool name huh) that we
749 had this weekend in Auburn, AL went wonderfully :). yum yum yum. Hahahah. Oh
750 by the way. Beware of insecure rednecks in the deli. Bad things.
751 In (non)related news, Jeramey could not successfully slaughter the
752 one pound hamburger that he ordered. (I think he could have done it but he
753 wasn't feeling very well at the time).
754 Oh Yes, New Logo Too :) You likes? Thanks, Naru!
755 Just a little side-note: it looks like we didnt make the release that
756 we had expected during the Gaim Convention. Maybe we partied too much? I am
757 not sure. I remember watching the sun rise before I went to bed, though.
758 Oh well. Here's your release! Enjoy!
759 By The Way, we have uploaded our party pictures to a website.
760 http://www.dorky.net/gaim/party/ They are nothing spectacular but I hope you
761 enjoy them! :).
763 0.9.7:
764 Well, boys and girls, it's that time again! Yup, time for the good
765 release fairy to come bless us with her infinite wisdom and divine presence.
766 Umm, yeah, something like that. Anyways, this release has several little
767 "bad" network fixes (as Jim likes to say) and a couple touch-ups to a few
768 other features. It also features preliminary oscar support. Thanks to Jim
769 and Adam ("the libfaim guy") hehe :) We have also corrected a problem with
770 gaim not wainting to correctly save your password if you have an underscore
771 in it. Thanks to w1za7d for pointing out the underscore problem. ' and \
772 have also been fixed in passwords. :o)
774 0.9.6:
775 Sorry about the little segfaulting bugs in the past release. Rob
776 is stupid. :). Anyways, they have been patched up and a couple new features
777 have been added. I hope you guys enjoy.
779 0.9.5:
780 Well we added a myriad of new features to this release. (A lot of
781 small buggie fixes too.) If you need a detailed list just check out the
782 ChangeLog. We now have a new webpage design and have added a FAQ to the
783 distribution. Before coming to us with any problems please take a quick
784 look through the FAQ to make sure we havent already covered your question.
785 Also, thanks to our beloved Web Monkey, FlynOrange, we have all
786 learned the true power of foam weapons, slinkies, and whoopie cushions. Hmm
787 gotta love those pranks, eh?
789 0.8.0:
790 Well, just starting the NEWS file. I'll try to remember what's new
791 from the last version. Hmmm. BIG code reorg. Import/export, buddy pounce
792 among the major new features. Autoconf script too, which is a big win.
793 Apologies to those who submitted patches which haven't made it in.. I
794 promise, the next version! This code reorg took up a lot of my time, and I
795 want to get it out there.