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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 2.7.3 (08/10/2010):
6 Mark: Lots of little incremental[1] bug fixes and enhancements in this
7 release.
9 [1] No whales were harmed[2] during the creation of this release.
10 [2] Probably.
12 John: Finally got some fixes out there for you Yahoo users behind some
13 particularly annoying firewalls and proxies, among other fixes. Enjoy!
15 2.7.2 (07/21/2010):
16 Mark: We discovered a security issue in Pidgin 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 and
17 decided to release a patched version quickly. This release contains
18 the fix for that crash, and a few other minor fixes.
20 2.7.1 (05/29/2010):
21 Elliott: Hey, I'm first! How did that happen?! Maybe because of the
22 interesting changes in this release. Sure there were quite a few bug
23 fixes, but I know what you've all been waiting for is the direct
24 connections in MSN. Trust me, it's really really fast!!
26 John: Whoa, short turnaround for us. This is just 17 days after our
27 previous release! This fixes a number of bugs that you've all been
28 reporting a ton of duplicate tickets about and even gives you the new
29 direct connection file transfer support for MSN. Enjoy!
31 Marcus: Quite a bit quicker to get this release out, compared with the
32 previous one :). Fixes a number of bugs, and I'm sure the MSN direct
33 connections will please many users. Enjoy!
35 2.7.0 (05/12/2010):
36 John: We FINALLY got the ICQ X-Status stuff merged in! And a few other
37 patches that have been sitting on Trac forever. Couple that with some
38 new features and we have an excellent release for all of you!
40 Marcus: Finally time for a new release, seems like it took
41 quite a while this time. But then again, there are some new features
42 in there, like file transfer preview (thumbnails) support (only on MSN
43 so far), plus a lot of bug fixes. Enjoy!
45 Paul: Yay, a new release! I don't think I added very much useful to
46 this release, other than fixing a paste bug from Chrome (no weird
47 characters appended to the end of your URI). Enjoy!
49 Jorge: This is my first NEWS! I'm not sure I added something nice
50 to this release. I know it took a lot of time to bring this one
51 out, however I'm really excited by this release. I hope everyone
52 likes the new features this release brings.
54 Elliott: This release took so long, I had to go check the ChangeLog
55 just to see what happened. I doubt many people will notice, but we
56 dropped support for many old things, like GTK+<2.10 and MSNP9. In more
57 exciting news, we have file transfer previews on MSN, and support for
58 setting moods on ICQ and XMPP (which has been waiting forever.)
60 2.6.6 (02/18/2010):
61 Mark: This release includes some great little changes and fixes a few
62 security-related bugs. See the ChangeLog for details.
64 2.6.5 (01/08/2010):
65 Paul: This release fixes a pretty serious bug in the MSN code, so we're
66 releasing this build a little earlier than planned with only major
67 bugs fixed. See the ChangeLog for details. Enjoy!
69 2.6.4 (11/29/2009):
70 John: It's release time again. Lots of bug fixes this time around, as
71 well as a new protocol plugin developed and maintained by the MXit folks
72 folks. Elliott and I also did a ton of work on the Preferences window,
73 which will now hopefully fit on most people's small screens. Enjoy!
75 Elliott: This release has been in the works for so long, I don't really
76 remember doing any work on it. But I do know the MSN servers gave us a
77 little bit of trouble this time around, forgetting people's friendly
78 names. Nothing too problematic, just a touch annoying. Also, we've got
79 a nice new Preferences dialog. You can thank John for that mostly, with
80 a couple of tweaks by me.
82 Sadrul: A lot of little fixes for a lot of things! Among them, a fix
83 for a long standing issue with displaying unicode in non-utf8 locale in
84 finch. We also have a new prpl for MXit. This release is very very cool
85 altogether. Enjoy!
87 2.6.3 (10/16/2009):
88 Mark: Someone reported a fairly serious bug in our AIM/ICQ code
89 so we're releasing a special "severe bug fix only" build. See the
90 ChangeLog for details. Enjoy!
92 2.6.2 (09/05/2009):
93 Mark: Woo boy it's been a busy two weeks. There was a lot of new code
94 in 2.6.0, and with new code comes new bugs. The cadre of relentless
95 developers responsible for Pidgin have been hard at work, and I believe
96 they have fixed all the major bugs that cropped up. My thanks to all
97 those names listed as Current Developers in Pidgin's 'About' window.
99 Elliott: Well now, just as Mark said, there was a lot of new stuff that
100 probably came up with tons of bugs. So I can't say I wrote anything
101 super-awesome, but I definitely fixed quite a few of those itty-bitty
102 why-didn't-this-work-this-way sort of bugs.
104 2.6.1 (08/18/2009):
105 Mark: There were a lot of changes in 2.6.0, and so a few major bugs
106 crept in. This is a very minor release to fix those bugs. Sorry for
107 the inconvenience!
109 2.6.0 (08/18/2009):
110 John: Wow, four straight releases that I'm the first to NEWS on. This
111 is getting kinda scary! I'm beginning to wonder who else actually does
112 anything around here! (Just kidding, of course.) LOTS of new features
113 and a crapton of bugfixes this release. There should pretty much be
114 something for everybody. A great example of this is the ton of Yahoo
115 changes that have happened thanks to our SoC student from 2008, Sulabh
116 Mahajan. Among his massive improvements are the ability to add MSN
117 buddies by adding them as "msn/user@domain.tld" and peer-to-peer file
118 transfers. Of course, history shows we can't please everyine, so I'm
119 sure I'll see a complaint or five thousand in trac. Enjoy, though!
121 Marcus: This is my first news! It's been quite a few microreleases this
122 time, but now we're finally at 2.6.0. I suppose the most anticipated
123 new feature in this release is the voice and video support, thanks to
124 Mike's heroic work. I've managed to slip in a few features too, like
125 in-band bytestream file transfers as a fallback on XMPP and idle time
126 reporting on XMPP. Enjoy!
128 Paul: This is my first news, too! This release has definitely been a
129 long time coming; hopefully it won't disappoint since we've closed over
130 200 tickets. Among other things, Tobias Markmann's GSoC project from
131 last year was merged, which means we now support BOSH (XMPP connections
132 over HTTP), and Andrei Mozzhuhin contributed an XMPP Service Discovery
133 Browser. Also, thanks to Bernmeister for poking (at least) several
134 hundred old tickets!
136 Mike: Ditto. This is my first news as well. I have a feeling this is
137 getting repetitive at this point, but voice and video support is
138 finally here! Thanks to the rest of the Pidgin team, Farsight 2, and
139 GStreamer developers for making this possible! (I finally finished my
140 Summer of Code project :D)
142 Elliott: Hey, this is my firs... Wait, no it isn't. Now I feel left
143 out. So have you heard about this voice and video thing?
144 Unfortunately, not quite ready for all protocols, but it's getting
145 there. MSN gained support for receiving voice clips at least, and
146 finally we have Ink receiving capabilities too. Thanks to the guys
147 who wrote the original patch. And finally, MSN no longer has over a
148 100 tickets open!
150 2.5.9 (08/18/2009):
151 John: This release is just a crash fix release to address a security
152 issue reported to us by CORE and a couple crashes Elliott found.
154 2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
155 John: This release is another somewhat rushed bugfix release to fix
156 a number of bugs that have come up since we released Pidgin 2.5.7.
157 Hopefully anything I broke there is fixed now, or at least made to be
158 less broken. Enjoy!
160 2.5.7 (06/20/2009):
161 John: This release is really just a rushed fix for the broken Yahoo
162 protocol plugin. I spent way more time on this release than I care
163 to admit, so I hope that time is well spent and this fixes the issues
164 people have been having.
166 2.5.6 (05/19/2009):
167 Ka-Hing: Many much bugfixes. Hooray. (Paul told me to say that)
168 Oh, no one has met Paul yet? He's awesome, he backported my fixes
169 to the release branch so I didn't have to checkout a
170 workspace... except I just did to NEWS to tell you all about
171 that. Oh and I actually did do something for this release, none of
172 which is user visible though. This basically applies to the rest
173 of the release as well, nothing exciting, but you definitely want
174 it.
176 Daniel: This should fix a number of annoying issues that some users
177 have encountered. We also would like to thank Veracode
178 (http://www.veracode.com) who performed a code analysis and found some
179 bugs that were addressed in this release.
181 Elliott: I feel like I'm repeating myself, but there are some more MSN
182 fixes that should make things better behaved at login as well, and
183 maybe you'll stop getting some of those annoying errors (though not all
184 are fixed yet). Some other bugfixes, plus the craziness that is the
185 libxml "structured error handler" make up the rest of this release.
187 2.5.5 (03/01/2009):
188 John: Well, yet another release with bug fixing and patches. Hopefully
189 one of the fixed bugs is one that irritated you. Also, thank Dimmuxx
190 for spending far too much time working on ICQ this release.
192 Elliott: Lots and lots of MSN bugfixes again (I hope they're fixed, at
193 least). I think we finally have OCS/Yahoo!/federated buddies working
194 now. And there should be some workarounds for some server things that
195 may or may not have been our fault (like buddies on Allow+Block) which
196 should make general usage a bit smoother.
198 2.5.4 (01/12/2009):
199 John: Well, we fixed a few bugs for you this time around, I applied
200 a few patches, and we've dealt with what feels like a TON of tickets
201 about two very common issues. Feels like time for a release to me.
203 Etan: My first NEWS in quite a while and I don't have much to say. I
204 haven't been too active lately and I'm hoping that won't be the case
205 going forward. I managed to get in a few perl fixes and some UI
206 language tweaks this release. My plan is to work on some of the
207 issues pointed out by mpt (during his expert review of pidgin a little
208 while back) in the near future.
210 2.5.3 (12/18/2008):
211 Mark: It's been about two months and woo-boy have we been fixing
212 bugs. Enjoy!
214 Kevin: I didn't do much of anything this release, but Mark and
215 John must be commended for their tireless efforts to fix bugs
216 and approve patches, especially in areas of Pidgin that have
217 not usually received much attention. Lots of changes have
218 been made, so definitely check the ChangeLog to see what's new.
220 John: It feels like it's been an age or two since we last released,
221 and I think it's well worth the wait. Mark has sunk more time into
222 MSN and MySpace IM this release than any sane person should be
223 allowed to, and I've sunk more time into patches than I care to
224 admit. By my count, our ChangeLog has 58 bullet points(!) and we've
225 closed 85 tickets specifically for this release. Enjoy!
227 Ka-Hing: Bring your XMPP server to 2008 some time in 2009 would be
228 nice, DreamHost!
230 Elliott: Well, I can't blame the server for this release taking so long
231 but that's just how it worked out. A few interesting MSN changes this
232 time. Hopefully, federated & Yahoo! buddies will work for you, but I'm
233 not yet certain it's ready. Mark made so many fixes, I'm not even sure
234 I recognize everything anymore, but hopefully that'll make things less
235 crashy for you.
237 2.5.2 (10/19/2008):
238 Ethan: After a bit of a struggle with our services, which put
239 this release off for an unfortunate length of time, we're
240 ready for another bugfix release for your bug-free(er?)
241 messaging pleasure.
243 Sadrul: Despite our best efforts, this release got delayed by a
244 couple of weeks. But here it is! It is mostly a bug fix release, with
245 a couple of important fixes, e.g. fix for the Yahoo! disconnect
246 problem. Also, welcome our newest Crazy Patch Writer, Marcus Lundblad,
247 who, among various other fixes, has implemented custom smileys for the
248 XMPP protocol, included in this release. Enjoy!
250 Stu: I guess this is the time of year for server migrations, and
251 I've just about had enough of them. Fortunately Pidgin is still fun,
252 and this release should be superb.
254 John: Although our services were down for quite some time, we didn't
255 lose any data, except perhaps some mail that would have failed to make
256 it to us. Overall, the only major effect it had was to delay this
257 release far longer than we expected. Hopefully the bugfixes make you
258 happy!
260 Elliott: This release took a while, but that was due to an unfortunate
261 server snafu. I didn't have much to do with it, but hopefully the new
262 servers will help us out a bit. Anyway, mostly bug-fixes this time.
263 Nothing spectacular, unless you happen to suffer from one of those bugs.
264 Oh, and don't forget, the "Has you" tooltip is back!
266 2.5.1 (08/30/2008):
267 Kevin: This release is mainly a bug-fix release. It solves a few
268 known crashes and updates some of our artwork. Google's Summer of
269 code recently finished up. Some of our students are still working
270 on their branches and none have been merged into released code yet.
271 Look for some of those results to show up in Pidgin releases over the
272 coming months.
274 Elliott: I'm just commenting so Kevin wouldn't be the only one in NEWS
275 and no-one else seems to want to. Anyway, there's a couple MSN login
276 fixes, so try it out. The contact list problems might still be around,
277 but you can probably find a workaround in trac. And there's a tooltip
278 fix for our AIM friends, not that I had anything to do with it (except
279 closing many many duplicate tickets).
281 2.5.0 (08/17/2008):
282 Daniel: Lots of good stuff in this release. Lots of people have worked
283 very hard on the updated MSN protocol, and it's finally time to bring
284 it to the world! There are myriad bugfixes, including some important
285 ones so you should be sure to update.
287 Hylke: Finally MSNP15 support. To celebrate this I refreshed a lot of
288 the smilies used in the protocol and added the long awaited indispensable
289 bunny icon. I think this is one of those releases that will make a lot
290 of users happy, especially MSN users.
292 Elliott: Oh look, my first NEWS! Well anyway, with that new MSNP15
293 support, this release is set up to be a huge success and a total flop
294 all at the same time. Here's hoping it's the "huge success" one for you.
295 Those icon changes that Hylke made, while minor, really make things look
296 a little cleaner, I think. Oh yea, did I mention that MSNP15 stuff?
298 Mark: Speaking of MSNP15, we'd like to welcome Elliott Sales de Andrade
299 as a full fledged developer! He took the last few strides mushing the
300 new MSN code into shape. Then he decided that wasn't enough and started
301 doing other great stuff.
303 Ka-Hing: "Reject"ing a certificate after your account is signed off is
304 not recommended. Deleting the file after you start sending it is also
305 discouraged.
307 2.4.3 (07/01/2008):
308 Richard: This release includes important bug fixes. I'm just cutting
309 the release. Thank you to the real heroes who did the fixing!
311 2.4.2 (5/17/2008):
312 Sadrul: We added some usability changes in this release, including the
313 typing notification, buddyicon and input area size in the conversation
314 windows, escape to close conversation windows etc. These changes should
315 make pidgin more usable and more fun for Everyone! *wink*
317 Stu: I fixed some memory leaks, but nothing like as many as Daniel did.
318 MSN buddy list synchronization should be significantly less painful now,
319 and opening MSN inboxes might work better too. SILC passphrase changes
320 and support for passphrase-less keys has been improved also.
322 2.4.1 (3/31/2008):
323 Stu: We fixed some bugs, this release should be 110% better than 2.4.0
325 John: Well, I didn't really do much this release except muck about with
326 the configure script. Blame me if it worked in 2.4.0 but doesn't now.
328 Will: We seem to be falling into a nice pattern of releasing on the last
329 day of a month. Hypothetical AIX users might be pleased to learn that
330 Pidgin might actually run for them now!
332 2.4.0 (2/29/2008):
333 John: While this release took what seems like forever to get out the
334 door, I think it's well worth the wait, especially for Yahoo! users.
335 This release serves up some fixes for long standing bugs and adds
336 file transfer for transfers with newer Yahoo! clients (finally!). As
337 is standard with code I committed, where it works great thank the
338 patch writer, and where it's broken, feel free to yell at me. Enjoy!
340 Sadrul: Finch is more colourful and blinky in this release! There's
341 now a log viewer, which is very useful, and also the ability to
342 block/unblock buddies. It's now also possible to find chat rooms on
343 many services, e.g. XMPP, IRC, Yahoo! etc. Happy Leap Day!
345 Ka-Hing: I think all I've done for this release is committing some
346 patches written by other people.
348 Stu: Finally, 2.4.0 lands. I didn't do all that much except complain
349 about things I didn't like or just revert Sean's changes. I'm quite
350 pleased with how well it's turned out in the end.
351 Happy Birthday Fred, you must be nearly 10 now ;-)
353 2.3.1 (12/7/2007):
354 Stu: I'm sorry for the MSN problems and the plugin crashes in 2.3.0.
355 Hopefully this will redeem us. This fixes a number of bugs. I'm a
356 bit late but I'd like to welcome John to the team. Enjoy!
358 Luke: I've done absolutely nothing in the last 2 weeks, except watch
359 others commit bug and, more, leak fixes. People should be noticing
360 remarkably fewer memory leaks now than 2 or more releases ago.
362 Kevin: I'm not quite sure what happened to our MySpaceIM Summer of
363 Code student, but I fixed a few MySpace bugs with idle and status.
364 I will try to fix some of the other more significant bugs, after I
365 figure out the protocol, especially including grouping issues.
367 2.3.0 (11/20/2007):
368 Luke: While this does not have the new MSN code, rest assured that
369 we are working on it and that it is nearing release. This contains
370 a significant number of fixes, including some that were marked as
371 fixed for earlier releases. Happy Thanksgiving!
373 John: This is my first NEWS entry! So, this time around we have an
374 updated man page (the old one hadn't been really updated since
375 before the GTK+ 2.0 migration!), lots of bug fixes, and some new
376 features for you all. Enjoy!
378 2.2.2 (10/23/2007):
379 Luke: Because the main branch of pidgin development is still not
380 ready for public consumption, I have taken some time to try to
381 pull the many bug fixes that have happened since then into a
382 separate branch. This release is the result of that effort.
384 2.2.1 (9/28/2007):
385 Richard: We have some new code in the pipeline, but it's not quite
386 ready for a general release. Instead, this is basically a bug fix
387 release.
389 Luke: Unfortunately the necessity of this bug fix release means
390 some of the tickets that have been closed as part of the 2.2.1
391 milestone are not actually fixed yet. We have grabbed as many
392 of the changes as we could while avoiding those that are as
393 yet unstable though, and this should still be a marked
394 improvement over 2.2.0. We have spent a lot of time since the
395 last release looking at the tickets that have been submitted
396 and many of them have been closed.
398 Stu: I haven't NEWS'd in a while. I haven't actually done much for
399 too long also, maybe I'll find some time soon. This release is
400 basically what 2.2.0 should have been - it actually compiles this
401 time.
403 2.2.0 (9/13/2007):
404 Sean: 2.2.0 contains the results of several major Google Summer
405 of Code branches bringing some new, extraordinary features. We
406 have a new protocol, MySpaceIM, a bunch of new features for an
407 existing protocol, XMPP, and nifty new certificate management
408 to make sure your IM server is who it says it is.
410 Ka-Hing: A number of you noticed crashes when dragging windows
411 around when certain options are enabled. Well, that was my fault,
412 and Sadrul fixed it. So Props to him and poos to me. I haven't
413 done much for this release, but the next one should contain
414 something that I helped work on. Hint: students are cheap slave
415 coders!
417 Kevin: I haven't really been coding much in Pidgin, and this
418 release is no exception, but I will be working on getting our
419 wonderful web site to be a little more functional by next
420 release. I promise!
422 2.1.1 (8/20/2007):
423 Sean: Continuing our schedule of frequent releases, Pidgin 2.1.1
424 is out. In it, we've addressed a lot of UI issues from our
425 experimental new changes introduced in 2.1.0, and gave a lot of
426 attention to Yahoo! and Bonjour. Thanks to everyone who
427 contributed.
429 Luke: We have reworked some parts of the conversation windows in
430 response to user comments. We did not quite reach 100 tickets
431 closed this release, so a fair few will role over again. Still,
432 we are slowly but surely working our way through the reported bugs.
433 Many thanks to everyone who has helped with tracking down the
434 various issues, testing fixes, and getting patches in.
436 Tim: Sean finally got me to fix some of the buddy list bugs with
437 Yahoo! when in version 15 mode. So now we have some Yahoo! to
438 MSN support, which is kind of nice. Looks like some others have
439 been contributing to Yahoo! while I've been AWOL, so many thanks
440 to them.
442 2.1.0 (7/28/2007):
443 Sean: This release took a bit longer than 3 weeks, but boy is it
444 worth it! We're beginning to experiment with new UI concepts and
445 this release features a largely re-designed conversation window.
446 We've closed 150 tickets for this release; much thanks go to all
447 the developers, translators, and testers who made this possible.
449 Ka-Hing: Sean said no one else NEWS'ed, so I figure I should.
451 2.0.2 (6/14/2007):
452 Sean: Another big maintenance release. Again, about 100 tickets were
453 resolved in this release, and they keep coming in. Lots of bug fixes,
454 some minor icon adjustements, hopefully we addressed some ICQ
455 internationalization issues, and support for Bonjour on Windows!
456 Our next release will be 2.1.0, and will come with some great new
457 features.
459 Stu: I think we're gradually getting the hang of this 3 week thing
460 again. This release includes yet more bug fixes. I'd also like to
461 specifically thank Pekka Riikonen for the patch to enable using SILC
462 Toolkit 1.1 with Pidgin/libpurple that is included in this release.
464 2.0.1 (5/24/2007):
465 Sean: 2.0.1! Three weeks later, as scheduled! It is so nice to have
466 regular, frequent, releases again! This is a bugfix release; We have
467 fixed over 100 issues reported to us at http://developer.pidgin.im.
468 Thanks to everyone for their great work, and look for the next release
469 in another three weeks!
471 Stu: Lots'o'fixes in this. I don't know how you users find so many
472 things for us to fix. 24 hours in a day (sadly). 24 is divisible by the
473 sum of its digits and by their product. It is the smallest composite
474 number, the product of whose divisors is a cube.
476 Luke: I requested that we have a bug fix release, and so we have!
477 Many, though unfortunately not all, of the reports that have been
478 submitted to us since 2.0.0 have been fixed now, and so you should
479 all have a much more stable experience with this release. I also
480 want to thank the many users who have resubmitted their reports
481 as we close out the old Source Forge bug tracker. If all goes well,
482 your report will get the attention it deserves as we continue to
483 work on Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple.
485 Nathan: A ton of fixes have gone into this release. The feedback
486 we've gotten on 2.0.0 has been incredible. Hopefully we've resolved
487 most of the critical issues with 2.0.1. If we haven't, I'm sure
488 our wonderful users will let us hear about it. I seem to be
489 forgetting something...oh, right, I haven't promised any cool new
490 features in the next release! So, I promise at least one cool new
491 feature in the next release...you just might have to adjust your
492 definition of 'cool' to get it.
494 Etan: Perl plugins now have access to almost all of the savedstatus
495 API functions. I also removed a couple of the preferences from the
496 Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin which should help many of the people
497 for whom the configuration dialog size was a problem. The removed
498 preferences no longer had the effects they were added to have anyway.
500 2.0.0 (5/3/2007):
501 Sean: 2.0.0! It's real exciting to finally release Pidgin 2.0.0! I'm
502 really proud of all the work we've all done. I'm pumped. And, while
503 I could go on about all the amazing thing that have been added since
504 1.5.0, what I'm really excited about is getting back to a regular,
505 rapid, release cycle of active, open development, unhindered by legal
506 quandries. Huge thanks to everyone involved.
508 Luke: We have finally managed to get 2.0.0 out the door, after nearly
509 but not quite 2 years of effort and fustration. No one regrets more
510 than I that we were unable to make any of betas 3-6 the actual release.
511 But at long last, it is out, and life can return to a more normal
512 state. There were many tough calls to be made in the last 2 years.
513 Not everyone has agreed with the resulting decisions, that is un-
514 fortunate, but unavoidable. Suffice it to say that despite what
515 some users appear to think, a ton of thought, argument, discussion,
516 and experimentation has gone into this release. This release
517 builds on many years of experience, both as developers writing the
518 code, users using it, and in supporting other users. I hope that
519 those who download and install this will give it a fair shot, and
520 attempt to avoid knee-jerk reactions.
522 Evan: One small step for bird, one giant leap for birdkind... except
523 this is hardly one small step. A lot more has changed from Gaim 1.5.0
524 than just the name. Pidgin has a *very* attractive new look, a whole
525 new member of the family (Finch, formerly gaim-console) has been born,
526 and libpurple has come into its own as a solid, full-featured library
527 powering the greatest IM clients around. Bugs were fixed and
528 features were added by the hundreds (thousands?) since the last
529 major release, all while improving performance and resisting feature
530 creep. As Luke said, a ton of thought and effort has gone into
531 Pidgin 2.0.0; I'm proud to have played a part.
533 Stu: We did it! finally, we have 2.0.0. It's been a long time coming,
534 but there's a great deal of goodness here. When I say a long time, I'm
535 not kidding - it's been 972 days since we branched off "oldstatus"
536 (aka 1.x). The early Greeks were uncertain as to whether 2 was a
537 number at all (or if we'd ever make this release) - it has a beginning
538 and an end but no middle (much like our unfortunately quiet development
539 period). 2 is the first prime number and the only even prime. 2 is also
540 the first deficient number (oh well). There are only 10 types of people
541 in the world - those who like our new names and those who do not.
542 Enjoy!
544 Richard: I'm very glad that we've finally gotten 2.0.0 released and
545 I look forward to returning to a more normal development schedule.
546 Again, a big thanks to everyone who helped in any way to get things
547 where they are today. Congratulations everyone!
549 Sadrul: My first NEWS, and on what an occasion! Pidgin 2.0.0 is finally
550 released!! And it's *really* very good!!! Give your soul a break ...
551 Use Pidgin!
553 Daniel: There has been a fair amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth
554 due to the delays in getting this beast out. I'm really happy that it
555 is done. I'm also very happy with what we're releasing - I think it is
556 far more stable, packed with useful features and, dare I say, prettier
557 than any previous release.
559 2.0.0beta7 (4/29/2007):
560 Sean: Beta 7. The final beta. A few major changes from beta6. For
561 starters, we have some new names. That's pretty cool. We have a new
562 logo, to go along with it. And a lot of great icons! As Nathan mentions
563 below, we're totally back in the open now, having a signed agreement
564 from AOL that puts us in the clear. We all really regret having to go
565 completely dark for so long. Anyway, unlike betas1-6, which were of
566 normal release quality, this one is actually beta quality. There are
567 a few significant known issues, and a lot of changes that need a lot
568 of real-world testing. So, if you'd like to help us out, give it a
569 whirl, and let us know if you run into any major issues.
571 Nathan: So, the secret is out now. We renamed to Pidgin. I'd just
572 like to apologize to everyone we've had to keep in the dark for the
573 last however-many months. I know it looked like development slowed
574 to a crawl, but in reality we've been working pretty hard to get
575 2.0.0 out the door, without getting into any legal trouble. I
576 realize that if we were some big corporation, we'd be getting flamed
577 about this secrecy for months. Please try to remember that we're
578 just a bunch of geeks who were scared of legal stuff (well, at least
579 I was. Scared, that is). The bottom line is that we're out in the
580 open again, and fully plan to stay that way. We're also opening up
581 the mail archives from the secretive past few months. You can scan
582 through them if you want, or I can summarize. "Are the lawyers done
583 yet? No. Now? No. How about now? No." All lawyer jokes aside,
584 I'm grateful to our legal team for crossing all the 't's and dotting
585 all the lowercase 'j's to get us the deal we got. Anyways, thanks
586 for your patience, and on to 2.0.1!
588 Gary: Well my silence, and our silence has ended. Finally the name
589 change is over and done with and we can go back to a normal dev
590 cycle. Now if I can just get myself back onto a normal dev cycle,
591 but that's another story all together.
593 Ethan: Not to be too "me-too", but I have to say that I'm really
594 excited about the project's new name and identity, and glad to be
595 out of the legal mess. We're pushing beta 7 with all of the
596 branding and organizational changes that have been going on for
597 the last few months, so there are likely to be some snags --
598 please help us out by trying beta 7, searching for any bugs you
599 find in the bug tracker at http://developer.pidgin.im/, and
600 documenting them if they are unknown or you can provide new
601 information. Help us make 2.0.0 final a release to be remembered
602 (in a good way)! I'd like to give huge thanks to all of the
603 developers, our steadfast supporters, the crazy patch writers, and
604 everyone else who has made this transition to Pidgin possible, and
605 the improvements that go along with it. I'd like to extend a
606 special thanks to Sean, for leading us through the legal issues
607 and taking care of all of the paperwork and overhead that no one
608 wants to deal with.
610 2.0.0beta6 (1/17/2007):
611 Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be
612 the final beta release before 2.0.0. This has a bunch of cool UI
613 changes, some Google Talk features, a bunch new plugins, and other
614 goodness.
616 Nathan: Beta6 rocks. That is all.
618 Gary: Long time no news. My silence will end soon ;)
620 Evan: My first news! I knocked out a nice collection of crashes,
621 thanks in part to my ever-patient Adium beta testers. Gaim 2.0.0
622 is going to be delicious. :)
624 2.0.0beta5 (11/9/2006):
625 Sean: Another release in our endless stream in betas. This one's
626 pretty awesome; and it fixes major bugs introduced in previous
627 ones.
629 2.0.0beta4 (10/17/2006)
630 Sean: Still beta. Maybe the next one should be a gamma.. :)
632 Daniel: I'm super chuffed to announce that this will work with newer
633 (i.e. >= 2.8.0) versions of GTK+ on Windows.
635 Luke: Several significant changes in this one, including no longer
636 using libao for sound! There are no doubt bugs here, but hopefully
637 nothing major.
639 Nathan: I don't have much to say, but yay for another beta!
641 Etan: I did a bunch of perl work for this beta again, there is now
642 some support for perl scripts to call functions in the gtk ui, it
643 still needs work.
645 2.0.0beta3 (03/25/2006):
646 Mark: Yeah, I know, another beta. Don't worry, we'll get this
647 puppy out the door eventually.
649 2.0.0beta2 (01/24/2006):
650 Mark: So this is the new year, and I don't feel any different, but
651 Gaim is getting better. We hope this will be our last beta before
652 we release the final version of 2.0.0. As before, please shower us
653 in feedback!
655 Richard: I'm proud to say a lot of bugs have been squashed in this
656 version. If you filed a bug against beta1, please test to see if
657 it's fixed now and update your bug report accordingly (by either
658 closing it or setting the version to 2.0.0beta2). I'm also looking
659 for someone who uses Gaim on MacOS X to test a patch for me before
660 I can commit it. See http://gaim.sf.net/contactinfo.php for my
661 contact information.
663 Etan: So I did a bunch of work on the perl plugin since beta1, so
664 anyone who uses perl plugins would do well to expect some things to
665 need updating (I'm not certain everything works yet, so please send me
666 any reports of things that don't). Most of the work was correcting
667 some namespace issues, but I also improved the support for perl
668 plugins having plugin_pref frames, and plugin actions. Multiple perl
669 plugins can now have plugin_pref frames at the same time, and every
670 perl plugin can have multiple plugin actions now. Like Mark said
671 above, let us know how this beta works out.
673 2.0.0beta1 (12/17/2005):
674 Sean: I think Nathan sums everything up really well below. There's still
675 a bunch we want to add (and remove) before the official release, but we
676 really want to start getting feedback about what's good and what's not.
677 So, please, be vocal about this beta!
679 Nathan: 15 months since we branched oldstatus, and started working on
680 the behemoth that is 2.0.0. In that time, we've added a couple new
681 protocols, we had a few crazy patch writers become developers, and
682 had a few more people step up to be crazy patch writers. Sean wrote
683 a book, and we arbitrarily decided to make a version 1.0.0, and a
684 new versioning scheme. We got new artwork, and added almost 200 lines
685 to the ChangeLog. We've watched 2 major GTK+ releases, and added all
686 kinds of features using them. OK, I've wasted enough bits here. This
687 beta rocks, but it is a beta. Treat it as such, and enjoy!
689 Gary: Finally we have a beta. There are a lot of new goodies, including
690 quite a few summer of code projects that couldn't get added into the
691 oldstatus branch because API changes. We also have a new mono plugin
692 loader for even more plugin fun.
694 Richard: Thanks to all who wrote patches (big or small) for this beta.
696 Tim: Well here it is, the first beta. There's a lot of cool things in
697 here, but not all of them are finished or debugged. But then that's
698 why it's called a beta. Conversations are now contact-aware, and
699 there's a new status selector. There's smooth scrolling on incoming
700 messages as well. Our Crazy Patch Writers have been doing a good
701 job too, it seems like we're never lacking some patches in the
702 tracker to review.
704 Etan: I know I'm not going to be able to think of all the things I should
705 talk about here so I'll just go with the stuff I remember. Adding buddies
706 on ejabberd jabber servers should work more correctly now (it's possible
707 adding buddies on other servers is a bit broken currently I'm still
708 looking into it). There are still other jabber issues I'm looking into
709 with handling of buddies.
710 In other topics, I finally brought my Accounts menu into gaim, though the
711 current example of it isn't exactly what I had in mind, anyone with any
712 suggestions/comments/etc about it please speak up.
713 Other than the stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting to mention this beta should
714 be awesome as gaim 2.0.0 is going to be awesome. Have fun with it.
716 Luke: pretty much everything important has been said, so this is going to
717 be rather repetative. This is a beta folks, so it will have bugs. It
718 will crash unexpectedly. Perhaps even frequently. Use it at your peril.
719 But do use it (though you might want to back up ~/.gaim first), and let us
720 know what needs to be fixed.
722 Mark: Yay.
724 Stu: Wow!
726 Siege: Sametime accounts created with gaim-meanwhile should merge over
727 for use in the beta just fine. Some of the familiar settings regarding
728 the buddy list are gone, so I recommend backing up your Sametime blist
729 before getting down and crazy. Have fun, and happy early Decemberween!
731 Daniel: Enjoy! In the hopes that this prevents someone pain... do not use
732 Glib/GTK+ 2.8.x with Wingaim - it will not work. We're looking into the
733 problem and hope to have it resolved before the final release.
734 "Happy Holidays!"
736 1.5.0 (8/11/2005):
737 Mark: No super crazy major changes here. Just the usual bug
738 fixes and some pretty important security updates.
740 Stu: Buy Sean's book. He obviously needs the money. Other than that
741 we fixed some bugs with this release (I don't think we did much else).
742 SoC students are doing lots of cool stuff which we'll hopefully be
743 able to bring you in a future release.
745 Nathan: I've continued my streak of doing nothing useful lately.
746 However, I've now got a brand-spanking-new DSL line, so I might
747 actually get to contribute soon. One way or another I'd like
748 to get HEAD into a more useable state in the next month or two.
749 Also, like Stu said, buy Sean's book. I've been reading and
750 fixing it for the last umpteen months, so you had better enjoy
751 it.
753 1.4.0 (7/7/2005):
754 Mark: The last month or four we've promoted a bunch of the Gaim
755 Crazy Patch Writers to developers, so there is now an even larger
756 team of brilliant and amazingly sexy committers working around
757 the globe for your instant messaging pleasure. Also, we have
758 what I believe to be our first contribution from a Summer of Code
759 student in this release: Jonathan Clark enabled the sending of
760 files to certain ICQ users. Support is still a bit rough, but
761 he'll be working on it throughout the summer.
763 Luke: Exciting times this summer as our Summer of Code interns
764 start their projects. This is mostly a bug fix release, with the
765 ICQ file transfer that Mark mentioned and some buddy icon work
766 being the only real new code. Hence the extra week delay. A
767 big thanks to our translators who keep churning out updates even
768 when we give them short notice as well. Enjoy!
770 1.3.1 (6/9/2005):
771 Sean: It's been a while since I've done one of these. Welcome to
772 Gaim 1.3.1, "New Hyde Park." This is, again, another bugfix release
773 but it comes with two keen announcements. First, I'd like to welcome
774 Christopher O'Brien to the Gaim team. He has integrated his work on
775 the Meanwhile project into Gaim, ensuring that Gaim 2.0.0 will include
776 Sametime support. Also, we're participating in Google's Summer of
777 Code, which you all should check out at
778 http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/
780 1.3.0 (5/10/2005):
781 Luke: This release fixes SILC for multiple accounts. HOWEVER, you
782 may lose your buddy list (for SILC only) upgrading. This is
783 rather unavoidable as the previous code did not keep track of
784 which account each buddy belonged to.
786 Stu: I'm glad we're finally getting this out, if fixes a number of bugs
787 ranging from minor to not so minor. I'd also like to welcome Gary to
788 the team - he's done a great job with Guifications, I'm sure he'll do
789 good stuff here too.
791 Gary: Well I got pretty much nothing done for this release. Although I
792 do have quite a few things in the works that will come to fruition when
793 I find some more free time.
795 1.2.1 (4/3/2005):
796 Luke: Several important fixes this time around. Big thanks to
797 Robert McQueen, Stu, Nathan, Ethan, and everyone else who has helped
798 with this effort. Maybe next time we can get a decent chance to fix the
799 problems *before* they go public to have a normal release process.
801 Nathan: Jabber got some updates this release (finally). I've got
802 more planned, but simply haven't had the time to anything about it.
804 1.2.0 (3/17/2005):
805 Luke: Happy St. Patrick's Day all. Sean scheduled a release for
806 today, we'll see if we can pull it off. :-) This release
807 features somewhat more than just bug fixes, some improvements
808 have been made to the conversation API which may affect plugin
809 developers. Yahoo users should also thank Tim and Bleeter for
810 their efforts.
812 Etan: I'm going to NEWS since I actually did something this time.
813 Jabber will allow you to unsubscribe to someone's presence
814 without logging out and in again, this does break seeing yourself
815 on your buddy list, but hopefully we'll fix that again for the
816 next release.
818 Stu: Happy St. Guinness^wPatrick's day.
820 1.1.4 (2/24/2005):
821 Sean: Another bug fix release. A big thanks to Rob McQueen, Ari
822 Pollak, Don Seiler, and Warren Togami: some packagers who helped
823 debug a nasty glib 2.6 problem. Also thanks to our own Stu who
824 found and destroyed an MSN crash and an HTML parsing error
826 Luke: Early release to handle the MSN and HTML crashes, as well
827 as the glib crash. Maybe that makes up for having had a 4 week
828 period before the last release. This one should be the nice
829 stable release we meant 1.1.3 to be. Enjoy!
831 Stu: I cleaned up the whitespace in this NEWS, it was bugging me.
833 1.1.3 (2/17/2005):
834 Luke: Yet another bug fix release, many thanks to everyone who has
835 helped to make gaim more stable!
837 Stu: I fixed too many Yahoo HTTP proxy bugs, I should just go and
838 write some core HTTP support that works better. A good all round
839 bug fix release otherwise.
841 1.1.2 (1/20/2005):
842 Luke: Another Bug fix release. This one featuring a fix to the HTTP
843 Method for MSN users and other MSN fixes. A big thanks to Stu and
844 Felipe Contreras for those. Stu also spent a long time in valgrind
845 and so this brings you a Gaim release with fewer memory leaks. This
846 release is on time primarily because I want to see the MSN fixes
847 make it into Debian and Fedora before freezes. Expect further bug
848 fix only releases to come at longer intervals, at Mark's request.
850 Daniel: This is my first NEWS! (YaY) I didn't really do too much for
851 this release. There are a few bugfixes, mostly wingaim stuff. Oh, and
852 I like the new XP System Tray icons.
854 Sean: I'm down here today. I haven't really been paying too much
855 attention to these boring bugfix releases, but I'd like to thank
856 David and welcome him to the team. I'd also like to thank Steven
857 and Nathan from Silverorange who redid the webpage.
859 Tim: Another bug fix release. I didn't really fix any bugs, so
860 I didn't exactly do much for this one. The autopackage will now
861 work with mozilla-nss, if anyone has that, and not gnutls11. (It
862 works with either gnutls11 or mozilla-nss, but not gnutls10)
863 I started working on Gaim-vv again though, and I merged someone's
864 custom msn smiley patch into the 2.0.0 tree, so expect good things
865 whenever that's released (no, don't try it now, you won't like it).
866 Oh and welcome to the team Daniel. Of course, he was already on my
867 Gaim-vv team.
869 Stu: Welcome Daniel! you've done some good stuff already. Felipe did some
870 good work on MSN yet again, so you can all use the HTTP method now. I
871 didn't do all that much, other than let valgrind tell me what to fix, and
872 a couple of easy bug fixes from the bug tracker. Hopefully Ethan will get
873 well soon, so he can get back to merging patches and fixing things.
875 Nathan: I think I made some Jabber fixes, at least one of which is
876 ChangeLog'd. I will continue to make empty promises about new features,
877 especially for 2.0.0. Until then, welcome Daniel!
879 1.1.1 (12/28/2004):
880 Luke: This bug fix release features msn improvements, drag and drop
881 improvements, and some translation stuff. Thanks for everone who has
882 helped with it, and hopefully we can get 2.0.0 out soon. On a side
883 note, i'm still looking for someone to look at the perl plugin loader.
885 1.1.0 (12/02/2004):
886 Luke: Another in our series of bug fix releases, with a slight twist.
887 Everyone thank Ethan for implementing a fall back encoding for IRC,
888 it has been much requested and should make a number of users very
889 happy. See the ChangeLog for details on other fixes.
891 Stu: Much thanks to Miah Gregory and Felipe Contreras, a bunch of
892 memory leaks have been fixed. Felipe also fixed a good number of
893 other MSN bugs. I didn't do much except apply these guys fixes. It's
894 good to see fixes from Gary coming in again too ;-). I like the
895 docklet adjustments Christian made. Btw, we have a new MSN protocol
896 icon, and I think you'll love it.
898 Tim: I made Gaim binary relocatable this release, so Gaim can find
899 itself if it gets lost, and I'm going to try to make autopackages
900 for this release, if the autopackage guys release their new version
901 soon like they're talking. I also "fixed" a scrolling bug, by
902 realizing it was all Gentoo's fault. The IRC encoding thing Ethan
903 did is pretty nice, no more encoding error messages!
905 Ethan: Rumor has it that I did some work this release, but it's just
906 that, a rumor. I think Luke started it. I did lay the hammer down
907 on bogus word wrapping in the NEWS, so you can thank me for that.
908 Keep your powder dry.
910 1.0.3 (11/11/2004):
911 Luke: Not much to see here, some bug fixes that you all will enjoy as
912 the semester draws to a close and everyone still in school gets bogged
913 down with projects, papers, and exams. Enjoy! Oh, and if you are interested
914 in the perl or gadu-gadu functionality, please step up to help write
915 patches, as both of these code blocks are currently unmaintained.
917 Tim: I fixed a couple bugs this time. In other news, Kim wants to get
918 a pet cockatiel or two.
920 Nathan: I was gonna put a new feature in this release, but decided
921 not to because I found a bug in it today, and I'm tired. Also, I haven't
922 consulted the powers-that-be about putting new features into oldstatus.
924 Stu: I'm writing this at 11:11:11pm on 11/11. Eleven. It's 3 really. Or B.
925 It's the 5th smallest prime number. Himalia is the 11th moon of Jupiter.
926 Hendecagon. There are 1011 players on a football team. XI. 16 hours. Eleven
927 is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English. This
928 entry is my 11th lie for today.
930 1.0.2 (10/19/2004):
931 Stu: I'm new around here. I tried to reduce the number of bugs in the bug
932 tracker, but it turns out that the only way to achieve that is to actually
933 _fix_ the bugs. So I fixed a couple, and then sneaked some patches out of
934 the patch tracker to fix some others. Sadly the bug tracker was not
935 significantly affected, maybe if I learn C I'll be able to make more of an
936 impact.
938 Luke: Don't let Stu fool you, he has done a marvelous job on this release,
939 and deserves a lot of credit for it. And a number of those bug fixes are
940 critical ones that he discovered and fixed himself. So go update. Now.
942 Nathan: On the other hand, Nathan has done nothing for this release. Why
943 do we keep him around again?
945 Tim: So, I'm married now, and in Huntsville. I don't remember if I did
946 anything for this release or not, probably not. Bleeter has been more
947 active lately though, perhaps we'll see lots of cool things from him
948 soon.
950 Sean: I'm down here with the "didn't do anything" guys.
952 1.0.1 (10/07/2004):
953 Congratulations to Tim & Kim on their wedding!
955 Sean: So, if you're playing along at home, you're aware that
956 incrementing the micro version number means that the API has
957 not changed at all. Although that itself is insignificant to
958 most everyone but plugin developers, but users won't find too
959 many significant changes. Consult ChangeLog. We're currently
960 branched for some major changes, so expect a really great 2.0.0
961 sometime relatively soon.
963 Luke: Nothing much to see here, some bug fixes. Most of the work
964 is going towards the 2.0.0 release. We aren't quite sure when
965 that will be, and will keep the bug fix releases coming untill
966 all is ready.
968 Christian: I would call this a ground-breaking release, but it isn't.
969 It seems like a good one, though. I dunno. I've been too busy at VMware,
970 unfortunately, but have some work that's just waiting to be finished up
971 for Gaim. Gaim 2.0.0 is going to rock. Gaim 3.0.0 will rock more.
972 Do you see a pattern? Thanks go out to Henry Jen for fixing up parts of
973 the gevolution plugin to support multiple addressbooks, and to all our
974 moms, for believing in us. Or something.
976 Nathan: I got a new computer. It's fast. And has twice the bits!
978 1.0.0 (09/17/2004):
979 Nathan: Hah! Bet you weren't expecting this! OK, if you were
980 paying any attention to the flame^H^H^H^H^Hthread on gaim-devel,
981 you might have been expecting this. But here it is, 1.0.0. Our
982 new versioning scheme has slightly more meaning than the older
983 one (expecially for plugin authors), but our 1.0(.0) release is
984 just as meaningless as we could have hoped. Enjoy!
986 Luke: We've changed our pattern for version numbers with this
987 release, we are no longer simply counting versions. This release
988 then marks, not something traditionally "1.0" but the current
989 version of the api. When backwards compatability with that breaks
990 you'll see 2.0, more details in the faq. As a side note, if you
991 are reading this and are good with proxy code or with perl's XS C
992 bindings, please get in touch with me, my contact info is on the
993 website. Gaim could use your help.
995 Mark: I love a circus.
997 0.82 (08/25/2004):
998 Rob: Woah, where did I come from?
1000 Mark: Lately I've been doing a lot more code maintenance/patch
1001 accepting/bug fixing type of work. And I think that's a really
1002 good thing. I feel like Gaim is becoming more stable. It
1003 seems like we're lacking fewer features. It makes me warm.
1004 Quick Robin! To the traverse wall!
1006 Nathan: Well, it looks like we stuck to the schedule again. Had
1007 we taken our dear sweet time, I might have had a chance to do
1008 something cool for this release, but instead I stuck to the minor
1009 stuff. <insert empty promises for the cool stuff i'll code for
1010 next time here>
1012 Tim: Lately I've been doing a lot more patch accepting, and a
1013 lot less actual coding. Unfortunately it has more to do with my
1014 laziness than Gaim's progress. Like Nathan, I'm going to blame
1015 our on time release schedule. But that didn't stop our Crazy
1016 Patch Writers, or cpw's as grim now calls them, from writing
1017 some good patches. So, instead of promising to code something
1018 cool for next release, I'm going to promise that the cpw's will
1019 code cool things for next release, and I might apply some of them.
1021 Luke: I've been doing what I always do, committing patches, some
1022 better than others, and bugging other people to code stuff. Oh
1023 and closing some bugs. Thanks to Dave West for joining the cpws
1024 in helping to handle triage. This is mostly a bug fix release,
1025 so PLEASE upgrade to it before submitting new bugs.
1027 Kevin: Herman's been away, so Daniel Atallah and myself were given
1028 the task of preparing 0.82's Windows packages. After some feverish
1029 plotting, we decided to update GTK and Daniel prepped an update to
1030 libpng to address recent security advisories. Besides plotting and
1031 a little bit of testing, this NEWS is all I really did. Oh, I also
1032 rerefixed the transparency plugin... again! Our beloved Hermanator
1033 should be back next time around, for 0.83.
1035 0.81 (08/05/2004):
1036 Sean: Three weeks again! Sticking to schedules is awesome! Just
1037 like Gaim v0.81. This is what we in the industry call a "bugfix
1038 release." We closed over TWO HUNDRED bugs since 0.80. That's
1039 awesome. Thanks to everyone who helped report, triage, fix, and
1040 test.
1042 Christian: Yay for three weeks working so well. Boo for me not
1043 doing much of anything this release, aside from a small memory
1044 leak fix. I'm starting a new job and leaving my current one, so
1045 when the dust settles and my schedule is a bit better, the very
1046 cool status rewrite will be finished up. Especially now that I have
1047 some help! I'd like to second Sean's thanks to all the people who
1048 helped with this bug fix release. Gaim should be a bit more stable
1049 for a lot of you. For those experiencing MSN problems still, we'll
1050 get that nailed for you soon, promise.
1052 Mark: I was going to point out that we closed an insane amount of
1053 bugs for this release, but Sean already did that. I feel like
1054 we've had some really talented new contributors contributing
1055 recently. I won't say names... but watch your backs. Or something.
1057 Nathan: I did next to nothing for this release. I am however
1058 settled in to my new job, and in a couple days, I should be settled
1059 into my new domicile. If the DSL gods are in a good mood, I'll
1060 have a connection there shortly, and can start being useful again.
1062 0.80 (07/15/2004):
1063 Sean: Three weeks! Hooray for timeliness! I didn't do much here
1064 but drag-and-droppable file transfers. Drag something into a
1065 conversation window, and it will be sent. Kinda neat.
1067 Mark: We have a small ant problem here. I can't help but think
1068 I somehow brought this upon myself.
1070 Tim: I don't really have any news, but at least I don't have an
1071 ant problem either. You might think I've been hard at work on
1072 Gaim-vv, but I haven't, I've just been lazy. I plan on doing
1073 some cool things "soon" though, both with Gaim and Gaim-vv.
1074 Bleeter sent me some nice dumps I need to implement yet.
1076 Luke: We have a nice timely release, with a Changelog that seems
1077 small, but remember, this is summer, and people have lives. SILC
1078 and Zephyr are making good progress from our Crazy Patch Writters,
1079 and everyone begging to send files to people not on their buddy
1080 list will be happy. good stuff. No, the msn buddy icon scalling
1081 problem isn't fixed yet, maybe next release
1083 0.79 (06/24/2004):
1084 Sean: We've moved to a three-week release cycle which we'll
1085 hopefully be able to keep up more realistically than a two-week
1086 cycle. Yahoo! went and broke last night, but it's fixed now thanks
1087 to a quick fix sent in by Cerulean Studios this morning. Reports say
1088 they'll continue to try to break us, though, so don't be surprised
1089 if your Yahoo cuts out again.
1091 Luke: I was really distracted this cycle, I want to thank my co-
1092 developers and our crazy patch writers for keeping things going.
1093 We have a fairly long changelog for you this release, including some
1094 nice bug fixes and some much-requested new features, the ChangeLog
1095 has all the details there of course. Enjoy!
1097 Christian: Great release! MSN buddy icons and file transfer. A big round
1098 of applause to Felipe! Too bad about the Yahoo thing, but.. eep! I have
1099 to go! Movie with the girls and Farmer's Market.
1101 Tim: This release brings us /commands in the core, which hopefully
1102 works better, and Yahoo! buddy icons. Thanks to all the people I
1103 bugged for packet captures, like Simguy, Bleeter, and odl. Yahoo!
1104 broke again, so I did a little last minute work on the web
1105 messenger stuff, but then Cerulean Studios was cool and fixed the
1106 problem already, so all that code's disabled. I also finally added
1107 the Yahoo! Japan support, for those of you with Yahoo! Japan
1108 accounts.
1110 Mark: I fixed that icon animation thing that caused Gaim to lock-up.
1111 I also stepped on something at the beach and I think there might be
1112 a little rock or something in my foot now.
1114 Nathan: I've been really busy, what with having a new job and all.
1115 I didn't think I had done anything, but apparently I fixed some
1116 Jabber stuff, and some IPv6 stuff. I must have been sleepcoding
1117 or something, because I haven't had time for such things. Ah well,
1118 enjoy this release. We'll see what I can get to in the next 3 weeks.
1120 0.78 (05/30/2004):
1121 Luke: A very long time, once again, since the last release. I think
1122 its mostly worth it. A few of you will still have trouble with msn
1123 but we've worked out a number of bugs even there. Thanks to heroic
1124 efforts on the part of Mark, we closed 400 some odd reports this
1125 month. We are also welcoming Tim to the project, a very active
1126 crazy patch writer who has brought massive improvements to WYSIWYG
1127 and direct im this release. Again, it still won't work for every
1128 one, but it will work for more people than it used to. Most
1129 noticably, this release brings a LARGE simplicfication of the
1130 preferences available. Please don't complain if your favorite
1131 preference is no longer there. Take some time to think about
1132 how and if it could be useful to a majority of people who use
1133 Gaim in ways nothing like you. You'll find that the answer will
1134 usually be that the preference isn't all that important.
1136 Tim: I continued with the other crazy patch writers in fixing those
1137 WYSIWYG bugs. Then they went and made me a developer. Which is cool.
1138 They told me I could commit WYSIWYG and Yahoo! changes. So I went
1139 and fixed IM Image and Direct Connect in AIM for some reason. I also
1140 added some new Yahoo! smileys at least. Also you change your link
1141 color in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file now. I might work on some of those
1142 new Yahoo! features for next release, like buddy icons. But don't
1143 count on it. Thanks to everyone who congratulated me. And thanks
1144 to all our Crazy Patch Writers, who now expect me to apply all their
1145 Crazy Patches.
1147 Christian: First of all, congrats to Tim! He's our latest Gaim
1148 developer, and we're all glad to have him on board. He's been a
1149 valuable contributor for awhile now. Thanks again to Felipe Contreras
1150 for all his MSN work this release. He has some exciting stuff that
1151 we'll be seeing in 0.79. And last, but not least, thanks to all our
1152 crazy and not-so-crazy patch writers. There's been a lot done this
1153 release. I've been taking a small break, first due to school and now
1154 work, but I'll be coming back strong in the next couple of releases. In
1155 the meantime, enjoy.
1157 Gary: Congrats to Tim, no more competing for most ChangeLog entries.
1158 This means you _should_ be winning every release. Anyways, I didn't
1159 finish nearly as much as I wanted to for this release but all of that
1160 and then some should appear in 0.79.
1162 Sean: I'll write my entry down here tonight. Removing preferences
1163 was my big crusade this week, and the team did a great job at it,
1164 but I still have a nagging feeling that our preferences are still
1165 overwhelming. Everyone's been doing a real great job; it's entirely
1166 my fault we keep failing to meet our three-week schedule. Send your
1167 complaints this way.
1169 Nathan: I really didn't do much thanks to exams, and graduation, and all
1170 of that fun stuff. For next release, I'll have all new excuses, like my
1171 new job, or maybe something I haven't even thought of yet. Oh yeah, and
1172 a big warm welcome to Tim!
1174 0.77 (04/22/2004):
1175 Sean: We're back to a somewhat regular release cycle now. Hooray!
1176 WYSIWYG is much improved in this release, and you can now copy and
1177 paste rich text to and from Gaim and other applications (see: Mozilla,
1178 Evolution OpenOffice). Also, Novell has released their first release
1179 of their GroupWise plugin, included in this release. Good stuff all
1180 around.
1182 Luke: Only a week "late" this time around, much nicer than the delay
1183 before the last release. Anyway, this release sees a HUGE number of
1184 improvements to the WYSIWYG support, much thanks to all involved. If
1185 you weren't impressed before, you should be now! This release also
1186 sees the end of our TOC support, no one has been working on this in
1187 some time and its causing problems. DON'T USE IT!. Also plugin
1188 authors will want to take note of the fact that the plugin api version
1189 changed. A nice solid release for you all :-)
1191 Ethan: Once again I thought about doing some things and committed
1192 things that other people did. This development model is awesome. I
1193 helped Mark refactor some stuff and our collective code ownership
1194 helped us utilize a coherent system metaphor during our pair program-
1195 ming sessions. It was extremely extreme. Look for some hard crypto
1196 lovin' from yet another crazy contributor in the near future...
1198 Ka-Hing: I actually did something for this release... or rather, the
1199 previous release, but LSchiere2 didn't commit that until this release.
1200 So blame him. System logging is back, so you can log people's signon/
1201 off/away/idle-ness again. There may be bugs with it, I don't know, not
1202 like I use it. I will try to work on something that I will actually use
1203 for the next release.
1205 Etan: Looking for someone to pair program with.
1207 Christian: A round of applause to our crazy patch writers! Their
1208 contributions this release is impressive. WYSIWYG has come a long way
1209 since 0.76 thanks to them. Also, thanks to Felipe Contreras for his
1210 MSN contributions. We should see some good stuff going into there soon.
1211 I myself didn't do a huge amount, aside from breaking everybody's
1212 plugins, although I have some work going on in the background that will
1213 hopefully make it into release soon.
1215 0.76 (04/01/2004):
1216 Sean: Yeah, it's been a long time since the last release, and despite
1217 what others may tell you, we were just really lazy. This is pretty
1218 much just 0.75 again, but, like, someone changed the "Info" icon and
1219 I think, like, the Chinese translation may have been updated. We did
1220 nothing interesting on it at all. Others may tell you "we haven't just
1221 been lazy," or "you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat
1222 stuf in this one." They lie. All of them.
1224 Luke: Okay, normally I wait for Sean to go first, but he said to commit.
1225 Its been a few months since the last release, but we haven't just been
1226 lazy. A very long ChangeLog for you all. Most notably of course is the
1227 addition of WYSIWYG input for chats and conversations. Many thanks to
1228 DAYS of long work by Sean, Gary Kramlich, Kevin Stange, Tim Ringenbach,
1229 and Stu Tomlinson for their efforts writting, fixing, and testing
1230 this. Without the dedicated support of our crazy patch writters, this
1231 release would have taken yet longer. Sean also has yahoo working again,
1232 with some assistance from our friends over at Trillian, you may all
1233 officially rejoice. We also have a large number of bug fixes, closing
1234 more than 200 bug reports this month alone.
1236 Christian: It's been a long time between the last release, but I think
1237 you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat stuff in this one.
1238 So many bug fixes and new features. It's enough to drive a wombat mad!
1239 The new WYSIWYG input is cool stuff. You'll either love it or hate it,
1240 I guess. I'm working on some stuff that some of you are going to love,
1241 but I'm not promising it for a few more versions. It's a secret!
1243 Mark: Our crazy patch writers rock. Gary Kramlich, Tim Ringenbach,
1244 Kevin Stange, and Stu Tomlinson did an amazing job of tying up
1245 loose ends and helping get this release out the door. Thanks guys!
1247 Rob: My birthday is in a few days. I like cool stuff. Buy me something
1248 grand!!
1250 Tim: Luke said write a NEWS, so I thought I would. There's a room
1251 list dialog now. And Nathan and I doubled the number of protocols that
1252 can transfer files. After that I got lazy/busy and let Gary, Kevin,
1253 and Stu fix all the bugs.
1255 Nathan: Rob happens to share a birthday with my sister. So far she's
1256 been very vague about what she wants. She's not an easy person to shop
1257 for. As for things you probably care more about, this release has so
1258 much in it that I've forgotten about most of it. The stupidest of the
1259 bugs from 0.75 are fixed. Jabber has a first pass at file transfer
1260 support (no proxy support yet). SOCKS 5 proxy support may have gotten
1261 a little better as a side-effect. Twinkies and penguin points to all
1262 of the crazy patch writers, who did more than their fair share this
1263 release.
1265 Ethan: My birthday was yesterday, and not on the same day as Rob
1266 and Nathan's sister. And I don't mean that Rob and Nathan have the
1267 same sister. For this release, I thought about making IRC better, I
1268 thought about making Tcl better, and I committed patches from several
1269 others who actually did these things. And probably some other
1270 things, too. Let's hear it for crazy patch writers, and for the open
1271 source philosophy that lets them get so CRAZY.
1273 0.75 (01/09/2004):
1274 Rob: Woah, what's this? Me? Making a NEWS post!? Say it ain't so!
1275 That's right, kiddos, I'm finally coming out of my reclusiveness.
1276 I had a pretty shitty few months, and also just needed a break from
1277 things. But, I'm back, and that's good. Right? Yes. And now,
1278 a little word from Eric Warmenhoven.. :P
1280 Eric: Ah, Rob and Eric. Just like the good ol' days. Now, if
1281 you'll excuse me, I have to go make some commits with Led Zeppelin
1282 lyrics as my commit logs. heh. What do you mean, I look a lot
1283 like Sean Egan? I'm... oh fine, you got me. It's really just Sean
1284 in an Eric Warmenhoven costume.
1286 So, Yahoo! works again, and that's good. And 0.76 is going to have
1287 something _very_ neat.
1289 Nathan: You're running out of excuses to not use Jabber. Our chat
1290 support is now bar-some, quickly approaching bar-none! Everything
1291 else in Jabber got neat improvements too. I'll leave it up to you
1292 to figure out what they were.
1294 <boilerplate promises for cool features in $version++>
1296 Christian: I've been a bit absent this release, due to life stuff
1297 and working on some other projects. Some MSN goodies are going to be
1298 available in an upcoming version, and I have some neat Gaim-related
1299 stuff I'm working on that will hopefully see the light of day. I'd
1300 like to say good job to the other developers. Good release. (Of course,
1301 every time I say that, something breaks horribly right after we
1302 release it.)
1304 Luke: Okay, so Sean rocks and got Yahoo working again in 12 minutes.
1305 Unfortunately, he took out the chat support in doing so. So use
1306 conferences for now if you use yahoo. Users begging for file
1307 transfer support should thank Tim 'marv' Ringenbach for Yahoo ft,
1308 and everyone should be happy to note that 0.75 leaks far less than
1309 0.74. Also, a lot of other bug fixes happened that escape my notice
1310 right now.
1312 Ethan: I just want to say that now logging really doesn't eat
1313 memory 'till the cows come home. We don't think.
1315 I would like to thank each and every one of these people, and
1316 I think you should, too:
1318 Paul A, Daniel Atallah, Patrick Aussems, Brian Bernas,
1319 Jonas Birmé, Ethan Blanton (hi Mom), Joshua Blanton, Herman
1320 Bloggs, Jason Boerner, Graham Booker, Craig Boston, Chris
1321 Boyle, Jeremy Brooks, Sean Burke, Cerulean Studios LLC,
1322 Ka-Hing Cheung, Arturo Cisneros Jr., Vincas Ciziunas, Joe
1323 Clarke, Todd Cohen, Felipe Contreras, Jeramey Crawford, Mark
1324 Doliner, Nuno Donato, Jim Duchek, Tom Dyas, Andrew Echols,
1325 Sean Egan, Brian Enigma, Stefan Esser, Larry Ewing, Jesse
1326 Farmer, Gavan Fantom, Rob Flynn, Nathan Fredrickson, Free
1327 Software Foundation, Decklin Foster, Adam Fritzler, Michael
1328 Golden, Ryan C. Gordon, Christian Hammond, Andy Harrison, G.
1329 Sumner Hayes, Mike Heffner, Iain Holmes, Karsten Huneycutt,
1330 Akuke Kok, Tero Kuusela, Dennis Lambe Jr., Ho-seok Lee, Moses
1331 Lei, Ambrose C. Li, Nicolas Lichtmaier, Artem Litvinovich, Syd
1332 Logan, Matthew Luckie, Brian Macke, Paolo Maggi, Willian T.
1333 Mahan, John Matthews, Ryan McCabe, Robert McQueen, Robert
1334 Mibus, Benjamin Miller, Kevin Miller, Paul Miller, Arkadiusz
1335 Miskiewicz, Andrew Molloy, Matt Pandina, Ricardo Fernandez
1336 Pascual, Havoc Pennington, Ari Pollak, Robey Pointer, Nathan
1337 Poznick, Brent Priddy, Federicco Mena Quintero, David Raeman,
1338 Etan Reisner, Kristian Rietveld, Tim Ringenbach, Andrew
1339 Rodland, Neil Sanchala, Carsten Schaar, Luke Schierer, Torrey
1340 Searle, Jim Seymour, John Silvestri, David Smock, Mark
1341 Spencer, Lex Spoon, Kevin Stange, David Stoddard, Stu
1342 Tomlinson, Brian Tarricone, Peter Teichman, Arun A. Tharuvai,
1343 Philip Tellis, Bill Tompkins, Tom Tromey, Junichi Uekawa,
1344 Bjoern Voigt, Nathan Walp, Eric Warmenhoven, Jason Willis,
1345 Matt Wilson, Ximian, Jaroen Zwartepoorte.
1347 Thanks, all.
1349 0.74 (11/25/2003):
1350 Sean: Christian and Nathan were wrong.
1352 Ethan: I don't know how solid or good this release will be, but
1353 hopefully it's better than 0.73! Not that 0.73 didn't rock or
1354 anything, but for those users bit by its peculiar little bugs
1355 it wasn't as nice as this will be.
1357 Nathan: Jabber got some good tweaks, and logging doesn't eat
1358 memory until the cows come home. Which is good, because they
1359 said they'll be out until late.
1361 Luke: Always nice when directories get created correctly ;-)
1363 0.73 (11/21/2003):
1364 Nathan: This should be a really solid release. I fixed most if not
1365 all of the idiotic Jabber bugs from 0.72, and re-enabled the SASL
1366 login stuff, now that it is finalized in the XMPP drafts. Oh, and
1367 we now have a release notification plugin, so you can find out when
1368 the latest and greatest version of Gaim is out without breaking that
1369 reload button in your browser. There's other fun new stuff, but I
1370 forget what it is.
1372 Christian: This is a good release, as Nathan said. For all those who
1373 hated all the disconnect dialogs, we now have a {dis,re}connect{ed,}
1374 dialog that replaces all of them and shows every account that became
1375 disconnected. Also, there were some MSN fixes thrown in, such as
1376 the problem with unblocking users. My personal favorite, since it's
1377 really been bugging me for awhile, is the bug with the border on the
1378 close buttons is fixed. Oh yes, and let's not forget the new logging.
1379 It simply rocks. This is a pretty stable release, so get it. 0.74 is
1380 going to have some niceties that people have been waiting for.
1382 0.72 (10/30/2003):
1383 Sean: I think I'll go as the Gaim logo guy for Halloween. That
1384 would be a cool costume.
1386 Luke: We've had a record month for number of bugs submitted (395 as
1387 of now) this month, but the total number of bugs open has grown by
1388 less than 20, so while it might be fustrating for those of you out
1389 there who think your bug report is being ignored, know that we are
1390 doing our best to look at them all :-). This release fixes a goodly
1391 number of bugs including the troubles with signing on icq (thanks
1392 to Mark). Enjoy!
1394 Christian: Last release brought forward a lot of bug reports, such
1395 as the ICQ bug, and also trouble with installing SSL. I can't count
1396 how many people were confused as to why their MSN plugin wasn't
1397 loading. Now, it'll load regardless, and when you try to connect,
1398 it'll give you an error dialog saying to install SSL (if you don't
1399 have it installed, of course). I didn't do a whole lot this release,
1400 but that'll change with the next. There are some fun things coming.
1402 Ethan: In complete defiance of history, I did something this
1403 release. It had to do with IRC. If I type here for long
1404 enough, I'm sure I'll remember what it was... Oh yeah, all of
1405 you paranoid people can hide your local username by changing
1406 your IRC account settings. I also want to note that we are
1407 aware that building Gaim is Harder than it Should Be on
1408 Solaris, and I am seeking solutions to some of the issues
1409 there. Everyone remember to give some love to the developers
1410 who actually did something of note this release (i.e. not me)!
1412 Nathan: Jabber got a ton better this release, as I fixed most of the
1413 bugs introduced in the last release. Registration works again, and
1414 the next person to break it is going to suffer. I also fixed a
1415 handfull of other little things that I can't remember. This should
1416 be a good release.
1418 0.71 (10/09/2003):
1419 Rob: It's been a while since I've commited some news. I've had a
1420 very hectic few weeks/months. Thing are finally coming together
1421 again for me. This release features much copying and pasting. Yeah.
1423 Sean: I can't wait for everything to be core/ui split!
1425 Christian: This is a good release, and I don't think people will have
1426 too many problems. There are a lot of little nice feature additions,
1427 and much progress has been made on the core/UI split. We should be done
1428 in a couple of releases, assuming we can get the remaining two or three
1429 parts core/UI-split. Oh, and plugin authors are going to hate me again,
1430 as a lot of code (specifically, the conversations code and utility
1431 functions) changed names. This is a Good Thing (TM), as always, but may
1432 require modifications to some plugins. Not all, fortunately, but some
1433 :) Many SSL problems were fixed, though we still have some to go. If
1434 you don't have SSL, you now need it for MSN. MSN won't even load without
1435 it. Starting October 15th, the old protocol won't be supported
1436 anymore, so there's no reason to support the old one anymore.
1438 Herman: I bet some plugin authors have resorted to making voodoo dolls
1439 of Christian. Nothing new for Win Gaim users other than a fix for
1440 missing aim buddy icons, and removal of gtk-wimp (until it matures).
1442 Mark: People are going to make a voodoo doll of me and shower it with
1443 kisses and chocolate women: When an AIM user is away, you can now view
1444 the person's away message in their tooltip. This is very similar to
1445 what iChat does, only our tooltip will wrap lines rather than displaying
1446 off your screen :-)
1448 Nathan: Chocolate women are cool, but I'm a bigger fan of the real kind.
1449 I re-wrote the Jabber support from scratch, so now there's at least one
1450 person who knows what's going on with it. I got lost in the old code,
1451 even in the parts I wrote. It now supports the SASL login stuff from
1452 the XMPP protocol specs, and will automagically upgrade the conncetion
1453 to SSL if it's supported. If anything doesn't work like it did before,
1454 it's probably better, and you should be thankful for it.
1456 Ethan: I'm sure I'll be showered with all kinds of wonderful things,
1457 but I doubt it's because I did anything. The reason being that I
1458 really don't think I did anything. I meant to do some gaim_
1459 prepension and documentation for IRC and Tcl, and handle IRC errors
1460 more responsibly, but I've been meaning to do that for months.
1461 Except the Tcl part, the Tcl plugin hasn't even existed for months.
1462 I figure if I write enough NEWS no one will notice I didn't do
1463 anything during the release cycle. Oh, I did close some bugs. I
1464 didn't fix them, mind you, I just closed them. With abandon.
1465 Don't tell Luke.
1467 Luke: Mmmm, I probly did even less than Ethan, except I closed rather
1468 more bugs for other reasons. Lots of you submitting duplicate bugs.
1469 This should be a pretty good release. We still have a couple crashes
1470 in ssl stuff, but we fixed a number of the bugs in the tracker, and
1471 the code cleaning helps alot as well. Enjoy!
1473 0.70 (9/28/2003):
1474 Sean: Yahoo! works (for now). That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1475 Huge thanks to our dear friends over at Cerulean Studios, creators of
1476 Trillian, for helping us out.
1478 Nathan: This release also works out most of the kinks in the new
1479 contact support. The Jabber goodies I promised will have to wait
1480 for now.
1482 Christian: I didn't really do anything except fix a couple of issues
1483 loading protocol plugins that had plugin dependencies and getting perl
1484 to install where we tell it to. I had hoped that 0.70 would include
1485 a finished libgaim, but Yahoo kind of wrecked that dream. We'll see it
1486 within the next few releases. Life has been busy in a good way :)
1488 0.69 (9/24/2003):
1489 Sean: MSN and Yahoo! work. That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1491 Herman: Win Gaim has been around for more than a year now.. Time Flies.
1493 Nathan: {{Meta,}{Contact,Buddy},Person} support for all! Also, SSL
1494 support for Jabber makes its debut. More Jabber goodies next release.
1496 Christian: It's a good release. The main highlight really is
1497 Nathan's Contact support, which is just beautiful. My buddy list
1498 shrunk considerably. As Sean stated, MSN and Yahoo! work. MSN
1499 does not support the new MSN buddy icons and stuff, unfortunately,
1500 but we'll see about 0.70. There were a whole bunch of Perl fixes,
1501 so hopefully there will be less complaints directed to my code in
1502 that area ;) Among other new additions of mine are SSL support
1503 (both Mozilla NSS and GNUTLS), Plugin IPC (letting plugins talk to
1504 each other), and some visual niceties in the Accounts window.
1505 Ka-Hing Cheung put in animated smileys, which should please many.
1506 Yeah, good release. Just you wait until 0.70 though.
1508 Robot101: Hi mom. My patch isn't in this release. Watch for the next
1509 one.
1511 Mark: Metacontact support, yeah. Right click on a dude and
1512 select "Expand."
1514 Ethan: God bless the USA.
1516 0.68 (09/01/2003):
1517 Rob: Wow. I am so incredibly tired.
1519 Sean: School starts tomorrow! How fun! I'll have more time to hack
1520 gaim (isn't that supposed to be the reverse?)*
1522 *Some NEWS recycled from v0.10.0
1524 Nathan: I didn't do much for this release, except make Jabber
1525 registration work, and put in a slight tweak to make Gaim work a
1526 little better with jabberd2. Next release you'll all see what I've
1527 been spending my time on, but for now enjoy the fruits of everyone
1528 else's labor.
1530 Mark: I've been really busy with other stuff, but I've spent my
1531 Gaim-time on working towards a more formal translation process.
1532 Hopefully this will result in Gaim shipping with more complete
1533 translation files. Also, all our awesome translators are mentioned
1534 in the about window now.
1536 Christian: I've been really busy with this stuff. Gaim got a new
1537 signal architecture, which is just really cool. The old events system
1538 is gone. Now you connect a signal from a handle (which can be
1539 a plugin or whatever) to a function, and plugins can register their
1540 own functions, and other neat things. Oh yeah, and perl was rewritten.
1541 There's a new HOWTO in the Doxygen docs (make docs), but no API
1542 reference yet. Developers, look at the plugins/perl/common/*.xs files
1543 for now. I also wrote plugin dependencies, which will be more useful
1544 down the road. Gaim v0.69 is going to have the new MSN plugin that
1545 works with the latest MSN protocol. Please be patient for that, as
1546 we're getting a lot of MSN questions we answer over and over.
1548 Luke: Wow, I actually did something for this release besides commit
1549 translations! Well, sorta. I got permission to commit some patches
1550 so gaim now has color support for yahoo, and you can fetch some
1551 basic info on yahoo and msn users. Yay for people submitting patches!
1553 0.67 (08/14/2003):
1555 Rob: I live in Georgia. I don't care about blackouts. We only
1556 have to deal with floods and tornadoes.
1558 Sean: Fortunately me for me, I live in the only place in New York
1559 that still has power tonight! New features in 0.6@%f)*2.{\
1560 NO CARRIER
1562 Christian: I guess Sean couldn't be here to tell you about all the
1563 great new things. New stuff was done! It's simply amazing. Yeah. So,
1564 new IRC protocol plugin, tab text is greyed on events (like "So and
1565 so has signed off!"), protocol icons on tabs (thanks to Etan Reisner),
1566 some dialog rewrites.. Great stuff. Gaim's looking more teh perrty.
1567 My big "wow" thing is that the core and UI were split enough for me
1568 to remove the remaining UI code and make a patch, and libgaim was born,
1569 for experimental purposes. However, using it, I was able to make the
1570 second UI ever for Gaim - Gaim for Qtopia (Zaurus and iPaq PDAs).
1571 This is viewable at http://qpe-gaim.sf.net/ (shameless plug?). More
1572 UIs to come I hope! :) Exciting time in Gaim.
1574 0.66 (07/18/2003):
1575 Rob: Oops!!!! This reminds me of other silly things that we've
1576 done. I agree with what Herman is going to say. ;-)
1578 Sean: Man, 0.65 was so super lame and boring. But 0.66? WOW!
1579 This is the most incredible thing EVER. We've done tons of work
1580 since 0.65, and I'm really proud of what we came out with. Thanks
1581 to everyone who helped!
1583 Christian: Wow, I can't even begin to describe how long we've worked
1584 on this one. Monstrous release. Best ever! You won't even recognize
1585 it. If you've had account import problems, delete your accounts.xml
1586 and upgrade to 0.66. Just, wow.
1588 Herman: This is to make up for slipping off the two week release cycle.
1590 Luke: Okay, people, yes we did test 0.65 for bugs, but hey, some things
1591 slip through. This release makes up for that. This should fix the bugs
1592 0.65 introduced, at least the ones that most of you would otherwise hit.
1594 Nathan: We are so smart. S-M-R-T...I mean S-M-A-R-T.
1596 0.65 (07/16/2003):
1597 Rob: Wooo! We're finally ready for 0.65. Are you guys excited? I
1598 haven't worked on anything in this release, either. I've been
1599 working offline on a MacOSX UI. No, you're not allowed to ask
1600 me when it will be ready. If you ask me then I won't answer
1601 you. You've been warned! :-D
1603 Sean: Although I tend to go right here in the two slot in NEWS,
1604 we don't always commit in this order. This is the third time I've
1605 rewritten this because the jerks below me keep commiting while I'm
1606 writing causing mass conflictination. Grrr. Stupid jerks. Anyway,
1607 this is Gaim 0.65. Like other Gaim releases, this allows you to
1608 converse with people far away over the "Internet." That's about it.
1609 It's really not that interesting. In fact, I wouldn't even bother
1610 reading the other people's NEWS. It's all boring. There's some
1611 crap about forest fires and fangs and claws. It's really boring.
1612 Great, now Luke just committed NEWS causing more conflictination.
1613 I wouldn't bother reading his either. Oh, and I don't want to thank
1614 Megan (Cae) or Kevin (SimGuy). They're stupid jerks too. Grrr...
1616 Mark: I actually did stuff for this release. Go me. I probably
1617 shouldn't speak for all of us, but I'm going to anyway: We feel that
1618 this release is one of Gaim's best. It should be relatively bug
1619 free, and the code is cleaner than ever, thanks to lots of work by
1620 Christian and Nathan. We had some help from a few civilians
1621 finding and fixing bugs. Thanks to Megan (Cae), Ka-Hing Cheung
1622 (javabsp), and Kevin Stange (SimGuy) for their work. Man, I was just
1623 looking at Sean's NEWS entry for 0.64--that's talent. Also, stay
1624 in school. Just say no. Only you can prevent forest fires.
1626 Christian: This has been a great release. faceprint rocks, as he got
1627 things moving in the core/UI split by redoing preferences, which forced
1628 us to think about how things would be split. We now have XML
1629 preferences, accounts, pounces, and away messages. No more .gaimrc
1630 ugliness. The accounts and connection code now have new core/UI split
1631 APIs, and there is very little to do before our split is ready to be
1632 used. Rob and I are working off an experimental tarball of what will
1633 eventually be libgaim. He's working on a MacOS X UI (don't ask him
1634 about it, he'll ignore you) and I'm doing a Qtopia UI (you can ask
1635 about that, it's usable!). We added a new protocol, Trepia.
1636 Information about it can be found at http://www.trepia.com/. It's not
1637 complete, so don't send in bug reports about it not finding people in
1638 your local area, please. Oh, and lots of MSN bugs were fixed.
1639 Practically all the known ones. I feared 0.65 would be unstable due to
1640 our rewrites, I believe this is going to be one of the most stable
1641 releases we've had in awhile (knock on wood), thanks to Megan (Cae),
1642 who has done an amazing job at locating, categorizing and documenting
1643 the various bugs she has run into, and kevin (SimGuy). Stay tuned for
1644 upcoming releases. Neat things are coming, but if it has fangs and
1645 claws, curl into a ball. Or yell at it. I can't remember which is
1646 correct.
1648 Luke: Wow! Finally releasing 0.65! Christian, Nathan, and Mark have
1649 worked really hard for this release, all the credit goes to them.
1650 The new preferences are awesome, and there are more bugs fixed for
1651 this release than in the last 3 or 4 releases. Your MSN should work
1652 reliably again, your preferences saved, your accounts resort, the
1653 list goes on and on. A couple preferences, most notably your buddy
1654 list sorting preference won't be imported, but almost all of them
1655 will be and its probly a good idea for you to take a second look
1656 through preferences again anyway, alot of you are starting to
1657 forget that things are optional again. :-)
1659 Nathan: I think I did something for this release a while ago. I've
1660 got a mailbox full of commit emails, and some have my name on them,
1661 so I must have done something, right? Probably some minor jabber stuff,
1662 and lots of crazy bugfixes. It was a team effort, I'd like to thank the
1663 academy, our producer Rob Flynn, and of course all the fans. You rock.
1665 Herman: I was told to write something.. so here it goes. Windows users
1666 will be happy to know that they can now rearrange their Buddy Lists.
1667 I finally got stuck into GTK+ code and fixed the bug in question (this
1668 release will include a patched version of GTK+ 2.2.1). I integrated
1669 the WinGaim systray code into the docklet plugin bringing those nice
1670 docklet features (i.e. Message queuing) to WinGaim. Another major
1671 WinGaim change of note is that debug versions of all dlls can now be
1672 built, providing useful backtraces not only for gaim.dll but for the
1673 plugins as well.
1675 0.64 (05/29/2003):
1676 Rob: I didn't do anything this release either. We're under a crunch
1677 week at work. Friday is the end of the crunch. Hooray!! Thanks for
1678 all of your hard work, guys :).
1680 Sean: Unlike every other time we say, "the next release will be loaded
1681 with cool new features, this time, we really mean it. In fact, they're
1682 already in CVS (don't use CVS). The only obvious new feature for 0.64
1683 is buddy list sorting. This has been much requested and can be set in
1684 the buddy list preferences. You can sort by name, by status, and even
1685 by log file size--putting people you talk to most at the top. Plugins
1686 can even easily add their own sorting methods. It's all very cool. I
1687 want to thank Luke and Ka-Hing for their initial work on it. And yes,
1688 I did make my entire NEWS entry justified on purpose.
1690 Christian: I have a few new goodies in 0.64, but they're mostly
1691 back-end stuff that people like us care about. The things that most
1692 of you will like the most is that almost all of the reported MSN
1693 bugs were fixed. Users with an empty contact list can now login again.
1694 The friendly name bug is gone. E-mail notifications work again. Yay!
1695 We have some big changes in store for 0.65. Careful if you use CVS...
1696 Things will break. :)
1698 Mark: I never really have anything important to add. I'd just like to
1699 thank Jack Daniels for his exquisite bug reports. And whiskey.
1701 Nathan: I don't think I did anything for this release. I'm a bum.
1703 0.63 (05/16/2003)
1704 Rob: Wow, so, what can I say? I've been rather AWOL for the past few
1705 releases. However, that's okay. Work has been pretty friggin hec-
1706 tic, so, that's my excuse. Work is finally going to be slowing down
1707 some. I plan to be doing more Gaim work. That makes me happy. That
1708 makes you happy. That makes us all happy. Now, I just need to
1709 finish rebuilding my car's engine. Engine rebuilds put the FU in
1710 fun!
1712 Sean: Yay! School is finally over. I have to give tons of cherry-
1713 flavored props to everyone whose been helping out while I stayed away
1714 from Gaim to keep myself from failing again, especially Christian and
1715 Nathan.
1717 Luke: Okay, this is NOT a bug fix release, at least for those of you
1718 who use MSN. Christian put in a TON of effort rewritting the MSN prpl,
1719 mega props to him on this release. In other news, we have alot of bugs
1720 fixed, and a goodly number of the translations are more up to date
1721 than they were in earlier releases. There are some other significant
1722 changes, but they are mostly backend stuff, yay for core/ui splits ;-)
1724 Christian: As Sean and Luke said, I did a tiny bit of work in this
1725 release. The MSN prpl was rewritten, and should now work better. It's
1726 compatible with the MSNP7 protocol that MSN v4.x uses. Unfortunately,
1727 MSNP9 is being worked on. Bah. Also, it has MSN Mobile support, so you
1728 can register your MSN account with http://mobile.msn.com/ and people
1729 can page your mobile device. You can also page other MSN Mobile users.
1730 Groups are now stored on server. Oh, and due to the nature of MSNP7,
1731 conversations are timed out after 5 minutes, so you'll unfortunately
1732 see a message indicating that. Sorry! I wrote experimental support
1733 for my own implementation of MSN buddy icons. You can set them in your
1734 account settings much like with AIM, and when you talk to other gaim
1735 users, they'll get your buddy icon. This will last for a few releases,
1736 until the buddy icon implementation in the upcoming MSNP9 protocol is
1737 figured out, and we have support for that. That'll be a couple months
1738 away at least. Also, we have a rewrite of the plugin interface, so
1739 rewrite your plugins! Things are going to get very cool from it. The
1740 debug API was core/UI split, and some enhancements were made to the
1741 debug window. I think that's all from me. It's been a fun release.
1742 Stay tuned, I have some great things coming up!
1744 Nathan: It seems like 0.62 was forever and a day ago. I had to look
1745 at the ChangeLog to remember what I did. Apparently I made it so you
1746 can put chats in your buddy list. And then I tweaked a bunch of stuff
1747 and fixed a bunch of crashes. Then exams came, and then I went home
1748 for a week and left my laptop's power cable here at school, so I didn't
1749 get anything done. Jabber will get all sorts of fun new stuff for
1750 the next release. Really. ;-)
1752 0.62 (04/23/2003):
1753 Sean: This is just another standard bi-weekly Gaim release. Nothing
1754 really interesting, but it has some good bugfixes. Personally, I've
1755 been a bit removed from Gaim development lately what with school getting
1756 tough and stuff, but the rest of the guys have really been doing great
1757 work without me. Thanks, guys.
1759 Christian: I can't remember what I did here.. Think I'll take a quick
1760 look at the ChangeLog.... Okay, guess I was useless. That's okay,
1761 though, because I have some really cool stuff going into 0.63. Plugin
1762 authors will hate me for it. A rewrite of the plugins interface! This is
1763 actually a Good Thing (TM). Anyhow, upgrade to this release, and tell
1764 your friends. 33 Gaim users can't be wrong!
1766 Luke: I didn't do much here besides the odd translation patch and a
1767 couple bug fix patches. This is primarily a bug fix release, and much
1768 needed at that. Didn't get a chance to write sorting code, work has been
1769 busy. Hopeefully it will happen for 0.63.
1771 Mark: Gaim is coming along quite beautimously. I'm going to eat
1772 my Pop-tarts now.
1774 Nathan: oh dot sixty two. There are a lot of bugs fixed in this
1775 release, and one major new feature. Our Jabber plugin now supports
1776 XHTML-IM. In plain english, this means that you can now format your
1777 jabber messages, and other people will see the formatting. GtkIMHTML
1778 still needs some work to get it to parse valid XHTML-IM better, but that
1779 will come in time. That time would come sooner if my CS prof accepted
1780 "I was hacking on Gaim" as a valid excuse for an extension ;-)
1782 0.61 (04/07/2003):
1783 Rob: Nathan commited his news first. However, I'm cooler so I'm putting
1784 my entry above his. Yeah, so, there were some DnD issues with 0.60. I
1785 blame it on the rain. It was falling, falling. I blame it on the
1786 faucet. It drips all night.
1788 Sean: I committed my news after Rob. I'm cooler than Nathan (by far)
1789 but not as cool as Rob. So I go here. Actually, I didn't do anything
1790 since 0.60 other than commit some other peoples patches. The one from
1791 Dave Camp is cool. How 'bout this snow? Isn't that crazy? Oh, and
1792 thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday.
1794 Nathan: You want frequent releases? You got 'em ;-) Chip wrote some
1795 cool new pounce stuff, and things shouldn't get weird when you drag
1796 groups and buddies around. It's bad enough having 1 of some of my
1797 buddies on my list, I definitely don't need duplicates. Being that I
1798 have class in the morning, I'll just raise my juice glass for this one.
1800 Christian: I'm not as cool as Rob, Sean, or Nathan, so I go down here.
1801 Well, among some of the fixes is my new buddy pounce code! This adds new
1802 buddy pounce types, core/ui splitifies the code, and makes the dialog
1803 box spiffy. Yay frequent releases! Erm, I can't think of anything else
1804 cool to say here. Have fun, everyone!
1806 Luke: Okay, i'm probly the least cool, so I'll go last. I committed a
1807 few patches from other people here, nothing earth shattering though. The
1808 biggest thing in this release is the group re-ordering bug fix, having
1809 that fixed will make for fewwer questions. Get used to using releases
1810 people, we want to use cvs for actual development :-).
1812 Mark: I didn't want to write any news without actually having done
1813 anything, so I fixed a meaningless compile warning. Boo-yeah.
1815 Sean: Luke can't spell "fewer". How un-cool is that?
1817 0.60 (04/04/2003):
1818 Rob: Wow. So, it has been a really long time since we started the
1819 gtk2 fork. It's finally ready for public consumption. Sean is about
1820 to go out and buy a case of beer. My roommate is downstairs right
1821 now pouring me a shot of his choice. Everyone, raise your beers if
1822 you've got them. It's been a cool almost 10-months of development.
1823 I hope you all enjoy. Drink'em if you got'em!
1825 Sean: I'm writing this 3 minutes before my 21st birthday. Nobody can
1826 believe we're finally ready to relase 0.60. Many thanks to everyone
1827 who helped out; I'm convinced that Gaim 0.60 is the best IM client to
1828 date (only to be bested by 0.61). There's WAY too much stuff to mention.
1829 Even the ChangeLog is somewhat incomplete. Yay, I'm 21 now! Everyone
1830 enjoy! :)
1832 Nathan: Happy birthday Sean! Rob decided to let me start cleaning up
1833 after everyone, so here I am. "sexy" is the only word that can be used
1834 to describe 0.60. Prepare to be shocked and amazed. /me raises his
1835 (shot) glass ;-)
1837 Christian: Geeeeeze this took a long time. Worth it though! Personally,
1838 I thought we'd all just give up on releases altogether and tell
1839 everybody just to grab CVS. I'm pretty happy with this release. I was
1840 able to contribute quite a bit to it. Makes me feel proud to be a gaim
1841 developer! I'm really looking forward to the future releases. I have
1842 some neat stuff planned. Yay, I'm still 19! Mmmm, Sierra Mist. Make me a
1843 sammich!
1845 Mark: Whoops, I started drinking a little earlier than I was supposed
1846 to. I guess I missed the memo. Hmm, I ate at a restaurant somewhere,
1847 I think it was at Snowshoe, and the menu had "sammiches" on it. It was
1848 pretty sweet. I'd like to give a shout out to all the Gaim
1849 devizelopers for rizocking the hizzy the past few months. Word.
1852 0.59 (06/24/2002):
1853 Rob: I guess Sean is busy at home or something and Jim is asleep.
1854 I'm very tired but it's time for a release. Enjoy. :)
1855 SORRY FOR THE DELAY. :(
1857 Sean: It's been a long time since our last release, and for no
1858 good reason either. Rob and I just haven't been able to get together
1859 to do it. But now we have. Aside from some Jabber changes and some
1860 crucial MSN fixes, most of this release's changes are transparent,
1861 but none-the-less important. Well get some better changes when my
1862 computer works again, you have my word*
1864 *My word is worthless.
1867 0.58 (05/13/2002):
1868 Rob: Yeah, so, my computer has been bad which is why the release
1869 didn't go out on time. Oh well. I would like to welcome
1870 Jim Seymour aboard the development team. He's going to be taking
1871 over the work on our Jabber code as well as doing various other
1872 nit picking. He likes to pick nits, nats, and umm, knots, I think.
1874 Sean: This release has a long ChangeLog. Higlights include an
1875 important security fix for MSN and a few nice new features.
1876 Not *much* cooler than 0.57--but we're making progress ;)
1878 Jim: Hmmm... Rob said I have to say *something*, so here it is:
1879 Rob's a mango.
1881 0.57 (04/25/2002):
1882 Rob: Not too much in this release, as Sean said below. (This is
1883 what happens when the bottom person goes first.) New translation,
1884 a few fixes, secure msn hotmail logins, blah blah blah. As Sean
1885 said, the next release will be cooler. If only you could read
1886 our minds ;-).
1888 Sean: Nothing too special here, but a critical Yahoo fix that
1889 ensures Yahoo! will work when they discontinue the old protocol
1890 all the other 3rd party clients are using. Next release will be
1891 cooler, I promise.
1893 0.56 (04/11/2002):
1894 Rob: Well, what do you know. I have another headache. I always have
1895 these damned headaches. I got pissed off with the way GtkTree looks.
1896 I wanted to move to using GtkCTree. I think they're pretty.
1897 Unfortunately, GtkCTree sucks. After a little digging through
1898 the code, I managed to molest GtkTree into looking like
1899 GtkCTree. Thanks to everyone that helped track down that one
1900 annoying style problem.
1902 Sean: Hello. This is another minor release while Rob and I finish
1903 up on some bigger projects. We're reworking a lot of the UI to make
1904 it easier to use, nicer looking, and more compatible with gtk2.
1905 I've also been trying to bring the Yahoo plugin up to date, so it
1906 will work for Indian users and avoid a potential problem in the near
1907 future.
1909 0.55 (03/29/2002):
1910 Rob: 0.55 is here. I've been away for a few days on business. Sean
1911 has been on Spring Break. Therefore, this release is mostly a patch
1912 release. It does fix some bugs and makes a few thing slightly cooler,
1913 so it's better in that aspect, I suppose. Enjoy.
1915 Sean: This is mostly a bugfix release. I'm on Spring Break, not
1916 doing any coding at all. But lots of people sent in great patches
1917 anyway. Thanks guys!
1919 0.54 (03/14/2002):
1920 Rob: Well, here we are. 0.54. We got a lot of fun things in this
1921 release. Better working SSI, Image sending, protocol specific
1922 smiley faces, and a whole lot of triscuits. *gobble*
1924 Sean: We fixed a lot of bugs in this one, and probably introduced
1925 a bunch too. ;) We were both really busy, and did all the coding
1926 late at night when we were tired, so if something isn't working,
1927 it's probably just tired code. Enjoy the triscuits!
1929 0.53 (02/28/2002):
1930 Rob: Well, we missed yesterday's release. That's Okay, I head a
1931 nasty headache. You can all just deal. ;-)
1934 Sean: Neat Goodies! Whee!! Oscar got a lot of great additions.
1935 It can do Screen Name formatting, it can save and store your buddy
1936 list on the server, it can do typing notifications in Direct
1937 Connections, and yes, it can receive IM Images! Sending images will
1938 be added in the next release. MSN and Yahoo! can do typing
1939 notification too. Hooray!
1942 0.52 (02/17/2002):
1943 Rob: Well, after a long delay we're finally ready for another release.
1944 I finally got settled into my new apartment, the new job is going
1945 well, and I finally have internet connectivity again. You can expect
1946 us to be back on our usually bi-monthly schedule. Enjoy these fixen,
1947 as they resolve a few connectivity issues. :-)
1949 Sean: It looks like things are back on track now. Eric left which is
1950 sad. He's done so much for Gaim, and I know we're all thankful.
1951 Thanks Eric! I'll be stepping in and do more development, but I can
1952 never replace Eric. This release fixes a long-standing problem in
1953 MSN. If you've gotten errors when trying to connect to MSN, you want
1954 this release. If you've suddenly found yourself unable to connect to
1955 Yahoo!, you want this release too. The "neat goodies" will be in the
1956 next release ;)
1958 Rob: Operation Evil does not exist! ;-)
1961 0.51 (01/24/2002):
1962 Rob: Well, here we go. I FINALLY got around to making a release
1963 after over a month, Sorry for the delay, all. Things got really
1964 hectic around the gaim house hold. This release isn't as complete
1965 as I had hoped, but I promised to get something out. There's some
1966 neat goodies in mind for the next release, right Sean? :-)
1969 0.50 (12/13/2001):
1970 Rob: I am tired. Tonight was weird. Bleh!!!!
1972 Eric: I second that.
1974 0.49 (11/29/2001):
1975 Rob: *still mamboing*
1977 Whew! That was a bad little mambo. I hope everyone had a nice
1978 little Holiday, if you celebrate. If not, then I hope you had
1979 a sucky weekend. :-D.
1981 Oh, lots of cheese for everyone!! (Beware the duffle)
1983 It's getting cloudy. I think it's going to storm somethin'
1984 fierce. That's my southern talk. Do you like it?
1986 Eric: I want to be like you.
1988 Do the cha cha cha!
1990 0.48 (11/18/2001):
1991 Rob: Hi! It's 4:12am! I'm watching The Simpsons. :).
1992 Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking! :) There's not
1993 too much for me to say in this release. I'd just like to
1994 thank Eric for his hard work. :)
1996 Eric: Everybody mambo!
1998 0.47 (11/01/2001):
1999 Rob: Hi. Gaim v0.47 has been released, as you should already
2000 know. I hope all of you had a nice little halloween. There are
2001 quite a number of changes in this release. There are a few too
2002 many to list here, so I will redirect you to ye olde ChangeLog.
2004 Eric: Remember back in the day when TOC was the only protocol
2005 Gaim could use? Remember the login window from back then? Back
2006 before Gaim had perl or plugins or multiple connections or
2007 10 different protocols. Things have changed so much since then.
2008 Many more changes in this release as well. All good things.
2009 Don't forget to talk to SmarterChild.
2011 0.46 (10/18/2001):
2012 Rob: Hey guys! The smores were great! I really enjoyed meeting
2013 up with all of you guys and singing campfire songs. It was
2014 really awesome. Thanks for the beer, too. Next time, it's on me.
2016 This release has quite the number of bug fixes. I won't bother
2017 going into detail here. Just ust it, love it, live it - SEGA!
2019 Eric: Lots of fixes. Things compile well now. ICQ has stopped
2020 crashing on PPC and Sparc. If you know someone who isn't using
2021 Gaim because it was unstable, please get them to try this
2022 version. It's much better, I promise.
2024 0.45 (10/04/2001):
2025 Eric: Well, it seems that the time has come for yet another
2026 release. There are several yummy additions in this release, and
2027 quite a few useful bugfixes as well. Unfortunately it seems that
2028 Rob is currently unavailable; he joins us in spirit. He'll be
2029 joining us later for a group sing-along and smores by the
2030 campfire. But for now, you'll need to keep yourselves occupied
2031 with 0.45. And remember, a happy hacker is a pimpin' penguin.
2033 0.44 (09/20/2001):
2034 Rob: Another release has come upon us. There were actually quite
2035 a number of things in ye old ChangeLog for this release. I don't
2036 feel like talking about them here, so you can read about them
2037 in ... you guessed it .. the ChangeLog. Oh, and if you're
2038 wondering about setting buddy icons, wait til 0.45 or
2039 use CVS shortly after this release. ;-)
2041 Eric: You should all be using CVS anyway. This has become the
2042 slogan in our IRC room, #gaim on irc.openprojects.net. The IRC
2043 plugin got lots of updates (mostly because I felt bad about using
2044 X-Chat for IRC when gaim supposedly had an IRC plugin), so you
2045 should load the plugin and join us. :)
2047 0.43 (09/06/2001):
2049 Rob: Well, I knew that the day would eventually come. I just didn't
2050 expect it to be so soon. ;-). Yes, that's right, Eric and I finally
2051 got sick of all of the pre releases. We didn't want to make this
2052 release an official 0.11.0. We thought that it would cause a lot
2053 of confusion. We didn't want to continue our trend of prereleases
2054 either. So, since gaim was first released officially, there
2055 have been 42 releases. This is number 43, hence the 0.43 version
2056 number. We're going to stick with this trend from now on. :-).
2058 Eric: We're also going to be starting a release early, release
2059 often trend, that hopefully we'll stick to this time. Hopefully
2060 we'll be putting out a new release every two weeks or so. You
2061 should all be using CVS anyway :) And as always, don't forget to
2062 report bugs! Anyway, since there's only been 9 days since the
2063 last release not much has changed. A bug-fix release and a version
2064 change mostly :)
2066 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
2067 Eric: This isn't a real release. Really. It's just a quick thing
2068 because pre14 doesn't cut it for some people. Also not counting
2069 the month break that I took it's been a month since the last
2070 release, so it's about time. You should all be using CVS anyway.
2071 Instructions are at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/cvs.shmtl. And
2072 don't forget to report bugs! http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php3.
2074 Rob: Hey guys. I've been rather inactive as well. It's a long
2075 story, but essentially, my company layed off a bunch of people,
2076 myself included, due to poor management. I've taken a new
2077 job which required moving across the country. I'm finally back
2078 online. Once I manage to actually get a desk at home I'll be
2079 able to code with out infliciting intense pain upon my lower
2080 back and neck. So, basically, we were inactive, but not dead.
2082 Also, just to keep you all updated, the AOL battle is still
2083 in progress. Our lawyers are still in negotiation with thiers.
2084 We'll keep you updated with what happens.
2086 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
2087 Eric: Wee. Lots of fun things. BIG bug fix release. I did a lot of
2088 stupid things in the last one, hehe. You all forgive me though,
2089 right?
2091 Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.
2092 Remember that. It's a great Scott Adams quote.
2094 Rob: I feel naughty. I should have released this a lot earlier
2095 in the day. I have a problem though. I started cooking, invited
2096 a couple friends over for dinner and then took a walk to a
2097 24hr doughnut shop where I sat outside and talked about
2098 random stuff. Oh well, at least it's still before the 18th.
2100 Enjoy this release guys! :-)
2103 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
2104 Rob: \O. Howdy doodie! This release isn't coming too far behind
2105 the previous release but hey, what can ya say, there were a couple
2106 of good fixes in this one. Jabber & IRC can set / view the topics
2107 of chat rooms now, napster doesnt crash on bad login names and
2108 passwords, and the man page got a big update.
2110 Well, that's about all, folks. Next release, I hope to try to get
2111 group MSN chat support added as well as DCC support in the IRC
2112 plugin.
2114 Peace!
2116 Eric: I apologize if any of you had to restart your X server because
2117 of me. This release won't make you have to do that, I promise. There
2118 were a couple other minor fixes with the buddy icon stuff, it still
2119 has a way to go but at least it's better than it was before. Oh yeah,
2120 and Oscar is able to sign on again.
2122 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
2123 Rob: Hi! O/. My girlfriend was visiting me so I've been busy being
2124 unavailable online. Hooray.
2126 There have been a lot of good changes in this release. Some improved
2127 dialogs, some updates to IRC and MSN, as well as a nifty little thing
2128 that Eric did that I'll let him tell you about.
2130 Oh yeah, I also got food poisoned by bad eggs. Ugh!
2132 Eric: Every protocol except TOC has been improved since the last
2133 release. All of them except Zephyr and ICQ now use the same proxy
2134 options, which you can set in the preferences. ICQ can use them if
2135 you set it to Socks5 though.
2137 There are a bunch of other good additions and fixes for each
2138 protocol which you can read about in the ChangeLog. And, there's one
2139 super cool feature that everyone seems to be asking for: Buddy Icons.
2140 Right now you can only receive them and only in Oscar, but hey, they're
2141 there.
2143 So that's it. Have fun with it :)
2145 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
2146 Rob: I bought a big carton of juice today. It is now 50% empty.
2147 A lot of the plugins got some new options and/or improvements. I
2148 have a headache right now, though, so I won't say much. I'll let
2149 Eric talk :)
2151 Eric: I uh. I bought 72 cans of soda yesterday. It only cost $15
2152 or so. I figure I'll be through it in less than two weeks. A
2153 dollar a day on soda isn't so bad. For the fourth release in a row,
2154 Oscar is fixed. Isn't that exciting. Judging from history I'd say
2155 that it won't stay fixed long; but judging from what I know has
2156 changed, we shouldn't have any more troubles.
2158 Rob: --. .- .. -- / .. ... / --. .-. . .- - --..-- / --. .- .. -- /
2159 .. ... / --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-
2161 I don't have a headache anymore! Hooray! Eric got a good deal on those
2162 drinks. I bought some bananas. They're very green. Oh, and I cooked
2163 a steak last night. It was 16 oz. It was good.
2165 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
2166 Rob: EEP! It's Friday the 13th!!! I think I fixed a few buggies
2167 in MSN and then added some new features to IRC. I have a headache
2168 right now, though, so I won't talk much. I think I'm going to go
2169 to sleep. Next release, I should have a good bit more done on
2170 IRC and will have made Napster more stable. Have fun!!
2172 Eric: There's a new protocol plugin, Zephyr. Don't use it! unless
2173 you know what Zephyr is, and have zhm set up correctly. Also there
2174 were a lot of other good bugfixes (like registering for Jabber
2175 accounts!) and a few neat features. In this release, Oscar is also
2176 working, but we'll see how long that lasts, eh?
2178 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
2179 Rob: Well, looks AOL was doing something naughty earlier this
2180 morning. Thanks to a very nice guy named Adam Fritzler (you
2181 all know him from libfaim) we're now back online. Thanks,
2182 Adam. I'll buy you a drink sometime :-).
2184 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
2185 Eric: Oo wow :) So I guess the big news is that this release should
2186 help you avoid the battle between Jabber and AOL. Most protocols
2187 got a few good bugfixes; thanks to people who pointed them out :).
2188 Hopefully for the next release I'll make it so you can register a
2189 jabber.org account, and then you can support Jabber using Gaim.
2190 I think (I *think*) Oscar blocking is working now. Haha, get it?
2191 Oscar blocking? It took me a while to get it, too. But no, really,
2192 I think that the permit/deny list in Oscar might be working.
2194 Rob: MSN got some fixes and should be really stable now. It had
2195 a little 100% CPU eating bug but that's taken care of now. Next
2196 on my list of repairs is the napster plugin. It works -- sorta --
2197 sometimes. Heh. As all of you probably know already, our Oscar
2198 support was broken yesterday. There's a little battle going on
2199 between AOL and Jabber and we caught a bullet during the crossfire.
2200 I think I just won the award for the most cliches used in one
2201 paragraph, as a matter of fact. ;-).
2203 ** Good luck to the Jabber guys in getting this resolved **
2206 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
2207 Rob: Hey! I finally rewrote the MSN plugin. Sorry, I'm just
2208 a lazy code whore sometimes, heheh. It pretty much has the same
2209 functionality as before with the exception of instability. I
2210 didn't really like that feature very much so I removed it. I hope
2211 you guys don't mind too terribly much ;-).
2213 Eric: In this week's installment of gaim you'll find a new Yahoo!
2214 library and an option to have all conversations in one window,
2215 in addition to numerous bug fixes and other improvements. Don't
2216 forget to send us your feedback. If there's something you want
2217 added, changed, or fixed, head over to our SourceForge page at
2218 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ and tells us about it.
2221 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
2222 Eric: Yay! I get to go first!
2224 The biggest change in this release is the TODO file. Lots of things
2225 got added. There's going to be a lot of prereleases. Please help.
2226 Other than that it's mostly just a lot of bugfixes. Oscar got a few
2227 new features. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
2228 and tell us what you'd like to see in gaim. We've gotten a lot of
2229 great requests so far, thanks.
2231 I think I like releasing every week.
2233 Rob: I've been bad so Eric got to go first. The biggest change
2234 In this release is the NEWS file. It's the only thing I contributed
2235 to! heh, just kidding. This is a bug fix release, as Eric said.
2236 Next release will contain my newly rewritten MSN plugin. You guys
2237 should be happy with it :).
2239 Oh yeah, TUCAN rocks :) Oh yeah, Eric rocks too.
2242 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
2243 Rob: Yeah, I promise this is the last pre-release :-D. That seems
2244 to be a pretty common saying around here, huh? Well, I must first
2245 appologize. The protocols that I was working on really should be
2246 much more developed at this point -- they should be completed,
2247 actually. Unfortunately, my real life job (yes, I have one hehe) got
2248 a little too busy and ate up all of my free time. I promise that
2249 things will get better now :).
2251 Eric: I don't promise that this is the last pre-release. :) But
2252 hopefully releases can start coming more often than once every two
2253 months. I don't really have much else to say. It's been a slow
2254 couple of months.
2256 Rob: I promise to hack gaim again. Please don't hate me.
2258 0.11.0-pre4:
2259 Rob: HOORAY FOR DISNEYLAND!
2261 Eric: One more prerelease. I'm actually starting to think these
2262 prereleases are a good idea; a lot of people reported a lot of
2263 bugs in pre3 and most of them are fixed now. Also, it helps with
2264 the whole release early-release often philosophy.
2266 The big news in this prerelease is two more protocols: Jabber and
2267 Napster. Both of them don't have any of the features that make
2268 these services cool, yet. You can't use the transports in Jabber
2269 and you can't download file in Napster. But you will be able to,
2270 soon :)
2272 Rob and I are going on vacation starting today until after New
2273 Year's, which is a lot of the reason we wanted to get this release
2274 out; it's much improved over pre3. Happy Holidays everyone.
2276 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
2277 Rob: Well, I hadn't initially planned on an 0.11.0pre3 but it
2278 looks like it was needed. That's not necessarially a bad thing,
2279 mind you. It just means you get to see more goodies!
2281 This release includes some other fun features. See the ChangeLog
2282 for more information. Also found in this wonderful release is
2283 an MSN plugin. For all of you who have been holding onto Windows
2284 simply because you have friends on MSN Messenger that you don't want
2285 to leave, this plugin is for you! :)
2287 Guys, make sure you send us bug reports; preferably on the
2288 SourceForge bug report forum at
2289 http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/. This will allow both
2290 Eric and I to handle the bugs and will prevent either one of us
2291 from losing the bug reports that are sent via AIM :-)
2293 Eric: Hey everybody, Rob and I really want to hear what you guys want
2294 to see in gaim. Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim and
2295 leave a message in the Open Discussion forum. We've gotten a lot of
2296 good ideas so far (most of them didn't make it into this release,
2297 unfortunately).
2299 If any of you want to test out your mad coding skills, I can think of
2300 a few projects that would be incredibly useful. Send me or Rob an IM
2301 and we'll let you know how you can help. And don't forget to read the
2302 HACKING file to see how gaim's put together.
2304 This is hopefully going to be the last prerelease; now that all the
2305 protocols that we're going to be doing for 0.11.0 are available it's
2306 mostly just going to be hacking on them and getting them in usable
2307 condition before the final release. Don't forget to send us bug
2308 reports ;)
2310 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
2311 Rob: I messed up. Oh well, it's fixed.
2313 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
2314 Rob: Hey guys! Guess what!? Yup, you're correct! It's the pre1
2315 release of 0.11.0. We have all sorts of goodies in this release!
2316 Check out the ChangeLog file. As always if you find any bugs,
2317 please report them on www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/
2319 You may find several small bugs as this is still a prerelease.
2321 You may want to note that my IRC plugin does not have full
2322 functionality as of yet. All of the important / commands will be
2323 added before the final release. Also, if someone could send me
2324 some good buddylist pixmaps for the irc plugin then I'd much
2325 appreciate it. Thanks to everyone who made this new release possible!
2327 If you have any ideas, comments, or suggestions, please let us know
2328 either by e-mail or via the source forge message board at the URL
2329 above. :)
2332 Eric: So what was Yay! For Gaim!? Yay was the codename for the
2333 Yahoo plugin. The whole point of all of these changes was I wanted to
2334 make a proof-of-concept plugin that would let Gaim sign into Yahoo. It
2335 turned out to be pretty much impossible with the old code. So,
2336 Rob and I hacked gaim so we could do just that. There's now a whole new
2337 class of plugins, Protocol Plugins, that let users dynamically add new
2338 protocols to Gaim. Just load the plugin, and create a new account that
2339 uses that protocol, and you're set! Yay! (Oscar and TOC are both still
2340 static. Gaim is, after all, primarily an AIM client.)
2342 Lots of people have been very generous and contributed a lot of
2343 time and effort to writing some really nice patches for gaim since
2344 the last release. To all of you, a big thanks.
2346 0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
2347 Rob: I am dumb.
2348 Eric: I am not dumb.
2350 0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
2351 Rob: What do you want me to say for yours?
2352 Eric: What happened since the last release?
2353 Rob: You got DSL.
2354 Eric: Oh yeah, I'm more available now.
2355 Rob: On a more serious note, this is just a quick release
2356 to hold everyone over. Look for some very awesome things
2357 coming in the next version. I can't say what, just yet,
2358 but what I can say is, Yay! For Gaim!
2360 0.10.1 (09/15/2000):
2362 Rob: Hi Hi Hi! Yet another gaim release pushed out the door
2363 for you guys. I hope you all enjoy it. There was a few minor
2364 issues cleared up in this version as well as the repair of
2365 OSCAR support. Hopefully we won't run into the same problem
2366 as before. Oh well ;-). There's also a few small extra goodies
2367 in here for you guys just check out the Change Log. I hope you all
2368 enjoy and take care!
2370 Eric: Wanna know what the Oscar problem was? You'll laugh. 2 bytes.
2371 The fix was changing 0x07da to 0x0686. Anyway, aside from the fix
2372 for that, there are a couple other good things. Beware of DSL nazis.
2373 They won't give you service until 6 weeks after you order it. So um,
2374 yeah.
2376 0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
2377 Rob: Well peoples, I know that it's been a while since our
2378 last release. Here we go. Some brand spankin' new interfaces
2379 for you guys to oogle at. I hope you all enjoy it. Hopefully
2380 our next release won't take as long to finish up. Real life
2381 kind of crept up on Eric and I and took up a lot of our times.
2382 Life sucks that way sometimes. Anyways, we're back and all
2383 is well. Thanks for hanging in there guys and we hope
2384 you enjoy it!
2386 Eric: LWE was so cool. Rob and I met up there, we had a blast. But I
2387 only got to go for one day and Rob got to go for three. Lucky bastard.
2388 It's been so long since the last release that I don't even remember
2389 what's changed. But all of it is good :) Like Rob said, all kinds of
2390 new UI stuff. I think there are some new features in there too. Now
2391 I'm headed back to school so I'll have more time to hack gaim (isn't
2392 that supposed to be the reverse?), just as soon as I get my internet
2393 connection back >:-/ .
2395 Rob: Oh yeah, some of our pixmaps may need a little work. We took
2396 a lot of them from the Gnome Stock icons. If anyone could do some
2397 custom ones that stay within the 24x24 boundary and keep the same
2398 idea and feel as the gnome icons then we would be more than happy
2399 to use them. Thanks much!! Viva la LWE.
2402 0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
2403 Rob: Well, guys, I hope you enjoy this version. I've done quite a bit
2404 of work to the user interface. It's still not in the state that I
2405 would like it to be, though. Over the next few versions you will
2406 notice a few more interface changes as we try to bring a more
2407 professional look to Gaim. As always, we will stay true to our
2408 pimpin' penguin atittude.
2410 Eric: While Rob's been busy making things pretty, I've been busy
2411 making things work :). The chat and IM windows got merged, which
2412 means that they both have the same features (notably, IM has /me
2413 and chat has font/color dialogs and smileys). Also smileys should
2414 work better in general now (thanks fflew).
2416 Rob: By the way, what Eric is saying is that he's smart and I'm
2417 not and that he does all of the work and I sit on my butt all
2418 day and claim to do work. WOOO! Just kidding, brother :-P
2421 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
2422 Rob: PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2423 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2424 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2426 All of that nonsense aside, there are a few things that DIDN'T happen
2427 in this version of gaim. The user interface changes will wait until
2428 the 0.9.20 release. We've decided to turn 0.9.19 into a "new feature
2429 and major bug fix" release. All/Most major bugs should be worked out
2430 now. We're sorry about the problem of segfaulting when your buddylist
2431 stored on the server was null. Oops! We won't let it happen again,
2432 we promise.
2434 Eric: Lots of good changes in this one, including locale support. Chat
2435 had a lot of things done to it, but it's still not finished. The UI
2436 didn't get the overhaul we were planning, but we wanted to get a few
2437 bugfixes out.
2439 Lemme say something about reporting bugs. Please do. Please try to give
2440 as much information as you can. But regardless of how much information
2441 you give, please be POLITE. If you tell us our software is crap then
2442 we're probably not going to respond well.
2444 Rob: Before I close up and say goodnight, I'd like to say that I
2445 agree with Eric. Reporting problems and/or helpful criticism in
2446 a polite manner always yields the best results. Peace all, and
2447 happy hacking.
2449 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
2450 Rob: Talk about release early, release often - sheesh! We're going
2451 insane. Ya know, I'm not too happy with the Gaim UI. I dont know
2452 how the rest of you feel but it's time for a nice overhaul. In the
2453 next few days I'll be sitting down with some of my friends and coming
2454 up with an improved interface. I hope you all enjoy it. It'll
2455 include better looking dialogs, icons, sounds (hopefully lol), etc.
2457 And -- for your random silly message of the day --
2459 "Beans and Franks, Beans and Franks, Wine And Beer, Have No Fear!
2460 I can sing! I can dance! I have a penguin in my pants!"
2462 - Rob Flynn after not having enough sleep.
2464 Eric: I've had less sleep than Rob, I can guarantee you that. There's
2465 actually a lot going on in this release, despite 2 releases 2 days ago.
2466 Don't ask me how; I think the elves had something to do with it.
2468 Oscar support is almost to the point where I'm considering removing
2469 the 'experimental' label from configure. For those of you brave enough
2470 to try it, I'd like feedback. (And if you happen to write a patch to
2471 fix some of the stuff that would be really cool too.) Hopefully for the
2472 next release, in addition to the cool new UI, Gaim/Faim will be able to
2473 do nearly everything Gaim/TOC can do. (Big things coming in 0.9.19, I
2474 can feel it....)
2476 And just remember, you *can* have too many gummi candies. Especially if
2477 you eat nearly a whole kilo of them. Believe me. I know. But the gummi
2478 cherries are damn good.
2480 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
2481 Rob: I am an e-mail fiend!
2482 (after receiving 60 emails within a 5 minute period about a problem
2483 and responding to all of them immediately)
2485 I am stupid.
2487 Eric: Heh heh. 2 releases in one day. I'm impressed. Maybe one of these
2488 times we'll actually get some of it right ;) Anyway, yeah. Just bug fixes in
2489 this one.
2491 Rob: Yeah, we wouldn't be ourselves if we released it once and got it
2492 right, would we? :-)
2494 0.9.16:
2495 Rob: Blah Blah Blah.
2497 Eric: Looks like Rob didn't have much to say, so I'll write something
2498 instead :)
2500 There's a few good things in this release, the most important of them
2501 being: Better proxy support, of course. Oh yeah, and you can sign on now,
2502 so that's a good thing too. There's a few more good things going on in this
2503 release, so check out the ChangeLog.
2505 Play nicely, and we'll keep hacking away at it.
2507 Rob: Go Watch `Road Trip'.
2509 0.9.15:
2510 Hey boy's and girls. There's not much to say here this time.
2511 We're loving Southern California, the new job's going great. We just
2512 got our company website up and the product development is going pretty
2513 smooth. Life's pretty sweet now.
2515 We've hacked up all kinds of goodies for you in 0.9.15. There's
2516 some file transfer (receive) support for those of you who have been
2517 wanting it for a while. There's some other misc. goodies tossed in as
2518 well. Enjoy!! Oh yeah, we need a new website. Come up with a sweet
2519 design and get in touch with me. The current site is at:
2520 http://www.marko.net/gaim
2522 Thanks much!
2525 0.9.14:
2526 Well, there's a few random hacks and fixes in here, along with
2527 a little suprise. You guessed it, kiddos, support for plugins! Happy
2528 hacking!
2530 0.9.13:
2531 Not much to say for this release. Bug fixes, That's all. Look
2532 for the goodies I promised in 0.9.13 to appear in 0.9.14 which should be
2533 released very soon now.
2535 By the way, our CVS is now hosted over at source forge. Go check
2536 it out at http://www.sourceforge.net. Please check there before submitting
2537 any bug reports (You can read our CVS comments to see if we have fixed any
2538 problems).
2540 0.9.12:
2541 Well guys, looks like we got some nifty things in this version.
2542 TrueType Fonts are supported for those XFSTT buffs out there (or whatever
2543 else you use). A crap load of those plaguing memory leaks have FINALLY been
2544 fixed. My brother, Jeramey, and a new friend Peter Teichan helped stomp
2545 those babies out. A rad guy by the name of Eric Warmenhoven has been
2546 really sweet lately and has all but rewritten the Gnome Applet support :).
2547 He submitted patch after patch. I finally got annoyed with him (just kidding bud)
2548 and gave him CVS access. Look for Gnome Applet support in Gaim to start improving.
2549 That's about all for now. I wanted to get this release out there. File Receive
2550 support will be in 0.9.13 which is due out soon.
2552 0.9.11:
2553 Jeramey got a new Comfy Chair! Its very very comfy! Whee!
2554 Jim also had a little hyper-drunken moment and started hacking away at
2555 a new configuration format for Gaim. Looks like we're running .gaimrc
2556 version 1 now. Gotta love it. I got bored and hacked in a couple font
2557 properties that will, in time, contain more features. That's about it
2558 for this version -- cept for that memory leak we fixed. Shush! We're
2559 not plumbers! -- rob
2561 ** Extra special update **
2563 Well guys, it looks like we all stopped working on gaim, moved to California,
2564 and took up a new job. Don't worry though, those beach bums out here havent
2565 worn off on us yet. I've decided to pick up the Gaim torch myself and continue
2566 development ont he prohect. Hopefully we wont have any more five month braks in
2567 the project. Sorry about that, guys :)
2569 0.9.10:
2570 Umm. Dont ask. Silly memory leak. For those of you who
2571 wondered, you were losing about 256 bytes every 25 seconds for each
2572 person you have on your contact list. Make fun of us. Better yet ..
2573 Send us beer. We'll do better :)
2575 0.9.9:
2576 Welp, All of you boys and girls who run Mandrake and have some
2577 problems with Gaim working properly, please check out the FAQ file. It
2578 contains a nice fix submitted by one of our users. I hope this works for
2579 you guys!
2580 Jim appears to have intoxicated himself. This is, as always, a
2581 Good Thing (tm). His late-night adventure with the liquid-bread food group
2582 lead to the birth of a nice little feature called `The Lag-O-Meter'. Dont
2583 ask, just try it out :). It is pretty pointless if you have a super-fast
2584 connection but if you are a modem user, like many of us are, then try it out.
2585 There's also some idle preferences and some other little random
2586 bug fixes. Check'em out yo :)
2588 0.9.8:
2589 Get Along Lil' Doggies. Heh. Looks like we have yet another new
2590 version of gaim for you guys to play with. Be gentle now, it has a few
2591 new fetures. The HTML widget is now more robust and we have *da da da*
2592 HTTP proxy support.
2593 Oh By The Way, Do not pay too much attention to what we are doing
2594 with this release. We are all a little bit happy tonight. You must love
2595 life. This is a special release of gaim. We will be releasing some wonderful
2596 photographs soon .. or perhaps if we get the bloody webcam working then we
2597 will take a couple of quick snapshots.
2598 Looks like the Gaim developers convention (cool name huh) that we
2599 had this weekend in Auburn, AL went wonderfully :). yum yum yum. Hahahah. Oh
2600 by the way. Beware of insecure rednecks in the deli. Bad things.
2601 In (non)related news, Jeramey could not successfully slaughter the
2602 one pound hamburger that he ordered. (I think he could have done it but he
2603 wasn't feeling very well at the time).
2604 Oh Yes, New Logo Too :) You likes? Thanks, Naru!
2605 Just a little side-note: it looks like we didnt make the release that
2606 we had expected during the Gaim Convention. Maybe we partied too much? I am
2607 not sure. I remember watching the sun rise before I went to bed, though.
2608 Oh well. Here's your release! Enjoy!
2609 By The Way, we have uploaded our party pictures to a website.
2610 http://www.dorky.net/gaim/party/ They are nothing spectacular but I hope you
2611 enjoy them! :).
2613 0.9.7:
2614 Well, boys and girls, it's that time again! Yup, time for the good
2615 release fairy to come bless us with her infinite wisdom and divine presence.
2616 Umm, yeah, something like that. Anyways, this release has several little
2617 "bad" network fixes (as Jim likes to say) and a couple touch-ups to a few
2618 other features. It also features preliminary oscar support. Thanks to Jim
2619 and Adam ("the libfaim guy") hehe :) We have also corrected a problem with
2620 gaim not wainting to correctly save your password if you have an underscore
2621 in it. Thanks to w1za7d for pointing out the underscore problem. ' and \
2622 have also been fixed in passwords. :o)
2624 0.9.6:
2625 Sorry about the little segfaulting bugs in the past release. Rob
2626 is stupid. :). Anyways, they have been patched up and a couple new features
2627 have been added. I hope you guys enjoy.
2629 0.9.5:
2630 Well we added a myriad of new features to this release. (A lot of
2631 small buggie fixes too.) If you need a detailed list just check out the
2632 ChangeLog. We now have a new webpage design and have added a FAQ to the
2633 distribution. Before coming to us with any problems please take a quick
2634 look through the FAQ to make sure we havent already covered your question.
2635 Also, thanks to our beloved Web Monkey, FlynOrange, we have all
2636 learned the true power of foam weapons, slinkies, and whoopie cushions. Hmm
2637 gotta love those pranks, eh?
2639 0.8.0:
2640 Well, just starting the NEWS file. I'll try to remember what's new
2641 from the last version. Hmmm. BIG code reorg. Import/export, buddy pounce
2642 among the major new features. Autoconf script too, which is a big win.
2643 Apologies to those who submitted patches which haven't made it in.. I
2644 promise, the next version! This code reorg took up a lot of my time, and I
2645 want to get it out there.