1 Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
3 version 2.7.4 (MM/DD/YYYY):
5 * Fix search path for Tk when compiling on Debian Squeeze. (#12465)
6 * purple-remote now expects and produces UTF-8. (Guillaume Brunerie)
8 * Add Deutsche Telekom, Thawte Primary, and Go Daddy Class 2 root CAs
9 (#12667, #12668, and #12594)
12 * Fall back to an ordinary request if a UI does not support showing a
13 request with an icon. Fixes receiving MSN file transfer requests
14 including a thumbnail in Finch. (#12561)
15 * Fix an invalid memory access when removing UPnP mappings that could
16 cause sporadic crashes, most notably when MSN Direct Connections are
18 * Add a sentence to the certificate warning for expired certificates
19 suggesting the user check their computer's date and time. (#12654)
22 * Add support for the Gadu-Gadu protocol in the gevolution plugin to
23 provide Evolution integration with contacts with GG IDs. (#10709)
24 * Remap the "Set User Mood" shortcut to Control-D, which does not
25 conflict with the previous shortcut for Get Buddy Info on the
27 * Add a plugin action menu (under Tools) for the Voice and Video
29 * Use GRegex for the debug window where available. This brings regex
30 filtering to the debug window on Windows. (Eion Robb) (#12601)
31 * Add Google Chrome to the list of possible browsers on non-Windows
33 * Add Chromium to the list of possible browsers on non-Windows systems.
34 * The "Manual" browser option is now stored as a string. It is no
35 longer necessary to specify a full path to the browser command.
36 (Rodrigo Tobar Carrizo) (#12024)
37 * The Send To menu can now be used if the active account in the
38 conversation becomes disabled or inactive. (Keith Moyer) (#12471)
39 * xdg-open is now the default browser for new users on non-Windows
40 platforms. (Stanislav Brabec) (#12505)
43 * Add support for drop-down account options (like the SILC cipher
44 and HMAC options or the QQ protocol version).
47 * Unify the connection security-related settings into one dropdown.
48 * Fix a crash when multiple accounts are simultaneously performing
49 SASL authentication when built with Cyrus SASL support. (thanks
50 to Jan Kaluza) (#11560)
51 * Restore the ability to connect to XMPP servers that do not offer
53 * Added support for using Google's relay servers when making voice and
54 video calls to Google clients.
55 * Fix detecting file transfer proxies advertised by the server.
56 * Advertise support for Google Talk's JID Domain Discovery extension
57 in all cases again (changed in 2.7.0), not just when the domain
58 is "gmail.com" or "googlemail.com" (it's also needed for Google
59 Talk used for accounts on arbitrary domains not using Google Apps
60 for Your Domain). (#a14153)
61 * Improved handling of adding oneself to your buddy list when using
62 Non-SASL (legacy) authentication. (#12499)
63 * Generate a connection error instead of just stalling when the
64 _xmppconnect TXT record returns results, but none of them result
65 in a valid BOSH URI. (#a14367, #12744)
68 * Stop doing unnecessary lookups of certain alias information. This
69 solves deadlocks when a given Yahoo account has a ridiculously large
70 (>500 buddies) list and may improve login speed for those on slow
72 * Fix sending SMS messages. The lookup host changed on us. (Thanks to
76 * Bonjour support now requires Apple Bonjour Print Services version
77 2.0.0 or newer (http://support.apple.com/kb/dl999).
79 version 2.7.3 (08/10/2010):
81 * Use silent build rules for automake >1.11. You can enable verbose
82 builds with the --disable-silent-rules configure option, or using
86 * Fix the TURN server settings (broken in 2.7.0).
89 * Re-focus the input area after clicking the attention toolbar button.
90 * Re-arrange media window to make it more netbook-friendly.
93 * Rebindable 'suggest-next-page' and 'suggest-prev-page' actions for
94 textboxes (GntEntry) to scroll through list of suggestions.
95 * Rebindable 'dropdown' action for comboboxes (GntComboBox) to show the
96 dropdown list of options.
99 * Fix non-ASCII arguments to /mode et al. (thanks to Max Ulidtko)
102 * Support for web-based buddy icons, used when a buddy logs in to the
103 messenger on the Live website.
104 * Fix file transfers with some clients that don't support direct
105 connections (e.g., papyon, telepathy-butterfly, etc.) (#12150)
108 * Fix filename for the Shocked emoticon. (#12364)
109 * Implement the new naming conventions where possible. (MXitId, etc)
110 * Display a message in the Groupchat window when you invite somebody.
111 * Birthday field in profile cannot be edited when server says it is
113 * If a buddy is offline, show in their profile when last they were online.
114 * Handle pushed profile update packets (ie, when changing your avatar via
116 * If a buddy is offline and we see from their profile that they have
117 updated their avatar, request the new avatar image from the server.
118 * Fix a possible crash if a link is clicked while disconnected.
119 * Unescape any escaped characters in a chatroom nickname.
120 * Add the new MXit moods and emoticons.
121 * MXit emoticons added to the small emoticon theme.
124 * Allow connecting to servers that only advertise GSSAPI and expect
125 a fallback to legacy IQ authentication (broken in 2.7.0).
126 * Fix a crash when receiving custom emoticons that don't adhere to
128 * When initiating a file transfer, don't show resources that are certain
129 to not support file transfers in the resource selection dialog.
130 * Fix connecting to servers using BOSH and authenticating with
131 DIGEST-MD5 when libpurple was built with Cyrus SASL support.
134 * Renamed "Use account proxy for SSL connections" to "Use account proxy
135 for HTTP and HTTPS requests" and tied the option to HTTP requests too.
136 * Properly detect HTTP proxy server use when the HTTP proxy is the
137 global proxy server, an account-level non-HTTP proxy server is
138 configured, and the "Use account proxy for HTTP and HTTPS requests"
139 account option is turned off. This fixes connecting for some HTTP
141 * Fall back to connecting to scsa.msg.yahoo.com (not configurable) if
142 the HTTP-based connect server lookup fails. This does not work for
143 Yahoo JAPAN accounts.
144 * Fix file transfers that get stuck with "Waiting for transfer to
147 version 2.7.2 (07/21/2010):
149 * Fix a crash bug related to X-Status messages that can be triggered by
150 remote users. This is CVE-2010-2528.
151 * Fix a rare crash bug caused by certain incoming SMS messages
152 (discovered by Jan Kaluza--thanks Jan!).
153 * Change HTML sent from ICQ accounts so that official ICQ clients
154 hopefully display it correctly.
157 * Fix a crash related to fast buddy icon transfers.
159 version 2.7.1 (05/29/2010):
161 * Build fixes on OpenSolaris. (Brian Lu)
162 * Add configure option --enable-trayicon-compat which installs tray
163 icons into directories that are compatible with older versions of
164 hicolor-icon-theme (0.9).
167 * Restore the tray icon's blinking functionality.
168 * Fix a crash setting moods when an account is disconnected.
171 * Fix a crash on disconnect.
174 * Fix bug that caused HTML to be displayed in incoming messages.
177 * Fix unnecessary bandwidth consumption for buddy icon requests when
178 buddies have capital letters in their passport addresses.
179 * Support for direct connections, enabling faster file transfers,
180 smiley and buddy icon loading. (Gábor Szuromi)
183 * Allow connecting to servers that advertise EXTERNAL (broken in
187 * Replace the MXit-specific mood management with the new standard Moods
189 * Add the standard MXit emoticons.
190 * Improve the handling of users being kicked from MultiMX rooms.
191 * MXit doesn't allow you to see your buddy's Email Address or Title,
192 so remove those two fields from the "Buddy Information" page.
193 * Show buddy's Registration Country in their profile.
194 * Increment protocol version to v6.0
195 * If an invite you sent was rejected with a reason, display that
196 message in the buddy tooltip.
197 * CAPTCHA value is a required field during account activation.
198 (Resolves issue on Maemo)
199 * When your avatar image is changed, don't forget the user's profile
202 Windows-Specific Changes:
203 * Fix a regression introduced in 2.7.0 that caused Window Flashing not
206 version 2.7.0 (05/12/2010):
208 * Changed GTK+ minimum version requirement to 2.10.0.
209 * Changed GLib minimum version requirement to 2.12.0.
210 * Using the --disable-nls argument to configure now works properly.
211 You will no longer be forced to have intltool to configure and build.
212 * Fix two related crashes in the GnuTLS and NSS plugins when they
213 suffer internal errors immediately upon attempting to establish
215 * Fix NSS to work when reinitialized after being used. (Thanks to
216 Ludovico Cavedon for the testcase)
217 * Added support for PURPLE_GNUTLS_PRIORITIES environment variable.
218 This can be used to specify GnuTLS priorities on a per-host basis.
219 The format is "host=priority;host2=priority;...". The default
220 priority can be overridden by using "*" as the host. See the
221 GnuTLS manual for documentation on the format of the priority
223 * Fix autoconf detection of Python. (Brad Smith)
224 * Fix a crash when a Windows proxy (from IE) does not have a port.
228 * Moved the "Debugging Information" section of the About box to a
229 "Build Information" dialog accessible on the Help menu.
230 * Moved the Developer and Crazy Patch Writer information from the About
231 box to a "Developer Information" dialog accessible on the Help menu.
232 * Moved the Translator information from the About box to a "Translator
233 Information" dialog accessible on the Help menu.
234 * Use GtkStatusIcon for the docklet, providing better integration in
236 * Added UI for sending attentions (buzz, nudge) on supporting protocols.
237 * Make the search dialog unobtrusive in the conversation window (by
238 making it look and behave like the search dialog in Firefox)
239 * The Recent Log Activity sort method for the Buddy List now
240 distinguishes between no activity and a small amount of activity
241 in the distant past. (Greg McNew)
242 * Added a menu set mood globally for all mood-supporting accounts
243 (currently XMPP and ICQ).
244 * Default binding of Ctrl+Shift+v to 'Paste as Plain Text' in
245 conversation windows. This can be changed in .gtkrc-2.0. For example,
246 Ctrl+v can be bound to 'Paste as Plain Text' by default.
247 * Plugins can now handle markup in buddy names by attaching to the
248 "drawing-buddy" signal. (Daniele Ricci, Andrea Piccinelli)
249 * Be more accommodating when scaling down large images for use as
251 * The 'Message Timestamp Formats' plugin allows changing the timestamp
252 format from the timestamps' context menu in conversation log.
253 * The 'Message Timestamp Formats' plugin allows forcing 12-hour
254 timestamps. (Jonathan Maltz)
255 * Fix pastes from Chrome (rich-text pastes and probably URLs
256 having garbage appended to them).
257 * Show file transfer thumbnails for images on supporting protocols
258 (currently only supported on MSN).
261 * Added support for IPv6. (Thanks to T_X for testing)
264 * Updated our bundled libgadu to 1.9.0-rc2 (many thanks to Krzysztof
265 Klinikowski for the work and testing put in here!)
266 * Minimum requirement for external libgadu is now also 1.9.0-rc2.
269 * X-Status (Custom ICQ status icon) support. Since most of the icons
270 available reflect moods, this is labeled "Set Mood" on the
271 Accounts->ICQ Account menu. (Andrew Ivanov, Tomáš Kebert,
272 Yuriy Yevgrafov, and trac users bob007, salieff, and nops)
273 * Allow setting and displaying icons between 1x1 and 100x100 pixels for
274 ICQ. Previously only icons between 48x48 and 52x64 were allowed.
275 * When using the clientLogin authentication method, prompt for a
276 password on reconnect when "Remember Password" is not checked and
277 authentication fails due to an incorrect password. (This is the same
278 behavior as the legacy authentication method)
279 * Support sending and receiving HTML-formatted messages for ICQ.
280 * Use the proper URL for "View web profile" link for ICQ buddies.
284 * Support for version 9 of the MSN protocol has been removed. This
285 version is no longer supported on the servers.
286 * Support file transfer thumbnails (previews) for images.
287 * Fix CVE-2010-1624 (custom emoticon remote crash).
290 * Direct messages to a specific resource only upon receipt of a message
291 with content (as opposed to a typing notification, etc). (Thanks to
293 * Present a better error message when authentication fails while trying
294 to connect to Facebook. (David Reiss, Facebook)
295 * When sending data using in-band-bytestreams, interpret the block-size
296 attribute as the size of the BASE64-encoded representation of the
298 * Validate the hash on incoming BoB data objects (for custom smileys
299 etc.), cache based per JID when the CID is not a valid hash (as
300 specified by the BoB XEP).
301 * Send whitespace keepalives if we haven't sent data in a while (2
302 minutes). This fixes an issue with Openfire disconnecting a
303 libpurple-baesd client that has just been quiet for about 6
305 * Only support Google Talk's JID Domain Discovery extension
306 (allowing a user to log in with "@gmail.com" or "@googlemail.com"
307 interchangeably) for those two domains. This change was made
308 due to interoperability issues with some BOSH Connection Managers
309 and namespaced attributes.
312 * Attempt to better handle transparent proxies interfering with
314 * Fix handling of P2P packets, thus fixing the loss of some messages.
315 * Retrieve the pager server address from Yahoo!'s servers directly.
316 * Removed the "Pager server" account option, as it is no longer needed.
317 * The authentication code is now less order-sensitive with the
318 components of the server's response.
319 * The authentication process now acts more like the official client.
322 * New action 'history-search', with default binding ctrl+r, to search
323 the entered string in the input history.
325 Windows-Specific Changes
326 * Updated GTK+ to 2.16.6
327 * Private GTK+ Runtime now used (GTK+ Installer no longer supported)
328 * Minimum required GTK+ version increased to 2.14.7
329 * Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows ME
330 (Millennium Edition), and Windows NT 4.0 longer supported due to GTK+
331 requirements changes.
332 * Crash Report files (pidgin.RPT) are now generated in the ~/.purple
333 directory instead of the installation directory.
334 * NSS SSL Library upgraded to 3.12.5 (thanks to Berke Viktor)
335 * GtkSpell upgraded to 2.0.16, changing the spellchecking backend to
336 enchant. This means that myspell and hunspell (OpenOffice)
337 dictionaries can be used (previous versions' aspell dictionaries
340 version 2.6.6 (02/18/2010):
342 * Fix 'make check' on OS X. (David Fang)
343 * Fix a quirk in purple_markup_html_to_xhtml that caused some messages
344 to be improperly converted to XHTML.
345 * Set "controlling-mode" correctly when initializing a media session.
346 Fixes receiving voice calls from Psi.
347 * When looking up DNS records, use the type of record returned by the
348 server (instead of the type we asked for) to determine how to process
350 * Fix an issue with parsing XML attributes that contain "<br>".
351 See ChangeLog.API for more details.
354 * Correctly disable all missing dependencies when using the
355 --disable-missing-dependencies option. (Gabriel Schulhof)
358 * Fix display of avatars after a server-side change. (Krzysztof
362 * Allow setting and displaying icons between 1x1 and 100x100 pixels.
363 Previously only icons between 48x48 and 50x50 were allowed.
366 * Fix CVE-2010-0277, a possible remote crash when parsing an incoming
367 SLP message. (Discovered by Fabian Yamaguchi)
368 * File transfer requests will no longer cause a crash if you delete the
369 file before the other side accepts.
370 * Received files will no longer hold an extra lock after completion,
371 meaning they can be moved or deleted without complaints from your OS.
372 * Buddies who sign in from a second location will no longer cause an
373 unnecessary chat window to open.
374 * Support setting an animated GIF as a buddy icon.
375 * Numerous code cleanups and memory savings.
378 * Fix a leak and crash when retrieving buddy icons.
381 * Less likely to send messages to a contact's idle/inactive resource.
382 Previously, if a message was received from a specific resource,
383 responses would be sent to that resource until either it went offline
384 or a message is received from another resource. Now, messages are
385 sent to the bare JID upon receipt of any presence change from the
387 * Added support for the SCRAM-SHA-1 SASL mechanism. This is only
388 available when built without Cyrus SASL support.
389 * When getting info on a domain-only (server) JID, show uptime
390 (when given by the result of the "last query") and don't show status
392 * Fix getting info on your own JID.
393 * Wrap XHTML messages in <p>, as described in XEP-0071, for
394 compatibility with some clients.
395 * Don't do an SRV lookup for a STUN server associated with the account
396 if one is already set globally in prefs.
397 * Don't send custom smileys larger than the recommended maximum object
398 size specified in the BoB XEP. This prevents a client from being
399 disconnected by servers that dislike overly-large stanzas.
400 * Fix receiving messages without markup over an Openfire BOSH
401 connection (forcibly put the stanzas in the jabber:client namespace).
402 * The default value for the file transfer proxies is automatically
403 updated when an account connects, if it is still the old (broken)
404 default (from 'proxy.jabber.org' to 'proxy.eu.jabber.org').
405 * Fix an issue where libpurple created duplicate buddies if the roster
406 contains a buddy in two groups that differ only by case
407 (e.g. "XMPP" and "xmpp") (or not at all).
410 * Don't send <span> and </span> tags. (Fartash Faghri)
411 * Support PingBox. PingBoxes will appear as pbx/PingBoxName. (Kartik
415 * Fix CVE-2010-0423, a denial of service attack due to the parsing
416 of large numbers of smileys. (Discovered by Antti Hayrynen)
417 * Correctly size conversation and status box entries when the
418 interior-focus style property is diabled. (Gabriel Schulhof)
419 * Correctly handle a multiline text field being required in a
420 request form. (Thanks to Florian Zeitz for finding this problem)
421 * Search friends by email-addresses in the buddy list. (Luoh Ren-Shan)
422 * Allow dropping an image on Custom Smiley window to add a new one.
423 * Prompt for confirmation when clearing a whiteboard (doodle) session.
425 * Use the "hand" cursor when hovering over usernames in chat history to
426 indicate that the username is an actionable item.
427 * Double-clicking usernames in chat history will open an IM with that
429 * Put an icon on the "Filter" button in the debug window.
430 * Don't treat "/messages/like/this " as commands.
431 * Explicitly mark user interaction when inserting smilies from the
432 toolbar so "Undo" correctly removes these smilies.
433 * Clicking "New" or "Saved" in the status selector menu while typing a
434 status message no longer keeps the status entry area stuck in "typing"
436 * Show tooltips for ellipsized conversation tabs. On older systems,
437 tooltips will show for all tabs.
438 * The File Transfers and Debug Window windows are no longer created as
439 dialogs. These windows should now have minimize buttons in many
440 environments in which they were previously missing
442 * Smiley themes with Windows line endings no longer cause theme
443 descriptions not to be displayed in the theme selector.
446 * Fix CVE-2010-0420, a possible remote crash when handling chat room
448 * Rebindable 'move-first' and 'move-last' actions for tree widgets. So
449 it is possible to jump to the first or last entry in the buddy list
450 (and other such lists) by pressing home or end key (defaults)
453 version 2.6.5 (01/08/2010):
455 * TLS certificates are actually stored to the local cache once again
456 (accepting a name mismatch on a certificate should now be remembered)
459 * Build-time fixes for Solaris. (Paul Townsend)
462 * Messages from some mobile clients are no longer displayed as
463 Chinese characters (broken in 2.6.4)
466 * Fix an issue allowing a remote user to download arbitrary files from
467 a libpurple client. (CVE-2010-0013)
470 * Do not crash when attempting to register for a new account on Windows.
471 * Fix file transfer with clients that do not support Entity Capabilities
474 version 2.6.4 (11/29/2009):
476 * Actually emit the hold signal for media calls.
477 * Fix building the GnuTLS plugin with older versions of GnuTLS.
478 * Fix DNS TXT query resolution.
479 * Don't send Proxy-Authorization headers to HTTP proxy servers until
480 we've received a "407 Proxy Authentication Required" response from
481 the server. (thecrux)
482 * Added "MXit" protocol plugin, supported and maintained by the MXit
483 folks themselves (MXit Lifestyle (Pty) Ltd.)
486 * New 'plugins' sub-command to 'debug' command (i.e. '/debug plugins')
487 to announce the list of loaded plugins (in both Finch and Pidgin).
488 * Always rejoin open chats after an account reconnects.
491 * Better rate limit calculations and other improvements. (Aman Gupta)
492 * More detailed error messages when messages fail to send. (Aman Gupta)
493 * The simultaneous login account option is respected when using
494 the clientLogin authentication method.
495 * Fix offline message retrieval (broken in 2.6.3)
496 * Fix handling of markup on some messages (broken in 2.6.2)
497 * Fix SSL when clientLogin is enabled.
498 * Fix sending and receiving Unicode characters in a Direct IM
501 * Don't forget display names for buddies.
502 * Fix a random crash that might occur when idle.
503 * Fix more FQY 240 connection errors.
504 * Fix a crash that could occur when adding a buddy.
505 * Fix an occasional crash when sending message to an offline user.
506 * Fix a random crash that might occur when idle.
507 * Fix a crash when logging in with some long non-ASCII passwords.
509 * Cache our own friendly name as the server no longer does that for
510 us. Users of older versions may need to re-set their friendly name
511 as it has probably been reset.
514 * Users connecting to Google Talk now have an "Initiate Chat" context
515 menu option for their buddies. (Eion Robb)
516 * Fix a crash when attempting to validate an invalid JID.
517 * Resolve an issue when connecting to iChat Server when no resource
519 * Try to automatically find a STUN server by using an SRV lookup on the
520 account's domain, and use that for voice and video if found and the
521 user didn't set one manually in prefs.
522 * Fix a crash when adding a buddy without an '@'.
523 * Don't show the option to send a file to a buddy if we know for certain
524 they don't support any file transfer method supported by libpurple.
525 * Keep the avatar on the server if one is not set locally.
529 * Fix blocking behavior for federated (MSN/OCS/Sametime) service users.
531 * Add support for adding OCS and Sametime buddies. OCS users are added
532 as "ocs/user@domain.tld" and Sametime users are added as
533 "ibm/sametime_id". (Jason Cohen)
536 * The TinyURL plugin now creates shorter URLs for long non-conversation
537 URLs, e.g. URLs to open Inbox in Yahoo/MSN protocols, or the Yahoo
538 Captcha when joining chat rooms.
539 * Fix displaying umlauts etc. in non-utf8 locale (fix in libgnt).
542 * The userlist in a multiuser chat can be styled via gtkrc by using the
543 widget name "pidgin_conv_userlist". (Heiko Schmitt)
544 * Add a hold button to the media window.
545 * Fix a bug where the conversation backlog stops scrolling in a very
547 * In the Conversation "Send To" menu, offline buddies appear grayed
548 out (but are still selectable). Previously, only offline buddies on
549 accounts that do not support offline messaging appeared grayed out.
551 Pidgin Preference and Preference Window Changes:
552 * Removed the "Use font from theme" and "Conversation Font" preferences
553 for everyone except Windows users. The font can be controlled from
554 the Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin.
555 * Tabs in the Preferences window are now on the left side.
556 * The Browser tab is now visible for GNOME users.
557 * Added a Proxy tab shown no matter what environment Pidgin runs in.
558 * The Browser and Proxy tabs show appropriate GNOME-specific messages
559 and allow launching the correct applications to change the relevant
560 GNOME preferences if found. These were previously together on the
562 * Moved the port range spin buttons on the Network tab to be beside the
563 checkbox that enables/disables them.
564 * Reorganized preferences on the Status/Idle tab to have one less
566 * Reorganized preferences on the Sounds tab to have one less "section."
567 * Renamed Smiley Themes tab to Themes.
568 * Moved Buddy List Theme and Status Icon Theme selectors from Interface
570 * Moved Sound Theme selector from Sounds tab to Themes tab.
571 * Changed the Smiley Theme selector to be consistent with the other
573 * Rearranged tabs such that Interface is first and all remaining tabs
574 are alphabetized in English.
576 version 2.6.3 (10/16/2009):
578 * Fix a crash when performing DNS queries on Unixes that use the
579 blocking DNS lookups. (Brian Lu)
582 * Fix a crash when some clients send contacts in a format we don't
584 * Fix blocking and other privacy lists. (Thanks to AOL)
586 version 2.6.2 (09/05/2009):
588 * Fix --disable-avahi to actually disable it in configure, as opposed
589 to just making the warning non-fatal.
590 * Fix using GNOME proxy settings properly. (Erik van Pienbroek)
593 * Fix parsing of invalid TOPIC messages. (CVE-2009-2703)
596 * Sending custom smileys in chats is now supported.
597 * Ink messages are now saved when using the HTML logger.
598 * Fix a crash when receiving some handwritten messages.
599 * Fix a crash when receiving certain SLP invite messages.
600 * Chats with multiple people should no longer spontaneously
604 * Prompt the user before cancelling a presence subscription.
605 * Escape status messages that have HTML entities in the Get Info dialog.
606 * Fix connecting to XMPP domains with no SRV records from Pidgin on
608 * Fix typing notifications with Pidgin 2.5.9 or earlier.
609 * Fix connecting using BOSH and legacy authentication (XEP-0078).
610 * Adding buddies of the form "romeo@montague.net/Resource" are handled
611 properly. In addition, it is no longer possible to add buddies of
612 the form "room@conference.example.net/User", where
613 room@conference.example.net is a MUC.
614 * Don't crash when receiving "smileyfied" XHTML-IM from clients that
615 don't support bits of binary (ie. when getting an empty <data/> in
617 * Fix bug where SSL/TLS was not required even though the
618 "require SSL/TLS" preference checked when connecting to servers
619 that use the older iq-based authentication. (CVE-2009-3026)
622 * Accounts now have "Use account proxy for SSL connections" option.
623 This option force-overrides the account specific proxy settings for
624 SSL connections only and instead uses the global proxy configuration.
627 * Properly detect libpanel on OpenBSD. (Brad Smith)
628 * Remove IO watches in gnt_quit. (Tomasz Mon)
631 * Fix the auto-personize functionality in the Buddy List.
632 * Set the window icon for the media window to an icon corresponding to
633 the type of call (headphone or webcam).
634 * Customized sound files are no longer reset whenever opening the
636 * The buddy list should now immediately refresh upon changing the icon
639 version 2.6.1 (08/18/2009):
640 * Fix a crash when some users send you a link in a Yahoo IM
641 * Fix compilation with GTK+ < 2.6.0
642 * Fix compilation on Windows
644 version 2.6.0 (08/18/2009):
646 * Theme support in libpurple thanks to Justin Rodriguez's summer of code
647 project, with some minor additions and cleanups from Paul Aurich.
648 * Voice & Video framework in libpurple, thanks to Mike Ruprecht's summer
649 of code project in 2008.
650 * It should no longer be possible to end up with duplicates of buddies
651 in a group on the buddy list.
652 * Removed the unmaintained and unneeded toc protocol plugin.
653 * Fixed NTLM authentication on big-endian systems.
654 * Various memory cleanups when unloading libpurple. (Nick Hebner and
656 * Report idle time 'From last message sent' should work properly.
657 * Better handling of corrupt certificates in the TLS Peers cache.
658 * More efficient buddy list and conversation search functions.
659 (Jan Kaluza and Aman Gupta)
660 * Install scalable versions of the main Pidgin icon, the protocol icons,
661 the dialog icons, and the Buddy List emblems.
662 * Build properly on Hurd. (Marc Dequènes)
663 * Various memory leaks fixed as reported by Josh Mueller.
664 * Properly handle an IRC buddy appearing in multiple groups.
665 * Escape HTML entities in usernames when written with the HTML logger.
666 * Do not display MySpace status changes as incoming IMs. (Mark Doliner
670 * DNS servers are re-read when DNS queries fail in case the system has
671 moved to a new network and the old servers are not accessible.
672 * DNS SRV records with equal priority are sorted with respect to their
673 weight as specified in RFC 2782. (Vijay Raghunathan)
674 * Don't do IPv6 address lookups if the computer does not have an IPv6
676 * Fix a leak when the UI provides its own DNS resolving UI op.
678 * Don't fork a DNS resolver process to resolve IP addresses.
680 * Internationalized Domain Names are supported when libpurple is
681 compiled against the GNU IDN library.
683 Environment Variables:
684 * GnuTLS logging (disabled by default) can be controlled through the
685 PURPLE_GNUTLS_DEBUG environment variable, which is an integer between
686 0 and 9 (higher is more verbose). Higher values may reveal sensitive
688 * PURPLE_VERBOSE_DEBUG environment variable. Currently, this is an "on"
689 or "off" variable. Set it to any value to turn it on and unset it to
690 turn it off. This will optionally be used to only show less useful
691 debug information on an as-needed basis.
692 * PURPLE_LEAKCHECK_HELP environment variable. Currently, this is an
693 "on" or "off" variable. Set it to any value to turn it on and unset
694 it to turn it off. This will be used to perform various actions
695 that are useful when running libpurple inside of Valgrind or similar
696 programs. Currently, it keeps plugins in memory, allowing Valgrind
697 to perform symbol resolution of leak traces at shutdown.
700 * Preliminary support for a new authentication scheme called
702 * Fixed a bug where your away message sometimes would not get set when
704 * Make sure links in your away messages show up as links to other
706 * For ICQ, Never change the privacy setting specified by the user.
709 * Accounts can specify a server to which to connect.
710 (Krzysztof "kreez" Tobola)
711 * Correctly show tooltip status for contacts with status messages.
712 (Krzysztof "kkszysiu" Klinikowski)
713 * Support for fetching buddy icons. (Krzysztof "kkszysiu" Klinikowski)
714 * Support connection progress steps in Gadu-Gadu. (Krzysztof "kkszysiu"
718 * Add support for receiving handwritten (ink) messages on MSN. (Chris
719 Stafford, Gal Topper, and Elliott Sales de Andrade)
720 * Add support for receiving audio clips on MSN. (Chris Stafford, Gal
721 Topper, and Elliott Sales de Andrade)
722 * Show the invite message for buddies that requested authorization
724 * Support sending an invite message to buddies when requesting
725 authorization from them on MSN.
726 * Timeout switchboard connections aggressively (60 seconds).
729 * Voice & Video support with Jingle (XEP-0166, 0167, 0176, & 0177),
730 voice support with GTalk and voice and video support with the GMail
731 web client. (Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht)
732 * Added a Service Discovery Browser plugin for Pidgin.
734 * Support for in-band bytestreams for file transfers (XEP-0047). (Marcus
736 * Support for sending and receiving attentions (equivalent to "buzz"
737 and "nudge") using the command /buzz. (XEP-0224)
738 * Support for connecting using BOSH. (Tobias Markmann)
739 * A buddy's local time is displayed in the Get Info dialog if the remote
741 * The set_chat_topic function can unset the chat topic.
742 * The Ad-Hoc commands associated with our server are now always shown at
744 * Support showing and reporting idle times in the buddy list. (XEP-0256)
745 * Support most recent version of User Avatar. (XEP-0084 v1.1)
746 * Updated Entity Capabilities support. (Tobias Markmann)
747 * Better support for receiving remote users' nicknames.
748 * /affiliate and /role will now list the room members with the specified
749 affiliation/role if possible. (Andrei Mozzhuhin)
750 * Put section breaks between resources in "Get Info" to improve
752 * Silently remove invalid XML 1.0 entities (e.g. ASCII control
753 characters) from sent messages.
754 * XHTML markup is only included in outgoing messages when the message
756 * Show when the user was last logged in when doing "Get Info" on an
757 offline buddy, provided the server supports it.
758 * Support custom smileys in MUCs (only when all participants support the
759 "Bits of Binary" extension, and a maximum of 10 participants are in
760 the chat to avoid getting too many fetch requests).
761 * Fix an issue with Jabber (pre-XMPP) servers and the user's preference
762 to require SSL not being respected.
763 * Fix an issue where Cyrus SASL DIGEST MD5 authentication might fail if
764 the username, password, or realm (the JID domain) contain non-ASCII
766 * Show emblem for mobile, handheld, and web clients and bots (if the
767 other client supports it).
768 * Google Talk mail notifications should now work for people for whom
769 they inexplicably did not. (Thanks to yukam for determining the
771 * New XMPP and Google Talk accounts require SSL by default.
772 * Display kicks (and the reasons given) in chat rooms when an occupant
774 * Fix issues with case-sensitivity of XMPP roster and case-insensitive
776 * For contacts who advertise Entity Capabilities, only send rich text
777 markup if they support it.
778 * Removed support for obsoleted XEP-0022 (Message Events) and XEP-0091
779 (Legacy Entity Time).
780 * When the GNU IDN library (libidn) is available, it is used for
781 normalization of Jabber IDs. When unavailable, internal routines are
782 used (as in previous versions).
783 * Topics that contain '<' followed by a non-whitespace character can now
787 * P2P file transfers. (Sulabh Mahajan)
788 * Sending text messages (address to +<countrycode><phone number>).
790 * Addition of MSN buddies to Yahoo accounts by adding them as
791 'msn/buddy@somedomain.com' is now supported. (Sulabh Mahajan)
792 * Further fixes for buddy pictures, aliases, etc.
793 * Yahoo! and Yahoo! JAPAN are now two separate protocol plugins that share
794 common protocol code. You can now have the same account on both
795 networks. Accounts should be seamlessly migrated to the new
797 * Ability to set personal details for an account and for buddies in the
801 * Added -f command line option to tell Pidgin to ignore NetworkManager
802 and assume it has a valid network connection.
803 * Allow plugins to specify custom link types to the GtkIMHtml widget.
804 * The status message input box at the bottom of the buddy list expands
805 correctly when starting a new line of text.
806 * Pressing the Enter key in the message entry box of the New Status
807 dialog and various other dialogs now causes the cursor to move to
809 * Created a unified Buddy Pounce notification window for all pounces
810 where "Pop up a notification" is selected, which avoids having a
811 new dialog box every time a pounce is triggered. (Jorge Villaseñor)
812 * The New Account dialog is now broken into three tabs. Proxy
813 configuration has been moved from the Advanced tab to the new tab.
814 * Dragging a buddy onto a chat pops up a chat-invitation dialog.
816 * The nicks of the persons who leave the chatroom are italicized in the
817 chat's conversation history. The nicks are un-italicized when they
819 * Always set unseen-count and unseen-state on conversations.
821 * Fix a bug in 'Conversation Colors' plugin for RTL messages.
822 * Pressing the Left and Right arrow keys in the buddy list will expand and
823 collapse buddy groups or contacts. (Peter Ruibal)
824 * Support saving animated custom smileys as animated images or animated
825 custom smileys. (Andrea Piccinelli)
826 * Support for keyboard navigation on the status icon. (Li Yuan)
827 * IMG tags without 'id' attributes are turned into links to the image URL.
829 * Draw the user's buddy icon at the bottom of the Buddy List with rounded
830 corners for visual consistency with the actual icons in the Buddy List.
832 * When file transfers are complete, the received file name written to the
833 conversation window is now linked to the file.
834 * Fix a crash when closing a conversation tab that has unread messages
835 when the Message Notification plugin is loaded.
836 * Fix a crash when closing the New Mail dialog if an account with new
837 mail was previously disconnected while the dialog was open.
838 * Fix incorrect unread message counts for the new mail notifications.
839 * Do not lose unread messages with a hidden conversation window when
840 new IM conversations are hidden and "Close IMs immediately when the tab
844 * The hardware cursor is updated correctly. This will be useful
845 especially for users of braille terminals, screen readers etc.
846 * Added a TinyURL plugin, which aids copying longer URLs.
847 * Fixed UTF-8 compatibility problems which could cause exits or other
848 unrequested behaviour.
850 Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control Plugin:
851 * Removed mouse cursor color preferences.
852 * Added "Typing Notification Color" preference.
853 * Added "Disable Typing Notification Text" preference.
854 * Preferences have been reorganized into three tabs for Colors, Fonts, and
855 Miscellaneous categories.
857 version 2.5.9 (08/18/2009):
858 * Fix a crash via a specially crafted MSN message (CVE-2009-2694,
859 thanks to Core Security Technologies for discovering this and
860 notifying us privately before announcing it).
861 * Fix a crash in Bonjour, MSN, and XMPP when trying to transfer files with
864 version 2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
866 * Fix misparsing a web message as an SMS message. (Yuriy Kaminskiy)
869 * Increase NS command history size to prevent crashes on buddy lists that
870 have a lot of buddies on other networks like Yahoo!.
873 * Accounts with empty buddy lists are now properly marked as connected.
874 * Fix receiving messages from users of MySpace's web IM client.
877 * Fixed phantom online buddies. They should now properly disappear when
879 * Fixed the crashes some users were seeing with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com in
881 * Fixed compiling on systems with glib 2.4.x or older.
882 * Fixed an issue with file transfers. This may not resolve all issues,
883 but it should resolve at least some of the most common ones.
884 * The pager server will automatically update to scsa.msg.yahoo.com if the
885 user empties the field or if it is scs.msg.yahoo.com. This should ease
886 the pain of transition to the new login method.
889 * Fix an incompatibility betweeen Prosody and libpurple clients.
891 version 2.5.7 (06/20/2009):
892 * Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should
893 fix a number of login problems that have recently cropped up. (Sulabh
894 Mahajan, Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht)
895 * Only display the AIM "Unable to Retrieve Buddy List" message once per
896 connection. (Rob Taft)
897 * Blocking MSN users not on your buddy list no longer disconnects you.
898 * When performing operations on MSN, assume users are on the MSN/Passport
899 network if we don't get network ID's for them.
901 version 2.5.6 (05/19/2009):
903 * Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second
904 boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
905 * Fix various crashes on exit.
906 * Make XML parsing more resilient to interactions with other libraries.
907 This, along with the fix for libxml2 bug 564217, fixes the crashes
908 on connect in XMPP with recent gst-plugins-bad (see #8830 for details).
909 * Many security related fixes.
912 * Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of
914 * Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying
918 * Fix a race condition causing occasional Pidgin crashes.
919 * Fix some errors about the friendly name changing too fast caused
920 by MSN/Yahoo integration buddies.
923 * Less likely to pop up a new conversation window in disregard of
924 the "Hide new IM conversations" preference.
927 * Fix a crash when sending very long messages.
928 * Fix a bug where UTF-8 status messages get garbled when going idle.
930 version 2.5.5 (03/01/2009):
932 * Fix a crash when removing an account with an unknown protocol id.
933 * Beta support for SSL connections for AIM and ICQ accounts. To
934 enable, check the "Use SSL" option from the Advanced tab when
935 editing your AIM or ICQ account. (Paul Aurich)
936 * Fix a memory leak in SILC. (Luke Petre)
937 * Fix some string handling in the SIMPLE prpl, which fixes some buddy name
938 handling and other issues. (Paul Aurich, Marcus Sundberg)
939 * Implement support for resolving DNS via the SOCKS4 proxy (SOCKS4a).
942 * Fix retrieval of status messages from users of ICQ 6.x, Miranda, and
943 other libpurple clients. (Daniel Ljungborg)
944 * Change client ID to match ICQ Basic 14.34.3096. This fixes publishing
945 of buddy icons and available messages.
946 * Properly publish status messages for statuses other than Available.
947 ICQ 6.x users can now see these status messages. (Daniel Ljungborg)
948 * Fix receipt of messages from the mobile client Slick. (David Jedelsky)
951 * Fix transfer of buddy icons, custom smileys, and files from the
952 latest Windows Live Messenger 9 official client. (Thomas
954 * Large (multi-part) messages are now correctly re-combined.
955 * Federated/Yahoo! buddies should now stop creating sync issues at
956 every signin. You may need to remove duplicates in the Address
957 Book. See the FAQ for more information. Thanks to Jason Lingohr
958 for lots of debugging and testing.
959 * Messages from Yahoo! buddies are no longer silently dropped.
960 * We now save and use the CacheKey for ABCH SOAP requests.
961 * Don't try to parse Personal Status Messages or Current Media if they
963 * Convert from ISO-8859-1 encoding to UTF-8 when no charset is specified
964 on incoming messages. This should fix some issues with messages from
966 * Force sending the font "Segoe UI" if outgoing formatting doesn't specify
968 * Queue callbacks when token updates are in progress to prevent two token
969 update attempts from trampling each other.
970 * Fixed a crash on Windows when removing a buddy's alias.
971 * Update the Address Book when buddies' friendly names change. This
972 prevents seeing an outdated alias or not seeing an alias at all for
973 buddies who are offline when you sign in.
974 * Update tokens for FindMembership and ABFindAll SOAP requests.
975 * We no longer try to send empty messages. This could happen when a
976 message contained only formatting and that formatting was not supported
978 * Buddies on both the Allow and Block list are now automatically
979 removed from the Allow list. Users with this problem will now no
980 longer receive an ADL 241 error. The problematic buddy should now
981 appear on the buddy list and can be removed or unblocked as desired.
984 * Resources using __HOSTNAME__ substitution will now grab only the short
985 hostname instead of the FQDN on systems which put the FQDN in the
986 hostname. (Matěj Cepl)
987 * No longer send a 'to' attribute on an outgoing stanza when we haven't
988 received one. This fixes a registration bug as described in ticket
992 * Tooltip windows now appear below the mouse cursor. (Kosta Arvanitis)
993 * Tooltip windows now disappear on keypress events. (Kosta Arvanitis)
994 * Tooltip windows no longer linger when scrolling the buddy list. (Kosta
998 * Allow rebinding keys to change the focused widget (details in the
999 man-page, look for GntBox::binding)
1001 version 2.5.4 (01/12/2009):
1003 * Fix a connection timeout with empty Gadu-Gady buddy lists. (Martin
1005 * Don't ignore namespace information when parsing XMPP data. (Michal
1007 * Fix a crash that occurred when retrieving certain Offline Messages
1009 * Extended purple-url-handler to handle "gtalk" URI's. (Paul Aurich)
1010 * Fix the hang on exit in Network Location Awareness for Windows XP
1011 and Windows Vista. (Paul Aurich)
1014 * Change Contact Server to temporarily fix connection problems.
1015 (Thanks to Youness Alaoui)
1018 * Support for XEP-0191 blocking. (Vijay Raghunathan)
1019 * Don't put SASL PLAIN or IQ Auth passwords in debug logs. (Paul Aurich)
1020 * Fix removal of avatars (both PEP and vCard), we weren't removing
1021 them correctly before. (Paul Aurich)
1024 * Fix a crash in the Add Account dialog when changing protocols under
1025 certain circumstances.
1028 * Redirect stderr outputs to the debug window.
1029 * Fix rebinding actions with the arrow-keys and tab.
1031 version 2.5.3 (12/20/2008):
1033 * The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer prints duplicate
1034 notifications when the same buddy is in multiple groups. (Florian
1036 * The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer turns JID's, MSN
1037 Passport ID's, etc. into links. (Florian Quèze)
1038 * purple-remote now has a "getstatusmessage" command to retrieve
1039 the text of the current status message.
1040 * Various fixes to the nullprpl. (Paul Aurich)
1041 * Fix a crash when accessing the roomlist for an account that's not
1042 connected. (Paul Aurich)
1043 * Fix a crash in purple_accounts_delete that happens when this
1044 function is called before the buddy list is initialized.
1046 * Fix use of av_len in perl bindings to fix some off-by-one bugs
1048 * On ICQ, advertise the ICQ 6 typing capability. This should fix
1049 the reports of typing notifications not working with third-party
1050 clients. (JaromĂr KarmazĂn)
1051 * Many QQ fixes and improvements, including the ability to connect
1052 using QQ2008 protocol and sending/receiving of long messages.
1053 The recommended version to use is still QQ2005.
1054 * Fix a crash with DNS SRV lookups. (Florian Quèze)
1055 * Fix a crash caused by authorization requests. (Florian Quèze)
1058 * Add support for IM images. (Tomasz Sałaciński, Adam Strzelecki)
1059 * Gadu-Gadu now checks that UID's are valid. (Adam Strzelecki)
1060 * Gadu-Gadu now does proper charset translations where needed. (Adam
1064 * Fix an error with offline messages by shipping the *new*
1065 "Microsoft Secure Server Authority" and the "Microsoft Internet
1066 Authority" certificates. These are now always installed even when
1067 using --with-system-ssl-certs because most systems don't ship
1068 those intermediate certificates.
1069 * The Games and Office media can now be set and displayed (in
1070 addition to the previous Music media). The Media status text now
1071 shows the album, if possible.
1072 * Messages sent from a mobile device while you were offline are now
1074 * Server transfers after you've been connected for a long time
1075 should now be handled correctly.
1076 * Many improvements to handling of "federated" buddies, such as those
1077 on the Yahoo network.
1078 * Several known crashes have been resolved.
1079 * Many other fixes and code cleanup.
1082 * Respect your privacy settings set using the official MySpace client.
1083 * Add support for blocking buddies.
1084 * Fix a bug where buddies didn't appear in their correct groups the
1085 first time you sign into your account.
1086 * Properly disconnect and sign out of the service when logging off.
1087 * Support for foreground and background font colors in outgoing IMs.
1088 * Support for background font colors in incoming IMs.
1089 * Many other fixes and code cleanup.
1092 * Fix insanely long idle times for Sametime 7.5 buddies by assuming
1093 0 idle time if the idle timestamp is in the future. (Laurent
1095 * Fix a crash that can occur on login. (Raiko Nitzsche)
1098 * Fix a crash when a malformed message is received.
1099 * Don't allow connecting accounts if no server name has been
1100 specified. (Florian Quèze)
1103 * Fix the namespace URL we look for in PEP reply stanzas to match
1104 the URL used in the 'get' requests (Paul Aurich)
1105 * Resources can be set to the local machine's hostname by using
1106 __HOSTNAME__ as the resource string. (Jonathan Sailor)
1107 * Resources can now be left blank, causing the server to generate a
1108 resource for us where supported. (Jonathan Sailor)
1109 * Resources now default to no value, but "Home" is used if the
1110 server refuses to provide a resource.
1111 * Quit trying to get user info for MUC's. (Paul Aurich)
1112 * Send "client-accepts-full-bind-result" attribute during SASL
1113 login. This will fix Google Talk login failures if the user
1114 configures the wrong domain for his/her account.
1115 * Support new <metadata/> element to indicate no XEP-0084 User
1116 Avatar. (Paul Aurich)
1117 * Fix SHA1 avatar checksum errors that occur when one of the bytes
1118 in a checksum begins with 0. (Paul Aurich)
1119 * Fix a problem with duplicate buddies. (Paul Aurich)
1122 * Corrected maximum message lengths for Yahoo!
1123 * Fix file transfers with older Yahoo protocol versions.
1126 * Enable auto-reply, to emulate 'zaway.' (Toby Schaffer)
1127 * Fix a crash when an account is configured to use tzc but tzc is
1128 not installed or the configured tzc command is invalid. (Michael
1130 * Fix a 10 second delay waiting on tzc if it is not installed or the
1131 configured command is invalid. (Michael Terry)
1134 * On GTK+ 2.14 and higher, we're using the gtk-tooltip-delay setting
1135 instead of our own (hidden) tooltip_delay pref. If you had
1136 previously changed that pref, add a line like this to
1137 ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0 (where 500 is the timeout (in ms) you want):
1138 gtk-tooltip-timeout = 500
1139 To completely disable tooltips (e.g. if you had an old
1140 tooltip_delay of zero), add this to ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0:
1141 gtk-enable-tooltips = 0
1142 * Moved the release notification dialog to a mini-dialog in the
1143 buddylist. (Casey Ho)
1144 * Fix a crash when closing an authorization minidialog with the X
1145 then immediately going offline. (Paul Aurich)
1146 * Fix a crash cleaning up custom smileys when Pidgin is closed.
1147 * Fix adding a custom smiley using the context menu in a conversation
1148 if no custom smilies have previously been added using the smiley
1150 * Improved support for some message formatting in conversations.
1151 * Allow focusing the conversation history or userlist with F6.
1152 * Fixed the Send Button plugin to avoid duplicate buttons in a single
1154 * Double-clicking a saved status will now activate it and close the
1155 saved status manager, rather than edit the status.
1158 * Allow binding meta+arrow keys for actions.
1159 * Added default meta+erase binding for delete previous word.
1160 * Added "Show When Offline" to buddy menus, so a plugin is no longer
1163 version 2.5.2 (10/19/2008):
1165 * Fixed a crash on removing a custom buddy icon on a buddy.
1166 * Fixed a crash caused by certain self-signed SSL certificates.
1167 * Enable a number of strong ciphers which were previously disabled
1168 when using NSS. (Thanks to Marcus Trautwig.)
1171 * The status selector now saves your message when changing status.
1172 * Fix a case where a conversation window could close unexpectedly.
1173 * A mute sounds option has been added to the preferences window to
1174 help with discoverability. CTRL+S is no longer bound to mute.
1175 * Added ability to change the color of visited links (using the theme
1176 control plugin, or setting the color in ~/.gtkrc-2.0)
1177 * Fix a crash occuring when a custom smiley is deleted and re-added and
1178 used in an open conversation after being re-added.
1181 * A new 'Nested Grouping' option in the 'Grouping' plugin. Group
1182 hierarchies are defined by the '/' character in the group names.
1183 * A bug was fixed where some key-bindings wouldn't work with some TERMs
1184 (e.g. xterm-color, screen-linux etc.)
1187 * Operations (such as moving to a new group) on contacts that were added
1188 in the same session should now complete correctly, and not cause
1189 synchronization errors at next login.
1190 * Minor fixes to login process during a server transfer.
1191 * Restored the "Has You" feature to the MSN protocol tooltips.
1192 * ADL 205/214/etc errors should no longer prevent login.
1195 * Sending and receiving custom smileys using the specification in
1196 XEP-0231 (bits of binary) and XHTML-IM
1199 * Only send a Ping once every hour. This prevents the account from
1200 being disconnected from the server periodically.
1202 version 2.5.1 (08/30/2008):
1204 * In the Join/Part plugin, add the ability to apply the rules to
1205 buddies. By default, joins and parts for buddies are still shown.
1206 * Support SOCKS proxies specified in GNOME or Windows proxy settings.
1207 * Fix some possible crashes in MSNP15.
1208 * Enable a default SSL trust relationship for MSN servers.
1209 * Avoid disconnecting from XMPP servers on parse errors that are
1211 * Include some perl files that were mistakenly omitted in 2.5.0.
1214 * Prevent use of custom smilies without "shortcuts."
1215 * Fix a crash that could appear with AIM buddy tooltips.
1218 * General refresh of many icons in the interface.
1219 * Many cleanups to artwork source are now included in the distribution.
1220 * A new "throbber" animation has been added to indicate when accounts
1223 version 2.5.0 (08/18/2008):
1225 * Ability to create custom smileys (currently only the MSN protocol
1226 utilizes the feature). (Thanks to Mauro SĂ©rgio Ferreira Brasil,
1227 Marcus Lundblad, Jorge Villaseñor and other contributors)
1228 * Add a configure option, --with-system-ssl-certs to allow packagers
1229 to specify a system-wide SSL CA certificates directory. When set,
1230 we don't install our SSL CA certs, so it's important that the
1231 libpurple package depend on the CA certificates.
1232 * Add SSL Certificates support to the NSS SSL plugin. (Thanks to Lou
1236 * Fix a bug that caused the UI to not refresh and caused the client
1237 to use 99% CPU when an XMPP account lost its connection to the
1239 * Possibly fix a bug where some clients could get into a state
1240 where they moved a buddy back and forth between two groups in
1244 * /ctcp command (Vladislav Guberinić)
1245 * Allow for auto-detection of incoming UTF-8 formatted text on
1246 accounts which are configured to use some other encoding.
1249 * Update MSN support to protocol 15 (Elliott Sales de Andrade, Jorge
1250 Villaseñor, Mike Ruprecht, Carlos Silva, Ma Yuan, Daniel Ljungborg
1252 * Personal messages are now supported. They are treated as status
1254 * Offline IM is now supported.
1255 * Aliasing is now supported server-side.
1256 * Buddies are now emblemed. Bots and web clients should now be
1258 * Update smiley set for non-faces.
1259 * Failing to update a buddy icon when the buddy has gone offline no
1261 * Custom smileys received in a chat no longer go to a new window.
1262 * Processing is no longer completely frozen after the servers block a
1263 message because it contains (what they consider) inappropriate text.
1266 * Custom buddy icons can now be added to and removed from buddy list
1267 entries via the buddy list entry right-click menu.
1268 * Resize large incoming custom smileys to a maximum of 96px on either
1270 * Offer to add new buddies into the same contact as existing buddies
1271 in the same group if the alias given is the same.
1272 * Minor smiley style update.
1275 * Group and Chat buddy list entries can now be given custom buddy
1279 * Added "Invite..." menu to chats.
1280 * Added "View All Logs" menu in the buddylist to display a list of all IM
1282 * Added '/msgcolor' command to change colors of different classes of
1283 messages in a conversation. See '/help msgcolor' for details.
1284 * Added tab-completion for commands in conversation windows.
1286 version 2.4.3 (07/01/2008):
1288 * Yahoo! Japan now uses UTF-8, matching the behavior of official clients
1289 and restoring compatibility with the web messenger (Yusuke Odate)
1290 * Setting your buddy icon once again works for Yahoo! accounts.
1291 * Fixes in the Yahoo! protocol to prevent a double free, crashes on
1292 aliases, and alias functionality
1293 * Fix crashes in the bonjour protocol
1294 * Always use UTF-8 for Yahoo! (#5973)
1295 * Fix a crash when the given jabber id is invalid.
1296 * Make the IRC "unknown message" debugging messages UTF-8 safe.
1297 * Fix connecting to ICQ
1298 * Fix a memleak when handling jabber xforms.
1301 * Include the send button plugin in the win32 build
1302 * Various memory leak fixes
1304 version 2.4.2 (05/17/2008):
1305 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.4.2
1307 * In MySpaceIM, messages from spambots are discarded (Justin Williams)
1308 * Strip mIRC formatting codes from quit and part messages.
1309 * IRC now displays ban lists in-channel for joined channels.
1310 * Fixed a bug where the list of loaded plugins would get removed when
1311 switching between different operating systems.
1312 * Fix reception of IRC PART without a part message on Undernet
1313 (fixes a problem with litter in the channel user list).
1314 * IRC no longer crashes on /list on servers which erroneously omit
1316 * Update the NetworkManager support to use D-Bus directly, instead of
1317 libnm-glib. Hopefully it's stable now. It will now compile by
1318 default if you have D-Bus support and NetworkManager.h. (Elliott
1320 * MSN buddy list synchronization is now more forgiving, only asking
1321 about buddies who have disappeared completely from the server list
1322 and not those that have simply moved groups.
1323 * IRC will now try to append 1-9 to your nick if it is in use, instead
1324 of substituting the last character with 1-9 where possible.
1325 * Bonjour buddies will be saved persistently if they're moved out of
1326 the "Bonjour" group. (Eion Robb)
1329 * The typing notification in the conversation history can be disabled or
1330 customized (font, color etc.) in .gtkrc-2.0.
1331 * Added a plugin (not installed by default) which adds a Send button
1332 back to the conversation window. People without physical keyboards
1333 have a hard time with the lack of the button.
1334 * Clicking on the buddyicon in the conversation window toggles the
1335 size of the icon between small and large.
1336 * The settings of a chat (e.g. Handle in an XMPP chat, or Exchange in
1337 an AIM chat) can be edited from its context menu in the buddy list.
1338 * Add a "Present conversation window" preference to the Message
1339 Notification plugin; the "Raise conversation window" option does not
1340 unminimize windows or draw attention to them when they are on other
1341 workspaces--the "Present" option should.
1342 * Add a preference to set Escape as the keyboard shortcut for closing
1343 the conversation window.
1344 * Add an option in the context menu to disable smileys in the selected
1345 text in the conversation history/log viewer. This should help people
1346 who regularly paste code in conversations.
1347 * Add a preference to choose the minimum size of the text input area in
1349 * Moved the "Local alias" field in the Modify Account dialog to be below
1350 the "User Options" heading on the "Basic" tab.
1351 * Number of room occupants is now shown in chat tooltips where possible
1354 * The configure script now dies on more absent dependencies. The
1355 --disable-xxx arguments to configure can be used to bypass unneeded
1356 dependencies. This will also cause the configure script to die if an
1357 --enable-xxx option is used and the dependencies it requires are
1359 * The Evolution integration plugin must now be explicitly enabled. Use
1360 the --enable-gevolution argument to configure to enable it.
1361 * The Contact Availability Prediction plugin must now be explicitly
1362 enabled. Use the --enable-cap argument to configure to enable it.
1365 * New default binding ctrl+x to open context menus.
1366 * Menu triggers and other bindings will no longer conflict.
1367 * Middle click pastes the internal clipboard (when mouse support is
1370 version 2.4.1 (03/31/2008):
1371 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.4.1
1374 * Treat AIM Unicode messages as UTF-16 rather than UCS-2; this
1375 should have no functional effect, other than continued support
1376 on systems which have dropped UCS-2 conversions.
1377 * Add support for setting buddy icons on Gadu-Gadu (Tomasz Salacinski)
1378 * Fix a crash when clearing the buddy icon for an account on XMPP
1379 * Fix a crash during login for some ICQ accounts
1380 * Prefer more available resources on XMPP when priorities are equal
1381 * Fix incorrectly marking some Yahoo! contacts as blocked
1382 * Improved handling of UTF-8 group names on ICQ (beret)
1383 * Fix a crash when starting if you have a Zephyr account
1384 * Increase XMPP ping timeout to 120 seconds, to prevent poor network
1385 connections from timing out unnecessarily.
1386 * Don't crash on XMPP forms with empty default values.
1387 * Fix issues with CHAP authentication for SOCKS5 proxies.
1390 * Remove a workaround for older versions gstreamer that was causing
1391 crashes on some non-Linux systems such as HPUX
1392 * Fix some cases of the conversation input entry area being 1 pixel high
1393 * Fix for displaying channel & buddy names in conversation window when
1394 they have '&' in them
1395 * Some memory leak fixes, especially in the Text Replacement plugin
1396 * Rectangular but non-square buddy icons have rounded corners in the buddy
1400 * Fix compiling with Glib older than 2.6
1401 * Ensure existing conversations selected from the 'Send IM' dialog are
1403 * Move the tooltip on the left of the buddylist if there's not enough room
1404 on the right to show it.
1406 version 2.4.0 (02/29/2008):
1407 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.4.0
1410 * Added support for offline messages for AIM accounts (thanks to
1412 * Fixed various problems with loss of status messages when going
1413 or returning from idle on MySpaceIM.
1414 * Eliminated unmaintained Howl backend implementation for the
1415 Bonjour protocol. Avahi (or Apple's Bonjour runtime on win32) is
1416 now required to use Bonjour.
1417 * Partial support for viewing ICQ status notes (Collin from
1419 * Support for /notice on IRC.
1420 * Support for Yahoo! Messenger 7.0+ file transfer method (Thanumalayan S.)
1421 * Support for retrieving full names and addresses from the address book
1422 on Yahoo! Japan (Yusuke Odate)
1423 * The AIM/ICQ server-side preference for "allow others to see me
1424 as idle" is no longer unconditionally set to "yes" even when
1425 your libpurple preference is "no."
1426 * Fix SSL certificate checks for renewed certificates
1427 * Fix the ability to set vCard buddy icons on Google Talk/XMPP
1428 * D-Bus fixes on 64bit
1429 * Fixed retrieval of buddy icons and setting of server-side aliases on
1430 Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan when using an HTTP proxy server (Gideon N.
1432 * Fixed an MSN bug that would leave you appearing offline when transferred
1436 * Added the ability to theme conversation name colors (red and blue)
1437 through your GTK+ theme, and exposed those theme settings to the
1438 Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin (Dustin Howett)
1439 * Fixed having multiple alias edit areas in the infopane (Elliott Sales
1441 * Save the conversation "Enable Logging" option per-contact (Moos
1443 * Typing notifications are now shown in the conversation area
1446 * Color is used in the buddylist to indicate status, and the conversation
1447 window to indicate various message attributes. Look at the sample gntrc
1448 file in the man page for details.
1449 * The default keybinding for dump-screen is now M-D and uses a file
1450 request dialog. M-d will properly delete-forward-word, and M-f has been
1451 fixed to imitate readline's behavior.
1452 * New bindings alt+tab and alt+shift+tab to help navigating between the
1453 higlighted windows (details on the man page).
1454 * Recently signed on (or off) buddies blink in the buddy list.
1455 * New action 'Room List' in the action list can be used to get the list of
1456 available chat rooms for an online account.
1457 * The 'Grouping' plugin can be used for alternate grouping in the
1458 buddylist. The current options are 'Group Online/Offline' and 'No
1460 * Added a log viewer
1461 * Added the ability to block/unblock buddies - see the buddy context menu
1462 and the menu for the buddy list.
1463 * Fixed a bug preventing finch working on x86_64
1465 version 2.3.1 (12/7/2007):
1466 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.3.1
1467 NOTE: Due to the way this release was made, it is possible that
1468 bugs marked as fixed in 2.3.1 will not be fixed until the
1471 * Fixed a number of MSN bugs introduced in 2.3.0, resolving problems
1472 connecting to MSN and random local display name changes
1473 * Going idle on MySpaceIM will no longer clear your status and message.
1474 * Idle MySpaceIM buddies should now appear online at login.
1475 * Fixed crashes in XMPP when discovering a client's capabilities
1476 * Don't set the current tune title if it's NULL (XMPP/Google Talk)
1477 * Don't allow buddies to be manually added to Bonjour
1478 * Don't advertise IPv6 on Bonjour because we don't support it
1479 * Compile fixes for FreeBSD and Solaris
1480 * Update QQ client version so some accounts can connect again
1481 * Do not allow ISON requests to stack in IRC, preventing flooding IRC
1482 servers when temporary network outages are restored
1483 * Plug several leaks in the perl plugin loader
1484 * Prevent autoaccept plugin overwriting existing files
1486 version 2.3.0 (11/24/2007):
1487 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.3.0
1488 NOTE: Some bugs marked fixed in 2.2.1, 2.2.2 or 2.2.3 may not
1489 have been fixed until this release (2.3.0).
1492 * Real usernames are now shown in the system log.
1493 * We now honor a PURPLE_DISABLE_DEPRECATED define to allow plugins to
1494 catch deprecated functions earlier rather than later.
1495 * Thanks to a patch from Intel, the Bonjour prpl now supports file
1496 transfers using XEP-0096 and XEP-0065. This should enable file
1497 transfers between libpurple clients and Gajim clients, but will not
1498 work with iChat or Adium as they use a different file transfer
1500 * XMPP password changes that return errors no longer cause the saved
1501 password to be changed.
1502 * XMPP file transfer support has been enhanced to support sending
1503 files through a proxy when the server supports discovering a
1504 a bytestream proxy. This should make file transfers much more
1505 reliable. The next release will add support for manually specifying
1506 a proxy when the server doesn't advertise one.
1509 * If a plugin says it can't be unloaded, we now display an error and
1510 remove the plugin from the list of saved plugins so it won't load
1511 at the next startup. Previously, we were ignoring this case, which
1512 could lead to crashes.
1513 * Mark dialog windows as transient for appropriate parent windows to
1514 help window managers do the right thing (Gabriel Schulhof)
1515 * Connection errors are now reported in mini-dialogs inside the buddy
1516 list, rather than as buttons in the buddy list and with dialog
1517 boxes. If several accounts are disabled when you sign on elsewhere,
1518 you can now re-enable them all with a single click.
1519 * Added tooltips to the Room List window to show full topics
1520 * Added buttons in preferences to access GNOME network and browser
1521 preferences configuration dialogs when running under GNOME
1522 * If you alias a buddy to an alias that is already present within
1523 a particular group, we now offer to merge the buddies into the
1525 * A music emblem is now displayed in the buddy list for a buddy if we
1526 know she is listening to some soothing music.
1527 * Added a 'Move to' menu in buddy list context menu for moving buddies
1528 to other groups as an alternative to dragging.
1529 * Group headings are now marked via an underline instead of a
1530 different color background.
1531 * It is now possible to mark a chat on your buddy list as "Persistent"
1532 so you do not leave the chat when the window or tab is closed.
1533 * The auto-join option for chats is now listed in the "Add Chat"
1534 dialog along with the new persistence option.
1535 * Closing an IM no longer immediately closes your conversation. It
1536 will now remain active for a short time so that if the conversation
1537 resumes, the history will be retained. A preference has been added
1538 to toggle this behavior.
1539 * The "Smiley" menu has been moved to the top-level of the toolbar.
1540 * Pidgin's display is now saved with the command line for session
1541 restoration. (David Mohr)
1542 * ICQ Birthday notifications are shown as buddy list emblems.
1543 * Plugin actions are now available from the docklet context menu
1544 in addition to the Tool menu of the buddy list.
1545 * The manual page has been heavily rewritten to bring it in line
1546 with current functionality.
1549 * If a plugin says it can't be unloaded, we now display an error and
1550 remove the plugin from the list of saved plugins so it won't load
1551 at the next startup. Previously, we were ignoring this case, which
1552 could lead to crashes.
1553 * It's possible to bind key-strokes to specific menuitems in the windows.
1554 Read the 'Menus' section in the man-page for details.
1555 * 'transpose-chars' operation for the entry boxes. The default key-binding
1557 * 'yank' operation for the entry boxes. The default binding is ctrl+y.
1559 version 2.2.2 (10/23/2007):
1560 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.2.2
1561 NOTE: Due to the way this release was made, it is possible that
1562 bugs marked as fixed in 2.2.1 or 2.2.2 will not be fixed
1563 until the next release.
1565 * Various bug and memory leak fixes
1566 * Look for a default prefs.xml in the CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA directory
1567 (e.g. c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\
1568 Application Data\purple\prefs.xml) on Windows, similarly to
1569 how this is done on other platforms.
1571 version 2.2.1 (09/29/2007):
1572 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.2.1
1573 NOTE: Due to the backporting that happened for the actual
1574 release, it is possible bugs marked as fixed in 2.2.1
1575 will not be fixed until 2.2.2.
1578 * A few build issues on Solaris were fixed.
1579 * Cancelling the password prompt for an account will no longer leave
1580 it in an ambiguous state. (It will be disabled.)
1581 * Fixed an erroneous size display for MSN file transfers. (galt)
1582 * Fixed multiple memory leaks, particularly in XMPP and MySpace
1584 * Fixed remembering proxy preferences and status scores
1585 * Gmail notifications are better tracked
1588 * Fixed keyboard tab reordering to move tabs one step instead of two.
1589 * You should no longer lose proxy settings when Pidgin is restarted.
1590 * Fixed detection of X11 when compiling
1593 * Pressing 'Insert' in the buddylist will bring up the 'Add Buddy'
1596 version 2.2.0 (09/13/2007):
1597 http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.2.0
1600 * New protocol plugin: MySpaceIM (Jeff Connelly, Google Summer of
1602 * XMPP enhancements. See
1603 http://www.adiumx.com/blog/2007/07/soc-xmpp-update.php (Andreas
1604 Monitzer, Google Summer of Code for Adium)
1605 * Certificate management. libpurple will validate certificates on
1606 SSL-encrypted protocols (William Ehlhardt, Google Summer of Code)
1607 * Some adjustments were made to fix sending messages when using
1608 the MSN HTTP method. (Laszlo Pandy)
1609 * Yahoo! Chat is fixed.
1610 * Some AIM file transfer issues between Pidgin and other clients
1611 have been fixed. (Kyryll A Mirnenko)
1612 * Properly restore idle status and time for AIM and ICQ accounts
1613 when they reconnect after being disconnected.
1616 * Insert Horizontal Rules and Strikethrough text from toolbar.
1617 * Option to show protocol icons in the buddy list, from the
1618 Buddies > Show menu. (Justin Heiner)
1619 * Ability to build with native, non-X11 GTK+ on OSX. (Anders
1621 * Remember the 'Enable Sounds' setting for a conversation.
1622 * Right-clicking the empty space in the formatting toolbar
1623 allows you to toggle back to the old "ungrouped" version.
1624 * Protocols supporting account registration via Pidgin now show
1625 a descriptive checkbox instead of a vague "Register" button.
1626 * Fixed a bug where a tab would be shown on single conversations
1627 when tabs were disabled.
1630 * Per-conversation mute and logging options (accessible from the menu).
1632 version 2.1.1 (08/20/2007):
1634 * Added an account action to open your inbox in the yahoo prpl.
1635 * Added support for Unicode status messages in Yahoo.
1636 * Server-stored aliases for Yahoo. (John Moody)
1637 * Fixed support for Yahoo! doodling.
1638 * Limited support for MSN Messenger contacts
1641 * Bonjour plugin uses native Avahi instead of Howl
1642 * Bonjour plugin supports Buddy Icons
1645 * Only report conversation close when 'send typing notifications'
1646 preference is turned on (Bob Rossi)
1649 * Show current outgoing conversation formatting on the font label on
1651 * Slim new redesign of conversation tabs to maximize number of
1652 conversations that can fit in a window
1653 * Tab bar is not visible when only one conversation is open. You can
1654 drag and drop conversations from the infopane.
1655 * Moved "Reset Formatting" toolbar button to Font menu.
1656 * Double click on the infopane to alias buddies and set topics
1661 * Sound support (Eric Polino)
1663 version 2.1.0 (07/28/2007):
1665 * Core changes to allow UIs to use second-granularity for scheduling.
1666 Pidgin and Finch, which use the glib event loop, were changed to use
1667 g_timeout_add_seconds() on glib >= 2.14 when possible. This allows
1668 glib to better group our longer timers to increase power efficiency.
1669 (Arjan van de Ven with Intel Corporation)
1670 * No longer linkifies screennames containing @ signs in join/part
1671 notifications in chats
1672 * With the HTML logger, images in conversations are now saved.
1673 NOTE: Saved images are not yet displayed when loading logs.
1674 * Added support for QIP logs to the Log Reader plugin (Michael Shkutkov)
1677 * Ensure only one copy of Pidgin is running with a given configuration
1678 directory. The net effect of this is that trying to start Pidgin a
1679 second time will raise the buddy list. (Gabriel Schulhof)
1680 * Undo capability in the conversation window
1681 * The formatting toolbar has been reorganized to be more concise.
1682 * A new status area has been added to the top of conversations to
1683 provide additional detail about the buddy, including buddy icon,
1684 protocol and status message.
1685 * Show idle times in the buddy list as days, hours, seconds
1688 * There's support for workspaces now (details in the manpage)
1689 * There's a new custom window manager, Irssi
1690 * Some improvements for tab-completion, tooltip and the password entries
1691 * Some bugs regarding search results fixed
1692 * A new DBus-script to create a docklet for finch
1693 * Support for showing empty groups in the buddy list (Eric Polino)
1695 version 2.0.2 (06/14/2007):
1697 * Added a custom conversation font option to preferences
1698 * Fixed smiley ordering in the insert smiley popup to be more intuitive
1699 * Conversation->More menu items work for Chats as well as Buddies,
1700 including those not on your buddy list
1701 * newline plugin should work better with conversation colors plugin now
1702 * Get Info on users now provides immediate feedback that something is
1704 * Aliasing a buddy will not be interrupted by other buddy list activity
1705 * Using the -l option to log in to a specific account works better
1708 * Moving an ICQ buddy from one group to another no longer
1709 re-requests authorization from that person (Rene Hausleitner)
1710 * Added nullprpl, an example protocol plugin (Ryan Barrett)
1711 * Fixed SOCKS5 bug which caused Jabber file receiving to fail
1712 * Remove MSN's random "Authorization Failed" dialogs
1713 * Fix MSN to correctly detect incorrect passwords and disable the account
1714 * Get User Info on MSN is now more reliable & accurate
1715 * Updated SILC protocol to support SILC Toolkit 1.1 (Pekka Riikonen)
1716 * Fix for some QQ authentication problems
1717 * Fix for building on FreeBSD
1718 * Prevent "Logged in:" times for AIM buddies being ridiculously high
1719 * Updates and fixes to Bonjour support
1720 * Improve ICQ encoding support for some non-latin languages
1723 * Auto account reconnecting
1725 version 2.0.1 (05/24/2007):
1726 * Buddy list update speedups when buddy icons are not being
1727 displayed. (Scott Wolchok)
1728 * Fix icons on docklet change status menu to match the status selector
1729 * Custom smileys on MSN can be saved by right-clicking on them
1730 * Fix a crash deleting a buddy that is in the Buddy List more than once
1731 * Compile fixes for Solaris
1732 * Fix GTalk formatting when there's a space before/after a */_
1733 * Fix Log viewer crash when the filename is not in the expected format
1734 * Get User Info now provides immediate feedback, and is updated when the
1735 user information is available
1736 * Make the choose buddy icon dialog correctly list the current directory
1737 * Fix for buddy icons disappearing
1738 * Timestamps are always on in debug output (-d) and Debug Window now
1739 * Don't escape html entities in Yahoo! system messages
1740 * Fix for the choose buddy icon dialog resizing strangely as files are selected
1741 * Receives notifications when XMPP buddies send "leaving chat"
1743 * Fix the typing animation so it doesn't stop animating once a conversation
1744 has gone from typing -> not typing -> typing
1745 * Fix error messages when joing XMPP chats
1746 * Identify the account when warning about plaintext auth over an
1748 * Fix XMPP SASL authentication error when using Cyrus and a connect server
1749 * Fix changing tab locations to update properly
1750 * Turning off "Show formatting on incoming messages" now ignores
1751 formatting in <span> tags too
1752 * File transfer progress for transfers on MSN is now correctly displayed
1753 * You can set/change alias of buddies/chats by double-clicking on the
1754 conversation tabs (Ma Xuan)
1755 * Fix IRC connection bug with dircproxy (xjoe)
1756 * Ctrl+[shift]+tab focuses the next most active tab (William Thompson)
1757 * Fix Open Hotmail Inbox for MSN to work more reliably
1758 * Add a Google Talk item to the protocol list, to help users who think
1759 we don't support Google Talk. The item acts just like "XMPP".
1760 * Remember if the X server supports XScreenSaver, to avoid waking it
1761 every 5 seconds. (Arjan van de Ven with Intel Corporation)
1762 * Change our idle checking to poll only as necessary and raise the
1763 unidle timeout from 5 seconds to 60 when using XScreenSaver. This
1764 and the XScreenSaver change will reduce Pidgin's effect on power
1765 consumption when running with NO_HZ. (Arjan van de Ven with Intel
1767 * Conversation -> Save As will now use aliases.
1768 * ALSA added as a possible sound method
1769 * Google Talk accounts will not import buddies from your Gmail address
1773 * Userlist in chat windows, which can be turned on or off using
1775 * Menus in the conversation windows
1776 * Improved tab completion support
1777 * Ctrl+c prompts with a dialog before exiting
1778 * Filter string in the debug window
1779 * Notify when you leave a chat
1780 * Work around an ncurses bug which appears when half of a multi-cell
1781 character is covered by an upper-level window
1782 * New plugins are shown in bold text in the plugin dialog
1783 * Nicer HTML screendumps
1785 version 2.0.0 (5/3/2007):
1786 * The project has new names - libpurple for the core, Pidgin for the
1787 GTK+ UI and Finch for the ncurses based console UI (AOL LLC)
1790 * With the Core/UI split complete, it is now possible to build
1791 libpurple without any UIs, creating a library upon which other
1792 UIs may be constructed
1793 * A new ncurses-based console UI called Finch is now available
1794 (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury, Google Summer of Code)
1795 * Reorganized the source tree to split apart the code for the UI
1796 changes and libpurple targets
1797 * libxml2 is now required. We switched from gmarkup to libxml2 for
1798 more correct XML parsing.
1801 * The code dealing with buddy and account status, away messages,
1802 away states, online/offline, etc has been completely rewritten.
1803 Huge thanks to Christian Hammond, Dave West, Daniel Atallah and
1804 Sadrul Habib Chowdhury.
1805 * Your status can now be set from inside the buddy list using the
1806 selector at the bottom of the window.
1807 * To see messages when a buddy signs on or off, goes away, or
1808 becomes idle, load the "Buddy State Notification" plugin
1811 * Performance when manipulating and displaying the buddy list has
1812 been significantly improved (Aaron Sheldon, Google Summer of Code)
1813 * Buddy icons are now shown in tooltips (Felipe Contreras)
1814 * Tooltips now contain additional information about a "Person" that
1815 contains multiple online buddies
1816 * Added a "Last Seen" field to buddy tooltips
1817 * Contacts will auto-expand when buddies are dragged around
1818 * If Pidgin is exited with the buddy list hidden in the docklet, it
1819 will remain hidden when Pidgin is started again (Scott Shedden)
1820 * Improved buddy list searching with CTRL+F
1821 * Ability to set a buddy icon for all of your accounts at once via
1822 the buddy list (You can still set per-account icons via the
1824 * The space wasted by the group expanders has been eliminated and
1825 the expander setting in .gtkrc-2.0 is no longer needed
1826 * Authorization requests don't popup new dialogs anymore. They are
1827 displayed at the bottom of the buddy list instead.
1828 * New mail notifications don't popup new dialogs anymore. They are
1829 displayed at the top of the buddy list instead.
1831 Conversations and Chats:
1832 * Timestamps honor the locale. To use the traditional style,
1833 enable the "Message Timestamp Formats" plugin. The plugin
1834 also provides options to show dates in timestamps.
1835 * Messages from buddies in the same "Person" will automatically
1836 use the same conversation window.
1837 * The "Send As" menu has been replaced with a more appropriate
1838 "Send To" menu based on "Persons" on your buddy list
1839 * Message formatting persists between messages (Igor Belyi)
1840 * Full message background colors are now supported
1841 * Smooth scrolling when receiving a new message
1842 * Screenname colors in chats now chosen intelligently
1843 * Conversation buffer scrollback limited to avoid large memory
1844 usage in active conversations
1845 * Control-Shift-Tab will reverse cycle through the conversation tabs
1847 * Many problems related to having an IM conversation and a chat open
1848 with the same name are fixed (Andrew Hart)
1849 * Warning dialog when closing a window with unread IM messages
1850 * In chats right-click on names in the conversation window to
1851 IM/Send File/Get info/ignore the user
1852 * Added tab management options to the tab right-click menu (Sadrul
1854 * Brand new message queueing system. Sounds are played when a
1855 message is queued rather than when the message is dequeued
1857 * Ability to find the last message from a user in a chat (Levi Bard
1858 and Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
1859 * Formatting is preserved across messages
1860 (There are known issues with pasting formatted text. Either use
1861 "Paste as Plain Text", hit Ctrl-R after pasting, or use the Clear
1862 Formatting button on the toolbar.)
1863 * Performance while joining large chat rooms has been significantly
1864 improved (Aaron Sheldon, Google Summer of Code)
1865 * Bi-Directional text support improvements for GtkIMHtml (Shlomi Loubaton)
1868 * Beautiful new default sounds (Brad Turcotte)
1869 * Use GStreamer for playing sounds, instead of libao
1870 * A volume control in the preferences (Casey Harkins)
1873 * Log viewer aggregates logs from the same "Person"
1874 * When opening the log viewer, show the most recent log by default
1876 * Logs are now saved with the current timezone, which is displayed
1878 * Text logs are linkified, so URLs are clickable
1879 * The old logger now caches file offsets, so opening the log viewer
1880 for buddies with old logs should be much faster now if you have large
1881 log files (except the first time for a log, when the cache is built)
1884 * Plugins are now accessed through a separate dialog from the Tools
1885 menu of the Buddy List
1886 * Newly installed plugins can now be activated without restarting
1887 Pidgin (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
1888 * Overhauled the system tray/docklet plugin (Casey Harkins)
1889 * Text Replacement Plugin rewritten, works in real time and far more
1890 intuitively (Benjamin Kahn)
1891 * Entries in the text replacement plugin are now sorted
1893 * The text replacement plugin allows non-whole-word replacement rules
1895 * The text replacement plugin offers both case sensitive matching and
1896 automatic case handling
1897 * I'dle Ma'ker plugin now has an easier method to unidle accounts, a
1898 way to idle all accounts at once, and a way to unidle all accounts
1899 idled via the plugin (John Bailey, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
1900 * The Evolution Integration plugin now supports Groupwise contacts
1901 * Mono plugin loader (Eoin Coffey)
1902 * Perl plugin loader has been rewritten (John Kelm, Google Summer
1904 * New music messaging plugin (Christian Muise, Google Summer of Code)
1905 * gaim-remote has been superceded by new DBUS bindings within libpurple
1906 (Piotr Zielinski, Google Summer of Code)
1907 * The purple-url-handler program has been added to provide a way to
1908 automatically launch IM links via Pidgin or Finch.
1909 * The functionality of the auto-reconnect plugin has been
1910 moved into the core, and the plugin itself has been removed.
1911 * 'Highlight when nick said' option added to Message Notification
1913 * The system tray icon is now properly transparent (Dan Winship)
1914 * New Log Reader plugin that can read and display logs from Adium,
1915 MSN Messenger, and Trillian in the log viewer
1916 * New Contact Availability plugin that attempts to predict the
1917 times when people in your buddylist will most likely respond
1918 to you, based on times in the past when they have responded
1919 (Geoffrey Foster, Google Summer of Code)
1920 * A few new plugins: Autoaccept, Autoreply, Buddy Notes, New Line,
1921 Offline Message Emulation, Conversation Colors and Markerline
1924 * Custom smiley receiving support (Irving Cordova & Francesco Fracassi)
1925 * Added support for sending (with the /nudge command) and receiving
1926 "nudges" (Julien Cegarra, Martin Bayard)
1927 * Added an account action to open your Hotmail inbox from MSN
1928 * Bi-directional text is correctly handled now (Shlomi Loubaton)
1931 * Stealth Settings have been implemented
1932 * Doodle is now supported (Andrew Dieffenbach, Google Summer of Code)
1933 * Buddies' requests to add you to their lists now prompt for
1935 * Account option to ignore chat and conference invitations (Peter
1937 * Added a /list command to bring up the room list (Peter Lawler)
1940 * ICQ file transfer support with newer ICQ clients (Jonathan Clark,
1941 Google Summer of Code)
1942 * Many overall improvements to AIM and ICQ file transfers (Jonathan
1943 Clark, Google Summer of Code)
1944 * Support for pausing and resuming AIM and ICQ file transfers
1946 * Ability to set ICQ "require authorization" and "web aware"
1947 setting (Ettore Simone)
1948 * ICQ encoding fix for offline buddies (Ilya Konstantinov)
1951 * SSL support for IRC connections (Daniel Atallah)
1952 * Show an error message when temporarily unable to join an IRC
1953 channel or change your nick
1954 * Added /nickserv, /memoserv, /chanserv and /operserv
1955 commands (Joao LuĂs Marques Pinto)
1956 * Added CTCP VERSION via /version (Andrej KrivulÄŤĂk)
1957 * Added /whowas command (achris)
1960 * Support for SRV lookups
1961 * Support for buddy icons
1962 * Jabber User Directory searching
1965 * Whiteboard support (Pekka Riikonen)
1966 * Sending/receiving images in IMs (Pekka Riikonen)
1967 * Cipher and HMAC selection support (Pekka Riikonen)
1968 * Buddy Icon support (Pekka Riikonen)
1970 Other Protocol Changes:
1971 * Bonjour (Rendezvous) protocol support (Juanjo Molinero Horno, Google
1973 * Updated Gadu-Gadu protocol support (Bartosz Oler, Google Summer of
1974 Code). This requires the libgadu library. See
1975 http://pidgin.im/faq.php#libgadu for more information.
1976 * SIP/SIMPLE support (Thomas Butter, Google Summer of Code)
1977 * Sametime protocol support
1978 Requires the meanwhile library: http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net
1979 * QQ protocol support (Mark Huetsch, Google Summer of Code, and the
1980 developers of the OpenQ project)
1981 * Removed the Napster and TOC protocols plugins
1983 Other Noteworthy Changes:
1984 * NAT traversal support via UPnP (Adam J. Warrington, Google Summer of
1986 * NAT traversal support via NAT-PMP (Evan Schoenberg and R. Tyler Ballance)
1987 * The modify account dialog now contains two tabs, which should display
1988 better at lower resolutions (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
1989 * New "find buddy" results dialog (Alex Converse)
1990 * People using input methods can now use Enter again
1991 * Mouse-over hyperlink coloring is now themeable
1992 * Buddy Pounces now have a proper management window. (Kevin Stange)
1993 * Buddy icons maintain aspect ratio when resized
1994 * The last used directory is remembered for opening or saving files and
1996 * Add an SVG version of our desktop icon, pidgin.svg (John Oyler)
1997 * If a given protocol doesn't support privacy, we now handle blocking
1998 in the core. (Jean-Yves Lefort)
1999 * Smiley themes can now include spaces in the smiley definitions.
2000 The spaces (and now backslashes) must be backslash-escaped.
2001 (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
2002 * New e-mail notices are now grouped into one dialog.
2003 (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury, Chris Stafford)
2004 * "Open" in the File Transfer window integrates with GNOME, KDE, and
2005 Windows and falls back to the browser in other environments.
2006 * On Mac OS X, the keyboard/mouse idle time pref now uses system idle
2007 time instead of X11 idle time (Michael Culbertson)
2008 * Autocomplete in the buddy pounce dialog (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
2009 * Non-blocking socket I/O is used in most protocol plugins
2010 * All-new icons all over the place (Hylke Bons)
2013 * Preferences have been substantially reorganized and cleaned up
2014 * Smiley theme descriptions are now shown correctly for the highlighted
2015 smiley theme (Levi Bard)
2016 * All Buddy List preferences have been moved to the Buddies menu of
2017 the buddy list window.
2018 * Proxy settings will be taken from Gnome if it is running. These may
2019 still be overridden on a per-account basis.
2020 * Removed "Dim idle buddies;" behavior is now always enabled
2021 * Removed keyboard shortcut preferences for ctrl-B/I/U; enabled by
2022 default, but won't interfere with bindings set by the GTK theme
2023 * Removed keyboard shortcuts preferences for ctrl-# to insert a smiley;
2024 behavior removed from Pidgin
2025 * Removed "Enter" vs. "Ctrl-Enter" to send; "Enter" sends by default,
2026 but it is now possible to change this binding in your GTK theme
2027 * Removed "Show multi-colored screennames in chats;" behavior is now
2028 always enabled and screenname colors automatically adjust themselves
2029 to compensate for background color.
2030 * Removed "Raise Buddy List Window on Events" and the related behavior
2031 * Removed "Display remote nicknames if no alias is set"
2032 * Removed "Show idle times" and "Show warning levels" on the buddy
2033 list; behavior is now always enabled
2034 * Removed "Auto-expand contacts;" contacts expand only when dragging
2035 buddies around the buddy list
2036 * Removed conversation and buddy list buttons and related preferences
2037 * Removed "Raise conversation window" preferences; moved feature to
2039 * Removed "Show alias in tabs/titles;" behavior is now always enabled
2040 * Removed "Show formatting toolbars;" the setting in conversations'
2041 "Options" menu now affects the global preference
2042 * Removed "Show timestamps;" behavior is now enabled, but is overridden
2043 by the timestamp plugin
2044 * Removed all protocol options pages
2045 * Removed "Escape closes windows;" default key binding is now Ctrl-W
2046 * Removed "Log when buddies sign on/sign off/become idle/become
2047 un-idle/go away/come back" and "Log your own actions;" all of these
2048 will be logged when the system log is enabled
2049 * Removed the separate ignore formatting preferences; behavior has been
2050 consolidated into a single preference
2052 version 1.5.0 (8/11/2005):
2053 * Ability to set IRC quit message (Lalo Martins)
2054 * OSCAR file transfers now work for 2 users behind the same NAT
2056 * Yahoo! buddy requests to add you to their buddy list now prompt for
2058 * Added a /clear command for conversations/chats
2059 * Fixed ICQ encoding for messages with offline ICQ users
2060 (Ilya Konstantinov, SF Bug #1179452)
2061 * Default Yahoo! chat roomlist locale to 'us'
2063 version 1.4.0 (7/7/2005):
2064 * Fix system log start times for some protocols
2065 * SILC compiles with newer SILC toolkit versions (Pekka Riikonen)
2066 * Fixed a bug where buddy icon cache files were left in the icon
2067 cache directory after they were no longer in use.
2068 * Attempt to detect the file type of a buddy icon when saving.
2069 * Additional Yahoo! boot protection (Peter Lawler)
2070 * A few Yahoo! memory leaks plugged (Peter Lawler)
2071 * Fixed handling of the new Yahoo! profile page. (Joshua Honeycutt,
2073 * Fixed localized Yahoo! room lists. Please refer to the Yahoo!
2074 section of the Gaim FAQ for details. (Peter Lawler)
2075 * Enabled sending files to ICQ users using ICQ 5.02 and newer
2078 version 1.3.1 (6/9/2005):
2079 * The file transfer details section now also displays the full path to
2080 the local file sent/received.
2081 * Yahoo! has the following new "/" commands: /join, /buzz
2082 * Fix Yahoo! privacy bug
2083 * Fix Jabber Get Info crash on busted servers
2084 * Updated our gaim.desktop file, thanks to all our terrific translators
2085 for sending in translations of the changes
2086 * Improvements to how Gaim handles new message notification
2087 * Fix Jabber registration on XMPP servers (including jabber.org)
2089 version 1.3.0 (5/10/2005):
2090 * Removed parts of the font selection dialog that were not respected
2091 * Fix being invited to a multi user chat on MSN
2092 * Multiple SILC accounts should work now (Pekka Riikonen)
2093 * Fix times on jabber chat backlogs
2094 * Fix gevolution plugin to compile with e-d-s 1.0 or 1.2
2095 * Fix gevolution plugin to remember buddy name when someone added you
2096 and you then add them
2097 * Formatting in jabber chats works
2098 * Fix to prevent MSN disconnecting if you change status while connecting
2099 * Fixes for two remotely exploitable crash bugs. See
2100 http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/ for more information.
2101 * Change to correctly handle adding jabber buddies on ejabberd servers
2103 version 1.2.1 (4/3/2005):
2104 * URL escaping now works with UTF-8 text. This may break some old log
2106 * Revert to XOR auth for ICQ as the md5 is not fully functional
2107 * Fix bug with going away while in a jabber chat
2108 * MSN bug fixes (Felipe Contreras)
2109 * Escape things properly in IRC
2110 * Docklet fixes: fix the "1 pixel-wide icon" bug, fix problems with Gaim
2111 crashing when the tray manager dies, and work correctly with multi-headed
2112 displays where the tray isn't on the primary screen (Robert McQueen)
2114 version 1.2.0 (3/17/2005):
2115 * Yahoo file receiving and buddy icon receiving work again.
2116 * Limit animated buddy icon frame rates to 10 frames per second
2118 * Fix a bug where portions of your account configuration would
2119 fail to be read correctly if you set a proxy user name or
2120 password containing invalid XML characters such as < and >
2122 * Yahoo! privacy improvements (Bleeter)
2123 * Fix receiving Jabber formatting (broken in 1.1.3)
2125 version 1.1.4 (2/24/2005):
2126 * Fixed a bug where Yahoo! would lose messages (and any other packet
2128 * Correctly show the time when incoming Gadu-Gadu messages were sent
2129 (Carl-Daniel Hailfinger)
2130 * Fixed crashes with glib 2.6
2131 * Fixed MSN crash when conversations time out after the conversation
2133 * Fixed an html parsing bug, CAN-2005-0208
2135 version 1.1.3 (2/17/2005):
2136 * CHAP authentication support for SOCKS5 proxies (Malcolm Smith)
2137 * ICQ offline messages are sent using your specified character
2138 set instead of Unicode (Magnus Hult)
2139 * MSN HTTP method works with proxies using authentication (Bastien Durel)
2140 * Really fix the bug where buddies show as logged in for 49 thousand days
2141 * Buddy pounces containing '&' are saved correctly
2142 * Improved MSN error handling when the servers are unavailable
2143 * More MSN bug fixes
2145 * Fix "Find" in the log viewer so that it finds in all logs
2146 * Smileys not appearing at the end of lines has been fixed
2147 * Closing conversation windows no longer cancels active file transfers on
2148 MSN (Felipe Contreras)
2150 version 1.1.2 (1/20/2005):
2151 * MSN 'HTTP Method' fixed (Felipe Contreras)
2152 * Better handling of MSN's Individuals group and buddy status updates
2154 * Fix a crash inviting MSN user to a chat when they're already there
2155 * AIM SecurID login support
2156 * Fix configuration of Jabber chat rooms on some servers
2157 * More MSN bug fixes (Felipe Contreras)
2158 * Fix queue messages to Docklet when not globally away (Robert McQueen)
2160 * The Autopackage now builds both the mozilla-nss and the gnutls
2161 ssl plugins, and requires at least one of those libraries.
2163 version 1.1.1 (12/28/2004):
2164 * Allow SILC authentication via public key if your key is password
2165 protected (Michele Baldessari)
2166 * More MSN bug fixes (Felipe Contreras)
2167 * Drag-and-drop to conversation window file transfers work again
2168 * Disable the delete button on pounces that aren't saved yet anyway
2171 version 1.1.0 (12/02/2004):
2173 * Binary relocable. Gaim will find its files even if it's installed
2174 in a location other than the --prefix it was ./configured with.
2175 Pass --disable-binreloc to ./configure to disable.
2176 * IRC now has fallback encodings, and tries harder to display
2177 something useful during an encoding error.
2178 * New MSN protocol icon (Felipe Contreras)
2181 * Fix some leaks (Miah Gregory, Felipe Contreras)
2182 * Fix crashes when removing buddies in certain situations (Andrew Hart)
2183 * Eliminate MSN switchboard errors (Felipe Contreras)
2184 * Fix MSN buddy icon synchronization (Felipe Contreras)
2185 * Correctly display file transfer dialogs for filenames containing &, < or >
2186 * Correctly display MSN authorization dialogs for friendly names containing
2188 * Properly align the right-click docklet menu with the docklet icon in
2190 * Fix a crash if the MSN buddy list is not available
2191 * Fix a bug in the request api (Gary Kramlich)
2193 version 1.0.3 (11/11/2004):
2195 * Jabber authentication fixes (Michael Plump)
2196 * Yahoo buddy idle reporting is more accurate (Evan Schoenberg)
2197 * "Allow All" privacy setting works on Yahoo (Peter Lawler)
2198 * Fix a crash when dragging a buddy to the conversation entry area
2199 * Fix a crash removing chats from the buddy list
2200 * Correctly display buddy pounces for aliases with &, < or > in them
2201 * Correctly follow the per-conversation logging option
2203 version 1.0.2 (10/19/2004):
2205 * MSN file transfers work on big endian machines (Jean-Francois Roy and
2207 * Fixed the MSN signon crash with Miranda users in the buddy list
2208 * Fixed sending messages to MSN Web Messenger users (Damien Ayers)
2209 * Fixed some memory leaks in the MSN plugin (Evan Schoenberg)
2210 * Fixed a crash viewing certain MSN user profiles (Evan Schoenberg)
2211 * Fixed a crash sending a file on MSN when the file is unreadable
2212 * Fixed a crash deleting accounts (Andrew Hart)
2213 * Fixed a crash inviting to chats (Andrew Hart)
2214 * Fixed a bug in Yahoo privacy handling (Peter Lawler)
2215 * Fixed a crash trying to join a chat from the docklet when not signed in
2216 to a chat-capable account (Daniel Atallah)
2218 version 1.0.1 (10/07/2004):
2220 * Use the GNOME default browser when opening links if you're running GNOME
2222 * Added support for multiple addressbooks in the gevolution plugin
2226 * Send-As menu duplicates less work (Dave West)
2227 * Can now see your own MSN buddy icon (Felipe Contreras)
2228 * Jabber roomlist fetches work again
2229 * Close buttons on tabs in existing conversations correctly reflect the
2230 "show close buttons on tabs" preference (Nathan Fredrickson)
2231 * Fix to make the get_signon(buddy) perl plugin function work (Gregory C.
2233 * Fixed crashes when reloading the gevolution plugin (Henry Jen)
2234 * Fixed some memory leaks in the gevolution plugin.
2235 * Wrap at character boundaries if there is not enough space for a full word
2236 * 64 bit compile warning fixes
2238 version 1.0.0 (09/17/2004):
2240 * Drag-and-drop buddy support for the Invite dialog (Stu Tomlinson)
2241 * Drag-and-drop buddy support for the Pounce dialog (Stu Tomlinson)
2242 * View Chat log available from the interface (Daniel Atallah)
2243 * Ability to receive offline messages in character encodings
2244 other than ASCII (thanks to Nick Sukharev)
2245 * File transfer status messages printed to conversation
2247 * Display file transfer messages when someone sends you a file
2248 over AIM (Dave West)
2249 * Handle MSN buddy lists more sanely (Felipe Contreras)
2250 * Zephyr can use tzc to run from behind a firewall (Arun A Tharuvai)
2253 * Work around window manager stupidity with new dialog windows (Dave West)
2254 * Compile with gtk 2.5.x (Gary Kramlich)
2255 * Escape invalid characters in log names (Daniel Atallah)
2256 * Fix for clicking add in an msn chat with 2 or more people in your buddy
2257 list (Daniel Atallah)
2259 version 0.82.1 (08/27/2004):
2261 * Fix a crash when changing the preference for how to display buttons
2262 on conversation windows
2263 * Remove a stray printf() when beginning new conversations and logging
2266 version 0.82 (08/26/2004):
2268 * Ability to set available messages for AIM
2269 (Tools->Account Actions->Set Available Message...)
2270 * Ability to specify a custom character set for messages sent to ICQ
2271 users and messages received from ICQ users
2272 * Ability to edit your current away message (Rhett Robinson)
2273 * Topics in the conversation window (not the topic field at the
2274 top) with URLs will now appear as links (Stu Tomlinson)
2275 * File transfers appear in the file transfer window when they
2276 are initiated rather than when they begin transferring (Dave West)
2277 * Instead of toggling slash commands on/off, you can now toggle
2278 passing through unknown slash commands on/off.
2281 * Joining a Jabber chat no longer causes a crash (Stu Tomlinson)
2282 * Selecting a buddy icon for a brand new account no longer
2284 * Better file transfer error messages (Dave West)
2285 * Remotely canceled file transfers in MSN are now noticed, so that we
2286 don't accidentally cancel the file transfer and crash Gaim
2288 * Protocols that don't support joining chat rooms by name no longer
2289 allow chat rooms to be added to the buddy list (Felipe Contreras)
2290 * Delayed messages and system messages no longer cause
2291 sound events to be triggered (Nathan Fredrickson)
2292 * The chat invite button has a correct label (Stu Tomlinson)
2293 * The system log should leak fewer file descriptors (Ka-Hing Cheung)
2294 * Buddy list tooltips display in more appropriate positions when
2295 using multiple monitors (Dave West)
2296 * Better parsing of URLs containing special characters
2297 * All users are shown when joining a Yahoo! conference (Bleeter Yaluser)
2298 * You now leave all Yahoo! conferences when you log out of Yahoo!
2299 * Buddy Icon updating bug fixed (Felipe Contreras)
2301 version 0.81 (08/05/2004):
2303 * The autorecon plugin will somewhat remember state information(Yosef
2305 * Visual display of ops/voice/halfops/so on in Chats (Stu Tomlinson)
2306 * Tab completion of slash commands in Chats (Stu Tomlinson)
2307 * gaim-remote can now manipulate status (István Váradi)
2308 * The text messages of Yahoo Audibles are now displayed, although
2309 the audio and graphics are not.
2310 * Yahoo! away messages can be 255 characters long now
2313 * Gadu-Gadu should connect again (Andrew Wellington)
2314 * Novell fixes (Mike Stoddard of Novell):
2315 * Fixed reconnect crash
2316 * Fixed duplicate root folder bug
2317 * Fixed bug with folder ordering (on a first time login
2318 folders were being added in reverse order).
2319 * Use ISO date format for the system log (Eduardo PĂ©rez)
2320 * Long buddy lists with irc should cause flooding disconnects less
2322 * Better smiley substitution
2323 * Fix a crash related to auto-expanding contacts at the bottom of
2325 * Fix a crash on Solaris when changing or viewing information for
2326 your AIM account (Format Screen Name, Change Email Address, etc.)
2327 * HTML in OSCAR buddy comments is now escaped (and not rendered)
2328 * Fix a crash when dragging a screen name to a conversation window
2329 for that screen name
2330 * User-requested new conversation windows are now always given focus
2331 * Pasting HTML into Gaim from certain sources no longer results in
2332 the spaces between some words being removed
2333 * The alias of a contact is now displayed in more places when the
2334 alias of a buddy is not set
2335 * .gaimrc is no longer imported
2336 * Prevent a crash if you sign off and try to dequeue messages from
2337 the away dialog (Kevin Stange)
2338 * Prevent a possible crash if gaim_gtkconv_write_conv is called
2339 with who as NULL (Kevin Stange)
2340 * Prevent (null) or an empty string from being logged as the sender's
2341 name if the sender no longer has an alias because the account is
2342 signed off (Kevin Stange)
2343 * The auto-reconnect plugin will no longer attempt to reconnect an
2344 MSN account if you were disconnected because you signed on from
2345 another location (Stu Tomlinson)
2346 * On Solaris, chatting in IRC using the UTF-8 charset no longer gives
2347 a "conversion failed" error for every message (Arvind Samptur)
2348 * ICQ offline messages should have the correct timestamp (Dave West)
2350 version 0.80 (07/15/2004):
2352 * Ability to send files from the conversation window (Daniel Atallah)
2353 * Drag a file into the buddy list or a conversation to send it to that
2355 * Yet more new commands and features for SILC (Stu Tomlinson)
2356 * Gaim uses the new file chooser when compiled for GTK+ 2.4
2358 * Support for the Epiphany web browser (Leonardo Serra)
2359 * Status messages in Gadu-Gadu (Andrew (proton) Wellington)
2360 * Parentheses are now displayed around the title and tabs of
2361 conversations from offline accounts or parted chats.
2362 * Zephyr typing notification (Arun A Tharuvai)
2363 * Account dialog's columns are resizable (Eduardo PĂ©rez)
2366 * The firefox browser option now works with firefox 0.9
2367 * Buddy icons in conversations no longer depend on the
2369 * Fix for the bug where some buddies seemed logged in 4
2370 thousand some odd days (Alan Ford)
2372 version 0.79 (06/24/2004):
2374 * Display name changes are now shown in the conversation windows.
2376 * Get Info on Yahoo! now works for nonenglish profiles.
2378 * General "Get Info" improvements on Yahoo! and MSN (Ambrose Li)
2379 * Yahoo! Japan support. Click More Options and check Yahoo Japan
2380 in the account editor, to use your Yahoo! Japan account
2381 * Gtk themes can now theme the Gaim buddy list independently of
2382 other things (Stu Tomlinson)
2383 * Show timestamps now has a per-conversation option in addition
2384 to the global one, bringing it in line with the other conver-
2385 sation options (Stu Tomlinson)
2386 * Added MSN buddy icons (Felipe Contreras)
2387 * Added MSN file transfer (Felipe Contreras)
2388 * MSN's idle state now actually sets a buddy idle
2389 * Buddy pounce defaults are now more sane, and apply to the state the
2390 buddy is currently in. For example, if the buddy is idle, set
2391 "Return from idle" by default. The last action(s) used are the
2392 defaults for the next pounce
2393 * Yahoo buddy icon support
2394 * Selected buddy icons will automatically convert to the appropriate
2395 format for the protocol. (GTK 2.2 and higher only)
2396 * Dragging an image file into the Modify Account dialog will set that
2398 * Development headers for compiling third-party plugins are now
2399 installed. (Stu Tomlinson)
2400 * Headers for gaim-remote now reside in gaim/ instead of
2402 * Basic YCHT support, which allows joining Yahoo! Chats when
2403 logged in using the web messenger method
2406 * Fixed Yahoo! authentication problems. (Cerulean Studios)
2407 * Non-looping animated icons no longer cause Gaim to freeze
2408 * Flashing windows should work again for unix in window managers that
2409 support the URGENT hint (Etan Reisner)
2410 * Better handling of character sets in RTF for Novell (Mike Stoddard of
2412 * Contact list sync problems in Novell fixed (Mike Stoddard of Novell)
2413 * Fixed a crash in SILC that sometimes happened when resolving
2414 the buddy list (Pekka Riikonen)
2415 * Parallel compiles of the perl plugin should work better
2417 * The disconnected UI op was called twice on connection errors. Now
2418 it is only called once. (Evan Schoenberg)
2419 * Dragging into conversation windows works better
2420 * Protocol-specific settings for accounts were being removed whenever
2421 the account was modified. Now they're only removed when the protocol
2422 type changes, as it should be.
2423 * Zephyr bug fixes and memory leak plugs (Arun A Tharuvai)
2424 * Rewrite of MSN buddylist support, which fixed a known syncronization
2425 bug and some others (Felipe Contreras)
2427 version 0.78 (05/30/2004):
2429 * Support for the SILC protocol (http://www.silcnet.org/)
2431 * Option to suppress disconnect notification when using
2432 the autoreconnect plugin (Christopher (siege) O'Brien)
2433 * Added support for dragging buddies from the buddy list into the
2434 Add Buddy Pounce dialog
2435 * Pounce notification now includes time (Mike Lundy)
2436 * The history plugin now shows history for chats in addition to IMs
2437 * Menu item to view conversation logs (Tom Samstag)
2438 * Conversation and chat sizes automatically saved (Stu Tomlinson)
2439 * Added support for Novell privacy settings (Mike Stoddard of Novell)
2440 * Added ability to initiate multi-user conferences (chats) in Novell
2441 (Mike Stoddard of Novell)
2442 * Find and Save buttons on the debug window (Stu Tomlinson)
2443 * Plugin Actions menu (Christopher (siege) O'Brien)
2444 * Plugins can now add entries to the right-click menu of a group or chat
2445 (Stu Tomlinson and Christopher (siege) O'Brien)
2446 * Hyperlink colors are now themeable via your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file
2449 * Compiles again with gcc 2.96 (Ignacio J. Elia)
2450 * Gtk2.0 compatibility fixes (Tim Ringenbach)
2451 * Many documentation updates (Jonathan Champ, Gary Kramlich,
2452 Stu Tomlinson, and Kevin Stange)
2453 * Yahoo works on 64 bit machines (Gary Kramlich)
2454 * Zephyr works on 64 bit machines (Arun A Tharuvai)
2455 * Novell 64bit fixes, better error messages, and buddy list sync fixes
2456 (Mike Stoddard of Novell)
2457 * Novell protocol works on big endian machines (Novell)
2458 * Massive rewrite of MSN support, which should fix a number of issues
2459 and make errors easier to interpret (Felipe Contreras)
2460 * Fixed a privacy-related bug in MSN that affected blocking/permitting,
2461 which was due to case-sensitive string comparisons (Gudmundur
2463 * Fixed an MSN HTTP method bug where MSN would queue data indefinitely.
2465 * All known MSN formatting bugs were fixed.
2466 * Overly long messages and paging cell phones in MSN no longer cause
2467 disconnects (Felipe Contreras)
2468 * Several bug fixes for MSN's MSNSLP and MSNObject support (Finlay
2470 * ALT-F works correctly in the System Log Viewer (Stu Tomlinson)
2471 * New tabs should scroll correctly again (Tim Ringenbach)
2472 * Dialogs opened from a conversation window are now closed when
2473 the conversation window is closed, preventing a crash (Kevin Stange)
2474 * Copy/paste encoding fixes (Joe Marcus Clarke)
2475 * IRC disconnect crash fix (Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha)
2476 * Ampersands in links should work correctly (Tim Ringenbach)
2477 * DirectIM and IM Image support for AIM are greatly improved
2479 * Gadu-Gadu updates (Andrew Wellington)
2480 * Print Gadu-Gadu messages to the debug window instead of the console
2481 * Updated and standardized blist signals (Gary Kramlich)
2482 * Made the recieve-*-msg signals match the sending ones (Stu Tomlinson)
2483 * The idle time for the buddy-idle and buddy-unidle signals should
2487 * Added "Conversation placement - By conversation count"
2488 * Added a "none" smiley theme to replace the "Show graphical
2490 * Replace default formatting preferences with a dialog to set a
2491 default formatting in a WYSIWYG manner.
2492 * Removed "Show logins in window," default to yes
2493 * Removed "Send URLs as links," default to yes (in protocols that
2495 * Removed "Show URLs as links," default to yes
2496 * Removed New window height & width and Entry field height for Chats &
2497 IMs, sizes are now saved automatically
2498 * Removed "Tab-complete nicks" default to yes
2499 * Removed "Old-style tab completion", no longer supported
2500 * Removed "Sending message removes away status", default to no
2501 * Removed "Show numbers in groups", default to yes
2502 * Removed "Icons on tabs", default to yes
2503 * Removed "Sounds when you log in", default to no
2504 * Removed "Seconds before resending autoresponse", default to 600
2506 * Removed "Send autoresponse in active conversations", default to no
2507 * Removed "Show people joining in window", default to yes
2508 * Removed "Show people leaving in window", default to yes
2510 version 0.77 (04/22/2004):
2512 * The System Log returns (Ka-Hing Cheung)
2513 * Added a conversation-drag-ended signal (Etan Reisner)
2514 * Reorganized and cleaned up the MSN protocol plugin (Felipe Contreras)
2515 * Added the -c option to specify location of the .gaim directory,
2516 removed the outdated -f option that no longer had any effect (Daniel
2518 * Novell GroupWise protocol support added (Novell)
2519 * WYSIWYG improvements (Tim Ringenbach)
2520 * WYSIWYG editing for user info (Jon Oberheide)
2521 * Rich-text copy and paste
2522 * Plugins can now add menu items to the buddy context menu
2523 (Christopher O'Brien)
2524 * Plugins can now add preferences (Gary Kramlich)
2525 * The TOC protocol is no longer built by default. The plugin is not
2526 being properly tested and is no longer officially supported.
2527 * Bumped up the plugin API version number, and added version numbers
2528 for loader plugins and protocol plugins. Authors will want to
2529 update their plugins, and possibly use GAIM_PLUGIN_API_VERSION,
2530 GAIM_PRPL_API_VERSION, and GAIM_LOADER_API_VERSION constants.
2531 * Zephyr error reporting works (Arun A. Tharuvai)
2532 * Zephyr deals with non-utf8 characters (Arun A. Tharuvai)
2535 * Formatting in the Log viewer is fixed (Kevin Stange)
2536 * Save Conversation works again (Kevin Stange)
2537 * The Clear button in privacy works (Robert Mibus)
2538 * MSN error reporting works again (Stu Tomlinson)
2539 * MSN e-mail notifications should no longer cause Gaim to crash
2541 * Fixed an infinite loop bug that would sometimes cause MSN to lock
2542 up (Nickolai Zeldovich)
2543 * All away messages should now show up in tooltips
2544 * Removing zephyr buddies no longer crashes (Arun A. Tharuvai)
2546 version 0.76 (04/01/2004):
2548 * WYSIWYG text input (with much help from Gary Kramlich and Kevin
2550 * Ability to be invisible on AIM
2551 * Chatroom list support (Tim Ringenbach)
2552 * Added auto-completion for screen names to the New Instant Message and
2553 Get User Info dialogs.
2554 * Non-ascii character support in AIM chats (Uli Luckas and Marco Ziech)
2555 * Vastly improved browser opening, with tab support! (Nathan
2557 * Added support for connecting to MSN using the port 80 method.
2558 * Support for Mozilla Firefox (Chris Friesen and Nathan Fredrickson)
2559 * Added protocol-specific preferences (Gary Kramlich)
2560 * Local IP address information can be changed in Preferences
2562 * Improved local IP address detection (Tim Ringenbach)
2563 * Offline accounts in account drop-down lists are now greyed (Etan
2565 * Improved accessibility support for screen readers and other
2566 accessibility tools (Marc Mulcahy)
2567 * Improved accessibility in conversation windows (Nathan Fredrickson)
2568 * Keyboard access to context menus via Shift+F10 (Marc Mulcahy)
2569 * Core/UI split event loop code. (Scott Lamb)
2570 * Added improvements to the multi-field request code, including
2571 required fields and account fields.
2572 * Moved more dialogs to the request API for interface consistency
2573 (Send Message, Get User Info, and Insert Link dialogs)
2574 * Jabber file transfer
2575 * IRC file transfer (Tim Ringenbach)
2576 * Added a hidden preference for disabling buddy list tooltips or
2577 changing the pop-up delay in prefs.xml.
2578 * Moved translation news to po/ChangeLog
2581 * Changes in AIM/ICQ server-side buddy lists take
2582 precedence over the local buddy list
2583 * Significant work on the Zephyr plugin (Arun A. Tharuvai)
2584 * You can now use :/ as a smiley safely (Nathan Owens)
2585 * Various buffer overflow fixes (Stefan Esser)
2586 * Tabs now stay green when they are supposed to (Etan Reisner)
2587 * Fixed a bug where only the first user in a chat room list was removed
2588 sometimes when trying to remove a group of users (Tim Ringenbach)
2589 * Clearing an AIM buddy icon actually removes it from the server,
2590 icons changes in the account editor do not take effect if the
2591 cancel button is used (Stu Tomlinson)
2592 * Improved chat parting logic (Tim Ringenbach)
2593 * Yet Another IRC channel user duplication bugfix (Tim Ringenbach)
2594 * Deleting an account while modifying it will no longer crash gaim.
2595 * Only one account preference window will now appear per account when
2597 * Aliases are now shown alongside the screen name in the message
2598 queue window. (Kevin Stange).
2599 * TCL Plugin API changed
2600 * The mobile icon on MSN users is now removed when the person disables
2601 mobile paging (Stu Tomlinson)
2602 * Removing invalid buddies in MSN with a space in their name no longer
2603 causes a disconnect (Stu Tomlinson)
2604 * Multiple MSN chats should now work (Robert Mibus)
2605 * Added new MSN error codes and fixed an incorrect one (Stu Tomlinson)
2606 * Incoming colors are now processed correctly in MSN.
2607 * Conversation placement by account now works correctly with both
2608 chats and IMs, and takes the Combine Chats and IMs option into
2610 * Minor tweaks to the list box in the multi-field request dialogs
2611 so they work without a label and scrollbar (Pekka Riikonen)
2612 * Hitting enter in a multi-field request dialog when a textfield has
2613 the focus no longer ignores the changed text in the textfield
2615 * The Disconnect dialog no longer raises and gains focus each time
2616 a disconnected account is added (Ka-Hing Cheung)
2617 * Gadu-Gadu might actually connect again (Ignacy Gawedzki)
2618 * Buddy pounces for an account are removed when the account is
2619 deleted (Gary Kramlich)
2620 * Various bug and memory leak fixes (Gary Kramlich)
2621 * Assorted SSL crashfixes
2622 * --enable-debug no longer breaks compilation when using gtk 2.4,
2623 which also broke garnome.
2624 * Tooltips shouldn't crash now (Daniel Atallah)
2626 version 0.75 (01/09/2004):
2627 * New Yahoo! auth method
2628 * Yahoo! file transfer (Tim Ringenbach)
2629 * Yahoo! chat joining fixes (Tim Ringenbach)
2630 * Persons can auto-expand when hovering your mouse over it
2631 * Improved i18n support for MSN email notification (Felipe Contreras)
2632 * Jabber SASL PLAIN support
2633 * Improved Jabber MUC (Chat) support
2634 * Fixed an MSN login bug some people likely experienced (Felipe
2636 * Touch-up various dialogs to follow the Gnome Human Interface
2637 Guidelines more closely (Steven Garrity, Nathan Fredrickson, and
2639 * Works better with all-black gtk themes (Etan Reisner)
2640 * Mozilla Firebird support (Chris (darth_sebulba04))
2642 version 0.74 (11/25/2003):
2643 * Sort-by-size log sorting fix
2644 * Log directory umask fix for users of gaim-remote
2645 * Fix Jabber room creation on MUC servers.
2647 version 0.73 (11/21/2003):
2648 * New Logging format and code:
2649 * fixes i18n issues with logs
2650 * compatible with old logs
2651 * hopefully fixes segfault in viewing logs
2652 * New disconnected account dialog (Thanks, Daniel Atallah)
2653 * Fixes several Jabber bugs
2654 * Fixes the bug where some dialogs would crash when spell checking was
2655 enabled. Closes #827930.
2656 * Fixed unblocking of users in MSN (Robert Mibus)
2657 * Fixes outgoing mobile pages on MSN.
2658 * The border on the close buttons on inactive tabs are no longer shown,
2659 thanks to a fix used by Galeon.
2660 * Compatible with autoconf 2.58.
2661 * Cleaned up gtkspell-related code (Robert McQueen)
2662 * Changed the parameters for the received-chat-msg signal.
2663 * Added a Release Notification plugin
2665 version 0.72 (10/31/2003):
2666 * Added a search feature to conversations.
2667 * Added an option to remove the formatting toolbar, both globally and
2668 on a per-window basis (Nathan Fredrickson)
2669 * Added a drop shadow to the buddy list tooltip
2670 * Smileys are copyable
2671 * Fixed the ICQ login crash
2672 * Fixed a crash in the Add Chat dialog when selecting an
2673 account that doesn't support chats. Closes bug #821606.
2674 * Fixed a bug where new MSN accounts without buddies added wouldn't
2676 * Fixed a crash when deleting an account that has IMs or chats open.
2678 * Smileys have background colors
2679 * If SSL is not enabled, MSN will load, but error on connect.
2680 * Disable Jabber SASL auth until the standard stabilizes
2682 version 0.71 (10/09/2003):
2683 * The right-click menu for e-mail links now presents a "Copy E-Mail
2685 * Fix sort by idle to behave as it did pre-contact support (David
2687 * Display AIM away messages in the tooltip for buddies when
2689 * Support for Buddy Comments for AIM and ICQ buddies
2690 * Window icons are now set as buddy icons or status icons
2691 * Get User Info in MSN and Yahoo now return an error indicating that
2692 the information doesn't exist if the profile is empty (parts by
2694 * Added startup notification support for window managers that support it
2695 * The protocol icon for an account in the accounts window will now
2696 "pulse" when signing the account on.
2697 * Zephyr formatting fixes (Arun A. Tharuvai)
2698 * Zephyr can connect to chats (Karsten Huneycutt)
2699 * SSL support can now be provided by third party plugins.
2700 * Multiple copies of gaim installed at different locations no
2701 longer attempt to load the same, possibly incompatible plugins
2703 * Implemented another new Yahoo! authentication method
2704 * Fixed a bug displaying Chinese MSN messages (Ambrose C. LI).
2705 * Additional fixes and checks for the perl build process (Sean Burke).
2706 * Massive core/UI splitting.
2707 * Re-write of Jabber protocol plugin
2708 * Conversation API changes.
2709 * Some plugins must be updated due to code variable changes,
2710 function name changes, and change of behavior for certain
2713 version 0.70 (09/28/2003):
2714 * Implemented Yahoo's new authentication method (Cerulean Studios)
2715 * Protocol plugins that have plugin dependencies now load correctly.
2716 * Perl installs where it's told to a bit more correctly.
2717 * Robert "Robot101" McQueen cleaned and core/UI split IM
2720 version 0.69 (09/24/2003):
2721 * Added Contact (aka Person, aka Meta-Contact, aka Buddy Merging, etc)
2723 * Added MSN 6 smileys.
2724 * Added animated smiley support (Ka-Hing Cheung)
2725 * Added SSL support, compatible with GNUTLS and Mozilla NSS.
2727 * Added support for gettext 0.12.x.
2728 * Updated MSN support to the MSN Protocol version 9.
2729 * Jabber now supports SSL
2730 * Yahoo now shows people using the java chat client (Tim Ringenbach)
2731 * Yahoo chat and conference (Tim Ringenbach)
2732 * Yahoo ignore support (Jesse Farmer (farmerje))
2733 * Yahoo idle times displayed, long buddy lists work, sms users,
2734 and other improvements (Tim Ringenbach)
2735 * The accounts window now shows offline accounts as greyed out, and
2736 online accounts as colored.
2737 * Fixed the text replacement plugin.
2738 * Fixed all known signal problems in perl.
2739 * The right-click menu for conversation tabs now shows the tab icon
2740 and status, if tab icons are enabled. (Jesse Farmer)
2742 version 0.68 (09/01/2003):
2743 * Removed the old event system and replaced it with a much better
2745 * Added plugin dependency support.
2746 * Rewrote the Perl plugin. All old scripts will break, but it offers
2747 a much better API for new scripts.
2748 * Yahoo color support (Tim Ringenbach (marv_sf))
2749 * Yahoo and MSN get info support (Nathan Poznick)
2750 * Fixed Jabber registrations.
2751 * Fixed a problem where pouncing two users with the same name
2752 appeared in the same conversation window, and other related
2753 problems. (Robot101)
2754 * Corrected problems with proxy preferences.
2755 * Mailchk.c and simple.c compile again (Paul A (darkrain))
2757 version 0.67 (08/14/2003):
2758 * Brought back the message notification plugin (Brian Tarricone)
2759 You'll need to reconfigure your settings for this plugin
2760 * IRC protocol plugin rewritten (Ethan Blanton)
2761 * New IRC protocol icon (Nuno Donato)
2762 * Protocol and status icons now optionally appear on tabs.
2764 * Various dialog rewrites (Jabber vCard, Add Group, Alias Chat,
2765 Rename Group, Privacy)
2766 * Shows "hiptop" icon for AIM buddies using hiptop
2767 devices (Robey Pointer)
2768 * Privacy core/UI split.
2769 * Conversation placement by group now applies to chats in the buddy
2771 * Events in a conversation (user logged in, logged out, window closed,
2772 etc.) now grey the tab.
2773 * Various bug fixes (larne from irc, Tim Ringenbach, Bjoern
2774 Voigt, Paul A (darkrain))
2776 version 0.66 (07/18/2003):
2777 * Freebsd compile fix (Matthew Luckie)
2778 * .spec file improvements (Ethan Blanton)
2779 * Added a gaim-remote man page (Robert McQueen)
2780 * The Remote Control plugin no longer adds duplicate groups to your
2782 * Servers and ports are now imported correctly in MSN.
2783 * Core/UI split the core initialization and shutdown.
2784 * MSN messages with newlines are now sent correctly to MSN clients.
2785 * Fix some sound initialization stuff
2786 * Fix saving and import of default away message
2788 version 0.65 (07/16/2003):
2789 * Massive internal core/ui splitting
2790 * New account dialog
2791 * Preferences moved to ~/.gaim/prefs.xml
2792 * Account information moved to ~/.gaim/accounts.xml
2793 * Pounces moved to ~/.gaim/pounces.xml
2794 * Added protocol icons to various drop-down boxes
2795 * New Send IM buddy icon merged from Ximian Desktop 2
2796 * Fixed "Sort by Status" crash
2797 * Fixed the MSN signon crash
2798 * Fixed the MSN add buddy crash
2799 * Fixed the MSN empty buddy list bug
2800 * Fixed all known MSN chat bugs
2801 * Fixed HTTP redirect handling in smiley retrieval. This fixes the
2802 problems with some smiley themes.
2803 * Chats in MSN can now be initiated by right-clicking a buddy and
2804 choosing Initiate Chat.
2805 * MSN Alerts and incoming MSN pages no longer pop up several error
2807 * Ability to view iChat "Available" messages for AIM
2808 * Stores your buddy icon on the server for AIM
2809 * Support for non-ascii characters with Yahoo! Messenger
2810 * Focus returns to the input box when you click elsewhere, like it used
2812 * New typing notification icons from Ximian
2814 version 0.64 (05/29/2003):
2815 * Buddy list sorting in buddy list preferences.
2816 * Improved debug window with timestamps and pause buttons.
2817 * New core/ui split notification and request APIs.
2818 * New mail notification dialog.
2819 * Several bug fixes in MSN.
2820 * Conversation window buddy icon bugs were fixed.
2822 version 0.63 (05/16/2003):
2823 * A rewrite of the plugin API. Plugin authors will need to change their
2824 code based off the changes found in other plugins.
2825 * Perl script support is now provided in the perl plugin.
2826 * Debugging is core/ui split, and has a new API with support for
2827 debug levels and categories.
2828 * Support for adding chats to your buddy list.
2829 * MSN protocol plugin was rewritten, has experimental buddy icon
2830 support, and MSN Mobile support.
2831 * Buddy list speed enhancements (Thanks Ethan Blanton).
2832 * Napster protocol updates (Thanks Auke Kok).
2834 version 0.62 (04/23/2003):
2835 * Keyboard shortcuts in the buddy list work again (Thanks Joe
2837 * Support for Jabber XHTML messages
2838 * Ability to re-request authorization from ICQ and Jabber users by right
2839 clicking on them in your buddy list.
2840 * Improved Zephyr internationalization.
2841 * Bug causing 'Hide on Send' windows to be lost forever fixed.
2842 * Iconified windows are now raised properly.
2843 * Dates printed for old/offline messages.
2844 * Some assorted crash bugs fixed.
2846 version 0.61 (04/07/2003):
2847 * Split the buddy pounce core and UI, and rewrote the UI for it.
2848 * Removed folder icons and excess space from the buddy list (Thanks
2850 * Fixed a bug involving dragging buddies and groups
2851 * Re-implemented the logout icons.
2852 * New icons for "away" and "aol" (Thanks, Moses Lei)
2854 version 0.60 (04/04/2003):
2856 * Auto-loading protocol plugins.
2857 * Plugins dialog and perl script menu merged into preferences.
2858 * Don't auto-login if an existing Gaim session is already
2860 * Moved "privacy preferences" to Tools menu.
2861 * -n, --loginwin option to disable autologins.
2862 * Added support for gettext 0.11.x.
2863 * Added support for automake 1.6.
2864 * aim:// URI's supported with gaim-remote command.
2865 * Quit Gaim remotely with gaim-remote. (Thanks, John Silvestri)
2866 * Added rudimentary support for X11R6 session management. (Thanks,
2868 * Conversation backend and UI are now separated. (Thanks,
2870 * Asynchronous, non-blocking, DNS function (Thanks, Nicolas
2872 * As a side effect of the above: IPv6 support. Tested only with IRC
2873 (you can receive ipv6 chat requests from irssi!).
2876 * Tray icon plugin--replaces the old GNOME applet. You'll need
2877 the panel Notification Area applet (aka system-tray-applet)
2878 for GNOME 2, or the Kicker for KDE 3.1. (Thanks, Robert
2879 McQueen, Nicolás Lichtmaier, Kristian Rietveld, Ari Pollak &
2881 * Added GAIM::remove_event_handler and made set_info short
2882 circuitable in perl. (Thanks, Ryan McCabe)
2883 * event_del_conversation for plugins. (Thanks, Bill Tompkins)
2884 * Notify.c plugin rewritten; check its configure dialog. (Thanks,
2886 * Buddy Ticker made a plugin.
2887 * Idle Maker added to source.
2888 * Fortune profile added to source.
2891 * TOC no longer compiles statically by default--use OSCAR.
2892 * ICQ plugin no longer gets built--use OSCAR.
2893 * Server-stored buddy lists for ICQ with full support for
2894 authorization (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
2895 * File send/receive support for Aim over Oscar (Thanks, William T.
2896 Mahan and Mark Doliner)
2897 * Non-direct connect typing notification for AIM over OSCAR.
2898 (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
2899 * Allow only people in buddy list privacy option added for AIM.
2900 * Full ICQ info reading support. (Thanks, Vincas Ciziunas)
2901 * Support for synchronizing group renames on server. Group
2902 rename server synchronization for AIM. Server-side
2903 synchronization for moving individual AIM buddy to new
2904 group improved. (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
2905 * Ability to add screenname@mac.com people to AIM buddy lists.
2906 (Thanks, Graham Booker)
2907 * Ability to change ICQ password. (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
2908 * Option to have AIM notify you if you have
2909 unread mail. (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
2910 * Parse URL messages, Contact Sending and Pager Messages
2911 in ICQ. (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
2912 * use snprintf instead of sprintf. (Thanks, William T. Mahan)
2913 * Fixed crashbug on empty rvous requests. (Thanks Brandon Scott
2914 (Xeon) for pointing this out, and Matt Pandina for the patch)
2915 * Nice Oscar changes--mostly internal. (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
2918 * Added more IRC slash commands -- /W, /VERSION, /MODE, /CTCP stuff,
2919 -- and other cool IRC enhancments. (Thanks, Jonas Birmé)
2920 * IRC's /topic with no argument displays the current topic (Thanks,
2922 * DCC File Receive support for IRC.
2923 * Optional password on IRC accounts. (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
2924 * Added half-op support.
2927 * Jabber invisibility and permanently cancel sending on-
2928 line status to Jabber buddies.
2929 * Jabber roster updated on group renames.
2930 * Fixed a possible segfault when signing off Jabber. (Thanks,
2932 * Improved typing notification support for Jabber and
2933 Yahoo! (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
2934 * File receive support for Jabber. (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
2937 * MSN users are notified when the other party closes the conversation
2938 window. (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
2939 * File receive support for MSN. (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
2941 Internationalization:
2942 * Now using libiconv for better i18n support (Thanks, Junichi
2944 * Lots of i18n fixes (Thanks Matt Wilson, Ethan Blanton, A Lee)
2945 * Correct i18n handling for many parts of AIM/ICQ, including
2946 instant messages, away messages, and profiles (Thanks,
2948 * Improved MSN internationalization (Thanks, A Lee)
2951 * Optionally uniquely colorize nicks in chats
2952 * Add / Remove buddy menu item added to the chat users list
2953 (Thanks, Jonas Birmé)
2954 * View log button in conversation toolbar (Thanks, Etan Reisner)
2955 * Option to log IMs and Chats seperately. (Thanks, Etan
2957 * Removed Ctrl-C binding for color
2958 * Fix first message in tab not displaying bug (Thanks, Etan Reisner)
2959 * Changed some default options
2960 * Updated desktop and window icons (Thanks, Robert McQueen)
2961 * Switch the .desktop file to the new KDE/GNOME common vfolder
2962 format (Thanks, Robert McQueen)
2963 * Removed all deprecated GTK calls. Now 100% GTK 2. (Thanks Nathan
2964 Walp, Christian Hammond, Ari Pollak, Ethan Blanton, Robert McQueen)
2965 * Read proxy environment variables. (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
2966 * Fixed security vulnerability with manual browser option (Thanks,
2968 * Can get info for ICQ and Jabber users from the "Edit
2969 Buddies" tab (Thanks, Brian Bernas)
2970 * Code cleanups and fixes (Thanks, Federico Mena Quintero and
2972 * Word-wrapping on mail notification text (Thanks, Andrew Molloy)
2973 * Generic File Transfer PRPL interface (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
2974 * Better supression of auto-responses (Thanks, Joshua Blanton)
2975 * Drag-and-drop tabs in conversations, and multiple windows with tabs
2976 in each (Thanks, Christian Hammond)
2978 version 0.59.9 (03/01/2003):
2979 * Updated zh_TW.po file (Thanks breeze833)
2980 * Fix an oscar bug that caused some messages from
2981 AOL 8.0 to be dropped (Thanks Mark Doliner)
2982 * Changed "openprojects" to "freenode" in irc.c
2983 * Fixed charset conversion on systems which use a BOM for UCS-4
2984 (Thanks, Alfredo Pen~a, Ethan Blanton)
2985 * Fixed a typo in the man page (Thanks Eric S. Raymond)
2987 version 0.59.8 (01/06/2003):
2988 * Ripped out all gtk2 support (Thanks Nathan Walp).
2989 * Fixed smiley related segfault (Thanks Robert McQueen)
2990 * Yahoo! can connect again
2992 version 0.59.7 (12/21/2002):
2993 * Yahoo i18n fix (Thanks Ethan Blanton).
2994 * Fixed a bug in escaping saved passwords (Thanks
2996 * Fixed an overflow bug in perl script autoloading
2997 (Thanks David Kaelbling)
2998 * Some build fixes for those using stricter compilers,
2999 notably MIPSpro (Thanks David Kaelbling)
3000 * Fixed a bad argument to accept() calls (Thanks David
3002 * Fixed crashbug on empty rvous requests (Thanks Brandon Scott (Xeon))
3003 for being the first to point this out.
3005 version 0.59.6 (11/07/2002):
3006 * Fixed a segfault introduced in 0.59.5 when gtk
3007 fails to read the ~/.gtkrc or reads it but fails
3008 to create a style from it.
3009 * Jabber conference timestamps are no longer gigantic
3011 version 0.59.5 (10/14/2002):
3012 * Fixed a Yahoo! segfault (Thanks, Craig Metz)
3014 version 0.59.4 (10/06/2002):
3015 * Removed color keybinnding altogether.
3016 * Added a horizontal scrollbar to Edit page of
3017 buddy list. (Thanks, David Fallon)
3018 * Various bug fixes ((Thanks to (in no particular order)
3019 Ethan Blanton, Mark Doliner, Luke Schierer)
3020 * i18n fixes (thanks, A Lee)
3022 version 0.59.3 (09/14/2002):
3023 * Reversed patch that accidentally caused Yahoo
3024 not to connect--for implementation reasons
3025 * Changed "color" binding to Ctrl-K.
3026 * Unaliaising a person in the "Online" tab will show up
3027 in the "Edit" tab as well (Thanks, Jason Willis)
3028 * Internationalization fixes, esp. with UTF-8 locales
3029 (Thanks Matt Wilson and Ethan Blanton)
3031 version 0.59.2 (09/09/2002):
3032 * Japanese translation updated (Thanks, Junichi Uekawa)
3033 * Won't crash when you set your MSN Friendly name to an
3035 * Default manual browser command changed to reflect the
3037 * Fixed the non-manual browser settings which were broke in
3038 0.59.1 (Thanks, Chris Blizzard)
3039 * Improved MSN internationalization (Thanks A Lee)
3040 * Smiley lookup will search for longest match for smilies
3041 like :-(( (Thanks Eric Melski)
3042 * When an IM image is clicked, don't open the browser (Thanks
3044 * Prevent a possible crash in unhide_buddy_list() (Thanks Ari
3046 * Fixed a compilation problem on systems without iconv.
3047 * GtkIMHtml can be set to render font sizes as point size
3048 or AIMish relative sizes -- no more huge Yahoo fonts. (Thanks
3050 * Fixed a bug with regard to Jabber resources (Thanks Nathan
3052 * Fixed a possible segfault when signing off Jabber (Thanks
3054 * Word-wrapping on mail notification text (Thanks, Andrew Molloy)
3055 * Strip trailing and leading spaces from MSN/Yahoo names (Thanks,
3058 version 0.59.1 (08/25/2002):
3059 * Created a gtk1-stable branch for GTK+ 1.2 bugfix releases.
3060 Development will continue in our main branch in GTK+ 2 only.
3061 * Fixed a security bug in the manual browser setting (Thanks
3063 * Now using libiconv for better i18n support (Thanks Junichi
3065 * Will work with Perl 5.8 (thanks, Timothy Lee and Dan
3067 * Fix for HTTP proxies (thanks, Ethan Blanton)
3068 * Read proxy environment variables. (thanks, Christian Hammond)
3069 * Use the pretty gaim.png for our menu entry.
3070 * Added support for gettext 0.11.x.
3072 version 0.59 (06/24/2002):
3073 * Squashed a bug in buddy right-click menu handling
3074 that crashed Gaim. In the process: found and
3075 eliminated some memory leaks.
3076 * Fixed a significant applet leak
3077 * Can now change Jabber password on server (Thanks,
3079 * Certain types of Jabber presence errors no longer
3080 falsely show a buddy on-line. Instead now a "broken
3081 light-bulb" icon is shown and the error status is
3082 available via "Get Away Msg" (Thanks and a tip o'
3083 the hat to Christian Hammond for the graphic)
3084 * Conversation struct has pointer to toolbar (thanks Brent
3085 Priddy and Paul Miller)
3086 * Zephyr fixes (thanks, Arun A. Tharuvai)
3087 * Aliases in buddy ticker
3088 * Perl scripts can play Gaim sounds (thanks Andrew Rodland)
3089 * Internal sounds can be played by commands (thanks Lex Spoon)
3090 * Auto-login item in applet menu (thanks Chris Boyle)
3091 * Fixed MSN "Unkown Error Code", "Already there", and
3092 "Already in opposite list" errors
3093 * Changed "Play sound" button to "Mute" button
3094 * You can now have "reserved" chars in IM and proxy passwords
3095 * Jabber now has typing notification (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
3096 * Improved support for Jabber resources (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
3097 * Fixed problem with Gaim crashing on non-ASCII Jabber buddy
3098 aliases (Jabber "name" attribute) chars (Thanks, Ho-seok Lee)
3099 * Plugged memory leaks in Jabber plug-in
3100 * Fixed problem with Jabber away status not being propagated to
3101 conference rooms for jabberd (server) v1.4.2 and above
3102 * Chat room buddy lists are now sorted independent of case
3103 * Added capability for protocol-specific edit buddy menu entries
3104 * Can now remove a Jabber buddy roster item from the server
3106 * Gaim can now handle messages from Mac ICQ and Miranda ICQ
3107 (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3108 * Added Mozilla to browser options and changed KFM to
3110 * Can now set the server and port for MSN and Napster
3111 * MSN Internationalization (Thanks Felipe Contreras and
3112 countless, countless others)
3113 * E-mail addresses are no longer truncated when there is a '.' at
3116 version 0.58 (05/13/2002):
3117 * Better applet transparency
3118 * Option to raise buddy list on signons/signoffs
3119 * Formatting of incoming MSN messages
3120 * Get Info from menu multiple-account-aware (thanks
3122 * Hide and unhide functions for the filectl plugin.
3123 (Thanks, Ari Pollak)
3124 * Added helpful stuff to the Help menu.
3125 * Self-aliasing from the account editor.
3126 * Better selection in GtkIMHtml (Thanks Ben Miller)
3127 * A warning when your OSCAR buddy list is too long
3128 (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3129 * ICQ status messages in OSCAR (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3130 * Play sound when your name is said in a chat
3131 * Approval dialog for Jabber when somebody wants to
3132 subscribe to user's presence. Also gives user the
3133 opportunity to add that buddy if not already on the
3135 * Jabber "Change buddy group" roster synchronization now
3136 works again. (This was unknowingly broken when the
3137 "out-sourced" Jabber libs were upgraded in 0.56)
3138 * Invalid Jabber I.D.'s no longer crash Gaim. User now
3139 notified with pop-up's.
3140 * Jabber Buddy sign-on time support, added in 0.57,
3141 removed until and unless and inconsistency can be
3142 resolved. (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
3143 * Bug-fix for potential buffer overflow in Jabber
3144 plugin. (Thanks, rwscott)
3145 * Tempfiles used for secure MSN/HotMail login (added in
3146 0.57) are now themselves created securely.
3147 * Secure MSN logins (added in 0.57) no longer blow up
3149 * Timezone support improved.
3151 version 0.57 (04/25/2002):
3152 * New authorization method for Yahoo!
3153 * Jabber will tell you when your buddies signed on (Thanks
3155 * Jabber improvements (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
3156 * More keyboard shortcuts
3157 * event_chat_recv takes char**'s, and event_im_recv takes
3158 a *guint32 for flags
3159 * Secure hotmail login for MSN (thanks for the tips,
3162 version 0.56 (04/11/2002):
3163 * Shell-like send history binded to Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down
3164 * libjabber upgraded to most recent stable version
3165 * Buddylist looks a little better
3166 * Fixed MSN privacy settings
3167 * Group deletion fix (Thanks Mark Doliner)
3168 * Alias/Group syncronization for Jabber (Thanks JSeymour)
3169 * Fixed broken signal handling in gdm-started GNOME sessions
3170 (Thanks Jim Seymour, Vann, Robert McQueen)
3171 * Oscar group syncronization (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3172 * ICQ Authorization via Oscar (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
3174 version 0.55 (03/29/2002):
3175 * Jabber improvements (Thanks Jim Seymour)
3176 * Various sound cleanups (Thanks Robert McQueen)
3177 * Login process shown in single window (Thanks Michael
3179 * Can reorder your accounts in the account editor (Thanks
3181 * Shows "mobile" icon for Oscar buddies using mobile
3182 devices (Thanks Mark Doliner)
3183 * Fixed bug in MSN smilies that crashed PPC (and other?) platforms
3184 * HTTP Proxy settings now HTTP compliant (Thanks Robert McQueen)
3185 * Speling corections (Thanks Tero Kuusela)
3186 * Oscar list icon fixes (Thanks Mark Doliner)
3187 * Oscar idle times work again (Thanks Mark Doliner)
3188 * Protocol icons on Edit Buddies tab (Thanks Christian Hammond)
3190 version 0.54 (03/14/2002):
3191 * Compiles without GdkPixbuf again
3192 * GtkIMHtml will refresh when you set a new GTK+ theme
3193 * Improved Yahoo! typing notification (thanks Brian Macke)
3194 * Prompt to authorize MSN buddies who added you while you
3195 were offline (Thanks Jason Willis)
3196 * Option to globally disable Buddy Icon animation (Thanks
3199 * Yahoo! will tell you when your buddies are playing Yahoo!
3200 games and give you the ability to join them
3201 * Yahoo! can receive offline messages
3202 * IRC can do DCC chat.
3203 * IRC will convert HTML formatting to mIRC formatting.
3204 * Buddylist tab placement option (Thanks Jason Willis)
3205 * Protocol specific smiley faces
3208 version 0.53 (02/28/2002):
3209 * Minor bug fixes re: queued away messages
3210 * Better buddy icon transparency (for real this time ;-))
3211 * Ability to change formatting of Oscar screen name
3212 * Better selection in HTML widget (Thanks BMiller)
3213 * New icons for ICQ (Thanks Kevin Miller)
3214 * Editable buddy pounces (Thanks Jason Willis)
3215 * Server side buddy lists in Oscar (Thanks Mark Doliner :-))
3216 * Fix for the chatlist plugin
3217 * Typing Notification (AIM Direct Connect, Yahoo, MSN)
3218 * IM Images (Receive Only)
3219 * Prettier GtkImHtml selection
3220 * Better buddy icon transparency (for real this time ;-) )
3222 version 0.52 (02/17/2002):
3223 * Better buddy icon transparency (thanks SeanEgan)
3224 * Fixed a little bug with connecting via proxy (thanks
3225 for reminding me of this, Manish Singh)
3226 * Yahoo! Messenger works again
3228 * Can register a new user with a Jabber Server (JSeymour)
3229 * Can now set Jabber vCards (JSeymour)
3230 * Jabber vCards are now shown in their entirety (JSeymour)
3231 * Various jabber bug fixes/enhancements (JSeymour)
3233 version 0.51 (01/24/2002):
3234 * Arrow buttons in log viewer and some other dialogs
3235 work (thanks Ben Miller)
3236 * Option to only send auto-response while idle (thanks
3238 * Control time between sending auto-responses (thanks
3240 * Should be able to sign on to Oscar using Mac OS X
3241 (thanks Fingolfin, Vincas Ciziunas, et al.)
3243 version 0.50 (12/14/2001):
3244 * Able to import GnomeICU contact lists
3245 * Galeon as browser option (Thanks Rob McQueen)
3246 * IRC /list, /invite (Thanks Sean Egan)
3247 * Option to have IMs and Chats tabbed in same window
3248 * Finally put the lagmeter plugin out of its misery and
3249 removed it. (/me dances on its grave.)
3251 version 0.49 (11/29/2001):
3252 * Can compile against GTK+ 2.0 (version 1.3.10/1.3.11)
3253 * Confirm before removing buddies
3254 * Yahoo updates (thanks Brian Macke)
3256 * Zephyr updates (thanks Arun A Tharuvai)
3257 * Gadu-Gadu updates (thanks Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
3258 * Option to show aliases in conversation tabs
3259 * Option to hide windows after sending messages
3260 * licq2gaim.pl conversion script (thanks Arturo Cisneros, Jr.)
3262 version 0.48 (11/18/2001):
3263 * Right-click on links to open/copy URL
3265 * Oscar can send/receive offline messages in ICQ. Since the "real"
3266 ICQ protocol isn't working too well it's recommended that you
3269 version 0.47 (11/01/2001):
3270 * Better font loading (pays attention to charset now)
3271 (thanks Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
3272 * Better recoding in Gadu-Gadu (thanks Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
3273 * Open Mail button for when you get new mail (Yahoo and MSN)
3274 * New buddy pounce option: Popup Notification
3275 * When adding a buddy, the groups list now updates when you switch
3277 * When creating a new buddy pounce, gaim now automagically
3278 selects "on away" or "on idle", if the user is away
3280 * Add Opera to the available browsers (thanks Brian Enigma)
3281 * Improved log viewer (thanks to Ben Miller)
3282 * When you are queueing away messages, double clicking on
3283 a buddy's name will cause the messages for that name to be
3285 * You can choose which sound player you use at run-time
3287 * When someone adds you to their buddy list, it asks if you want
3288 to add them as well (Yahoo, ICQ, and MSN) (thanks Nathan Walp)
3289 * Option to grey idle buddies (thanks Nathan Walp)
3290 * MSN Privacy Options
3291 * In MSN you can set a person's alias to their "friendly name" by
3292 right-click on their name while they're online.
3294 * The usual bug fixes and memory leak plugs
3296 version 0.46 (10/18/2001):
3297 * New applet icons (courtesy David Raeman)
3298 * ICQ works on big-endian platforms, e.g. sparc and ppc
3299 (thanks to Nathan Walp and Ben Miller)
3300 * Better applet icon drawing (thanks to Ari Pollak)
3301 * An extraordinary number of bug fixes
3302 * Ability to stop animation on buddy icons, restart animation,
3303 hide certain buddy icons, and save people's buddy icons, all
3304 through a right-click menu
3305 * Event handlers in perl passed arguments as elements of
3306 an array rather than all concatenated as a string, making
3307 perl much easier to use (thanks Dennis Lambe Jr.)
3308 * Can pass an argument to timeout_handlers in perl
3309 (thanks Artem Litvinovich)
3310 * Redesigned Modify Account window (thanks Sean Egan)
3311 * Add buddy dialog now lets you select which protocol
3313 * Pressing 'signon' on the first screen for accounts that
3314 do not require passwords no longer incorrectly displays
3317 version 0.45 (10/04/2001):
3318 * New plugin event: event_chat_send_invite
3319 * Major updates to the perl system (reread PERL-HOWTO and
3321 * Major updates to event_chat_* events for plugins (reread
3323 * Some GtkIMHtml improvements
3325 * Nick Highlighting in chat
3326 * Tab-completion for nicks in chat (thanks to Sean Egan)
3327 * Large internal reworkings
3328 * New Protocol: Gadu-Gadu, written by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
3329 * Can choose buddy icon to send (for Oscar)
3331 version 0.44 (09/20/2001):
3332 * More sane scaling of buddy icons (intelligently scale to
3333 either 48x48 or 50x50 depending on icon)
3334 * Have you ever had it happen where you cancel a login and
3335 Gaim starts using all the available processing power? I
3337 * Temporarily removed Jabber user registration, which wasn't
3339 * Added a spiffy Help button
3340 * Wrote a plugin for all those people who miss having the
3341 chat rooms in their buddy lists (chatlist.so)
3343 * Added drop down selection to chat invitation
3344 * Improved the look of the chat invitation dialog
3345 * Improved the look of the proxy preferences
3346 * event_im_recv and event_im_display_rcvd passed whether
3347 the message received was auto-response (see SIGNALS)
3348 * IRC fixes (largly copied from X-Chat)
3349 * Internal change to how preferences are stored
3351 * Option to hide buddy icons
3353 version 0.43 (09/06/2001):
3354 * Can change friendly name in MSN again
3356 * Auto-reconnect plugin has exponential timeout (i.e. it
3357 tries after 8 seconds, then 16, then 32, etc. up to 17
3359 * Removed file transfer things from Napster. It didn't work
3360 well anyway. It'll be back eventually. (Does anyone even
3361 use napster anymore?)
3363 version 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
3365 * Fixed a little segfault when images are links
3366 * Redid the about box again.
3367 * Fixed a nice little bug with the manual browser command
3368 * Oscar Unicode fix (Thanks John Matthews)
3369 * Can select which protocols are compiled statically
3370 (e.g.: ./configure --with-static-prpls=oscar,jabber)
3371 * New plugin events: event_im_displayed_sent and
3372 event_im_displayed_rcvd. Use these to change messages after
3373 they're displayed (e.g. encrypt sent messages, or send
3374 auto-responses and have them display locally properly)
3375 * Can use Arts for sound (thanks Tom Dyas)
3377 version 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
3378 * Fixed a segfault with Oscar's account confirmation
3381 * Some HTML widget changes
3382 * Can specify hosts/ports for Yahoo (thanks Jeremy Brooks)
3383 * Many many bugfixes
3385 version 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
3386 * Can view/set chat topic in Jabber (thanks faceprint)
3387 * The napster plugin no longer segfaults on invalid names
3389 * HTML is properly stripped from away messages in protocols that
3390 do not use HTML. (thanks, faceprint)
3391 * Can view/set chat topic in IRC
3392 * MSN properly escapes outgoing messages
3393 * Much needed updates to the gaim man page (thanks, Sean Egan)
3395 version 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
3396 * Fixed a funny bug with auto responses when queued messages
3398 * Redesigned the Font Options preference page
3399 * Improved Jabber chat support (it whispers now, too)
3400 * Zephyr can do Subscriptions now (thanks to nsanch)
3401 * Auto-recon plugin got reworked
3403 * Some new pixmaps (Thanks, DennisR).
3404 * Fixed a segfault in IRC (Thanks Sean Egan)
3405 * MSN can now change your 'friendly name' (Thanks for the
3406 packet logs, aechols)
3407 * More IRC improvements [colors, etc] (Thanks Sean Egan)
3408 * Improved proxy options
3409 * Fixed a small issue with HTML not being stripped from
3410 log files properly (Thanks, faceprint and David Stoddard)
3411 * Can turn on/off Yahoo! Mail announcements
3412 * Can force messages through the server for ICQ (use this if
3413 you have problems sending)
3414 * Can receive buddy icons in Oscar (requires gdk_pixbuf,
3415 which GNOME depends on. If you --disable-pixbuf, it will
3417 * Redesigned plugins dialog (thanks Mike Heffner)
3419 version 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
3420 * Zephyr updates and additions, thanks Neil Sanchala (nsanch)
3421 * Jabber can send/accept chat invites (due to mid)
3422 * MSN has the option to notify you of new hotmail
3424 * Fixed a problem with ADD requests in MSN
3425 * Fixed a small memory leak with MSN
3426 * Moved MSN's spammy debug output into debug_printf's
3427 * Can rename groups/buddies in the Edit Buddies pane
3428 (thanks Neil Sanchala)
3429 * Some perl updates (thanks to Sean Egan)
3430 * IRC got the following slash commands:
3431 op, deop, voice, devoice, mode, raw, quote, and kick (thanks
3433 * MSN Properly handles URL decoding of 'friendly' names
3434 * Redesigned Preferences pages (design by DennisR)
3435 * Can select where tabs are for tabbed IM/Chat windows
3436 * Option to queue away messages while away
3437 * Jabber got good updates (from faceprint)
3438 * Oh yes, and Oscar works, yet again. (gee... that's what, 4
3439 releases that have "fixed" it now?)
3441 version 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
3442 * Many, many bug fixes
3443 * Can choose to not send away auto-response (thanks phzzzt)
3444 * Uh... Oscar works? For now?
3445 * IRC Plugin can do whois (right click and info)
3446 * IRC Plugin got away message support
3447 * Gaim blist to WinAIM blt perl script (courtesy Andy Harrison)
3448 * Sound on buddy pounce (Thanks Andrew Echols)
3449 * Can view all group chats in one tabbed window (same keybindings
3450 as for tabbed normal conversations)
3451 * More Protocol plugins:
3452 Zephyr (plugins/zephyr) (DON'T USE THIS unless you know
3453 what it is and why you'd want to use it)
3455 version 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
3456 * Can register Jabber accounts (load the Jabber plugin and click
3457 Register on the login window)
3458 * GtkIMHtml handles themes (no background pixmaps though) (thanks
3460 * URLS Linkify properly in Buddy chats
3461 * Jabber compiles better on Solaris?
3462 * Gaim works with Oscar Again (Huge thanks to Adam Fritzler of
3465 version 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
3466 * Fixed a problem with MSN not detecting signoffs and buddy updates.
3467 * Implemented away options in MSN
3468 * Alt-[1-9] to go to [1-9]th pane in tabbed convo window
3469 * Jabber fixes, Oscar fixes (!), Yahoo fixes, TOC fixes
3470 * Can use Alt to access menu, and Ctl-char for certain actions
3472 * Oscar blocking works (?)
3473 * MSN can see status of other users
3475 version 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
3476 * Can build RPMs as non-root
3477 * New yahoo library (can use HTTP proxy)
3478 * Command-line arg to specify config file (thanks Jason Boerner)
3479 * Can view all conversations in one tabbed window (Control-[ and
3480 Control-] move left and right respectively; Control-Tab moves
3481 to the next unread, or the next tab if there are no unread tabs)
3482 * Tooltips on links work again
3483 * Can log system notices: signons/signoffs, awayness and idleness
3484 (thanks Andrew Echols)
3488 version 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
3489 * Fixed bug with NAS support
3490 * Napster plugin is included again
3491 (Thanks for pointing out that it was missing,
3493 * Oscar can: search by email, request confirmation, change password
3496 * Faster HTML parsing/rendering
3498 version 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
3500 * ICQ Alias problem fixed
3501 * Negative times fixed
3502 * Cannot create blank away messages/messages with blank titles
3503 * Can right-click Edit Buddies list to alias/add pounce/etc.
3504 * Ability to independently set accounts as away
3505 * Can use all away states for ICQ, Yahoo (N/A, Be Right Back, etc.)
3506 * Fixed hanging trees
3507 * Can close windows by hitting 'Esc' (optional)
3508 * Better HTML Widget
3509 * Can toggle timestamps by hitting F2 (optional)
3510 * Rewritten file transfer for TOC
3512 * Log Viewer (courtesy BMiller)
3513 * Can save conversation history
3514 * Napster can kinda sorta download files sometimes :)
3515 * You can activate IDs in Yahoo
3516 * ICQ upgraded to use icqlib 1.1.5
3518 version 0.11.0-pre4:
3519 * ICQ upgraded to use icqlib 1.1.0
3520 * An enormous amount of bug fixes
3521 * Even More Protocol Plugins:
3522 Jabber (plugins/jabber)
3523 Napster (plugins/napster.c)
3524 * Fixed a segfault with 'Ignore new conversations while away'
3526 version 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
3527 * Away messages arranged alphabetically (Thanks Justin)
3528 * More GUI adjustments
3529 * Can optionally run command to play sound files
3530 * Icons for ICQ plugin (blatently stolen from GnomeICU)
3531 * Icons for Yahoo plugin (not-so-blatently stolen from GTKYahoo)
3532 * Optionally display warning level next to name in buddy list
3533 * Optionally ignore fonts on incoming messages
3534 * Command-line option to automatically set yourself as
3535 away upon signon (thanks bmiller)
3536 * Buddy list backups now stored in ~/.gaim/SN.protocol.blist (gaim will
3537 move the old file for you). Needed for when you have the same name on
3538 two different protocols. (Oscar and TOC share the same file.)
3539 * More Protocol plugins:
3542 version 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
3543 * Fixed a segfault with a bad util.c
3545 version 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
3546 * Multiple connections
3551 * Logs now stored to ~/.gaim/logs rather than ~/.gaim/SN/
3552 * User configurable sounds
3553 * Scroll bar now functions properly in chat room user lists
3554 * X-Idle support added (thanks bmiller and bryner)
3555 * small change in the way away messages are displayed
3556 (Thanks Ryan C. Gordon)
3557 * Plugin system uses GModule now (improves portability, adds features)
3558 (Requires recompile and probably modifications of most plugins)
3559 * Perl got updates (reread plugins/PERL-HOWTO)
3560 * Spell checker now uses gtkspell
3561 * Auto-Away (thanks, yet again, to bmiller ;)
3562 * More buddy pounce options
3563 * Various GUI improvements
3565 version 0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
3566 * Segfault when viewing user info fixed
3567 * libdb problem fixed
3569 version 0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
3570 * A few fixes to the URL parser.
3571 * Better placement of smiley dialog
3572 * Improved log file readibility
3573 * Code cleanups (thanks kylev)
3574 * Fixed problem when closing away message box (thanks bmiller)
3575 * sprintf() problem on some systems
3576 * Various small bug fixes
3578 version 0.10.1 (09/15/2000):
3579 * Better chatroom logging
3580 * Oscar works again. Pay no attention to Slashdot.
3581 * gtkhtml handles background colours better.
3582 * A third conversation window display preference.
3583 * Better support for things like Sawfish
3585 version 0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
3586 * New Smiley Faces and Pixmaps added.
3587 * Smiley faces now properly wrap in the conversation windows.
3589 * Fixed 0-byte file segfault.
3590 * Borderless buttons (for that cool pop-up look)
3591 * Fixed some resizing bugs
3592 * Added Ctrl+{B/I/U/S} hotkeys to conversation windows.
3593 * Added Ctrl+(number) hotkeys to insert smileys in conversation windows.
3594 * Support for %n, %d, and %t in away messages. Thanks bmiller!
3596 * Redesigned preferences dialog
3597 * Redesigned conversation dialog
3598 * Removed the Lag-O-Meter (Lag-O-Meter is now a plugin)
3599 * SOCKS 4/5 proxy works
3600 * Buddy Pounces are now saved in .gaimrc
3601 * Buddy Chats are now saved in .gaimrc
3602 * Ability to merge gaim, aim2, aim4 buddylists. Thanks again bmiller!
3603 * ICQ-style aliases. This lets you change the name you see your buddy
3604 as. For example, if your buddy's SN is 'CouldntGetMyName', you can
3605 alias him as 'Loser'.
3606 * Compile with GNOME bits if available
3607 * Added GNOME Url Handler as an available web-browser
3608 * Added the S html tag.
3609 * Optionally Ignore TiK's Automated Messages
3610 * Option to beep instead of play sound
3611 * New icons for panel (depends on some GNOME pixmaps)
3612 * Perl scripting. See plugins/PERL-HOWTO for how to write perl scripts.
3613 All .pl files in ~/.gaim are autoloaded when gaim starts.
3614 * HTML widget is faster, more stable
3616 version 0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
3617 * More plugin events, more plugin features
3618 * Run-time OSCAR support
3619 * Added buddy list ticker (See prefs/Appearance). Clicking on a
3620 name will cause a new or previous IM window to display for
3622 * "You are sending messages too quickly" error is now fixed
3623 when you have a large buddylist.
3624 * Fixed the LC_ALL compile problem on Solaris boxes
3625 * Fixed PPC and ARM compile problem with oscar.c
3626 * Smileys work better, and don't cause font attributes to drop
3627 * Dialog windows are now prettier
3628 * /me in IM window; font/color dialogs and smileys in chat window
3630 version 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
3631 * Graphical Smiley Faces
3632 * Applet got a bit of a makeover (inside & out)
3633 * Compile-time options affect Preferences dialog
3634 * Whispering in chat works (does anyone even use this?)
3635 * HTML-tag buttons in chat
3636 * Chat got all kinds of new features (like IRC-sytle /me)
3637 * Chat in oscar works much better
3639 * Fixed the segfault when your server-side config is null
3640 * Many many bugfixes
3642 version 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
3643 * Logging in works better for oscar
3644 * Double error bug when sending message to an offline user is
3646 * Pressing enter once again sends a message in buddy chatrooms (oops)
3647 * More fixes for the change on the AOL sign-on process.
3648 * Fixed bug where Gaim sometimes doesn't find a font to use.
3649 * Per-conversation font and color dialogs (thanks fflewddur)
3650 * Chat in oscar works (somewhat)
3651 * Even more fixes for the sign-on process, and now you don't flash when
3652 setting permit/deny lists.
3654 version 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
3655 * Automagic feature to check for new versions has been removed
3656 * Infinite loop bug fixed
3658 version 0.9.16 (05/31/2000):
3659 * Paned buddy chat window (Thanks Syd)
3660 * Buddy lists (and changes) are cached to ~/.gaim/<sn>.blist
3661 where <sn> is your screen name. If for some reason, you log
3662 into the AOL server and the buddy list comes back empty, we
3663 check for a cache file, and, if we find one, read it in. This
3664 essentially implements recovery from a server crash at AOL
3665 (AOL does not back up machines that contain TOC-based buddy
3666 lists, unfortunately). (Thanks Syd)
3667 * Font selection dialog
3668 * Small changes to the Oscar/libfaim stuff (see libfaim/README.gaim)
3669 * SOCKS 4 proxy support
3670 * Better proxy support overall (you can get people's info now! :) )
3671 * Two-way file transfer (you can get and send files, but you still
3672 can't initiate either)
3673 * Fixed font problem with Misconfigured X-Servers. Thanks Decklin!
3674 * Fixed the No Configuration problem that came about today (5/31)
3676 version 0.9.15 (05/06/2000):
3677 * Plugin support enabled by default (oops)
3678 * Some plugins built/installed by default
3679 * Option to automagically check for new releases
3680 * Ability to receive files (one-way file transfer)
3681 * In-line spell checker (thanks to Torrey Searle of the
3682 Everybuddy Devel team for this one)
3684 version 0.9.14 (04/24/2000):
3685 * Numerous Fixes by G. Sumner Hayes (buffer over flow patches,
3687 * Paned Conversation Windows (Thanks Syd)
3688 * Raise Window On Message Received, Fixed (Thanks Syd)
3689 * When multiple screen names, Gaim now correctly remembers the name
3691 * FONT sizes now work correctly.
3692 * PLUGIN SUPPORT!! (Lots of cool goodies here)
3693 * Fixed another leak or two
3694 * Added ability to change your screenname password
3697 version 0.9.13 (03/27/2000):
3698 * Dialog Box Segfault Fixed (When You Click A Toggle Then Cancel)
3699 * Double Log-Out Message Fixed
3700 * GNOME compile error fixed
3701 * Away Message Problem Fixed
3702 * Fixed URL Right Click Menus
3703 * Conversation Loggin now shows Full Date and Time
3704 * Internal Change to Buddy List
3706 version 0.9.12 (03/25/2000):
3707 * Segfault fix for PPC/Alpha/etc machines with log(0)
3708 Thanks to Todd Cohen for this one.
3709 * Small internal change to the way prefs work
3710 * GNOME Applet support works better
3711 (thanks to Eric Warmenhoven for the patch)
3712 * Support for displaying true type fonts
3713 * Lag-O-Meter does not send lag-test if not selected
3714 * Fixed problem with saving away messages which contain spaces
3716 * Various GNOME Applet Enhancements (thanks AGAIN to
3717 Eric. Someone needs to stop this boy :-) )
3718 * A lot of random, obscure bugs fixed
3719 * All of the major and I believe all of the minor memory leaks are
3721 (Thanks to Peter Teichman, Larry Ewing, Jeramey Crawford, and me)
3723 version 0.9.11 (03/22/2000):
3724 * <STRIKE>Strike Tag Support</STRIKE> :-)
3725 * Another memory leak fix
3726 * New .gaimrc format
3727 * Better support for multiple screen names
3729 * Saving of buddylist window position
3730 * Fixed a problem with Gaim and the Netscape-branded version
3732 * New Sound Properties
3733 * More General Properties
3734 * Bigger Text-Entry field (Thanks to CrazyDavy for this one)
3735 * Various Random Bug fixes
3737 version 0.9.10 (11/03/1999):
3738 * Fixed a nasty memory leak. No more 40M Gaim processes. LOL
3739 * IDLE Times are displayed in a neater fashion.
3741 version 0.9.9 (10/31/1999):
3742 * A little selection bug has been squished
3743 * Small memory leak fixed
3744 * Small network fix (problem with HTTP Proxy fixed?)
3745 * Proxy stuff should work now :)
3746 * Widget table support, dir info looks nicer
3747 * Info box looks nicer (thanks to Decklin Foster)
3748 * Client now 'corrects' time values from the server for accurate
3750 * Lag-O-Meter (ala Drunken Jim)
3753 version 0.9.8 (10/04/1999):
3754 * HTTP Proxy Support (No SOCKS yet)
3755 * HTML Widget more robust
3756 * Graphical Debug Window
3757 * Buddylist bug fixed
3758 * Some logging fixes and improvements
3759 * configurable host/port selection
3760 * Clickable Links in buddy chat
3762 * Display Signon/Signoff messages in conversation windows
3763 * Option to strip HTML from logged messages
3764 * GNOME cleanups (It might work now haha)
3765 * When viewing user info, URLS are converted to clickable links
3768 version 0.9.7 (08/08/1999):
3769 * Preliminary Oscar Support
3770 * Fixed bad network bug
3771 * Fixed some bad text rendering bugs in the HTML widget
3772 * log all conversation names are now normalized.
3773 * Fixed another bad network bug :)
3774 * Multiple browser support, some Netscape buggies fixed.
3775 * Permit/Deny preferences moved to 'Permit' pane on buddylist.
3776 * Fixed problem with _, ', and \ in passwords
3778 version 0.9.6 (08/01/1999):
3779 * Fixed 'log all conversation' segfault
3781 * Removed Xmu dependancies.
3782 * Restructured network code
3783 * ESD detection more robust.
3784 * Sound fallbacks are MUCH more robust!
3786 version 0.9.5 (07/25/1999):
3787 * Fixed About Box SegFault
3788 * Autologin Works with Applet
3789 * Option to Show Buddy List after Signon with Applet
3790 * 2048 character messages
3791 * Away-Detection (shows a different icon on the buddy list)
3792 * Fixed Segfault with messages > allowed size
3793 * Added option to log all conversations
3794 * Changed g_new to g_new0
3795 * Buddy List: Right Click Menus
3796 * Find Buddy By Email
3797 * Find Buddy By Info
3798 * New HTML widget (Underline/Links/HRs)
3799 * Updated Toolbar with 'Underline' Icon
3800 * More Buddy Pounce Options
3801 * Option to auto-change urls into clickable links (Under Prefs)
3802 * Better Buddy Chat functionality
3804 * Registration Information (Let Us Know Who You Are)
3805 * Buddy Chat Prefs (Update Chatroom Lists)
3807 * FAQ added to the distribution
3808 * Sound problem with some systems fixed
3810 * Autostart of Netscape on URL Click
3811 * DnD Rearranging of Groups
3812 * Better Netscape Functionality
3813 * Right Click `URL' Menus
3814 * DnD Rearranging of Buddies
3815 * Script to convert win95 buddylist to gaim buddylist
3816 * Added `Link/URL' button to conversation window
3817 * ESD is now autodetected
3818 * Not too important but we GNU-ified the source tree :)
3820 version 0.8.0 (04/31/1999):
3824 * Pixmaps for buttons
3825 * Buddylist import/export
3827 * Conversation Logging
3828 * Coloured Text Selection
3829 * Updated Preferences
3833 * `Blocking' on conversation window
3834 * Add/Remove buddy from conversation window
3835 * Scroll-Wheel Mice work in Conversation Window
3836 * Fixed WindowMaker Appicon
3837 * version Number in About Box
3838 * Gaim Slogan in about box :)
3839 * Created Changelog File :)