1 Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
3 Version 2.2.1 (09/29/2007):
4 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.2.1
5 NOTE: Due to the backporting that happened for the actual
6 release, it is possible bugs marked as fixed in 2.2.1
7 will not be fixed until 2.2.2.
10 * A few build issues on Solaris were fixed.
11 * Cancelling the password prompt for an account will no longer leave
12 it in an ambiguous state. (It will be disabled.)
13 * Fixed an erroneous size display for MSN file transfers. (galt)
14 * Fixed multiple memory leaks, particularly in XMPP and MySpace
16 * Fixed remembering proxy preferences and status scores
17 * Gmail notifications are better tracked
20 * Fixed keyboard tab reordering to move tabs one step instead of two.
21 * You should no longer lose proxy settings when Pidgin is restarted.
22 * Fixed detection of X11 when compiling
25 * Pressing 'Insert' in the buddylist will bring up the 'Add Buddy'
28 Version 2.2.0 (09/13/2007):
29 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.2.0
32 * New protocol plugin: MySpaceIM (Jeff Connelly, Google Summer of
34 * XMPP enhancements. See
35 http://www.adiumx.com/blog/2007/07/soc-xmpp-update.php (Andreas
36 Monitzer, Google Summer of Code for Adium)
37 * Certificate management. Libpurple will validate certificates on
38 SSL-encrypted protocols (William Ehlhardt, Google Summer of Code)
39 * Some adjustments were made to fix sending messages when using
40 the MSN HTTP method. (Laszlo Pandy)
41 * Yahoo! Chat is fixed.
42 * Some AIM file transfer issues between Pidgin and other clients
43 have been fixed. (Kyryll A Mirnenko)
44 * Properly restore idle status and time for AIM and ICQ accounts
45 when they reconnect after being disconnected.
48 * Insert Horizontal Rules and Strikethrough text from toolbar.
49 * Option to show protocol icons in the buddy list, from the
50 Buddies > Show menu. (Justin Heiner)
51 * Ability to build with native, non-X11 GTK+ on OSX. (Anders
53 * Remember the 'Enable Sounds' setting for a conversation.
54 * Right-clicking the empty space in the formatting toolbar
55 allows you to toggle back to the old "ungrouped" version.
56 * Protocols supporting account registration via Pidgin now show
57 a descriptive checkbox instead of a vague "Register" button.
58 * Fixed a bug where a tab would be shown on single conversations
59 when tabs were disabled.
62 * Per-conversation mute and logging options (accessible from the menu).
64 version 2.1.1 (08/20/2007):
66 * Added an account action to open your inbox in the yahoo prpl.
67 * Added support for Unicode status messages in Yahoo.
68 * Server-stored aliases for Yahoo. (John Moody)
69 * Fixed support for Yahoo! doodling.
70 * Limited support for MSN Messenger contacts
73 * Bonjour plugin uses native Avahi instead of Howl
74 * Bonjour plugin supports Buddy Icons
77 * Only report conversation close when 'send typing notifications'
78 preference is turned on (Bob Rossi)
81 * Show current outgoing conversation formatting on the font label on
83 * Slim new redesign of conversation tabs to maximize number of
84 conversations that can fit in a window
85 * Tab bar is not visible when only one conversation is open. You can
86 drag and drop conversations from the infopane.
87 * Moved "Reset Formatting" toolbar button to Font menu.
88 * Double click on the infopane to alias buddies and set topics
93 * Sound support (Eric Polino)
95 version 2.1.0 (07/28/2007):
97 * Core changes to allow UIs to use second-granularity for scheduling.
98 Pidgin and Finch, which use the glib event loop, were changed to use
99 g_timeout_add_seconds() on glib >= 2.14 when possible. This allows
100 glib to better group our longer timers to increase power efficiency.
101 (Arjan van de Ven with Intel Corporation)
102 * No longer linkifies screennames containing @ signs in join/part
103 notifications in chats
104 * With the HTML logger, images in conversations are now saved.
105 NOTE: Saved images are not yet displayed when loading logs.
106 * Added support for QIP logs to the Log Reader plugin (Michael Shkutkov)
109 * Ensure only one copy of Pidgin is running with a given configuration
110 directory. The net effect of this is that trying to start Pidgin a
111 second time will raise the buddy list. (Gabriel Schulhof)
112 * Undo capability in the conversation window
113 * The formatting toolbar has been reorganized to be more concise.
114 * A new status area has been added to the top of conversations to
115 provide additional detail about the buddy, including buddy icon,
116 protocol and status message.
117 * Show idle times in the buddy list as days, hours, seconds
120 * There's support for workspaces now (details in the manpage)
121 * There's a new custom window manager, Irssi
122 * Some improvements for tab-completion, tooltip and the password entries
123 * Some bugs regarding search results fixed
124 * A new DBus-script to create a docklet for finch
125 * Support for showing empty groups in the buddy list (Eric Polino)
127 version 2.0.2 (06/14/2007):
129 * Added a custom conversation font option to preferences
130 * Fixed smiley ordering in the insert smiley popup to be more intuitive
131 * Conversation->More menu items work for Chats as well as Buddies,
132 including those not on your buddy list
133 * newline plugin should work better with conversation colors plugin now
134 * Get Info on users now provides immediate feedback that something is
136 * Aliasing a buddy will not be interrupted by other buddy list activity
137 * Using the -l option to log in to a specific account works better
140 * Moving an ICQ buddy from one group to another no longer
141 re-requests authorization from that person (Rene Hausleitner)
142 * Added nullprpl, an example protocol plugin (Ryan Barrett)
143 * Fixed SOCKS5 bug which caused Jabber file receiving to fail
144 * Remove MSN's random "Authorization Failed" dialogs
145 * Fix MSN to correctly detect incorrect passwords and disable the account
146 * Get User Info on MSN is now more reliable & accurate
147 * Updated SILC protocol to support SILC Toolkit 1.1 (Pekka Riikonen)
148 * Fix for some QQ authentication problems
149 * Fix for building on FreeBSD
150 * Prevent "Logged in:" times for AIM buddies being ridiculously high
151 * Updates and fixes to Bonjour support
152 * Improve ICQ encoding support for some non-latin languages
155 * Auto account reconnecting
157 version 2.0.1 (05/24/2007):
158 * Buddy list update speedups when buddy icons are not being
159 displayed. (Scott Wolchok)
160 * Fix icons on docklet change status menu to match the status selector
161 * Custom smileys on MSN can be saved by right-clicking on them
162 * Fix a crash deleting a buddy that is in the Buddy List more than once
163 * Compile fixes for Solaris
164 * Fix GTalk formatting when there's a space before/after a */_
165 * Fix Log viewer crash when the filename is not in the expected format
166 * Get User Info now provides immediate feedback, and is updated when the
167 user information is available
168 * Make the choose buddy icon dialog correctly list the current directory
169 * Fix for buddy icons disappearing
170 * Timestamps are always on in debug output (-d) and Debug Window now
171 * Don't escape html entities in Yahoo! system messages
172 * Fix for the choose buddy icon dialog resizing strangely as files are selected
173 * Receives notifications when XMPP buddies send "leaving chat"
175 * Fix the typing animation so it doesn't stop animating once a conversation
176 has gone from typing -> not typing -> typing
177 * Fix error messages when joing XMPP chats
178 * Identify the account when warning about plaintext auth over an
180 * Fix XMPP SASL authentication error when using Cyrus and a connect server
181 * Fix changing tab locations to update properly
182 * Turning off "Show formatting on incoming messages" now ignores
183 formatting in <span> tags too
184 * File transfer progress for transfers on MSN is now correctly displayed
185 * You can set/change alias of buddies/chats by double-clicking on the
186 conversation tabs (Ma Xuan)
187 * Fix IRC connection bug with dircproxy (xjoe)
188 * Ctrl+[shift]+tab focuses the next most active tab (William Thompson)
189 * Fix Open Hotmail Inbox for MSN to work more reliably
190 * Add a Google Talk item to the protocol list, to help users who think
191 we don't support Google Talk. The item acts just like "XMPP".
192 * Remember if the X server supports XScreenSaver, to avoid waking it
193 every 5 seconds. (Arjan van de Ven with Intel Corporation)
194 * Change our idle checking to poll only as necessary and raise the
195 unidle timeout from 5 seconds to 60 when using XScreenSaver. This
196 and the XScreenSaver change will reduce Pidgin's effect on power
197 consumption when running with NO_HZ. (Arjan van de Ven with Intel
199 * Conversation -> Save As will now use aliases.
200 * ALSA added as a possible sound method
201 * Google Talk accounts will not import buddies from your Gmail address
205 * Userlist in chat windows, which can be turned on or off using
207 * Menus in the conversation windows
208 * Improved tab completion support
209 * Ctrl+c prompts with a dialog before exiting
210 * Filter string in the debug window
211 * Notify when you leave a chat
212 * Work around an ncurses bug which appears when half of a multi-cell
213 character is covered by an upper-level window
214 * New plugins are shown in bold text in the plugin dialog
215 * Nicer HTML screendumps
217 version 2.0.0 (5/3/2007):
218 * The project has new names - libpurple for the core, Pidgin for the
219 GTK+ UI and Finch for the ncurses based console UI (AOL LLC)
222 * With the Core/UI split complete, it is now possible to build
223 libpurple without any UIs, creating a library upon which other
224 UIs may be constructed
225 * A new ncurses-based console UI called Finch is now available
226 (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury, Google Summer of Code)
227 * Reorganized the source tree to split apart the code for the UI
228 changes and libpurple targets
229 * libxml2 is now required. We switched from gmarkup to libxml2 for
230 more correct XML parsing.
233 * The code dealing with buddy and account status, away messages,
234 away states, online/offline, etc has been completely rewritten.
235 Huge thanks to Christian Hammond, Dave West, Daniel Atallah and
236 Sadrul Habib Chowdhury.
237 * Your status can now be set from inside the buddy list using the
238 selector at the bottom of the window.
239 * To see messages when a buddy signs on or off, goes away, or
240 becomes idle, load the "Buddy State Notification" plugin
243 * Performance when manipulating and displaying the buddy list has
244 been significantly improved (Aaron Sheldon, Google Summer of Code)
245 * Buddy icons are now shown in tooltips (Felipe Contreras)
246 * Tooltips now contain additional information about a "Person" that
247 contains multiple online buddies
248 * Added a "Last Seen" field to buddy tooltips
249 * Contacts will auto-expand when buddies are dragged around
250 * If Pidgin is exited with the buddy list hidden in the docklet, it
251 will remain hidden when Pidgin is started again (Scott Shedden)
252 * Improved buddy list searching with CTRL+F
253 * Ability to set a buddy icon for all of your accounts at once via
254 the buddy list (You can still set per-account icons via the
256 * The space wasted by the group expanders has been eliminated and
257 the expander setting in .gtkrc-2.0 is no longer needed
258 * Authorization requests don't popup new dialogs anymore. They are
259 displayed at the bottom of the buddy list instead.
260 * New mail notifications don't popup new dialogs anymore. They are
261 displayed at the top of the buddy list instead.
263 Conversations and Chats:
264 * Timestamps honor the locale. To use the traditional style,
265 enable the "Message Timestamp Formats" plugin. The plugin
266 also provides options to show dates in timestamps.
267 * Messages from buddies in the same "Person" will automatically
268 use the same conversation window.
269 * The "Send As" menu has been replaced with a more appropriate
270 "Send To" menu based on "Persons" on your buddy list
271 * Message formatting persists between messages (Igor Belyi)
272 * Full message background colors are now supported
273 * Smooth scrolling when receiving a new message
274 * Screenname colors in chats now chosen intelligently
275 * Conversation buffer scrollback limited to avoid large memory
276 usage in active conversations
277 * Control-Shift-Tab will reverse cycle through the conversation tabs
279 * Many problems related to having an IM conversation and a chat open
280 with the same name are fixed (Andrew Hart)
281 * Warning dialog when closing a window with unread IM messages
282 * In chats right-click on names in the conversation window to
283 IM/Send File/Get info/ignore the user
284 * Added tab management options to the tab right-click menu (Sadrul
286 * Brand new message queueing system. Sounds are played when a
287 message is queued rather than when the message is dequeued
289 * Ability to find the last message from a user in a chat (Levi Bard
290 and Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
291 * Formatting is preserved across messages
292 (There are known issues with pasting formatted text. Either use
293 "Paste as Plain Text", hit Ctrl-R after pasting, or use the Clear
294 Formatting button on the toolbar.)
295 * Performance while joining large chat rooms has been significantly
296 improved (Aaron Sheldon, Google Summer of Code)
297 * Bi-Directional text support improvements for GtkIMHtml (Shlomi Loubaton)
300 * Beautiful new default sounds (Brad Turcotte)
301 * Use GStreamer for playing sounds, instead of libao
302 * A volume control in the preferences (Casey Harkins)
305 * Log viewer aggregates logs from the same "Person"
306 * When opening the log viewer, show the most recent log by default
308 * Logs are now saved with the current timezone, which is displayed
310 * Text logs are linkified, so URLs are clickable
311 * The old logger now caches file offsets, so opening the log viewer
312 for buddies with old logs should be much faster now if you have large
313 log files (except the first time for a log, when the cache is built)
316 * Plugins are now accessed through a separate dialog from the Tools
317 menu of the Buddy List
318 * Newly installed plugins can now be activated without restarting
319 Pidgin (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
320 * Overhauled the system tray/docklet plugin (Casey Harkins)
321 * Text Replacement Plugin rewritten, works in real time and far more
322 intuitively (Benjamin Kahn)
323 * Entries in the text replacement plugin are now sorted
325 * The text replacement plugin allows non-whole-word replacement rules
327 * The text replacement plugin offers both case sensitive matching and
328 automatic case handling
329 * I'dle Ma'ker plugin now has an easier method to unidle accounts, a
330 way to idle all accounts at once, and a way to unidle all accounts
331 idled via the plugin (John Bailey, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
332 * The Evolution Integration plugin now supports Groupwise contacts
333 * Mono plugin loader (Eoin Coffey)
334 * Perl plugin loader has been rewritten (John Kelm, Google Summer
336 * New music messaging plugin (Christian Muise, Google Summer of Code)
337 * gaim-remote has been superceded by new DBUS bindings within libpurple
338 (Piotr Zielinski, Google Summer of Code)
339 * The purple-url-handler program has been added to provide a way to
340 automatically launch IM links via Pidgin or Finch.
341 * The functionality of the auto-reconnect plugin has been
342 moved into the core, and the plugin itself has been removed.
343 * 'Highlight when nick said' option added to Message Notification
345 * The system tray icon is now properly transparent (Dan Winship)
346 * New Log Reader plugin that can read and display logs from Adium,
347 MSN Messenger, and Trillian in the log viewer
348 * New Contact Availability plugin that attempts to predict the
349 times when people in your buddylist will most likely respond
350 to you, based on times in the past when they have responded
351 (Geoffrey Foster, Google Summer of Code)
352 * A few new plugins: Autoaccept, Autoreply, Buddy Notes, New Line,
353 Offline Message Emulation, Conversation Colors and Markerline
356 * Custom smiley receiving support (Irving Cordova & Francesco Fracassi)
357 * Added support for sending (with the /nudge command) and receiving
358 "nudges" (Julien Cegarra, Martin Bayard)
359 * Added an account action to open your Hotmail inbox from MSN
360 * Bi-directional text is correctly handled now (Shlomi Loubaton)
363 * Stealth Settings have been implemented
364 * Doodle is now supported (Andrew Dieffenbach, Google Summer of Code)
365 * Buddies' requests to add you to their lists now prompt for
367 * Account option to ignore chat and conference invitations (Peter
369 * Added a /list command to bring up the room list (Peter Lawler)
372 * ICQ file transfer support with newer ICQ clients (Jonathan Clark,
373 Google Summer of Code)
374 * Many overall improvements to AIM and ICQ file transfers (Jonathan
375 Clark, Google Summer of Code)
376 * Support for pausing and resuming AIM and ICQ file transfers
378 * Ability to set ICQ "require authorization" and "web aware"
379 setting (Ettore Simone)
380 * ICQ encoding fix for offline buddies (Ilya Konstantinov)
383 * SSL support for IRC connections (Daniel Atallah)
384 * Show an error message when temporarily unable to join an IRC
385 channel or change your nick
386 * Added /nickserv, /memoserv, /chanserv and /operserv
387 commands (Joao Luís Marques Pinto)
388 * Added CTCP VERSION via /version (Andrej Krivulčík)
389 * Added /whowas command (achris)
392 * Support for SRV lookups
393 * Support for buddy icons
394 * Jabber User Directory searching
397 * Whiteboard support (Pekka Riikonen)
398 * Sending/receiving images in IMs (Pekka Riikonen)
399 * Cipher and HMAC selection support (Pekka Riikonen)
400 * Buddy Icon support (Pekka Riikonen)
402 Other Protocol Changes:
403 * Bonjour (Rendezvous) protocol support (Juanjo Molinero Horno, Google
405 * Updated Gadu-Gadu protocol support (Bartosz Oler, Google Summer of
406 Code). This requires the libgadu library. See
407 http://pidgin.im/faq.php#libgadu for more information.
408 * SIP/SIMPLE support (Thomas Butter, Google Summer of Code)
409 * Sametime protocol support
410 Requires the meanwhile library: http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net
411 * QQ protocol support (Mark Huetsch, Google Summer of Code, and the
412 developers of the OpenQ project)
413 * Removed the Napster and TOC protocols plugins
415 Other Noteworthy Changes:
416 * NAT traversal support via UPnP (Adam J. Warrington, Google Summer of
418 * NAT traversal support via NAT-PMP (Evan Schoenberg and R. Tyler Ballance)
419 * The modify account dialog now contains two tabs, which should display
420 better at lower resolutions (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
421 * New "find buddy" results dialog (Alex Converse)
422 * People using input methods can now use Enter again
423 * Mouse-over hyperlink coloring is now themeable
424 * Buddy Pounces now have a proper management window. (Kevin Stange)
425 * Buddy icons maintain aspect ratio when resized
426 * The last used directory is remembered for opening or saving files and
428 * Add an SVG version of our desktop icon, pidgin.svg (John Oyler)
429 * If a given protocol doesn't support privacy, we now handle blocking
430 in the core. (Jean-Yves Lefort)
431 * Smiley themes can now include spaces in the smiley definitions.
432 The spaces (and now backslashes) must be backslash-escaped.
433 (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
434 * New e-mail notices are now grouped into one dialog.
435 (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury, Chris Stafford)
436 * "Open" in the File Transfer window integrates with GNOME, KDE, and
437 Windows and falls back to the browser in other environments.
438 * On Mac OS X, the keyboard/mouse idle time pref now uses system idle
439 time instead of X11 idle time (Michael Culbertson)
440 * Autocomplete in the buddy pounce dialog (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
441 * Non-blocking socket I/O is used in most protocol plugins
442 * All-new icons all over the place (Hylke Bons)
445 * Preferences have been substantially reorganized and cleaned up
446 * Smiley theme descriptions are now shown correctly for the highlighted
447 smiley theme (Levi Bard)
448 * All Buddy List preferences have been moved to the Buddies menu of
449 the buddy list window.
450 * Proxy settings will be taken from Gnome if it is running. These may
451 still be overridden on a per-account basis.
452 * Removed "Dim idle buddies;" behavior is now always enabled
453 * Removed keyboard shortcut preferences for ctrl-B/I/U; enabled by
454 default, but won't interfere with bindings set by the GTK theme
455 * Removed keyboard shortcuts preferences for ctrl-# to insert a smiley;
456 behavior removed from Pidgin
457 * Removed "Enter" vs. "Ctrl-Enter" to send; "Enter" sends by default,
458 but it is now possible to change this binding in your GTK theme
459 * Removed "Show multi-colored screennames in chats;" behavior is now
460 always enabled and screenname colors automatically adjust themselves
461 to compensate for background color.
462 * Removed "Raise Buddy List Window on Events" and the related behavior
463 * Removed "Display remote nicknames if no alias is set"
464 * Removed "Show idle times" and "Show warning levels" on the buddy
465 list; behavior is now always enabled
466 * Removed "Auto-expand contacts;" contacts expand only when dragging
467 buddies around the buddy list
468 * Removed conversation and buddy list buttons and related preferences
469 * Removed "Raise conversation window" preferences; moved feature to
471 * Removed "Show alias in tabs/titles;" behavior is now always enabled
472 * Removed "Show formatting toolbars;" the setting in conversations'
473 "Options" menu now affects the global preference
474 * Removed "Show timestamps;" behavior is now enabled, but is overridden
475 by the timestamp plugin
476 * Removed all protocol options pages
477 * Removed "Escape closes windows;" default key binding is now Ctrl-W
478 * Removed "Log when buddies sign on/sign off/become idle/become
479 un-idle/go away/come back" and "Log your own actions;" all of these
480 will be logged when the system log is enabled
481 * Removed the separate ignore formatting preferences; behavior has been
482 consolidated into a single preference
484 version 1.5.0 (8/11/2005):
485 * Ability to set IRC quit message (Lalo Martins)
486 * OSCAR file transfers now work for 2 users behind the same NAT
488 * Yahoo! buddy requests to add you to their buddy list now prompt for
490 * Added a /clear command for conversations/chats
491 * Fixed ICQ encoding for messages with offline ICQ users
492 (Ilya Konstantinov, SF Bug #1179452)
493 * Default Yahoo! chat roomlist locale to 'us'
495 version 1.4.0 (7/7/2005):
496 * Fix system log start times for some protocols
497 * SILC compiles with newer SILC toolkit versions (Pekka Riikonen)
498 * Fixed a bug where buddy icon cache files were left in the icon
499 cache directory after they were no longer in use.
500 * Attempt to detect the file type of a buddy icon when saving.
501 * Additional Yahoo! boot protection (Peter Lawler)
502 * A few Yahoo! memory leaks plugged (Peter Lawler)
503 * Fixed handling of the new Yahoo! profile page. (Joshua Honeycutt,
505 * Fixed localized Yahoo! room lists. Please refer to the Yahoo!
506 section of the Gaim FAQ for details. (Peter Lawler)
507 * Enabled sending files to ICQ users using ICQ 5.02 and newer
510 version 1.3.1 (6/9/2005):
511 * The file transfer details section now also displays the full path to
512 the local file sent/received.
513 * Yahoo! has the following new "/" commands: /join, /buzz
514 * Fix Yahoo! privacy bug
515 * Fix Jabber Get Info crash on busted servers
516 * Updated our gaim.desktop file, thanks to all our terrific translators
517 for sending in translations of the changes
518 * Improvements to how Gaim handles new message notification
519 * Fix Jabber registration on XMPP servers (including jabber.org)
521 version 1.3.0 (5/10/2005):
522 * Removed parts of the font selection dialog that were not respected
523 * Fix being invited to a multi user chat on MSN
524 * Multiple SILC accounts should work now (Pekka Riikonen)
525 * Fix times on jabber chat backlogs
526 * Fix gevolution plugin to compile with e-d-s 1.0 or 1.2
527 * Fix gevolution plugin to remember buddy name when someone added you
528 and you then add them
529 * Formatting in jabber chats works
530 * Fix to prevent MSN disconnecting if you change status while connecting
531 * Fixes for two remotely exploitable crash bugs. See
532 http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/ for more information.
533 * Change to correctly handle adding jabber buddies on ejabberd servers
535 version 1.2.1 (4/3/2005):
536 * URL escaping now works with UTF-8 text. This may break some old log
538 * Revert to XOR auth for ICQ as the md5 is not fully functional
539 * Fix bug with going away while in a jabber chat
540 * MSN bug fixes (Felipe Contreras)
541 * Escape things properly in IRC
542 * Docklet fixes: fix the "1 pixel-wide icon" bug, fix problems with Gaim
543 crashing when the tray manager dies, and work correctly with multi-headed
544 displays where the tray isn't on the primary screen (Robert McQueen)
546 version 1.2.0 (3/17/2005):
547 * Yahoo file receiving and buddy icon receiving work again.
548 * Limit animated buddy icon frame rates to 10 frames per second
550 * Fix a bug where portions of your account configuration would
551 fail to be read correctly if you set a proxy user name or
552 password containing invalid XML characters such as < and >
554 * Yahoo! privacy improvements (Bleeter)
555 * Fix receiving Jabber formatting (broken in 1.1.3)
557 version 1.1.4 (2/24/2005):
558 * Fixed a bug where Yahoo! would lose messages (and any other packet
560 * Correctly show the time when incoming Gadu-Gadu messages were sent
561 (Carl-Daniel Hailfinger)
562 * Fixed crashes with glib 2.6
563 * Fixed MSN crash when conversations time out after the conversation
565 * Fixed an html parsing bug, CAN-2005-0208
567 version 1.1.3 (2/17/2005):
568 * CHAP authentication support for SOCKS5 proxies (Malcolm Smith)
569 * ICQ offline messages are sent using your specified character
570 set instead of Unicode (Magnus Hult)
571 * MSN HTTP method works with proxies using authentication (Bastien Durel)
572 * Really fix the bug where buddies show as logged in for 49 thousand days
573 * Buddy pounces containing '&' are saved correctly
574 * Improved MSN error handling when the servers are unavailable
577 * Fix "Find" in the log viewer so that it finds in all logs
578 * Smileys not appearing at the end of lines has been fixed
579 * Closing conversation windows no longer cancels active file transfers on
580 MSN (Felipe Contreras)
582 version 1.1.2 (1/20/2005):
583 * MSN 'HTTP Method' fixed (Felipe Contreras)
584 * Better handling of MSN's Individuals group and buddy status updates
586 * Fix a crash inviting MSN user to a chat when they're already there
587 * AIM SecurID login support
588 * Fix configuration of Jabber chat rooms on some servers
589 * More MSN bug fixes (Felipe Contreras)
590 * Fix queue messages to Docklet when not globally away (Robert McQueen)
592 * The Autopackage now builds both the mozilla-nss and the gnutls
593 ssl plugins, and requires at least one of those libraries.
595 version 1.1.1 (12/28/2004):
596 * Allow SILC authentication via public key if your key is password
597 protected (Michele Baldessari)
598 * More MSN bug fixes (Felipe Contreras)
599 * Drag-and-drop to conversation window file transfers work again
600 * Disable the delete button on pounces that aren't saved yet anyway
603 version 1.1.0 (12/02/2004):
605 * Binary relocable. Gaim will find its files even if it's installed
606 in a location other than the --prefix it was ./configured with.
607 Pass --disable-binreloc to ./configure to disable.
608 * IRC now has fallback encodings, and tries harder to display
609 something useful during an encoding error.
610 * New MSN protocol icon (Felipe Contreras)
613 * Fix some leaks (Miah Gregory, Felipe Contreras)
614 * Fix crashes when removing buddies in certain situations (Andrew Hart)
615 * Eliminate MSN switchboard errors (Felipe Contreras)
616 * Fix MSN buddy icon synchronization (Felipe Contreras)
617 * Correctly display file transfer dialogs for filenames containing &, < or >
618 * Correctly display MSN authorization dialogs for friendly names containing
620 * Properly align the right-click docklet menu with the docklet icon in
622 * Fix a crash if the MSN buddy list is not available
623 * Fix a bug in the request api (Gary Kramlich)
625 version 1.0.3 (11/11/2004):
627 * Jabber authentication fixes (Michael Plump)
628 * Yahoo buddy idle reporting is more accurate (Evan Schoenberg)
629 * "Allow All" privacy setting works on Yahoo (Peter Lawler)
630 * Fix a crash when dragging a buddy to the conversation entry area
631 * Fix a crash removing chats from the buddy list
632 * Correctly display buddy pounces for aliases with &, < or > in them
633 * Correctly follow the per-conversation logging option
635 version 1.0.2 (10/19/2004):
637 * MSN file transfers work on big endian machines (Jean-Francois Roy and
639 * Fixed the MSN signon crash with Miranda users in the buddy list
640 * Fixed sending messages to MSN Web Messenger users (Damien Ayers)
641 * Fixed some memory leaks in the MSN plugin (Evan Schoenberg)
642 * Fixed a crash viewing certain MSN user profiles (Evan Schoenberg)
643 * Fixed a crash sending a file on MSN when the file is unreadable
644 * Fixed a crash deleting accounts (Andrew Hart)
645 * Fixed a crash inviting to chats (Andrew Hart)
646 * Fixed a bug in Yahoo privacy handling (Peter Lawler)
647 * Fixed a crash trying to join a chat from the docklet when not signed in
648 to a chat-capable account (Daniel Atallah)
650 version 1.0.1 (10/07/2004):
652 * Use the GNOME default browser when opening links if you're running GNOME
654 * Added support for multiple addressbooks in the gevolution plugin
658 * Send-As menu duplicates less work (Dave West)
659 * Can now see your own MSN buddy icon (Felipe Contreras)
660 * Jabber roomlist fetches work again
661 * Close buttons on tabs in existing conversations correctly reflect the
662 "show close buttons on tabs" preference (Nathan Fredrickson)
663 * Fix to make the get_signon(buddy) perl plugin function work (Gregory C.
665 * Fixed crashes when reloading the gevolution plugin (Henry Jen)
666 * Fixed some memory leaks in the gevolution plugin.
667 * Wrap at character boundaries if there is not enough space for a full word
668 * 64 bit compile warning fixes
670 version 1.0.0 (09/17/2004):
672 * Drag-and-drop buddy support for the Invite dialog (Stu Tomlinson)
673 * Drag-and-drop buddy support for the Pounce dialog (Stu Tomlinson)
674 * View Chat log available from the interface (Daniel Atallah)
675 * Ability to receive offline messages in character encodings
676 other than ASCII (thanks to Nick Sukharev)
677 * File transfer status messages printed to conversation
679 * Display file transfer messages when someone sends you a file
681 * Handle MSN buddy lists more sanely (Felipe Contreras)
682 * Zephyr can use tzc to run from behind a firewall (Arun A Tharuvai)
685 * Work around window manager stupidity with new dialog windows (Dave West)
686 * Compile with gtk 2.5.x (Gary Kramlich)
687 * Escape invalid characters in log names (Daniel Atallah)
688 * Fix for clicking add in an msn chat with 2 or more people in your buddy
689 list (Daniel Atallah)
691 version 0.82.1 (08/27/2004):
693 * Fix a crash when changing the preference for how to display buttons
694 on conversation windows
695 * Remove a stray printf() when beginning new conversations and logging
698 version 0.82 (08/26/2004):
700 * Ability to set available messages for AIM
701 (Tools->Account Actions->Set Available Message...)
702 * Ability to specify a custom character set for messages sent to ICQ
703 users and messages received from ICQ users
704 * Ability to edit your current away message (Rhett Robinson)
705 * Topics in the conversation window (not the topic field at the
706 top) with URLs will now appear as links (Stu Tomlinson)
707 * File transfers appear in the file transfer window when they
708 are initiated rather than when they begin transferring (Dave West)
709 * Instead of toggling slash commands on/off, you can now toggle
710 passing through unknown slash commands on/off.
713 * Joining a Jabber chat no longer causes a crash (Stu Tomlinson)
714 * Selecting a buddy icon for a brand new account no longer
716 * Better file transfer error messages (Dave West)
717 * Remotely canceled file transfers in MSN are now noticed, so that we
718 don't accidentally cancel the file transfer and crash Gaim
720 * Protocols that don't support joining chat rooms by name no longer
721 allow chat rooms to be added to the buddy list (Felipe Contreras)
722 * Delayed messages and system messages no longer cause
723 sound events to be triggered (Nathan Fredrickson)
724 * The chat invite button has a correct label (Stu Tomlinson)
725 * The system log should leak fewer file descriptors (Ka-Hing Cheung)
726 * Buddy list tooltips display in more appropriate positions when
727 using multiple monitors (Dave West)
728 * Better parsing of URLs containing special characters
729 * All users are shown when joining a Yahoo! conference (Bleeter Yaluser)
730 * You now leave all Yahoo! conferences when you log out of Yahoo!
731 * Buddy Icon updating bug fixed (Felipe Contreras)
733 version 0.81 (08/05/2004):
735 * The autorecon plugin will somewhat remember state information(Yosef
737 * Visual display of ops/voice/halfops/so on in Chats (Stu Tomlinson)
738 * Tab completion of slash commands in Chats (Stu Tomlinson)
739 * gaim-remote can now manipulate status (István Váradi)
740 * The text messages of Yahoo Audibles are now displayed, although
741 the audio and graphics are not.
742 * Yahoo! away messages can be 255 characters long now
745 * Gadu-Gadu should connect again (Andrew Wellington)
746 * Novell fixes (Mike Stoddard of Novell):
747 * Fixed reconnect crash
748 * Fixed duplicate root folder bug
749 * Fixed bug with folder ordering (on a first time login
750 folders were being added in reverse order).
751 * Use ISO date format for the system log (Eduardo Pérez)
752 * Long buddy lists with irc should cause flooding disconnects less
754 * Better smiley substitution
755 * Fix a crash related to auto-expanding contacts at the bottom of
757 * Fix a crash on Solaris when changing or viewing information for
758 your AIM account (Format Screen Name, Change Email Address, etc.)
759 * HTML in OSCAR buddy comments is now escaped (and not rendered)
760 * Fix a crash when dragging a screen name to a conversation window
762 * User-requested new conversation windows are now always given focus
763 * Pasting HTML into Gaim from certain sources no longer results in
764 the spaces between some words being removed
765 * The alias of a contact is now displayed in more places when the
766 alias of a buddy is not set
767 * .gaimrc is no longer imported
768 * Prevent a crash if you sign off and try to dequeue messages from
769 the away dialog (Kevin Stange)
770 * Prevent a possible crash if gaim_gtkconv_write_conv is called
771 with who as NULL (Kevin Stange)
772 * Prevent (null) or an empty string from being logged as the sender's
773 name if the sender no longer has an alias because the account is
774 signed off (Kevin Stange)
775 * The auto-reconnect plugin will no longer attempt to reconnect an
776 MSN account if you were disconnected because you signed on from
777 another location (Stu Tomlinson)
778 * On Solaris, chatting in IRC using the UTF-8 charset no longer gives
779 a "conversion failed" error for every message (Arvind Samptur)
780 * ICQ offline messages should have the correct timestamp (Dave West)
782 version 0.80 (07/15/2004):
784 * Ability to send files from the conversation window (Daniel Atallah)
785 * Drag a file into the buddy list or a conversation to send it to that
787 * Yet more new commands and features for SILC (Stu Tomlinson)
788 * Gaim uses the new file chooser when compiled for GTK+ 2.4
790 * Support for the Epiphany web browser (Leonardo Serra)
791 * Status messages in Gadu-Gadu (Andrew (proton) Wellington)
792 * Parentheses are now displayed around the title and tabs of
793 conversations from offline accounts or parted chats.
794 * Zephyr typing notification (Arun A Tharuvai)
795 * Account dialog's columns are resizable (Eduardo Pérez)
798 * The firefox browser option now works with firefox 0.9
799 * Buddy icons in conversations no longer depend on the
801 * Fix for the bug where some buddies seemed logged in 4
802 thousand some odd days (Alan Ford)
804 version 0.79 (06/24/2004):
806 * Display name changes are now shown in the conversation windows.
808 * Get Info on Yahoo! now works for nonenglish profiles.
810 * General "Get Info" improvements on Yahoo! and MSN (Ambrose Li)
811 * Yahoo! Japan support. Click More Options and check Yahoo Japan
812 in the account editor, to use your Yahoo! Japan account
813 * Gtk themes can now theme the Gaim buddy list independently of
814 other things (Stu Tomlinson)
815 * Show timestamps now has a per-conversation option in addition
816 to the global one, bringing it in line with the other conver-
817 sation options (Stu Tomlinson)
818 * Added MSN buddy icons (Felipe Contreras)
819 * Added MSN file transfer (Felipe Contreras)
820 * MSN's idle state now actually sets a buddy idle
821 * Buddy pounce defaults are now more sane, and apply to the state the
822 buddy is currently in. For example, if the buddy is idle, set
823 "Return from idle" by default. The last action(s) used are the
824 defaults for the next pounce
825 * Yahoo buddy icon support
826 * Selected buddy icons will automatically convert to the appropriate
827 format for the protocol. (GTK 2.2 and higher only)
828 * Dragging an image file into the Modify Account dialog will set that
830 * Development headers for compiling third-party plugins are now
831 installed. (Stu Tomlinson)
832 * Headers for gaim-remote now reside in gaim/ instead of
834 * Basic YCHT support, which allows joining Yahoo! Chats when
835 logged in using the web messenger method
838 * Fixed Yahoo! authentication problems. (Cerulean Studios)
839 * Non-looping animated icons no longer cause Gaim to freeze
840 * Flashing windows should work again for unix in window managers that
841 support the URGENT hint (Etan Reisner)
842 * Better handling of character sets in RTF for Novell (Mike Stoddard of
844 * Contact list sync problems in Novell fixed (Mike Stoddard of Novell)
845 * Fixed a crash in SILC that sometimes happened when resolving
846 the buddy list (Pekka Riikonen)
847 * Parallel compiles of the perl plugin should work better
849 * The disconnected UI op was called twice on connection errors. Now
850 it is only called once. (Evan Schoenberg)
851 * Dragging into conversation windows works better
852 * Protocol-specific settings for accounts were being removed whenever
853 the account was modified. Now they're only removed when the protocol
854 type changes, as it should be.
855 * Zephyr bug fixes and memory leak plugs (Arun A Tharuvai)
856 * Rewrite of MSN buddylist support, which fixed a known syncronization
857 bug and some others (Felipe Contreras)
859 version 0.78 (05/30/2004):
861 * Support for the SILC protocol (http://www.silcnet.org/)
863 * Option to suppress disconnect notification when using
864 the autoreconnect plugin (Christopher (siege) O'Brien)
865 * Added support for dragging buddies from the buddy list into the
866 Add Buddy Pounce dialog
867 * Pounce notification now includes time (Mike Lundy)
868 * The history plugin now shows history for chats in addition to IMs
869 * Menu item to view conversation logs (Tom Samstag)
870 * Conversation and chat sizes automatically saved (Stu Tomlinson)
871 * Added support for Novell privacy settings (Mike Stoddard of Novell)
872 * Added ability to initiate multi-user conferences (chats) in Novell
873 (Mike Stoddard of Novell)
874 * Find and Save buttons on the debug window (Stu Tomlinson)
875 * Plugin Actions menu (Christopher (siege) O'Brien)
876 * Plugins can now add entries to the right-click menu of a group or chat
877 (Stu Tomlinson and Christopher (siege) O'Brien)
878 * Hyperlink colors are now themeable via your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file
881 * Compiles again with gcc 2.96 (Ignacio J. Elia)
882 * Gtk2.0 compatibility fixes (Tim Ringenbach)
883 * Many documentation updates (Jonathan Champ, Gary Kramlich,
884 Stu Tomlinson, and Kevin Stange)
885 * Yahoo works on 64 bit machines (Gary Kramlich)
886 * Zephyr works on 64 bit machines (Arun A Tharuvai)
887 * Novell 64bit fixes, better error messages, and buddy list sync fixes
888 (Mike Stoddard of Novell)
889 * Novell protocol works on big endian machines (Novell)
890 * Massive rewrite of MSN support, which should fix a number of issues
891 and make errors easier to interpret (Felipe Contreras)
892 * Fixed a privacy-related bug in MSN that affected blocking/permitting,
893 which was due to case-sensitive string comparisons (Gudmundur
895 * Fixed an MSN HTTP method bug where MSN would queue data indefinitely.
897 * All known MSN formatting bugs were fixed.
898 * Overly long messages and paging cell phones in MSN no longer cause
899 disconnects (Felipe Contreras)
900 * Several bug fixes for MSN's MSNSLP and MSNObject support (Finlay
902 * ALT-F works correctly in the System Log Viewer (Stu Tomlinson)
903 * New tabs should scroll correctly again (Tim Ringenbach)
904 * Dialogs opened from a conversation window are now closed when
905 the conversation window is closed, preventing a crash (Kevin Stange)
906 * Copy/paste encoding fixes (Joe Marcus Clarke)
907 * IRC disconnect crash fix (Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha)
908 * Ampersands in links should work correctly (Tim Ringenbach)
909 * DirectIM and IM Image support for AIM are greatly improved
911 * Gadu-Gadu updates (Andrew Wellington)
912 * Print Gadu-Gadu messages to the debug window instead of the console
913 * Updated and standardized blist signals (Gary Kramlich)
914 * Made the recieve-*-msg signals match the sending ones (Stu Tomlinson)
915 * The idle time for the buddy-idle and buddy-unidle signals should
919 * Added "Conversation placement - By conversation count"
920 * Added a "none" smiley theme to replace the "Show graphical
922 * Replace default formatting preferences with a dialog to set a
923 default formatting in a WYSIWYG manner.
924 * Removed "Show logins in window," default to yes
925 * Removed "Send URLs as links," default to yes (in protocols that
927 * Removed "Show URLs as links," default to yes
928 * Removed New window height & width and Entry field height for Chats &
929 IMs, sizes are now saved automatically
930 * Removed "Tab-complete nicks" default to yes
931 * Removed "Old-style tab completion", no longer supported
932 * Removed "Sending message removes away status", default to no
933 * Removed "Show numbers in groups", default to yes
934 * Removed "Icons on tabs", default to yes
935 * Removed "Sounds when you log in", default to no
936 * Removed "Seconds before resending autoresponse", default to 600
938 * Removed "Send autoresponse in active conversations", default to no
939 * Removed "Show people joining in window", default to yes
940 * Removed "Show people leaving in window", default to yes
942 version 0.77 (04/22/2004):
944 * The System Log returns (Ka-Hing Cheung)
945 * Added a conversation-drag-ended signal (Etan Reisner)
946 * Reorganized and cleaned up the MSN protocol plugin (Felipe Contreras)
947 * Added the -c option to specify location of the .gaim directory,
948 removed the outdated -f option that no longer had any effect (Daniel
950 * Novell GroupWise protocol support added (Novell)
951 * WYSIWYG improvements (Tim Ringenbach)
952 * WYSIWYG editing for user info (Jon Oberheide)
953 * Rich-text copy and paste
954 * Plugins can now add menu items to the buddy context menu
955 (Christopher O'Brien)
956 * Plugins can now add preferences (Gary Kramlich)
957 * The TOC protocol is no longer built by default. The plugin is not
958 being properly tested and is no longer officially supported.
959 * Bumped up the plugin API version number, and added version numbers
960 for loader plugins and protocol plugins. Authors will want to
961 update their plugins, and possibly use GAIM_PLUGIN_API_VERSION,
962 GAIM_PRPL_API_VERSION, and GAIM_LOADER_API_VERSION constants.
963 * Zephyr error reporting works (Arun A. Tharuvai)
964 * Zephyr deals with non-utf8 characters (Arun A. Tharuvai)
967 * Formatting in the Log viewer is fixed (Kevin Stange)
968 * Save Conversation works again (Kevin Stange)
969 * The Clear button in privacy works (Robert Mibus)
970 * MSN error reporting works again (Stu Tomlinson)
971 * MSN e-mail notifications should no longer cause Gaim to crash
973 * Fixed an infinite loop bug that would sometimes cause MSN to lock
974 up (Nickolai Zeldovich)
975 * All away messages should now show up in tooltips
976 * Removing zephyr buddies no longer crashes (Arun A. Tharuvai)
978 version 0.76 (04/01/2004):
980 * WYSIWYG text input (with much help from Gary Kramlich and Kevin
982 * Ability to be invisible on AIM
983 * Chatroom list support (Tim Ringenbach)
984 * Added auto-completion for screen names to the New Instant Message and
985 Get User Info dialogs.
986 * Non-ascii character support in AIM chats (Uli Luckas and Marco Ziech)
987 * Vastly improved browser opening, with tab support! (Nathan
989 * Added support for connecting to MSN using the port 80 method.
990 * Support for Mozilla Firefox (Chris Friesen and Nathan Fredrickson)
991 * Added protocol-specific preferences (Gary Kramlich)
992 * Local IP address information can be changed in Preferences
994 * Improved local IP address detection (Tim Ringenbach)
995 * Offline accounts in account drop-down lists are now greyed (Etan
997 * Improved accessibility support for screen readers and other
998 accessibility tools (Marc Mulcahy)
999 * Improved accessibility in conversation windows (Nathan Fredrickson)
1000 * Keyboard access to context menus via Shift+F10 (Marc Mulcahy)
1001 * Core/UI split event loop code. (Scott Lamb)
1002 * Added improvements to the multi-field request code, including
1003 required fields and account fields.
1004 * Moved more dialogs to the request API for interface consistency
1005 (Send Message, Get User Info, and Insert Link dialogs)
1006 * Jabber file transfer
1007 * IRC file transfer (Tim Ringenbach)
1008 * Added a hidden preference for disabling buddy list tooltips or
1009 changing the pop-up delay in prefs.xml.
1010 * Moved translation news to po/ChangeLog
1013 * Changes in AIM/ICQ server-side buddy lists take
1014 precedence over the local buddy list
1015 * Significant work on the Zephyr plugin (Arun A. Tharuvai)
1016 * You can now use :/ as a smiley safely (Nathan Owens)
1017 * Various buffer overflow fixes (Stefan Esser)
1018 * Tabs now stay green when they are supposed to (Etan Reisner)
1019 * Fixed a bug where only the first user in a chat room list was removed
1020 sometimes when trying to remove a group of users (Tim Ringenbach)
1021 * Clearing an AIM buddy icon actually removes it from the server,
1022 icons changes in the account editor do not take effect if the
1023 cancel button is used (Stu Tomlinson)
1024 * Improved chat parting logic (Tim Ringenbach)
1025 * Yet Another IRC channel user duplication bugfix (Tim Ringenbach)
1026 * Deleting an account while modifying it will no longer crash gaim.
1027 * Only one account preference window will now appear per account when
1029 * Aliases are now shown alongside the screen name in the message
1030 queue window. (Kevin Stange).
1031 * TCL Plugin API changed
1032 * The mobile icon on MSN users is now removed when the person disables
1033 mobile paging (Stu Tomlinson)
1034 * Removing invalid buddies in MSN with a space in their name no longer
1035 causes a disconnect (Stu Tomlinson)
1036 * Multiple MSN chats should now work (Robert Mibus)
1037 * Added new MSN error codes and fixed an incorrect one (Stu Tomlinson)
1038 * Incoming colors are now processed correctly in MSN.
1039 * Conversation placement by account now works correctly with both
1040 chats and IMs, and takes the Combine Chats and IMs option into
1042 * Minor tweaks to the list box in the multi-field request dialogs
1043 so they work without a label and scrollbar (Pekka Riikonen)
1044 * Hitting enter in a multi-field request dialog when a textfield has
1045 the focus no longer ignores the changed text in the textfield
1047 * The Disconnect dialog no longer raises and gains focus each time
1048 a disconnected account is added (Ka-Hing Cheung)
1049 * Gadu-Gadu might actually connect again (Ignacy Gawedzki)
1050 * Buddy pounces for an account are removed when the account is
1051 deleted (Gary Kramlich)
1052 * Various bug and memory leak fixes (Gary Kramlich)
1053 * Assorted SSL crashfixes
1054 * --enable-debug no longer breaks compilation when using gtk 2.4,
1055 which also broke garnome.
1056 * Tooltips shouldn't crash now (Daniel Atallah)
1058 version 0.75 (01/09/2004):
1059 * New Yahoo! auth method
1060 * Yahoo! file transfer (Tim Ringenbach)
1061 * Yahoo! chat joining fixes (Tim Ringenbach)
1062 * Persons can auto-expand when hovering your mouse over it
1063 * Improved i18n support for MSN email notification (Felipe Contreras)
1064 * Jabber SASL PLAIN support
1065 * Improved Jabber MUC (Chat) support
1066 * Fixed an MSN login bug some people likely experienced (Felipe
1068 * Touch-up various dialogs to follow the Gnome Human Interface
1069 Guidelines more closely (Steven Garrity, Nathan Fredrickson, and
1071 * Works better with all-black gtk themes (Etan Reisner)
1072 * Mozilla Firebird support (Chris (darth_sebulba04))
1074 version 0.74 (11/25/2003):
1075 * Sort-by-size log sorting fix
1076 * Log directory umask fix for users of gaim-remote
1077 * Fix Jabber room creation on MUC servers.
1079 version 0.73 (11/21/2003):
1080 * New Logging format and code:
1081 * fixes i18n issues with logs
1082 * compatible with old logs
1083 * hopefully fixes segfault in viewing logs
1084 * New disconnected account dialog (Thanks, Daniel Atallah)
1085 * Fixes several Jabber bugs
1086 * Fixes the bug where some dialogs would crash when spell checking was
1087 enabled. Closes #827930.
1088 * Fixed unblocking of users in MSN (Robert Mibus)
1089 * Fixes outgoing mobile pages on MSN.
1090 * The border on the close buttons on inactive tabs are no longer shown,
1091 thanks to a fix used by Galeon.
1092 * Compatible with autoconf 2.58.
1093 * Cleaned up gtkspell-related code (Robert McQueen)
1094 * Changed the parameters for the received-chat-msg signal.
1095 * Added a Release Notification plugin
1097 version 0.72 (10/31/2003):
1098 * Added a search feature to conversations.
1099 * Added an option to remove the formatting toolbar, both globally and
1100 on a per-window basis (Nathan Fredrickson)
1101 * Added a drop shadow to the buddy list tooltip
1102 * Smileys are copyable
1103 * Fixed the ICQ login crash
1104 * Fixed a crash in the Add Chat dialog when selecting an
1105 account that doesn't support chats. Closes bug #821606.
1106 * Fixed a bug where new MSN accounts without buddies added wouldn't
1108 * Fixed a crash when deleting an account that has IMs or chats open.
1110 * Smileys have background colors
1111 * If SSL is not enabled, MSN will load, but error on connect.
1112 * Disable Jabber SASL auth until the standard stabilizes
1114 version 0.71 (10/09/2003):
1115 * The right-click menu for e-mail links now presents a "Copy E-Mail
1117 * Fix sort by idle to behave as it did pre-contact support (David
1119 * Display AIM away messages in the tooltip for buddies when
1121 * Support for Buddy Comments for AIM and ICQ buddies
1122 * Window icons are now set as buddy icons or status icons
1123 * Get User Info in MSN and Yahoo now return an error indicating that
1124 the information doesn't exist if the profile is empty (parts by
1126 * Added startup notification support for window managers that support it
1127 * The protocol icon for an account in the accounts window will now
1128 "pulse" when signing the account on.
1129 * Zephyr formatting fixes (Arun A. Tharuvai)
1130 * Zephyr can connect to chats (Karsten Huneycutt)
1131 * SSL support can now be provided by third party plugins.
1132 * Multiple copies of gaim installed at different locations no
1133 longer attempt to load the same, possibly incompatible plugins
1135 * Implemented another new Yahoo! authentication method
1136 * Fixed a bug displaying Chinese MSN messages (Ambrose C. LI).
1137 * Additional fixes and checks for the perl build process (Sean Burke).
1138 * Massive core/UI splitting.
1139 * Re-write of Jabber protocol plugin
1140 * Conversation API changes.
1141 * Some plugins must be updated due to code variable changes,
1142 function name changes, and change of behavior for certain
1145 version 0.70 (09/28/2003):
1146 * Implemented Yahoo's new authentication method (Cerulean Studios)
1147 * Protocol plugins that have plugin dependencies now load correctly.
1148 * Perl installs where it's told to a bit more correctly.
1149 * Robert "Robot101" McQueen cleaned and core/UI split IM
1152 version 0.69 (09/24/2003):
1153 * Added Contact (aka Person, aka Meta-Contact, aka Buddy Merging, etc)
1155 * Added MSN 6 smileys.
1156 * Added animated smiley support (Ka-Hing Cheung)
1157 * Added SSL support, compatible with GNUTLS and Mozilla NSS.
1159 * Added support for gettext 0.12.x.
1160 * Updated MSN support to the MSN Protocol version 9.
1161 * Jabber now supports SSL
1162 * Yahoo now shows people using the java chat client (Tim Ringenbach)
1163 * Yahoo chat and conference (Tim Ringenbach)
1164 * Yahoo ignore support (Jesse Farmer (farmerje))
1165 * Yahoo idle times displayed, long buddy lists work, sms users,
1166 and other improvements (Tim Ringenbach)
1167 * The accounts window now shows offline accounts as greyed out, and
1168 online accounts as colored.
1169 * Fixed the text replacement plugin.
1170 * Fixed all known signal problems in perl.
1171 * The right-click menu for conversation tabs now shows the tab icon
1172 and status, if tab icons are enabled. (Jesse Farmer)
1174 version 0.68 (09/01/2003):
1175 * Removed the old event system and replaced it with a much better
1177 * Added plugin dependency support.
1178 * Rewrote the Perl plugin. All old scripts will break, but it offers
1179 a much better API for new scripts.
1180 * Yahoo color support (Tim Ringenbach (marv_sf))
1181 * Yahoo and MSN get info support (Nathan Poznick)
1182 * Fixed Jabber registrations.
1183 * Fixed a problem where pouncing two users with the same name
1184 appeared in the same conversation window, and other related
1185 problems. (Robot101)
1186 * Corrected problems with proxy preferences.
1187 * Mailchk.c and simple.c compile again (Paul A (darkrain))
1189 version 0.67 (08/14/2003):
1190 * Brought back the message notification plugin (Brian Tarricone)
1191 You'll need to reconfigure your settings for this plugin
1192 * IRC protocol plugin rewritten (Ethan Blanton)
1193 * New IRC protocol icon (Nuno Donato)
1194 * Protocol and status icons now optionally appear on tabs.
1196 * Various dialog rewrites (Jabber vCard, Add Group, Alias Chat,
1197 Rename Group, Privacy)
1198 * Shows "hiptop" icon for AIM buddies using hiptop
1199 devices (Robey Pointer)
1200 * Privacy core/UI split.
1201 * Conversation placement by group now applies to chats in the buddy
1203 * Events in a conversation (user logged in, logged out, window closed,
1204 etc.) now grey the tab.
1205 * Various bug fixes (larne from irc, Tim Ringenbach, Bjoern
1206 Voigt, Paul A (darkrain))
1208 version 0.66 (07/18/2003):
1209 * Freebsd compile fix (Matthew Luckie)
1210 * .spec file improvements (Ethan Blanton)
1211 * Added a gaim-remote man page (Robert McQueen)
1212 * The Remote Control plugin no longer adds duplicate groups to your
1214 * Servers and ports are now imported correctly in MSN.
1215 * Core/UI split the core initialization and shutdown.
1216 * MSN messages with newlines are now sent correctly to MSN clients.
1217 * Fix some sound initialization stuff
1218 * Fix saving and import of default away message
1220 version 0.65 (07/16/2003):
1221 * Massive internal core/ui splitting
1222 * New account dialog
1223 * Preferences moved to ~/.gaim/prefs.xml
1224 * Account information moved to ~/.gaim/accounts.xml
1225 * Pounces moved to ~/.gaim/pounces.xml
1226 * Added protocol icons to various drop-down boxes
1227 * New Send IM buddy icon merged from Ximian Desktop 2
1228 * Fixed "Sort by Status" crash
1229 * Fixed the MSN signon crash
1230 * Fixed the MSN add buddy crash
1231 * Fixed the MSN empty buddy list bug
1232 * Fixed all known MSN chat bugs
1233 * Fixed HTTP redirect handling in smiley retrieval. This fixes the
1234 problems with some smiley themes.
1235 * Chats in MSN can now be initiated by right-clicking a buddy and
1236 choosing Initiate Chat.
1237 * MSN Alerts and incoming MSN pages no longer pop up several error
1239 * Ability to view iChat "Available" messages for AIM
1240 * Stores your buddy icon on the server for AIM
1241 * Support for non-ascii characters with Yahoo! Messenger
1242 * Focus returns to the input box when you click elsewhere, like it used
1244 * New typing notification icons from Ximian
1246 version 0.64 (05/29/2003):
1247 * Buddy list sorting in buddy list preferences.
1248 * Improved debug window with timestamps and pause buttons.
1249 * New core/ui split notification and request APIs.
1250 * New mail notification dialog.
1251 * Several bug fixes in MSN.
1252 * Conversation window buddy icon bugs were fixed.
1254 version 0.63 (05/16/2003):
1255 * A rewrite of the plugin API. Plugin authors will need to change their
1256 code based off the changes found in other plugins.
1257 * Perl script support is now provided in the perl plugin.
1258 * Debugging is core/ui split, and has a new API with support for
1259 debug levels and categories.
1260 * Support for adding chats to your buddy list.
1261 * MSN protocol plugin was rewritten, has experimental buddy icon
1262 support, and MSN Mobile support.
1263 * Buddy list speed enhancements (Thanks Ethan Blanton).
1264 * Napster protocol updates (Thanks Auke Kok).
1266 version 0.62 (04/23/2003):
1267 * Keyboard shortcuts in the buddy list work again (Thanks Joe
1269 * Support for Jabber XHTML messages
1270 * Ability to re-request authorization from ICQ and Jabber users by right
1271 clicking on them in your buddy list.
1272 * Improved Zephyr internationalization.
1273 * Bug causing 'Hide on Send' windows to be lost forever fixed.
1274 * Iconified windows are now raised properly.
1275 * Dates printed for old/offline messages.
1276 * Some assorted crash bugs fixed.
1278 version 0.61 (04/07/2003):
1279 * Split the buddy pounce core and UI, and rewrote the UI for it.
1280 * Removed folder icons and excess space from the buddy list (Thanks
1282 * Fixed a bug involving dragging buddies and groups
1283 * Re-implemented the logout icons.
1284 * New icons for "away" and "aol" (Thanks, Moses Lei)
1286 version 0.60 (04/04/2003):
1288 * Auto-loading protocol plugins.
1289 * Plugins dialog and perl script menu merged into preferences.
1290 * Don't auto-login if an existing Gaim session is already
1292 * Moved "privacy preferences" to Tools menu.
1293 * -n, --loginwin option to disable autologins.
1294 * Added support for gettext 0.11.x.
1295 * Added support for automake 1.6.
1296 * aim:// URI's supported with gaim-remote command.
1297 * Quit Gaim remotely with gaim-remote. (Thanks, John Silvestri)
1298 * Added rudimentary support for X11R6 session management. (Thanks,
1300 * Conversation backend and UI are now separated. (Thanks,
1302 * Asynchronous, non-blocking, DNS function (Thanks, Nicolas
1304 * As a side effect of the above: IPv6 support. Tested only with IRC
1305 (you can receive ipv6 chat requests from irssi!).
1308 * Tray icon plugin--replaces the old GNOME applet. You'll need
1309 the panel Notification Area applet (aka system-tray-applet)
1310 for GNOME 2, or the Kicker for KDE 3.1. (Thanks, Robert
1311 McQueen, Nicolás Lichtmaier, Kristian Rietveld, Ari Pollak &
1313 * Added GAIM::remove_event_handler and made set_info short
1314 circuitable in perl. (Thanks, Ryan McCabe)
1315 * event_del_conversation for plugins. (Thanks, Bill Tompkins)
1316 * Notify.c plugin rewritten; check its configure dialog. (Thanks,
1318 * Buddy Ticker made a plugin.
1319 * Idle Maker added to source.
1320 * Fortune profile added to source.
1323 * TOC no longer compiles statically by default--use OSCAR.
1324 * ICQ plugin no longer gets built--use OSCAR.
1325 * Server-stored buddy lists for ICQ with full support for
1326 authorization (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
1327 * File send/receive support for Aim over Oscar (Thanks, William T.
1328 Mahan and Mark Doliner)
1329 * Non-direct connect typing notification for AIM over OSCAR.
1330 (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
1331 * Allow only people in buddy list privacy option added for AIM.
1332 * Full ICQ info reading support. (Thanks, Vincas Ciziunas)
1333 * Support for synchronizing group renames on server. Group
1334 rename server synchronization for AIM. Server-side
1335 synchronization for moving individual AIM buddy to new
1336 group improved. (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
1337 * Ability to add screenname@mac.com people to AIM buddy lists.
1338 (Thanks, Graham Booker)
1339 * Ability to change ICQ password. (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
1340 * Option to have AIM notify you if you have
1341 unread mail. (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
1342 * Parse URL messages, Contact Sending and Pager Messages
1343 in ICQ. (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
1344 * use snprintf instead of sprintf. (Thanks, William T. Mahan)
1345 * Fixed crashbug on empty rvous requests. (Thanks Brandon Scott
1346 (Xeon) for pointing this out, and Matt Pandina for the patch)
1347 * Nice Oscar changes--mostly internal. (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
1350 * Added more IRC slash commands -- /W, /VERSION, /MODE, /CTCP stuff,
1351 -- and other cool IRC enhancments. (Thanks, Jonas Birmé)
1352 * IRC's /topic with no argument displays the current topic (Thanks,
1354 * DCC File Receive support for IRC.
1355 * Optional password on IRC accounts. (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
1356 * Added half-op support.
1359 * Jabber invisibility and permanently cancel sending on-
1360 line status to Jabber buddies.
1361 * Jabber roster updated on group renames.
1362 * Fixed a possible segfault when signing off Jabber. (Thanks,
1364 * Improved typing notification support for Jabber and
1365 Yahoo! (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
1366 * File receive support for Jabber. (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
1369 * MSN users are notified when the other party closes the conversation
1370 window. (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
1371 * File receive support for MSN. (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
1373 Internationalization:
1374 * Now using libiconv for better i18n support (Thanks, Junichi
1376 * Lots of i18n fixes (Thanks Matt Wilson, Ethan Blanton, A Lee)
1377 * Correct i18n handling for many parts of AIM/ICQ, including
1378 instant messages, away messages, and profiles (Thanks,
1380 * Improved MSN internationalization (Thanks, A Lee)
1383 * Optionally uniquely colorize nicks in chats
1384 * Add / Remove buddy menu item added to the chat users list
1385 (Thanks, Jonas Birmé)
1386 * View log button in conversation toolbar (Thanks, Etan Reisner)
1387 * Option to log IMs and Chats seperately. (Thanks, Etan
1389 * Removed Ctrl-C binding for color
1390 * Fix first message in tab not displaying bug (Thanks, Etan Reisner)
1391 * Changed some default options
1392 * Updated desktop and window icons (Thanks, Robert McQueen)
1393 * Switch the .desktop file to the new KDE/GNOME common vfolder
1394 format (Thanks, Robert McQueen)
1395 * Removed all deprecated GTK calls. Now 100% GTK 2. (Thanks Nathan
1396 Walp, Christian Hammond, Ari Pollak, Ethan Blanton, Robert McQueen)
1397 * Read proxy environment variables. (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
1398 * Fixed security vulnerability with manual browser option (Thanks,
1400 * Can get info for ICQ and Jabber users from the "Edit
1401 Buddies" tab (Thanks, Brian Bernas)
1402 * Code cleanups and fixes (Thanks, Federico Mena Quintero and
1404 * Word-wrapping on mail notification text (Thanks, Andrew Molloy)
1405 * Generic File Transfer PRPL interface (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
1406 * Better supression of auto-responses (Thanks, Joshua Blanton)
1407 * Drag-and-drop tabs in conversations, and multiple windows with tabs
1408 in each (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
1410 version 0.59.9 (03/01/2003):
1411 * Updated zh_TW.po file (Thanks breeze833)
1412 * Fix an oscar bug that caused some messages from
1413 AOL 8.0 to be dropped (Thanks Mark Doliner)
1414 * Changed "openprojects" to "freenode" in irc.c
1415 * Fixed charset conversion on systems which use a BOM for UCS-4
1416 (Thanks, Alfredo Pen~a, Ethan Blanton)
1417 * Fixed a typo in the man page (Thanks Eric S. Raymond)
1419 version 0.59.8 (01/06/2003):
1420 * Ripped out all gtk2 support (Thanks Nathan Walp).
1421 * Fixed smiley related segfault (Thanks Robert McQueen)
1422 * Yahoo! can connect again
1424 version 0.59.7 (12/21/2002):
1425 * Yahoo i18n fix (Thanks Ethan Blanton).
1426 * Fixed a bug in escaping saved passwords (Thanks
1428 * Fixed an overflow bug in perl script autoloading
1429 (Thanks David Kaelbling)
1430 * Some build fixes for those using stricter compilers,
1431 notably MIPSpro (Thanks David Kaelbling)
1432 * Fixed a bad argument to accept() calls (Thanks David
1434 * Fixed crashbug on empty rvous requests (Thanks Brandon Scott (Xeon))
1435 for being the first to point this out.
1437 version 0.59.6 (11/07/2002):
1438 * Fixed a segfault introduced in 0.59.5 when gtk
1439 fails to read the ~/.gtkrc or reads it but fails
1440 to create a style from it.
1441 * Jabber conference timestamps are no longer gigantic
1443 version 0.59.5 (10/14/2002):
1444 * Fixed a Yahoo! segfault (Thanks, Craig Metz)
1446 version 0.59.4 (10/06/2002):
1447 * Removed color keybinnding altogether.
1448 * Added a horizontal scrollbar to Edit page of
1449 buddy list. (Thanks, David Fallon)
1450 * Various bug fixes ((Thanks to (in no particular order)
1451 Ethan Blanton, Mark Doliner, Luke Schierer)
1452 * i18n fixes (thanks, A Lee)
1454 version 0.59.3 (09/14/2002):
1455 * Reversed patch that accidentally caused Yahoo
1456 not to connect--for implementation reasons
1457 * Changed "color" binding to Ctrl-K.
1458 * Unaliaising a person in the "Online" tab will show up
1459 in the "Edit" tab as well (Thanks, Jason Willis)
1460 * Internationalization fixes, esp. with UTF-8 locales
1461 (Thanks Matt Wilson and Ethan Blanton)
1463 version 0.59.2 (09/09/2002):
1464 * Japanese translation updated (Thanks, Junichi Uekawa)
1465 * Won't crash when you set your MSN Friendly name to an
1467 * Default manual browser command changed to reflect the
1469 * Fixed the non-manual browser settings which were broke in
1470 0.59.1 (Thanks, Chris Blizzard)
1471 * Improved MSN internationalization (Thanks A Lee)
1472 * Smiley lookup will search for longest match for smilies
1473 like :-(( (Thanks Eric Melski)
1474 * When an IM image is clicked, don't open the browser (Thanks
1476 * Prevent a possible crash in unhide_buddy_list() (Thanks Ari
1478 * Fixed a compilation problem on systems without iconv.
1479 * GtkIMHtml can be set to render font sizes as point size
1480 or AIMish relative sizes -- no more huge Yahoo fonts. (Thanks
1482 * Fixed a bug with regard to Jabber resources (Thanks Nathan
1484 * Fixed a possible segfault when signing off Jabber (Thanks
1486 * Word-wrapping on mail notification text (Thanks, Andrew Molloy)
1487 * Strip trailing and leading spaces from MSN/Yahoo names (Thanks,
1490 version 0.59.1 (08/25/2002):
1491 * Created a gtk1-stable branch for GTK+ 1.2 bugfix releases.
1492 Development will continue in our main branch in GTK+ 2 only.
1493 * Fixed a security bug in the manual browser setting (Thanks
1495 * Now using libiconv for better i18n support (Thanks Junichi
1497 * Will work with Perl 5.8 (thanks, Timothy Lee and Dan
1499 * Fix for HTTP proxies (thanks, Ethan Blanton)
1500 * Read proxy environment variables. (thanks, Christian Hammond)
1501 * Use the pretty gaim.png for our menu entry.
1502 * Added support for gettext 0.11.x.
1504 version 0.59 (06/24/2002):
1505 * Squashed a bug in buddy right-click menu handling
1506 that crashed Gaim. In the process: found and
1507 eliminated some memory leaks.
1508 * Fixed a significant applet leak
1509 * Can now change Jabber password on server (Thanks,
1511 * Certain types of Jabber presence errors no longer
1512 falsely show a buddy on-line. Instead now a "broken
1513 light-bulb" icon is shown and the error status is
1514 available via "Get Away Msg" (Thanks and a tip o'
1515 the hat to Christian Hammond for the graphic)
1516 * Conversation struct has pointer to toolbar (thanks Brent
1517 Priddy and Paul Miller)
1518 * Zephyr fixes (thanks, Arun A. Tharuvai)
1519 * Aliases in buddy ticker
1520 * Perl scripts can play Gaim sounds (thanks Andrew Rodland)
1521 * Internal sounds can be played by commands (thanks Lex Spoon)
1522 * Auto-login item in applet menu (thanks Chris Boyle)
1523 * Fixed MSN "Unkown Error Code", "Already there", and
1524 "Already in opposite list" errors
1525 * Changed "Play sound" button to "Mute" button
1526 * You can now have "reserved" chars in IM and proxy passwords
1527 * Jabber now has typing notification (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
1528 * Improved support for Jabber resources (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
1529 * Fixed problem with Gaim crashing on non-ASCII Jabber buddy
1530 aliases (Jabber "name" attribute) chars (Thanks, Ho-seok Lee)
1531 * Plugged memory leaks in Jabber plug-in
1532 * Fixed problem with Jabber away status not being propagated to
1533 conference rooms for jabberd (server) v1.4.2 and above
1534 * Chat room buddy lists are now sorted independent of case
1535 * Added capability for protocol-specific edit buddy menu entries
1536 * Can now remove a Jabber buddy roster item from the server
1538 * Gaim can now handle messages from Mac ICQ and Miranda ICQ
1539 (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
1540 * Added Mozilla to browser options and changed KFM to
1542 * Can now set the server and port for MSN and Napster
1543 * MSN Internationalization (Thanks Felipe Contreras and
1544 countless, countless others)
1545 * E-mail addresses are no longer truncated when there is a '.' at
1548 version 0.58 (05/13/2002):
1549 * Better applet transparency
1550 * Option to raise buddy list on signons/signoffs
1551 * Formatting of incoming MSN messages
1552 * Get Info from menu multiple-account-aware (thanks
1554 * Hide and unhide functions for the filectl plugin.
1555 (Thanks, Ari Pollak)
1556 * Added helpful stuff to the Help menu.
1557 * Self-aliasing from the account editor.
1558 * Better selection in GtkIMHtml (Thanks Ben Miller)
1559 * A warning when your OSCAR buddy list is too long
1560 (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
1561 * ICQ status messages in OSCAR (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
1562 * Play sound when your name is said in a chat
1563 * Approval dialog for Jabber when somebody wants to
1564 subscribe to user's presence. Also gives user the
1565 opportunity to add that buddy if not already on the
1567 * Jabber "Change buddy group" roster synchronization now
1568 works again. (This was unknowingly broken when the
1569 "out-sourced" Jabber libs were upgraded in 0.56)
1570 * Invalid Jabber I.D.'s no longer crash Gaim. User now
1571 notified with pop-up's.
1572 * Jabber Buddy sign-on time support, added in 0.57,
1573 removed until and unless and inconsistency can be
1574 resolved. (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
1575 * Bug-fix for potential buffer overflow in Jabber
1576 plugin. (Thanks, rwscott)
1577 * Tempfiles used for secure MSN/HotMail login (added in
1578 0.57) are now themselves created securely.
1579 * Secure MSN logins (added in 0.57) no longer blow up
1581 * Timezone support improved.
1583 version 0.57 (04/25/2002):
1584 * New authorization method for Yahoo!
1585 * Jabber will tell you when your buddies signed on (Thanks
1587 * Jabber improvements (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
1588 * More keyboard shortcuts
1589 * event_chat_recv takes char**'s, and event_im_recv takes
1590 a *guint32 for flags
1591 * Secure hotmail login for MSN (thanks for the tips,
1594 version 0.56 (04/11/2002):
1595 * Shell-like send history binded to Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down
1596 * libjabber upgraded to most recent stable version
1597 * Buddylist looks a little better
1598 * Fixed MSN privacy settings
1599 * Group deletion fix (Thanks Mark Doliner)
1600 * Alias/Group syncronization for Jabber (Thanks JSeymour)
1601 * Fixed broken signal handling in gdm-started GNOME sessions
1602 (Thanks Jim Seymour, Vann, Robert McQueen)
1603 * Oscar group syncronization (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
1604 * ICQ Authorization via Oscar (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
1606 version 0.55 (03/29/2002):
1607 * Jabber improvements (Thanks Jim Seymour)
1608 * Various sound cleanups (Thanks Robert McQueen)
1609 * Login process shown in single window (Thanks Michael
1611 * Can reorder your accounts in the account editor (Thanks
1613 * Shows "mobile" icon for Oscar buddies using mobile
1614 devices (Thanks Mark Doliner)
1615 * Fixed bug in MSN smilies that crashed PPC (and other?) platforms
1616 * HTTP Proxy settings now HTTP compliant (Thanks Robert McQueen)
1617 * Speling corections (Thanks Tero Kuusela)
1618 * Oscar list icon fixes (Thanks Mark Doliner)
1619 * Oscar idle times work again (Thanks Mark Doliner)
1620 * Protocol icons on Edit Buddies tab (Thanks Christian Hammond)
1622 version 0.54 (03/14/2002):
1623 * Compiles without GdkPixbuf again
1624 * GtkIMHtml will refresh when you set a new GTK+ theme
1625 * Improved Yahoo! typing notification (thanks Brian Macke)
1626 * Prompt to authorize MSN buddies who added you while you
1627 were offline (Thanks Jason Willis)
1628 * Option to globally disable Buddy Icon animation (Thanks
1631 * Yahoo! will tell you when your buddies are playing Yahoo!
1632 games and give you the ability to join them
1633 * Yahoo! can receive offline messages
1634 * IRC can do DCC chat.
1635 * IRC will convert HTML formatting to mIRC formatting.
1636 * Buddylist tab placement option (Thanks Jason Willis)
1637 * Protocol specific smiley faces
1640 version 0.53 (02/28/2002):
1641 * Minor bug fixes re: queued away messages
1642 * Better buddy icon transparency (for real this time ;-))
1643 * Ability to change formatting of Oscar screen name
1644 * Better selection in HTML widget (Thanks BMiller)
1645 * New icons for ICQ (Thanks Kevin Miller)
1646 * Editable buddy pounces (Thanks Jason Willis)
1647 * Server side buddy lists in Oscar (Thanks Mark Doliner :-))
1648 * Fix for the chatlist plugin
1649 * Typing Notification (AIM Direct Connect, Yahoo, MSN)
1650 * IM Images (Receive Only)
1651 * Prettier GtkImHtml selection
1652 * Better buddy icon transparency (for real this time ;-) )
1654 version 0.52 (02/17/2002):
1655 * Better buddy icon transparency (thanks SeanEgan)
1656 * Fixed a little bug with connecting via proxy (thanks
1657 for reminding me of this, Manish Singh)
1658 * Yahoo! Messenger works again
1660 * Can register a new user with a Jabber Server (JSeymour)
1661 * Can now set Jabber vCards (JSeymour)
1662 * Jabber vCards are now shown in their entirety (JSeymour)
1663 * Various jabber bug fixes/enhancements (JSeymour)
1665 version 0.51 (01/24/2002):
1666 * Arrow buttons in log viewer and some other dialogs
1667 work (thanks Ben Miller)
1668 * Option to only send auto-response while idle (thanks
1670 * Control time between sending auto-responses (thanks
1672 * Should be able to sign on to Oscar using Mac OS X
1673 (thanks Fingolfin, Vincas Ciziunas, et al.)
1675 version 0.50 (12/14/2001):
1676 * Able to import GnomeICU contact lists
1677 * Galeon as browser option (Thanks Rob McQueen)
1678 * IRC /list, /invite (Thanks Sean Egan)
1679 * Option to have IMs and Chats tabbed in same window
1680 * Finally put the lagmeter plugin out of its misery and
1681 removed it. (/me dances on its grave.)
1683 version 0.49 (11/29/2001):
1684 * Can compile against GTK+ 2.0 (version 1.3.10/1.3.11)
1685 * Confirm before removing buddies
1686 * Yahoo updates (thanks Brian Macke)
1688 * Zephyr updates (thanks Arun A Tharuvai)
1689 * Gadu-Gadu updates (thanks Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
1690 * Option to show aliases in conversation tabs
1691 * Option to hide windows after sending messages
1692 * licq2gaim.pl conversion script (thanks Arturo Cisneros, Jr.)
1694 version 0.48 (11/18/2001):
1695 * Right-click on links to open/copy URL
1697 * Oscar can send/receive offline messages in ICQ. Since the "real"
1698 ICQ protocol isn't working too well it's recommended that you
1701 version 0.47 (11/01/2001):
1702 * Better font loading (pays attention to charset now)
1703 (thanks Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
1704 * Better recoding in Gadu-Gadu (thanks Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
1705 * Open Mail button for when you get new mail (Yahoo and MSN)
1706 * New buddy pounce option: Popup Notification
1707 * When adding a buddy, the groups list now updates when you switch
1709 * When creating a new buddy pounce, gaim now automagically
1710 selects "on away" or "on idle", if the user is away
1712 * Add Opera to the available browsers (thanks Brian Enigma)
1713 * Improved log viewer (thanks to Ben Miller)
1714 * When you are queueing away messages, double clicking on
1715 a buddy's name will cause the messages for that name to be
1717 * You can choose which sound player you use at run-time
1719 * When someone adds you to their buddy list, it asks if you want
1720 to add them as well (Yahoo, ICQ, and MSN) (thanks Nathan Walp)
1721 * Option to grey idle buddies (thanks Nathan Walp)
1722 * MSN Privacy Options
1723 * In MSN you can set a person's alias to their "friendly name" by
1724 right-click on their name while they're online.
1726 * The usual bug fixes and memory leak plugs
1728 version 0.46 (10/18/2001):
1729 * New applet icons (courtesy David Raeman)
1730 * ICQ works on big-endian platforms, e.g. sparc and ppc
1731 (thanks to Nathan Walp and Ben Miller)
1732 * Better applet icon drawing (thanks to Ari Pollak)
1733 * An extraordinary number of bug fixes
1734 * Ability to stop animation on buddy icons, restart animation,
1735 hide certain buddy icons, and save people's buddy icons, all
1736 through a right-click menu
1737 * Event handlers in perl passed arguments as elements of
1738 an array rather than all concatenated as a string, making
1739 perl much easier to use (thanks Dennis Lambe Jr.)
1740 * Can pass an argument to timeout_handlers in perl
1741 (thanks Artem Litvinovich)
1742 * Redesigned Modify Account window (thanks Sean Egan)
1743 * Add buddy dialog now lets you select which protocol
1745 * Pressing 'signon' on the first screen for accounts that
1746 do not require passwords no longer incorrectly displays
1749 version 0.45 (10/04/2001):
1750 * New plugin event: event_chat_send_invite
1751 * Major updates to the perl system (reread PERL-HOWTO and
1753 * Major updates to event_chat_* events for plugins (reread
1755 * Some GtkIMHtml improvements
1757 * Nick Highlighting in chat
1758 * Tab-completion for nicks in chat (thanks to Sean Egan)
1759 * Large internal reworkings
1760 * New Protocol: Gadu-Gadu, written by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
1761 * Can choose buddy icon to send (for Oscar)
1763 version 0.44 (09/20/2001):
1764 * More sane scaling of buddy icons (intelligently scale to
1765 either 48x48 or 50x50 depending on icon)
1766 * Have you ever had it happen where you cancel a login and
1767 Gaim starts using all the available processing power? I
1769 * Temporarily removed Jabber user registration, which wasn't
1771 * Added a spiffy Help button
1772 * Wrote a plugin for all those people who miss having the
1773 chat rooms in their buddy lists (chatlist.so)
1775 * Added drop down selection to chat invitation
1776 * Improved the look of the chat invitation dialog
1777 * Improved the look of the proxy preferences
1778 * event_im_recv and event_im_display_rcvd passed whether
1779 the message received was auto-response (see SIGNALS)
1780 * IRC fixes (largly copied from X-Chat)
1781 * Internal change to how preferences are stored
1783 * Option to hide buddy icons
1785 version 0.43 (09/06/2001):
1786 * Can change friendly name in MSN again
1788 * Auto-reconnect plugin has exponential timeout (i.e. it
1789 tries after 8 seconds, then 16, then 32, etc. up to 17
1791 * Removed file transfer things from Napster. It didn't work
1792 well anyway. It'll be back eventually. (Does anyone even
1793 use napster anymore?)
1795 version 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
1797 * Fixed a little segfault when images are links
1798 * Redid the about box again.
1799 * Fixed a nice little bug with the manual browser command
1800 * Oscar Unicode fix (Thanks John Matthews)
1801 * Can select which protocols are compiled statically
1802 (e.g.: ./configure --with-static-prpls=oscar,jabber)
1803 * New plugin events: event_im_displayed_sent and
1804 event_im_displayed_rcvd. Use these to change messages after
1805 they're displayed (e.g. encrypt sent messages, or send
1806 auto-responses and have them display locally properly)
1807 * Can use Arts for sound (thanks Tom Dyas)
1809 version 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
1810 * Fixed a segfault with Oscar's account confirmation
1813 * Some HTML widget changes
1814 * Can specify hosts/ports for Yahoo (thanks Jeremy Brooks)
1815 * Many many bugfixes
1817 version 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
1818 * Can view/set chat topic in Jabber (thanks faceprint)
1819 * The napster plugin no longer segfaults on invalid names
1821 * HTML is properly stripped from away messages in protocols that
1822 do not use HTML. (thanks, faceprint)
1823 * Can view/set chat topic in IRC
1824 * MSN properly escapes outgoing messages
1825 * Much needed updates to the gaim man page (thanks, Sean Egan)
1827 version 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
1828 * Fixed a funny bug with auto responses when queued messages
1830 * Redesigned the Font Options preference page
1831 * Improved Jabber chat support (it whispers now, too)
1832 * Zephyr can do Subscriptions now (thanks to nsanch)
1833 * Auto-recon plugin got reworked
1835 * Some new pixmaps (Thanks, DennisR).
1836 * Fixed a segfault in IRC (Thanks Sean Egan)
1837 * MSN can now change your 'friendly name' (Thanks for the
1838 packet logs, aechols)
1839 * More IRC improvements [colors, etc] (Thanks Sean Egan)
1840 * Improved proxy options
1841 * Fixed a small issue with HTML not being stripped from
1842 log files properly (Thanks, faceprint and David Stoddard)
1843 * Can turn on/off Yahoo! Mail announcements
1844 * Can force messages through the server for ICQ (use this if
1845 you have problems sending)
1846 * Can receive buddy icons in Oscar (requires gdk_pixbuf,
1847 which GNOME depends on. If you --disable-pixbuf, it will
1849 * Redesigned plugins dialog (thanks Mike Heffner)
1851 version 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
1852 * Zephyr updates and additions, thanks Neil Sanchala (nsanch)
1853 * Jabber can send/accept chat invites (due to mid)
1854 * MSN has the option to notify you of new hotmail
1856 * Fixed a problem with ADD requests in MSN
1857 * Fixed a small memory leak with MSN
1858 * Moved MSN's spammy debug output into debug_printf's
1859 * Can rename groups/buddies in the Edit Buddies pane
1860 (thanks Neil Sanchala)
1861 * Some perl updates (thanks to Sean Egan)
1862 * IRC got the following slash commands:
1863 op, deop, voice, devoice, mode, raw, quote, and kick (thanks
1865 * MSN Properly handles URL decoding of 'friendly' names
1866 * Redesigned Preferences pages (design by DennisR)
1867 * Can select where tabs are for tabbed IM/Chat windows
1868 * Option to queue away messages while away
1869 * Jabber got good updates (from faceprint)
1870 * Oh yes, and Oscar works, yet again. (gee... that's what, 4
1871 releases that have "fixed" it now?)
1873 version 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
1874 * Many, many bug fixes
1875 * Can choose to not send away auto-response (thanks phzzzt)
1876 * Uh... Oscar works? For now?
1877 * IRC Plugin can do whois (right click and info)
1878 * IRC Plugin got away message support
1879 * Gaim blist to WinAIM blt perl script (courtesy Andy Harrison)
1880 * Sound on buddy pounce (Thanks Andrew Echols)
1881 * Can view all group chats in one tabbed window (same keybindings
1882 as for tabbed normal conversations)
1883 * More Protocol plugins:
1884 Zephyr (plugins/zephyr) (DON'T USE THIS unless you know
1885 what it is and why you'd want to use it)
1887 version 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
1888 * Can register Jabber accounts (load the Jabber plugin and click
1889 Register on the login window)
1890 * GtkIMHtml handles themes (no background pixmaps though) (thanks
1892 * URLS Linkify properly in Buddy chats
1893 * Jabber compiles better on Solaris?
1894 * Gaim works with Oscar Again (Huge thanks to Adam Fritzler of
1897 version 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
1898 * Fixed a problem with MSN not detecting signoffs and buddy updates.
1899 * Implemented away options in MSN
1900 * Alt-[1-9] to go to [1-9]th pane in tabbed convo window
1901 * Jabber fixes, Oscar fixes (!), Yahoo fixes, TOC fixes
1902 * Can use Alt to access menu, and Ctl-char for certain actions
1904 * Oscar blocking works (?)
1905 * MSN can see status of other users
1907 version 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
1908 * Can build RPMs as non-root
1909 * New yahoo library (can use HTTP proxy)
1910 * Command-line arg to specify config file (thanks Jason Boerner)
1911 * Can view all conversations in one tabbed window (Control-[ and
1912 Control-] move left and right respectively; Control-Tab moves
1913 to the next unread, or the next tab if there are no unread tabs)
1914 * Tooltips on links work again
1915 * Can log system notices: signons/signoffs, awayness and idleness
1916 (thanks Andrew Echols)
1920 version 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
1921 * Fixed bug with NAS support
1922 * Napster plugin is included again
1923 (Thanks for pointing out that it was missing,
1925 * Oscar can: search by email, request confirmation, change password
1928 * Faster HTML parsing/rendering
1930 version 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
1932 * ICQ Alias problem fixed
1933 * Negative times fixed
1934 * Cannot create blank away messages/messages with blank titles
1935 * Can right-click Edit Buddies list to alias/add pounce/etc.
1936 * Ability to independently set accounts as away
1937 * Can use all away states for ICQ, Yahoo (N/A, Be Right Back, etc.)
1938 * Fixed hanging trees
1939 * Can close windows by hitting 'Esc' (optional)
1940 * Better HTML Widget
1941 * Can toggle timestamps by hitting F2 (optional)
1942 * Rewritten file transfer for TOC
1944 * Log Viewer (courtesy BMiller)
1945 * Can save conversation history
1946 * Napster can kinda sorta download files sometimes :)
1947 * You can activate IDs in Yahoo
1948 * ICQ upgraded to use icqlib 1.1.5
1950 version 0.11.0-pre4:
1951 * ICQ upgraded to use icqlib 1.1.0
1952 * An enormous amount of bug fixes
1953 * Even More Protocol Plugins:
1954 Jabber (plugins/jabber)
1955 Napster (plugins/napster.c)
1956 * Fixed a segfault with 'Ignore new conversations while away'
1958 version 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
1959 * Away messages arranged alphabetically (Thanks Justin)
1960 * More GUI adjustments
1961 * Can optionally run command to play sound files
1962 * Icons for ICQ plugin (blatently stolen from GnomeICU)
1963 * Icons for Yahoo plugin (not-so-blatently stolen from GTKYahoo)
1964 * Optionally display warning level next to name in buddy list
1965 * Optionally ignore fonts on incoming messages
1966 * Command-line option to automatically set yourself as
1967 away upon signon (thanks bmiller)
1968 * Buddy list backups now stored in ~/.gaim/SN.protocol.blist (gaim will
1969 move the old file for you). Needed for when you have the same name on
1970 two different protocols. (Oscar and TOC share the same file.)
1971 * More Protocol plugins:
1974 version 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
1975 * Fixed a segfault with a bad util.c
1977 version 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
1978 * Multiple connections
1983 * Logs now stored to ~/.gaim/logs rather than ~/.gaim/SN/
1984 * User configurable sounds
1985 * Scroll bar now functions properly in chat room user lists
1986 * X-Idle support added (thanks bmiller and bryner)
1987 * small change in the way away messages are displayed
1988 (Thanks Ryan C. Gordon)
1989 * Plugin system uses GModule now (improves portability, adds features)
1990 (Requires recompile and probably modifications of most plugins)
1991 * Perl got updates (reread plugins/PERL-HOWTO)
1992 * Spell checker now uses gtkspell
1993 * Auto-Away (thanks, yet again, to bmiller ;)
1994 * More buddy pounce options
1995 * Various GUI improvements
1997 version 0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
1998 * Segfault when viewing user info fixed
1999 * libdb problem fixed
2001 version 0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
2002 * A few fixes to the URL parser.
2003 * Better placement of smiley dialog
2004 * Improved log file readibility
2005 * Code cleanups (thanks kylev)
2006 * Fixed problem when closing away message box (thanks bmiller)
2007 * sprintf() problem on some systems
2008 * Various small bug fixes
2010 version 0.10.1 (09/15/2000):
2011 * Better chatroom logging
2012 * Oscar works again. Pay no attention to Slashdot.
2013 * gtkhtml handles background colours better.
2014 * A third conversation window display preference.
2015 * Better support for things like Sawfish
2017 version 0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
2018 * New Smiley Faces and Pixmaps added.
2019 * Smiley faces now properly wrap in the conversation windows.
2021 * Fixed 0-byte file segfault.
2022 * Borderless buttons (for that cool pop-up look)
2023 * Fixed some resizing bugs
2024 * Added Ctrl+{B/I/U/S} hotkeys to conversation windows.
2025 * Added Ctrl+(number) hotkeys to insert smileys in conversation windows.
2026 * Support for %n, %d, and %t in away messages. Thanks bmiller!
2028 * Redesigned preferences dialog
2029 * Redesigned conversation dialog
2030 * Removed the Lag-O-Meter (Lag-O-Meter is now a plugin)
2031 * SOCKS 4/5 proxy works
2032 * Buddy Pounces are now saved in .gaimrc
2033 * Buddy Chats are now saved in .gaimrc
2034 * Ability to merge gaim, aim2, aim4 buddylists. Thanks again bmiller!
2035 * ICQ-style aliases. This lets you change the name you see your buddy
2036 as. For example, if your buddy's SN is 'CouldntGetMyName', you can
2037 alias him as 'Loser'.
2038 * Compile with GNOME bits if available
2039 * Added GNOME Url Handler as an available web-browser
2040 * Added the S html tag.
2041 * Optionally Ignore TiK's Automated Messages
2042 * Option to beep instead of play sound
2043 * New icons for panel (depends on some GNOME pixmaps)
2044 * Perl scripting. See plugins/PERL-HOWTO for how to write perl scripts.
2045 All .pl files in ~/.gaim are autoloaded when gaim starts.
2046 * HTML widget is faster, more stable
2048 version 0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
2049 * More plugin events, more plugin features
2050 * Run-time OSCAR support
2051 * Added buddy list ticker (See prefs/Appearance). Clicking on a
2052 name will cause a new or previous IM window to display for
2054 * "You are sending messages too quickly" error is now fixed
2055 when you have a large buddylist.
2056 * Fixed the LC_ALL compile problem on Solaris boxes
2057 * Fixed PPC and ARM compile problem with oscar.c
2058 * Smileys work better, and don't cause font attributes to drop
2059 * Dialog windows are now prettier
2060 * /me in IM window; font/color dialogs and smileys in chat window
2062 version 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
2063 * Graphical Smiley Faces
2064 * Applet got a bit of a makeover (inside & out)
2065 * Compile-time options affect Preferences dialog
2066 * Whispering in chat works (does anyone even use this?)
2067 * HTML-tag buttons in chat
2068 * Chat got all kinds of new features (like IRC-sytle /me)
2069 * Chat in oscar works much better
2071 * Fixed the segfault when your server-side config is null
2072 * Many many bugfixes
2074 version 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
2075 * Logging in works better for oscar
2076 * Double error bug when sending message to an offline user is
2078 * Pressing enter once again sends a message in buddy chatrooms (oops)
2079 * More fixes for the change on the AOL sign-on process.
2080 * Fixed bug where Gaim sometimes doesn't find a font to use.
2081 * Per-conversation font and color dialogs (thanks fflewddur)
2082 * Chat in oscar works (somewhat)
2083 * Even more fixes for the sign-on process, and now you don't flash when
2084 setting permit/deny lists.
2086 version 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
2087 * Automagic feature to check for new versions has been removed
2088 * Infinite loop bug fixed
2090 version 0.9.16 (05/31/2000):
2091 * Paned buddy chat window (Thanks Syd)
2092 * Buddy lists (and changes) are cached to ~/.gaim/<sn>.blist
2093 where <sn> is your screen name. If for some reason, you log
2094 into the AOL server and the buddy list comes back empty, we
2095 check for a cache file, and, if we find one, read it in. This
2096 essentially implements recovery from a server crash at AOL
2097 (AOL does not back up machines that contain TOC-based buddy
2098 lists, unfortunately). (Thanks Syd)
2099 * Font selection dialog
2100 * Small changes to the Oscar/libfaim stuff (see libfaim/README.gaim)
2101 * SOCKS 4 proxy support
2102 * Better proxy support overall (you can get people's info now! :) )
2103 * Two-way file transfer (you can get and send files, but you still
2104 can't initiate either)
2105 * Fixed font problem with Misconfigured X-Servers. Thanks Decklin!
2106 * Fixed the No Configuration problem that came about today (5/31)
2108 version 0.9.15 (05/06/2000):
2109 * Plugin support enabled by default (oops)
2110 * Some plugins built/installed by default
2111 * Option to automagically check for new releases
2112 * Ability to receive files (one-way file transfer)
2113 * In-line spell checker (thanks to Torrey Searle of the
2114 Everybuddy Devel team for this one)
2116 version 0.9.14 (04/24/2000):
2117 * Numerous Fixes by G. Sumner Hayes (buffer over flow patches,
2119 * Paned Conversation Windows (Thanks Syd)
2120 * Raise Window On Message Received, Fixed (Thanks Syd)
2121 * When multiple screen names, Gaim now correctly remembers the name
2123 * FONT sizes now work correctly.
2124 * PLUGIN SUPPORT!! (Lots of cool goodies here)
2125 * Fixed another leak or two
2126 * Added ability to change your screenname password
2129 version 0.9.13 (03/27/2000):
2130 * Dialog Box Segfault Fixed (When You Click A Toggle Then Cancel)
2131 * Double Log-Out Message Fixed
2132 * GNOME compile error fixed
2133 * Away Message Problem Fixed
2134 * Fixed URL Right Click Menus
2135 * Conversation Loggin now shows Full Date and Time
2136 * Internal Change to Buddy List
2138 version 0.9.12 (03/25/2000):
2139 * Segfault fix for PPC/Alpha/etc machines with log(0)
2140 Thanks to Todd Cohen for this one.
2141 * Small internal change to the way prefs work
2142 * GNOME Applet support works better
2143 (thanks to Eric Warmenhoven for the patch)
2144 * Support for displaying true type fonts
2145 * Lag-O-Meter does not send lag-test if not selected
2146 * Fixed problem with saving away messages which contain spaces
2148 * Various GNOME Applet Enhancements (thanks AGAIN to
2149 Eric. Someone needs to stop this boy :-) )
2150 * A lot of random, obscure bugs fixed
2151 * All of the major and I believe all of the minor memory leaks are
2153 (Thanks to Peter Teichman, Larry Ewing, Jeramey Crawford, and me)
2155 version 0.9.11 (03/22/2000):
2156 * <STRIKE>Strike Tag Support</STRIKE> :-)
2157 * Another memory leak fix
2158 * New .gaimrc format
2159 * Better support for multiple screen names
2161 * Saving of buddylist window position
2162 * Fixed a problem with Gaim and the Netscape-branded version
2164 * New Sound Properties
2165 * More General Properties
2166 * Bigger Text-Entry field (Thanks to CrazyDavy for this one)
2167 * Various Random Bug fixes
2169 version 0.9.10 (11/03/1999):
2170 * Fixed a nasty memory leak. No more 40M Gaim processes. LOL
2171 * IDLE Times are displayed in a neater fashion.
2173 version 0.9.9 (10/31/1999):
2174 * A little selection bug has been squished
2175 * Small memory leak fixed
2176 * Small network fix (problem with HTTP Proxy fixed?)
2177 * Proxy stuff should work now :)
2178 * Widget table support, dir info looks nicer
2179 * Info box looks nicer (thanks to Decklin Foster)
2180 * Client now 'corrects' time values from the server for accurate
2182 * Lag-O-Meter (ala Drunken Jim)
2185 version 0.9.8 (10/04/1999):
2186 * HTTP Proxy Support (No SOCKS yet)
2187 * HTML Widget more robust
2188 * Graphical Debug Window
2189 * Buddylist bug fixed
2190 * Some logging fixes and improvements
2191 * configurable host/port selection
2192 * Clickable Links in buddy chat
2194 * Display Signon/Signoff messages in conversation windows
2195 * Option to strip HTML from logged messages
2196 * GNOME cleanups (It might work now haha)
2197 * When viewing user info, URLS are converted to clickable links
2200 version 0.9.7 (08/08/1999):
2201 * Preliminary Oscar Support
2202 * Fixed bad network bug
2203 * Fixed some bad text rendering bugs in the HTML widget
2204 * log all conversation names are now normalized.
2205 * Fixed another bad network bug :)
2206 * Multiple browser support, some Netscape buggies fixed.
2207 * Permit/Deny preferences moved to 'Permit' pane on buddylist.
2208 * Fixed problem with _, ', and \ in passwords
2210 version 0.9.6 (08/01/1999):
2211 * Fixed 'log all conversation' segfault
2213 * Removed Xmu dependancies.
2214 * Restructured network code
2215 * ESD detection more robust.
2216 * Sound fallbacks are MUCH more robust!
2218 version 0.9.5 (07/25/1999):
2219 * Fixed About Box SegFault
2220 * Autologin Works with Applet
2221 * Option to Show Buddy List after Signon with Applet
2222 * 2048 character messages
2223 * Away-Detection (shows a different icon on the buddy list)
2224 * Fixed Segfault with messages > allowed size
2225 * Added option to log all conversations
2226 * Changed g_new to g_new0
2227 * Buddy List: Right Click Menus
2228 * Find Buddy By Email
2229 * Find Buddy By Info
2230 * New HTML widget (Underline/Links/HRs)
2231 * Updated Toolbar with 'Underline' Icon
2232 * More Buddy Pounce Options
2233 * Option to auto-change urls into clickable links (Under Prefs)
2234 * Better Buddy Chat functionality
2236 * Registration Information (Let Us Know Who You Are)
2237 * Buddy Chat Prefs (Update Chatroom Lists)
2239 * FAQ added to the distribution
2240 * Sound problem with some systems fixed
2242 * Autostart of Netscape on URL Click
2243 * DnD Rearranging of Groups
2244 * Better Netscape Functionality
2245 * Right Click `URL' Menus
2246 * DnD Rearranging of Buddies
2247 * Script to convert win95 buddylist to gaim buddylist
2248 * Added `Link/URL' button to conversation window
2249 * ESD is now autodetected
2250 * Not too important but we GNU-ified the source tree :)
2252 version 0.8.0 (04/31/1999):
2256 * Pixmaps for buttons
2257 * Buddylist import/export
2259 * Conversation Logging
2260 * Coloured Text Selection
2261 * Updated Preferences
2265 * `Blocking' on conversation window
2266 * Add/Remove buddy from conversation window
2267 * Scroll-Wheel Mice work in Conversation Window
2268 * Fixed WindowMaker Appicon
2269 * Version Number in About Box
2270 * Gaim Slogan in about box :)
2271 * Created Changelog File :)