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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 2.6.1 (08/18/2009):
6 Mark: There were a lot of changes in 2.6.0, and so a few major bugs
7 crept in. This is a very minor release to fix those bugs. Sorry for
8 the inconvenience!
10 2.6.0 (08/18/2009):
11 John: Wow, four straight releases that I'm the first to NEWS on. This
12 is getting kinda scary! I'm beginning to wonder who else actually does
13 anything around here! (Just kidding, of course.) LOTS of new features
14 and a crapton of bugfixes this release. There should pretty much be
15 something for everybody. A great example of this is the ton of Yahoo
16 changes that have happened thanks to our SoC student from 2008, Sulabh
17 Mahajan. Among his massive improvements are the ability to add MSN
18 buddies by adding them as "msn/user@domain.tld" and peer-to-peer file
19 transfers. Of course, history shows we can't please everyine, so I'm
20 sure I'll see a complaint or five thousand in trac. Enjoy, though!
22 Marcus: This is my first news! It's been quite a few microreleases this
23 time, but now we're finally at 2.6.0. I suppose the most anticipated
24 new feature in this release is the voice and video support, thanks to
25 Mike's heroic work. I've managed to slip in a few features too, like
26 in-band bytestream file transfers as a fallback on XMPP and idle time
27 reporting on XMPP. Enjoy!
29 Paul: This is my first news, too! This release has definitely been a
30 long time coming; hopefully it won't disappoint since we've closed over
31 200 tickets. Among other things, Tobias Markmann's GSoC project from
32 last year was merged, which means we now support BOSH (XMPP connections
33 over HTTP), and Andrei Mozzhuhin contributed an XMPP Service Discovery
34 Browser. Also, thanks to Bernmeister for poking (at least) several
35 hundred old tickets!
37 Mike: Ditto. This is my first news as well. I have a feeling this is
38 getting repetitive at this point, but voice and video support is
39 finally here! Thanks to the rest of the Pidgin team, Farsight 2, and
40 GStreamer developers for making this possible! (I finally finished my
41 Summer of Code project :D)
43 Elliott: Hey, this is my firs... Wait, no it isn't. Now I feel left
44 out. So have you heard about this voice and video thing?
45 Unfortunately, not quite ready for all protocols, but it's getting
46 there. MSN gained support for receiving voice clips at least, and
47 finally we have Ink receiving capabilities too. Thanks to the guys
48 who wrote the original patch. And finally, MSN no longer has over a
49 100 tickets open!
51 2.5.9 (08/18/2009):
52 John: This release is just a crash fix release to address a security
53 issue reported to us by CORE and a couple crashes Elliott found.
55 2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
56 John: This release is another somewhat rushed bugfix release to fix
57 a number of bugs that have come up since we released Pidgin 2.5.7.
58 Hopefully anything I broke there is fixed now, or at least made to be
59 less broken. Enjoy!
61 2.5.7 (06/20/2009):
62 John: This release is really just a rushed fix for the broken Yahoo
63 protocol plugin. I spent way more time on this release than I care
64 to admit, so I hope that time is well spent and this fixes the issues
65 people have been having.
67 2.5.6 (05/19/2009):
68 Ka-Hing: Many much bugfixes. Hooray. (Paul told me to say that)
69 Oh, no one has met Paul yet? He's awesome, he backported my fixes
70 to the release branch so I didn't have to checkout a
71 workspace... except I just did to NEWS to tell you all about
72 that. Oh and I actually did do something for this release, none of
73 which is user visible though. This basically applies to the rest
74 of the release as well, nothing exciting, but you definitely want
75 it.
77 Daniel: This should fix a number of annoying issues that some users
78 have encountered. We also would like to thank Veracode
79 (http://www.veracode.com) who performed a code analysis and found some
80 bugs that were addressed in this release.
82 Elliott: I feel like I'm repeating myself, but there are some more MSN
83 fixes that should make things better behaved at login as well, and
84 maybe you'll stop getting some of those annoying errors (though not all
85 are fixed yet). Some other bugfixes, plus the craziness that is the
86 libxml "structured error handler" make up the rest of this release.
88 2.5.5 (03/01/2009):
89 John: Well, yet another release with bug fixing and patches. Hopefully
90 one of the fixed bugs is one that irritated you. Also, thank Dimmuxx
91 for spending far too much time working on ICQ this release.
93 Elliott: Lots and lots of MSN bugfixes again (I hope they're fixed, at
94 least). I think we finally have OCS/Yahoo!/federated buddies working
95 now. And there should be some workarounds for some server things that
96 may or may not have been our fault (like buddies on Allow+Block) which
97 should make general usage a bit smoother.
99 2.5.4 (01/12/2009):
100 John: Well, we fixed a few bugs for you this time around, I applied
101 a few patches, and we've dealt with what feels like a TON of tickets
102 about two very common issues. Feels like time for a release to me.
104 Etan: My first NEWS in quite a while and I don't have much to say. I
105 haven't been too active lately and I'm hoping that won't be the case
106 going forward. I managed to get in a few perl fixes and some UI
107 language tweaks this release. My plan is to work on some of the
108 issues pointed out by mpt (during his expert review of pidgin a little
109 while back) in the near future.
111 2.5.3 (12/18/2008):
112 Mark: It's been about two months and woo-boy have we been fixing
113 bugs. Enjoy!
115 Kevin: I didn't do much of anything this release, but Mark and
116 John must be commended for their tireless efforts to fix bugs
117 and approve patches, especially in areas of Pidgin that have
118 not usually received much attention. Lots of changes have
119 been made, so definitely check the ChangeLog to see what's new.
121 John: It feels like it's been an age or two since we last released,
122 and I think it's well worth the wait. Mark has sunk more time into
123 MSN and MySpace IM this release than any sane person should be
124 allowed to, and I've sunk more time into patches than I care to
125 admit. By my count, our ChangeLog has 58 bullet points(!) and we've
126 closed 85 tickets specifically for this release. Enjoy!
128 Ka-Hing: Bring your XMPP server to 2008 some time in 2009 would be
129 nice, DreamHost!
131 Elliott: Well, I can't blame the server for this release taking so long
132 but that's just how it worked out. A few interesting MSN changes this
133 time. Hopefully, federated & Yahoo! buddies will work for you, but I'm
134 not yet certain it's ready. Mark made so many fixes, I'm not even sure
135 I recognize everything anymore, but hopefully that'll make things less
136 crashy for you.
138 2.5.2 (10/19/2008):
139 Ethan: After a bit of a struggle with our services, which put
140 this release off for an unfortunate length of time, we're
141 ready for another bugfix release for your bug-free(er?)
142 messaging pleasure.
144 Sadrul: Despite our best efforts, this release got delayed by a
145 couple of weeks. But here it is! It is mostly a bug fix release, with
146 a couple of important fixes, e.g. fix for the Yahoo! disconnect
147 problem. Also, welcome our newest Crazy Patch Writer, Marcus Lundblad,
148 who, among various other fixes, has implemented custom smileys for the
149 XMPP protocol, included in this release. Enjoy!
151 Stu: I guess this is the time of year for server migrations, and
152 I've just about had enough of them. Fortunately Pidgin is still fun,
153 and this release should be superb.
155 John: Although our services were down for quite some time, we didn't
156 lose any data, except perhaps some mail that would have failed to make
157 it to us. Overall, the only major effect it had was to delay this
158 release far longer than we expected. Hopefully the bugfixes make you
159 happy!
161 Elliott: This release took a while, but that was due to an unfortunate
162 server snafu. I didn't have much to do with it, but hopefully the new
163 servers will help us out a bit. Anyway, mostly bug-fixes this time.
164 Nothing spectacular, unless you happen to suffer from one of those bugs.
165 Oh, and don't forget, the "Has you" tooltip is back!
167 2.5.1 (08/30/2008):
168 Kevin: This release is mainly a bug-fix release. It solves a few
169 known crashes and updates some of our artwork. Google's Summer of
170 code recently finished up. Some of our students are still working
171 on their branches and none have been merged into released code yet.
172 Look for some of those results to show up in Pidgin releases over the
173 coming months.
175 Elliott: I'm just commenting so Kevin wouldn't be the only one in NEWS
176 and no-one else seems to want to. Anyway, there's a couple MSN login
177 fixes, so try it out. The contact list problems might still be around,
178 but you can probably find a workaround in trac. And there's a tooltip
179 fix for our AIM friends, not that I had anything to do with it (except
180 closing many many duplicate tickets).
182 2.5.0 (08/17/2008):
183 Daniel: Lots of good stuff in this release. Lots of people have worked
184 very hard on the updated MSN protocol, and it's finally time to bring
185 it to the world! There are myriad bugfixes, including some important
186 ones so you should be sure to update.
188 Hylke: Finally MSNP15 support. To celebrate this I refreshed a lot of
189 the smilies used in the protocol and added the long awaited indispensable
190 bunny icon. I think this is one of those releases that will make a lot
191 of users happy, especially MSN users.
193 Elliott: Oh look, my first NEWS! Well anyway, with that new MSNP15
194 support, this release is set up to be a huge success and a total flop
195 all at the same time. Here's hoping it's the "huge success" one for you.
196 Those icon changes that Hylke made, while minor, really make things look
197 a little cleaner, I think. Oh yea, did I mention that MSNP15 stuff?
199 Mark: Speaking of MSNP15, we'd like to welcome Elliott Sales de Andrade
200 as a full fledged developer! He took the last few strides mushing the
201 new MSN code into shape. Then he decided that wasn't enough and started
202 doing other great stuff.
204 Ka-Hing: "Reject"ing a certificate after your account is signed off is
205 not recommended. Deleting the file after you start sending it is also
206 discouraged.
208 2.4.3 (07/01/2008):
209 Richard: This release includes important bug fixes. I'm just cutting
210 the release. Thank you to the real heroes who did the fixing!
212 2.4.2 (5/17/2008):
213 Sadrul: We added some usability changes in this release, including the
214 typing notification, buddyicon and input area size in the conversation
215 windows, escape to close conversation windows etc. These changes should
216 make pidgin more usable and more fun for Everyone! *wink*
218 Stu: I fixed some memory leaks, but nothing like as many as Daniel did.
219 MSN buddy list synchronization should be significantly less painful now,
220 and opening MSN inboxes might work better too. SILC passphrase changes
221 and support for passphrase-less keys has been improved also.
223 2.4.1 (3/31/2008):
224 Stu: We fixed some bugs, this release should be 110% better than 2.4.0
226 John: Well, I didn't really do much this release except muck about with
227 the configure script. Blame me if it worked in 2.4.0 but doesn't now.
229 Will: We seem to be falling into a nice pattern of releasing on the last
230 day of a month. Hypothetical AIX users might be pleased to learn that
231 Pidgin might actually run for them now!
233 2.4.0 (2/29/2008):
234 John: While this release took what seems like forever to get out the
235 door, I think it's well worth the wait, especially for Yahoo! users.
236 This release serves up some fixes for long standing bugs and adds
237 file transfer for transfers with newer Yahoo! clients (finally!). As
238 is standard with code I committed, where it works great thank the
239 patch writer, and where it's broken, feel free to yell at me. Enjoy!
241 Sadrul: Finch is more colourful and blinky in this release! There's
242 now a log viewer, which is very useful, and also the ability to
243 block/unblock buddies. It's now also possible to find chat rooms on
244 many services, e.g. XMPP, IRC, Yahoo! etc. Happy Leap Day!
246 Ka-Hing: I think all I've done for this release is committing some
247 patches written by other people.
249 Stu: Finally, 2.4.0 lands. I didn't do all that much except complain
250 about things I didn't like or just revert Sean's changes. I'm quite
251 pleased with how well it's turned out in the end.
252 Happy Birthday Fred, you must be nearly 10 now ;-)
254 2.3.1 (12/7/2007):
255 Stu: I'm sorry for the MSN problems and the plugin crashes in 2.3.0.
256 Hopefully this will redeem us. This fixes a number of bugs. I'm a
257 bit late but I'd like to welcome John to the team. Enjoy!
259 Luke: I've done absolutely nothing in the last 2 weeks, except watch
260 others commit bug and, more, leak fixes. People should be noticing
261 remarkably fewer memory leaks now than 2 or more releases ago.
263 Kevin: I'm not quite sure what happened to our MySpaceIM Summer of
264 Code student, but I fixed a few MySpace bugs with idle and status.
265 I will try to fix some of the other more significant bugs, after I
266 figure out the protocol, especially including grouping issues.
268 2.3.0 (11/20/2007):
269 Luke: While this does not have the new MSN code, rest assured that
270 we are working on it and that it is nearing release. This contains
271 a significant number of fixes, including some that were marked as
272 fixed for earlier releases. Happy Thanksgiving!
274 John: This is my first NEWS entry! So, this time around we have an
275 updated man page (the old one hadn't been really updated since
276 before the GTK+ 2.0 migration!), lots of bug fixes, and some new
277 features for you all. Enjoy!
279 2.2.2 (10/23/2007):
280 Luke: Because the main branch of pidgin development is still not
281 ready for public consumption, I have taken some time to try to
282 pull the many bug fixes that have happened since then into a
283 separate branch. This release is the result of that effort.
285 2.2.1 (9/28/2007):
286 Richard: We have some new code in the pipeline, but it's not quite
287 ready for a general release. Instead, this is basically a bug fix
288 release.
290 Luke: Unfortunately the necessity of this bug fix release means
291 some of the tickets that have been closed as part of the 2.2.1
292 milestone are not actually fixed yet. We have grabbed as many
293 of the changes as we could while avoiding those that are as
294 yet unstable though, and this should still be a marked
295 improvement over 2.2.0. We have spent a lot of time since the
296 last release looking at the tickets that have been submitted
297 and many of them have been closed.
299 Stu: I haven't NEWS'd in a while. I haven't actually done much for
300 too long also, maybe I'll find some time soon. This release is
301 basically what 2.2.0 should have been - it actually compiles this
302 time.
304 2.2.0 (9/13/2007):
305 Sean: 2.2.0 contains the results of several major Google Summer
306 of Code branches bringing some new, extraordinary features. We
307 have a new protocol, MySpaceIM, a bunch of new features for an
308 existing protocol, XMPP, and nifty new certificate management
309 to make sure your IM server is who it says it is.
311 Ka-Hing: A number of you noticed crashes when dragging windows
312 around when certain options are enabled. Well, that was my fault,
313 and Sadrul fixed it. So Props to him and poos to me. I haven't
314 done much for this release, but the next one should contain
315 something that I helped work on. Hint: students are cheap slave
316 coders!
318 Kevin: I haven't really been coding much in Pidgin, and this
319 release is no exception, but I will be working on getting our
320 wonderful web site to be a little more functional by next
321 release. I promise!
323 2.1.1 (8/20/2007):
324 Sean: Continuing our schedule of frequent releases, Pidgin 2.1.1
325 is out. In it, we've addressed a lot of UI issues from our
326 experimental new changes introduced in 2.1.0, and gave a lot of
327 attention to Yahoo! and Bonjour. Thanks to everyone who
328 contributed.
330 Luke: We have reworked some parts of the conversation windows in
331 response to user comments. We did not quite reach 100 tickets
332 closed this release, so a fair few will role over again. Still,
333 we are slowly but surely working our way through the reported bugs.
334 Many thanks to everyone who has helped with tracking down the
335 various issues, testing fixes, and getting patches in.
337 Tim: Sean finally got me to fix some of the buddy list bugs with
338 Yahoo! when in version 15 mode. So now we have some Yahoo! to
339 MSN support, which is kind of nice. Looks like some others have
340 been contributing to Yahoo! while I've been AWOL, so many thanks
341 to them.
343 2.1.0 (7/28/2007):
344 Sean: This release took a bit longer than 3 weeks, but boy is it
345 worth it! We're beginning to experiment with new UI concepts and
346 this release features a largely re-designed conversation window.
347 We've closed 150 tickets for this release; much thanks go to all
348 the developers, translators, and testers who made this possible.
350 Ka-Hing: Sean said no one else NEWS'ed, so I figure I should.
352 2.0.2 (6/14/2007):
353 Sean: Another big maintenance release. Again, about 100 tickets were
354 resolved in this release, and they keep coming in. Lots of bug fixes,
355 some minor icon adjustements, hopefully we addressed some ICQ
356 internationalization issues, and support for Bonjour on Windows!
357 Our next release will be 2.1.0, and will come with some great new
358 features.
360 Stu: I think we're gradually getting the hang of this 3 week thing
361 again. This release includes yet more bug fixes. I'd also like to
362 specifically thank Pekka Riikonen for the patch to enable using SILC
363 Toolkit 1.1 with Pidgin/libpurple that is included in this release.
365 2.0.1 (5/24/2007):
366 Sean: 2.0.1! Three weeks later, as scheduled! It is so nice to have
367 regular, frequent, releases again! This is a bugfix release; We have
368 fixed over 100 issues reported to us at http://developer.pidgin.im.
369 Thanks to everyone for their great work, and look for the next release
370 in another three weeks!
372 Stu: Lots'o'fixes in this. I don't know how you users find so many
373 things for us to fix. 24 hours in a day (sadly). 24 is divisible by the
374 sum of its digits and by their product. It is the smallest composite
375 number, the product of whose divisors is a cube.
377 Luke: I requested that we have a bug fix release, and so we have!
378 Many, though unfortunately not all, of the reports that have been
379 submitted to us since 2.0.0 have been fixed now, and so you should
380 all have a much more stable experience with this release. I also
381 want to thank the many users who have resubmitted their reports
382 as we close out the old Source Forge bug tracker. If all goes well,
383 your report will get the attention it deserves as we continue to
384 work on Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple.
386 Nathan: A ton of fixes have gone into this release. The feedback
387 we've gotten on 2.0.0 has been incredible. Hopefully we've resolved
388 most of the critical issues with 2.0.1. If we haven't, I'm sure
389 our wonderful users will let us hear about it. I seem to be
390 forgetting something...oh, right, I haven't promised any cool new
391 features in the next release! So, I promise at least one cool new
392 feature in the next release...you just might have to adjust your
393 definition of 'cool' to get it.
395 Etan: Perl plugins now have access to almost all of the savedstatus
396 API functions. I also removed a couple of the preferences from the
397 Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin which should help many of the people
398 for whom the configuration dialog size was a problem. The removed
399 preferences no longer had the effects they were added to have anyway.
401 2.0.0 (5/3/2007):
402 Sean: 2.0.0! It's real exciting to finally release Pidgin 2.0.0! I'm
403 really proud of all the work we've all done. I'm pumped. And, while
404 I could go on about all the amazing thing that have been added since
405 1.5.0, what I'm really excited about is getting back to a regular,
406 rapid, release cycle of active, open development, unhindered by legal
407 quandries. Huge thanks to everyone involved.
409 Luke: We have finally managed to get 2.0.0 out the door, after nearly
410 but not quite 2 years of effort and fustration. No one regrets more
411 than I that we were unable to make any of betas 3-6 the actual release.
412 But at long last, it is out, and life can return to a more normal
413 state. There were many tough calls to be made in the last 2 years.
414 Not everyone has agreed with the resulting decisions, that is un-
415 fortunate, but unavoidable. Suffice it to say that despite what
416 some users appear to think, a ton of thought, argument, discussion,
417 and experimentation has gone into this release. This release
418 builds on many years of experience, both as developers writing the
419 code, users using it, and in supporting other users. I hope that
420 those who download and install this will give it a fair shot, and
421 attempt to avoid knee-jerk reactions.
423 Evan: One small step for bird, one giant leap for birdkind... except
424 this is hardly one small step. A lot more has changed from Gaim 1.5.0
425 than just the name. Pidgin has a *very* attractive new look, a whole
426 new member of the family (Finch, formerly gaim-console) has been born,
427 and libpurple has come into its own as a solid, full-featured library
428 powering the greatest IM clients around. Bugs were fixed and
429 features were added by the hundreds (thousands?) since the last
430 major release, all while improving performance and resisting feature
431 creep. As Luke said, a ton of thought and effort has gone into
432 Pidgin 2.0.0; I'm proud to have played a part.
434 Stu: We did it! finally, we have 2.0.0. It's been a long time coming,
435 but there's a great deal of goodness here. When I say a long time, I'm
436 not kidding - it's been 972 days since we branched off "oldstatus"
437 (aka 1.x). The early Greeks were uncertain as to whether 2 was a
438 number at all (or if we'd ever make this release) - it has a beginning
439 and an end but no middle (much like our unfortunately quiet development
440 period). 2 is the first prime number and the only even prime. 2 is also
441 the first deficient number (oh well). There are only 10 types of people
442 in the world - those who like our new names and those who do not.
443 Enjoy!
445 Richard: I'm very glad that we've finally gotten 2.0.0 released and
446 I look forward to returning to a more normal development schedule.
447 Again, a big thanks to everyone who helped in any way to get things
448 where they are today. Congratulations everyone!
450 Sadrul: My first NEWS, and on what an occasion! Pidgin 2.0.0 is finally
451 released!! And it's *really* very good!!! Give your soul a break ...
452 Use Pidgin!
454 Daniel: There has been a fair amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth
455 due to the delays in getting this beast out. I'm really happy that it
456 is done. I'm also very happy with what we're releasing - I think it is
457 far more stable, packed with useful features and, dare I say, prettier
458 than any previous release.
460 2.0.0beta7 (4/29/2007):
461 Sean: Beta 7. The final beta. A few major changes from beta6. For
462 starters, we have some new names. That's pretty cool. We have a new
463 logo, to go along with it. And a lot of great icons! As Nathan mentions
464 below, we're totally back in the open now, having a signed agreement
465 from AOL that puts us in the clear. We all really regret having to go
466 completely dark for so long. Anyway, unlike betas1-6, which were of
467 normal release quality, this one is actually beta quality. There are
468 a few significant known issues, and a lot of changes that need a lot
469 of real-world testing. So, if you'd like to help us out, give it a
470 whirl, and let us know if you run into any major issues.
472 Nathan: So, the secret is out now. We renamed to Pidgin. I'd just
473 like to apologize to everyone we've had to keep in the dark for the
474 last however-many months. I know it looked like development slowed
475 to a crawl, but in reality we've been working pretty hard to get
476 2.0.0 out the door, without getting into any legal trouble. I
477 realize that if we were some big corporation, we'd be getting flamed
478 about this secrecy for months. Please try to remember that we're
479 just a bunch of geeks who were scared of legal stuff (well, at least
480 I was. Scared, that is). The bottom line is that we're out in the
481 open again, and fully plan to stay that way. We're also opening up
482 the mail archives from the secretive past few months. You can scan
483 through them if you want, or I can summarize. "Are the lawyers done
484 yet? No. Now? No. How about now? No." All lawyer jokes aside,
485 I'm grateful to our legal team for crossing all the 't's and dotting
486 all the lowercase 'j's to get us the deal we got. Anyways, thanks
487 for your patience, and on to 2.0.1!
489 Gary: Well my silence, and our silence has ended. Finally the name
490 change is over and done with and we can go back to a normal dev
491 cycle. Now if I can just get myself back onto a normal dev cycle,
492 but that's another story all together.
494 Ethan: Not to be too "me-too", but I have to say that I'm really
495 excited about the project's new name and identity, and glad to be
496 out of the legal mess. We're pushing beta 7 with all of the
497 branding and organizational changes that have been going on for
498 the last few months, so there are likely to be some snags --
499 please help us out by trying beta 7, searching for any bugs you
500 find in the bug tracker at http://developer.pidgin.im/, and
501 documenting them if they are unknown or you can provide new
502 information. Help us make 2.0.0 final a release to be remembered
503 (in a good way)! I'd like to give huge thanks to all of the
504 developers, our steadfast supporters, the crazy patch writers, and
505 everyone else who has made this transition to Pidgin possible, and
506 the improvements that go along with it. I'd like to extend a
507 special thanks to Sean, for leading us through the legal issues
508 and taking care of all of the paperwork and overhead that no one
509 wants to deal with.
511 2.0.0beta6 (1/17/2007):
512 Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be
513 the final beta release before 2.0.0. This has a bunch of cool UI
514 changes, some Google Talk features, a bunch new plugins, and other
515 goodness.
517 Nathan: Beta6 rocks. That is all.
519 Gary: Long time no news. My silence will end soon ;)
521 Evan: My first news! I knocked out a nice collection of crashes,
522 thanks in part to my ever-patient Adium beta testers. Gaim 2.0.0
523 is going to be delicious. :)
525 2.0.0beta5 (11/9/2006):
526 Sean: Another release in our endless stream in betas. This one's
527 pretty awesome; and it fixes major bugs introduced in previous
528 ones.
530 2.0.0beta4 (10/17/2006)
531 Sean: Still beta. Maybe the next one should be a gamma.. :)
533 Daniel: I'm super chuffed to announce that this will work with newer
534 (i.e. >= 2.8.0) versions of GTK+ on Windows.
536 Luke: Several significant changes in this one, including no longer
537 using libao for sound! There are no doubt bugs here, but hopefully
538 nothing major.
540 Nathan: I don't have much to say, but yay for another beta!
542 Etan: I did a bunch of perl work for this beta again, there is now
543 some support for perl scripts to call functions in the gtk ui, it
544 still needs work.
546 2.0.0beta3 (03/25/2006):
547 Mark: Yeah, I know, another beta. Don't worry, we'll get this
548 puppy out the door eventually.
550 2.0.0beta2 (01/24/2006):
551 Mark: So this is the new year, and I don't feel any different, but
552 Gaim is getting better. We hope this will be our last beta before
553 we release the final version of 2.0.0. As before, please shower us
554 in feedback!
556 Richard: I'm proud to say a lot of bugs have been squashed in this
557 version. If you filed a bug against beta1, please test to see if
558 it's fixed now and update your bug report accordingly (by either
559 closing it or setting the version to 2.0.0beta2). I'm also looking
560 for someone who uses Gaim on MacOS X to test a patch for me before
561 I can commit it. See http://gaim.sf.net/contactinfo.php for my
562 contact information.
564 Etan: So I did a bunch of work on the perl plugin since beta1, so
565 anyone who uses perl plugins would do well to expect some things to
566 need updating (I'm not certain everything works yet, so please send me
567 any reports of things that don't). Most of the work was correcting
568 some namespace issues, but I also improved the support for perl
569 plugins having plugin_pref frames, and plugin actions. Multiple perl
570 plugins can now have plugin_pref frames at the same time, and every
571 perl plugin can have multiple plugin actions now. Like Mark said
572 above, let us know how this beta works out.
574 2.0.0beta1 (12/17/2005):
575 Sean: I think Nathan sums everything up really well below. There's still
576 a bunch we want to add (and remove) before the official release, but we
577 really want to start getting feedback about what's good and what's not.
578 So, please, be vocal about this beta!
580 Nathan: 15 months since we branched oldstatus, and started working on
581 the behemoth that is 2.0.0. In that time, we've added a couple new
582 protocols, we had a few crazy patch writers become developers, and
583 had a few more people step up to be crazy patch writers. Sean wrote
584 a book, and we arbitrarily decided to make a version 1.0.0, and a
585 new versioning scheme. We got new artwork, and added almost 200 lines
586 to the ChangeLog. We've watched 2 major GTK+ releases, and added all
587 kinds of features using them. OK, I've wasted enough bits here. This
588 beta rocks, but it is a beta. Treat it as such, and enjoy!
590 Gary: Finally we have a beta. There are a lot of new goodies, including
591 quite a few summer of code projects that couldn't get added into the
592 oldstatus branch because API changes. We also have a new mono plugin
593 loader for even more plugin fun.
595 Richard: Thanks to all who wrote patches (big or small) for this beta.
597 Tim: Well here it is, the first beta. There's a lot of cool things in
598 here, but not all of them are finished or debugged. But then that's
599 why it's called a beta. Conversations are now contact-aware, and
600 there's a new status selector. There's smooth scrolling on incoming
601 messages as well. Our Crazy Patch Writers have been doing a good
602 job too, it seems like we're never lacking some patches in the
603 tracker to review.
605 Etan: I know I'm not going to be able to think of all the things I should
606 talk about here so I'll just go with the stuff I remember. Adding buddies
607 on ejabberd jabber servers should work more correctly now (it's possible
608 adding buddies on other servers is a bit broken currently I'm still
609 looking into it). There are still other jabber issues I'm looking into
610 with handling of buddies.
611 In other topics, I finally brought my Accounts menu into gaim, though the
612 current example of it isn't exactly what I had in mind, anyone with any
613 suggestions/comments/etc about it please speak up.
614 Other than the stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting to mention this beta should
615 be awesome as gaim 2.0.0 is going to be awesome. Have fun with it.
617 Luke: pretty much everything important has been said, so this is going to
618 be rather repetative. This is a beta folks, so it will have bugs. It
619 will crash unexpectedly. Perhaps even frequently. Use it at your peril.
620 But do use it (though you might want to back up ~/.gaim first), and let us
621 know what needs to be fixed.
623 Mark: Yay.
625 Stu: Wow!
627 Siege: Sametime accounts created with gaim-meanwhile should merge over
628 for use in the beta just fine. Some of the familiar settings regarding
629 the buddy list are gone, so I recommend backing up your Sametime blist
630 before getting down and crazy. Have fun, and happy early Decemberween!
632 Daniel: Enjoy! In the hopes that this prevents someone pain... do not use
633 Glib/GTK+ 2.8.x with Wingaim - it will not work. We're looking into the
634 problem and hope to have it resolved before the final release.
635 "Happy Holidays!"
637 1.5.0 (8/11/2005):
638 Mark: No super crazy major changes here. Just the usual bug
639 fixes and some pretty important security updates.
641 Stu: Buy Sean's book. He obviously needs the money. Other than that
642 we fixed some bugs with this release (I don't think we did much else).
643 SoC students are doing lots of cool stuff which we'll hopefully be
644 able to bring you in a future release.
646 Nathan: I've continued my streak of doing nothing useful lately.
647 However, I've now got a brand-spanking-new DSL line, so I might
648 actually get to contribute soon. One way or another I'd like
649 to get HEAD into a more useable state in the next month or two.
650 Also, like Stu said, buy Sean's book. I've been reading and
651 fixing it for the last umpteen months, so you had better enjoy
652 it.
654 1.4.0 (7/7/2005):
655 Mark: The last month or four we've promoted a bunch of the Gaim
656 Crazy Patch Writers to developers, so there is now an even larger
657 team of brilliant and amazingly sexy committers working around
658 the globe for your instant messaging pleasure. Also, we have
659 what I believe to be our first contribution from a Summer of Code
660 student in this release: Jonathan Clark enabled the sending of
661 files to certain ICQ users. Support is still a bit rough, but
662 he'll be working on it throughout the summer.
664 Luke: Exciting times this summer as our Summer of Code interns
665 start their projects. This is mostly a bug fix release, with the
666 ICQ file transfer that Mark mentioned and some buddy icon work
667 being the only real new code. Hence the extra week delay. A
668 big thanks to our translators who keep churning out updates even
669 when we give them short notice as well. Enjoy!
671 1.3.1 (6/9/2005):
672 Sean: It's been a while since I've done one of these. Welcome to
673 Gaim 1.3.1, "New Hyde Park." This is, again, another bugfix release
674 but it comes with two keen announcements. First, I'd like to welcome
675 Christopher O'Brien to the Gaim team. He has integrated his work on
676 the Meanwhile project into Gaim, ensuring that Gaim 2.0.0 will include
677 Sametime support. Also, we're participating in Google's Summer of
678 Code, which you all should check out at
679 http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/
681 1.3.0 (5/10/2005):
682 Luke: This release fixes SILC for multiple accounts. HOWEVER, you
683 may lose your buddy list (for SILC only) upgrading. This is
684 rather unavoidable as the previous code did not keep track of
685 which account each buddy belonged to.
687 Stu: I'm glad we're finally getting this out, if fixes a number of bugs
688 ranging from minor to not so minor. I'd also like to welcome Gary to
689 the team - he's done a great job with Guifications, I'm sure he'll do
690 good stuff here too.
692 Gary: Well I got pretty much nothing done for this release. Although I
693 do have quite a few things in the works that will come to fruition when
694 I find some more free time.
696 1.2.1 (4/3/2005):
697 Luke: Several important fixes this time around. Big thanks to
698 Robert McQueen, Stu, Nathan, Ethan, and everyone else who has helped
699 with this effort. Maybe next time we can get a decent chance to fix the
700 problems *before* they go public to have a normal release process.
702 Nathan: Jabber got some updates this release (finally). I've got
703 more planned, but simply haven't had the time to anything about it.
705 1.2.0 (3/17/2005):
706 Luke: Happy St. Patrick's Day all. Sean scheduled a release for
707 today, we'll see if we can pull it off. :-) This release
708 features somewhat more than just bug fixes, some improvements
709 have been made to the conversation API which may affect plugin
710 developers. Yahoo users should also thank Tim and Bleeter for
711 their efforts.
713 Etan: I'm going to NEWS since I actually did something this time.
714 Jabber will allow you to unsubscribe to someone's presence
715 without logging out and in again, this does break seeing yourself
716 on your buddy list, but hopefully we'll fix that again for the
717 next release.
719 Stu: Happy St. Guinness^wPatrick's day.
721 1.1.4 (2/24/2005):
722 Sean: Another bug fix release. A big thanks to Rob McQueen, Ari
723 Pollak, Don Seiler, and Warren Togami: some packagers who helped
724 debug a nasty glib 2.6 problem. Also thanks to our own Stu who
725 found and destroyed an MSN crash and an HTML parsing error
727 Luke: Early release to handle the MSN and HTML crashes, as well
728 as the glib crash. Maybe that makes up for having had a 4 week
729 period before the last release. This one should be the nice
730 stable release we meant 1.1.3 to be. Enjoy!
732 Stu: I cleaned up the whitespace in this NEWS, it was bugging me.
734 1.1.3 (2/17/2005):
735 Luke: Yet another bug fix release, many thanks to everyone who has
736 helped to make gaim more stable!
738 Stu: I fixed too many Yahoo HTTP proxy bugs, I should just go and
739 write some core HTTP support that works better. A good all round
740 bug fix release otherwise.
742 1.1.2 (1/20/2005):
743 Luke: Another Bug fix release. This one featuring a fix to the HTTP
744 Method for MSN users and other MSN fixes. A big thanks to Stu and
745 Felipe Contreras for those. Stu also spent a long time in valgrind
746 and so this brings you a Gaim release with fewer memory leaks. This
747 release is on time primarily because I want to see the MSN fixes
748 make it into Debian and Fedora before freezes. Expect further bug
749 fix only releases to come at longer intervals, at Mark's request.
751 Daniel: This is my first NEWS! (YaY) I didn't really do too much for
752 this release. There are a few bugfixes, mostly wingaim stuff. Oh, and
753 I like the new XP System Tray icons.
755 Sean: I'm down here today. I haven't really been paying too much
756 attention to these boring bugfix releases, but I'd like to thank
757 David and welcome him to the team. I'd also like to thank Steven
758 and Nathan from Silverorange who redid the webpage.
760 Tim: Another bug fix release. I didn't really fix any bugs, so
761 I didn't exactly do much for this one. The autopackage will now
762 work with mozilla-nss, if anyone has that, and not gnutls11. (It
763 works with either gnutls11 or mozilla-nss, but not gnutls10)
764 I started working on Gaim-vv again though, and I merged someone's
765 custom msn smiley patch into the 2.0.0 tree, so expect good things
766 whenever that's released (no, don't try it now, you won't like it).
767 Oh and welcome to the team Daniel. Of course, he was already on my
768 Gaim-vv team.
770 Stu: Welcome Daniel! you've done some good stuff already. Felipe did some
771 good work on MSN yet again, so you can all use the HTTP method now. I
772 didn't do all that much, other than let valgrind tell me what to fix, and
773 a couple of easy bug fixes from the bug tracker. Hopefully Ethan will get
774 well soon, so he can get back to merging patches and fixing things.
776 Nathan: I think I made some Jabber fixes, at least one of which is
777 ChangeLog'd. I will continue to make empty promises about new features,
778 especially for 2.0.0. Until then, welcome Daniel!
780 1.1.1 (12/28/2004):
781 Luke: This bug fix release features msn improvements, drag and drop
782 improvements, and some translation stuff. Thanks for everone who has
783 helped with it, and hopefully we can get 2.0.0 out soon. On a side
784 note, i'm still looking for someone to look at the perl plugin loader.
786 1.1.0 (12/02/2004):
787 Luke: Another in our series of bug fix releases, with a slight twist.
788 Everyone thank Ethan for implementing a fall back encoding for IRC,
789 it has been much requested and should make a number of users very
790 happy. See the ChangeLog for details on other fixes.
792 Stu: Much thanks to Miah Gregory and Felipe Contreras, a bunch of
793 memory leaks have been fixed. Felipe also fixed a good number of
794 other MSN bugs. I didn't do much except apply these guys fixes. It's
795 good to see fixes from Gary coming in again too ;-). I like the
796 docklet adjustments Christian made. Btw, we have a new MSN protocol
797 icon, and I think you'll love it.
799 Tim: I made Gaim binary relocatable this release, so Gaim can find
800 itself if it gets lost, and I'm going to try to make autopackages
801 for this release, if the autopackage guys release their new version
802 soon like they're talking. I also "fixed" a scrolling bug, by
803 realizing it was all Gentoo's fault. The IRC encoding thing Ethan
804 did is pretty nice, no more encoding error messages!
806 Ethan: Rumor has it that I did some work this release, but it's just
807 that, a rumor. I think Luke started it. I did lay the hammer down
808 on bogus word wrapping in the NEWS, so you can thank me for that.
809 Keep your powder dry.
811 1.0.3 (11/11/2004):
812 Luke: Not much to see here, some bug fixes that you all will enjoy as
813 the semester draws to a close and everyone still in school gets bogged
814 down with projects, papers, and exams. Enjoy! Oh, and if you are interested
815 in the perl or gadu-gadu functionality, please step up to help write
816 patches, as both of these code blocks are currently unmaintained.
818 Tim: I fixed a couple bugs this time. In other news, Kim wants to get
819 a pet cockatiel or two.
821 Nathan: I was gonna put a new feature in this release, but decided
822 not to because I found a bug in it today, and I'm tired. Also, I haven't
823 consulted the powers-that-be about putting new features into oldstatus.
825 Stu: I'm writing this at 11:11:11pm on 11/11. Eleven. It's 3 really. Or B.
826 It's the 5th smallest prime number. Himalia is the 11th moon of Jupiter.
827 Hendecagon. There are 1011 players on a football team. XI. 16 hours. Eleven
828 is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English. This
829 entry is my 11th lie for today.
831 1.0.2 (10/19/2004):
832 Stu: I'm new around here. I tried to reduce the number of bugs in the bug
833 tracker, but it turns out that the only way to achieve that is to actually
834 _fix_ the bugs. So I fixed a couple, and then sneaked some patches out of
835 the patch tracker to fix some others. Sadly the bug tracker was not
836 significantly affected, maybe if I learn C I'll be able to make more of an
837 impact.
839 Luke: Don't let Stu fool you, he has done a marvelous job on this release,
840 and deserves a lot of credit for it. And a number of those bug fixes are
841 critical ones that he discovered and fixed himself. So go update. Now.
843 Nathan: On the other hand, Nathan has done nothing for this release. Why
844 do we keep him around again?
846 Tim: So, I'm married now, and in Huntsville. I don't remember if I did
847 anything for this release or not, probably not. Bleeter has been more
848 active lately though, perhaps we'll see lots of cool things from him
849 soon.
851 Sean: I'm down here with the "didn't do anything" guys.
853 1.0.1 (10/07/2004):
854 Congratulations to Tim & Kim on their wedding!
856 Sean: So, if you're playing along at home, you're aware that
857 incrementing the micro version number means that the API has
858 not changed at all. Although that itself is insignificant to
859 most everyone but plugin developers, but users won't find too
860 many significant changes. Consult ChangeLog. We're currently
861 branched for some major changes, so expect a really great 2.0.0
862 sometime relatively soon.
864 Luke: Nothing much to see here, some bug fixes. Most of the work
865 is going towards the 2.0.0 release. We aren't quite sure when
866 that will be, and will keep the bug fix releases coming untill
867 all is ready.
869 Christian: I would call this a ground-breaking release, but it isn't.
870 It seems like a good one, though. I dunno. I've been too busy at VMware,
871 unfortunately, but have some work that's just waiting to be finished up
872 for Gaim. Gaim 2.0.0 is going to rock. Gaim 3.0.0 will rock more.
873 Do you see a pattern? Thanks go out to Henry Jen for fixing up parts of
874 the gevolution plugin to support multiple addressbooks, and to all our
875 moms, for believing in us. Or something.
877 Nathan: I got a new computer. It's fast. And has twice the bits!
879 1.0.0 (09/17/2004):
880 Nathan: Hah! Bet you weren't expecting this! OK, if you were
881 paying any attention to the flame^H^H^H^H^Hthread on gaim-devel,
882 you might have been expecting this. But here it is, 1.0.0. Our
883 new versioning scheme has slightly more meaning than the older
884 one (expecially for plugin authors), but our 1.0(.0) release is
885 just as meaningless as we could have hoped. Enjoy!
887 Luke: We've changed our pattern for version numbers with this
888 release, we are no longer simply counting versions. This release
889 then marks, not something traditionally "1.0" but the current
890 version of the api. When backwards compatability with that breaks
891 you'll see 2.0, more details in the faq. As a side note, if you
892 are reading this and are good with proxy code or with perl's XS C
893 bindings, please get in touch with me, my contact info is on the
894 website. Gaim could use your help.
896 Mark: I love a circus.
898 0.82 (08/25/2004):
899 Rob: Woah, where did I come from?
901 Mark: Lately I've been doing a lot more code maintenance/patch
902 accepting/bug fixing type of work. And I think that's a really
903 good thing. I feel like Gaim is becoming more stable. It
904 seems like we're lacking fewer features. It makes me warm.
905 Quick Robin! To the traverse wall!
907 Nathan: Well, it looks like we stuck to the schedule again. Had
908 we taken our dear sweet time, I might have had a chance to do
909 something cool for this release, but instead I stuck to the minor
910 stuff. <insert empty promises for the cool stuff i'll code for
911 next time here>
913 Tim: Lately I've been doing a lot more patch accepting, and a
914 lot less actual coding. Unfortunately it has more to do with my
915 laziness than Gaim's progress. Like Nathan, I'm going to blame
916 our on time release schedule. But that didn't stop our Crazy
917 Patch Writers, or cpw's as grim now calls them, from writing
918 some good patches. So, instead of promising to code something
919 cool for next release, I'm going to promise that the cpw's will
920 code cool things for next release, and I might apply some of them.
922 Luke: I've been doing what I always do, committing patches, some
923 better than others, and bugging other people to code stuff. Oh
924 and closing some bugs. Thanks to Dave West for joining the cpws
925 in helping to handle triage. This is mostly a bug fix release,
926 so PLEASE upgrade to it before submitting new bugs.
928 Kevin: Herman's been away, so Daniel Atallah and myself were given
929 the task of preparing 0.82's Windows packages. After some feverish
930 plotting, we decided to update GTK and Daniel prepped an update to
931 libpng to address recent security advisories. Besides plotting and
932 a little bit of testing, this NEWS is all I really did. Oh, I also
933 rerefixed the transparency plugin... again! Our beloved Hermanator
934 should be back next time around, for 0.83.
936 0.81 (08/05/2004):
937 Sean: Three weeks again! Sticking to schedules is awesome! Just
938 like Gaim v0.81. This is what we in the industry call a "bugfix
939 release." We closed over TWO HUNDRED bugs since 0.80. That's
940 awesome. Thanks to everyone who helped report, triage, fix, and
941 test.
943 Christian: Yay for three weeks working so well. Boo for me not
944 doing much of anything this release, aside from a small memory
945 leak fix. I'm starting a new job and leaving my current one, so
946 when the dust settles and my schedule is a bit better, the very
947 cool status rewrite will be finished up. Especially now that I have
948 some help! I'd like to second Sean's thanks to all the people who
949 helped with this bug fix release. Gaim should be a bit more stable
950 for a lot of you. For those experiencing MSN problems still, we'll
951 get that nailed for you soon, promise.
953 Mark: I was going to point out that we closed an insane amount of
954 bugs for this release, but Sean already did that. I feel like
955 we've had some really talented new contributors contributing
956 recently. I won't say names... but watch your backs. Or something.
958 Nathan: I did next to nothing for this release. I am however
959 settled in to my new job, and in a couple days, I should be settled
960 into my new domicile. If the DSL gods are in a good mood, I'll
961 have a connection there shortly, and can start being useful again.
963 0.80 (07/15/2004):
964 Sean: Three weeks! Hooray for timeliness! I didn't do much here
965 but drag-and-droppable file transfers. Drag something into a
966 conversation window, and it will be sent. Kinda neat.
968 Mark: We have a small ant problem here. I can't help but think
969 I somehow brought this upon myself.
971 Tim: I don't really have any news, but at least I don't have an
972 ant problem either. You might think I've been hard at work on
973 Gaim-vv, but I haven't, I've just been lazy. I plan on doing
974 some cool things "soon" though, both with Gaim and Gaim-vv.
975 Bleeter sent me some nice dumps I need to implement yet.
977 Luke: We have a nice timely release, with a Changelog that seems
978 small, but remember, this is summer, and people have lives. SILC
979 and Zephyr are making good progress from our Crazy Patch Writters,
980 and everyone begging to send files to people not on their buddy
981 list will be happy. good stuff. No, the msn buddy icon scalling
982 problem isn't fixed yet, maybe next release
984 0.79 (06/24/2004):
985 Sean: We've moved to a three-week release cycle which we'll
986 hopefully be able to keep up more realistically than a two-week
987 cycle. Yahoo! went and broke last night, but it's fixed now thanks
988 to a quick fix sent in by Cerulean Studios this morning. Reports say
989 they'll continue to try to break us, though, so don't be surprised
990 if your Yahoo cuts out again.
992 Luke: I was really distracted this cycle, I want to thank my co-
993 developers and our crazy patch writers for keeping things going.
994 We have a fairly long changelog for you this release, including some
995 nice bug fixes and some much-requested new features, the ChangeLog
996 has all the details there of course. Enjoy!
998 Christian: Great release! MSN buddy icons and file transfer. A big round
999 of applause to Felipe! Too bad about the Yahoo thing, but.. eep! I have
1000 to go! Movie with the girls and Farmer's Market.
1002 Tim: This release brings us /commands in the core, which hopefully
1003 works better, and Yahoo! buddy icons. Thanks to all the people I
1004 bugged for packet captures, like Simguy, Bleeter, and odl. Yahoo!
1005 broke again, so I did a little last minute work on the web
1006 messenger stuff, but then Cerulean Studios was cool and fixed the
1007 problem already, so all that code's disabled. I also finally added
1008 the Yahoo! Japan support, for those of you with Yahoo! Japan
1009 accounts.
1011 Mark: I fixed that icon animation thing that caused Gaim to lock-up.
1012 I also stepped on something at the beach and I think there might be
1013 a little rock or something in my foot now.
1015 Nathan: I've been really busy, what with having a new job and all.
1016 I didn't think I had done anything, but apparently I fixed some
1017 Jabber stuff, and some IPv6 stuff. I must have been sleepcoding
1018 or something, because I haven't had time for such things. Ah well,
1019 enjoy this release. We'll see what I can get to in the next 3 weeks.
1021 0.78 (05/30/2004):
1022 Luke: A very long time, once again, since the last release. I think
1023 its mostly worth it. A few of you will still have trouble with msn
1024 but we've worked out a number of bugs even there. Thanks to heroic
1025 efforts on the part of Mark, we closed 400 some odd reports this
1026 month. We are also welcoming Tim to the project, a very active
1027 crazy patch writer who has brought massive improvements to WYSIWYG
1028 and direct im this release. Again, it still won't work for every
1029 one, but it will work for more people than it used to. Most
1030 noticably, this release brings a LARGE simplicfication of the
1031 preferences available. Please don't complain if your favorite
1032 preference is no longer there. Take some time to think about
1033 how and if it could be useful to a majority of people who use
1034 Gaim in ways nothing like you. You'll find that the answer will
1035 usually be that the preference isn't all that important.
1037 Tim: I continued with the other crazy patch writers in fixing those
1038 WYSIWYG bugs. Then they went and made me a developer. Which is cool.
1039 They told me I could commit WYSIWYG and Yahoo! changes. So I went
1040 and fixed IM Image and Direct Connect in AIM for some reason. I also
1041 added some new Yahoo! smileys at least. Also you change your link
1042 color in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file now. I might work on some of those
1043 new Yahoo! features for next release, like buddy icons. But don't
1044 count on it. Thanks to everyone who congratulated me. And thanks
1045 to all our Crazy Patch Writers, who now expect me to apply all their
1046 Crazy Patches.
1048 Christian: First of all, congrats to Tim! He's our latest Gaim
1049 developer, and we're all glad to have him on board. He's been a
1050 valuable contributor for awhile now. Thanks again to Felipe Contreras
1051 for all his MSN work this release. He has some exciting stuff that
1052 we'll be seeing in 0.79. And last, but not least, thanks to all our
1053 crazy and not-so-crazy patch writers. There's been a lot done this
1054 release. I've been taking a small break, first due to school and now
1055 work, but I'll be coming back strong in the next couple of releases. In
1056 the meantime, enjoy.
1058 Gary: Congrats to Tim, no more competing for most ChangeLog entries.
1059 This means you _should_ be winning every release. Anyways, I didn't
1060 finish nearly as much as I wanted to for this release but all of that
1061 and then some should appear in 0.79.
1063 Sean: I'll write my entry down here tonight. Removing preferences
1064 was my big crusade this week, and the team did a great job at it,
1065 but I still have a nagging feeling that our preferences are still
1066 overwhelming. Everyone's been doing a real great job; it's entirely
1067 my fault we keep failing to meet our three-week schedule. Send your
1068 complaints this way.
1070 Nathan: I really didn't do much thanks to exams, and graduation, and all
1071 of that fun stuff. For next release, I'll have all new excuses, like my
1072 new job, or maybe something I haven't even thought of yet. Oh yeah, and
1073 a big warm welcome to Tim!
1075 0.77 (04/22/2004):
1076 Sean: We're back to a somewhat regular release cycle now. Hooray!
1077 WYSIWYG is much improved in this release, and you can now copy and
1078 paste rich text to and from Gaim and other applications (see: Mozilla,
1079 Evolution OpenOffice). Also, Novell has released their first release
1080 of their GroupWise plugin, included in this release. Good stuff all
1081 around.
1083 Luke: Only a week "late" this time around, much nicer than the delay
1084 before the last release. Anyway, this release sees a HUGE number of
1085 improvements to the WYSIWYG support, much thanks to all involved. If
1086 you weren't impressed before, you should be now! This release also
1087 sees the end of our TOC support, no one has been working on this in
1088 some time and its causing problems. DON'T USE IT!. Also plugin
1089 authors will want to take note of the fact that the plugin api version
1090 changed. A nice solid release for you all :-)
1092 Ethan: Once again I thought about doing some things and committed
1093 things that other people did. This development model is awesome. I
1094 helped Mark refactor some stuff and our collective code ownership
1095 helped us utilize a coherent system metaphor during our pair program-
1096 ming sessions. It was extremely extreme. Look for some hard crypto
1097 lovin' from yet another crazy contributor in the near future...
1099 Ka-Hing: I actually did something for this release... or rather, the
1100 previous release, but LSchiere2 didn't commit that until this release.
1101 So blame him. System logging is back, so you can log people's signon/
1102 off/away/idle-ness again. There may be bugs with it, I don't know, not
1103 like I use it. I will try to work on something that I will actually use
1104 for the next release.
1106 Etan: Looking for someone to pair program with.
1108 Christian: A round of applause to our crazy patch writers! Their
1109 contributions this release is impressive. WYSIWYG has come a long way
1110 since 0.76 thanks to them. Also, thanks to Felipe Contreras for his
1111 MSN contributions. We should see some good stuff going into there soon.
1112 I myself didn't do a huge amount, aside from breaking everybody's
1113 plugins, although I have some work going on in the background that will
1114 hopefully make it into release soon.
1116 0.76 (04/01/2004):
1117 Sean: Yeah, it's been a long time since the last release, and despite
1118 what others may tell you, we were just really lazy. This is pretty
1119 much just 0.75 again, but, like, someone changed the "Info" icon and
1120 I think, like, the Chinese translation may have been updated. We did
1121 nothing interesting on it at all. Others may tell you "we haven't just
1122 been lazy," or "you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat
1123 stuf in this one." They lie. All of them.
1125 Luke: Okay, normally I wait for Sean to go first, but he said to commit.
1126 Its been a few months since the last release, but we haven't just been
1127 lazy. A very long ChangeLog for you all. Most notably of course is the
1128 addition of WYSIWYG input for chats and conversations. Many thanks to
1129 DAYS of long work by Sean, Gary Kramlich, Kevin Stange, Tim Ringenbach,
1130 and Stu Tomlinson for their efforts writting, fixing, and testing
1131 this. Without the dedicated support of our crazy patch writters, this
1132 release would have taken yet longer. Sean also has yahoo working again,
1133 with some assistance from our friends over at Trillian, you may all
1134 officially rejoice. We also have a large number of bug fixes, closing
1135 more than 200 bug reports this month alone.
1137 Christian: It's been a long time between the last release, but I think
1138 you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat stuff in this one.
1139 So many bug fixes and new features. It's enough to drive a wombat mad!
1140 The new WYSIWYG input is cool stuff. You'll either love it or hate it,
1141 I guess. I'm working on some stuff that some of you are going to love,
1142 but I'm not promising it for a few more versions. It's a secret!
1144 Mark: Our crazy patch writers rock. Gary Kramlich, Tim Ringenbach,
1145 Kevin Stange, and Stu Tomlinson did an amazing job of tying up
1146 loose ends and helping get this release out the door. Thanks guys!
1148 Rob: My birthday is in a few days. I like cool stuff. Buy me something
1149 grand!!
1151 Tim: Luke said write a NEWS, so I thought I would. There's a room
1152 list dialog now. And Nathan and I doubled the number of protocols that
1153 can transfer files. After that I got lazy/busy and let Gary, Kevin,
1154 and Stu fix all the bugs.
1156 Nathan: Rob happens to share a birthday with my sister. So far she's
1157 been very vague about what she wants. She's not an easy person to shop
1158 for. As for things you probably care more about, this release has so
1159 much in it that I've forgotten about most of it. The stupidest of the
1160 bugs from 0.75 are fixed. Jabber has a first pass at file transfer
1161 support (no proxy support yet). SOCKS 5 proxy support may have gotten
1162 a little better as a side-effect. Twinkies and penguin points to all
1163 of the crazy patch writers, who did more than their fair share this
1164 release.
1166 Ethan: My birthday was yesterday, and not on the same day as Rob
1167 and Nathan's sister. And I don't mean that Rob and Nathan have the
1168 same sister. For this release, I thought about making IRC better, I
1169 thought about making Tcl better, and I committed patches from several
1170 others who actually did these things. And probably some other
1171 things, too. Let's hear it for crazy patch writers, and for the open
1172 source philosophy that lets them get so CRAZY.
1174 0.75 (01/09/2004):
1175 Rob: Woah, what's this? Me? Making a NEWS post!? Say it ain't so!
1176 That's right, kiddos, I'm finally coming out of my reclusiveness.
1177 I had a pretty shitty few months, and also just needed a break from
1178 things. But, I'm back, and that's good. Right? Yes. And now,
1179 a little word from Eric Warmenhoven.. :P
1181 Eric: Ah, Rob and Eric. Just like the good ol' days. Now, if
1182 you'll excuse me, I have to go make some commits with Led Zeppelin
1183 lyrics as my commit logs. heh. What do you mean, I look a lot
1184 like Sean Egan? I'm... oh fine, you got me. It's really just Sean
1185 in an Eric Warmenhoven costume.
1187 So, Yahoo! works again, and that's good. And 0.76 is going to have
1188 something _very_ neat.
1190 Nathan: You're running out of excuses to not use Jabber. Our chat
1191 support is now bar-some, quickly approaching bar-none! Everything
1192 else in Jabber got neat improvements too. I'll leave it up to you
1193 to figure out what they were.
1195 <boilerplate promises for cool features in $version++>
1197 Christian: I've been a bit absent this release, due to life stuff
1198 and working on some other projects. Some MSN goodies are going to be
1199 available in an upcoming version, and I have some neat Gaim-related
1200 stuff I'm working on that will hopefully see the light of day. I'd
1201 like to say good job to the other developers. Good release. (Of course,
1202 every time I say that, something breaks horribly right after we
1203 release it.)
1205 Luke: Okay, so Sean rocks and got Yahoo working again in 12 minutes.
1206 Unfortunately, he took out the chat support in doing so. So use
1207 conferences for now if you use yahoo. Users begging for file
1208 transfer support should thank Tim 'marv' Ringenbach for Yahoo ft,
1209 and everyone should be happy to note that 0.75 leaks far less than
1210 0.74. Also, a lot of other bug fixes happened that escape my notice
1211 right now.
1213 Ethan: I just want to say that now logging really doesn't eat
1214 memory 'till the cows come home. We don't think.
1216 I would like to thank each and every one of these people, and
1217 I think you should, too:
1219 Paul A, Daniel Atallah, Patrick Aussems, Brian Bernas,
1220 Jonas Birmé, Ethan Blanton (hi Mom), Joshua Blanton, Herman
1221 Bloggs, Jason Boerner, Graham Booker, Craig Boston, Chris
1222 Boyle, Jeremy Brooks, Sean Burke, Cerulean Studios LLC,
1223 Ka-Hing Cheung, Arturo Cisneros Jr., Vincas Ciziunas, Joe
1224 Clarke, Todd Cohen, Felipe Contreras, Jeramey Crawford, Mark
1225 Doliner, Nuno Donato, Jim Duchek, Tom Dyas, Andrew Echols,
1226 Sean Egan, Brian Enigma, Stefan Esser, Larry Ewing, Jesse
1227 Farmer, Gavan Fantom, Rob Flynn, Nathan Fredrickson, Free
1228 Software Foundation, Decklin Foster, Adam Fritzler, Michael
1229 Golden, Ryan C. Gordon, Christian Hammond, Andy Harrison, G.
1230 Sumner Hayes, Mike Heffner, Iain Holmes, Karsten Huneycutt,
1231 Akuke Kok, Tero Kuusela, Dennis Lambe Jr., Ho-seok Lee, Moses
1232 Lei, Ambrose C. Li, Nicolas Lichtmaier, Artem Litvinovich, Syd
1233 Logan, Matthew Luckie, Brian Macke, Paolo Maggi, Willian T.
1234 Mahan, John Matthews, Ryan McCabe, Robert McQueen, Robert
1235 Mibus, Benjamin Miller, Kevin Miller, Paul Miller, Arkadiusz
1236 Miskiewicz, Andrew Molloy, Matt Pandina, Ricardo Fernandez
1237 Pascual, Havoc Pennington, Ari Pollak, Robey Pointer, Nathan
1238 Poznick, Brent Priddy, Federicco Mena Quintero, David Raeman,
1239 Etan Reisner, Kristian Rietveld, Tim Ringenbach, Andrew
1240 Rodland, Neil Sanchala, Carsten Schaar, Luke Schierer, Torrey
1241 Searle, Jim Seymour, John Silvestri, David Smock, Mark
1242 Spencer, Lex Spoon, Kevin Stange, David Stoddard, Stu
1243 Tomlinson, Brian Tarricone, Peter Teichman, Arun A. Tharuvai,
1244 Philip Tellis, Bill Tompkins, Tom Tromey, Junichi Uekawa,
1245 Bjoern Voigt, Nathan Walp, Eric Warmenhoven, Jason Willis,
1246 Matt Wilson, Ximian, Jaroen Zwartepoorte.
1248 Thanks, all.
1250 0.74 (11/25/2003):
1251 Sean: Christian and Nathan were wrong.
1253 Ethan: I don't know how solid or good this release will be, but
1254 hopefully it's better than 0.73! Not that 0.73 didn't rock or
1255 anything, but for those users bit by its peculiar little bugs
1256 it wasn't as nice as this will be.
1258 Nathan: Jabber got some good tweaks, and logging doesn't eat
1259 memory until the cows come home. Which is good, because they
1260 said they'll be out until late.
1262 Luke: Always nice when directories get created correctly ;-)
1264 0.73 (11/21/2003):
1265 Nathan: This should be a really solid release. I fixed most if not
1266 all of the idiotic Jabber bugs from 0.72, and re-enabled the SASL
1267 login stuff, now that it is finalized in the XMPP drafts. Oh, and
1268 we now have a release notification plugin, so you can find out when
1269 the latest and greatest version of Gaim is out without breaking that
1270 reload button in your browser. There's other fun new stuff, but I
1271 forget what it is.
1273 Christian: This is a good release, as Nathan said. For all those who
1274 hated all the disconnect dialogs, we now have a {dis,re}connect{ed,}
1275 dialog that replaces all of them and shows every account that became
1276 disconnected. Also, there were some MSN fixes thrown in, such as
1277 the problem with unblocking users. My personal favorite, since it's
1278 really been bugging me for awhile, is the bug with the border on the
1279 close buttons is fixed. Oh yes, and let's not forget the new logging.
1280 It simply rocks. This is a pretty stable release, so get it. 0.74 is
1281 going to have some niceties that people have been waiting for.
1283 0.72 (10/30/2003):
1284 Sean: I think I'll go as the Gaim logo guy for Halloween. That
1285 would be a cool costume.
1287 Luke: We've had a record month for number of bugs submitted (395 as
1288 of now) this month, but the total number of bugs open has grown by
1289 less than 20, so while it might be fustrating for those of you out
1290 there who think your bug report is being ignored, know that we are
1291 doing our best to look at them all :-). This release fixes a goodly
1292 number of bugs including the troubles with signing on icq (thanks
1293 to Mark). Enjoy!
1295 Christian: Last release brought forward a lot of bug reports, such
1296 as the ICQ bug, and also trouble with installing SSL. I can't count
1297 how many people were confused as to why their MSN plugin wasn't
1298 loading. Now, it'll load regardless, and when you try to connect,
1299 it'll give you an error dialog saying to install SSL (if you don't
1300 have it installed, of course). I didn't do a whole lot this release,
1301 but that'll change with the next. There are some fun things coming.
1303 Ethan: In complete defiance of history, I did something this
1304 release. It had to do with IRC. If I type here for long
1305 enough, I'm sure I'll remember what it was... Oh yeah, all of
1306 you paranoid people can hide your local username by changing
1307 your IRC account settings. I also want to note that we are
1308 aware that building Gaim is Harder than it Should Be on
1309 Solaris, and I am seeking solutions to some of the issues
1310 there. Everyone remember to give some love to the developers
1311 who actually did something of note this release (i.e. not me)!
1313 Nathan: Jabber got a ton better this release, as I fixed most of the
1314 bugs introduced in the last release. Registration works again, and
1315 the next person to break it is going to suffer. I also fixed a
1316 handfull of other little things that I can't remember. This should
1317 be a good release.
1319 0.71 (10/09/2003):
1320 Rob: It's been a while since I've commited some news. I've had a
1321 very hectic few weeks/months. Thing are finally coming together
1322 again for me. This release features much copying and pasting. Yeah.
1324 Sean: I can't wait for everything to be core/ui split!
1326 Christian: This is a good release, and I don't think people will have
1327 too many problems. There are a lot of little nice feature additions,
1328 and much progress has been made on the core/UI split. We should be done
1329 in a couple of releases, assuming we can get the remaining two or three
1330 parts core/UI-split. Oh, and plugin authors are going to hate me again,
1331 as a lot of code (specifically, the conversations code and utility
1332 functions) changed names. This is a Good Thing (TM), as always, but may
1333 require modifications to some plugins. Not all, fortunately, but some
1334 :) Many SSL problems were fixed, though we still have some to go. If
1335 you don't have SSL, you now need it for MSN. MSN won't even load without
1336 it. Starting October 15th, the old protocol won't be supported
1337 anymore, so there's no reason to support the old one anymore.
1339 Herman: I bet some plugin authors have resorted to making voodoo dolls
1340 of Christian. Nothing new for Win Gaim users other than a fix for
1341 missing aim buddy icons, and removal of gtk-wimp (until it matures).
1343 Mark: People are going to make a voodoo doll of me and shower it with
1344 kisses and chocolate women: When an AIM user is away, you can now view
1345 the person's away message in their tooltip. This is very similar to
1346 what iChat does, only our tooltip will wrap lines rather than displaying
1347 off your screen :-)
1349 Nathan: Chocolate women are cool, but I'm a bigger fan of the real kind.
1350 I re-wrote the Jabber support from scratch, so now there's at least one
1351 person who knows what's going on with it. I got lost in the old code,
1352 even in the parts I wrote. It now supports the SASL login stuff from
1353 the XMPP protocol specs, and will automagically upgrade the conncetion
1354 to SSL if it's supported. If anything doesn't work like it did before,
1355 it's probably better, and you should be thankful for it.
1357 Ethan: I'm sure I'll be showered with all kinds of wonderful things,
1358 but I doubt it's because I did anything. The reason being that I
1359 really don't think I did anything. I meant to do some gaim_
1360 prepension and documentation for IRC and Tcl, and handle IRC errors
1361 more responsibly, but I've been meaning to do that for months.
1362 Except the Tcl part, the Tcl plugin hasn't even existed for months.
1363 I figure if I write enough NEWS no one will notice I didn't do
1364 anything during the release cycle. Oh, I did close some bugs. I
1365 didn't fix them, mind you, I just closed them. With abandon.
1366 Don't tell Luke.
1368 Luke: Mmmm, I probly did even less than Ethan, except I closed rather
1369 more bugs for other reasons. Lots of you submitting duplicate bugs.
1370 This should be a pretty good release. We still have a couple crashes
1371 in ssl stuff, but we fixed a number of the bugs in the tracker, and
1372 the code cleaning helps alot as well. Enjoy!
1374 0.70 (9/28/2003):
1375 Sean: Yahoo! works (for now). That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1376 Huge thanks to our dear friends over at Cerulean Studios, creators of
1377 Trillian, for helping us out.
1379 Nathan: This release also works out most of the kinks in the new
1380 contact support. The Jabber goodies I promised will have to wait
1381 for now.
1383 Christian: I didn't really do anything except fix a couple of issues
1384 loading protocol plugins that had plugin dependencies and getting perl
1385 to install where we tell it to. I had hoped that 0.70 would include
1386 a finished libgaim, but Yahoo kind of wrecked that dream. We'll see it
1387 within the next few releases. Life has been busy in a good way :)
1389 0.69 (9/24/2003):
1390 Sean: MSN and Yahoo! work. That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1392 Herman: Win Gaim has been around for more than a year now.. Time Flies.
1394 Nathan: {{Meta,}{Contact,Buddy},Person} support for all! Also, SSL
1395 support for Jabber makes its debut. More Jabber goodies next release.
1397 Christian: It's a good release. The main highlight really is
1398 Nathan's Contact support, which is just beautiful. My buddy list
1399 shrunk considerably. As Sean stated, MSN and Yahoo! work. MSN
1400 does not support the new MSN buddy icons and stuff, unfortunately,
1401 but we'll see about 0.70. There were a whole bunch of Perl fixes,
1402 so hopefully there will be less complaints directed to my code in
1403 that area ;) Among other new additions of mine are SSL support
1404 (both Mozilla NSS and GNUTLS), Plugin IPC (letting plugins talk to
1405 each other), and some visual niceties in the Accounts window.
1406 Ka-Hing Cheung put in animated smileys, which should please many.
1407 Yeah, good release. Just you wait until 0.70 though.
1409 Robot101: Hi mom. My patch isn't in this release. Watch for the next
1410 one.
1412 Mark: Metacontact support, yeah. Right click on a dude and
1413 select "Expand."
1415 Ethan: God bless the USA.
1417 0.68 (09/01/2003):
1418 Rob: Wow. I am so incredibly tired.
1420 Sean: School starts tomorrow! How fun! I'll have more time to hack
1421 gaim (isn't that supposed to be the reverse?)*
1423 *Some NEWS recycled from v0.10.0
1425 Nathan: I didn't do much for this release, except make Jabber
1426 registration work, and put in a slight tweak to make Gaim work a
1427 little better with jabberd2. Next release you'll all see what I've
1428 been spending my time on, but for now enjoy the fruits of everyone
1429 else's labor.
1431 Mark: I've been really busy with other stuff, but I've spent my
1432 Gaim-time on working towards a more formal translation process.
1433 Hopefully this will result in Gaim shipping with more complete
1434 translation files. Also, all our awesome translators are mentioned
1435 in the about window now.
1437 Christian: I've been really busy with this stuff. Gaim got a new
1438 signal architecture, which is just really cool. The old events system
1439 is gone. Now you connect a signal from a handle (which can be
1440 a plugin or whatever) to a function, and plugins can register their
1441 own functions, and other neat things. Oh yeah, and perl was rewritten.
1442 There's a new HOWTO in the Doxygen docs (make docs), but no API
1443 reference yet. Developers, look at the plugins/perl/common/*.xs files
1444 for now. I also wrote plugin dependencies, which will be more useful
1445 down the road. Gaim v0.69 is going to have the new MSN plugin that
1446 works with the latest MSN protocol. Please be patient for that, as
1447 we're getting a lot of MSN questions we answer over and over.
1449 Luke: Wow, I actually did something for this release besides commit
1450 translations! Well, sorta. I got permission to commit some patches
1451 so gaim now has color support for yahoo, and you can fetch some
1452 basic info on yahoo and msn users. Yay for people submitting patches!
1454 0.67 (08/14/2003):
1456 Rob: I live in Georgia. I don't care about blackouts. We only
1457 have to deal with floods and tornadoes.
1459 Sean: Fortunately me for me, I live in the only place in New York
1460 that still has power tonight! New features in 0.6@%f)*2.{\
1461 NO CARRIER
1463 Christian: I guess Sean couldn't be here to tell you about all the
1464 great new things. New stuff was done! It's simply amazing. Yeah. So,
1465 new IRC protocol plugin, tab text is greyed on events (like "So and
1466 so has signed off!"), protocol icons on tabs (thanks to Etan Reisner),
1467 some dialog rewrites.. Great stuff. Gaim's looking more teh perrty.
1468 My big "wow" thing is that the core and UI were split enough for me
1469 to remove the remaining UI code and make a patch, and libgaim was born,
1470 for experimental purposes. However, using it, I was able to make the
1471 second UI ever for Gaim - Gaim for Qtopia (Zaurus and iPaq PDAs).
1472 This is viewable at http://qpe-gaim.sf.net/ (shameless plug?). More
1473 UIs to come I hope! :) Exciting time in Gaim.
1475 0.66 (07/18/2003):
1476 Rob: Oops!!!! This reminds me of other silly things that we've
1477 done. I agree with what Herman is going to say. ;-)
1479 Sean: Man, 0.65 was so super lame and boring. But 0.66? WOW!
1480 This is the most incredible thing EVER. We've done tons of work
1481 since 0.65, and I'm really proud of what we came out with. Thanks
1482 to everyone who helped!
1484 Christian: Wow, I can't even begin to describe how long we've worked
1485 on this one. Monstrous release. Best ever! You won't even recognize
1486 it. If you've had account import problems, delete your accounts.xml
1487 and upgrade to 0.66. Just, wow.
1489 Herman: This is to make up for slipping off the two week release cycle.
1491 Luke: Okay, people, yes we did test 0.65 for bugs, but hey, some things
1492 slip through. This release makes up for that. This should fix the bugs
1493 0.65 introduced, at least the ones that most of you would otherwise hit.
1495 Nathan: We are so smart. S-M-R-T...I mean S-M-A-R-T.
1497 0.65 (07/16/2003):
1498 Rob: Wooo! We're finally ready for 0.65. Are you guys excited? I
1499 haven't worked on anything in this release, either. I've been
1500 working offline on a MacOSX UI. No, you're not allowed to ask
1501 me when it will be ready. If you ask me then I won't answer
1502 you. You've been warned! :-D
1504 Sean: Although I tend to go right here in the two slot in NEWS,
1505 we don't always commit in this order. This is the third time I've
1506 rewritten this because the jerks below me keep commiting while I'm
1507 writing causing mass conflictination. Grrr. Stupid jerks. Anyway,
1508 this is Gaim 0.65. Like other Gaim releases, this allows you to
1509 converse with people far away over the "Internet." That's about it.
1510 It's really not that interesting. In fact, I wouldn't even bother
1511 reading the other people's NEWS. It's all boring. There's some
1512 crap about forest fires and fangs and claws. It's really boring.
1513 Great, now Luke just committed NEWS causing more conflictination.
1514 I wouldn't bother reading his either. Oh, and I don't want to thank
1515 Megan (Cae) or Kevin (SimGuy). They're stupid jerks too. Grrr...
1517 Mark: I actually did stuff for this release. Go me. I probably
1518 shouldn't speak for all of us, but I'm going to anyway: We feel that
1519 this release is one of Gaim's best. It should be relatively bug
1520 free, and the code is cleaner than ever, thanks to lots of work by
1521 Christian and Nathan. We had some help from a few civilians
1522 finding and fixing bugs. Thanks to Megan (Cae), Ka-Hing Cheung
1523 (javabsp), and Kevin Stange (SimGuy) for their work. Man, I was just
1524 looking at Sean's NEWS entry for 0.64--that's talent. Also, stay
1525 in school. Just say no. Only you can prevent forest fires.
1527 Christian: This has been a great release. faceprint rocks, as he got
1528 things moving in the core/UI split by redoing preferences, which forced
1529 us to think about how things would be split. We now have XML
1530 preferences, accounts, pounces, and away messages. No more .gaimrc
1531 ugliness. The accounts and connection code now have new core/UI split
1532 APIs, and there is very little to do before our split is ready to be
1533 used. Rob and I are working off an experimental tarball of what will
1534 eventually be libgaim. He's working on a MacOS X UI (don't ask him
1535 about it, he'll ignore you) and I'm doing a Qtopia UI (you can ask
1536 about that, it's usable!). We added a new protocol, Trepia.
1537 Information about it can be found at http://www.trepia.com/. It's not
1538 complete, so don't send in bug reports about it not finding people in
1539 your local area, please. Oh, and lots of MSN bugs were fixed.
1540 Practically all the known ones. I feared 0.65 would be unstable due to
1541 our rewrites, I believe this is going to be one of the most stable
1542 releases we've had in awhile (knock on wood), thanks to Megan (Cae),
1543 who has done an amazing job at locating, categorizing and documenting
1544 the various bugs she has run into, and kevin (SimGuy). Stay tuned for
1545 upcoming releases. Neat things are coming, but if it has fangs and
1546 claws, curl into a ball. Or yell at it. I can't remember which is
1547 correct.
1549 Luke: Wow! Finally releasing 0.65! Christian, Nathan, and Mark have
1550 worked really hard for this release, all the credit goes to them.
1551 The new preferences are awesome, and there are more bugs fixed for
1552 this release than in the last 3 or 4 releases. Your MSN should work
1553 reliably again, your preferences saved, your accounts resort, the
1554 list goes on and on. A couple preferences, most notably your buddy
1555 list sorting preference won't be imported, but almost all of them
1556 will be and its probly a good idea for you to take a second look
1557 through preferences again anyway, alot of you are starting to
1558 forget that things are optional again. :-)
1560 Nathan: I think I did something for this release a while ago. I've
1561 got a mailbox full of commit emails, and some have my name on them,
1562 so I must have done something, right? Probably some minor jabber stuff,
1563 and lots of crazy bugfixes. It was a team effort, I'd like to thank the
1564 academy, our producer Rob Flynn, and of course all the fans. You rock.
1566 Herman: I was told to write something.. so here it goes. Windows users
1567 will be happy to know that they can now rearrange their Buddy Lists.
1568 I finally got stuck into GTK+ code and fixed the bug in question (this
1569 release will include a patched version of GTK+ 2.2.1). I integrated
1570 the WinGaim systray code into the docklet plugin bringing those nice
1571 docklet features (i.e. Message queuing) to WinGaim. Another major
1572 WinGaim change of note is that debug versions of all dlls can now be
1573 built, providing useful backtraces not only for gaim.dll but for the
1574 plugins as well.
1576 0.64 (05/29/2003):
1577 Rob: I didn't do anything this release either. We're under a crunch
1578 week at work. Friday is the end of the crunch. Hooray!! Thanks for
1579 all of your hard work, guys :).
1581 Sean: Unlike every other time we say, "the next release will be loaded
1582 with cool new features, this time, we really mean it. In fact, they're
1583 already in CVS (don't use CVS). The only obvious new feature for 0.64
1584 is buddy list sorting. This has been much requested and can be set in
1585 the buddy list preferences. You can sort by name, by status, and even
1586 by log file size--putting people you talk to most at the top. Plugins
1587 can even easily add their own sorting methods. It's all very cool. I
1588 want to thank Luke and Ka-Hing for their initial work on it. And yes,
1589 I did make my entire NEWS entry justified on purpose.
1591 Christian: I have a few new goodies in 0.64, but they're mostly
1592 back-end stuff that people like us care about. The things that most
1593 of you will like the most is that almost all of the reported MSN
1594 bugs were fixed. Users with an empty contact list can now login again.
1595 The friendly name bug is gone. E-mail notifications work again. Yay!
1596 We have some big changes in store for 0.65. Careful if you use CVS...
1597 Things will break. :)
1599 Mark: I never really have anything important to add. I'd just like to
1600 thank Jack Daniels for his exquisite bug reports. And whiskey.
1602 Nathan: I don't think I did anything for this release. I'm a bum.
1604 0.63 (05/16/2003)
1605 Rob: Wow, so, what can I say? I've been rather AWOL for the past few
1606 releases. However, that's okay. Work has been pretty friggin hec-
1607 tic, so, that's my excuse. Work is finally going to be slowing down
1608 some. I plan to be doing more Gaim work. That makes me happy. That
1609 makes you happy. That makes us all happy. Now, I just need to
1610 finish rebuilding my car's engine. Engine rebuilds put the FU in
1611 fun!
1613 Sean: Yay! School is finally over. I have to give tons of cherry-
1614 flavored props to everyone whose been helping out while I stayed away
1615 from Gaim to keep myself from failing again, especially Christian and
1616 Nathan.
1618 Luke: Okay, this is NOT a bug fix release, at least for those of you
1619 who use MSN. Christian put in a TON of effort rewritting the MSN prpl,
1620 mega props to him on this release. In other news, we have alot of bugs
1621 fixed, and a goodly number of the translations are more up to date
1622 than they were in earlier releases. There are some other significant
1623 changes, but they are mostly backend stuff, yay for core/ui splits ;-)
1625 Christian: As Sean and Luke said, I did a tiny bit of work in this
1626 release. The MSN prpl was rewritten, and should now work better. It's
1627 compatible with the MSNP7 protocol that MSN v4.x uses. Unfortunately,
1628 MSNP9 is being worked on. Bah. Also, it has MSN Mobile support, so you
1629 can register your MSN account with http://mobile.msn.com/ and people
1630 can page your mobile device. You can also page other MSN Mobile users.
1631 Groups are now stored on server. Oh, and due to the nature of MSNP7,
1632 conversations are timed out after 5 minutes, so you'll unfortunately
1633 see a message indicating that. Sorry! I wrote experimental support
1634 for my own implementation of MSN buddy icons. You can set them in your
1635 account settings much like with AIM, and when you talk to other gaim
1636 users, they'll get your buddy icon. This will last for a few releases,
1637 until the buddy icon implementation in the upcoming MSNP9 protocol is
1638 figured out, and we have support for that. That'll be a couple months
1639 away at least. Also, we have a rewrite of the plugin interface, so
1640 rewrite your plugins! Things are going to get very cool from it. The
1641 debug API was core/UI split, and some enhancements were made to the
1642 debug window. I think that's all from me. It's been a fun release.
1643 Stay tuned, I have some great things coming up!
1645 Nathan: It seems like 0.62 was forever and a day ago. I had to look
1646 at the ChangeLog to remember what I did. Apparently I made it so you
1647 can put chats in your buddy list. And then I tweaked a bunch of stuff
1648 and fixed a bunch of crashes. Then exams came, and then I went home
1649 for a week and left my laptop's power cable here at school, so I didn't
1650 get anything done. Jabber will get all sorts of fun new stuff for
1651 the next release. Really. ;-)
1653 0.62 (04/23/2003):
1654 Sean: This is just another standard bi-weekly Gaim release. Nothing
1655 really interesting, but it has some good bugfixes. Personally, I've
1656 been a bit removed from Gaim development lately what with school getting
1657 tough and stuff, but the rest of the guys have really been doing great
1658 work without me. Thanks, guys.
1660 Christian: I can't remember what I did here.. Think I'll take a quick
1661 look at the ChangeLog.... Okay, guess I was useless. That's okay,
1662 though, because I have some really cool stuff going into 0.63. Plugin
1663 authors will hate me for it. A rewrite of the plugins interface! This is
1664 actually a Good Thing (TM). Anyhow, upgrade to this release, and tell
1665 your friends. 33 Gaim users can't be wrong!
1667 Luke: I didn't do much here besides the odd translation patch and a
1668 couple bug fix patches. This is primarily a bug fix release, and much
1669 needed at that. Didn't get a chance to write sorting code, work has been
1670 busy. Hopeefully it will happen for 0.63.
1672 Mark: Gaim is coming along quite beautimously. I'm going to eat
1673 my Pop-tarts now.
1675 Nathan: oh dot sixty two. There are a lot of bugs fixed in this
1676 release, and one major new feature. Our Jabber plugin now supports
1677 XHTML-IM. In plain english, this means that you can now format your
1678 jabber messages, and other people will see the formatting. GtkIMHTML
1679 still needs some work to get it to parse valid XHTML-IM better, but that
1680 will come in time. That time would come sooner if my CS prof accepted
1681 "I was hacking on Gaim" as a valid excuse for an extension ;-)
1683 0.61 (04/07/2003):
1684 Rob: Nathan commited his news first. However, I'm cooler so I'm putting
1685 my entry above his. Yeah, so, there were some DnD issues with 0.60. I
1686 blame it on the rain. It was falling, falling. I blame it on the
1687 faucet. It drips all night.
1689 Sean: I committed my news after Rob. I'm cooler than Nathan (by far)
1690 but not as cool as Rob. So I go here. Actually, I didn't do anything
1691 since 0.60 other than commit some other peoples patches. The one from
1692 Dave Camp is cool. How 'bout this snow? Isn't that crazy? Oh, and
1693 thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday.
1695 Nathan: You want frequent releases? You got 'em ;-) Chip wrote some
1696 cool new pounce stuff, and things shouldn't get weird when you drag
1697 groups and buddies around. It's bad enough having 1 of some of my
1698 buddies on my list, I definitely don't need duplicates. Being that I
1699 have class in the morning, I'll just raise my juice glass for this one.
1701 Christian: I'm not as cool as Rob, Sean, or Nathan, so I go down here.
1702 Well, among some of the fixes is my new buddy pounce code! This adds new
1703 buddy pounce types, core/ui splitifies the code, and makes the dialog
1704 box spiffy. Yay frequent releases! Erm, I can't think of anything else
1705 cool to say here. Have fun, everyone!
1707 Luke: Okay, i'm probly the least cool, so I'll go last. I committed a
1708 few patches from other people here, nothing earth shattering though. The
1709 biggest thing in this release is the group re-ordering bug fix, having
1710 that fixed will make for fewwer questions. Get used to using releases
1711 people, we want to use cvs for actual development :-).
1713 Mark: I didn't want to write any news without actually having done
1714 anything, so I fixed a meaningless compile warning. Boo-yeah.
1716 Sean: Luke can't spell "fewer". How un-cool is that?
1718 0.60 (04/04/2003):
1719 Rob: Wow. So, it has been a really long time since we started the
1720 gtk2 fork. It's finally ready for public consumption. Sean is about
1721 to go out and buy a case of beer. My roommate is downstairs right
1722 now pouring me a shot of his choice. Everyone, raise your beers if
1723 you've got them. It's been a cool almost 10-months of development.
1724 I hope you all enjoy. Drink'em if you got'em!
1726 Sean: I'm writing this 3 minutes before my 21st birthday. Nobody can
1727 believe we're finally ready to relase 0.60. Many thanks to everyone
1728 who helped out; I'm convinced that Gaim 0.60 is the best IM client to
1729 date (only to be bested by 0.61). There's WAY too much stuff to mention.
1730 Even the ChangeLog is somewhat incomplete. Yay, I'm 21 now! Everyone
1731 enjoy! :)
1733 Nathan: Happy birthday Sean! Rob decided to let me start cleaning up
1734 after everyone, so here I am. "sexy" is the only word that can be used
1735 to describe 0.60. Prepare to be shocked and amazed. /me raises his
1736 (shot) glass ;-)
1738 Christian: Geeeeeze this took a long time. Worth it though! Personally,
1739 I thought we'd all just give up on releases altogether and tell
1740 everybody just to grab CVS. I'm pretty happy with this release. I was
1741 able to contribute quite a bit to it. Makes me feel proud to be a gaim
1742 developer! I'm really looking forward to the future releases. I have
1743 some neat stuff planned. Yay, I'm still 19! Mmmm, Sierra Mist. Make me a
1744 sammich!
1746 Mark: Whoops, I started drinking a little earlier than I was supposed
1747 to. I guess I missed the memo. Hmm, I ate at a restaurant somewhere,
1748 I think it was at Snowshoe, and the menu had "sammiches" on it. It was
1749 pretty sweet. I'd like to give a shout out to all the Gaim
1750 devizelopers for rizocking the hizzy the past few months. Word.
1753 0.59 (06/24/2002):
1754 Rob: I guess Sean is busy at home or something and Jim is asleep.
1755 I'm very tired but it's time for a release. Enjoy. :)
1756 SORRY FOR THE DELAY. :(
1758 Sean: It's been a long time since our last release, and for no
1759 good reason either. Rob and I just haven't been able to get together
1760 to do it. But now we have. Aside from some Jabber changes and some
1761 crucial MSN fixes, most of this release's changes are transparent,
1762 but none-the-less important. Well get some better changes when my
1763 computer works again, you have my word*
1765 *My word is worthless.
1768 0.58 (05/13/2002):
1769 Rob: Yeah, so, my computer has been bad which is why the release
1770 didn't go out on time. Oh well. I would like to welcome
1771 Jim Seymour aboard the development team. He's going to be taking
1772 over the work on our Jabber code as well as doing various other
1773 nit picking. He likes to pick nits, nats, and umm, knots, I think.
1775 Sean: This release has a long ChangeLog. Higlights include an
1776 important security fix for MSN and a few nice new features.
1777 Not *much* cooler than 0.57--but we're making progress ;)
1779 Jim: Hmmm... Rob said I have to say *something*, so here it is:
1780 Rob's a mango.
1782 0.57 (04/25/2002):
1783 Rob: Not too much in this release, as Sean said below. (This is
1784 what happens when the bottom person goes first.) New translation,
1785 a few fixes, secure msn hotmail logins, blah blah blah. As Sean
1786 said, the next release will be cooler. If only you could read
1787 our minds ;-).
1789 Sean: Nothing too special here, but a critical Yahoo fix that
1790 ensures Yahoo! will work when they discontinue the old protocol
1791 all the other 3rd party clients are using. Next release will be
1792 cooler, I promise.
1794 0.56 (04/11/2002):
1795 Rob: Well, what do you know. I have another headache. I always have
1796 these damned headaches. I got pissed off with the way GtkTree looks.
1797 I wanted to move to using GtkCTree. I think they're pretty.
1798 Unfortunately, GtkCTree sucks. After a little digging through
1799 the code, I managed to molest GtkTree into looking like
1800 GtkCTree. Thanks to everyone that helped track down that one
1801 annoying style problem.
1803 Sean: Hello. This is another minor release while Rob and I finish
1804 up on some bigger projects. We're reworking a lot of the UI to make
1805 it easier to use, nicer looking, and more compatible with gtk2.
1806 I've also been trying to bring the Yahoo plugin up to date, so it
1807 will work for Indian users and avoid a potential problem in the near
1808 future.
1810 0.55 (03/29/2002):
1811 Rob: 0.55 is here. I've been away for a few days on business. Sean
1812 has been on Spring Break. Therefore, this release is mostly a patch
1813 release. It does fix some bugs and makes a few thing slightly cooler,
1814 so it's better in that aspect, I suppose. Enjoy.
1816 Sean: This is mostly a bugfix release. I'm on Spring Break, not
1817 doing any coding at all. But lots of people sent in great patches
1818 anyway. Thanks guys!
1820 0.54 (03/14/2002):
1821 Rob: Well, here we are. 0.54. We got a lot of fun things in this
1822 release. Better working SSI, Image sending, protocol specific
1823 smiley faces, and a whole lot of triscuits. *gobble*
1825 Sean: We fixed a lot of bugs in this one, and probably introduced
1826 a bunch too. ;) We were both really busy, and did all the coding
1827 late at night when we were tired, so if something isn't working,
1828 it's probably just tired code. Enjoy the triscuits!
1830 0.53 (02/28/2002):
1831 Rob: Well, we missed yesterday's release. That's Okay, I head a
1832 nasty headache. You can all just deal. ;-)
1835 Sean: Neat Goodies! Whee!! Oscar got a lot of great additions.
1836 It can do Screen Name formatting, it can save and store your buddy
1837 list on the server, it can do typing notifications in Direct
1838 Connections, and yes, it can receive IM Images! Sending images will
1839 be added in the next release. MSN and Yahoo! can do typing
1840 notification too. Hooray!
1843 0.52 (02/17/2002):
1844 Rob: Well, after a long delay we're finally ready for another release.
1845 I finally got settled into my new apartment, the new job is going
1846 well, and I finally have internet connectivity again. You can expect
1847 us to be back on our usually bi-monthly schedule. Enjoy these fixen,
1848 as they resolve a few connectivity issues. :-)
1850 Sean: It looks like things are back on track now. Eric left which is
1851 sad. He's done so much for Gaim, and I know we're all thankful.
1852 Thanks Eric! I'll be stepping in and do more development, but I can
1853 never replace Eric. This release fixes a long-standing problem in
1854 MSN. If you've gotten errors when trying to connect to MSN, you want
1855 this release. If you've suddenly found yourself unable to connect to
1856 Yahoo!, you want this release too. The "neat goodies" will be in the
1857 next release ;)
1859 Rob: Operation Evil does not exist! ;-)
1862 0.51 (01/24/2002):
1863 Rob: Well, here we go. I FINALLY got around to making a release
1864 after over a month, Sorry for the delay, all. Things got really
1865 hectic around the gaim house hold. This release isn't as complete
1866 as I had hoped, but I promised to get something out. There's some
1867 neat goodies in mind for the next release, right Sean? :-)
1870 0.50 (12/13/2001):
1871 Rob: I am tired. Tonight was weird. Bleh!!!!
1873 Eric: I second that.
1875 0.49 (11/29/2001):
1876 Rob: *still mamboing*
1878 Whew! That was a bad little mambo. I hope everyone had a nice
1879 little Holiday, if you celebrate. If not, then I hope you had
1880 a sucky weekend. :-D.
1882 Oh, lots of cheese for everyone!! (Beware the duffle)
1884 It's getting cloudy. I think it's going to storm somethin'
1885 fierce. That's my southern talk. Do you like it?
1887 Eric: I want to be like you.
1889 Do the cha cha cha!
1891 0.48 (11/18/2001):
1892 Rob: Hi! It's 4:12am! I'm watching The Simpsons. :).
1893 Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking! :) There's not
1894 too much for me to say in this release. I'd just like to
1895 thank Eric for his hard work. :)
1897 Eric: Everybody mambo!
1899 0.47 (11/01/2001):
1900 Rob: Hi. Gaim v0.47 has been released, as you should already
1901 know. I hope all of you had a nice little halloween. There are
1902 quite a number of changes in this release. There are a few too
1903 many to list here, so I will redirect you to ye olde ChangeLog.
1905 Eric: Remember back in the day when TOC was the only protocol
1906 Gaim could use? Remember the login window from back then? Back
1907 before Gaim had perl or plugins or multiple connections or
1908 10 different protocols. Things have changed so much since then.
1909 Many more changes in this release as well. All good things.
1910 Don't forget to talk to SmarterChild.
1912 0.46 (10/18/2001):
1913 Rob: Hey guys! The smores were great! I really enjoyed meeting
1914 up with all of you guys and singing campfire songs. It was
1915 really awesome. Thanks for the beer, too. Next time, it's on me.
1917 This release has quite the number of bug fixes. I won't bother
1918 going into detail here. Just ust it, love it, live it - SEGA!
1920 Eric: Lots of fixes. Things compile well now. ICQ has stopped
1921 crashing on PPC and Sparc. If you know someone who isn't using
1922 Gaim because it was unstable, please get them to try this
1923 version. It's much better, I promise.
1925 0.45 (10/04/2001):
1926 Eric: Well, it seems that the time has come for yet another
1927 release. There are several yummy additions in this release, and
1928 quite a few useful bugfixes as well. Unfortunately it seems that
1929 Rob is currently unavailable; he joins us in spirit. He'll be
1930 joining us later for a group sing-along and smores by the
1931 campfire. But for now, you'll need to keep yourselves occupied
1932 with 0.45. And remember, a happy hacker is a pimpin' penguin.
1934 0.44 (09/20/2001):
1935 Rob: Another release has come upon us. There were actually quite
1936 a number of things in ye old ChangeLog for this release. I don't
1937 feel like talking about them here, so you can read about them
1938 in ... you guessed it .. the ChangeLog. Oh, and if you're
1939 wondering about setting buddy icons, wait til 0.45 or
1940 use CVS shortly after this release. ;-)
1942 Eric: You should all be using CVS anyway. This has become the
1943 slogan in our IRC room, #gaim on irc.openprojects.net. The IRC
1944 plugin got lots of updates (mostly because I felt bad about using
1945 X-Chat for IRC when gaim supposedly had an IRC plugin), so you
1946 should load the plugin and join us. :)
1948 0.43 (09/06/2001):
1950 Rob: Well, I knew that the day would eventually come. I just didn't
1951 expect it to be so soon. ;-). Yes, that's right, Eric and I finally
1952 got sick of all of the pre releases. We didn't want to make this
1953 release an official 0.11.0. We thought that it would cause a lot
1954 of confusion. We didn't want to continue our trend of prereleases
1955 either. So, since gaim was first released officially, there
1956 have been 42 releases. This is number 43, hence the 0.43 version
1957 number. We're going to stick with this trend from now on. :-).
1959 Eric: We're also going to be starting a release early, release
1960 often trend, that hopefully we'll stick to this time. Hopefully
1961 we'll be putting out a new release every two weeks or so. You
1962 should all be using CVS anyway :) And as always, don't forget to
1963 report bugs! Anyway, since there's only been 9 days since the
1964 last release not much has changed. A bug-fix release and a version
1965 change mostly :)
1967 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
1968 Eric: This isn't a real release. Really. It's just a quick thing
1969 because pre14 doesn't cut it for some people. Also not counting
1970 the month break that I took it's been a month since the last
1971 release, so it's about time. You should all be using CVS anyway.
1972 Instructions are at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/cvs.shmtl. And
1973 don't forget to report bugs! http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php3.
1975 Rob: Hey guys. I've been rather inactive as well. It's a long
1976 story, but essentially, my company layed off a bunch of people,
1977 myself included, due to poor management. I've taken a new
1978 job which required moving across the country. I'm finally back
1979 online. Once I manage to actually get a desk at home I'll be
1980 able to code with out infliciting intense pain upon my lower
1981 back and neck. So, basically, we were inactive, but not dead.
1983 Also, just to keep you all updated, the AOL battle is still
1984 in progress. Our lawyers are still in negotiation with thiers.
1985 We'll keep you updated with what happens.
1987 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
1988 Eric: Wee. Lots of fun things. BIG bug fix release. I did a lot of
1989 stupid things in the last one, hehe. You all forgive me though,
1990 right?
1992 Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.
1993 Remember that. It's a great Scott Adams quote.
1995 Rob: I feel naughty. I should have released this a lot earlier
1996 in the day. I have a problem though. I started cooking, invited
1997 a couple friends over for dinner and then took a walk to a
1998 24hr doughnut shop where I sat outside and talked about
1999 random stuff. Oh well, at least it's still before the 18th.
2001 Enjoy this release guys! :-)
2004 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
2005 Rob: \O. Howdy doodie! This release isn't coming too far behind
2006 the previous release but hey, what can ya say, there were a couple
2007 of good fixes in this one. Jabber & IRC can set / view the topics
2008 of chat rooms now, napster doesnt crash on bad login names and
2009 passwords, and the man page got a big update.
2011 Well, that's about all, folks. Next release, I hope to try to get
2012 group MSN chat support added as well as DCC support in the IRC
2013 plugin.
2015 Peace!
2017 Eric: I apologize if any of you had to restart your X server because
2018 of me. This release won't make you have to do that, I promise. There
2019 were a couple other minor fixes with the buddy icon stuff, it still
2020 has a way to go but at least it's better than it was before. Oh yeah,
2021 and Oscar is able to sign on again.
2023 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
2024 Rob: Hi! O/. My girlfriend was visiting me so I've been busy being
2025 unavailable online. Hooray.
2027 There have been a lot of good changes in this release. Some improved
2028 dialogs, some updates to IRC and MSN, as well as a nifty little thing
2029 that Eric did that I'll let him tell you about.
2031 Oh yeah, I also got food poisoned by bad eggs. Ugh!
2033 Eric: Every protocol except TOC has been improved since the last
2034 release. All of them except Zephyr and ICQ now use the same proxy
2035 options, which you can set in the preferences. ICQ can use them if
2036 you set it to Socks5 though.
2038 There are a bunch of other good additions and fixes for each
2039 protocol which you can read about in the ChangeLog. And, there's one
2040 super cool feature that everyone seems to be asking for: Buddy Icons.
2041 Right now you can only receive them and only in Oscar, but hey, they're
2042 there.
2044 So that's it. Have fun with it :)
2046 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
2047 Rob: I bought a big carton of juice today. It is now 50% empty.
2048 A lot of the plugins got some new options and/or improvements. I
2049 have a headache right now, though, so I won't say much. I'll let
2050 Eric talk :)
2052 Eric: I uh. I bought 72 cans of soda yesterday. It only cost $15
2053 or so. I figure I'll be through it in less than two weeks. A
2054 dollar a day on soda isn't so bad. For the fourth release in a row,
2055 Oscar is fixed. Isn't that exciting. Judging from history I'd say
2056 that it won't stay fixed long; but judging from what I know has
2057 changed, we shouldn't have any more troubles.
2059 Rob: --. .- .. -- / .. ... / --. .-. . .- - --..-- / --. .- .. -- /
2060 .. ... / --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-
2062 I don't have a headache anymore! Hooray! Eric got a good deal on those
2063 drinks. I bought some bananas. They're very green. Oh, and I cooked
2064 a steak last night. It was 16 oz. It was good.
2066 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
2067 Rob: EEP! It's Friday the 13th!!! I think I fixed a few buggies
2068 in MSN and then added some new features to IRC. I have a headache
2069 right now, though, so I won't talk much. I think I'm going to go
2070 to sleep. Next release, I should have a good bit more done on
2071 IRC and will have made Napster more stable. Have fun!!
2073 Eric: There's a new protocol plugin, Zephyr. Don't use it! unless
2074 you know what Zephyr is, and have zhm set up correctly. Also there
2075 were a lot of other good bugfixes (like registering for Jabber
2076 accounts!) and a few neat features. In this release, Oscar is also
2077 working, but we'll see how long that lasts, eh?
2079 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
2080 Rob: Well, looks AOL was doing something naughty earlier this
2081 morning. Thanks to a very nice guy named Adam Fritzler (you
2082 all know him from libfaim) we're now back online. Thanks,
2083 Adam. I'll buy you a drink sometime :-).
2085 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
2086 Eric: Oo wow :) So I guess the big news is that this release should
2087 help you avoid the battle between Jabber and AOL. Most protocols
2088 got a few good bugfixes; thanks to people who pointed them out :).
2089 Hopefully for the next release I'll make it so you can register a
2090 jabber.org account, and then you can support Jabber using Gaim.
2091 I think (I *think*) Oscar blocking is working now. Haha, get it?
2092 Oscar blocking? It took me a while to get it, too. But no, really,
2093 I think that the permit/deny list in Oscar might be working.
2095 Rob: MSN got some fixes and should be really stable now. It had
2096 a little 100% CPU eating bug but that's taken care of now. Next
2097 on my list of repairs is the napster plugin. It works -- sorta --
2098 sometimes. Heh. As all of you probably know already, our Oscar
2099 support was broken yesterday. There's a little battle going on
2100 between AOL and Jabber and we caught a bullet during the crossfire.
2101 I think I just won the award for the most cliches used in one
2102 paragraph, as a matter of fact. ;-).
2104 ** Good luck to the Jabber guys in getting this resolved **
2107 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
2108 Rob: Hey! I finally rewrote the MSN plugin. Sorry, I'm just
2109 a lazy code whore sometimes, heheh. It pretty much has the same
2110 functionality as before with the exception of instability. I
2111 didn't really like that feature very much so I removed it. I hope
2112 you guys don't mind too terribly much ;-).
2114 Eric: In this week's installment of gaim you'll find a new Yahoo!
2115 library and an option to have all conversations in one window,
2116 in addition to numerous bug fixes and other improvements. Don't
2117 forget to send us your feedback. If there's something you want
2118 added, changed, or fixed, head over to our SourceForge page at
2119 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ and tells us about it.
2122 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
2123 Eric: Yay! I get to go first!
2125 The biggest change in this release is the TODO file. Lots of things
2126 got added. There's going to be a lot of prereleases. Please help.
2127 Other than that it's mostly just a lot of bugfixes. Oscar got a few
2128 new features. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
2129 and tell us what you'd like to see in gaim. We've gotten a lot of
2130 great requests so far, thanks.
2132 I think I like releasing every week.
2134 Rob: I've been bad so Eric got to go first. The biggest change
2135 In this release is the NEWS file. It's the only thing I contributed
2136 to! heh, just kidding. This is a bug fix release, as Eric said.
2137 Next release will contain my newly rewritten MSN plugin. You guys
2138 should be happy with it :).
2140 Oh yeah, TUCAN rocks :) Oh yeah, Eric rocks too.
2143 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
2144 Rob: Yeah, I promise this is the last pre-release :-D. That seems
2145 to be a pretty common saying around here, huh? Well, I must first
2146 appologize. The protocols that I was working on really should be
2147 much more developed at this point -- they should be completed,
2148 actually. Unfortunately, my real life job (yes, I have one hehe) got
2149 a little too busy and ate up all of my free time. I promise that
2150 things will get better now :).
2152 Eric: I don't promise that this is the last pre-release. :) But
2153 hopefully releases can start coming more often than once every two
2154 months. I don't really have much else to say. It's been a slow
2155 couple of months.
2157 Rob: I promise to hack gaim again. Please don't hate me.
2159 0.11.0-pre4:
2160 Rob: HOORAY FOR DISNEYLAND!
2162 Eric: One more prerelease. I'm actually starting to think these
2163 prereleases are a good idea; a lot of people reported a lot of
2164 bugs in pre3 and most of them are fixed now. Also, it helps with
2165 the whole release early-release often philosophy.
2167 The big news in this prerelease is two more protocols: Jabber and
2168 Napster. Both of them don't have any of the features that make
2169 these services cool, yet. You can't use the transports in Jabber
2170 and you can't download file in Napster. But you will be able to,
2171 soon :)
2173 Rob and I are going on vacation starting today until after New
2174 Year's, which is a lot of the reason we wanted to get this release
2175 out; it's much improved over pre3. Happy Holidays everyone.
2177 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
2178 Rob: Well, I hadn't initially planned on an 0.11.0pre3 but it
2179 looks like it was needed. That's not necessarially a bad thing,
2180 mind you. It just means you get to see more goodies!
2182 This release includes some other fun features. See the ChangeLog
2183 for more information. Also found in this wonderful release is
2184 an MSN plugin. For all of you who have been holding onto Windows
2185 simply because you have friends on MSN Messenger that you don't want
2186 to leave, this plugin is for you! :)
2188 Guys, make sure you send us bug reports; preferably on the
2189 SourceForge bug report forum at
2190 http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/. This will allow both
2191 Eric and I to handle the bugs and will prevent either one of us
2192 from losing the bug reports that are sent via AIM :-)
2194 Eric: Hey everybody, Rob and I really want to hear what you guys want
2195 to see in gaim. Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim and
2196 leave a message in the Open Discussion forum. We've gotten a lot of
2197 good ideas so far (most of them didn't make it into this release,
2198 unfortunately).
2200 If any of you want to test out your mad coding skills, I can think of
2201 a few projects that would be incredibly useful. Send me or Rob an IM
2202 and we'll let you know how you can help. And don't forget to read the
2203 HACKING file to see how gaim's put together.
2205 This is hopefully going to be the last prerelease; now that all the
2206 protocols that we're going to be doing for 0.11.0 are available it's
2207 mostly just going to be hacking on them and getting them in usable
2208 condition before the final release. Don't forget to send us bug
2209 reports ;)
2211 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
2212 Rob: I messed up. Oh well, it's fixed.
2214 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
2215 Rob: Hey guys! Guess what!? Yup, you're correct! It's the pre1
2216 release of 0.11.0. We have all sorts of goodies in this release!
2217 Check out the ChangeLog file. As always if you find any bugs,
2218 please report them on www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/
2220 You may find several small bugs as this is still a prerelease.
2222 You may want to note that my IRC plugin does not have full
2223 functionality as of yet. All of the important / commands will be
2224 added before the final release. Also, if someone could send me
2225 some good buddylist pixmaps for the irc plugin then I'd much
2226 appreciate it. Thanks to everyone who made this new release possible!
2228 If you have any ideas, comments, or suggestions, please let us know
2229 either by e-mail or via the source forge message board at the URL
2230 above. :)
2233 Eric: So what was Yay! For Gaim!? Yay was the codename for the
2234 Yahoo plugin. The whole point of all of these changes was I wanted to
2235 make a proof-of-concept plugin that would let Gaim sign into Yahoo. It
2236 turned out to be pretty much impossible with the old code. So,
2237 Rob and I hacked gaim so we could do just that. There's now a whole new
2238 class of plugins, Protocol Plugins, that let users dynamically add new
2239 protocols to Gaim. Just load the plugin, and create a new account that
2240 uses that protocol, and you're set! Yay! (Oscar and TOC are both still
2241 static. Gaim is, after all, primarily an AIM client.)
2243 Lots of people have been very generous and contributed a lot of
2244 time and effort to writing some really nice patches for gaim since
2245 the last release. To all of you, a big thanks.
2247 0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
2248 Rob: I am dumb.
2249 Eric: I am not dumb.
2251 0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
2252 Rob: What do you want me to say for yours?
2253 Eric: What happened since the last release?
2254 Rob: You got DSL.
2255 Eric: Oh yeah, I'm more available now.
2256 Rob: On a more serious note, this is just a quick release
2257 to hold everyone over. Look for some very awesome things
2258 coming in the next version. I can't say what, just yet,
2259 but what I can say is, Yay! For Gaim!
2261 0.10.1 (09/15/2000):
2263 Rob: Hi Hi Hi! Yet another gaim release pushed out the door
2264 for you guys. I hope you all enjoy it. There was a few minor
2265 issues cleared up in this version as well as the repair of
2266 OSCAR support. Hopefully we won't run into the same problem
2267 as before. Oh well ;-). There's also a few small extra goodies
2268 in here for you guys just check out the Change Log. I hope you all
2269 enjoy and take care!
2271 Eric: Wanna know what the Oscar problem was? You'll laugh. 2 bytes.
2272 The fix was changing 0x07da to 0x0686. Anyway, aside from the fix
2273 for that, there are a couple other good things. Beware of DSL nazis.
2274 They won't give you service until 6 weeks after you order it. So um,
2275 yeah.
2277 0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
2278 Rob: Well peoples, I know that it's been a while since our
2279 last release. Here we go. Some brand spankin' new interfaces
2280 for you guys to oogle at. I hope you all enjoy it. Hopefully
2281 our next release won't take as long to finish up. Real life
2282 kind of crept up on Eric and I and took up a lot of our times.
2283 Life sucks that way sometimes. Anyways, we're back and all
2284 is well. Thanks for hanging in there guys and we hope
2285 you enjoy it!
2287 Eric: LWE was so cool. Rob and I met up there, we had a blast. But I
2288 only got to go for one day and Rob got to go for three. Lucky bastard.
2289 It's been so long since the last release that I don't even remember
2290 what's changed. But all of it is good :) Like Rob said, all kinds of
2291 new UI stuff. I think there are some new features in there too. Now
2292 I'm headed back to school so I'll have more time to hack gaim (isn't
2293 that supposed to be the reverse?), just as soon as I get my internet
2294 connection back >:-/ .
2296 Rob: Oh yeah, some of our pixmaps may need a little work. We took
2297 a lot of them from the Gnome Stock icons. If anyone could do some
2298 custom ones that stay within the 24x24 boundary and keep the same
2299 idea and feel as the gnome icons then we would be more than happy
2300 to use them. Thanks much!! Viva la LWE.
2303 0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
2304 Rob: Well, guys, I hope you enjoy this version. I've done quite a bit
2305 of work to the user interface. It's still not in the state that I
2306 would like it to be, though. Over the next few versions you will
2307 notice a few more interface changes as we try to bring a more
2308 professional look to Gaim. As always, we will stay true to our
2309 pimpin' penguin atittude.
2311 Eric: While Rob's been busy making things pretty, I've been busy
2312 making things work :). The chat and IM windows got merged, which
2313 means that they both have the same features (notably, IM has /me
2314 and chat has font/color dialogs and smileys). Also smileys should
2315 work better in general now (thanks fflew).
2317 Rob: By the way, what Eric is saying is that he's smart and I'm
2318 not and that he does all of the work and I sit on my butt all
2319 day and claim to do work. WOOO! Just kidding, brother :-P
2322 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
2323 Rob: PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2324 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2325 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2327 All of that nonsense aside, there are a few things that DIDN'T happen
2328 in this version of gaim. The user interface changes will wait until
2329 the 0.9.20 release. We've decided to turn 0.9.19 into a "new feature
2330 and major bug fix" release. All/Most major bugs should be worked out
2331 now. We're sorry about the problem of segfaulting when your buddylist
2332 stored on the server was null. Oops! We won't let it happen again,
2333 we promise.
2335 Eric: Lots of good changes in this one, including locale support. Chat
2336 had a lot of things done to it, but it's still not finished. The UI
2337 didn't get the overhaul we were planning, but we wanted to get a few
2338 bugfixes out.
2340 Lemme say something about reporting bugs. Please do. Please try to give
2341 as much information as you can. But regardless of how much information
2342 you give, please be POLITE. If you tell us our software is crap then
2343 we're probably not going to respond well.
2345 Rob: Before I close up and say goodnight, I'd like to say that I
2346 agree with Eric. Reporting problems and/or helpful criticism in
2347 a polite manner always yields the best results. Peace all, and
2348 happy hacking.
2350 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
2351 Rob: Talk about release early, release often - sheesh! We're going
2352 insane. Ya know, I'm not too happy with the Gaim UI. I dont know
2353 how the rest of you feel but it's time for a nice overhaul. In the
2354 next few days I'll be sitting down with some of my friends and coming
2355 up with an improved interface. I hope you all enjoy it. It'll
2356 include better looking dialogs, icons, sounds (hopefully lol), etc.
2358 And -- for your random silly message of the day --
2360 "Beans and Franks, Beans and Franks, Wine And Beer, Have No Fear!
2361 I can sing! I can dance! I have a penguin in my pants!"
2363 - Rob Flynn after not having enough sleep.
2365 Eric: I've had less sleep than Rob, I can guarantee you that. There's
2366 actually a lot going on in this release, despite 2 releases 2 days ago.
2367 Don't ask me how; I think the elves had something to do with it.
2369 Oscar support is almost to the point where I'm considering removing
2370 the 'experimental' label from configure. For those of you brave enough
2371 to try it, I'd like feedback. (And if you happen to write a patch to
2372 fix some of the stuff that would be really cool too.) Hopefully for the
2373 next release, in addition to the cool new UI, Gaim/Faim will be able to
2374 do nearly everything Gaim/TOC can do. (Big things coming in 0.9.19, I
2375 can feel it....)
2377 And just remember, you *can* have too many gummi candies. Especially if
2378 you eat nearly a whole kilo of them. Believe me. I know. But the gummi
2379 cherries are damn good.
2381 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
2382 Rob: I am an e-mail fiend!
2383 (after receiving 60 emails within a 5 minute period about a problem
2384 and responding to all of them immediately)
2386 I am stupid.
2388 Eric: Heh heh. 2 releases in one day. I'm impressed. Maybe one of these
2389 times we'll actually get some of it right ;) Anyway, yeah. Just bug fixes in
2390 this one.
2392 Rob: Yeah, we wouldn't be ourselves if we released it once and got it
2393 right, would we? :-)
2395 0.9.16:
2396 Rob: Blah Blah Blah.
2398 Eric: Looks like Rob didn't have much to say, so I'll write something
2399 instead :)
2401 There's a few good things in this release, the most important of them
2402 being: Better proxy support, of course. Oh yeah, and you can sign on now,
2403 so that's a good thing too. There's a few more good things going on in this
2404 release, so check out the ChangeLog.
2406 Play nicely, and we'll keep hacking away at it.
2408 Rob: Go Watch `Road Trip'.
2410 0.9.15:
2411 Hey boy's and girls. There's not much to say here this time.
2412 We're loving Southern California, the new job's going great. We just
2413 got our company website up and the product development is going pretty
2414 smooth. Life's pretty sweet now.
2416 We've hacked up all kinds of goodies for you in 0.9.15. There's
2417 some file transfer (receive) support for those of you who have been
2418 wanting it for a while. There's some other misc. goodies tossed in as
2419 well. Enjoy!! Oh yeah, we need a new website. Come up with a sweet
2420 design and get in touch with me. The current site is at:
2421 http://www.marko.net/gaim
2423 Thanks much!
2426 0.9.14:
2427 Well, there's a few random hacks and fixes in here, along with
2428 a little suprise. You guessed it, kiddos, support for plugins! Happy
2429 hacking!
2431 0.9.13:
2432 Not much to say for this release. Bug fixes, That's all. Look
2433 for the goodies I promised in 0.9.13 to appear in 0.9.14 which should be
2434 released very soon now.
2436 By the way, our CVS is now hosted over at source forge. Go check
2437 it out at http://www.sourceforge.net. Please check there before submitting
2438 any bug reports (You can read our CVS comments to see if we have fixed any
2439 problems).
2441 0.9.12:
2442 Well guys, looks like we got some nifty things in this version.
2443 TrueType Fonts are supported for those XFSTT buffs out there (or whatever
2444 else you use). A crap load of those plaguing memory leaks have FINALLY been
2445 fixed. My brother, Jeramey, and a new friend Peter Teichan helped stomp
2446 those babies out. A rad guy by the name of Eric Warmenhoven has been
2447 really sweet lately and has all but rewritten the Gnome Applet support :).
2448 He submitted patch after patch. I finally got annoyed with him (just kidding bud)
2449 and gave him CVS access. Look for Gnome Applet support in Gaim to start improving.
2450 That's about all for now. I wanted to get this release out there. File Receive
2451 support will be in 0.9.13 which is due out soon.
2453 0.9.11:
2454 Jeramey got a new Comfy Chair! Its very very comfy! Whee!
2455 Jim also had a little hyper-drunken moment and started hacking away at
2456 a new configuration format for Gaim. Looks like we're running .gaimrc
2457 version 1 now. Gotta love it. I got bored and hacked in a couple font
2458 properties that will, in time, contain more features. That's about it
2459 for this version -- cept for that memory leak we fixed. Shush! We're
2460 not plumbers! -- rob
2462 ** Extra special update **
2464 Well guys, it looks like we all stopped working on gaim, moved to California,
2465 and took up a new job. Don't worry though, those beach bums out here havent
2466 worn off on us yet. I've decided to pick up the Gaim torch myself and continue
2467 development ont he prohect. Hopefully we wont have any more five month braks in
2468 the project. Sorry about that, guys :)
2470 0.9.10:
2471 Umm. Dont ask. Silly memory leak. For those of you who
2472 wondered, you were losing about 256 bytes every 25 seconds for each
2473 person you have on your contact list. Make fun of us. Better yet ..
2474 Send us beer. We'll do better :)
2476 0.9.9:
2477 Welp, All of you boys and girls who run Mandrake and have some
2478 problems with Gaim working properly, please check out the FAQ file. It
2479 contains a nice fix submitted by one of our users. I hope this works for
2480 you guys!
2481 Jim appears to have intoxicated himself. This is, as always, a
2482 Good Thing (tm). His late-night adventure with the liquid-bread food group
2483 lead to the birth of a nice little feature called `The Lag-O-Meter'. Dont
2484 ask, just try it out :). It is pretty pointless if you have a super-fast
2485 connection but if you are a modem user, like many of us are, then try it out.
2486 There's also some idle preferences and some other little random
2487 bug fixes. Check'em out yo :)
2489 0.9.8:
2490 Get Along Lil' Doggies. Heh. Looks like we have yet another new
2491 version of gaim for you guys to play with. Be gentle now, it has a few
2492 new fetures. The HTML widget is now more robust and we have *da da da*
2493 HTTP proxy support.
2494 Oh By The Way, Do not pay too much attention to what we are doing
2495 with this release. We are all a little bit happy tonight. You must love
2496 life. This is a special release of gaim. We will be releasing some wonderful
2497 photographs soon .. or perhaps if we get the bloody webcam working then we
2498 will take a couple of quick snapshots.
2499 Looks like the Gaim developers convention (cool name huh) that we
2500 had this weekend in Auburn, AL went wonderfully :). yum yum yum. Hahahah. Oh
2501 by the way. Beware of insecure rednecks in the deli. Bad things.
2502 In (non)related news, Jeramey could not successfully slaughter the
2503 one pound hamburger that he ordered. (I think he could have done it but he
2504 wasn't feeling very well at the time).
2505 Oh Yes, New Logo Too :) You likes? Thanks, Naru!
2506 Just a little side-note: it looks like we didnt make the release that
2507 we had expected during the Gaim Convention. Maybe we partied too much? I am
2508 not sure. I remember watching the sun rise before I went to bed, though.
2509 Oh well. Here's your release! Enjoy!
2510 By The Way, we have uploaded our party pictures to a website.
2511 http://www.dorky.net/gaim/party/ They are nothing spectacular but I hope you
2512 enjoy them! :).
2514 0.9.7:
2515 Well, boys and girls, it's that time again! Yup, time for the good
2516 release fairy to come bless us with her infinite wisdom and divine presence.
2517 Umm, yeah, something like that. Anyways, this release has several little
2518 "bad" network fixes (as Jim likes to say) and a couple touch-ups to a few
2519 other features. It also features preliminary oscar support. Thanks to Jim
2520 and Adam ("the libfaim guy") hehe :) We have also corrected a problem with
2521 gaim not wainting to correctly save your password if you have an underscore
2522 in it. Thanks to w1za7d for pointing out the underscore problem. ' and \
2523 have also been fixed in passwords. :o)
2525 0.9.6:
2526 Sorry about the little segfaulting bugs in the past release. Rob
2527 is stupid. :). Anyways, they have been patched up and a couple new features
2528 have been added. I hope you guys enjoy.
2530 0.9.5:
2531 Well we added a myriad of new features to this release. (A lot of
2532 small buggie fixes too.) If you need a detailed list just check out the
2533 ChangeLog. We now have a new webpage design and have added a FAQ to the
2534 distribution. Before coming to us with any problems please take a quick
2535 look through the FAQ to make sure we havent already covered your question.
2536 Also, thanks to our beloved Web Monkey, FlynOrange, we have all
2537 learned the true power of foam weapons, slinkies, and whoopie cushions. Hmm
2538 gotta love those pranks, eh?
2540 0.8.0:
2541 Well, just starting the NEWS file. I'll try to remember what's new
2542 from the last version. Hmmm. BIG code reorg. Import/export, buddy pounce
2543 among the major new features. Autoconf script too, which is a big win.
2544 Apologies to those who submitted patches which haven't made it in.. I
2545 promise, the next version! This code reorg took up a lot of my time, and I
2546 want to get it out there.