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1 -=[ Gaim ]=- The Pimpin' Penguin AIM Clone That's Good For The Soul!
3 0.52 (02/17/2002):
4 Rob: Well, after a long delay we're finally ready for another release.
5 I finally got settled into my new apartment, the new job is going
6 well, and I finally have internet connectivity again. You can expect
7 us to be back on our usually bi-monthly schedule. Enjoy these fixen,
8 as they resolve a few connectivity issues. :-)
10 Sean: It looks like things are back on track now. Eric left which is
11 sad. He's done so much for Gaim, and I know we're all thankful.
12 Thanks Eric! I'll be stepping in and do more development, but I can
13 never replace Eric. This release fixes a long-standing problem in
14 MSN. If you've gotten errors when trying to connect to MSN, you want
15 this release. If you've suddenly found yourself unable to connect to
16 Yahoo!, you want this release too. The "neat goodies" will be in the
17 next release ;)
19 Rob: Operation Evil does not exist! ;-)
22 0.51 (01/24/2002):
23 Rob: Well, here we go. I FINALLY got around to making a release
24 after over a month, Sorry for the delay, all. Things got really
25 hectic around the gaim house hold. This release isn't as complete
26 as I had hoped, but I promised to get something out. There's some
27 neat goodies in mind for the next release, right Sean? :-)
30 0.50 (12/13/2001):
31 Rob: I am tired. Tonight was weird. Bleh!!!!
33 Eric: I second that.
35 0.49 (11/29/2001):
36 Rob: *still mamboing*
38 Whew! That was a bad little mambo. I hope everyone had a nice
39 little Holiday, if you celebrate. If not, then I hope you had
40 a sucky weekend. :-D.
42 Oh, lots of cheese for everyone!! (Beware the duffle)
44 It's getting cloudy. I think it's going to storm somethin'
45 fierce. That's my southern talk. Do you like it?
47 Eric: I want to be like you.
49 Do the cha cha cha!
51 0.48 (11/18/2001):
52 Rob: Hi! It's 4:12am! I'm watching The Simpsons. :).
53 Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking! :) There's not
54 too much for me to say in this release. I'd just like to
55 thank Eric for his hard work. :)
57 Eric: Everybody mambo!
59 0.47 (11/01/2001):
60 Rob: Hi. Gaim v0.47 has been released, as you should already
61 know. I hope all of you had a nice little halloween. There are
62 quite a number of changes in this release. There are a few too
63 many to list here, so I will redirect you to ye olde ChangeLog.
65 Eric: Remember back in the day when TOC was the only protocol
66 Gaim could use? Remember the login window from back then? Back
67 before Gaim had perl or plugins or multiple connections or
68 10 different protocols. Things have changed so much since then.
69 Many more changes in this release as well. All good things.
70 Don't forget to talk to SmarterChild.
72 0.46 (10/18/2001):
73 Rob: Hey guys! The smores were great! I really enjoyed meeting
74 up with all of you guys and singing campfire songs. It was
75 really awesome. Thanks for the beer, too. Next time, it's on me.
77 This release has quite the number of bug fixes. I won't bother
78 going into detail here. Just ust it, love it, live it - SEGA!
80 Eric: Lots of fixes. Things compile well now. ICQ has stopped
81 crashing on PPC and Sparc. If you know someone who isn't using
82 Gaim because it was unstable, please get them to try this
83 version. It's much better, I promise.
85 0.45 (10/04/2001):
86 Eric: Well, it seems that the time has come for yet another
87 release. There are several yummy additions in this release, and
88 quite a few useful bugfixes as well. Unfortunately it seems that
89 Rob is currently unavailable; he joins us in spirit. He'll be
90 joining us later for a group sing-along and smores by the
91 campfire. But for now, you'll need to keep yourselves occupied
92 with 0.45. And remember, a happy hacker is a pimpin' penguin.
94 0.44 (09/20/2001):
95 Rob: Another release has come upon us. There were actually quite
96 a number of things in ye old ChangeLog for this release. I don't
97 feel like talking about them here, so you can read about them
98 in ... you guessed it .. the ChangeLog. Oh, and if you're
99 wondering about setting buddy icons, wait til 0.45 or
100 use CVS shortly after this release. ;-)
102 Eric: You should all be using CVS anyway. This has become the
103 slogan in our IRC room, #gaim on irc.openprojects.net. The IRC
104 plugin got lots of updates (mostly because I felt bad about using
105 X-Chat for IRC when gaim supposedly had an IRC plugin), so you
106 should load the plugin and join us. :)
108 0.43 (09/06/2001):
110 Rob: Well, I knew that the day would eventually come. I just didn't
111 expect it to be so soon. ;-). Yes, that's right, Eric and I finally
112 got sick of all of the pre releases. We didn't want to make this
113 release an official 0.11.0. We thought that it would cause a lot
114 of confusion. We didn't want to continue our trend of prereleases
115 either. So, since gaim was first released officially, there
116 have been 42 releases. This is number 43, hence the 0.43 version
117 number. We're going to stick with this trend from now on. :-).
119 Eric: We're also going to be starting a release early, release
120 often trend, that hopefully we'll stick to this time. Hopefully
121 we'll be putting out a new release every two weeks or so. You
122 should all be using CVS anyway :) And as always, don't forget to
123 report bugs! Anyway, since there's only been 9 days since the
124 last release not much has changed. A bug-fix release and a version
125 change mostly :)
127 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
128 Eric: This isn't a real release. Really. It's just a quick thing
129 because pre14 doesn't cut it for some people. Also not counting
130 the month break that I took it's been a month since the last
131 release, so it's about time. You should all be using CVS anyway.
132 Instructions are at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/cvs.shmtl. And
133 don't forget to report bugs! http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php3.
135 Rob: Hey guys. I've been rather inactive as well. It's a long
136 story, but essentially, my company layed off a bunch of people,
137 myself included, due to poor management. I've taken a new
138 job which required moving across the country. I'm finally back
139 online. Once I manage to actually get a desk at home I'll be
140 able to code with out infliciting intense pain upon my lower
141 back and neck. So, basically, we were inactive, but not dead.
143 Also, just to keep you all updated, the AOL battle is still
144 in progress. Our lawyers are still in negotiation with thiers.
145 We'll keep you updated with what happens.
147 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
148 Eric: Wee. Lots of fun things. BIG bug fix release. I did a lot of
149 stupid things in the last one, hehe. You all forgive me though,
150 right?
152 Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.
153 Remember that. It's a great Scott Adams quote.
155 Rob: I feel naughty. I should have released this a lot earlier
156 in the day. I have a problem though. I started cooking, invited
157 a couple friends over for dinner and then took a walk to a
158 24hr doughnut shop where I sat outside and talked about
159 random stuff. Oh well, at least it's still before the 18th.
161 Enjoy this release guys! :-)
164 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
165 Rob: \O. Howdy doodie! This release isn't coming too far behind
166 the previous release but hey, what can ya say, there were a couple
167 of good fixes in this one. Jabber & IRC can set / view the topics
168 of chat rooms now, napster doesnt crash on bad login names and
169 passwords, and the man page got a big update.
171 Well, that's about all, folks. Next release, I hope to try to get
172 group MSN chat support added as well as DCC support in the IRC
173 plugin.
175 Peace!
177 Eric: I apologize if any of you had to restart your X server because
178 of me. This release won't make you have to do that, I promise. There
179 were a couple other minor fixes with the buddy icon stuff, it still
180 has a way to go but at least it's better than it was before. Oh yeah,
181 and Oscar is able to sign on again.
183 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
184 Rob: Hi! O/. My girlfriend was visiting me so I've been busy being
185 unavailable online. Hooray.
187 There have been a lot of good changes in this release. Some improved
188 dialogs, some updates to IRC and MSN, as well as a nifty little thing
189 that Eric did that I'll let him tell you about.
191 Oh yeah, I also got food poisoned by bad eggs. Ugh!
193 Eric: Every protocol except TOC has been improved since the last
194 release. All of them except Zephyr and ICQ now use the same proxy
195 options, which you can set in the preferences. ICQ can use them if
196 you set it to Socks5 though.
198 There are a bunch of other good additions and fixes for each
199 protocol which you can read about in the ChangeLog. And, there's one
200 super cool feature that everyone seems to be asking for: Buddy Icons.
201 Right now you can only receive them and only in Oscar, but hey, they're
202 there.
204 So that's it. Have fun with it :)
206 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
207 Rob: I bought a big carton of juice today. It is now 50% empty.
208 A lot of the plugins got some new options and/or improvements. I
209 have a headache right now, though, so I won't say much. I'll let
210 Eric talk :)
212 Eric: I uh. I bought 72 cans of soda yesterday. It only cost $15
213 or so. I figure I'll be through it in less than two weeks. A
214 dollar a day on soda isn't so bad. For the fourth release in a row,
215 Oscar is fixed. Isn't that exciting. Judging from history I'd say
216 that it won't stay fixed long; but judging from what I know has
217 changed, we shouldn't have any more troubles.
219 Rob: --. .- .. -- / .. ... / --. .-. . .- - --..-- / --. .- .. -- /
220 .. ... / --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-
222 I don't have a headache anymore! Hooray! Eric got a good deal on those
223 drinks. I bought some bananas. They're very green. Oh, and I cooked
224 a steak last night. It was 16 oz. It was good.
226 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
227 Rob: EEP! It's Friday the 13th!!! I think I fixed a few buggies
228 in MSN and then added some new features to IRC. I have a headache
229 right now, though, so I won't talk much. I think I'm going to go
230 to sleep. Next release, I should have a good bit more done on
231 IRC and will have made Napster more stable. Have fun!!
233 Eric: There's a new protocol plugin, Zephyr. Don't use it! unless
234 you know what Zephyr is, and have zhm set up correctly. Also there
235 were a lot of other good bugfixes (like registering for Jabber
236 accounts!) and a few neat features. In this release, Oscar is also
237 working, but we'll see how long that lasts, eh?
239 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
240 Rob: Well, looks AOL was doing something naughty earlier this
241 morning. Thanks to a very nice guy named Adam Fritzler (you
242 all know him from libfaim) we're now back online. Thanks,
243 Adam. I'll buy you a drink sometime :-).
245 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
246 Eric: Oo wow :) So I guess the big news is that this release should
247 help you avoid the battle between Jabber and AOL. Most protocols
248 got a few good bugfixes; thanks to people who pointed them out :).
249 Hopefully for the next release I'll make it so you can register a
250 jabber.org account, and then you can support Jabber using Gaim.
251 I think (I *think*) Oscar blocking is working now. Haha, get it?
252 Oscar blocking? It took me a while to get it, too. But no, really,
253 I think that the permit/deny list in Oscar might be working.
255 Rob: MSN got some fixes and should be really stable now. It had
256 a little 100% CPU eating bug but that's taken care of now. Next
257 on my list of repairs is the napster plugin. It works -- sorta --
258 sometimes. Heh. As all of you probably know already, our Oscar
259 support was broken yesterday. There's a little battle going on
260 between AOL and Jabber and we caught a bullet during the crossfire.
261 I think I just won the award for the most cliches used in one
262 paragraph, as a matter of fact. ;-).
264 ** Good luck to the Jabber guys in getting this resolved **
267 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
268 Rob: Hey! I finally rewrote the MSN plugin. Sorry, I'm just
269 a lazy code whore sometimes, heheh. It pretty much has the same
270 functionality as before with the exception of instability. I
271 didn't really like that feature very much so I removed it. I hope
272 you guys don't mind too terribly much ;-).
274 Eric: In this week's installment of gaim you'll find a new Yahoo!
275 library and an option to have all conversations in one window,
276 in addition to numerous bug fixes and other improvements. Don't
277 forget to send us your feedback. If there's something you want
278 added, changed, or fixed, head over to our SourceForge page at
279 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ and tells us about it.
282 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
283 Eric: Yay! I get to go first!
285 The biggest change in this release is the TODO file. Lots of things
286 got added. There's going to be a lot of prereleases. Please help.
287 Other than that it's mostly just a lot of bugfixes. Oscar got a few
288 new features. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
289 and tell us what you'd like to see in gaim. We've gotten a lot of
290 great requests so far, thanks.
292 I think I like releasing every week.
294 Rob: I've been bad so Eric got to go first. The biggest change
295 In this release is the NEWS file. It's the only thing I contributed
296 to! heh, just kidding. This is a bug fix release, as Eric said.
297 Next release will contain my newly rewritten MSN plugin. You guys
298 should be happy with it :).
300 Oh yeah, TUCAN rocks :) Oh yeah, Eric rocks too.
303 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
304 Rob: Yeah, I promise this is the last pre-release :-D. That seems
305 to be a pretty common saying around here, huh? Well, I must first
306 appologize. The protocols that I was working on really should be
307 much more developed at this point -- they should be completed,
308 actually. Unfortunately, my real life job (yes, I have one hehe) got
309 a little too busy and ate up all of my free time. I promise that
310 things will get better now :).
312 Eric: I don't promise that this is the last pre-release. :) But
313 hopefully releases can start coming more often than once every two
314 months. I don't really have much else to say. It's been a slow
315 couple of months.
317 Rob: I promise to hack gaim again. Please don't hate me.
319 0.11.0-pre4:
320 Rob: HOORAY FOR DISNEYLAND!
322 Eric: One more prerelease. I'm actually starting to think these
323 prereleases are a good idea; a lot of people reported a lot of
324 bugs in pre3 and most of them are fixed now. Also, it helps with
325 the whole release early-release often philosophy.
327 The big news in this prerelease is two more protocols: Jabber and
328 Napster. Both of them don't have any of the features that make
329 these services cool, yet. You can't use the transports in Jabber
330 and you can't download file in Napster. But you will be able to,
331 soon :)
333 Rob and I are going on vacation starting today until after New
334 Year's, which is a lot of the reason we wanted to get this release
335 out; it's much improved over pre3. Happy Holidays everyone.
337 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
338 Rob: Well, I hadn't initially planned on an 0.11.0pre3 but it
339 looks like it was needed. That's not necessarially a bad thing,
340 mind you. It just means you get to see more goodies!
342 This release includes some other fun features. See the ChangeLog
343 for more information. Also found in this wonderful release is
344 an MSN plugin. For all of you who have been holding onto Windows
345 simply because you have friends on MSN Messenger that you don't want
346 to leave, this plugin is for you! :)
348 Guys, make sure you send us bug reports; preferably on the
349 SourceForge bug report forum at
350 http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/. This will allow both
351 Eric and I to handle the bugs and will prevent either one of us
352 from losing the bug reports that are sent via AIM :-)
354 Eric: Hey everybody, Rob and I really want to hear what you guys want
355 to see in gaim. Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim and
356 leave a message in the Open Discussion forum. We've gotten a lot of
357 good ideas so far (most of them didn't make it into this release,
358 unfortunately).
360 If any of you want to test out your mad coding skills, I can think of
361 a few projects that would be incredibly useful. Send me or Rob an IM
362 and we'll let you know how you can help. And don't forget to read the
363 HACKING file to see how gaim's put together.
365 This is hopefully going to be the last prerelease; now that all the
366 protocols that we're going to be doing for 0.11.0 are available it's
367 mostly just going to be hacking on them and getting them in usable
368 condition before the final release. Don't forget to send us bug
369 reports ;)
371 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
372 Rob: I messed up. Oh well, it's fixed.
374 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
375 Rob: Hey guys! Guess what!? Yup, you're correct! It's the pre1
376 release of 0.11.0. We have all sorts of goodies in this release!
377 Check out the ChangeLog file. As always if you find any bugs,
378 please report them on www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/
380 You may find several small bugs as this is still a prerelease.
382 You may want to note that my IRC plugin does not have full
383 functionality as of yet. All of the important / commands will be
384 added before the final release. Also, if someone could send me
385 some good buddylist pixmaps for the irc plugin then I'd much
386 appreciate it. Thanks to everyone who made this new release possible!
388 If you have any ideas, comments, or suggestions, please let us know
389 either by e-mail or via the source forge message board at the URL
390 above. :)
393 Eric: So what was Yay! For Gaim!? Yay was the codename for the
394 Yahoo plugin. The whole point of all of these changes was I wanted to
395 make a proof-of-concept plugin that would let Gaim sign into Yahoo. It
396 turned out to be pretty much impossible with the old code. So,
397 Rob and I hacked gaim so we could do just that. There's now a whole new
398 class of plugins, Protocol Plugins, that let users dynamically add new
399 protocols to Gaim. Just load the plugin, and create a new account that
400 uses that protocol, and you're set! Yay! (Oscar and TOC are both still
401 static. Gaim is, after all, primarily an AIM client.)
403 Lots of people have been very generous and contributed a lot of
404 time and effort to writing some really nice patches for gaim since
405 the last release. To all of you, a big thanks.
407 0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
408 Rob: I am dumb.
409 Eric: I am not dumb.
411 0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
412 Rob: What do you want me to say for yours?
413 Eric: What happened since the last release?
414 Rob: You got DSL.
415 Eric: Oh yeah, I'm more available now.
416 Rob: On a more serious note, this is just a quick release
417 to hold everyone over. Look for some very awesome things
418 coming in the next version. I can't say what, just yet,
419 but what I can say is, Yay! For Gaim!
421 0.10.1 (09/15/2000):
423 Rob: Hi Hi Hi! Yet another gaim release pushed out the door
424 for you guys. I hope you all enjoy it. There was a few minor
425 issues cleared up in this version as well as the repair of
426 OSCAR support. Hopefully we won't run into the same problem
427 as before. Oh well ;-). There's also a few small extra goodies
428 in here for you guys just check out the Change Log. I hope you all
429 enjoy and take care!
431 Eric: Wanna know what the Oscar problem was? You'll laugh. 2 bytes.
432 The fix was changing 0x07da to 0x0686. Anyway, aside from the fix
433 for that, there are a couple other good things. Beware of DSL nazis.
434 They won't give you service until 6 weeks after you order it. So um,
435 yeah.
437 0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
438 Rob: Well peoples, I know that it's been a while since our
439 last release. Here we go. Some brand spankin' new interfaces
440 for you guys to oogle at. I hope you all enjoy it. Hopefully
441 our next release won't take as long to finish up. Real life
442 kind of crept up on Eric and I and took up a lot of our times.
443 Life sucks that way sometimes. Anyways, we're back and all
444 is well. Thanks for hanging in there guys and we hope
445 you enjoy it!
447 Eric: LWE was so cool. Rob and I met up there, we had a blast. But I
448 only got to go for one day and Rob got to go for three. Lucky bastard.
449 It's been so long since the last release that I don't even remember
450 what's changed. But all of it is good :) Like Rob said, all kinds of
451 new UI stuff. I think there are some new features in there too. Now
452 I'm headed back to school so I'll have more time to hack gaim (isn't
453 that supposed to be the reverse?), just as soon as I get my internet
454 connection back >:-/ .
456 Rob: Oh yeah, some of our pixmaps may need a little work. We took
457 a lot of them from the Gnome Stock icons. If anyone could do some
458 custom ones that stay within the 24x24 boundary and keep the same
459 idea and feel as the gnome icons then we would be more than happy
460 to use them. Thanks much!! Viva la LWE.
463 0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
464 Rob: Well, guys, I hope you enjoy this version. I've done quite a bit
465 of work to the user interface. It's still not in the state that I
466 would like it to be, though. Over the next few versions you will
467 notice a few more interface changes as we try to bring a more
468 professional look to Gaim. As always, we will stay true to our
469 pimpin' penguin atittude.
471 Eric: While Rob's been busy making things pretty, I've been busy
472 making things work :). The chat and IM windows got merged, which
473 means that they both have the same features (notably, IM has /me
474 and chat has font/color dialogs and smileys). Also smileys should
475 work better in general now (thanks fflew).
477 Rob: By the way, what Eric is saying is that he's smart and I'm
478 not and that he does all of the work and I sit on my butt all
479 day and claim to do work. WOOO! Just kidding, brother :-P
482 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
483 Rob: PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
484 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
485 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
487 All of that nonsense aside, there are a few things that DIDN'T happen
488 in this version of gaim. The user interface changes will wait until
489 the 0.9.20 release. We've decided to turn 0.9.19 into a "new feature
490 and major bug fix" release. All/Most major bugs should be worked out
491 now. We're sorry about the problem of segfaulting when your buddylist
492 stored on the server was null. Oops! We won't let it happen again,
493 we promise.
495 Eric: Lots of good changes in this one, including locale support. Chat
496 had a lot of things done to it, but it's still not finished. The UI
497 didn't get the overhaul we were planning, but we wanted to get a few
498 bugfixes out.
500 Lemme say something about reporting bugs. Please do. Please try to give
501 as much information as you can. But regardless of how much information
502 you give, please be POLITE. If you tell us our software is crap then
503 we're probably not going to respond well.
505 Rob: Before I close up and say goodnight, I'd like to say that I
506 agree with Eric. Reporting problems and/or helpful criticism in
507 a polite manner always yields the best results. Peace all, and
508 happy hacking.
510 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
511 Rob: Talk about release early, release often - sheesh! We're going
512 insane. Ya know, I'm not too happy with the Gaim UI. I dont know
513 how the rest of you feel but it's time for a nice overhaul. In the
514 next few days I'll be sitting down with some of my friends and coming
515 up with an improved interface. I hope you all enjoy it. It'll
516 include better looking dialogs, icons, sounds (hopefully lol), etc.
518 And -- for your random silly message of the day --
520 "Beans and Franks, Beans and Franks, Wine And Beer, Have No Fear!
521 I can sing! I can dance! I have a penguin in my pants!"
523 - Rob Flynn after not having enough sleep.
525 Eric: I've had less sleep than Rob, I can guarantee you that. There's
526 actually a lot going on in this release, despite 2 releases 2 days ago.
527 Don't ask me how; I think the elves had something to do with it.
529 Oscar support is almost to the point where I'm considering removing
530 the 'experimental' label from configure. For those of you brave enough
531 to try it, I'd like feedback. (And if you happen to write a patch to
532 fix some of the stuff that would be really cool too.) Hopefully for the
533 next release, in addition to the cool new UI, Gaim/Faim will be able to
534 do nearly everything Gaim/TOC can do. (Big things coming in 0.9.19, I
535 can feel it....)
537 And just remember, you *can* have too many gummi candies. Especially if
538 you eat nearly a whole kilo of them. Believe me. I know. But the gummi
539 cherries are damn good.
541 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
542 Rob: I am an e-mail fiend!
543 (after receiving 60 emails within a 5 minute period about a problem
544 and responding to all of them immediately)
546 I am stupid.
548 Eric: Heh heh. 2 releases in one day. I'm impressed. Maybe one of these
549 times we'll actually get some of it right ;) Anyway, yeah. Just bug fixes in
550 this one.
552 Rob: Yeah, we wouldn't be ourselves if we released it once and got it right, would we? :-)
554 0.9.16:
555 Rob: Blah Blah Blah.
557 Eric: Looks like Rob didn't have much to say, so I'll write something
558 instead :)
560 There's a few good things in this release, the most important of them
561 being: Better proxy support, of course. Oh yeah, and you can sign on now,
562 so that's a good thing too. There's a few more good things going on in this
563 release, so check out the ChangeLog.
565 Play nicely, and we'll keep hacking away at it.
567 Rob: Go Watch `Road Trip'.
569 0.9.15:
570 Hey boy's and girls. There's not much to say here this time.
571 We're loving Southern California, the new job's going great. We just
572 got our company website up and the product development is going pretty
573 smooth. Life's pretty sweet now.
575 We've hacked up all kinds of goodies for you in 0.9.15. There's
576 some file transfer (receive) support for those of you who have been
577 wanting it for a while. There's some other misc. goodies tossed in as
578 well. Enjoy!! Oh yeah, we need a new website. Come up with a sweet
579 design and get in touch with me. The current site is at:
580 http://www.marko.net/gaim
582 Thanks much!
585 0.9.14:
586 Well, there's a few random hacks and fixes in here, along with
587 a little suprise. You guessed it, kiddos, support for plugins! Happy
588 hacking!
590 0.9.13:
591 Not much to say for this release. Bug fixes, That's all. Look
592 for the goodies I promised in 0.9.13 to appear in 0.9.14 which should be
593 released very soon now.
595 By the way, our CVS is now hosted over at source forge. Go check
596 it out at http://www.sourceforge.net. Please check there before submitting
597 any bug reports (You can read our CVS comments to see if we have fixed any
598 problems).
600 0.9.12:
601 Well guys, looks like we got some nifty things in this version.
602 TrueType Fonts are supported for those XFSTT buffs out there (or whatever
603 else you use). A crap load of those plaguing memory leaks have FINALLY been
604 fixed. My brother, Jeramey, and a new friend Peter Teichan helped stomp
605 those babies out. A rad guy by the name of Eric Warmenhoven has been
606 really sweet lately and has all but rewritten the Gnome Applet support :).
607 He submitted patch after patch. I finally got annoyed with him (just kidding bud)
608 and gave him CVS access. Look for Gnome Applet support in Gaim to start improving.
609 That's about all for now. I wanted to get this release out there. File Receive
610 support will be in 0.9.13 which is due out soon.
612 0.9.11:
613 Jeramey got a new Comfy Chair! Its very very comfy! Whee!
614 Jim also had a little hyper-drunken moment and started hacking away at
615 a new configuration format for Gaim. Looks like we're running .gaimrc
616 version 1 now. Gotta love it. I got bored and hacked in a couple font
617 properties that will, in time, contain more features. That's about it
618 for this version -- cept for that memory leak we fixed. Shush! We're
619 not plumbers! -- rob
621 ** Extra special update **
623 Well guys, it looks like we all stopped working on gaim, moved to California,
624 and took up a new job. Don't worry though, those beach bums out here havent
625 worn off on us yet. I've decided to pick up the Gaim torch myself and continue
626 development ont he prohect. Hopefully we wont have any more five month braks in
627 the project. Sorry about that, guys :)
629 0.9.10:
630 Umm. Dont ask. Silly memory leak. For those of you who
631 wondered, you were losing about 256 bytes every 25 seconds for each
632 person you have on your contact list. Make fun of us. Better yet ..
633 Send us beer. We'll do better :)
635 0.9.9:
636 Welp, All of you boys and girls who run Mandrake and have some
637 problems with Gaim working properly, please check out the FAQ file. It
638 contains a nice fix submitted by one of our users. I hope this works for
639 you guys!
640 Jim appears to have intoxicated himself. This is, as always, a
641 Good Thing (tm). His late-night adventure with the liquid-bread food group
642 lead to the birth of a nice little feature called `The Lag-O-Meter'. Dont
643 ask, just try it out :). It is pretty pointless if you have a super-fast
644 connection but if you are a modem user, like many of us are, then try it out.
645 There's also some idle preferences and some other little random
646 bug fixes. Check'em out yo :)
648 0.9.8:
649 Get Along Lil' Doggies. Heh. Looks like we have yet another new
650 version of gaim for you guys to play with. Be gentle now, it has a few
651 new fetures. The HTML widget is now more robust and we have *da da da*
652 HTTP proxy support.
653 Oh By The Way, Do not pay too much attention to what we are doing
654 with this release. We are all a little bit happy tonight. You must love
655 life. This is a special release of gaim. We will be releasing some wonderful
656 photographs soon .. or perhaps if we get the bloody webcam working then we
657 will take a couple of quick snapshots.
658 Looks like the Gaim developers convention (cool name huh) that we
659 had this weekend in Auburn, AL went wonderfully :). yum yum yum. Hahahah. Oh
660 by the way. Beware of insecure rednecks in the deli. Bad things.
661 In (non)related news, Jeramey could not successfully slaughter the
662 one pound hamburger that he ordered. (I think he could have done it but he
663 wasn't feeling very well at the time).
664 Oh Yes, New Logo Too :) You likes? Thanks, Naru!
665 Just a little side-note: it looks like we didnt make the release that
666 we had expected during the Gaim Convention. Maybe we partied too much? I am
667 not sure. I remember watching the sun rise before I went to bed, though.
668 Oh well. Here's your release! Enjoy!
669 By The Way, we have uploaded our party pictures to a website.
670 http://www.dorky.net/gaim/party/ They are nothing spectacular but I hope you
671 enjoy them! :).
673 0.9.7:
674 Well, boys and girls, it's that time again! Yup, time for the good
675 release fairy to come bless us with her infinite wisdom and divine presence.
676 Umm, yeah, something like that. Anyways, this release has several little
677 "bad" network fixes (as Jim likes to say) and a couple touch-ups to a few
678 other features. It also features preliminary oscar support. Thanks to Jim
679 and Adam ("the libfaim guy") hehe :) We have also corrected a problem with
680 gaim not wainting to correctly save your password if you have an underscore
681 in it. Thanks to w1za7d for pointing out the underscore problem. ' and \
682 have also been fixed in passwords. :o)
684 0.9.6:
685 Sorry about the little segfaulting bugs in the past release. Rob
686 is stupid. :). Anyways, they have been patched up and a couple new features
687 have been added. I hope you guys enjoy.
689 0.9.5:
690 Well we added a myriad of new features to this release. (A lot of
691 small buggie fixes too.) If you need a detailed list just check out the
692 ChangeLog. We now have a new webpage design and have added a FAQ to the
693 distribution. Before coming to us with any problems please take a quick
694 look through the FAQ to make sure we havent already covered your question.
695 Also, thanks to our beloved Web Monkey, FlynOrange, we have all
696 learned the true power of foam weapons, slinkies, and whoopie cushions. Hmm
697 gotta love those pranks, eh?
699 0.8.0:
700 Well, just starting the NEWS file. I'll try to remember what's new
701 from the last version. Hmmm. BIG code reorg. Import/export, buddy pounce
702 among the major new features. Autoconf script too, which is a big win.
703 Apologies to those who submitted patches which haven't made it in.. I
704 promise, the next version! This code reorg took up a lot of my time, and I
705 want to get it out there.